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a Marrow flat moulding common to other parts of the co¬ 
lumn ; (o called, becaufe it encompaffes the column round. 
To ANNU'MERA’I E, v. a. [annumero , Lat.3 To add 
to.a former number; to unite to fomething before men¬ 
tioned. )-<• 
AKNUMERA'TION,yi [.annumeratio , Lat.] Addition 
to a former number. 
ANNUNCIA'DA, or Aknuntia'ta, f An order of 
knighthood in Savoy, (lift inftituted by Amadeus I. in the 
year 1409. Their collar was of fifteen links, interwoven 
one with another, in form of a true-lover’s knot; and the 
motto, F. E. R. ]'. lignifying, Fortitude- ejus Rhodum tenuit. 
Amadeus VIII. gave the name Ann unci ada to this order, 
which was formerly known by that of The knot of love ; 
changing at the fame time the image of St. Maurice, pa¬ 
tron of Savoy, which hung at the collar, for that of the 
Virgin Mary; and, inftead of’ the motto above-mentioned, 
fubftituting the words of the angel’s (alutation. 
Annunciada is alfo a title of feveral religious orders, 
inftituted at different times and at different places, in ho¬ 
nour of the annunciation. 
To ANNUN'CIATE, v.a. [annuntio, Lat.] To bring 
tidings ; to relate fomething that lias happened : a word 
not in popular ufe. 
ANNUNCI A'TION, f. The tidings brouglit by the 
angel C-abnel to the virgin Mary of the incarnation of 
Chrift. 
Annunciation is alfo a feftival, kept by the church 
on the 25th of March, in commemoration of thefe tidings. 
This feftival appears to be of very great antiquity, having 
been obferved before the time of the council of Trullo, 
in which there is. a canon forbidding the celebration of all 
feftivals in Lent, excepting the Lord’s day, and the feaft 
of the annunciation: fo that we may date its original from 
the feventh century. In the Romifh church, on this feaft, 
the pope performs the ceremony of marrying or cloyfter- 
jng a certain number of maidens, who are prefented to 
him in the church, clothed in white ferge, and muffled 
up from head to head to foot. An officer Hands by,-with 
purfes containing notes of fifty crowns for thole who make 
choice of marriage, and notes of a hundred for thofe who 
choofe to veil. : 
Annunciation, is likewife a title given by-the Jews 
to 1 >art of the ceremony of the paffover. 
ANNUN'CI ATOR, f. The name of an officer in the 
church of Conftantinople. It was his bufinefs to inform 
the people of the feftivals that were to be celebrated. 
AN'NUS CI.IMACTE'RICUS, the years 63 and 81, 
of which, in aftrology, there is an opinion, that thofe years 
have an influence on man’s life. They confift of a number 
or nines ; as 7 times 9 is 63, and 9 times 9 is Si. 
AN'ODA, _/l in botany. See Sida. 
ANO'DUS, a word ufed by chemifts for what is fepa- 
rated from the nourifhment by the kidneys. The Greek 
word ctroih#?, anodus, from neg. and a tooth, fig- 
nifies toot hie fs. 
AN'ODYNE, f. [from « neg. and coown, pain.] Ano¬ 
dynes are medicines which eafe pain, and procure lleep. 
They are divided into three forts, viz. 1. Paregorica. 
n miligo, called alfo anelica. Paregorics are fuch 
as affuage pain. 2. Hypnotic a, hypvopatos. Hypnotics,, or 
fuch as relieve by procuring deep, vir»os,Jbmnus. 3. Nar- 
cotica. Narcotics, or fuch as eafe the patient by ftupifying 
liim ; vc/.^y.ou, Jlupefacio. Opiates and narcotics deftroy fen- 
liition. Some hypnotics and paregorics procure eafe and 
fleep by removing the offending caufe, as nitre, camphor, 
&c. But the term anodyne is now generally employed 
for thofe means only which relieve pain by diminifhing or 
deftroying fenfibility. The dofes of thefe medicines are 
generally regulated by the pulfe ; yet this rule is not with¬ 
out exceptions. If the pulfe is ftrong, a larger dole is fafe ; 
if weak, a lefs dofe muff be given. Camphor is the belt 
anodyne in nervous cafes, and at the decline of fevers. 
Hemlock procures eafe and lleep without caufing that 
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head-ach, next morning, ufually complained of after ta¬ 
king opium. Anodynes fhotild not be given without great 
caution, on a full ftomach, nor in droplies. 
Anodyne-Balsam. Sec Pharmacy. 
To ANOIN'T, v. a. [ oindre, enoindre, part, oint, enoint , Fr.] 
To rub over with unftuous matter, as oil, or unguents. 
To confecrate by undtion. To fmear; to be rubbed upon; 
Warm waters then, in brazen caldrons borne, 
Are pour’d to vvalh his body, joint by joint, 
And fragrant oils the ftiffen’d limbs anoint. Diyden. 
ANOIN'TER, f. The perfon that anoints. 
ANOIN'TERS, f. A religious feet in lome' parts of 
England, fo called from the ceremony they-.ufed of anoint¬ 
ing all perfons before they admitted them into their church. 
They founded their opinion of anointing upon the fifth 
chapter of James, verfes 14 and 15. 
ANOLYMPPADES, J. in antiquity, a name given by 
the Elians to thofe Olympic games which had been cele¬ 
brated under the direction of the Pifaeans and Arcadians. 
The Elians claimed the foie right of managing the Olym¬ 
pic games, in which they fometimes met with competi¬ 
tors. The hundred and fourth Olympiad was celebrated 
by order of the Arcadians, by whom the Elians were at 
that time reduced very low ; this, as well as thofe managed 
by the inhabitants of Pifa, they called A'jo\vij.v>a,oa,c, that 
is, “ unlawful Olympiads and left them out of their 
annals, wherein the names of their vidtors and other oc¬ 
currences were regiftered. 
ANO'MALISM, f. Anomaly; irregularity; deviation 
from the common rule. 
ANOMALIS'TICAL YEAR, in aftrononty, called 
alfo periodical year, is the fpace of time in which the.earth, 
or a planet, palfes through its orbit. The anomatiftical, 
or common, year, is fomewhat longer than the tropical 
year; by reafon of the precellion of the equinox. And 
the apfes of all the planets have a like progreftive mo¬ 
tion; by which it happens that a longer time is neccf- 
fary to arrive at the aphelion, which has advanced a lit¬ 
tle, than to arrive at the fame fixed ftar. For example, 
the tropical revolution of the fun, with refpect to the 
equinox, is ----- 363d 5I1 48'45" ; 
but the lidereal, or return to the fame ftar, 363 6 9 11 ; 
and the anomaliftic revolution is - 363 6 15 20, 
becaufe the fun’s apogee advances each year 65" a with 
refpedt to the equinoxes, and the fun cannot arrive at the 
apogee till he has palled over the 63"! more than the re¬ 
volution of the year anfwering to the equinoxes. To find 
the anomaliftic revolution, lay, As the whole fecular mo¬ 
tion of a planet minus the motion of its aphelion, is to 100 
years or 3135760000 feconds, fo is 360 degrees, to the du¬ 
ration of the anomaliftic revolution. 
ANO'MALOUS, adj. \_anomaic, Fr. anomalus , Lat. of 
o.vOjaaA©-, of c 6 priv. and Ojaa-A©-, equal, Gr.] Irregular; 
out of rule ; deviating from the general method or analogy 
of things. It is applied, in grammar,, to words deviating 
from the common rules of inflexion: and, in aftrononty, 
to the feemingly irregular motions of the planets.—Me¬ 
tals are gold, filver, copper, tin, lead, and iron; to which 
we may join that anomalous body, quicklilver or mercury. 
Locke. 
ANO'MALOUSLY, adv. Irregularly; in a manner con¬ 
trary to rule.—Eve was not folemnly begotten, but fudden- 
ly framed, and anomaloujly proceeded from Adam. Brown. 
ANO'MALY, f. in aftrononty, is an irregularity in the 
motion of a planet, by which it deviates from the aphelion 
or apogee; or it is the angular diftance of the planet from 
the aphelion or apogee; that is, the angle formed by the 
line of the apfes, and another line drawn through the 
planet. Kepler diftinguifhes three kinds of anomaly ; 
mean, eccentric, and true. 
Mean or Simple Anomaly, in the ancient aftrononty, is the 
diftance of a planet’s mean place from the apogee ; which 
Ptolemy calls the angle of the mean motion. But, in the 
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