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The Banians give an Anmverfary feaft to all the flies in the country, to whom they ferve up difhes of honey and milk. Vid. Jour, des Scav. T. 78. p. 70.

The pope fulminates an Anniversary excommunication againft the people of England. The Armenians every year pro- nounce a folemn excommunication of the council of Calcedon and pope Leo. V. Work. Learn. T. 5. p. 662.

I he Rabbins fpeak of an Anmverfary judgment in this life, by which every man is tried in the firft. day of the year, and according as his righteoufnefs or iniquity is found to preponde- rate, he is fealed for death or life. V. Bibl. Univ. T. 2. p. 253.

Anniversary Winds are thofe which blow conftantly at

certain feafons of the year.

Thefe are oth erwife called Etefian winds : fuch are the trade

winds, and monfoons. See the article Trade Wind, and

Monsoon, Cyd. Anniversary is more particularly ufed for the annate, ormafs

rehearfed daily for the fpace of a year after a perfon's death.

Linwood, Provinc. p. 329, and 345. Du Cange, Gloff. Lat.

II Perez de Lara has a treatife exprefs on Anmverfaries and chaplainfhips.

De Anniverfariis cjr" capellanih ; in quibus ct'iam fpecialiter difputatur de annuo reliclo pro virgin thus niaritandis, pro in-

fantibus expofttis nutrtendis, captivis redimendis, &c. Franco/. 16 10. 4 . ANNOMINATTON, Annomnatio, in rhetoric, the fame with what is otherwife called paronomafm. See the article Pa RO' nomasia, Cyd. ANNONA, in antient writers, denotes victuals or provifion of corn for a year. Calv. Lex. Jur. p. 69. Pitifc, Lex. Ant. T. 1. p. 99. Annona Civihs, the corn with which the granaries of cities

were filled every year, for the fubfiftance of the citizens. Annona Militaris, the corn and other provifion laid up the magazines, for the fubfiftance of an army during the campaign. D'anet, Diet. Ant. in voc. In antient writers we alfo meet with the phrafes fingula An- nona, bina Annona, ierna Annon<e \ with regard to which Salmaftus lays down this rule, that when Annona occurs in the lingular number, it includes not only corn, but flefh, wine, oil, and other neceffaries ; whereas when it is ufed in the plural number, it imports bread alone. Aquinus is not contented with this rule, but mftead thereof advances anO' ther, viz, that Annona in the fmgular number includes all kinds of provifion ; and, in the plural, imports fo many ra- tions or pittances of bread, flefh, and the like, diftributed to fo many men.

In this fenfe, foldiers are fometimes faid to have rifen to the benefit of five or more Annona, that is, were entitled to fo many rations. The emperors Arcadius and Honorius took great pains to reduce this profufion. Aquin. Lex. Milit. T. 1. p. 53. Annonje Prafettus, or curator, was an officer extraordinary, intrufted with the direction of the corn, to fee it fold at a reafonable price. Brzjf. de Verb. Signif. p. 46. The Annona PrafeSius amounted to much the fame with what at other times was called Mdilis Cerealts. Annonje Struclor, an officer who had the management of the military provifions. Aquin. Lex. Milit. T. 1. p. 53. The Annona Struclor anfwered to what the Italians call com- miffario di viveri, ANNONAGE Annonagium, a tax on corn. Du Conge, GlofT.

Lat. T. i. p. 197. Annonage is much the fame v/lth frument age. ANNONARIUS, in middle age writers, an officer appointed to diftribute provifion to the foldiery, &c. By the laws of the Vifigoths it appears, that they had Annorarii in each of their cities and caftles, to take care their foldiers had their allow- ance fairly dealt them. Du Cange, loc. cit. In the antient monafteries we meet with an Annonaria pra- pojitura, or office to which belonged either the bufinefs of purveyance, or of diftributing the pittances to the monks. Du Cange, Gloff. Lat. T. 1. p. 197. feq. Annon arii is alfo ufed for a kind of monopolifts, who bought up the whole of a commodity to fell it again at a raifed price. Pitifc. Lex. Ant. T. 1. p. 99. ANNOTATION, (Cyd.) in medicine, denotes the very be- ginning of a febrile paroxyfm, when the patient grows chill, fhudders, yawns, is drowfy, and the like. This is called by the Greeks epifemafta a ; fometimes alfo, uvSoKy ■na.^ver^ b. [* Gal. Aph. 2, 1. *> Cajl. Lex. Med. p. 52.] Annotation is alfo ufed for a fymptom peculiar to hectic fe- vers, when the patient, an hour or two after eating, finds him-

felf hot, his pulfe quickened, £5 'c. without any fhuddering.

This is more peculiarly called Annolatio incompreffa, mwu.a.via. afavU. Gal. de Dif. Febr. c. 9. Annotation, in the civil law, denotes a kind of refcript or grant of the emperor, figned with his own hand. But this Annotation differed from a mere refcript, and a pragmatic fanc- tion. Brijf. de Verb.Signif. in voc. V.Bibl. Ital. T. 2. p. 254. It took its name from the note or fubfeription at the bottom, which was in red letters. ANNOTTO, in commerce, a kind of red dye, brought from the Weft Indies. This is otherwife denominated man and attole.

It is procured from a red flower, produced by a fhiub, which grows feven or eight foot high. This flower being thrown into tubs or cifterns, for the purpofe, is treated much after the manner of indigo.

The Annotto is now only prepared by the Spaniards. The Englifh had formerly a manufacture at St Angelo now ruined. The drug is preferred by the dyers to indigo, and fold one fourth dearer. Savar. Diet. Comm. T. 1. p. 98. in voc. Anate.

ANNUA Penfione, an antient writ for providing the king's chaplain unpreferred with a penfion. It was brought where the king having due to him an annual penfion from an abbot or prior, for any of his chaplains whom he fhould nominate (being unprovided of livings) to demand the fame of fuch abbot or prior. Reg. Orig. 165, 307. Terms of Law, Blount.

ANNUAL, Annuak, in church affairs, is ufed for the yearly produce of the prebend of a canon or clerk deceafed. Du Cange, Gloff. Lat. T. 1. p. 198.

In which fenfe Annua/e amounts to the fame with what we otherwife call annat. See Annat.

Annual is alfo ufed, in ecclefiaftical writers, to denote a yearly- office, faid for the foul of a perfon deceafed on the day of his obit, or anniverfary. Du Cange, GIolT. Lat. T. 1. p. 198. SeeANNALE, Anniversary, &c.

Annual, in the Scotifh law, denotes any yearly revenue, or due paid at certain terms, either legal as Martimafs and Whitfuntide, or conventional as the parties agree. S&ene t de Verb. Signif. p. 7. feq.

In the acts of parliament, made by queen Mary, mention is made of ground Annuel, fue Annuel, and top Annuel; the meaning whereof is fomewhat uncertain.

Ground Annuel, according to Skene, is when the property of any land, whether built or unbuilt, islet or fold for a yearly, rent, to be paid either to the proprietor, or, to fomc chap- lain, or pricft.

Fue Annuel is either when the mail or due is difpofed of, as a yearly revenue ; or when the lands or tenement is let in fee farm hereditary, for a certain yearly fum to be paid under the denomination of fcuda firma.

Annuel of Norway, of which mention is made in the acts of parliament of king James the third, was an Annuel pay- ment of an hundred marks fterling, which the kings of Scot- land were obliged to pay to the kings of Norway, in fatis- faction for fome pretentions which the latter had to the Scotifh kingdom, by vertue of a conveyance made thereof by Malcom Kanmoir, who ufurped the crown after his bro- ther's deceafe.

This Annuel was firft eftabliftied in 1266; in confideration whereof the Norvegian renounced all title to the fucceffion of the ifles of Scotland. It was paid till the year 1468, when the Annuel with all its arrears was renounced in the contract of marriage between king James the third, and Margaret daughter of Chriftian the firft, king of Norway, Denmark, and Sweden. Skene, loc. cit. p. 8. feq.

Top Annuel is a due given or affigned out of houfes or build- ings, where the property remains with the former owner, only with the condition of his paying the faid Annuel.

ANNUITY (Cycl.)-Wc have fome obfervations of M. De Moivre, concerning the eaficft method for calculating the va- lue of Annuities upon lives, from tables of obfervation. See Phil. Tranf. N°. 473. Sea. 10.

Where he gives the iblution and demonftration of thefe two problems.

PROBLEM I.

To find the value of an Annuity, fo circumjlantiated, that It Jhall he on a life of a given age ; and that upon the failing of that life, fuch & part of the rent Jhall be paid to the hens of the late poffeffor of an Annuity, as may be exaclly proportioned to the ti?ne intercepted between that of the laji payment, and the very mo?nent of tbe life s failing.

Let n reprefent the complement of life, that is the interval of time between the given age, and the extremity of old age fuppofed at 86. And let r be the amount of r f. for one year ; a, the hyperbolic logarithm of r \ p, the prefent value of an Annuity of 1 £. for the given time ; J^ the value of the life fought.

Then will J> = — L

^* r — I a n Tin's is the_ rule given page 86. lin. 12. of the lid. Edit, of Mr. De Moiver's Annuities on lives, but without demonftra- tion.

As there are no printed tables of hyperbolic logarithms extant, it may be proper here to give fuch as may be wanting for this calculation. Suppofing,

r — 1.04 tnen w ""l a — O.0392207 = _^. 1

r = 1.05 a = 0.0487901 = J T > nearly.

r — 1.06. a = 0.0582589 = _f 7 J

It is to be obferved, that the rule here given makes the value of lives fomewhat greater than what is found by Mr. De

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