328 PAN 
XHONfus ;) for which fincerity a temple was raifed to her, 
near that of Minerva, and a feftival inftituted in her ho¬ 
nour. Paufanias. 
PAN'DSA TA'LA, a group of feveral fmall lakes in 
Thibet. Lat. 30.42. N. Ion. 79. 26. E. 
PANDU', in mythology, the name of a perfonage of 
fome importance in the heroic hiftory of the Hindoos. 
He was the father of the “five brothers,” or Pandavas, 
whofe contefts with the fons of Kuru form the fubjeCl 
of that fplendid poem, the Mahabarat. To thefe five 
heroes, it is ufual in India to attribute the conftru&ion 
of any great work whofe origin is loft in its antiquity ; 
fuch as the excavations on Elephanta, at Elora, See. See 
Mahabarat, vol. xiv< 
PANDU'R, a mean Rafcian village of Hungary, near 
Baja, remarkable for the activity of the heyducks againft 
robbers infefting the roads, and from which the Pan- 
dours took their name: twenty-fix miles fouth of Co- 
locza. 
PANDU'RA. See Pandore. 
PANDU'RIFORM, adj. An epithet applied to a leaf 
refembling in form the pandura, or ancient lyre, being 
rounded and dilated at each end, with a contraction in the 
middle. The form of the modern violin feems to have 
been borrowed from that inftrument, though it does not 
clearly appear for what reafon. The leaf fo denominated 
is fcarcely to be found but in the fpecies of Rumex, called, 
from this refemblance, which is very correct and ftriking, 
fiddle-dock. 
PANDUXA'TOR, f. (in old records.) A brewer. 
PANDUXATRIX, f. A woman that brews and fells 
ale. 
PANDYS'IA, f. [Greek.] In antiquity, public rejoic¬ 
ings when the fealbn, through its coldnefs and intem¬ 
perance, forced the failors to ltay at home. 
PANE, f,. [ paneau , Fr.] A fquare of glafs.—The face 
of Eleanor owes more to that fingle pane than to all the 
glafles flie ever confulted. Pope's Lett. 
The letters appeared reverfe through the pane, 
But in Stella’s bright eyes they were plac’d right again. 
Swift. 
A piece mixed in variegated works with other pieces.—A 
pane of cloth; Barret. 
Him all repute, 
For his device in handfoming a fuit, 
To judge of lace, pink, panes, and print, and plait, 
Of all the court to have the bell conceit. Donne. 
PA'NE, a town on the north coaft of the illand of Su¬ 
matra. Lat. 2.40. N. Ion. 99. 35. E. 
PA'NEAS, in ancient geography, the apparent fpring 
from which the Jordan riles, on the extremity of the weft 
fide of the Trachonitis. 
PA'NEAS, the name of a diftriCt adjoining to the 
lpring Paneas, with a cognominal town, either enlarged 
and adorned, or originally built, by Philip fon of Herod, 
and called Ccefarea by Jofephus, and in St. Matthew 
Cafarea of Philip; with a temple ereCled to Auguftus 
his benefaftor, who conferred the Trachonius upon him. 
It was afterwards called Neronias, in honour of Nero 
(Jofephus). 
PA'NED, adj. Variegated ; compofed of fmall fquares, 
as a counterpane ufually is. — I have feen the king come 
lodainly thither in a malke with a dozen malkers, all in 
garments like Ihepardes, made of fine cloathe of gold and 
fine crimfon fatten paned. Cavendi/h's Life of Woljey .— 
Altar-cloathes of blewe bawdkyn pained with red velvette. 
Dir eft. in Warton's Life of Sir T. Pope .— My hooded 
cloak, long Hocking, andpr/nVhofe. Majinger's Gr. Duke 
of Florenee. 
PANEGYR'IC, f. [panegyrique, Fr. from •jravnyv^;, 
Gr.] An eulogy ; an encomiaftic piece.—The Athenians 
met at the fepulchres of thofe fiain at Marathon, and 
there made panegyricks upon them. Stillingfleet. 
PAN 
To chafe our fpleen when themes like thefe increafe, 
Shall panegyric reign, and cenfure ceafe. Young. 
The w'ord is formed of w«r, all, ccyet^w, I aflemble 5 be- 
caufe anciently held in public and folemn aflemblies of 
the Greeks, either at their games, their feafts, fairs, or 
religious meetings. To make their panegyrics the more 
folemn, the Greeks ufed to begin with the praifes of the 
deity in whofe honour the games, See. were celebrated ; 
then they defeended to the praife of the people or coun¬ 
try where they were celebrated; then to the princes or 
magiftrates who prefided at them ; and at length to the 
champions, efpecially the conquerors, who had gained 
the prizes in them. 
PANEGYR'ICUM, in church-hiftory, an ecclefiaftical 
book, ufed by the Greek church, containing the panegy¬ 
rical orations of various authors on the folemnities of 
Jefus Chrift and the faints. It is found in MS. in moft 
churches, but it is not the fame in all ; each church hav¬ 
ing its particular faints ; and the compilers of this kind 
of books ufually fuited their collections to the tafte of 
their own devotion. They are difpofed according to the. 
order of the months, and frequently confift of twelve 
volumes, anfwering to the twelve months of the year. 
PANEGYR'IC, or Panegyrical, adj. Encomiaftic; 
containing praife.— In punegyric halleluiahs. Donne's 
Poems. —Some of his odes are panegyrical, others moral, 
the reft jovial, or, if I may fo call them, bacchanalian. 
Dryden's Pref. to Sylvce. —In his panegyrical deferiptions, 
he has feldorn defeended lower than the centre of their 
hearts. Orrery on Sicift. 
PANEGY'RIS,/. [Greek.] Amongtheancient Greek?,, 
a fair, or feftival day, on which the people ufed to meet 
together. It exaCtlycorrefponded to the Nundinseof the 
Romans. Hence any feftival or public meeting. Milton 
follows the Greek form of the word panegury. —After 
another perfuafive method, at fet and folemn paneguries, 
in theatres, porches, or what other place or way. Milton's 
Reaf. of Ch. Gov. — Rejoicing efpecially was the practice, 
on the more folemn and feftival performances ; at pub¬ 
lic facrifice, which they called panegyres; a meeting of a 
fide of a county, a province. Stukely's Palaog. Sacra. — 
Will there not open a glorious feene, when God (to ufe St. 
Paul’s words) fhall celebrate the grand panegyris ? Harris 
on Ifuiali. 
PANEG'YRIST, /. One that writes praife ; encomiaft. 
—Add thefe few lines out of a far more ancient pai^egy- 
rijl in the time of Conftantine the great. Canulen. 
To PANEG'YRIZE, v. a. To commend highly; to 
bellow great praife upon.—Is not our royal founder al¬ 
ready panegyrized by all the univerfities ? Evelyn. —Their 
mode of panegyrizing their deceafed benefactors feems ra¬ 
ther to have been a kind of dramatic reprefentation of 
their fervices, than a rhetorical defeription of them. Co¬ 
ventry's Phil, to Hyd. 
PAN'EL, / [ panellum, Lat. paneau, Fr. a fquare or 
pane.] A fquare, or piece of any matter inferted between 
other bodies.—The chariot was all of cedar, fave that 
the fore end had panels of fapphires, fet in borders of 
gold. Bacon. —Maximilian, his whole hiftory is digefted 
into twenty-four fquare patiels of fculpture in bas-relief 
Addifon on Italy. —This fellow will join you together as 
they join wainfeot; then one of you will prove a fhrunk 
panel, and, like green timber, warp. Shukefpeare's As you 
like it. 
A bungler thus, who fcarce the nail can hit, 
With driving wrong will make the panel fplit. Swift. 
Panel, inlaw. According to fir Edw. Cok e pane lla, 
or panellum, denotes “ a little partbut Spelman derives 
it from pagella, a fchedule or page; in which fenfe w>e 
fay, a panel of parchment, a counterpanel or counterpart 
of an indenture, See. Panel or pannel is more commonly 
ufed for a fchedule, or roll, containing the names of fuch 
jurors as the fheriff returns to pafs upon a trial; and em- 
pannelling a jury is nothing but the entering them into 
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