in medicine, that judgment or method of cure which a physician forms to himself from a due examination of symptoms.

in physics, the increase of the power or energy of any quality; as heat, cold, &c. by which it stands opposed to remission, which signifies its decrease or diminution.

in metaphysics, denotes an exertion of the intellectual faculties with more than ordinary vigour; when the mind with earnestness fixes its view on any idea, considers it on all sides, and will not be called off by any solicitation.

**INTERAMNA** (anc. geog.), so called from its situation between rivers, or in an island in the river Nar; a town of the Cisalpine Umbria. Interamnates the people; fumigated Nartes by Pliny, to distinguish them from the people of other Interamnae. Now Terni; a town in the Pope's territory in Umbria, E. Long. 13. 38. N. Lat. 42. 40.