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pedantically; ’tis a faith like that which proceeds from 
fuperftition. Dryden. 
And what thou doll: pedanticly objeft 
Concerning my rude, rugged, uncouth, ftyle. 
As childifli toy I manfully negleft, 
And at thy hidden fnares do inly fmile. 
Move's Poems, 1647. 
PED'ANTISM, f. The practice or profeffion of a pe¬ 
dant; pedantry. Phillips. 
To PED'ANTIZE, v. n. To play the pedant; to do¬ 
mineer over lads; to ufe pedantical expreffions. Not now 
in life. 
PED'ANTRY, f. Awkward oftentation of needlefs 
learning.—From the univerlities the young nobility are 
fent for fear of contracting any airs of pedantry by a 
college education. Suift. —An obftinate addiction to the 
forms of fome private life, and not regarding general 
things enough.—There is a pedantry in manners, as in all 
arts and fciences ; and fometitnes in trades. Pedantry is 
properly the overrating any kind of knowledge we pre¬ 
tend to ; and, if that kind of knowledge be a trifle in 
itfelf, the pedantry is the greater. For which reafon I 
look upon fiddlers, dancing-mailers, heralds, mailers of 
ceremony, See. to be greater pedants than Lipfius or the 
elder Scaliger. Swift on Good Manners. 
PEDA'RIAN,/. in antiquity, thofe fenators who fig- 
nified their votes by their feet, not their tongues ; that 
is, fuch as walked over to the fide of thofe whofe opinion 
they approved of, in divifions of the fenate. 
The origin of the word Dr. Middleton thinks owing 
to this, that, though the magillrates of Rome had a 
right to a place and vote in the fenate, as well during 
their office as after it, and before they were put upon the 
roll by the cenfors, yet they had not probably a right to 
fpeak or debate there on any quellion, at lea ft in the 
earlier times of the republic. For this feems to have 
been the original diltinClion between them and the an¬ 
cient fenators, as it is plainly intimated in the formule 
of the confular ediCl, fent abroad to fummon the fenate, 
which was addreffed to all fenators, as thofe wdio had a 
right to vote in the fenate. From which dillinCtion, 
thefe laft, who had only a right to vote, were called, by 
way of ridicule, pedarians; becaufe they fignified then- 
votes by their feet, not their tongues, and upon every 
divifion of the fenate, went over to the fide of thofe whofe 
opinions they approved. It was in allufion to this old 
cultom, which feems, however, to have been wholly 
dropped in the later ages of the republic, that the mute 
part of the fenate continued Hill to be called by the name 
of pedarians, as we learn from Cicero, who, in giving an 
account to Atticus of a certain debate and decree of the 
fenate upon it, fays, that “ it w'as made with the eager 
and general concurrence of the pedarians, though againfl 
the authority of all the confulars.” See Aulus Gellius, 
lib. iii. c. 18. Cicero ad Attic, i. 19. Middleton of the 
Rom. S'en. p. 86. 
PE'DATE. adj. in botany, deeply cut into fegments 
connected with the petiole on the inner fide on-ly, like a 
bird’s foot. 
PEDDAGU'DAMY, a town of Hindoollan, in the 
circar of Ellore : ten miles north-well of Ellore. 
PEDDAPOU'R, a town of Iiindooftan, in the circar 
of Rajamundry: twenty-two miles eafi-north-eaft of Ra- 
jamundry. 
PED'DI-BALABA'RUM, a town of Hindoollan, in 
Myfore: fixteen miles north of Bangalore. 
To PED'DLE, v. n. [perhaps from petty."] To bebufy 
about trifles. It is commonly written piddle: as, What 
piddling work is here.—To aft as a pedlar.— Peddling 
women cry Scotch cloth of a groat a yard. Crown's Sir 
Courtly Nice. 
PED'DLING, adj. Petty; triflings unimportant.— 
Unneceflary rigours and peddling feverities. Bp. Taylor's 
Artif. Handfom. —So flight a pleafure I may part with, 
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and find no mifs; this peddling profit I may refign, and 
’twill be no breach of my ellate. Decay of Chr, Piety. 
PEDE'E, f. A footboy ; a lackey. Phillips. 
PEDE'E (Great), a river of America, which rifes in 
North Carolina, on the borders of Virginia, in feveral 
fmall rivers which unite together, and afterwards take 
the name.of Pedee. Its courfe is fouth, a little inclining 
to the ealt, and it runs into the Atlantic Ocean, fix miles 
below George Town, in lat. 33. 17. N. Ion. 5. W. 
PEDE'E (Little), a river of South Carolina, which 
runs into the Great Pedee fixteen miles below Queenbo- 
rough in South Carolina. 
PEDEMON'TE n’ALI'SI, a town of Naples, in La- 
vora : twenty miles north-north-eaft of Capua. 
PEDE'NA, or Bi'ben, a town of Iltria, the fee of a 
bilhop: twenty-five miles fouth-fouth-eall of Triefte, 
and lixty-four north-eall of Rovigno. Lat. 45. ai. N. 
Ion. 14. 16. E. 
PED'ENSAC, a town of France, in the department 
of the Gironde: fifteen miles fouth of Bourdeaux. 
PED'ERAST, J\ [from the Gr. Trait;, a boy, and epxm;, 
a lover.] One who has a criminal paffion for boys. 
PED'ERASTY, f A criminal paffion for boys. 
PEDERE'RO, f. [pedrero, Span, from piedra, a done.] 
A fmall fort of cannon, which is particularly ufed on the 
quarter-deck of fliips, to fire, or throw' forth Hones, bro¬ 
ken iron, or partridge-lhot, on an enemy attempting to 
board. They are generally open at the breach, having 
their chamber made to take out, to be loaded that way, 
inftead of at the muzzle. 
PEDERNEE', a town of France, in the department 
of the North Coafts: four miles north-well of Guin- 
gamp, and ten fouth-well of Lannion. 
PEDERNEI'RA, a leaport town on the well coall of 
Portugal, in the province of Eftremadura, containing 
1300 inhabitants : eighteen miles fouth-well of Leyria, 
and eighteen north-eall of Peniche. Lat. 39. 31. N. Ion. 
8. 56. W. 
PED'ERSORE, a town of Sweden, in the government 
of Wafa: three miles fouth of Jacoblladt. 
PED'ESTAL, f. [piedeftal , Fr.] The lower member of 
a pillar ; the bails of a ftatue. See Architecture.— In 
the centre of it was a grim idol; the fore-part of the pe- 
deftal w'as curioufly emboffed with a triumph. Addifon. 
So HilF, fo mute ! fome ftatue you would fwear 
Stept from its pedefial to take the air. Pope. 
PEDES'TRIAL, adj. [pedejlris , from pcs, the foot, 
Lat.] Employing the foot; belonging to the foot. A 
modern word.—Of the different methods that have been 
deferibed in hiftory, by which archery has been praftifed, 
that in ufe among-the Ethiopians, and a few other na¬ 
tions, is undoubtedly the moll extraordinary. We read 
that thefe people, inftead of holding their bow in the left 
hand, as is the ufual cuftom, drew it by the affiftance of 
their feet. The faft is recorded by Diodorus Siculus and 
Strabo; the latter of whom informs us of a curious ex¬ 
pedient of this pedeftrial archery, ufed by the Ethiopians 
in hunting elephants. Mofely on Archery. 
PEDES'TRIAN, adj. On foot. 
PEDES'TRI AN, f. One who makes a journey on foot; 
one diftinguilhed for his powers of walking. A modern 
word. Hence, 
PEDES'TRI ANISM, f. Feats of walking.- Curiofity 
is a prevailing foible in almoll every country ; and the 
perfon who is capable of performing any wonderful ex¬ 
ploit feldom fails to excite the attention of the admiring, 
multitude. The inhabitants of this kingdom have for 
fome years pall been endeavouring to raifethis paffion by 
the fwiftnefs of their horfes ; and, while fome hate la- 
viflied away their fortunes in purfuit of this pleafure, 
others have more prudently employed thefe noble ani¬ 
mals, and rendered their fpeed of general fervice, by 
ufing them in bufinefs where difpatch is neceflary. Hence 
it has become ah univerfal praftice to have recourfe to 
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