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On the Globe thefe Circles are represented by the Quadrant of Altitude when fcrewM in the Zenith. See Globe, Qua- drant of Altitude, &c
- On thefe Azimuths is reckoned the Heighth of the Stars and
the Sun, when he is noton the Meridian. See Altitude* Sun, Star, &e.
AZONES, in Mythology, a Term antiently applied to fuch of the Gods as were not the private Divinities of any particular Country or People, but were acknowledg'd as Gods in every Country, and worfhipp'd by every Nation. See God.
The Word is derived from the Greek privative *, and £wi t Zone, Country.
Thefe Azones were a Degree above the vifible and fenfible Gods, which were call'd Zonai ; who inhabited fome particular Part of the World, and never ftirr'd out of the Diftriit or Zone that was affign'd them.
AZOTH, among the antient Chymifls, fignified, fometimes, thefirfl Matter of Metals; fometimes an univerfal Medicine i and fometimes the Mercury of a Metal. — But the Terra is now difufed. See Metal, Mercury, <&c.
AZURE, the blue Colour of the Skies. See Blue, Co- lour, Sky ;
Azure, in Heraldry* fignifies a blue Co- lour, in the Coats of Arms of all Perfons un- der the Degree of a Baron. See Colour.
In the Efcutcheons of Noblemen, Blue is catfdSaphir j and in thofe of fovereign Princes, Jupiter.
In engraving, it is ref relented by Strokes or Hatches drawn horizontally, as in the annexed Figure.
The French prefer this Colour to all others, by reafon the Field of the Arms of their Kings is Azure.
Azure is alfo ufed for a mineral Colour, prepared from the Lapis Armenia. See Armenus.
The Azure is very near a-kin to Ultramarine; being procured from the Armenian Stone much after the fame Manner as the other is from Laps Lazuli. See Ultramarine and Lapis Lazuli.
AZYGOS, in Anatomy, a Vein otherwife called Vena [me pari-, becaufe fingle. See Vein.
The Vena Azygos is the third Branch of the afcending Trunk of the Cava.— It defcends through the right Side of the Cavity of the Thorax, and at its arrival at the eighth or ninth Vertebra, begins to keep the Middle, and fends forth on each Side, inter- coftal Branches to the Interfaces of the eight lower Ribs; and there is divided into two Branches, the larger of which is infert-
ed fometimes into the Cava, but oftener into the Emulgent : The other enters the Cava, commonly a little below the E*- mulgent, but is feldom joined to the Emulgent itfelf. See Ca- va and Emulgent.
AZYMITES, they who Communicate with Bread not leaven- ed or fermented. See Azymus.
This Appellation is given by Cerularius, to thofe of the Latin, Church, upon his Excommunicating them in the Xlth Century.
The Armenians and Maronites do alfb make ufe of Azj?nus, or unleavened Bread, in their Office; on which Account fome Greeks call them Azymites. See Armenian and Maronite.
AZYMUS, fomething not fermented, or that is without Lea- ven. See Ferment and Leaven.
The Term Azymus is much ufed in the Difputes betwixt thofe of the Greek and Romijb Church; the latter of whom contend, that the Bread in the Mais ought to be Azymus, unleaven'd, in imi- tation of the pafchal Bread of the Je-ws, and of our Saviour, who inffituted the Sacrament on the Day of the Paflbver; and the latter ftrenuoufly maintaining the former, from Tradition, and the conftant Ufage of the Church. See Sacrament, Eucha- rist, &c.
This Diipute was not the Occafion of the Rupture between the Greek and Latin Churches ; Photius having broke with the Popes 200 Years before.— The Patriarch Cerularius, in the Xlth Century, excommunicated the Lat'ms for adhering to the Ufe or Azymus Bread.
St. Thomas? in 4 Sent, Difi. 11. q. 2. Art. 2. ^uafliunc. 3. relates, that during the firft Ages ot- the Church, none but un- leavened Bread was ufed in the Eucharifl, 'till fuch time as the Ebionites arofe, who held that all the Obfervances prefcribed by Mofes were ftill in force : Upon which, both Eaftern and We- ftern Churches took to the \J(t of leaven'd Bread,- and after the Extinction of that Herefy, the Weftern Church returned to the Azymus i the Eaftern pert inaciou fly adhering to the former Ufage.
This Account is controverted by Fa. Sirmond, irva Diilcrtati- on exprefs; wherein he fTiews, that the Latins had conftantiy communicated in leaven'd Bread, till the Xth Century. And Cardinal Bona, RerumLiturgic, c. 23. p. 185. owns a deal of diftruft of what St. Thomas alledges —In the Council of Florence- it was decreed that. the Point lay-at the Difcretion of the Church; and that either leavened or unleavened Bread-might be ufed ■ The Weftern Church has preferred the latter.
The Word is derived from the Greek *^h, pneferment$ 3 which is compofcd of the privative », and #j**. Ferment.
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