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COEFFICIENTS, in algebra, are numbers, or given 
quantities, ufually prefixed to letters, or unknown quan¬ 
tities, by-which it is fuppoi'ed they are multiplied ; and 
fo, with fuch letters, or quantities, making a produft, or 
coefficient produftion ; whence the name. See the article 
Algebra. 
CO'EL, a town of Hindooftan, in the country of Del¬ 
hi : fixty-five miles fouth-eaft of Delhi, and thirty-three 
north of Agra. Lat. 27. 48. N. Ion. 78. 27. E. Greenwich. 
CCELES'TIAL. See Celestial. 
CCE'LI RO'SA,/. in botany. See Agkostemma. 
CCE'LIA, /. [from KoiAia, Gr.] with* anatomifts, any 
kind of original cavity in an animal body; and hence 
difeafes feated in the cavities or venters of the body, are 
called coeliac afteftions. 
CCE'LIAC PASSION,/ [from kolW, the belly.] A 
diarrhoea, or flux, that arifes from the indigeftion or pu- 
trefaction of food in the ftomach and bowels, whereby 
The aliment comes away a little altered from what it was 
when eaten, or changed like corrupted flunking flefti. 
Sguincy.— For coeliac artery and vein, fee Anatomy. 
COE'LIT LAWAN,/ in botany. See Laurus. 
CCELO'MA,/. [from y.oiMg, hollow.] A round hollow 
ulcer in the tunica cornea of the eye. 
CUELOS'TOMY, f [from x.oiAo?, hollow, and trufca., 
the mouth.] A defedt in fpeaking, where the voice founds 
unufually hollow, or as if it proceeded from a cavern. 
CCELOSY'RIA, in the larger fenfe of the word, was 
the name of the whole country lying fouthward of Seleu- 
cia, and extending as far as Egypt and Arabia; but is 
principally applied to the valley lying between Libanus 
and Antilibanus. This word occurs only in the apocry¬ 
phal writings of the Old Teltament. 
CGE'LUS, Heaven, in pggan mythology, the fon of JE- 
ther and Dies, or Air and Day. 
CCE'LUS, or Uranus, in fabulous hiftory, an ancient 
deity, fuppofed to be the father < 5 ? Saturn, Oceanus, Hy¬ 
perion, &c. He was fon of Terra, whom he afterwards 
married. The number of his children, according to forne, 
amounted to forty-five. They were called Titans, and 
were fo clofely confined by their father, that they con- 
fpired againft him, and were fupported by their mother, 
who provided them with a fcythe. Saturn armed himfelf 
■with this fcythe, and deprived his father of the organs of 
generation, as he was going to unite himfelf to Terra. 
From the blood which ifiued from the wound, fprang the 
giants, furies, and nymphs. The mutilated parts were 
thrown into the lea, and from them, and the foam which 
they occalioned, arofe Venus the goddefs of beauty. Hefiod. 
COEMP'TION,/. [ coemptio , Lat.] The aft of buying 
lip the whole quantity of any thing.—Monopolies and co¬ 
emption of wares for refale, where they are not reltrained, 
are great means to enrich. Bacon. 
■ COEMPTION A'LES,/ among the Romans, an appel¬ 
lation given to old flaves, which were fold in a lot with 
others, becaufe they could not be fold alone. 
COENA / K.ER, a town of the ifland of Ceylon, near the 
fouthern coaft : 100 miles iouth of Candi. 
COEN'NERN, or IConnep.n, a town of Germany, in 
the circle of Lower Saxony, and duchy of Magdeburg, 
containing about 333 houfes : thirty-eight miles Iouth of 
Magdeburg. 
CCENO'BTTE. See Cenobite. 
CGsNOLO'GIA,/ [from y.omog, common, and A070?, a 
difcourfe.] A medical term for a confultation, or common 
confideration of a dileafe, by two or more phyficians. 
COE'QUAL, adj. [from con and equalis, Lat.] Equal; 
being of the fame rank or dignity with another : 
Henry the fifth did fometimes prophefy. 
If once he came to be a cardinal, 
He’ll make his cap coequal with the crown. Shakefpeare. 
COEQUAfLITY, f. The ftate of being equal. 
Z? COER'CE, v. a. [ coerceo , Lat.] To reftrain 5 to keep 
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in order by force.—Punilhments are manifold, that they 
may coerce this profligate fort. Aylijfe. 
COER'CIBLE, adj. That may be reltrained. That 
ought to be reltrained. 
COER'CION,/ Penal reftraint ; check.—Government 
has coercion and animadverfion upon luch as negleft their 
duty ; without which coercive power, all government is 
toothlefs and precarious. South. 
COER'CIVE, adj. That which has the power of laying 
reftraint: 
All things, on the furface fpread, are bound- 
By their coercive vigour to the ground! Blackmore. 
That which has the authority of reltraining by punifti- 
ment.— The virtues of a general, or a king, are prudence, 
counfel, aftive fortitude, coercive power, awful command, 
and the exercife of magnanimity, as well as jultice. Dryd. 
CO'ESFELD, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Weltphalia, and bilhopric of Munlter, the ordinary refi- 
dence of the biffiop; it contains two pariflt churches, and 
live convents, it was lormerly Anleatic : fourteen miles 
weft of Manlier. 
CO'ESNON, a river of France, which runs into the 
fea, between Pontorion and Mont St. Michael. 
COESSEN'TIAL, adj. [con and ejfentia, Lat.] Partici¬ 
pating of the fame ellence.—The Lord our God is but 
one God, in which indivifible unity we adore the Father, 
as being altogether of himfelf;, we glorify that confub- 
liantial Word, which is the Son ; we bids and magnify 
that coefjential Spirit eternally proceeding from both, 
which is the Holy Ghoft. Hooker. 
COESSENTIA'LITY, f. Participation of the fame ef- 
fence! 
COETA'NEOUS, adj. [con and atas, Lat.] Of the fame 
age with another: with fo.—Eve was old as Adam, and 
Cain their fon coetaneous unto both. Brown. —Every fault 
hath penal effefts, coetaneous to the aft. Government of the 
Tongue. —Through the body every member fuftains an¬ 
other; and all are coetaneous , becaufe none can fubfift 
alone. Bentley. 
COETER'NAL, adj. [ con and atternus, Lat.] Equally 
eternal with another.—Or of the eternal coeternal beam f 
Milton. 
COETERN'ALLY, adv. In a ftate of equal eternity 
with another.—Aiius had dilhonoured his coeternally be¬ 
gotten Son. Hooker. 
COETER'NITY, f. Having exiftence from eternity- 
equal with another eternal being.—The eternity of the 
Son’s generation, and his coeternity and confubftantiality 
with the Father, when he came down from heaven, and 
was incarnate. Hamtnond. 
COE'VAL, adj. [coavus , Lat.] Of the fame age : 
Even his teeth, and white, like a young flock. 
Coeval, and new-lhorn, from the clear brook. Prior. 
Of the fame age with another ; followed by with .«—This 
religion cannot pretend to be coeval with man. Hale. 
Silence, coeval with eternity ! 
Thou wert, ere nature firft began to be: 
’Twas one valt nothing all, and all flept faft in thee! Pope. 
Sometimes by to. —Although we had no monuments of 
religion ancienter than idolatry, we have no reafon to 
conclude that idolatrous religion was coeval to mankind. 
Hale. 
COE'VAL, f. A word contemporary; but properly one 
not only living at the fame time, but of the fame time of 
life.—As it were not enough to have outdone all your 
coevals in wit, you will excel them in good-nature. Pope . 
COE'VOUS, adj. [ coavus , Lat.] One of the fame age. 
—Then it flioulcl not have been the firft, as fuppoling 
fome other thing coevous to it. South. 
CCEUR (James), an eminent French merchant, and 
the richeft fubjeft in Europe in the fifteenth century. He 
enjoyed an office of truft in the court of Charles VII. of 
France;, 
