Crude ANTIMONY, is the native mineral antimony, melted down and caft in cones: called alfo Antimony in fubftance.

Prepared ANTIMÓNY, is that which has paft under fome chymical procefs, by which the nature and powers of it have been altered and abated.

Regulus of ANTIMONY, a ponderous, metallick powder, which, upon fufing fome of that mineral in its crude ftate, finks to the bottom, leaving the fcoria cr impurities on the top.

| half of the fame meridian, and walk with their feet directly opposite one to another. ANTIPYRETICUM (of avel and πυρετός, a fiery heat) a medicine that allays the heat of fevers.

ANTIQUATEDNESS (of antiquatus, L.) the being grown out of ufe or date. ANTIQUE (antiquus, L.) ancient. Antique is chiefly used by architects, carvers, painters, &c.

Flowers of ANTIMONY, are the volatile parts that flick to the fubliming pot, after having been pulverized and fublimed in aludels. ANTINOUS (Aftronomy) a part of the conftellation, named aquila or the cagle. ANTIPATHETICALNESS, the having an antipathy, or antipathetical quality. ANTIPATHY (antipathia, L. of avinadela, of all against, and , the paffion) fome fay the reafon of antipathy between animals, is, that by the fight of fuch objects certain impreffions are tranfmitted thro' the fibres of the nerves into the brains, which convey the animal Spirits into the nerves; which, upon the blood being rarified after another manner than is ufual, fends into the brains thofe fpirits, which are adapted to the fomenting or cherishing of terror.

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gain, as effluvia and fpirituous fteams proceed from the bodies of all creatures, fome of which difagree with others, they do excite anger and hatred in each other.

ANTIPENDIUM (with the Romanists) a filver fkreen, which covers the front of an alter, which is hanged on with fcrews upon a festival day.

ANTIPERISTASIS (from and wegicama, Gr. to ftand round) the oppofition of a contrary quality, by which the quality it oppofes becomes heightened or intended; or the action by which a body attacked by another collects itfelf, and becomes ftronger by fuch oppofition: or an intention of the activity of one quality caufed by the oppofition of another. Thus quick lime is fet on fire by the affufion of cold water; fo water becomes warmer in winter than in fummer; and thunder and lightening are excited in the middle region of the air, which is continually cold, and all by antiperaflags. This is an exploded principle in the peripatetick philofophy.

ANTIPHRASIS (from , again, and pacis, Gr. a form of fpeech) the use of words in a fenfe oppofite to their proper meaning.

ANTIPODES (in Geography) fuch inhabitants of the earth, who dwel in oppofite parallels of latitude, and under the oppofite

ANTITHE'NAR (of av, and Sivag, Gr.) one of the mufcles which extend the thumb: it is alfo a muscle of the great toe, arifing from the inferior part of the third Os cuneiforme, ana pafiing obliquely is inferted into Ojja Seffamoidea.

ANTITY PICmL (of antitypum, L. arlìTUTTOV, Gr.) pertaining to an antitype.

ANTIVENE REALNESS (of alì, Gr. and venereus, L.) the being useful againít venereal diftempers.

Bees ANTLER, the ftart or branch next above the brow antler.

Brow ANTLER, the start or branch next the head.

AN'TOCOW (with Horse-doctors) a round fwelling about half as big as a man's fift, breaking out in the breast of a horfe directly against his heart.

ANT, an emmet, a pifmire, a small'infeet well known.

ANTS (Hieroglyphically) were used by the ancients to reprefent laborious perfons, diligent and industrious in their callings. For ants are very laborious, induftrious creatures, and alfo ready to give affiftance to their fellows.

ANVIL (anpilt, Sax.) a maffy iron inftrument on which fmiths, &c. hammer their work.

A Rifing ANVIL, an anvil having two nooks or corners for rounding any piece of metal

ANXIETY (anxietas, L.) 1. Trouble of mind about fome future event; fufpenfe with uneafinefs; perplexity. ; folicitude. 2. In the medical language, depreffion; lowness of spirits.

ANXIOUS (anxius, L.) difturbed about fome uncertain event; folicitous. 2. Careful; full of inquietude; unquiet. 3. Careful, as of a thing of great importance. 4. It has generally for or about before the object, but fometimes of

ANXIOUSLY (from anxious) in an anxi- · ous manner; folicitou fly; unquietly; carefully.

ANXIOUSNESS (from anxious) the quality of being anxious; fufceptibility of anxiety.

APOPHLEGMATICK

tion.

APOCALYPTICALLY (from apocalyptical) in such a manner as to reveal fomething

fecret.

APOCOPE (from añoлn,-Gr.) a figure in grammar, when the laft letter or fyllable of a word is taken away; as ingeni, for ingenii.

APOCRUSTICK, (amonga, from aоngova, Gr. to drive) remedies endued with a repelling and aftringent power, by which they prevent the too great afflux of humours to a part difeafed.

APOCRYPHA (from amongula, Gr. to put out of fight) Books whofe authors are not known. It is used for the Books appended to the facred writings, which being of doubtful authors are lefs regarded.

APOCRYPHAL (from apocrypha) 1. Not canonical of uncertain authority. 2. Contained in the Apocrypha. 3. It is fometimes used for an, account of uncertain credit. APOCRYPHALLY (from apocryphal) uncertainly; not indifputably.

APOCRYPHALNESS (from apocryphal) uncertainty; doubtfulness of credit.

APODICTICAL (from amodiğiç, Gr.) evident truth, demonftration, demonftrative, evident beyond contradiction.

APODIXIS, demonftration. APOLOGETICAL 2 (from aroλoys, APOLOGETICKS Gr. to defend) that which is faid in defence of any perfon or thing.

APOLOGETICALLY (from apologetical) in the way of defence or excufe.

APOLOGIST (from to apologize) he that makes an apology; a pleader in favour of another.

To APOLOGIZE (from apology) 1. To plead in favour of any perfon or thing. 2. It has the particle for before the fubject of apology. APOLOGUE (from awohoy, Gr.) fable; ftory contrived to teach fome moral truth. APOLOGY (from apologia, L.) 1. Defence, excufe. Apology generally fignifies rather excufe than vindication, and tends rather to extenuate the fault, than prove innocence. This is, however, fometimes unregarded by writers. 2. It has for before the object of excufe.

APOBATERION (of dreßair, to depart, Gr.) a farewel fpeech or poem upon a perfon's going out of his own country, or fome other place, where he had been kindly

entertained.

APOMECOM'ETRY (of and and lew, Gr. to measure) an art of fhewing how to meafure things at a diftance, or to find how

escape.

APOPHYGE (Architecture) that part of a column where it begins to fpring out of its bafe, and fhoot upwards, but this apophyge originally was really no more than the ring or ferrel antiently faftened at the extremities of wooden pillars to keep them from splitting, and which afterwards was imitated in stonework.

APOFLEXY (Αποπληξία, οἱ ἀποπλή πλείν, to ftrike or aftonith) a difeafe which is a fudden rivation of all the fenfes, and fenfible motions of the body, thofe of the heart and lungs being excepted, and is attended with the deprivation of the principal faculties of the foul, by reason that the paffages of the brain are ftopt, and the courfe of the animal fpirits hindered.

APORON ('Aogov, of a privat. and wrogov, a paffage, Gr.) a problem in the mathematicks, which, though it is not impoffible, is nevertheless very difficult to be refolved, and has not actually been refolved, fuch as, the fquaring of the circle, &c.

APORIA (with Rhetoricians) a figure where the orator is at a ftand what to do, as, fhall I speak out, or be filent?

APOSIOPEIS (Αποσιωπησὶς, οἱ ἀπο Graw, to hold one's peace, Gr.) reticency filentnefs.

APOSPASMA (with Surgeons) the drawing of one part from another, which naturally ftuck to it; as when the skin is feparated from a membrane, a membrane from a mufcle, one mufcle from another, &c.

APOSTATICALLY (of apoftata, L. of arogan, Gr.) after the manner of an apoftate.

APOSTUME (οἱ ἀποςήμα, of αφίσαθαι, Gr. to depart) a preter-natural tumour or fwelling, caufed by corrupt matter collected together in any part of the body, commonly called an Impoftbume.

APOSTOL'ICALLY (apoftoliquement, F. of 'Aro, Gr.) after the manner of an apoftle.

APOSTOL'ICALNESS, the being of apoftolical appointment.

APOSYR MA (with Surgeons) a shaving of the fkin or of a bone.

APOTHECARIES, having feparated themfelves from the ancient fociety of Grocers, grew fo much in favour with king James I. that he ufed to call them his company, and gave them a charter of incorporation

in

perters two unicorns, the creft a rhinoceros furmounting a torce and helmet. The motto, Opfer per orbem dicor.

APOTHERAPY (apotherapia. L. of 'Amagasín, Gr.) that part of phyfick that cares or prevents wearinefs from too much labour.

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APO TOME (in Mathematicks) is the remainder or difference of two incommenfurable quantities, an irrational refidue, as D C, when from a rational Cline BD, call'd b, you cut off a rational part E C, called c, only commenfura

1 part EC, called &, only commenfu

To APPA'LE (of appalir, F.) to daunt, aftenih or difcourage.

APPA'NAGE. See Appenage. APPARATUS, is used to fignify the atenfils pertaining to a machine, as the apparatus of a Microscope, Air-pump, &c.

APPARATUS (with Surgeons) the bandages, medicaments and dreffings of a part.

APPARATUS major and minor (with Lithai) the greater and letter preparation, two different methods of cutting for the fone, L.

High APPARATUS (with Lithotomifts) is performed by making an incifion above the groin along the Linea alba, into the fund of the bladder; and thro' that they extract the

stone.

The fmall or low APPARATUS, is performed by thrusting the two fore-fingers up the fundament till they touch or come against the ftone, and with them drive it to the neck of the bladder, and extract it from thence, thro' an incifion in the Perineum.

APPARENT Heir, one whofe title is clear beyond difpute or contradiction.

APPARENT Conjunction (Alronomy) is when the right line fuppofed to be drawn thro' the centers of two planets does not país through the center of the earth, but thro' the Spectator's eye.

APPARENT Horizon (Aftronomy) is that great circle which limits our fight; or that place where the heavens and earth feem to us

to meet.

tify fomething amifs in a sentence paffed by an inferior judge; it is alfo an accufation or declaration of the crime of any perfon; particularly the accufing of a murderer by a perfon who is interested in the party murthered. APPEAL by Bill (in Law) is where a man of himself gives up his accufation in writing, offering to undergo the burden of appealing the perfon therein named.

APPEAL by Writ (in Law) is when a writ is purchafed out of chancery by one to another, to the intent that he appeal a third perfon of fome felony committed by him, finding pledges that he fhall do it.

APPEARANCE (apparentia, L.) the exterior surface of a thing; or that which first ftrikes the fenfe or the Imagination.

APPEARANCE (in Profpective) is the reprefentation of a figure, body, or the like cbject, upon the perfpective plain.

APPEARANCES (with Aftronomers) are more ufually called Phænomena.

To fave APPEARANCES, is seemingly to difcharge one's duty, or to acquit himself of the formalities or externals of it, fo as to fave his character and avoid giving offence or fcandal.

APPEAS'ABLE (of appaifer, F.) that may be pacified.

APPEASA'BLENESS, capableness of being pacified.

APPELLATIVELY (of appellatif, F. appellativus, L.) by way of appellation. To APPEND (appendere, L.) to hang up

or to.

APPEND'ANT (appendens,L.) hanging to. APPEND'ED Remedies (in Medicine) are fuch as are outwardly applied by hanging about the neck.

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APPEN'NAGE 2 the fortune, or porAPPANNAGES tion which a fovereign prince gives to his younger fon or children. The younger fons of England have no certain appennages, but only what the king is pleafed to bestow upon them; but in France the king's younger fons have (by virtue of the law of Appannage) dutchies, counties or baronies granted to them and their heirs, the reverfion referved to the crown, and all matters of regality, as coinage, levying taxes, &c.

APPET'IBLENESS (of appetibilis, L.)

worthiness to be defired.

APPETITE (by Philofophers) is defined a defire of enjoying fomething wanted, or a complacency in the enjoyment of a thing prefent. It is diftinguish'd into voluntary and natural.

Voluntary APPETITE (with Schoolmen) is the will itself acting under a competent knowledge or information of the matter in hand, as the defire of Happiness. Natural

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Natural APPETITE (with Schoolmen) a

APPOSITION (with Philofopbers) an ad

APPLIABLE (from apply) that which may be applied. For this word the moderns ufe applicable; which fee.

APPLIANCE from apply) the act of applying; the thing applied to.

APPLICABILITY (from applicable) the quality of being fit to be applied to fomething. APPLICABLE (from apply) that which may be applied, as properly relating to fomething.

APPLICABLENESS (from applicable) fitness to be applied.

APPLICABLY (from applicable in fuch a manner as it may be properly app ied. APPLICATE (from apply) a right line drawn across a curve, fo as to bifect the diameter thereof.

APPLICATION (from apply) 1. The act of applying any thing to another; as, he mitigated his pain by the application of emollients. 2. The thing applied; as, he invented a new application, by which blood might be ftaunched 3. The act of applying to any perfon, as a folicitor, or petitioner. 4. The employment of any means for a certain end. 5. Intenfeness of thought; clofe ftudy. 6. Attention to fome particular affair; with the particle to. 7. The condition of being used as means to an end.

APPLICATIVE (from apply) that which

applies.

APPLICATORY (from apply) that which comprehends the act of application. APPLICATORY (from apply) that which applies.

To APPLY (applico, L.) 1. To put one thing to another. 2. To lay medicaments upon a wound. 3. To make ufe of as relative or fuitable to fomething. 4. To put to a certain ufe. 5. To ufe as means to an end. 6. To fix the mind upon; to study; with to. 7. To have recourfe to, as a folicitor, or petitioner; with to. 8. To endeavour to work upon. 9. To ply; to bufy; to keep

at work; an antiquated fenfe.

To APPOINT (appointer, F.) to fix any thing; as, to fettle the exact time for fome tranfaction. 2. To fettle any thing by compact. 3. To establish any thing by decree. 4. To furnish in all points; to equip; to fupply with all things neceffary: ufed anciently in fpeaking of foldiers.

APPOINTER (from appoint) he that fettles or fixes any thing or place.

APPOINTMENT (appointement, F.) 1. Stipulation; the act of fixing something in which two or more are concerned. 2. Decree, eftablishment. 3. Direction, order. 4. Equipment, furniture. 5. An allowance paid to any man, commonly used of allowances to publick officers.

APPOSITENESS (of appofitus, L.) fitnefs for the purpose.

APPRAISE'MENT, the valuation of any

thing.

TO APPREHEND (apprebendo, L. to take hold of) 1. To lay hold on, 2. To feize in order for trial or punishment. 3. To conceive by the mind. 4. To think on with terror, to fear.

APPREHENDER (from apprebend) conceiver, thinker.

APPREHENSIBLE (from apprehend) that which may be apprehended, or conceived. APPREHENSION (from apprehenfio, L.) 1. The mere contemplation of things, without affirming or denying any thing concerning them. So we think of a horfe, high, fwift, animal, time, matter, mind, death, &c. 2. Opinion, fentiments, conceptions. 3. The faculty by which we conceive new ideas; or power of conceiving them. 4. Fear. 5. Sufpicion of fomething to happen, or be done. 6. Seizure.

APPREHENSIVE (from apprehend) 1. Quick to understand. 2. Fearful. APPREHENSIVELY (from apprehenfive) in an apprehenfive manner.

APPREHENSIVENESS (from apprebenfive) the quality of being apprehenfive.

To APPRISE (from apprendre, appris, F.) to inform; to give the knowlege of any thing.

To APPROACH (from approcher, F.) 1. To draw near locally. 2. To draw near, as time. 3. To make a progress towards, in the figurative fenfe, as mentally.

APPROACH (from the verb 1. The act of drawing near. 2. Accefs. 3. Hoftile advance. 4. Means of advancing.

APPROCHER (from approach) the per fon that approaches, or draws near. APPROACHMENT (from approach) the act of coming near.

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APPROBATION (approbatio, L.) the act of approving, or expreffing him felf pleafed. 2. The liking of any thing. 3. Atteftation, fupport.

APPROOF (from approve, as proof from prove) approbation; commendation, a word rightly derived, but old.

To APPROPERATE (appropero, L.) to haften, to fet forward.

To APPROPINQUATE (from appropinquo, L.) to draw nigh unto; to approach. To APPROPINQUE (from appropinque, L.) to approach, to draw near to.

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APPROPRIATE 2 (appropriatus L.) APPROPRIATED S a term used by philofophers of fomething which is indeed common to feveral; yet in fome refpect is peculiarly attributed.

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