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rftumin;:; tlicm towards the perfon intended to be honoured. 



See AciLAMATION. 



Adoratios is of divers kinds and qualities ; fupreme and 

 fuionliiitile ; iiifdhtle a.aA imtuf,!iat: ; ahj'olute -sxiA. relative •, in- 

 tfniiil and external ; fecret and open. 



AnoaATioN, e.sternal, coincides with what is other^vife 

 <*alk"d ritual ailorat'wn. 



Adoration, inlenial, coincides with fpiritual adoration, 

 called alfo adoration in fpirit and in truth. 



AnORATiON/o/cwn, that performed in public, with flated 

 ceremonies prcfcribed by authority : in oppolition to private, 

 or tacit, or implicit adoration. 



\v>OK.\r\os, fupreme, the highcfl; degree of religious ho- 

 nour or v.orlhip rendered to a being, as fuppofing him the 

 fupreme God ; in oppolition to fnbordinate worihip given 

 to inf'.rior beings. 



Adoration, alifuliite, that rendered immediately to a 

 being, in confidcration of his own eiTential perfecT^ions, and 

 tt-niiinating in himfclf. This coincides with immediate 

 adoration, and Hands oppofed to relative or mediate adora- 

 tion. Olearlus has an exprefs diflertalion on the adoration 

 of the Fallier by the Son. 



Adoration, relative, is tliat worfliip paid to an objeft, 

 as belonging to, or reprcientative of another. 



In which fenfe the llomanifts profefs to adore the crofs, 

 not fimply or immediately, which they allow would be ido- 

 latry, but in refpecl of Jefns Chrift, whom they fuppofe to 

 be on it. The Jefuits in China cany an image of Chrift 

 under their clothes, and to this refer mentally the public 

 adorations they oifer to Chacinchoan. Vide Pafcal. Lettr. 

 Provinc. 5. 



Adoration, perpetual, is a kind of fociety or afTociation 

 of devout perfons ellabliflied in Romilh countries, who 

 take their turns to pray before the eucharifts, regularly 

 relieving each other, fo that the Xenice. never ceafes day nor 

 night. 



The members of the perpetual adoration anfwer to the 

 AcoEMiTi in the eaftern church. 



We find focieties under this denomination in France, 

 Germany, Italy, &c. 



Adoration, barbarous, is a term uf-'d in the laws of 

 Tiing Canute, for that performed after the manner of the 

 heathens, who adored idols. 



The Phoenicians adored the winds, on account of the 

 terrible effefts produced by them ; the fame praftice was 

 adopted by moll of the other nations, Perllans, Greeks, 

 Romans, &c. 



The Troglodytes adored tortoifes, as fomething peculi- 

 arly facred ; ieveral people adored weapons, and inftruments 

 of war. The Scythians, S:c. adored fwonls, the Romans 

 axes, and the Arabs ftoncs, the Indians adored vipers, the 

 Bengalefe and Canadefe the fun ; the latter of which nations 

 is alfo faid to adore the crofs. The Manta, a Peruvian 

 people in the ifland of Puna, anciently adored a huge eme- 

 rald, of the bignefs of an oftrlch's egg, by offering to it other 

 emeralds of a leffer fize. All which the priell kept for their 

 own life ; the doiilrine, as GarcilafTo obferves, being founded 

 on their avarice. 



The Perfians chiefly paid their adorations to the fun and 

 fu-e, fome fay alfo to rivers, the wind, &c. The motive of 

 adoring the Uui was the bi-ncfits they received from that 

 glorious lumiuai-y, which of all creatures has doubtlefs the 

 bed pretenfions to fuch homage ; the inllitution of the fire ■ 

 worlhlp is ufiidly referred to Zoroafter. The retainers to it 

 are called ign' i col^ ; by the Perfians, Ghebr, Arefch, Perelh. 

 Dr. Hyde reduces the Perfian fiie-worfhip to a fubordi- 



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nate kind of honour, or fervice, which he calls f>yrodulia, 

 defending that people from any charge of pyrolatnn, or ido- 

 latiy of iiie. A traveller into tlicfc parts, GcmcUi Careri, 

 does the fame. 



The Greeks and Romans alfo adored fire under the name 

 of Vesta. Pliny mentions the method of adoring lightning, 

 which was by poppifms, or gentle clappings of tiie hands. 



The Jews have been charged by heathens with ado- 

 ring the vine, an afs's head, &c. By Chriftians, with ado- 

 ring the book of the law ; a charge which one of their 

 rabbins, Manaff. Ben Ifrael, has been at the pains to re- 

 move. The adoration of the _fo/.7t'« CALF, into which they 

 fell in the wildernefs, feems to have been borrovved, like' 

 many other of their ceremonies, trom the Egyptians. 



The Egyptians are faid to have paid adoration to divers 

 animals, plants, filhes, &c. the crocodile, the ibis, onions, 

 &c. But thofe were only fymbolical, or relative ails of 

 homage ; they adored the fun in a more peculiar manner,- 

 under the name of Osiais. 



It is difputed whether the Chinefe pay divine or onlr 

 civil honours to the ftatues of Confucius, and their anccftors.- 

 That people, however, appear to adore heaven ; whence the 

 infcription in all their temples, and which even the Chriili- 

 nns are faid to have retained in their churches, king tier/, 

 L e. adore heaven. 



The Indians are faid to adore the devil. Some charge, 

 the fame on the Bramins. 



ADOREA, in Roman Antiquity, a word ufed in differ- 

 ent fenfes ; fometimes for all manner of grain, foinetim.es for 

 a kind of cakes made of fine flour, and offered in facrifice ; 

 and finally, for a dole or diftribution of com, as a reward for 

 fome fervice ; whence by metonymy it is put for praife or 

 rewards in general. 



ADOREUS Mons, in Antienl Geography, a mountain of 

 Afia Minor, n^entioncd by Livy (t. v. p. 190.) and placed 

 by M. d'Anville in Galatia, fouth eail of Amorium. 



AUORIAN, in Geography, a fmall town of Upper 

 Hungaiy, near the river Eer, north weft of Varadin, in a 

 fine country. N. lat. 47°. 18'. E. long. 26''. 55'. 



ADORSI, a people of the North, mentioned by Tacitus, 

 (1. xii. c. 15. t. I. p. 723.) whofe fituation is not afcertained. 

 Cellarius fuppofes that they Were the fame with the Aorii, 

 whom Strabo ranks in the number of Scythian Nomades ; 

 and who probably inhabited the country which extended 

 from Mount Hoemus fouthward to the liler northward. 



ADOSCUI.ATION is ufed, by fome NaturaUfls, for a 

 fpecles of copulation, or impregnation, by mere external con- 

 taft between the genital part of the two fexes, without in- 

 tromifTion, 



Such is that of plants, by the falling oi l\\c farina facun' 

 dans, on the piftil, or uterus. 



Divers kinds of birds and fifties are alfo impregnated by 

 adofculdtion. Grew. Anat. of Plants, chap. v. § 9. 



ADOSSE'E is ufed, in Heraldry, to denote tv.o figures 

 or bearings, placed back to back. 



The arms of the duchy of Bar are two bars adojfee. 

 ADOUR,in Geography, a river of France which rifes in the 

 m.ountains of Bigorre, in the department or the Upper Pyren- 

 nees, and running by Tavbes and Dax or Acqs, falls into the 

 Bay of Bifcay, through an outlet called Boacault, near the 

 walls of Bayonne, where it forms a bay, fometimes called 

 Bayonne Bay. The fands in this Bay are often flitted by the 

 frefhes, which come dov.m from the mountains. The bar 

 has not fometimes three feet at low water. It begins to be 

 navigable about two leagues below Saint Sever. 



ADOWA, the capital of Tigre in Abyffmia, is fituated 



