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 iE G I A D V ( i9 ) upon a very extenfive plan, fuggefted by that learned ADVOWTRY, a term ufed in fome old law-books for and eminent lawyer Sir George M'Kenzie of Rofe- adultery. haugh, advocate to King Charles II. and King James ADVOWZON, in law, is the right of patronage, or VII. who enriched it with many valuable books. It prefenting to a vacant benefice, has been daily increafing finee that time, and now con- ADUST, among phyficians, a term applied to the blood, tains not only the belt collection of law-books in Eu- &c. when too hot and fiery. rope, but a very large and feleCt collection of books on ADUSTION, among phyficians, the fame with inflamall fubjeCts. Befides, this library contains a great mation. number of original manufcripts, and a vaft variety of ADYTUM, in pagan antiquity, the moft retired and faJewifh, Grecian, Roman, Scots, and Englilh coins cred place of their temples, .into which none but the priefts were allowed to enter. and medals. , A candidate for the office of an advocate undergoes ADZEL, a fmall town of Livonia, fituated on the fouththree feveral trials: The firft is in Latin, upon the ci- fide of the river Aa, about ten German leagues fouthvil law and Greek and Roman antiquities ; the fecond, weft of Dorpt. in Englilh, upon the municipal law of Scotland; and .ZEACEA, in Grecian antiquity, folemn feftivals and in the third, he is obliged to defend a Latin thefis, games celebrated at ZEgina, in honour of ZEacus ; who, which is impugned by three members of the faculty. on account of his juftice upon earth, was thought to Immediately before putting on the gown, the candidate to have been appointed one of the judges in hell. makes a Ihort Latin Ipeech to the lords, and then takes ZECHMALOTARCHA, in Jewifh antiquity, the title the oaths to the government and de fideIt. given to the principal leader or governor of.the Hebrew The faculty at prefent confifts of above 200 mem- captives refiding in Chaldea, Aflyria, and the neighbers. As an advocate or lawyer is elteemed the gen- bouring countries. teeleft profeffion in Scotland, many gentlemen of for- iEDES, in Roman antiquity, befides its more ordinary tune take the degree of advocate, without having any fignification of a houfe, likewife fignified an inferior intention of praCtiling at the bar. This circumftance kind of temple, confecrated to fome deity. greatly increafes their number, gives dignity to the AiDICULA, a term ufed to denote the inner part of profeffion, and enriches their library and public fund. the temple, where the attar and ftatue of the deity flood. It is from this refpeCtable body, that all vacancies on rEDILATE, the office of jedile, fometimes called adtthe bench are generally fupplied, liiy. See the next article, Fifcal Advocate, fifci advocatus, in Roman antiqui- ZEDILE, in Roman antiquity, a magiftrate whofe hu» ty, an officer of ftate under the Roman Emperors, who finefs it was to fuperintend buildings of all kinds, but pleaded in all caufes wherein the fifcus, or private trea- more efpecially public ones, as temples, aqusedufis, fury, was concerned. high-ways, bridges, fee.. Conjijlorial Advocates, officers of the confiftory at. ALDITUUS, in Roman antiquity, an officer belonging Rome, who plead in all oppofitions to the difpofal of to the temples., who had the charge of the offerings, benefices in that court; they are ten in number.,, treafure, and facred utenfils. The female deities had Advocate of a city, in the German polity, a magi- a woman-officer of this kind called eeditua. ftrate appointed in the Emperor’s name to adminifter ZEGAGIfOPILA, a ball compofed of a fubftance refemjuftice. bling hair, generated in the ftomach of the chamoisBill of ADVOCATION, in Scots law, a writing drawn goat. This ball is of the fame nature with thofe found up in the form of a petition, whereby a party, in an ac- in cows, hogs, fee. tion before an inferior court, applies to the fupreme ZEGILETHRON, in botany, an obfolete name of the court, or court of Seffion, for calling the action from mercurialis. See Mercurial is, the inferior court before itfelf. See Law, title, Ju- ZEGIAS, among phyficians, a white fpeck on the pupil rifdiftion, and judges in general. of the eye, which occafions dimnefs of fight. Letters of Advocation, in Scots law, the decree or JEGILOPS, among phyficians, a lpecies of abfeefs. See warrant of the court of Seffion upon cognifance of the Surgery, title. Of abfeeffes, oe tumors. fafts fet forth in the bill, drawn up in the form of a AEgilqps, in botany, a genus of the polygamia monoecia fummons, and paffing under the fignet, difcharging the clafs. There are five fpecies of this plant, which is a inferior judge and all others from further procedure in kind of grafs, viz. the ovata, caudata, fquarrofa, the caufe, and advocating it to itfelf. See- Bill of triuncialis, and incurvata, only the laft of which is a Advocation. native of Britain, and grows by the fea-fhore. The ADVOCATIONE decimarum, a writ which lies for Englifh name is fea-hard-grafs. claiming a fourth part fqr tidres, or upwards, belong- iEGINETIA, in botany, a fynonime of a fpecies of oroing to any church. banche. See Orobanchx. ADVOUSON, orAnvouzEN. SeeAnvowzoN. AEGIPAN, in heathen mythology, a denomination given AD VOU, in law, fignifies the patron of a church, or to the god Pan, becaufe he was reprefented with the he who has a right to prefent to a benefice. horns, legs, feet, fee. of a.goat. Paramount ADVOWEE, is ufed for the king, as be- AEGIS, in heathen piythology, is particularly ufed for ing the higheft patron. the fliield or cuirafs of Jupiter and Pallas. ADVOWING. See Avowing, AEGIUCHUS, in heathen mythology, a firname of JuVol. I, No, 2. H piter. 3