or ACOLUTHISTS, in antiquity, was an appellation given to those persons who were ready and immovable in their resolutions; and hence the etymology, because they would not forsake their principles, nor alter their resolutions, acquired the title of Acoluthi. The word is Greek, and compounded of ἀκολουθεῖν, priv. and ἀκολούθησαν, to hinder or disturb.