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 AGE AGE (3 7 ) is called, full age, a man or v/oman beare natives of Britain^ Several fpecies of the agaric ingTwenty-one then capable of ading for themfelves, of managrow upon the trunks of the larch, the oak, and other trees. It is of a fpungy fubftance, refembling the ging their affairs, making contrads, difpofing of their jnulhroom, and irregular in its figure and fize. This eftates, and the like. tetatsm precari, inlaw, is when an adion plant has of late been tried for flopping haemorrhages Age-prier, after amputations : but the fuccefs has not been fo re- being brought againft a perfon under age, for lands defeended to him, he, by motion or petition, (hews markable as to bring it into general ufe. matter to the court, praying the adion may be Mineral Agaric, a marley earth refemblinjg the vege- the (laid till his full age; which the court generally atable of that name in colouijr and texture. It is found grees in the fiffures of rocks, and on the roofs of caverns; Age of to. moon, in afironomy, the time elapfed fince and is fometimes ufed as an aflringent in fluxes, hae- her lafttheconjundion with the fun. See Astronomy. morrhages, fac. in geography, a fmall town and river of PorAGASYLLIS, a name ufed by the Greeks for ammo- AGEDA, tugal, fituated in the province of Beiran, between the niac. See Ammoniac. AGAT, is a ftone refembling the onyx in colour, but, cities of Oporto and Coimbra. in Macedonian antiquity, was a.body of folin place of zones, is adorned with lines or fpots of AGEMA, various colours, which run into fo many figures, as diery, not unlike the Roman legion. See Legion. or Agjamoglans, or Azamoto referable trees, flowers, fruits, herbs, <bc. Of AGEMOGLANS, the agat there are feveral fpecies, diflinguifhed from glans, in the Turkiflr cuftoms, Chriftian children every third year, by way of tribute, from the each other chiefly by their colour; as, the white- raifed veined agat, the lead-coloured agat, the flefh-colour- Chriflians tolerated in the Turkifli empire. AGEN, an ancient city of France, in the province of ed agat, tec. fituated on the river Garronne, about fixty Agat, is alfo the name of an inftrument ufed by gold- Guienne, S. E. of Bourdeaux. It is a biftiop’s fee, and wire-drawers, fo called from the agat in the middle of miles the capital of the Agenois. it, which forms its principal part. among philofophers and divines, fignifies ‘AGATA, or St Agata di Goti, a city and bilhop’s AGENDA, fee of Naples, and province of Principato, fituated the duties which a man lies under an obligation to thus, we meet with the agenda of a Chrialmoft in the middle between Gapua and Beneventum. perform: the duties he ought to perform, in oppofition AGATONSI, a fmall ifland of the Archipelago, fitu- to(tian,the orcredenda, or things he is to believe. ated between that of Lefoos and the continent. among merchants, a term fometimes ufed for AGATTON, a town of Africa, on the coaft of Gui- Agenda, ney, fituated near the mouth of the fiver Formofa, a- a memorandum book, in,which is fet down all the btvfinefs to be tranfaded during the day, either at home bout eighty miles fouth of Benin. AGATY, in botany, a fynonime of the sefehynomene. or abroad. AGENHINE, the fame with hogenhine. See HogeNSee Avschynomene. AGAVE, in botany, a genus of the hexandria mona- hine. gynia clafs. Under this genus Linnseus ranks 4 fpe-. AGENOIS. See Agen. cies of the Aloes, viz. the america, vivipara, virgi- AGENGRIA, in mythology, the goddefs of courage and induilry, as Vacuna was of indolence. nica, and foetida. See Aloe. AGAZES, a name given to the inhabitants of Paraguay AGENT, in a general fenfe, denotes any adive power or caufe. Agents are either natural or moral. Nain S. America. AGDE, a fmall but well inhabited city of France, in tural agents are fuch inanimate, bodies as have a power the province of Languedoc, near the mouth of the to ad upon other bodies in a certain and determinate river Eraut, about thirty miles S. W. of Montpelier. manner, as gravity, fire, <bc. Moral agents, on the It is the fee of a bifliop. contrary, are rational creatures, capable of regulating AGE, a certain portion or part of duration applied to their adions by a certain rule. the exigence of particular objefis: thus we fay, the Agent, is alfo ufed to denote a perfon intruded with age of the world, the age of Rome, &c. that is, the the management of an affair, whether belonging to a time or number of years elapfed fince the creation of fociety, company, or private perfon. the world, or the building of Rome. See Astro- Agents of bank and exchange, in the commercial polity of France, are much the fame with our exchangenomy, 0/ the divifion of time. The ancient poets alfo divided the duration of the brokers. world into four ages or periods; the firft of which Agent and patient, in law, is faid of a perfon who is they called the golden age, the fecond die Jilver age, the doer of a thing, and alfo the party to whom it is the third the hrazen age, and the fourth the iron age. done. Age, in law, figniges a certain period of life, when Agents in rebus, in antiquity, fignifies officers employperfons of both fexes are enabled to do certain ads : ed under the empeiors of Conftantinople, and differthus, a man at twelve years of age ought to take the ing only in name from the frumentarii, whom they oath of allegiance to the king in a leet; at fourteen fucceeded. See Frumentarii. he may marry, chufe his guardian, and claim his AGER, in Roman antiquity, a certain portion of land lands held in foecage. allowed to each citizen. See Agrarian Law. Vol.I. No. 2. K Acer, 3