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To Aggregate, v. a. \_aggrego, Lat.] To collect toge¬ 
ther; to accumulate; to heap many particulars into one 
mafs. 
Aggregate in botany, is a term ufed to exprefscthofe 
flowers, which are compofedof parts or florets, fo united, 
by means either of the receptacle or calyx, that no one of 
them can be taken away without deflroying the form of 
the whole. They are oppofed to Ample ilowers, which 
have no fitch common part, and are ufuallv divided into 
feven kinds, viz. th ^'aggregate, properly fo called, whofe 
receptacle is dilated, and w hofe florets are fupported by 
footlfalks ;,fuch are the blue daify, thrift, or fea-pink, 
&c, th z compound-, the umbellad-, th ecyrnofe-, the amentace¬ 
ous ; the glumofe ; and the fpadiceous. 
AGGREGATION, f. Collection, or (late of being 
colledted. The collection, or adt of collecting, many par¬ 
ticulars into one whole. The whole compofed by the 
coa’cervation of many particulars; an aggregate. 
To AGGRESS, v. n. [ aggrcdior , aggrejfum, Lat.] To 
commit the firlt aid of violence ; to begin the quarrel. 
-The glorious pair advance 
With mingled anger and collected might, 
To turn the war, and tell aggrejfing France, 
How Britain's fons and Britain’s friends can fight. Prior. 
AGGRESSION, f. [aggreJJio,LaX.] The firlt a£t of in¬ 
jury ; commencement of a quarrel by fome a6t of iniquity. 
AGGRESSOR, f. The perfon that firlt commences 
hofiility; the aflaulter or invader, oppofed to the defendant. 
AGGRIEVANCE,/! Injury; hardlhip inflicted; wrong 
endured. 
7 o AGGRIEVE, v. a. [from gravis , Lat.] To give 
forrow, to caufe grief; to vex. It is not improbable, that 
to grieve was originally neuter, and aggrieve the aCtive. 
To impofe fome hard'lhips upon ; toharrafs; to hurt in 
one’s right. TIris is a kind of juridical fenfe ; and when¬ 
ever it is ufed now, it feems to bear fome allufion to forms 
of law 7 .—The landed man finds himfelf aggrieved by the 
falling of his rents, and the fireightening of his fortune; 
whillt the monied man keeps up his gain, and the mer¬ 
chant thrives and grows rich by trade. Locke. 
To AGGROUP, v, a. [ aggropare , Ital.] To bring to¬ 
gether into one figure; to crowd together: a term of 
painting.—Bodies of divers natures, which are aggrouped 
(or combined) together, are agreeable and pleafant to the 
fight. Dryden. 
AGHAST, adj. [either the participle of agaze, and 
then to be written agazed , or aghajl, or from a and gajl. 
Sax. a ghoft; which the prefent orthography favours; 
perhaps they were originally different words. ] Struck with 
horror, as at the fight of a fpeCtre ; fiupified with terror. 
It is generally applied to the external appearance : 
Aghajlhe wak’d, and, darting from his bed, 
Cold fweat in clammy drops his limbs o’erfpread. Dryden. 
AGPIER, a town of Ireland, which fends two mem¬ 
bers to parliament. It is fituated in the fouthern part of 
Ulder, not far from Clogher. 
AGHEUSTIA, [a, non, and ysvopca, guflo.] Defect 
or loss of Taste, called alfo apogeufia, apogcu/is. Dr. 
Cullen ranks this as a genus of difeafe, in the clafs locales 
.and order dyfaedhefia?. The caufes are fever, or palfy, 
whence he forms two fpecies; the firft he calls, Organic, 
arifing from fome affeftion in the membrane of the tongue, 
by which relifhing things or thole which have fome tafie 
are prevented from coming in contaft with the nerves : the 
fecond, Atonic, arifing without any afleCtion of the 
tongue. Sauvages fays the caufe of this difeafe is either 
in the brain, in the tongue itfelf, or in the paffage of the 
lingual nerves;—he forms two fpecies—Firlf, Febrii.is, 
where a fuppreflion of tafie accompanies ardent and ma¬ 
lignant fevers, on acccount of the extreme drynefs of the 
tongue, w hen it wants moifture, grows black and rough 
like wood; or from the delirium, or comatous date into 
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which patients fometimes fall.—Second, Paralytica, 
when it accompanies a paralyfis of the tongue, or fome co¬ 
matous diforder. 
AGHRIM, a town of Ireland, in the county of Wick¬ 
low, and province of Leinfter, fituated about thirteen 
miles fouth-weft of Wicklow. 
Aghrim, in Galway; a fmall village, difiant about 
thirty-two miles from Dublin, and rendered memorable 
by a decifive battle fought there, and at Kilcommodon- 
hill, the 12th of July, 1691, between general Ginckle and 
Monfieur St. Ruth, the commanders under king William 
III. and James II. when St. Ruth, the general of the Irilh 
army, with 7000 of his men, were flain ; but of the Eng- 
lifli only 600. The victory was the more confiderable, as 
the Englifii army confided of no more than 18,000 men ; 
whereas the Irifli were computed at 20,000 foot, and 5000 
horfe and dragoons. They lod likewife nine pieces of 
brafs cannon ; all their ammunition, tents, and baggage ; 
mod of their fmall arms, which they threw away to expe¬ 
dite their flight; with eleven dandards and thirty-two pair 
of colours. 
AGIADES, in the Turkifli armies, a kind of pioneers 
employed in fortifying camps, fmoothing of roads, and 
the like offices. 
AGILE, adj. \_agile, Fr. a gilts, Lat.] Nimble; ready; 
having the quality of being fpeedily put in motion; adtive; 
To guide its a&ions with informing care, 
In peace to judge, to conquer in the war, 
Render it agile, witty, valiant, fage, 
As fits the various courfe of human age. Prior. 
AGILENESS, f. The quality of being agile ; nimble* 
nefs; readinefs forifiotion; quicknefs; affivity; agility. 
AGILITY, J'. \_agilitas, Lat. from agiiis, agile.] Nim- 
blenefs; readinefs to move; quicknefs; activity. 
The improving of agility was one of the chief objects 
of the inditution of games and exercifes. The athletic 
made particular profeflion of the fcience of cultivating 
and improving agility. Agility of body is often fuppofed 
peculiar to fome people ; yet it feems lefs owing to any 
thing peculiar, in their frame and drudture, than to prac¬ 
tice. 
AGINCOURT, a village of the French Netherlands, 
fituated in lat. 50. 35. N. Ion. 2. 10. E. famous on account 
of the victory obtained by Henry V. of England over the 
French, in 1415. 
The army of Henry, after landing in France, w r as by 
various accidents reduced to io,ooo men, of whom not a 
few were lick, or flowly recovering from ficknefs;—they 
had to traverfe a long traiff of country, inhabited by ex- 
afperatea enemies, from w hom they w ere to procure pro- 
vifions, lodgings, guides, intelligence, and every thing they 
wanted;—that country was defended by many drong 
towns, interfedted by deep rivers, and guarded by an army 
of 100,000, or (according to fome contemporary writers) 
140,000, men. 
Henry, undaunted by all thefe dangers and difficulties, 
departed from Harfleur, marching his army in three lines, 
w ith bodies of cavalry on the wings. He proceeded by 
very eafy journeys, that he might not fatigue his troops, 
or difeourage them by the appearance of a flight; obfer- 
ving the drifted difeipline, and paying generoufly for eve¬ 
ry thing he received; which induced the country people 
to bring provifions to his camp, in fpite of all the com¬ 
mands they had received to the contrary. To keep his 
men in fpirits, and from repining, the king fared as ill as 
the meaned foldier, always appearing with a cheerful 
countenance, and addreffing them in the mod friendly and 
encouraging language. They arrived at the village of 
Agincourt, in the county of St. Pol, on the evening of 
Oftober 24; and there beheld the whole French army, at 
a fmall didance, directly in their route. The king took an 
attentive view of it from an eminence; and being fully 
convinced that it was impoffible to proceed any further cm 
