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track an a, and bouhourt, a certain hodge-podge of fundry 
ingredients. Sandys. 
HQD'GES (Nathaniel), a diftinguilhed Englifh phyfi- 
cian, the fon of the reverend Dr. Hodges, dean of Here¬ 
ford. He received his early education at Weftminfter- 
fchool, and was eleded a ftudent of Chrift-church college, 
Oxford, in 164.8. He received his degree of doctor of 
phyfic in 1659, and fettled in London as a medical prac¬ 
titioner. At the breaking out of the great plague in 1665, 
he was appointed by the city of London one of the two 
feleded phyiicians, who attended the infefted; and he 
continued to fulfil this perilous duty during the whole of 
that dreadful vifitation. His method of overcoming the 
infedion was, by caufing a pan of coals to be carried before 
him, in which ftrong perfumes were conftantly burnt, and 
by chewing troches while he was in the fick apartments. 
He was twice taken ill during the prevalence of the difeafe, 
but his life was preferred. This account of himfelf is con¬ 
tained in a work which he publifhed, entitled Loimologia, 
Jive PeJHs Nupera apiid Populum Londinenfem GrajJ'antis Nar- 
ratio hijiorica, 8vo. 167a. His account of this memorable 
calamity is a valuable one, and the molt authentic that 
we polfefs. He has given the bills of mortality of the 
plague-year, 1665, amounting in all to 97,306 deaths, of 
which 68,596 died of the peftilence. This work was 
tYanflated into Englifti by Dr. Quincy, and publifhed, with 
other curious trads relative to the fame epidemic, in 1721. 
It is to be lamented that a man who performed this dan¬ 
gerous fervice to the public, fhould have fallen into fuch 
reduced circumftances, as to become a prifoner for debt 
in Ludgate, in which place he died in 1684. Dr. Hodges 
was alfo the author of a work entitled Vindicia Medicinal 
& Mtdicorum. 
HODG'KINS, [of Hodges, and that from Roger ; q. d. 
Little Roger.'] A furname. 
HODI'AH, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
•HODIER'NAL, adj. [_hodiurnus, Lat.] Of to-day. 
HODI'SAH, [Hebrew.] The name of a man. 
HOD MAN, /. A young fcholar admitted from Welt- 
minfter-fchool to be a ftudent in Chrift-church college, 
Oxford. Alfo a labourer who bears a hod. 
HODOMET'RICAL, adj. [from g&>?, Gr. a way, and 
fjuT^ov, a meafure.] Belonging to the method of finding the 
longitude at fea from the way or courfe of the fhip. Scott. 
HOD'SON, [i. e. the foh of Oddo, or Otto.] A furname. 
HODUCISZ / KI, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate 
of Wilna: thirty-fix miles fouth of Breflau. 
HO'DY (Humphrey), a learned Englifti divine, born 
in 1659, at Odcombe, in Somerfetfhire, of which place his 
father was reftor. After pafting through the grammar-fchool, 
he was entered of Wadham-college, Oxford, in 1676 ; and 
in 1684 was chofen fellow. In 1681 and 1682, before he was 
twenty-two years of age, he wrote his learned Differtation 
•on Arifteas’s Hiftory of the LXXII Interpreters.- In 1689, 
he wrote the learned Prolegomena to John Malela’s Chro¬ 
nicle, which was publifhed at Oxford two years afterwards, 
with an interpretation and notes, by Edward Chilmead. 
In the following year, Dr. Edward Stilling-fleet, bifhop of 
Worcefter, made him his chaplain. In 1692-3, he took 
his degree of doctor of divinity; and in 1694, publifhed a 
treatife, entitled The Refurrection of the fame Body af- 
ferted, 8vo. Dr. Hody had now fo powerfully recom¬ 
mended himfelf by his writings to archbifhop Tillotfon, 
that, early in 1694, he appointed him his domeftic chap¬ 
lain ; and, upon the fudden death of that good prelate, he 
v/as continued in the fame capacity by-his fucceffor, Dr. 
Tennifon. In 1698, he was appointed regius profeflor of 
Greek in the univerfity of Oxford ; and lome time after¬ 
wards he was prefented to the reftory of Monk’s Rifbo- 
rough, in Buckinghamfhire. When, in the beginning of 
queen Anne’s reign, the controverfy concerning the pow¬ 
ers and privileges of an Englifh fyno’d or convocation was 
warmly agitated, Dr. Hody publifhed his valuable Hiftory 
of Englifh Councils and Convocations, and of the Clergy’s 
‘fitting in parliament; in which is alfo comprehended the 
Vol. X. No. 655. 
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Hiftory of Parliaments, .with an Account of our ancient 
Laws, 1701, 8vo. It brings down the hiftory from the 
firft fynod which is mentioned to be held in this ifland, 
that of Verulam, in 446, to the beginning of the reign of 
Henry VIII. In 1704, he pubilfhed his pieces announced 
nearly twenty years before, on the original text, and Greek 
and Latin vulgale verfions,of the Bible, under the title of 
De Bibliorum Textibus Originahbus,Vojionilms Gratis & Latina 
Vulgata , &c. Lib. IV. 8vo.' Befides the works already men¬ 
tioned, Dr. Hody alfo employed himfelf in preparing for 
the prefs an account of tlrofe learned Greeks who re¬ 
tired to Italy before and after the taking of Gorutantinople 
by the Turks, which -he left behind him in raamifcriot. 
It was publifhed in 1742, by Dr. S. Jebb, under the title 
ot De Gracis illujlribus Lingua Grata Literarumque Rumania- 
rum Injlauratoribus eorum Vitis, Scriptis, & Elogiis, Lib. duo, 
&c. 8vo. In addition to the other fer.vices which Dr. Hody 
rendered to the interefts of literature, he founded ten 
fcholarfliips at Wadham-college, of ten pounds each ; and 
direbted, that five of the exhibitioners fhould apply theni- 
felves to the ftudy of the Hebrew, and five to the ftudy 
of the Greek, language. He died in 1706, in the forty- 
eighth year of his age. 
HOE, f. [ houe , Fr. houuie, Dut.] An inftrument to cut 
up we'eds ; of which the blade is at right angles with the 
handle. See the article Husbandry, in this volume. 
To HOE, v. a. \_kouer, Fr. kouzuen, Dut.] To cut or dig 
with a hoe. 
HOE (Matthew), a famous German Lutheran divine, 
born at Vienna in 1580. He ftudied divinity at Wirtem- 
berg; and in 1602 he was invited into Saxony to become 
court-preacher to the eleftor. He was admitted doblor 
of divinity at Wirtemberg in 1604. He is clafled by the 
Lutherans among the learned and able defenders of their 
faith, on account of his Defenjio Pupilla Evangelica, which 
he publifhed in two volumes, in the years 1628 and 1631, 
and which Mofheim fpeaks of as “ an accurate and labo¬ 
rious defence of the proteftants.” He publifhed at differ¬ 
ent periods, A Commentary on the Book of Revelation, 
which after his death was reprinted at Leipfic, in folio ; 
Philofophia Arijlctclica, Partes tres \ and a vaft number of 
controverfial works, both in German and Latin. He died 
in 1645. 
HOE-KI'A, a town of China, of tlte third rank, in 
the province of Ho-nan: twenty-five miles fouth-weft of 
Oue-kiun. 
HOE'DIC, a fmall French ifland, in the Englifh Chan¬ 
nel, near the coalt of the department of Morbihan: about 
three leagues eaft from Bellifle, and four fouth-eaft from 
the peninfula of Quiberon. It has a town or village of the 
fame name, and a fort. Lat. 47. 18. N. Ion. 14. 42. E. Ferro. 
HOE'I, a town of China, of the fecond rank, in the 
province of Se-tchuen: 827 miles fouth-weft of Peking. 
Lat. 31. 28. N.' Ion. 121. 5. E. Ferro. 
HOE'I-FAN-HO'TUN, a town of Chinefe Tartary: 
500 miles eaft-north-eaft of Peking. Lat. 42. 46. N. Ion. 
143.35. E. Ferro. 
HOE'I-HOA, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Yun-nan: twelve miles north-eaft of 
Tching-kiang. 
HOE'I-LI, a town of China, of the third rank, in the 
province of Se-tchuen: 1060 miles fouth-weft of Peking. 
Lat. 26. 34. N. Ion. 120.19. E. Ferro. 
HOE'I-NAN, a tovra of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Chen-li: thirty-two miles north-eaft of 
Si-ngan. 
HOE'I-NGAN, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Chen-fi : thirty-feven miles fouth of Ling. 
HOE'I-NGAN, a town of China, of the third rank, 
in the province of Fo-kien : twelve miles north-eaft of 
Siuen-tcheou. 
HOE'I-TCHANG, a town of China, of the third rank, 
in the province of Kiang-fi : fifty-two miles eaft-fouth-eaft 
of Kan-tcheou. 
HOE'I-TCHEOU, a city of China, of the firft rank, in 
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