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being a history of the Gallican church, published in 1666, 
4 vols. fol.: “ L’Histoire Genealogique de la Maison de 
Beavau.” Gaucher was lord of Mere-sur Indre; he died at 
Paris, in 1640. Louis died in 1656. They were both in¬ 
terred in one tomb. 
SAINTE PALAYE (Jean-Baptiste de la Curne de), was 
born at Auxerre, in 1697. Of his early life we have no 
account; but as he advanced in years, he devoted himself 
to researches into the language and antiquities of his country. 
On account of his labours in this department of literature, 
he was admitted a member of the French academy, and that 
of Inscriptions. In all his labours he was assisted by a 
twin brother, who lived with him, and was his inseparable 
associate in his studies, and even in his amusements. Sainte 
Palaye died in 1781. He is chiefly known as an author by 
“ Memoires sur l’Ancienne Chevalerie,” 3 vols. 12mo.; in 
which he paints in very lively colours, the manners and 
customs of that institution. After his decease, the Abbe 
Millot drew up, from his papers, “ L’Histoire des Trouba¬ 
dours,” in 3 vols. 12mo. 
SAI'NTED, adj. ' Holy; pious ; virtuous. 
Thy royal father 
Was a most sainted king: the queen that bore thee, 
Oftner upon her knees than on her feet. 
Died every day she liv’d. Shakspeare. 
Holy; sacred. 
I hold you as a thing enskied and sainted, 
By your renouncement an immortal spirit, 
And to be talk’d with in sincerity 
As with a saint. Shakspeare. 
The crown virtue gives. 
After this mortal change, to her true servants. 
Amongst the enthron’d gods on sainted seats. Milton. 
. SAINTES, a considerable town in the south-west of 
France, in the department of the Lower Charente, pleasantly 
situated on a rising ground near the Charente. It is a very 
ancient place, and was, in the time of the Romans, one of the 
chief cities of Aquitaine. It was subsequently the capi¬ 
tal of the province of Saintonge. Without having the same 
relative importance, it has probably an equal population, 
for it reckoned 10,300 inhabitants. Its aspect from a dis¬ 
tance is impressive, but its streets are narrow and winding, and 
its houses ill built, but it contains several interesting remains 
of its former grandeur, such as a Roman amphitheatre, an 
aqueduct, and a triumphal arch of white marble on the 
bridge across the Charente. So lately as 1815 and 1816, 
several other antiquities of less importance were discovered. 
Here is likewise an ancient cathedral, said to have been built 
by Charlemange, and a college which formerly belonged to 
the Jesuits; 42 miles south-east of La Rochelle, and 84 
north of Bordeaux. Lat. 45. 44. 46. N. long. 0. 37.30. W. 
SAI'NTESS, s. A female saint.—Some of your saint- 
esses have gowns and kirtles made of such dames’ refuses. 
Sheldon. 
SAI'NTLIKE, adj. Suiting a saint; becoming a saint. 
If still thou do’st retain 
The same ill habits, the same follies too, 
Gloss’d over only with a saintlike show. 
Still thou art bound to vice. Dry den. 
Resembling a saint.—The king, in whose time it passed, 
whom Catholicks count a saintlike and immaculate prince, 
was taken away in the flower of his age. Bacon. 
SAI'NTLY, adv. Like a saint; becoming a saint. 
I mention still 
Him whom thy wrongs, with saintly patience borne. 
Made famous, in a land and times obscure.' Milton. 
SAINTONGE, the former name of a province in the west 
of France, lying along the Atlantic, to the north of 
Guienne. The climate is mild, and the country fertile in 
corn, wine, and fruit. The chief manufactures are bay-salt 
along the coast, and brandy in the interior. This province 
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is watered by the rivers Boutonne and Charente, which di¬ 
vide it into South and North, or Upper and Lower. The 
capital is, or rather was, Saintes. By the present division of 
France, Saintonge forms the greatest part of the department 
of the Lower Charente, and part of that of the Charente. 
SAINTS, Ii’Ilg des Saints, a small island on the west 
coast of France, between the island of Ushant and the pro¬ 
vince of Brittany. 
SAI'NTSBELL, s. The small bell in many churches, so 
called, because formerly it was “ rung out when the priest 
came to those words of the mass, Sanctus, Sanctus, 
Sanctus, Dominus Deus Saboath, that all persons, 
who were absent, might fall on their knees in reverence of 
the holy office which was then going on in the church. 
It was usually placed where it might be heard farthest, in a 
lantern at the springing of the steeple, or in a turret at an 
angle of the tower; and sometimes for the convenience of its 
being more readily and exactly rung, within a pediment, or 
arcade, between the church and the chancel: the rope, in 
this situation, falling down into the choir, not far from the 
altar.” Warton. —The little bell, which now rings, imme¬ 
diately before the service begins, is corruptly called, in many 
places, sancebell, or sauncebell. 
The ruin’d house, where holy things were said, 
Whose free-stone walls the thatched roof upbraid. 
Whose shrill saints-bell hangs on his lovery. Bp. Hall. 
At the west end, coeval with the body, into which it 
opens, is a large square tower, containing three large bells, 
with a sanctus-bell, or saints-bell. Warton. 
SAI'NTSEEMING, adj. Having the appearance of a 
saint.—A saint-seeming and bible-bearing hypocritical puri¬ 
tan. Montagu. 
SAI'NTSHIP, s. The character or qualities of a saint. 
The devil was piqu’d such saintship to behold, 
And long’d to tempt him. Pope. 
SAIOTES, a small and poor nation of the Samoyed race, 
who inhabit the mountains of Saiany beyond the confines 
of Asiatic Russia, though a few of them pay tribute to that 
empire. 
SAIPOOR, or Shahipore, a town of Hindostan, pro¬ 
vince of Gundwaneh, belonging to an independent Hindoo 
chief. Lat. 24. 2. N. long. 82. 50. E. 
SAIS, in Ancient Geography, a town of Lower Egypt, 
in the Saitic nome, of which it was the capital. Strabo 
says, that it had a temple consecrated to the worship of 
Minerva. It was situated between the Canopic canal and 
the Sebennytic, and gave the name Saitic to one of the 
mouths of the Nile. 
SAISAR, a village of Irak, in Persia; 75 miles north¬ 
west of Hamadan. 
SAISSAC, a large village in the south of France, depart¬ 
ment of the Aude, on the Bernasson. Population 1600; 
12 miles north-west of Carcassone. 
SAISSANDIN, a village of Satadoo, in Western 
Africa. 
SAJO, a river of the north of Hungary, which rises 
above Redowa, in the county of Gomer, and falls into the 
Hernat, near Miskoles. 
SAIVA, the designation of a very extensive sect of 
Hindoos, who worship Siva, the personification of the de¬ 
stroying, or rather changing form of the deity. The term 
comprehends, indeed, several sects, being rather generally 
descriptive of all those who, in any form or character, adore 
exclusively or principally the destructive member of the 
triad; in contradistinction to those who, under the like 
general name of Vaishnava, similarly worship Vishnu the 
preserver, under any of his forms or characters. 
In the Prabod’h Chandroyana, a name meaning Rise of 
the Moon of Intellect, a very curious Sanscr.t drama, 
translated by P. Taylor, of Bombay, a Saiva is introduced, 
who thus describes himself: “My necklace and ornaments 
are of human bones. I dwell amongst the ashes of the dead, 
and eat my food in human skulls. Hearken to our rites • 
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