The new imperial encyclopaedia, or, Dictionary of the sciences and arts : comprehending also the whole circle of miscellaneous literature ... . The ecclesiastical punishments arecensures, suspensions, deprivations, degradations, excommunica-tions, anathemas, penances, &c. The military punishments are,being shot, running the ganlelope, riding the wocxlen horse, &c. PUNITORY INI ERESr, in the civil law, such interest ofmoney as is due for the delay of payment, breach of promise, & See Pun. PUNO, a town of South America, in Buenos Ayres, the capital,of Paucar Colla, on the \V. bank of L
The new imperial encyclopaedia, or, Dictionary of the sciences and arts : comprehending also the whole circle of miscellaneous literature ... . The ecclesiastical punishments arecensures, suspensions, deprivations, degradations, excommunica-tions, anathemas, penances, &c. The military punishments are,being shot, running the ganlelope, riding the wocxlen horse, &c. PUNITORY INI ERESr, in the civil law, such interest ofmoney as is due for the delay of payment, breach of promise, & See Pun. PUNO, a town of South America, in Buenos Ayres, the capital,of Paucar Colla, on the \V. bank of Lake Titicaca, 90 milesN. E. of Arequipa. PUNTA DEST. ANDREA, a cape on the coast of Friuli,on the Adriatic. Lon. la. 18. E. Lat. 45. 45. N. PUPA, iu entomology, a term now used by zoologists for thatstate of injects, formerly called aurelia, and chrysalis. See Chry-salis, Entomology, and Nymph. PUPIL, in anatomy, a htlle aperture in the middle of the the iris of the eye, through which the rays of light pass to thecry-talline humour, in order to be painted on the retina, and causevision. See «y. PVPIL, V M P S. rt/ In/ .hams Cmidfr. .Olwv n-fJJ . PUR 443 PUT Pupil, in the civil law, a boy or girl not yet arrived at the ageof puberty; i. e. the boy under fourteen years, the girl unilertwelve. Pupil is also used in universities, iic. for a youth under theeducation or discipline of any person. PUR, a river of Russia, wliith runs into the Tazovskaia Gulf. PURA ELEMEOSYNA, Pure Alms, denotes a tenure?whereby the cluirchinen hold lands in Scotland, somewhat on thefooting of the primitive clergy. PURBACH, George, a German astronomer, born at the vil-lage of Purbacli, in 1423. He studied philosophy, divinity, andastronomy, at Vienna, and paid particular attention to the composed Astronomical Tables, and invented several mathe-matical instruments. He also translated Ptolemys Almagest, andpublished several tracts of liis own. He died in 1462. PURBECK I
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