THE 
More refined necromancers or magicians call themselves the- 
urgists; thinking to have to do only with good spirits. 
Hally to ell. 
THE'URGY, s. [peovoyix, Gr.; theurgie, Fr.] The 
power of doing supernatural things by lawful means, as by 
prayer to God. Also it is a species of magic, in old times, 
which was employed in the worship of angels for their as¬ 
sistance to effect wonderful things.—Porphyry and some 
others did distinguish these two sorts, so as to condemn in¬ 
deed the grosser, which they called magic or goety; but 
allowed the other, which they termed theurgy, as laudable 
and honourable, and as an art by which they received angels, 
and had communion with the gods. Yet St. Austin assures 
us, they are both damnable. Hallyxoell. 
THEUX, a small town of the Netherlands, in the province 
of Liege, with 3100 inhabitants; 4 miles north-north-west of 
Spa, and 13 east-south-east of Liege. 
THEW, s. [Seap, Sax.] Quality; manners; customs; 
habits of life ; form of behaviour. Obsolete. 
From mother’s pap I taken was unfit. 
And streight deliver’d to a fairy knight. 
To be upbrought in gentle the-wes and martial might. 
Spenser. 
In Shakspeare it seems to signify brawn, or bulk, from 
the Saxon <5eop, the thigh, or some such meaning. 
Nature crescent does not grow alone 
In Mews and bulk; but, as this temple waxes. 
The inward service of the mind and soul 
Grows wide withal. Shakspeare. 
THE'WED, adj. Educated; habituated; accustomed. 
Obsolete. — Thewed, in our northern dialect, is docile, tow- 
ardly. Ray, Lye, and Grose. 
But he was wise and wary of her will. 
And ever held his hand upon his heart; 
Yet would not seem so rude, and thewed ill, 
As to despise so courteous seeming part. Spenser. 
THEY, pron., in the oblique case them, the plural of he 
or she. [that, Goth.; hi, Saxon.] The men , the women ; 
the persons.— They are in a most warlike preparation. Shak¬ 
speare. —Those men; those women: opposed to some others. 
Only they 
That come to hear a merry play, 
Will be deceiv’d. Shakspeare. 
It is used indefinitely; as the French on dit. 
There, as they say, perpetual night is found 
In silence brooding on th’ unhappy ground. Dryden. 
[The plural of this, that, or it.~\ The things. 
Why do you keep alone ? 
Of sorriest fancies your companions making. 
Using those thoughts, which should indeed have died 
With them they think on. Shakspeare. 
THEYA, a small town of Lower Austria, on the river 
Theya; 69 miles west north-west of Vienna, and 3 north of 
Waidhoven. 
THEYA, or Taja, a river of Germany, which consists at 
first of two branches, the Moravian Theya, which rises near 
Teltsch, in the circle of Iglau, and the German, which rises 
in Upper Austria. The two unite near Raps in that pro¬ 
vince, and they fall into the great absorbent of the rivers of 
this country, the Morawa. 
THEYDON, or Thoydon, Bois, a parish of England, in 
Essex; 14 miles from London. 
THEYDON, Garnon, another parish in the same county, 
half a mile distant from the foregoing. Population 612. 
THEYDON, Mount, also a parish in Essex, about three 
quarters of a mile from the preceding one. 
THEYS, a small town in the south-east of France, depart¬ 
ment of the Isere, on the Theys. Population 1800. 
THIAGUR, or Tiaguk, a celebrated fortress of the south 
of India, province of the Carnatic. It is situated on a moun- 
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tain, and consists of two fortifications and a town. Lat. 11. 
45. N. long. 79.12. E. 
THIACOURT, a small town in the north-east of France, 
department of the Meurthe, on the small river Madive. Po¬ 
pulation 1100; 25 miles north-west of Nancy. 
THIBAULT VI., count of Champagne and king of 
Navarre, deserves to be recorded as one of the earliest 
French song-writers. In 1234 he succeeded to the crown 
of Navarre, on the death ot his maternal uncle. Upon his 
return from the East, whither he went as one of the cru¬ 
saders, he cultivated literature, and particularly poetry. He 
died at Pampelona in 12.3, having acquired the somewhat 
inconsistent titles of the Great and the Song-maker. Under 
the latter character he obtained permanent reputation, de¬ 
graded, however, by the occasional licentiousness of his 
imagery. He was the first, it is said, who blended mascu¬ 
line with feminine rhymes:—a capital invention in French 
versification. Moreri. 
The songs of this prince are placed by some at the head 
of those that have been preserved in the French language, 
as those by Guillaume IX., duke of Aquitaine, are in that 
of Provence. There were indeed songs written in both lan¬ 
guages before these princes had done poetry the honour to 
make it their favourite amusement; but the chief part of 
those of higher antiquity than the time of these patriarchs of 
Provencal and French versification are either lost, or thought 
of little value. 
TIIIBERVILLE, a petty town in the north of France, de¬ 
partment of the Eure, on the small river Arve. Population 
1200; 11 miles east of Lisieux. 
THI'BLE, s. A slice; a scummer; a spatula. Ains¬ 
worth. 
THICK, adj. [Sicce, Sax.; dick, Dutch; dyck, Dan.; 
thickr, Icel.] Not thin; dense; not rare; gross; crass.— 
God caused the wind to blow, to dry up the abundant slime 
of the earth, make the land more firm, and cleanse the air of 
thick vapours and unwholesome mists. Ralegh. —Not clear; 
not transparent; muddy; feculent. 
Why hast thou lost the fresh blood in thy cheeks, 
And given my treasures and my rights of thee, 
To thick ey’d musing and curs’d melancholy ? Shakspeare. 
Encumber’d in the mud, their oars divide 
With heavy strokes the thick unwieldy tide. Addison. 
Great in circumference; not slender.—My little finger 
shall be thicker than his loins. 1 Kings. —Deep; noting the 
third dimension : as, a plank four feet long, two feet broad, 
and five inches thick. Noting comparative bulk: as, the 
door was three inches thick. Frequent; in quick, succes¬ 
sion ; with little intermission. 
Not thicker billows beat the Lybyan main, 
Not thicker harvests on rich Hermus rise. 
Than stand these troops. Dryden. 
Close; not divided by much space; crowded. 
Conquests he strew’d where’er he came, 
Thick as the galaxy with stars is sown. Dryden. 
Not easily pervious; set with things close to each other. 
He through a little window cast his sight, 
Though thick of bars that gave a scanty light. Dryden. 
Coarse; not thin.—It tasteth a little of the wax, which in 
a pomegranate, or some such thick- coated fruit, it would 
not. Bacon. —Without proper intervals of articulation. 
Speaking thick, which nature made his blemish, 
Became the accents of the valiant, 
To seem like him. Shakspeare. 
Stupid.—Gross-headed, M/cA-witted, illiterate, shallow. 
Milton. —Dull; not quick : as, thick of hearing: a collo¬ 
quial expression. Intimate; familiar: a vulgarism. 
THICK, s. The thickest part, or time when any thing 
is thickest. A thicket; a place full of bushes. 
Mists and rotten fogs 
Hang in the gloomy thicks, and make unsteadfast bogs. 
Drayton. 
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