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CAUTERY. in furgerl'.

medicine for burning, ealing,

or eorroding aoy folie! pan of the body.

Cauteries are

diílinguiO\~d

imo t\Vo d;¡frcs, aélual

and potential : by aélual e.tulerics, aremeant red hot in–

Ilruments, ufual/yofiron, andby potentiale.uteries are

\1nd~rnuod

ecmlll kinds uf eorroding medicines. See

MEDIC INE, and SURCERY.

C:\UTION, in the civil and Seots laIV, denotes mueh

the fame IVilh IVhat, in the laIV of England, is ealle.d

bai/. See BA IL .

CAUTIONER. in Seotl law, tbal perfonwho beeomes

bound fór another tO lhe performance of aoy deed or

obligation. As tO the diifl'erent kinds and e!Teéls of

CJutlonry. fce Seo

LAW, tide,

Ohliga/ionJ arijing

frOIlJ cOlfen/.

CAXA, a Ilule eoin made of lead, mixed 'Vith fome

feoria of eoprer, Ilruek in China, but eurrent ehiefly

at Bantam in the

in~nd

of Java, and fome of lhe neigh–

bouring iOands.

The eaxas are of IlVO kinds, greal and fmal/. Of

lile fmall.

300 ,000

are equal tOfifly-fix livres five fols

French money; ano of the great,

6000

are equal

fou r O\illings .nd fixpeoce ílerling.

CAXA~1 ~

LC.'\, the

nam~

of a tOlVn and diílriél of Pe–

ru, in S0uth America, where there IVas a mo[l fump–

tuous palace belonglng to theYncas, and. magnificent

temple dedicated tO the fun.

was at Caxamalca

that Pizarro pUL to death Athualpha, their laíl king.

CAY, in loology, a fynonime of the fimi. midas. See

SIMIA.

CAZEROM, or ChZERON, a city of Perfia, the capi–

tal of the prol'ince of Kureh Sehabour, fituated in

70°

E. long. and

29°

15'

N. lal.

C!\ZI~llR,

a tOWo of Poland, in the palatinate of

Lublio.

CEANOTHUS, in botan)', a genl1s of the pentandria

monogynia dafs. The

p~tals

are vaulted; and the

.b:rry is cry, having three eel!s. eontaining eaeh one

feeJ. There are three fpeeies, none of them uatir,s

of Britain.

CECROPIA, in botany,

genus of the direcia diandria

clafs. The fpatha of the male is eadueous; the a–

meota are imbrieated with helmet-Olaped fe,tlcs; and

the eorolla is waming. The germina of the remale

are imb:-icated; it h,s bnt one lIylus; the lIigma is

Iacefdted; and the berry

eontai~s

but one feed.

Tkcle

one

fp~eies,

viz.

th~

pelma, a native of Ja–

maica.

CED .~R,

in botany, the

En~Iilh

name of a fpeeies of

juniperus . See JUN IPE RUS.

CEDRELA, in botany, a genus of tite pentandria mo–

nogyni~

daIs. T he calix is bell Otaped. and di–

vided into three fegments; the eorolla is !hapee! like

a funnd, and has (¡ve pwls in(ened into the bafe of

the reeeptade; the eapfule is lignous, and has fi"e

lis

and (¡ve valves ; the feeds are imbrie.tteJ on the

back part, aod have mcmbranaceous edg.s. There is

but one fpecics,

viz .

the odorata, a nativeof Ame–

nca.

CEDRUS. in botany. See ] UN IPHUS, and Pt NUS.

CELANDINE, in botany. See CHELIDONIUM .

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CELASTRUS. in botaoy, a

g~o"~

of tite pel\tandli.

mnnogynia clafs. Thecol"II.leGlllifis n{five 'open pe·

tals; the e:tpfnle is triangul.r,

¡lid

has three celis ;

and ·tlle fceds h¡¡ve a calyptra. Thereare (¡ve (peeie"

none or thcmnatives of Hritain.

CELEltES, ill Roman antiquity, a regimenl of booy–

guards, belonging

the Romall kings, efi.bllOled

Romulns. and eOOlpofed of

300

young men, chofcn

out of the

01011

i!luUrious Roman familic>, and ap–

proved by the fu!Trages of thecuria: of

tbc

people, eaeh

of whieh rUrniOled ten.

CELEIU, in botan

the Englirn name of lhe apiun¡

gra. eolens, or eelery, which is eultin tcd in our gar–

dens as a pot-herb.

CEL:!:RITY, in meehanies, the flViftoefs of any body

in motion.

is alfo defined to be ao afl'eélion of motion, by

which , oy moveable body runs throngh a gil'en fpaee

io a given time. See MEcHANles.

CELESTINS, in ehurch-hinory, a religiou! order of

Chrillians, reformed from the Bernardins bypope Ce–

lellin

Tlteir rules are divided illto three pans ;

the firíl. of the provincial ehaptees, and the elcélions

of fuperiors; the feeond cOIllJins the regular ob(er–

vanees; and the third, the vi[itation _od eorre,qlon of

. the monks.

The Celenins rife t\Vo hours after midnight

(IY

matins: they eat no flelh at any time, except IVhen

they are fi ek: they faíl everyWednefday .nd Friday

to the fean of the exaltation of tite holy ero(s; alld

from th, t fean to Eaíler. every day.

CELlHACY, the ílate of unmarried perfons,

whi(h,

aceording to the doélrine, or at leatl the difeipline, of

the ehureh of Rome, the e!ergy are ohli&ed.

That ee!tbaey has no pretenee of divIne or arolloli–

cal innitution, feems no diffieult point tO prove:

wheoce it is, at firíl, hard tOeonceive from what mol

tive the eoun of Rome perfiíled fo

very

obllin tdy

impofe this inllitmion on

th~

c\ergy. Hnt we are tO

obferve, that this was a le¡¡ding ílepto the exeeution

of the

proj~él

formed of. Olaklng the clergy iodepen–

dent of prinees, and rendering thcma f. porate bodl',

tObe governed by their OlVn laws. In efl'eél, while

priells h3d e!tildren, it was very diffieult tO prevent

tlteir dependenee upon prinees. whofe favours have

foeh ao influence on pril'Ate mcn ; but having no

f.–

mily, they \Vere more at libeny to adhere to the

pope.

CELOS lA, in botany, a genus of the peotandria

010-

oogynia C\¡¡fs. The ealix has three /caves ; the Ila–

mina are joined

the bafe of a plJited nctbrillm ;

amI the capfu le opens hOI'izulltally. There are eigln

fpecies. nOlle of th mn. tiv,s of llritain.

CELSIA, ill bot,ny, a genus of the dlJynamia angi0-

fperOliaclafs. The e,lix isdiVidcd into li,e fcroments:

the corolla is rotated ; the filJments are

b~rbtJ;

Jnd

the eapfule is biloCLIlar. There is but one fpee"s,

vi:.

the orientalis, a n. til'c of Creeee.

CELTIS, in bOt"ny. a genus of the polygamia mofllX–

eia el.lfs. The ealix

01'

the hennaphrodlte is t1iviJ"d

into tire feSOlents ; it ha, no eorolla

there are

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