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district situated in the province of Hoya, in Hanover, to the 
south of the Weser, at a great distance from any other part of 
the states of Brunswick. This petty place has 1500 inha¬ 
bitants, and is 14 miles south-east of Bremen, and 59 north¬ 
west of Hanover. 
THEDLETHORPE, East, a parish of England, in Lin¬ 
colnshire; 94 miles north-north-east of Alford. 
THEDLETHORPE, West, another parish In the above 
county ; about a mile distant from the foregoing. 
THEE, the oblique singular of thou. 
Poet and saint, to thee alone were given 
The two most sacred names of earth and heaven. Cowley. 
To THEE, v. n. [Goth, theihan; Sax. Sean.] To 
thrive; to prosper. Obsolete _Faire mote he thee! 
Spenser. 
THEFT, s. [Sypte, Sax., from thieve.] The act of 
stealing.— Theft is an unlawful felonious taking away of 
another man’s goods against the owner’s knowledge or will. 
Cowel. 
Their nurse Euriphile, 
Whom for the theft I wedded, stole these children. 
Shakspeare. 
The thing stolen.—If the theft be certainly found in his 
hand alive, whether ox, ass, or sheep, he shall restore double. 
E.vod. 
THEFTBOTE, the receiving a man’s goods again from 
a thief, or other amends, by. way of composition, and to 
prevent prosecution, that the felon may escape unpunished ; 
the punishment of which is fine and imprisonment. 
TIIEGONEC, St., a town in the north-west of France, 
department of Finisterre. Population 3300 ; 6 miles south¬ 
west of Morlaix, and 13 east-north-east of Landernau. 
THEIR, pron. [Seopa, of them, Sax.; theirra, I cel. the 
same.] Of them: the pronoun possessive, from they. 
The round world should have shook 
Lions into civil streets, and citizens into their dens. 
Shakspeare. 
Theirs is used when any thing comes in construction be¬ 
tween the possessive and substantive. 
The penalty to thy transgression due, 
And due to theirs which out of thine will grow. Milton. 
THE'ISM, s. [theistne, Fr.; from @eo?, Gr.] The ac¬ 
knowledgment of a God, as opposed to atheism; deism.— 
Having laid down in this manner the general principles of 
theism, he says nothing of the particular doctrines of 
Christianity except in one verse. Lord Monboddo. 
THEISS, or Tisza, a large river of Hungary, which rises 
from two springs in the county of Marmaros, on the north¬ 
east frontier of the kingdom. The two streams called the 
Black and the White Theiss soon unite, and after flowing 
above 100 miles in a western direction, it turns to the south, 
and either touches or divides ten distinct counties or districts, 
before flowing into the Danube at Salankemen, below 
Titul. 
THE'IST, s. [theiste, Fr.] A deist.—The word deist, 
or theist, in its original signification, implies merely the 
belief of a God, being opposed to atheist; and so there may 
be deists of various kinds. Waterland. 
THEI'STIC, or Thei'stical, adj. Belonging to theists; 
deistical, which see.—The theistical club have set this up as 
a principle. Leslie. —It must appear at first sight, that no¬ 
thing could be more contradictory to the first principles of 
the Christian religion, than those of the atheistical or scep¬ 
tical sects, which at that time prevailed very much both 
among the Greeks and the Romans; nor shall we find that 
the theistical sects were much less at enmity with it, when 
we consider the doctrines they held upon the nature of God 
and the soul. Ld, Lyttleton. 
THELBRIDGE, a parish of England, in Devonshire ; 7 
miles east-by-south of Chulmleigh. 
THELEPHORA, a genus of Fungi. See Helvelu. 
THELNETHAM, a parish of England, in Suffolk; 14 
miles north-east of Bury St. Edmund’s. Population 445. 
THELVERTON, orTHELTON, a parish of England, in 
Norfolk; If mile north-by-east of Scole. 
THELWALL, a hamlet of England, in Cheshire, sup¬ 
posed to have been anciently a large town; 9g miles north¬ 
west-by-north of Nether-Knutsford. 
THELYGONUM [SrijAv yovv, Gr., genus fernineum. —It 
is a name from Pliny], in Botany, a genus of the class mo- 
noecia, order polyandria, natural order of scabridae, urticae. 
(Jtiss .)—Generic Character.—Male flower. Calyx: pe¬ 
rianth one-leafed, turbinate, semibifid, segments revolute. 
Corolla none. Stamina: filaments very many (twelve or 
more), erect, length of the corolla. Anthers simple.—Fe¬ 
male flower on the same plant. Calyx: perianth one-leafed, 
very small, erect, bifid, permanent at the side of the germ. 
Corolla none. Pistil: germ globular. Style filiform, long. 
Stigma simple. Pericarp: capsule coriaceous, globular, one- 
celled. Seed one, globular, with a callous appendicle,— 
Essential Character. —Male. Calyx bifid. Corolla none. 
Stamina commonly twelve.—Female. Calyx bifid. Corolla 
none. Pistil one. Capsule coriaceous, one-celled, one- 
seeded. 
Thelygonum cynocrambe, purslain-leaved thelygonum, 
or dog’s cabbage.—It is an annual plant, which decays as 
soon as the seeds are ripe. The stalks trail on the ground 
like those of duckweed; they grow about a foot long, their 
joints are pretty close, and have ovate acute-pointed leaves, 
on pretty long bordered foot-stalks. One of these leaves is 
placed at each joint, and from the same point come out 
several smaller leaves of the same shape, on shorter foot¬ 
stalks. Flowers axillary in clusters sitting very close, small, 
and of an herbaceous while colour, male and female from 
the same joint.—Native of the South of France, near Mont¬ 
pelier; Italy in the island of Caprea, county of Nice, &c., 
and Sicily. 
Propagation and Culture. —Sow the seeds in autumn, 
when the plants are to remain, for when sown in the 
spring, the plants rarely come up the same year. They 
require no culture but to be kept clean from weeds, and to 
be thinned where they are too close. 
THEM, the oblique of they, [thaim , Goth.] The mate¬ 
rials of them were not from any herb. Wilkins. 
THEMAR, a small town in the central part of Germany, 
in the duchy of Saxe-Coburg, on the Werra, with 1100 in¬ 
habitants. It is the chief place of a bailiwic, which was long 
the common property of the houses of Saxe-Coburg and 
Saxe-Gotha; 11 miles south-east of Meinungen. 
THEME, s. [theme, Fr.; from the Gr. kstpa .] A sub¬ 
ject on which one speaks or writes. 
Two truths are told, 
As happy prologues to the swelling act 
Of the imperial theme. Shakspeare. 
A short dissertation written by boys on any topic.— 
Forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, 
verses, and orations. Milton. —The original word whence 
others are derived.—Let scholars daily reduce the words to 
their original or theme, to the first case of nouns, or first 
tense of verbs. Watts. 
THEMILTHORPE, a parish of England, in Norfolk; 3 
miles west-north-west of Reepham. 
THEMIS, in Mythology, the daughter of Coelum and 
Terra, or of Uranus and Titania, the eldest sister of Saturn, 
and aunt of Jupiter. 
THEMISTIUS.surnamed Euphradf.s, or the fine speaker, 
an Eclectic philosopher, was born in an obscure village of 
Paphlagonia, about the year 317, and having fixed his resi¬ 
dence at Constantinople, taught eloquence and philosophy 
with great reputation and success. His disciples, both Pagan 
and Christian, were numerous; to the former class belonged 
Libanius, and to the latter, Gregory Nazianzen. By the 
emperors he was highly esteemed, and they conferred upon 
him distinguished honours. In the year 355, Constantius 
admitted him into the senate; and in return for an eloquent 
eulogium. 
