But afterwarde all thilk game Was into wofull ernest tourned.-Gower. Con. A. b. vi. Cesar knew his brother Diuitiacus to beare earnest good wil to the people of Rome, and that he hartely loued hym, and that he was a man of syngular faithefulnesse, iustice. and modestie.-Golding. Cæsar, fol. 15.

A rich merchat hath pleasure in pleasant words and merrie conceites; but yet few will give money for them:

and when it commeth to the merchandise in earnest, no man will beleeue suche wanton speache.

Vives. Instruction of Christian Women, b. ii. c. 9.

And when the Gospel is preached vnto vs, we beleue the mercy of God, and in beleuyng we receaue the spirite of

God, which is the earnest of eternal lyfe.

Tyndall. Workes, p. 70. In accomplishinge whereof, hys souldiors wrought so earnestly, that with ye losse of twelue ships, the rest were so well mended that they might well be sayled in. Golding. Cæsar, fol. 104.

But those elephants of Pompey being past all hope of escaping and going cleere away, after a most pittifull manner and rufull plight that cannot be expressed, seemed to make mone unto the multitude, craving mercie and pitie, with greevous plaints and lamentations, bewailing their hard state and wofull case; in such sort, that the people's hearts earned at this piteous sight.-Holland. Plinie, b. viii. c. 7.

Let's prove among ourselves our armes in jest,
That when we come to earnest them with men,
We may them better use.
Pastor Fido, 1602. E. 1.

Which steely brand, to make him dradded more,
She gaue vnto him, gotten by her slight
And earnest search, where it was kept in store
In Joue's eternall house.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 1.

Dut. Pleads he in earnest? looke vpon his face,
His eyes do drop no teares: his prayers are in iest:
His words come from his mouth, ours from our brest.
Shakespeare. Rich. II. Act v. sc. 3.

For know, my lords, the states of Christendom,
Mou'd with remorse of these outragious broyls,
Haue earnestly implor'd a generall peace
Betwixt our nation, and the aspyring French.

Id. 1 Pt. Hen. VI. Act v. sc. 4.

And we may learn hence, that the greatest gift of prayer, and earnestness and frequency in it, is no good mark of godliness, except it be attended with sincere, constant, and vertuous endeavours.-Glanvill, Ser. 1.

Whatever charms might move a gentle heart

I oft have tried, and show'd the earnful smart
Which eats my breast: she laughs at all my pain:
Art prayers, vows, gifts, love, grief, she does disdain.
P. Fletcher, Ecl. 5.

I had not till then a notion of the earnings of heart which a man has when he sees his child do a laudable thing, or the sudden damp which seizes him, when he fears he will act something unworthy.-Spectator, No. 263.

The throng is in the midst. the common crew
Shut out, the hall admits the better few;
In knots they stand, or in a rank they walk,
Serious in aspect, earnest in their talk.

Dryden. Palamon & Arcite.

EARTH. EASE, v. EASE, N. EA'SEFUL. EA'SING, n. EA'SELESS. EA'SEMENT. EA'SY. EA'SILY. EA'SINESS.

See EAR.

Goth. Azets; A. S. Eath. "Facilis, proclivis, comis,lenis;-easy, gentle, mild, meek, soft, ready. Chaucer, eth, eyth," (Somner.) See EATH. Fr. Aise; It. Agio, which latter Menage deduces from the Lat. Otium; thus, otium, ocium, ogium, ogeo, agio.

The noun ease, is opposed todisquiet, disturbance, trouble, difficulty; and is equivalent to,

Quiet, rest, peace, tranquillity, leisure, repose; liberty, freedom or deliverance from any painful feeling, mental or bodily.

To ease, to free, relieve or deliver, from any disquiet, disturbance or trouble; any painful feeling or sensation, mental or bodily; generally, to free or deliver, to relieve, to alleviate, to comfort, to soothe, to assuage, to mitigate.

Whan the geandes were alle y slawe, that ther bi leuede

no mo

Brut wende forth into Engolond, aspiede vp and doun
For to seche an ese place, to make an heued toun.
R. Gloucester, p. 23.
Pycars fonden ese ynow, and defaut none
To libbe in plente ynow, but of wymmen one.-Id. p. 42.
For wrath first of Tancrede R. vp it reised,
If he had turned to nede, his folk forto haf eised.
R. Brunne, p. 157.

& said thorgh curteisie,
Harald haf now thin eyse, in all my seignorie.-Id. p. 68.
And alle mane men. that thow myght aspye
In mischief othr in mal ese, and thow nowe hem helpe
Loke by thy lyf. let hem nouht for fare.

Piers Plouhman, p. 140. And his fame wente in to al Syria, and thei broughten to him alle that weren at mal ese.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 4. Natheless to Tyre & Sydon it schal be esier in the doom than to you.-Id. Luke, c. 10.

Neuerthelesse it shal be easyer for Tyre and Sidō at ye iudgemēt, then for you.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

And I seie these thingis to ghoure profyt, not that I caste to ghou a snare but to that that is onest and that ghyueth esynesse without letting to make preieris to the Lord. Wiclif. 1 Corynthians, c. 7.

I say for me, it is a gret disese,
Wher as men have ben in gret welth and ese.

Chaucer. The Nonnes Preestes Prologue, v. 14,778.
The chambres and the stables weren wide,
And wel we weren esed atte beste.-Id. Prologue, v. 29.
And sin I shal have nan amendement
Again my losse, I wol have an esement.

Id. The Reves Tale, v. 4184.

And Absolon knocketh all easily,
And said; Undo. Gerveis, and that anon.

Id. The Milleres Tale, v. 3762.

This stede of bras, that esily and wel
Can in the space of a day natural,
(This is to sayn. in four and twenty houres)
Wher so you list in drought or elles shoures,
Beren your body into every place
To which your herte willeth for to pace.

Id. The Squieres Tale, v. 10,429.
He was an esy man to give penance.-Id. Prologue, v. 23.
So haue I sen full many one
That were of loue wele at ease,
Whiche after fell in great disease,
Through wast of loue.

Gower. Con. A. b. vi.

The great royalty of sepulture did not ease the paine of the rich man spoken of in the Gospell.

Vives. Instruction of Christian Women, b. iii. c. 2.

But when God striketh the mightie with his strong hande, and displaceth those that were highly placed: what one man doeth once looke backe, for the better easement of his deare brother, and godly comforting his euen Christen, in the chiefe of all his sorowe.-Wilson. Arte of Rhetorique, p. 68.

And if there bee any manne sore afflicted amonge you, let hym not flee to the remedies of thys worlde, to rynges. to inchauntmentes, to baynes, and other easementes of sorowe, but let hym turne hym to prayer and lyfte vp hys mynde to God with most assured faithfull trust, and be shall finde present releasse of his mournyng. Udal. James, c.3. And ayen behold with how fewe single pure and eage institucions Cryste orned and not onered his chirche.

Joye. The Expos. of Daniel, c. 5.

The large grene courtes where we were wont to hove,
With eyes cast vp into the mayden tower,
And easie sighes, such as folk drawe in loue.

Surrey. Prisoner in Windsor

He is sure

To be eased of his office, though perhaps he bought it. Massinger. The Unnatural Combat, Act iii. sc. 2.

For whatsoever ease we can have or fancy here, is shortly to be changed into sadness, or tediousness: it goes away too soon, like the periods of our life; or stays too long, like the sorrows of a sinner.-Bp. Taylor. Holy Dying, c. 1. s.2. But in the midst of this bright-shining day, I spy a black suspicious threat'ning cloud, That will encounter with our glorious sunne, Ere he attaine his easefull westerne bed.

Shakespeare. 3 Part Hen. VI. Act v. sc. 3 They [Roman indulgences] are intended for these two ends: 1. The easing of true penitents from the penalties laid on them by their confessors, after their absolution here in the church. 2. And the removing of more grievous punishments laied on them by God Almighty, yonder i purgatory.-Brevint. Saul & Samuel, c. 10.

Send me some tokens, that my hope may live,
Or that my easeless thoughts may sleep and rest;
Send me some honey, to make sweet my hive,
That in my passions I may hope the best.

Donne. Sonnet. The Token

But when she had with such vnquiet fits Her selfe there close afflicted long in vaine, Yet found no easement in her troubled wits, She vnto Talus forth return'd againe, By change of place seeking to ease her paine. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c.6 Can you, when you have pusht out of your gates the ven defender of them, and, in a violent popular ignorance, give your enemy your shield, think to front his reuenges with the easie groanes of old women, the virginall palms of your daughters, or with the palsied intercession of such a decay dotant as you seeme to be.-Shakes. Coriolanus, Act v. sc.2 The sweat of learned Jonson's brain, And gentle Shakespear's easier strain, A hackney coach conveys you to, In spite of all that rain can do: And for your eighteen pence you sit The lord and judge of all fresh wit.

Suckling. To John Hales
Refrain to night,
And that shall lend a kinde of easinesse
To the next abstinence.-Shakes. Hamlet, Act iii. sc. 4.
I, under fair pretence of friendly ends,
And well-plac'd words of glozing courtesy
Baited with reasons not unplausible,
Wind me into the easy-hearted man,
And hug him into snares.-Milton. Comus, v. 163.

"Beneath his locks the king my husband wears
A goodly royal pair of ass's ears."
Now I have eas'd my bosom of the pain,
Till the next longing fit return again.

Dryden. The Wife of Bath's Tale 6. A hopeful confidence in God for the removal or ease ment of our afflictions, and for his gracious aid to suppo them well.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 10.

Your easier odes, which for delight were penn'd,
Yet our instruction make their second end:
We're both enrich'd and pleas'd, like them that woo
At once a beauty and a fortune too.-Dryden, Ep. 1.

But then, so infinitely kind a master we have, and so noble, so rational, so ingenuous a service he hath put upon us, that the very easiness of his terms will be one of the blackest aggravations of our baseness and inexcusable guilt, in refusing his salvation.—Sharp, vol. ii. Ser. 5.

What joy within these sunless groves
Where lonely contemplation roves,
To rest in fearless ease.

Langhorne. Left with the Minister of Riponden.

In spite of outward blemishes she [Clive] shone
For humour fam'd, and humour all her own.
Easy, as if at home, the stage she trod,
Nor sought the critic's praise, nor fear'd his rod.

Churchill. The Rosciad.

It must be likewise shown, that these parts stand in such a relation to each other, that the comparison between them may be easily made, and that the affection of the mind may naturally result from it.

EAST, n.

Burke. On the Sublime and Beautiful.

A. S. East; Dut. Oest; EAST, adj. Ger. Ost; Sw. Oster; Fr. EA'STERLY. Oest. In A. S. Yst, is a storm, EA'STERLING, n. a tempest. Ystig, (yeasty) EA'STERN. stormy, tempestuous. "The EA'STLAND. past part. of Yrsian, or IerEASTLA'N DISH. sian, irasci, is yrsed, yrsd, yrst; EA'STSIDE. dropping the r (which many EA'STWARD. cannot pronounce) it becomes yst, and so it is much used in the Anglo-Saxon. They who cannot pronounce r usually supply its place by a; hence, I suppose, East, which means angry, enraged." (Tooke, Diversions of Purley, ii. 398.)

Wachter thinks from Goth. Ust-an, surgere, because there the sun rises; with which Ihre is not satisfied.

Luke, xiii. 29. “And hig cumeth from east-dæl, and west-dæl, and north-dæl."—" And they shulen come fro the eest and west, and fro the north and south," (Wiclif.)

And alle that han welle ywrought wenden thei shulle Estwarde to hevene evere to abyde. Piers Plouhman, p. 19. Lo astronomyens camen fro the eest to Jerusalem. And seiden, where is he that is borun kyng of Jewis? for we han seen his starre in the eest: and were comen for to worschipe him-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 2.

:

Beholde, there came wise men fro the east to Jerusale, saying where is he that is borne kyng of the Jewes? We have sene his starre in the east, and are come to worshyp him. Bible, 1551. Ib.

Now ringen trompes loud and clarioun,
Ther is no more to say, but est and west
In gon the speres sadly in the rest:
In goth the sharpe spere into the side.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2603.

And for to don his rite and sacrifice, He estward hath upon the gate above, In worship of Venus goddesse of love, Don make an auter and an oratorie.-Id. Ib. v. 1905. In whiche Lapland he [Arthur] placed the easterly bounds of his Brittish empire.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 2.

Two miles beyond the eastermost towne are blacke rocks, which blacke rocks continue to the vttermost cape of land, which is about a league off, and then the land runnes in east-northeast, and a sandy shore again.

Id. Ib. vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 33.
And ye shal measure w1oute the citie, and make the vt-
most border of ye east-ayde two thousande cubytes.
Bible, 1551. Numeri, c. 35.

Who would have thought a king that cares to reign,
Enforc'd by love, so poet-like should feign?
To say that beauty, Time's sterne rage to shun,
In my cheeks (lilies] hid her from the sun;
And when she meant to triumph in her May,
Made that her east, and here she broke her day.
Drayton. Mrs. Shore to Edw. IV.

And on the east-side of the garden place,
Where entrance up from Eden easiest climbes,
Cherubic watch.
Milton. Paradise Lost, b. xi.

The winter winds still easterly do keep,
And with keen frosts have chained up the deep.

Drayton. On his Lady not coming to London.

Certain merchants of Norwaie, Denmarke, and of others those parties, called Ostomanni, or (as in our vulgar language we tearme them) easterlings, because they lie east in respect of vs, &c.-Holinshed. Ireland, an. 430.

The easterne churches first did Christ embrace,

And drew their faith from fountaines that were pure,
What famous doctours, singular for grace,
Have clear'd those parts, though at this time obscure?
Stirling. Doomesday. The Ninth Houre.

I hold the east-landish, and Low Dutch, to draw more neerer the true original than the High Dutch.

Verstegan. Restit. of Decayed Intelligence, c. 7.
There is also a block-house, and a peere in the east-side
thereof, but the peere is sore choked with sand.
Holinshed. Desc. of Britaine, c. 10.

Haste hither, Eve, and with thy sight behold,
Eastward among those trees, what glorious shape
Comes this way moving; seems another morn
Ris'n on mid noon.
Milton. Paradise Lost, b. v.

Our own eight East India ships, valued two hundred thousand pounds, and our eastland fleet, to the number of twenty, laden with substantial naval commodities, are all safe in our harbours.-Boyle. Works, vol. vi. p. 192.

Deep midnight now involves the livid skies,
When eastern breezes yet enervate rise:
The waning moon behind a wat❜ry shroud
Pale glimmer'd o'er the long protracted cloud.
Falconer. Shipwreck, c. 1.

Ywis, lemman, I have swiche love-longing,
That like a turtel trewe is my mourning.
I may not ete no more than a maid.

Chaucer. The Milleres Tale, v. 3707.

For to eat early or betimes, was in old time counted a reproach; and it is said, that this word axparioua, that is to say, a breakfast, was derived of aкparia, that is to say, intemperance.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 635.

What fish can any shore or British sea-town show,
That's eatable to us, that it doth not bestow

Abundantly thereon. Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 25. But I am a great eater of beefe, and I beleeue that does harme to my wit.-Shakespeare. Twelfth Night, Act i. sc. 3.

Mor. Barre my doores! barre my doores! where are all my eaters? my mouths now? bar up my doores, you varlets. B. Jonson. The Silent Woman, Act iii. sc. 5.

The consequent of which words is plainly this, that there is no eating of Christ's flesh or drinking his blood, but by a moral instrument, faith and subordination to Christ; the sacramental external eating alone being no eating of Christ's flesh, but the symbols and sacrament of it.

Bp. Taylor. Of the real Presence, § 3. Diogenes being asked at a feast, why he did not continue eating as the rest did, answered him that asked him with another question, pray why do you eat? Why, says he, for my pleasure; why so, says Diogenes, do I abstain for my

Nearer and nearer now the danger grows, And all their skill relentless fates oppose; For while more eastward they direct the prow, Enormous waves the quivering deck o'erflow.-Id. Ib. c.3. EA'STER. A. S. Eastre; Dut. Ooster; Ger. Ostern. "Eostur-monath, (says Bede,) which is now called the Paschal month, had its name from pleasure.-South, vol. i. Ser. 1. a goddess called Eostre, and to whom at that time This Eostre, they used to celebrate festivals." Skinner thinks, may be the Aurora of the Latins. Wachter thinks that the word may come from the Goth. Urrist; A. S. Arist, resurrectio, A. S. Arisan, risan; Ger. Reis-en, to rise. But it seems plain that the A. S. Eastre is immediately from East; Ger. Ostern, from ost; and Dut. Ooster, from oost; and that the word in each language is applied to the season of the year, which is proverbially angry, enraged, stormy, tempestuous. See EAST.

Eatables we brought away, but the earthen vessels we had no occasion for, and therefore left them.

He sayde vnto his disciples: ye know that after two days shall be easter, and the sonne of man shall be delyuered to be crucified.-Bible. 1551. Matthew, c. 26.

And his disciples wente forthe and came to the cyty, and found as he had sayd vnto the, and made ready the easter lambe.-Id. Mark, c. 13.

God expects from men something more than ordinary at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion, as well as the satisfaction of their consciences, that their easter devotions would, in some measure, come up to their easter dress.-South, vol. ii. Ser.8.

EAT, v. EA'TABLE, adj. EA'TABLE, n. EATER.

Goth. It-an, et-an; A. S. Et-an; Dut. Eten; Ger. Essen; Sw. Eta; Gr. Ed-elv; Lat. Ed-ere.

EA'TING, n. To eat food, is to chew and swallow it; to consume, to devour it. GenerallyTo consume, to devour, to corrode, to gnaw, to

wear away.

Eaters, in B. Jonson, are servants so called, because more partial to eating than working.

He lay syke in ys bed vor doel and vor sore,
That he ne ete non mete thre dawes ther vore.

Dampier. Voyage, an. 1685.

greedy eater; it is possible that by taking in too fast he may choke or surfeit, but he will hardly nourish and strengthen himself, or serve any of the noble purposes of nature, which rather intends the security of his health than the gratification of his appetite.-South, vol. iv. Ser. 10.

Upon the whole matter, the greedy getter is like the

panied with festival eating and drinking; the persons newly confederate, always thereupon, feasting together in token of their full and perfect accord, both as to interest and affection.

All covenants were, in old times, solemnized and accom

Id. vol. ii. Ser. 8.

In no part of England are eatables of any kind the object of taxation.-Burke. On a Late State of the Nation.

EATH. Easy, (qv.) Also written Eth, (qv.)
Nay, but sorrow, close shrowded in hart,

I knowe to keepe is a burdenous smart,
Each thing imparted is more eath to beare.

Spenser. Shepheard's Calendar. September.
Said then the fox; who hath the world not tride,
From the right way full eath may wander wide.

Id. Mother Hubberd's Tale.

These are vain thoughts or melancholy shews
That wont to haunt and trace by cloister'd tombs;
Which eaths appear in sad and strange disguises
To pensive minds, deceived with their shadows.

EAVES.
EAVES-DROP, v.
EAVES-DROPper.

Cornelia. O. Pl. ii. 262.

"A. S. Efese, margo, ora, the brim, brink, skirt or edge of any thing; it. The eaves of a house. Efesian, tondere, depilare, to powle, to round, to sheare," (Somner.)

The edge, brim or brink. (sc.) of the roof of a house.

Eaves-dropper; (vox sane elegantissima, says Skinner;) one who takes his station under the R. Gloucester, p. 243. drippings or droppings of the eaves, (sc.) as a listener. See the quotation from Blackstone. The author of Piers Plouhman's Creed uses the

In S. Edward tyme the erle suld with him ele, A seruitour ther was, that serued at the mete.

R. Brunne, p. 55. past part. evesede

& slouh bothe fader & sonne, women lete thei gon, Hors & houdes thei ete, vnnethis skaped non.-Id p. 75. Whan thei had alle eten, & watches mad alle preste, To gete that thei had geten, R. gede to reste.-Id. p. 182. For hii eteth mor fisch than flesh.-Piers Plouhman, p. 94. Hunger eet al in haste. and askede after more. Id. p. 144. Reson ich sauh sotthlich. suwen alle bestes. In etynge and drynkyng. Id. p. 223. And the Farisees syghen, seiden to his disciplis, whi etith your maister with pupplicanes and synful men. Wiclif. Matt. c. 9. When the Pharises saw yt, they said to disciples: why eateth your master with publycans & synners.-Bib.1551. Ib. For the tyme that is passed is ynow to the wille of hethene men to be endid, whiche walkiden in leccheries and lustis, in mych drynking of wyn, in unmesurable etingis, and unleeful worschiping of mawmetis.-Wiclif. 1 Pet. c. 4.

For it is sufficient for vs that we haue spent the tyme yt is past of the lyfe, after the wyll of the Gentyls, walkynge in wantonnes, lustes, dronckennes, in eatyng, drinckyng, and in abominable ydolatry.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

"Orcheyarde and erberes evesed wel clene." In North," without doors, under the easing of the house" perhaps contracted from eavesing. (Plut. p. 597.)

Thenne flammeth he as fuyr. on fader and on filius,
And melteth myghte into mercy, as wey may seo a wynter
Isykles in evesynges. thorgh hete of the sonne
Melteth in a mynt while. to myst and to water.
Piers Plouhman, p. 331.

But chiefly

Him that you term'd, sir, the good old Lord Gonzalo, His teares runs downe his beard like winter's drops From eaues of reeds.-Shakes. Tempest, Act v. sc. 1. But truly I cannot blame the gentlewomen, you stood eves-dropping under their window, and would not come up.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Caplain, Act v. sc. 3.

Was it such a dissolute speech, telling of some politicians who were wont to eaves-drop in disguises, to say they were often liable to a night-walking cudgeller, or the emptying of a urinal?-Milton. Apology for Smectymnuus.

No breeze the casement shook, or fann'd the leaves,
Nor drops of rain fell soft from off the eaves.

Hughes. The Morning Apparition.

And speaks, through hollow empty soul,
As through a trunk or whispering-hole,
Such language as no mortal ear

But spirit'al eaves-droppers can hear.-Hudibras, pt. i. c.1.

When Zephyr on each pregnant tree
Calls forth the tender leaves;
And her sad nest the swallow builds

Beneath the friendly eaves.-West. Triumphs of the Gout. Eaves-droppers, or such as listen under walls or windows or the eaves of a house, to hearken after discourse, and thereupon to frame slanderous and mischievous tales, are a common nuisance, and presentable at the court leet: or are indictable at the sessions, and punishable by fine, and finding sureties for their good behaviour.

Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iv. c. 13.

EBB, v. A. S. Ebba, ebbe; Dut. Eb, ebbe; EBB, n. Ger. Ebbe; Sw. Ebb; A. S. Ebb-an, EBB, adj. recedere; Dut. Ebben, abire, reE'BBING, n. fluere, remeare, decrescere,To go away, to recede, to retire; and thus, to decay, to decrease, to lower, to become low or shallow.

Ebb is used as an adjective by Holland, and applied to the growth of the roots of trees, as well as to water.

After an ebbe of the flode, euer ilkon thei found.

In this land are running ryuers, not violently and outragiously flowing to do any harm, but gently moisting the vineyards and cornefields, and where they ebbe and flow. Goldyng. Justine, fol. 180. And yet for all this ebbing chance, remains The spring that feeds that hope (which leaves men last :) Whom no affliction so entire restrains,

But that it may remount as in times past.
Daniel. Civil War, b. vii.

Losses at sea, and those, sir, great and many,
By storms and tempests, not domestical riots,
In soothing my wife's humour or mine own,
Have brought me to this low ebb.

Massinger. The City Madam, Act i. sc. 2.

The roots of the apple-tree, olive, and cypresses, lie very ebbe, and creepe hard under the sourd of the ground. Holland. Plinie, b. xvi. c. 31. And verely the water there is otherwise verie low and ebb, and not above knee high.-Id. Ib. b. xxxi. c. 7.

I will account no sinne little; since there is not the least but workes out the death of the soul. It is all one, whether I be drowned in the ebber shore, or in the midst of the deepe sea.-Bp. Hall. Meditations & Vows, Cont. 2.

Ebbing men, indeed,

(Most often) do so neere the bottom run By their owne feare, or sloth.

Shakespeare. Tempest, Act ii. sc. 1.
And ye, that on the sands with printlesse foote
Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and doe flie him
When he comes back.
Id. Ib. Act v. sc. 1.

This, let me further add, that nature knows
No stedfast station; but or ebbs or flows:
Ever in motion, she destroys her old,
And casts new figures in another mould.
Dryden. Ovid. Met. b. xv.

But it was another sort of love that warmed the breast of our Saviour; he visits his kindred, nay, he makes them so in the lowest ebb of all their outward enjoyments.

South, vol. iii. Ser. 8.

But that which I did most admire, was to see the water keep ebbing for two days together, without any flood, till the creek, where we lived, was almost dry.

Dampier. Voyages, vol. ii. pt. iii.

As easily may they make the wind to blow always in one quarter, or keep the sea from its constant ebbings and flowings, as they can secure to themselves the uncertain favour of great men, or the more uncertain breath of the people.-Sharp, vol. vi. Ser. 3

Nor jealous fears, nor cold disdain, Disturb their peace, nor break their chain : } But, when the hours of life ebb fast, For each in sighs they breathe their last. Blacklock. Horace Imitated. Such, and often influenced by such causes, has commonly been the fate of monarchies of long duration. They have their ebbs and their flows. This has been eminently the fate of the monarchy of France.

E'BON, n. E'BON, adj. E'BONY.

}

Burke. On a Regicide Peace, Let. 1.

Gr. Eẞevos; Lat. Ebenus; Fr. Ebène; It. and Sp. Ebano; Heb. Eben, which Martinius thinks is so called from its hardness. Holland writes it ebene.

Of all those trees that be appropriate to India, Virgil hath highly commended the ebene above the rest. Holland. Plinie, b. xii. c. 4.

Now lighter humour leave me, and be gone,
Your passion poor yields matter much too slight:
To write those plagues that then were coming on,
Doth ask a pen of ebon and the night.

Drayton. Barons' Wars, b. iv.
In an ebon chaire,
The soule's black homicide, meagre Despaire,
Had his abode.-Browne. Brittania's Pastorals, b. i. s. 5.
Stay thy cloudy ebon chair,
Wherein thou rid'st with Hecat, and befriend
Us thy vow'd priests.
Milton. Comus.

King. By heauen, thy loue is black as ebonie. Biron. Is ebonie like her? O word diuine? 1 A wife of such wood were felicitie.

Shakespeare. Love's Labour Lost, Act iv. sc. 3.

I did encounter that obscene and most preposterous euent, that draweth from my snow-white pen the ebon-coloured inke which heere thou viewest.-Id. Ib. Act i. sc. 1.

With spacious arms thou dost embrace Hot Meroe, fruitful to a sooty race, And proud of ebon woods; yet no retreat Their useless shades afford to shun th' excessive heat. Hughes. Lucan. Pharsalia, b. x.

He confirms, by new attestations, what he formerly wrote of the trees taken up in the moors near Bridgewater: of which many were found within a foot or two of the surface of the ground; no branches to be found, only the main bodies, and as black as ebony.-Boyle. Works, vol. iv. p. 236.

Amid whose howling aisles and halls,
Where no gay sunbeam paints the walls,
On ebon throne thou lov'st to shroud
Thy brows in many a murky cloud.-T. Warton, Ode 11.
Affliction, hail!

Thou school of virtue! open wide thy gates,
Thy gates of ebony.-Thompson. Sickness, b. i.
EBRIETY. It. Ebrietà; Lat. Ebrius, qui
EBRIOSITY. multas haurit Brias, one who
drinks many cups. Bria, a kind of cup, from the
Gr. Bpv-ew, scatere, abundare, (Vossius.)
Drunkenness.

And surely that religion which excuseth the fact of Noah, in the aged surprizal of six hundred years, and unexpected inebriation from the unknown effects of wine, will neither acquit ebriosity nor ebriety, in their known and intended perversions.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. v. c. 21.

It hath much deceived the hopes of good fellows, what is commonly expected of bitter almonds, and though in Plutarch confirmed from the practice of Claudius, his physitian, that antidote against ebriety hath commonly failed. Id. Ib. b. ii. c. 6.

'Tis quenchless thirst Of ruinous ebriety, that prompts His every action, and imbrutes the man. Cowper. The Task, b. iv. Although you have neither wife, nor child, nor parent, to lament your absence from home, or expect your return to it with terror; other families in which husbands and fathers have been invited to share in your ebriety, or encouraged to imitate it, may justly lay their misery or ruin at your door. Paley. Philosophy, b. iv. c. 2.

EBU'LLIATE, v. EBU'LLIENT. EBU'LLIENCY. EBULLITION. up, to swell.

Lat. Bulla, a bubble; which Vossius thinks may be from the Gr. Au-eLV, fervere, ebullire, to bubble

To rise or raise, boil or bubble up; to swell, to effervesce.

Whence this 29. play-oppugning argument will ebulliate.
Prynne. Histrio-Mastix, pt. i. Act vi. sc. 3.

My meaning is only this: to caution against that vulgar and popular errour of mistaking the natural and enthusiastick fervour of men's spirits, and the ebulliency of their | fancy.-Cudworth. Sermons, p. 93.

We cannot find it to hold neither in iron or copper, which is dissolved with less ebullition.

Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iv. c. 7.

But your lordship need not be afraid of being overwhelm'd with the ebullition of my thoughts, nor much trouble yourself to find a way to give check to it: mere ebullition of thoughts never overwhelms or sinks any one but the author himself: but if it carries truth with it, that I confess has force, and it may be troublesome to those that stand in its way.-Locke. Second Reply to the Bp. of Worcester. O how laborious is their gaiety!

They scarce can swallow their ebullient spleen,
Scarce muster patience to support the farce,
And pump sad laughter till the curtain falls.

Young. The Complaint, Night & There are many young members in the house (such of late has been the rapid succession of publick men,) who never saw that prodigy, Charles Townshend; nor of course know what a ferment he was able to excite in every thing by the violent ebullition of his mixed virtues and failings. Burke. On American Taxation,

But so it is in the regions of stars, where a vast body of fire is so divided by excentric motions, that it looks as if nature had parted them into orbs and round shells of plain and purest materials; but where the cause is simple, and the matter without variety, the motions must be uniform: and in heaven we should either espy no motion, or no variety.-Bp. Taylor, pt. iv. Ser. 6.

Aristotle made very odd schemes, not at all corresponding with the phenomena of the heavens, as appears from his hypothesis of the solid orbs, epicycles, excentricks, intelligences, and such other ill-contrived phancies.

Glanvill, Ess. 3.

But indeed, upon mistaking the pole's altitude, and other errour in observation, Copernicus was deceived, and in this present age the sun's eccentricity (in Ptolemy, being the eccentric's semidiameter, divided into 60) hath been foun between 27 and 28 P., which is far greater than that in Copernicus, erroneously making it but near 31. Selden. On Drayton's Poly-Olbion, 8. 24.

For some say the eccentricity of the sunne is come nearer to the earth than in Ptolemies time; the vertue therefore c all the vegetals is decayed, men grow less, &c. Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 249.

In gayer hours, when high my fancy ran,
The Muse, exulting, thus her lay began:
"Blest be the Bastard's birth! through wondrous ways
He shines eccentrick, like a comet's blaze."

Savage. The Bastard.
For had I power, like that which bends the spheres
To music never heard by mortal ears,
Where in his system sits the central sun,
And drags reluctant planets into tune,
So would I bridle thy eccentrick soul,
In reason's sober orbit bid it roll.

Whitehead. On Churchili It was not enough to fix the law of the centripetal force, though by the wisest choice; for, even under that law, it was still competent to the planets to have moved in paths pos sessing so great a degree of eccentricity, as, in the course of every revolution, to be brought very near to the sun, and carried away to immense distances from him.

Paley. Natural Theology, c. 22. Genius, a bustling lad of parts, Who all things did by fits and starts, Nothing above him or below him, Who'd make a riot, or a poem, From eccentricity of thought, Not always do the thing he ought.

Lloyd. Genius, Enry, and Time. Swift, Rab'lais, and that favourite child, Who, less eccentrically wild, Inverts the misanthropic plan, And hating vices, hates not man.

ECCLESIAST. ECCLESIA'STICK, adj. ECCLESIA'STICK, n. ECCLE'SIAL.

ECCLESIASTICAL.

ECCLESIA'STICALLY.

Id. A Familiar Epistle.

Gr. Εκκλησιαστής, εκκλησία, catus evocatus, from EK-R¤Ã¤IV, CVOcare. The Athenian Εκκλησίαι, were publis assemblies of the people

Redeth ecclesiast of flaterie *Beth ware, ye lordes, of hire trecherie.

CA

Chaucer. The Nonnes Preestes Tale, v. 15,335. Euen the myndes of the learned shal be changed, and all, both the seculare and ecclesiastik sorte shal be distracted from the trwthe vnto reuenginge one another with warre. Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 12. What dothe he binde it to one day? No surely, but he commadeth to vse continually this order of publike and clesiastical discipline vnto the laste ende of our lyfe, euen to the day of deathe, wherin beginneth our redemption.

Caluine. Foure Godly Sermons, Ser. 3.

But our histories, and with them the Latin ecclesiastic relation (in passages of her invention of the cross and such like.) allowed also by Cardinal Baronius, make her [Helen] thus a British woman.

Selden. On Drayton's Poly-Olbion, s. 8.

For such is the reverence they bear to the church here, and so holy a conceit they have of all ecclesiastics, that the greatest Don in Spaine will tremble to offer the meanest of them any outrage or affront.-Howell, b. i. s. 3. Let. 20.

Many of the fathers and ecclesiastical historians, especially the Jewish rabbins, (taking their highest learning of Cabala but from antique and successive report,) have inserted upon tradition many relations current enough, where holy writ crosses them not.

Selden. On Drayton's Poly-Olbion, s. 1.

If a son marries without his father's consent, the law saies it is void, but yet it is not so void, but that the father's approbation makes it valid without marrying again; which could not be, if it were naturally invalid; but therefore it is both naturally and ecclesiastically good.

Bp. Taylor. Rule of Conscience, b. iii. c. 5. Thus then we see that our ecclesial and political choices may consent and sort as well together without any rupture in the state, as Christians and freeholders.

Milton. Of Reformation in England, b. ii.

The clergy, being permitted and encouraged by the king to sit in convocation after the dissolution of the parliament, took upon them not only to frame canons and oaths, but also to impose four shillings in the pound upon ecclesiastical benefices throughout the kingdom. Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. i. p. 9.

Not any, whilst they heard him preach,
Did ever feel (his powers were such)
Ecclesiastic lethargy,

From soporific sanctity.

Cooper. Ver-Vert, c. 2.

Echo was then a maid, of speech bereft,"

Of wonted speech: for though her voice was left,
Juno a curse did on her tongue impose,
To sport with ev'ry sentence in the close.
Addison. Ovid. Metam. b. iii.

When the sun's light is so intercepted by the moon, that to any place of the earth the sun appears partly or wholly covered, he is said to undergo an eclipse, though properly speaking it is only an eclipse of that part of the earth where the moon's shadow or penumbra falls.

E/CLOGUE.

Ferguson. Astronomy, § 313.

Gr. Απο του εκλεγειν, quia ex multis, quæ scripsisset, hæc sola elegerit, (Vossius.)

A dreadful howling echo'd round the place:
The mountain Nymphs, thought I, my nuptials grace.
I thought so then, but now too late I know
The Furies yell'd my funerals from below.
Dryden. Ovid. Dido to Eneas. Because from many things which he had written,
he had elected or selected these alone.

"Evoe!" they mad'ning cry,
And shake their torches, "Evoe! Io!" rends
The air, and beats the echoing vault of heav'n.
Thompson. Coresus & Callirhoe.

The agony
Which speaks but in its loneliness,
And then is jealous lest the sky
Should have a listener, nor will sigh
Until its voice is echoless.-Byrom. Prometheus, s. 1.

But in ye first watche of ye night, the moone suff'red eclips, which losing her brightnes, afterwardes became as redd as bloud, and therewith waxed dimme and darke. Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 78.

They vnderstandinge verie well the reuolutions of the time, and their appointed courses, knewe that the moone dyd euer eclypse, when that either she went vnderneathe the earth, or else when her light was blemished by opposition of the sunne, which reasonne conceiued amongs themselues, they accustomed not to teache the people.-Id. Ib. fol. 79. For he that hath each star in heaven fixed, And gives the moon her hornes, and her eclipsing, Alike hath made thee noble in his working.

Wyatt. Ode. He ruleth not, &c.

For mylius was not ignorant of the diversities of the eclipses, and he had heard say the cause is, by reason of the moon making her ordinary course about the world, (after certain revolutions of time,) doth come to enter into the round shadow of the earth, within the which she remaineth hidden, untill such time, as having passed the dark region of the shadow, she cometh afterwards to recover her light which she taketh of the sun.-North. Plutarch, p. 213.

Within these two hundred yeares found out it was, by the wittie calculation of Hipparchus, that the moone sometime was eclipsed twice in five moneths space, and the sunne likewise in seven.-Holland. Plinie, b. ii. c. 9.

For till I see them here, by doubtfull feare,
My ioy of libertie is half eclips'd.

Shakespeare. 3 Pt. Hen. VI. Act iv. sc. 6.

But then againe (for why should I shame to confesse it?) the world thrusts itselfe betwixt me and heaven; and, by his darke and indigested parts, eclipseth that light which shined to my soule.-Bp. Hall, Ep. 3. Dec. 2.

[Satan] Took leave, and toward the coast of earth beneath, Down from the ecliptic sped with hop'd success, Throws his steep flight in many an aerie weele. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. iii. Pythagoras was the first that noted the obliquity of the ecliptick.-Glanvill, Ess. 3.

Let other Muses write his prosp'rous fate,
Of conquer'd nations tell, and kings restor❜d:
But mine shall sing of his eclips'd estate,
Which, like the sun's, more wonders does afford.
Dryden. Annus Mirabilis, s. 90.

And we can point each period of the time,
When they [errours] began, and who begot the crime;
Can calculate how long th' eclipse endur'd,
Who interpos'd, what digits were obscur'd.
Id. The Hind & Panther, pt. ii.
The vegetable world is also thine,
Parent of Seasons! who the pomp preceae
That waits thy throne, as through thy vast domain,
Annual, along the bright ecliptic road,

In world-rejoicing state, it moves sublime.

Thomson. Summer.

The line, which the centre of the earth describes in its annual revolution about the sun, is called the ecliptick. Locke. Elem. of Nat. Phil. c. 4.

See the quotation from the Guardian.

But old Geron, who had borne him a grudge, ever since in one of their eclogues he had taken him up over-bitterly took hold of this occasion to make his revenge.

Sidney. Arcadia, b. iii.

I must not, however, dissemble that these bold strokes appear chiefly in those eclogues of Virgil, which ought to be numbered amongst his pastorals, which are indeed generally thought to be all of the pastoral kind; but by the best judges are only called his select poems, as the word eclogue originally means.-Guardian, No. 28.

This beautiful and luxuriant marriage pastoral of Solomon is the only perfect form of the oriental eclogue that has survived the ruins of time, a happiness for which it is probably more indebted to its sacred character than to its intrinsic merit.

Collins. Oriental Eclogues. Observ. on, by Langhorne.
ECONOMY.
ECONOMIZE, v.
ECONOMICK.

To regulate or manage household or domestic affairs; to manage or arrange, or dispose or conduct affairs (generally) sc. with prudence, parsimony, thriftiness, frugality.

Their economy was sincere, and proportionable to the dispositions and requisites of nature.

Bp. Taylor. The Great Exemplar, pt. i. Dis. 1. A kind of laborious secretary

To a great man! (and likely to come on,)
Full of attendance! and of suche a stride
In business politique, or economick,

As, well, his lord may stoope t' advise with him.

B. Jonson. The Magnetick Lady, Act i. sc. 7. And certain likewise, that the best authors have chosen rather to handle it [education] in their politicks than in their œconomicks.-Reliquia Wollonianæ, p. 78.

Some are plainly economical, as that the seat be well watered, and well fewelled; that it be not of too steep and incommodious access, to the trouble both of friends and family; that it lie not too far from some navigable river or arme of the sea, for more ease of provision, and such other domestic notes.-Id. p. 7.

I know Mr. Penry to be a gentleman of a great deal of solid worth and integrity, and one that will prove a great husband, and a good economist.-Howell, b. i. s. 2. Let. 17.

But Manilius has too perfect a taste for the pleasure of doing good, ever to let it be out of his power: and for that reason he will have a just economy, and a splendid frugality at home, the fountain from whence those streams should flow which he disperses abroad.-Spectator, No. 467.

I would not confine occasional meditations to divinity itself, though that be a very comprehensive subject; but am ready to allow men's thoughts to expatiate much farther, and to make of the objects they contemplate not only a theological and a moral, but also a political, and economical, or even physical use.-Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 342.

The king's household-at the remotest avenues to which all reformation has been hitherto stopped, that household, which has been the stronghold of prodigality, the virgin fortress which was never before attacked, has been not only not defended, but it has, even in the forms, been surrendered by the king to the economy of his minister. Burke. On Economical Reform.

The charitable few are chiefly they
Whom Fortune places in the middle way;
Just rich enough, with economic care,

To save a pittance, and a pittance spare:
Just poor enough to feel the poor man's moan,

Or share those suff'rings which may prove their own.
Harte. Eulogius.

If ever we ought to be economists even to parsimony, it is in the voluntary production of evil. Every revolution contains in it something of evil.

Burke. Appeal from the Old to the New Whigs.

Not only in science, but in politicks and economics, in the less splendid arts which administer to convenience and enjoyment, much information may be derived, by careful search, from times which have been in general neglected, as affording nothing to repay the labour of attention. Knox. Essays, No. 73. E/CSTASY, n. Fr. Ecstase; It. Estasi; ECSTASY, v. Sp. Extasi; Gr. EkσTaσis, ECSTA TICK. from Εξιστασθαι, to remove from its place; E, from, and 'Ioraσba, to place. Also, and more commonly, written Extasy, (qv.)

And therefore in this ecstatick fit of love and jealousy in the beginning of ch. ii. you may see him [St. Paul] resolve to do that, that was most contrary to his disposition, boast and vaunt, and play the fool.

Hammond. Works, vol. iv. p. 541.

He that, with the late fryar in France, pretends to ecstatical revelations, with the enthusiasts of the last age, and phanaticks now with us, to ecstatical motions; that with Mahomet pretends a dialogue with God, when he is in an epileptic fit, sets off the most ghastly diseases, I shall add, most, horrid sins.-Id. Ib. vol. iv. p. 589,

Crat. What are you dreaming, son! with eyes cast upwards

Like a mad prophet in an ecstasie.

Dryden. Cleomenes, Act iv.

These are the haunts of meditation, these
The scenes where ancient bards th' inspiring breath,
Ecstatic, felt; and from this world retir'd,
Convers'd with angels and immortal forms,
On gracious errands bent.

Thomson. Summer.

I say, such prayers, as they proceed from a purer sense of his duty, so, without doubt, they will be more effectual with God, for the obtaining what he really stands in need of, then if they were accompanied even with ecstatical transports of fervour and joy.-Sharp, vol. iii. Ser. 3.

Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid

Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or wak'd to ecstacy the living lyre.

Gray. Elegy in a Country Churchyard.

Some, manner'd verse delights; while some can raise
To fairy fiction their ecstatic gaze,
Admire pure poetry, and revel there,
On sightless forms, and pictures of the air.

Strain'd to the root, the stooping forest pours A rustling shower of yet untimely leaves; High-beat, the circling mountains eddy in, From the bare wild, the dissipated storm, And send it in a torrent down the vale.

Thomson. Autumn.

Bear wide thy course, nor plough those angry waves Where rolls yon smoke, yon tumbling ocean raves; Steer by the higher rock; lest whirl'd around We sink, beneath the circling eddy drown'd. Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. xii. The one has only an eddy wind, which seems to be the effect of two contrary winds.-Dampier. Voy. vol. ii. pt. iii. Forth from those nitrous caverns issuing rise Pure liquid fountains of tempestuous fire, And veil in ruddy mists the noon-day skies, While wrapt in smoke the eddying flames aspire. West. First Pythian Ode. E'DENIZED. Admitted into Eden, or to a state of paradisiacal happiness. For pure saints edeniz'd unfit.

Davies. Wils Pilgrimage, sig. N 4. EDGE, v. A. S. Egg-ian, incitare, acuere, EDGE, n. to make keen or sharp. Whence E'DGING, n. Ger. Eck; Dut. Egge; Sw. E'DGELESS. Egg; the sharpened (sc.) extremity; and then applied, generally, to the extremity, rim, or border.

To sharpen, to give sharpness, keenness or acuteness; to give an edge or border; to advance towards, move upon the edge, extremity, or border. Also (met.)

To incite or urge on, to stimulate. See To EGG.
In the kyng tresorye that suerd y wust ys,
As vor noble relyke, gut to thys daye ywys.
I egged yt ys in on alf, and in the other nogt.

R. Gloucester, p. 274.
Batailles shulle never eft be. ne man bere eg tool
And yf eny man smythen hit. be smyte thr wt to dethe.
Piers Plouhman, p. 62.
Thei dryueden awei the egge of swerd.

E/CTYPE.

E/CTYPAL.

facta: i. e.

Whitehead. A Charge to the Poets. Lat. Ectypum; Gr. EKTUTOS; Ek, and τυπος, nota τω τύπτειν

Suche as in this case escaped theire enemies, were eyther drowned wyth violence of the water, or the eddies (vorticibus) of the streame.-Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 245. For from the Cape to Virginia all along the shore are none but eddie currents, setting to the south and south-west. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 291.

Mark how yon eddy steals away
From the rude stream into the bay;
Then lock'd up safe, she doth divorce
Her waters from the channel's course,
And scorns the torrent that did bring
Her headlong from her native spring.

Carew. To my Mistress, sitting by a River-side.

Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 276.

We found no kind of edge-tool, sauing that there were certaine sharp stones, which we found vpon certaine rockes that were very keene, wherewith we supposed that they did cut and flea those seales.-Id. Ib. vol. iii. p. 418.

But his impiety is a potent charm To edge my sword, and add strength to my arm. Massinger. The Unnatural Combat, Act i. sc. 1. Cassius, finding Brutus's ambition stirred up the more by these seditious bills, did prick him forward, and edge him on the more, for a private quarrell he had conceived against Cæsar: the circumstance whereof we have set down at large in Brutus's life.-North. Plutarch, p. 613.

This done, he made shift, partly, as it is said, on horseback, and partly on foot, to get to Portsmouth, for he was indigent and low in money, which perhaps might have a little edged his desperation.-Reliquia Wottonianæ, p. 232.

Which [Pescotter] mounting out of the ground in the edge of Cardigonshire, runneth along as a limet and march vnto the same, till it ioine with the Tothee. Holinshed. Description of Britaine, c. 14.

Vp princes, and with spirit of honor edged,
More sharper then your swords, hie to the field.
Shakespeare. Hen. V. Act iii. sc. 5.

To morrow in the battle think on me,
And fall thy edgelesse sword, dispaire and dye.

Id. Rich. III. Act v. sc. 3. This distinguishes it from what they call the profile, signified by the edging stroaks, by some called outlines, and contours only, without any of this solid finishing. Evelyn. On Architecture.

The mistress drives my counsels to the leeward;
Now I must edge upon a point of wind;
And make slow way, recovering more and more,
Till I can bring my vessell safe ashore !

For as a sword hath both a glittering radiance and brightness to strike and terrify the eye, and also an edge to pier the flesh; so the word, being drawn forth and brandished by a skilful hand, darts a convincing light into the understanding, and with an irresistible edge enters the heart and the affections. South, vol. ix. Ser. 6.

This is evident from those black circular lines we see on
boxes, dishes, and other turned vessels of wood, which are
the effects of ignition, caused by the pressure of an edged
stick upon the vessel turned nimbly in the lathe.
Ray. On the Creation, pt. ii.

Till clogg'd with blood, his sword obeys but ill
The dictates of its vengeful master's will;
Edgeless it falls, and though it pierce no more,
Still breaks the batter'd bones, and bruises sore.

Rowe. Lucan. Pharsalia, d. vi
He hangs his mantle loose, and sets to show
The golden edging on the seam below.

Addison. Ovid. Metam. b. ii. The edges of them [plants in the sea] do in that posture with most ease cut the water flowing to and fro; and should the flat side be objected to the stream, it would soon be turned edge-wise by the force of it, because in that site it doth least resist the motion of the water.

Ray. On the Creation, pt. i. We sounded, and found 20 fathoms and a bottom of sand: but, on edging off from the shore, we soon got out of sounding. Cook. Second Voyage, b. iii. c. 7.

The veriest gluttons do not always cram;
Some intervals of abstinence are sought
To edge the appetite: thou seekest none.-Blair. Grave.
O! deemest thou indeed

No pleasing influence here by nature given
To mutual terrour and compassion's tears?
No tender charm mysterious, which attracts
O'er all that edge of pain the social powers
To this their proper action and their end.

Akenside, Pleasures of the Imagination, b. ii.
E'DIBLE. Lat. Ed-ere, to eat. See EDACITY.
That may be eaten.

Some stomacks will digest the hardest meates, and turn over substances not in their nature edible, while others sur fet of the lightest food, and complaine even of dainties Bp. Hall. Cont. Saul in David's Care. Of fishes some are edible; some, except it be in famine, not. For those that are not edible, the cause is, for that they have (commonly) too much bitterness of taste, and therefore those creatures, which are fierce and cholerick, are not edible; as lions, wolves, squirrels, dogs, foxes, horses, &c.-Bacon. Naturall History, § 859.

E/DICT. Fr. Edict; It. Editto; Sp. Edito, edicto; Lat. Edictum, from Edicere, (e, and dicere,) to tell forth, to proclaim.

A publication or proclamation, (sc.) of any thing
ordered; any thing declared to be law.
Which was encountered by the queen's edict,
By publishing the justness of her cause,
That she proceeded in a course so strict,
T' uphold their ancient liberties and laws.
Drayton. The Barons' Wars, b. ir.
Yet more there be who doubt his ways not just,
As to his own edicts, found contradicting,
Then give the reins to wand'ring thought,
Regardless of his glories' diminution.

Millon. Samson Agonista
The discontented now are onely they,
Whose crimes before did your just cause betray:
Of those your edicts some reclaim from sin,
But most your life and blest example win.

Dryden. Astraa Reduz the The silence or ambiguity of the laws was supplied occasional edicts of those magistrates who were invested with the honours of the state.-Gibbon. Rom. Emp. c. 44.

E'DIFY. E'DIFYING, n. EDIFICATION. EDIFICATORY. E'DIFIER. To rear or raise a building, E'DIFICE. to build, to strengthen, to esta EDIFICANT. blish, to fortify; and (met.) EDIFICIAL. to fortify or establish, to conE'DIFYINGLY. firm, (sc.) in knowledge, wis dom, virtue, religion, in the faith; and thus, to instruct, to teach, to improve, to enlighten.

Fr. Edifier; It. Edificare; Sp. Edificar; Lat. Edificare. (q.d.) ades facere, to make a house, to construct a house.

The metaphor was adopted by the Latin trans lators of the New Testament from the Gr. v. OIKDbou-ew, ædificare, and n. Oiko-dоμn, from Oikos, a Dryden. Plays, Act iii. sc. 1. house, and dou-ev, to build; and from the Latin Version it was introduced into English by Piers Plouhman and Wiclif. It was also introduced by the respective translators into French, Italian, and Addison. To Mr. Dryden. Spanish, from the same source.

Thou teachest Persius to inform our isle In smoother numbers, and a clearer style: And Juvenal, instructed in thy page, Edges his satire, and improves his rage.