. Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . in theperformance of religious rites, lighting the candles, presenting thewine and water at the communion, &c. Tliey were considered asin holy orders, and ranked next to sub-deacons. These serviceshave, since the 7tli c, been performed by laymen and boys, whoare improperly called A.; but in the Komish Church, aspirants tothe priesthood are still at one stage consecrated as A. See Orders,Holy. ACONCAGUA, the highest peak of the Andes (q. v.) rising to aheight of 23,910 feet. A., which is not, as often asserted, a v
. Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . in theperformance of religious rites, lighting the candles, presenting thewine and water at the communion, &c. Tliey were considered asin holy orders, and ranked next to sub-deacons. These serviceshave, since the 7tli c, been performed by laymen and boys, whoare improperly called A.; but in the Komish Church, aspirants tothe priesthood are still at one stage consecrated as A. See Orders,Holy. ACONCAGUA, the highest peak of the Andes (q. v.) rising to aheight of 23,910 feet. A., which is not, as often asserted, a vol-cano, is about 100 miles of Valparaiso, on the frontier ofChili and the Argentine Republic. ACONITE {Aconitum), a genus of plants of the natural orderSanunculacem (q. v.), having five petaloid sepals, of which the up-per one is helmet-shaped,and two hammer-headed petals con-cealed witliin the helmet-shaped sepal. The fruit consists of 3—5 follicles. A. Napellus, the common Wolfs-bane or MojfKs-HOOD, often cultivated in flower-gardens for the sake of its erect. Monks-hood {Aconitum Napethis)a, fruit; b, root. racemes of blue flowers, Is a somewhat doubtful native of England,but common in some parts of Europe. The roots are fusiformand clustered. The root and whole plant are very poisonous,containing an alkaloid, called Aconita, or Aconitine, one of themost virulent of all known poisons; but an extract of the leaves isa valuable medicine, administered in small doses for nervous andother diseases. An A., sometimes called A. StoercMamim, butgenerally regarded as a variety of A. Cammarum (also known asA. paniculatum), was brouglit into great repute on the continentduring last century by Dr. Stoerck, an Austrian imperial physi-cian, and is still mucli cultivated for medicinal use. The sameproperties seem in greater or less degree to belong to a number, ifnot to all, of tlie species of tills genus, and they contain the samealkaloid. The virulent bikh poison of India, equal
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