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 A N T ANT (3: 7 .) formed by infpedting the intrails of a human creature', ANTHORA, in botany, the trivial name of a fpecies of ANTHROPOMORPHA, a term formerly given to the aconitum. See Aconitum. ANTHORISMUS, in rhetoric, denotes a contrary de- primates, or that clafs of animals which have the greatfcription or definition of a thing from that given by eft refemblance to the human kind. See Natural History. the adverfe party. ANTHOS, a Greek term, properly fignifying a flower, ANTHROPOMORHISM, among ecclefiaftical writers,but ufed by fome writers to denote rofemary by way denotes the herefy or error of the Aothropomorphites. See the next article. of eminence. Anthos is fometimes alfo ufed for the elixir of gold, ANTHROPOMORPHITES, in church-hiftory, a feft of ancient heretics, who, takjng every thing fpoken of as well as for a medicine extracted from pearls Anthos philofopborum, denotes a certain method of God in feripture in a literal fenfe, particularly that palfage of Genefis in which it is faid God made man tranfniuting metals by vitriol. ANTHOSATUM acetum, the vinegar of rofemary after his own image, maintained. That God had a human lhape They are likewife called Audeans, from flowers. ANTHOSPERMUM, in botany, a genus of the poly- Audeus their leader. gamia dioecia clafs. The^calix of the hermaphrodite ■ ANTHROPOMORPHOUS, an appellation given to flower is divided into four parts ; it has no corolla ; whatever refembles the human form. the ftamina are four, and the piftilli two; the germen ANTHROPOPATHY, a figure or expreflion by which is below the flower. There are two fpecies of antho- fame paflion is aferibed to God, which properly befpermum, viz. the sethiopicum, a native of Ethio- longs only to man. pia ; and the ciliare, a native of the Cape of Good- ANTHROPOSCOPY, that part of phyfiognomy which Hope. judges of a man’s character, from the lineaments ANTHOXANTHUM, in botany, a genus of the dian- of his body. dria digynia clafs. The calix is abivalved gluma, with ANTHROPOPHAGY, the aA of eating human fleih. one flower; the corolla is bivalved,. obtufe, and with- This horrid praAice is faid to prevail in fome. parts of out any awn. There are three fpecies of antboxan- Africa and America.. But it is greatly to be doubted thum, viz. the odoratum, or fpring-grafs, a native of if ever fuch a cuftom exifted. Britain; the indicum, a native of India; and the pa- ANTROPOTHYSIA, the inhuman praAice of offering nicula'tum, a native of the fouthern parts of Europe. human facrifices. See Sacrifice. ANTHRACIS, Anthracias, or Anthracitis, ANTHUM, in botany. See Epithymum. names promifcuoufly ufed by ancient naturalifts for very ANTHUS, in ornithology, a fynonyme of the lofeia. different foflils, viz. the carbuncle,, haematites,, and a- See Lose 1 a. kind of afleria. See Carbuncle, drc. AN I'HYLLUS, in botany, a genus of the diadelphia ANTHRACOSIS, in medicine, a corrofive fcaly ulcer, decandria clafs. The calix is ventricofe, and the leeither in the bulb of the. eye or the eye-fids. gumen is roundifli. There are 10 fpecies of anthylANTHR AX, a Greek term, literally fignifying a burn- 1ns, viz. the tetraphylla, montana, cornicina, lotoiing coal, ufed by the ancients to denote a gem, as well des, barba jovis, heterophylla, cytifoides, heimanise, as a difeafe, more generally known by the name of and erinacea, all natives of Spain, Italy,, and the foucarbuncle. See Carbuncle. thern parts of Europe; and the vulneraria, kidneyAnthrax is fometimes alfo ufed for litfianthrax, or vetch, or lady’s finger, a native of Britain. pit-coal. See Lithanthrax. ANTHYPOPHORA, a fig-are of fpeech ; ANTHRISCUS, in botany, the trivial name of a fpe- being the counter-partinofrhetoric, an hypophora. See Hypocies of tordylium See Tordylium. phora. ANpellation EHROPOGLOTTUS, zoologifts, ap- ANTI, a Greek prepofition, which enters into the comgiven to fuch animalsamong as have tongues anrefemof feveral words, both Latin, French, and blmg that of mankind, particularly to the parrot kind. pofition Englilh, in different. fenfes. Sometimes it fignifies ANTHROPOGRAPHY, denotes the defeription of the before, as and fometimes oppofite or human body, its parts,, flrudture, See Ana- contrary, inas anti-chamber; in the names of thefe medicines, antitomy. fcorbutics, anti-venereal. ANTHROPOLATRE, in church-hiftory, in anatomy,, a name fometimes ufed for tion given to the Neftorians, on account ofantheirappellawor- ANTIADES, the glands, more ufnally .calledSee p. 296. fhippmg Chrift, notwithftanding - that they believed ANTIDIAPHORISTS, in church-hiftory, the oppohim to be a mere man. fers of the Adiaphorifts. See Adiaphori sts. ANTHROPOLATRIA, the paying divine honours to ANTIBACGHIUS, in ancient a foot confifting a man, fuppofed to be the moft ancient kind of ido- of three fyllables, the two firftpoetry, long, and the laft one latry. (hort; .fuch is the word ambTre. ANTHROPOLOGY, a difeourfe upon human nature. ANTIBES, a fea-port town of Provence in France, Anthropology, among the divines, denotes thatattribute manner tuated on the Mediterranean, .in E. long, 70, N. lat,fiof expreflion by which infpired writers 43°, 40'. human parts and paflions to God. in antiquity, the fame with fcrobL ANTHROP.OMANCY, a fpecies of divination, per- ANTICARDIUM, culum cordis. 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