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 A D E ( 25 ) ADI a town of Pomerania, fituate on the Ciwheat, -millet, frankincenfe, and pepper. Their reli- ADERBERG, der. gion is the Mahometan. a province of Perfia, bounded on the KwL-fiJh, an obfolete name of the falmo albula, be- ADERBIGAN, N. by Armenia Proper, on the S. by Irac-Agemi, -on longing to therorder of abdominales. . See Sal mo. ADEL-ODAGAM, in botany, a fynonime of the jufti- the E. by Ghilan, and on the W. by Curdillan. The principal town is Tauris, from 42. to. 48. long, from cia biyalvis. See Justicia. , ADELIA, in botany, a genus of the dioecia monadel- 36. to 39. lat. phia clafs. Of this genus there are three fpecies ; the ADERNO, a fmall place in the Val di Demona in the bernardia, a native of America; and the ricinella kingdom of Sicily, 15. 25. E. long. 28. 5. lat. ADESSENARIANS, AdesSenarii, in church-hiltoand acidoton, both natives of Jamaica. ADELPHIANI, in church hiftory, a fed of ancient ry, a fed of Chriftians, who hold the real prefence heretics, fo called from their leader Adelphius. They of Chrilt’s body in the eucharift, though not by way of tranfubftantiation. They differ confiderably as! to keep the fabbath as a faft. ADELSCALC, in antiquity, a fervant of the king; from this prefence, fome holding that the body of Chrift is the German, add, noble, and fcalc, a fervant. They in the bread; others, that it is about the bread; and feem to have been the fame with royal thanes among others, that it is under the bread. the Saxons, and the minijlri regis in ancient char- ADFECTED equation. See Algebra. ADFILIATION, a Gothic cuflom, whereby the chilters. ADELSPERG, a fmall town of Germany, in lower dren of a former marriage are put upon the fame footing with thofe of the fecond. This is alfo calCarniola. • ADEMPTION, in law, is the revocation of a donation, led unto proliutn, and (till retained in fome parts of or grant, either diredly by a deed or writ, or indi- Germany. redly by otherwife difpofing of the fubjed of it. See ADHATODA, in botany, a fynonime of a fpecies of ruelia, acanthus, and of two fpecies of jufticia. Rescission. ADEN, formerly a rich and confiderable town of Ara- Aftion of ADHERENCE, in Scots law, an adion com-, bia the Happy It is feated by the fea-fide, a lit- petent to a hufband or wife, to compel either party to tle eaftward of the llraits of Bebelmandel. adhere, in cafe of defertion. See Law, title, MarADENANTHERA, in botany, a genus of the decan- riage. . dria monogynia clafs. There are only two fpecies of ADHERGAT, a town of Syria, near the frontiers of this plant, the pavonina and the faleataria, both na- Arabia. tives of India. ADHESION, implies the Ricking or adhering of two ADENBURG, or Aldenburg, in geography, a town bodies together. of Weftphalia, and in the dutchy of Burg, fubjed to Adhesion, in logic, fignifies tenacioufnefs to an arguthe Eledor Palatine. It is 12 miles.N. E. of Cologne, ment, without regard to any evidence of its truth. and 17 W. of Bonn, 7. 2J. E. long. 51. 2. lat. Adhesion, in anatomy, a term for one part flicking to' ADENDUM, a fmall town of Africa, in the kingdom another, which in a natural Rate are feparate. of Fez. ADHOA, in ancient cufloms. See Relief. ADENOGR APHY, that part of anatomy which treats ADJA, or Adga, a town of Guinea on the coafl of of the glandular parts. Fantin. ADENOIDES, in anatomy. See Prostates. ADJACENT, an appellation given to fuch things as are ADENOLOGY. See Adenography. fituate near, or adjoining to each other... ADENOS, a kind of cotton otherwife called marine ADIANTHUM, in botany, a genus of the cryptogacotton. It comes from Aleppo by the way of Marfeilles, mia filices, of which are 19 fpecies, and only * where it pays 20 percent, duty, according to the tariff two of them natives ofthereBritain, viz. the adianthum of the year 1766. Its valuation, according to the fame capillus veneris, or true maiden-rhair, and the trapezi-' tariff, is 76 livres i6fols. forme, or fhining maiden-hair. ADENOSE abfeefs, a term fometimes ufed for a hard ADIAPHORISTS, Adiaphoristje, or Adiapk-otumour relembling a gland. rites, in church-hiflory, a name importing lake-; ADEONA, in mythology, the name of a goddefs invoked warmnefs, given, in the fixteenth century, to the modeby the Romans when they fet out upon a journey. rate Lutherans, who embraced the opinions of Me-, ADEPHAGIA, in mythology, the goddefs of glutto- landhon, whofe difpofition was vaftly more pacific than ny, to whom, the Sicilians paid religious worlhip. that of Luther. ADEPS, in anatomy, the fat found in the abdomen. ADJAZZO, in geography, a handfome town and caftle It alfo fignifies animal-fat of any kind. in the Mediterranean, with a bilhop’s fee,, ADEPTS, a term among alchemifts for thofe who pre- ofandCorfica . a good harbour. It is and fertile in tended to have found out the panacea or philofophers- wine. Some call it Agaccio.populous, It is 27 miles S. W. ftone. of Corte, 8. 53. E. long. 41. 54. lat. ADEQUATE, fomething equal to or exadly corre- ADJECTIVE, in grammar, when joined to a fubftanfponding with another. tive, imports fome quality, or accident, or circumAdequate idea, fignifies a diftind or perfed concep- • fiance belonging to that fubflantive. tion of all the. qualities of any objed. ADIGE, in geogtaphy, a river in Italy, which taking Vol. I. No. 2. G its 3