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 AGE

The Age of a Hart, t$c. is chiefly judg'd of by the Fur- hiture of his Head. See Head.

The Huntfmen have fcveral other Marks, whereby to know an old Hart without feeing him ; as, the Slot, Entries, Abaturcs, Foils, Fewmets, Gate, and Fraying Pod. See Hunting.

Age of the Moon, in Aflronomy, is underdood of the Number of Days elapfed fince the lift Conjunction, or New Moon; called alfo her Quarter. Sec Conjunction, Quar- ter, &c.

To find the Moon's Age. See Moon.

Age, in Chronology. The Age of the World, is the

Time pafs'd fince the Creation. See Creation.

The feveral Ages of the World, may be redue'd to thefe three grand Epocha's, viz. the Age of the Law of Nature, from Adam to Mofes.— The Age of the Jeimfo Law, from Mofes to Chrift.— And the Age of Grace, 'from Chrift to the prefent Year.

The firft Age, according to the Je-tvs, confided of 2447 Tears ; according to Scaliger, of 2452 ; and according to Ufber, of 2513. — The fecond Age, according to the Jews, confided of 13 12 Years; according ro Scaliger. of 1508 ; and according to Ujher, of 14.91. — Of the third Age, there have elapfed 1726 Years ; tho this, too, is controverted by Chronologers.

Petavius will have our Saviour to have been born four Years before the vulgar Epocha ; on which footing, the current Year fhould be 1730; according to Capella, 1731 ; according to Baromus and Scaliger, 1728. See Nativity.

The Romans diftingmfli'd the Time that preceded them into three Ages : The obfeure or uncertain Jge, which reach'd down as low as Ogyges King of Attica ; in whofe Reign the Deluge happen'd in Greece.— The falrdous, or heroic Age, which ended at the firft Olympiad : And the hiflorical Age, which commene'd at the Building of Rome. See Fabulous, Heroic, Historical, &c.

Among tho Poets, the four Ages of the World, are the G-lden, the Silver, the Brazen, and the Iron Age. See the Metamorphojis of Ovid, Lib. I. or rather, Heficd in his Poem 'Efft km ips&i, Opera t£ Dies, vcr. 108, S$c. He is the firft that has defcribed the four Ages, and the beft.

The Eajl Indians alfo reckon four Ages fince the Begin- ning.— The firft, which they reprefenr as a fort of Golcien Age, lafted, according to them 1728000 Years : In this the God Brahma was born ; and rhe Men were all Giants ; their Manners innocent : They were exempt from Difeafes, and lived 400 Years. — In the fecond Age, which lafted 1296000, their Rajas were born : Vice now crept into the World ; Mens Lives were fallen to 300 Years, and their Size rc- ttench'd proportionally.— Under the third Age, which lafted 8064000 Years, Vice being increas'd, Men only attain'd to 200 Years. — Thelaft Age is that wherein we now live, of which

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• J t? z ~." er .' a P, etkion > or Motion made in Court, by one in his Minority ; having an Aflion brought againft him for

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402719; Years arc already gone; and the Life of ceflary to the Being of an

Lands coming to him by Defcent ; requeuing, Action may reft till he come to full Age. ' in moft Cafes, ought to grant.

It is otherwife in the Civil Law ; which obliges Child in their Minority to anfwer by their Tutors, or Curators. ! Tutor, Curator, Minority, Pupil, i$c.

AGEMOGLANS, or Azamoglans, Children oiTrihite "•<d. ev ery three Years by the grand Seignior, among the Chtiftians whom he tolerates in his Dominions.

The Commifiioners appointed for this Levy, take them by force, even out of the Houfes of Chrittians ; always claiming one in three, and pitching upon fuch as fcem the handfomeft, and promife to be the mod handy.

Thefe are immediately convey 'd to Gallipoli or Conflati- tinople ; where they ate firft circumcis'd, then inftrufted in the Mahometan Faith, taught the Turkifi Language and the Exercifes of War, till fuch time as they become of Age to bear Arms. B

Such as are not judged proper for the Army, they employ in the lowed and moll letvile Offices of the Seraglio ; as in the Kitchen, Stables, $$c.

The Word, in its O.iginal, fignifies a Barbarian's Child ; ' that is, a Child not a Turk.— It is compounded of two Ara- lic Words, DJN Agem, and DN^y Child ; which among the Turks fignifies as much as Barbarous among the Greeks"; the former People dividing the World into Arabs 01 Turks, and Agem ; as the latter into Grecians and Barbarians.

AGENT, Agens, in Phyficks, that whereby a thing is done or effefled ; or that which has a Power whereby it ails on another ; or by its Action induces fome Change in ano- ther. See Act, and Action.

The Word Agent is ufed promifcuoufly with Efficient 3 and in contradidinflion to 'Patient. Sec Efficient, Pas- sive, &c.

The Schools divide Agents into Natural and Free.

Natural or Phyfical Agents, are thofe immediately deter- min'd by the Author of Nature, to produce one fort of Ef- fect ; with an Incapacity to produce the contrary theteto. — Such is Fire, which only heats, and does not alfo cool.

Free or Voluntary Agent, is that which may equally do any thing, or the oppofite thereof; as acting not from any Pre-deiermination, but from Choice.— Such is the Mind fuppofed to be ; which may either will or nill the fame thing. See Predetermination, Liberty, Will, &c.

Natural Agents, again, are fubdivided into Univocal ; which are fuch as produce Effects of the fame Kind and Denomination with the Agents themfelves : and Equivocal, Whofe Effects are of a difterent Kind, (£c. from the Agents. See Equivocal, and Univocal.

The Schoolmen reckon the following Circumftances ne-

Man funk to one fourth of its otiginal Duration.

Age, in Law, is particularly underdood of a certain State or Time of Life, wherein a Perfon is qualified to do fome- thing, which before, for want of Yeats, and confequently Difcretion, they could not. See Major, Minor, £J?c.

There are two principal Ages in a Man : At fourteen, he is at the Age of Difcretion ; at twenty: one Years, at full Age.

In a Woman, there were antiently fix Ages obferv'd : At feven Years, her Father mighr diftrain the Tenants of fornixes. Tee^A^E'cHEC^E

his Manor for aid to marry her ; for at thofe Years die

may confent to Matrimony. BraBon. At nine Years

old fhe is dowable ; for then, or within half a Year after, Hie is faid to be able fromcreri dotem ii virum fuftinere.

Fleta. At twelve Years, die is able finally to ratify and

confirm her former Confent to Matrimony. — At fourteen, die may take her Lands into her own Hands ; and .fhould be out of Watd, if fhe were at this Age at her Anceftor's Death. — At fixteen, flie fliould be out of Ward ; tho at the Death of her Anceftor fhe was under fourteen : The Reafon is, that then fhe might take a Husband able to per- form Knight's-Service.— At twenty one Years, fhe may alie- nate Lands and Tenements.

That it be conti- guous to the Object, didinft from it, have a Power over ir a Sphere of Activity, and a Proportion or Rate of acting.

Agent, is alfo ufed for a Perfon entruded with the Ma- nagement of the Aft'airs of a Corporation, or private Per- fon : In which Senfe, the Word coincides with Deputy, 'Pro- curator, Commifjioner, Falior, &c. See Deputy, Procu- rator, Commissioner, Factor, &c.

Among the Officers in the Exchequer, are four Agents

Agents of Bank and Exchange, are publick Officers, eftablifh'd in rhe trading Cities of France, to negotiate Mat- rets between Merchants, telating to Bills of Exchange ■ and the buying and felling of Goods. Thefe amount to what', among us, are called Exchange-Brokers. See Broker, and Enchange.

Agent and Patient, in Common Law, is where a Perfon does, or gives fomething to himfelf; fo that he is at the fame time both the Doer or Giver, and the Receiver or Party it is done to. — Such is a Woman, when fhe endows her felf with patt of her Husband's Inheritance.

AGEOMETRESIA, a Term purely Greek, 'AytajUTS»<rU,

fometimes ufed by Euglif/j Writers ; denoting a Want or De-

°!Al^l\lt e ^°itl"^ h t m ^ cU( ^ S0 ^ fi. 1 * in Pint of Geometry. -Kepler not having taught any

direct and geometrical Methods of finding certain Matters, in his Elliptic Theory ; particularly, the ttue Anomaly, from the mean : has been charged with Ageometrejta. See A-

NOMALY.

AGER Terra, in antient Writers, the fame with an Acre of Land. See Acre.

AGGLUTINANTS, Agglutinantia, in Medicine, a Species of ftrengthning Remedies, whofe Office and Effect is to adhere ro the folid Parts of the Body, and thus re- cruit and fupply the Place of what is wore off and wafted in the animal Actions. See Medicines, Nutrition,^.

Thefe are moft of 'em of the glutinous Kind, or fuch as eafily form themfelves into Gellies and gummy Confidences ; whence the Name Agglutmant, which is form'd of ad, to, and gluten, glue. See Glue, and Agglutination,

Guardian, and claim his Lands held in Soccage. Dyer, fol. 162. thoBratfon, Lib. II. limits this to fifteen Years ; with whom Glauville agrees. — At fourteen, a Man may confent to Marriage, as a Woman at twelve. — At fifteen he ought to

be fwotn to the Peace, An. 24 Ed:v. I. Stat. 3. At the

Age of twenty one, a Man was oblig'd to be a Knight, if he had_ twenty Pounds Land per Annum in Fee, or for Term of Life, Anno 1 Ediv. II. Stat. 1. But this Statute is repealed, 17 Car. I. cap. 10.. The fame Age alfo ena- bles him to make Contracts, and manage his own Eftate ; which, till that time, he cannot do with Security of thofe that deal with him.

The .^ge of twelve Yeats, binds to Appearance before the Shetiff and Coroner, for Inquiry after Robberies, Anno 52

tj cap - J 4 — The Age of twenty four Years enabled a Man to enter an Order of Religion, without Confent of Parents, Anno + Uen. IV. cap. 17.

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