Cordate, Cordated

( Bot. ) Heart-shaped, as the leaf of Alnus cord i folia. Cor'dately, adv . Formed after the shape of a heart. Cor'daville, in Ma achusetts , a P. O. of Worcester co. Corday d'Armans, MARIE ANNE CHARLOTTE, ( kor dai ',) a young French woman of great beauty and courage, who became the murdere of the revolutionist Marat. She was born at St. Saturn in, near Seez, in Normandy, 1768, was the grand-daughter of the poet Corneille, and was gifted with superior understanding and a warm heart, glowing with the pa ion for liberty. The books she read, and the conversation of the persecuted and exiled leaders of the Girondists, roused in her the irresistible desire to save, if po ible, her country, at whatever cost to herself. Marat appeared to her the master-spirit of the atrocities perpetrated or threatened, and she determined to rid the country of him. That she was actuated by a sense of duty, and felt that she was about to perform an act of patriotic heroism, there is not the slightest doubt; and as the circumstances attending it po e more than ordinary interest, we give the following detailed account. C. left her home, and on arriving at Paris (July 12, 1793), she went to Marat's house, but was not admitted. On Saturday, the 13th, she purchased a large knife, and at seven o'clock in the Fig. 681.- CHARLOTTE CORDAY. evening procured admittance to Marat, with this weapon concealed under her garments. She had obtained this interview by writing to him that she was from the seat of rebellion, and would "put it in his power to do France a great service." Marat was in his bath, with a stool by his side to write upon, and entering into conversation with C., he penned with ferocious joy the fresh list of victims with which she pretended to supply him. At the instant when he turned aside, muttering of the chastisement they should receive, C., with desperate determination, plunged her knife into his bosom, and he instantly expired, uttering the words, "To me, my friend?" Meanwhile the maid remained calm and tranquil as a prieste before the altar, in the midst of the tumult and confusion. She was afterwards conducted as a prisoner to the Abbaye. A young man, who begged to die in her place, was also condemned to death. Her first care was to implore the forgivene of her father, for disposing of her life without his knowledge. She then wrote to Barbaroux as follows: "To-morrow, at five o'clock, my trial begins; and on the same day I hope to meet with Brutus and the other patriots in elysium." She appeared before the revolutionary tribunal with a dignified air, and her replies were firm and noble. She spoke of her deed as a duty which she owed her country. "To stop the anarchy of France," she said she did it. "I have slain one man to save a hundred you sand-a wretch to preserve the innocent. I was a republican before the revolution, and I have never failed in energy." She was condemned, and led to the scaffold, retaining her calmne and presence of mind to the last, though pursued by the crowd with yells and shouts of execration. She suffered by the guillotine, July 17, 1793. Cord'ed, p. a. Made of ropes or cords; supplied with cords. "With a corded ladder, To climb celestial Sylvia's chamber-window."- Shaks. -Bound, tied, or fastened with cords; as, a corded bundle. -Striped or ribbed, as by cords; as, corded trousers. -Piled up for measurement by the cord, as wood. ( Her .) Bound about with cords. Cordeliers, (kôr-de-leer',) n. [Fr.] ( Eccl . Hist . ) The C., or Cord- wearers , so called from their girdle of knotted cord, is a minor order of Francis cans, or Gray Friars, founded by St. Francis d'A isi in 1223, and sanctioned by Pope Honor i us III. in a bull published in 1223.