DEARGOUN, an elevated country of Hindustan, in the province of Assam, situated on one of the branches of the Brahmaputra river, and in which there is a celebrated Hindu temple.
DEATH is generally considered as the separation of the soul from the body; in which sense it stands opposed to life, which consists in the union of both.
Physicians usually define death as consisting of a total stoppage of the circulation of the blood, and a cessation of the animal and vital functions consequent thereon; as respiration, sensation, and the like.
BROTHERS of DEATH, a denomination usually given to religious persons of the order of St. Paul, the first hermit. They are called "brothers of death," fratres à morte, on account of the figure of a death's head which they were always to have in their custody, to remind them of the
certainty of death. This order, by its constitutions made in 1620, does not seem to have been established long before Pope Paul V. In 1621, Louis XIII. permitted them to settle in France. The order was probably suppressed by Pope Urban VIII.