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ANTITYPE. n. 5. [avíTut.] That which is resembled or shadowed out by the type; that of which the type is the representation. It is a term of theology. See TYPE.

When once upon the wing, he soars to an higher pitch, from the type to the antitype, to the days of the Messiah, the ascension of our Saviour, and, at length, to his kingdom and dominion over all the earth. Burnet's Theory.

He brought forth bread and wine, and was the priest of the most high God; imitating the antitype, or the substance, Christ himself. Tayl. ANTITY'PICAL. adj. [from antitype.] That relates to an antitype; that explains the type.

ANTIVENE REAL. adj. [from vr and venereal.] Good against the venereal disease.

If the lues be joined with it, you will scarce cure your patient without exhibiting antivenereal remedies. Wiseman. ANTLER. n. s. [andouillier, Fr.] Properly the first branches of a stag's horns; but popularly and generally, any of his branches.

Grown old, they grow less branched, and first lose their brow antlers, or lowest furcations next to the head. Brown.

A well-grown stag, whose antlers rise, High o'er his front, his beams invade the skies. Dryden. Bright Diana

Brought hunted wild goats' heads, and branching

antlers

Of stags, the fruit and honour of her toil. Prior. ANTO ECI. n. s. It has no singular. [Lat. from avrl, and oxiw, to inhabit.] In geography, those inhabitants of the earth who live under the same meridian, and at the same distance from the equator; the one toward the north, and the other to the south. Hence they have the same longitude, and their latitude is also the same, but of a different denomination. They are in the same semicircle of the meridian, but opposite parallels. They have precisely the same hours of the day and night, but opposite seasons; and the night of the one is always equal to the day of the other.

Chambers. ANTONOMA'SIA. n. s. [from avi, and vad, a name.] A form of speech, in which, for a proper name, is put the name of some dignity, office, profession, science, or trade; or when a proper name is put in the room of an apellative. Thus a king is called his majesty; a nobleman, his lordship. We say the philosopher instead of Aristotle, and the orator for Cicero: thus a man is called by the name of his country, a German, -an Italian; and a grave man is called a Cato, and a wise man a Solomon.

Smith's Rhetoric. A'NTRE. n. s. [antre, Fr. antrum, Lat.] A cavern; a cave; a den. Not in use. With all my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast, and desarts idle, It was my hent to speak. A'S VIL. n. s. [ænfille, Sax.]

Shakspeare.

1. The iron block on which the 'smith lays his metal to be forged.

I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on his anvil cool. Shaks. On their eternal anvils here he found The brethren beating, and the blows go round. Dryden. 2. Any thing on which blows are laid. Here I clip

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The anvil of my sword, and do contest Hotly and nobly. Shakspeare. Figuratively, to be upon the anvil, is to be in a state of formation or preparation. Several members of our house knowing what was upon the anvil, went to the clergy, and desired their judgment. Swift.

ANXIETY. n. s. [anxietas, Lat.] 1. Trouble of mind about some future event; suspense with uneasiness; perplexity; solicitude.

To be happy, is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy the pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience, and Tillotson. tranquillity of mind.

2. In the medical language, lowness of spirits, with uneasiness of the stomach.

In anxieties which attend fevers, when the cold fit is over, a warmer regimen may be allowed: and because anxieties often happen by ANXIOUS. adj. [anxius, Lat.] spass from wind, spices are useful. Arbuthnot.

1. Disturbed about some uncertain event; solicitous; being in painful suspense; painfully uncertain.

2.

His pensive cheek upon his hand reclin'd, And anxious thoughts revolving in his mind. Dryd. With beating hearts the dire event they wait, Anxious, and trembling for the birth of fate. Pope. Careful; full of inquietude; unquiet.

In youth alone unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour come, And age, and death's inexorable doom. Dryden. 3. Careful, as of a thing of great impor

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tance.

No writings we need to be solicitous about the meaning of, but those that contain truths we are to believe, or laws we are to obey: we may be less anxious about the sense of other authors. Locke.

It has generally for or about before the object; but sometimes of, less properly. Anxious of neglect, suspecting change. Granv. A'NXIOUSLY. adv. [from anxious.] In an anxious manner; solicitously; unquietly; carefully; with painful uncertainty.

But where the loss is temporal, every probability of it needs not put us so anxiously to prevent it, since it might be repaired again. South. Thou, what befits the new lord mayor, And what the Gallick arms will do, Art anxiously inquisitive to know. Dryden. A'NXIOUSNESS. n. s. [from anxious.] The quality of being anxious; susceptibility of anxiety.

A'N Y. adj. [anig, enig, Sax.]

I. Every; whoever he be; whatever it be. It is, in all its senses, applied indifferently to persons or things.

I know you are now, sir, a gentleman bornAy, and have been so any time these four hours. Shakspeare.

You contented yourself with being capable,

as much as any whosoever, of defending your Dryden. country with your sword. How fit is this retreat for uninterrupted study! Any one that, sees it will own, I could not have chosen a more likely place to converse with the dead in. Pope. 2. Whosoever; whatsoever; as distinguished from some other.

3.

What warmth is there in your affection towards any of these princely suitors that are already Shakspeare. come? where An inverted motion being begun any below, continues itself all the whole length. Locke.

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It is used in opposition to none. I wound and I heal: neither is there any can deliver out of my hand. Deuteronomy. A'ORIST. n. s. [pic] Indefinite; a term in the Greek grammar. AORTA. n. s. [g] The great artery which rises immediately out of the left ventricle of the heart. Quincy. APA'CELsado. [from a and pace; that is, with a great pace.]

1. Quick; speedily: used of things in
motion.

Or when the flying libbard she did chace,
She could then nimbly move, and after fly apace.
Spenser.
Ay, quoth my uncle Glo'ster,
Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow
gpace.

haste.

And since, methinks, I would not grow so fast, Because sweet flow'rs are slow, and weeds make Shakspeare. He promis'd in his east a glorious race; Now, sunk from his meridian, sets apace. Dryd. Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till Tillotson. the sea overwhelm him? 2. With haste: applied to some action. The baron now his diamonds pours apace; Th' embroider'd king, who shows but half his face,

And his refulgent queen. Pope's Rape of the Lock. 3. Hastily; with speed: spoken of any kind of progression from one state to another.

This second course of men, With some regard to what is just and right, Shall lead their lives, and multiply apace. Milt. The life and power of religion decays apace, here and at home, while we are spreading the honour of our arms far and wide through foreign Atterbury. nations.

If sensible pleasure, or real grandeur, be our end, we shall proceed apace to real misery. Watts. APAGO'GICAL. adj. [from dnɑywyn compounded of ano, from, and yw, to bring or draw.] An apagogical demonstration is such as does not prove the thing directly, but shows the impossibility, or absurdity, which arises from deny. ing it; and is also called reductio ad impossibile, or ad absurdum. APART. adv. [apart, Fr.]. 1. Separately from the rest in place.

Chambers.

Since I enter into that question, it behoveth me to give reason for my opinion, with circumspection: because I walk aside, and in a way Raleigh. apart from the multitude.

The party discerned, that the earl of Essex would never serve their turn; they resolved to have another army apart, that should be at their devotion.

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So please you, madam,

To put apart these your attendants. Shakspeare. APARTMENT. n. s. [apartement, Fr.] A part of the house allotted to the use of any particular person; a room; a set of rooms.

A private gallery 'twixt th' apartments led, Not to the foe yet known. Sir J. Denbam. He, pale as death, despoil'd of his array, Into the queen's apartment takes his way. Dryd.

The most considerable ruin is that on the eastern promontory, where are still some apartments left very high and arched at top. Addison. A'FATHY. . s.. [a, not, and 9, feeling.] The quality of not feeling; exemption from passion; freedom from mental perturbation.

Of good and evil much they argued then,
Passion, and apathy, and glory, and shame. Milt.
To remain insensible of such provocations, is
South.
not constancy but apathy.

In lazy apathy let Stoicks boast
Their virtue fix'd; 'tis fix'd as in a frost,
Contracted all, retiring to the breast;
But strength of mind is exercise, not rest. Pope.
APE. n. s. [ape, Icelandish.]

1. A kind of monkey remarkable for imi-
tating what he sees.

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I will be more newfangled than an ape, more giddy in my desires than a monkey. Shakspeare. Writers report, that the heart of an ape, worn near the heart, comforteth the heart, and increaseth audacity. It is true, that the ape is a Bacon. merry and bold beast.

With glittering gold and sparkling gems they shine,

But apes and monkeys are the gods within.

Granville.

Celestial beings, when of late they saw

f. A mortal man unfold all nature's law,
Admir'd such knowledge in a human shape,
And show'd a Newton, as we show an ape. Pope.
An imitator: used generally in the
bad sense.

2.

Julio Romano who, had he himself eternity, and could put breath into his work, would beguile nature of her custom: so perfectly he is Shakspeare.

her ape.
To APE. v. a. [from ape.] To imitate, as
an ape imitates human actions.

Aping the foreigners in every dress,
Which, bought at greater cost, becomes him less.
Dryden.

Curse on the stripling! how he apes his sire!
Addison
Ambitiously sententious!
APE'AK, OF APE'E K. adv. [probably from
à pique.] In a posture to pierce; formed
with a point.

A'PEPSY. n. s. [dria.] A loss of natural Quincy concoction.

AFER. n. 3. [from ape.] A ridiculous imitator or mimick. APE'RIENT. adj. [aperio, Lat. to open.] That has the quality of opening: chiefly used of medicines gently purgative.

There be bracelets fit to comfort the spirits; and they be of three intentions; refrigerant, corroborant, and aperient. Bacon. Of the stems of plants, some contain a fine aperient salt, and are diuretick and saponaceous. Arbuthnot. APERITIVE. adj. [from aperio, Lat. to open.] That has the quality of opening the excrementitious passages of the body.

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They may make broth, with the addition of aperitive herbs. Harvey. APE'RT. adj. [apertus, Lat.] Open. APERTION. n. s. [from apertus, Lat.] 1. An opening; a passage through any thing; a gap.

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The next now in order are the apertions; under which term I do comprehend doors, windows, staircases, chimneys, or other conduits: in short, all inlets or outlets. Wotton.

2. The act of opening; or state of being opened.

The plenitude of vessels, otherwise called the plethora, when it happens, causeth an extravasation of blood, either by ruption or apertion of them. Wiseman.

APERTLY. adv. [apertè, Lat.] Openly; without covert.

APE'RTNESS. n.s. [from apert.] Open

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If memory be made by the easy motion of the spirits through the opened passages, images, without doubt, pass through the same apertures. Glanville.

3. The hole next the objectglass of a telescope or microscope.

The concave metal bore an aperture of an inch; but the aperture was limited by an opaque circle, perforated in the middle. Newton's Opticks. 4. Enlargement; explanation: a sense seldom found.

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It is too much untwisted by the doctors, and, like philosophy, made intricate by explications, and difficult by the aperture and dissolution of distinctions. Taylor. APE'TALOUS. adj. [of a priv. and werɑkov, a leaf.] Without petala or flower leaves. APE'TALOUSNESS. n. s. [from apetalous.] State of being without leaves. A'PEX. n. s. apices, plur. [Lat.] The tip or point of any thing.

The apex, or lesser end of it is broken off.

Woodward.

APHÆ'RESIS. n. s. [¿paigeoig.] A figure in grammar, that takes away a letter

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APHE'LION. n. s. aphelia, plur. [åxò, from, and, the sun.] That part of the orbit of a planet, in which it is at the point remotest from the sun.

The reason why the comets move not in the zodiack is, that, in their apbelia, they may be at the greatest distances from one another; and consequently disturb one another's motions the least that may be. Cheyne APHETA. n. s. [with astrologers.] The name of the planet, which is imagined to be the giver or disposer of life in a nativity. Dict. APHETICAL. adj. [from apheta.] Relating to the apheta. APHILANTHROPY, n. s. [ά, without, and pixarownia, love of mankind.] Want of love to mankind.

A'PHONY. . s. [d, without, and pvz, Quincy. A'PHORISM. n. s. [úpogiaμòs.] A maxim; a precept contracted in a short sentence; an unconnected position.

speech. A loss of speech.

He will easily discern how little of truth there is in the multitude; and, though sometimes they are flattered with that aphorism, will hardly believe the voice of the people to be the voice of God. Brown's Vulgar Errours. I shall at present consider the aphorism, that a man of religion and virtue is a more useful, and consequently a more valuable, member of a APHORI'STICAL. adj. [from aphorism.] community. Rogers. Having the form of an aphorism; written in separate and unconnected sentences.

APHORI'STICALLY.adv. [from aphoristical.] In the form of an aphorism.

These being carried down, seldom miss a cure, as Hippocrates doth likewise aphoristically tell us. Harvey. APHRODISIACAL. adj. [from 'Appoin, APHRODISIACK. Venus.] Relating to the venereal disease. A'PIARY. n. s. [from apis, Lat. a bee.] The place where bees are kept.

Those who are skilled in bees, when they see a foreign swarm approaching to plunder their hives, have a trick to divert them into some neighbouring apiary, there to make what havock they please. Swift. APICES of a flower. [Lat. from apex, the top.] Little knobs that grow on the tops of the stamina, in the middle of a flower. They are commonly of a dark purplish colour. By the microscope they have been discovered to be a sort of capsule seminales, or seed vessels, containing in them small globular, and often oval particles, of various colours, and exquisitely formed. Quincy APIECE. adv. [from a for each, and piece, or share.] To the part or share of each.

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Men, in whose mouths at first sounded nothing but mortification, were come to think that they might lawfully have six or seven wives apiece. Hooker.

I have to-night dispatched sixteen businesses,

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APITPAT.adv. [A word formed from the motion.] With quick palpitation.

O there he comes-Welcome my bully, my back: agad, my heart has gone apitpat for you. Congreve. APLU'STRE. n. s. [Latin.] The ancient ensign carried in sea vessels.

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The one holds a sword in her hand, to represent the Iliad; as the other has an aplustre, to represent the Odyssey, or voyage of Ulysses. Addison APOCALYPSE. n. s. [from ànoughúnsw.] Revelation; discovery: a word used only of the sacred writings.

Ó'for that warning voice, which he who saw Th' apocalypse, heard cry in heav'n aloud. Milt. With this throne, of the glory of the Father, compare the throne of the Son of God, as seen in the apocalypse. Burnet's Theory of the Earth. APOCALYPTICAL.adj.[from apocalypse.] Concerning revelation; containing revelation.

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If we could understand that scene, at the opening of this apocalyptical theatre, we should find it a representation of the majesty of our Saviour. Burnet's Theory of the Earth. APOCALYPTICALLY. adv. [from apocaptical.] In such a manner as to reveal something secret. APO'COPE. n. s. [åñOxon.] A figure in grammar, when the last letter or syllable of a word is taken away; as, ingeni, for ingenii; apoplex, for apoplexy. APOCRU'STICK. adj. [amps, from one, to drive.] Endued with a repelling and astringent power: applied to remedies which prevent the too great afflux of humours. APOCRYPHA. n. s. [from wrongunku, to put out of sight.] Books not publickly communicated; books whose authors are not known. It is used for the books appended to the sacred writings, which,

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being of doubtful authors, are less re-
garded.

We hold not the apocrypha for sacred, as we
do the holy scripture, but for human compo
sitions.
Hooker

APOCRYPHAL. adj. [from apocrypha.]
1. Not canonical; of uncertain authority.
Jerom, who saith that all writings not canoni-
cal are apocryphal, uses not the title apocryphal
'as the rest of the fathers ordinarily have done,
whose custom is so to name, for the most part,
only such as might not publickly be read or di
Hooker.
vulged.

2. Contained in the apocrypha.

To speak of her in the words of the apocry pbal writers, wisdom is glorious, and never fadeth away.

Addison.

3. It is sometimes used for an account of
uncertain credit.
APOCRYPHALLY. adv. [from apocry-
phal.] Uncertainly; not indisputably.
APOCRYPHALNESS. n. s. [from apocry
phal.] Uncertainty; doubtfulness of
credit.

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APODICTICAL. adj. [from åríðužis, evident truth'; demonstration.] Demonstrative; evident beyond contradiction..

Holding an apodictical knowledge, and an assured knowledge of it; verily, to persuade their apprehensions otherwise, were to make an Euclid believe, that there were more than one centre in a circle. Brown's Vulgar Erreurs.

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We can say all at the number three; therefore the world is perfect. Tobit went, and his dog followed him; therefore there is a world in the moon: were an argument as apodictical.

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Glanville.

Dict.

APODI'XIS. n. s. [àmodiği;-] Demonstra-
tion.
APOGÆ'ON.
APOGEE.
APOGE'UM.

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n. s. [from ani, from, and y, the earth.] A point in the heavens, in

which the sun, or a planet, is at the greatest distance possible from the earth rin its whole revolution. The ancient astronomers regarding the earth as the centre of the system, chiefly regarded the apogeon and perigeon, which the moderns, making the sun the centre, change for the aphelion and perihelion. Chambers.

Thy sin is in his apogeon placed,
And when it moveth next, must needs descend.
Fairfax.
Brown.

It is yet not agreed in what time, precisely, the apogeum absolveth one degree. APOLOGETICAL. adj. [from ảnchayéw, APOLOGETICK, S to defend.] That is said in defence of any thing or person."

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I design to publish an essay, the greater part of which is apologetical for one sort of chymists. Boyle APOLOGETICALLY. adv. [from apologetical.] In the way of defence or ex

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It will be much more seasonable to reform than apologize or rhetoricate; and therefore it imports those, who dwell secure, to look about them. Decay of Piety. 2. It has the particle for before the subject of apology.

I ought to apologize for my indiscretion in the whole undertaking. Wake's Prepar. for Death. The translator needs not apologize for his choice of this piece, which was made in his childhood. Pope's Preface to Statius. APOLOGUE. n. s.. [åmoroy&] Fable; story contrived to teach some moral truth.

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An apologue of Æsop is beyond a syllogism, and proverbs more powerful than demonstration. Brown's Vulgar Errours. Some men are remarked for pleasantness in raillery; others for apologues and apposite diverting stories. Locke. APOLOGY. n. s. [apoiogia, Lat. añoλoyia.] 1. Defence; excuse. Apology generally signifies rather excuse than vindication, and tends rather to extenuate the fault, than prove innocence. This is, however, sometimes unregarded by writers. In her face excuse

Came prologue, and apology too prompt; Which with bland words at will she thus address'd. Milton.

s. It has for before the object of excuse. It is not my intention to make an apology for my poem: some will think it needs no excuse, and others will receive none. Dryden.

I shall neither trouble the reader, nor myself, with any apology for publishing of these sermons: for if they be in any measure truly serviceable to the end for which they are designed, I do not see what apology is necessary; and if they be not so, I am sure none can be sufficient. Tillotson. APOMECO'METRY n. s. [άzì, from, ¿¿ña̸&, distance, and μlgiw, to measure.] The art of measuring things at a distance.

Dict. APONEURO'SIS. n. s. [from ủnò, from, and vüşɔv, a nerve.] An expansion of a nerve into a membrane.

When a cyst rises near the orifice of the artery, it is formed by the aponeurosis that runs over the vessel, which becomes excessively expanded. Sharp's Surgery. APO'PHASIS. n. 5. [Lat. anipais, a denying.] A figure in rhetorick, by which the orator, speaking ironically, seems to wave what he would plainly insinuate; as, Neither will I mention those things which, if I should, you notwithstanding could neither confute or speak against them. Smith's Rhetorick. APOPHLEGMATICK. n.5. [¿ and préypu.] That has the quality of drawing away phlegm. APOPHLEGMATISM. n.s. [åñò and préypa.] A medicine of which the intention is to -draw phlegm from the blood.

And so it is in apophlegmatisms and gargarisms, that draw the rheum down by the palate. Bacon. APOPHLEGMATIZANT. n. s. [ànò and phiya.] Any remedy which causes an evacuation of serous or mucous humour. by the nostrils, as particular kinds of sternútatories.

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APOPHTHEGM. n. s. [ázó‡Styμa.] · „A ̈re» markable saying; a valuable maxim uttered on some sudden occasion.

We may magnify the apophthegms, or reputed replies of wisdom, whereof many are to be seen in Laertius and Lycosthenes. Brown's Vul. Er.

I had a mind to collect and digest such observations and apophthegms as tend to the proof of that great assertion, All is vanity. Prior. APO'PHYGE. n. s. [àxopuy, flight, or escape.] That part of a column, where it begins to spring out of its base; and was originally no more than the ring or ferrel, which anciently bound the extremities of wooden pillars, to keep them from splitting, and were afterwards imitated in stone work. We sometimes call it the spring of the column. Chambers. APO'PHYSIS. n. s. [ànúpvoc.] The prominent parts of some bones; the same as process. It differs from an epiphysis, as it is a continuance of the bone itself; whereas the latter is somewhat adhering to a bone, and of which it is not properly a part. Quincy.

It is the apophysis, or head, of the os tibiæ, which makes the knee. Wiseman's Surgery. APOPLE'CTICAL. adj. [from apoplexy.] APOPLE'CTICA. Relating to an apoplexy.

We meet with the same complaints of gravity in living bodies, when the faculty locomotive seems abolished; as may be observed in sup porting persons inebriated, apoplectical, or in lipothymies, and swoonings. Brown's Vulgar Er. In an apoplectical case, he found extravasated blood making way from the ventricles of the brain. Derbam.

A lady was seized with an apoplectick fit, which afterward terminated in some kind of lethargy. Wiseman. A'POPLEX. n. s. [See APOPLEXY.] Apoplexy. The last syllable is cut away; but this is only in poetry.

Present punishment pursues his maw, When, surfeited and swell'd, the peacock raw He bears into the bath; whence want of breath, Repletions, apoplex, intestate death. Dryden. APOPLEXED. adj. [from apoplex.] Seized with an apoplexy.

Sense, sure, you have, Else could you not have motion: but sure that

sense

Is apoplex'd. Shakspeare. A'POPLEXY. n. s. [¿zózangis.] A sudden deprivation of all internal and external sensation, and of all motion, unless of the heart and thorax. The cause is generally a repletion, and indicates eracuation, joined with stimuli. Quincy. Apoplexy is a sudden abolition of all the senses external and internal, and of all voluntary motion, by the stoppage of the flux and reflux of the animal spirits through the nerves destined for those motions. Arbuthnot on Diet.

Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy, mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible. Shakspeare's Coriolanus, A fever may take away my reason, or memory, and an apoplexy leave neither sense nor understanding. Locke. APORIA. n. s. [dwoţia.] A figure in

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