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delineating powers. The firft card contained, I may truly 
fay, elegant portraits and iikenelles of the king and queen, 
facing each, other : and it was curious to obferve with 
w hat precifion the figure lifted up its pencil, in the tran- 
lition of it from one point of the draft to another, without 
making the lead flur whatever: for infiance, in palling 
from the forehead to the eye, nofe, and chin ; or from the 
waving curls of the hair to the ear, &'c. 
AUTO'MATOUS, adj. [from aw©-, itfelf, and p.a~r,v, 
fpontaneoufly.] Having in itfelf the power of motion.— 
Clocks or automatons organs, whereby we dillinguilh time, 
have no mention in ancient writers. Brown. 
AUTON'NE, a river of France, which runs info tire 
Oile near Verberie. 
AUTO'NOE, a daughter of Cadmus, who married 
Ariftaeus, by whom die had ACfaeon. 
AUTO'NOMY,/! \_autonomia, Lat. of arrwo/zia, Gr. 
of itfelf, and top.©-, law.] The living according to 
one’s mind and prelcription. The liberty of the cities 
which lived under the protection of the Romans, confided 
in their autonomia, i.e. they were allowed to make their 
own laws, and eleCt their own magidrates; by whom juf- 
tice was to be adminidered, and not by Roman prefidents 
or judges, as was done in other places which were not in¬ 
dulged with autonomia. 
AUTO'PHOROS,/. [of av to?, himfelf, and to 
bear. ] A thief taken in the faff, or with the thing he dole 
upon him. 
AUTOPHOS'PHORUS,/. [from aero?, himfelf, and 
ipucrtpo^o^y phofphorus. ] The real phofphorus. 
AU'TOPSY,yi \_autopJia, Lat. of avro^ix, Gr. of av to;, 
and oTrlo/j.ca., to fee.] Ocular demondration ; feeing a thing 
one’s felf.—In thole that have forked tails, autopfy con¬ 
vinced! us, that it hath this ufe. Ray. 
AUTOPTICAL, adj. Perceived by one’s own eyes. 
AUTOP'TICALLY, adv. By means of one’s own eyes. 
■—That the galaxy was a meteor, was the account of Arif- 
totle ; but the telefcope hath autoptically confuted it. Gian¬ 
ni lie. 
AUTOPY'ROS,/. [from avro?, and trv^, wheat.] In 
the ancient diet, an epithet given to a fpecies of bread, 
wherein the whole fubilance of the wheat was retained 
w ithout retrenching any part of the bran. Galen deferibes 
it otherwife, viz. as bread where only the coarler bran was 
taken out. And thus it was a medium between the fined 
bread, called Jimilogincus , and the coarfed, called furfura- 
'ceus. This was alio called autopyrites and fyncomijtus. 
AUTOTHE'ISM,/. [of avxo?,himfelf, and0Eo?, God.] 
God’s felf-exidence, or being of himfelf. 
AUTOUR', [Ind.] A fort of bark brought from India. 
AU'TRECOURT, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Meufe, and chief place of a canton, in the 
didriCt of Clermont: four miles fotith-fouth-ead of Cler¬ 
mont, and eleven fouth-weft of Verdun. 
AU'TRE-EGLPSE, a village of Brabant, in the Ne¬ 
therlands ; to which the left wing of the French army ex¬ 
tended, when the confederates obtained the viflory at Ra- 
millies, in 1706. 
AU'TREY, a town of France, in the department of 
the Upper Saone, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
triCl of Champlitte : one league north-weft of Gray. 
AU'TRICOURT, a town of France, in the department 
of the Cote d’Or, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
tridf of Chatillon-fur-Seine : eight miles north of Chatil- 
ion. 
AU'TRICUM, the capital of the Curnutas, a people 
of Gallia Celtica ; afterwards called Carnotena, Carnotenus , 
and Civiias Carnotenum ; now Chartres , on the Eure. 
AU'TRY, a towm of France, in the department of the 
Ardennes, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriift of 
Grandpre : three leagues weft of Varennes. 
AU'TUMN,./ [ autumnus , Lat.] The feafon of the year 
between fumrner and winter, beginning adronomically at 
Abe equinox, and ending at the foldice: 
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Autumn, nodding o’er the yellow plain, 
Comes jovial on. Thom/on.. 
Autumn begins on the day when the fun’s meridian dif- 
tance from the zenith, being on the decreafe, is a mean be¬ 
tween the greateft and the lead ; which in thefe countries 
happens when the fun enters Libra. Its end coincides 
with the beginning of winter. Several nations have com¬ 
puted the years by autumns; the Englifh-Saxons by win- 
tors. Tacitus tells us, the ancient Germans were acquaint¬ 
ed with all the other feafons of the year, but had no notion 
ol autumn. Autumn has always been reputed an unhealthy 
feafon. Tertullian calls it tentator valetudinum; and the 
fatyrid fpeaks of it in the fame light : Autumnus iibilina t 
qucjlus acerbae. Celfus wifely advifes people to begin early 
in this feafon with warmer clothes, for the irregularity of 
the weather atAhis time fubjefts them to many difeafes. 
Autumn is reprefented, in painting, by a manat per¬ 
fect age, clothed like the vernal, and hkewife girded with 
a ftarry girdle ; holding in one hand a pair of feales equally 
poifed, with a globe in each; in the other hand, a bunch 
of divers fruits and grapes. His age denotes the perfec¬ 
tion of this feafon; and the balance, that fign of the zo¬ 
diac which the fun enters when our autumn begins. 
AUTUM'NA, an allegorical deity, faid to be the god- 
defs of fruits: die is the fame as Pomona. 
AUTUM'NAL, a^. Belonging to autumn ; produced 
in autumn.—Bind now up your autumnal flowers, to pre¬ 
vent hidden guds, which will proftrate all. Evelyn. 
Not the fair fruit that on yon branches glows 
With that ripe red th’ autumnal fun beftows. Pope. 
Autumnal Equinox, the time when the fun enters 
the defeending point of the ecliptic, where it croffes the 
equinoctial; and is fo called, becaufe the nights and days 
are then equal. 
Autumnal Point, the point of the ecliptic anfwer- 
ing to the autumnal equinox. 
Autumnal Sicns, are the figns Libra, Scorpio, Sa- 
gittary, through which the fun paffes during autumn. 
AUTUM'NITY,/ - . [ autumnitas , La'c.] The time ofhar- 
ved ; the fall of the leaf. 
AUTUN', a town of France, and principal place of a 
diftrict, in the department of the Saone and Loire, before 
the revolution, the capital of a diftridt, called the Autunois, 
fituated near the river Arroux, at the foot of three moun¬ 
tains, from whence ilfue fix fprings, that well fupply the 
town with water. It was the fee of a bilhop, whofe dio- 
cefe extended over upwards of fix hundred parilhes: be- 
fides the cathedral, it contained eight parifh churches and 
feveral religious houfes. Autun was made a Roman co¬ 
lony by Augudus, and called after him Augujlcdunum, and 
many vediges are yet vifible of Roman magnificence : eigh¬ 
teen pods and a half weft-fouth-wed of Befancon, twenty 
and a half north-north-weft of Lyons, and thirty-five and 
a half fouth-fouth-eaft of Paris. Lat, 46. 58. N. Ion. 21. 
58. E. Ferro. 
AUTUNOIS', a fmall country or diftncl of France, be. 
fore the revolution, in the duchy of Burgundy, round the 
city of Autun, which was the capital. 
AUTU'RA, or Audu'ra, a river of Gallia Celtica, 
mentioned in the lives of the faints, Now the Eure, which 
falls into the Seine. 
AUTUR'G Y,f. lauturgia, Lat. a.vla^yia, Gr.. of ctvr<®, 
felf, and work.] Self-working; an operation per¬ 
formed by a man’s own hands. It is oppofed to what he 
does by the inftrumentality of another. 
AUTZ, a town of the duchy of Courland, thirty-fix 
miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Goldingcn. 
AUVE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Marne, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridt of St. 
Menehould : thirteen miles eaft-north-eaft of Chalons, 
AUVER'GNE, before the revolution, a province of 
France, bounded on the eaft by Forez,, on the fouth by 
Rouergue and Gevaudan, on the weft by Limoges and 
Marche, and on the north by Bourbonnois. It is about 
forty 
