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againft the proteftants are held in high estimation by the 
catholics. In 1563 he was deputed, together with Mi¬ 
chael Baius and Cornelius Janfenius, afterwards bilhop 
of Ghent, to attend the council.of Trent; and he died 
of a ftroke of apoplexy in 1566, %vhen only in the forty- 
fourth.year of his age. The moll confiderable of his- 
works is his large Ca-techifm, which is not merely a fuc- 
cinCt expofition of catholic opinions, but a body of mo¬ 
ral theology, taken from the fathers, and particularly 
from St. Auguftine. It was firft printed in 1571, 8vo. 
and afterwards much enlarged, in 2 vols. 4to. 1595. He 
was alfo. the author of Commentaries on St. Matthew, 
1572, 8vo. on the Firft Epiftle to Timothy, and on the 
Firft Epiftle of St. Peter, 1568, 8vo. on the Canonical 
Epiftles of St. John, 1599, 8vo. &c. 
HES'SlAN FLY,/ A mifchievous infect in North 
America, often very deftruCtive to the crops of wheat in 
that country. It was fuppofed to have been firft carried 
into .America by the Heflian troops at the commence¬ 
ment of the American war, in their bread-corn, or ftore 
wheat, as it never had before been noticed on that con¬ 
tinent ; and its depredations upon the wheat crops com¬ 
menced in Long Ifland, where the Heflian army landed. 
Hence the name of Hejfian Jly was given to this infeCt; 
which may probably be a lpecies of Curculio, or of 
Thrips, which fee. 
HEST,/. [hasp's, Sax.] Command; precept; in¬ 
junction. Commonly written behejl: 
Thou doft affliCt the not deferver, 
As him that doth thy lovely hejls defpife. - Spenfer. 
HES'TER, or Es'ther, a woman’s name. 
HES'TER, a town of Sweden, in the province of Eaft 
Gothland; twenty-five miles fouth-weft of Lin ki oping. 
HESTI/E'A, in ancient geography, a town of Euboea. 
HESTRA, a town of Sweden, in the province of Sma- 
land : fifty-five miles weft of Wexio. 
HE'SUS, a deity among the Gauls, the fame as the 
Mars of the Romans. Lucan. 
HESYCHAS'TES,/ [^x^, Gr. to be quiet.] One 
who gives-hinifelf up to religious contemplation. Scott. 
iJE'SYCH'IUS of Alexandria, a celebrated lexi¬ 
cographer, placed by different writers in' the fourth, 
and at the end of the fixth, century ; and fome have 
fuppofed him to be the fame perfon as the patriarch of 
Jerufalem of that name. From the infertion of fcriptu- 
ral words in his Dictionary, it is concluded that he was 
a Chriftian, unlefs thofe palfages fliould have been added 
by another hand. The work of Hefychius, which has 
reached our times, is a Greek lexicon or vocabulary, 
accounted by feveral critics-as one of the moft valuable 
treafures of the Greek language. It has been elucidated 
by the learned notes of Daniel Heinfuis and othefs. The 
bed editions are thofe of Schrevelius, 4to. 1668, and of 
Alberti, Leyd. 2 vols. folio, 1746. 
HESYCH'IUS of Miletus, flouriflied under the 
emperors Juftin aiid Juftinian. He compofed an Univer- 
fal Hiftory from the reign of Belus to the death of Ana- 
ftafius; and two books, Be Viris doBrina Claris , and De 
Rebus Patriis Conjlantinopoleos, both in Greek. The two 
latter works were edited in Greek and Latin by Meur- 
fiiis, who added his own notes, with thofe of Adrian 
Junius and Henry Stephens. This edition was printed 
at Leyden in 1613, 121UO. The ftyle is elegant, and the 
narration bears the marks of veracity. 
HET/ER AR'CHA, / [from Gr. a friend, 
and agffli, government.] The head of a religions houfe; 
the head of a college; the warden of a corporation. Scott. 
HE'I'EROCLITE, / \_heteroclite, Fr. heteroclitum, Lat. 
iTEgos and y.Mva, Gr.] Such nouns as vary from the com¬ 
mon forms of declenlion, by any redundancy, defeCf, or 
otherwife. Clarke. —The keteroclite nouns of the Latin 
fhotrld not be touched in the firft learning of therudiments 
of the tongue. Watts. —Any thing or perfon deviating 
from the common rule,—He is a keteroclite , for he wants 
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the plural number, having only the - Angle quality of 
words. Overbury. 
HET'EROCLITE, adj. [from the fubt ?.] Singular.— 
It is impoflible for a man of ferrfe to guard againft the 
mortification that maybe given him by fools, or keteroclite 
characters, becatife he cannot forefee them. Shenjlone. 
HETEROCLIT'ICAL, adj. Di viating from the com¬ 
mon rule.—In the mention of fins heteroclitical, and (itch 
as want either name or precedent, there is oft times a 
fin, even in their hiftories. Brown. 
HETEROC'RANY, / [from E r £? o; ( Gr. another, and 
ygeenov, the head.] With phyftcians, a pain in one part 
of the head. Scott. 
HET'ERODOX, adj. [ keterodoxe , Fr. m^o? and £*f«, 
Gr. ] Deviating from the eliablilhed opinion ; not ortho¬ 
dox.—Partiality may be oblerved in fome to vulgar, in 
others to heterodox , opinions. Locke. 
HET'ERODOX,/ An opinion peculiar.—Not only 
a Ample heterodox , but a very hard paradox it will feem, 
and of great abfurdity, if we fay attraction is unjuftly 
appropriated unto the loadftone. Brown. 
HET'ERODOXNESS, / Heterodoxy. Scott. 
HET'ERODOXY,/ The quality of being heterodox. 
HETEROD'ROMOUS, adj. [from mg*?, Gr. another, 
and fyo/ji o?, a courfe.] In mechanics, having the fulcrum 
or point of fufpenfion between the power and the weight. 
HETEROD'ROMUS VEC'TIS, or Lever,/ In 
mechanics, a lever in which the fulcrilm, or point o 
fufpenfion, is between the weight and the power; being 
the fame as what is otherwife called a lever of the firft 
kind. 
HETEROGE'NE AL, adj. [ heterogene , Fr. erego? and 
yEK)?, Gr.] blot of the fame nature; not kindred.—The 
light whole rays are alike refrangible, I call Ample, ho- 
mogeneal, and fimilar; and that whole rays are fome 
more refrangible than others, I call compound, heteroge - 
neal, and diflimilar. Newton. 
HETEROGENE'ITY, /. [heterogeneite, Fr. from he - 
terogeneous .2 Oppofition of nature ; contrariety or dilli- 
militude of qualities. Oppolite or diflimilar part.— 
Guaiacum, burnt with an open fire in a chimney, is fei- 
queftered into alhes and foot; whereas the fame wood, 
diftilled into a retort, does yield far other heterogeneities , 
and is refolved into oil, fpirit, vinegar, water, and char¬ 
coal. Boyle. 
HE! EROGE'NEOUS, adj. [from srigojand yevo ?, Gr.J 
Not kindred ; oppolite or diflimilar in nature.—I have 
. obferved fuch heterogeneous bodies, which I found inclu¬ 
ded in the mafs of this fandftone. Woodward. 
Heterogeneous Bodies, are fuch as have their 
parts of unequal denlity. 
Heterogeneous Line, is that which confifts of 
parts or rays of different refrangibility, reflexibility, and 
colour. 
Heterogeneous Numbers, are mixed numbers, 
conlifting of integers and fractions. 
Heterogeneous Particles, are fuch as are of 
different kinds, natures, and qualities; of which gene¬ 
rally all bodies co.nfift. 
Heterogeneous Quantities, in mathematics, are 
thofe which cannot have proportion, or be compared 
together as to greater and lefs; being of fuch different 
kind and confideration, as that one of them taken any 
number of times never equals or exceeds the other. 
As lines, furfaces, and folids, in geometry. 
Heterogeneous Surds, are fuch as have different 
radical figns: as 3/a and \J b 2 ; or V 10 an( ^ V 2 °- 
HETEROGE'NEOUSNLSS,/ Difiimilitude in na¬ 
ture; contrariety of parts. 
HETEROGE'NIUM,/ With phyficians, a difpro- 
portionate mixture in the blood or fpirits. Scott. 
HETEROP'TICS, / [m§#?, another, and owfo^au, 
Gr. to view.] Falfe optics. SpeBator. Not muck u/ed. 
HETEROS'CII, / [of mgo?, Gr. another, and 
a fhadow.] In geography, are fuch inhabitants of 
the 
