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globofe gland at the outer tip. Piftillum : germ oblong, 
gibbous downwards. Style Tubulate, the length of the 
Uamens. Stigma Simple. Pericarpium: a legume long, 
compreffed, membranaceous. Seeds: very many, round- 
ifh, remote.— EJJ'ential Charatter. Calyx, five-toothed. 
Petals, five. Globofe glands, affixed to the outer tip of 
the antherte. Legume, membranaceous. 
Species, i. Adenanthera pavonina: leaves fmooth on 
both (ides. This is one of the largeft trees in the Eaft 
Indies, and the timber is in common life on account of its 
folidity. It flowers in September, bears fruit at the be¬ 
ginning and end of the year, and is never without leaves. 
The duration is two hundred years. The natives life the 
powder of the leaf in their ceremonies. The feeds, be¬ 
tides being eaten by the common people, are of great life 
to ,the jewellers and goldfmiths, on account of their equa¬ 
lity, for weights, each of them weighing four grains ; they 
alfo "make a cement, by beating them up with water and 
borax. Of the bruifed leaves they make a drink which 
they efteem good againft pains in the loins. 
2. Adenanthera falcata: leaves tomentofe underneath. 
It is a native of the Eaft Indies. 
3. Adenanthera fcandens : leaves pinnate, two-paired; 
leaflets ovate, oblique, fmooth : clafpers terminal, bifid. 
This is a native of Mallicollo, an ifland in the South Seas. 
Propagation and Culture. This tree muft be railed on a 
hot-bed from the feeds, which are of a fliining black co¬ 
lour, and Somewhat larger than thofe of the great lentil, 
but nearly of the fame ftiape. Afterwards it muft be 
placed in the bark ftove, where the fine branching leaves 
will make a very handfome appearance. It has not yet 
flowered in England. Of the fecond and third fpecies 
we know very little, nor have they yet been cultivated in 
England. 
ADENBURG, or Aldenburg, a town of Weftpha- 
lia, and in the duchy of Burg, fubjeCt to the EleClor 
Palatine. It is twelve miles N. E. of Cologne, and fe- 
venteen W. of Bonn ; E. Ion. 7. 25. lat. 51. 2. 
ADENOGRAPHY, f. [from aovvov and Gr.] 
that part of anatomy which treats of the glandular parts. 
Sec Anatomy. 
ADENOIDES,.glandulous, or of a glandular form; 
an epithet applied to the prostate. 
. ADENOLOGY, the fame with Adenography. 
ADENOS, a kind of cotton, otherwife called marine 
cotton. It comes from Aleppo by the way of Marfeilles, 
where it pays 20 per cent. duty. 
ADEONA, in mythology, the name of a goddefs in¬ 
voked by the Romans when they fet out upon a journey. 
ADEPHAGIA, in mythology, the goddefs of gluttony, 
to whom the Sicilians paid religious worftrip. 
ADEPS, in anatomy, the fat found in the abdomen. 
It alfo fignifies animal fat of any kind. 
ADEPT, [from adeptus, Lat. that is, adeptus artem .] 
He that is completely (killed in all the fecrets of his art. 
It is, in its original fignification, appropriated to the chy- 
mifts, but is now extended to other artifts—The preferva- 
tion of chaftity is eafy to true adepts. Pope. 
Adept , adj. Skilful; thoroughly verfed.—If there be 
really fuch adept philofophers as we are told of, I am apt 
to think, that among their arcana, they are mafters of 
extremely potent menftruums. Boyle. 
Adept Philosophy, is that philofophy, whofe. end 
is the tranfmutation of metals, arid an univerfal remedy. 
The profelfors of this philofophy are called adepti, a- 
depts. Paracelfus calls that, medicina aclepta, which 
treats of the difeafes that are contracted by celeftial ope¬ 
rations, or communicated from heaven. 
ADERBIJAN, a province of Perlia, bounded on the 
N. by Armenia Proper, on the S. by Irac-Agemi, on the 
E. by Ghilan, and on the W. by Cnrdiftan. The prin¬ 
cipal town is Tauris; from 42. to 48. Ion. from 36. to 
39. lat. 
ADERNO, a fmall place in the Val di Demona,inthe 
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kingdom of Sicily: E. Ion. 15.25. lat. 28.5. The an¬ 
cient Adranum. 
ADES, or Hades, denotes the invifible date. In the 
heathen mythology, it comprehends all thofe regions that 
he beyond the river Styx, viz. Erebus, Tartarus, and 
Elyfium. See Hell. 
ADESPOTIC, adj. Not abfolute ; not defpotic. 
ADESSENAR 1 ANS, Adessenarii, in church hif- 
tory, a fedt of Chriftians. who hold the real prefence of 
Chrift’s body in the eucharift, though not like the Ro- 
manifts, byway of tranfubftantiation. 
ADFILIATION, a Gothic cuftom, whereby the chil¬ 
dren of a former marriage are put upon the fame footum 
with thofe of the fecond. This is alfo called unio prolium , 
and Hill retained in Come parts of Germany. 
AD FINES (Antonine), a town of Swifferland, fup- 
pofed to be the modern Pfi,n, in the north of the diftridl of 
Turgow, on the rivulet Thur, not far from the borders 
of Suabia, about half-way between Conftance and Frau- 
enfield. So called, becaufe when Cecinna, general of the 
emperor Vitellius, with the auxiliary Rhetians, defeated 
the Helvetii, the former extended their borders thus far, 
their territory ending here .; and, in time of the Romans, 
it was the laft town in this quarter, and of fome repute. 1 
ADHA, a feftival which the Mahometans celebrate on 
the 10th day of the month Dhoulhegiat, which is the 12th 
and laft of their year. This month being particularly 
deftined for the ceremonies which the pilgrims obferve at 
Mecca, it takes its name from thence, for the word figni¬ 
fies the month of Pilgrimage. On that day they facriiice 
with great folemifity, at Mecca, and no where elfe, a 
ftieep, which is called by the fame name as the feftival it- 
felf. The Turks commonly call this feftival the Great 
Beiram, to diftinguilh it from the lefs, which ends their 
faft, and which the Chriftians of the Levant call the Raf¬ 
ter of the Turks. 
ADHATODA, f. in botany. See Justicia. 
To ADHERE, v. n. [adhtzreo , Lat.] To flick to ; as, 
wax to the finger ; with to before the thing. To ftick, in 
a figurative fenfe ; to be confident; to hold together. To 
remain firmly fixed to a party, perfon, or opinion.—Eve¬ 
ry man of fenfe will agree with me, that Angularity is 
laudable, when, in contradiction to a multitude, it adheres 
to the dictates of confcience, morality, and honour. Boyle. 
ADHERENCE, f. the quality of adhering,, or (tick¬ 
ing ; tenacity. In a figurative fenfe, fixednefs of mind ; 
fteadinefs; fidelity.—Plain good fenfe, and a firm adhe¬ 
rence to the point, have proved more effectual than thofe 
arts, which are contemptuoufly called the fpirit of nego- 
ciating. Swift. 
ADHERENCY, f. the fame with Adherence. Stea¬ 
dy attachment. That which adheres.—Vices have a na¬ 
tive adherency of vexation. 
ADHERENT, adj. (ticking to. United with.—Modes 
are faid to be inherent or adherent , that is, proper or im¬ 
proper. Adherent or improper modes arife from the join¬ 
ing of fome accidental fubftance to the chief fubjeCt, which 
yet may be feparated from it; fo when a bowl is wet, or 
a boy is clothed, thefe are adherent modes ; for the water 
and the clothes are diftinCt fubftances which adhere to the 
bowl, or to the boy. Watts. 
Adherent, f the perfon that adheres : one that fup- 
portsthe caufe, or follows the fortune, of another ; a fol¬ 
lower, a partifan.—A new war muft be undertaken upon 
the advice of thofe, who, with their partifans and adhe¬ 
rents, were to be the foie gainers by it. Swift. 
ADHERER, f. He that adheres.—He ought to be in¬ 
dulgent to tender consciences ; but, at the fame time, a 
firm adherer to the ell iblifhed church. Swift. 
ADHESION, f [ adhafio , Lat.] The aCt or ftate of 
flicking to Something. Adhcfon is generally ufed in the 
natural, and adherence in the metaphorical, fenfe : as, the 
adhefon of iron to the magnet ; and adherence of a client to his 
patron. It is'Sometimes taken, like adherence, figurative- 
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