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thanks for enabling to fulfil it fo much. See Num. vi. 
Such as, like Samuel, Samfon, and John Baptift, were 
dedicated for life, had no' occafion for thefe offerings. 
Such as lived out of Canaan cut their hair in the places 
where the days of their vow were finifhed, but deferred 
the offerings till they got to the fanduary; fo Paul fhaved 
off his hair at Cenchrea, but deferred his oblation till he 
catne to Jerufalem. Ads xviii. 18. 
Some, who had not opportunity to perform the duties 
of the Nazarite themfelves, contributed to the expenfe of 
the facrifice and offerings of thofe that had made and ful¬ 
filled this vow ; and by this means became partakers 
in the merit of fuch Nazaritefhip. Thus, when St. Paul 
came to Jerufalem, in the year of Chrift 58, the apoftle 
St. James the Lefs, with the other brethren, faid to him, 
(Ads xxi. 23-24.) that, to quiet the minds of the con¬ 
verted Jews, who had been informed that he every-where 
preached up the entire abolition of the law of Moles, he 
ought to join himfelf to four of the faithful who had a 
vow of Nazaritelhip upon them, and contribute to the 
charge of the ceremony at the (having of their heads ; by 
■which the new converts would perceive that he continued 
to keep the law, and that what they had heard of hint 
was not true. 
The Hebrew word nazir, which is made ufe of to exprefs 
a man exalted to great dignity-, (as it is faid of the patri¬ 
arch Jofeph, Gen. xiix. 26. and Deut. xxxiii. 16. that he 
was Jeparate from his brethren, as it is in our tranflation ; 
or, as the Vulgate and others underftand the Hebrew, 
“ that he was a Nazarite among his brethren,”) is vari- 
oufiy underftood. The Septuagint tranllate this word a 
chief, or him that is honoured. Calmet thinks that this 
was a term of dignity in the courts of eaftern princes, 
and that at this day in the court of Perfia the word nazir 
fignifies the fuperintendant of the king’s houfehold, the 
chief officer of the crown, the high fteward of his family, 
treafures, and revenues; and that in this fenfe Jofeph 
was the nazir of the court of Pharaoh. Le Clerc tranllates 
the nazir, a prince, and calls Jofeph “ the prince of his 
brethren,” in the two places already quoted. Mr. Pool 
declares in favour of this laft tranflation. 
Nazarites, or Aazarenes, were likewile a kind of fec- 
taries in the church, in the firil ages of Chriftianity ; or, 
as others defcribe them, the firil believers in Chriftianity, 
profelyted from the Jews, and therefore called Jewiffi be¬ 
lievers. St. Epiphanius tells us, the Nazareans were the 
fame with the Jews in every thing relating to the dodrine 
and ceremonies of the Old Teftament; and only differed 
from them in this, that they added Chriftianity to thofe; 
profeffing to believe, that Jefus Chrift was the Meffiah. 
There were two kinds of Nazarenes; the on e pure, who 
kept the law of Mofes and Chriftianity together, and who 
were not placed by the ancient Chriftians in the regifter 
of heretics, but firil ranked in this clafs by Epiphanius 
in the fourth century; the other, real Ebionites ; fee that 
article. 
Moffieim, however, obferves, that the term Nazarenes 
was not originally the name of a fed, but that which dif- 
tinguilhed the difciples of Jefus in general; as he himfelf 
was called a Nazarene, from his dwelling fo long at Naza¬ 
reth. 
NAZAWA'. See Nissuwa. 
NAZE, or Ness, [front nez, Fr. a nofe.] A projeding 
point of land, of which there are many fo called on the 
different coafts of the world; the mod remarkable of 
which are the following. 
NAZE, on the coalt of Effex, is to the fouthward of 
Harwich, and a noted mark for failing to and from that 
port, into or out of the various channels which are formed 
by the fands at the mouth of the river Thames. It is a 
hooked promontory, incloling a few low iflands, from 
which the land declines to the weltward, fo as to form 
the north Ihore of the river. Near this cape, a tower for 
a light-houfe, eighty feet in height, has been ereded for 
the diredion and fafety of fliips failing that way. Lat. 
.31. 57. N. Ion. 1.14. E. 
VOL.XVI. No. 1143. 
NAZE, on the coaft of Glamorganlhire. See Nash 
Point. 
NAZE of NOR'WAY, or Lindes Ness, a cape on 
thefouth coaft of Norway, in the North Sea, which joins 
to the main land by a very narrow ifthmus. The inha¬ 
bitants have formerly attempted, for the conveniency of 
navigation, to cut a channel through this final! neck 
of land, and to build a town there; but this fcheme was 
found impracticable, byrealon of the rocks that obftruded 
the execution of it. The cape projeds into the fea about 
a Norway mile towards the fouth-weft, and is about half 
a mile broad. It is a high, barren, rocky, promontory: 
however, it has twelve peafants’ houfes on it. This cape 
is commonly called The Naze. Lat. 58. 1. N. Ion. 7. 12. E. 
NAZEL'LES, a town of France, in the department of 
Indre and Loire: three miles north of Amboile. 
NA'ZER, J. in the Hindooltan police, an overleer 
whofe bufinels is to enforce the payment of the revenues, 
fees, &c. 
NAZER AN'NA, f. A fum paid to government, as an 
acknowledgment for a grant of lands, or any public 
office. 
NAZERUT',/ The office of nazer. 
NAZIAN'ZUS, in ancient geography, a town of Cap¬ 
padocia, where St. Gregory was born, and hence he is 
called Nazianzenus. See vol.ix. p. 12. 
NA'ZIM, the firil officer of a province in India, in 
whofe hands the executive power is lodged. See Nizam. 
NAZIMO'VA, a town of Ruffia, in the government 
of Tobollk, on the Enifei: lixty-eight miles north of 
Enifeilk. 
NA'ZIN, a river of Ruffia, which runs into the Oby in 
lat. 60. 20. N. Ion. 68. 20. E. 
NAZZARE'TO, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Irak: 130 miles fouth-fouth-weft of Hamadan. 
NE, adv. [Saxon. This particle was formerly of very 
frequent ufe, both fingly and by contradion in com¬ 
pound words : as, nill for ne will or will not; nas for ne has 
or has not; nis for ne is or is net.] Neither : 
His warlike fliield all cover’d clofely was, 
Ne might of mortal eye be ever feen, 
Not made of Heel, nor of enduring brafs. Spenfer. 
Not.—Yet who was that Belphcebe, he ne will. Spenfer. 
But when ffie faw at laft, that he ne would 
For ought or nought be wonne unto her will, 
She turn’d her love to hatred manifold. Spenfer . 
NE EXEAT REGNO. A writ to reftrain a perfon 
from going out of the kingdom without the king’s li¬ 
cence. It may be direded to the ffieriff, to make the 
party find furety that he will not depart the realm; and, 
on his refufal, to commit him to prifon; or it may be 
direded to the party himfelf; and, if he then goes, he 
may be fined. 2 Lift. 178. 
Some perfons there anciently were, that, by reafon of 
their Rations, were under a perpetual prohibition of 
going abroad without licence obtained ; among which 
were reckoned all peers, on account of their being coun- 
lellors of the crown; all knights, who were bound to 
defend the kingdom from invafions; all eccle/ia/lics, who 
were exprefsly confined, by the fourth chapter of the 
Conftitution of Clarendon, on account of their attach¬ 
ment in the times of popery to the fee of Rome; all 
archers, and other artificers, left they fliould inftrud 
foreigners to rival us in their feveral trades and manufac¬ 
tures. This was law in the times of Britton, who wrote 
in the reign of Edward I. and Coke gives us many in- 
ftances to this effed in the time of Edward III. Britton, 
c. 123. 3 I11JI. 175. I11 the fucceeding reign the affair of 
travelling wrote a very different afped; an ad of parlia¬ 
ment being made (5 Ric. II. c. 2,) forbidding all perfons 
whatever to go abroad without licence; except only the 
lords and other great men of the realm; and true and 
notable merchants; and the king’s foldiers. But this ad 
was repealed by flat. 4 Jac. I. c. 1. and at prelent every 
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