Fer euery man of high and low degree Enuieth now, that other should thriue. Lidgate. The Story of Thebes, pt. iii. The spices of envie ben these. There is first sorwe of other mennes goodnesse and of hir prosperitee; and prosperitee ought to be kindly mater of joye; than is envie a sinne ayenst kinde. The seconde spice of envie is joye of other mennes harme; and that is proprely like to the Divel, that ever rejoyseth him of mennes harme. Chaucer. The Persones Tale. And as wel cometh ire of pride as of envie, for sothly he that is proude or envious is lightly worth.-Id. Ib. And on her toures, as thei looken out, Lidgate. The Story of Thebes, pt. iii. This sounde aduise and counsell sent from you With friendly hart that you (my friend) do giue, With willing minde I purpose to ensue, And to beware of enuie while I liue. Turbervile. To a Friend that wil'd him to beware of Envie. I enuye not the lyuyng Goddes, nor the men that be dead, but for two thynges, and thei been these: The Goddes liue without feare of theim that be malicious, and they that be dead are in peace without nede of women. Golden Boke, c. 19. Now yf there be many suche, and all they with one assente enuiously haue conspired the deathe of a symple personne, howe may he flee soe great malyce, and namely so muche put in exercise.-Fisher. On the Seuen Psalmes, Ps. 38. pt.ii. Envy is ever joyned with the comparing of a man's selfe; and where there is no comparison, no envy; and therefore kings are not enuied, but by kings.-Bacon. Ess. Of Envie. But since he stands obdurate, And that no lawful meanes can carrie me Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice, Act iv. sc. 1. That we are ready here; that Lucius Bastia, B. Jonson. Catiline, Act iv. sc. 5. So much the sooner, because you haue endured so manie crosses, and haue through so much enuiengs and misfortunes perseuered in your attempts, which no doubt shall at last by you be performed when it shall please him, who hath made you an instrument of so worthie a worke. Holinshed. Ireland. Ep. Ded. by Hooker, vol. vi. For they ween'd That self-same day by fight, or by surprize To set the envier of his state, the proud Aspirer, but thir thoughts prov'd fond and vain Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vi. This course doth too much noise abroad the disgrace itselfe; so as enemies and enviers become more confident to hurt, and friends more fearful to help him. Bacon. On Learning, by G. Wats, b. viii. c. 2. Nay, some have been so curious, as to note, that the times when the stroke or persecution of an envious eye doth most hurt, are, when the party envied is beheld in glory or triumph.-Id. Ess. Of Envie. Whilst these rebellions are in England broach'd, Our ruin, which too fast approach'd, About our ears was Aquitain a fire. Drayton. The Miseries of Queen Margaret. Hor. She speakes much of her father; saies she heares There's tricks i' th' world, and hems, and beats her heart, Spurns enviously at strawes, speakes things in doubt, That carry but halfe sense. Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act iii. sc. 5. Beside the champions, all of high degree, Dryden. Palamon & Arcite. Or yet more briefly; envy is a certain grief of mind conceived upon the sight of another's felicity, whether real or supposed; so that we see that it consists partly of hatred and partly of grief.-South, vol. v. Ser. 10. Ah, wretched me! by Fates averse, decreed, To bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed! Did envious heaven not otherwise ordain, Safe in thy hollow ships thou should'st remain; Dryden. Homer. Iliad, b. i. Observing one person behold another, who was an utter stranger to him, with a cast in his eye, which methought expressed an emotion of heart very different from what could be raised by an object so agreeable as the gentleman he looked at, I began to consider, not without some secret sorrow, the condition of an envious man.-Spectator, No. 19. Great neighbours enviously promote excess, Dryden. Prol. At the Opening of the New House. Wilkie. The Epigoniad, b. ix Envy; that is, a painful sensation excited by the view of something desirable in the state and situation of another, which self-love wishes to appropriate. To envy, is to repine at the good conferred upon another, or possessed by him. Cogan. On the Passions, pt. i. c. 2. Benevolence places the mind at a remote distance from little jealousies and envyings: it tempers the irritative nature of anger, and teaches compassion to subdue it. Id. Ib. pt. ii. c. 3. § 4. His [Nebuchadnezzar] frowns were the signal of death, and his smiles ensured the most enviable prosperity. Id. Theological Disquisitions, Dis. 2. c. 2. § 3. I mean that sort of courage which enables you to have a will of your own, and to pursue what is right amidst all the persecutions of surrounding enviers. dunces, and detractors. Knox, Ess. 89. Since the pain of absence is removed, let me thus remove the thin vest that enviously hides thy charms. Sir W. Jones. The Songs of Jayadeva. EN-VYNED. Fr. Envine; stored, furnished or seasoned with wine. His brede, his ale, was alway after on; EN-WALL, v. Chaucer. The Prologue, v. 344. (Also In.) To surround with a wall, i. e. with materials consolidated, cemented or fastened together; to surround, to environ. Into a felde she brought me wyde and large Enwalled about with the stony flint. Skelton. The Crowne of Laurell. There where the deepe did show his sandy flore, And heaped waves an uncouth way enwall: Whereby they past from one to other shore, Walking on seas, and yet not wet at all. EN-WOVEN. (Also In.) Intermixed, by weaving; intertwined, intertwisted. And thou, faire Phoebus, in thy colours bright He spake, and instant round they spread Was mix'd with flow'rs of lively blue, The apple boughs enwove.—Mickle. Ode. May-Day. EN-WRAP, v. (Also In.) To turn round ENWRA'PMENT. fold round, to enfold, to i volve. Neither was there any straungenesse or cloking made the kinde of doctrine, whiche he oftentimes vsed among the people, enwrapping his minde and sentence in the mistica darkenesse of parables.-Udal. Luke, c. 23. Before, they fastened were under her knee Least whiles wee make haste by leaps to return other out of one place to another, we should in a confusion of a enwrap the order and course of the storie with very fou obscuritie.-Holland. Ammianus, p. 290. Lo! from that mount in blasting sulphur broke Till sated with the pleasing ride, Lloyd. Two Odes, Ode! EN-WREATHE, v. (Also In.) To twist o twine, to intwine. Some there were of opinion among them, that we shock be enwreathed in a sail and thrown into the sea. Shelton. Don Quixote, vol. ii. c. Worked EN-WROUGHT. Sir P. Sidney, Ps. 78. worked in. O change my state, unthrall my soul enthralled: Of my escape then will I tell the story, And with a crown enwalled Of godly men, will glory in thy glory.-Id. Ps. 142. Once those fair bounds stretch'd out so far and wide, Where towns, no shires enwall'd, endear each mile. Drummond. Flowers in Sion. EN-WALLOWED. A. S. Walw-ian, volvere, volutare, Rolled, rolled about. Haile to thee ladie: and the grace of heauen Before, behinde thee, and on euery hand Enwheel thee round.-Shakespeare. Othello, Act ii. sc. 1. EN-WOMAN, v. To give or bestow the peculiar qualities of a woman; feminine qualities. That grace which doth more than enwoman thee, Lives in my lines, and must eternal be.-Daniel, son. 42. EN-WOMB, v. To bear or carry, hide or conceal, in the womb. Me then he left enwombed of this childe, I say I am your mother, Shakespeare. All's Well that Ends Well, Act i. sc. 3. Or as the Affrique Niger streame enwombs Donne. Funeral Elegies. (Also In.) There royal Ganymede enwrought with art, Pitt. Virgil. Eneid, by Е/РАСТ. Dodsley. Agriculture, c Fr. Epacte; It. Epact, epatte Sp. Epata; Lat. Epacta; Gr. EraKTOS, TEXT nepal, from enay-ew, adjicere, to throw to, add; (em, and ay-ew, to bring.) Days thrown in, added, (sc.) to find the age the moon. And afterwards, as he [Mercury] played at dice with t Moon, and won from her the seventieth part of every one her illuminations, which being all put together, make intire dayes, he added the same unto the three hundred a threescore dayes of the year; and so those od dayesi Egyptians do call at this present, the dayes of the celebrating and solemnizing them as the birth-dayes of th Gods.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 1051. EPAULET. Fr. Espaulette. Epaulette, fro epaule; It. Spalla, the shoulder; Lat. Scapula A shoulder knot, an ornament for the shoulde Their old vanity was led by art to take another turn was dazzled and seduced by military liveries, cockades, s epaulets, until the French populace was led to becere willing, but still the proud and thoughtless instrument a victim of another denomination. Burke. Appeal from the New to the Old Wh EPHEMERIDES. EPHEMERON. EPHEMEROUS. Gr. Eonuepos, (from e for, and nepa, a day.) For a day; during, lastin living a day; and thus-p rishing with the day. As I was musing thus, I spied a swarm of gnats waving up and down the air about me; which I knew to be a part of the universe as well as I; and methought it was a strange opinion of our Aristotle to hold, that the least of these small insected ephemerans should be more noble than the sun, because it hath a sensitive soul in it.-Howell, b. ii. Let. 50. Yet there are certain flies that are called ephemera, that live but a day.-Bacon. Naturall History, Cent. 8. s. 697. But this was no more than a meer bubble or blast, and like an ephemeral fit of applause, as eftsoons will appear in the sequel and train of his life.-Reliquiæ Wotton. p. 220. Epigenes, an author as renowned, and of as good credite as any other, sheweth that among the Babylonians there were found ephemerides containing the observation of the stars for 720 yeeres, written in brickes and tiles and they that speake of the least, to wit, Berosus and Critodemus, reporteth the like for 480 yeeres.-Holland. Plin. b. vii. c. 56. If God had gone on still in the same method, and shortned our dayes as we multiplyed our sinnes, we should have been but as an ephemeron, man should have lived the life of a fly, r a gourd, the morning should have seen his birth, his life 1ave been the term of a day, and the evening must have prorided him of a shroud.-Bp.Taylor. Gt.Exemp. pt.iii. Disc. 15. Our many sudden, short winded ejaculations toward hearen, our frequent, but weak, inclinations to good, our ephemerous wishes, that no man can distinguish from true piety, ut by their sudden death; our every day resolutions of bedience, whilst we continue in sin, are arguments that God's spirit hath shined on us, though the warmth that it produced be soon chill'd with the damp it meets within us. Hammond. Works, vol. iv. p. 597. It is usual with these to rise to universal fame immeliately on publication; to bask like the ephemera, in the unshine for a day, and then fall into irretrievable obscurity. Knox. Winter Evenings, Even. 6. Esteem, lasting esteem, the esteem of good men, like imself, will be his reward, when the gale of ephemeral pularity shall have gradually subsided. Id. On Grammar Schools. These ephemerides of politicks are not made for our slow nd coarse understandings.-Burke. Regicide Peace, Let. 4. A black beetle, with gauze wings, and a crusty covering, Produces a white, smooth, soft worm; an ephemeron fly, a od-bait maggot.-Paley. Natural Theology, c. 23. Hope, fear, alarm, jealousy, the ephemerous tale, that does ts business, and dies in a day, all these things, which are be reins and spurs by which leaders check or urge the minds followers, are not easily employed, or hardly at all, mongst scattered people.-Burke. French Revolution. E/PHOD. Heb. " a priestly garment, used inciently to be worne by the priests among the lewes. There were two kinds; the one made of gold, blewe silk, and purple, skarlet, and finewined linnen of broidered worke; and this only belonged unto the high priest, and was only used by him; the other was of white linnen, used by he other inferiour priests, Levites, and also by kings," (Minshew.) No wonder though the people grew profane, Drayton. The Barons' Wars, b. iv. The bloody son of Jesse, when he saw Chatterton. Happiness, (1770.) EPICK, adj. Lat. Epicus; Gr. ETIKOS, from E/PICK, n. Enos, a word. Applied to a particular kind of poetry. See the quotation from Bossu, and Twining's Aristotle. The epick poem is a discourse invented by art to 10rm the manners, by such instructions as are disguised under the allegories of some one important action, which is related in verse, after a probable, diverting, and surprizing manner. Pope. Odyssey. From Bossu. EPICE'DE. Lat. Epicedium; Gr. EπIndiov, EPICE'DIAN. from emi, on or upon, and kno-os, fanus, a funeral. Epicedium dicitur, nondum sepulto cadavere, Epitaphium, post completam sepulturam. See Vossius. Here he describeth the furye of the epicures (which is the highest and depest mischeif of all impiete) euen to cōtempne the very God.-Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 12. Wonder it is, seeinge this epicury Godles furye be so horrible a sinne agayenst God's highe maiesty, that no man că expresse the grauite therof, that so innumerable men so miche delyte withe the contempt of God in these epicurye opinions.-Id. Ib. There is also a certē oratio in Latin, made by D. Samson, late B. of Chichester, and now the double-faced epicureous bite-sheepe of Co. Lich. Bp. Gardner. True Obedience. Translator to the Reader. Den. I, then, would thus rise up, And to his teeth tell him he was a tyrant, A most voluptuous and insatiable epicure Massinger. The Renegado, Act Iv. sc. 2. And in a garden's shade that sovereign pleasure sought: Whoever a true epicure would be, May there find cheap and virtuous luxury. Cowley. The Garden. But these are epicureal tenets, tending to looseness of life, luxury, and atheism, maintained alone by some heathens, dissolute Arabians, prophane Christians. Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 387. But, when thou'st drunk, and danc'd, and sung Epicurean animal!) Sated with thy summer feast, Thou retir'st to endless rest.-Cowley. The Grasshopper. We cannot tell, indeed, whether they [mushrooms] were accommodated for the most luxurious of the Some men would be thought to be Deists, because they pretend to believe the existence of an eternal, intirite, independent, intelligent Being; and, to avoid the name of epicurean Atheists, teach also that the Supreme made the so heated and accommn that monarchy was in its highest strain of epicurism, and engross'd this haut-gout for their second course; whilst this we know, that 'tis but what nature affords all her vagabonds under every hedge. Evelyn. A Discourse of Sallets. Let them be barbarous as they are, let them tyrannize, factions and contentions. Epicedes and epicurize, oppresse, luxuriate, consume themselues with Upon a funeral, a funeral song, an epitaph. Donne has some poems entitled, " Obsequies upon the Deaths of sundry Personages." Upon whose brest (which trembled as it ranne) Rode the faire downie silver-coated swan. The And on the banckes each cypress bow'd his head, To hear the swan sing her owne epiced. Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. i. s. 5. tle turtles did with moans make swell ining gorges: the white black-ey'd swains woful epicedians, Yould straightways die. Their As the Whils S With mix The hum And the And how VOL. as Marlow & Chapman. Hero & Leander. behold the various fight, gled pleasure and affright, Sle hinds do fall to pray'r, an army's seen i' th' air, Prophetic spaniels run, thy epicedium.-Lovelace. The Falcon. world. Clarke. On the Evidences, Introd. I will content myself to ask, whether he that should take all his notions of Stoicism from Velleius, or of Epicureanism from Balbus, or of both from the declamation of Cotta, would do much justice to the portic, or to the garden of Gargettus.-Bolingbroke, Ess. 2. Of Human Reason. Burton. Democritus to the Reader, p. 60. [There is] a fellow here about town, that epicurizes upon burning coals, & drinks healths in scalding brimstone. Marvell. Works, vol. ii. p. 60. Infidelity, or modern Deism, is little else but revived Epicureism, Sadducism, and Zendichism. Waterland. Works, vol. viii. p. 80. The truth is, their very fasts and humiliations have been observed to be nothing else but a religious epicurism, and a neat contrivance of luxury: while they forbear dinner, only that they may treble their supper; and fast in the day, like the evening wolves, to whet their stomachs against night. Whatever esteem they had then, they have lost all their reputation among our modern epicures, who know no such things as pleasures of the mind, and would not much value whether they had any faculties of the mind or no, unless it were for the contrivance of new oaths and debaucheries. Stillingfleet, vol. i. Ser. 1. South, vol. ix. Ser. 5. It is a maxim with some in modern days, never to ask a favour of an epicure 'till after his meals; and the Ancients were not unacquainted with the mollia tempora fandi. Some think that they [Eccl. viii. 16] are spoken of in the person of an epicurean, who despised all religion, and thought it useful for nothing but to make men's lives uncomfortable to them, and so to shorten their days: and that the next verses are in answer to them, by shewing that wickedness doth much rather do it.-Id. vol. iv. Ser. 13. Cogan. On the Passions, vol. i. pt. ii. c. 2. § 18. If Parliament, sir, had nothing to do with this charter, we might have some sort of epicurean excuse to stand aloof, indifferent spectators of what passes in the Company's name in India and in London. Burke. On Mr. Fox's East India Bill. Yet, when he observed that the same thing happened both to the fool and the wise; he rejected this likewise with the rest and, now floundering deeper and deeper in his philosophical enquiries, he sinks at last into gross epicurism; There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink.-Warburton. Rem, on Occasional Reflections. EPICYCLE. Fr. Epicycle; It. Epiciclo; Sp. Epicyclo; Lat. Epicyclus; Gr. ETI-KUKλos, emɩ, in, and кUкλоs, a circle. "A lesser circle, whose centre is within the circumference of a greater; hence, a lesser circle, that comprehends, and carries about with it, a planet, itself being carried about by a greater; the seat of a planet, or story wherein it is fixed," (Cotgrave.) They can tell you fine things of the fiery element under the moon, and the epicycles of the stars.-Glanvill, Ess. 3. The exquisite regularity of all the planets' motions, without epicycles, stations, retrogradations, or any other deviation or confusion whatsoever? Clarke. On the Attributes, Prop. 11. A certain point, which seemed to be the centre of gravity of those two bodies, however posited (considered as one) seemed to be regularly mov'd in such a circle or ellipsis; the two balls having other peculiar motions in small epicycles about the same point.-Boyle. Works, vol. vi. p. 227. Or should I rather, if I cou'd, In the xix. yere of this Charlys, ye lande of Fraunce was greuously vexyd with the plage ipydymye, of whiche sykenesse a great multitude of people dyed.-Fabyan, an. 1599. It was conceiued not to be an epidemicke disease, but to proceed from a malignitie in the constitution of the ayre, gathered by the predispositions of seasons; and the speedie cessation declared as much.-Bacon. Hen. VII. p. 9. 1625. This was the year in which the pestilence was so epidemical that there dy'd in London 5,000 a week. Evelyn. Memoirs, I believe it hath so wrought upon the general genius of the world, as it is not so audaciously and epidemically facinorous, as it was in times of Paganism, who were taught by their Gods to be loose and lesse then men. Feltham, pt. ii. Res. 46. A vagary of fortune who is sometimes pleased to be frolicsome, and the epidemic madness of the times have given him reputation, and reputation (as Hobbes says) is power, and that has made him dangerous. Dennis. Remarks on Homer, Nor is this any secret of the law which hath lain hid from the beginning, and now brought out, to bring him to justice; but that which is co-natural with every man, and innate in his judgment and reason, and is as ancient as the first King, and an epidemical binding law in all nations in the world." Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 345. App. K. Charles's Case. It is needful an ingredient should be generally friendly, before it be entertained epidemically in our daily diet. Boyle. Works, vol. vi. p. 372. We have seen no traces of those dreadful exterminating epidemicks, which, in consequence of scanty and unwholesome food, in former times, not unfrequently wasted whole nations.-Burke. On Scarcity. Whatever be the cause of this epidemic folly, it would be unjust to ascribe it to the freedom of the press, which wise men have ever held one of the most precious branches of national liberty. Warburton. Dedication to the Freethinkers, (1738.) EPIDICTIC. Gr. ETIDEIKTIKOS, from ETTIdekvμ, to show, to display, (sc.) the art, the eloquence. I admire his [Junius] letters, as fine pieces of eloquence of that kind, which the ancient rhetoricians denominated the epidictic.-Knox. Winter Evenings, Even. 29. EPIGLOTTIS. Fr. Epiglottide; It. Epiglotti; Sp. Epiglotus; Lat. Epiglottis; Gr. Emiyλwools. (ETTI, and YAWTTа, the tongue.) The flap or little tongue, which covers the aperture in the larynx or head of the windpipe. And lest, when we swallow, our meat or drink should fall in there and obstruct it, it hath a strong shut or valve, called epiglottis, to cover it close and stop it when we swallow.-Ray. On the Creation, pt. ii. In a city feast, for example, what deglutition, what anhelation! yet does this little cartilage, the epiglottis, so effectually interpose its office, so securely guard the entrance of the wind-pipe, that whilst morsel after morsel, draught after draught, are coursing one another over it, an accident of a crumb or a drop slipping into that passage (which nevertheless must be opened for the breath every second of time,) excites in the whole company, not only alarm by its danger, but surprise by its novelty.-Paley. Natural Theology, c. 10. EPIGRAM. EPIGRAMMA'TICK. EPIGRAMMATICAL. Fr. Epigramme; Sp. and It. Epigramma; Lat. Epigramma; Gr. Επιγραμμα, EPIGRAMMATIST. from E-papei, superscribere, inscribere, to superscribe or write upon. The eulogy (Vossius says) which is usually inscribed upon statues, trophies, and monuments. An inscription or superscription; and, as Cotgrave calls it," a couplet, stanza or short poem, wittily taxing a particular person or fault." A colledge of witte-crackers cannot flout mee out of my humour, dost thou think I care for a satyre or an epigram? Shakespeare. Much Ado About Nothing, Act v. sc. 4. If you will reade carping, epigrammaticall verses of a Durham poet against Ralfe the prior, here you may have them.-Camden. Remaines. Epigrammes. Break the beds, drink your wine, crown your heads with roses, and besmear your curled locks with nard; for God bids you to remember death: so the epigrammist speaks the sense of their drunken principles. Bp. Taylor. Holy Dying, c. 1. s. 2. Homer, Virgil, or Milton, so far as the language of their poems is understood, will please a reader of plain common sense, that would neither relish or comprehend an epigram of Martial or a poem of Cowley.-Spectator, No. 70. He [Milton] has none of those little points and puerilities that are so often to be met with in Ovid, none of the epigrammatick turns of Lucan, none of those swelling sentiments which are so frequent in Statius and Claudian, none of those mixed embellishments of Tasso.-Id. No. 279. Had this old song [Chevy Chase] been filled with epigrammatical turns and points of wit, it might perhaps have pleased the wrong taste of some readers; but it could never have become the delight of the common people, nor have warmed the heart of Sir Philip Sidney like the sound of a trumpet.-Id. No. 74. It is not necessary in Poetry for the points of the comparison to correspond with one another exactly, but that a general resemblance is sufficient, and that too much nicety in this particular savours of the rhetorician and epigrammalist.-Id. No. 303. Inscriptions, for such are epigrams according to the original meaning, are by no means in their own nature a contemptible species of composition.-Knox, Ess. 303. With all the faults of Owen, such has been the sterility of epigrammatick genius in our country, that he may still retain the title, which he has acquired among foreigners, of the British Martial.-Knox, Ess. 305. Of the different faces shown by the same objects, as they are viewed on opposite sides, and of the different inclinations, which they must constantly raise in him that contemplates them, a more striking example cannot easily be found, than two Greek epigrammatists will afford us, of their accounts of human life, which I shall lay before the reader in English prose.-Adventurer, No. 107. Fr. Epilepsie; Sp. and It. Epilepsia; Lat. Epilepsia; Gr. Επιληψια, επι, and ληψια, from Aaßew, to take, to catch It is, says Minshew, EPILEPSY. EPILEPTIC, adj. EPILEPTIC, n. EPILEPTICAL. hold of. A strong and violent convulsion of the body, which taketh hold both of mind and sense together. Cas. What's the matter? Iago. My lord is falne into an epilepsie, This is his second fit; he had one yesterday. Shakespeare. Othello, Act iv. sc. 1. A plague vpon your epilepticke visage. Id. Lear, Act ii. sc. 2. An epileptick son does often come from an epileptick father, and hereditary diseases are transmitted by generation. Bp. Taylor. Of Repentance, c. 6. s. 7. If it proceed from moisture, dulness, drousiness, headache followes; and as Salust Salvianus, cap. i. lib. ii. out of his own experience found, epilepticall, with a multitude of humours in the head.-Burton. Anat. of Melancholy, p. 198. Some make epilogation Of highe predestination.-Skelton. Boke of Colin Clout. I know no cause, the old and usual way F. Beaumont. Epilogue to the Custom of the Country. EPIPHANY. Fr. Epiphanie; It. Epifania; Lat. Epiphania; Gr. Emipaveia, (from eπ, and φαιν-ειν, apparere. ) An appearance, a manifestation. But to cloke those matters in the meane time, upon that solemne holiday which the Christians celebrate in the moneth of Januarie, and commonly call the epiphanie, [Epiphania, he [Julian, went into the church or congregation, and after he had solemnly done his worship and devotions to ther God, departed.-Holland. Ammianus, p. 167. It would have disturbed an excellent patience to see him, whom but just before they beheld transfigured, and in à glorious epiphany upon the mount, to be so neglected by a company of hated Samaritans, as to be forc'd to keep ha vigils where nothing but the welkin should have been hi roof.-Bp. Taylor, vol. iii. Ser. 9. ΕΡΙΡΗΟΝΕΜΑ. Gr. Επιφωνημα, (επι, 201 nua, the voice, from pwv-ew, to speak.) Ap plied toAn exclamatory saying or sentence. And for a concluding epiphonema, it is said of them in the last verse, That knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only s the same, but have pleasure in those that do them. South, vol. xi. Ser But this office of the ordinary apostleship or epi derives its fountain from a rock: Christ's own distingas ing the apostolate from the function of presbyters. Bp. Taylor. Of Episcopacy! In the eight session whereof it is reported, that M. Grahame bishop of Orkney had openly, before the wh body of the assembly, renounced his episcopal function, 201 craved pardon for having accepted it, as if thereby committed some hainous offence. Bp. Hall. Episcopacy by Divine Right, Pre There he commits to the presbyters only full auth both of feeding the flock, and episcopaling; and com that obedience be given to them as to the mighty hast God, which is his mighty ordinance. Milton. Reason of Church Goterat s And if the censor, in his moral episcopy, being to most in matters not answerable by writ or action, c use an instrument so gross and bodily as jurisdiction is. can the minister of the gospel manage the corpulent ar secular trial of bill and process in things merely spirit Id. A It was the universal doctrine of the church of God fr many ages, even for fourteen centuries of years, that eptio is the divine, or apostolical institution. Bp. Taylor. Rule of Conscience, b. i. c. 4. Rules "Twas to make him (such honours to him given) Regius professor to the king of heaven; By whom he's prelated above the skies, And the whole world's his seat t' episcopise. Broome. On the Death of Mr. Josias Shot Those who seeme most doubtfull about the original of copacy, doe yield the general consent of the church in t practice of it.—Stillingfleet, vol. ii. Ser. 10. But the great objection against Timothy's being a pa for episcopal power is this; that it appears by Scripture was sent up and down to several places, as Paul the When the act of uniformity required all men who be any benefices in England to be episcopally ordained [Sydserfe], with others of the Scotch clergy that ge about him, did set up a very indefensible practice of orda ing all those of the English clergy who came to ima that without demanding either oaths or subscriptions them.-Burnet. Own Time, an. 1661. St. Cyprian expressly says, that all the apostles w equal in power, and that all the bishops were also e since the whole office and episcopate was one entire t of which every bishop had a complete and equal share. Id. Hist. of Reformation, b. ii. an. 15 Your modesty refuses the just praises I give you by you lay claim to more, as a bishop gains his bishopte saying he will not episcopate. Pope. To Wycherly, April, Election was, in very early times, the usual mode elevating to the episcopal chair throughout all Christer. and this was promiscuously performed by the laity as as the clergy.-Blackstone. Commentaries, b. i. c. 2. It will also be observed here, that we are considered parishioners of the missionaries, no less than pres episcopalians.-Secker. Ans. to Dr. Mayhew's Observat E'PISODE. EPISODIC. EPISODICAL. EPISODICALLY. Gr. Επεισόδιον, (επι, eis, and ódos,) superinductum, any thing superinduced, introduced. Mr. Twining thinks the Gr. Ereiσodiov was always used by Aristotle in its proper, and derivative sense, of something more or less adventitious or accessory,-something inserted, superadded, introduced, at pleasure, by the poet; that by degrees, scarcely any other idea was annexed to the word than that of digression; something foreign to the subject, or connected with it only by a slight thread: and that, in modern language, the word is applied only to entire actions of this additional or digressive kind, (Twining. Aristotle, Treatise on Poetry, vol. i. N. 37.) But it may be asked, does not Homer offend against all degrees of probability in these episodes of the Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, Cyclops and Antiphates? how are these incredible stories to be reduced into the bounds of probability?-Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. x. Note. Besides the many other beauties in such an episode, its unning parallel with the great action of the Poem, hinders t from breaking the unity so much as another episode would ave done, that had not so great an affinity with the prinipal subject.-Spectator, No. 267. Now this episodic narration gives the Poet an opportunity relate all that is contained in four books without breaking Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. xii. Note. a upon the time of action. After this follow the episodes of Dido and Deiphobus, in nization of Homer; where we find nothing explanatory of le true nature of this episode, but the strange description Deiphobus; whose mangled phantom is drawn according the Philosophy of Plato; which teaches that the dead ot only retain all the passions of the mind, but all the arks and blemishes of the body. Warburton. The Divine Legation, b. ii. s. 4. It is more glaringly inconsistent with the genius of the tama to admit of foreign and digressive ornaments, than "the extended episodical epopesia. Hurd. Notes on the Art of Poetry. A distant perspective of burning Troy might be thrown to a corner of the piece, that is, episodically, with good vantage.-Id. Ib. EPISTLE. EPI'S TLER. EPI'S TOLAR. EPISTOLARY. EPISTOLICAL. EPFTOLIZE. EPISTOLIZER. Fr. Epistre; It. and Sp. Epistola Lat. Epistola; Gr. ETLOTOAN, (q.d.) missoria, from ·ETIOTEλλ-Eш, to send to, (emi, and σTEλλ-Ew, to send,) Vossius. Any thing sent; or, in common English, a letter, written one, and sent and addressed to another. But that I be not gesside as to feere ghou bi epistlis, for ei sein that the epistles ben greuouse and strong, but the esence of the bodi is feeble, and the word worthi to be spisid.-Wiclif. 2 Corynth. c. 10. Thys saye I, least I shoulde seme as though I went about make you afrayde wyth letters, For the epistles (sayth he) sore and strong; but his bodely presence is weake, and speache is rude.-Bible, 1551. Ib. For there was some epistel hem betwene Epistles, or (according to the word in use) familiar letters, y be called the larum bells of love: I hope this will prove to you, and have power to awaken you out of that silence erein you have slept so long.-Howell, b. iv. Let. 1. For in this address to your lordship, I design not a treatise of Heroic Poetry, but write in a loose epistolary way, somewhat tending to that subject, after the example of Horace, in his first epistle of the second book to Augustus Cæsar, and of that to the Pisos, which we call the Art of Poetry. Dryden. Dedication to Eneis. But what needs the man to be so furiously angry with good old epistler for saying, that the apostle's charge (let ery man have his own wife) is general to all; reaching to clergy as well as the laity, excepting none but those tich have the gift of continency. Bp. Hall. The Honour of the Married Clergie. This epistolar way will have a considerable efficacy upon e-More. On the Seven Churches, p.7. There each w Some iters to istalizers, freighted with mere Bartholomew ware, ith trite reds of I answ sions: ve wh the an adersta a Cogan. Theological Disquisition, Conclus. EPISTYLE. Gr. ETIσTUλIOV, (eπi, upon, and σTUλos, a pillar or column.) trivial phrases only, listed with pedantic ool-boy verses.-Id. Ib. nd that the epistles were written upon several ocand he that will read them as he ought, must obat 'tis in them is principally aimed at; find what gument in hand, and how managed; if he will nd them right, and profit by them. Locke. Reasonableness of Christianity. In a word [the Tænia] 'tis that in the Doric architrave which cymatium is in the other order, and separates the epistilium or architrave from the freeze. Evelyn. On Architecture. EPITAPH. Fr. Epitaphe; It. Epitafio; Sp. EPITA'PHIAN.Epitaphio; Lat. Epitaphium; Gr. EnTapiov, from en, and Tapos, sepulchrum, from eaTT-e, sepelire, to bury. Fuller coins a verb. Any thing (written or inscribed) upon a tomb, and, generally, upon the dead; strictly, after burial. See EPICEDe. And for men shall the soth witte As thynge, whiche shulde abide stable, Gower. Con. A. b. iv. I confess very many of her descendants dyed before her death; in which respect she was far surpassed by a Roman matron, on whom the poet thus epitapheth it in her own person.-Fuller. Worthies. Buckinghamshire. He that would write an epitaph for thee, Donne, Elegy upon, by Dr. C. B. of O. Like the doughty Centurion Afranius in Lucian; who, to imitate the noble Pericles in his epitaphian speech, stepping up after the battle to bewail the slain Severianus, falls into a pitiful condolement, to think of those costly suppers, and drinking banquets which he must now taste no more. Milton. Animadversions on Remonstrants' Defence. They only want an epitaph The merry torch burns with desire Lovelace. A Guiltless Lady Imprisoned. It might however be expected, that if Theocritus had borrowed at all from the sacred writers, the celebrated epithalamium of Solomon, so much within his own walk of poetry, would not certainly have escaped his notice. Langhorne. On Collins's Oriental Eclogues. E/PITHEM. Fr. Epithème; It. Epittima; Sp. Epithima; Gr. Emionua, any thing put or placed upon another; from ETITIONμ, to put or place upon, (eπi, and Tibeσdal.) Any thing (medicinal) applied to the outward part of the body; Cotgrave calls it, a liquid medicine, (so applied.) Upon this reason epithems or cordial applications are justly applied unto the left breast. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 2. It may indeed seem a very singular epitasis of a Poem to end as this does, with a great yawn; but we must consider it as the yawn of a God, and of powerful effects. Pope. Dunciad, b. iv. (Rem. v. 606.) EPITHA'LAMY.) Fr. Epithalame; It. EpiEPITHALA'MIUM. Stalamio; Sp. Epithalamio; from emi, and aλaμos, a couch or bed, the marriage couch or bed. See the quotation from Ben Jonson, who entitles his song Epithalamium. A song or poem upon a marriage; a nuptial song. He show'd us how for sins we ought to sigh, Donne, Elegy upon, by J. Chudleigh. I made it both in forme and matter to emulate the kind of poeme, which was called epithalamium, and (by the ancients) used to be sung, when the bride was led into her chamber.-B. Jonson. Masques. Hymenæi. A word imposed or added; an adjective ascribing or describing some quality, for the sake of emphasis or discrimination. I am come newly from those ladies, who think themselves more lovely than before, and perhaps than they are, ever since I showed them your character of their beauties, in your letter from the Galley-Gravesend, never was a town better epitheted.-Reliquiæ Wottonianæ, p. 566. For every man is naturally a Narcissus, and each passion in us, no other but self love sweetened by milder epithels. Glanvill. Vanity of Dogmalizing, c. 12. He adds an epithete to Pelion (eivoσipuλλov) which very much swells the idea, by bringing up to the reader's imagination all the woods that grew upon it.-Spectator, No. 333. The character of Bajazet, the son and successor of Amurath, is strongly expressed in his surname of Ilderim, or the lightning; and he might glory in an epithet which was drawn from the fiery energy of his soul, and the rapidity of his destructive march.-Gibbon. Roman Empire, c. 64. Some, Milton-mad, (an affectation, EPITOME. EPITOMIST. EPITOMIZE. EPITOMIZER. is Lloyd. On Rhyme. It. and Sp. Epitome; Lat. Epitome; Gr. ETITOμn, from ETITEμV-EIV, to cut off, (em, and To cut off, to curtail; and thus, to abbreviate or abridge; to abstract. The wrytynge of theim, and of other seemeth rather epitomes, than histories.-Golden Boke, Prol. The common printed chronicle is indeed but an epitome or defloration made by Robert of Lorraine, Bishop of Hereford, under Henry I.-Drayton. Poly-Olbion, Pref. I had a mother, and she look'd upon me Massinger. Parliament of Love, Act iii. sc. 3. Now if we may believe Trogus Pompeius (epitomiz'd by Justin, lib. i.) Egypt was a most flourishing and magnificent nation before Ninus was born. Ralegh. History of the World, b. i. c. 8. s. 4. All those rare parts that in his brothers were Epitomiz'd, at large in him appear. Drayton. David & Goliah. But I shall conclude with that of Baronius, and Spondanus his epitomizer. Prynne. Histrio-Mastix, pt. i. Act vii. sc. 1. and set out King Ptolemies riot as a chiefe engine and inWhen that epitomizer of Trogus had to the full described strument of his overthrow, he addes tympanum et tripudium, fiddling and dancing; the king was not a spectator only but a principall actor himself. Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 487. Thus much is more generally beleved, that both this Brennus, and another famous captain Britomarus, whom the epitomist Florus and others mention, were not Gauls but Britons.-Milton. History of England, b. i. This sentence [Matt. vii. 12.] I read unto you, is very fitly placed towards the close of our Saviour's admirable sermon on the mount, as being, in great measure, the epitome and sum of what the divine preacher had there expressed more at large. Atterbury, vol. i. Ser. 9 This may make the naturalist's fame very uncertain, not only because of want of judgment, that (as I newly said) is too often observable in compilers, whereby they frequently leave far better things than they take, but for the want of skill to understand the author they cite and epitomize, or candour to do him right.-Boyle. Works, vol. iv. p. 56. From hence (as Servius remarks) Virgil took the hint of his Silenus: the subject of whose song is so exact an epitome of the contents of the Metamorphosis of Ovid, that amongst the ancient titles of that eclogue, the name of Metamorphosis was one.-Warburton. Divine Legation, b. iii. s. 3. It has been lately discovered, that this fable (the Merchant of Venice) is taken from a story in the Pecorone of Giovanni Fiorentino, a novelist, who wrote in 1378. The story has been published in English, and I have epitomized the translation.-Johnson. Gen. Observ. on Merchant of Venice. It is true, the historian has confounded times in making Joseph contemporary with Moses; but this was a common mistake amongst the pagans. Justin, the epitomizer of Trogus Pompeius, calls Moses the son of Joseph. Warburton. Divine Legation, b. iv. Notes. E/POCH. It. and Sp. Epoca; Lat. Epocha; EPOCHA. Gr. Eroxn, a holding in or retention, from Erexe, to hold in or retain, (€7, and exew, to have or hold.) Epochas, in Chronology, are certain periods of time, from which calculation commences, and at which it terminates, and again commences; thus forming certain bounds or limits confining the calculation of time. But in regard, in divers ages and nations, divers epochs of time were used, and several forms of years: here it's necessary that some common and known account should be observed, to which the diversity of the rest may most appositely be reduced.-Usher. Annals, Ep. to the Reader. And to take the world in a lower epocha, what after-age could exceed the lust of the Sodomites, the idolatry and tyranny of the Egyptians, the fickle levity of the Grecians? South, vol. vii. Ser. 14. The dreadful period, so frequently predicted, was now arrived. The ages of their independency were passed: and a new epoch succeeded. Cogan. Theological Disquisitions, Dis. 2. c. 2. §5. E'PODE. Fr. Epode; Sp. and It. Epodo; Lat. Epodon; Gr. Enwdov, from eaЄid-ei, supercanere, (e, and acid-eiv, canere, to sing.) Gesner says, “ Quæ post στροφην, et αντιστροφήν, επωδόν, dicebant ;" and though usually thus applied to the third stanza of the Greek ode, yet employed otherwise by the Latins. My Muse up, by commission; no, I bring B. Jonson. The Forrest, s. 10. And Horace seems to have purged himself from those splenetic reflections in those odes and epodes, before he undertook the noble work of satires, which were properly so called.-Dryden. Dedication to Juvenal. EPOPE E. Gr. EnоTouα, from Eros, a word or saying, and TOLEW, to make. Its general and etymological sense, as Mr. Twining observes, is, That of imitating or making by words. The work of Tragedy is on the passions; and, in a dialogue, both of them abhor strong metaphors, in which the epopee delights.-Dryden. Dedication to Eneis. If we believe the representations of some writers, Poems equal in length to the most celebrated epopeas of Greece and Rome have been handed down, without the aid of letters, from the remotest antiquity to the present day. Knox, Ess. 134. EPOTATION. Lat. Epotare, (e, and potare,) to drink. Gr. Ποω. A drinking out. When the sword and fire rages, tis but man warring against man; when drunkenness reignes, the Devil is at war with man, and the epotation of dumbe liquor damnes him.-Feltham, pt. i. Res. 84. derives from Ek-ew, or Ik-ew, venire, accedere, to Causing the same or similar sensations; having There is also moderation in tolleration of fortune of every sorte, which of Tulli is called equabilitie. Sir T. Elyot. Governour, b. iii. c. 20. We therefore are not enquiring what the wise and glorious God might or could do in order to the equable reduction of the world, upon a supposition of an eternal duration; but we are upon a question of fact indeed, namely, what he hath done.-Hale. Origin. of Mankind, p. 227. I come now to the second premised consideration and enquiry, viz. Whether there may not be found some extraordinary occurrences and correctives, that may reduce that otherwise natural and ordinary increase of mankind to an equability.-Id. Ib. p. 207. First, for the celestial or heavenly bodies, the equability and constancy of their motions, the certainty of their periods and revolutions, the conveniency of their order and situations, argue them to be ordain'd and govern'd by wisdom and understanding.-Ray. On the Creation, pt. i. If I were to give my opinion upon such an exhausted subject, I should join to these other qualifications a certain æquability or evenness of behaviour.-Spectator, No. 68. If bodies move equably in concentrick circles, and the squares of their periodical times be as the cubes of their distances from the common centre, their centripetal forces will be reciprocally as the squares of the distances.-Cheyne. Referring the balance to the rest of the works, he saw, Bodies seem to act mutually upon each other, with a kind E'QUAL, adj. Written Egal by our older Causing similar or same She [Virginitee] is the preising of this world, and she is Id. The Sompnoures Tale, v. 7819. In which fifth party thou shalt find tables of equacions of And eke the constellacions.-Gower. Con. A. b. vi. But for an egalnes to be kept among you, that is to witte, that through your riches, wherof ye haue aboūdaūce, their pouertie may be relieued: and again that theyr fayth and godlines, wherin they passe you may recompence that, that perchaunce wanteth in you, whyles eche of you departeth with other, so that neither of you tacke anye thyng, but EPULATION. Lat. Epulatio, from Epulari, that there be an equalitie obserued.-Udal. 2 Cor. c. 8. to feast or banquet. That he [Epicurus] was contented with bread and water, and when he would dine with Jove, and pretend unto epulation, he desired no other addition than a piece of Cytheridian cheese.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vii. c. 17. And he that high does sit, and all things see For thyself, thou art Massinger. The Duke of Milan, Act ii. sc. 1. I know you labour, The liberty of your father; at the least, Massinger. Unnatural Combat, Act i. se. ! Stirling. Jonathan. Whereby great Sidney and our Spenser might, Sfor. And too, her goodness, Massinger. Duke of Milan, Act i. sc. 3. Shakespeare. K. John, Actii. sc. 2 Of pow'r looking alike on like deserts, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. Vnreconcileable, should diuide our equalness to this. After so many toils and hazards, so much trouble and le for the public good, they were not unwilling to put an e to their power, and to content themselves with an ea share with others, for the whole reward of their labours. Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. ii. p. If the sin we are afraid of, in doing or not doing the acti doth on both sides appear equal, there we are to deter ourselves to that side, where we have the least doubt offending God.-Sharpe, vol. ii. Of a Doubting ConsciEROL Thus when thy draughts, O Raphael, Time invades And the bold figure from the canvass fades; A rival hand recalls from every part Some latent grace, and equals art with art. Broome. To Mr. Pope, on his We If the motion of the sun were as unequal as of as driven by unsteady winds, sometimes very slow, and others irregularly very swift; or if being constantly swift, it yet was not circular, and produc'd not the sa appearances, it would not at all help us to measure time, a more than the seeming motion of a comet does. Locke. Of Hum. Underst. b. ii, c. 14. s. It could not equalize the hundredth part Waller. At Pens-h The finest Poem that we can boast, and which we e and perhaps would willingly prefer to the Iliad, is void those fetters, [rhyme.] Orrery. Remarks, &c. on Dr. Swift, Let He pursued his intentions with such equalness of r that he was never carried beyond the calmness of his man temper, except through his zeal for the publick god where his friend was concerned. Lloyd. Funeral Sermon en Dr. Wi Rowe. Lucas, b Dr. Warton. To Mr. Se Churchill. The Ap |