. Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . TATION, among chemifls, &c. the gent-ly pouring off a liquor from its fceces, by inclining thelip or eantlms of the vellel; whence the name. DECANUS, in Roman antiquity, an ofHcer whoprefidcd over the other ten officers, and was head ofthe contubernium, or ferjeant of a file of foldiers. DECAPOLIS (anc. geog.), a diftric^ beyond Jor-dan, almofl all of it belonged to the half tribe of Ma
. Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . TATION, among chemifls, &c. the gent-ly pouring off a liquor from its fceces, by inclining thelip or eantlms of the vellel; whence the name. DECANUS, in Roman antiquity, an ofHcer whoprefidcd over the other ten officers, and was head ofthe contubernium, or ferjeant of a file of foldiers. DECAPOLIS (anc. geog.), a diftric^ beyond Jor-dan, almofl all of it belonged to the half tribe of Ma-naifeh ; before the captivity, called Betkfan ; but afteroccupied by heathens, who could not be drived out. Itcomprifed, as the name denotes, ten principal cities onthe other fide the Jordan,if we except Scythopolis, whichflood on this fide, but its territory on the other. DECAPROTI, DECEMPRiMi, in Roman antiqui-ty, officers for gathering the tributes and taxes. The decaproti were alfo obliged to pay for the dead,or to anfwer to the emperor for the quota parts offnch as died out of their own ellatcs. DECASPERMUM, in botany: a genus of themonogynia order, belonging to the icofandria clafs of DEC [ 697 ] DEC Decaflyle 1 . Jeccmviil. plants. The calyx is a pcviaaihiuiH, quiii-queiiil at the apex. The corolla his five roiindillipetals. The ftainini are many filiform filaments, alittle ihoner thau the corolla. The pcricarpiam is adry, globular, dercmlocular herry, withlijliiary c^g-fliapeJ feeds. DKCASTYLE, in the ancient arcliitcdiirc, a build-ing with an ordnance of te:i columns in iVoiit, as thetemple of Jupiter Olynipiiis was. DKCEI r, in law, a fubtle trick or ilcvice, to whichmay be added all manner of craft and collurum, or un-derhand practice, ufed to defraud anotlicr, by anymeans whatever. DfXEMBER, the laft month of the year, whereinthe fun enters the tropic of Capricorn, and makes thewinter folflicc. In year, December was the tenth month,wh
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