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DEMETRIUS DONSK01 1 (1350-1389)

DEMETRIUS PHALEREUS (c. 345—283 B.C.)

DEMIURGE (Gr. S'quovpyos, from Si7µeos, of or for the people, and Epyov, work)

DEMOCHARES (c. 355–275 B.C.)

DEMOCRACY (Gr. 3np.oKparia, from S)µos, the people, i.e. the commons, and Kparos, rule)

DEMOCRATIC PARTY

JACQUES CLAUDE DEMOGEOT (1808-1894)

DEMOGRAPHY (from Gr. Siµos, people, and ypasbety, to write)

ABRAHAM DEMOIVRE (1667-1754)

DEMONOLOGY (L1alµwv, demon, genius, spirit)

DEMOTIC (Gr. Srlµorucos, of or belonging to the people)

DEMOTICA, or DIMOTICA

THOMAS DEMPSTER (1579-1625)

DEMURRAGE (from " demur," Fr. demeurer, to delay, derived from Lat. mora)

DEMURRER (from Fr. demeurer, to delay, Lat. morari)

DENBIGH (Dinbych)

1ST EARL WILLIAM FEILDING DENBIGH

DENDROCOMETES (so named by F. Stein)

DENGUE (pronounced deng-ga)

DIXON DENHAM (1786–1828.)

SIR JOHN DENHAM (1615—1669)

JOSEPH DENIKER (1852– )

DENIM (an abbreviation of serge de Nimes)

CARLO GIOVANNI MARIA DENINA (1731–1813)

DENIS (DIoNysms), SAINT

DENIS GODEFROY (1615–1681)

DENIS GODEFROY (Dionysius Gothofredus) (1549–1622)

JOHANN NEPOMUK COSMAS MICHAEL DENIS (1729-1800)

GEORGE ANTHONY DENISON (1805-1896)

GEORGE TAYLOR DENISON (1839- )

DENIZEN (derived through the Fr. from Lat. de intus, " from within," i.e. as opposed to " foreign ")

DENIZLI (anc. Laodicea (q.v.)

1ST BARON THOMAS DENMAN (1779-1854)

DENMARK (Danmark)

JOHN DENNIS (1657—1734)

DENOMINATION (Lat. denominare, to give a specific name to)

BARON DE DOMINIQUE VIVANT DENON (1747—1825)

DENOTATION (from Lat. denotare, to mark out, specify)

PETER DENS (1690-1775)

DENSATION OF GASES

DENSITY (Lat. densus, thick)

MANIUS CURIUS DENTATUS

DENTIL (from Lat. dens, a tooth)

DENTISTRY (from Lat. dens, a tooth)

DEODAND (Lat. Deo dandum, that which is to be given to God)

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

DEPARTMENTAL RECORDS

CHAUNCEY MITCHELL DEPEW (1834– )

DEPILATORY (from Lat. depilare, to pull out the pilus or hair)

DEPOSIT (Lat. depositurn, from deponere, to lay down, to put in the care of)

DEPOT (from the Fr. depot, Lat. depositum, laid down; the French accent marks are usually dispensed with in English)

DEPRESSOR ALAE NASI ZYGOMATICUS

DEPRESSOR ANGULI OBIS DEPRESSOR LABII

AGOSTINO DEPRETIS (1813-1887)

DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

DERA GHAZI KHAN

DERA ISMAIL KHAN

DERBENT, or DERBEND

DEREHAM (properly EAST DEREHAM)

DERELICT (from Lat. derelinquere, to forsake)

JOSEPH DERENBOURG (1811-1895)

WILLIAM DERHAM (1657—1735)

DERMOT MAC MURROUGH (d. 1171)

DERNA (anc. Darnis-Zarine)

PAUL DEROULEDE (1846— )

DERWENT (Celtic Dwr-gent, clear water)

EARL OF DERWENTWATER

BARON FRANCOIS DE BEAUMONT DES ADRETS (C. 1512-1587)

SIEUR JACQUES VALLEE DES BARREAUX (1602—1673)

ALFRED LOUIS OLIVIER LEGRAND DES CLOIZEAUX (1817–1897)

EMMANUEL ADOLPHE DES ESSARTS (1839– )

BONAVENTURE DES PRIERS (c. 1500 — 1544)

LOUIS CHARLES ANTOINE DESAIX DE VEYGOUX (1768-1800)

PIERRE JOSEPH DESAULT (1744-1795)

JOHN DESBOROUGH (16o8-168o)

RENE DESCARTES (1596-1650)

EUSTACHE DESCHAMPS

SMILE DESCHAMPS (1791-1871)

PAUL EUGENE LOUIS DESCHANEL (1856– )

DESCRIPTIVE POETRY

RENE LOUICHE DESFONTAINES (1750-1833)

PIERRE JEAN BAPTISTE CHOUDARD DESFORGES (1746-(18o6)

MAGDELEINE MARIE [LouISE] DESGARCINS (1769–1797)

GERARD PAUL DESHAYES (1795–1875)

ANTOINETTE DU LIGIER DE LA GARDE DESHOULIERES (1638–1694)

DESICCATION (from the Lat. desiccare, to dry up)

DESIDERIO DA SETTIGNANO (1428–1464)

DESIGN (Fr. desiin, drawing; Lat. designare, to mark out)

DESK (from Lat. discus, quoit, in med. sense of " table," cf. " dish " and Ger. Tisch, table, from same source)

JACQUES AMAND DESLONOCHAMPS

PIERRE DESMAISEAUX (1673–1745); French writer, was born at Saillat, probably in 1673. His father, a minister of the reformed church, had to leave France on the revocation of the edict of Nantes, and took refuge in Geneva, where Pierre was educated. Bayle

NICOLAS DESMAREST (1725-1815)

DESMARETS (or DESMARETZ), JEAN, SIEUR DE SAINTSORLIN (1595-1676)

SIEUR DE MAILLEBOIS NICOLAS DESMARETS (1648-1721)

DESMOND (Des-Mumha)

15TH EARL OF GERALD FITZGERALD DESMOND (d. 1583)7

LUCIE SIMPLICE CAMILLE BENOIST DESMOULINS (1760-1794)

JULES PIERRE FRANCOIS STANISLAS DESNOYERS (1800-1887)

PIERRE JEAN EDOUARD DESOR (1811-1882)

EDWARD MARCUS DESPARD (1751-1803)

HUGH LE DESPENSER (1262-1326)

HUGH LE DESPENSER (d. 1265)

PHILIPPE DESPORTES (1546-1606)

DESPOT (Gr. Sc-va6rgs, lord or master; the origin of the first part of the Gr. word is unknown, the second part is cognate with rbvcs, husband, Lat. potens, powerful)

SUZANNE DESPRLS (1875– )

ANTOINE FRANCOIS DESRUES (1744 – 1777)

COUNT JOSEPH MARIE DESSAIA (1764-1834)

COUNT AUREL DESSEWFFY (18o8 - 1842)

LUDWIG DESSOIR (1810-1874)

PHILIPPE DESTOUCHES (168o-1754)

JEAN BAPTISTE DETAILLE

DETAILS OF MODERN

DETERMINISM (Lat. determinare, to prescribe or limit)

DETINUE (O. Fr. detenue, from detente, to hold back)

DEUCE (a corruption of the Fr. deux, two)

JOAO DE DEUS (1830-1896)

IMMANUEL OSCAR MENAHEM DEUTSCH (1829-1873)

DEUTZ (anc. Divitio)

DEVA (Sanskrit " heavenly ")

DEVA (mod. Chester)

DEVAPRAYAO (DEOPRAYAG)

CHARLES DEVENS (1820-1891)

DEVIL (Gr. &a,3oXos, " slanderer," from &ctflisXX sty, to slander)

WAR OF DEVOLUTION (1667-68)

DEVONIAN SYSTEM

DEVONSHIRE (DEvoN)

EARLS AND DUKES OF DEVONSHIRE

SIR JAMES DEWAR (1842- )

DAVIS RICH DEWEY (1858- )

GEORGE DEWEY (1837- )

MELVIL DEWEY (1851- )

THOMAS WILMER DEWING (1851- )

PUBLIUS HERENNIUS DEXIPPUS (c. A.D. 210-273)

HENRY MARTYN DEXTER (1821—1890)

TIMOTHY DEXTER (1747—1806)

DEXTRINE (BRITISH Gum, STARCH Gum, LEIOCOME), (C6H10O5)e, a substance produced from starch by the action of dilute acids, or by roasting it at a temperature between 170 and 240° C. It is manufactured by spraying starch with 2% nitric acid, drying in air,

DEY (an adaptation of the Turk. dai, a maternal uncle)

BARON FRANCIS DHANIS (1861-1909)

DHULEEP SINGH (1837-1893)

DIABETES (from Gr. &a, through, and faivecv, to pass)

DIADOCHI (Gr. &aUxeo-Oat, to receive from another)

DIAGONAL (Gr. &a, through, ywvia, a corner)

DIAGRAM OP RESERVOIR CAPACITY AND YIELD RELATION TO PLOW

DIALECT (from Gr. Sia stcror, conversation, manner of speaking, &aXeyec6at, to converse)

DIALECTIC, or DIALECTICS

DIALYSIS (from the Gr. &0., through, Anew, to loosen)

JUAN BAUTISTA DIAMANTE (164o ?-1684 ?)

DIAMANTINA (formerly called Tejuco)

DIAMETER (from the Cr. &a, through, µErpov, measure)

DIAMETERS AND AXES OF

DIAMOND CUTTING

THE AFFAIR OF THE DIAMOND NECKLACE

DIANE DE FRANCE (1538-1619)

DIANE DE POITIERS (1499-1566)

DIAPASON (Gr. &a raccov, through all)

DIAPER (derived through the Fr. from the Gr. &&, through, and a rirpos, white; the derivation from the town of Ypres, " d'Ypres," in Belgium is unhistorical, as diapers were known for centuries before its existence)

DIAPHORETICS (from Gr. Scatbopeiv, to carry through)

DIAPHRAGM (Gr. Scat/pay,aa, a partition)

DIARBEKRI (Kara Amid or Black Amid; the Roman Amida)

DIARRHOEA (from Gr. &Q, through, pfw, flow)

DIASTYLE (from Gr. &a, through, and ariAos, column)

DIAULOS (from Gr. &-, double, and ai,X6s, pipe)

FRA DIAVOLO (1771-1806)

BARTHOLOMEU DIAZ DE NOVAES (fl. 1481-1500)

NARCISSE VIRGILIO DIAZ (18(38-1876)

PORFIRIO DIAZ (183o– )

DIAZO COMPOUNDS

DIAZOMATA (Gr. 6t4coµa, a girdle)

CHARLES DIBDIN (1745—1814)

THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN (1776—1847)

THOMAS JOHN DIBDIN (1771–1841)

DIBRA (Slay. Debra)

DICE (plural of die, O. Fr. de, derived from Lat. dare, to give)

RALPH DE DICETO (d. c. 1202)

EDWARD DICEY (1832– )

DICHOTOMY (Gr. bLya, apart, TEµvew, to cut)

THOMAS DICK (1774-1857)

CHARLES JOHN HUFFAM DICKENS (1812-187o)

ANNA ELIZABETH DICKINSON (1842– )

JOHN DICKINSON (1732–1808)

SIR ALEXANDER DICKSON (1777–1840)

SIR JAMES ROBERT DICKSON (1832–1901)

DICTATOR (from the Lat. dictare, frequentative of dicere, to speak)

DICTIONARIES AND INDICES

DICTYOGENS (Gr. &Krvov, a net, and the termination -y& s, produced)

DICTYS CRETENSIS

DICUIL (fl. 825)

DIDACTIC POETRY

DENIS DIDEROT (1713-1784)

MARCUS DIDIUS SALVIUS JULIANUS

DIDO, or ELISSA

HENRI DIDON (1840-1900)

ADOLPHE NAPOLEON DIDRON (1806-1867)

DIDYMI, or DIDYMA (mod. Hieronta)

DIDYMIUM (from the Gr. &Segos, twin)

DIDYMUS (?3o9-?394)

DIDYMUS CHALCENTERUS (c. 63 R.C.—A.D. 10)

DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

HANS KARL FRIEDRICH ANTON DIEBITSCH

DIEDENHOFEN (Fr. Thionville)

FREDERICK DIELMANN (1847– )

ANTHONY VAN DIEMEN (1593–1645)

ABRAHAM VAN DIEPENBECK (1599-1675)

LEON DIERA (1838– )

CHRISTOPH ALBERT DIES (1755-1822)

FRIEDRICH ADOLF WILHELM DIESTERWEG (179o-1866)

DIETRICH OF BERN

CHRISTIAN WILHELM ERNST DIETRICH (1712-1774)

FRIEDRICH CHRISTIAN DIEZ (1794–1876)

CALCULUS OF DIFFERENCES (Theory of Finite Differences)

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION

DIFFLUGIA (L. Leclerc)

DIFFRACTION OF LIGHT

DIFFUSION (from the Lat. diffundere; dis-, asunder, and fundere, to pour out)

KENELM HENRY DIGBY (1800-188o)

SIR EVERARD DIGBY (1578-1606)

SIR KENELM DIGBY (1603-1665)

BASILIUS DIGENES ACRITAS

DIGESTIVE ORGANS (PATHOLOGY)

WEST DIGGES (172o-1786)

DIGIT (Lat. digit us, finger)

DIHEXAGONAL PYRAMIDAL

DIKE, or DYKE (Old Eng. dic, a word which appears in various forms in many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch dijk, German Teich, Danish dige, and in French, derived from Teutonic, digue; it is the same word as " ditch " and is ultimately connected with the ro

DILAPIDATION (Lat. for " scattering the stones," lapides, of a building)

DILATATION (from Lat. dis-, distributive, and lotus, wide)

DILATORY (from Lat. dilatus, from differre, to put off or delay)

DILEMMA (Gr. &Xuµua, a double proposition, from bi- and aµ(36.vetv)

SIR CHARLES WENTWORTH DILKE

DILL (Anethum or Peucedanum graveolens)

JOHANN JAKOB DILLEN [DILLENIUS] (1684-1747)

JULIEN DILLENS (1849-1904)

CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH AUGUST DILLMANN (1823-1894)

ARTHUR RICHARD DILLON (172I-1807)

JOHN DILLON (1851– )

DILUVIUM (Lat. for " deluge," from diluere, to wash away)

DIME (from the Lat. decima, a tenth, through the O. Fr. disme)

DIMENSION (from Lat. dimensio, a measuring)

KARL WILHELM DINDORF (1802-1883)

FRANZ VON DINGELSTEDT (1814-1881)

DINGHY, or DINGEY (from the Hindu dengi a small boat, the diminutive of denga, a sloop or coasting vessel)

DINKA (called by the Arabs Jange)

ROBERT DINWIDDIE (1693-1770)

DIO CHRYSOSTOM (c. A.D. 40-115)

DIOCESE (formed on Fr. diocese, in place of the Eng. form diocess—current until the 19th century—from Lat. dioecesis, med. Lat. variant diocesis, from Gr. Swucio•tc, " house-keeping," " administration," &miceas, " to keep house," " to govern ")

DIOCLETIAN (GAIUs AURELIUS VALERIUS DIOCLETIANUS) (A.D. 245–313)

EDICT OF DIOCLETIAN (De Pretiis rerum venalium)

GIOVANNI DIODATI (1576-1649)

DIODORUS CRONUS (4th century B.C.)

DIODORUS SICULUS

DIOGENES APOLLONIATES (c. 46o B.C.)

DIOGENES LAERTIUS (or LAERTIUS DIOGENES)

EPISTLE TO DIOGNETUS