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ANHELO'SE, adj. \_anhelus, Lat.] Oat of breath; 
panting ; labouring of being out of breath. 
A'NIAN, the name of a ftrait formerly fuppofed to lie 
between the north-eaft of Alia and the north-well, of Ame¬ 
rica ; but now found to exill only in imagination. 
An ian is alio the name of a barren landy defert lying 
on the ealt coafi of Africa. It is fo excellively hot and 
othenvife inhofpltable, that it contains but very few in¬ 
habitants, except fome wandering Arabs who live in camps. 
ANI'BA.y. in botany. See Cedrota. 
ANICE'TON,_/i An epithet for a plailfer afcribed to 
Crito, and fo called becauie it was an infallible remedy 
for the acores. 
ANIEN'TED, adj. [ ancantir , Fr.] Fruftrated; brought 
to nothing. 
ANIGRI'DES, nymphs, who inhabited the banks 
of the river Anigrus. They had a cave where thole af¬ 
flicted with a leprofy, or any other cutaneous difeafe, en¬ 
tered, and facrificed to thofe nymphs; after which they 
I warn over the river, and left all their impurities behind 
them. 
ANl'GRUS, a river of Theflkly, where the Centaurs 
wafhed the wounds they had received from Hercules, and 
made the w aters unwholefome. 
ANJEN'GO, a fmall town and factory, with a fort, on 
the coaft of Malabar, in the peninfula on this lide the 
Ganges, belonging to the Ealt-India company. The fort 
is fmall, but neat and firong: it is a fquare with four baf- 
tions, having eight guns mounted on each, carrying a ball 
of 18 pounds. Two of thefe baltions face the lea, the 
other two the country. Befides thefe, there is a line of 
eighteen or twenty guns pointing towards the fea, of 18 
and 24 pounders. About piftol-fhot from the back of 
the fort runs a river, which, befides being a fecurity to 
the fadtory, adds much to the agreeable lituation of the 
place. This river has its fource in fome difiant moun¬ 
tains ; and, defcending in a courfe from the north and 
ealt, it afterwards turns in feveral pleafing meanders fo 
far to the welt as to walh the bottom of our factory’s gar¬ 
den, and at lad, winding to the fouth, it empties itfelf in¬ 
to tlie fea. This fettlement fupplies our Eaft-India com¬ 
pany with pepper: and its lituation is alfo very convenient 
for giving proper intelligence to our lliips touching here 
from Europe, or from any part of India. Lat. 7.0. N. 
Ion. 76. 1. E. 
A'NIL,/. in botany. See Indigofera. 
ANI'LENESS, or Ani'lity, A- [ anilitas , I.at.] The 
fiate of being an old woman ; the old age of women. 
A'NIMA ,f among divines and naturalilts, denotes the 
foul, or principle of life, in animals. See Soul. 
Anima, among the old chemifis, denoted the volatile 
or fpirituous parts of bodies. 
Anima Hepatis, is an obfolete name for the fcrrvm 
vitriolatum , or Jail of iron, on account of its fuppofed ef¬ 
ficacy in difeafes of the liver. 
Anima Mundi, i. e. the foul of the world ; a certain 
pure ethereal fubftance or fpirit, diffufed, according to 
many of the ancient philofophers, through the mafs of the 
world, informing, actuating, and uniting, the divers parts 
thereof into one great, perfect, organical, and vital, body 
or animal. They add, that this anima mundi, which 
more immediately refides in the celeftial regions as its pro¬ 
per feat, moves and governs the heavens in fuch manner, 
as that the heavens themfelves firlt received their exiltence 
from the fecundity of the fame fpirit; for that this anima, 
being the primary fource of life, every where breathed a 
fpirit like itfelf, by virtue whereof various kinds of things 
were framed conformable to the divine ideas. 
Anima Saturni, a white powder obtained by pour¬ 
ing diftilled vinegar on litharge, of conliderable life in ena¬ 
melling. See Enamel. 
A'NIMABLE, adj. That which may be put into life, 
or receive animation. 
ANIMADVER'SION, \_animadverfo , Lat.] Reproof; 
fevere cenfure, blame.—He difmifled their commiflioners 
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with fevere and fharp animadverfwns v Clarendon. Punifh- 
ment. When the object of animadverfon is mentioned, it 
has the particle on or upon before it.—When a bill is de¬ 
bating in parliament, it is ufual to have the controverfy 
handled by pamphlets on both fides; without the lealt 
animadverfon upon the authors. Swift. In law, An cede- 
fiaftical cenfure, and an ecclefialtical animadverfon, are dif¬ 
ferent things ; for a cenfure has a relation to a fpiritual 
punilhment, but an animadverfon has only a refpedt to a 
temporal one; as, degradation, and the delivering the per- 
fon over to the fecular court. Aylffe. Perception; power 
of notice: not in ufe.—The l’oul is the foie percipient 
which hath animadverfon and fenfe, properly lb calied. 
G/anville. 
ANIMADVER'SIVE, adj. That has the power of per¬ 
ceiving; percipient: not in ufe.—The reprefentation of 
objects to the foul, the only animadverfve principle, is con¬ 
veyed by motions made on the immediate organs of fenfe. 
Glanville. 
ANIMADVF.R'SIVENESS, f. The power of animad¬ 
verting, or making judgment. 
To ANIMADVERT', v. n. [animadverto, Lat.] To pafs 
cenfures upon.—I lhould not animadvert on him, who was 
a painful obferver of the decorum of the fiage, if he had 
not tiled extreme feverity in his judgment of the incompa¬ 
rable Shakefpeare. Drydcn. To infliCt punifiunents. In 
both fenfes with the particle upon. —If the Author of the 
univerfe animadverts upon men here below, how much more 
will it become him to do it upon their entrance into a 
higher Hate of being? Grew. 
ANIMADVER'TER, f. He that pafies cenfures, or 
infliCIs punilhments.—God is a drift obferver of, and a 
fevere animadverter upon, fuch as prefume to partake of 
thofe mylleries, without fuch a preparation. South. 
AN'IMAL, f. (animal , Lat.] A living creature cor¬ 
poreal, difiindf, on the one fide, from pure fpirit; on the 
other, from mere matter. Animals are fuch beings, which, 
befides the power of growing, 2nd producing their like, as 
plants and vegetables have, are endowed alio with fenfa- 
tion and fpontaneous motion. 
Animal, A in natural hiftory, an organized and living 
body, which is alfo endowed with fenfation: thus, mine¬ 
rals are laid to grow or increafe, plants to grow and live, 
but animals alone to have fenfation. It is this property 
of fenfation that is deemed the eflential charafteriflic of an 
animal; and by which the animal and vegetable kingdoms 
feem to be fo materially feparated. Thofe naturalilts, who 
have fuppofed the difiinftion between animals and vege¬ 
tables to confift in any thing elfe, have found themfelves 
greatly embarrafled ; and have generally agreed, that it 
was extremely difficult, if not impofiible, to fettle the 
boundaries between the animal and vegetable kingdoms. 
But this difficulty will be eafily feen to arife from their 
taking the charafteriflic marks of the animal kingdom, 
from fomething that was evidently common to both. Thus 
Boerhaave attempted to difiinguifh an animal from a ve¬ 
getable, by the former having a mouth, which the latter 
has not : but here, as the mouth of an animal is only the 
inftrument by which nourifhment is conveyed to its body, 
it is evident that this can be no eflential difiinftion, be- 
caufe vegetables alfo require nourilhment, and have in- 
firuments proper for conveying it into their bodies ; and, 
where the end is the fame, a difference in the means can 
never be eflential. The fixing the difference in an ani¬ 
mal’s having a gula, fiomach, and inteftines, as is done by 
Dr. Tyfon, is as little to the purpofe. 
The power of moving from one place to another, hath 
by many been thought to conftitute their principal diffe¬ 
rence ; and indeed, in mod; cafes, it is the obvious mark 
by which we difiinguifh an animal from a vegetable; but 
Lord Karnes hath given feveral very curious infiances of 
the locomotive power of plants; fome of which, as he 
fays, would do honour to an animal. Upon the flighted 
touch, the fenfitive plant Ihrinks back, and folds up its 
leaves, limilar to a friail; which, on the flighted touch, 
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