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Additions or Place, are the names of the places where thepersons reside added to their name, sucli as of Thorp, of Dale,of York, &c. Where a man hath household in two places, heshall be said to dwell in both; so that his addition in either maysuffice. By stat. 1. lien. V. cap. 5. it was ordained, that in suchsuits or actions, where process of outlawry lies, such additionshould be made to the name of the defendant, to show his estate,mystery, and place where he dwells ; and that the writs not hav-ing such additions shall abate if the defendant take exceptionthereto; but not by the office of the court. The reason of thisordinance was, that one man might not be grieved or molested foranother; but by reason of the addition, every person might beknown, and bear his own burden.

Addition of Ratios, the same with composition of ratios.ADD1TIONALES, in law, additional terms, or propositionsto be added to the former agreement.

ADDITIVE equation’s, in astronomy, those which areto be added to the sun’s, moon’s, or planet’s mean anomaly, inorder to find the true one.

ADDUCENT MUSCLES, or ADDUCTORS, [from ad,to, and dactre, to draw,] those which bring forward, close, ordraw together, the parts of the body whereto they are annexed.See Anatomy.

ADDUCTION, in anatomy, the motion, or action of the ad-ducent muscles.

ADEB, an Egyptian weight, used principally for rice. It istwo drachms less than the English pound.

AD EC, sour milk.

ADECTOS, a medicine that allays the sense of pam, or theuneasiness created by stimulants. . „ .

ADEL, or ZEILA, a kingdom on the eastern coast of Africa ,which reaches as far as the straits of l^abelnyandel. 1 he ninabi-tnnts, who are Mahometans, carry on a trade in gold, silver, ivory,oil, frankincense, and other merchandises of Arabia and the In-dies. The principal places are, Adela, where the king resides,seated in the centre, of the country •. Zeila, near the Arabian Sea :and Barbora, near the sea-coast. It rains very seldom in thiscountry.

ADELFOIS, a gold mine, in the parish of Alsheda, and pro-vince of Smaland, Sweden . It was discovered in 1738. Ducatsare made of the gold.

AD ELIA, a genus of the monadclphia order, and dkecia classof plants; the characters are: Male calyx one-leaved, three-parted;florets sublanced and concave; no corolla: Female calyx five-leaved; no corolla; styles three, short, and divaricated; stigmatalacerated; capsules tricoccous; Seeds solitary and roundish. Itis a native of Jamaica , and has three species.

ADELME, or ALDHELME, son to Reared, nephew to Inaking of the West Saxons; was abbot of Malmsbury 30 years.He was the first Englishman who wrote in Latin , the first whobrought poetry into England, and the first bishop of Sherburn.He died m 709, and'was canonized.

ADELP11IANI, in church-history, a sect of ancient heretics,who always fasted on Sundays.

ADELPIIIUS, the founder of the Adelphiani .ADELSCALC, [from add, noble, and scale, a servant,] inancient customs, denotes a servant of the king.

ADEMPTION, in civil law, implies the revocation of a grant,donation, or the like.

,, y^LLN, formerly a rich but now an abandoned town of Arabia

If elix, bO miles E. of Mocha.

Gland. ,] a gland, or glandular swelling; a bubo.ADENAN1 HERA, Basted Flower-fence, a genus of themonogyma order, and decandria class'of plants; natural order, Lo-mentacea-. I he characters are: Calyx one-leaved, live-toothed;corolla- hve-petalled, bell-shaped;. antberas roundish, incumbent,bearing a globular gland on the exterior top. There are threespecies, of which only one, the A. paronina, is cultivated in Britain ,the seeds, are obovate, rounded, very beautiful, and equal inweight being each four grains; they are eaten by the commonpeople m India , and form a cement when beaten up with waterand borax. It is one of the largest and handsomest trees in theIndies, and commonly lives 200 years. The wood is solidand durable. With us it is raised from the seeds in hotbeds,grows slowly, and has never dowered in England. The othercues are the A. falcata, and A. scandens.

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ADENBURGH, or ALDENBURG, a town of Westphalia ,in the duchy of Berg, 1-’ miles N. E. of Cologne. Lon. 7. Id.

E. Lat. 51.12. N.

ADENOIDES, («oiv, and uS or, likeness,) of a glandular form.AD ENOS, a kind of cotton, otherwise called marine cotton.

It comes from Aleppo by tiie way of Marseilles , where it pays ‘JO

per cent. duty. . .

ADENOUS Abscess, a hard tubercle, difficult of discussion,

and resembling a gland.

ADEONA, in mythology, a goddess invoked by the Romanswhen they set out upon a journey.

ADEPHAGIA, in mythology, the goddess of gluttony, towhom the Sicilians paid religious worship.

ADEPS, in anatomy, fat; an animal oil, secreted from theblood, into the cells of the cellular membrane. Eats taken freely asfood are difficult of digestion; relax and. weaken the tone of thestomach and intestines, and are supposed likewise to render thejuices tenacious, and to increase the bile.

ADEPT!, Adepts, [from udipisci, to obtain.] a denomina-tion given to the proficients in Alchemy ; particularly to thosewho pretend to the secrets of the philosopher’s stone, and the uni-versal medicine.

ADEQUATE, in logic, is applied tolhe objects of science. Theadequate object of a science includes the material and formal ob-ject: the. material object of a science, is that part which is com-mon to it with other sciences; the formal is that which is peculiarto itself.

Adequate ideas or notions, in metaphysics, are such imagesor conception oi an object, as perfectly represent it, or answer toall the parts and properties of it. See Idea.

ADERBIGAN, orADERBUAN, a province of Persia Theprincipal town is lauris; Lon. from 47 to 32. E. Lat. from 36 to

ADES, or HADES, [«L,-, from « and ik»,] denotes the invi-sible state. in the heathen mythology, it comorehends all thoseregions that lie beyond the river Styx, viz. Erebus, Tartarus-and Elysium. See Hell. ’

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sent,presentstantiation.

ADFECTED equation, in algebra, is that where the un-known quantity is found in two or more different dimensions, orpowers. As, a 3 — ax'- -j- hx == d.

ADFILIATIO, Adfiliation, a Gothic custom, where a per-son puts children by a former wife, on an equality with those ofthe second. ’Phis is called, hv some, adopt in per matrimonium ;and is still retained in Germany , under the name citikindschaJfY,and unio prolium.

ADIIA, a festival which the Mahometans celebrate on the 10thday of the 12th or last month of their year called Dhnnlhegiat,or month of Pilgrimage. On that day the pilgrims sacrifice withgreat solemnity, at Mecca , and no where else, a sheep, which iscalled by the same name as the festival itself. The Turks com-monly call this festival the Great Bairain.

ADHESION, [ adlucsio , Lat.] in anatomy, a term for onepart sticking to another, which in a natural state are separate.

Adhesion, in logic. The schoolmen distinguish two kinds ofcertitude; the one of speculation, which arises from the evidenceof the thing; and the other of adhesion, or attachment, whichdoes not depend on the evidence, but on the importance of thematter, and the interest we have in its truth. Adhesion, or ad-herence is also used for the persisting in a former opinion or reso-lution.

Adhesion, in philosophy, denotes the attraction which takesplace between the surfaces of any bodies, as water adheres to iron,or as two pieces of lead or glass adhere to each other. See Co-hesion. Its force appears to be proportional to the touchingparts, and in solid bodies to the degree of smoothness and com-pression. Musschenbroek says that two. pieces-of glass, of lead,and of soft iron, adhered with forces of 1301b. -2701b. and 3001H.respectively, their surfaces were nearly two inches in diameterheated to the temperature of boiling water, and joined by meansof melted tallow. Mr. Martin says that two leaden balls notweighing above a pound each, and not touching more than in theQ; of a square inch, required 1501b. to separate them, and thatK -lie