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fcrmons. In his fontiments, he is not only rational, but 

 pious and devotional, which is a great exccUency-t' Dr. 

 Warton (iibi fiipva, p. 435.)) thinks, that Atterbury was, 

 on the wliole, rather a man of ability, than a jjcnius ; and 

 that he writes more with elegance and corrcftnefs, than with 

 any force of thin'kin^r or reafoning. Biog. Brit. Gen. 



Dia. 



Atterbury, Lewis, the elder brother of the bilhop, 

 was born at Caldecot, in the parilh of Newport-pagnel in 

 1656, and after finifhing his grammatical education under 

 Dr. Bufby at Weftminller fchool, removed to Chrift church 

 college, Oxford, in 1674. In 1695, he was elefted preaclier 

 to the chapel at Highgate, in the neighbourhood of Lou- 

 don ; and in 1 707, he was prefented by the queen to the 

 redoi-y of Shcpperton, in Middlefcx. In 1 7 19, he was col- 

 lated to the reftoi-y of Honifey, in Middlefex, in which 

 parilh the chapel of Highgate is fituated. Upon applica- 

 tion to his brother for the archdeaconry of Rochellcr, he 

 was refufed ; probably more from a mean opinion of his 

 talents, than from delicacy. However, he fullained the 

 charafter of an ufeful pari(h prie(t, annexing the profsfiion 

 of phyfic, which he iludied for the benefit of his poor 

 parifhioncrs, to the clerical character ; and he acquired the 

 reputation of a plain, folid, ufeful preacher. At the age 

 of feventy he had a ilroke of the palfy, and died at Bath 

 in the year 173 1. He publifhed feveral fermons, which 

 formed two volumes, and other pieces ; and fince iiis death, 

 two volumes of his fermons have been publiflud, in confe- 

 quence of his tellamentary directions, by Mr. E. Yardley, 

 archdeacon of Cardigan. Dr. Atterbur)' was intimately 

 acquainted with archbilhop Tillotfon, formed his ilyle of 

 preaching on his modtl, and publilhed a defence of him 

 againft the attack of an Irifh prieft. Biog. Brit. 



ATTERKLAA, in Geography, a town of Germany, 

 in the arch-d^chy of Auftria, fix miles north-well of Ent- 

 zerilorfF. 



ATTERMINING, in our Old IVnters, is ufed for a 

 time or term granted for payment of a debt, according to 

 Blount. 



ATTERN, in Geography, a town of HindoRan, in the 

 country of Agra, thirty-eight miles S. S. E. of Agra, and 

 thirty-nine nnrth-eail of Gwalior. 



ATTESTATION, compounded of aJ, to, and Ufis, 

 ivitnefs, the giving tcftimony or evidence of the truth of any 

 thing; el'pecially in writing. 



Attestation of Deeds, in Law. See Deed. 



Attestation of De^'ifes. See Devise. 



ATTHIS, in Ornithology, a fgecies of Gracula, called 

 by Haffelquifl corvus JEgyptius ; and by Latham, the Egyp- 

 tian grakle. The colour of this bird is greenifii ; belly fer- 

 ruginous; legs fanguineous. Gmelin. It inhabits Egypt, 

 as the fynonymous names imply ; and is believed to live on 

 centipedes, fcorpions, and other infefts, the remains of fuch 

 having been found in the (loitiach. 



It is about the fize of a lark ; bill dull black, reddifh at 

 the bafe ; eye bluilh ; head rather flattened at the top ; 

 upper parts of the plumage deep green, fpotted with blue- 

 green on the crown, hind part of the neck, and the fhould- 

 ers ; neck and back of the fame deep green, but not fpotted. 

 On each fide of the neck and back is a longitudinal broad 

 line, the fore-part of which is ferruginous, the rell of a 

 whltilh lucid biue ; throat whitifh ; tail nearly even at the 

 end, and of a deep bl<«e colour ; claws blackifh. Lath, 

 Gen. Syn. 



Among the ancients, the name of atthis was given to 

 fome bird at prefent not very accurately known. By Aldro- 

 vandns, and other naturalifts, the fanve aame has been alio 



afTigned to birds altogether different from the prefent 

 fpecies. 



ATTIA, in Geography, a town of Perfia, ten leagues 

 fouth of Kin. 



ATTIC, fomething relating to Attica, or the city of 

 Alliens. In matters of Philology, wc ufe, Attic fait, fales 

 yiltici, meaning a dehcatc, poignant kind of wit and humour, 

 peculiar to the Athenian writers. Attic witnefs, was a 

 witnefs incapable of corruption ; i'o an Attic mufe was an 

 excellent one, &c. 



Attic Dialed, in Grammar, one of the four Grecian dia- 

 lefts, which was ufed in Athens and the adjoining country, 

 Thofe who have chiefly dillinguilhed thendelves in this dia- 

 left, are Thucydides, Ariftophaaes, Plato, Ifocrates, Xeno- 

 phon, and Demoftheues. Its general properties are, that 

 it affefls contractions of fvHables in the fame word, and alfo^ 

 the joining of words ; it often changes a- into |, f, and t, 

 as |i/i'r7oc for <ntiio;, prudent, vkj^ei* for Sxj-nv, to conjide, and 

 ^rpalli; for iTfj/T(T'ji, to do ; it calls away » trom ai and £>, as 

 y.\a,js ^ox yXMi!, to ".veep, and tt^jov for ttAsiov, more; it changes 

 into a', as wsii? for ja^c, a temple; it joins k» to the end of 

 words, giving it a circumflex accent, as wii for ", xi, ivhat ; 

 and it annexes » to the end of adverbs, as wn, noii'. Befides, 

 the Attics have feveral phrafes peculiar to themfclves. Port 

 Royal Greek Grammar, vol. ii. p. 332, &c. 



Attic, ov Attic Story, in Architediire, alow flory ercfted 

 overan orderof arehitetlurc, to nniih the upper part of a build- 

 ing. It is lo called becaufe fuppofed to have been firft ufed in 

 Attica ; but whether it was orfginally employed to conceal 

 tlie roof, or from fome reafons of convenience in the internal 

 diftribution, does not clearly appear ; what has been men- 

 tioned refpetting it by ancient authors being very obfcure. 

 There is no inllauce of an Attic among the exilling antiqui- 

 ties of Athens. In Italy it is met with in the triumphal' 

 arches, and in the forum of Nerva. 



It has been much employed by the moderns, and parti- 

 cularly by the Italian architefts. But the rules which they 

 give for its proportions are various, fome making it in 

 height equal to one half, and others to one third of the 

 principal order. It is ufually decorated with pilalters, and 

 frequently with baflb-relicvos, in the fpaces between ; or 

 there are windows in thefe fpaces. The pilalters are fome- 

 times plain, and fometimes have a funk pannel, or other 

 ornaments. They have no diminution, nor have they any- 

 peculiar bafe or capital, the mouldings at the top and bot- 

 tom of the Attic continuing round the pilalters. In the 

 arch of Conftantine at Rome there are Itatues placed over 

 the columns of the principal order, immediately before the 

 pilallers of the Attic ; and tihis has frequently been imitated 

 in modern buildings. 



Attic Story is alfo frequently applied to the upper ftory 

 of a houfe, conllrufted in the roof, when there is no order 

 of architefture employed in its decoration. 



Attic Order. This term has been by fome authors ufed 

 tadenote the pilallers that are employed to decorate an Attic 

 itory. Pliny, after enumerating the other orders, fays, 

 " Prater has funt quas vocantur Attica: columna: quaternis 

 angulis pari laterum intervallo." But how thefe fquare 

 columns were formed is very uncertain, fince we have no 

 remains of columns which are known to have been of the 

 kind here defcribed ; and Vitruvius makes no mention of 

 them. The Attic of the forum of Nerva correfponds moil 

 with Pliny's defcription, there being projettions that come 

 forward from the attic over the detached columns, faced 

 with fquare pilallers, whofe fides are nearly equal in width 

 to their fronts. It feems improper, however, to call this 

 in order of architeClure, as it has no peculiar parts effen- 



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