| Title: | Gigantic |
| Original Title: | Gigantesque |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 7 (1757), p. 660 |
| Author: | Edme-François Mallet (biography) |
| Translator: | Anita Guerrini [Oregon State University] |
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| Citation (MLA): | Mallet, Edme-François. "Gigantic." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Anita Guerrini. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2020. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.691>. Trans. of "Gigantesque," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 7. Paris, 1757. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Mallet, Edme-François. "Gigantic." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Anita Guerrini. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.691 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Gigantesque," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 7:660 (Paris, 1757). |
GIGANTIC, someone who is of an enormous size or a giant. See Giant. Father Bouhours reports that one of the principal deceits of the Brahmins, is to persuade the ignorant that the pagodas eat like us, and in order that they be presented with a lot of food, they make these gods of a gigantic figure, and give them especially a big belly. Dictionnaire de Trevoux and Chambers. [1]
1. The texts referenced here are the Jesuit Antoine Furetière’s dictionary, known as the Dictionnaire de Trévoux (1704), and the 2-volume English Cyclopedia (1728) of Ephraim Chambers, both of which were major sources for articles throughout the Encyclopédie .