among Geographers, an appellation given to those inhabitants of the earth, who at certain seasons of the year have no shadow: Such are all the inhabitants of the torrid zone, when the sun is vertical to them.

ASCITÆ, (from æsæ, a bag or bottle), in antiquity, a sect or branch of Montanists, who appeared in the second century. They were so called, because they introduced a kind of Bacchanals into their assemblies, who danced round a bag or skin blowed up: saying, they were those new bottles filled with new wine whereof our Saviour makes mention, Matth. ix. 17.—They are sometimes also called Ascodrogites.