SEC 



SEC 



Thus the diminiftied fevcnth is a femitone minor lefs than 

 tlie flat feventh, or feventh minor. 



Second, Dim'miflied. See Diminished Second. 



Second di I'Oreille, in Anatomy, a name given by Vieuf- 

 fens and others to a mufcle of the ear, called by Cowper and 

 others Jlapidaceus, and Jlapedis mufculus ; and by Albiniis 

 Jlapedmm. Winflow calls it le mufcle de I'etrier. 



Second Captain. Se^- Captain. 



Second Caufe. See Cause asd Efficient. 



SkcohV) Deliverance, Secundadeliberalione, in Law, a judicial 

 writ that lies after nonfuit of the plaintiff in replevin, and a re- 

 iurno habendo of the cattle replevied, adjudged to him that 

 diftrained them ; commanding the ftieriff to replevy the fame 

 cattle again, upon fecurity given by the plaintiff in the re- 

 plevin for the re-delivery of them, if the diilrcfs be juilificd. 

 It is a fecond writ of replevin, &c. F. N. B. 68. 



Second F/ivwy^-, Notion, Order of Curves, Rate. Seethe 

 fubilantives. 



Second Sight, an odd qualification, vphich many of the 

 inhabitants of the WeiSern iflands of Scotland are fa'd to be 

 pnHefFcd of. The thing is attelled by many credible authors 

 (among whom is Mr. Martin, author of the natural hiltory 

 of thefe iflands, and a member of the Royal society) ; and, 

 notwithllanding the flrangenefs of it, many have Itedfaftly 

 believed it. 



The fecond fight is faid to be a faculty of feeing things to 

 come, or things done at a gre.it diflance, reprefented to the 

 imagination as if actually vilible and prefent. 



Thus, if a man be dying, or about to die, his image, it 

 is pretended, fhall appear diflinftly in its natural fhape, in a 

 fhroud, with other funeral apparatus, to a fecond-fighted 

 perfon, who, perhaps, never faw his face before ; imme- 

 diately after which, the perfon fo feen certainly dies. 



The quality of fecond-iightednefs, they fay, is not here- 

 ditary ; the perfon who has it cannot exert it at pleafure ; 

 nor can he prevent it, or communicate it to another ; but it 

 comes on him involuntarily, and exercifcs itfelf on him arbi- 

 trarily ; and often, efpecially in the younger fecond feers, to 

 their great trouble and terror. 



There is a great number of circumftances faid to attend 

 thefe vifions ; by obfervation of which, the particular cir- 

 cumftances, as to time, place, &c.' of the death of the 

 perfon, &c. are learnt. The method of judging of them, 

 or interpreting them, grows into a kind of art; which is 

 very ditlereut ni different perfons. Second-fightednefs is 

 held a difcredit in the country ; fo that none, they fay, will 

 counterfeit it ; but that many conceal and difl'emble it. 

 Sec Johnfon's Journey to the Weilern Iflands of Scotland, 

 p. 248, &c. 



Second Surcharge, Writ of, in Latu. See Surcharge. 



Second Terms, in Algebra, thofe where the unknown 

 quantity has a degree of power lefs than it has in the term 

 where it is raifcd to the highelt. 



The art of throwirig thefe fecond terms out of an equation ; 

 that is, of forming a new equation, where they have no 

 place, is one of the mofl ingcnions and ufeful inventions in 

 all algebra. 



Second Tithe. Sec Tithe. 



SECONDARY, or Secundary, an officer who afts as 

 fecond, or next to the chief officer. 



Such are the feconJaries of the courts of king's bench 

 and com.mon pleas ; the fecondaries of the compters, who 

 are next the fheriffs of London in each of the two compters ; 

 two fecondaries of the pipe ; fecondaries to the remem- 

 brancers, &c. 



Secondary is more frequently ufed in an adjeAive fenfe, 

 by way of oppofition to primary, or principal. 



Secondary A8ors. See Actou. 



Secondary Affedions. See Affection. 



Secondary Circles of the Ecliptic, are circles of longi- 

 tude of the flars ; or circles which, palTing through the 

 poles of the ecliptic, are at right angles to the ecliptic. See 

 CiR( LES of Latitude. 



By the help of thefe, all points in the heavens are referred 

 to the ecliptic ; that is, any ftar, planet, or other pheno- 

 menon, is underllood to be in that point of the ecliptic, 

 whicfi is cut by the iecondary femicircle, which pafTes 

 through fuch ftar, or phenomenon. 



If two itars be thus referred to the fame point of the 

 ecliptic, they are faid to be in conjunftion ; if in oppofite 

 points, they are faid to be in oppofition ; if they be referred 

 to two points at a quadrant's diflance, they are faid to be in 

 a quartile afpedl ; if the points differ a lixth part of the 

 ecliptic, they are faid to be in fextile afpeft. 



In the general, all circles which interfett one of the fix 

 greater circles of the fphere at right angles, may be called 

 fecondary circles. As the azimuth or vertical circles in 

 refpetl of the horizon, &c. the meridian in refped of the 

 equator, &c. 



Secondary Callatcral Points. See Collateral. 



Secondary Conveyances, in Law. See Derivative. 



Secondary Dials. See Dial. 



Secondary I- ever is tl-.at which arifcs after a crifis, or 

 the difcharge of fome morbid matter ; as after the declenfion 

 of the fma!l-pox, or meafles. See Fever, Small-Pox, Sec. 



Secondary Motion. See Motion. 



SeconT)AKY Place. See Pl.\ce. 



Secondary Planets, thofe moving round other planets as 

 the centres of their motion, and along with them round 

 the fun. See Planet. 



Secondary Qualities, Rainbow. Sec the fubilantives. 



Secondary Ufe, in Law. See Use. 



SECONDIGNY, in Geography, a town of France, in 

 the department of the Two Sevres, and chief place of a 

 canton, in the diftrift of Parthenay ; 6 miles W.S.W. of 

 Parthenay. The place contains 1405, and the canton 6140 

 inhabitants, on a territory of 172^ kiliometres, in feven 

 communes. 



SECONDINE. See Secundine. 



SECORA, m Geography, one of the branches of the 

 river Darah, which joins the main flream at Timefkit. 



SECOTAN, a town of Candahar ; 150 miles S.E. of 

 Candahar. 



SECOURSSE, Denys-Fkan^ois, in Biography, was 

 born at Paris in 169 1. He was one of the earlicil pupils of 

 the celebrated RoUin, and being brought up to the bar, he 

 was for fome time a pleader. This profefTion, however, he 

 quitted in order that he might devote himfelf entirely to 

 literature, in which the lludy of French hiflory was his 

 principal objeft. In 1723 he was admitted into the Aca- 

 demy of Inlcriptions and Belles Lettres. The office of 

 cenfor-royal was conferred upon him, and he was appointed, 

 in 1746, to examine the public documents preferved in the 

 newly conquered towns of the Low Countries. He died 

 at Paris in 1754. His publications were, the Collcttion of 

 Royal Ordonnanccs, from the fecond to the ninth volume in- 

 clufive ; " Mcmoires pour fervir a I'Hifloire de Charles le 

 Mauvais," two vols. 410. ; an edition of the " Memoires 

 de Conde," fix vols. 410., in conjunction with the abbe 

 Lenglet ; and fevcral diflertations in the " Memoires de 

 I'Acad. des Infcriptions." 



SECOZANO, in Geography, a town of the county of 

 Tyrol ; 13 miles N.N.E. of Trent. 



SECRETARIUM, among the Romans, arecluferoom, 



where 



