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ing over their /boulders. In the fouthern part of the 
ifle they wear a linen veft wrapped round the middle, 
and falling to the knees : in the northern, they prefer 
the /kin of a (lag, made into a fleevelefs jacket. Their 
bonnet is formed of banana leaves, adorned with the fea¬ 
thers of a cock pheafant. Their morals have been much 
mifreprefented by the Chinefe. and the Jefuits. They 
have no external worfhip, but a ftrong notion of a fu- 
preme Being, which renders them a quiet, honeft, and 
benevolent, race. An inveterate hatred fnbfifts between 
them and the Chinefe. The laft had fufficient reafon to 
fuppofe that the i/land had its gold mines; but as they 
could not difeover them in their we/tern part, they 
equipped a fliip, and failed to the eaftern. They were 
received by the natives in the mod humane manner; in¬ 
vited on fhore, and furnifhed with every necedary. In 
this vifit the Chinefe obferved in the poor cottages a 
few ingots of gold, left negligently as if of no value. 
This excited their avarice ; they made their hofls drunk, 
and in their deep cut all their .throats, and carried away 
the gold,—the incitement to this horrid action. 
Between Formofa and the continent are a great num¬ 
ber of fmall idands, called Pong-hou by the Chinefe, and 
Pifcadores by the Europeans ; they form a fmall archipe¬ 
lago ; tite principal of which only is inhabited by a 
Chinefe garrifon, under the command of a mandarin. 
Lat, 22.5. to 25. 20. N. Ion. 137. 30. to 139. 30. E.Ferro. 
FORMO SA, an idand of the Atlantic, near the coaft 
of Africa, about two leagues long, and one wide : the 
foil is fertile, and well covered with trees; but wants 
fprings of good water. Lat.11.29.ISI. Ion. 14. 20. W. 
Greenwich. 
FORMO'SA BAY, a bay on the eaftern coaft of 
Africa, in lat. 2. 30. S. and Ion. 42.25.E. It is on the 
coaft of Melinda, belonging to Zanguebar in the fouthern 
ocean, between Pati on the north and Melinda on the 
fouth, and is a fpacious and commodious harbour for 
fliips to anchor in, pn the northern part of it; but to¬ 
wards the fouthern part, and about the coaft near the en¬ 
trance of the harbour of Melinda, the coaft is very dan¬ 
gerous, having many rocks and fhoals underwater. Here 
is a river of the fame name. 
FOR'MULA, yi [dim. of forma, Lat. a form.] With 
phyficians, the de/cription or conftitution of a medicine. 
A prefeription. A fet order.—They never depart an 
iota from the authentic formuLc of tyranny and ufurpa- 
tion. Burke. 
FOR'MULA, f. in the mathematics, a theorem or ge¬ 
neral rule, or expredion, for refolving certain particular 
cafes of fome problem, &c. So ^sf^d is a general for¬ 
mula for the greater of two quantities whole film is s 
and difference d ; and is the formula, or general 
value, for the lefs quantity. Aifo f dx — x 2 is the for¬ 
mula, or general value, of the ordinate to a circle, whofe 
diameter is d, and abfeifs x. 
FORMULA'RITY, f. [from formula: a new word.'] 
A formi.il )ry. Letter to Sir William Meredith. 
FOR'MULARY, J. [ formulaire, Fr. ] A book con¬ 
taining dated and preferibed models or let forms. 
FOR'MULARY, adj. Ritual; preferibed; ftated. 
FOR'MULE, f [ formule , Fr. formula, Lat.J A let or 
preferibed model. < 
FORM, prep. Before : 
Where forne tlie w.ond’ring bench 
The lifping gallant might enjoy his wench. 
Return from, Parnajfus. 
FORNACA'LIA, f. in Roman antiquity, the feaft of 
ovens. 
FORNA'GIUM, f. [ fournage , Fr.] The fee taken by 
a lord of his tenant, bound to bake in the lord’s common 
oven, ( in furno doinini\) or for a permifiion to ufe their 
own ; this was the cuftom in the northern parts of Eng¬ 
land. Plac Pari. 18 Ed."\. 
FOR'NAX, a goddefs at Rome, who prefided over the 
FOR 
baking of bread. Her feftivals, called Fornacalla, were 
firft i'nftituted by Numa. Ovid. 
FORNEL'LES, a fea-port in the idand of Minorca in 
the Mediterranean, about (ix miles to the north of Mount 
Toro, which is a confpicuous objedt from its elevation on 
all fides.of the idand. The port is foinewhat dangerous 
from fhoals, though there is depth of water for large /hips. 
There is a fignal houfe on the eaft fide of this port, not far 
from the diore towards Cape Pantine ; and on the weft 
fide is a fort. 
PORNEL'LO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of 
Naples, and province of Molife : feventeen miles weft of 
Molife. 
FORNEL'LO, a river of Italy, which runs through 
Naples into the fea. 
. To FOR'NICATE, v. a. [ fornix , Lat.] To commit 
levvdnefs.—It is a new way 10 fornicate at a diftance. 
Brown. 
FORNICA'TION,/. [ fornication , Fr. fornicatio, Lat.] 
Concubinage or commerce with an unmarried woman.—. 
In Scripture, fometimes idolatry.—Thou didft truft in 
thine own beauty, thou playedft the harlot, becaufe of 
thy renown, and pouredft out thy fornications on every one 
that pafled by. Ezek. xvi. 15. 
Fornication implies the adt of incontinency in fingleper- 
fons; for if either party is married, it is adultery. The 
flat. 1 Hen. VII. c. 4^ is fife firft that mentions this crime ; 
which by an adt made anno 1650, during the times of the 
u(urpation, was puni/hed vvitli three months’ itnprifon- 
ment for the fh ft offence ; and 1 he fecond offence, it is faid, 
was made felony. Tiie fpritpal court hath cognifanceof 
this offence ; but by 27 Geo. III. c. 44, the fuit muft be 
inftituted within eight months, and not at all after ihe in¬ 
termarriage of the parties offending : and formerly courts- 
leet had power to inquire of and punifh fornication and 
adultery ; in which courts the king had a fine affeffed on 
the offenders, as appears by the b^ok of DomcJday. 2 Inf. 
488. —See Adultery, vol.i. p. 130. 
FOR'NICATOR, f. [ fornicateur , Fr. fornix, Lat.] 
One that has commerce vvitli unmarried woman.—A for¬ 
nicator or adulterer fteals the foul, as well as difhonours 
the body of his neighbour. Taylor. 
FORNIC A'TR ESS, f. A woman who without mar¬ 
riage cohabits with a man : 
See you the fornicatrefs be remov’d ; 
Let her have needful but not flavifh means. Shakefpeare. 
FOR'NIX,y. [ps, Heb. forn, a furnace, Arab. ] A n arch 
or vault. A part of the corpus callofum in the brain 
is fo called, becaufe if viewed in a particular direction, 
it has fome refemblance to the arch of an ancient vault. 
See Anatomy, vol. i. p. 592. 
FORNO'VO, a' town of Italy, in the duchy of Parma ; 
near which Charles VIII. king of France, obtained a vic¬ 
tory over the princes of Italy, in 1495 : eight miles weft, 
fouth-weft of Parma. 
FO'RO AP'PII, a people of Italy, whofe capital was 
called Forum Appii. Pliny. 
FOR'CMAN, a town of the ifland of Sumatra, near 
the weft coaft : 150 miles fouth of Acheen. 
To FORPA'SS, v. a. To efcape wholly : 
Scarce can a bifhoprick forpnfs them by, 
But that it muft be gelt in privity. Spenfer. 
FORPI'NED, part. adj. Wafted away : 
But through long anguifh and felf-murdering thought, 
He was fo wafted and for pined quight, 
That all his fubftance was confum’d to nought. Spenfer. 
FORPRI'SE,/. [ forprifum, Lat. ] In law, an exception, 
cr refervation. This word is frequently infert.ed in leafes 
and conveyances, wherein excepted and forprifed is an 
ufnal expreflion. In another fignification it is taken for 
any exadtion ; according to Thorn, anno 1285. 
To FOR RAY', v. a. [pop-hjiabian, Sitx. pra.occupare.f 
To pillage, to Lrage, — For dead now was their foe 
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