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famatory writings, and adjudged him to make the amende 
honorable before the metropolitan church of Paris, and 
then to be fent to the galleys for life. The fir ft part of 
this fentence was executed upon him; but the puni/h- 
ment of the galleys was commuted for imprifonment. 
Pie was firft confined at St. Male’s ; afterwards for five 
years in the citadel of Breft ; and laftly at Nantes, where 
he died in 169a. He was the author of 1. A Collection of 
Requefts, or Cafes, &c. in folio, relative to the treatment 
of the Janfenifts; which difplay a paflionate eloquence, 
with an uncommon knowledge of law, and will be found 
v'feful by the ecclefiaftical hiltorian. 2. The Guide to 
the Cloifter, tranflated from a work attributed to St Ber¬ 
nard. 3. The indifputable Advantages of the Church 
over the Calvinifts, in the Controverfy between M. 
Arnauld and the Minirter Claude, 1673, 8vo. 4. The 
new Political Light; or, the new Gofpel of Cardinal 
Palavicini, revealed by himfelf in his Hiftory of the 
Council of Trent; 1676, nmo. which occafioned the fup- 
preflion of a French translation of that hiftory which was 
about to be publilhed. 5. The Herefy of the Epifcopal 
Dominion eftablilhed in France, nrao. 6. The courtly 
Bifhop, izmo. 7. Proteft againft the Affemblies of the 
Clergy in 1681, 410. See. Moreri. 
NOIREAU', a river of France, which runs into the 
Orne about four miles north-north-eaft of Clecy. 
NOIRETA'BLE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Rhone and Loire : eighteen miles fouth-fouth-weft 
of Roanne 
NOIR'MOUNT PO'INT, a cape at the entrance of 
St. Aubin’s Bay, on the fouth coaft of the ifiand of Jerfey. 
NOIRMOUTIE'R, an ifiand feparated from the con¬ 
tinent of France by a ftrait, of about a quarter of a league 
in width, three leagues long, and from a quarter to one 
league wide. This ifiand, being a celebrated place of 
refort for the French royaljfts of La Vendee, was taken on 
the 2d of January, 1794, by the republicans ; 800 royalifts 
were killed, and 1200 made prifoners. Lat. 46. 58. N. 
Ion 2. 9. W. 
NOIRMOUTIE'R, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Vendee, with an harbour and bay on the eaft 
coaft of the ifiand of Noirmoutier, and defended by a 
fort, called Fort St. Pierre. Lat. o. 47. N, Ion. 2, 10. W. 
NOISE,/, [old Fr. which Menage derives from the 
Lat. noxia, or noxa, employed in the fenfe of fcolding, 
itrife ] Any kind of found.'— Noi/'es, as of waters falling 
down, founded about them, and fad vifions appeared 
unto them. Wif. xvii. 4.—Whether it were a whiftling 
found, or a melodious noije of birds among the fpreading 
branches, thefe things made them fwoon. WiJ\ xvii. 18.— 
Great motions in nature pafs without found or noife. 
The heavens turn about in a mod rapid motion, without 
noife to us perceived ; though in fome dreams they have 
been laid to make an excellent muftek. Bacon's Nat. Hijl. 
A halting noife, as horrid and as loud 
As thunder makes before it breaks the cloud. Waller. 
Outcry; clamour; boafting or importunate talk.—What 
noife have we had about tranfplantation of dileafes, and 
transfulion of blood ! Baker on Learning. —Occafion of 
talk.—Socrates lived in Athens during the great plague 
which has made fo much noife through all ages, and neveF 
caught the leait infection. Addfon's Spett.—-A concert; 
and thole who performed a concert. In both meanings 
Ebfolete. —There be guefts and meat now 5 Jiojv fhall we 
do for imifick ? The fmej.l of the venifon, going through 
the ftreet, wall invite one noife of fidlers or other. B. Jon- 
Jbn's Epiceme. —See if thou canft find out Sneak’s noife ; 
Mrs. Tearfheet would fain hear fome mufijck. Shahejpearp. 
Divinely warbled voice, 
Anlwering the ftringed noife. Milton's Ode Nativ. 
To NOISE, v.n. To found loud : 
/hole terrours, which thou fpeak’ft of, harm’d me not : 
never fear’d they could, though noftng loud, Milton. 
N O L 
To NOISE, v. a. To fpread by rumour, or report.—All 
thefe layings were nofed abroad throughout all the hill- 
country. Lake i. 65. 
NOI'SE-MAKER, / Clamourer.—The iflue of all this 
noife is, the making of the nuife-mahers frill more ridicu¬ 
lous. L' Eflrange. 
NOI'SEFUL, adj. Loud ; clamorous.—A rook-yard in 
a fpring-morning is neither fo ill nor nofful as is one of 
thefe. Feltham's Ref. , 
That eunuch, guardian of rich Holland’s trade, 
Whofe nofful valour does no foe invade. Dryden. 
JSIOI'SELESS, adj. Silent; without found: 
On our quick’ft decrees 
The inaudible and noifelefs foot of time 
Steals ere we can effect them. Shalufpedre. 
So noifelefs would I live, fuch death to find; 
Like timely fruit, not fhaken by the wind, 
But ripely dropping from the faplefs bough. Dryden. 
NOI'SINESS, f Loudnefs of found; importunity of 
clamour. 
NOI'SOME, adj. [noiofo, Ital.] Noxious; mifehievous ; 
unwholefome.—The brake and the cockle are nofome too 
much. Tnffer. 
All my plants I fave from nightly ill 
Of nofome winds and blafting vapours chill. Milton. 
Offenfive; difgufting.—An errour in the judgement is 
like an impoftem in the head, which is always nofome, and 
frequently mortal. South. 
The feeing thefe effects will be 
Both nofome and infefrious. Shakefpeare's Cymb. 
NOI'SOMELY, adv. With a fetid flench ; with an in¬ 
fectious fteam. — The fir, whereof that coffin is made, 
yields a natural redolence, alone; now that it is fluffed 
thus nvfumely, all helps are too little to countervail that 
feent of corruption. Bp. Hall's Occaf Medit. 
NOI'SOMENESS, f. Aptnefs to difguft; offenfivenefs. 
—Not fubjeCl to any foggy nofomcnejs from fens or 
marfhes. Wotton on Architedlure. 
NOI'SY, adj. Sounding loud.— Clamorous; turbu¬ 
lent.—Although he employs his talents wholly' in his 
clofet, he is fure to raife the hatred of the noij'y crowd. 
Swift. 
O leave the nofy town 5 O come and fee 
Our country cots, and live content with me ! Dryden. 
NOI'SY le SEC', a town of France, in the department 
of Paris : four miles eaft of Paris. 
NOIX, I'SLE AUX, or Nut Island, a fmall ifiand 
near the north extremity of Lake Champlain. 
NOIZAI', a town of France, in the department of the 
Indre and Loire: fix miles north weft of Amboife. 
NO'KA, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar; fourteen 
miles north-north-eaft of Saferam. 
NOKISSI'MA, or Burning Island, a fmall Japanefe 
ifiand. Lat. 34. 15. N. Ion. 139. 20. E. 
NO'KRE-KOB, a mountain of Grand Bukharia, lb 
called from the filver-mines which it contains: one hun¬ 
dred miles eaft of Balk. 
NOK'SELA, a town of Bengal: forty-five miles north- 
eaft of Nattore. 
NO'LA, an ancient town of Campania, which became 
a Roman colony before the firft Punic war. It was founded 
byaTufcan, or, according to others, by an Euboean colony. 
It is faid that Virgil had introduced the name of Nola in 
his Georgies ; but that, when he was refufed a glafs of 
water by the inhabitants as he pafled through the city, 
he totally blotted it out of his poem, and fubftituted the 
word ora , in the 225th line of the 2d book of his Georgies. 
Nola was befieged by Hannibal, and bravely defended by 
Marcellus. A.uguftus died there on his return from Nea- 
polis to Rome. Bells were firft invented there in the be¬ 
ginning of the fifth century, from which reafon they 
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