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any of the ecclefiaftical functions in his diocefe. He now 
pub!idled various pieces in vindication of himfelf againft 
the hardi proceeding of his diocefan ; but was unable to 
obtain a recall- of the interdifl. His zeal, however, to 
officiate in-his clerical character, led him to take a jour¬ 
ney of more than feven leagues every day during three 
years, to St. Quel, in the diocefe of Dol, where he was 
permitted to preach without moleftation. The fatigue 
attending thefe journeys, together with the rigorous au- 
Herities which he continued to practife, were more than 
Iris confiitutional ftrength was able to bear; and he fell a 
iacrifice to them about the year 1672, at the age of fixty- 
eight. He publifhed, 3. An Alliance againfl Blafphemers, 
See. 164.5, 4-to. 4.. Devotional Exercifes, fame date. 5. 
The Spirit of Chriflianity deduced from a Hundred feledl 
Expreffions of Jefus Chrift, 1664.. 6. The Spirit of Chril- 
tianity deduced from an Expofition of the Law of Mofes, 
conjointly with the Gofpel, &c. the fame date. 7. The 
Spirit of Chriflianity difplayed in the Sacrifice of the 
Mafs. 8. The Spirit of Chriflianity exemplified in the 
Conduft of a real Penitent. 9. An Idea of -a genuine 
Chriftian. 10. A multitude of controverfial pamphlets, 
in Latin and French, among which was a collection of 
“ Various Pieces, in fupport of the Liberties of the Gal- 
lican Church,” 1665, 4-to. Gen. Bing. 
NOUN, J'. [old Fr. from nomen, Lat.], The name of any 
thing in grammar. See Grammar, vol. viii. p. 764..—A 
r.ovn is the name of a thing, whether fubftance, mode, or 
relation, which in fpeech is ufed to fignify the fame when 
there is occafion to affirm or deny any thing about it, or 
to exprefs any relation it has to any other thing. Clarke .— 
Thou haft men about thee, that ufually talk of a noun 
and a verb, and fuch abominable words as no chriftian ear 
can endure to hear. ShakeJ’peare's Hen. VI. 
The boy, w’ho fcarce has paid his entrance down 
To his proud pedant, or declin’d a noun. Dryden. 
NO'VO MIRGOROD', a town of Ruffia, in the go¬ 
vernment of Ekaterinoflav : 136 miles weft-north-w'eft of 
Ekaterinoflav. Lat. 48.40. N. ion. 21. 44. E. 
NO'VO SERGIEVSKA'IA, a fort of Ruffia, in the 
government of Upha, on the Samara: fixty miles north- 
weft of Orenburg. 
NOVODVA'R, a town of Hungary: four miles north 
of Cfakathurn. 
NOVOGRIGOREV'SKOE, a town of Ruffia, in the 
government of Ekaterinoflav: feventy-two miles north- 
weft of Cherfon. 
NOVOGRO'DEK, a town of Ruffian Lithuania, in the 
palatinate of the fame name, otherwife called Black Ruffia, 
Situated on a hill. It is not very large; but includes fe- 
veral popifh and Ruffian convents. Befides a provincial 
diet, an inferior court of judicature, a high tribunal, 
after the model of that of Wilna, is held alternately here 
and at Minfk, which continues ftttingfor five months every 
year. It is two hundred miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Konigf- 
berg, two hundred eaft-north-eaft of Warfaw', and fixty- 
eight caft of Grodno. Lat. 53. 33. N. Ion. 26. E. 
NO'VO I, a fmall ifland in theCafpian Sea. Lat. 44. 50. N. 
Ion. 51.54. E. 
NO'VOI LEBIAZE'I, a fortrefs of Ruffia, in the go¬ 
vernment of Kolivan, on the Irtifch: 220 miles fouth- 
weft of Kolivan. Lat. 51. 25. N. Ion. 78. 24. E. 
NOVOMIAS'TO, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
"of Rava : twenty miles fouth-eaft of Rava. 
NOVOMOS'KOVSK, a town of Ruffia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Ekaterinoflav, on the Dnieper : fixteen miles 
north of Ekaterinoflav. Lat. 48. 30. N. Ion. 35. 12. E. 
NOVOM'ST, a town of Ruffia, in the government of 
Novgorod Sieverfkoe: fixty miles north-weft of Novgorod 
Sieverfkoi. Lat. 52. 35. N. Ion. 22. o. E. 
NOVORZEV', a town of Ruffia, in the government of 
Pfkov, on the river Uda : fixty-four miles fouth-fouth- 
eaft of Pfkov. Lat. 57. N. Ion, 29.26. E. 
Vol. XVII. No. 1177. 
NOVOSEL', a town of European Turkey, in Romania, 
on the Mariza : twenty-fix miles weft of Filipopoli. 
NOVOSIL', a town of Ruffia, in the government of 
Tula: forty-four miles fouth-fouth-weft of Tula. Lat. 
53. 5. N. Ion. 36. 54. E. 
NOVOSLO'VO, a town of Ruffia, in the government 
of Kolivan : feventy-two miles fouth-fouth-weft of Kraf- 
noiarfle, and fixty-four north-north-weft of Abakanflc. 
NOVOTALET'ZKOI, a fort of Ruffia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Kolivan, on the Irtifch: forty-eight miles eaft 
of Semipolatnoi. 
NOVOTZURUCH ATUEV'SKOI, a town of Ruffia, 
in the government of Irktufk, on the Argun : 132 miles 
fouth-eaft of Nertchinlk. 
NOVOUSO'LE, a town of Ruffia, in the government of 
Perm, on the Kama : eight miles fouth of Solikamlk. 
NOUP HEAD', a cape on the weft coaft of the ifland 
of Weftra. Lat. 59. N. Ion. 2. 56. W. 
NOU'PRA, a mountain of Thibet: fifty-one miles 
fouth-weft of Lafla. 
NOURDY'A, a town of Perfia, in the province of Cho- 
rafan : 10S miles fouth of Mefchid. 
_NOU'RICE, /I [French.] A nurfe.—It ffiall be expe¬ 
dient, that a noble man’s fon, in his infancye, have with 
him continuallye onely fuch as may accuftome him, by 
little and little, to fpeake pure and elegant Latin : the 
nourifes, and other women about him, if it be poffible, to 
do the fame. Sir T. Elyot's Gov. 
Cambden ! the nourice of antiquitie. 
And Lanterne unto late fucceeding age. Spcnf. R. of Time. 
To NOUR'ISH, v. a. [nourrir, Fr. nutrio, Lat.] To in- 
creafe or fupport by food, or aliment of any kind.—You 
are to honour, improve, and perfeft, the fpirit that is 
within you : you are to prepare it for the kingdom of 
heaven, to nourijh it with the love of God and of virtue, 
to adorn it with good works, and to make it as holy and 
heavenly as you can. Law. 
Through her nonrijh'd powers, enlarg’d by thee. 
She fprings aloft. Thomfon's Summer. 
To fupport; to maintain.—Pharaoh’s daughter took him 
up, and nnurijhed him for her own fon. Ads, vii. 21. 
Him will I follow, and this houfe forgo, 
That nourijht me a maid. Chapman. 
To encourage; to foment. Out of vfe. —Yet to nourijh and 
advance the early virtue of young perfons, was his more 
chofen defire. Fell. —Gorgias hired loldiers, and nourifhed 
war continually with the Jews. 2 Mac. x. 14. 
In Toothing them, we nourijh ’gainft our fenate 
The cockle of rebellion. Shakefpeare. 
To train, or educate.— I travel not, neither do I nourijh 
up young, nor bring up virgins. Ifa. xxiii. 4.—To pro¬ 
mote growth or ftrength, as food.—in vegetables there is 
one part more nourilhing than another; as grains and 
roots nourijh more than their leaves. Bacon. 
To NOUR'ISH, v.n. To gain nourifinnent. Unufual. — 
Fruit-trees grow full of mofs, which is caufed partly by 
the coldnefs of the ground, whereby the parts nourijh lefs. 
Bacon's Nat. Hi ft. 
NOUR'ISH, f. [from the verb.] A nurfe.—Athens was 
called nourijh of philofophers wife. Lydgate's Trag. of J . 
Boc/tas. 
NOUR'ISHABLE, adj. Sufceptive of nouriftunent.— 
Thefe are the bitter herbs, wherewith if we ftiall eat this 
paflover, we (hall find it moft wholefome and nourijhablc 
unto us to eternal life. Bp. Hull's Remains. —The chyle is 
mixed herewith, partly for its better converfion into blood, 
and partly for its more ready adhefion to all the nourijhablc 
parts. Grew's Cofmolegy. 
NOUR'ISHER, J'. The perfon or thing that nourifhes. 
— Sleep, chief nourjher in life’s feaft. Shakefpeare. — A 
reftorer of thy life, and a nourjher of thine old age. Ruth. 
— Milk* 
