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penal lav/? made againft artificial abortions : it having been 
made capital to procure mifearriage in the one ftate, while 
in the other it was only deemed a venial crime. The em¬ 
peror Charles V. by a conflitution publiflied in 1532, put 
the matter on another footing; inftead of the diltinction 
of an animated and unanimated foetus, he introduced that 
of a vital and non-vital foetus, as a thing of more obvious 
and eafy decilion, and not depending on any fyftem either 
of creation, tradurition, or infufion. Accordingly a foe¬ 
tus is laid, in a legal fenfe, to be animated, when it is 
perceived to (tir in the womb ; which ufually happens 
about the middle of the term of geiiation. 
Animation, is an enigmatical word ufed by alchemifts 
in theiremploy of tranfmuting metals. Quicklilver is faid 
to be animated, when, by conjunction with a perfect me¬ 
tal, it is reduced to a certain fpecies. 
A'NIMATIVE, adj. That which has the power of 
giving life, or animating. 
ANIMATOR,/! That which gives life; or any thing 
analagcus to life, as motion. 
A'NIME, f. [the Portuguefe corrupted the word anima 
into anime .j it is improperly called gum anime, being a re- 
linous fubltance imported from New Spain and the Brazils. 
It is alfo called courbaril rezina, amincea, avimum. Pilo calls 
the tree from whence it is obtained jetaiba, and the In¬ 
dians call it courbaril. It is the hymenaa courbariloi Linnaeus. 
The gum anime is a tranfparent, yellowifh-white, refi- 
nous, gum, obtained from a large tree in Brazil and New 
Spain, and alfo in the eaftern parts of the world. That 
from the eafi, Diofcorides calls by the names myrrka and 
mince a \ but, in our fhops, we have no other than the Ame¬ 
rican forts. The fmall tears are the pureft. It hath but 
little tafie, though to the fmell it is very agreeable. It 
ealily breaks between the teeth ; bur, if chewed for fome 
time, it foftens and becomes adhelive. If it is laid on a 
red-hot iron, it immediately melts, catches flame, and 
burns quickly away, leaving only very little white allies. 
It diffolves in fp. vini R. but is very little affected by wa¬ 
ter, except in diftillation, by which it gives a part of its 
flavour, and a fmall quantity of oil. 
The Bralilians are faid to ufe it in fumigations for pains 
and aches from a cold caufe. With 11s it is efteemed diu¬ 
retic. ThedofeisBi. The gum copal is often fold for it. 
Anime, in heraldry, a term ufed when the eyes of a 
rapacious creature are borne of a different tin6fure from 
the creature itfelf. 
ANIMET'TA,/. among ecclefiaftical writers, denotes 
the cloth wherewith the cup of the eucharift is covered. 
ANIMO'SE, adj. [animofus, Lat.] Full of fpirit; hot; 
vehement. 
ANIMO'SENESS,/! Spirit; heat; vehemence of tem¬ 
per. 
ANIMO'SITY, f [ animofitas , Lat.] Vehemence of ha¬ 
tred ; paffionate malignity. It implies rather a difpofition 
to break out into outrages, than the outrage itfelf.—No 
religious fe6l ever carried their averfions for each other to 
greater heights than our ftate parties have done ; who, the 
more to inflame their paflions, have mixed religious and 
civil animofiiies together; borrowing one of their appella¬ 
tions from the church. Swift. 
ANIN'GA,/! a root which grows in the Antilles iflands, 
much refembling the China plant. It is ufed by fugar- 
bakers for refining fugar. 
ANJOU', a ci-devant province of France, forms, with 
the late provinces of Maine and Touraine, the four de¬ 
partments of Maine and Loire, Indre and Loire, Maine 
and Sarte. The air is temperate, and the country agreea¬ 
bly diverfified with hills and meadows. There are thirty- 
three forefts of oak-trees mixed with beech. The coun¬ 
try produces white-wine, wheat, barley, rye, oats, peafe, 
beans, flax, hemp, walnuts, and chefnuts. In Lower An¬ 
ion they make cider. There are fruit-trees of all kinds, 
and good pafture. The greateft riches of the province 
conftft in cows, oxen, and Iheep. There are feveral coal 
and iron mines; and quarries of marble and of ftate; as 
ANN 
well as quarries of white ftone, proper for building, on 
the fide of the river Loire. Here are alfo feveral faltpe- 
tre-works and fome glafs-houfes. The remarkable towns, 
befides Angers the capital, are Saumur, Brifac, Pons de 
Cea, La Fleche, and Beaufort. 
A'NIO, or A'nien, now il Tevcrone ; a river of Italy, 
which falls into the Tiber, three miles to the north of 
Rome. It rifesin a mountain near Treba; and, running 
through the country of the TEquiculi, or fEqui, it after¬ 
wards feparated the Latins from the Sabines ; but, nearer 
its mouth", or confluece, it had the Sabines on each fide. 
It forms three beautiful lakes in its courfe. In the terri¬ 
tories of Tibur it falls -from a great height, and there 
forms a very rapid cataraft ; hence the epithet praceps, 
and hence the fteam caufed by its fall. Animus is the epi¬ 
thet formed from it. Anienus is alfo the god of the river. 
ANISA'TUM,/] A wine in which anifeeds are infufed 
tints: take of Afcalon wine, (this was a ftrong wine,) 
ft xxx. honey ft x. anifeeds 5 v. mix them and let them 
ftand together a few days, then ftrain off the clear liquor. 
A'NISE,/! [anifum, Lat. ] A fpecies of apium or parftey 
with large fweet-fcented feeds. See Illicium, Pimpi- 
nella, and Bubon. 
ANISIFO'LIUM,/! in botany. See Limonia. 
ANISOMARA'THRUM,/. inbotany. See Scandix. 
A'NIUS, in fabulous hiftory, king of the id and of De¬ 
los, and high-prieft of Apollo. He had three daughters, 
Oeno, Spenno, and Elais, to whom Bacchus gave the pow¬ 
er of changing whatever they pleafed into wine, corn, and 
oil. When Agamemnon went to the Trojan war, he wiftt- 
ed to carry them with him to fupply his army with pro- 
provifions; but they complained to Bacchus, who changed 
them into doves. 
AN'KER, f. Rancher, Du.] A liquid meafure chiefly 
ufed at Amfterdarn. It is the fourth part of the avvrn, 
and contains two ftekans: each ftekan confifts of fixteen 
mengles; the mengle being equal to two of our wine quarts. 
AN'KLE,/. [ akcleow , Sax. anckel, Du.] The joint 
which joins the foot to the leg. 
Ankle-bone,/, [from ankle and bone.'] The bone of 
the ankle. 
AN'NA, or Anne, [run Heb. gracious.] A Chriftian 
name of women. 
Anna, one'of the three principalities into which Ara¬ 
bia Deferta is divided. 
Anna, one of the chief cities of the above principa¬ 
lity, and formerly a famed mart-town, is li mated. in lat,. 
33. 57. and Ion. 42. 10. E. on the river Euphrates, in a 
fruitful and pleafant foil. It has two ftreets, which are 
divided by the river. That on the Mefopotamia fide is 
about two miles long, but thinly peopled, and by none 
but tradefmen; that on the oppofite tide is about fix miles 
in length, and it is there that the principal inhabitants of 
the city dwell. Every houfe lias fome ground belonging 
to it; and thefe grounds are loaded with noble fruit trees, 
as lemons, oranges, citrons, quinces, figs, dates, pomegra¬ 
nates, olives, all very large and in great plenty. Some of 
the flat grounds are fown with corn and other grain, which 
yield likewife a conliderable crop. This city is the com¬ 
mon rendezvous of all the robbers that infeft the country, 
and from which they difperfe themfelves into all parts of 
the Defert. Here they meet to confult; here tmey hold 
their grand council, and deliberate w here to rob next with 
fuccefs. It is with great difficulty that the Turkifti aga, 
and the janiflaries, who are kept here, can levy the tri¬ 
bute impofed by the Turks on all the commodities carried 
through this city, which is one of the great thoroughfares 
for the palling of the caravans that go to and from Alep¬ 
po, Tripoli, Damafcus, Bagdad, and fome other parts 
of the Turkifti empire. 
Anna, in fabulous hiftory, the lifter of Pygmalion and 
Dido, who followed her lifter into Africa. After the 
death of Dido, Ihe retired to Malta, from whence Pyg¬ 
malion would have carried her away; but (he got fafe in¬ 
to Italy, where ./Eneas gave her honourable reception, for 
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