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Such were Caroloftadius and his followers, called alio Sacra- vmitar'ians, and thofe of Zuinglius denominated Zuinglians, The fe£t of Antilutberans, at firft confined within narrow bounds, in a few years time fubdivided into fix or feven in- terior fects, and ere long into an infinite number more vari- oufly denominated. V. Prated. loo cit. ANTILYSSUS Pulvis, in medicine, is compofed of equal parts of the lichen cinercus terrcftris & piper niger. It is reckoned ufeful in preventing the rabies canina. Vid. Phil. Tranf. N°.
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ANTIMENSIUM, {CycL} in the Greek church, anfwers to to the altare portabile, or portable altar in the Latin church. They are DOtn only of late invention, tho' Habertus a would have them as old as St. Bafil, and to be indicated by the words, «5W» Tea^t""- ^ u t Durant and Bona do not pre- tend to find them in any author before the time of Bede and Charlemaign b . — [ a Habert. Archierat. p. 664. b Bingb. Orig. Ecclef. I. 8- c. 6. §. 21.J
Antimensia is alfo applied to other tables, ufed in offices of religion, befides thofe whereon the eucharift is adminiftered : . fuch e. gr. are thofe whereon the holt, is expofed, caV. Du Cange, Gloif. Gr. T. I. p. 85. feq in voc. Avlip^ta. The origin of the Anthnenfia is defcribed by Mcurfius, when the bilhop had confecrated a church, the cloth which had been fpread on the ground, and over the communion table, was torn in pieces and diftributcd among the priefts, who carried each a fragment away, to ferve to cover the tables in their churches and chapels. Not that it w:is neceflary that fuch cloths mould be laid on all tables ; but only on thofe which either were not confecrated, or at leaft whofe confe- cration was doubted of. Suic, Thef. Ecclef. T. 1. p. 377. in voc. Akli(Aii'o , n>s.
ANTIMENSIUS, an antient officer in the Greek church, whofe bufmefs was to introduce and place the communicants at the eucharift. Bute. Thef. Ecclef. T. 1. p. 377. in voc.
A»Ilf4IKTt©-.
Some have imagined that he had the care of the Anthnenfia.
But this rather belonged to the office of great Scevopbylax .
He is otherwife called A^x^> ™ Ai'V^cn^, chief of the Anti-
menfii. V. Du Cange, GloiT. Gr. T. 1. p. 85. ANTIMERI A, in grammar, a figure whereby one part of fpeech
is ufed for another, e. gr. velle j'uum cutque eji, tor, voluntas
fua caique ejl ; alfo, populus late rex, for populus late regnans. Antimeria, in a more reftraincd fenfe, is a figure whereby
the noun is repeated inltead of the pronoun. V. Ludovic.
Hebraifm, p. 68.
The Antimeria is frequent in the Hebrew, and is fometimes
retained in our verfton of the old teftament accordingly. —
e. gr. Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamcch, for my wives.
Gen. c. iv. v. 23. ANTIMETABOLE, w At1 ( f,«la&?^, in rhetoric, a figure which
fets two things in oppofition to each other. See Fojf. Rhet.
lib. 5. p. 404.
The word is Greek, compounded of <?&, againft, and f«1«.&A»)
from f /,El«S*Mw, I fhift or transfer ; i. e. a fluffing, or fetting
two things oyer-againft each other.
This figure is twice examplified in an apophthegm of Mufo-
niusj which, on account of its excellence, is called auvcum
monitum, the golden maxim or precept.
"Av ti Wf«'|i]j KflAei fiela wova, a p.ti> vrovoq ot^lai, to ^e xaAo? pjeet. "Av t* a-oojo-j)^ a,u?xeov fulff nSorvs, to [lit Ml) otfteiai, to St dicygw
In Englifh thus, Allowing the performance of an honourable action to be at- tended with labour ; the labour is foon over, but the honour immortal : whereas, fhould even pleafure wait on the com- minion of what is difhonourable ; the pleafure is foon gone but the diftionour eternal.
ANTIMISIUM, AflifMJnM, in antiquity, a table placed before the Roman tribunal, or judgment feat. Suid. Lex. in voc. What relation this has to the Anthnenfia in the Greek church does not appear. Some writers confound them toge- ther as the fame thing. V. Suic. in voc. Avli^vcrmv.
ANTIMONARCHIST, a perfon who maintains anti monarchi- cal principles.
Aniimonarchijls are otherwife denominated monarcbomachi, and ftand oppofed to anthnonarcbomacbi. V. Mackenz, Scot. Writ. T. 3. p. 167. Wood, Faft. Oxon. T. 1. p. 263, h 267. Obferv. Halens. T. j. Obferv. 1. §. 7. Act. Erud. Lipf, An. 17 16. p. 439. Buchanan, Milton, Hottoman, Languet, Ludlow, Sydney, and others, are celebrated Antimonarchijis.
ANTIMON ARCHOMACHI, Antimondrcbomacbifi , is ufed by fome political writers to denote maintainors 01 monarchical or abfolute power veiled by divine right in the perfons ot princes. In which fenfe, Antimonarcho?nacbi ftand oppofed to monar- chomachi.
King James the firft, Salmafius, Peter du Moulin, hifhop Bramhall, Albericus Gentilis, Ziegler, William and George Barclays, Bochart, &c. have diftinguifhed themfelves in the clafs of Anthnonarchomachifts S Acker has treated profeffedly of the monarchomachijh and Antimonarchomacbijls b . — [ a Act. Erud. LipC 1716. p. 440. b CQtnm. de Monarch. & Anti-
monarcbomachis, Rudolft. 1716.4°. An extract of which is given in A£t. Erud. Lipf. loc. cit.]
ANTIMONIALS (Cyr/.) — Befides thofe numerous prepara- tions which take their denominations from antimony, the chief of which are enumerated under that article in the Cyclo- paedia, there are feveral other Antimomal medicines ; Such are the crocus metallorum, Poter i us 's cordial, the tindtura metal- brum, mercurius vitie, or powder of algarot, bezoardicum minerale, fulphur metallorum, the Carthufian powder, or kermes mineral, 6Tr. See Crocus, Tincture, Alga- rot, &c.
Lemery describes feveral other preparations of this mineral. Lem. Traite de 1'Antimoine paffim.
ANTIMONIATED, fomcthing tinged with the qualities, or refembling the appearances, of antimony. Dr. Woodward fpeaks of a kind of ilriated, or antimoniaied 3 lead ore. Nat. Hilt. Engl. Foff. T. 1. p. 207.-
ANTIMONY. See the article Stibium.
Glafs of Antimony. See Glass.
Butter of Antimony. See Butter of Antimony.
ANTINOEIA, in antiquity, annual faciifices, and quinquennial games in memory of Antinous the Bithynian. They were inftituted at the command of Adrian the Roman emperor, at Mantinea in Arcadia, where Antinous Was ho- noured with a temple and divine worlhip. Potter, Archseol. 1. 2. c. 20.
ANTINOMIANS, in church hiftory, denote a religious fe&, who maintain the law of no ufe or obligation under the gof- pel difpenfation.
In this fenfe, the Antinomians ftand contradiftinguifhed from the Ncommiam. Budd. Ifag. ad Theol. 1. 2. c. 7. p. 1294. The Antinomians took their origin from John Agricola about the year 1335, who taught that the law is no ways neceflary under the gofpel ; that good works do not promote our fal- vation, nor ill ones hinder it ; that repentance is not to be preached from the decalogue, but only from the gofpel, Budd* Ifag. ad Theol. 1. 2. c. 7. p. 1 195.
Luther, Rutherford, SchluiTelburg, Sedgwick, Gataker, Wit- fius, Bull, £$c. have written refutations a ; Crifp, Richardfon, Sakmarfh, Williams, C3*r. defences of the Antinomians b . Wigandus a comparifon between antient and modern Amino- mians\—[*Pfaff. Introd. Hift. Liter. Theol. 1. 3. §. 8." b Budd. lib. cit. p. 1414. - Pfaff. loc. cit.]
ANTIOCHENUM, in botany, a name given by Lobel and fome others to that fpedes of bind-weed, whofe root is the fcammony ufed in medicine. See the article Convolvu- lus.
ANTIOCHIAN Seel, or academy, a name given to the fifth academy, or branch of academics.
It took the denomination from its being founded by Antiochus, a philofopher cotemporary with Cicero. V. Vojf. de SecTt. Pbilof. c. 15. §. 3.
The Antiocbian academy fucceeded the Pliilonian As to
point of doctrine, the philofophers of this fc6t appear to have rcftored that of the antient academy, except that in the arti- cle of the criteiionof truth, Antiochus was really a Stoic, and only nominally an academic. Thomaf. Introd. Phil. Ant* c 1. §. 29.
Antiochian Epocba, a method of computing time from the proclamation of liberty granted the city of Antioch about the time of the battle of PbarfaKa. Straucb. Brev. Chronol.
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This is called particularly in antient writers, XMP<*' t < ! 't M 'i ""is A *~ lt°;c«8is.i for what reafon does not appear. It is difputed among chronologers whether the Antiocbian epo* cha commences in the fpring or the autumn before the battle of Pharfalia. The chronicle of Alexandria fixes it to the for- mer ; Scahger and Calvifius to the latter. In the firft year" of this epocha began the firft indiction; fo that the Antiocbian years being divided by fifteen, the remainder {hews the true character of the cycle of indiction.
ANTIPAPINIANtJS, Aflmwm^ a title given by the Greek lawyers to the fourth part of the digeft, including four books, beginning with the title de pignoribus. Cujac. Obferv. 1. 7. c. 32. Du Cange, Gloft. Gr. T. 1. p. 87. This is otherwife called Antipapiamis, AiT/i^-awia*®-, The Antipapintan was thus denominated, not as being intended in oppofition to Papinian, but becaufe it was to ferve in the fchools of the civil law in lieu of the books of that lawyer, purfuant to an edict of the emperor Juftinian ; fo that the Antipap'mian was fo far from being a refutation of Papinian, that it was only a fubftitute for his writings, which were not fo proper for the ufe of the younger fort of ftudents. BailU Entret. 4. p. 39.
ANTI PAR AST AS IS, A>-W«f«r«fKs in rhetoric, a reply made to an opponent, by allowing part of bis argument, and de- nying the reft, e. gr. you mxy paint whatever you pleafe, provided the public fufftx no prejudice from it ; but you mult not, if it does. Vid. Vojf. Rhet. 1. 1. p. 145. See alfo Concession, CycL
ANTIPASCHA, in ecclefiaftical writers, denotes the firft fim- day after Eafter. Meurs. GlolT. p. 43. Du Cange, GloiT. Grsec. T. 1. p. 87. feq. Suic. Thef. Ecclef. T. 1. p. 380. This is otherwife called iominua in albis.
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