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 A M B A M B ( i 53 ) wife called the perimeter of a figure. ' See Peri- AMBRES, a city of France, in the Upper Languedoc, in the diocefe of Caftres. meter. AMBITUS, in Roman antiquity, the fetting up for AMBRESBERRY, a market-town in Wiltfliire, about fome magiftraey or office, and formally going round fix miles north 0of Salilbury, and fituated in i° 40' the city to folicit the intereft and votes of the people. W. long, and 51 20 N. lat. On thefe occafions, it was not only ufual to folicit the AMBROSE, or St Ambrose in the wood, an order of Uitereft of their friends and others with whom they religious, who ufe the Ambrofian office, and wear an were perfonally acquainted, but the candidates, being image of that faint engraven on a little plate : in other attended by perfons of an extenfive acquaintance, who refpedts they conform to the rule of the Auguflins. fuggefted to them the names of the citizens, and thence ' See Ambrosian Office, and Augustins, called nomenclatores, or interpretes, made their ap- AMBROSIA, in heathen antiquity, denotes the folid plication to all they met. This method of fuing for food of the gods, in contradiflindlion from the drink, offices was deemed allowable, and therefore never pro- which was called nettar. It had the appellation amhibited by law; but to redrain all undue influence, brofta, as being fuppofed to render thofe immortal who whether by bribery, or exhibiting, games, fhews, and fed thereon. the like, many laws were enadted, and fevere fines im- Ambrosia, is alfo a term for rough or crude wax, fuppofed to be the food of bees. pofed. AMBLE, in horfemanffiip, a peculiar pace by which Ambrosia, in Grecian antiquity, a name fometimes ua horfe’s two legs of the fame fide move at the fame fed for a feftival of Bacchus, otherwife called, lencea'. See Lenzea. time. AMBLETEUSE, a fmall fea-port-town of Picardy Ambrosia, in botany, a genus of the monoecia pentanin France, fituated about five miles north of Bou- dria clafs. The male flofcules of the ambrofia have no petals ; the fruit of the female is prickly, and flialogne. AMBLYGON, in geometry, denotes an obtufe angled ped-like a club, containing one oblong feed in each. triangle, or a triangle one of whofe angles confifts There are four fpeeies of ambrofia, via. the trifida, elatior, and the artemififolia, all natives of America; of more than ninety degrees. and the maritima, a native of Greece. AMBLYOPY. See Gutta Serena. AMBO, or Ambon, in ecclefiaftical antiquity, a kind AMBROSIAN office, in church-hiftory, a particular, of pulpit or reading-defk, where that part of the divine formula of worfhip in the church of Milan, which fervice called the gradual was performed. takes its name from St Ambrofe, who inftituted that AMBOHETSMENES, a province in the ifland of office in the fourth century. Each church originally Madagafcar, near the mountains of the fame name. had its particular office ; and when the pope, in after-. times, took upon him to impofe the Roman office upon AMBONUM. SeeOcuLus Belu AMBOINA. See Amboyna. all the weftern churches, that of Milan flickered itAMBOISE, a town of Orleanois, in France, fituated felf under the name and authority of St Ambrofe; on the river Loire, about ten miles eaft of Tours, from which time the Ambrofian ritual has prevailed. in i° E. long, and 47° 25' N. lat. AMBROSIN, a coin formerly (truck by the dukes of AMBOYNA, an ifland of theE. Indies, lying between Milan, reprefenting St Ambrofe on horfeback, with a the Molucca0 ifles and thofe of Banda, in 126°. E. whip in his- right hand. long, and 3 40' S. lat. AMBRUN, in geography, the fame with Embrun. See In this ifland, which is about feventy miles in cir- Embrun. cumference, the Dutch have a ftrong fort, garrifoned AMBRY, a place in which are depofited all utenfils neby feven or eight hundred men. What makes it the ceflary for houfe-keeping. In the ancient abbeys and more remarkable, is the cruel ufage and expulfion of priories,, there was an office under this denomination,, the Englifli fadtors by the Dutch, in the reign of wherein were laid up all charities for the poor. K. James I. AMBUBAJiE, in Roman antiquity, were immodeft woAMBOSINE, a province of Africa, in the kingdom of men, who came from Syria to Rome, where they liBenin. ved by proflitution, and by playing on the flute. AMBOTE, a town of Poland, in Samogitia, upon the AMBUBEJA, in botany, an obfolete name of the ciriver Wardaria, two Polilh miles from Siade, and chorium. See Cichorium. nine from the Baltic fea. AMBUILA, or Amboila, a country of Africa, in the AMBOULE, a large country in the ifland of Madagaf- kingdom of Congo, between the lake Aquelonde and car, to the north of Carcanofli. St Salvador, Amboule is alfi^tbe name of a confiderable village in AMBULATION. See ab king. in that country. Ambulation, in furgery, a term ufed for the fpreadAMBOURNAY, a fmall town of France, upon the ri- ing of a gangrene or mortification. ver Ain, on the road from Lyons to Geneva. AMBULATORY, a term applied to fuch courts as were not fixed, but removed fometimes to one place, fomeA.MBRA, or Ambragrisia. See Ambergrease; AMBRASI, a river of Africa, which, after wafhing times to another. the kingdom of Congo, falls into the Ethiopian AMBURBIUM, in Roman antiquity, aproceffion made Ocean. by the Romans round the city and pomoerium, in which Vol, I. No. 6. L1 they 3