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# Title: Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 71; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 71)
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ABSIS, ehe lame wich Apsis; whicti Ece.
ABSOLDTE: This Wora
Which hgnities Fre
From che Porver ot anocher) is variousy uled
Somerimes the Terms ot a Proposition arc Caid
eo be caken Absolurely, char is, Wwichout Relation
20 any chine else. A Prince is Caid eo be Absolute,
Wvhen he makes his WiI his Lam, and will in no
respect be restrained or limited by the L aws ot
his Connerr. This is orhermile called Arbitrary
Pover; and ariles trom an Imperfection boch in
che Onderstandins of che Prince, and in the Spi
ries oF che People. Bur C0d Alinishey is Absolute
trom che Perfection ot his Nacure, as concainine
in himlelF all possible Porer, and lyins under no
Cimications nor Restraines trom any onc. Ab50-
lure is somerimes raken also in Opposicion to
Terms or Condicions; thus God doth nOc FOr
sire Men cheir Sins Absolutely, bue on Condicion
ot cheir Repentance and Amendmene; and a
Priest cannoc absolve Men Crom the Cuilc oF cheir
Sins Absolucelr, buc only declararivels and mini-
Former sienilyins Dure Ceometry, or Alsebra; andt
the lacrer Opticks, Dialins. Pavisacion, (30.
Where Physicat Considerarions are connected wich
the Machemarical.
ABSLRVSE, Sécret, dark, nox exsilys intellieible.
ABOVDAIMI Numbers, are rhole etiose PAFES
added cosether make more chan che vohole Num.
ber which chey are Parrs oF; 25 v. 5. Tivelve
irtiose Paris beins F, 2, 3, 4, ane 6. thele all ad-
ded rogechei mate Sixreen: Thus allo The PAEIS
OF 20 m alEC 22, CC.
ABDS. Sec Apsis.
ABYSS, I5 aro vast deex place which cither
hach no BOrrom, or else hach none discernible;
or ac least is supposeu ro have none.
The Learned Dc. Woodmard in his Nacural i-
Story of the Farth, D. L27. telIS uS, Thar chere is
2 misher Collection ot Wacers incloled in the
Borvels of che Farrh, constirurins an huge Orb in
the Inceriour or Cencral Parrs ot ic; and over the
Surtace oF chis Wacer he suppoles che Terrestrial
Aerially, on che Condirion ot che Perlons Peni. Scrata eo be expanded: This is Wvhac Moses callS
tence and Resolurions for Amendment. 50 (in
L2W) an absolute EMare is one tree trom aII man-
ner et Condirions
the Creat Dcep, and whae many Auchors caII thC
Abrss. And thac chere is such a vast Collection
OE Wacers lodged in che Bowels oE che Larrh is
ABSOLD TE Number, in an Equarion in Alsebra, contirmed by abundance oF Observations.
is chac wrtich Vieta calls the Homogeneum Compara.
tionis, and wrhich alevars possesseth one entire pare
Or side oF che Equation, and is alvays a Known
Ouanciey; and che Rectansle or Solid, under
he unknown Roors, in Quadraricks and Cubicks
Thus in ehis Equation aa 116a =36. ThC AB-
The Water oF this vas AbysS ThC DF. aNCrES,
doch communicare wich that ot che Ocean by
means ot cerrain FOles, Fiatuss Or Chasms, Pal
Ens becwixe ic and che Borrom of inc Ocean 
And ehis and che AByIs he suppoles co have onc
common Cenere, around wtrieh the Wacer ot
Tolure Number is 36, Wvhich is equal eo the Product boch ot ehem is placed; bur (0, chac the ordina
oE che rvo ROOrS Or Values oF a, musciplied one ey Surtace ot che AbyIS is nor level wich chac ot
into anocher.
ABSOLOTE Eguarion, in AAronomY, is che
AexrexaE Or Sum ot he Fccemriek and Optick
Equations. Sec L. quation
ABSORBEHLS, are Medicines chac rempet
and qualihe che Acid fuices in the Body, by inibi-
bins or drintins chem up. Thus Altiali sare laid
by lome ro Ab(Orb Acids.
ABSTENSTOH, in Law, is a Wich. holdins ar
Hleir trom cakins possession of his L. and.
ABSTERGENL or Abstersive Medicines, are
such as are uled to clear the Skin or Superticia
Parrs oF che Body trom any Filch, (9c. obAruct.
in8 itS POrCS.
ABSTERSTON, is ihe ERect produced By Ab.
Mersive Medicines, or in general, any cleantins or
wipins ava
ABSTRAOTION, is a POWA BCCAIAF 1O ThC
the Ocean, nor ac (o ereac a distance trom the
Cenere a5 chac is, ir beins For che moH PaVEre-
Etrained and depressed by che serata ot Farrh
Wins uxon ic; bur where ever chole Strata sare
broken, or (0 lax and porole chac W acer can Per-
vade chem, chen che Wacer of chc AbyIs dorh a-
Ccend, AIIS uP aII the Cletrs Or Fissures whereinro
it can ger admittance or enerance, and lacurates
al che Incerstices and Pores ot the Farch, Siones
Or orter Macrer, all around che Globe, quire ux
roche Level otthe Ocean.
ACADEMX, is a Kind oF hisher Sch00I Or V-
niversies, where rouns Men are instructed in the
Liberal Arrs and Sciences. TWas (0 called ac Arst
From Academia, che Namo. Ot a Place neaE Athens,
and built, Cay Pome, by Cadmus che Phaenician
ochers, by one Academus; whrence ic had ies
Name: Tiras planced wich Trees; and herc
Mlind of Man in concradistinction eo the Souls of Plato caughr his Disciples PhiloCophy, who from
Beass, and plainly distinguitins (limtrom chem; hence are called Academietes. Cicero al(o callec
Whereby he can makre his Idcas, arisins from par- one ot his Counery Searsby chis Name, Wvhere he
ricular Thines, become general Reprelentatires had tine Crores, and plealane Walkes For the Fncer-
ot allot the lame kind. Lhus, it my lyc repre
cainmene ot his Philolophical Friends; and here
tenes eo me Whicenels in a WalI, I can Abstract- he wrore his BOOkS, De Nat: Deorum, and DC A.
edly consider chac Oualiey oF Whirenels, and find micitia, and his Offices; wwhich cheretore he called
it aetributable eo manr ocher things besides; 25 his Academical Treatises.
eo Sno, coik, or che sne, alte s dualier.
erharerer le be, ehus considered apare trom che
ACADEMTCKS; P0 che Follovers OE Plato
avere anciencly called, becaule they studied in rtie
Concrete, ox the Subjeet in which ic inheres, is said Academia. Afcerward ic became the Name ot 
20 be cakcen in che abstract
Sect ot Sceprical Philolophers, Who maintain-
ABSTRAOT, is Frequenl uled al(0 for a (malI) ed, Thac aIl chines ivere uncerrain, and chac
DTalhE or Epitome ot any grearer W Ork.
Reason and Truch vere chanseable, (0 chac Men
ABSTRACE Numbers, are chole whichare con. oushr co doubr ot every chins, and beliere no
Adlered a5 Pure Numbers, wictiour being applied eo ctrins.
ans duosect, d 10 Abstracted Mematicks, 13
ACANTABOEDS, che same Wvich VB.seca Ca
ed in oprolicion 10 aint Mrchemaciels; che) ceprins has che Volsella is erooted) a Surecoris
EnCLFUMIENE