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PALINGENE'SIA, f. [Greek; formed of net\ii, anew, 
and ysvea-it, generation.] New birth, or regeneration. It 
is alfo ufed by fome for the migration or paflage of the 
foul of a deceafed perfon into another body; and is almoft 
the fame thing with the metempfychofis taught by Pytha¬ 
goras, and Hill believed by the Brahmans, Banjans, and 
other philofophers of the eaft. 
Palingenesia is ufed among chemifts for the repro¬ 
ducing a mixed body from its allies. This has been pre¬ 
tended to by many, as well as the philofopher’s (tone, and 
other wonderful powers ; but, as to the palingenefia, or 
refufcitation of plants, the inftances produced are no 
more than fome of tliofe artificial Vegetations which the 
learned Monf. Homberg has obferved and defcribed many 
times. See Homberg in Mem. Acad. Sciences, 1710. 
Boyle’s Works -abridg. vol.i. p. 69. and Sibly’s Aftrology, 
p. 1114, 15. 
PALINGE'NIUS (Marcellos), a modern Eatin poet, 
who flourilhed about the beginning of the fixteenth cen¬ 
tury, was probably a native of Stellata in the Ferrarefe, 
whence he added Stellatus to his name. It has been fup- 
pofed that his true name was Pier-Angelo Marizolli, of 
which his Latin appellation is the anagram. Some have 
imagined that he was phyfician to Hercules II. duke of 
Ferrara, to whom the work for which he is celebrated is 
infcribed. This is his poem entitled “ Zodiacus Vitae; 
i.e. de Hominis Vita, Studio, ac Morihus, optime infti- 
tuendis, Lib. XII.” It derives its title of the Zodiac of 
Life, from its divifion into twelve parts, each infcribed 
with one of the figns of the zodiac. This performance, of 
which theprofefted purpofe is to guide men in the road to 
prefent and future happinefs, is interfperfed with many 
invectives againft the court and church of Rome, the 
monks, and clergy ; whence the author is fuppofed to have 
been one of thole converts to the reformation who fre¬ 
quented the court of the duchefs of Ferrara, filter of 
Francis I. This poem was placed in the firft clafs of pro¬ 
hibited books in the Index Expurgatorius; and it is af¬ 
firmed that, after his death, his body was dug up and 
burned ; but very little feems to be known with certainty 
of his perfon and life. The Zodiacus is fpoken of very 
differently by different critics, fome allowing it no merit 
of plan and little of execution, while others call it a fine 
poem, that deferves to be more read. The editions of it 
have been numerous. The bed is that of Rotterdam, 
Svo. 1722. It has been tranflated into French. Bibliogr. 
DiS. 
PALINGUIR', one of the Philippine iflands, about 
fifteen miles in circumference, fituated to the north of 
Cape Engano, on the ifland of Lugon. 
PAL'INODE, or Palinody, f. [from the Gr. waAn>, 
anew, and uo-n, a long.] A difcourfe contrary to a prece¬ 
ding one. Hence the phrafe Pnlinodiam canere, “ to fing 
palinody,” q. d. to make a recantation. And thus it has 
paffed as a general name for any poem, or the like, which 
contains a retractation in favour of a perfon whom the 
poet before had offended.— The poet Steiichorus is faid 
to be the firft author of the 'palinody. The fixth ode of 
the firft book of Horace, beginning “ O matre pulchra,” 
is a true palinody. Chambers .—He was fu(pended from all 
execution of his prieftly function within the univerfity, 
till he fliould make his palinodie. A. Wood's Annals Univ. 
Ox. anno 1640. 
You, two and two, finging a palinode, 
March to your feveral homes. B. Jonfon. 
PALINTOCIA, f. [Gr. formed from tra. Air, anew, 
and tozo;, of rtklw, I bring forth.] In antiquity, the birth 
or delivery of a child a fecond time. Thus the fecond 
birth of Bacchus, proceeding out of Jupiter's thigh, was 
a palintocia. 
Palintocia is alfo ufed for the reftitution of ufury, or 
the refunding of intcrelt. The Megareans, having ex- 
belied their tyrant, ordained the palintocia; that is, they 
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made a law, that all the creditors fhould return to their 
debtors the intereft they had received for money lent. 
PALPNUM, a cape on the coaft of Naples, in lat. 40. 
2. N. Ion. 15. 10. E. 
PALINU'RUS, in fabulous hiftory, ZEneas’s pilot, 
whofe fate Virgil very particularly deferibes. Fie fell 
into the fea when afleep ; and was three days expofed to 
the tempefts and its agitation, and at laft came fafe afliore, 
when the cruel inhabitants of the place murdered him to 
get his clothes. His body was left unburied on the fea- 
fhore ; and fince, according^ to the religion of the old 
Romans, no one could crofs the Stygian lake before 100 
years were elapfed, if his remains had not been decently 
buried, we find ZEneas, when he went down to hell, 
fpeaking to Palinurus, and alluring him, that, though his 
bones were deprived of a funeral, yet the place where his 
body was expofed fhould foon be adorned with a monu¬ 
ment, and bear his name; and, accordingly, a promontory 
was called Pcdinuri Promontorium , with acognominal port, 
(now Palinuro:) it was fituated at the fouth extremity 
of the Sinus Pasftanus, on the coaft of Lucania. 
PALISA'DE, or Palisa'do, j. [Fr. and Span, pains, 
Lat.] Pales fet by way of inclofure or defence.—Wood is 
ufeful for palijadoes for fortifications, being very hard and 
durable. Mortimer's Hnjb .-—The city is furrounded with 
a ftrong wall, and that wall guarded with palifades. 
Broome on the Odyffey. 
The Trojans round the place a rampire caft, 
And palifades about the trenches plac’d. Dryden. 
Palisade, in fortification, an inclofure of (lakes or 
piles driven into the ground, each fix or (even inches 
fquare, and nine or ten feet long, three of which are hid 
underground. They are fixed about three inches afunder, 
and braced together by pieces nailed acrofs them near the 
tops, and fecured by thick polls at the distance of every 
four or five yards. Palilades are placed in the covert¬ 
way, at three feet from, and parallel to, the parapet or 
ridge of the glacis, to fecure it from being furprifed. 
They are ufually planted perpendicularly ; though fome 
make an angle inclining towards the ground next the 
enemy, that ropes caft over them, to tear them up, may Hip. 
Turning Palijades are an invention of M. Coeliorn, in 
order to prefervethe palifades of the parapet of the covert¬ 
way from the befiegers’ fhot. They are fo ordered, that 
as many of them as Hand in the length of a rod, cr 
about ten feet, turn up and down like traps, fo as not to 
be in fight of the enemy till they juft bring on their 
attack, and yet are always ready to do the proper fervice 
of palifades. 
Palifades Ihod with iron are ufed in (hallow ftreams and 
marfnes, to prevent fmall craft from plying, or per foils 
from crofting them on foot. 
Palisade, in gardening, denotes a fort of ornament; 
being a row of trees which bear branches and leaves front 
the bottom, cut and fpread in manner of a wall, along 
the fide of an alley, or the like; fo as to appear like a 
wall covered with leaves. Thefe palifades are made of 
jelfamine, phillyrea, &c. 
To PALISA'DE, v. a. To inclofe with palifades. 
PA'LISH, adj. Somewhat pale.—Spirit of nitre makes 
with copper a palijh blue; fipirit of urine a deep blue. 
Arbuthnot on Air. 
Greet, ever wont the cyprefs fad to bear; 
Acheron banks, the palijh popelar. Bp. Hall's Sat. 
PALIS'SE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Allier: ten miles north eaft of Culfet, and nine fouth- 
weft of Donjon. 
PALISSE', adj. In heraldry, a range of palifades before 
a fortification reprelented on a fefie, riling up a conlider- 
able height, and pointed at top, with the field appearing 
through them. 
PALISSY' (Bernard de), an ingenious artift, and pro¬ 
ficient in natural philolophy, was born at Agen, a city 
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