In whose incirclets if ye gaze, Your eyes may tread the lover's maze. Sidney. Arcadia, b. ii. Young Hermes next, a close contriving God, Her browes encircled with his serpent rod, Then plots and fair excuses fill'd her brain. Parnell. Hesiod. On the Rise of Woman. Come, all ye quack bards and ye quacking divines, Come, and dance on the spot where your tyrant reclines, When satire and censure encircled his soul, I fear'd for your safety, I fear'd for my own. EN-CLEAR, v. conspicuous. Goldsmith. Retaliation. Lat. Clarus, illustrious or To brighten, to illuminate. While light of lightnings flash Did pitchy clouds encleare, Sir P. Sidney, Ps. 87. EN-CLINE, v. (Now In) Fr. Encliner,-to incline, decline; bend, bow, look, stoop downward, to begin or be ready to fall," (Cotgrave.) To bend or lean; (met.) the mind. And Thomas trout him plight and suore on the messe, R. Brunne, p. 268. For certes, the more that a man chargeth his soule with venial sinnes, the more he is enclined to fall into dedly sinne.-Chaucer. The Persones Tale. I wyl enclyne myne eare to the parable, and shewe my darcke speache vpon the harpe.-Bible, 1551. Psalm 69. Againe, whe we see our frend enclined to any kind of learning, we must counsaile him to take that way still, and by reason perswade him, that it were the meetest way for him to doe his countre most good. Wilson. The Arte of Rhetorique, p. 81. EN-CLOG, v. See CLOG, and the quotation from Shakespeare, in v. Ensteep. EN-CLOISTER, v. Lat. Claustrum, in which any thing is closed, or shut up. To shut up or enclose, (sc.) as in a cloister. But, Muse, on in our song With other princely maids, but first with those that sprung As when the Fates of life King Ethelwold depriv'd, Betaking her to lead a strict monastic life, Departing hence to France received the holy veil, EN-CLOSE, v. ENCLOSER. (Also In.) Fr. Enclorre; It. Inchiudere; Lat. IncluENCLOSURE. dere, inclusum ; in, and clausum, the past part. of claudere, to be or cause to be so near as to touch. To close in; to close on all sides, to close round; to surround, to encircle, to encompass, to environ. Which thing also I dide in Jerusalem, and I encloside manye of seintis in prisoun whanne I hadde take power of the prynces of preestis.-Wiclif. Dedis, c. 26. A yerd she had, enclosed all about With stickes, and a dree diche without, In which she had a cok hight Chaunteclere. Chaucer. The Nonnes Preestes Tale, v. 14,853. But though this mayden tender were of age, Id. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8096. That roume that the riuer enclosed not, (whych was the space of not aboue six hundred foote) was fortified wyth a hyll of a great heyghth, so that the foote of it on both sydes touched the very brym of the ryuer. Golding. Cæsar, fol. 29. And when the dead, by cruel tyrant's spite, P. Fletcher. The Purple Island. Claud. The grand encloser of the commons, for His private profit or delight, with all His herds that graze upon 't are lawfull prize. Massinger. The Guardian, Act ii. sc. 4. And these were called Linteata Legio [i. e. the Linen When Guiscard next was in the circle seen, Dryden. Sigismonda & Guiscardo. Id. The Hind & the Panther, pt. ii. And before any special revelation made, or any particular covenant enacted (before the enclosure of a particular people or church, the confinement of God's extraordinary presence and providence to one place) divine grace appears diffused over several nations, being watchful in guiding and moving men to good, and withdrawing them from evil. Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 11. Then from their battlements and lofty spires, They see their champaign shine with hostile fires; And, pitch'd around them, hosts of armed foes, With strict embrace, their straiten'd walls enclose. Wilkie. The Epigoniad, b. viii. Arise, my Lycas: in yon woody wilds From a rough rock in deep enclosure hid Of thickest oaks, a gushing fountain falls, And pours its airy stream with torrent pure. Warton, Ecl. 1. EN-CLOUD, v. A. S. Ge-hlidan, to hide, to cover; ge-hlod, ge-hloud, gloud, cloud, is the reSee Tooke. gular past part. To cover; and, consequentially, to throw into, to involve in, shade, gloom, obscurity or dark ness. Suddenly, whether through the God's decree, Spenser. Virgil's Gnat. Shakespeare. Antony & Cleopatra, Act v. sc. 2. EN-COLDEN, v. A. S. Kel-an, to keel or cool. EN-CO/MIAST. ENCOMIA'STICK, adj. ENCOMIA'STICK, n. ENCOMIA'STICALLY. ENCO/MIUM. The hands and feet, being the most remote from it, are by degrees encoldened to a fashionable clay. Feltham, pt. i. Res. 47. Fr. It. and Sp. Encomiaste; Lat. Encomiastes; Gr. Eуkwμιaσтns, from Eуkwμιase: laudare, to praise, or bestow praise. Cockeram has the verb Encomionize. From the noun кμ-os vel кwμŋ, vicus, the compound eyкwpov, denotes laudationem, quæ publicè in vicis fit: whence afterwards it signified generally, laudatoriam orationem; a laudatory oration. See Vossius, and Lennep. Praise, commendation. Let his shrill trumpet, with her silver blast Be the sweet pipe, and smooth encomiast. G. Fletcher. Christ's Triumph after Death. Dia. I thanke you, Mr. Compasse, for your short encomiastick. Rut. It is much in little, sir. If I have not spoken of your majesty encomiastically, your majesty will be pleased only to ascribe it to the law of an history; which doeth not clutter together praises upon the first mention of a name, but rather disperseth and weaveth them through the whole narrative. Bacon. To the King, Let. 84. Well, sister, you have a simple servant here, that crownes your beauty with such encomions and devices: you may see, what it is to be the mistris of a wit. B. Jonson. Every Man in his Humour, Act iv. sc. 2. I will close his life with this encomium, which I find in a worthy author: his disposition was rather to seek after the antiquities and the weal-publick of those countries which he governed, then to obtain lands and revenues within the same.-Fuller. Worthies. Kent. The missionaries of China, even the Jesuits themselves, the great encomiasts of the Chineses, do all to a man agree, and will convince us that the sect of the literati, or learned, keeping to the old religion of China, and the ruling party there, are all of them atheists. Locke. Of Hum. Underst. b. i. c. 4. The first part of which consisted of satyrical invectives against Cromwell, fanatics, the Royal Society, and new philosophy; the next, of encomiastics in praise of the archbishop, the theatre, the vice-chancellor, the architect, and the painter.-Boyle. Works, vol. vi. p. 459. It being well known, that they in their encomiastick speeches, as oratours are wont, following the heat and gaiety of fancy, doe sometimes overlavish. Barrow. On the Pope's Supremacy. Friendship, tenderness, and constancy, drest in a simplicity of expression, recommended themselves by a more native elegance, than passionate raptures, extravagant encomiums, and slavish adoration.-Spectator, No. 525. In smooth and flowery paths th' encomiast treads, When to the mansions of the good and great, pomp the Nymphs of Helicon he leads. In West. The Second Isthmian Ode. In December, 1725, the king in his passage from Helvoetsluys escaped with great difficulty from a storm by landing at Rye; and the conclusion of the satire turns the escape into a miracle, in such an encomiastick strain of compliment as Poetry too often seeks to pay to Royalty. Johnson. Life of Young. Thus Plutarch assures us, that our author [Cicero] having made a speech in public full of the highest encomiums on Crassus, he did not scruple a few days afterwards to reverse the panegyric, and represent him before the same audience in all the darkest colours of his invectives. Melmoth. Cicero, b. i. Let. 5. Note 3. EN-COMPASS, v. (Also In.) Passibus cirENCOMPASSMENT. cuire, circumcingere, to pace or go round. To move or go round; to surround or encircle; to gird around; to environ. With the great glorie of that wond'rous light His throne is all encompassed around, And hid in his own brightnesse from the sight Of all that looke thereon with eyes unsound. Spenser. Of Heavenly Beautie. Some there are that by a spirituall antiperistasis have growne hotter in their zeale, by being encompassed with the outward cold of irreligion and error, who as they owe not this grace to themselves, so are they more for wonder than imitation.-Bp. Hall. Quo Vadis, s. 14. — And finding By this encompassment and drift of question, Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act ii. sc. 1. Our right wing being strengthened by those of our left that were rallied by their officers, fell upon the enemy's left wing; and having broken and repulsed them, resolving to improve the opportunity, charged the main body of the king's army, and, with the assistance of two or three regiments of our infantry, entirely encompassed the enemy's body of foot.-Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. i. p. 131. Near Gaza's walls, a little plain is found, And eke of our materes encorporing. Chaucer. The Chanones Yemannes Tale, v.16,283 These are encorporated to Bermuda towne, which is mado a corporation, according to certaine orders and constitutions. Purchas. Pilgrimage, b. viii. c. 5. s. 4. EN-CORTINED. En, and curtain, (qv.) And all within in preuy place A softe bedde of large space Thei hadde made, and encorteined.-Gower. Con. A. b. i. (Also In.) Fr. Encontrer; Sp. Encontrar; It. Incontrare, occurrere, obviam habere (en, and contra ;) to run or go counter or against. To run or go against, to oppose, to meet in opposition, front to front, to engage with or attack; and, generally, to meet. These ben then the causes, of the abredgyng of fortuit har, ye which abredgyng of fortuit hap commeth, of causes of encounteryng and flowyng togyther to hemselfe, and not by the intencion of the doer.-Chaucer. Boecius, b. v. And the fleting streme that reileth doun diuersly from high mountaines is arrested and resisted ofte time by the encountring of a stone, that is departed and fallen from some rock.-Id. Ib. b. ii. He tolde theym that the frute of all theyr former encounters, consisted altogether in that daye and in that one howre.-Golding. Cæsar, fol. 235. At the first he was sore encountred, and put in great hasarde of repulse, but at length he vanquished and overthrew his enemies.-Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 17. And by cause hys ennemies were no further of than a man might throw a dart, he gaue them a signe of encountryng: ye whych done, as he was goyng to another part to encourage them likewise, he found them feightyng alredy. Golding. Cæsar, fol. 57. Thus as they two of kindnesse treated long Whose trampling feet vpon the hollow lay Which, being violently borne vp, Our helpefull ship was splitted in the midst. Shakespeare. Comedy of Errors, Act i. sc. 1. His angry steed did chide his foming bit; Oh these encounterers so glib of tongue, Shakespeare. Troil. & Cress. Act iv. sc. 5. With a good share of this vanity in my heart, I made it my business these three days to listen after my own fame; and as I have sometimes met with circumstances which did not displease me, I was encountered by others which gave me as much mortification.-Spectator, No. 4. The fleet, favoured by the weather, passed the Canary and Cape de Verde Islands; but had now to encounter other fortune; sometimes stopped by dead calms, but for the most part tost by tempests, which increased their violence and horrours as they proceeded to the south. Mickle. History of the Discovery of India. But while he stood with helm unlac'd, Guichardo eager, with preventive haste, Th' encounter dar'd; nor better could maintain His seat, but with his brethren press'd the plain. Hoole. Orlando Furioso, b. xxxi. EN-COURAGE, v. (Also In.) Fr. En- To inspire or animate with courage, with strength and vigour of heart, with resolution, with fortitude; to give, or confirm, or strengthen, bravery, boldness, hardihood or daringness; a hearty devotedness, a deep fixed resolution. Thei wer not tangled nor letted with ani charge of worldly matters, and might bi their example of constaŭcy, encourage, allure, & prouoke other of the weaker sorte to become souldiours of that band also. Bp. Gardner. Of True Obedience, fol. 44. Therefore they that be dull are not to be discouraged, and those that bee apt, should bee harted and encouraged. Vives. Instruction of Christian Women, b. i. c. 4. [Tyrteus] summoning his armye together, rehearsed vnto them certaine verses that he had compiled wherin was contained the encouragemente of vertue, the comfort of aduersity, and the policies of warre.-Golding. Justine, fol. 23. Those in whom zeal and amity had bred Daniel. Civil Wars, b. vi. And all the way the prince sought to appease The bitter anguish of their sharpe disease, By all the courteous meanes he could inuent; Somewhile with merry purpose fit to please, And otherwhile with good encouragement. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 5. Only lovers will dye for their friends, and in their mistriss quarrell. And for that cause he [Plato] would have women follow the camp, to be spectators and encouragers of noble actions -Burton. Anatomy of Melancholu, p. 529. Afflicted Israel shall sit weeping down, Fast by the stream where Babel's waters run; This was such an encouragement to look after him, [Sir Phelim O'Neal] that one of the country people having notice that he was in an island in the north, gave intelligence hereof to the Lord Cawfield; who, having brought together a party of horse and foot, entered the island in boats, and seized him there.-Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 10. When in a revolution a prince was advanced to the throne, that they looked upon to be a good man, and an encourager of the true religion, in that case they did not only readily submit to him, but acknowledged it as a great blessing of God to them, that he had raised up such a man to rule over them.-Sharp, vol. i. Ser. 9. To you, the polish'd judges of our cause, Our Father which art in heaven- Byrom. On the Lord's Prayer. Spenser. Hymne of Heauenly Loue. EN-CREASE, v. (Now more commonly ENCREASE, n. In.) Lat. Increscere, (in, ENCRE ASEMENT. and crescere, to grow,) ENCREASER. opposed to decrease. As ENCREASING, N. the"Fr. Accroistre,-to increase, augment, amplifie, enlarge, (grow or become, or) make bigger, and bigger; also, to multiply, or wax many," (Cotgrave.) And the Apostlis seiden to the Lord, increese to us feith. Wiclif. Luke, c. 17. And the Apostles said vnto the Lord: increase our fayth. Bible, 1551. Ib. And he that mynystrith seed to the sower schal ghyue also breed to ete, and he shall multiplie ghoure seede, and make mych the encreessynges of fruytis of ghour rightwisnesse.-Wiclif. 2 Corynth. c. 9. He yt fyndeth ye sower sede, shal minyster bread for fode, & shall multiplye youre sede & increase the frutes of your rightwisnes.-Bible, 1551. Ib For he [Solomon] saith, that swete wordes multiplien and encresen frendes and maken shrewes to be debonair and meke.-Chaucer. The Tale of Melibeus. Swelleth the brest of Arcite, and the sore Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 2746. His resons spake he ful solempnely, Id. The Prologue, v. 277. That seemed those two vertues stroue to find The higher place in her heroick mind: So striuing each did other more augment, And both encreast the praise of woman-kind, And both encreast her beauty excellent; So all did make in her a perfect complement. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 5. - I to blesse this feast Will summon up with my all-charming rod The Nymphs of fountains from whose watry locks (Hung with the due of blessing and encrease) The greedy rivers take their nourishment. F. Beaumont. A Mask at Graies Inne. What aggravates the matter is, that those persons who, the better to prepare themselves for this study, have made some progress in others, have, by addicting themselves to letters, encreased their natural modesty, and consequently heighten'd the obstruction of this sort of preferment. Spectator, No. 484. For who that should view the small, despicable beginning of some things and persons at first could imagine or prognosticate those vast and stupendous encreases of fortune, that have afterwards followed them?-South, vol. i. Ser. b. EN-CRIMSONED. Coloured like crimson; having the hue of crimson. Look here what tributes wounded fancies sent me, ENCROACH, v. ENCROACH, n. ENCROACHER. (Also In.) En, or in, and croc, uncus, a hook, (q.d.) says Skinner, unco adjecto sibi attrahere; to draw any thing away by a hook cast upon it. (See ACCROACH.) And thus, consequentially, ENCROACHMENT. To grasp, to seize upon, to trespass upon, the rights and property of others; to intrude, to set footing, to advance gradually, step by step, to steal on beyond due bounds or limits, (sc.) into the rights and property of others. But as other stories testifie, they were shortly after restored againe, & the Mōks who had encroached their places were deprived.-Bale. Pageant of Popes, b. iv. fol. 67. So many sundry miseries abroach, Giving full speed to their unbridled rage, Drayton. The Barons' Wart, b. ¿ Tlaxalla, for their merits in the conquest of Mexico, as before is shewed, is free only they pay a handfull of wheate a man in signe of subiection: but some later exeroachers have forced them to till at their own charge as much ground as their tribute would amount to. Purchas. Pilgrimage, b. viii. c. 10. s. J. She is not the true Catholic church, for this she doth not pretend to, but upon the account of an universall jurisdic tion over all the churches of Christ, which pretension, where it prevails, is a sacrilegious encroachment, and where it deth not, is a meer fable.-Brevint. Saul & Samuel, c. 2. p. 33. Disobedience if complyed with is infinitely encreaching, and having gained one degree of liberty upon indulgence, will demand another upon claim.-South, vol. i. Ser. 5. He that proceedeth otherwise (but according to the standing laws) is an arbitrary and a slippery judge: he encroacheth upon the right and liberty of those with whom he meddleth, pronouncing them guilty, whom God and reason do proclame blameless.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 20. I must confess I cannot imagine that those hereticks who err fundamentally, and by consequence damnably, took the first rise, and began to set up with a fundamental error, but grew into it by insensible encroaches, and gradual insintations.-South, vol. iv. Ser. 9. But I shall now proceed from these arguments, to such considerations, as will be more strong to keep off the croaches of presumption, than these can be to invite them. Id. vol. ix. Ser. 7. The bold encroachers on the deep Swift. The Run upon the Bankers, 1720. And so, this main concernment of ours [thanksgiving) this most excellent part of our duty, if we do not depute some vacant seasons for it, and observe some periodica resources thereof, we shall be tempted often to omit it: shall be listless to doe it, apt to defer it, and easily diverted from it by the encroachments of other less-behoving affairs. Barrow vol. i. Ser 19. Nor are there ever wanting numbers of artful men who stimulate a weak or wicked prince in his encroachments; sensible as they are, that their own power and priviledges will be augmented with those of the prince, whose exclusive favour they have gained, by sycophantick arts and by cooperation in the fallacious service of enlarging his prerogative-Knox. The Spirit of Despotism. EN-CRUST, v. (Commonly In.) To cover with, or draw over, any hard surface, coat or case. Ready Nymphs Received the bursting gems, and Tritons lent Whitehead. To the Nymph of Bristol Spring. EN-CUMBER, or ENCOMBER, U. ENCUMBER, n. ENC'UMBERING, n. ENCUMBRANCE. ENCUMBERMENT. (Also In.) Lat. En, and comber or cumber, (qv.) Fr. Encombrer; It. Ingombrare, (q.d.) incumulare, that is cumulo rerum impedire; to impede by an accumulation of difficulties. To overload, to oppress with a load or burthen; with toil or trouble; with vexation; to embarrass, to harass, to trouble. Thys withouten encumbre with suerd in his hand He alouh withouten numbre, bifor him mot non stand. Id. p. 317. In to the se of Spayn wer dryuen in a torment I drede encombred for to be.-Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose. Much more there was, wherof she shuld complain, So much to write.-Id. The Assemblie of Ladies. So that it might not be nombred The folke, whiche after were encombred Gower. Con. A. b. ii. S. Augustine bryngeth an example that by ordre of tellyng, Adam was in paradise or any tree was brought forth for feedyng, with diuerse other, wherewith I will not encobre the reader.-Bp. Gardner. Explic. of Transubstantiacion, fol.97. And therin is conteigned certayne right highe and profound sentences, and holsome counsailes, and maruailous deuices agaynst the encumbraunce of fortune: and right sweete consolacions for theim that are ouerthrowen by fortune-Golden Boke, Let. 19. Whereupon, the townesmen all at once set up a crie, and beat the enemies back to the very breaches, and ruins of the wall, and from thence thrust them out cleane whiles they were thus encombred and affrighted. Holland. Livivs, p. 398. Another genuine derivation of this selfish fondness, by reason of which we miscarry of science, is the almost insuperable prejudice of custom, and education, by which our minds are encumber'd, and the most are held in a fatal ignorance.-Glanvill. Vanity of Dogmatizing, c. 14. For b'ing unapt for what they took in hand, Daniel. Musophilus. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, And goodly mountains hurl'd EN-CYCLICAL. KUKλOS, a circle. Circular. And no less can be imagined, since their prime and most learned prelate, besides what he did in the council, did also after the council publish an encyclical epistle against the definition of the council, as may be seen in Binius his narrative of the council of Florence. Bp. Taylor. Dissuasive from Popery, pt. ii. b. ii. s. 2. And he told your lordships, that when the bill for the relief of the Roman Catholics was brought into parliament, the apostolical vicars put forth an encyclical letter forbidding the people of their communion to take the oath prepared for them. Horsley. Speech on Petition from the Rom. Cath. Three of our Roman Catholic bishops who call themselves the apostolical vicars of the four districts of this countythree out of these four have promulgated an encyclical letter, in which they reprobate the oath as it stands in the present bill.-Id. On Relief of Roman Catholicks. And therefore in this encyclopedie and round of knowledge like the great and exemplary wheels of heaven, we must observe two circles: that while we are daily carried about, and whirled on by the swing and rapt of the one, we may maintain a natural and proper course, in the slow and sober wheel of the other.-Brown. Vulg. Err. To the Reader. So then, every science borrows from all the rest; and we cannot attain any single one, without the encyclopædy. Glanvill. Vanity of Dogmatizing, c, 22. Let them have that encyclopædian, all the learning in the world, they must keep it to themselves, live in base esteeme, and starve, except they will submit, as Budæus well hath it; so many good parts, so many ensigns of arts, vertues, bee slavishly obnoxious to some illiterate potentate, and live under his insolent worship, or honour like parasites. Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 133. Some by this art have become universally learned in a far larger compass than the old reputed encyclopedy. Boyle. Works, vol. vi. p. 335. Among the authors who have paid the most attention to the subject, [the passions] professor Hutcheson, Dr. Watts, Mr. Grove, the writer of the article "On the Passions of Men," in the British Encyclopædia, and Mr. Hume, may justly be placed in the first rank. Cogan. On the Passions, Pref. So far, my dear lord, we have no reason to censure the thoughts or expressions of the learned encyclopedist; what follows is so profligate, that I would not transcribe it, if I were not sure that you would join with me in condemning it.--Sir W. Jones. Works, vol. i. Let. to Ld. Althorp. END, v. A. S. End, endelease; endeleaslic; endleas-nysse; end-mæst; end-mæst-nesse. Endian, finire, desinere, to end, to make an end. End is opposed to the begining, as from beginning to end: it is also applied to either extremity; as from one end to the other. To come to, reach, arrive at, the last or final To the end he might not be hindred by any let or encum-point of time or space, as the end of the year, the brance [Theodocius] threw away the packs of precious wares and commodities which he had brought away with him. Holland. Ammianus, p. 370. end of a journey; to come to, reach or arrive, The best advisement was, of bad to let her Encumber'd sore with many a painful wound, Rowe. Lucan. Pharsalia, b. vi. disbarthened themselves of all needless encombrances, and They to free themselves from distracting cares voluntarily we are wholly busie in heaping up wealth, and driving on worldly interests.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 2. VOL. I. The point to which our course is directed; when or where our progress ceases or is to cease; the point we seek or intend to reach, the point aimed at; the object or purpose in view. End-day in Robert of Gloucester (see it) is, the day lately passed. last day, the day of death. Ender-day, latter day, Ending,-end of this life; death. 673 That was ys laste chyualerye, tha [that] vayre ended ynon. Fayre weyes mony on ther beth in Engolonde, And sithe at his ende-day he was buried there. Id. p. 610. Appendix. And the eldest dogter mid hire del he gaf with oute faile The kyng of Scotland and the other the kyng of Cornewall, To haue half ys lond myd hem at the begynnyng, And seththe al ys kyndom aftur ys endyng.-Id. p. 31. "Alas!" he seyde, "the dolful harm, that y's endeles." Id. p. 152. After in his thrid gere Steuen fulle seke gan lie, & in that grete languour endid he is life. R. Brunne, p. 127. The kyng from day to day he heuyed more and more Ner hand his endyng. sekenes greued him sore.-Id. p.65. Bothe he that revel lyveth. revel shal ende. Piers Plouhman, p. 162. What man that me lovyth. and my wylle followeth Shall haue grace to good ynow and a good end.-Id. p. 25. And an Austyn this ender day, egged me faste That he wolde techen me wel, he plyght me his trouthe. Id. Crede. And ye schulen be in hate to alle men for my name but he that lasteth into the eende schaal be saaf. Wiclif. Mark, c. 13. And ye shal be hated of al men for my name sake. But whosoeuer shall endure vnto ye ende, the same shal be safe. Bible, 1551. Ib. Beholdynge in to the maker of feith, and the parfyt ender Jesu.-Wiclif. Ebrewis, c. 12. The enemy that sowith hem is the fend, and the ripe corn is the endynge of the world, the repers ben aungels. Id. Matthew, c. 13. And the enemye that soweth them is the Deuyll. The harvest is the ende of the world, and the repers be the angels. Bible, 1551. Ib. Who can the pitous joye tellen all Chaucer. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 5536. Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 2778. Now herken who that wol it here Chaucer. The Doctoures Tale, v. 12,152. And yet was he to me the moste shrew, Id. The Wif of Bathes Prol. v. 6089. My sone, God of his endeles goodnesse For he hath then at all tide Where that there nis no ioye of light, The peyne shall ben endelesse.-Id. Ib. b. viii. And call to count the things that then wore donne, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. s. 3. The king is not bound to answer the particular endings of his souldiers, the father of his sonne, nor the master of his seruaunt, for they purpose not their death, when they purpose their seruices.-Shakespeare. Henry V. Act iv. sc. 1. And can it be imaginable, that life itself, and a long life, an eternal and happy life, a kingdom, a perfect kingdom and glorious, that shall never have ending, nor ever shall be abated with rebellion, or fears, or sorrow, or care; that such a kingdom should not be worth the praying for, and quitting of an idle company, and a foolish humour, or a little drink, or a vicious silly woman for it.-Bp. Taylor, vol. i. Ser. 1. He [the scoffer] will tell you, he believes there is an heaven of eternal happiness; and scorns those that seek it: that there is an hell of endless woe and torment, and makes sport of all endeavours to avoid it.—Glanvill, Ser. 4. Fram glooming shadows of eternal night, Drayton. The Legend of Pierce Gaveston. For such a dream I had of dire portent, Dryden. The Cock and the Fox. Religion is totum hominis, with respect to happiness and well-being of man. That is properly said to be the chief end or happiness of a thing which doth raise its nature to the utmost perfection of which it is capable, according to its rank and kind.—Wilkins. Natural Religion, b. ii. c. 1. Ends, in their nature different, can never be attained by one and the same means. Warburton. The Divine Legation, b. ii. s. 5. And what then? It is the business of art first to choose some determinate end and purpose, and to select those parts of nature, and those only, which conduce to that end, avoiding, with most religious exactness, the intermixture of any thing, which would contradict it. Burke. Hints for an Essay on the Drama. 'Huovo, mules, tho' a masculine ender, Byrom, Epistle 3. EN-DA'MAGE, v. (Also In.) See Con ENDA'MAGEMENT. DEMN. To hurt, injure, or harm; to inflict any injury or detriment. For Erasmus sayth; damnatus dicitur, qui damno afficitur. He is called damnatus, that is endamaged or hurte any wayes.-Bale. Apology, fol. 137. Conditionally that vnto our subiects, which be endamaged, correspondent satisfaccion be likewise on your part within the terme of the foresayde three yeeres performed. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 177. The one partie may not make warre nor endomage the other, nor theyr allyes, nor subiectes vnder any coulour or occasion what soeuer it may be.-Nicolls. Thucid. fol. 138. Ne ought he car'd, whom he endamaged Dec. Where your good word cannot aduantage him, Id. John, Act ii. sc. 1. To which I answer, that it is impossible for any man living to know how much he is endamaged by a slander: for like some poisons, it may destroy at two, five, seven, ten, or perhaps twenty years' distance. South, vol. vi. Ser. 3. EN-DA'NGER, v. (Also In.) To endanENDANGERMENT. Sger or to danger is To be or cause to be within the action or agency, the reach or risk of damage, of pain or penalty, of hurt, ill or mischief; within the reach or risk of penal, hurtful, mischievous power. They must needes little consider themselues, who bring in this necessitie, rather to stande to the pleasure of a man's will, then to abide the reason of the law, and to be endaungered more whan an other man lysteth, then when himselfe offendeth.-Sir John Cheeke. The Hurt of Sedition. Yet here had he not speedy succour lent, Daniel. Civil Wars, b. iv. Thur. Sir Valentine, I care not for her, I: I hold him but a foole that will endanger His body for a girle that loues him not. Shakespeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act v. sc. 4. I could plead for him necessity: his owne nation was shut up to him if he would have tried to fetch a daughter of Israell he had endangered to leave himselfe hehind. Bp. Hall. Cont. Of the Calling of Moses. That he was forced to withdraw aside; Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 2. Wherefore serves our happy redemption, and the liberty we have in Christ, but to deliver us from calamitous yokes, not to be liv'd under without the endangerment of our souls, and to restore us in some competent measure to right in every good thing both of this life, and the other. Milton. Tetrachordon. If he has a natural inclination to it [painting] it will endanger the neglect of all other more useful studies, to give way to that; and if he have no inclination to it, all the time, pains, and money that shall be employ'd in it, will be thrown away to no purpose.-Locke. Of Education, s. 203. As the King [Henry I.] extricated himself happily from so great an affair, so all the other difficulties of his reign only exercised, without endangering him. Burke. An Abridgment of English History, c. 4. If beauty thus be clouded with a frown, That my life's light wholly endarken'd is: Why should I more molest the world with cries; The air with sighs, the earth below with tears? Daniel. Sonnets to Delia, s. 21. EN-DART, v. "Fr. Darder; to dart, to fling, hurl, cast or throw a dart; also, to hit, wound, pierce, or hurt with a dart," (Cotgrave.)" Juli. Ile looke to like, if looking liking moue, But no more deepe will I endart mine eye. Shakespeare. Romeo & Juliet, Act i. sc. 3. EN-DEAR, v. (Also In.) A. S. Derian, to ENDE ARMENT. dere, to hurt, to do mischief; and, consequentially, to cause to be or become scarce or rare; and thence, costly, precious. And to endear, is To cause to be, to make dear or precious; highly or greatly prized, much or highly beloved. Whereas, the excesse of newe buildings and erections hath daily more encreased, and is still like to do so; wherby and by the immoderate confluence of people thither, our said city [London] and the places adjoyning, are, and daily will be, more and more pestred, all victuals and other provisions endeared, &c. K. James's Procl. conc. Buildings, 1618. Rym. Foed. i. 107. Stirling. Doomes-Day. The Seventh Houre. Drayton. The French Queen to C. Brandon. And although in matters of religion the husband hath no and intreat, and induce by arguments, there is not in a empire and command, yet if there be a place left to persuade, family a greater endearment of affections than the unity of religion.-Bp. Taylor, vol. i. Ser. 18. For ah! no more Andromache shall come, Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. xvii. Walsh. To his Book. His force of genius burn'd in early youth, O! deemest thou indeed Akenside. Pleasures of Imagination, b. il. EN-DEAVOUR, v. ENDEA'VOUR, n. ENDEAVOURer. ENDEAVOURING, n. ENDEAVOURment. (Also In.) See Dr. VOIR. Dever is used by Chaucer for endeavour, says Junius; and it is so used in the north of England to this day. Devoir or dever, is from the Lat. Debere; and thus endeavour is, as Minshew expresses it, debitum officium præstare; or, as Skinner, officium suum, prout debet, exequi; and, in its application, is equivalent to thehimself, to strive with might and main, to use his "Fr. S'efforcer,-to endeavour, labour, enforce (utmost) strength, apply (all) his vigour, employ his (whole) power," (Cotgrave:) and also, to try, attempt, or essay. Some were of this opinion, that it was best to abandon al theyr stuffe and caryages, and so yssuing out to endewor to scape wyth theyr lyues by the same way that they came thither.-Golding. Cæsar, fol. 66. Let us endevour ourselves [good Christian people] diligently to keepe the presence of his Holy Spirit. Homilie. Rogation Weeke, pt. Brother Skelton, your endeuorment Ye have deserved.-Skelton. Maister Gower to Skelton Id. Civil Wars, bri Greater matters may be looked for, than those which were the inventions of single endeavourers or results of chance. Glanvill, Ess. 3. Which president, of pestilent import, Daniel. Civil Wars, b. it Spenser. Mother Hubberd's Tale He is a man, that does not pick and choose out of God's commandments which to observe, to the neglect of the rest: but endeavours uprightly and sincerely to observe them all. Sharp, vol. i. Ser. 5, His ashes in a peaceful urn shall rest, Dryden. On the Death of Oliver Cromwell It is one among many reasons for which I purpose to endeavour the entertainment of my countrymen by a short essay on Tuesday and Saturday, that I hope not much to tire those whom I do not happen to please; and if I am not commended for the beauty of my works, to be at least pardoned for their brevity.-Rambler, No. 1. It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom; or that which is established because it is right, from that which is right only because it is esta blished; that he may neither violate essential principles by a desire of novelty, nor debar himself from the attainment of beauties within his view, by a needless fear of breaking rules which no literary dictator had authority to enact. Id. No. 155. EN-DE/MIAL. ENDE MIC. ENDE'MICAL. Gr. Ενδημιος, (er, and δήμος, a people.) "Peculiar to a people. It seems, in general, that raw sallets and herbs have experimentally been found to be the most sovereign diet in that endemial (and indeed with us epidemical and almost universal) contagion, the scorbute, to which we of this nation, and most other islanders, are obnoxious. p. 190. Evelyn. Acetoria. Granger. The Sugar Cane, b.i A traveller, in his way to Italy, found himself in a country where the inhabitants had each a large excrescence depend ing from the chin: a deformity which, as it was endemic, and the people little used to strangers, it had been the custom, time immemorial, to look upon them as the greatest Johnson. Paraphrase of an Epitaph on Sir T. Hanmer. beauty.-Goldsmith, Ess. 1. Whenever it is so, the variety of delusion with which a different spirit may then possess its votaries, will centre, properly speaking, in endemoniasm. Byrom. Enthusiasm, a Poetical Essay. EN-DE'NIZE, v. (Also In.) A denizen is ENDE'NIZEN. an alien born, who has obtained, ex donatione regis, letters patent to make him an English subject. To endenize To give or bestow the rights of a natural born subject, of a native; to admit, to introduce, to the enjoyment of such rights and usages. And having by little and little in many victories vanquished the nations bordering upon them [they] brought them at length to be endenized and naturalized in their owne name, like as the Persians also did. Holland. Ammianus, p. 401. Thus then you order the matter; Jews and Mahometans may be permitted to live in a Christian commonwealth with the exercise of their religion, but not to be endenizon'd: Pagans may also be permitted to live there, but not to have the exercise of their religion, nor be endenizon'd. Locke. A Third Letter of Toleration, c. 3. New words he shall endenizen, which use Francis. Horace. Epistles, b. ii. EN-DE/TTED, i. e. Indebted, (qv.) and also debt. And yet I am endetted so therby Of gold, that I have borowed trewely. Chaucer. The Chanones Yemannes Tale, v. 16,202. For if we be so endetted and bounde to God, that for the knowledge he hath given us, we ought to geue to him honourable and thankfull testimony, why is our stomach so abashed and fearful to enter into the battell? EN-DITE, or L ENDI'CT, V. ExDITER. RENDITING, n. ENDICTMENT. Caluine. Foure Godlye Sermons, Ser. 2. Now more commonly In, (qv.) Fr. Endicter, enditer; It. Indettare, indittare. To endite, is To write, (sc.) what the muse or the mind of the writer may dictate; what the law, or, in the form and manner which the law, may dictate or prescribe; to charge or accuse in a dictated or prescribed form of words; and, generally, to accuse. He conde songes make, and wel endite, Juste and eke dance, and wel pourtraie and write. Chaucer. The Prologue, v. 95. The temporal theft is, as for to take thy neighbour's catel ayenst his will, be it by force or by sleight; be it in meting or measure; by steling; by false enditements upon him. Id. The Persones Tale. Wherefore I beseke you mekely for the mercie of God that ye preye for me, that Christ have mercie of me and foryeve me my giltes, and namely of myn translations and enditinges of worldly vanitees.-Id. Ib. And I sat downe vpon the grene, Fulfylled of loue's fantasie, And with the teres of mine eie, In stede of ynke, I gan to write The wordes, whiche I woll endite.-Gower. Con. A. b. viii. The first were of enditours Of olde Cronike, and eke auctoures.-Id. Ib. b. iv. At the daye appointed for the pleadinge of his case, Orgetorix called to the sessions all his kynred and alyance, to the number of ten thousand men, together with all his reteynours and dettours, of whom he had a great cōpany. By them he so wrought that he came not to answere his enditement.-Golding. Cæsar, fol. 4. By knowing what he taketh himselfe vnto, and wherein hee most delighteth. I may commend him for his learning, for his skill in the French, or in the Italion, for his knowledze in cosmographie: for his skill in the lawes, in the histories of all coutries, and for his gift of enditing. Wilson. Arte of Rhetorique, p. 13. And forthwith would the dictat. have resigned up his office, but that the court, held for the trial of M. Volscius, endited for bearing false witnesse, staied him. Holland. Livivs, p. 107. Having graunted libertye thereof to preferre slanders and false endictments, a number were brought into question from all parts (in manner) of the earth, as well of noble birth as of obscure parentage.-Id. Ammianus, p. 140. But aboue all these, he held in greatest esteeme, Narcissus his secretarie or enditer of epistles, and Pallas the keeper of his bookes of accounts.-Id. Suetonius, p. 198 Every sermon we hear, that showeth vs our duty, will in effect be an enditement upon us, will ground a sentence of condemnation, if we transgress it.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 26. Upon whatever occasion these words [Psalm 1xxv. v. 1] were originally endited, the Christian church now celebrates in them that great deliverance, which, by so many miracles of mercy and power, hath been accomplished for her through Messiah, who is in Scriptures frequently styled, "the Name of Jehovah."-Horne. Com. Psalm 75. E'NDLONG. A. S. Andlang, andlong, ondlong, i. e. on long, now written along, (qv.) And Tooke, i. p. 424. She slough them in a sodeine rage Thys kynge the wether gan beholde, This lady rometh by the clyffe to play Id. Ib. Chaucer. Legend of Hypsiphile. That who from East to West will end-long seeke, Cannot two fairer citties find this day, Except Cleopolis. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 9. The singular discipline and order of that nation in old time, was going downward and endlong many yeeres and ages alredie, and the popular government of many, growne to decay and ruine, which can not possibly continue long without some chaunge and alteration of state. Holland. Livivs, p. 921. EN-DOCTRINE, v. (Also In.) To teach ENDOCTRINATED. or instruct. Ptolomæus Philadelphus was endoctrined in the science of good letters by Strabo. Donne. Hist. of the Sept. (1633.) p. 2. Now then suppose, that one of those should have preached over and over again the same doctrine, not long, nor hard to be carried away, in all the cities, townes, and boroughs of some great country, so that whilst he stayed there, they were throughly understanding and endoctrinated in that way. Hammond. Works, vol. ii. p. 638. EN-DORSE, or ENDO'SS, v. ENDO'RSEMENT. } (Also In.) Dorse, from the Lat. Dorsum, the back. To back; to put on, get on, sit on, write on, strike on, the back. It is used by Spenser generally-to write, inscribe or ingrave, cut or carve. "Fr. Endosser,-to indorse; also, to back, to put a back unto; also, to put on the back, whence, Endosser un harnois, to arm himself, to put on his harness; to get an armour on his back," (Cotgrave.) True is, that I at first was dubbed knight By a good knight, the knight of the Redcrosse ; Who, when he gaue me armes, in field to fight, Gaue me a shield in which he did endosse His deere Redeemer's badge vpon the bosse. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 11. Her name on every tree I will endosse, That as the trees do grow, her name may grow; And in the ground each where will it engrosse; And fill with stones that all men may it knowe. Id. Colin Clout's come Home again. They no sooner espyed the morninges mistresse, with disheueled tresses, to mount her iuorie chariot, but they endossed their armours. Knight of the Sea. (See Todd's Spenser, vol. vi. p. 294. N.) Nay, so your seate his beauties did endorse As I began to wish myself a horse. B. Jonson. To the Earl of Newcastle. The field all iron cast a gleaming brown, Nor wanted clouds of foot, nor on each horn Cuirassiers all in steel for standing fight, Chariots or elephants endorst with towers Of archers. Milton. Paradise Regained, b. iii. This perchance may be your policy, to endorse me your brothir, thereby to endear me the more to you. Howell, b. iv. Let. 1. Sire was also appropriate only to the king: but now, adding a name after it, 'tis applicable to any mean man upon the endorsement of a letter or otherwise.-Id. b. iv. Let. 19. Or, whether the examples of men, either noble or rell gious, who haue sat down lately with a meek silence and sufferance under many libellous endorsements, may be a rule to others, I might well appease myself to put up any reproaches in such an honourable society of fellow-sufferers, using no other defence.-Milton. Apology for Smectymnuus He no sooner came within reach, but the first of them with his whip took the exact dimension of his shoulders, which he very ingeniously call'd endorsing; and indeed I must say that every one of them took due care to endorse him as he came through their hands.-Spectator, No. 498. Care will be taken for the future, that the letters I send to you be dated. But in case at any time it should be forgotten, you may be pleased in great part to supply the omission, by endorsing on the letter when you receive it; for by that it will appear, that at least it was written as early as the time mentioned in the endorsement. Boyle. Works, vol. vi. p. 70. For I am much mistaken, Mr. Spec. if some of these endorsements were not wrote in so strong a hand, that they are still legible.-Spectator, No. 498. What he [Hastings] has endorsed on the bonds, or when he made the endorsement, or whether in fact he has made it at all, are matters known only to himself. Burke. Report of a Committee on the Affairs of India. EN-DOUBT, v. To throw into doubt or fear; to fear. And if I ne had endoubted me To haue ben hated or assailed EN-DOW, or ENDU'e, v. ENDOWMENT. Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose Endew, by Spenser. Skinner has no doubt that endue (or indue) is corruptly written for endow; en, and dow, (qv.) from the Lat. Dos; Gr. Aws, any thing given. To give; to bestow; to give or bestow, (sc.) a dowry or gift on marriage; a marriage portion; to bestow or settle any gift of property upon; to give or bestow, (sc.) any qualities of mind or body. Take mesure in your talking, be not outrage, For this rehearseth Romance de la Rose, A man endued with plenteous language Oft time is denyed his purpose.-Chaucer. Balade. Meas. Among so manye notable benefites wherewith God hath alreadie liberally and plentifullye endued vs there is nothing more beneficiall, than that wee haue by hys grace kept vs quiet from rebellion at this time. Sir J. Cheeke. The Hurt of Sedition. And to aduance his name and glory more, Her sea-god syre she dearely did perswade, T'endow her sonne, with treasure rich and store Boue all her sonnes, that were of earthly wombes ybore. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 4. Thou losell base That hast with borrowed plumes thyself endewed, Then like a faery knight himself he drest; To tell my forces matchable to none.-Id. Ruines of Time. Our laws give great encouragement to the best, the noblest, the most lasting works of charity: such as erecting workhouses for the poor that are able to work, endowing hospitals and alms-houses for the impotent, distempered and aged poor; setting up free-schools for the education of youth. Stillingfleet, vol. ii. Ser. 3. Now an unintelligent being, 'tis evident, cannot be endued with all the perfections of all things in the world; because intelligence is one of those perfections. Clarke. On the Attributes, Prop. 8. And yet I do not take humility in man to consist in disowing or denying any gift or ability that is in him, but in a just valuation of such gifts and endowments, yet rather thinking too meanly than too highly of them. Ray. On the Creation, pt. viii. But in my Delia all endowments meet, Pomfret. Strephon's Love for Delia. For some there are whose mighty frame Akenside. On Lyric Poetry. Neither, in those days of feodal rigour, was the husband allowed to endow her ad ostium ecclesia with more than the third part of the lands whereof he then was seized, though |