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HYPOC'RISY, [ [ hypbcrijie , Fr.] Diflimulatioii with 
•regard to the moral or religious character: 
Next ftood hypocrify with holy leer. 
Soft finding and demurely looking down,; 
Blit hid the dagger underneath the gown. Dryden. 
HYP'OCRITE, f. A diflembler in morality or reli¬ 
gion.—A wife manhateth not the law ; but he that is an 
hypocrite therein, is-as a Hi ip in a florin. Ecclef. xxxiii. 3. 
Fair hypocrite^ you feek to cheat in vain ; 
Your filence argues, you alk time to reign. Dryden. 
A diflembler: 
Beware, ye honeft; the third circling glads 
■ Suffices virtue ; but may hypocrites y 
Who flily fpeak one thing, another think, 
Hateful as.hell, Hill pleas'd unwarn’d drink on, 
And through intemp’rance grow awhile fmcere. Phillips. 
. HYPOCRITTC, or Kypocrit'ical, adj. Diflembling; 
inlincere ; appearing differently from the reality.—Let 
others Ikrew that hybocritic face. Swift. 
HYPOCRITICALLY, adv. With diflimulation ;■ with¬ 
out fincerity ; falfely.—Simeon and Levi fpake not only 
falfely, but infidioufly, na y hypocritically, abufmg at once 
their profelytes and their religion. Gov. cf.the Tongue. 
HYPOGA'LA, f. [Gr. from voro, under, and yosha., 
rpilk.] A collection of white fluid in the eye, fuppoled to 
be fometimes a ladteal depolition in women who give fuck; 
fometimes owing to the wounding a milky cataraft in the 
operation of couching. 
HYPOGAS'TRIC, adj. fnypogafirique, Fr. of vno, and 
yacrg, Gr.] Seated in the lower part of the belly.—The 
dwelling we fuppofed to rife from an effufion of ferum 
through all the hypogpajlric arteries. Wifeman. 
HYPOGAS'TRIUM, f. in anatomy, the middle part 
of the lower region of the belly. 
HYPOGE'UM, f. \ynco and yn, Gr.] A name which the 
ancient architects gave to all the parts of a building that 
•were under ground, as cellars and vaults. I11 aftrology, 
the fourth houfe pf the heavens. 
HYPOGLOS'SIS, f. [Jrom wo, Gr. under, and y\ucca., 
the tongue.] A tumour under the tongue. 
KYPOGLOT'TIAN, adj. Lying under the tongue. 
HYPOGLOT'TIDES, f. The two large glands fituate 
under the tongue. 
HYPOMOCH'LION, f. [Greek.] In mechanics, the 
fixed point, or centre of motion, of a body or engine, by 
which it is fufpended, and on which it refts in its motion. 
Thus in a balance, the point on which the beam moves is 
the hypomochlion. 
HYPOPH'ORA, / [from wotpe^ofAca, Gr. to be carried 
or conveyed underneath-] A deep fillulous ulcer. 
HYPOPHTHAL'MION,/ [from vo to, Gr. and otpGaX- 
fAoc, the eye.] The part under the eye fubje< 5 t to dwell in 
a cachexy or dropfy. 
HYPOPHYLLOSPER'MI, /. [from wo, Gr. under, 
a leaf, and cm s^ao., feed.] Such plants as bear their 
feed on the back part of their leaves. 
HYPOSCE'NIUM, f. in antiquity, a partition under 
the pulpit or logeutn of the Greek theatre, appointed for 
the mufic. 
HYPOS'TASIS,/! [Greek.] Diltinft dubftance. Per- 
fonality ; a term ufed in the doftrine of the Holy Trinity. 
The fediment of the urine.—Here’s an hypojlafis argues a 
very bad ftomach. Nabbes's Microcofmus. 
HYPOSTATTCAL, adj. Conffitutive ; conftituent as 
diftinft ingredients.—Let our Carneads warn men not to 
fubfcribe to the grand doflrine of the chemifts, touching 
their three hypojlatical principles, till they .have a little ex¬ 
amined it. Boyle.- —Perlonal; diftin&Iy perdonal. 
HYPOT'ENUSE, or Hypothenu-se,/ [ hypotenufe , Fr. 
of wotbvuccc, Gr.] The line, that dub.tends the right angle 
of a right-angled triangle; the dubtenfe.—The lquare of 
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the hypotenufe in a right-angled triahgle, is equal to the 
fquares of the two other fides. Locke. 
Hb. POSj. AT'ICALLY, adv. In an hypoftatical manner 
. HYPOTHETA, [Latin.] In the civil law, an obliVa- 
tion, wheieby the effedls’of a debtor are made over to his 
creuitoi, lo fecure his debt. As the hypotheca is an en¬ 
gagement procured on purpofe for the fecurity of the 
creditor, various means have been made ude of to fecure 
to him the benefit of the convention. The ude of the 
pawn or pledge is the molt ancient, which is almoft the 
famething with the hypotheca; all the difference confill- 
, mg in this, that the pledge is put into the creditor’s 
hands; whereas, in a dimple hypotheca, the thing remained 
in the pofleflion of the debtor. It was found more eafy 
and commodious to engage an effate by a civil covenant 
than by an aftual delivery; accordingly the expedient 
was fardh praftifed'among the Greeks; and from them the 
Romans borrowed both the name and the thing; only the 
Greeks, the better toprevent frauds, ufed to fix dome vi- 
fible maik on the thing, that the public might know it 
was hypothecate of mortgaged by the proprietor; but the 
Romans, looking on duch advertifements as injurious to 
the debtor, forbade the ude of them. The Roman law¬ 
yers diffinguilhed four kinds of hypothecas ; the conven¬ 
tional, which was with the Will and confent of both par¬ 
ties ; the legal, which was appointed by law, and for that 
readon called tacit ; the praetor’s pledge, when by the 
flight or non-appearing of tile debtor the creditor was 
put in pofleflion of his effects ; and the judiciary, when, 
the creditor was put in pofleflion by virtue of a dentence 
of the court. The conventional hypotheca is dubdivided 
into general and dpecial. The hypotheca is general, when 
all the debtorjs effects, both predent and future, are en- 
gaged to the creditor; it is dpecial, when limited to one . 
or mode particular things. 
To H\ PO FH'LCATE, zi. a. [ hypotheca, Lat. a pawn or 
pledge.] This term is now chiefly applied to the pawn¬ 
ing a fliip for necefiaries. A mailer may hypothecate either 
lliip or goods for relief when in diftrefis.at dea ; for lie re¬ 
predents the traders as well as owners ; and in whode hands 
foever a fhip or goods hypothecated come, they are liable. 
1 Salk. 34.. 
HYPOTH'ESIS, f. [hypothefe, Fr. vmoTeru, Gr.] A 
fuppolition; a dyflem formed upon dome principle not 
proved.—The min] caffs and turns itfelf reftledsly from one 
thing to another, till at length it brings all the ends of a 
long and various hy'potiufs together ; lees how one part co¬ 
heres with another, and do clears off all the appearing con¬ 
trarieties that deemed to lie crods, and make the whole un¬ 
intelligible. South. 
With imagin’d dovereignty 
Lord of his new hypothefis he reigns : 
He reigns: how long ? till .dome uljurper ride: 
And he too, mighty thoughtful, mighty wife. 
Studies new lines; and other circles feigns. Prior. 
HYPOTHETIC, or Hypothetical, adj. Including 
duppofition ; conditional.—Conditional or hypothetical pro* 
politions are thofe whode parts are united by the eondi- 
tional particle if ; as, If the fun be fixed, the eard/mult 
move. Watts. 
HYPOTHETICALLY, adv. Upon fuppolition; con¬ 
ditionally.—The only part liable to imputation is calling 
her a goddefs; yet this is propofed with modefty and 
doubt, and hypothetically. Broome. 
HYPOTRACHETION,/ in architecture, is ufed for a 
little frize in the Tufcan and Doric capital, between the 
allragal and annulets; called alfo the colerin and gorge- 
rin. The word is applied by dome,authors, in a more ge¬ 
neral dende, to the neck of any column, or that part of its : 
capital below the allragal. 
HYPOTYPOSIS, /. [from vno, Gr. under, and rvnoe, 
a type.} A figure in rhetoric, a ftriking and lively de- 
dcriplion. 
HYPOX'IS, 
