Arzilla
Arzilla, The Zilia Of The Carthaginians, And The Julia Traducta Of The Romans, Is A Sea-port Town Of Morocco, In The Province Of El Garb, Situated At The Mouth Of A Small River Which Runs Into The Atlantic. It Was Originally Built By The Romans, And Afterwards Fell Into The ...
Ascension Island
Ascension Island, Is An Island In The Atlantic, Which Was Discovered In The Year 1501 By The Portu Guese Navigator J. De Nova Galego. It Was Seen By Albuquerque In His Voyage To India In 1503, And Was Visited By Captain Cooke In 1775. It Is About Ten Miles In ...
Ascetics
Ascetics, A Name Given To Certain Fanatics In The Primitive Church, Who Pretended To Purify The Soul By Severe Penances And Mortifications. They Had Their Name From Co-xero, " I Exercise," And Their Origin, Ac Cording To Mosheim And Jortin, From An Absurd Attempt To Rival The Austerities Of Some ...
Asoph
Asoph. See Azopii. Asp, Or Aspic, A Species Of Serpent Belonging To The Genus Coluber Of Linnrus, Which Has Attained More Than Ordinary Celebrity, From Being Supposed The Animal Whose Poison The Famous Cleopatra Selected To Terminate Her Existence. It Is Thus Defined By Linnaeus. Nose Terminated By An Erect ...
Asphaltum
Asphaltum, Jew's Pitch, A Kind Of Bitumen, Solid, And Generally Of A Brownish Black Colour. It Is Somewhat Unctuous To The Touch, Though It Does Not Stain Or Adhere To The Fingers. When Laid On Hot Iron It Swells, But Does Not Properly Liquefy, And Discharges Much Smoke In Combustion. ...
Assault
Assault, (assultus, In Lat. From The Verb Assilere; Whence The Fr. Assailir, To Assail, Assault, Or Attack,) In The Law Of England, Signifies A Real Injury Violently Offered To A Man's Person. Assault Denotes An Injury Of A More Comprehensive Nature Than Battery : For The Former May Be Committed ...
Assertion Or
Assertion Or Affirmation Is The Act Peculiar To The Verb, Being Never Performed By Any Word Which Gram Marians Have Referred To A Different Part Of Speech. That Part Of The Verb By Which It Is Most Evidently And Most Frequently Performed Is Called The Indicative. By Means Of It ...
Assessors
Assessors, Are Those Who Assess Public Taxes. In Scotland, Also, Assessors Are Persons Of Superior Legal Knowledge, Appointed To Assist In The Deliberations, And Direct The Decisions Of Inferior Judges. Thus Advocates Are Appointed Assessors To The Magistrates Of Edinburgh; And One Or More Judges Of The Court Of Session ...
Assignation
Assignation, (assignatio, From Assignare), In The Law Of Scotland, Signifies A Written Deed Of Conveyance, Whereby The Property Of Any Subject Not Strictly Feudal Is Transferred From One Person To Another. Even Herit Able Rights, When They Are Either Not Perfected By Seisin, Or When They Require No Seisin, Are ...
Assignment
Assignment, (assignatio,) In The Law Of England, Is The Transferring Of The Interest Which One Has In Any Subject To Another Person. Assignments May Be Made Of Lands In Fee, For Life, Or For A Term Of Years ; Of An Annuity, Rent-charge, Judg Ment, Statute, &c. In The Case ...
Association Or Ideas
Association Or Ideas, A Connection Established Among The Ideas Or Thoughts Of The Mind, In Conse Quence Of Their Natural Relation Or Accidental Conjunc Tion, By Means Of Which They Spontaneously Succeed Each Other In The Train Of Thought, Or Are Immediately Suggested The One By The Other. Sec Logic ...
Assumpsit
Assumpsit, (from Ussumo, To Assume, Or Wider Take,) In The Law Ol England, Signifies A Voluntary Pro Mise Or Vernal Covenant, Whereby A Person Undertakes To Perform Or Pay Something To Another ; And, If He Fails, There Lies An Action Upon The Case For The Ussumpsit Or Undertaking. An ...
Assyria
Assyria Was A Kingdom In Asia That Derived Its Name From Ashur, The Second Son Of The Grandson Of Noah, Who, Either In Obedience To The Command, Or Dreading The Tyranny Of Nimrod, Migrated From The Land Of Shinar, And Took Possession Of That Region. Though It May Be Impossible ...
Astrology
Astrology, (from Coo-reow, A Star, And ).oye5, Reason, Information,) Properly Signifies, The Knowledge Relating To The Heavenly Bodies. For Many Ages It Was Consider Ed As Synonymous With Astronomy. Both Terms Were-ap Plied Indiscriminately To Denote The History Of Phenome Na, The Investigation Of Causes, And The Prognosis Of Events ...
Astronium
Astronium, A Genus Of Plants Of The Class Dicecia, And Order Pentandria. See Botany. (w) From Cia-reov, A Awn And Vopeag, A Law, Is That Science Which Explains The Nature And Motions Of The Planets, Comets, And Fixed Stars ; The Various Phenomena Which These Bodies Exhibit ; And The ...
Astronomical Circles
Astronomical Circles Having Now Entirely Superse Ded The Use Of The Quadrant, And Become The Principal Instruments Of Almost Every Observatory, We Feel Our Selves Called Upon To Devote A Considerable Portion Of Our Work To The Explanation Of The Principles Of Their Con Struction, And Of The Most Eligible ...
Astronomy
Astronomy, And Obliquity. In Order To Determine The Relative Situation Of Differ Ent Places Upon The Surface Uf The Earth, It Is Necessary To Have Some Fixed Or Arbitrary Points From Which Their Distance Is To Be Reckoned. The Equator, Or Equi Noctial Line, Which Is Equidistant From The Two ...
Asturias
Asturias. Two Provinces On The North Of Spain, Containing About 700 Square Leagues Of The Most Mountainous Country Of The Whole Monarchy, Form What Is Called The Principality Of Asturias. Ac Cording To Some Writers, These Two Provinces Are To Be Considered Separate And Distinct, One Being The Asturia Of ...
Athanasius Kircher
Kircher, Athanasius, A Celebrated Natural Philoso Pher, Was Born At Fulda In 1601. At The Age Of 17, He Began His Studies Under The Jesuits, And Was Soon Distin Guished By The Rapidity Of His Progress, Both In Science And Literature. When His Studies Were Completed, He Was Ap Pointed ...
Atheism
Atheism, (from It Priv. And Ow, God,) May Be Defined To Be, The Total Want Of Religious Principle. The Word Is Generally Employed By Modern Wri Ters To Signify, The Absolute Denial Of An Intelligent First Cause. This Has Been Called Pure Atheism. But We Conceive, That Those Who Habitually ...
Athenagoras
Athenagoras, An Athenian Philosopher, Who Was Converted From Paganism To Christianity. He Flourished After The Middle Of The Second Century, And Was Held By His Cotemporaries In High Estimation For His Learning, Acuteness, And Zeal. Having Spent His Youth At Athens In The Company Of The Sages And Rhetoricians Of ...
Athenodorus
Athenodorus, An Eminent Stoic Philoso Pher, And The Intimate Friend Of Augustus. He Was Born At A Village Near Tarsus, In Cilicia, Whence He Obtained The Surname Of Cananita. When Young, He Displayed A Remarkable Instance Of Generosity. His Brother Being Convicted Of A Crime For Which His Property Was ...
Athens
Athens The Most Celebrated Cities Of Greece, And Of The Ancient World. This Distinction Is Derived, Not Merely From Political Greatness And Military Power, But From The Arts And Sciences, Which Were Indebted To Her, Either For Their Origin, Or Their Perfection. Athens, Properly, Is Only The Capital Of Avrica, ...
As Far As It
Of The Internal Constitution Of A State, As Far As It Relates To Foreign Powers And Their Sub Jects. T. The Internal Constitution Of A State Rests, In General, On These Two Points: Viz. On The Principles Adopted With Respect To Him Or Them In Whose Hands The Sovereign Power ...