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with diftindlion by Cofmo grand duke of Tufcany, who 
appointed him to a profeflbrffiip at Pi fa. After an 
abode there for two years, he,-returned to Deventer; and 
receiving an invitation in 1679 to occupy the chair of 
Greek and hiftory in the univerfity of Leyden, he ac¬ 
cepted it, and thenceforth made that eity his refidence, 
notwithstanding feveral offers from other places. In 
1701 he was nominated geographer to the univerfity. 
He patTed a life of learned labour, and died in 1716. 
He gave corredted editions of Macrobius, Polybius, 
Tacitus, Seneca the tragedian. Pompon. Mela, A. Gel- 
lius, Cicero, Ammianus Marcellinus, Hai pocration, the 
Greek geographers, Q. Curtins, Suetdniusj Phaedrus, 
Arrian, .Minut. Felix, Firmiciis Maternus, and Hero¬ 
dotus, and alfo wrote notes upon fome other authors, 
and difiertations on various fubjedts of antiquity. He 
publifhed a Thefaurus fntiquitatum Gracorum, 13 vols. fo¬ 
lio; and a Latin' verfion of Agoftini on ancient Gems. 
He alfo compofed feveral pieces in controverfy, Ora¬ 
tions, See. 
GRONO'VIUS (Laurence Theodore), an eminent 
writer on natural hiftory, continually quoted by Lin¬ 
naeus, BlOch, &c. He publiflied, 1. Mufeum Ickthyolo- 
giiim, 2 tom. folio, Lyons. 1754, 1756. 2. Zoophylacii Grono- 
viani, 1763. 
GRONS'FELD, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Weftphalia, fituated in a county of the lame name : four 
miles fouth-eaft of Maeftricht. 
GROOM, / [ groom , Dutch.] A boy ; a waiter ; a 
fervant.—In the time of'EdwardVI. lived Sternhold, 
whom king Henry his father had madegrawz of his cham¬ 
ber, for turning of David’s Pfalms into verfe. Peacham. 
From Egypt’s kings ambafladors they come ; 
Them many a-fquire attends, and many a groom. Fairfax. 
Think then, my foul ! that death is but a groom 
Which brings a taper to the outward room. Donne. 
A man newly married ; the bridegroom : 
By this the brides are wak’d, their grooms are drefs’d; 
All Rhodfes is fummon’d to the nuptial feaft. Drydcn. 
Groom of the Bed-Chamber or Stole, is an of¬ 
ficer of the king’s houfehold, whole precindt is properly 
the king’s bed-chamber, where the lord chamberlain hath 
nothing to do ; Jlole dignifies a robe of honour. Lex Con- 
Jliiutionis , p. 182. 
Groom Porter f . An officer belonging to the king’s 
houfliold. 
GROO'SENBROT, a town of Germany, in the 
duchy of Holftein : thirty-tWo miles rtorth-north-eaft of 
Oldeburg. 
GROOVE^ / [from grave.} A deep cavern, or hollow 
in mines.—He might, to avoid idlenefs, work in a groove 
or mine-pit thereabouts, which at that time was little 
eftdemed. Boyle .—A' channel or hollow cut with a tool. 
The fcrew-plate is a kind of fteel Well-tempered, with fe- 
veralholes in it, each lefs than other; andinthofe holes 
are threads grooved inwards, which grooves fit the relpec- 
tive taps that belong to them. Moxon. 
To GROOVE, v. a. To cut hollow.—Of the box 
every joint was well grooved. Szoft. 
7b GROPE, v.n [gpapan, Sax.] To feel where one 
cannot fee.—We grope for the wall like the blind, and 
w e grope, as-if we had no eyes. lfa. lix. 10. 
They meet,with darknefs in the cleared light'; 
And grope at noon, as if involv’d with night. Sandys. 
O truth divine ! enlighten’d by thy ray, 
I grope and.guefs no more, but fee my way. Arbuthnot. 
To GROPE, v. a. To fearch by feeling in the dark ; 
to feel without being able to fee.—How vigilant to grope 
men’s thoughts, and to pick out fomewhat whereof they 
might complain. Hayward. 
But Strephon, cautious, never meant 
The bottom of the pan to grope. Swift. 
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GRO'PENSTEIN, a town of-Germany, in the duchy 
of Carinthia : one mile north-weft of Welach. 
GRO'PER, f. One that fearches in the dark. 
GR.OS (Peter le), an eminent fculptor, born at Paris 
in 16 66. His father, of the fame profeffion, early dif. 
covered his difpofition to the art, and had him inftrudted 
in defign. At the age of twenty,, his talents were focon- 
fpicuous, that Louvois nominated him among the young 
artifts to be fent to‘Rome, at the king’s expence. There 
he foon obtained a high reputation, and had a # fliare in 
all the moft confiderable works of fculpture that were 
carrying on. Fie adopted the grand and chafte ftyle of 
Italy, and cenfured the attachment of his countrymen 
to prettinefs and ornament. After a refidence of fome 
years at Rome, he revifited France, and remained there 
two years.', Fie executed fome works at Paris and 
Montmorency, but the jealoufy of the artifts procured 
him various mortifications, which haftened his return 
to Rome. He refumed his labours; but in the midft 
of them he was cut oft' by an inflammation of the cheft 
in 1719, at the age of fifty-three. His works are chiefly 
in the churches of Rome, and fome of them are much 
admired. At the Thuilleries is a ftatue of a Roman 
lady in a Grecian drefs, of antique fimplicity, which he 
copied with fome improvements from an original in the 
Medici palace. 
GRGS MOR'NE, fituate in the middle of the north 
peninfula of the ifiand of St. Domingo, between the 
mountain and the head waters of a river which falls 
into the fea four leagues to the north, and a league and 
a half weft of Port de Paix. 11 is equally diftant, eleven 
leagues north-eaft of Point Paradis, and north-weft of 
Les Gonaives. Lat. 19. 46. N. Ion. 75, 13. W. from. 
Paris. 
GROS'GA, a fma-l} ifland in the Black Sea.. Lat.. 
44. 39. N. Ion. 47. E. Ferro. 
GROSE (Francis), the facetious adjutant, and for 
fome years captain, in the, Surrey militia. He was the 
a11t.hor.9f. feveral- works of genius and laborious re- 
fearch, which acquired him the honour of being eledted 
a member of the Antiquarian Society. His early at¬ 
tachment to the life of a foldier, and the laudable am¬ 
bition of being refpected in-that arduous charadter, were 
pro'bably the inducements, which, in 1788, had ' in¬ 
fluenced him to publi (h his Fliftory of the Englifti. 
Army, in 2 vols. 4to. with very' intereftihg and curious 
plates. This work, though imperfedt in many refpedts,. 
is neverthelefs intitled to confiderable pfaife, fince it 
ftates very fatisfadtorily the condition, and difeipline of 
the army under the' feodal government in this country., 
Flis moft elaborate and invaluable work, the Antiqui¬ 
ties of England and Wales, and of Scotland, in 6 vols. 
imperial 4to. will prove a lafting monument to his fame.. 
He was bufily engaged in the city of Dublin, in arrang¬ 
ing 1 he .materials and preparing the drawings for his 
Antiquities of Ireland, when, in May 1791, he was haf- 
tily fummoned from that laborious talk,, as well as from 
the ftate of earthly exiftence. Fie was interred in the 
church or Drumcondra, near Dublin, on the iSth.of 
May 1791 ; and on a tablet is the following inferiptiqn : 
“Here reft the remains of the much-lamented Francis 
Grofe, efq. whole mental endowments and focial quali¬ 
ties had long procured him the admiration of the pub¬ 
lic, and endeared him to a numerous• circle of friends. 
The idea of illuftrating the hiftory and antiquities of 
the BritiHr ifles, by exifting monuments, was;noble and. 
magnificent; while it Ihewed the vaft capacity of his 
mind, the execution, of it denronftrated that talents 
only like his were adequate to fo arduous an undertak¬ 
ing. The lovers of’the fine arts in Ireland, with a ge- 
nerofity becoming a brave and enlightened people, are 
about to eredt a monument to his memory. Semper- 
honos , nomenque tuum , laudefque manebunt .” Befides the 
works above-mentioned, Mr. Grofe was the author of 
1. A Treatife on Ancient, Armour, 2. A Clalfical Dic¬ 
tionary. 
