ALA 



A L A 



which are much elleeiiKd for their cltgaiice. A diilai^llc 

 poem on Agric Ilk lire, in bhuikvcrfe, " Delhi Coltivationc" 

 hril printed at Paria in i 541^1, added to liis reputation. A 

 pleee of greater bulk, intitled, " Giroiie il Cortefe," taken 

 from a French romance, " Giron the Courteous," was puh- 

 liflitd in 154H. His epic poem, called " rAvarchide," on 

 the fii-'gc ot Boarjjjes, and his comedy " J. a Flora," \vhich 

 he letl behind him, did not much fuceeed^. But his Tufcan 

 epigrams, a Ipecies of writing, firll attempted by himt'elf, 

 were well received, and produced manv imitators. Alamanni 

 is conlidereil upon the whole, as a writer to whom Italian 

 poetry lies under particular obligations. 



ylntuuio yl/iiiNii/i/ii, whole burlelquc poems were printed 

 with thofe of BurchicUo, was a relation of lAiigi. Gen. 



Dia. 



ALAMANNICUM, in ylntlquky, a tribute impofed on 

 the people by the emperor Alexius AngeKis, for railing the 

 fum of iixteen talents of gold, to be paid the Aiamauiii, on 

 the conditions of a peace ilipulated with them. 



The ecckriallics themfelves were not exempted from this 

 tax. 



ALAMATOU, in Botany, the fruit of a tree that grows 

 in Madagafcar, rcfembling in its talle the black plum, but 

 inllead ot the ilone of the plum, it has 10 or 12 Hut kernels ; 

 the leaf of the tree is like that of the plum-tree. There are 

 two forts of this fruit, one like llie plum and the other like 

 the tig, which is dangerous when taken to excefs. 



ALAMBAY, in Geo'^r.iphf, one of the Sonda idands in 

 the Pacific Ocean, 30 leagues fouth of Borneo. 



ALAMEH, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia, 53 

 leagues fouth of Kutaja. N. lat. 35° 35'. E. long. 31 " Hj. 



A-LA-MI-RE, in the Guidonhin ScciL of Mufic, or 

 Giimmut, IS the oftave above A-nE, or A in the firll ipace in 



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the bafe 



^EB 



As A is the note above G in every 



part of an inllrument, it is, of courfe, the third found be- 

 low each tenor clef ; and is likewife the found that occuj:)ic3 

 the iecond fpace, and the fixth line in the treble. The 

 letter A itfelf is an abbreviation of A-re and A-la-mi-re 

 in the fcale of Guido ; and is the found to which all in- 

 llruments are tuned at an opera, concert, or other mulical 

 performance. A in the Italian mulical language, when it 

 precedes a fubllantive, has the power of ;';; ; as A LattiHn, in 

 time, or meafure, after recitative, or an ml Illttum. A capella, 

 facred mufic, compolitions in the church ftylc. See Gam- 

 MUT and GuiDONiAM Scale. 



ALAMODALITY, alanwilaUtns, is defined by a late 

 writer, a iludy or endeavour to accommodate a man's lelf 

 in point of behaviour, drefs, converfation, and other actions 

 ot life, to the reigning talle or cuilom, from a motive of 

 complaifance, and to avoid the imputation of lU-breed- 



Ala MODALITY of wriling, ahimotlnliliis f-nbcr.dl, is de- 

 fined by the fame perfon, a particular iludy or endeavour of 

 learned men to adapt the produtlions of their minds, both 

 as to the choice of fubjeft and the manner of treating it, to 

 the genius or talle of the times, in order to render them more 

 acceptable to the readers. 



A German writer, under the name of Geamoenus, has a 

 diffcrtation on alamodality in writing. 



ALAMODE, in Commerce, a thin, light, glofiy, black 

 filk, not quilled or crofled ; chiefly ufcd for woman's hoods, 

 and men's mourning fcarvcs. 



The name is French, though not given in that country to 

 this fabric, for which they have no other name than laflas 

 lioir h.Jlri. . 



AIwXMOS, BALrMA/AR,iM /y;<;i,'/i7/'/i_v, a Spanidi writer, 

 was born at Medina del Campo, in Callile. He lludiid 

 the law at Salamanca, lerved in a lubordiiiale tifiice uiiih r 

 Philip 1 1, was iinprifoncd upon the difgrace of his |)atron, 

 Anthony Pere/., fecretary c<f Hate to this |)iince, and after 

 a confinement of 1 1 years, releafed by Philip III. I'y the 

 duke of Olivare/, the favourite of Philip IV. he was called 

 to public employments. He was deemed a man of wit and 

 judgment. He died in the ysih year of his age ; and his 

 Spaiiilh trandation of Tacitus, with marginal aphurifms, 

 was publilhed at Madrid, in 1614. Biog. Did. 



Alampo, Alampy, or I^ay, in Gca^riiphy, a town on 

 the gold coall of Africa, call of Ningo, and four leagues 

 from the mountain Redoiido, which prefents itlelf in the 

 form of a fugar-loaf to the Horth-north-weil. The tow.i 

 is fituated on tlie declivity of a mountain, which has :i 

 northern afpect ; and the adjacent coall is bounded by hills 

 of confideial)le lieight, that art covered with palm-trees. 

 The inhabitants arc gentle and timid ; their principal com- 

 merce is that of (laves. The anchorage of this port is very 

 good. N. lat. 5". W. long. 3". 



AI.AN, or Eynn, yHiiinu ile I.ynnn, in Biography, an 

 Eiiglifli divine of the 15th centuiy, was born at Lynn, in 

 Norfolk, educated at Cambridge, and dillinguiflied as a 

 iludent and a preacher. He was addicted to allegorical in- 

 terpretations of Scripture, and to the application of the hil- 

 torical parts of the Old Tellament, to the concerns of reli- 

 gion and moral condua, a prartice blamed by Bale, but 

 commended by Pits. He wrote tracls on the interpretation 

 of Scripture, fermons, and elucidations of Ariilotle ; and 

 be was famous for the pains which he took in making in- 

 dexes to moil of the books he read, of which Bale has 

 given a lo:ig lill. He at length became a Carmelite in the 

 town of his nativity, and was buried in the convent of his 

 order. 



Another perfon of this name was abbot of Tewkefbiiiy, 

 about the year 1 177, and died in 1201. He wrote a book, 

 " De Vita et E^ilio Thomx Cantuarienfis. Biog. Brit. 



ALAN, Allen, or Allyn, William, a cardinal- 

 pricll of the Roman church, was born at Roffal, in Lanca- 

 fllire, in the year 1532 ; and entered, in 1547, at Oriel col- 

 lege, in the univerfity of Oxford, where he made a confider- 

 able proficiency, particularly in logic and philolophy, and 

 paiTed through ieveral gradations of hoiuuir. In 1556, he 

 became principal of St. Mary's hall, and one of the proiElors 

 of the univerfity : and in 1558, he was made canon of York. 

 But on tlie acccfilon of queen Elizabeth, as he was a zeal- 

 ous catholic, he lull all hopes of preferment; and in 1560, 

 retired to Louvaiu in the Spanilh Netherlands, where he 

 connected himfelf vi'illi the Englilb college, and was much 

 ellcemed on account of his learning and the urbanity of his 

 maimers. In this fituation he dillinguifhcd himfelf by 

 writing in favour of the catholic caiile ; and his firll piece 

 was " A defence of tiie Doctrine of Catholics, concerning 

 Purgatory and Prayers for the Dead," printed at Antwei-j), 

 in 1565, which commenced a controverfy of fome conti- 

 nuance. The Hate of his health, which liad been injured 

 by his application to lUidy, rendered it advifable to return 

 to his native countiT, in 1565 ; but he foon became ob- 

 noxious by the zeal of his attachment to the principles and 

 profefiion of popery, and by his indiillry in making profe- 

 lytes ; and he was under a necefTity of concealing himfelf in 

 the neighbourhood of Oxford. In this retreat he wrote an 

 apology for his party, entitled, " Brief Rcafons concerning 

 the Catholic Faith ;" and he profeeuted his labours for re- 

 claiming apollates and encouraging the waveiing, to luch a 

 dev/ree, as to make it necelTary for him, notwithilanding the 



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