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be disagreeable. 3. A rtemisia ahrotanum, found in tlie soutli of Europe, as well as in Syria and Palestine, and eastward even to China. This is a hoary plant, becom- ing a slirub in warm countries, and its branches bear loose panicles of nodding yellow tlower-heads. It is bitter and aromatic, with a very strong scent. It is not mucli used in medicine, but the brandies are employed in im- parting a yellow dye to wool. The species most cele- brated in Arabian worlvs on materia medica is that called .^7(i7/, which is conspicuous for its bitterness and for being fatal to worms; hence it has been commonly employed as an anthelmintic even to our own times. This seems to be the same species which was found by Ilauwolf in I'alestine, and which he says the Arabs call schi'ha. It is his "Absinthium santonicum, scheha Ara- bum, undo semen lumbricorum colWgituT," the Absinl/ii- iim santonicum Judaiaun of Caspar Bauhin, in his Pi- nax, now A rtemisia Judaica, though it is probable two or three species yield the Semoni sanioyiicum, or worm- wood of commerce, which, instead of seed, consists of the tops of the plants, and in which the peduncles, calyx flowers, and young seeds are intermixed. Aiie- misia maritima and Judaica are two of the plants which yield it. See Kitto, Phi/s. J/ist. of Palest, p. 215; Cel- sius, Jlierob. i, 480 ; Rosenmiiller, Bibl. Bot. p. IIG ; Cal- cott [laily]. Script. Herbal, p. 5-12.
Worthingtou, John, D.D., an English divine, was born at jNIanchester, in February, 1G18. He was educated at Emanuel College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow, and was created B.D. in IG-IG. lie was chosen master of Jesus College, but resigned the office soon after the Kestoration. In the meantime he was successively rector of Horton, Buckinghamshire; (iravely, and Fen Ditton, in the County of Cambridge; Barking, with Needham, Suffolk ; and Ingoldsby, Lin- colnshire. In 1GG3 he was collated to the rectory of Moulton -All- saints, Norfolk, and entered upon the cure of St. Bene't-Fink in June, IGG-I, under the canon of Windsor, and continued to preach there until the church was destroyed by lire in February, 1GG6. Short- ly after this, he was presented to the living of Ingolds- by, Lincolnshire, and the prebend of Asgarby in the Church of Lincoln. He removed to Hackney in 1G70, and died there, Nov. 2G, 1G7L He was the author of. Form of Sound Words; or, A Scripture Catechism (1G74) : — The Great Duty of Self-resi(jnation to the Di- vine Will (1675): — The Doctrines of the Resurrection and the Reward to Come (1690) : — Miscellanies (1704) : — and other works. See Chalmers, Bioff. Diet. s. v.
'Worthington, Thomas, D.D., an English divine, was born at Blainscough, Lancashire, about 1552. He was educated at Oxford, and entered the English College at Douay in 1573, and the English College at Kheims (having in the meantime become a priest) in 1578. He labored as a missionary in England for some years; was imprisoned in the Tower in 1584, and banished in 1585. He was president of the English College at Douay from 1599 to 1613. He spent his latter years in England. and died in .Staffordshire, six months after he became a Jesuit, in 1G2G. He puhlished, A nnoiations on the Old Testament (1609) : — Catulogus Martyrwn Pon1ificio7-um, etc. (1612) : — An Anher of Christian Doctrine, wherein the most Principal Pointes of Calholique Religion are Proved by the only Written Word of God, etc. (1618- 22): — and other works. See AWihonc, Diet, of Brit, and A mer. A uthors, s. v.
■Worthington, William, D.D., a learned Eng- lish divine, was born in ]\Ierionethshire in 1703, and educated at Oswestry School, whence he went to Jesus College, Oxford. He then returned to Oswestry and became usher in that school. He took the degree of A.i\I. at Cambridge in 1742, and that of D.D. at Jesus College, Oxford, in 1758. He became vicar of Llany- blodwell, in the County of Salop, and afterwards of Llan- rhaiadar, Dcnbiglishire, where he died, C)ct. G, 1778. He became prebendary of Yoric in 17G8, and of St. Asaph
in 1773. He published numerous works', among which are. Essay on the Scheme, etc., of Man's Redemption (1743): — The Evidence of Christianity, etc. (1769): — and The Scripture Theoi-y of the Earth ( 1773 ). See Chalmers, Bioy. Diet. s. v.
"Wotton, William, D.U., an English divine, was born at "Wrentham, Suffolk, Aug. 13, 1666. He was endowed with a remarkable memory, and by the time he was five years old had acquired, under the tuition of his father, considerable facility in translating Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. In April, 167G, when not yet ten years old, he was admitted to Catherine Hall, Cam- bridge, where he made rapid progress in the languages and other branches of learning. In 1679 he took tlie degree of A.B., and afterwards obtained a fellowship in St. John's. In 1691 he received the living of Llan- drillo, Denbighshire, and was soon after made chap- lain to the earl of Nottingham, who, in 1693, present- ed him to the rectory of Middleton Keynes, Bucking- hamshire. He died at Buxted, Essex, Feb. 13, 1726. His publications are numerous, among which may be named, Re /lections upon Ancient and Jlfodern Learning (1694) : — Hist, of Rome from the Death of Antoninus Pius to the Death of Severus Alexander (1701) : — Dis- course on the Confusion of Language at Babel (1730).