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 ANN (3 17 ) ANN ANKER, a liquid meafure at Amfterdam. It contains ANNECY, a town of the duchy of Savoy, fituated upabout 32 gallons Englifh'meafure. on a lake of the fame name, fubjedt to the king of ANN, or ANNAT,,in Scots law, is half a year’s ftipend, Sardinia, in.60.IO, E. long, and 46° N. lat. which the law gives to the executors of minifters of ANNEXATION, in law, a term ufed to imply the uthe church of Scotland, over and above what was due niting of lands or rents to the crown. to the minifter himfelf, for his incumbency. See Scots ANNI nubiles, in law, denotes the marriageable age of Law, title, Ecdefiajiical perfins. a woman, viz. after ftie has arrived at twelve. ANNA, in Roman antiquity, an appellation given to the ANNIENTED, in law, fignifies annulled or made void. ANNIHILATION, the adt of reducing any created bemoon. See the article Moon. ing into nothing. Anna, in geography, a city of Arabia Petrea, fltuated on the weftern fhore0 of the river Euphrates, in 410 33' ANNIVERSARY, the annual return of any remarkable of E. long, and 33 30/ N. lat. day. Anniverfary days, in old times more particularANNAACIOUS, a people of Brafil, in America, whofe ly, denoted thofe days in which an office was performcountry borders on the government of Porto Seguro. ed for the fouls of the deceafed, or the martyrdom of ANNABERG, a fmalL town of Germany, in the pro- the faints was celebrated in the church. vince of Mifnia, fltuated near the river Schop, about ANNOBON, an ifland of Africa, on the coaft of Gui11 German miles from Leipfic. nea, in 70 E. long, and i° 50' S.lat. ANNAGH, the name of two towns in Ireland, one in ANNO Domini, i. e. the year of our Lord, the comthe province of Ullter, and the other in the county of putation of time from' our Saviour’s incarnation. Downe. ANNOISANCE, in law, the fame with nufance. See ANNALE, in the church of Rome, a term applied to Nusance. the maifes celebrated for the dead during a whole ANNOMINATION, in rhetoric, the fame with what year. is otherwife c&Wtdparonomajia. See Paronomasia. ANNALS, in matters of literature, a fpecies of hi- ANNONA, in Roman antiquity, denotes provifion for ftory, which relates events in the chronological or- a year of all forts, as of flefh, wine, tic. but eder wherein they happened. They differ from per- fpecially of corn. Annona is likewife the allowance fe£t hiftory in this, that annals are a bare relation of oil, fait, bread, flefh, corn, wine, hay, and ftraw, of what happened every year, as a journal is of what which was annually provided by the contradlors for the paffes every day; whereas hiftory relates, not only maintenance of an army. the tranfaftions themfelves, hut alfo the caufes, mo- ANNONAC prafeftus, in antiquity, an extraordinary ~ tives, and fprings of aftions, magiftrate, whofe bufinefs it was to prevent a fcarcity ANNALES, inlaw. See Yearlings. of provifion, and to regulate the weight and finenefs ANNAMABOE, an Englifh fadtory on the gold coaft, of bread. in Guinea, in Africa. ANNONAY, a town of France in 0the upper Vivares, ANNAN, the capital of the fhire of Annandale, in fituated on the river Deume, in 5 22 E.long. and Scotland, fituated upon a river of the fame name, in 450 15' N. lat. 30 W. long, and 540 40' N. lat. ANNOT, a fmall city in the mountains of Provence in ANNAPOLIS, the capital of Maryland, a Britifh0 co- France, in 70 E. long, and 440 4' N. lat. lony in N. America, in 78° W. long, and 39 25^ ANNOTATION, in matters of literature, a brief comN. lat. mentary, or remark upon a book or writing, in order ANNAPOLIS, is alfo the name of the capital of Nova to clear up fome paffage, of draw fome conclufion Scotia, fituated in 64° W. long, and 450 N. lat. from it. ANNATES, among ecclefiaftical writers, a year’s in- ANNUA penjione, in law, an old-writ for granting an • come of a fpiritual living. to one of the king’s chaplains. Thefe were, in ancient times, given to the pope annual penfion in a general fenfe, an appellation given to through all Chriftendom, upon the deceafe of any bi- ANNUAL, whatever returns every year, of is always performed fhop, abbot, or parifh-clerk, and were paid by his fuc- within that fpace of time : Thus we fay, The annual cefibr. At the reformation they were taken from the motion of the earth, annual plants, tic. pope, and vefted in the king; and finally, queen Ann ANNUALRENT, in Scots law, an yearly profit due reftored them to the church, by appropriating them to by a debtor in a fum of money to a creditor for the ufe the augmentation of poor livings. of it. See Scots Law, title. Obligations arifmgfrom ANNEALING, ovNealing, the burning or baking confent. glafs, earthen ware, tic. in an oven or furnace. See Right of Annualrent, in Scots law, the original meNealing. thod of burdening lands with an yearly payment for ANNE, or St Anne’/-^, a feftival of the Chriftian the loan of money, before the taking of intereft for church, celebrated by the Latins on the twenty-fixth money was allowed by ftatute. See Scots Law, of July, but by the Greeks on the ninth of December. , title, Heretalle and moveable rights. It is kept in honour of Anne, or Anna, mother of the ANNUENTES mufculi, in anatomy, the fame with Virgin Mary, refti interni minores. See Anatomy, Part II. Vol. I. No. 14. 3 4L ANNUITIES.