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PACICTNGTON MAG'NA,aviH'agein Warwickfhire: 
three miles fouth of Colefhill. 
PACK'INGTON PAR'VA, a village near the above. 
Here is Packington-hall, a feat of the earl of Aylesford. 
The houfe hands on the fouth fide of the road, and the 
park on the north fide. A large arch is turned over the 
road, wide enough for a carriage to pafs over, in order 
to have a communication between the houfe and the park 
without going through the road. The houfe is modern, 
and appears to be built in a good tafte ; but its low fitua- 
tion muft deprive it of any extraordinary profpeft. The 
road was turned to the fouth fide of the houfe, by aft of 
parliament, in 1764. 
PACK'MOTE BA'Y, a bay on the eaft coaft of the 
ifland of Martinico. 
PA'CO COTIN'GA. See Costus. 
PA'CO SERO'CA. See Alfinia. 
PAC'OLET, a I’m all river of America, in South Caro¬ 
lina, which unites with Broad-river, thirty miles above 
Tyger river, and twenty-four fouth of the North Caro¬ 
lina line. On this river are the famous Pacolet-fprings, 
feventeen miles above its confluence with Broad-river. 
PAC'OLET, a town ofRutland-county, Vermont, con¬ 
taining 2233 inhabitants. 
PACO'RI (Ambrofe), a French praftical writer, whofe 
■works are held in efteem by pious Catholics, was born of 
obfcure parents at Ceauce in the Lower Maine, about 
the 3'ear 1650. His inclination leading him to the eccle- 
iiaftical profeflion, after receiving the requiiite education, 
he was admitted to deacon’s orders, and became prefident 
of thecollegein his native place, where, at the fame time, 
he taught the claflics and philology. In this fituation, 
from what motives we are not informed, an attempt was 
made to poifon him by one of his pupils, from which he 
narrowly efcaped; and, thinking his life no longer fafe 
at Ceauce, he refigned his port, and retired into Anjou. 
Soon afterwards, cardinal Coiflin, bifhop of Orleans, ap¬ 
pointed him to the prefidency of his feminary at Mehun, 
which he retained for eighteen years, during which he 
procured the eftabliihment of many feminaries in thedio- 
cefe of Orleans, for the education of young perfons de¬ 
signed for the clerical profeflion. Upon the death of the 
cardinal, he was obliged to quit his poll; when he with¬ 
drew to Paris, where he fpent the remainder of his life 
in retirement, and died in 1730, when he was about 
eighty years of age. By the purity of his manners he re¬ 
flected luftre on his learning and abilities, which were 
very refpeftable ; but fo exceflive were his modefty and 
humility, that he could never be perfuaded to enter into 
prieft’s orders, of the importance of which he entertained 
a very exalted idea. He was the author of a great num¬ 
ber of pious and praftical treatifes, which, though writ¬ 
ten in a heavy and prolix ftyle, have had conliderable 
popularity among certain clafles of religionifts. The 
principal of them are, 1. Salutary Advice to Parents re¬ 
lative to the proper Education of their Children, nmo. 
2. Dialogues on the flicred Obfervance of Sundays and 
Feftivals. 3. Chriftian Direftions for an uniformly holy 
Praftice. 4. The Chriftian’s Day Work. 5. Chriftian 
Refleftions. Latlvocat's Did. Hiji. et Bibl. portal/. ■ 
PAC'ORUS, the name of two kings of Parthia. Alfo 
the name of the eldeftof the thirty fons of Orodes king 
of Parthia, lent againft Craflus, whofe army he defeated, 
and whom he took prifoner. He took Syria from the 
Romans; and fupported the republican party of Pompey, 
and of the murderers of Julius Casfar. He was killed in 
a battle by Ventidius Baflus, B. C. 39. on the fame day 
(9th of June) that Craflus had been defeated. 
PACOU'RA, /. in botany. See Willuohbeia. 
PACOURI'NA, /. [one of Aublet’s unexplained 
names, which has iince been changed to Haynea by 
Wildenow, in honour of Frederic Theophilus Hayne, a 
German botanift, author of an elegant work entitled 
Termini Botanici, publilhed by the former at Berlin, in 
quarto, with coloured plates.] In botany, a genus of the 
clafs fyngenefia, order polygamia-tequalis, natural order 
P A C 
of compofitae capitatae, Linn, (cinarpcephalae, Jujf.') 
Generic charafters—Common calyx giobofe, imbricated ; 
with numerous, elliptic-oblong, upright, acute, fpinous, 
fcales. Corolla compound, tubular, uniform, florets all 
equal, perfeft, fertile, monopetalous, funnel-lhaped, with 
a regular, five-cleft, acute, fpreading, limb. Stamina.: 
filaments five, capillary, the length of the tube ; antheras 
acute, the length of the limb, united into a cylinder. 
Piftillum : germen obovate; ftyle thread-fhaped, the 
length of the ftamens, very flender; ftigmas two, acute, 
reflexed. Pericarpium : none, except the permanent calyx. 
Seedsfolitary,obovate;down Ample,feflile,lhort,fpreading. 
Receptacle: flefhy, chaffy; its fcales roundilli, concave, long¬ 
er than the feeds, which they feparate from each other.— Ef- 
fential Character. Receptacle flefliy, chaffy; down Ample, 
Ihort; calyx ovate, with imbricated, ftraighf,fpinous,fcales. 
Pacourina edulis : the only fpecies. Found flowering 
in the month of June,, on the banks of a river expofecU 
to the influx of the fea, near Courou, in Guiana, by 
Aublet, from whofe Herbarium fpecimens were commu¬ 
nicated by firjofeph Banks. No other botanift, as far 
as we know, has ever gathered this plant. No account is 
given of the original generic name, which has the ap¬ 
pearance of being French, and therefore in honour of 
fome perfon ; but Willdenow thought proper to change 
it. The fpecific name, edulis, is meant to exprefs that 
the receptacle is eatable, as well as the whole plant, ac¬ 
cording to Aublet, but he does not fay whether raw or 
boiled. Its habit is that of a Cnicus or Sonchus. Root 
perennial. Stems feveral, fomewhat branched, leafy, 
round, fmooth, often zigzag, three feet high. Leaves 
alternate, large, ovate-oblong, greyifh, fmooth, veiny, 
fringed with little irregular fpinous teeth, their bale 
running down into a winged footftaik, which embraces 
the ftem. Flowers folitary, oppolite to each leaf, feffde, 
fcarcely an inch in diameter, bluifh. The young foliage 
is flightly downy. Aublet Guian. p. 800. t. 316. 
PACT, /! \_pa£le, Fr. from padum, Lat.] A contraft ; 
a bargain ; a covenant.—The queen, contrary to h ev pad 
and agreement concerning the marriage of her daughter, 
delivered her daughters out of fanftuary unto king Ri¬ 
chard. Bacon. 
PAC'TA VALAM'. See Trickosanthes. 
PAC'TION, f. [Fr. padio, Lat.) A bargain; a cove¬ 
nant.—The French king fent for Matthew earl of Le- 
venox, to remove the earl of Arraine from the regency 
of Scotland, and reverie fuch padious as he had made. 
Hayward. —There never could be any room for contrafts 
or padions between the Supreme Being and his intelli¬ 
gent creatures. Cheyne. 
PAC'TIONAL, adj. By way of bargain or covenant. 
■—The feveral duties, that hy God’s ordinance are to be 
performed by perfons that (land in mutual relation either 
to other, are not padional and conditional; as are the 
leagues and agreements made between princes; but are 
ablolute and independent: wherein each perfon is to look 
to himfelf, and the performance of the duty that lyeth 
upon him, though the other party fliould fail in the per¬ 
formance of his. Sanderfon's Cafes of Confidence. 
PACTI'TIOUS, adj. Settled by covenant. 
PACTO'LUS, in ancient geography, a river of Afla, 
which had its rife on Mount Tmolus, in Lydia, watered 
the plain adjoining to Sardis, traverfed that town, and 
ran into the Hermus, which difcharged itfeif into the gulf 
of Smyrna. This river is laid to have contained a quan¬ 
tity oi gold. As to the fable related concerning it, we 
refer to Midas. The kings of Perfia obtained pofieflion 
of the Paftolus and its treafures by Cyrus’s conqueft of 
Lydia. Xerxes drew gold from the Paftolus, and this 
valuable metal was furnifhed by it in the time of Hero¬ 
dotus ; but it afterwards failed, long before the time of 
Strabo. The gold of the Paftolus was derived from the 
mines of Mount Tmolus; and, when thefe were exhaufted, 
thefupplyof the river was difcontinued. This river was, 
according to Varro and Chryfoltom, the chief fource of 
the wealth of Croefus. 
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