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h:ippcned. Afterwards they were incorporated into the 
troops, where they flill retained their ancient name. As 
their principal office was the giving intelligence, they 
were often joined with the enrioli, with whom they agreed 
in this part of their office. Their name of frumentarii is 
derived from their being alfo a fort of pin veyors to the 
armies, cities, See. colleiSling all the corn from the feveral 
provinces to ftirnifh tire common-w'ealth. 
FRUMENTA'RIOUS, adj. Belonging to corn. 
FRUMENTxA'TION, f. in Roman antiquity, a largefs 
of corn bellowed on the people. The prattice of giving 
corn to the people was very ancient among the Romans, 
and frequently iifed to foothe the turbulent htimour of 
the populace. At fird the number of tliofe to whom this 
largefs was given was indeterminate, till Atigullus fixed 
it at 200,000. 
FRUMEN'TIUS, a faint in the Romilli calend.ir, and 
native of Tyre, who flouriflied in the fourth century. 
He was educated under Meropius, a chrillian philofopher, 
wlio let out on a voyage to India towards the beginnir.g 
of the fourth century, accompanied by Frtimentius, and 
another of his fcholars named xTdefiUS, In the coiirfe 
of their voyage they had the misfortune to touch on tlte 
coaflof Eth.iopia, where Meropius was cruelly murdered 
by the natives ; but his two fcholars'had their lives fpar- 
ed ; and being found to be youths of a beautiful appear¬ 
ance, were fent to the emperor of the country. That 
prince was fo pleafed witlt them, that he placed Frumen- 
tiusii) his fecretary’s office, and xTdelius in that of his 
butler. As long as Ite lived he fliewed them marks of his 
favour, and a little before hisdeatli granted them their li¬ 
berty. When, after that event, they were about to avail 
themfelves of their freedom, and to return home, they 
were importunately requelled by the queen-regent to re- 
niaiti fome time longer in the country, and to undertake 
the tutelage of her Ion till he Ihould be of age. Having 
confented to herrequelt, they appear to have obtained li¬ 
berty for the Roman merchants refiding in the ports of 
Ethiopia, who were Chriftians, to alfemble together for 
the worlliip of God ; and they alfo fucceeded in making 
many converts to the chrillian faith among the courtiers. 
When their pupil had taken the adminil! ration of the go¬ 
vernment upon himfelf, they both delired leave to return 
home, and obtained it, but not without much difficulty, 
.ffidefius went to Tyre, where he was afterwards ordain¬ 
ed a prelbyter, and related the foregoing particulars to 
Ruffinus, who recorded them in the ninth chapter of the 
firll book of his Ecclefiallical Hillory ; but Frumentius 
repaired to Alexandria, and acquainted Athanafius, who 
was then bilhop of that city, with the progrcls he had 
made in introducing Chrillianity into Ethiopia, and the 
fair profpecl there was of farther fuccefs. Athanafius, 
after confulting with his clergy, perfuaded Frumentius to 
be confecrated a bilhop, and to return to Ethiopia in that 
oharacler, for the accomplillirnent of the work which he 
had fo happily begun. He was accordingly confecrated 
in 331, and, returning to Ethiopia, entered on his million 
at Axiima, the capital of the country. Flis labours are 
faid to have been fo fuccefsful, that in a lliorc time the 
emperor, and the great body of the people, were con¬ 
verted to the chrillian faith, and numerous churches were 
eflablilhed throughout the empire. Frumentius lived to 
the year 356. 
FRUMENTO'SE, Full of corn. Scott. 
F'RU'MENTY, f. \_frumcntuin, Lat. corn.] Food 
made of wheat boiled in milk. 
FR UM'GY LD, yi [ Saxon. ] In the ancient law, the firll 
payment made to the kindred of a perfon llain, towards 
the^recoinpence of his murder. 
To FRUMP, v.a. To mock j-to browbeat. Ainfwortk. 
FRUMP, /. A woman, in derilion ; generally an old 
woman. , 
7 b FRUSH, v.a. \_froiJfer, Fr.] To break, brtiile, or 
crulh. Hanmcr. 
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I like thy armour well; 
VWfruJh it, and unlock the rivets all, 
But I’ll be mailer of it. ShakeJ^eare. 
FRUSH, /i A fort of tender horn in a horfe’s foot, 
that grows in the middle of the foie, and at fome dillance 
front the toe: it divides into two branches, running to¬ 
wards the heel, in the form of a fork. 
FRUSI'NO, in ancient geography, a lown of the Vol- 
fei on one of the branches of the Liris. Juvenal. 
FRUSTRANE'A,/; [frujlra, Lat. vain, or barren. ] In 
botany, the name of the third order in the clafs Syngene- 
fia of Linneus’s Artificial Syllem ; comprehending Inch 
compound flowers as have perfect florets in the dific, 
producing feed ; but imperfeCl florets in the ray, which 
for want of a lligma are barren. 
FRUSTRA'NEOUS. adj. \_ frvjlra, Lat.] Vain; ufe- 
lefs ; unprofitable; without advantage.—He timely with¬ 
draws \i\s frujlraneous baffled kindnelfes, and fees the lol¬ 
ly of endeavouring lo llroke a tiger into a lamb, or to court 
an Etliiopian out of his colour. South. 
To I'RUS'TRATE, v.a. [_fruJlror, Lat. frujlrer, Fr.] 
To defeat ; to difappoint ; to baulk.— It is an axiom of 
nature, that natural defirc cannot utterly be j'rvflrate. 
Hooker. 
I furvive. 
To mock the expeClations of the world, 
Toyfe^jate propliecies, and to raze out 
Rotten opinion. Shakefpeare. 
To make null; to nullify.—The acl of parliament which 
gave all his lands to tlie queen, did cut off and frujlrate 
all fuch conveyances. Spenjer. 
Now thou hall aveng’d 
Supplanted Adam ; and by vanquilliing 
Temptation, hall regain’d loll paradile. 
And frujlrated the conquell fraudulent. Milton, 
FRUS'TRATE, participial adj. Vain j .ineffeclual j 
ufelefs; unprofitable:' 
He is drown’d 
W’'hom thus weltray to find, and the fea mocks 
Onx jrujlrate fearch on land. Shakefpeare. 
Null j void. Few things are fo rellrained to any one end 
or purpofe, that, the fame being extindl, they fiiould 
forthwith uttterly become Hooker. 
FRUSTRA'TION, /. [^frufratio, Lat.] Difappoint- 
ment i defeat.—In Hates notorioully irreligious, a fecret 
and irrefillible power countermands their deepefi projects, 
fplits their counfels, and fmites their moll refined policies 
with frujlration and a curie. South. 
FRUS'TRATIVE, adj. Fallacious; difappointing. 
Ainfwortk. 
FRUS'TR ATORY, adj. That which makesany proce¬ 
dure void ; that which vacates any former procefs.—Bar- 
tolus rellrains this to ■o.frufratory appeal. Aylijfe. 
FRUS'TUM,/". [Latin.] Ingeometry, is the part ofa 
folid next the bale, left by cutting off the top, or fegment, 
by a plane parallel to the bale; as the frullum of a py¬ 
ramid, of a cone, of a conoid, of a fpheroid, or of a fphere, 
which is any part comprifed between twoparallel circular 
fedlions ; and the middle frullum ofa fphere, is that whofe 
ends are equal circles, having the centre of the fphere 
in the middle of it, and equally dillant from both ends. 
Fur the folid content oj' the j'rufum of a cone, or of any pyra¬ 
mid, whatever figure the bafe may have. 7 \dd into one luin, 
the areas of the two ends and the mean proportional be¬ 
tween them ; then ^ of that fum will be a mean area, or 
the area of anequiil prifro, of the fame altitude with the 
frullum ; and confequently that mean area being multi¬ 
plied by the height of the frullum, the produdl will be 
the folid content of it. 
That is, if A denote the area of the greater end, 
a that of the lefs, and h the height; 
then A -F « -F y/ Aa ^h is the folidity. 
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