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TAXATION (from " tax," derived, through the French, from Lat. taxare, to appraise, which again is connected with the same root as tangere, to touch)

TAYGETUS (Tavyeros or Tairyerov, mod. St Elias or Pentedaktylon)

ANN TAYLOR (1782-1866)

BAYARD TAYLOR (1825–1878)

BROOK TAYLOR (1685–1731)

ISAAC TAYLOR (1787-1865)

ISAAC TAYLOR (1829-1901)

JEREMY TAYLOR (1613-1667)

JOHN TAYLOR (158o-1653)

JOHN TAYLOR (1704-1766)

JOSEPH TAYLOR (c. 1586-c. 1653)

MICHAEL ANGELO TAYLOR (1757–1834)

NATHANIEL WILLIAM TAYLOR (1786-1858)

PHILIP MEADOWS TAYLOR (1808–1876)

ROWLAND TAYLOR (d. 1555)

SIR HENRY TAYLOR (1800-1886)

THOMAS TAYLOR (1758-1835)

TOM TAYLOR (1817-1880)

WILLIAM TAYLOR (1765-1836)

ZACHARY TAYLOR (1784-1850)

MIKHAIL GREGORJOVICH TCHERNAIEV (1828—1898)

PIERRE ALEXANDROWITSCH DE TCHIHATCHEFF (1812-189o)

TEA (Chinese cha, Amoy dialect t€)

EDWARD TEACH [THATCH OR THACH] (d. 1718)

TEAL (O.E. tele)

TEANO (anc. Teanum Sidicinum)

q.v.] TEATE MARRUCINORUM [mod. Chieti

TEBESSA (the Roman Theveste)

TECHNICAL EDUCATION

TECUCI (Tecuciu)

TECUMSEH, TECUMTHE, or TECUMTHA1 (c. 1768—1813)

TEETH (O.E. Eel); plural of tooth, O.E. top)

BARON WILHELM VON TEGETTHOFF (1827-1871)

TEGGIANO (anc. Tegianum, formerly called Diana)

ESAIAS TEGNER (1782-1846)

TEHERAN (more properly TEHRAN)

TEHUANTEPEC (from tecuani-tepec—" jaguar-hill ")

CHUELCHE TEHUELCHE

1ST BARON JOHN SHORE TEIGNMOUTH (1751-1834)

PIERRE EDMOND TEISSERENC DE BORT (1814-1892)

TELAMONES (Gr. reXaµwv, supporter, from rXitval, to bear)

KASHINATH TRIMBAK TELANG (1850-1893)

TELEGONY (Gr. TT/Xe, far, and yovos, offspring)

TELEGRAPH (Gr. Tike, far, and rypaq5eiv, to write)

TELEOLOGY (Gr. Taos, end)

TELEPATHY (Gr. rnXe, far, wan, feelings), or THOUGHT TRANSFERENCE

TELEPHONE (Gr. rjXs, far, and dxwvr7, voice)

TELESIA [mod. Telese]

BERNARDINO TELESIO (1509-1588)

THOMAS TELFORD (1757—.1834)

CHARLES DE TELIGNY (c. 1535—1572)

WILHELM ABRAHAM TELLER (1734-1804)

atomic weight 127.5 TELLURIUM [Symbol Te (0=16)]

TEMBU (Ama-Tembu)

TEMENOS (Gr. TEµevos, TElcvfw, to cut)

TEMPER (from Lat. temperare, to mingle or compound in due proportion, to qualify, rule, regulate, to be moderate, formed from tempos, time, fit or due season)

TEMPERA (the Italian term), or DISTEMPER

TEMPERATURE IN PLATINUM DEGREES

MARIE TEMPEST (1866– )

TEMPIO PAUSANIA

FREDERICK TEMPLE (1821-1902)

BART SIR RICHARD TEMPLE

BART SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE

BERNHARD EGIDIUS KONRAD TEN BRINK (1841-1892)

JAN JACOB LODEWIJK TEN KATE (1819-1889)

TENANT (from Lat. tenere, to hold)

TENCH (Tina vulgaris)

CLAUDINE ALEXANDRINE GUERIN DE TENCIN (1681-1749)

PIERRE GUERIN DE TENCIN (1679-1758)

TENEBRAE (Lat. for " shadows," " darkness ")

TENEMENT (Med. Lat. tenetnentum, from tenere, to hold)

TENERIFFE [Tenerife]

THOMAS TENISON (1636-1715)

CHARLES TENNANT (1768-1838)

SMITHSON TENNANT (1761-1815)

WILLIAM TENNANT (1784-1848)

BART SIR JAMES EMERSON TENNENT

TENNESSEE RIVER

SIR JOHN TENNIEL (182o- )

TENNIS (sometimes called royal tennis, and, in America, court tennis)

ALFRED TENNYSON TENNYSON

TENOR (through Fr. and It. from Lat. tenor, holding on, course, sense of a law, tone)

TENREC (Centetes ecaudatus)

CHARLES ABBOTT TENTERDEN

TENURE (Fr. tenure, from Lat. tenere, to hold)

TEPLITZ (Czech, Teplice)

TER BORCH (or TERBURG), GERARD (1617–1681)

TERAPHIM (A.V. sometimes transcribes, e.g. Judges xvii. 5; xviii. 14 seq.; Hosea iii. 4; sometimes translates " image," r Sam. xix. 13; " idols," Zech. x. 2; idolatry," 1 Sam. xv. 23: R.V. renders consistently "teraphim ")

atomic weight 159.2 TERBIUM [symbol Tb (0=16)]

TERGESTE (mod. Trieste, q.v.)

TERMINAL FIGURES

TERMINATOR (from the Latin terminare, to limit)

TERMINI IMERESE (anc. Thermae Himeraeae)

TERMONDE (Flemish Dendermonde)

TERN (Norsk taerne, tende or tende; Swedish tarna; Dutch Stern1)

TERNI (anc. Interamna Nahars)

TERRACE (Fr. terrace, terrasse, from It. terraccia, terrazzo, Lat. terra, earth)

TERRACINA (Lat. Tarracina, Volsc. Anxur)

TERRAMARA (from Ital. terra mama, " marl ")

TERRANOVA PAUSANIA

WILLIAM TERRISS (1847–1897)

TERRITORIAL GOVERNORS

ELLEN ALICIA TERRY (1848– )

GERHARD TERSTEEGEN (1697–1769)

TERTIARIES (Lat. tertiarii, from tertius, third)

TERTULLIAN (c. 155-c. 222)

TESCHEN (Czech, Tesin; Polish, Cieszyn)

TESSELLATED (Lat. tessellatus,)

COUNT CARL GUSTAF TESSIN (1695-1770)

TESTAMENTS OF THE THREE PATRIARCHS

TESTAMENTS OF THE TWELVE PATRIARCHS

TESTAMENTUM DOMINI (" TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD ")

TESTER (Fr, teetiere, head-covering, from teete)

TETANUS (from Gr. rei:vw, I stretch, on account of the tension of the fibres of the affected muscles), or LOCKJAW

TETRAGRAMMATON (rerrapa, four; ypciµµa, letter)

TETRAHEDRON (Gr. riepa-, four, Ebpa, face or base)

TETRARCH (TETp&pX1)S)

TETRASTOON (Gr. TErpa-, four, and vroi, a portico)

TETRASTYLE (Gr. ehpa-, four, and ari)aos, a column)

TETUAN (TETTAwAN)

JOHANN TETZEL (c. 1460–1519)

WILHELM SIEGMUND TEUFFEL (1820–1878)

TEUTOBURGER WALD

TEUTONI, or TEUTONES

TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

THE TEUTONIC ORDER

TEUTONIC PEOPLES

EARL OF ANDREW RUTHERFORD TEVIOT (d. 1664)

TEWFIK PASHA (1852-1892)

TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

TEXTUAL CRITICISM

TEZPUR, or TEJPUR

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY (1811-1863)

SIGISMOND THALBERG (1812-1871)

THALES OF MILETUS (640–546 B.C.)

THALWEG (a German word compounded from Thal, valley, and YPeg, way)

THANA, or TANNA (=a fort, or police-station)

THANESAR (=" place of the god ")

THANKSGIVING DAY

THAR AND PARKAR, or THUR AND PARKER

THATCH (O.E. thaec; the word is common to many Teutonic languages in the sense of " roof," " cover "; cf. Du. dak, Ger. Dach; from Du. dekken comes " deck "; the Indo-European root is stag, whence Gr. or.yos, roof, Lat. tegere, to cover; the French equiva

CELIA THAXTER (1836—1894)

ABBOTT HANDERSON THAYER (1849— )

JAMES BRADLEY THAYER (1831—1902)

JOSEPH HENRY THAYER (1828-1901)

THE AFRICAN CONTINENT

THE ARCHBISHOPRIC OF MAGDEBURG

THE BASE OF A WALL

THE BONIFAZI THE BASSANI

THE BIGHORN MOUNTAINS OF WYOMING

THE CAMPAIGN OF

THE CAMPAIGN OF 1796 IN

THE CELLULAR DOCTRINE IN

THE CHARLEMAGNE

THE CLASS AS A WHOLE

THE COPTIC CHURCH IN

THE DUTCH SCHOOL OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

THE EARLY COUNTS OF

THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS

THE EYEPIECE OR

THE GREAT ITALIAN MASTERS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

THE INTERIOR OF THE CRANIUM

THE ITALIAN WAR OF

THE LATER PHASES OF ITALIAN PAINTING

THE LYRIC AND DRAMATIC OR

THE MIDDLE HIGH GERMAN

THE MOLECULAR STRUCTURE OF

CAMBRIDGE THE NUMBER OF VERTEBRAE OF SOME SPECIMENS IN THE MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY

THE OLD HIGH GERMAN

THE ORLEANS CAMPAIGN OF

THE OWNER AND HIS

THE PRINCIPLES OF

THE RENAISSANCE

THE RESTORATION

THE SANCTUARY OF

THE SCOTTISH MAIDEN

THE SKULL FROM BEHIND (norma occipitalis) (fig. 3)

THE SKULL IN SAGITTAL SECTION

FROM IN FRONT THE SKULL (norma facialis) (see fig. t)

THE SYMPATHETIC

THE TESTING OF THE

THE WAR OF THE SECOND

THE WRITINGS OF

THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

THEBES (anciently &Oat, Thebae, or in poetry sometimes Oif3a, in modern Greek Phiva, or, according to the corrected pronunciation, Thivae)

ROMANCE OF THEBES

THEGN, or THANE

THEISM (Gr. Beor, god)

THEISS (Hungarian, Tisza; Lat., Tisia or Tissus)

THEMISTIUS (317--?387)

THEMISTOCLES (c. 514-449 B.C.)

LOUIS JACQUES THENARD (1777-1857)

THEOBALD (d. 1161)

LEWIS THEOBALD (1688-1744)

THEOCRACY (Gr. Oeoeparia, the rule of God, from Oebr, god, and -Kparca, Kpare v, to rule)

THEODECTES (c. 380–340 B.C.)

THEODORA (d. 1057)

THEODORE (602-690)

THEODORE (Fedor) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1741–1796)

THEODORE (Rus. Fedor, or Feodor)

THEODORE LASCARIS (d. 1222)

THEODORE OF MOPSUESTIA (c. 350-428)

THEODORUS STUDITA (A.D. 759-826)

FLAVIUS MALLIUS THEODORUS

THEODOSIUS OF TRIPOLIS

THEOGNIS OF MEGARA (6th century B.C.)

THEOPHANO (c. 956–991)

THEOPHYLACT (d. c.. 1110)

THEOPOMPUS (b. c. 380)

THEORETICAL SHIPBUILDING

THEORY OF CAPILLARY

THEOSOPHY (from Gr. Oe6s, god, and vogbta, wisdom)

THERALITE (Gk. 9rlpav, to pursue)

THERAMENES (d. 4o3 B.c.)

THERAPEUTAE (Gr. BepaawTat, literally " attendants " or " physicians," hence " worshippers of God ")

THERAPEUTICS (Gr. BepaaeuTLKIi, Sc. TEXVrt, from Beparebsty, to serve)

ST THERESA (1515-1582)

THERMIDOR (from Gr. BEpµrt, heat, and & pov, gift)

THERMOCHEMISTRY

THERMODYNAMICS (from Gr. Bepµos, hot, Siva trs, force)

THERMOELECTRICITY

THERMOMETRY (Gr. Bepµos, warm; µerpov, a measure)

THERMOPYLAE (Gr. OepµSs, hot, and 1rf)X,

ANNE JOSEPHE THEROIGNE DE MERICOURT (1762-1817)

THESAURUS (Gr. B17o-avp6s)