Dangeau, Philippe

DE COUR CILL ON, MARQUIS DE, ( dan' zho,) B. in 1638. He was a favorite courtier of Louis XIV., whom he accompanied in all his campaigns as aide-de-camp. He wrote a Journal de la Cour de Louis XIV., a very curious work, which faithfully portrays the manners and morals of that monarch's court. D.1720, Danger, ( dān'jér,) n. [Fr., from Lat. damnum, hurt, harım, damage, and gero, germo, to bear, to bring.] Exposure to injury; peril; jeopardy; risk; hazard; insecurity; lo , pain, or other evil. "She loved me for the dangers I had pa ed."-Shaks. -Extent or duration of power to injure, hazard, or jeopardize. "Till danger's troubled night depart."-Campbell. -v. a. To endanger; to imperil; to put to hazard. (R.) Dan'gerfield, or DAIN'GERFIELD, in Texas , a post village, cap. of Morris co., 30 m. W.N.W. of Jeffer son. Danger fully, adv. In a manner calculated to produce danger; dangerously. Dangerle , a. Without risk or hazard; exempt from danger. (R.) Dangerous, a. Full of danger, risk, or jeopardy; hazardous; perilous; insecure. "All delays are dangerous in war." - Dryden. -Threatening or foreboding danger. Dangerous Islands, a group in the Pacific, comprising Hays, Resolution, Palliser, and other islands; Lat. 21° S., Lon. 140° W. Dangerously, adv. With danger; with exposure to injury or ruin; hazardously, perilously; as, to be dangerously sick. Dangerousne , n. State of, or liability to be exposed to, hazard, danger, risk, or peril. "Judging of the dangerousne of diseases by the noblene of the part affected."-Boyle. Dangle, ( dang'gl ,) v. n. [Icel. and Sw.-Goth. dingla ; Dan. dingler .] To hang and swing; to hang on any one; to follow about officiously; - preceding on, after , or about ; as, to dangle after women. "The sword hung dangling o'er the shield." - Prior. -v. a . To carry suspended loosely; as, to dangle the body. Dan'gler, n. One who dangles; a man who hangs about or follows women. "A dangler is of neither sex."- Ralph . Dan'ican, n. See PHILIDOR. Daniel, ( dan'yel ,) called Belteshazzar by the Chaldeans, a prophet descended from the royal family of David, who was carried captive to Babylon, when very young, in the 4th year of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, B.с. 606. He was chosen, with his three companions, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, to reside at Nebuchadnezzar's court, where he received a suitable education, and made great progre in all the sciences of the Chalde ans. At the end of their three years' education, D. and his companions excelled all others, and received honorable appointments in the royal service. Here D. soon displayed his prophetic gifts in interpreting the dream of Nebuchadnezzar, by whom he was made governor of Babylon, and head of the learned and priestly cla . He seems to have been absent, perhaps on some foreign emba y, when his three companions were cast into the fiery furnace. At a later period he interpreted another dream of Nebuchadnezzar, and afterwards the celebrated vision of Belshazzar-one of whose last works was to promote D. to an office much higher than he had previously held during his reign. After the capture of Babylon by the Medes and Persians, under Cyaxares and Cyrus, D. was continued in all his high employments, and enjoyed the favor of these princes until his death, except at one short interval, when the envy of the other officers prevailed on the king to cast him into the lions' den, an act which recoiled on his foes to their own destruction. During this period he earnestly labored, by fasting and prayer as well as by counsel, to secure the return of the Jews to their own land, the promised time having come. (Dan. 9.) He lived to see the decree i ued, and many of his people restored; but it is not known that he ever revisited Jerusalem. His prophecies are written partly in Hebrew and partly in Chaldee. They form the 27th in order of the books of the Old Testament. This book, which bears his name, is partly historical and partly prophetical. The first six chapters are historical, and speak of D. in the third person; the last six contain visions, which D. relates in the first person. In the first six chapters we have recorded a variety of events which occurred in the reigns of Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar, and Darius; and, in particular, the second chapter contains Nebuchadnezzar's prophetic dream concerning the four great succe ive monarchies, and the everlasting kingdom of the Me iah, which dream God enabled D. to interpret. In the last six chapters we have a series of prophecies, revealed at different times, and extending from the days of D. to the general resurrection. The A yrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman empires, are all particularly described under appropriate characters; and it is expre ly declared that the last of them was to be divided into ten le er kingdoms; the time at which Christ was to appear is precisely fixed; the rise and fall of Antichrist, and the duration of his power, are exactly determined; and the future restoration of the Jews, the victory of Christ over all his enemies, and the universal prevalence of true religion, are distinctly foretold as being to precede the consummation of all things. The book abounds with the most exalted sentiments of piety and devout gratitude; its style is simple, clear, and concise; and many of its prophecies are delivered in terms so plain and circumstantial, that many have been led to deny their authenticity, and to maintain they were written after the events had taken place. Porphyry, who lived in the 3d century, affirmed that the book was composed as recently as the time of Antiochus Epiphanes, and that therefore it narrated only past events; and he has had many followers in more recent times, and even at the present day. The arguments, however, advanced against the authenticity or genuinene of the book are too frivolous to prevail against the testimony of Christ himself, when he says, "When ye, therefore, shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet , stand in the holy place," . ( Matt . xxiv. 15.) Daniel, the 2d son of David, (also called Chileab ,) a descendant of Ithamar, the 4th son of Aaron, was one of the chiefs who accompanied Ezra from Babylon to Juda. Daniel, (GABRIEL), a French Jesuit, author of a His tory of France; and a Voyage to the World of Des cartes , a severe satire on the system of that philosopher. В. 1649; D. 1728.