ro8 ADD 
ADARME,/. in commerce, a fmall weight in Spain, 
which is alio ufed at Buenos-Aires, and in all Spaniih Ame¬ 
rica. It is the iixteenth part of an ounce, which at Paris 
is called the demi-gros. But the Spaniih ounce is feven 
per cent, lighter than that of Paris. Stephens renders it 
in Englilh by a drachm. 
ABASA, a city of Judea, where Judas Maccabteus 
overthrew and killed Nicanor. 
ADATAIS, Adatsi, or Adatvs, / in commerce, a 
mud in or cotton cloth, very fine and clear, of which the 
piece is ten French ells long, and broad. It comes 
from the Eaft Indies; and the fineft is made at Bengal. 
ADCORDAB 1 LIS DENARII, J. in old law books, 
fignifies money paid by the vaflal to his lord, upon the fel¬ 
ling or exchanging of a feud. 
To ADCORPORATE, v. a. [from ad and corpus.'] To 
unite one body witli another; more uluaily wrote accor- 
porate. 
ADCRESCENTES,/! among the Romans, denoted a 
kind of foldiery, entered in the army, but not yet put on 
duty; from thefe the ftanding forces were recruited. 
To ADD, v. a. [ addo , Lat.J To join fomething to that 
which was before. To perform the mental operation of 
adding one number or conception to another. To add to 
is proper, but to add together feems a folecil'm.—Whatfo- 
ever pofitive ideas a man has in his mind, of any quantity, 
he can repeat it, and add it to thd former, as eafily as he 
can add together the ideas of two days, or two years. Iocke. 
ADDA, a river of Switzerland and Italy, which rifes 
in mount Braulio, in the country of the Griions, and, paf- 
fing through the Valteline, traverles the lake Como and 
the Milanefe, and falls into the Po, near Cremona. 
ADDABLE, adj. 1 hat to which fomething may be 
added. Addihle is more proper. It fignifies more pro¬ 
perly that which may be added. 
To ADDEClMALE, v. a. \_addecimo , Lat.J To take 
or afeertain tithes. 
To ADDEEM, v. a. [from deem.~] To cfleem; to ac¬ 
count. This word is now out of life. 
ADDEPHAGI A, J. in medicine, a term ufed by fome 
phyficians for gluttony, or a voracious appetite. 
ADDER, J. [cztter, a/tor, naddre, as it feems from eitter, 
Sax. poifon.J In zoology, a name for the Viper. See 
Coluber. 
Adder-bolts, or Adder-flies. See Libelulla. 
Sea Adder, f. the Englifh name of a fpecies of Syn- 
gnathus. 
Water Adder,/ a name given to the Coluber Na- 
TRIX. 
Adder’s-tongue,/. inbotany. SeeOpHiOG lossum. 
Adder-stung, part, is ufed in refpedl of cattle, when 
ftung with any kind of venomous reptiles, as adders, fcor- 
pions, &c. orbit by a hedge-hog or Ihrew. For the cure 
of fuch bites, fome ufe an ointment made of dragon’s- 
blood, with a little barley-meal, and the whites of eggs. 
Adder-wort, or Snake wood,/ See Polygonum. 
ADDEXTRATORES, f. in the court of Rome, the 
pope’s mitre-bearers, fo called, according to Ducange, be^ 
caufe they walk at the pope’s right hand when lie rides to 
vifit the churches, 
ADDIBLE, adj. Pofilble to be added.'—The cleared 
idea it can get of infinity, is the confufed incomprehenli- 
ble remainder of endlefs addible numbers, which aifords 
no profpeit of flop or boundary. Locke. 
ADDIBILITY,/. The poflibility of being added.— 
This endlefs addition or addibiHty of numbers, fo apparent 
to the mind, is that which gives us the cleared and mod 
didmdt idea of infinity. Locke. 
ADDICE,/. [for which we corruptly fpeak and write 
adz , from adeje^ Sax. an axe. J—The addice hath its blade 
made thin and lomewhat arching. As the axe hath its 
edge parallel to its handle, fo the addice hath its edge 
athwart the handle, and is ground to a bafil on its iniide 
to its outer edge. Moxcn. 
ADD 
To ADDICT, v. a. [addico , lac.] To devote, to dedi¬ 
cate, in a good fenfe; which is rarely ufed. It is com¬ 
monly taken in a bad fenfe; as, he addicted himjclf to vice. 
To devote one’s felf to any perfon, party, or periuafion. 
ADDICTEDNESS, f. The quality or date of bein'*' 
addicted. 
ADDICTI,/ in antiquity, a kind of flaves, among the 
Romans, adjudged to ferve fome creditor whom they could 
not otherwife fatisfy, and whofe (laves they became till 
they could pay or work out the debt. 
ADDICTION, J. [ addiElio , Lat.J Theabtof devoting, 
or giving up. The date of being devoted : 
It is a wonder how his grace fhould glean it, 
Since his addidion was to courfes vain ; 
His companies unletter’d, rude, and fliallow; 
His hours fill’d up with riots, banquets, fports. 
Shakefpeare. 
Addiction, among the Romans, was the making over 
goods to another, either by fale or by legal fentence; the 
goods fo delivered were called bona addiEla. Debtors 
were fometimes delivered over in the fame manner; and 
thence called fervi addidi. 
ADDICTIO IN DiEM, / among the Romans, the 
adjudging a thing to a perfon for a certain price, unlefs by 
fuch a day the owner, or fome other, give more for it. 
ADDINGTON, Surrey, three miles from Croydon.- 
The lord of this manor, in the reign of Henry III. held 
it by this fervice, viz. to make the king a mefs of pottage 
at his coronation ; and fo lately as the redoration of Charles 
II. this fervice was ordered by the court of claims, and ac¬ 
cepted of by the king at his table. 
ADDISON (Lancelot), fon of Lancelot Addifon a cler¬ 
gyman, was born at Mouldifmeaburne, in the paridi of 
Crofby Ravenfworth, in Wedmoreland, in the year 1632. 
He was educated at Queen’s College, Oxford; and, at the 
redoration of Charles II. accepted of the chaplainlhip of 
the garrifon of Dunkirk: but that fortrefs being deliver¬ 
ed up to the French in 1662, he returned to England, and 
was foon after made chaplain to tire garrifon of- Tangier; 
where he continued feven years, and was greaTy edeem- 
ed. In 1670 he again returned to England, and was foon 
after made Chaplain in ordinary to rhe king; but his chap- 
laindiip of Tangier being taken from him on account of his 
abfence, he found himfelf lhaitened in his circumdances, 
when he feafonably obtained the reftory of Milton in Wilt- 
(hire, worth about 120I. per annum. He afterwards be¬ 
came a prebendary of Sarum; took his degree of dotdor 
of divinity at Oxford; and in 1683 was made dean of 
Litchfield, and next year archdeacon of Coventry. His 
life was exemplary; his converfation pleading) and greatly 
indruftive; and his behaviour, as a gentleman, a clergy¬ 
man, and a neighbour, did honour to the place of his re- 
fidence. He wrote, 1. A Short Narrative of the Revolu¬ 
tions of the Kingdoms of Fez and Morocco. 2. The 
prefent Hihory of the Jews. 3. A Difcourfeon Catechi- 
fing. 4. A Moded Plea for the Clergy. 5. An Intro- 
dufb’on to the Sacrament. 6. The fird State of Maho- 
metanifm; and feveral other pieces. This worthy divine 
died on the 20th of April 1703, and left three Tons: Jo- 
feph, the fubje6t of the next article; Guidon, who died 
while governor of Fort St. George; Lancelot, mader of 
arts, and fellow of Magdalene College in Oxford ; and one 
daughter, fird married to Dr. Sane, prebendary of Wed- 
minder, and afterwards to Daniel Coombes, Efq. 
Addison (Jofeph), fon of Dean Addifon, the fubjefl 
of the lad article. He was born at Milton, near Antef- 
bury, in Wiltdiire, on the nth of May 1672; and, not 
being thought likely to live, was baptized the fame day. 
He received the fird rudiments of his education at the 
place of his nativity, under the Rev. Mr. Naiih ; but was 
foon removed to Salilbury, under the care of Mr. Taylor; 
and from thence to the Charter-houfe, where he commen¬ 
ced his acquaintance with Sir Richard Steele. About fif¬ 
teen, 
