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3. Aponogeton anguilifolium, cr narrow-leaved apono- 
geton: fpike bi-fid, leaves linear-lanceolate, ereft; brafles 
two-parted ; flowers iix-ftamened. A native of the Cape 
of Good Hope; introduced in 1788 by Mr. Maffon. It 
flowers almoft all the year. Thefe plants are inhabitants 
of the greenhoufe or Cape (love ; and may be inereafed 
by offsets from the bulbs. 
APO'NUS, a hamlet near Paiavium, with warm baths. 
It was the birth-place of Livy, and is now called Albano. 
Lat. 45. 15. Ion. 10. o. E. 
APOPEMP'TIC,/! ’ n the ancient poetry, a hymn ad- 
drefted to a ftranger on his departure from a place to his 
own country. The ancients had certain holidays, where¬ 
in they took leave of the gods with apopcmptic fongs, as 
fuppofing them returning each to his own country. 
APO'PHASIS, /'. [Lat. afrotpao-ic, a denying.] A fi¬ 
gure in rhetoric, by which the orator, fpeaking ironically, 
feems to wave what he w ould plainly infinuate ; as, Nei¬ 
ther will I mention thofe things; which if 1 ftiould, you not- 
withftanding could neither confute nor [peak again ft them. 
APO PHLEGM A'TICS,or Apoph leg ma'tiz ants, 
/. [of «7ro, from, and ep?^yfxa y phlegm.] Medicines Ant¬ 
ed to promote a difcharge of mucus or phlegm, from the 
mouth and nofe ; and, according to the part from whence 
the difcharge is made, fo are they denominated. If from 
the mouth, ma/icatories ; it from the Schneiderian mem¬ 
brane, errkin s. Hence, pcllitory of the wall, horfe-radifh, 
dec. Snuff alfo, and whatever occafions an excretion of 
mucus, or fenun from the head and parts above the throat, 
come under this denomination. Any medicine poffeffed of 
this power, is called majlicatorium and comman/um. 
APOPHRA'DES, /. [from the Angular awopgac, un¬ 
fortunate.] Thofe days in which an acute diftemper comes 
to a fatal crilis, or on which there is no Grids at all, when 
expected. 
APOPH'THEGM, f [apoptkegrnc , Fr. apotegma, It. 
apophtegma., Sp. apophthegma, Lat. of anro and 
(p§£yyo[j.a Gr. to pronounce.] A fhort, fententious, and in- 
ftruclive, remark, pronounced by a perfon of diftinguifhed 
charafter. Such is that of Cyrus : “ He is unworthy to 
be a magiftrate, who is not better than his fubjefts.” Or 
this : “ He that will not take care of his own bufinefs, 
will be forced to take care of that of others.” Or that of 
Artaxerxes Mnemon, when reduced to hunger : “ How 
much pleafure have I hitherto lived a ftranger to!” Or 
that of Cato : “ Homines nihil agendo di/cunt male agere .” 
APOPHTHO'RA, f. [ of to cor¬ 
rupt.] An abortion ; the bringing forth a child putrefied 
in the womb. 
■ APO'PHYGE, / in architecture, a concave part or 
ring of a column, lying above cr below the flat member. 
•The French call it le conge d’en has, or d’en haut: the Ita¬ 
lians, cave di bajjb, or di Jopra ; and alfo il vivo di bajjo. 
The apophyge originally was no more than the ring, or 
ferril, at firft fixed on t he extremities of wooden pillars, to 
keep them from fplitting; which afterwards was imitated 
in (tone. 
APO'PH YSIS, /. [amipvo-ic, of anro, from, and (pva, 
to grow.] The prominent parts cf fome bones; the fame 
as procels. It differs from an epiphyfis, as it is a con¬ 
tinuance of the bone itfelf; whereas the latter is fome- 
what adhering to a bone, and of which it is not properly 
apart.—It is the apophy/s, or head, of the os tibiae, which 
makes the knee. Wijeman. 
APOPI.EC'TIC, adj. Relating to an apoplexy.—A 
lady was feized with an apopleElic fit, which afterward ter¬ 
minated in fome kind of lethargy. IVifeman. 
APOPLEC'TICAL, adj. Relating to an apoplexy.— 
We meet with the fame complaints nf gravity in living 
bodies, when the faculty locomotive feems abolilhed ; as 
may be obferved in fupporting perfons inebriated, apo- 
pleilical, or in lipothymies and fvvoonings. Brown. 
AP'OPLEX, J'. Apoplexy. The iaft A liable is cut 
away ; but this is only in poetry: 
APO 
Prefent puniflmient purfues his maw, 
When lurfeited and fwell’d, the peacock raw 
He bears into the bath ; whence want of breath, 
Repletions, apopltx, inteftate death. Dry dec, 
APO'PLEXED, adj. Seized with an apoplexy : 
Senfe, Aire, you have, 
Elfe could you not have motion : but Aire that fenfe 
Is apoplex'd. Shake/peace. 
A'POPLEXY, /. [from anromMacru, to flrike or knock 
down, or finite fuildenly ; the Latins call it attonitus mor¬ 
bus.'] A hidden deprivation of all internal and external 
fenfation, and of all motion, unlefs of the heart and tho¬ 
rax. See Medicine. 
APO'RIA,/. [a. 7 roctu.] A figure in rhetoric, by which 
the Ibeaker (hews, that lie doubts where to begin for the 
multitude of matter, or what to fay in fome ftrange and 
ambiguous thing; and doth, as it were, argue the cafe 
with himfelf. 'l ints Cicero fays, “ Whether he took them 
from Iris fellows more impudently, gave them to a harlot 
more lafeivioufly, removed them from the Roman people 
more wickedly, or altered them more prefumptuoufly, I 
cannot well declare.” 
APO'RON, or Apo'rime, f. A problem difficult to 
refolve, and which has never been refolved, though it be 
not, in itfelf, impoffible. The word is derived from airocof, 
which fignifies fomething difficult, and impraflicable; be¬ 
ing formed from the privative a and wofo?, patTage. Such 
we conceive the quadrature of the circle ; the duplicature 
of the tube ; the trifeflion of an angle, &c- This word is 
alfo ufed by fome law writers for an inexplicable fpeech 
or difeourfe. 
APORRHOE'A, f. [anro^goir,.] Effluvium ; emana¬ 
tion; fomething emitted by another : not now in ufe.— 
The reafon of this lie endeavours to make out by atomical 
aporrhxas, which parting from the cruentate weapon to 
the wound, and being incorporated with the particles of 
the falve, carry them to the aftefted part. Glanville. 
Aporrhoea.A in aftrology, is when the moon fepa- 
rates from one planet and applies to another. 
APOSCEPARNIS'MUS, f. [c-z£ 7 ra.gvov, an axe, or 
hatchet.] A fpecies of fraflure of the fcull or other bone, 
wherein a piece is taken clearly oft, as if cut out with a 
hatchet. 
APOSIOPE'SIS,/ [ xnrocwnrncu, from anro, 'after, and 
cricj'ira.u, to be filent.] A form of fpeech, by which the 
fpeaker, through fome affection, as forrow, bafhfulnefs, 
fear, anger, or vehemency, breaks off his fpeech before it 
be all ended. A figure, when, fpeaking of a thing, we 
yet feem to conceal it, though indeed we aggravate it; or 
when the courfe of the fentence begun is fo ftayed, as 
thereby fome part of the fentence, not being uttered, may 
be underftood. 
APOSPHRAGIS'MA, f. [from an to and a(p^ay/a. y 
I feal.] In antiquity, the figure or impreffion of a feal. It 
was forbid among the ancients to have the figure or image 
of God bn their rings and feals ; but in procefs of time it 
was ufual enough to have the figures of Egyptian and other 
deities, -as well as of heroes, monfters, friends, anceflors. 
See. on their daElpli, or ring-feals. 
APOSPONGIS'MUS, f. \_anro and crSayyi^a, fpongia 
tergo.] It is the ufing of a fponge either dry or moift, for 
the deterging of the filth from the fkin, alleviating pains 
and itching, recovering the fpirits, or for other purpofes. 
APOSTAG'MA, or Afostalag'ma,/ [a-nrora^ 
diffilled. ] The fweet liquor that diftils from grapes before 
they are preffed. 
APOSTA'SIS, f. [from to abfeede.] It is 
when a fragment of a bone comes away by a fraflure;- and 
is the fame with abfeefs. Hippocrates ufes the word alfo, 
firft, when a diftemper paffes off by fome outlet, and this 
is an apo/a/s by excretion : fecondly, when the morbific 
matter, by its own weight, falls and fettles on every part; 
this is an apo/a/s by fettlement: thirdly, wlven one difeafe 
turns 
