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EOLIC, or Eolian, in Grammar, the Name of one of the five Dialefts of the Greek Tongue. See Greek, and Dialect. , . ,.

It was firft ufed in Bteotia ; whence it pals d into Molia, and was that which Sap/bo and Ale f us wrote in.

The JEolic Dialea throws out all the Iharp, harlh Ac- cents 5 and agrees in lb many things with the Done Dialect, that the two are ufually confounded together. See Doric.

Eolic, or Eolian Mode, in Mufick. See Mode.

The generality of Writers agree, that the JT.ra was ori- ginally ufed in refpeci of the manner of reckoning Time among the Spaniards ; whofe JEra was thirty eight Years

older than the Christian Epocha, or Year of Grace.

Peter the foutth King of Arragon, was the firft who abo- lifh'd the Spanifl] JEra in his States, in the Year 1350 : Aj did John I. King of 'Portugal, in 1451.

The Origin of the Word is fomewhat obfeute. — Favyn fays, that in Cicero and Lticil'ms, the Word JEra is plural, and iignifies the fame thing with Commentaria, Leaves of a

. ^OLIPILE, totLi, ^f^^ Book of Accounts, or a Merchant's Journal, ting of a hollow metalline Ball, w „ ,

Pip"e arifing from the fame ; which being filled with Water, and thus expos'd to the Fire, produces a vehement Blaft of Wind. See Wini>. ' jr.

This Inflrument, Des Cartes and others have made : ule of, to account for the natural Caufc and Generation of Wind. —And hence its Name, JEolifila, q. d. pila JEoli, JEolm s Ball ; JEolm being reputed the God of the Winds, oee

Sometimes the Neck is made to fcrew into the_ Ball, which is the moll commodious way, becaufe then the Ca- vity may the more readily be filled with Water : If there be no Screw, it may be fill'd thus.— Heat the Ball red hot and throw it into a Veffel of Water ; the Water will run in at a fmall Hole, and fill about two thirds of the Ca-

Others, according to the fame Author, are of opinion, that JEra was ufed inftead of Hera, for Herns, Mafter, Lord ; and that it fignify'd the Dominions of a Prince.

Others, according to Ifidore, derive it from JEs, JEris ; on account of the Tax of a Piece of Silver, impos'd by An- guflus on the Heads of all the Subjects of his Empire.

Others fay, that the Wotd is form'd from the initial Let- ters of the three firft Words in the publick Afls, Annus ER«( Aitgnfti ; but thefe thtee lall Etymologies are reject- ed with good Reafon.

ERARIUM, the publick Treafury of a State or People. See Treasury.

The Temple of Saturn at Rome, being the great Trea- fury of the State, was firft called JErarium ; from JEs, Brafs ; that being the only Money in ufe .before the

JEris- ""It after this the JEoliiile be laid on, or before, the Year of Rome 485. JPliW, L..HL_c, 33--?ee Money Fire; fo that the WateTand Veffel become very much heat-

ed ; the Water being rarified into a kind of momentary Air, will be forced out with very great Noife and Violence ; but it will be by Fits, and not with a conftant and unifotm Blaft,

The JErarium MMtare was a Fund of Money, deflin'd for the Maintenance of feveral Companies of Soldiers, to be in readinefs for-fhe better Defence of the City. — It was firft erected under Augustus, and maintained by a yeatly volun- tary Contribution ; but that proving infufficient, the twen-

Thefe Pha-nomena, the Reader will be eafily enabled to tieth Part of all Legacies and Inheritances, except of fuch. folve from what is Ihewn under the Articles, Air, Wa- as fell .0 the next of kin or the Poor, were confign d to this

T.realury.


 * E Thfto « V™? iffu'ng out of the JEolipile, is found ~ For die Cuftody hereof, three of his Lifeguard were con-

- Auiar** fiituted <PY<gjctti Mrariu See Prjefectus.

AERIAL, Aerius, fomething that confifts of Air, or has a relation or refemblance to Air. See Air.

fenfibly hot nj the Orifice, but at a farther ,diftance, ^^T^i^.T^Z^lZTa,

^old ■ ' like what we obferve of our own Breath : The Caufc of which is controverted.— The Corpufcularians ac- count for it hence, that the Fire contain'd in the rarified Vanour tho Efficient to be felt near the Orifice, difenga-

apour,

ges

fell i

n the Progrefs of the Strean ■ ,1 . . ., _ T >„ n-j

and becomes in- fenfible ere arriv'd at "the Journey's End. See Fire. — The mechanical Philofophers, on the other hand, hold that the Vapour, at its Exit from the Ball, is endued with that peculiar Species of circular Motion, which conllitutes the Quali- ty Heat; and that the further it recedes therefrom, the more

The Effeni, the moil refined and rational Sect among the Jews, held that the human Soul confilled of an Ae- rial Matter. See Esseni.

Angels or Spirits, whether Good or Evil, faid fametimes to appear, are fuppofed to affume an aerial Body, in order to come fenfibly. See Angel.

porphyry and Janiblicus admit a fort of Demons or aerial Spirits, to which they give various Names. See De-

Is' this Motion deiiroy'd, by the Reaaion of the contiguous mon Genius, pc. \

■"nfible. See Heat. The Roficrucians, and other Vifionanes, fill the Atmo- fphere with aerial Inhabitants. See Rosicrucian, Sylph,

Air ; till the Heat at length becomes itrie

Chauvin fuggefts fome further Ufes of the JEolipile.- 1° He thinks it might be applied inftead of Bellows to blow : the Fire where a very intenfe heat is requir'd. *», If a Aerial PerfpcSive is that which represents Bodies Trumpet Horn or other fonorous Inflrument were fitted to weaken'd and.diminifh d,in proportion to their diftance from its Neck it might be made to yield Mufick. 3, If the the Eye. See Perspective. Neck we're turn'd perpendicularly upwards, and prolong'd Aerial PerfpeSive.

chiefly to do with the Colours of takes off more or lefs,

,e or hollow Cylinder fitted to it, and a hollow Ball Objefls whofe force and luftre it laid on the Orifice of the Tube ; the Ball would be blown to make 'em appear as if more or lels remote. See Co-

- lour, and Clair-obscure.

It is founded on this, that the longer Column of Air an Obje& is feen thro' ; the weaker do the vifual Rajs emit- ted from it afteft the Eye. . See Vision.

AERIANS, Aeriani, in Antiquity, a Scfl in Religion, denominated from Aerius ; a Perfon alive in the Time of St. Epipbanius.

The Aerians had much the fame Sentiments, in refpeflof the Trinity, as the Arians ; befide>hkh, they had fome Dogmas of their own, and particularly this : That there is hem diftinft from God, and" to have been pro- no "difference between P, lefts and Bifhops ; but that the duced by hrm, fome Male, others Female. See Idea, and Priefthood and Epifcopate are absolutely one and the fame ou ' ' Order, or Dignity : An Opinion fince ftrenuoufly aliened by

"hefe Ideas they call JEons; of an Affemblage wheteof many modern Divines. See B.shop.Pr.est.Presbyter,^. they compos'd the Deity, calling it ^s»f«, a Greek Word, Aerius bu.lt his Doftrine chiefly on fonie Paffages m Sr. J. '. c" * F 1 c f 'Paul ; and, among others, that in the firft Epiftle to Timo-

iimon Malus\ faid to have been the fitft Inventor of Ay, Ch. IV. v. 14. where that Apoftle exhorts him not to thefe JEons -which were afterwards brought to Petfeaion neglefl the Gift be bad reoeiiidh) the lay <mg on of the Haaih hyFalentmus, who acknowledg'd thirty of 'em. See Gnos-

p, and kept fluftuating or playing up and down : As in the

Stream of a Fountain. See Fountain. And, 5, it

might ferve to fcent, or perfume a Room, if fill'd with per- funVd, inftead of common Air.

JEON, Eon, Aim, q. d. Age; literally figmfies the Du- ration of a thing. See Age, and Duration.

But fome antient Hereticks have affix'd another Idea to it • in order to which, they have made ufe of the Philofo- ph'y of Plato : giving Reality to the Ideas, which that Phi- lofopher had imagin'd in God ; and even perlbnifying them,

tics, Valentinians, &c JEQUAL. JEQUALITY. ^EQUATION. jEQUATOR. jEQUINOX. EQUINOCTIAL. jEQUIPOLLENT. ^EQUIVALENT. EQUIVOCAL. EQUIVOCATION,^.

i rEquAL.

I EojIALlTY.

II EojIATION. I EciUATOR.

>.See<> E<ll,INOX -

EojINOCTlAL.

Equipollent. Equivalent. Equivocal., v. Equivocation, &c.

in Matters of Chronology, fignifies the fame with Eiocha ;' that is, any Point of Time, detetmin'd at Plea- fure, whence to begin the Computation of the Years elap- fed fince. See Epocha.

oftbe Presbytery. Here, obferves Aerius, is no mention of Bifhops ; but Timothy evidently receiv'd his Ordination from the Presbyters or Priefts.

St. Epipbanius, Her. 75. ftands up brilkly for the Supe- riotity of Bifhops, againft the Aerians. — The Word Presby- tery in St. Paul, he obferves, includes both Bifhops and Priefts ; the whole Senate, or Affembly of the Ecclefiafticks of the Place : And in fuch an Affembly had 'timothy been ordain'd. See Presbytery.

AEROMANCY, Aeromantia, a Kind of Divination, perform'd by means of the Air. See Divination, and

Air.

The Word is compounded of the Greek <t»f, Air, and u.&vT&a, ^Divination. See Hydromancy.

AEROMETRY, Aerometria, the Art of meafuring the Air, its Powers and Properties. See Air.

Aerometry