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Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences, fol. -

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  1. ABSIS, ehe lame wich Apsis; whicti Ece.
  2. ABSOLDTE: This Wora
  3. Which hgnities Fre
  4. From che Porver ot anocher) is variousy uled
  5. Somerimes the Terms ot a Proposition arc Caid
  6. eo be caken Absolurely, char is, Wwichout Relation
  7. 20 any chine else. A Prince is Caid eo be Absolute,
  8. Wvhen he makes his WiI his Lam, and will in no
  9. respect be restrained or limited by the L aws ot
  10. his Connerr. This is orhermile called Arbitrary
  11. Pover; and ariles trom an Imperfection boch in
  12. che Onderstandins of che Prince, and in the Spi
  13. ries oF che People. Bur C0d Alinishey is Absolute
  14. trom che Perfection ot his Nacure, as concainine
  15. in himlelF all possible Porer, and lyins under no
  16. Cimications nor Restraines trom any onc. Ab50-
  17. lure is somerimes raken also in Opposicion to
  18. Terms or Condicions; thus God doth nOc FOr
  19. sire Men cheir Sins Absolutely, bue on Condicion
  20. ot cheir Repentance and Amendmene; and a
  21. Priest cannoc absolve Men Crom the Cuilc oF cheir
  22. Sins Absolucelr, buc only declararivels and mini-
  23. Former sienilyins Dure Ceometry, or Alsebra; andt
  24. the lacrer Opticks, Dialins. Pavisacion, (30.
  25. Where Physicat Considerarions are connected wich
  26. the Machemarical.
  27. ABSLRVSE, Sécret, dark, nox exsilys intellieible.
  28. ABOVDAIMI Numbers, are rhole etiose PAFES
  29. added cosether make more chan che vohole Num.
  30. ber which chey are Parrs oF; 25 v. 5. Tivelve
  31. irtiose Paris beins F, 2, 3, 4, ane 6. thele all ad-
  32. ded rogechei mate Sixreen: Thus allo The PAEIS
  33. OF 20 m alEC 22, CC.
  34. ABDS. Sec Apsis.
  35. ABYSS, I5 aro vast deex place which cither
  36. hach no BOrrom, or else hach none discernible;
  37. or ac least is supposeu ro have none.
  38. The Learned Dc. Woodmard in his Nacural i-
  39. Story of the Farth, D. L27. telIS uS, Thar chere is
  40. 2 misher Collection ot Wacers incloled in the
  41. Borvels of che Farrh, constirurins an huge Orb in
  42. the Inceriour or Cencral Parrs ot ic; and over the
  43. Surtace oF chis Wacer he suppoles che Terrestrial
  44. Aerially, on che Condirion ot che Perlons Peni. Scrata eo be expanded: This is Wvhac Moses callS
  45. tence and Resolurions for Amendment. 50 (in
  46. L2W) an absolute EMare is one tree trom aII man-
  47. ner et Condirions
  48. the Creat Dcep, and whae many Auchors caII thC
  49. Abrss. And thac chere is such a vast Collection
  50. OE Wacers lodged in che Bowels oE che Larrh is
  51. ABSOLD TE Number, in an Equarion in Alsebra, contirmed by abundance oF Observations.
  52. is chac wrtich Vieta calls the Homogeneum Compara.
  53. tionis, and wrhich alevars possesseth one entire pare
  54. Or side oF che Equation, and is alvays a Known
  55. Ouanciey; and che Rectansle or Solid, under
  56. he unknown Roors, in Quadraricks and Cubicks
  57. Thus in ehis Equation aa 116a =36. ThC AB-
  58. The Water oF this vas AbysS ThC DF. aNCrES,
  59. doch communicare wich that ot che Ocean by
  60. means ot cerrain FOles, Fiatuss Or Chasms, Pal
  61. Ens becwixe ic and che Borrom of inc Ocean
  62. And ehis and che AByIs he suppoles co have onc
  63. common Cenere, around wtrieh the Wacer ot
  64. Tolure Number is 36, Wvhich is equal eo the Product boch ot ehem is placed; bur (0, chac the ordina
  65. oE che rvo ROOrS Or Values oF a, musciplied one ey Surtace ot che AbyIS is nor level wich chac ot
  66. into anocher.
  67. ABSOLOTE Eguarion, in AAronomY, is che
  68. AexrexaE Or Sum ot he Fccemriek and Optick
  69. Equations. Sec L. quation
  70. ABSORBEHLS, are Medicines chac rempet
  71. and qualihe che Acid fuices in the Body, by inibi-
  72. bins or drintins chem up. Thus Altiali sare laid
  73. by lome ro Ab(Orb Acids.
  74. ABSTENSTOH, in Law, is a Wich. holdins ar
  75. Hleir trom cakins possession of his L. and.
  76. ABSTERGENL or Abstersive Medicines, are
  77. such as are uled to clear the Skin or Superticia
  78. Parrs oF che Body trom any Filch, (9c. obAruct.
  79. in8 itS POrCS.
  80. ABSTERSTON, is ihe ERect produced By Ab.
  81. Mersive Medicines, or in general, any cleantins or
  82. wipins ava
  83. ABSTRAOTION, is a POWA BCCAIAF 1O ThC
  84. the Ocean, nor ac (o ereac a distance trom the
  85. Cenere a5 chac is, ir beins For che moH PaVEre-
  86. Etrained and depressed by che serata ot Farrh
  87. Wins uxon ic; bur where ever chole Strata sare
  88. broken, or (0 lax and porole chac W acer can Per-
  89. vade chem, chen che Wacer of chc AbyIs dorh a-
  90. Ccend, AIIS uP aII the Cletrs Or Fissures whereinro
  91. it can ger admittance or enerance, and lacurates
  92. al che Incerstices and Pores ot the Farch, Siones
  93. Or orter Macrer, all around che Globe, quire ux
  94. roche Level otthe Ocean.
  95. ACADEMX, is a Kind oF hisher Sch00I Or V-
  96. niversies, where rouns Men are instructed in the
  97. Liberal Arrs and Sciences. TWas (0 called ac Arst
  98. From Academia, che Namo. Ot a Place neaE Athens,
  99. and built, Cay Pome, by Cadmus che Phaenician
  100. ochers, by one Academus; whrence ic had ies
  101. Name: Tiras planced wich Trees; and herc
  102. Mlind of Man in concradistinction eo the Souls of Plato caughr his Disciples PhiloCophy, who from
  103. Beass, and plainly distinguitins (limtrom chem; hence are called Academietes. Cicero al(o callec
  104. Whereby he can makre his Idcas, arisins from par- one ot his Counery Searsby chis Name, Wvhere he
  105. ricular Thines, become general Reprelentatires had tine Crores, and plealane Walkes For the Fncer-
  106. ot allot the lame kind. Lhus, it my lyc repre
  107. cainmene ot his Philolophical Friends; and here
  108. tenes eo me Whicenels in a WalI, I can Abstract- he wrore his BOOkS, De Nat: Deorum, and DC A.
  109. edly consider chac Oualiey oF Whirenels, and find micitia, and his Offices; wwhich cheretore he called
  110. it aetributable eo manr ocher things besides; 25 his Academical Treatises.
  111. eo Sno, coik, or che sne, alte s dualier.
  112. erharerer le be, ehus considered apare trom che
  113. ACADEMTCKS; P0 che Follovers OE Plato
  114. avere anciencly called, becaule they studied in rtie
  115. Concrete, ox the Subjeet in which ic inheres, is said Academia. Afcerward ic became the Name ot
  116. 20 be cakcen in che abstract
  117. Sect ot Sceprical Philolophers, Who maintain-
  118. ABSTRAOT, is Frequenl uled al(0 for a (malI) ed, Thac aIl chines ivere uncerrain, and chac
  119. DTalhE or Epitome ot any grearer W Ork.
  120. Reason and Truch vere chanseable, (0 chac Men
  121. ABSTRACE Numbers, are chole whichare con. oushr co doubr ot every chins, and beliere no
  122. Adlered a5 Pure Numbers, wictiour being applied eo ctrins.
  123. ans duosect, d 10 Abstracted Mematicks, 13
  124. ACANTABOEDS, che same Wvich VB.seca Ca
  125. ed in oprolicion 10 aint Mrchemaciels; che) ceprins has che Volsella is erooted) a Surecoris
  126. EnCLFUMIENE

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