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AROKfAT'ICJAL, adj. Spicy; fragrant; high front¬ 
ed.—All things that are hot and aromatical do preferve li¬ 
quors or powders. Bacon. —Volatile oils refrefh the animal 
(pints, but likeivife are endued 'with all the bad qualities 
of fuch Jubilance's, producing all the edefts dl an oily 
and aromatical acrimony. Arl/uthriot. 
AROMAT'ICS, f. Spices.-—They were furnilhed for 
exchange of their aromatics, and other proper commodi¬ 
ties. Raleigh. 
Aromatics, or fpicy drugs, are of a warm pungent tade, 
with more or lels of a fragrant fmell; fome are purely 
aromatic, as cinnamon, nutmegs, See. others have a fweet- 
nefs mixed with them, as in the angelica root, anifeed, &c. 
fome have an aftringency, as cinnamon ; others a mucilage, 
as the calfia lignea, Sec. fome a bitternefs, as orange-peel; 
and others are alfo bitter and aflringent, as the bark. The 
feveral medicinal virtues of thefe mixed aromatics are 
extracted by the fame means as from thofe which are lefs 
compounded ; thus the aromatic part of lemon-peel avifes 
in didillation with water, whilfl the bitter remains behind 
in the extraft, Sec.. The aromatic matter contained in dif¬ 
ferent fubjefts differs much in their pharmaceutic proper¬ 
ties. The virtues of all aromatics are extracted by fp. 
vini reft, Water extrafts a portion tromfome, but from 
many none at all. In didillation they arife with water 
more perfeftly than with fpirit, though in fome few in- 
dances the aromatic matter wholly rifes in didillation, both 
with fpirit and with water, as of lemon-peel, whild pep¬ 
per dill retains part of its aromatic matter, though didd¬ 
led with water. In the eflential oil and rednous part of 
aromatics, all their peculiar qualities refide. The more 
edential oil any vegetable affords, the weaker the oil is, and 
vice verfa. Aromatics warm the domach, and by degrees 
the whole body, hence are ufeful where the vital heat is 
below the par of health; they promote the natural fecre- 
tions; they redd putrefaftion, hence fo plentifully pro¬ 
duced in hot climes. 
AROMA'TITISjyi [from an odour.] An Ara¬ 
bian done, of a bituminous fubdance and fragrant fmell. 
AROMATlZA'TION,yi The mingling of a due pro¬ 
portion of aromatic fpices or drugs with any medicine. 
To A'ROMATIZE, v. a. [from arema, Lat. fpice.J To 
feent with fpices; to impregnate with fpices.—Drink the 
the firff cup at fupper hot, and half an hour before flip¬ 
per fomething hot and aromatized. Bacon ,—To feent; to 
perfume.—Unto converted Jews no man imputeth this un- 
favoury odour, as though aromatized by their converlion. 
Bacon. 
AROMATO'POLA, f . [from an odour, and 
waA.w, to fell.] A druggid ; a vender of drugs and fpices. 
AROMAZ', a town of France, in the department of 
Jura, and chief place of a canton, in the didrift of Orge- 
let, fourteen miles fouth of Orgelet. 
A'RON, a town of Perfia, in the province of Irak, two 
leagues from Cachan. 
ARO'NA, a town of Italy, in the Milanefe, belonging 
to Piedmont, on the fide of a hill, near the wed coad of 
lake Maggiora : the environs are exceedingly fertile, and 
its wines much fought for: twenty three miles.fouth-fouth- 
ead of Donno d’Ofcella, and feventeen north-north-vved of 
Novara. 
ARONABABAD', a town of Perfia, in the province 
of Irak, twenty leagues fouth of Ifpahan. 
ARON'CFIES, or Arron'ches, a town of Portugal, 
in the province of Alentejo : it is walled and defended with 
a caftle, though only one parifii, with about 600 inhabi¬ 
tants : ninety-five milesead of Lifbon. Lat. 38.58.N. Ion. 
11. 32. E. Ferro. 
ARON'DE, a river of France, which runs into the Oife, 
oppofite Compeigr.e. 
ARO'NIA,yi in botany. See Orontium. 
AROO'L, a town of the empire of Ruflia, in the Ukrain, 
feated on the river Occa. Lat. 51.48. N. Ion. 38. 15. E. 
A'ROPU, a co.ntraftion of aromaphilo/ophorum-, a name 
given to faffron. 
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AroFh Paracelsi, a name given to a kind of che-- 
mical flowers, probably of the lame nature with the ens 
veneris , elegantly prepared by fublimatibn from equal quan¬ 
tities of lapis haematitis and fal ammoniac. 
Arofii is alio a term ufed frequently by Paracelfus in 
a fenfe fynonymous with lilhontriptic. 
AROSBAY', a town of the Ead Indies, on the coad 
of the idand of Madura, near Java. Lat. 9. 30. N. Ion. 
14.30. E. 
ARO'SE, the preterite of the verb arife. See Arise. 
AROUKORTCHIN', a country of Tartary, near the 
great wall of China. 
AROU'ND, adv. [from a and round.'] In a circle. On 
every fide : 
He diall extend his propagated fway, 
Where Atlas turns the rolling heav’ns around, 
And his broad flioulders with their lights are crown’d. 
Dry den. 
Aro ukd, prep. About; encircling, fo as to encompafs : 
From the young Itilus head 
A lambent flame arofe, which gently fpread 
Around his brows, and on his temples fed. Drydcn. 
AROU'RA,_/l a Grecian meafure of fifty feet. It was 
more frequently ufed for a fquare meafure of half the 
plethron. The Egyptian aroura was the fquareof 100 feet.- 
To AROU'SE, v. a. [from a and roufe.] To wake from 
deep; toraifeup; to excite : 
But abfent, what fantadic woes arous'd 
Rage in each thought, by reftlefs mufing fed, 
Chill the warm check, and blad the bloom of life. Thomf. 
ARO'W, adv. [from a and row.] In a row; with the 
breads all bearing againd the fame line : 
But with a pace more fober and more flow, 
And twenty, rank in rank, they rode arow. Dryden. 
A row, iflands in the Indian fea, dependant on the 
ifland of Banda, fituated about lat. 7. 10. S. 
AROY'NT, adv. [a word of uncertain etymology, but 
very ancient ufe.J Be gone ; away : a word of expullioa 
or avoiding : 
Saint Withold footed thrice the wold, 
He met the night-mare, and her name told, 
Bid her alight, and her troth plight, 
And aroynt thee, witch, aroynt thee right. Shakefpeare. 
AR'PAD, anciently a city of Syria. It was always 
placed with Hamath (2 Kings xviii. 34. xix. 13.) Senna¬ 
cherib boads of having reduced Arpad and Hamath, or of 
having dedroyed the gods of thefe two places. Hamath is 
known to be the fame with Emefa; and it is thought that 
Arpad is the fame with Arad or Arvad, as it is fometimes 
called in Hebrew. 
ARPA'GIUS, or Harpa'gius, f. [from I 
fnatch.J Among the ancients, one who died in the cradle, 
at lead in early youth. The Romans made no funerals 
for their arpagii. They neither burnt their bodies, nor 
made tombs, monuments, or epitaphs, for them. In after- 
times it became the cudom to burn fuch as had lived to 
the age of forty days, and had cut any teeth ; and thefe 
they called agsraxTot, and a.^rray^si/ci, q. d. rapti, “ravidi- 
ed.” The ufage feems to have been borrowed from the 
Greeks; among whom, Eudathius adiires us, it was the 
cudom never to bury their children either by night or full 
day, but at the fil'd appearance of the morning ; and that 
they did not call their departure by the name of death, but 
by a fofter appellation, u a^mayn, importing that 
they were ravilhed by Aurora,or taken away to her embraces. 
ARPA'IA, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples, 
and Principato Ultra, fix miles S. S. W. of Benevento. 
ARPAJON', or Arpajou', a town of France, in the 
department of the Seine and Oife, and chief place of a 
canton, in the didrift of Corbeil, fixteen miles fouth of 
Paris. 
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