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edifice (lands at a little difiance from the town, is fquare, 
and flanked with towers ; it was eredted by Virgino Or- 
fini, to which family this and many other great lordfhips 
belonged, before they were wrefted from them in the ci¬ 
vil war, and transferred to the Colonnas. 
AUF,/ [of alf, Dut.] A fool, or filly fellow. 
AUFE'DO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples, 
and province of Abruzzo Ultra, twenty-one miles weft- 
fiouth-weft of Aqnila. 
AUFFAY', a town of France in the department of the 
Lower Seine, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift 
of Dieppe, fix leagues north of Rouen. 
AUFNAY', an ifland of Swifferland, in the lake of 
Zurich ; it is final 1 , but contains two churches. 
AU'GA, daughter of Aleus king of Tegea, who, hav¬ 
ing cohabited with Hercules, went into the wood to be de¬ 
livered of Telephus. This prince, being grown up, was 
preferred in the court of Teutoras, king of Myfia, where 
Auga had taken refuge to avoid her father’s anger. Tele¬ 
phus obtained his mother of the king, with a defign to 
marry her, not knowing who file was; but, on their going 
to be united, the fudden appearance of an enormous fer- 
pent feparated the two lovers. Auga, imploring the aflif- 
tance of Hercules, was foon informed that Telephus was 
her own fon. 
AU'GEAS, in fabulous hiftory, was king of K 1 is, and 
particularly famed for his liable, which contained 3000 
oxen, and had not been cleaned for thirty years. Hercules 
was defired to clear away the filth from this liable in one 
day ; and Augeas promifed, if he performed it, to give 
him a tenth part of the cattle. This talk Hercules is faid 
to have executed by turning the courfe of the river Al- 
plieus through the liable; when, Augeus refuting to Hand 
by his engagement, Hercules flew him with his arrows, 
and gave his kingdom to Phyleus his fon, who had lhewn 
an abhorrence to his father’s infincerity. 
AU'GER, or AuGRE,yi {.eager, Dut.] A carpenter’s 
tool to bore holes with. 
AU'GER-HOLE,_/l A hole made by boring with an 
auger ; proverbially a narrow fpace. 
What fhould be fpoken here, 
Where our fate, hid w ithin an auger-hole, 
May rufh and feize us. Shakefpeare. 
AUGHT, pr. [ auhe, awhe, Sax.] It is fometimes, im¬ 
properly, written ought.'] Anything. 
But go, my fon, and fee if aught be wanting 
Among my father’s friends. AddLifon. 
AU'GICOURT, a town of France, in the department 
of the Upper Saone, and chief place of a canton, in the dil- 
trift of Juflay, fourleaguesand a half north-weft of Vefoul. 
AU'GITES, f. [from ocvu, to fhine.] A precious (lone 
of a pale green colour, and exceedingly refplendent. 
To AUGMENT', v. a. {augmenter, Fr.] To increafe ; 
to make bigger, or more.—Rivers have dreams added to 
them in their paflage, which enlarge and augment them. 
Hale. 
To Augment, v. n. To increafe ; to grow bigger. 
The winds redouble, and the rains augment , 
The waves on heaps are dalh’d. Dryden. 
Aug'ment ,/i {augmcntum,'LnX.'] Increafe; quantity gain¬ 
ed.—You (hall find this augment of the tree to be without 
the diminution of one drachm of the earth. Walton. — 
State of increafe.—Difcutients are improper in the begin¬ 
ning of inflammations ; but proper, when mixed with re¬ 
pellents, in the augment. Wijcman. 
AUGMENTATION,/. The aft of increafing or mak¬ 
ing bigger.—T’nofe who would be zealous againft the re¬ 
gular troops after a peace, will promote an augmentation of 
thofe on foot. Addifon. —The ftate of being made bigger. 
.—What modifications of matter can make one embryo ca¬ 
pable of (0 prodigioufly vaft augmentation, while another 
is confined to the minutenefs of an infedt i Bentley. —The 
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thing added, by which another is made bigger.—By being 
glorified, it does not mean that he doth receive any aug - 
mentation of glory at our hands ; but his name we glorify, 
when we teftify our acknowledgement of his glory. Hooker. 
Augmentation,/ In heraldry, are additional charges 
to a coat-armour, frequently given as particular marks of 
honour, and generally borne either in the efcutcheon or a 
conton; as have all the baronets of England, who have 
borne the arms of the province of Ulfter in Ireland. 
Augmentation-Court, was the name of a court 
erected by Hen. VIII. for determining fuitsand controver- 
fies relating to monafteries and abbey-lands. The intent 
of which court was, that the king might be jnfily dealt 
with touching the profits of fuch religious houfes as were 
given to him by act of parliament. It took its name from 
the augmentation of the revenues of the crown, by the 
fuppreilion of religious houfes. And the office of aug¬ 
mentation, which hath many curious records, remains to 
this day, though the court hath long fince been diffolved. 
AUGMEN'TUM, J\ In grammar, an addition made 
in certain tenfes of Greek verfes, by increafing the num¬ 
ber of fyllables. 
AUGOX'AS, a frnall ifland of Africa, on the coaft of 
Mozambique. 
AUGS'BURG, or Ausburg, an imperial city of Ger¬ 
many, fituated in a fertile and delightful plain, between 
the rivers Lech and Wertach, which unite not far from 
it ; it is furrounded with ramparts, walls, and ditches. 
It is the fee of a biftiop, fuffragan of the archbifiiop of 
Mentz. Befides the cathedral, it has fix Roman Catholic 
parifh churches, and as many Lutheran. There are feveral 
hofpitals, and other charitable foundations : the burghers 
are computed to be fix thoufand. The magiftracy confifts 
of forty-five, of whom thirty-one are patricians, four re¬ 
lated to patricians by marriage, five merchants, and five 
tradefmen ; the council is formed of an equal number of 
Lutherans and Roman Catholics. L'he trade of Augftnirg 
was once very great, and is now confiderable. In the diet 
of the empire, it poflefles the fecond place of the impe¬ 
rial cities of Swabia, and is affefled in the matricula at 
507 rixdollars, twenty kruitzers and a half. In the year 
1703 and 1704, it fuffered much by the Bavarians and the 
French. The biftiop is a prince of the empire, and fits 
and votes in the college of princes, betwixt the bifhops of 
Conftance and Hildeftieim ; his revenue is eftimated at 
100,000 rix-dollors. The territory belonging to the bi- 
(liopric lies fcattered between the rivers Lech, Iler, and 
Danube. The biftiop holds his court at Augfburg, but 
his principal refidence is at Dillingen. Many of the 
churches of Auglburg are (lately, and adorned with cu¬ 
rious vorkmanfiiip and paintings. Its magnificent town- 
houfe is little inferior to that of Amfterdam, being a vaft 
fquare (tone building, with a marble portico ; the great 
portal is alfo of a very beautiful red marble, over which 
is a balcony of the fame colour, fupported by two pillars 
of white marble. In the fquare, near the town-houfe, is 
the fountain of Auguftus, which is a marble bafon, fur- 
rounded with iron balluftrades finely wrought: at the cor¬ 
ners are four brafs ftatues as large as life ; in the middle 
of the bafon is a pedeftal, at the foot of which are four 
large fphinxes fquirting water out of their breads; a lit¬ 
tle above thefe are four infants holding four dolphins in 
their arms which pour water out of their mouths ; and 
over thefe infants are feftoons and pine-apples, all of brafs; 
upon the pedeftal is the ftatue of Auguftus Ciefar, as large 
as life. The fountain of Hercules is a hexagon bafon, 
with feveral brafs figures, particularly Hercules engaging 
the hydra. Another curiofity is the fecret gate, which 
was contrived to let perfons in and out in time of war : it 
has fo many engines and divifions with gates and keys, 
and apartments for guards at fome diftance from each other, 
where paffengers are examined, that it is impollible for 
the town to be furprifed this way ; the gates are bolted 
and unbolted, opened and (hut, by unfeen operators, info- 
much that it looks like enchantment. The water-towers 
are 
