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and wrote commentaries upon them ; whence he was ftyl- 
cd the Commentator, by way ot' eminence. He wrote many 
other pieces ; among them a work on the Whole Art of 
Phytic ; an Epitome of Ptolemy’s Almageft, which VoL 
lius dates about the year 1149 ; alfo a Treutife of Aftro- 
logy, which was tranflated into Hebrew by R. Jacob Ben 
Samfon, and laid to be extant in the French king’s library. 
He wrote alfo feveral poems, and many amorous verfes, 
but thefe laft he threw into the fire when he grew old. 
His other poems are loft, except a final! piece, in which 
he fays, “ that, when he was young, he adted againft Iris 
reafon; but that, when he was in years, he followed its dic¬ 
tates;” upon which he utters his wifti, “Would to God 
t had been born old, and that in my youth 1 had been in 
a ftate of perfection!” As to religion, his opinions were, 
that Chriftianiry is abfurd ; Judaifm, the religion of chil¬ 
dren ; Mahometanifm, the religion of fwine. 
AVER'ROISTS, a feet of peripatetic philofophers, 
who appeared in Italy fome time before the reftoration of 
learning, and attacked the immortality of the foul. They 
took their denomination from Averroes, the celebrated 
interpreter of Ariftotle, from whom they borrowed their 
diftinguifliing dodtrine. The Averroifts, who held the foul 
was mortal, according to reafon or philofophv, yet pre¬ 
tended to fubmit to the Chriftian theology, which declares 
it immortal. But the diftindtion was held fufpicious; and 
this divorce of faith from reafon was rejedled by the doc¬ 
tors of that time, and condemned by the laft council of 
the Lateran under Leo X. 
AVERRUN'CATF,, a. a. \_averrunco, Lat. ] To root 
up ; to tear up by the roots. 
AVERRUNC A'TION,yi Act of rooting up any thing. 
AVERRUN'CI (dei), certain gods, whole bulinefs it 
was, according to the pagan theology, to avert misfor¬ 
tunes. Apollo and Hercules were of the number of thefe 
gods among the Greeks ; and Caftor and Pollux among 
the Romans. 
AVERS A'TION,_/l [from averfor, Lat.] Hatred ; ab¬ 
horrence ; turning away with deteftation.—Hatred is the 
paftion of defiance, and there is a kind of averfation and 
hoftility included in its ellence. South. —It is moll properly 
tiled with from before the object of hate.—There was a 
ftiff averfation in my lord of Elfex from applying himfelf 
to the earl of Leicefter. Wotton. —Sometimes with to-, lefs 
properly.—There is fuch a general averfation in human 
nature to contempt, that there is fcarce any thing more 
exafperating. I will not deny, but the excefs of the aver, 
fation may be levelled againft pride. Government of the Tongue. 
—Sometimes, very improperly, with towards. —A natural 
a«d fecret hatred and averfation towards lociety, in any 
man, hath fomewhat of the favage beaft. Bacon. 
AVER'SE, adj. \_averfus , Lat.] Malign; not favour¬ 
able ; having fuch a hatred as to turn away. 
Their courage languilli’d as their hopes decay’d, 
And Pallas, now averfe , refus’d her aid. Dryden. 
Not pleafed with ; unwilling to. 
Has thy uncertain bofom ever drove 
With the firft tumults of a real love ? 
Haft thou now dreaded and now blefs’d his fvvay. 
By turns averfe and joyful to obey ? Prior. 
It has mod properly from before the objeft of averfion. 
—Laws politic are never framed as they ftiould be, unlefs 
prefuming the will of man to be inwardly obftinate, re¬ 
bellious, and averfe from all obedience unto the facred laws 
©f his nature. Hooker. 
Thefe cares alone her virgin bread employ, 
Averfe from Venus and the nuptial joy. Pope. 
Very frequently, but improperly to. —He had, from the 
beginning of the war, been very averfe to any advice of 
the privy council. Clarendon. 
AVERSE'LY, adv. Unwillingly; backwardly.—Not 
only they want thofe parts of fecretion, but it is emitted 
«t rjely, or backward, by both fexes. Brown, 
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AVERSE'NESS, f. Unwillingnefs; backwardnefs.— 
*The corruption of man is in nothing more manifeft, than 
in his averfnefs to entertain any friend (hip or familiarity 
with God. Alterbury. 
AVER'SION,y! \_averfon , Fr. averfo, Lat.] Hatred ; 
diflike ; deteftation ; Inch as turns away from the object. 
It is tiled mod properly with from before the objedt of 
hate.—They had an inward averfion from it, and were re- 
folved to prevent it by all pollible means. Clarendon.— 
Sometimes, lefs properly, with to. —A freeholder is bred 
with an averfion to [objection. Addifon. —Sometimes with 
for .—This averfion of the people for the late proceedings 
of the commons, might be improved to good tiles. Swift. 
•—Sometimes, very improperly, with towards. —His aver, 
fon towards the houfe of York was fo predominant, as it 
found place not only in his councils but in his bed. Bacoif. 
—The caufe of a-verfton. 
AVER'SO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples, 
and country of Lavona, built by the Normans, the fee of 
a bifhop, luftVagan of the archbilhop of Naples, ten miles 
north of Naples. 
A'VERSPER.G, a town of Germany, in Carniola, ele¬ 
ven miles north-eaft of Cirknitz. 
To AVERT', v. a. faverto, Lat.] To turn afide ; to 
turn off; to caufe to diilike.—When people began to efpy 
the falfehood of oracles, whereupon all gentility was 
built, their hearts were utterly averted from it. Hooker .— 
To put by, as a calamity.—Thefe affections earneftly fix 
our minds on God, and forcibly avert from.us thofe things 
which are difplealing to him, and contrary to religion. Spratt. 
Through threaten’d lands they wild deftrudtion throw. 
Till ardent prayer averts the public woe. Prior. 
AVERT 1 ', adj: In horfemanlhip, is applied to a regular 
ftep or motion enjoined in the leftbns. In this fenfe, they 
fay pas averte, fometimes pas ecoute, and pas d’ecole, w hich 
all denote the fame. The word is mere French, and fig- 
nifies advifed. 
AVER'TO, a filial! iflapd in the Gulf of Venice, near 
the coaft of Friuli. Lat. 45. 46. N. Ion. 31. 18. E. Ferro. 
AYES, one of the Carribbee iflands, 451 miles Couth 
of Porto Rico, with a good harbour for careening of fhips. 
It is fo called from the great number of birds that frequent 
it. There is another of the fame name lying to the north¬ 
ward of this, in lat. 15. a. N. and a third near tl\e eaftern 
coaft of Newfoundland, in lat. 50. 5. N. 
Aves, Birds , the name of Linnaeus’s fecond clafs of 
animals. See Zoology, and Ornithology'. 
AVE'SA, a river of Italy, which runs into the Adri¬ 
atic, near Rimini. 
A'VESBURY (Robert), an Eiiglifti hiftorian, of whom 
little more is known than that he was keeper of the regiftry 
of the court of Canterbury in the reign of Edward III. 
and confequently that he lived in tiie 14th century. He 
wrote Memorabilia gejta magnifici regis Anglia domini Edwardi 
111 . This hiftory ends with the battle of Poiftiers, about 
the year 1356. It continued in manufeript till the year 
1720, when it was printed by the induftrious Thomas 
Hearne at Oxford, from a manufeript belonging to Sir 
Thomas Seabright. It is now become very fcarce. 
AVE'SNE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Straits of Calais, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftriet of St. Pol, three leagues weft of Arras. 
AVE'SNES, a ftrong town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of tile north, and principal place of a diftrici. It is 
fituated in Hainault, on the fmall river Hcfpre, and was 
ceded to France by the Spaniards, in 1659. The fortifi¬ 
cations were repaired by Vauban: two ports fouth of Mau- 
beuge, feven eaft of Cambray, and twenty-four and a 
half north-north-eaft of Paris. Lat. 50. 7. N. Ion. 21. 34. 
E. Ferro. 
AVEZZA'NO, a town of Naples, in Italy, in the far¬ 
ther Abruzzo. It is built in an almoft imperceptible de¬ 
clivity, one mile from the lake of Celano, to which an 
avenue of poplars leads from the baronial caftle. This 
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