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AUTOPYROS

Volume 3 · 107 words · 1823 Edition

from ἀυτός, and ὁρεις, wheat; 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 similegenus, and the coarsest called surfuracens. This was also called autopyrites and syncomites.

AUTRE-ÉGLISE, a village of Brabant, in the 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'.