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 A "N A ( 139 ) ANA and the iflands of Solomon ; and the third in the the human mind, from whence fome will have anafapta, a daemon invoked By fick perfons, to be derived. . Chinefe fea, between Japan, and the ifland Formofa. AMULET, a charm againft witchcraft, or difeafes, &c. ANABAO, one of the Molucca idands, S. W. from 1 Thefe amulets were made of ftone, met;il, fimples, Timor. animals, and, in ihort, of every thing that imagination ANABAPTISTON, the fame with abaptidon. See could fugged. Amulets fometimcs confided in drange Abapti STON. unmeaning words,,characters and fentences.—The an- ANABAPTISTS, a fed! or denominatiofi of Chridians, cients were extremely fond of amulets. Notwith- who deduce their original from the apodolic age. ftanding the progrefs of learning and refinement, there This name was given them by their opponents, foon afis not any country in Europe, even a this day, who do ter the Reformation, by way offcorn, and imports r*baptizing but this charge they difclaim, by denying not believe in home charm or other. that the fprinkling, or pouring of water, upon infants Amulet, in cookery. See Omelet. AMULETICS, among phyficians,. a name given to all has any relation at,all to the fcripture-ordinance of baptifm, either as to hsfuijefts or mode. medicines which are fivppofed to adt as charms. Though they believe the falvation of eledt infants ; AMURCA, the name of an antiquated medicine, prepared by boiling the recrement or dregs of oil of olives yet they deny their being the proper fubjedls of bapto the confidence of honey, and ufed as an adringent. tifm : Becaufe they can find neither precept nor example for fuch a pradtice in the N. Tedament: BeAmurca, in anatomy. See Capfula atrabilaria. Amuy, a city of India, beyond the Ganges, near the caufe Chrid’s commiflion to baptize appears to them lake Chiamai, on the borders.of the kingdom of Kan- to redridt this ordinance to fuCh only as are taught, or made difciples, and believe the gofpel, Mat. xXviii. duana. AMY, in law, the next friend or relation to be entruded 19. Mark xvi. 16.: Becaufe the apodles, in execufor an infant. See Prochen. ting Chrid’s commiffion, never baptized any but thofe Alien Amy, fignifies a foreigner here, fubjedl to fome who were fird indrudted in the Chridian faith, andprofefled their belief of it, Adis ii. 41. viii.-12. xviii. g,: foreign prince,-or power, in friendfhip with us. And becaufe the nature and defign of the ordinance is AMYGDALA, the fruit of the almond-tree. Amygdala is likewife ufed for a fpecies of echinus fuch as can be of no advantage to infants, it being a fign and reprefentation of fpiritual blefiings, intended marinas, a died fifh. See Echinus. to imprefs the mind of the perfon baptized with a comAMYGDALAE, in anatomy. See Tonfillae. AMYGDALOIDES lapis, in Nat. hid. a foffile fub- fortable fenfe of what is fignified thereby, 1 Pet. iii. dance, refemhling the kernel of an almond. 21.; and as infants can neither difeern the fign nor AMYGDALUS, or Almond-tree, in botany, a genus the thing fignified, fo they think they can reap no beof the icofandria monogynia clafs. The calix is di- nefit from it, any more than from the Lord’s dipper, vided into five Jegments; and the corolla confids of or any other ordinance of the gofpdl. five petals. The fpecits are three, viz, the perfica, They repel! the argument drawn from circumcifion, or peach-tree ; the comnunis, a native of Mauritania; by didinguifhing betwixt the Old and New Tedament and the nana, a native of Afia. Almonds are ufed difpenfations, and betwixt the natural and fpiritual in medicine as^emollient, isc. feed of Abraham, Rom. ix. 8. Gal. iv. 22,23,28,31. AMYLON, - or Amylum, a term given to darch. See and maintain, that as circumcifion belonged to the carStarch. nal birth, fo fcaptifm belongs only to the fpiritual birth, or thefe who are of faith. Gal. iii 7. t)ur AMYRBERIS, in botany. See Berberis. AMYRIS, in botany, a genus of the decandi ia monogy- Lord’s words in Mark x. 13, 14. they corfider as nia clafs. The flower confids of four oblong petals. having no relation to infant-baptifm, as he there neiThe dygmia is quadrangular ; the fruit is a berry of ther injoins nor exemplifies it; and they diltinguifli bethe drupa kind. There are- four fpecits of this ge- twixt thofe who may be fubjefts of the kingdom of nus, viz. The elemifera, maritima, toxifera, and bal- heaven in God’s fight, and thefe whom he points out to us as proper vilible fubjedls of gofpel-oidinances. famifera, all natives of America. AMYTHAONIS emplaftrum, a plader compofed of The argument from the apodles their baptizing whole gum ammoniac, wax, bdellium, 6v.fuppofed by the an- houfes, they anfwer, by fhewing that thefe Jioufes cients to be ufeful in convulfions, heard the word, believed, were comforted, and aboundAMZEL, in ornithology, the Englifli name of a fpecies ed in good works, Adis xvi. 32, 34, 40. and xviii. of turdus. SeeTuRDus. 8. 1 Cor. xvi. 15, 16. and fo could not be infants. The mode or manner of baptifm they aflirm to be AN jour <?«d waste, in law, fignifies a forfeiture of lands for a year and a day to the king, by perfons dipping cr 'nnmerfing the whole body in water. This, committing petit treafon and felony, and afterwards they lay is the primary and proper meaning of the orithe land falls to the lord. ginal word Babtizo, to dip, ivnnerfe, or plunge. In ANA, among phyficians, denotes a quantity equal to that fupport of this fenfe of the word, they produce other of the preceding ingredient. It is abbreviated thus, places in the N. Tedament where it is fo rendered, as aa, or a. Mat. xxvi. 23. Luke xvi. 24. John xiii. 26. Rev. Ana, among occCtlt philofophers, a term uftd to' denote ,xix. 13, as aifo the circumdances cf our Lord’s bap-