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TEUSCHNITZ, a small town of the interior of Germany, 
in Bavaria; 20 miles east-north-east of Coburg. 
TEUSCARUTZ, a petty town of Germany, in Bavarian 
Franconia, with 700 inhabitants; 21 miles north-east of 
Coburg, and 19 north of Culmhach. 
TEUTATES, a name or attribute of the Supreme Being, 
which was worshipped by the Gauls and Britons as a parti¬ 
cular divinity. It is evidently compounded of the two 
British words “ Deu-tatt,” which signify God the parent or 
creator. 
“ Et quibus immifis placetur sanguine divo 
Teutatus; horrensque feris altaribus Hesus,” 
Lucan. 
TEUTHIS, in theLinnsean system of Ichthyology, a genus 
of the abdominal fishes; the characters of which are, that 
the head is a little truncated on the fore part; that the bran- 
chiostege membrane has five rays; and that the teeth are 
equal, rigid, and near each other, and forming a regular 
chain. Linnasus and Gmelin mention two species; viz., 
hepatus, and javus or java. This genus is now annulled, 
and the species are transferred to Acanthurus and Chaetodon. 
TEUTILA, a town of Mexico, in the intendancy of 
Oaxaca, containing 164 families of Indians; 29 leagues east- 
south-east of Mexico. 
TEUTILAN, a town of Mexico, and capital of a dis¬ 
trict of the same name, in the intendancy of Oaxaca. It con¬ 
tains 237 families of Indians, besides some Spaniards and 
mestizoes. Lat. 17. 2. N. long. 96. 30. W. 
TEUTLEBEN, a village in the central part of Germany, 
in the duchy of Saxe-Gotha; 4 miles west of Gotha. 
TEUTO'NIC, adj. Spoken by the Teutones, or ancient 
Germans.—Our knowledge of the northern literature is so 
scanty, that of words undoubtedly Teutonic the original is 
not always to be found in any ancient language. Dr. 
Johnson. 
TEUTO'NIC, s. The language of the Teutones: by 
ellipsis.—The Icelandic is the mother of the modern Swedish 
and Danish tongues, in like manner as the Anglo-Saxon is 
the parent of our English. Both these mother-tongues are 
dialects of the ancient Gothic or Teutonic. Bp. Percy. 
TEUTONIC, something belonging to the Teutones, an 
ancient people of Germany, inhabiting chiefly along the 
coast of the German ocean. 
The Teutonic language is the ancient language of Ger¬ 
many, which is ranked among the mother tongues. It is now 
called the German, or Dutch, and is distinguished into upper 
and lower. 
The upper has two notable dialects; viz., 1. The Scan- 
dian, Danish, or perhaps Gothic; to which belongs the lan¬ 
guages spoken in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland. 
2. The Saxon, to which belong the several languages of the 
English, Scots, Frisian, and those on the nortli of the 
Elbe. 
To the lower belong the Low Dutch, Flemish, &c., spoken 
through the Netherlands, &c. 
The learned Mr. Whitaker has lately, in his History of 
Manchester, controverted the opinion of those who affirm 
the English language to be genuine and unmixed Teutonic, 
and asserted it to be of Celtic origin. Mr. Drake, in his 
Essay on the Origin of the English Language, Archseol. vol. 
5., has endeavoured to support the former opinion, by com¬ 
paring part of Ulphila’s Gothic version of the gospel of St. 
John, executed above 1400 years ago, with the same in our 
present translation, and evincing the striking affinity between 
the two languages; notwithstanding the different mediums 
through which they have descended, and the many ages that 
have elapsed since they have been separated. Every circum¬ 
stance, he observes, that constitutes the true genius of lan¬ 
guage, is visibly derived to the English from the Goths and 
Saxons. The articles, flexure of the genitive case, preposi¬ 
tions and auxiliary verbs, are all absolutely Teutonic. The 
English, he says, is clearly the natural descendant of the 
Gothic or Teutonic; and he challenges the deepest inquirer 
into the Celtic to produce so decisive a proof of any affinity 
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of that tongue with ours. The British, he adds, has little or 
no resemblance to the English. Many of their terms may 
have gained admission among us, as, from the vicinity and 
long intercourse we have had with that people, may necessa¬ 
rily be imagined, but their idioms and genius are as radi¬ 
cally and essentially different as any two languages can 
possibly be. 
TEUTONIC Order, a military religious order of knights, 
established towards the close of the twelfth century; and 
thus called, because it consisted principally of Germans, or 
Teutones. 
The origin, &c. of this order were thus: the Christians, 
under Guy of Lusignan, laying siege to Acre, or Aeon, a 
city of Syria, on the borders of the Holy Land, at which 
siege were present, Richard king of England; Philip Au¬ 
gustus of France, &c., some Germans of Bremen and Lubec, 
touched with compassion for the sick and wounded of the 
army, who wanted common necessaries, set on foot a kind 
of hospital under a tent, which they made of a ship’s sail; 
and here betook themselves to a charitable attendance on 
them. 
The habit of this order was a white mantle, with a black 
cross 
TEUW, a small island in the Eastern seas. Lat. 7. 11. S. 
long. 129. 20. E. 
TEUZITLAN, a town of Mexico, and capital of a district 
of the same name, containing about 600 families of Mexican 
Indians, Spaniards, mestizoes, and mulattoes; 120 miles Cast- 
north-east of Mexico. 
TEW, s. [towe , a hempen rope, Dutch.] Materials for 
any thing. Skinner. —An iron chain. Ainsworth. 
To TEW, v. a. [capian, Sax.] To work ; to beat so as 
to soften : of leather we say to taw. This is a naval expres¬ 
sion applied to hemp: to to -j hemp.—To tease; to tumble 
over or about; to pull. 
Do not anger ’em, 
But go in quietly, and slip in softly, 
They will so tew you else. Beaum. and FI. 
TEW, Great, a parish of England, in Oxfordshire ; 3j 
miles north-north-east of Neat Enstone. Population 457. 
TEW, Little, a township in the foregoing parish. 
TE'WEL, s. [tuyau or tuyal, Fr.] In the back of the 
forge, against the fire-place, is fixed a thick iron plate, and a 
taper pipe in it above five inches long, called a tewel, or 
tewel iron, which comes through the back of the forge; 
into this tewel is placed the bellows. Mo.von. 
Soche a smoke— 
As—where that men melte lead, 
Lo, all on high from the tewell. Chaucer. 
TEWENHAVEN, a harbour of the Baltic, on the east 
coast of the island of Dago, on the coast of Esthonia, near 
Revel. 
TEWIN, or Tewing, a parish of England, in Hereford¬ 
shire; 34 miles east-south-east of Welwyn. Population 438. 
TEWKESBURY, a market town and borough of Eng¬ 
land, in the county of Gloucester, situated in a delightful and 
fertile vale on the eastern bank of the river Avon, near its 
confluence with the Severn, and between two other streams 
called the Carron, and the Swillgate, which flow into the 
Avon, the one just above the town, and the other a short 
distance below it. The access to the town is by several 
commodious bridges. That over the Avon is a stone struc¬ 
ture of considerable length. The town is pretty large, 
handsome, and populous. Tewkesbury abbey was founded 
in the year 715, by two Saxon brothers. Dodo and Odo, who 
were then dukes of great opulence and high consideration in 
the kingdom of Mercia, and the first lords of the manor here. 
Besides the church, Tewkesbury contains meeting-houses for 
Independents, Quakers, Baptists, and Methodists. The 
town-hall is a handsome building. Tewkesbury was for¬ 
merly famous for its manufactures; it had once a considerable 
share in the clothing business, but this trade |has long since 
declined. It was likewise noted for its mustard. At present 
the 
