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 A T H A T .H ( 501 ) fure by {hutting the regifters. See Chemistry, Of afyla, the moft remarkable of which were, the fix ci- furnaces. ties of refuge, the temple, and the altar of burnt-of- ATHEIST, a perfon who does not believe the exiftence ferings. of a Deity. Many people, both ancient and modern, ASYMMETRY, the want of proportion between the have to atheifm, or have been reckoned aparts of any thing, being the contrary of fymmetry. theiftspretended by the world ; but it is juftly queftioned wheSee Symmetry. ther any man ferioufty adopted fuch a principle. Thefe ASYMPTOTE, in geometry, a line which continually pretenfions, approaches nearer to another ; but, though continued in- affe&ation. therefore, muft be founded on pride or finitely, will never meet with it: Of thefe ;there are ma- ATHELING, Adeling, Edling, Ethling, or ny kinds. In ftricknefs, however, the term afymptotes Etheling, among our Saxon anceftors, was a title is appropriated to right lines, which approach nearer of honour properly belonging to the heir apparent, or and nearer to fome curves of which they are faid to be prefumptive, the crown. This honourable appelafy?nptotes; but if they and their curve are indefinite- lation was firfttoconferred by king Edward the Confefly continued, they will never meet. on Edgar, to whom he was great uncle, when, ASYMPTOTIC [pace, the fame with hyperbolic fpace. for being without any iffue of his own, he intended to See Hyperbolic. ASYNDETON, in grammar, a figure which omits the make him his heir. conjundtions in a fentence; as in veni, vtdi,vici, et ATHENA, a plafter made of aloes, myrrh, and gum ammoniac, and recommended by fome ancient phyfiis left out. ATARAXY, a term ufed by the ftoics and fceptics, to cians in wounds of the head. in Grecian antiquity* See Panathedenote that calmnefs of mind which fecures us from ATHENAA, n.ea. all emotions arifing from vanity and felf-conceit. in antiquity, a public place whereinATAXY, in a general fenfe, the want of order : With ATHENAEUM, phyficians, it fignifies irregularity of crifes and pa- the profeffors of the liberal arts held their affemblies, the rhetoricians declaimed, and the poets rehearfed roxyfms of fevers. ATCHE, in commerce, a fmall filver coin ufed in Turky, their performances. Thefe places, of which there Were a great number and worth only one third of the Englilh penny. ATCHIEVEMENT, in heraldry, denotes the arms of at Athens, were built in the manner of amphitheatres, a perfon, or family, together with all the exterior or- encompaffed with feats, called cunei. The three moft naments of the Ihield ; as helmet, mantle, creft, fcrolls, celebrated Athenaea were thofe at Athens, at Rome, and motto, together with fuch quarterings as may and at Lyons, the fecond of which was built by the have been acquired by alliances,. all marlhalled in or- emperor Adrian. der. ATHENREE, a town of Ireland, in the county of GalA TEMPO GIUSTO, in mufic, fignifies to fing. and way, and province of Connaught, fituated about ten or play in an equal, true, and juft time. See Time. miles eaftward0 of the city of Galway, in 8° 50' W. ATHAMAPULET, the prime minifter of the Perfian long, and 53 if N. lat. empire, as the grand vizier is of the Turkifti empire. ATHENS, anciently the capital of Attica, fo famous He is great chancellor of the kingdom,>prefident of the for its learned men, orators, and captains, now callcouncil, fuperintendant of the finances, and is charged ed Setines. It Hands upon a plain watered by the with all foreign affairs. rivers Uliffus and Eridanus, about 40 miles eaft or ATHAMANTA, in botany, a genus of the pentandria the ifthmus of Corinth : At prefent it is faid to digynia clafs. The fruit is oblong and ftreaked. The contain 10,600 inhabitants, three parts of which fpecies are 10, only one of which, viz. the libanotis are Chriftians. The town does not lie round the caftle or mountain ftone-parfley is a native of Britain. The as anciently, but on the north-weft fide of it. Here root of the athamanta meum or fpignel, a native of I- a Greek metropolitan refides. Among the many retaly, is an ufeful aromatic and carminative, though mains of antiquity, is the temple of Jupiter Qfympius, little regarded in the prefent pra&ice. and temple of Minerva, called Parthenion, which lait ATHANASIA, in botany, a genus of the fyngenefia is ftill entire, and converted into a Turkifh mofque, polygamia sequalis clafs. There are ten fpecies of which, as later travellers affure us, is the fineft temthis genus, moft of them natives of Africa. ple in the world. This city, as all the reft of Greece, ATH A N A SIAN creed, that fuppofed to be compofed is.fubjed to the Turks. E. long. 240 15' N. lat. by Athanafius. See Creed. 38° s' ATHANATI, in Pejfian antiquity, a body of cavalry, ATHERINA, in ichthyology, a genus of fillies of the confifting of ten tfioufand men, always complete. order of abdominales. The charadters of this geThey were called atbanati, becaufe, when one of nus are thefe: The upper jaw is plain; the rays of them happened to die, another was immediately ap- the branchioftege membrhne are fix; and the fide-belt pointed to fucceed him.. or line fhines like filver. The fpecies are two, viz. ATHANOR, in chemiftry, a kind of fixed and large 1. The hepfetus, with about 12 rays in the fin next digefting furnace, made with a tower, fo contrived as the anus. It is found in the Mediterranean. 2. The to keep a Conftant moderate heat for a confiderable menidea, with 24 rays in the fin next the anus. This time, which may be increafed or diminiflied at plea- is a very fiuall pellucid fifh, with many black points inVol. I. Numb. 2y 3 6L terfperfed j