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which there is a dock-yard and arfenal efiablifhed by the 
Englifli government. The military eftablifhment here is 
two regiments of infantry and two of militia, befides which 
there is a fquadron of dragoons and a battalion of artillery 
raifed in the illand. The governor, or captain-general, of 
the Leeward iflands, though directed by his inftrudlions 
to vifit each illand within his government, is generally fia¬ 
tionary at Antigua: in hearing the caufes from the other 
iflands lie fits alone, but in caufes arifing within the ifland 
he is aflifted by a council; and by an act of affembly fanc- 
tioned by the crown, the prefident, and a majority of the 
council, may hear and determine chancery caufes during 
the abfence of the governor-general; befides this court, 
there is a court of king’s bench, a court of common pleas, 
and a court of exchequer. The legiflature of Antigua 
confifts of the commander in chief, a council of twelve 
members, and an affembly of twenty-five. This illand 
fet the firfi example of a melioration of the criminal law re- 
fpefting negro-fiaves, by allowing them a trial by jury, 
&c. And the inhabitants, ftill more to their honour, have 
encouraged the propagation of the gofpel among their fla ves. 
ANTIGUG'LER,/'. is a crooked tube of metal, lo bent 
as eafily to be introduced into the necks of bottles, and 
ufed in decanting liquors, without difiurbing,them. For 
this purpofe the bottle fhould be a little inclined, and about 
half a fpoonful of the liquor poured out, fo as to admit 
an equal quantity of air; let one end of the bent tube be 
flopped with the finger, whilft the other is thrull into the 
body of the liquor near to the bubble of airalreadv admitted. 
When the finger is taken off, the bottle will have vent, 
and the liquor will run out fleadily and undiflurbed. 
ANTIHEC'TICS,y. in pharmacy, medicines good in 
hcflic fevers. The antiheBicumpoterii was a medicine for¬ 
merly much celebrated. 
ANTILT'BANUS, a mountain of Ccelofyria, which 
hounds it on the fouth, running parallel with Libanns: 
they both begin a little above the fea, Libanus near Tri- 
polis, Antilibanus at Sidon : and both terminate near the 
mountains of Arabia, which run to the north of Daniaf- 
cus. The Scripture, making no diftindtion between Liba- 
niis and Antilibanus, calls them by the common name of 
Lebanon.-' 
ANTIL'LES, the French name for the Caribbee 
Islands. 
A*NTI'LOCHUS, a fon of Neflor and Eurydiee, who ac¬ 
companied his father to the fiege of Troy, and was killed 
by Memnon, in parrying the blow that was aimed at his 
father. 
AN'JTLO'GARITHM, f. [from anti and logarithm .] 
The complement of the logarithm of a fine, tangent, or 
iecant; or the difference of that logarithm front the loga¬ 
rithm of ninety degrees. 
ANTI'LOGY,y. [avnA*"/ia, Gr. ] A contradiction be¬ 
tween any words and paffages in an author. 
ANTI'LOQIJIST, y [from^Htf, and loquor, Lat. to 
fpeak.] A contradictor. 
ANTILYS'SUS,y. [from «m,againft, and Xva-ca, Gr. 
the madnefs caufed by the bite of a mad dog.} It is the 
name of any medicine for the cure of the hydrophobia. 
ANTI'MACHUS, a Greek poet of Ionia, reckoned the 
next to Homer in excellence. He wrote a poem upon the 
Theban war; and, before he had brought his heroes to the 
city of Thebes, he had filled twentv-four volumes. Alfo 
a fon of Hercules by one of the Theftiades. 
ANTI MEN'SIUM,y akindof confecrated table-cloth, 
occalionally ufed in the Greek church, in places where 
there is no proper altar. It anfwers to the altareportabile, 
or portable altar, in the Latin church. They are both of 
late invention, though Habertus would have them as old 
as St. Bafil. 
Antimensia is alfo applied to other tables, ufed in of¬ 
fices of religion, befides. thofe whereon the eucharifl is ad- 
miniflered : fitch, for example, are thofe whereon the hofl 
is expofed, &c. The origin of the antimenfia is deferibed 
by Meurfius: when the billiop had conlecrated a church, 
ANT 
the cloth, which had been fpread on the ground and over 
the communion-table, was torn in pieces, and difiributed 
among the priefts, who carried each a fragment away, to 
ferve to cover the tables in their churches and chapels. 
Not that it was neceffary that fuch cloths fhould be laid on 
all tables; but only on thofe which either were not confe¬ 
crated, or at leaf! whofe confecration was doubted of. 
ANTIME'RIA,y. in grammar, a figure whereby one 
part of fpeech is ufed for another : e. g. velle fuam cuique 
ejl, for voluntas fua cuique ejl ; alfo, populus late rex, for po¬ 
pulus late regnans. In a more refirained fenfe, antimeria 
is a figure where the noun is repeated inflead of the pro¬ 
noun. The antimeria is frequent in the Hebrew, and is 
fometimes retained in our verfion of the Old Teflament: 
Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamcch, for my wives, Gen. iv. 23, 
ANTIMETA'BOLE,/! [of am, againfl, and 
from f/.£ra€aXAca, Gr. I (hift or transfer; a fhifting or let¬ 
ting two things over-againft eath other.] In rhetoric, a 
figure which lets two things- in oppofition to each other. 
This figure is twice exemplified in an apophthem of M11- 
fanius; which, on account of its excellence, is called 
aurtuni monitum, the “ golden maxim or precept:” 
Av ti v.cO, ov p.Bra. 7ms, 0 ptv wow; cnp/ETai, to oe ncehov 
/ZSl'EI. 
A> ti Troi/icr,; aia^or [asto. to y.tv r$v oi^ETai, to £e 
fJL El'EI. 
Thus tranflated: “ Allowing the performance of an ho¬ 
nourable adlion to be attended with labour; the labour is 
foon over, but the honour immortal: whereas, fhould 
even pleafure wait on the commiflion of what is difhono- 
rable, the pleafure is foon gone, but the difhonour eternal.” 
ANTIMET ATHE'SlS,y. in rhetoric, is the inverfioa 
of the parts or members of an antithejis. Such is. that of 
Cicero, in Verrem, lib. iv. cap. 52. “ Compare this peace 
with that war; the arrival of this governor with the vic¬ 
tory of that general; his profligate troops with the invin¬ 
cible army of the other; the luxury of the former with 
the temperance of the latter: you will fay that Syracufe 
was founded by him who took it; and taken by him, who 
held it when founded.” 
ANTIMON AR'CHIC AL, adj. [from am,againfl, and 
juouz^ia, Gr. government by a Angle perfon. ] Againfl go¬ 
vernment by a Angle perfon.—When he fpied the flatue 
of king Charles in the middle of the crowd, and mod of 
the kings ranged over their heads, he concluded that an 
anlimonarchical affembly could never choofe fuch a place. 
Addifon. 
ANTIMON AR'CHIC ALNESS,y. The quality of be¬ 
ing an enemy to regal power. 
ANTIMO'NIAL, adj. Made of antimony; having the 
qualities of antimony; relating to antimony: 
Though antimonial cups, prepar’d with art, 
Their force to wine through ages fhould impart. 
This dilfipation, this profufe expence, 
Nor fhrinks tlieir fize, nor waftes their flores immenfe. 
Blackmore. 
AN'TlMONY,y [The flibium of the ancients, by the 
Greeks called s-i/t-q^i. The reafon of its modern denomi¬ 
nation is referred to Bafil Valentine, a German monk; who, 
as the tradition relates, having thrown fome of it to the 
hogs, obferved that, after it had purged them heartily, 
they immediately fattened; and therefore he imagined his 
fellow monks would be the better for a like dofe. The 
experiment, however, fucceeded fo ill, that they all died 
of it; and the medicine was thenceforward called anti- 
moine, antimonk . ] Antimony is a mineral fit b fiance, of a me¬ 
talline nature, having all the feeming charadlers of a real 
metal, except melleability; and may be called a femime- 
tal, being a foflile glebe of fome undetermined metal, com¬ 
bined with a fulphureous and ftony fubftance. Mines of 
all metals afford it; that in gold mines is reckoned belt. 
It has alfo its own mines in Hungary, Germany, and France. 
Its texture is full of little fhining veins or threads, like 
needles; brittle as glafs. Sometimes veins of a red or 
golden 
