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who occupied several posts in the judicature under Charles 
V. He was author of several works; particularly “ De 
Episcoporum Jurisdiction, et Pontificis Maximi Authori- 
tate,” Venet. 4to. 1563 ; “ Commentaries upon War against 
the Infidels,” &c. &c. 
VARGEL, Vargula, or Great Vargula, a small 
town of Prussian Saxony, in Thuringia, on the Unstrut; 14 
miles north-west of Erfurt. 
VA'RIABLE, adj. [yariabilis, Lat.] Changeable; mu¬ 
table; inconstant. 
O swear not by th’ inconstant moon. 
That monthly changes in her circled orb ; 
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. Shakspeare. 
VARIABLENESS, s. Changeableness; mutability.— 
Every good gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, and 
cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no 
variableness, neither shadow of turning. James. —Levity; 
inconstancy.—Censurers subject themselves to the charge of 
variableness in judgment. Richardson. 
VARIABLY, adv. Changeably; mutably ; inconstantly; 
uncertainly. 
VARIANCE, s. Discord; disagreement; dissension. 
She runs, but hopes she does not run unseen : 
While a kind glance at her pursuer flies, 
How much at variance are her feet and eyes ? Pope. 
To VARIATE, v. a. [variatus , Lat.] To change; to 
alter.—What was the cause of their multiplied, variated 
complotments against her; like the monsters in Alric, every 
day almost a new conspiracy ? Dean King. 
VARIA'TION, s. [yariatio, Lat.] Change; mutation; 
difference from itself.—The fame of our writers is confined 
to these two islands, and it is hard it should be limited in 
time as much as place, by the perpetual variations of our 
speech. Swift.— Difference; change from one to another. 
—-In some other places are more females born than males; 
which, upon this variation of proportion, I recommend to 
the curious. Graunt. —Successive change. 
Sir Walter Blunt, 
Stain’d with the variation of each soil 
Betwixt that Holmedon and this seat of ours. Shafcspeare. 
[In grammar.] Change of termination of nouns.—The 
rules of grammar, and useful examples of the variation of 
words, and the peculiar form of speech, are often appointed 
to be repeated. Watts. —Change in natural phenomena. 
—The duke ran a long course of calm prosperity, without 
any visible eclipse or wane in himself, amidst divers vari¬ 
ations in others. Wotton. —Deviation.—I may seem some¬ 
times to have varied from his sense; but the greatest vari¬ 
ations may be fairly deduced from him. Dryden. — Va¬ 
riation of the compass ; deviation of the magnetic needle 
from an exact parallel with the meridian. 
VARICELLA, a diminutive of Variola (the small pox,) 
signifying a vesicular eruption, accompanied with slight 
febrile symptoms, occurring but once in the period of 
human life, and is popularly termed chicken-pox and 
swine-pox. See Pathology. 
VARICOUS, adj. \yaricosus, Lat.] Diseased with di¬ 
latation.—There are instances of one vein only being vari- 
cous, which may be destroyed by tying it above and below 
the dilatation. Sharpe. —For varicous veins, see Surgery. 
To VARIEGATE, v. a. \yariegatus, school Latin.] To 
diversify; to stain with different colours. 
Ladies like variegated tulips show; 
’Tis to the changes half the charms we owe: 
Such happy spots the nice admirers take, 
Fine by defect, and delicately weak. Pope. 
VARIEGA'TION, s. Diversity of colours.—Plant your 
choice tulips in natural earth, somewhat impoverished with 
very fine sand; else they will soon lose their variegations. 
Evelyn. 
VARI'ETY, s. [ varietas , Lat.] Change; succession of 
one thing to another; intermixture of one thing with another. 
Vol. XXIV. No. 1639. 
All sorts are here that all th’ earth yields; 
Variety without end. Milton. 
One thing of many by which variety is made. In this 
sense it has a plural.—The inclosed warmth, which the earth 
hath in itself, stirred up by the heat of the sun, assisteth na¬ 
ture in the speedier procreation of those varieties, which the 
earth bringeth forth. Ralegh. —Difference; dissimilitude. 
—There is a variety in the tempers of good men, with re¬ 
lation to the different impressions they receive from different 
objects of charity. Atterbury. —Variation; deviation; 
change from a former state.—It were a great vanity to reject 
those reasons drawn from the nature of things, or to go about 
to answer those reasons by suppositions of a variety in 
things, from what they now appear. Hale. —Many and 
different kinds.—He now only wants more time to do that 
variety of good which his soul thirsts after. Law. 
VARIETY, a post village of the United States, in Nelson 
county, Virginia. 
VARIGNANO, a small town in the north of Italy, in the 
States of the Church, delegation of Bologna. 
VARILHES, a small town in the south of France, near 
the Eastern Pyrenees; 6 miles south of Pamiers, and 6 north 
of Foix. 
VAR1N KEY, a small island in the Spanish Main. Lat. 
11. 10. N. long. 83. W. 
VARINAS, a province of the Caraccas, bounded on the 
north by the provinces of Maracaibo and Venezuela, east by 
the plains of Caraccas and the Orinoco, west by Merida and 
New Granada, and south by Juan de los Llanos, or Casa- 
nare. The chief has the title of governor, and his functions 
are the same as those of Cumana and Maracaibo, in the civil, 
military, and ecclesiastical departments. The most remark¬ 
able features of this country are the extensive plains, of 
which it is mostly composed, and which are covered with a 
luxuriant herbage, feeding innumerable herds of cattle, 
flocks of sheep, and droves of mules and horses. Varinas 
is intersected by numerous large and navigable rivers, which 
occasionally inundate and fertilize its plains. Of these, the 
Apure, the Portuguesa, the Guanarito, the Bocono, Guana- 
palo, the Arauca, the Capanaparo, the Sinaruco, and the 
Meta, are the most noted. 
VARINAS, the capital of the above province, situated 
about 300 miles south-east of Caraccas. Lat. 7. 40. N. 
VARIOLA, [from Variola .] The small-pox. See Pa¬ 
thology. 
VARI'OLOUS, adj. [from variola, Lat., small pus¬ 
tules.'] Relating to the disease called the small-pox. 
VARIOUS, adj. [yarius, Lat.] Different; several; ma¬ 
nifold. 
Then were they known to men by various names. 
And various idols, through the heathen world. Milton. 
Changeable; uncertain; unfixed; unlike itself. — The 
names of mixed modes want standards in nature, whereby 
to adjust their signification ; therefore they are very various 
and doubtful. Locke. —Unlike each other. 
He in derision sets 
Upon their tongues a various spirit, 
To rase quite out their native language. Milton. 
Variegated; diversified. 
Herbs sudden flower’d, 
Opening their various colours. Milton. 
VARIOUSLY, adv. In a various manner. 
Various objects from the sense. 
Variously representing. Milton. 
VARIRIN, a river of Brazil, in the province of Seara, 
which rises from the mountains in the interior, and enters 
the Paranas. 
VARIX, t. [Lat. ; varice, Fr.] A dilatation of the vein. 
—In ulcers of the legs, accompanied with varices or dila¬ 
tations of the veins, the varix can only be assisted by the 
bandage. Sharpe. 
VARLET, s. [ varlet , old French, now valet. —The 
old French word signifies a youth, as well as a groom, or 
yeoman; and accordingly Cotgrave says, “ in old time it 
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