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to have taken place (Aug. 1, 1714), and the schism-bill was 
repealed in the fifth year of George I. 
SCHISMA, in Music, is a minute interval, equal only to 
half a comma, and of which the ratio is a surd quantity: 
since, in order to express it by numbers, a mean proportional 
must be found between 80 and 81. 
SCHISMA'TICAL, adj. [schismatique, Fr.] Implying 
schism; practising schism.—-Here bare anathemas fall but 
like so many bruta fu/mina upon the obstinate and 
schismatical, who are like to think themselves shrewdly hurt 
by being cut off - from that body which they chuse not to be 
of, and so being punished into a quiet enjoyment of their 
beloved separation. South. 
SCHISMA'TICALLY, adv. In a schismatical manner.'— 
A great number of people—wilfully and schismatically re¬ 
fuse to come to their parish-churches. Act for the Uniform, 
of Publ. Prayers. 
SCHISMA'TICALNESS,State of being schismatical. 
—■As mischievous a mark as any of her carnality, is her dis¬ 
sension and schismaticalness even to mutual persecution; 
as also the unnatural and unchristian wars of one part of 
reformed Christendom against the other. More on the Sev. 
Churches. 
SCHI'SMATIC, s. One who separates from the true 
church. 
Thus you hehold the schismaticfcs' bravado’s : 
Wild speaks in squibs, and Calamy in granado’s. Butler. 
SCHI'SMATIC, adj. [schismatique, Fr.] Practising 
schism.—Not one scysmatylc prest, fryer, nor chanon. Bale. 
To SCHI'SMATIZE, v. n. [, schismatiser , Fr,] To com¬ 
mit the crime of schism; to make a breach in the communion 
of the church. Cotgrave. 
SCHI'SMLESS, adj. Not affected by schism; without 
schism. Unused. 
SCHISSELITZ. See Zizelitz. 
SCHISTAB. See Sistova. 
SCHISTUS or Schist, in Mineralogy, is a name descrip¬ 
tive of the slaty structure of rocks, and is applicable to all 
which are divisible into thin plates: thus we have micaceous 
schist, or mica slate; argillaceous schist, or common slate; 
and chlorite schist, &c. See Mineralogy. 
SCHIT-ELU, in Botany, a name given by some authors 
to the plant which produces the seed called sesamum in the 
shops. 
SCHITTUAR, or Shitwar, a small island in the Persian 
gulf. Lat. 26. 59. N. long. 53. 24. E. 
SCHIUL, a small river in the north of European Turkey, 
in Wallachia. It falls into the Danube. 
SCHIUZ AR, a village of Syria, in the pachalic of Aleppo, 
on the Orontes; 60 miles south of Aleppo. 
SCHIZEA, in Botany. See Acrosticiium. 
SCHIZANTHUS, [so called by the authors of the Flora 
Peruviana, from to cut, or cleave, and avQo$, aflower, 
because of the numerous and deep segments of its corolla], 
in Botany a genus of the class diandria, order monogynia, 
natural order personatae, scrophulariae (Juss.) —Generic 
Character. Calyx: perianth inferior, in five deep, linear, 
nearly equal, permanent segments. Corolla of one petal, 
ringent, reversed; tube compressed, the length of the calyx; 
upper lip in five deep segments, lower in three. Stamina: 
filaments four; two of them abortive, villous, under the 
upper lip (which by the reversed position of the flower stands 
lowermost); the other two perfect, inserted into the lower 
lip; anthers roundish, of two lobes. Pistil: germen supe¬ 
rior, roundish; style thread-shaped, longer than the tube of 
the corolla; stigma club-shaped. Pericarp: capsule ovate, 
the length of the calyx, of two concave cloven valves, and 
two cells. Seeds several, kidney-shaped, rough. Receptacle 
orbicular, compressed, parallel to the valves, unconnected 
with them, rough and corrugated at the sides, where the seeds 
are inserted.— Essential Character. Calyx in five deep seg¬ 
ments. Corolla two.lipped, reversed; the upper lip in five, 
lower in three, deep segments. Two barren stamens. Cap¬ 
sule superior, of two cells, and two cloven valves. 
Schizanthus pinnatus.—Native of the borders of cultivated 
fields in Chili. The stem is herbaceous, erect, two feet high, 
branched, leafy, round, rough, especially in the upper part, 
with glandular viscid hairs. Leaves alternate, on short stalks, 
slightly hairy, pinnate, or rather deeply pinnatifid, with 
linear decurrent, bluntish, partly cut or subdivided segments. 
Stipulas none. Clusters opposite to the leaves, in the upper 
part of the branches, simple, of from six to twelve drooping 
flowers, with a pair of small roundish bracteas at the base of 
each partial stalk. Calyx and stalks hairy and viscid. Co¬ 
rolla about an inch long, variegated with shades of light 
purple, the upper lip having a darker spot in the middle; the 
segments of the lower lip falcate, the intermediate one 
abrupt. Valves of the capsule smooth, thin, almost mem¬ 
branous. 
SCHKEUDITZ, a small town of Prussian Saxony, on the 
river Elster. Population 1500; 8 miles west-north-west of 
Leipsic. 
SCHKIRI. See Skyros. 
SCHKLOV, a small town of the west of European Russia, 
on the Dnieper. It contains 2000 inhabitants, and is toler¬ 
ably built, but almost all the houses are of wood; 23 miles 
north of Mohilev. 
SCHKOPAU, a large village of Prussian Saxony, near 
Merseburg, on the Saale. 
SCHKWORECZ, a small town of the interior of Bohemia; 
15 miles east of Prague. 
SCHLADEN, a large village of the north of Germany, in 
Hanover. Population 1100; 28 miles east-south-east of Hil- 
desheim, and 11 north-north-east of Goslar. 
SCHLADMING, a small town of the Austrian States, in 
Styria, on the Enns. There are productive mines in the 
neighbourhood. Population 1000; 45 miles west-north¬ 
west of Judenburg, and 26 west-south-west of Rotenmann. 
SCHLAGE, or Schlawe, a small town of Prussia, in 
Pomerania, near the Wipper. Population 1800; 76 miles 
west of Dantzic, and 22 east-north-east of Coslin. 
SCHLAGENDORF, or Nagy Szalok, a small town in 
the north of Hungary, in the county of Zyps, among the 
Carpathians. Population 1000; 12 miles west of Seben. 
SCHLAGENTIN, a small town of Prussian Saxony, in 
the duchy of Magdeburg; 4 miles from Genthin, with 2700 
inhabitants. 
SCHLAKENWALDE, a small town of the north-west of 
Bohemia. Here is a productive tin mine; 3 miles south-east 
of Elnbogen. 
SCHLAKENWERTH, a neat but small town in the 
north-west of Bohemia, on the Weisseritz. Population 
1300; 9 miles north-east of Elnbogen, and 5 south of 
Carlsbad. 
SCHLAN, or Slany, a small town in the north of Bo¬ 
hemia. It is surrounded by a wall and ditch, has a central 
school, and contains 3000 inhabitants, who have some 
manufactures of stockings and broad cloth; 18 miles north¬ 
west of Prague, and 16 north-east of Rakonitz. 
SCHLANGENB AD, a mineral spring in high repute in 
the west of Germany, duchy of Nassau, situate in a pleasant 
valley, with a village and appropriate buildings for visitors. 
SCHLAPANITZ, or Lopenitz, a petty town of the 
Austrian states, in Moravia, with 900 inhabitants; 6 miles 
east of Brunn. 
SCHLAPPEREBENE, a very high mountain of Austria, 
in the province of Salzburg, and district of the Pongau. 
Elevation 9640 feet above the sea. 
SCHLATTEN, Great. See Abrug-Banya. 
SCHLATTEN, Little. See Zalathna. 
SCHLAVENZ1Z, a small town of Prussian Silesia. Po¬ 
pulation 1800; 24 miles south-south-east of Qppeln, and 
7 east-by-north of Kosel. 
SCHLECHTENDALIA, in Botany, a genus of the class 
syngenesia, order polygamia-superflua, natural order com- 
positae oppositifoliae, corymbiferae (Juss ,)—Generic Cha¬ 
racter. Common calyx double; the outer of many, spread¬ 
ing, awl-shaped scales; inner of many, close, erect, linear 
leaves, longer than the outer. Corolla compound, radiated; 
florets 
