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AUTOPYROS

Volume 3 · 108 words · 1810 Edition

from ἀυτός, and ὑπό, under; in the ancient diet, an epithet given to a species of bread, wherein the whole substance of the wheat was retained without retrenching any part of the bran. Galen describes it otherwise, viz., as bread where only the coarser bran was taken out.—And thus it was a medium between the finest bread, called similisimum, and the coarsest called furfuraceus. This was also called autopyrites and syncomiflus.

AUTRE-ÉGLISE, a village of Brabant, in the Austrian Netherlands; to which the left wing of the French army extended, when the confederates obtained the victory at Ramillies, in 1706. E. Long. 4° 50'. N. Lat. 50° 40'.