A D E 



A D E 



to\vns of Franconia ; one in the bifhopric of Bamberg, and 

 tlie othtr ill tlie marciiiifate of Anfpacli. 



ADEMPTION, ill the Civr! Law, tho revocation of a 

 grant, donation, or tlie like. The ademption of a legacy 

 may be eitlier e.\J>rrfs, as when the tcflator dechvrcs in form, 

 that he revokes what he had bequeathed ; or fas'it, as when 

 he only revokes it indireflly or implicitly. Thus, if A. by 

 will gives his da'.itrhter M. loool., to be firll paid after his 

 debts, befidcs a ftiare out of the dividend of hi; eflate ; and 

 afterwards on her marriage, an aj^reement be made forvvlint 

 fhe /hoidd have out of A's elbtc, that it (hould be only 

 liool., which (hould be in full of what was intended out 

 of it ; tliis agrrecment is an ademption ot the legacy. 



ADEN, a gland. See Gland. 



Aden, in Geo;;rapl.>v, a celebrated mart, giving name to 

 a country of which it is the capital, iituate at the moft 

 fouthern extremity of Arabia Felix upon the Indian ocean, 

 near the (Iraits of Babclmanilel. According to the Arabs, 

 its founder was Aden the fon of Saba and grandfon of 

 Abraham. Some fuppofc that the etymology of the iiame 

 is the fame with that of Eden, and that it was fo called 

 from the dehgluful country in which it was fituated. It 

 ftands at the foot of feveral high mountains which fur- 

 round it almoft on all fides. The Arabs have erefted forts 

 on the furnmits of thefe mountains : and a fine aqueduft con- 

 veys the w.Uer from thence into a large refervoir or canal, 

 built about three-quarters of a mile from the city, which 

 fupplies the inhabitants. G-olius fuppofes, that Ailen is the 

 ulrablr Emporium of Ptolemy ; and it is without doubt the 

 jldana of Uranius, mentioned by Stephanus, vol. i. p. 2 1. 

 The fituation of the harbour of AJm., ^vluch opened an 

 eafy communication with Egypt, Ethiopia, India and Per- 

 fia, had rendered it for many ages one of the moll flourilh- 

 ing faftories in Afia. Fifteen y;ars after it had repulfcd 

 the great Albuquerque, who attempted to demolifn it in 

 1513, it fubmitted to the Turks, under Soliman II. in 

 '539> "'^'° '^'d not long remain mailers of it. The king of 

 Yeman, who poffefTed the only diilrift of Arabia that merits 

 the appellation of happy, drove them from thence and re- 

 moved the trade to Mocha, which till this circumftancc oc- 

 curred, was only a village. N. lat. 12° 40'. E. long. 46° 



'3'- 



Aden, is alfo tlie name of a mountain in the kinjrdom 

 of Fe«. 



ADENANTHERA, formed of r^vn;, slandulous, and 

 avSnpx, an anther, hnjinrdjio'xer-jenre, in Bitnti\', a genus of 

 the decandrla monogyma clafs and order, of the natural order 

 of hmeiitacex, and legiimmofa: of Juffieu ; the charailers of 

 which are thefe : the calyx is a one-leafed, five-toothed, 

 very fmall perianthinm ; the corolla is five-petalled and bell- 

 fiiaped, the petals lanceolate, fcffile, convex inwards and 

 concave underneath ; the llamens are fubulate filaments, 

 crcdl and fomewhat (liorter than the corolla ; the anthers are 

 roundifh, incumbent, bearing a globofe gland at the outer 

 tip ; the pillillum is an oblong germen, gibbous downwards, 

 ftyle fubulate and as long as tlie Itamens, the iligma fimple ; 

 the pericarpium is a long comprelTed membranaceous legume, 

 and the feeds are very numerous, roundifli and remote. 

 There are three fpecie;, -vi-z. A. pavomna, or poinciana, 

 with leaves fmooth on both fides, which is one of th.e largeil 

 trees in the Eall Indies. Its duration is 200 years, and its 

 timber is much ufed on account of its folidity ; the powder 

 of the leaves is ufed in their ceremonies ; the feeds are eaten 

 and are alfo valued as weights, being each of them four 

 grains ; and beaten with water and borax, they form a ce- 

 ment, and the bruifed leaves yield a liquor which is elleemed 

 good againft pains in the loins. This f])ecies muil be raifed 



on a hot-bed from feeds, and it myft afterwards be placed 

 in the bark-(h)vc. It has not yet flowered in England. Mr. 

 Miller mentions a variety with fcarlet feeds received fron'k 

 India, which is of a very flow growth. 2. A. fdlcata, 

 with leaves tomentofe underneath, is a native of the Eall 

 Indies. 3. A. fcanilcns is a native ot Mallicollo, an illand 

 in the South-feas. Thefe two Ipecies are hltle known with 

 us ; having never been cullivatid in England. 



Adf.nanthera, is alio a ipecies ot anthkricum. 



ADENUA, ill Gco^iraphy, a town of Africa, in the em- 

 pire of Morocco, and province of Terafena. 



ADENI'jURG, or Aldrnburg, a town of Wcftphaha, 

 in the duchy of Berg, fubjecl to the elector Palatine ; 12 

 miles north-eafl of Cologne. E. long. 7"' 16'. N. lat. 

 51'' 2'. 



ADEN I A, in Bolany, a genus of the hexandna mcn'i- 

 gynm clafs and order ; the characters of which art, that the 

 corolla has fix petals ; the calyx is very long, and divided 

 into lix portions; the ncftarium is compofcd of fix linear ■ 

 fcales. There is one fpecies, xi/s. A. -anenata, with pal- 

 mated leaves and fpikcd flowers. This fpecies is mentioned 

 by Forflval in his Flor. iSgypt. And he fays, that the 

 powder of the young branches mixed in any kind of liouor, 

 is a Urong poifon ; and that the cafiparis Jp'uiofa is an anti- 

 dote to it. The tree grows in Arabia. 



ADENOGRAPHY, compounded of aJrv, ghin:', and 

 y^oi^j;, I defcrihi-, that branch of Anatomy which deicribes thd 

 glands, and the glinduiar parts of the body. 



yldcnography is the f:ime Avith what forae others call adc 

 nology, or the adenological part of Anatomw 



ADENOIDES, q. d. ^/«n</«/ouj-, an epithet applied to 



the PROSTAT.'E. 



ADENOS, a kind of cotton, otherwife called marine 

 cotton. It comes from Aleppo by the way of Marfeilles, 

 where it pays 2.0 per cent, duty, according to the tariff of 

 the year 1706. Its valuation, by the fame tariff, i; of 76 

 livres 16 fols. 



ADENOSUS ahfc'Jfus, in Surgery, a crude Iiard tuber- 

 cle, difficult of difcuflion, and relembling the appearance of 

 a gland. See Abscess. 



ADENSIiN, in Geography, a parcchi;il village in the 

 bailiwick of Calenberg in Hanover, which formerly be- 

 longed to the lords of Adenoys, whofe male ifl'ue became 

 extinft in 133 1, and whofe ellates defcended by marriage to 

 the counts of Hallermund. 



ADEONA, in Mythology, a goddefs invoked by the 

 Romans when they fet out upon a journey. Tins (fays Mr. 

 Biyant) is the fame with Idione or Adione, formed of ad 

 and Imah, q. d. reg'ta coh:mla, referred to in the Hebrew 

 word fai: necromancer (Dcut. xviii. 11.), and probably the 

 DiONE of the-Greeks. Mythol. vol. ii. p. 313. 



ADEPHAGIA, the goddeJs of gluttony," as the name 

 imports, to whom the Sicilians paid religious worfliip. In 

 the temple erefted to her, her ftatue was placed next to tliat 

 of Ceres. 



ADEPHAGUS, or voracious, an appellation of Her- 

 cules. 



ADEPS, in Anatomy, the fat found in the abdomen. 

 The term alio denotes more generally any kind of fat. 



ADEPTS, Adepti, from the verb adipijri, to obtain, a 

 denomination given to the proficients in Alebemy, by which 

 thofe cheraills chofe fonnerly to dillinguiih themfelves who 

 were engag.'d in experiments on the tranfmutation of 

 metals, and refearches after the univerf.d medicine. The 

 appellation is derived, according to Paracelfiis (de alhonomia 

 magna lib. i.), from the Latin term phil(ij':phin adeptu, phi- 

 lofophy acquired by contemplation, in oppofition to that 

 4 whicU 



