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eaten. TliU wood ia not fo dear as the culamk^i:, and is more 

 . cominonly found in the (hops. It is bi light from Cochin- 

 chiMa, and appcUiS to be the produdlion of the fame tree. 

 This tree bears a great rcfemhlance to the aga'lochum ft-cun- 

 diuiuin of Ruir.pliiiis, the finkoo of Ksempfer, and the 

 eagk-wood of Sanncnit ; and is denominated nquiliiria 

 vmliucenjis and ^iiro of Malaca. The wood of the branches 

 of this tree is white, inchning to ycUow ; and the bark is of 

 B grey-reddifh colour, and its furface is roughifh and liairy. 

 The leaves are alternate, ovate-Ianccolated, entire, much 

 acuminated, about 3I inches long and two wide, with a 

 fmooth and green furface, and appearing like fattin ; each 

 . of them is fupported by a petiole about two French lines 

 long, and have their holders garniflitd by fhort hair ; the 

 young leaves are haiiT and almoil white before they are un- 

 folded. The (lowers, according to Sonnerat, are fmall and 

 have no calyx ; the corolla confills of one piece, and half- 

 divided into five oval parts, pointed and ftar-like ; and at the 

 interior bafe of each divifion of the corolla are two fmall 

 fcales, which are there infcrted,and format the commencement 

 of the flower a crown, compofed of 10 neftaria, as Sonnerat 

 defcribes them. The ilamina are 10, (hort and attached to 

 the corolla between the feftions of the nettaiia. The pillil 

 is formed by a fuperior ovaiy, which is oval, without aUyle, 

 and crowned by a fimple, very fmall ftigma. This ovary 

 changes into a pyriform capfule, about an inch long, and 

 opening naturally into two partitions, and within it has two 

 ceils, each containing a black, sval, pointed, fmall feed, 

 ■ one of which is almoil always abortive. At the bottom of 

 each feed is found a fpungy fubftance, which feems to oc- 

 cupy the place of another abortive feed. Whether this tree 

 be of the fame genus with the calambac or agallochum of 

 the ancients, it is not eafy politively to afcertain ; but it 

 agrees with the defcriptioB given of it by Kasmpfer and by 

 Cunningham, in Geoffroy's Materia Medica. If this be 

 the cafe, it mufl be of a different genus and family from 

 the agallochum of Amboina, which belongs to the euphor- 

 bix. Encycl. Method, tom. i. p. 49. Sec Agallochum, 

 Calambac, and Excoecaria. 



Grew defcribes a piece of lignum aloes, with its own gum 

 growing on it in the repofitory of the Royal Society. See 

 Grew, Miif. Reg. Soc. p. ii. c. i. p. 179. 



ALiOEDARY, aloedar'mm, aXowapiov, denotes a purging 

 medicine, wherein aloes is an ingredient. 



This amounts to the fame with what we otherwife call an 



ALOETIC. 



Aloedary is alfo ufed for a hiftory of the clafs of plants, 

 .under the denomination of aloes. 



ALOEPHANGINA, in the Materia Medka, denote 

 medicines fonned by a combination of aloes and aromatics. 



ALOETICS, medicines wherein aloes is the chief, or 

 fundamental ingredient. 



Aloetics open the orifices of the vefTels, and are on this 

 account found hurtful in cafes of hxmorrhagcs, particularly 

 at the nofe ; alfo in the tenefmus, hemicranuim, &c. The 

 immoderate ufe of aloetics tends to produce hxmorrhoids, 

 hypochondriac pains, and inflations. 



ALOEUS, in Entomology, a fpecies of fcarabsus, or 

 beetle, with a three-horned thorax, the intermediate longer 

 and fimple, the head fubmuticous, and the elytrse uniftriated ; 

 found in America. 



ALOFT, a fea-term, fynonymous with up in the tops, 

 at the maft-heads, or any where about the higher rigging. 



ALOGIANS, Alogi, or Alogiani, compounded of 

 the privative «, and ?.t/-/or, q. d. without Logos, or lyord, in 



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Ecibfajl'tcal H'l/lory, a feft who denied that Jefus Chrift was 

 the I.og'is, or eternal Word ; and on this ground alfo re- 

 jetted the Gofpel of St. Johii as ipurious, and alfa the Re- 

 velation. 



Some afcribe the origin of the name, as well as of the 

 fedl of Alogians, to Theodore of Byzantium, by trade a 

 currier ; who, having apoftatized under the perfeeution of 

 the emperor Severus, to defend himfelf againll lii'.fe who 

 reproached him therewith, laid, that it was not God he 

 denied, but only man. Whence his followers were called 

 in Greek aXoyoj, becaufe they rejected the ^Vord. But others, 

 with more probability, fuppofe the name to have been firll 

 given them by Epiphanius in the way of reproachi They 

 made their appearance towards the clofe of the fecond 

 century. 



Philafter has alfo mentioned a herefy that rcjeilied John's 

 gofpel and revelation, and afcribed both to Cerintiius. Dr. 

 Lardner is of opinion that this is a fitlitbus herefy ; and 

 thit there never were any Chriftians who rejected John's gof- 

 pel and firll epittle, and yet received the other golpels, and 

 the other books of the New Teftament. No notice is taken 

 of fuch by Irenasus, Eufebius, or any other ancient writer, 

 before Philafter and Epiphanius ; nor has Theodoret given 

 any account of this herefy. ' This herefy, fays this inde- 

 fatigable inquirer and impartial reporter, was, as he con- 

 ceives, invented upon the oecafion of the controverfy of 

 Caius and Dionyfius, and others, with the Millenarians in 

 the third century ; fome of whom difputed or denied the 

 genuinenefs of the book of Revelation, and afcribed it to 

 Ccrinthus. Hence fome faid that thofe enemies of the 

 Millennium might as well fcjeft alfo St. John's Gofpel, and 

 others faid, that they actu;dly did fo, though they did not. 

 In Philafter's catalogue this herefy follov.'S next after the 

 Millenarians, or ChiUonetites, as he calls them, and the 

 order in Epiphanius leads us to the fame time. Lardner's 

 Works^ vol. ix. p. 515. 



ALOGONIA, in Ancient Geography, ■a. town of MefTenia, 

 fouth-eall of Gerenia : north-eaft of which were a temple 

 of Bacchus and another of Minerva. 



ALOGOTROPKIA, among Phyfcmm, an irregular 

 nutrition of fome part, attended with a vicious figure or 

 conformation thereof, as in the rickets. 



If the bones of the vertebrse of the back receive too 

 much nutriment on one fide, as fometimes happens in children, 

 an incurv-ation necefTarily enfiies, which, as Charleton ex- 

 preffes it, is produced by an alogotrophia. 



ALOIDES, in Botany, a name ufed by fome for the 

 aloe palujlris, or frefli tvater aloe, called in fome parts of 

 England, tvater-Joldicr ; and by Linnasus, ^rrt/.'dte. 



ALOIUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of Tr.elTaly, , 

 near the valley of Tempe, and founded, fays Steph. Byz. 

 by the Aloades. 



ALOMAYO, in Geography, a town of South America, 

 in the country of Peru, and jurifdiction of Guamahes. 



ALON, in Biography, a celebrated perfonage whofe 

 memory is preferved in the Triads of the WeKh Bards ; and 

 who flourifned among the firft colonies of this iOand, if not 

 among the Cymry before their arrival here. This Alon, 

 with Plennvdz ai'd Goron, are recorded as the three who 

 combined the inftitutes and privileges of the bards, druids, 

 and ovates, into a regular fyltem, under the fanftion of a na- 

 tional law. This event is faid to have taken place in the 

 time of Pr\'dain, who is mentioned in the fame Triads, as 

 the firft who digefted a national conftitution for the Cymiy 

 or Britons. Be this as it may, there is great reafon to con- 

 clude. 



