RUE 
RUDKIOPING, the only town of the island of Lange- 
land, in Denmark, is a small sea port on the west coast, with 
a brisk corn trade, but with only 1100 inhabitants. Lat. 54. 
55. N. long. 10. 47. 45. E. / ' 
RUDLAN, a parish of Wales, in Flintshire; 11 miles 
from Holywell. Population 831. 
RUDLAND, or Ridland, a small river of England, in 
Northumberland, which runs into the Coquet, below Hork- 
lugh. 
RUDMAS DAY, in our old writers, the feast of the 
Holy Cross. There are two of those feasts, one on the third 
of May, being the Invention of the Cross; and the other the 
fourteenth of September, called Holy-Rood day, and is the 
Exaltation of the Cross. 
The word is compounded of the Saxon rode, i. e. crux, 
and mass-day, i. e. feast-day. 
RUDNIK, a small town in the north of European Turkey, 
in Romania, situated among the mountains; 50 miles south 
of Belgrade. 
RUDOLPHIA [so named in honour of Charles Asmund 
Rudolph, a German physician, the author of some botanical 
observations], in Botany, a genus of the class diadelphia, 
order decandria, natural order papilionace®, leguminos® 
(Juss.)—Essential Character. Calyx two-lipped. Stand¬ 
ard of the corolla very long, lanceolate. Stamens all con¬ 
nected. Legume flat, with many seed% 
1. Rudolphia volubilis, or twining Rudolphia.—Native of 
very lofty mountains, in the West Indian island of Porto 
Rico. The stem is shrubby, without prickles, twining up the 
trunks of trees; its bark black and warty; the younger 
branches downy. Leaves simple, alternate, stalked, rigid, 
entire; shining on the upper side; downy when young. 
Footstalks with two joints, channelled between them, on 
the upper side. Clusters scattered, thrice the length of the 
leaves. Fiower-stalks three together. Flowers scarlet. 
2. Rudolphia peltata, or peltate Rudolphia.—Leaves ob¬ 
long-lanceolate, somewhat heart-shaped, peltate.—Native of 
Hispaniola. Willdenow asserts this to be distinct from the 
foregoing. The common flower-stalk, as represented by Plu- 
mier, is a foot and a half long, racemose at the extre¬ 
mity. 
RUDOLSTADT, a small town of the west of Germany, 
the residence of the count of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. It is 
a well built place, situated in a valley on the Saale, over 
which there is a stone bridge. It contains two mansions 
belonging to the count, one within, the other outside of the 
town, on an eminence. Here is a theological seminary, a 
gymnasium, and somewhat more than 4000 inhabitants, 
part of whom are employed in the manufacture of flannel 
and other woollens; 22 miles south-east of Erfurt. 
RUDOLSTADT, Principality. See Schwarzburg- 
Rudolstadt. 
RUDRAPRAYAGA, a celebrated place of Hindoo pil¬ 
grimage, in the province of Serinagur. It is situated at the 
confluence of the rivers Alcananda and Calyganga, and es- 
' teemed one of the sacred places of ablution, on which ac¬ 
count it is annually visited by a concourse of people of both 
sexes. Lat. 30. 19. N. long. 79. 2. E. 
RUDSTEDT, Great, a village of the west of Germany, 
in the grand duchy of Saxe-Weimar ; 12 miles w r est-north- 
" west of Weimar. Population 800. 
RUDSTON, a parish of England, East Riding of York¬ 
shire. In the church-yard there is a remarkable pillar, sup¬ 
posed to have been set up by the ancient Britons. Popula¬ 
tion 375 ; 5 miles west of Bridlington. 
RUE, a small river of Wales, in Montgomeryshire, 
which runs into the Severn, near Berrue, about Smiles south 
of Welshpool. 
RUE, or Ruw, a small town of the Swiss canton of Fri- 
' burg ; 10 miles west of Gruyeres, and 12 north-east of 
Lausanne. 
RUE, a small river of the interior of France, in the pro- 
' vince 6f Auvergne, which falls into the Dordogne, near 
Bart 
RUE 431 
RUE, a small town in the north of France, department 
of the Somme, on the river Maye. Population 1100; 14 
miles north-west of Abbeville. 
To RUE, v. a. [hpeojnan, Sax. reuen, German. An¬ 
ciently spelt reive by Wickelifle and Chaucer.] To grieve 
for; to regret; to lament. 
Thou temptest me in vain ; 
To tempt the thing which daily yet I rue. Spenser. 
France, thou shalt rue this treason with thy tears. 
If Talbot but survive. Shakspeare. 
To RUE, v. n. To' have compassion. See Ruth.— d 
pray you, that he wil rewe on me. Chaucer. 
Full many a one for me deepe groan’d and sigh’d. 
And to the dore of death for sorrow drew, 
Complayning out on me that would not on them rew. 
Spenser. 
RUE, s. [hpeope, Sax. repentance.] Sorrow ; repen¬ 
tance. 
Rue, even for ruth, here shortly shall be seen, 
In the remembrance of a weeping queen. Shakspeare. 
RUE, s. [ rue , Fr. yora, Gr. pube, Sax.] An herb for¬ 
merly called herb of grace, because holy water was sprink¬ 
led with it. See Ruta. 
Here did she drop a tear ; here, in this place, 
I’ll set a bank of rue, sour herb of grace. Shakspeare. 
RUE (Charles de la), a learned and eloquent Jesuit, 
who was born at Paris, in 1643. He became the favourite 
preacher at court and in the capital. Voltaire says that he 
had two sermons, entitled, “ The Sinner dying,” and “ The 
Sinner dead,” which were so popular, that public notice was 
given by bills when they were to be delivered. This father 
died at Paris in 1725, at the age of 82. His Latin poems in 
four books, consisting of tragedies and miscellaneous pieces, 
have been several times printed. He also wrote two French 
tragedies. De la Rue was one of the learned men employed 
in the Delphin editions of the classics, and Virgil fell to his 
share, first printed in 1675, 4to. Moreri. 
RUE (Charles de la), a learned Benedictine monk of the 
congregation of St. Maur, who flourished in the 18th century, 
was born at Corbie, in Picardy, in the year 1684. At the 
age of nineteen he took the vows in an abbey at Meaux, after 
he had given evidence that he possessed a studious dis¬ 
position, by the progress which he had made in his acquaint¬ 
ance with the Latin classics and the belles-lettres. His 
subsequent application to the study of philosophy, divinity, 
and the Greek and Hebrew languages, was answerable to the 
expectations which his early diligence had raised, and fol¬ 
lowed by very distinguished success. At the recommendation 
of Montfaucon, he published “ Origenis Opera omnia, quas 
Grace vei Latine extant et ejus Nomine circumferentor, ex 
variis Editionibus et Codicibus Collecta, recensita, Latine 
versa, atque Annotationibus illustra,” &c.,folio. Two volumes 
were completed during his life, and the third was published 
by his nephew. 
RUE (Pierre de la), an ecclesiastical composer in the first 
stage of correct counterpoint. He was contemporary with 
Josquin, and one of the composers for the papal chapel 
during the pontificate of Sextus IV. who reigned from 1471 
to 1484. De la Rue, or as he is called by writers in Latin, 
Petrus Platensis, was one of the most voluminous composers 
of this early period. What country gave him birth, is now 
difficult to ascertain; Walther calls him a Netherlander; 
Glareanus, a Frenchman ; others suppose him to have been 
a Spaniard. It is, however, certain that he was in high 
favour with prince Albert, and princess Isabella, of the Low 
Countries; that a work under his name was published at 
Antwerp, with this title: “ El Parnasso Espanol de Madri- 
gales y Villancicos a quatro, einco y seis voces;” besides 
masses and motets to Latin words; and that he was a very 
learned contrapuntist. 
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