[Circumlocution Office], a name employed by Dickens in "Little Dorrit" to designate the wearisome routine of public business.
[Cisalpine Gaul], territory occupied by Gauls on the Italian or south side of the Alps.
[Cisalpine Republic], a republic so called on both sides of the Po, formed out of his conquests by Napoleon, 1797; became the Italian Republic in 1802, with Milan for capital, and ceased to exist after the fall of Napoleon.
[Cisleithania], Austria proper as distinguished from Hungary, which is called Transleithania, on account of the boundary between them being formed by the river Leitha.
[Cistercians], a monastic order founded by Abbot Robert in 1098 at Citeaux, near Dijon; they followed the rule of St. Benedict, who reformed the Order after it had lapsed; became an ecclesiastical republic, and were exempt from ecclesiastical control; contributed considerably to the progress of the arts, if little to the sciences.
[Cithæron], a wood-covered mountain on the borders of Boeotia and Attica; famous in Greek legend.
[Cities of Refuge], among the Jews; three on the E. and three on the W. of the Jordan, in which the manslayer might find refuge from the avenger of blood.
[Cities of the Plain], Sodom and Gomorrah, with adjoining cities under the like doom.
[Citizen King], Louis Philippe of France, so called as elected by the citizens of Paris.
[City of Bells], Strasburg.