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being confulted upon.—The projeft now in agitation for 
repealing of the teft aft, and yet leaving the name of an 
eftablifhment to the prefent national church, is inconfift- 
ent. Swift. 
Agitation, in phyfics, an inteftine commotion of the 
parts of a natural body. It is one of the chief inftruments 
of mixtion: by the agitation of the parts of the blood 
and chyle, in their continual circulation, fanguification is 
in a good meafure effefted. Agitation is alfo ufed in me¬ 
dicine for a fpecies of exercife popularly called Jwinging. 
AGITATOR, f. He that agitates any thing; he who 
manages affairs. 
Agitator, in antiquity, a term ufed fora charioteer, 
efpecially thofe who drove in the circus at the curule 
games. 
Agitators, in the Englifii hiftory, were certain offi¬ 
cers fet up by the army in 1647, to take care ot its inte- 
refts. Cromwell joined the agitators, only with a view to 
ferve his own ends; which being once accomplifiicd, he 
found means to get them abo'iifhed. 
AGLAIA, the name of the youngeft of the three Gra¬ 
ces, efpoufed to Vulcan. 
AGLET, f. [fome derive it from aiyXri, fplendour; but 
it is apparently to be deduced from aiguilette, Fr. a tag to a 
point, and that from aigu, (harp.] A tag. of a point cur¬ 
ved into fome reprefentation of an animal, generally of a 
man.—He thereupon gave for the garter a chain worth 
200I. and his gown addreffed with aglets, efteemed worth 
•35I. Hayward. —In botany, the pendants at the ends of the 
chieves of flowers, as in tulips. 
AGLIONBY (John), an Englifli divine, chaplain to 
king James I. a man of univerfal learning, who had a ve¬ 
ry conliderable band in the tranflation of the New Tefta- 
ment appointed by king James I. in 1604. 
AGMAT, in the province, and on the river of the 
fame name, in Morocco, is a pleafant town on the decli¬ 
vity of one of the mountains of Atlas. Lat. 30. 56. N. 
Ion. 7. 15. W. 
AGMEN, / in antiquity, properly denotes a Roman 
army in march: in which fenfe, it hands contradiftin- 
guilhed from acies, which denoted the army in battle ar¬ 
ray ; though, on fome occafions, we find the two words 
ufed indifferently for each other. The Roman armies, in 
their marches, were divided into primum agmen , anfwering 
to our van-guard; medium agmen, our main-body; and 
and pojlremum agmen, the rear-guard. 
AGMINAL, adj. [from agmen, Lat.] Belonging to a 
troop. 
AGNAIL, adj. [from angc, grieved, and nagle , Sax. a 
nail.] A difeafe of the nails; a whitlow ; an inflammation 
round the nails. 
AGNAN, a fmall town in France, in the department 
of Loire and Cher, in the form of an amphitheatre, at the 
foot of w.hich runs the Cher, at the dilfance of lixty miles 
from Bourges. 
AGNANTHUS,/! in botany. See Cornutia, 
AGNATI,y'. in law, are the kindred by the father’s 
fide, as cognati are kindred by the mother. 2 Blackjl. 235. 
AGNEL, J. an ancient French gold coin, firft flruck 
under the reign of St. Louis, worth about twelve fols fix 
deniers. [Tlie agnel is alfo called fometimes mouton d’or, 
and agnel d’or, from the figures flruck on one fide. 
AGNELET,/! an ancient French filver coin, worth 
about twenty fols, firft ftruck under Philip le Bel. 
AGNITION, J. [from agnitio, Lat.] Acknowledge¬ 
ment. 
To AGNIZJB, v. a. [from agnofeo, Lat.] To acknow¬ 
ledge;; to,own; to avow-. This word is now obfolete. 
AGNO, a river of Naples, which falls into the Medi¬ 
terranean, about feven miles north of Puzzuoli. 
AGNOETaE, f. [from ayvo e«, to be ignorant of.] In 
church-hiftory, a feft of ancient heretics, who maintain¬ 
ed that Chrift', confidered as to his human nature, was ig¬ 
norant of certain things, and particularly of the time of 
the day of judgment. 
AGNOMEN,/! in Roman antiquity, a kind of fourth 
or honorary name, given to a perfon on account of fome 
extraordinary aftion, virtue, or other accomplifhment. 
Thus the agnomen Africanas was bellowed upon Publius 
Cornelius Scipio, on account of his great atchievments in 
Africa. The agnomen was the third in order of the three 
Roman names: thus, in Marcus Tullius Cicero, Marcus 
is the praenomen, Tullius the nomen, and Cicero the ag¬ 
nomen . 
AGNOMINATION, f. [ agnominatio, Lat.] Allufion of 
one word to another, by refemblance of found.—The Bri- 
tifti continueth yet in Wales, and fome villages of Corn¬ 
wall, intermingled with provincial Latin, being very fig- 
nificative, copious, and pleafantly running upon agnomina¬ 
tions, although harfii in afpirations. Camden. 
AGNUS, or LAMB,y! in zoology, the young of the ovis 
or ftieep. See Ovis. 
Agnus Castus,./! in botany, the trivial name of a 
fpecies of the vitex. SeeViTEX. 
The Greeks call it ayt'©-, chafte. It was famous among 
the ancients as a fpecific for the prefervation of chaftity. 
The Athenian ladies who made profeifion of chaftity, lay 
upon the leaves of agnus callus during the feafts of Ceres. 
Being reputed a cooler, and particularly of the genital 
parts', it was anciently ufed in phylic to allay thofe inor¬ 
dinate motions arifing from feminal turgefcences: but it 
is out of the prefent praftice. 
Agnus Df.i, in the church of Rome, a cake of wax 
damped with the figure of a lamb fupporting the banner 
of the crofs. Thefe being confecrated by the pope with 
great folemnity, and diftributed among the people, are 
fuppofed to have great virtues; as, to preferve thofe who 
carry them worthily, and with faith, from all manner of 
accidents; to expel evil fpirits, See. The name literally 
lignifies Lamb of God ; this being fuppofed an image or re¬ 
prefentation of the Lamb of God who took away the fins' 
of the world. The Rornilh priefts and religious derive 
confiderabie pecuniary advantage from felling thefe Agnus 
Dei’s to fome, and prefenting them to others. The pope 
provides a regular fupply, by confecrating them once in 
feven years. The Agnus Dei is forbidden to be brought 
into England under pain of incurring a premunire. 13 
Eliz. cap. 2. 
Agnus Dei is alfo a popular name for that part of the 
mafs wherein the prieft, ftriking his breaft three times, 
rehearfes, with a loud voice, a prayer beginning with the 
words Agnus Dei. 
Agnus Scythicus. See Scythian Lamb. 
AGO, adv. \_agan, Sax. paft or gone; whence writers 
formerly ufed, and in fome provinces the people ftill life, 
agone for ago.]' Paft ; as, long ago ; tdiat is, long time has 
paft lince. Reckoning time towards the prefent, we life 
/ince ; as, It is a year Jince it happened. Reckoning from 
the prefent, we ufe ago-, as, It happened a year ago. This 
is not, perhaps, always obferved. 
AGOG, adv. [a word of uncertain etymology : the 
French have the term a gogo, in low language; as, i/s 
vivent a gogo, they live to their wifh. From this phrafe 
our word may be, perhaps, derived. ] In a ftate of defire; 
in a ftate of warm imagination ; heated with the notion of 
fome enjoyment; longing; ftrongly excited. It is ufed 
with the verbs to be, or to fet-, as, He is.tfgvg, or You may 
ft him agog. It has the particles on, or for, before the 
objeft of defire: 
On which the faints are all agog, 
And all this for a bear and dog. Butler. 
Gyplies generally draggle into thefe parts, and fet the. 
leads of our fervant-maids fo agog for hulbands, that we 
io not expeft to have any bufinefs done as it ihould be, 
tvhilft they are in the country.- Addfon. 
AGOING, part. adj. [from a and going. ] In aftion ; 
into aftion.—Their firft movement, and impreffed motions* 
demanded the impulfe of an Almighty hand to fet them, 
firft agoing . Talter. ■ 
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