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nably expecitolive 27 or 28 Tears. So great a difference is there between the Life of Man at different Ages ; that it is 100 to 1. one of 20 lives out a Year ; and but 38 to 1 that one of 50 doth fo.

Whence, and from fome otherObfervations, he conftruc- ted the following Table ; fhewing the Value of Annuities for every fifth Year of Life to the 70th.

Age.

Years Purchafe.

Age.

Years Purchafe.

1

io»28

40

J0.57

5

i3>+°

45

S.S»

10

i3>44

5°

9,21

15

13.3?

55

8.5 1

20

.2,78

(So

7,uo

25

12,27

«5

<S,54

50

11,72

70

5,5*

35

11,12

ANNULAR, Annularis, fomething that relates to, or refembles, a Ring, by the Latins called Annulus. See

Annular 'Protuberance, is a Procefs of the Medulla Oblongata ; thus called by Dr. IVillis, in regard it furrounds the fame, much like a Ring, bee Medulla

Annular Cartilage, or Annularis, is the fecond Cartilage of the Larynx ; being round, and inverting the whole Larynx; called alfo Cricoides. See Larynx and Cricoides. .

Annular Ligament, Ligament urn Annulare, is a ftrong Ligament, encompafiing the Carpus or Wrift ; after the manner of a Bracelet. See Licament.

Itsufe is to connect or bind the two Bones ot the Arm together; and alfo to reftrain the Tendons of the feveral Mutles of the Hand and Fingers, and prevent their flying out of their places, when in Act ion. See Carpus, Hand, Finger, $Sc.

The Ligament of the Tarfus is alfo denominated Annular Ligament. See Tarsus. .

Add, thatthe Sphinaer Mufcle of the Anus is alio called Annularis, or Annular Mufcle ; from its Figure. See Sphincter.

Annular is alfo an Epithet given the lourth Finger ; popularly calld the Ring Finger. Sec Finger.

ANNULET, q. d. little Ring ; in He- raldry, is a Difference or Mark of Diftinc- tion, which the fifth Brother of any Family ought to bear in his Coat of Arms. See Difference.

Annulets are alfo part of the Coat-Armour of feveral Fa- milies- They were antiently reputed a Mark of Nobility, and Jurifdiftion ; it being the Cuftom of Prelates to receive thcii ■ Imc&itMK fer HacuhtmiS Atmulum. See Bishop, Investiture,!^.

ANNULETS, in A rchiteflure, are fmalllquarc Mem- bers, in the Doric Capital ; under the Quarter-round. See Doric andCAPiTAL. .

They are alfo called Fillets, Liftels, &c. See Fillets,

Annulet is alfo a narrow flat Moulding, common toother Parts of a Column, viz. the Bafes, pC. as well as the Capi- tal ; fo called, becaufe it encompaffes the Column round.— In this Senfe Annulet is frequently ufed for a Baguette or littl- Aftraga!. See Baguette, and Astragal.

ANNULLING, the abolilhing of an Aa,Ptoccedure, Sentence, or the like. See Abolition.

The Word is compounded of ad and nullus, none ; q- a. un-doing. A

ANNUNCIATE, Annuntiada, or Annuntiate, a Denomination common to feveral Orders, both Religious and Military ; inftituted with a View to the Annunciation. See Order and Annunciation.

The firft Religious Order of this kind, was inftituted in

1232, byfeven Florentine Merchants. Thefe are alfo

call'd Seniles, q.d. Servants. SeeSEiiviTEs.

The fecond was a Nunnery at Sourges, founded by Joan Queen of France, after her Divorce from Lewis XII.

The third was alfo a Nunnery, founded by a Gcnoefe Lady in 1 «co. The fourth, a Friary founded by Car- dinal Torrecremata, at Rome ; which laft are grown fo very rich that they give Fortunes of fixty Roman Crowns to above 400 Girls, on the Anniverfary of the Annunciation.

Knights of the Annunciate, was a military Order, inftituted in 1550, by Amadem, Duke of Savoy, iee Knight.

It was at firft call'd the Order of the True Lovers Knots ; in memory of a Bracelet of Hair prefentcd to the Founder by a Lady : but upon theElectionof Amadous VIII. to the Pontificate, it changed its Name for that of the Annun- ciate.

ANNUNCIATION, the Tidings which the Angel Gabriel brought to the Holy Virgin, oftheMyftcry of the Incarnation. See Incarnation.

Annunciation is alfo the Name of a Feaft, celebrated annually on the 25th of March, popularly call'd Lady, day, in Commemoration of that wonderful Event. See Feast.

This Feaft appears to be of great Antiquity in the Latin Church. Among the Sermons of St. Augufiin, who died in 430, wehave two on the Annunciation, viz. the 17th and 1 Eth de SanQis ; And yet there are much earlier Tcftimo- nies of itsufe in the Greek Church. 'Proclus, who died in 4^5 ; ChryfiJlom,'m 407 ; and even Gregory 'Thaumaturgtts, in 295 ; have all of them Difcourfes on the Annunciation. Rivet, cperkins, and fome other Proteftant Writers after 'em, have indeed queftion'd the Authenticknefsof the two Homilies of Gregory L'haumaturgus, on the Annunciation ; but Voffllts acknowledges 'em the genuine Productions of that Father.

Add, that fome Authors are of opinion, thatthe Feaft was originally folcmnized in Honour of our Saviour ; and that the holding it in the Name and Honour of the Virgin, is of a much later ftanding.

Several of the Eaftetn Churches celebrate the Annuncia- tion at a different Seafon from thofe of the Weft The

Syrians call it Safiarach, q. d. Search, Inquiry ; and mark it in their Calendar for the firft Day of December. The Armenians hold it on the ;th of January ; thus anticipa- ting the Time, to prevent its falling in Lent: But the Greeks make no fcruple of celebrating the Feftival even in Lent. See Lent.

The Word is compounded of the Latin adiaA nuntio, I

tell, I declare ; of Nuntius, Meffenger. The

Greeks call it 'S-vAfyiKtcr^u, Good tidings ; and x^'^l'^^U Salutation.

The Jewsilfo give the Title Annunciation to part of the Ceremony of their Paffover, viz. that, wherein they ex- plain the Origin, and Occafion of the Solemnity This

Explanation they call n"Ui"i> Haggada, q. d\ Annuncia- tion.

ANNULUS, a Ring. See Ring.

ANODYNE, inPhyfick, is underftood of fuch Reme- dies, as by their gentle Heat and temperate Moifture, calm and affuage Pain. See Pain.

Thefe are alfo called Taregoricks. See Parego- ricks.

There are others, which bear the fame Name, but im- properly, viz. fuch as occafion a Stupor, Droufinefs, and Sleep, properly called Narcoticks, Hyfntticks, or Opiates. See Narcotics, Opiate, ££c

The true Anodynes are applied externally, to the part

affect ed Such among the Clafs of Simples are the Onion,

Lilly, Root of Mallows, Leaves of Violet, Elder, £i?c.

1 he Word is derived from the privative Particle a. and fildW, doleo, to be in pain.

We have alfo certain compound Medicines in the Shops, prepared with this Intention; and called by this Name- Such is the Anodyne Salfam, made of Caftile Soap, Cam- phir, Saffron, and Spirit of Wine ; digefted in a Sand- heat. It is recommended not only for procuring Eafe in the moft racking extremities of pain, but for affifting in difcharging the peccant matter that occafion'd it.

ANOMALOUS, q. d. Irregular; fomething that de- viates from the ordinary Rule and Method of other things of the fame kind. See Rule, ?Sc.

The Word is not compounded of the privative a, and i'o/^of, Law, as is ufually imagined ■' for whence, on fuch fuppofition, ftiould the laft Syllable al, arife? But it comes from the Greek Av'd paw, uneven, rough, irregular, form'd of the Privative tt, ando//a*o<,^ 'lain, even.

Anomalous Verbs, in Grammar, are fuch as are ir- regular in their Conjugations ; deviating from the Rules or Formula's obierv'd by others. See Verb and Conju- gation.

There are Anomalous Verbs, irregular Inflexions of Words, in all Languages In the Lnglifi all the Irre-

gularity in our Anomalous Verbs, lies in the formation

of

the Preter Tenfe, and paflive Participle ; tho' this only hows of the Native Teutonic or Saxon Words, and not of the foreign Words, borrow 'd from the Latin, Weljk, French, iSe. ,

The principal Itregularity arifes from the quicknefs ot our Pronunciation, whereby we change the Confonant » into t, cutting oft" the regular ending ed..

Thus for mixed, we write jnixt or mixd; for dwells

dwelt or dwelt d\ for fnatched, fnatcht, &c. But this ■*

rather of the nature of a Contract ion than an Irregularity 1

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