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AR'ZAC, a town of France, in the department of the 
Lower Pyrenees, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trid of Orthes, five leagues north of Pan. 
AR'ZAMAS, a town of RulTia, in the government of 
Nize-Gorodfkoi': forty-eight miles fouth of Niznei-Novo- 
gorod. Lat. 55. 20. N. Ion. 61. 20. E. Ferro. 
ARZAN'NO, a town of France, in the department of 
Finiderre, and chief place of a canton, in the ditlrid of 
Qfiimperle, five miles ead-north-eaft of Quimperle. 
A-RZ'BERG, a town of Germany, in Franconia, feven 
miles ead of Wonfiedel. 
ARZENGAN', or Arzingan, a town of Afiatic Tur¬ 
key, in the province of Aladulia. It was taken by the 
Mogul Tartars in 1242; eighty miles fouth-weft of Er- 
zerum. 
AR'ZES, a town of the ifland of Cyprus, formerly a 
conliderable city, and fee of h Greek billiop ; but, lince 
the polfeflion of the ifland by the Turks, it is reduced to 
the condition of a village. 
ARZIGNA'NO, an open and populous town of Italy, 
fituated at the foot of mountains, on a pleafant fpot, be¬ 
tween the two rivers Chiampo and Gua or Agno. 
ARZIL'LA, a fea-port town of Africa, in the empire 
of Morocco, firft built by the Romans. It was anciently 
fnbjed to the Goths, from whom it was taken by the 
Mahometans, who held it till it was taken and burned by 
the Englifh, at the folicitation of the Goths. After that 
it remained wade and uninhabited for thirty years. It 
was re-built by the khaliffs of Cordova with greater mag¬ 
nificence than before. In 1470 it was taken by Alphonfo 
king of Portugal, but abandoned about the end of the 
fixteenth century. It is five leagues fouth of Tangiers. 
AS, ccuj. [a/s, Tent.] In the fame manner with fome- 
thing elfe.—1 live as I did, I think as I did, I love you as 
laid; but all thefe are to no purpofe : the world will not 
live, think, or love, as I do. Swift. —In the manner that: 
Mad as I was, I could not bear his fate 
With lilent grief, but loudly blam’d the date. Drydcn. 
That; in a confequential fenfe.—The cunningeft mariners 
were fo conquered by the dorm, as they thought it bed 
with dricken fails to yield to be governed by it. Sidney .— 
In the date of another : 
Madam, were I as you, I’d take her counfel; 
I’d fpeak my own didrefs. A. Philips. 
Under a particular confideration ; with a particular refped. 
—Dar’d thou be as good as thy word now?—Why, Hal, 
thou knowed, as thou art but a man, I dare; but, as thou 
art a prince, I fear thee, as I fear the roaring of the lion’s 
whelp. S/iaktfpearc. —Like; of the fame kind with.—A 
limple idea is one uniform idea, as fweet, bitter. Watts. — 
In the fame degree with : 
Well had thou fpoke, the blue-ey’d maid replies, 
Thou good old man, benevolent as wife. Pope. 
As if; according to the manner that would be if.—They 
all contended to creep into his humour, and to do that, as 
of themfelves, which they conceived hededred theyjhould 
do. Hayward. 
Can mifery no place of fafety know ? 
The noife purfues me wherefoe’er I go, 
As fate fought only me. Dryden. 
According to what.—Who then is Paul, and who is Apol- 
los, but miniders by whom ye believed, even as the Lord 
gave to every man. 1 Cor. —Asdt were ; in fome fort.—As 
for the daughters of king Edward IV. they thought king 
Richard had faid enough for them ; and took them to be 
but as of the king’s party, becaufe they were in his power, 
and at his difpofai. Bacon. —While; at the fame time that: 
So the pure limpid dream, when foul with dains 
Of milling torrents, and delcending rains. 
Works itlelf clear, and as it runs refines. Addijon. 
Becaufe.—He that commanded the injury to be done, is 
fird bound ; then he that did it; and they alfo are obliged 
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who did fo a (fid, as without them the thingconld not have 
been done. Taylor. —Becaufe it is; becaufe they are.— 1 lie 
kernels draw out of the earth juice fit to nourifh the tree, as 
thofe that would be trees themfelves. Bacon. —Equally : 
Before the place 
A hundred doors a hundred entries grace; 
As many voices ilTue, and the found 
Of Sybil’s words as many times rebound. Drydcn. 
How; in what manner.—Men are generally permitted to 
publidi books, and contradict others, and even themfelves,, 
as they pleafe, with as little danger of being confuted, as ofc 
being underdood. Boyle. —With; anfwering to like or fame 
Sider, well met; whither away fo fad ?— 
—Upon the like devotion as yourfelves, 
To gratulate the gentle princes there. Shakcjpeare. 
In a reciprocal fenfe, anfwering to as. — As fure as it is 
good that human nature fliould exid ; fo certain it is, that 
the circular revolutions of the earth and planets, rather 
than other motions which might as podibly have been, do 
declare God. Bentley. —Going before as, in a comparative 
fenfe ; the fird as being fometimes underdood : 
Sempronius is as brave a man as Cato. Addifon. 
Bright as the fun, and like the morning fair. Granville . 
Anfwering to fuck. —Is it not every man’s intered, that 
there (hould be fuck a governor of the world as defigns our 
happinefs, as would govern 11s for our advantage? Tiller - 
fon. —Having fo to anfwerit; in a conditional lenle.— As 
far as they carry light and conviction to any other man’s 
underdanding, fo far, I hope, my labour may be of ufe to 
him. Locke.—So is fometimes underdood.— As in my fpe- 
culations I have endeavoured toextinguifh pallion and pre¬ 
judice, [fo] I am dill defirous of doing fome good in this 
particular. Spcdlator. —Anfwering to fo conditionally : 
So may th’ aufpicious queen of love 
To thee, O facred diip, be kind : 
As thou, to whom the mufe commends 
The bed of poets and of friends, 
Dod thy committed pledge redore. Dryden. 
Before how it is fometimes redundant; but this is in low 
language.— As how, dear Syphax ? Addifon. —It feems to 
be redundant before yet-, to this time.— Though that war 
continued nine years, and this hath as yet laded but fix, 
yet there hath been much more adion in the prefent war. 
Addifon. —In a fenfe of comparifon, tollowed by fo: 
As when a dab-chick waddles through the copfe 
On feet and wings, and dies, and wades, and hops ; 
So lab’ring on, with dioulders, hands, and head, 
Wide as a windmill all his figure fpread. Pope. 
As for, with refped to. — As for the reft of thofe who 
have written againd me, they delerve not the lead notice. 
Drydcn. 
As if, in the fame manner that it would be if.—An¬ 
fwering their quedions, as if 11 were a matter that needed 
it. Locke. 
As to, with refped to: 
I pray thee fpeak to me as to thy thinkings, 
As thou dod ruminate; and give thy word of thoughts 
The word of words. Shalufpeare. 
As well as, equally with.—Each man’s mind has fome 
peculiarity, as well as his face, that didinguidtes him from 
all others. Locke. 
As though, as if. —Thefe (hould be at fird gently- 
treated, as though we expeded an impodhumation. Sharp. 
AS ,f. [from at?, which in the Doric dialed is ufed tor 
nc, one, q. d. an entire thing; though others will have it 
as quafi as, becaufe made of brafs.] In antiquity, a (tand- 
ard weight, confiding of twelve ounces; being the fame 
with libra, or the Roman pound. As was alfo the name 
of a Ronian coin, which was of diderent weights and dif¬ 
ferent materials in different ages of the commonwealth. 
Under Numa Pompilius, according to Eulebius, the Ro- 
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