738 COD 
She fees, and trembles at the approaching ill j 
Juft in the jaws of ruin, and codille. Pope. 
CODI'NA, a town of the ifland of Sardinia: fourteen 
miles eaft-fouth-eall of Oriftagni. 
To CO'DLE, <u. a. [ ccquo , coflulo, Lat. Skinner.] To 
parboil.; to foften by the heat of water. 
COD'LI'NG, f. An apple generally codied, to be mixed 
with milk, Sec. 
Their entertainment at the height, 
In cream and codlings rev’ling with d.eiight. King. 
CODLING-TREE,/, in botany. See Pyrus Malus. 
COD'LINGS and CREAM. See Epilobium. 
CO'DON,/. [xaS'uv, Gr. a little bell; from the form of 
the flower.] In botany, a genus of the clafs decandria, 
order monogynia. The generic charaiters are—Calyx : 
perianthium one-leafed, ten-parted ; leaflets fubulate, 
permanent, fomewhat ereil ; alternately (horter. Corol¬ 
la: one-petalled, bell-fhaped, torulofe at the bafe; bor¬ 
der ten-parted, equal; nedlary ten-celled, confifting of ten 
feales inferted into the claws of the ftamens, converging, 
covering the receptacle. Stamina: filaments ten, length 
of the corolla ; antherse thick. Piftillura : germ fuperior, 
conic; ftyle Ample, length of the ftamens; ftigmas two, 
long, fetaceous, divergent. Pericarpiutn: two-celled. 
Seeds: feveral, roundifh, echinate, with foft papillae, fitu- 
ated in a juicelefs coloured pulp.— Effiential Charatter. Ca¬ 
lyx ; ten-parted, permanent; leaflets alternately thorter ; 
corolla, bell-fhaped, ten-cleft; neilaries, ten-celled, com- 
pofed of ten feales; pericarpium, two-celled, containing 
feveral feeds. 
There is but one fpecies, called codon royeni. The 
Hem is herbaceous, firm, eighteen inches in height, round, 
with riling branches; leaves alternate, petioled, cordate-^ 
ovate, fubrepand, undivided, acuminate, fubcoriaceous, 
fmooth, without veins on the upper furface; flowers fu- 
pra-axillary, folitary, peduncled, having the appearance 
of the corolla of atropa belladonna, whitifli, with ten pur¬ 
ple ftreaks on the outfide. The whole herb is ftriated. 
The fruit is a capfule, contained within the fegments of 
the calyx, which are linear, keeled, converging, and 
prickly; it is of an ovate-acuminate fliape, terminated 
by the comprefied forked ftyle, and marked along both 
fides with a iharp future; in other parts it is fmooth ; it 
has two valves, and within is divided into two cells; the 
partition is contrary to the valves, is cloven and fpongy 
next the axis; feeds numerous, ffnall, varioufiy angular, 
of a fliining blood-red, and covered with foft papilla; of 
the fame colour. 
COD'MA, a town of Perfia, in the province of Segef- 
tan : 154 miles foutli-fouth-weft of Zareng. 
CODOCE'LE,/ [from y.uhcci a bulb, and > npo), a tu¬ 
mour.] A venereal bubo. 
CODOG'NO, a town of Italy, in the Lodefan, at the 
conflux of the Adda and the Po, where the Auftrians 
were forced in 1746 : twelve miles fouth-fouth-eaft of 
Lodi. It is now a confiderable place in the Cifalpine re¬ 
public, where the revolutionary army defeated the Auf¬ 
trians, on the 9th of May, 1796, and compelled them, 
after a bloody battle, to retreat partly towards Lodi, and 
partly towards Piccighitone, over the Adda, where, on 
the day following, they loft the famous battle of Lodi. 
COD'RINGTON (Chriftopher), a brave foldier and 
admirable fcholar, born at Barbadoes in 16&8, and had 
part of his education in that illand. He afterwards came 
to England, and was admitted a gentleman-commoner of 
Chriftchurch in Oxford, in 1685; where he was eieiled 
a probationer fellow of All Souls college in 1689. He 
became very accompliftied, and foon recommended him- 
felf to the favour of king William. He was made cap¬ 
tain in the firft regiment of foot-guards, and was inltru- 
mental in driving the French out of the ifland of St. 
Chriltopher’s, which they had feized. He was alfo at the 
Cege of Namur in 1695. Upon the conclufion of the peace 
ef Ryfwick, he was made captain-general and governor in 
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chief of the Leeward Caribbee Iflands, in which office he 
met with fome trouble; for, in 1701, feveral articles were 
exhibited againft him in the houfe of comm ns in Eng¬ 
land, but he was honourably acquitted from all imputa¬ 
tions. In 1703 he was at the attack upon Guadaloupe, 
in which he fliewed great bravery, though that enter- 
prize happened to be unfuccefsful. Some time after, he 
refigned his government of the Leeward Iflands, and led 
a ftudious and retired life.. For a few years before his 
death, he chiefly applied himfelf to church hiltory and 
metaphyfics; and his, eulogift tells us, that “ if he ex¬ 
celled in any thing, it was in metapliyfical learning, of 
which he was, perhaps, the greatelt mailer in the world.” 
He died in Barbadoes, but his body was brought over to 
England, and interred, June 19, 1716, in All Souls cha¬ 
pel, Oxford. By his laft will he bequeathed his two plan¬ 
tations in Barbadoes, and part of the ifland Barbuda, to 
the fociety for propagating the gofpel in foreign parts; 
and left a noble legacy to All Souls college, of which be 
had been fellow. This legacy confided of his books, which 
were valued at fix thouland pounds, and ten thoufand 
pounds in fpecie, to be laid out; fix thoufand pounds in 
building a library, and four thouland pounds in furnilh- 
ing it with books. He was the author of fome poems in 
the Mul’ae Anglicante, printed at London in 1741 ; and 
of a copy of verfes inlcribed to fir Samuel Garth upon his 
Difpeniary. 
CODRO'PIO, a fmall town in Maritime Auftria, for¬ 
merly belonging to the ftate of Venice, in the country 
of Friuli, on the Stella, and on the road to Germany ; 
having in its vicinity the pleafant country-feat and palace 
of PalTerino, which was made the refidence of general 
Bonaparte, during the negociations at Udine : ten miles 
louth-fouth-weft of Udine. 
CO'DRUS, the feventeenth and laft king of Athens, 
fon of Melanthus. When the Heraclidae made war againlt 
Athens, the oracle faid that the victory would be granted 
to that nation whofe king was killed in battle. The He- 
raclidae upon this gave ilrifl orders to fpare the life of 
Codrus; but the patriotic king difguifed himfelf and at¬ 
tacked one of the enemy, by whom he was killed. The 
Athenians obtained the victory, and Codrus was deferv- 
edly called the father of his country. He reigned twenty- 
one years, about 2153 years before the Chrillian era. To 
pay more honour to his memory, the Athenians made 
a refolution that no man after Codrus fhould reign in 
Athens under the name of king ; which was from hence 
changed to archon. 
CCE'CUM, or Blind-gut. See Anatomy. 
COEFFETE AU' (Nicolas), a dominican, and bilhop of 
Dardania inpartibus, was born at St. Calais in the Maine, 
in 1574. He role by his merits to the firft charges of his 
order, and died in 1623, after having been named to the 
bilhopric of Marleilles by Louis XIII. He was eloquent 
in his lermons, and wrote with purity, confidering the 
age. His principal pieces are a Roman hiltory, from Au- 
guftus to Conftantine, in folio, which was read with plea- 
lure in the feventeenth century. He tranllated Florus, 
and w'as chofen by Henry IV. of France, at the recom¬ 
mendation of cardinal du Perron, to anfwer the book 
which James I. of England had put out; and, at the 
inftance of Gregory XV. he wrote againft Dupleftls 
Mornay, and Marc. Anton, de Dominis, archbilhop of 
Spalatro. 
COEF'FICACY, fa [con and efficacia, Lat.] The power 
of feveral things ailing together to produce an effeil.— 
We cannot in general infer the efficacy of thole Itars, or 
coefficacy particular in medications. Brown. 
COEFFl'CIENCY,/. {con and cfficio, Lat.] Co-opera¬ 
tion ; the ftate of airing together to fome fingle end.— 
The managing and carrying on of this work, by the (’pi¬ 
nts inftrumental coefficiency, requires that they be kept to¬ 
gether, without diftindlion or diffipation. Clanville. 
" COEFFICIENT,yi \con and efficiens, Lat.] That which 
unites its ailion with the ailion of another. 
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