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TEI'NEN ZUM f , a town of Pruflla, in the palatinate of 
Culm : nine miles ealt of Thom. 
LEPNINGEN, or Linan'ge, lately a county of Ger¬ 
many, almoft furrounded by the Palatinate, and bordering 
on the bilhoprics of Worms and Spire. The foil is fertile 
in corn, fruit, and wine; in the foreft is plenty of game, 
with mines of copper and iron, and quarries of (tone. At 
the peace of Luneville it was annexed to France. 
LEI'NINGEN, a town of France, in the department of 
Mont Tonnere, lately held in common between the count 
of Leiningen and the bifhop of Worms. The caltle was 
demolifhed by the French: eleven miles fouth-weff of 
Worms, and thirty fouth of Mentz. Lat. 49. 30. N, ion. 
S. 4. E. 
LEI'NINGEN (Old), a caftle and village of France: 
three miles north-welt of Leiningen. 
LEI'NLETTER, a town of Bavaria: ten miles fouth- 
eaft of Bamberg. 
LEIN'STER, the eaftern province of Ireland, which 
contains the twelve following counties, viz. Louth, Meath, 
Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford, Kilkenny, Callow, Kildare, 
Queen’s County, King’s County, Welt Meath, and Long¬ 
ford. Leinfter is bounded by Ullteron the north, by Con¬ 
naught and Munlter on the welt and fouth-weft, and by 
the lea on the louth and ealt. Its length is 104 miles, 
the breadth about 55, and the circuit 360 ; and includes 
992 parifhes, one archbilliopric, and three biftioprics. It 
is, in general, well cultivated, and enjoys good air and 
foil; and is the molt- populous, containing the capital and 
the leat of the government. The principal rivers are the 
Boyne, Barrow, Liffey, Noir, and May. 
LEI'NUGEN, or Lein ungen, a town of We!tphalia,in 
the county of Mansfeld : fix miles fouth-vvelt of Wippra. 
LEIOPO'DES, J . [of the Gr. Xeio?, light, and foot.] 
An epithet ufed by the old medical writers to exprels 
fuch perfons who had feet perfectly fmooth and even at 
the bottom, without the ufual hollow-between the heel 
and the fore part of the foot. 
LEIP'HEIM, a town of Bavaria, in the territory of 
Ulm, on the louth fide of the Danube, ravaged and pil¬ 
laged in the year 1634: twenty-two miles welt-north-weft 
of Augfburg, and eleven north-eaft of Ulm. 
LEIP'NIK, a town of Moravia, in the circle of.Prerau, 
fix miles north-eaft of Pferau. Lat. 49.28.N. Ion. 17. 35. E. 
LEIPODERUvlOS, J. [from tire Gr. Xeittw, to be defi¬ 
cient, and hg/tet, the Ikin.] One who has loft the prepuce. 
LEIP'PA- See Leypa. 
LEITPE, a town of Silefia, in the principality of Neiffe : 
two miles north-eaft of Grotkau. 
LEIP'SIC, or Leipzig, a city cf Saxony, and capital 
of a circle of the lame name. This is one of the finelt and 
molt celebrated towns in all Germany, lituated in a plea- 
fant and fertile plain, on the river Pleiffe. Its circuit is 
eltimated at 8954 paces; but the l'uburbs are well built, 
large, and furnifhed with gardens. Between the town 
and the fuburbs, a fine walk of lime-trees was laid out in 
the year 1702, which rtins quite round the town. In the 
town-ditches alio are planted mulberry-trees. It is the 
feat of a very fiourilhing and famous univerfity, which 
■was founded and dedicated in 1409, containing fix col¬ 
leges ; of two good Latin fchools ; and of two celebrated 
focieties, namely, a German fociety, and another for the 
encouragement of the liberal arts. Leipfic is one of the 
principal trading-towns in all Germany, inafmuch as it 
enjoys not only an important foreign trade, but alfo, at its 
three celebrated fairs, which are kept at Eafter, Michael¬ 
mas, and the beginning of the new year, carries on a very 
extenfive commerce both in domeftic and foreign wares. It 
is likewife poflelled of the ftaple right, by virtue of which 
al[ ftaple commodities, imported within lixty miles round, 
muft be unladen here at leaft for three days, and offered 
to fale to fuch of the trading and mercantile people here 
as are burghers ; and then, for the firft time, carried far¬ 
ther, but to be unladen no-where elfe. The Pleiffenburg 
here is. a ftrong citadel on the Pleifie,, where a mint was 
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founded in 1752. Here alfo in a chapel the Roman-ca- 
tholics perform their worlhip. In the centre of the town 
is a fpacious and fine market-place, near which alfo the 
council-houfe ftands ; the exchange is well built, and the 
roof of its hall well painted. Here are eight parilh- 
churches lor Lutherans, befides the Roman-catholic cha- 
pel, and a place of worfhip for Cal vinilts-. Various lorts 
of manufactures are carried on in this town ; gold, filver, 
lilk, wool, and linen yarn, being worked here, in all man¬ 
ner of ltuffs, velvets, dockings, cloths, and linen. There 
are alfo. houfes here for tire dying of filk, as likewife for 
the making of tapeltry and linen, and the printing of cot¬ 
ton. Leather, and Prufiian blue, &c. are prepared here, 
and the orphan-boufe is appropriated to the culture of 
filk. The inltitution for the deaf and dumb (opened in. 
1805) is gradually becoming a molt ufeful eftabliihment. 
The pupils all learn to fpeak diftinCtly, and the molt for¬ 
ward of them comprehend what is laid to them by the 
motion of the lips. They are inftrufted in religious 
knowledge, reading, writing, accounts, &c. 
Leipfic, in all probability, received its origin from the 
Sorbenwends. Dithmar, in his Chronicle, ipeaks of it lb 
early as the year 1015, under the title of a town. Ac¬ 
cording to the received opinion, it belonged to the bi- 
fhopric of Merfeburg, till Conrad margrave of Meiffen ob¬ 
tained the pofleffion of it in the year 1134, by exchange. 
In 1519, a theological conference was held here between 
Martin Luther and Dr. Eck; and in 1631, another ap¬ 
pointed between the Saxon or Lutheran, and the Branden¬ 
burg and Helfian, or Calvinift, divines. In 1547, this- 
town was belieged in vain by the eleftor John Frederic $ 
as alfo in 1637, by Banner, the Swedilh general. In 1631 
and 1632, it was taken by the Imperialilts; and, in 1642, 
by the Swedes. In 1745 and 1756, it was garrifoned by 
the Pruffians, to whom it was obliged to pay very confi- 
derable funis of money, by way of contribution. In 1759,, 
it was taken by the Imperialilts. The circle contains 
thirty-three towns, and upwards of 1000 villages: fifty- 
fix miles weft-north-weft of Drefden. Lat. 51.13. N, 
Ion. 12. 19. E. 
LEI RE (King of), a title affumed by the kings of Zea¬ 
land in the fourth century ; from Leire, the royal refi- 
dence. Thefe kings of Leire claimed the iupremacy, and 
Ityled themfelves head-kings of all Denmark, becauie Dari 
Mykaliti, at the dole of the third century, had fubdued 
the whole country, and compelled thole petty kings, 
whom he left in their territories, to pay tribute, and ac¬ 
knowledge lubordination to him. But the kings of Leire 
were often mere lhadows, much inferior in power to thole 
whom they wanted to be regarded as their valfals, till the 
end of the ninth century, when they lucceeded in re¬ 
ducing the whole country under their government. 
LEIR'IA. See Leyria. 
LEIR'STETTEN, a town of Germany, in the margra- 
vate of Anfpach : five miles ealt of Schwabach. 
LEI'SEBACH, a river of Selefia, which runs into the 
Oder one mile weft of Stoedtl Leubus. 
LEI'SELSHEIM, a town of France, in the department 
of Mont Tonnerre: three miles weft-north-weft ot Worms. 
LEI'SSE, a town of Pruffia, in Ponierelia: eight miles 
north of Marienburg. 
LE'ISURABLE, adj. Done at leifure ; not hurried; 
enjoying leifure.—A relation inexcufable in his works of 
leijurable hours, the examination being as ready as the re¬ 
lation. Brown. 
LETSURABLY, adv. At leifure; without tumult or 
hurry.—Let 11s beg of God, that, when the hour of our 
reft is come, the patterns of our diffolution may be Jacob,. 
Mofef, Jolhua, and David, who, leifurably tendingtheirlives 
in peace, prayed for the mercies of God upon their pof- 
terity. Hooker. 
LEU SURE, f. \_loiJir 3 Fr.J Freedom from bufinefs or 
hurry ; vacancy of mind ; power to fpend time according; 
to choice.—Where ambition and avarice have made no en¬ 
trance, the defire of lqfyr& is much more natural.than cf. 
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