among Physicians, a term used to denote the rigidity of any part.

ADULA, in Ancient Geography, a mountain in Rhaetia, or the country of the Grisons, part of the Alps, in which are the fountains of the Rhine; now St Gotthard.

ADULE, or ADULIS, in Ancient Geography, a town of Ethiopia, built by fugitive slaves, distant from its port on the Red Sea 20 stadia. Pliny calls the inhabitants Adulites. The epithet is either Adulitanus, as Monumentum Adulitanum, on the pompous inscription of the statue of Ptolemy Euergetes, published by Leo Allatius at Rome in 1681, and