P L A 
P L A 
Some peafants 
Of the fame foil their nurfery prepare 
With that of their plantation ; left the tree 
Tranflated fliould not with the foil agree. Dryden. 
Whofe riling [orefts, not for pride or (lioiv, 
But future buildings, future navies, grow ; 
Let his plantations ltretch from down to down, 
Fir ft Iliad e a country, and then raife a town. Pope, 
A colony. See Colony, vol. iv. p.787.—Planting-of 
countries is like planting of woods; the principal thing, 
that hath been the deftrudiion of molt plantations, hath 
been the bafe and hafty drawing of profit in the firft years; 
Ipeedy profit is not to be negledfed, as far as may ftand 
with the good of the plantation. Bacon's EJJays. —Intro¬ 
duction ; eftablifliment.—Epifcopacy muft be call out of 
this church, after poffefiion here, from the firft plantation 
of Chriftianity in this ifiand. King Charles. 
PLAN'TED, part. This word feems in' Shakefpeare to 
fignify, fettled ; well-grounded : 
A man in all the world’s new faflfion planted. 
That hath a mint of phrafes in his brain. Shakefpeare. 
PLAN'TER, f. One who fows, fets, or cultivates ; 
cultivator.—There ftood Sabinus, planter of the vines. 
Dryden. 
What do thy vines avail, 
Or olives, when the cruel battle mows 
The planters, with their harveft immature ? Philips. 
That produft only which our paflions bear 
Eludes the planter’s miferable care. Prior. 
One who cultivates ground in the Weft-Indi.tn colonies. 
—A planter in the Weft Indies might mufter up and lead 
nil his family out againft the Indians, without the ab(o- 
lute dominion of a monarch, defcending to him from 
Adam. Locke. 
He to Jamaica feems tranfported, 
. Alone, and by no planter courted. Swift’s Mifiell. 
One who difleminates or introduces.—The Holy Apoftles, 
the firft planters of Chriftianity, followed the moral equity 
of the fourth commandment. Nelfon. —Had thefe writings 
differed from the fermons of the firft planters of Chrif¬ 
tianity in hiftory or doffrine, they would have been 
reiedted by thofe churches which they had formed. Ad- 
difon. 
PLANTIG'EROUS, adj. [from the Lat. planta, a 
plant, and gero to carry.] Bearing plants, 
PLAN'TIN (Chriftopher), an eminent printer, born 
at Mont-Louis near Tours in 1514., learned his art under 
Robert Mace, at Caen. He fettled at Antwerp, where he 
formed a great eftablifliment, and became one of the rr.oft 
confiderable and eminent printers of the age. He printed 
a great number of important works, to many of which 
learned prefaces are added in his name ; yet his own 
claim to erudition is called in queftion, and Balz.ac has 
affirmed that he was not even able to read Latin. He 
qmployed, how’ever, very able correctors, who brought 
his editions into repute for their accuracy. His moil 
celebrated performance is a Polyglott Bible, printed after 
that of Alcala. He acquired a large property, which he 
freely employed for the fervice of learning and its vota¬ 
ries. He died at Antwerp in 1589, with the title of Arch 
Printer to the King of Spain. He pofiefled a fine library, 
which he bequeathed to his grandfon Balthafar Moret. 
The device of Plantin was a pair of compaffes, with the 
motto “ Lahore et Conftantia.” Moreri. 
PLAN'IING, f. The ad of putting into the earth 
in order to grow. A plantation.—That they might be 
called trees of righteoufnefs, the planting of the Lord. 
Ifarah, lxi. 3. — As plantings of a vineyard. Rlicah, i. 6. 
PLAN'TULA, f. The embryo of a plant as it lies in 
the feed. Ajh. 
PLANE'DES (Maximus), a Conftantinopolitan monk, 
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fiouriffied in the 14th century, but at what part of it 
authors are not agreed. If, as aflerted, he was fentam- 
baflador to Venice by the emperor Andronicus the Elder, 
it muft have been before the year 1330. On the other 
hand, Pofievin affirms that he was living in the time of 
the council of Bafil, which was a century later. His 
favourto the Roman church caufed him to be perfecuted 
by the Greek emperor, and thrown into prifon ; and, as 
the price of liberation, he wrote three treatifes againft the 
fame church, which appeared to cardinal Belfarion fo 
weakly written, that he could not believe they contained 
his real opinion. Planudes diftinguifhed himfelf as a man 
of learning by the compilation of a Greek Anthologia, 
or Colledion of Epigrams, from the three exifting col- 
ledions of Meleager, Philippus, and Agathias, Thefe he 
distributed into (even books, omitting the rnoft puerile 
and obfcene. His Anthologia was printed at Florence 
in 1494, and at Frankfort in 1600. Fie alfo publifhed a 
colledion of the Fables afcribed to Aifop, with the life 
of that tabulift prefixed. The life, however, is confidered 
as little better than a romance ; and of the fables, many 
are of dubious origin. Planudes alfo tranflated Ovid’s 
Metamorphofes, Cato’s Diftichs, Caslar’s Commentaries, 
and feme pieces of Auguftine, Macrobius, and other 
writers, into Greek; but his verfions are cenlured as 
diffufe and inaccurate. Voffii Poet. Grcec. 
"PLAP'PERT, f A money of account in Switzerland ; 
15 plapperts, or (killings, being =12 grofehen, or gros, 
= 10 batzes =1 French livre. 
PLAQUEM'INA, a town of North America, in the 
territory of Orleans, containing 1549 perfons. The foil 
of this parifli is well adapted to the cultivation of the 
fugar-cane; and fome of the largeft fugar-eftates yet formed 
on the Miffiffippi are within its limits, fo that iugar is its 
ftaple commodity. The important port of Fort St. Philip 
is one of the belt defences of Louifiana. 
PL/kQ'UET, f. A plate which was occafionally added 
to the breaft-plate of the ancient armour, in order to 
ftrengthen it, 
PLAS'CKKEN, a town of Pruffian Lithuania: nine 
miles north-weft of Tilfit. 
PLA'SEMBURG, a town of Tranfylvania, near Her- 
manftadt. 
PLASEN'CIA, a town of Spain, in the province of 
Guipufcoa : twenty miles north of Victoria, and forty ealt 
of Bilboa. 
PLASEN'CIA, a town of Spain, in the province of 
Eftramadura; the fee of a biffiop, fuffragan of Compoftella. 
This town is fituated in the middle of mountains, in a 
narrow valley, tolerably fertile, nine leagues long, and 
watered by the river Xerte. The town Hands on the 
banks of this river, and is partly furrounded by it, as if 
in a peninfula. Plafencia and its diocefe, comprehend a 
cathedral, chapter, and 152 pariffies : it is the chief place 
of a corregidoret, and contains feven parifivchurches, 
three convents of monks, and (everal chapels or oratories. 
Here is a fine aquedudi, which conveys water from the 
diftance of two leagues, and has upwards of eighty arches. 
It is ninety-five miles weft-fouth-weft of Madrid. Lat. 
40. 3. N. Ion. 5. 9. W. 
PLASH, /, [plajehe, Tent, plutz, Dan.] A fmall lake 
or pool of water.—Two frogs confulted, in the time of 
drought, when many plajhes, that they had repaired to, 
were dry, what was to be done. Bacon. 
He leaves 
A (hallow plajh to plunge him in the deep. Shakefpeare. 
To PLASH, v. a. [platfchepn, German, to fplafh.] To 
make a noife by moving or difturhing water.—Attending 
the blufhing fun arifing; plajhing the w’ater in magick 
order, diving, writhing, and adting other fopperies. Sir 
T, Herbert's Tran. 
pF.Y’o PLASH, v. a. [from plejfer, Fr.] To interweave 
branches.—Plant and plajh quickiets. Evelyn. 
PLASH, f. [from the verb.] A branch partly cut ctff 
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