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NEU'TEICH, a town of Pruffia, in Pomerelia : fix miles 
north-north-weft of Marienburg. 
NEU'TEICH, a town of Silefia, in the principality of 
Oels : two miles eaft of Militfch. 
NEU'TER, adj. [neuter, Lat. neutre, Fr.] Indifferent; 
not engaged on either fide.—The general divifion of the 
Britifh nation is into whigs and tories ; there being very 
few, if any, who ftand neuter in the difpute, without 
ranging themfelves under one of thefe denominations. 
AddiJ'eu's Freeholder. —[In grammar.] A noun that im¬ 
plies no fex.—The adjedtives are neuter, and animal mult 
be underltood to make it grammar. Dryden —A verb 
neuter is that which fignifies neither action nor paflion ; 
but fome ftate or condition of being; as ■ Jedeo, I fit. 
Clarke's Latin Grammar. 
NEU'TER, / One indifferent and unengaged.—He is 
an odious neuter, a lukewarm Laodicean. Bp. Hall's Select 
Thoughts.- —The learned heathens may be looked upon as 
neuters in the matter, when all thefe prophecies were new 
to them, and their education had left the interpretation 
of them indifferent. Addifon on the Chrijlian Religion. 
NEU'TRAL, adj. [neutral, French.] Indifferent; not 
adting; not engaged on either fide.—He no fooner heard 
that king Henry was fettled by his vidtory, but forthwith 
he lent ambafladors unto him, to pray that he would Hand 
neutral. Bacon's Hen. VII. 
Who can be wife, amaz’d, temperate, and furious, 
Loyal and neutral, in a moment ? No man. Shahefp. 
Indifferent; neither good nor bad : 
Some things good, and fome things ill do feem, 
And neutral fome in her fantaftick eye. Davies. 
Neither acid nor alkaline.—Salts wdiich are neither acid 
nor alkaline, are called neutral. Arbuthnot. 
Neutral Salts, among chemifts, fuch as do not 
abound with an excefs of acid or alkali. See Neutrali¬ 
zation. Formerly thofe only were called neutral falts, 
which were compofed of acids and alkalies united toge¬ 
ther to the point of faturation, fo that they had no acid 
nor alkaline property. But now this name is commonly 
extended to combinations of acids with all fubftances, 
with which they can fo unite, that they lofe entirely or 
moftly their acid qualities ; as, for inftance, when they are 
united with earthly or metallic fubftances. 
NEU'TRAL,/. One who does not aft nor engage on 
either fide.—The treacherous who have milled others, 
and the neutrals and the falfe-hearted friends and fol¬ 
lowers, who have flatted afide like a broken bow, are to 
be noted. Bacon. 
NEUTRALIST,/. An indifferent or carelefs being; 
one who is on neither fide. Bullohar. 
NEUTRALITY, / [neutralise, French.] A ftate of 
indifference; of neither friendfhip nor lioftility.—Men 
who poffefs a ftate of neutrality in the times of publick 
danger, defert the intereft of their fellow-fubjefls. Addifon. 
The king, late griefs revolving in his mind, 
.Thefe reafons for neutrality aflign’d. Garth's Ovid. 
A ftate between good and evil: 
There is no health : phyficians fay, that we 
At beft enjoy but a neutrality. Donne. 
The ftate of being of the neuter gender.—Jefus anfwered, 
“ I and my Father are one:” where the plurality of the 
verb, and the neutrality of the noun, with the diftinction 
of their perfons, fpeak a perfect identity of their effence. 
Bear Jon on the Creed. 
To NEUTRALIZE, v. a. To render indifferent; to 
engage on neither fide.— [In agriculture.] To make neu¬ 
tral.—Thefe [till and vitriolic foils] neceflarily require 
the calcareous ingredient to neutralize their peccant acid. 
Kimvan on Manures. 
NEUTRALIZATION^/ in chemiftry, theaft of com¬ 
bining an acid with an alkali in fuch proportion that the 
compound may not exhibit either acid or alkaline qua¬ 
lities, and is in what is called a neutral ftate. Under the 
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fame circumftances the acid and the alkali are faid to be 
mutually Jaturated, or neutralized. In the old nomen¬ 
clature, this language relative to falts was more appro¬ 
priate than in the prefent ftate of chemiftry. Acids ufed 
then to be called acid falts, and the alkalies alkaline falts; 
while thofe compounds confiding of an acid and an alkali, 
where neither the acid nor the alkali predominated, were 
called, for the fake of diitinflion, neutral Jdlts. The teft 
commonly employed for afeertaining the ftate of neutrality 
is a vegetable blue, fuch as an infufion of violets, or paper 
ftained with almoft any vegetable blue. If the colour is 
not changed, the compound may be deemed neutral. If 
the colour be changed to red, the acid prevails; but, if a 
green, the alkali predominates. 
NEUTRALLY, fff/u. Indifferently; on neither part. 
NEU'TRO-PAS'SIVE, adj. in grammar, belonging to 
verbs neuter, which have their preterperfedl tenfes formed 
of a paflive participle. AJh. 
NEU'VE LI'RE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Eure : ten miles fouth of Beaumont le Roger, and 
fifteen north-north-weft of Verneuil. 
NEU'VIC, a town of France, in the department of the 
Dordogne : twelve miles fouth-weft of Perigueux. 
NEU'VIC, a town of France, in the department of the 
Correze : ten miles fouth of Uffel, and twenty-two eaft- 
north-eaft of Tulle. 
NEU'VILLE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Vienne: feven miles north-north-weft of Poitiers, and 
fix fouth of Mirebeau. 
NEU'VILLE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Upper Marne, on the Marne: feven miles eaft of 
St. Dizier. 
NEU'VILLE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Straits of Calais, on the Canche, oppofite Montreuil. 
NEU'VILLE, Bon'neville, or Neu'enstadt, a town, 
of Swifterland : nine miles north-call of Neufchatel. 
NEU'VILLE, a town of Canada, on the St. Laurence: 
fourteen miles fouth-weft of Quebec. 
NEU'VILLE (Charles Frey de), a French Jefuit, cele¬ 
brated for his admirable talents as a preacher, was de- 
feended from a noble family in Britany, and born at 
Coutances in the year 1693. He did not deliver his firft 
fermon before the year 1736; but he then made fuch a 
powerful impreflion on his hearers, by the excellence of 
his compofition and the powers of his eloquence, that 
from that time for more than thirty years, his appearance 
in the pulpit, either at court or in the capital, always 
afforded the higheft fatisfablion to his auditory. After 
the ruin of his order in France, he retired to Compeigne, 
where he had permiffion to refide, notwithftanding that 
he had not complied with the conditions which the par¬ 
liament of Paris exacted from the Jefuits who were de- 
firous of remaining within their jurifdittion. For this 
indulgence he was indebted to the effe/t produced by his 
fuperior talents and eminent virtues on illuftrious females 
at court, who obtained the confent of Louis XV. that he 
fhould live unmoleiled in the folitude which he had chofen. 
Into this retreat he was followed by the favours of the 
king and royal family, which confoled him in his exile 
from fociety, and mitigated the infirmities of advancing 
age. The principal event which contributed to difturb 
his tranquillity, was the extinfiion of the fociety of 
Jefuits by the brief of pope Clement XIV. Ke died in 
1774, when he was in the eighty- firft year of his age. His 
Sermons were publifhed at Paris., in 1776, in B vols, iarno. 
Ourauthor had an eider brother, called Peter-Claude 
Frey de Neuville, who was born at Grandviile in 169?. 
He alfo became a member of the Society of Jefus, and was 
twice called upon to fill the poll of provincial. After the 
deftruftion of the fociety he retired to Rennes, where he 
died in 1773, about the age of eighty-one. Of his Sermons, 
which are 1 els brilliant but more i’olid than thole of his 
younger brother, two volumes were publifhed at Rouen, 
in 177B, 1 zmo. Nouv. Dili. lift. 
NEU'VILLE aux BOI'S, a town of France, and prin¬ 
cipal place of a diitrictj in the department of the Loiret; 
twelve 
