i88 AFT 
from Africa for flaves hath exceeded 100,800; numbers 
of whom are driven down fike flieep, perhaps near 1000 
miles from the fea-coad, who are generally inhabitants of 
villages that have been furrounded in the night by armed 
force, and carried off to be fold to cur traders. Nor do 
our planters, who purchafe them, ufe any pains to in- 
dra£t them in religion, to make them amends for the op-' 
predion thus exercifed on them. It is faid they are unna¬ 
turally averfe to eVery thing that tends to it; yet the 
Portuguefe, French, and Spaniards, in their fettlements, 
fucceed in their attempts to indraft them, as much to the 
advantage of the commerce as of religion. It is for the 
fake of Chridianity, and the advantages accompanying it, 
that Englifh (laves embrace every occafionof defertingto 
the fettlements of thefe nations. See Slave-trade. 
The inhabitants of this continent, with tefpeft to re¬ 
ligion, may be divided into three forts, viz. Pagans, Ma¬ 
hometans, and Chriftians. The find are the mod nume¬ 
rous, poffefimg the greated part of the country, from the 
tropic of Cancer to the Cape of Good Hope, and they 
are generally black. The Mahometans, who are of a 
tawny complexion, podefs Egypt, and almod all the nor¬ 
thern diores of Africa, or what is called the Barbary 
coad. The people of Abydinia, or the Upper Ethiopia, 
are for the molt part denominated Chriftians, but retain 
many Pagan and Jewidt rites. There are alfo fame Jews, 
on the north of Africa, who manage all tiie little trade 
that part of the country enjoys. 
. There are fcarcely any two nations, or indeed any two 
of the learned, that agree in the modern dividons of Af¬ 
rica, as has been before obferved; and therefore we mud 
acknowledge our ignorance of the true bounds, and even 
the names, of feveral of the inland nations, which may dill 
be reckoned among tire unknown and undifcovered parts 
of the world. 
AFRICAN ASSOCIATION, is a fociety that was 
lately edablidied by fubfcription for the purpofe of ma¬ 
king difcoveries in the interior parts of Africa. See the 
preceding article, 
African Bladder-nut, /. in botany. See Ro- 
TEN A. 
African Company, a fociety of merchants, edablidi- 
ed by king Charles II. for trading to Africa ; which trade 
is now laid open to all his majedy’s fubjects, paying ioper 
cent, for maintaining the forts. 
African F lea-bane, / in botany. See Tarchonan- 
thus. 
African Marygold,/ in botany. See Tagetes. 
African Ragwort,/ in botany. See Othonna. 
AFRICANUS (Julius), an excellent hidorian of the 
third century, the author of a chronicle which was great¬ 
ly edeemed, and in which he reckons 5500 years from the 
creation of the world to Julius Caefar. This work, of 
which wc have now no more than what is to be found in 
Eufebius, ended at the 22id year of the vulgar asra. Af- 
ricanus alfo wrote a letter to Origen on the Hiftory of Su- 
fanna, which he reckoned fuppofititious; and w'e have ftill 
a letter of his to Aridides, in which he reconciles the 
feeming contradictions in the two genealogies of Chrid, 
recorded by St. Matthew and St. Luke. 
AFRONT, adv. [froma and/roH/.] In front ; in direct 
Oppofition to the face.—Thefe four came all afront , and 
mainly thrud at me, Shakefpearc. 
AFSLAGERS,/. perfons appointed by the burgomaf- 
ters of Amderdam to prelide over the public fales made 
in that city. They mud always have a clerk of the fecre- 
tary’s office with them, to take an account of the fale. 
They correfpond to our brokers, or auctioneers, 
AFT, /! in fea-language, the fame with abaft. 
AFTER, prep, [after, Sax. ] Following in place. It is 
commonly applied to words of motion; as, He cainea/cr, 
and dood behind him. It is oppofed to before: 
What fays I.ord Warwick, diall we after them ?— 
c —After nay, before them, Jf we can, Sha/tefpeare. 
AFT 
In purfuit of .—After whom is the king of Ifrael come out?’ 
After whom dod'thou purfue? After a dead dog, after a 
flea? 1 Sam. xxiv. 14.—Behind. This is not a common 
ufe.—Sometimes I placed the third prifm after a fecond, 
and fometimes alfo a fourth after a third, by all which the 
image might be often refracted fideways. Newton —Pode- 
rior in time.—We diall examine the ways of conveyance 
of the foVereignty of Adam to prifices that were to reign 
after him. Locke.— According to.—He that thinketh Spain 
our over-match, is no good mint-man, but takes greatnefs 
of kingdoms according to bulk and currency, and no't after 
their intrinfic value. Bacon. —In imitation of.—There are, 
among the old Roman daffies', feveral of Venus, in dide¬ 
rent podures and habits ; as there are many particular fi¬ 
gures of her made after the fame defign. Addifon. 
After, adv. In fucceeding time. It is ufed of time 
mentioned as fucceeding fome other. So we cannot fay, I 
diall be happy after , but hereafter ; but we fay, I Was at 1 
fird made mifefable by the lofs, but was after happier. 
Following another.—Let go thy hold, when a great wheel 
runs down a hill, led it break thy neck with following it; 
but the great one that goes upward, let him draw thee 
after. Shakefpearc. —After is compounded with many 
words, but almod alw ays in its genuine and primitive fig-’ 
nification; fome, which occurred, will follow, by which) 
others may be explained. 
AFTER ACCEPTATION,/ [from after and accep¬ 
tation.'] A fenfe afterwards, not at fird admitted: 
’Tis true, fome doctors in a fcantier fpace, 
I mean, in each apart, contract the place ? 
Some, who to greater length extend the line. 
The church’s after acceptation join. Dryden. 
AFTERAGES, f. [from after and apes. ] Succeflive 
times; poderity. Of this word 1 have found no fmgular; 
but fee not why it might not be faid, This will be done in 
fome after age. JohnJon. 
AFTER AI/L, prep. When all has been taken into the 
view; when there remains nothing more to be added; at 
lad ; in fine; in conclufion ; upon tire whole; at the mod. 
— But, after, all, if they have any merit, it is to be attribu¬ 
ted to fome good old authors, wliofe works I dudy. Pope. 
AFTERBIRTH,/, [from after and birth. The mem¬ 
brane in which the birth was involved, which is brought 
away after; the fecundine. See Midwifery. 
AFTERCLAP,/ [from after and clap."] Unexpected 
events happening after an affair is fuppofed to be at an end. 
It is commonly taken in an ill fenfe. 
AFTERCOST, / [from after and coff The latter 
charges; the expences incurred after the original plan is ( 
executed.—You mud take care to carry off the land-floods 
and dreams, before you attempt draining ; led your after- 
cof and labour prove Unfuccefsful. Mortimer. 
AFTERCROP,/, [from after and crop.'] The fecond 
crop or harved of the fame year.— Aftercrops I think nei¬ 
ther good for the land, nor yet the hay good for the cattle. 
Mortimer. 
AFTER-DINNER,/ [from after and dinner.] The 
hour palling jud after dinner, which is generally allowed 
to indulgence and amufement. 
AFTER-ENDEAVOU R,/. [from after and endeavour. ] 
Endeavours made after the' fird effort or endeavour.—■ 
There is no r'eafon why the found of a pipe (hould leave 
traces in their brains, which, not fird, but by their after¬ 
endeavours, diould produce the like founds. Locke. 
AFTER-ENQUIRY,/ [from after and enquiry.'] En¬ 
quiry made after the fad committed, or after life.—You 
mud either be directed by fome that take upon them to 
know, or take upon yourfelf that, which, I am fnre, you 
do not know, or lump the after-enquiry on your peril. 
Shakefpearc. 
To AFTEREYE, v. a. [from after and eye. ] To keep 
one in view; to follow in view. This is not in ufe. 
AFTERGAME,/ [from after and game. ] Thefcheme 
which may be laid, or the expedients which are praftifed, 
3 1 after 
