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(char-to-ris'ke,) a princely Polish house, whose principal members have been: STEPHEN, an eminent general, called the Duguesclin of Poland, and the liberator of his country. B. 1599; D. 1665.--ADAM CASIMIR, PRINCE C, cousin of king Stanislaus, B. 1731, became starost-general of Podolia, and president of the Diet. D. 1823. -ADAM GEORGE, PRINCE C., son of the D. D, the 4th letter of the Hebrew, Greek, and Roman alphabets, as it is also of the English, belongs to the dental order of letters, of which it is the medial character. It frequently interchanges with words of the same cla or organ in the kindred languages, as the German, as in traum, dream. Dalso affords a ready interchange with land r, and becomes allied with n in a kind of affinity, as in Lat. gener, Eng. gender. Di, when followed by a vowel, is sometimes represented by the letter j, as in journal for diurnal. The Latin D often becomes changed, in German, into z, s, or , as in decem (ten) into zehn. -In its numerical signification, Dis the symbol of 500, and with a dash over it, thus (D), of 5,000. The form of the word has arisen from the early printers having written 500 as I with a reversed C-ID, which soon came to be joined together as the symbol for five centuries.- Among abbreviations, D. signifies doctor, in its various forms, as, DD. doctor of divinity, MD. doctor of medicine, .- As a sign, Dis one of the Dominical letters.-In Music, Dis the 2d note in the natural scale, and corresponds with the French re. [s. 260]