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a. ( imp. GOT; pp. GOT, GOTTEN.) [A.S. get an, gytan, to obtain.] To procure; to obtain; to gain po e ion of; to acquire; to attain; to reach; to realize; to win; to have; as, to get a name, to get wealth. - To beget; to procreate; to generate; as, to get children. - To learn; to con, as a le on. - To prevail upon; to induce. "Get him to say his prayers." ( Shaks.) - To cause to be or to occur; - with a participle following; as, to get a thing done. To betake; to carry; - in a reflexive sense. "Get thee out from this land." -Gen . xxx i. 13. -v. n. To arrive at any place, state or condition by degrees, followed by some modifying word; as, to get home, to get along, to get up or down. To gain; to be increased. "We lose, they daily get . " ( Shaks .) - To become; - followed by an adjective; as, to get drunk. Ge'ta, SEPTIMUS, second son of the emperor Severus, was born A. D. 189, and was brother of the infamous Car a call a, with whom he was a ociated in the empire on the death of his father. Car a call a, who envied his virtues and was jealous of his popularity, after having endeavored to effect his death by poison, murdered him, and wounded their mother, who was attempting to save him, 211 A.D. Ge'tæ. ( Hist .) An ancient people of Thracian origin, who, when first mentioned in history, inhabited the country which is now called Bulgaria . They were a warlike people, and for a long time succe fully resisted the attempts of Alexander the Great and Pyrrhus to subdue them. They afterwards removed to the N. bank of the Danube, having the Dnieper as their boundary on the E., while westward they encroached on the Roman empire, with which from this time they were continually at war. They were subdued by Trajan in 106. The Romans called them Daci , and their country DACIA, q. v. Gethsemane. [Heb. gath , a wine-pre , and shemen, oil.] ( Script .) A garden or grove in the valley at the foot of the Mount of Olives, over against Jerusalem, to which Christ sometimes retired, and in which he endured his agony, and was betrayed by Judas, ( Matt . xxvi. 36-57.) Early tradition locates G. near the base of Mt. Olivet, beyond the brook Kidron. The place now enclosed by a low stone wall (Fig. 1151) may be but a part of the original "garden." It is about 52 yards square, and contains eight aged olive-trees, whose roots in many IMG:content-0380.jpg:[graphic] Fig . 1151. GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE, AND MOUNT OF CLIVES. places project above the ground, and are protected by heaps of stones. Here, or at most not far off, the Saviour endured that unspeakable "agony and bloody sweat" so nearly connected with his expiatory death; and here is deep submi ion de mingled and closed his prayers IMG:content-0381.png:[ocr errors][ocr errors][merged small][merged small] in a few hundred feet of each other. The great G. is a cir- cular pool of hot water 72 feet acro at its widest part, by abt. 4 feet deep, and contracting in the centre to a pit 8 feet in diameter and 83 feet deep. A stream of hot water is constantly flowing from the crater. Every few hours the water rises rapidly from the pit in jets a few feet above the surface of the pool; but about once a day it is thrown upward with terrific force to the height of from 60 to 200 feet, while immense volumes of steam obscure the country for some distance around. The hot water decomposes the lava through which it rises and the silica is deposited in cone-like incrustations around the openings that around the Great Geyser being about 15 feet in height. The intermittent action of the G. is supposed to be owing to the sudden production of steam in subterranean chambers connected with the channels through which the waters flow. There is a large geyser region in New Zealand, and one in Califor- nia that gives out boracic acid. See also YELLOW STONE