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alienated for the fpaee of fifty years. At each return of 

 the jubilee, all returned again to the primitive owners, or 

 their defcendants, to whom "the lands were originally allotted, 

 at llic firll dilbibulion of Canaan. 



Alienatio a'fiwiilia. See Abdication. 



Alienation ojjicf, is an office to which all writs of co- 

 veinnti and entry, upon wliich fines are levied, and reco- 

 veries fufleTcd, are carried, to have fines fur alienation let 

 and paid thereon. 



ALIEU, or Alioev, in /Indent Geography, iflands 

 placed bv Pliny in the Adulic gulf, near Ethiopia. 



ALTFI, \n Geography, a town of Italy, in the kingdom 

 of Naples, and country of Lavora ; five miles north of 

 Capua. This town, placed by M. d'Anville to the fouth-" 

 well of Bovianum and north-weft of Beneventum, was for- 

 merly a Roman colony, and poiTeired by the Samnites. 



AI-IFORMES miifculi, xn/lnatomy, are thus called from 

 aln, 'wing,?in&forma,fiape, as refembling wings. See Ptery- 

 goid.*; us extcrnus et internus. 



Aliformes/x-oc^j, are procefles of the fphmoid bone, 

 under which article they will be defcribed. 



ALII muh'i, Ali lie regno, are phrafcs which often 

 occur in our ancient records and hiflorians. Their meaning 

 has occafioned much difpute. Dr. Brady will have them 

 to fignify only tenants in eapite ; which Mr. Tyrrel endea- 

 vours to refute, and {hew that they denote the whole 

 commojis of the kingdom. Hift. of Eng. torn. i. Appen. 



ALILiEI, in yincient Geography, a people who inliabited 

 the weftern part of Arabia Felix ; among whom gold, it is 

 faid, was fo abundant, that it was held in lower eftimation 

 than copper and iron, which were probably very fcarcf . 



ALIMA, among Mineralyh, a kind of fand found in 

 gold mines, out of which lead is extrailed. 



AJblMALA, in Ancient Geography, a country' of Afia 

 Minor in Lycia. Steph. Byz. 



ALIMEA, or Halimusia, a diftrift of Attica, be- 

 longing to the Leontid tribe, fituate near the Phalereum, 

 and in the vicinity of Athens. In thisdiftrift was a temple 

 confccrated to Ceres Thefmophoria, or the legiflatrix, and 

 to Profei-pine, according to Paufanias, in Attic, lib. i. c. 31. 

 p. 76. 



ALIMENA, in Entomology, a fpecies of Papilio Nym- 

 phal'is, with dentated black wings, an intennipted creiii- 

 lean fafcia, and feven white marginal points, found in South 

 America and India. 



ALIMENT, Alimentum, formed of alere, to nourlfo, 

 in a phyfical fenfe, is whatever may be dilTolved and turned 

 into chyle, fo as to be afterwards converted into blood, for 

 augmenting the body, or repairing its continual wafte. The 

 fubjeft of aliments has been veiy diffufcly and compre- 

 henfively difcufied by Dr. Cullen, in his Mat. Med. vol. i. 

 p. 217 — 408. See Chylification, Digestion, Drink, 

 Food, and Nutrition. 



A\.\-mHT of plants. See Plants. 



ALIMENTARY, Ali mental, fomething that relates 

 to aliment, or food. 



Alimentary liud, or canal, is a denomination that has 

 been given to the whole of thofe paflages which the food 

 permeates from the mouth to the anus. It is di\-ided into the 

 gula, which is fubdivided into the pharynx and oefophagns, 

 the ftomach, and the inteftines. For an account of its 

 ftrufture and funftions, the reader is referred to thefe 

 oivifions. 



This duft is faid to be the true charafteriftic of an animal, 

 cr propnum quarto modo ; there being no animal without it, 

 and whatever has it, being properly enough ranged under 



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tlie clafs of aijimal:-. Plants receive their nourilhment by 

 the numerous fibres of their roots, but have no commou 

 receptacle for digelling the food received, or for carrying off 

 the recrements. But in all, even the lowell degree of animal 

 life, we may obferve a lloniach and inteitines, even where 

 we cannot perceive the leall formation of any organs of the 

 fenfes, unlel's that common one of feehng, as in oytlcrs. Phil. 

 Tranf. N^ 269. p. 776, feq. 



Dr. Wallis deduces an argument from the flruAure of the 

 alimentary tube in man, to prove that he is not naturally 

 carnivorous. To the cogency of whicii. Dr. Tyfon makes 

 fome objeftions. Phil. Tranl". N° 269. p. 777. 



Alimentary du8, is fometimes aU'o underRucd of the 

 thoracic duft. 



Alimentary latv, lex al'imentaria, w.^s an old lavvf among 

 ^he Romans, whereby children were obliged to find fulle- 

 nance for their parents. 



Alimentary boys, A/imentarii ptier't. Sec. were certain 

 children maintained and educated by the munificence of the 

 emperors, in a fort of public places, not unlike our hof- 

 pitals. 



Trajan was the firft that brought up any of thefe alimen- 

 tary boys. He was imitated by Adrian. Antoninus Piu.s 

 did the fame for a number of maids, at the felicitation of 

 Fauftina ; and hence, in fome medals of that emprefs, we 

 read pvellae favstinianae. — Alexander Severus did the 

 like, at the requcil of Mamma:a ; and the maids thus edu- 

 cated are called Mammreana;. 



ALIMENTATION is ufed by fome naturalifts, for 

 what we more ordinarily call Nutrition. 



ALIMENTUS, C'incius, in Biography, a Roman hif- 

 tori'ui, was a praetor in the confnlfiiip of Claudius Marcellui 

 and Marcus Valerius, in the year 152, B. C. Livy repre- 

 fents him as a diligent coUedlor of hiftorical fafts ; and as 

 an eminent writer, giving him the appellation of " maximus 

 auftor." Livy, lib. vii. lib. xxx. He wrote the hiilory of 

 Hannibal, in v. hofe hands he was a prifoner ; and the 

 hiilory of Gorgias of Leontium, probably from materials 

 which he collefted during his prsetorfhip in Sicily. He was 

 alfo the author of a treatife on the military art, mentioned 

 by Aulus Gellius, (lib. xxvi. c. 4.) and Amobius, (lib. iii.) 

 mentions him in his account of the foreign divinities, called 

 Novcnjiles. 



ALIMNE, in yincient Geography, a town of Afia, in 

 Phiygia, fuppofed to be the fame with that called alfo 

 yllinum. 



ALIMONY, Ali M ON I a, properly fignifies nourift- 

 ment, or maintenance : but in a modern Icnfe, in laiu, 

 it denotes that portion, or allowance, which a married 

 woman fues for, upon any occafional feparation from her 

 hulband, wherein Ihe is not charged with elopement or 

 adultery. 



Tliis was anciently called rational/He ejloverium, reafonable 

 maintenance, and was recoverable only in the fpiritual court ; 

 but now it is recoverable alfo in cliancery. 



^'i^here a woman is divorced a menfa izf thorc, (Ite may fiic 

 her hulband in her own name for alimony, or maintenance, 

 out of her hufband's eftate, during the feparation, either in 

 the chancery, or in the fpiritual court ; and it will be allowed, 

 except in the cafes of elopement and adultei-y, as aforefajd. 

 I Inlt. 235. 



ALIMOS, in Botany, the name given by fome of the 

 Greek writers to the common liquorice. It has been thus 

 called, from its quality of palling the appetite, and making 

 it infenfible either of hunger or thirft. 



ALINA, in Ancient Geography, one of the three fmall 



iflands 



