344 A L L 
ALL-kNOwrNe S, adj. Omnifcient 5 all-wife.-—Shall we 
repine ! at a little mifplaccd charity, we, who could no way 
forefee the eft'eft; when an all-knowing all-wife Being 
(bowers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and 
undefer ving' ? Alter bury. 
All-making, adj. That created'all; omnific. 
All-fowerful, adj. Almighty; omnipotent;■ pof- 
fefied of infinite power.—O all-powerful Being! the lead 
motion of whofe will can create or deftroy a woidd; pity 
■us, the mournful friends of thy diftrefled fervant. Swift. 
All-Saints Bay, one of the tnoft rich and fertile 
eaptainfhips in Brafil, producing-abundance of cotton, and 
•Wail quantities of i'ugar. It has feveral cities and towns, 
of which St. Salvador is the capital. Lat. 12. 3 . S..I91L 
40. jo. W. 
All-seer, f. He that fees or beholds every thing; he 
whofe view comprehends all things: 
That high All-Jeer , which I dallied with, 
Hath turn’d mv feigned prayer on my head, 
And giv’n in earned what 1 begg’d in jell. Shakcfpearc. 
All-seeing, adj. That beholds every thing : 
The fame Fil'd Mover certain bounds has plac’d, 
How long thoie perifiiable forms (hall lad; 
Korean they lalt beyond the time adign’d 
By that all-J'ccing and all-making mind. Drydcn. 
All-sou i.s, in the calendar, denotes a fead-day, held 
on the fecond of November, in commemoration of all the 
faithful deceafed. The feaft of All-Souls was fird intro¬ 
duced, in the eleventh century, by Odilon abbot of Clu- 
ny, who enjoined it on his own order; but it was not long 
before it became adopted by the neighbouring churches.. 
All-sufficient, adj. Sufficient to every thing.—The 
tedimonies of God are perfeft, the tedimoniesof God are 
all-fefficient unto that end for which they were given. 
Hooker. 
All-wisf., adj. Poffied of infinite wifdom—There is 
an infinite, eternal, all-wife, mind governing the affairs of 
the world. South. 
Supreme, all-wife, eternal, potentate! 
Sole author, foie difpoler, of our fate! Prior. 
AL'LA, or Allah ,f. the name by which the profeflors 
of, Mahometanifm call the Supreme Being. The term 
alia is Arabic, derived from the verb alali, to adore. It 
is, the fame with the Hebrew Eloah, which fignifies the 
Adorable Being. 
ALLAHABAD', a city of Oude, in Hindoftan, feated 
a-t the confluence; of the Ganges and Jumna. It is 470- 
miles N. W. of Calcutta. Lat. 25.45.N. Ion. 82.0. E. 
ALLAMf^N'DA, f: [from Mr. Frederic Allamand, a- 
Dutch fdrgeon.] In-botany, a genus of the pentandria 
monogynia ciafs, in the natural order of confortae. The 
generic characters are—Calyx: perianthium one-leafed, 
five parted; parts ovate, acute. Corolla! one-petalled,- 
funnel-fhaped ; tube cylindric ; border femiquinquefid,. 
dwelling; divilioris fpreading; obtufe. Stamina: filaments 
jffiar'cely any; antherae five, fagittate, converging in the 
throat of the-tube. Piftillum: germ oval, furrounded 
with a ring; ftyle filiform, the length of the tube; ftigma 
headed, contracted in the middle. Pericarpium : an or¬ 
bicular, lens-ffiaped, echinate, one-celled, two-valved, 
eapfule. Seeds: very many, imbricate, orbiculate, flat, 
edged with a membranous w'mg.—^EffentialCharacter. Co¬ 
rolla, contorted; eapfule lens-fhaped, ereCt, echinate, one-- 
celled, two-valved, many feeded. 
There is but one fpecies known, called allamanda ca- 
thartica. It is a milky ffirub, with its ftem twining,. and- 
plimbing on trees : branches round, pfibefeent. Leaves 
in fours, on very ffiort petioles, elliptic-lanceolate, ffiining, 
quite entire, with a villous rachis. Flowers terminal, in 
erect racemes : twin, pedunculate ; corolla yellow.. The 
leaver are cathartic, and an infufion of them is ufed at 
A L L 
Surinam in the eiioTic. It is found wild there, at Cayenne, 
in Guiana, &c. by the fea-fide. Introduced in 1785, by 
Baron Hake. 
AL'LANTOIS, or Allantoi'des, f. [from aAlte?, 
Gr. afaufage'; or hog’s pudding ; becaufe in fome brutes 
it is long and thick. J The membrane fo called which forms 
part of the fecttndin.es; it being arfo named alantoidesfar- 
ciminalis, the “ urinary -membrane.” Some affert, and 
others'deny, the exiffence of this in the human fpecies. 
Dr. Hale fays, if you firft find the hole whence the urine 
came'forth,' if the allantois is not too much torn, you may 
blow up this membrane with a pipe, to its full dimen- 
iions, and thus you can feparate much of it from the cho¬ 
rion. De Graaf fays, that all the membranes of the fe- 
cuiidines will appear diftinft by blowing, with a pipe, in¬ 
to a hole made through the chorion; and that the allantois 
is no where perforated by the funis umbilicalis; for the 
funis does not pafs through-any of the membranes, it only 
adheres to the infide of the amnios. Dr. James fays, that 
the allantois, or urinary membrane, does not cover the 
whole fetus, but only that part of it which refpefts the 
chorion, and does not lie on the placenta ; for the allantois 
cannot be extended any farther than to the edge of the pla¬ 
centa, where the amnios and chorion are fo clofely joined 
by fibres, that no membrane can come between them; 
wherefore the allantois is not every where faffened to the 
chorion, and confequently is not of the fame fliape as. the 
other membranes. 
This membrane contains, it is faid, the urine that is 
difeharged from the bladder: what paffes from the blad- 
der into the urachus cannot, in a natural ffate, return by 
it. There have been inftances of perfons difeharging 
their urine at the navel. It is alfo aflerted by fome, that 
the liquor may be forced from the bladder to the allantois 
by fitting a pipe to it, and from the allantois to the blad¬ 
der. If you raife the allantois a little, and fqueeze it with 
the hand, you force the liquor into the bladder, and thro 1 
the penis. Neither artery nor vein can bedifeovered in 
this membrane. If any anatomifts have ever demonffra- 
ted this membrane, not one of them has given, a diffinft 
figure of it; all the engravings which are deligned to re- 
prefent it, are too incorreft to. afford us a diffinft idea. 
Dr. Hunter, in hisleftures, abfolutely denies the exiffence 
of this membrane, except in brutes. See on this fubjeft 
what Dr. Hales hath inferted'in the Pliilof. Tranf. Aliff, 
vol. iv. and Monf. Littre in the Mem. Acad, de Scien¬ 
ces, 1701. 
AL'LAS, a town on, and a (Trait between, the ffle.-df 
Lambock and Combava, in the Eaft Indies. Lat. 10, 20. N,. 
Ion. 86. 14. E. 
ALLA'TIUS (Leo), keeper of the Vatican library, a 
native of Scio, and a celebrated writer of the 17th cen¬ 
tury. He was of great fervice to the-gentlemen of Port 
Royal in the controverfy they had with M. Claude touch¬ 
ing the belief of the Greeks with regard-to the euchariff. 
No Latin was ever more devoted to the fee-of Rome, or 
more inveterate againft the Greek fehifmatics, than Alla- 
tius. He never engaged in matrimony, nor was he evey 
in orders ; and Pope Alexander VII. having afked him 
why he did not enter into orders? heanfwered, “ Becaufe 
1 would be free to marry.” The pope-rejoined, “If fo* 
why do you not marry?” “ Becaufe (replied Allatius) I 
would be at liberty to take orders.” Thus, as Mr. Balg 
obferves, .he paffed histwhole life, wavering betwixt a pa- 
riff) and a wife; forry, perhaps, at his death, for having 
chofen neither of them; when, if he had fixed upon one, 
lie might have rep.ented his choice for thirty or forty yearsv 
If we believe John P : a.tricius, Allatius had a .very extra¬ 
ordinary pen, with which, and no other, he wrote Greek 
for forty years; and we need npt be furprifed, that, whyi 
he loft it, he .was fo grieved, that heicould fcarcely for¬ 
bear crying. He publilhed feveral man.ufcripts, feveral 
tranflations-of Greek authors, and feveral pieces of l>i$ 
owa comgoftng. In hiSi.compo4tio.ns he is thought: to flie\y 
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