a people of New Mexico in North America. They are brave, resolute, and warlike, fond of liberty, and the invertebrate enemies of tyranny and oppression. Of this disposition the Spaniards had fatal experience towards the end of the last century, when they revolted against the Catholic king, massacred several of his officers, and committed the greatest devastations. Ever since, they have remained the allies, not the subjects of the Spaniards; and the viceroy of Mexico has been obliged to maintain a more formidable garrison, and a greater number of troops.

APÆDUSIA, denotes ignorance or unskilfulness in what relates to learning and the sciences. Hence also persons uninstructed and illiterate are called apædute. The term apædute was particularly used among the French in the time of Huet; when the men of wit at Paris were divided into two factions, one called by way of reproach apædute, and the others erudit. The apædute are represented by Huet as persons who, finding themselves either incapable or unwilling to undergo a severe course of study in order to become truly learned, conspire to decry learning, and turn the knowledge of antiquity into ridicule, thus making a merit of their own incapacity. The apædute in effect were the men of pleasure; the eruditi the men of study. The apædute in every thing preferred the modern writers to the ancient, to supersede the necessity of studying the latter. The eruditi derided the moderns, and valued themselves wholly on their acquaintance with the ancients.

APAGOGÉ, in Logic. See ABDUCTION.