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 body. It inhabits the potatoes of Surinam. 23. The gymnopterorum, is reddih, with two carlet pots on each ide. It inhabits bees, &c. 24. The coleoptratorum, is reddih, with a white anus. It inhabits the carabæus. 25. The rupetris, is yellowih, with a double coloured line on the back. It is a native of Europe. 26. The longicornis, is red, and the feelers are longer than the nout. It is a native of Europe. 27. The littoralis, is of a tawny yellowih colour, and has blood-red legs. It frequents the hores of Europe. 28. The fungorum is of a yellowih colour, and has a globular clammy belly. It inhabits the muhroom. 29. The caber, is ah-coloured, and depreed; the ides are curfy. It is a native of Europe. 30. The alicinus, is red, with two yellow lines on the back; it is forked before. It dwells on the willows. 31. The croceus, is yellow, with a reddih pot on each ide of the breat.  ACATALECTIC, a term, in the ancient poetry, for uch veres as have all their feet or yllables, in contraditinction to thoe that have a yllable too few.  ACATALEPSY, ignifies the impoibility of comprehending any thing.  ACATALIS, a name given by the ancients to the juniper-berry.  ACATASTATOS, with phyicians, ignifies the irregular paroxyins of a dieae.  ACATERY, or, an officer of the king's houehold, deigned for a check betwixt the clerks of the kitchen and the purveyors.  ACATHARSIA, an impurity of the blood or humours.  ACATHISTUS, in an eccleiatical ene, a olemn hymn anciently sung in the Greek church on the Saturday of the fifth week of Lent, in honour of the Virgin, for having thrice delivered Contantinople from the invaions of the barbarous nations. <section end="Acathistus" /> <section begin="Acatium" />ACATIUM, in antiquity, a kind of boat ued in military affairs, and was a pecies of the. See. <section end="Acatium" /> <section begin="Acatsia-Valli" />ACATSIA-VALLI, in botany, a ynonime of the caitha iliformis. See. <section end="Acatsia-Valli" /> <section begin="Acaulis" />ACAULIS, in botany, ignifies plants that have no caulis or tem. <section end="Acaulis" /> <section begin="Accalia" />ACCALIA, in antiquity, olemn feats held in honour of Acca Laurentia, nure to Romulus. They were otherwie called .To the ame Acca is alo acribed the intitution of the. <section end="Accalia" /> <section begin="Accapitare" />ACCAPITARE, in law, the act of becoming vaal of a lord, or of yielding him homage and obedience. See and. <section end="Accapitare" /> <section begin="Accapitum" />ACCAPITUM, ignifies the money paid by a vaal upon his admiion to a feud.

, in our ancient law, was ued alo to expres the relief due to the chief lord. See. <section end="Accapitum" /> <section begin="Accedas" />ACCEDAS ad curiam, in the Englih law, a writ lying, where a man has received, or fears fale judgment, in an inferior court; it lies alo for jutice delayed, and is a pecies of the writ recordare. <section end="Accedas" /> <section begin="Accedones" />ACCEDONES. See. <section end="Accedones" /> <section begin="Accelerated" />ACCELERATED, implies, in a general ene, quickened, continually increaing. Thus, accelerated motion is a motion continually increaing. See. <section end="Accelerated" /> <section begin="Acceleration" />ACCELERATION, an increae of velocity in the motion of a body; it is oppoed to retardation, which in a diminution of motion.

, is alo a term ued by ancient atronomers, with whom it ignified the difference between the revolution of the primum mobile, and that of the un, computed to be three minutes and fifty-ix econds. <section end="Acceleration" /> <section begin="Accelerator" />ACCELERATOR, in anatomy, the name of two mucles of the penis, which erve for ejecting the urine or emen. See, Part VI]]. <section end="Accelerator" /> <section begin="Accendentes" />ACCENDENTES, a lower order of miniters in the Romih church, whoe office is to light and trim the candles. <section end="Accendentes" /> <section begin="Accendones" />ACCENDONES, in Roman antiquity, a ort of gladiators, whoe office was to excite and animate the combatants during the engagement. See. <section end="Accendones" /> <section begin="Accensi" />ACCENSI, among the ancient Romans, a kind of upernumerary oldiers, who erved to fill the places of thoe who were killed or diabled by their wounds.

, among the Romans, an inferior order of officers, who attended the magitrates in the manner of our uhers, erjeants, or tiptaffs. <section end="Accensi" /> <section begin="Accension" />ACCENSION, in chemitry, the action of etting a body on fire: thus the accenion of tinder is effected by triking fire with flint and teel. <section end="Accension" /> <section begin="Accent" />ACCENT, or accenting, in reading or peaking: when we raie the tone higher in ounding any particular word or yllable, that word or yllable is aid to be accented, or graced with an accent. In hexameters there is a capital accent in every line, eaily ditinguihable from the ret by a good ear. Thus,

Accents either in proe or poetry have a double effect: They contribute to the melody, by giving it air and pirit; they contribute not les to the ene, by ditinguishing words of importance from others. Accenting is entirely confined to long yllables; for a hort yllable is not capable of an accent. Every word in the hexameter line that has a long yllable may be accented, unles the ene interpoe, which rejects the accenting a word that makes no figure by its ignification. But, notwithtanding this circumtance, there is contantly one accent in every line which makes a greater figure than any of the ret. Thus,

"Smooth flow the wâves, the zephyrs gently play, Belinda mîl’d, and all the world was gay."

In order to facilitate the reading of dead languages, grammarians have adopted various characters for ditinguihing the accents belonging to particular yllables; uch as the acute, marked thus, (´), the grave thus (`), and the circumflex thus (˘), or (ˆ), &c.. The acute denotes that the voice is to be raied; the grave, that is to be lowered or flattened; and the circumflex, that the yllable is to be lengthened or dwelt upon. <section end="Accent" /> Rh