bridge, (G 2), affords an example of the ftyle of combinations of them. Though Strutt's prints drawing and ornamenting letters in England in do not exhibit the bright and vivid colours of the 8th century; and the copy of Prudentius's the originals, they give us equally a view, not only Pfycomachia in the Cottonian library (Clop. c. 8.) of the perfons and dreffes of our ancestors, but exhibits the ftyle of drawing in Italy in the 9th alfo of their customs, manners, arts, and employcentury. Of the 10th century there are Roman ments, their arms, fhips, houfes, furniture, &c. drawings of a fingular kind in the Harleian li- and enable us to judge of their fkill in drawing. brary (N° 2820.), Nos. 5280, 1802, and 432, in The figures in thofe paintings are often stiff and the fame library, contain fpecimens of ornament- formal; but the ornaments are in general fine and ed letters, which are to be found in Irish MSS. delicate, and the colours clear and bright, parfrom the 12th to the 14th century. Cadmon's ticularly the gold and azure. In fome of thefe Poetical Paraphrase of the book of Genefis, writ- illuminations the paffions are ftrongly painted. ten in the 11th century, which is preferved How ftrongly, for example, is terror painted in amongst F. Junius's MSS. in the Bodleian library, the faces of the earl of Warwick's failors, when exhibits many fpecimens of utenfils, weapons, in- they were threatened with a fhipwreck, and grief ftruments of mufic, and implements of hufbandry in the countenances of those who were prefent at ufed by the Anglo-Saxons. The like may be feen the death of that hero? After the introduction of in extracts from the Pentateuch of the fame age, printing, this elegant art of illuminating gradually in the Cottonian library (Claud. B. 4.) The MS. declined, and at length was quite neglected. On copy of Terence in the Bodleian library (D. 17.) the whole, it is proper to obferve, that from the difplays the dresses, masks, &c. worn by come- 5th to the 10th century, the miniature paintings dians in the 12th century, if not earlier. The in Greek manufcripts are generally good, as are very elegant Pfalter in the library of the Trinity alfo fome among thofe of Italy, England, and College, Cambridge, exhibits fpecimens of the art France. From the roth to the middle of the 14th of drawing in England in the fame century. The century they are commonly very bad, and may Virgil in the Lambeth library of the 13th century, be confidered as fo many monuments of the bar(N° 471.) written in Italy, fhows, both by the barity of thofe ages; towards the end of the 14th, drawings and writing, that the Italians produced the paintings in MSS. were much improved; and works much inferior to ours at that period. The in the two fucceeding centuries, many excellent copy of the Apocalypfe in the fame library (N° performances were produced, efpecially after the 209.) contains a curious example of the manner of happy period of the reftoration of the arts, when painting in the 14th century. The beautiful paint- great attention was paid to the works of the anings in the hiftory of the latter part of the reign of cients, and the ftudy of antiquity became faK. Rich. II. in the Harleian library (N° 1319) af. fhionable. ford curious specimens of manners and customs, both civil and military, at the clofe of the 14th and in the beginning of the 15th century; as does N° 2278 in the fame library. Many other inftances might be produced; but those who defire farther information may confult Strutt's Regal and Ecclefiaftical Antiquities, 4to, and his Horda-Angeleynnan. ing vols. This art was much practifed by the clergy, and even by fome in the highest flations in the church. "The famous Ofmond (fays Brompton), who was confecrated Bp. of Salisbury A. D. 1067, did not difdain to spend fome part of his time in writing, binding, and illuminating books. Mr Strutt has given the public an opportunity of forming fome judgment of the degree of delicacy and art, with which thefe illuminations were executed, by publishing prints of a prodigious number of them, in his Regal and Ecclefiaftical Antiquities of England, and View of the Customs, Sc. of England. In the firft of thefe works we are prefented with the genuine portraits, in miniature, of all the kings, and feveral of the queens of England, from Edward the Confeffor to Henry VII. moftly in their crowns and royal robes, together with the portraits of many other eminent perfons of both fexes. The illuminators and painters of this period feem to have been in poffeffion of a confiderable number of colouring materials, and to have known the arts of preparing and mixing them, so as to form a great variety of colours: for in the fpecimens of their miniature paintings that are ftill extant, we perceive not only the five primary colours, but also various *ILLUMINATION. n. f. [illuminatio, Lat. illumination, Fr. from illuminate.] 1. The act of fupplying with light. 2. That which gives light.The fun is but a body illightened, and an illumination created. Raleigh's Hiftory. 3. Feftal lights hung out as a token of joy. Flow'rs are ftrew'd, and lamps in order plac'd, And windows with illuminations grac❜d. Dryd. 4. Brightnefs; splendour.-The illuminators of manufcripts borrowed their title from the illumination which a bright genius giveth to his work. Felton on the Clafficks. 5. Infufion of intellectual light; knowledge or grace.-Hymns and pfalms are fuch kinds of prayer as are not conceived upon a fudden; but framed by meditation beforehand, or by prophetical illumination are infpired. Hooker. -We have forms of prayer imploring God's aid and bleffing for the illumination of our labours, and the turning them into good and holy uses. Bacon-No holy paffion, no illumination, no infpiration, can be now a fufficient commiffion to warrant those attempts which contradict the com mon rules of peace. * ILLUMINATIVE. adj. [illuminatif, French from illuminate.] Having the power to give light. What makes itself and other things be feen, being accompanied by light, is called fire: what admits the illuminative action of fire, and is not feen, is called air. Digby on Bodies. (1.)* ILLUMINATOR. n. /. [from illuminate.] 1. One who gives light. 2. One whofe bufinefs it is to decorate books with pictures at the begin amalgamate with the conquered, and become themselves more or lefs civilized. Dr Weishaupt is allowed to be influenced by a high degree of va nity; as an evidence of which he communicates, as the last fecret to his most favoured adepts, that the myfteries of ILLUMINISM, which, in going thro' the inferior degrees, had been fucceffively attributed to the most ancient patriarchs and philofophers, and even to Chrift himself, owed its origin to no other than Adam Weishaupt, known in the order by the name of Spartacus. The fame vani ty which leads the doctor to take this traditional method, while fecrecy is deemed neceffary, of fe. curing to himself the honour of having founded the fociety, would lead him, were the illuminati actually victorious over all religions and governments, to wish to have his memory recorded in a more durable manner by writing or printing. But if thefe and all the other arts were to perish in a maís, then the memory of the doctor and the important fervices he had done to the order, and to SAVAGISM, muft, within a century at the utmoft, perifh along with them. But if, in fact, the total annihilation of the arts and sciences, as well as of all religion and government, be really the objes of Weishaupt and his illuminees, then we may agree with the celebrated Mandeville, that "tuman nature is the true Lybian defert, daily producing new monfiers," and that of thefe monfters the doctor and his affociates are beyond a doubt the most extraordinary. Prof. Robifon informs ts, that "the order of illuminati was abolished in 1786, by the elector of Bavaria, but revived immediately after, under another name, and in a different form, all over Germany. It was again detected, and feemingly broken up; but it had by this time taken fo deep root, that it ftill fubfifts without being detected, and has fpread into all the countries of Europe." This affertion of the profeffor, though fome fufpicious circumftances led to it, refts on no ground of folid proof, and muft, we prefume, be now given up as utterly falfe. We cannot conclude without expreffing our doubts of another propofition advanced by the Abbé, viz. that the French revolution originated from ILLUMINISM. That great numbers of the principal agents in the revolution of France, were both Atheists and Illuminees, we readily admit; and that many of these had an active hand in the borrid maflacres and murders that took place in the course of it, is alfo undeniable; but the revolation of France took its origin from more important caufes-the defpotic power of the French kings, the tyranny of the nobles, the progrefs of light, and the example of the American revolution; and it would have taken place, although fuch a wretch as the incestuous Weishaupt and his impious allociates had never exifted, though probably with lefs bloodshed. (13.) ILLUMINATI, in church history. See ILLUMINED, N° 1, and 2. ILLUMINATING, . . a kind of miniature painting, anciently much practifed for illuftrating and adorning books. Befides the writers of books there were artifts called ILLUMINATORS, whofe profeflion was to ornament and paint manufcripts. The writers of books firft finished their part, and the illuminators embellished VOL. XII. PART I. them with ornamented letters and paintings We often find blanks left in MSS. for the illuminators, which were never filled up. Some of the ancient MSS. are gilt and burnished in a style fuperior to later times. Their colours were excellent, and their skill in preparing them must have been very great. The practice of introducing ornaments, drawings, emblematical figures, and even portraits, into MSS. is of great antiquity, Varro wrote the lives of 700 illuftrious Romans, which he enriched with their portraits, as Pliny attefts in his Natural Hiftory (lib. xxxv. c. 2.) Pomponius Atticus was the author of a work on the actions of the great men amongst the Romans, which he ornamented with their portraits. See Corn. Nepos, chap. 18. But these works have not been tranfmitted to pofterity. There are, however, many precious documents remaining, which exhibit the advancement and decline of the arts in different ages and countries. These inestimable paintings and illuminations difplay the manners, cuftoms, habits, ecclefiaftical, civil, and military, weapons and inftruments of war, utenfils and architecture, of the ancients; they are of the greatest ufe in illuftrating many important facts relative to the hiftory of the times in which they were executed. In thefe treasures of antiquity are preferved a great number of specimens of Grecian and Roman art, which were executed before the arts and sciences fell into neglect. The MSS. containing thefe fpecimens form a valuable part of the riches preferved in the principal libraries of Europe:-the Royal, Cottonian, and Harleian libraries, thofe in the two universities in England, the Vatican at Rome, the imperial at Vienna, the cidevaut royal, now the National, at Paris, St Mark's at Venice, and many others. A very ancient MS. of Genefis, which was in the Cottonian library, and almoft destroyed by a fire in 1731, contained 250 curious paintings in water colours: 21 fragments, which escaped the fire, are engraved by the fociety of antiquaries of London. Several fpeci mens of curious paintings, alfo appear in Lambe cius's catalogue of the imperial library at Vienna, particularly in Vol. III. where 48 drawings, of nearly equal antiquity with those in the Cottonian library, are engraven; and feveral others may be found in various catalogues of the Italian libraries, The drawings in the Vatican Virgil made in the 4th century, before the arts were entirely neglects ed, illuftrate the different fubjects treated of by the Roman poet. A miniature drawing is prefixed to each of the gospels brought over to Eng land by St Aguftine in the 6th century, which is preferved in the library of Corpus Chrifti college, Cambridge: in the compartments of thofe drawings are depicted reprefentations of feveral trans actions in each gospel. The curious drawings, and elaborate ornaments in St Cuthbert's gospels, made by St Ethelwald, and now in the Cottonian library, exhibit a striking specimen of the ftate of the arts in England in the 7th century. The farre may be obferved with refpect to the drawings in the ancient copy of the four gofpels preferved in the cathedral church of Litchfield, and thofe in the Codex Rufhworthianus in the Bodleian iibrary at Oxford. The life of St Paul the hermit, now remaining in Corpus Chrifti college, Cam B bridge combinations of them. Though Strutt's prints do not exhibit the bright and vivid colours of the originals, they give us equally a view, not only of the perfons and dreffes of our ancestors, but alfo of their cuftoms, manners, arts, and employments, their arms, fhips, houfes, furniture, &c. and enable us to judge of their fkill in drawing. The figures in thofe paintings are often stiff and formal; but the ornaments are in general fine and delicate, and the colours clear and bright, particularly the gold and azure. In fome of these illuminations the paffions are ftrongly painted. How ftrongly, for example, is terror painted in the faces of the earl of Warwick's failors, when they were threatened with a fhipwreck, and grief in the countenances of those who were prefent at the death of that hero? After the introduction of printing, this elegant art of illuminating gradually declined, and at length was quite neglected. On the whole, it is proper to obferve, that from the sth to the roth century, the miniature paintings in Greek manufcripts are generally good, as are alfo fome among thofe of Italy, England, and France. From the 10th to the middle of the 14th century they are commonly very bad, and may be confidered as fo many monuments of the barbarity of thofe ages; towards the end of the 14th, the paintings in MSS. were much improved; and in the two fucceeding centuries, many excellent performances were produced, efpecially after the happy period of the restoration of the arts, when great attention was paid to the works of the ancients, and the ftudy of antiquity became fafhionable. bridge, (G 2), affords an example of the ftyle of drawing and ornamenting letters in England in the 8th century; and the copy of Prudentius's Pfycomachia in the Cottonian library (Clop. c. 8.) exhibits the ftyle of drawing in Italy in the 9th century. Of the 10th century there are Roman drawings of a fingular kind in the Harleian library (N° 2820.), Nos. 5280, 1802, and 432, in the fame library, contain fpecimens of ornamented letters, which are to be found in Irish MSS. from the 12th to the 14th century. Cadmon's Poetical Paraphrafe of the book of Genefis, writ. ten in the 11th century, which is preferved amongst F. Junius's MSS. in the Bodleian library, exhibits many specimens of utenfils, weapons, inftruments of mufic, and implements of hufbandry ufed by the Anglo-Saxons. The like may be feen in extracts from the Pentateuch of the fame age, in the Cottonian library (Claud. B. 4.) The MS. copy of Terence in the Bodleian library (D. 17.) difplays the dreffes, mafks, &c. worn by comedians in the rath century, if not earlier. The very elegant Pfalter in the library of the Trinity College, Cambridge, exhibits specimens of the art of drawing in England in the fame century. The Virgil in the Lambeth library of the 13th century, (N° 471.) written in Italy, fhows, both by the drawings and writing, that the Italians produced works much inferior to ours at that period. The copy of the Apocalypfe in the fame library (No 209.) contains a curious example of the manner of painting in the 14th century. The beautiful paintings in the hiftory of the latter part of the reign of K. Rich. II. in the Harleian library (N° 1319) af. ford curious specimens of manners and customs, both civil and military, at the close of the 14th and in the beginning of the 15th century; as does N° 2278 in the fame library. Many other inftances might be produced; but those who defire farther information may confult Strutt's Regal and Ecclefiaftical Antiquities, 4to, and his Horda-Angeleynnan. in 3 vols. This art was much practifed by the clergy, and even by fome in the highest ftations in the church. "The famous Ofmond (fays Brompton), who was confecrated Bp. of Salisbury A. D. 1067, did not difdain to spend fome part of his time in writing, binding, and illaminating books. Mr-Strutt has given the public an opportunity of forming fome judgment of the degree of delicacy and art, with which these illuminations were executed, by publifhing prints of a prodigious number of them, in his Regal and Ecclefiaflical Antiquities of England, and View of the Cuftoms, Sc. of England. In the firft of thefe works we are prefented with the genuine portraits, in miniature, of all the kings, and feveral of the queens of England, from Edward the Confeffor to Henry VII. moftly in their crowns and royal robes, together with the portraits of many other eminent perfons of both fexes. The illuminators and painters of this period feem to have been in poffeffion of a confiderable number of colouring materials, and to have known the arts of preparing and mixing them, fo as to form a great variety of colours: for in the fpecimens of their miniature paintings that are fill extant, we perceive not only the five primary colours, but also various *ILLUMINATION. n. f. [illuminatio, Lat. illumination, Fr. from illuminate.] 1. The act of fupplying with light. 2. That which gives light.The fun is but a body illightened, and an illumination created. Raleigh's Hiftory. 3. Feftal lights hung out as a token of joy.— Flow'rs are ftrew'd, and lamps in order plac'd, And windows with illuminations grac❜d. Dryd. 4. Brightnefs; fplendour.-The illuminators of manufcripts borrowed their title from the illumination which a bright genius giveth to his work. Felton on the Clafficks. 5. Infufion of intellectual light; knowledge or grace.-Hymns and pfalms are fuch kinds of prayer as are not conceived upon a sudden; but framed by meditation beforehand, or by prophetical illumination are infpired. Hooker. -We have forms of prayer imploring God's aid and bleffing for the illumination of our labours, and the turning them into good and holy uses. Bacon -No holy paffion, no illumination, no infpiration, can be now a fufficient commiffion to warrant thofe attempts which contradict the common rules of peace. * ILLUMINATIVE. adj. [illuminatif, French from illuminate.] Having the power to give light. -What makes itself and other things be feen, being accompanied by light, is called fire: what admits the illuminative action of fire, and is not feen, is called air. Digby on Bodies. (1.) ILLUMINATOR. n. /. [from illuminate.] 1. One vaio gives light. a. One whole bufinefs it is to decorate books with pictures at the begin delightful; and this confifts in expofing the best fide only of a fhepherd's life, and concealing its miferies. Pope. ning of chapters.-Illuminators of manufcripts borrowed their title from the illumination which a bright genius giveth to his work. Felton. (2) ILLUMINATORS. See ILLUMINATING. To ILLUMINE. v. a. [illuminer, Fr.] 1. To enlighten; to fupply with light. To confirm his words, outflew Millions of flaming fwords drawn from the thighs Of mighty cherubims: the fudden blaze What in me is dark Milton. Milt. To Cato, Virgil paid one honeft line; O let my country's friends illumine mine. Pope. (1.) ILLUMINED, ILLUMINATI, in church hiftory, a term anciently applied to fuch perfons as had received baptifm. This name was occafioned by a ceremony in the baptifm of adults; which confifted in putting a lighted taper in the hand of the perfon baptized, as a symbol of the faith and grace he had received in the facrament. (2) ILLUMINED, ILLUMINATI, is also the name of a fect of heretics, who fprang up in Spain about A. D. 1575, and were called by the Spaniards Almabrados. Their principal doctrines were, that by means of a fublime manner of prayer, which they had attained to, they entered into fo perfect a fate, that they had no occafion for ordinances, facraments, or good works; and that they could give way, even to the vileft actions, with out fin. The fect of Illumined was revived in France in 1634, and were foon after joined by the Guerinetes, or difciples of Peter Guerin, who together made but one body, called alfo ILLUMINED: but they were fo hotly pursued by Louis XIII. that they were foon deftroyed. The brothers of the Rofy Cross are fometimes alfo called Dlumined. See ROSICRUCIANS. ILLUMINEES. See ILLUMINATI, No r. ILLUMINISM. n.f. The fyftem and myfteries of the ILLUMINATI. To ILLUMINIZE. v. a. To propagate the doctrines of the ILLUMINATI. ILLURCIS, or ILORCIS, a town of Hifpania Tarraconenfis, afterwards called Gracchueis, from Gracchus; and now Lorca. Plin. l. 3. c. 3. * ILLUSION. n. f. [illufio, Lat. illufion, Fr.] Mockery; falfe fhow; counterfeit appearance; егтог. Shak. That diftill'd by magic flights, Shall raife fuch artificial sprights, As by the ftrength of their illusion, Shall draw him on to his confusion. -There wanted not fome about him that would have perfuaded him that all was an illufion. Bacon. So oft they fell Into the fame illufion, not as man, Whom they triumph'd, once laps'd. Milton. -An excufe for uncharitableness drawn from pretended inability, is of all others the moft general and prevailing illufion. Atterbury. Many illufions by which the enemy endeavours to cheat men-into fecurity, and defeat their falvation. Rogers.To dream once more I clofe my willing eyes; Yedoft illufions, dear deceits, arife! Pope. -We muft ufe fome illufion to render a paftoral * ILLUSIVE. adj. [from illufus, Lat.] Deceiving by false show. The heathen bards, who idle fables dreft, Illufive dreams in myftic forms exprest. Blackm. While the fond foul, Wrapt in gay vifions of unreal bliss, Thomfon. ILLUSORY. adj. [from in and luforius, Eat. illufoire, Fr.] Deceiving; fraudulent.-Subtility, in those who make profeffion to teach or defend truth, hath paffed for a virtue; a virtue indeed, which, confifting for the moft part in nothing but the fallacious and illufory use of obscure or deceitful terms, is only fit to make men more conceited in their ignorance. Locke. *To ILLUSTRATE. v.n. [illuftro, Lat. illuftrer, Fr.] 1. To brighten with light. 2. To brighten with honour. Milton. Matter to me of glory! whom their hate Illuftrates, when they fee all regal pow'r Giv'n to me to quell their pride. Thee the enroll'd her garter'd knights among, Illuftrating the noble lift. Philips 3. To explain; to clear; to elucidate.-Authors take up popular conceits, and from tradition, unjuftifiable or falfe, illuftrate matters of undeniable truth. Brown. *ILLUSTRATION. n.f. [illustration, Fr. from illuftrate.] Explanation; elucidation; expofition. It is feldom ufed in its original fignification for material brightness.-Whoever looks about him will find many living illuftrations of this emblem. L'Etrange.-Space and duration, being ideas that have fomething very abftrufe and peculiar in their nature, the comparing them one with another may perhaps be of use for their illußration. Locke. * ILLUSTRATIVE. adj. [from illuftrate.] Having the quality of elucidating or clearing.-They play much upon the fimile, or illuflrative argumentation, to induce their enthymemes unto the people. Brown. *ILLUSTRATIVELY. adv. [from illuftrative.] By way of explanation.-Things are many times delivered hieroglyphically, metaphorically, illuftratively, and not with reference to action. Brown ILLUSTRES. See ILLUSTRIOUS, § 2. (1.) * ILLUSTRIOUS. adj. [illuftris, Latin; illuftre, Fr.] Confpicuous; noble eminent for excellence. In other languages the most illuftrious titles are derived from things facred. SouthOf ev'ry nation, each illustrious name, Such toys as thofe have cheated into fame. Dryden. (2.) ILLUSTRIOUS, ILLUSTRIS, was heretofore, in the Roman empire, a title of honour peculiar to people of a certain rank. It was firft given to the moft diftinguifhed among the knights, who had a right to bear the latus clavus; afterwards, thofe were entitled illuftrious who held the fift rank among thefe called HONORAT; viz. the præ fecti prætorii, præfecti urbis, treafurers, comites, &c. There were, however, different degrees among the illuftrious: as in Spain they have grandees of the aft and 2d clafs, fo in Rome they had Ва their their illuftres, whom they called majores, great; and others, called illuftres minores, lefs.-For inftance; the præfectus prætorii was a degree below the mafter of the offices, though they were both illuftres. The Novels of Valentinian diftinguish as far as five kinds of illußres; among whom, the illuftres adminiftratores bear the first rank. * ILLUSTRIOUSLY. adv. [from illuftrious.] Confpicuously; nobly; eminently.-He difdained not to appear at feftival entertainments, that he might more illustriously manifeft his charity. Atterb. You carrying with you all the world can boaft, To all the world illustriously are loft. Pope. * ILLUSTRIOUSNESS. n. J. [from illuftrious.] Eminence; nobility; grandeur. ILTZHOSEN, a town of Germany, in Suabia, 8 miles NE. of Hall. ILVA, an island of the Tyrrhenian sea, oppofite to Etruria, now called Elba. See ELBA. It has two ports, viz. Porto Longone, on the SE. coaft, and Porto Ferraro, on the N. The latter, aflifted by fome British troops, ftood a fiege of about 8 months, by the French, in 1801, without furrendering. It was relieved by the peace. ILUS, in fabulous hiftory, the 4th king of Troy, and fon of Tros by Callirrhoe, father of Laomedon, and grandfather of Priam. He received the Palladium from Jupiter. See PALLADIUM. ILYE, a town of Tranfylvania. ILZA, a town of Poland. *I'M. Contracted from I am. *IM is ufed commonly, in compofition, for in before mute letters.-What is im in Latin, when it is not a negative, is often em in French; and our writers, as the Latin or French occurs to their minds, ufe im or em: formerly im was more common, and now em feems to prevail. (1.)* IMAGE. n. f. [image, Fr. imago, Latin.] r. Any corporeal reprefentation, generally used of ftatues; a ftatue: a picture.-Whofe is this image and fuperfcription? Matt. xxii. 20.-The one is too like an image, and says nothing; and the other too like my lady's oldest fon, evermore talking. Shak. ILLYRES, or ILLYRII, the people of ILLYRIA. ILLYRIA, in ancient geography, names ILLYRICA, of a country in Europe, exILLYRICUM, tending from the Adriatic to ILLYRIS, and | Pannonia. Illyricum is the ILLYRIUM, J name ufed by Livy, Herodotus, and St Paul; to which the word folum (foil) is fuppofed to be understood. Its boundaries are variously affigned. Pliny makes it extend in length from the Arfia to the Drinius, thus including Li burnia on the W. and Dalmatia on the E.; which is alfo the opinion of Ptolemy; who fettles its li. mits from Mount Scardus and the Upper Moefia on the E. to Iftria on the W. It was a Roman province, divided by Auguftus into the Superior. and. Inferior, but of which the limits are left un- Even like a ftony image, cold and numb. Shak. determined both by ancient hiftorians and geo--The image of a deity may be a proper object for graphers. It now forms part of Croatia, Bofnia, that which is but the image of a religion. South. Iftria, and Sclavonia. Still muft I be upbraided with your line; But your late brother did not prize me lefs, Because I could not boatt of images. ILLYRIUS, Matthias FLACCUs, or FRANCOWITZ, one of the most learned divines of the Augfburg confeffion, born in Iftria, anciently called ILLYRICA, in 1520. He is faid to have been a man of vaft genius, extenfive learning, and great zeal against Popery; but of a paffionate temper. He ftudied under Luther and Melancthon; and published a great number of books. He alfo had the chief direction of the Centuria Magdeburgenfes. He died in 1575. ILM, a town of Saxony, 14 miles S. of Erfurt. ILMEN, a lake of Ruffia, in Novogorod, which communicates with lake Ladoga, by the river Volkhof. Lon. 34. o. E. Lat. 58. o. N. ILMENAU, a town of Franconia, on the Elbe. ILMINSTER, a market town of Somersetshire, among hills, 26 miles SW. of Wells, and 137 W. by S. of London. Lon. 254. W. Lat. 50. 55. N. ILORCIS. See ILLURCIS. ILOTE. See HELOTA. ILSLEY, or EAST ILSLEY, a town of Berks, in a valley between two hills; 14 miles NW. of Reading, and 53 W. of London. Lon. 1. 12. W. Lat. 51. 32. N. ILST, a town of the Batavian republic, in the dep. of Eems, and late prov. of E. Friefland, 12 miles S. by W. of Leewarden, and 12. NE. of Stavern. Lon. 5. 24. E. Lat. 53. 1. N. ILSTADT, a town of Bavaria, at the conflux of the Danube and Ills, oppofite Paffau. Lon. 13. 37. E. Lat. 48. 27. N. ILTEN, a town of Saxony, in Luneburg, 16 miles SSW. of Zell. Thy brother I, Dryden. 2. An idol; a false god.-Manaffeh fet the carved image in God's house. Chron. 3. A copy; reprefentation; likenefs.— Long may'st thou live, To bear his image and renew his glories! Shak. That image is the foul, and that must be,' Deny to speak with me? They're fick, they're They have travell'd all night! Mere fetches, I'll fhew you here at large. Shak. Outcafts of mortal race! can we conceive Image of aught delightful, foft, or great? Prior. -When we speak of a figure of a thousand angles, gles; we may have a clear idea of the number 1000 an |