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and fillets between them, used by ancient 

 architects in the Ionic order, and some- 

 times in the Doric. Attic order is a term 

 sometimes used to denote the pilasters 

 employed in the decoration of an attic 

 story. An attic story is the upper story 

 of a house. 



ATTI'RK. 1. Dress. 2. Horns of a 



deer. 3. The sexual parts of plants. 



ATTOL'LENT, Lat. attollens, lifting up ; 

 applied to muscles which raise the parts 

 they are affixed to. 



ATTO'RNEY, Lat. attoniatui ; one ap- 

 pointed by another to transact some 

 business in his name and stead. An at- 

 torney is either public or special; the 

 fonner is one who is authorized by the 

 rules of the court to represent suitors 

 without any especial written authority 

 for the particular ciwe a special attorney 

 is appointed by a deed called a power, 

 warrant, or letter of attorney, which is a 

 commission from the principal specifying 

 tin- acts for which he, the principal, will 

 hold himself liable on their being per- 

 formed by the attorney. 



ATTOR'NEY-GEX'ERAL, a principal law- 

 officer appointed to manage all law affairs 

 on the part of the government. 

 ATTORN'MENT, ) Lat. attornamentum, 

 ATTOURN'MENT, I (from Fr. tourner). In 

 Er-glish law, the act of a feudatory vassal 

 or tenant, by which he consents, on the 

 alienation of an estate, to receive a new 

 lord or superior. 



ATTRACTION, Lat. attractio, a drawing 

 to. ad and traho. The tendency which 

 bodies have to come together, or the 

 principle which inclines them to unite 

 and remain in union. (See AFFINITY.) 



The terms attraction and repulsion in 

 the language of modern philosophy are 

 employed merely as the expression of the 

 general facts that the masses or particles 

 of matter have a tendency to approach or 

 recede from each other under certain cir- 

 cumstances. The term affinity has been 

 used synonymously with attraction, but 

 it is now generally restricted to chemi- 

 cal attraction, while the termgravity is 

 used to designate that influence which 

 one mass of matter exerts over another 

 at sensible distances '.See GRAVITY). 

 "Whether the several kinds of attraction 

 are referable to one and the same 

 cause is still aa open question ; all that 

 is at present know d is, that they give 

 rise to different phenomena, and appear 

 to operate according to different laws. 

 ATUS, is a Latin termination; Angli- 

 cised ate or ated, and denotes the presence 

 of something general ; e. g. ulatu*, Ang. 

 alate, winged. The same applies to itus. 

 AL-'BAIHE, Fr. aubain, an alien. The 

 dr-nt d'Aubaine was a French law, by 

 which the king became heir to an alien 

 dying within his jurisdiction. 



Ax-ca E'.N i , a genus of ruminant animals 

 allied to the camel : the species are two. 

 the Lama and the Paco, both natives of 

 America. 



Accc'BA,the Gold-Plant, shrub ; native 

 of Japan. jllona?cia Tetrandna. 



ACDE'ANISM, anthropomorphism; the 

 doctrine of Audeus. 



AU'DIENCE, Lat. audientia, of audio, to 

 hear. 1. The ceremonies practised iu 

 courts at the admission ot ambassadors 



and public ministers to a hearing. 2. A 



court held in Kngland by an archbishop 



be argued before himself. 3. In Spain, 



a court of oyer and terminer. 



AU'DITOR, a Latin word denoting a 

 hearer ; and in the language of the ancient 

 law, an officer of courts whose duty it was 

 to interrogate the parties. In England, 

 the term is employed as the designation 

 of certain officers who examine accounts, 

 compare the charges with the vouchers, 

 interrogate parties, allow or reject 

 charges, and state the balance. Accounts 

 so examined are said to be audited, and 

 the' process is called auditing. 



AU'DITORY, Lat. auditorium. 1. A seat 

 or bench where a magistrate or jud;;o- 



hears, causes. 2. That part of an ancient 



church where the people sate, now calleu 



the nave. 3. Belonging to the parts 



connected with the sense of hearing ; e. g. 

 the auditory nerves. 



AD'OITE, a mineral of a dark green, 

 brown or black colour, of which the most 

 remarkable varieties are Diopside,Sah- 

 lite, Coccolite and Omphazite ; the Zilier- 

 thal, used in jewelry, is also a variety. It 

 occurs in volcanic rocks, crystallised in. 

 six or eight sided prisms, terminated by 

 dihedral summits. Same from uy>i (Pia. 

 37, 16), splendovr. It is the pyroxene of 

 Hatty, and the puratcmous augite-spar of 

 Mohs. 



AUGMENTATION, from Lat. augmen, in- 

 crease. In music, a doubling the value of 

 the notes of the subject of a fugue or 

 canon. In heraldry, additional charges to 

 a coat-armour. The Augmentation Court 

 was a court erected by 27 Hen. VIII., to 

 augment the revenues of the crown by 

 the suppression of monasteries ; abolished. 



AUOCRS were certain priests amongthe 

 Romans, who from the flight and ciios <:' 

 birds, from lightning, &c., pretended io 

 foretell future events, and announce the 

 will of the gods. 



AU'OUST, the eighth month of the year, 

 having 31 days. The name was changed 

 by the Romans from Sextilis (the sij-tk 

 month from March), in honour of the em- 

 peror Oct. Augustus. 



AUGUSTAN CONFESSION, a memoria. 

 drawn up at Augsburg (Lat. Augusta^, by 

 Luther and Melancth'on in 1530, setting 



