DIA 
the apotome and limma, its common logarithm ia 
9941148 .6097, and in the logs. of Euler os being 
that al ip a an clave : it 1s equa 2 fchifmas 
and a minute = +m his aa nay alfo be 
sara byt the illowing additi ona of intervals, viz. [chifma 
najor comma : o fchifmas aud a minor comma. Vhe 
folowing di differences of runcutta alfo produce the dialchi fra, 
Ui&. tw s from a femitone ae a misor 
majcr from 
3 amedius ae 
from an hyperoche ; mor commas from 
monic diefes 5 fo ea dicfes from three femitones 
um;a fem ene minimum from four major commas; an 
n the 0 
eer of Euler, is the minor comm 
See Comma minor: this is alfo the mejor ai ie 
of Maxwell. 
isma of Dr. Bufoy (Mus. Did.) is an in- 
fs half of the minor femitore, = 1 
ich exceed mes the true “diafchifma 
Dias ae of Bo 
limma =232 +3 f/ +2 
by the fame fa the ba dieis, 
DIASCORDIUM, in Pharmacy, of micauary, 
ade defcribed by Fraca Bonus. and A aomined from fcor- 
which is a chief ingredient therein. It is atfo called 
enfeaic Fracattorii. 
The other ingredients are red rofes, bole, ftorax, cinna- 
mon, caffia lignea, dittany, tormentil roots, biftort, gentian, 
galbanum, amber, terra Sara opium, long pepper, gin- 
ger, melrofatum, and Malmfcy wine. 
DIASEBESTEN, a purgative dace made with 
febeitens and other ingredients, but no te. 
DIASENNA, a foft, purgative ea a called from 
fenna, which is its bafe.. 
The other ingredients are fugar-candy, cinnamon, lapis 
minor, black Bx nardus 
» fale 
terval, 
Ei m.w 
rmenus, and 
DIASHENKI R, in reir a a eg 
in the province of Caraman ia; Omi f Kir-Shehr. 
DIA , Asucse, in Anti a a a at Athens 
honour of Jupiter, eoeee eee i. e. the pee 
Pott. Archeoi. lib. i. cha 
D T, in Cae aphy, a abe of Egypt; 3.miles N.o 
raat This fmali town is a ae cae diltant from St. 
- the time o 
boa 
: S, from susnus, J fet apart, a wor ufe 
the writers in Medi i fre= 
veotly ufed as a name for that feparation of the bones,.when 
ometimes it 1s 
nation to vomits. 
na. the diatonic genus 
DIATO 
DI A 
DIASTEM, Diastema, in Majic, a name the ancients 
gave toa fimple interval, in contradittir tion to a compound. 
intervaly which they call a ahs em. 
Arittox any diff- Ageia of intervals ; fuch- 
er or lls onfonat or diffocant; compounded or 
as re 
Ga on pouriied ated to one genus 0 another ; laftly, 
rational or irr oak Arittox. ap. Wallis. Append. ad: 
tolem. Harmor. p. 
Muficians divide interval into two kinds: ane of them 
a -d fyftem, whic to contain at leaft two intervals im 
kind of mafic whatevrs but may contain more. The 
a diaftem a mere, or fingle | interval 5 the. 
os 
atomy, ( 
is she dilatation of the cavities of t of the arteries, 
bw the influx of eae kale thi fides, nce were pre 
vioufly in a aeabe It 18 0 to Jiyfoles or the contracted. 
flate _ the fame cavities ap See CirGULATION 
TOLE, in Grammar, a rien whereby a fyllable nae 
tray ae is made lon 
s it is that Virg begins a verfe ia the word Jtalusy. 
the arf fyllable ee is naturally 
DIASTYLE, from dia. and svros. pales in the rw 
Archite@ure, an edifice, where the columns ftand at fuch a 
diftance from one agother, that three diameters, or Pe mo- 
dules, are allowed for the intercolumniation. 
DIAS MUS, a rom hier and ovew, J drawy 
in Réetoric, a figure whereby w rtly ae es oF rather 
evade, a thing x which it would * ceaigus to reply to in form. 
E. gr. “ What matters it to reply to an argument forcign to-the- 
purpofe 2” 
DIATESSARON, inthe Greek Mujftc, is the interval 
phlogi r inflammatory diathefis, confifts in 
sey fallnefs and ftrength of the body, and of ae el 
2 em in ile which renders-a pon viable to inflam- 
_ 
The word 
paffin 
our King,”’ and “ Let am 
only two Enghith airs that are ftridly — 
without modulation by an accidental 
DIATONICO.GENERE, one of he ie genera inthe 
aucient Greek mufic, and which in ora a pee a{cale 
of founds, confifting of a mixture of ton f{emitones, 
The Greek diatonic genus, or ead, paren by a 
al 
and it was from the fuc ceffion of two tones, that this genus? 
acqui-ed the name of diatonic. As the term is- eave from 
dia, by, and rovos, fone; that is, pzffing from one tone to: 
anot"er; which in the Greek mnfic was never dane but in. 
femitone, andtwotones, as BC CDE 
UM, 
See ili 
IATONU 7 a term ufed by M. Henfling for the 
{emitone aor $= 5724+ f+ 5m 
DIATRATA,, 
Aiazoyoy, is uled for the diatonic genus. 
