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JACULATOR

Volume 11 · 67 words · 1810 Edition

or SHOOTING-FISH. See Chetodon, Ichthyology Index.

JADDESESSE is the name of an inferior order of priests in Ceylon, who have the care of the chapels appropriated to the genii, who form a third order of gods among these idolaters. These priests are applied to by the people in time of disease or calamity, who offer a cock on their behalf to appease the anger of the demons.