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Sully," entitled by the author, “ Oeconomies Royales," were 
written without order or connexion, and in a very simple 
style. They have been several times printed; and the Abbe 
del’Ecluse gave an edition of them in 1745, which were 
arranged in better order, and the language was rendered more 
correct They have always been held in high estimation, 
on account of their historical and political information, and 
the interesting anecdotes of the person and court of Henry 
IV., which they afford. Gen. Biop. 
SULLY, a parish of Wales, in Glamorganshire; 5 miles 
from Cardiff. 
SULLY, a small town near the central part of France, in 
the department of the Loiret, on the Loire, with 2100 inha¬ 
bitants ; 21 miles south-east of Orleans. 
SULMETINGEN, Upper, a small town of the west of 
Germany, in Wirtemberg, and the chief place of a domain 
belonging to the prince of Tour and Taxis. Population 
1000. Near it is the large village of Lower Sulmetingen. 
SULMIERSZYCE, a small town of Prussian Poland; 25 
miles west-south-west of Kalisch, and 62 south-south-east of 
Posen. Population 1400. 
SULMONA, a town of Italy, in the north of the king¬ 
dom of Naples, in the Abruzzo Citra. It is a place of anti¬ 
quity, having been the birth-place of Ovid. In 1709 it was 
greatly injured by an earthquake. At present it contains 
4000 inhabitants, and is the see of a bishop; 21 miles south 
of Civita di Chieti, and 72 north of Naples. Lat. 42. 3. N. 
long. 13. 59. E. 
SULPHATE, s. A salt formed by the combination of 
sulphuric acid with any base. 
SULPHITE, s. A salt formed by the combination of sul¬ 
phurous acid with any base. 
SU'LPHUR, s. [Lat.] Brimstone. 
In his womb was hid metallic ore, . 
The work of sulphur. Milton. 
SULPHUR CREEK, a branch of Green river, in the 
United States, Kentucky. 
SULPHUR ISLAND, an island in the North Pacific 
Ocean, discovered by Captain Gore, in the year 1779; about 
five miles long, in a north-north-east and south-south-west 
direction. The south point is a high barren hill, flatfish at 
top, and when seen from the west-south-west, presents an 
evident volcanic crater, conjectured to be filled with sulphur, 
both from its appearance to the eye, and the strong sul¬ 
phureous smell. Lat. 24. 48. N. long. 141.12. E. 
SULPHUR MOUNTAIN, a noted mountain in the island 
of Guadaloupe, famous for exhalations of sulphur, and erup¬ 
tions of ashes. On the east side are two mouths of an enor¬ 
mous sulphur pit. One of these mouths is 100 feet in 
diameter; the depth is unknown. 
SU'LPHURATE, adj. [ sulphuratus , Lat.] Of or be¬ 
longing to sulphur; of the colour of sulphur_He interprets 
their breastplates of fire, and of jacinth and brimstone, of 
the colour of their horsemen’s coats, as if they were made of 
thread of either colour “ de feu," violet colour, or a pale 
sulphurate colour. More. 
SULPHURA'TION, s. [sulphuratio, Lat.] Act of dress¬ 
ing or anointing with sulphur. 
SULPHU'REOUS, or Su'lphurous, adj. [sulphureus, 
Lat.] Made of brimstone; having the qualities of brim¬ 
stone; containing sulphur; impregnated with sulphur. 
My hour is almost come. 
When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames 
Must render up myself. Sha/cspeare. 
No sulphureous glooms 
Swell’d in the sky, and sent the lightning forth. Thomson. 
SULPHU'REOUSLY, adv. In a sulphureous manner. 
SULPHU'REOUSNESS, s. The state of being sulphu¬ 
reous. 
SULPHURET, s. Any substance of which sulphur forms 
a component part. 
SU'LPHURWORT, s The same with Hogsfennel. See 
Peucedanum. 
SU'LPHURY, adj. Partaking of sulphur. 
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That Bathonian spring. 
Which from the sulphury mines her med’cinal force doth 
bring. Drayton. 
SULPICE, St., a village in the east of France, in the 
department of the Cote d’Or. A fire in the summer of 1818 
destroyed no less than 80 houses here. 
SULPICE DE LEZAT, St., a small town in the south 
of France, department of the Upper Garonne, near the river 
Agout, with 1000 inhabitants; 18 miles south of Toulouse. 
SULPICE DE LA POINTE, St., a small town in the 
south of France, department of the Tarn, with 1100 inhabit¬ 
ants; 25 miles south-west of Alby. 
SULPICE DES CHAMPS, St., a small town near the 
central part of France, in the department of La Creuse, with 
1100 inhabitants; 9 miles north-west of Aubusson. 
SULPICE LES FEUILLES, St., a small town in the 
south-west of France, department of the Upper Vienne, with 
1250 inhabitants; 13 miles east-north-east of Le Dorat. 
SULPICE, St., a seigniory of Lower Canada, on the 
north side of the St. Lawrence, in the county of Leicester. 
SULPICIA, a Roman lady, wife of Calenus, lived in the 
reign of Domitian, and distinguished herself by her poetical 
talents. At the close of some editions of Juvenal, we have 
the fragment of a satire written by her, in easy and elegant 
language, against Domitian, when he expelled the philoso¬ 
phers from Rome; it is also to be found in the “ Poetae 
Latini Minores,” Leyd. 1731, and in Mattaire’s “ Corpus 
Poetarum Latinum." Her poem on conjugal love, addressed to 
her husband, and pronounced by Martial in one of his 
epigrams to be equally chaste and nervous, is still more cele¬ 
brated. Gen. Biop-. 
SULPICIUS-SEVERUS, an ecclesiastical historian and 
presbyter of the fifth century, who is placed by Cave about 
the year 401, and who is supposed to have died about the 
year 420. He was a native of Aquitain in Gaul, educated 
for the bar, and became eminent for his eloquence. He 
acquired wealth and married. After the death of his wife, 
he took orders, and devoted himself to a religious life, first 
under the discipline of Phebadius, bishop of Agen, and 
afterwards under that of St. Martin, bishop of Tours. Pau- 
linus, bishop of Nola, with whom he was intimate, makes 
honourable mention of him in his letters. He resided for 
some time at Toulouse, and afterwards at Eause, in Gallia 
Narbonnensis. Gennadius says, that in his old age he em¬ 
braced Pelagianism; but being convinced of his error, mani¬ 
fested his repentance by perpetual silence afterwards; that is, 
as some suppose, by writing no more books. He was the 
author of many works, the principal of which is his 
“ Sacred History," in two books, written in a neat and ele= 
gant Latin style, bearing a comparison with that of the best 
classical writers, and containing a summary account of the 
affairs of the Jews, and of the church, from the beginning of 
the world to the consulship of Stilicho and Aurelian, A.D. 
400. His most entertaining work is one of his dialogues, 
which relates the mode of life of the eastern monks, and 
affords an instructive delineation of the state of monachism 
at that period. Some epistles to his sisters and other per¬ 
sons are also preserved. His works have been several times 
republished. The best editions are those of Le Clerc, Lips. 
1709, 8vo., and of Hieron, a Prato, Veron. 4to., 2 vols., 
1741, 1754. Dupin. Gardner. 
SU'LTAN, s. [a Tartarian word, probably appropriated 
only to Mohammedan princes; from the Heb. shelton, sig¬ 
nifying sovereign power or command.] A Turkish em¬ 
peror. 
By this scimitar, 
That won three fields of sultan Solyman. Shakspeare. 
SUL'TANA, or Su'ltaness, s. The queen of an East¬ 
ern emperor.—Turn the sultana's chambermaid. Cleave - 
land. —Lay the towering su/taness aside. Irene. 
SULTANABAD, an old city of Persia, called now Tur- 
sheez, which see. 
SULTANGUNGE, a town of Hindostan, province of 
Oude, district of Lucknow. Lat. 26. 59. N. long, 80. 15. E. 
SULTANIIISSAR, a village of Anatolia, in Asiatic Tur- 
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