NYC 
They admit that the foul is united to the Supreme Being, but 
conceive that it fill retains the abftraG nature of definite or 
vifible exiftence. 
The diffolution of the world proceeds from the deftruétion 
of the vilible forms and qualities of things, but their material 
effence remains, and from it new worlds are formed by the 
creative energy of the Almighty ; and thus the univerfe is 
ts lved and renewed in endlefs fucceffion. This theory is 
» however, confined to the fe& that is the fubje& more 
ay of this article ; but iscommon, under fome mo- 
ification or varied expreffion, to others of their fchools. 
Under the article Paci of the Hindoos, {ome general 
information will be found on thefe tig and fome details 
under ve feveral articles thence referred t 
\ s here faid, taken chiefly from the Prabod’h Chan- 
reheat nae more than fuffice as to the theory afcribed to 
e doétrines, as far as they are comprifed i in 
ted in 
the fame with the G ) (See 
Gopama.) And if fo, but the faé&t m aie i fonsbly 
doubted, he is identified with the Boodhy . rt Budha, fo ex- 
tenfively worfhippedin Afia. See Boo 
NYBE, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in North Jut- 
Jand; N. lat 56° 59'. E. long. 
NYB ELLED, : town of Sweden, in the province of 
Smaland; 43 miles N.N.W. of Calm 
N RG, or Nyerora, a faaon town of Denmark, 
on the E. coaft of the ifland of Funen, in a bay of the 
Great Belt, furrounded with a rampart and a ditch. The 
fortifications, as well as the caftle, are now ina ftate of dila- 
pidation; and a ae which was formerly the refidence of 
the kings of Denmark, is in ruins. The inhabitante derive 
their f abiienee cael ‘from paffengers who daily crofs from 
and . orfoer in Zealand, and partly from an inconfiderable 
er e fhips that navigate the Great Belt pay 
toll hee for which purpofe a man of war is always fta- 
tioned in the Belt ; 16 miles W. of Corfoer. N. lat. 55° 
22), E. ee 10° 48, 
» a town of Sweden, in Eaft Gothland ; 28 miles 
WwW. — Linkioping. 
YCHINTA, a town of Bengal ; 30 miles N. of Maul- 
YCLEE, a town of uae in ye 3 1 5 miles 
N.W. of Chuprah. N. lat. 26°. E. lon PRY 
NYCTAGES, or Nvora AZONTES, derive d ad a night, 
a religious fect, diftinguifhed by their seh) againtt the 
praQice of waking i in the oo : fing the praifes of God ; 
zn regard, Leet the night was made is 
NYCTAGINES, in Bo eae a natural ore of plants in 
Juffieu, the 3d of his 7th clafs, named from his Nydago, 
the Mirabilis of Lin hich is one of the nu 
his 7th clafs confifts of dicotyledonous plants without 
a corolla, wh re inferted w € 
Their calyx is inferior, of o any 8 - 
nerally none; imes there are petal-like fcales, below 
the germen, either bearing the itamens, or alt it 
; monadelphous. 
Germen faperior, fimple ; ftyle one, or feveral, of a definite 
Vou. XXV, 
NYC 
number, or wanting; ftigma either fimple or _ 
Seed either folitary, or the capfule fuperior, of one or two 
cells, with one or feveral feeds 
he Nyéagines are thus defined. 
Calyx tubular, refembling a corolla, either naked exter- 
nally, or furroun ed by a {mall outer calyx. Germen one; 
ftyle one; ftigma fimple. Stamens definite, inferted into a 
ghind which i dea the a. oS i ee s from the 
receptacle 
of nas t. 105 p- Pl. v. 1. 80 yi 
Boerhavia ; Pd sas 3 and Buginvillea of Commerfon, 
marck Illuftr. t. 294. 
To th aie are o be added asap 
of L’ Hosa. Loe Sp. Pl. I, 15. 
t. 434. See OxyBAPHUS. 
NYCTAGO, “fo. ‘called by Juffieu, from wz, wexlo:, the 
night, and ayw, to bring, or to ed concerned with, becaufe the 
flowers expand, and are fragrant at that time only, whence 
the French name of de-uit for the fame plant. See 
Mirasitis and Nycrac 
NYCTALOPIA, eee, in Medicine, fignifies, in 
the writings of the more accurate authors, night-bhadne/s , or 
that affeCtion of the fight, which renders the patient inca- 
pable of we objects after foe The word ftands 
in oppofitio EMERALOPIA, or day-blindne/s (which 
fee) ; and is Tietaely derived from ia be on and aawl, 
which confifts of w with the privativ 
We have ftated, however, in the ance juft referred to, 
that there is a wide difference in the acceptation, in which 
both ancient and modern writers have ufed this term ; fome 
confidering the eae as night- gate so oihenos in- 
bet of courfe ufing the word 
aul o 
pocrates, on the contrary, had fpoken of nyGalopes, as per- 
fons who faw moft perfectly in the oe oi dé rns ‘ea opaive 
TiSy BS on yux ThAwwES KGLALOMED TIeopp. I. » the author 
of Med. Definit., afcribed to Gale, defines ny Galopia, Ba 
fight ; while in author of t agoge, attributed to the 
ame, hain 1 e 
n; after which his fight becomes as a 
fect as that of othe: individuals, ania the light o: 
This morbid condition of the retina is aca (one: 
nital, and therefore a and pligredi beyond ee 
