ANN 
A N O 
ANT 
Y rs. 
Value. 
Yrs. 
Value. 
Yrs. 
Value. 
1 
,952381 
35 
16,374194 
69 
19,309810 
2 
1,859410 
36 
16,546852 
70 
19,342677 
3 
2,723248 
37 
16,711287 
71 
19,373978 
4 
3,545950 
38 
16,867893 
72 
19,403788 
5 
4,329477 
39 
17,017041 
73 
19,432179 
6 
5,075692 
40 
17,159086 
74 
19,459218 
7 
5,786373 
41 
17,294368 
75 
19,484970 
8 
6,463213 
42 
17,423208 
76 
19,509495 
9 
7,107822 
43 
17,545912 
77 
19,532853 
10 
7,721735 
44 
17,662773 
78 
19,555098 
11 
8,306414 
45 
17,774070 
79 
19,576284 
12 
8,863252 
46 
17,880066 
80 
19,596460 
13 
9,393573 
47 
17,981016 
81 
19,615677 
14 
9,898641 
48 
18,077158 
82 
19,633978 
15 
10,379658 
49 
18,168722 
83 
19,651407 
16 
10,837770 
50 
18,255925 
84 
19,668007 
17 
11,274066 
51 
18,338977 
85 
19,683816 
18 
11,689587 
52 
18,418073 
86 
19,698873 
19 
12,085321 
53 
18,493403 
87 
19,713212 
20 
12,462210 
54 
18,565146 
88 
19,726869 
21 
12,821153 
55 
18,633472 
89 
19,739875 
22 
13,163003 
56 
18,698545 
90 
19,752262 
23 
13,488574 
57 
18,760519 
91 
19,764059 
24 
13,798642 
58 
18,819542 
92 
19,775294 
25 
14,093945 
59 
18,875754 
9.3 
19,785994 
26 
14,375185 
60 
18,929290 
94 
19,796185 
27 
14,643034 
61 
18,980276 
95 
19,805891 
28 
14,898127 
62 
1 9,028834 
96 
19,815134 
29 
15,141074 
63 
19,075080 
97 
19,823937 
30 
15,372451 
64 
19,119124 
98 
19,832321 
31 
15,592810 
65 
19,161070 
99 
19,840306 
32 
15,802677 
66 
19,201019 
100 
19,847910 
33 
16,002549 
67 
19,239066 
34 
16,192904 
68 
19,275301 
EXAMPLE. 
What is the present worth of an annuity of 
I £.30, t0 continue for 16 years, at 5 per cent, 
compound interest ? The value in the Table 
against 16 years is 10,83777, which multiplied 
I by 30, gives the answer 32 51. 2s. Id. 
Reversionary Annuities are those which do 
not commence till after a certain number of 
I years, or till the decease of a person, or some 
other future event, has happened. The present 
value of an annuity which is not to commence 
till the expiration of a certain period, may be 
found by Table II., by deducting from the value 
of an annuity for the whole period, the value 
of an annuity to the time at which the rever- 
sionary annuity is to commence. 
Example. What is the present value, at 5 per 
cent, compound interest, of £.50 per annum for 
20 years, commencing at the end of 7 years 
from the present time ? The value of an an- 
nuity f»r 21 years is 14,643034, and the value of 
an annuity for 7 years is 5,786373, the latter 
deducted from the former leaves 8, 856661, which 
multiplied by 50, gives 442/. 16r. 7 d. the value 
of the reversionary annuity. 
For the value of Annuities on Lives, and of 
Reversionary Annuities on Lives or Survivor- 
ship, see Life-annuities. 
Annuities, Public. See National Debt 
and Funds. 
ANNUITY, in law, a contract very dis- 
tinct from a rent-charge, with which it is fre- 
quently confounded a rent-charge being a 
burthen imposed upon- and issuing out of 
lands, whereas an annuity is a yearly sum, 
chargeable only upon the person of the 
granter. Therefore, if a man by deed grant 
to another the sum of 20/. per annum, with- 
out expressing cut of what lands it shall issue, 
no land at all shall be charged with it; but it 
is a mere personal annuity, which is of so 
little account in tiie law, that if granted to an 
eleemosynary corporation, it is not within 
the statutes of mortmain ; and yet a man may 
have a real estate in it, though his security is 
merely personal. Blacks. Cam. b. ii. ch. 3. 
f or the provisions respecting grants of an- 
nuities for lives, see Life Annuities. 
ANNULAR, in anatomy, something in 
the form of or resembling a ring. Hence, the 
annular cartilage is the second cartilage of the 
larynx ; annular ligament that which encom- 
passes the wrist, and binds tiie bones of the 
arm together ; annular process, or protube- 
rance, a part of the medulla oblongata. The 
sphincter muscle of the anus is, from its figure, 
called the annular muscle. 
Annular eclipse. See Astronomy. 
ANNULET, in architecture, a small 
square member in the Doric capital, under the 
quarter round. Annulet is also a narrow flat 
moulding, which is common to divers places 
of the columns, as in the bases, capitals, & c. 
It is the same member which Vitruvius calls a 
fillet ; Palladio a listel or cincture ; Scamozzi 
and Mr. Brown, asupercilium, list, tinea, eye- 
brow, square, and rabbit. 
Annulet, in heraldry, a mark of distinction 
which the fifth brother of a family ought to 
bear in his coat of arms. 
ANNULLING, a term sometimes used 
for cancelling or making void a deed, sentence, 
or the like. 
ANNULUS, a ring, in geometry, the area 
of which is equal to- the difference of the areas 
of the outer and inner circles : or it may be 
found by multiplying the sum of their diame- 
ters by the difference, and the product by 
.7854. 
ANNUNCIADA, Annuntiada, or An- 
nuntiata, an order of knighthood in Savoy, 
first instituted by Amadeus I. in the year 
1409. 
Annunciada is also the title of several re- 
ligious orders, instituted at different times, 
and at different places, in honour of the An- 
nunciation. 
ANNUNCIATION, the tidings brought 
by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary; a 
festival on the 25th of March, vulgarly called 
lady-day. 
In the Romish church, on this feast the 
pope performs the ceremony of marrying or 
cloistering a certain number of maidens, who 
are presented to him in the church della Mi- 
nerva, clothed in white serge, and muffled up 
from head to foot : an officer stands by, with 
purses containing notes of fifty crowns for 
those who make choice of marriage, and 
notes of an hundred for those who choose the 
veil. 
ANN.UNTIATOR, the name of an officer 
in the church of Constantinople. It was his 
business to inform the people of the festivals 
that were to be celebrated. 
ANODYNE, in pharmacy, a term applied 
to*medicines which mitigate pain. 
ANOLYMPIADS, in Gre- 
cian antiquity, an appellation given by the 
E beans to such Olympic games as had been 
celebrated under the direction of other states 
besides themselves. 
ANOMALISTICAL year-, in astronomy, 
the time that the earth takes to pass through 
her orbit: it is also -called the periodical year. 
The space of time belonging to this year is 
greater than the tropical year, on. account of 
the precession of the equinoxes. . 
ANOMALOUS verbs, .in grammar, such 
as are not conjugated conformably to .the pa- 
radigm of their conjugation, 
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ANOMALY, in astronomy, an irregularity 
in the motion of the planets, whereby they 
deviate from the aphelion or apogee; which 
inequality is either mean, excentric, or co- 
equate and true. See Astronomy. 
AN O MIA, in conchology, the name of an 
extensive genus of bivalves, defined as inequi- 
valve, one valve gibbous towards the beak, 
the other flat, and perforated near the hinge. 
The animal, which is but imperfectly known, 
is described — body thin and slender, emar- 
ginated, and fringed; the hairs aiiixed to the 
upper valve ; and it has two arms, which are 
linear and longer than the body. Some cbn- 
chologists separate the fossil kinds from those 
which are found in a recent state. There are 
25 species, among which is the anomia te- 
rebratula. See Plate, Nat. Hist. fig. 21. 
ANOMOEANS, a sect of Christians, who 
asserted that the Son was of a nature diffe- 
rent from and in nothing like to that of the 
Father. This was the name by which the 
pure Arlans were distinguished, in contra- 
distinction to the semi-arians, who acknow- 
ledged a likeness of nature in the Son, at the 
same time that they denied, .with the pure 
Arians, the eonsubstantiality of the Word. 
The semi-arians condemned the anomoeans 
in the council of Seleucia;. and the Anonioe- 
ans in their turn condemned the semi-arians 
in the council of Constantinople.. 
ANOMORHOMBOIDIA, in natural his- 
tory, a genus of crystalline spars, of no deter- 
minate form, easily fissile, but cleaving more 
readily in an horizontal than in a perpendi- 
cular direction, their plates being composed 
of irregular arrangements of short and thick 
rhomboidal concretions. See Mineral 
logy. 
ANONIS, rest-harroiv, in botany, a genus 
of plants, the flower of which is papiliona- 
ceous* and its fruit a turgid villose, pod, con- 
taining a few kidney-hke seeds. 
This genus belongs to the diadelphia-de- 
candria class of Linnaeus, who calls it ononis. 
The essential character is, calyx quinque— 
partite; segments linear; vexillum striated; 
legumen turgid and sessile; filaments coar 
tited, without a fissure. 
A NS/E, in astronomy, the parts of Saturn’s 
ring, which are to be seen on each side of the - 
planet, when viewed through a telescope, and 
the ring appears somewhat open. They are 
so called because they are like handles to the 
body of the planet. 
A'NSE L-ica'ght,. the same with auocel- 
weight. 
ANSER, the trivial name of the common 
goose. See Anas. 
Anser, in astronomy, a star of the fifth or 
sixth magnitude, in. the milky-way, between 
the swan and eagle. 
ANSPESSADES, in the French armies, a 
kind of inferior officer in the foot, below the - 
corporals, but above the common sentinels. . 
There are usually four or five of them in a 
company. . 
AN T, in entomology, a well-known insect, 
much celebrated for its industry and (eco- 
nomy. See Formica and Termes. 
ANTA,, in the antient architecture, a 
square pilaster, placed at the corners of ' 
buildings. Anta is used by M. Le Glerc for 
a kiud of shaft of. a pillar, without base or 
capital, and even without any moulding. 
ANTACIDS, in pharmacy, an appellation 
given to all medicines proper to . correct .and 
