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DAMIANISTS

Volume 2 · 90 words · 1771 Edition

church-history, a branch of the ancient accephali-severites. They agreed with the catholics in admitting the IVth council, but disowned any distinctions of persons in the Godhead; and professed one single nature, incapable of any difference; and yet they called God, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Damieta, a port-town of Egypt, situated on the eastern mouth of the river Nile, four miles from the sea, and 100 miles north of Grand Cairo; E. long. 32°, and N. lat. 31°.

Damnata Terra, among chemists, the same with caput mortuum. See Caput.