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From the above, the reader will easily judge of the proportional premium for any intermediate age. Insurances on other contingencies may also be effected at rates proportionate to the above. The sum of 10s. per cent. is to be paid by way of entrance money for the whole of life; but no entrance money is required when the insurance is for a term of years. An additional 10 s. per cent. at the time of admission only, is charged when the party does not appear.

Illustration of the preceding tables.

42.The following examples will sufficiently explain the nature of the six last tables, and will show the different. premiums required, according to the particular tables of mortality employed, and the rate of interest adopted.

Ex. 1. Let it be proposed to determine the annual payment to be paid by a person, aged 42, to insure 1,000 7. payable at his decease.

By Table XIII. annual payment per cent. 1.3.583 Mult. by

10

1.35.83 20

s. 16.60

12

The difference in the above results shows, in some measure, the uncertainty of the data on which the value of assurances are computed; and the great propriety of that plan of assurances, which considers every insurer as a joint proprietor, and participater in the profits arising from the combined transactions.

Chaucer. Test. of Loue, book iii. fo. 309. c. 1.

For the heithen kinges did regarde their actis lawes confirmacions and othes so highly that thei were with them inuiolable vnable to be reuoked or anulled, so highly regarded thei constancie truth and faith in othes and promises.

Exposicion of Daniel, by Joye. Whereunto it was answeryd by ye Englysshe ambassadours that theyr comyssyon stretchyd not soo farre, nor that theyr prynce had geuyn vnto them any suche auctoryte; wherefore all the former comunycacyon was reuokyd and adnullyd, and they retournyed into Englande without anye conclusyon takynge.

This God-like act

Fabyan, p. 443.

Annuls thy doom, the death thou should'st have died,
In sin for ever lost from life.

Milton's Paradise Lost, book xii. Tell me not of your engagements and promises to another: your promises are sins of inconsideration at best; and you are bound to repent and annul them.

Swift's Advice to the Freemen of Dublin.

Do they mean to invalidate, annul, or to call into question, together with the titles of the whole line of our kings, that great body of our statute law which passed under those whom they treat as usurpers? to annul laws of inestimable value to our liberties. Burke, on the French Revolution.

ANʼNULAR, a. 1 ANʼNULARY.

of a ring.

Annulus, a ring. Applied to that which is in the form or shape

The first that I know of who observed the third coat of an artery to be a muscular body, composed of annular fibres, was Dr. Willis. Ray, on the Creation.

ANNULET, in Architecture, called also listles, and by Vitruvius, fillets, small square members, in the Doric capital, placed under the quarter ground. Also a narrow, flat moulding, common to the base, capital, and other parts of the column.

ANNULUS, in Geometry, a ring whose area is equal to the difference of the areas of the interior and exterior circles; it may be found by multiplying the sum of their diameters by the difference of them, and the product by 7854. AN'ODYNE, n. From a, without, and Ocvvy, } pain. ANODYNE, adj. Spain. That which lulls, soothes, or mitigates pain.

For that tenderness of conscience which is the disease and soreness of conscience, it must be cured by anodynes and soft usages, unless they prove ineffective, and that the lancet is necessary.

Bp. Taylor's Ser. to the Irish Par. 1661. Ep. Ded.
Or who in sweet vicissitude appears

Of mirth and opium, ratafie and tears,
The daily anodyne, and nightly draught,
To kill those foes to fair-ones, time and thought.

Whan he cam to that ile there

He sat hym on his knees doun straught, And his carecte, as he was taught,

He rad, and made his sacrifice,

And sithe anoynte hym in that wise
As Medea hym hath bede.

Gower, Con, A. book v.

His hed was balled, and shone as any glas,
And eke his face, as it hadde ben anoint,
He was a lord ful fat and in good point,

Chaucer. The Prologue, v. i. p. 9. For verili eroude and pounce pilat with hethene men and peplis of israel camen togidre in this citee agens thin hooli child ihesu whom thou anoyntidist to do the thingis that thin hond and thi counseil demyden to be don. Wiclif. The Dedis of Aposlis, c. 4.

For of a trueta, agaynst thy holy chylde Jesus (who y hast anoynted) both Herode and also Poncius Pylate, with the Gétyls and the people of Israel, gathered theselues together (in this cite) for to do whatsoeuer thy hande and thy counsell determyned before to be done. Bible, 1539. these to se their doctryne obserued, the transgressours, punisshed, The anoyntinge of preistis and kinges, them to preche, and

prefigured the anoynting of cryst with the spirit and him to be bothe kinge and prieste. The Exposicion of Daniel, by Joye. And the women assoone as it was lawfull to worke, prepared their annoyntments with all diligèce.

The Whole Workes of Tyndall, &c. fol. 261. c. 1. OBE. With the juice of this I'll streak her eyes. Take thou some of it and seek through this grove. A sweet Athenian lady is in love With a disdainful youth; anoint his eyes. But do it when the next thing he espies May be the lady.

Shakespeare's Mid. N. Dream, act ii. sc. 2. Kings were anointed, saith Gildas, not of God's anointing, but such as were cruellest; and soon after as inconsiderately, without examining the truth, put to death, by their anointers, to set up Milton's History of England. others more fierce and proud.

Were that true, which is most false, that all kings are the Lord's anointed, it were yet absurd to think that the anointment of God should be as it were a charm against law, and give them privilege, who punish others, to sin themselves unpunishably. The high priest was the Lord's anointed as well as any king, and with the same consecrated oil; yet Solomon had put to death Abiather, had it not been for other respects than that anointment. Id. Eikonoclastes.

The number, the presumption, and the abilities of those,who take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed, should not dishearten, but rather excite and encourage us to stand in the gap. Bp. Berkeley's Sermons for the Pro. of the Gospel. Our blessed Lord himself, who united in his own person the three-fold character of king, priest, and prophet, was distinguished by the name of the Messiah, which in the Hebrew language, signifies the anointed. Porteus's Lectures.

ANOLYMPIADES (avoλvμπiades), in Antiquity, i.e. unlawful Olympiads, a name given by the Elians to those Olympic games which had been celebrated under the conduct of the Arcadians and Pisæans, as in the case of the 104 Olympiad; and which were omitted, with the names of the victors, in the Ælian annals. ANOM'ALY, n. ANOMALOUS, ANOMALOUSLY. Contrariety to rule or order.

Avwuaλns, from a, not, and opaλvs, plain, smooth, even. Unevenness, irregularity.

ANOMA

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