acu 
lofophy which teaches how to manage the affairs of a 
family, or houfhold. 
pick US, osmovoyosy a perfon appointed to direc 
and manage a vacant church revenue or that of a hofpital, 
or other community. 
CEconomus was alfo anciently ufed for a protector, 
advocate, who defended the rights and effects of nen 
monatteries, &c. 
CEconomus was alfo an appellation given to a church- 
office, who took care of the buildings and repairs of the 
church, and received and diftributed alms according to the 
directions of the bifhop. 
In this fenfe it 1s ines the fixth council appoints, that 
every church have its ceconomus. 
CECON ; pan the prudent condudt, or a 
and eee management of a man’s eftate, or that of a 
ot 
Ec conomY, Political. See Potiricat Economy. 
See Public heat 
i of the theory > 
ody 5 
a and health, and the eas or phenomena arifing from 
Th is is otherwife called phyftology ; and its objects juft 
aa alae are called the naturals, or res fecundum naturam. 
CEcono a ea or Jewifb, or “Di ifpenfation, is the 
manner eas God thought good to guide and govern his 
people under the miniftry of Mofes. See JUDAISM. 
This included not only the political and ceremionil laws, 
but alfo the moral law, inafmuch as it pronounced a curfe 
on all sae lg? did not fulfil it perfeétly. 
, Evangelical, or Chri ifian,, or Difpenfation, is 
ufed in f oapoeeot to the /egal; and comprehends all that 
relates to the covenant of grace, ain God has made a 
men by Jefus Chri 
(Economy of the Parts of Plants. See Pian 
CCUMENICAL, formed of the Greek a , of 
oixeern, the Aabitable earth, or the whole aie ea as 
rfal. 
In this fenfe we fay an cecumenical council or fynod; 
meaning one at which ie whole Chriftian church alfitted, 
or to which they were in 
Du-Cange obferves, ee many of the patriarchs of Con- 
ftantinople affumed t o themfelves the quality and denomi- 
nation of ie patriarchs; particularly John the 
a in §go, and Cyril, hisfucceffor. Gregory the Great 
f Rome was exceedingly enraged at it; pretending it was 
a etl of pride, and the character of antichnft ; as fuppofing 
the title of cecumenical to imply eae bithop, or bifhop 
of all the world: whereas, in effe mplied no more 
than the quality of chief of the Eattern ci rch ; ike 
manner as the firft doctor — the church of Cont taco 
was called door acumenic 
The title ened bihop 
but he refufed it: nor did his fu 
_ The fifth cout Conftantinople gave it 
ough fome of the Romanifts 
was firfl offered to Leo L, 
Cada. 
CECUMENIUS, in ee an ancient Greek com- 
mentator upon the Scriptures, who is fuppofed to have 
flourifhed in the 10th cy was bifhop of Trica in Thel- 
@DE 
He was author of aaa upon the Adts of 
faly. 
t. Paul, and the 
ks and notes, they confift o 
pilation of the notes and obfervations of Chry ison, Cyril 
of Alexandria, Gregory Nazianzen, Theodoret, and others. 
He is thought alfo to have written a commentary upon the 
four gofpels, compiled from the writings of the ancient 
Greek fathers, which is not now extant. The works of 
is added the Commentary” hd Arethas upon the book o 
Rev ani. Moreri. 
> in edie aeh a ha wn of Perlia, in oS 
N. lat. 52° 25’. E. long. 11° 10’. 
‘well. 
eminence, a or tumour; but, fince the time of 
Galen, it has been more ftri€tly confined to thofe tume- 
factions: which are derived from the effufion of a fluid into 
t 
The fluid is of the watery or ferous 
lular membrane is extenfively yan in his name the difeafe 
is not ee called edema, but a 
earfon has diftinguifhed fie ae of cedema; viz. 
rt CEdema oo 
3- CEdema fymptomaticum, vel tumor cedematofus. 
. CEdema deuteropathic 
5. Gdema cum erythema e. 
: CEdema 
urulentum. 
the Bena Ei i Flaceidum —This form of the 
mee fays rfon, is characterifed by a tumefaétion 
of the chaal ety commo we about the feet, ankles, and 
anterior furface of. the t There is no particular dif- 
colouration of the an Tei is unattended with pain; but 
there is ufually a ae of bi rs eee a see = the free- 
dom of motion is more or lefs impair preflure 
upon the tumefied part predaess a Tittle cavity, en aa t 
very quickly effaced, and the feet are general ra 
colder a natural. e — ufu ork increafes towards 
the eve ing, but, in confequence of r 
pon it eee aa Lene ee 
According to , the remote aes are of the 
shih defcription 
mprefiion of ‘the larger veins, or of the trunks of 
the evar veffels 
Obefity. Gravid uterus. Tumours within the abdomen. 
itting long on a hard feat. Riding long in a carriage, or 
on horfeback. Tight bandages. Unequal preflure from 
f pe &e. 
. Whatever diminifhes the powers which propel the 
cen blood. 
A. fedentary life. Long expofure to cold, without exer- 
cife, and in perfons of advanced age. xpofure to cold 
ae damp. Old age in fubjects who have led inactive 
= a horizontal 
wf 
ze 
ive 
. ” Injurious effe&ts_ produced on the ftomach. 
Drinking excefflively of diluting a ‘piri, or fer- 
mented beverages. ce in eati 
5. T which obftru& 
the due tran{miffion of the blood through the pulmonary 
effels. 
ve 
6. Local 
