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mouth terminal, cylindrical, retractile; feelers two, setaceous,annulate; eyes four. r I Here are nine species. A. acul<pta hasan oval body, brown, beneath flesh colour, with long silky Change-able hair on’each side the body : it inhabits the European seas, isfound in the belly of the cod-fish, and feeds on testaceous animals;is from four to seven inches long.

APHRODITE , in mythology, a name of Venus, derived from

jo;, froth; because, according to the poets, Venus is supposedto have been produced from the froth or foam of the sea.

APliV LLANTHES, Leafless Flower, or Blue Mont-pellier Pink, a genus of the monoc) nia order, and hexandriaclass of plants; natural order, Tetrapelaloidar. Calyx composed of anumber of imbricated, lauceolated spatluv; petals six, observelyoval, terminating at the base in very narrow ungues, and patent atthe limb; fruit a turbinated capsule, triangular, three-celled; seedsoval. There is but a single species.

API1YTEIA, in botany, a genus of the monadelphia triandriaclass and order. Calyx large, funnel-form, three-cleft ; petalsthree, inserted into and shorter than the calyx; germ inferior;berry one-celled, many-seeded ; seeds imbedded.

APIARY, [from apis, a bee,] the place where bees are kept.See the article Bee.

APICES, [Lat.] the same with antherx. See Anthera.

APIS, in astronomy, a southern constellation, calledalsoMusCA.

Aris, in fabulous history', the son of Jupiter and Niobe, andking of the Argives . Leaving that kingdom to his brother, hetravelled into Egypt , where he taught the inhabitants agriculture,the planting of vineyards, and ether useful arts, whereupon theymade him their king while he lived, and their god when hedied.

Apis, in mythology, a divinity worshipped by the ancient Egyp-tians at Memphis . It was a riving ox, having certain exteriormarks; in which animal the sold of the great Osiris was supposedto subsist! This animal had the preference to all others, as beingthe symbol of agriculture, the improvement of which that princehad so much at heart.

Apis, the Bee, in zoology, a genus of the class and order in-secta hymenoptera. Mouth furnished with two jaws, and a pro-boscis infolded in a double sheath; wings four, the two foremostcovering those behind when at rest; tail of the female finishedwith a sting. Of this genus there are 257 species, of which theA. Brasilianorum, or pale red hairy bee, with the basis of thethighs black, is very large and every where covered with a testa-ceous skin. It is a nat.ve of America . The A. Cariosa is a yel-lowish hairy bee ; and the feet and front are of a bright yellow co-lour. It builds in the rotten trees of Europe . A Centiincularis,leaf-cutter, or black bee, having its belly covered with yellowdown. The nest., of this species are made of leaves, curiouslyplaited in the form of a mat or quilt. A. Mellifica, or domestichoney-bee. For an account of this valuable species, the reader isreferred to the English term Bee.

APIUM, Parsley, a genus of the digynia order, and pentan-dria class of plants; natural order, Umhellatae. Fruit oval-shaped,streaked ; involucrum one leaf, petals inflected. There are threespecies. The Toot of parsley is one of the live aperient roots, andin this intention is sometimes made an ingredient in apozems anddiet drinks; if liberally used, it is apt to occasion flatulencies; andthus, by distending the viscera, produces a contrary effect to thatintended by it: the taste of this root is somewhat sweetish, with alight degree of warmth and aromatic flavour. The seeds are aningredient in the electuary of bay-berries. The common parsleyis also reckoned an effectual cure for the rot in sheep, providedthey are fed with it twrice a week for two or three hours each time;but hares and rabbits are so fond of this herb, that they will comefrom a great distance to feed upon it; and in the countries wherethose animals abound, they will destroy'd if not securely fencedagainst them ; so that whoever has a mind to have plenty of haresin their fields, may draw them from all parts of the country bycultivating parsley.

A PLANES [«ttXav>ir, Gr. not wandering,] the fixed stars, socalled in opposition to the wandering stars, or planets.

APLl' DA, a genus of the moncecia order,- and polvgamia classof plants; natural order, Gramma. Calyx a bivaived gluma; flos-cules of the female fossile; male floseules furnished with pedun-culi; the female has no calyx; corolla has two-valved seeds, co-vered. There are four species natives of the Indies.

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APNOE , [from rt and mm, I breathe,] in medicine a want ofbreath, or loss of respiration.

APOBATANA, the metropolis of Media, where the kings kepttheir treasure ; supposed to lie the same with Ecbatana.

APOBAT1IR/E, in antiquity, a kind of little bridges, or stairsjoining the land to ships, or one ship to another.

APOBOMIOI, [from aaro-, below, and /Stquo;, altar,] in anti-quity, sacrifices offered on the bare earth w ithout altars.

APOCALYPSE , or REVELATION, [from w7:c7.«xutc7u;, to re-veal,] the name ot one of the sacred books of the New Testa-ment , containing revelations of several important events and doc-trines ot Christianity . 'Phis book, according to Iremcus, waswritten about the year of Christ 90, iu the island of Patinos, whi-ther St. John had been banished by the emperor Domitian . ButSir Isaac Newton places the writing of it earlier, viz. in the timeof Nero . Some attribute this book to the arch-heretic Ceriu-llius : but the ancients unanimously ascribe it to John , the son ofZebedee, and brother of James; whom the Greek fathers call theDivine, by way of eminence, to distinguish him from John theBaptist , &c. This book has not, at all times, been esteemed ca-nonical. There were many churches in Greece, as St. Jerome in-forms us, which did not receive it; neither is it in the catalogue ofcanonical books prepared by the council of Laodicea, nor in thatof St. Cyril of Jerusalem ; but Justin, Iremcus, Origen, Cyprian ,Clemens of Alexandria, Tertullian , and all the lathers of thefourth, fifth, and the following centuries, quote the Revelation asa book then acknowledged to be canonical. The Alogians, Mar-cionites, Cerdonians, and Luther himself, rejected this book ; lintthe Protestants have forsaken Luther in this particular; and Bezahas strongly maintained against his objections, that the Apocalypse is authentic and Canonical. 'Pile Apocahpse consists of 22 chap-ters. r l he three first are an instruction to the bishops of the sevenchurches of Asia Minor. The fifteen following chapters containthe persecutions which the church was to suffer from the Romans,and also from the great Papal tyranny which succeeded the Romanempire- Next, St. John prophesies of the vengeance of Cod,which he will exercise against those persecutors, again-1 the Romanempire, the Papal power, and the city of Rome ; which last, asthe Protestants suppose, he describes under the name o£ Babylon,the great whore, seated upon seven hills. In the last place, the1 Oth, 20th, gist, and 22d chapters, describe the triumph of thechurch over its enemies, the marriage of the Lamb,,and the hap-piness of the church triumphant. “ It is a part of this prophecy,(says Sir Isaac New ton,) that it should not be understood before thelast age of the world ; and therefore it makes lor the credit of theprophecy, that it is not yet fully understood. The folly of inter-preters has been to forelel times and : things by this prophecy, as ifCod designed to make them prophets. By this rashness they havenot only exposed themselves, but brought the prophecy also intocontempt. The design of God was much otherwise: he gave thisand the prophecies of the Otd Testament, not to gratify men’s cu-riosities, by enabling them to foreknow things: but that, after theywere fulfilled, the}’ might be interpreted by the events, and hisown providence, not the interpreter’s wisdom, be thereby manifest-ed to the world. And there is already so much of the prophecy ful-filled, that as many as w ill lake pains in this study may see sufficientinstances of God ’s providence.”

APOCATASTAS1S, [from I restore,] denotes the

entire restitution, or redintegration of a thing.

Apocatastasis, in astronomy, the period of a planet, or (lietime wherein it returns to the same point of the zodiac from whichit set out.

Apocatastasis, in medicine, the subsiding or sinking of a-thing; such as, of tumours, & c.

APOC’LIA, [from ra-oaml t yjx, I have,] in civil law,.an acquit-tance, or receipt given by the creditor to his debtor for moneypaid : in w hich sense, the word stands contradistinguished fromantapocha, which is given by the debtor to the creditor.

APOCIIALISMA, or APOCHYLISMA, [from <wro and'XuAifai, I extract the juice,] in pharmacy, the inspissated juice ofvegetables.

APOCOPE, [«CT«mi,] a figure in grammar, when the last lehter or syllable of a word is taken away, as, ingeni, for ingenii;apoplex, for apoplexy.

APOCR1SARIUS, or APOCRTSIARIUS, [from n s , an-swer,] in antiquity, an officer appointed to deliver the messages;

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