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obfervatory. This work was begun in 1748, and finiflted 
in 1758 ; and in 1762 Fixlmillner was appointed profeflor 
of aflronomy in this new inditution, retaining at the fame 
time his office as profefTor of ecclefiaftical law'. His fir ft 
agronomical work was entitled Meridianus fpecula AJlrono- 
mica Cremifanenjis, 1766. Fixlmillner now obtained acon- 
fiderable rank among the adronomical writers. In 1776 
he publiflied his Dccennium AJlronomicum , which contains 
obfervations made at Kremfmunder from 176510 1775, 
and many curious particulars of great importance both to 
the theory and the practice of aftronomy. His third work, 
Acla Afronomica Cremifanenfia, one of his lad labours, 
which was not printed till after his death, tended dill 
farther to confirm his celebrity as an adronomer. Befides 
thefe works, he fent many valuable contributions to the 
authors of various periodical publications, fome of which 
may be found in the Journal des Savans, Bernouilli’s Lettres 
Jkr dlffcrens Sujets, Bode’s Adronomical Almanack, Hell’s 
Ephemerides of Vienna, and the Memoirs of the Royal 
Academy of Sciences at Paris. He died on the 27th of 
Augud, 1791, in the feventy-fird year of his age. 
FIX'TURE, f. Pofition : 
The fixture of her eye hath motion in’t, 
And we are mock’d with art. Shakcfpeare. 
Stable preflure.—The firm fixture of thy foot would give 
an excellent motion to thy gait. Shakcfpeare.— The fixed 
or permanent furniture of a houfe. 
FIX'URE, _/“. Stable date : 
Frights, changes, horrors, 
Divert and crack, rend and deracinate 
The unity and married calm of dates 
Quite from their fixure. Shakcfpeare. 
FIZ'GIG, or Fishgig, f. A kind of dart or harpoon 
with which feamen drike fifh : 
Can’d thou with fizgigs pierce him to the quick, 
Or in his fkull thy barbed trident dick ? Sandys. 
FI'ZES (Antony), an eminent French phyfician, born 
at Montpellier in 1690. He became a celebrated profefTor 
of medicine in the univerfity of that city, where he was 
regarded as an Hippocrates, and where he died in 1765. 
He wrote feveral works, of which the principal are, 
1. Opera Medic a, 4to. 1742. 2. Lefons de. Ckymie de I’Uni- 
verfite de Montpellier , 121110. 1750. 3. Traitatus de Febribus , 
nmo. 1749 ; alfo tranflated into French, 1757. 4. Trac- 
tatus de Phyfiologia, umo, 1750: and feveral diflertations 
on medical fubjefts. 
FIZOZEABA'D, a town of Hindoodan, in the neigh¬ 
bourhood of Agra, wherein are fome fuperb buildings, 
and a long oratory, from which the mollahs explain the 
koran to the people. 
FLAB'BINESS, f. The date or quality of being 
flabby. Scott. 
FLAB'BY, adj. [ flaccidus , Lat.] Soft; not firm ; ea- 
fily fhaking or yielding to the touch.—Palenefs, a weak 
pulfe, palpitations of the heart, flabby and black flefh, 
are fymptoms of weak fibres. Arbuthnot. 
FLABELLA'TION,/. [ Jlabellwn , Lat. a fan.3 The 
aft of moving the air with a fan. 
FLA'BILE, adj. [ flabilis , Lat.3 Blown about by the 
wind ; fubjeft: to be blown. 
FLACCES'CENCY, J. [Jlaccefco, Lat. to grow flab¬ 
by.] The date of being flaccid; flabbinefs. Scott. Not 
much ufed. 
FLA'CCID, adj. [ flaccidus , Lat.3 Weak; limber; 
not fiiff; lax ; not tenfe.—They whole nmfcles are weak 
or Jlaccid, are unapt to pronounce the letter r. Holder .— 
The furgeon ought to vary the diet as he finds the fibres 
are too Jlaccid and produce fungufes, or as they harden 
and produce callofities. Arbuthnot. 
FLACCID'ITY, f. Laxity; limbernefs; want of 
tenfion ; want of diffnefs.—There is neither fluxion nor 
pain, but jlaccidity joined with infenfibility. Wifcman. 
FIa'CCIJDNESS, /. The date of being flaccid. Scott. 
FLAC'COURT (F. de), direftor-general of the French 
Ead India company, commanded, in 1648, an expedition 
to the ifland of Madagafcar, where he continued feveral 
years, till, in confequence of quarrels with the natives, 
it became neceflary to abandon the fettlement. His refi- 
dence, however, enabled him to draw up a particular 
hidory of the country ; which he printed at Paris, in one 
volume, quarto, with figures defigned by himfelf, and de¬ 
dicated to the fuperintendant Foucquet. This work, en¬ 
titled The Hidory of the Ifle of Madagafcar, is dill in 
good edeem. 
FLAC'CUS (C. Valerius), a Roman poet, fuppofed, 
from his appellation of Sctinus, to have been a native of 
Setia, in Campania. An epigram of Martial, however, 
in which he is called Antenorei fpes & alumne laris , proves 
him at lead to have been a refident in Padua. He flou- 
riflied in the reign of Vefpafian, and died at an early age 
in the time of Domitian ; for Quintilian, who wrote in 
that reign, fpeaks of him as lately dead. His work, 
which is come down to our times, is entitled Argonauticon , 
left unfinifhed in eight books. It is an imitation of tire 
Greek poem of Apollonius Rhodius on the fame fubjeft; 
and may rank among the mod refpeftable of the Latin 
epics after Virgil, whofe manner and dyle it copies, 
though with much inferior powers. It contains fublime 
and lplendid paflages, and is free from the bombad and 
extravagance of mod of the fecond-rate Latin poets. 
The bed edition is that of Burmann, 1724, quarto. 
FLACH'BERG, a town of Germany, in the duchy of 
Carinthia : two miles fouth-wed of Draaburg. 
FLACH'SLANDEN, a town of Germany, in the cir¬ 
cle of Franconia, and principality of Anfpach : feven 
miles north of Anfpach. 
FLA'CIUS, or Francowitz (Matthias), a learned 
divine, of the confeffion of Augflmrg, born at Albona in 
Idria, in 1520. As his native country formed a part of the 
ancient Illyricum, he was didinguidied by the furname of 
Illyricus, and is chiefly known in the learned world by the 
name of Flacius Illyricus. He was fent early to Venice, 
where he Audied claflical learning under the famous Bap- 
tida Egnatius. In 1539 he went to Bafil, where he 
fludied fome months, and embraced the opinions of the 
reformers. From Bafil he proceeded to Tubingen, where 
he received the indruftions of the celebrated Joachim 
Camerarius, and other learned men. After dudying there, 
in 1541, he went to Wittemberg, where he became a dif- 
ciple of Luther and Melanfthon. Llis means of fubfillence 
until this time appear to have arifen, in a great meafure, 
from what he gained by privately teaching the Greek and 
Hebrew languages. The abilities which he difeovered, 
and his proficiency in his dudies, fo far recommended him 
to Melanfthon, that he gave him many fubdantial proofs 
of his regard and liberality. After he had taken his de¬ 
gree of M. A. in 1544, he was, for his learning and merits, 
appointed by the eleftor John Frederic, to a public pro- 
feiTorfitip in the univerfity. When, during the war be¬ 
tween the confederate protedants and the emperor Charles 
V. the fcholars were difperfed from the Saxon feminaries, 
Flacius went to Brunfwick, where he obtained a high repu¬ 
tation by his leftures; and upon the termination of hodi- 
lities, in 1547, he returned to Wittemberg, to re fume his for¬ 
mer fituation in that univerfity. I11 1528, he removed from 
Wittemberg to Magdeburg, where, among other works, 
he was the principal author and direftor of the celebrated 
Centuries Magdeburgenfes. A new univerfity being now 
founded at Jena, by the dukes of Saxe Weimar, Flacius, 
on account of his great zeal for the genuine doftrines of 
Luther, was appointed profeflor of divinity in it, in 1557. 
The violent controverfy which then exided among the 
feveral fefts of reformers, rendered it neceflary for him 
to relinquifh his profeflbrfliip at Jena, after he had filled 
ir about five years, when he withdrew to Ratilbon, where 
he continued to publifh many books. In 1567 he was in¬ 
vited, with fome other lutheran miniders, into Brabant, 
to model fome churches in that country on the principles 
