Ta his examen of this experiment our author makes me infer from the phænomena he repeats, that not only the air, but the water also has a spring.-Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 171. None indeed can so contentedly brook reproach, or blame, as he that by intimate acquaintance with his own heart doth know the censure passed on him to be in effect mild and favourable; as finding himself a witness of more faults, than any adversary can accuse him of; as being a stricter examiner, and severer judge of himself than the most envious eye, or disaffected mind can be.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 13. But read their works, examine fair, Show me invention, fancy there: Taste I allow; but is the flow Of genius in them? surely, no. 'Tis labour from the classic brain. Lloyd. A Dialogue between the Author & his Friend. Shall I with Bavius then my voice exalt, And challenge all mankind to find one fault? Young. To Mr. Pope, Ep. 2. The proper office of examination, enquiry, and ratiocinaion, is, strictly speaking, confined to the production of a st discernment and an accurate discrimination. Cogan. Ethical Treatise. On the Passions, pt. ii. Introd. The rigid examiners of Christ's pretensions (a favourite ord of such persons, and used by Bishop Hoadley, on the crament,) seldom take into consideration what the Scripres dwell upon, the love of God, the love of Christ, and e return of love which is due from man to his Maker, reserver, and Redeemer. Knox. Considerations on the Lord's Supper, s. 21. EXAMPLE, v. EXAMPLELESS. EXEMPLAR, n. EXEMPLAR, adj. EXEMPLARY. EXEMPLARILY. EXEMPLARINESS. EXEMPLARITY. EXEMPLIFY, V. EXEMPLIFICATION. EXEMPLIFIER. Fr. Exemple; It. Essemplo; Sp. Exemplo: also formerly written Ensample. (qv.) Vossius suggests ab eximendo, from taking out, (sc.) as a specimen or sample; or from ex, and amplum. Scheidius, from the Gr. Et, and ouaAos, similis, (sc.) one from others like it. Cotgrave well explains e noun: "A sample, pattern or precedent to low, a copy or counterpane of a writing; one ing alledged to prove or inforce another that sembles it." To exemplify, to produce, give, or set such ttern, &c. Tho nine crowned be very exemplaire, Of all honour longing to chiualry, For thei be to the worldes eie or the more exemplification of the same, he sent the de de Roche with letters of credĕce to signifie to the peror's Maiestie that to the same articles he the Frenche promised in the worde of a king as prince faythfull, to rue and kepe for him and his realme and subiects. Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 22. Lidian. You are the pattern of fair friendship, Beaum. & Fletch. The Lover's Progress, Act ii. sc. 1. Brag. I will haue that subiect newly writ ore, that I may mple my digression by some mighty president. Shakespeare. Love's Labour Lost, Act i. sc. 2. By their examples, each brave English blood Drayton. The Battle of Agincourt. We are naturally apt to be carried with examples: it is of the greatest improvements of wisdom to know whom, what, and how far we may imitate; the best have their VOL L It [the delight that a man takes from another's sin] is properly a love of vice, as such, a delighting in sin for its own sake; and is a direct imitation, or rather an exempli71.fication of the malice of the Devil.-South, vol. ii. Ser. 5. B. Jonson. Sejanus, Act ii. sc. 4. It doth give me not only an undeniable evidence, but an exemplar in analogy and explication, that the coalition of the goodly frame of the universe was not the product of chance, or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter, not the single effect of matter and motion. Hale. Origin. of Mankind, p. 26. And in such cases when the wells are dry, let us take in water from a cistern, and propound to ourselves some exemplar saint, the necessities of whose life hath determin'd his piety to the like occurrences. Bp. Taylor. Great Exemplar. Exhortation. We are not of opinion, therefore, as some are, that nature in working hath before her certayne exemplarie [in some ed. examplary] draughtes or patternes, which subsisting in the bosome of the Highest, and being thence discouered she fixeth her eye vpon them, as trauellers by sea vpon the pole starre of the world, and that according therevnto shee guideth her hand to worke by imitation. Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. i. § 3. My father's disorder appeared to be a dropsy, an indisposition the most unsuspected, being a person so exemplaryly temperate.-Evelyn. Memoirs, an. 1640. The sensible rhetorick of the dead, to exemplarity of good life, first admitted the bones of pious men and martyrs within church walls.-Brown. Urn Burial, c. 3. Yet indeed it is true that it [the denial of Christian sepulture] ought not at all to be inflicted upon any direct account of justice, but upon collateral considerations, as for terror and exemplarity.-Bp. Taylor. Rule of Consc. b. iv. c. 1. So that besides the dishonour which he susteined by the repulse, in lieu of lucre he suffered losse, and therefore this lesson by exemplification would be learned and practised that Res bene quisque gerens lucra fit inde ferens. Holinshed. Edw. III. an. 1316. There were ambassadors sent to Athens, Sp. Posthumius Albus, M. Manlius, and P. Sulpitius Camerinus; who were commanded to exemplifie and copie out, the famous and worthie lawes of Solon.-Holland. Livius, p. 109. On war intent, to that he bends his cares, And would the dire example far excell.-Rowe. Lucan, b.i. If he really intends to ruin and murther his prince, (as Cromwell, an experienced artist in that perfidious and bloody faculty, once did,) he must weep and call upon God, use all the oaths and imprecations, all the sanctifi'd perjuries, to perswade him, that he resolves nothing but his safety, honour, and establishment, as the same grand exemplar of hypocrisy did before.-South, vol. i. Ser. 9. This illustrious character [Plato] has its proper influence on all below it; the other virtuous personages, are in their degree, as worthy, and as exemplary as the principal. Guardian, No. 140. Hence, likewise, he could, with more advantage, describe an exact copy of righteousness for us to transcribe, shewing us exemplarily how as men we should behave ourselves. Barrow, vol. ii. Ser. 23. And, indeed, it is a saying equally ancient and true, that none should know (things better and) better things than princes; for their virtues and their vices participate the eminence and authority of their condition; and by an influential exemplariness, fashion and sway their subjects. Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 311. In truth, if there were not several good men among us, that by the exemplarity of their lives, and their charity, do stand in the gap between the reigning sins of the times, and the judgments of God that threaten us from them; it would be a melancholy thing to think what could become of us.-Sharp, vol. i. Ser. 4. This is a scheme of Christian religion that some men have laid down to themselves; and if it be a true one, then what becomes of the exemplarity of Christ's life? what becomes of our obligations to walk as he walketh? Why, verily, it all falls to the ground.-Id. vol. v. Disc. 5. The observation, that old people remember best those things which entered into their thoughts when their memories were in their full strength and vigour, is very remarkably exemplified in this good lady and myself, when we are in conversation.-Guardian, No. 5. Flesh and blood will not reveal unto us, nor can any man with clear confidence say, that Jesus (the author, master, and exemplifyer of these doctrines) is the Lord, (the Messias, the infallible Prophet, the universal Lawgiver, the son of the living God,) but by the Holy Ghost. 721 Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 65. But if Christ is both the way, and the truth, and the life, why do all our schemes of life and plans of conduct deviate so from this great exemplar.-Knox. Antipolemus. And you, whose exemplary steps began A moral precept, conveyed in words, is only an account of truth in its effects; a moral picture is truth exemplified; and which is most likely to gain upon the affections, it may not be difficult to determine.-Langhorne. On Collins's Odes. It is to be remarked, that many words written alike are differently pronounced, as flow and brow, which may be thus registered flow, woe; brow, now: or of which the exemplification may be generally given by a distich. Johnson. The Plan of an English Dictionary. See EXSANGUIOUS. EXANGUIOUS. EXANIMATE, adj. The verb exanimate, and the noun exanimation are in the Vocabularies of Cockeram and Bullokar. The verb is also in Minshew: "To exanimate or astonish; It. Esanimare; Lat. Exanimare." The adjective is Lifeless, spiritless. On th' other side, they saw that perilous rocke On whose sharp clifts the ribs of vessels broke, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c 12. All night he tosses, nor the balmy power EXANTLA'TION. Thomson. Spring. ex EXANTLATE, v. Į Lat. Exantlare, which S (Vossius) signifies haurire sentinam, and generally exhaurire, to draw out. Gr. Εξαντλειν, εκ, and αντλειν, το draw, from avtλos, sentina. To draw out; to empty, to evacuate; and consequentially, to exhaust or wear out. For questionless in knowledge there is no slender difficuity, and truth which wise men say doth lye in a well, is not recoverable but by exantlation. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. i. c. 5. By time those seeds were wearied or exantlated, or unable to act their parts upon the stage of the universe any longer. Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 497. But when I speak of noble menstruums, I mean not such as work like the generality of corrosives, and the like acid or saline liquors, which work but upon few kinds of bodies, and soon coagulate, or exantiate themselves by working, and thereby become unfit for future operations. Id. Ib. vol. ii. p. 150. [These] I do not doubt to lay open by untwisting or unwinding, and either to draw up by exantlation, or display by incision.-Swift. Tale of a Tub, Introd. EXARCH. EXA'RCHATE. "Fr. Exarche,-a vice-emperour or lieutenant of the empire. Erarcat, the chief place of dignity under the emperor; the lieutenancy of the empire," (Cotgrave.) Gr. Eğapxos, ek, and apxn, the first or chief. See the examples from Gibbon. Pipinus auanced vnto the state, gaue the Pope the exarchate, or princehood of Reuenna, in parte of recompense of his good will.-Jewell. Defence, p. 405. After the recovery of Italy and Africa by the arms of Justinian, the importance and danger of those remote provinces required the presence of a supreme magistrate; he was indifferently styled the exarch or the patrician. Gibbon. Roman Empire, c. 49. The ample measure of the exarchate might comprise all the provinces of Italy which had obeyed the emperor and his vice-regent; but its strict and proper limits were included in the territories of Ravenna, Bologna, and Ferrara.-Id. Ib. EXA To make or cause to be harsh or rough, sharp or bitter; to embitter; and thus, to anger, to aggravate, to provoke, to irritate, to vex to incense, to enrage, to infuriate. A lyon is a cruell beast yf he be exaspered, and gentle yf the man fal downe naked before him, and except it be in great honger he hurteth not siche humble prostrated preyes. Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 7. Yet doth my country's zeal so nearly touch, Daniel. Civil Wars, b. v. Id. Macbeth, Act iii. sc. 6. Ther. No? Why art thou then exasperate, thou idle immateriall skiene of sleyd silke.-Id. Troil. & Cres. Act v. sc.1. Indeed (as I conjecture) not to exasperate the case of my Lord of Southampton, though he might therewith a little peradventure have mollified his own.-Reliq. Wotton. p.181. By this means, matters grew more exasperate between the two kings of England and France, for that in the warre of Flanders, the auxiliarie forces of French and English were much blouded one against another.-Bacon. Hen. VII. p. 79. The prophet goes away untouched; neither the furious purposes of Ahaziah, nor the exasperations of a Jezebel can hurt the prophet, whom God hath intended to a fiery chariot. Bp. Hall. Cont. Ahaziah Sick. Their proud and disdainful hearts, which were petrifyed with love and pride of this world, were impregnable to the reception of so mean a benefactor, and were now enough exasperated with benefits to conspire his death. Spectator, No. 356. Perhaps, take it at the worst, it was a word extorted from him by the exasperation of his spirits, and, before he was aware, borne upon the wings of passion, and so quickly out of his reach, and not to be recalled.-South, vol. x. Ser. 9. Did hate to vice exasperate thy style, No-Bufo match'd the vilest of the vile. Beattie. On a supposed Monument to Churchill. EXAUCTORATE, v. or EXAUTHORIZE. thority. Fr. Exauthorer ; Lat. Exauctorare, (ex, and auctor,) to deprive of au To dispossess, to deprive, of authority; to dismiss or degrade, or discharge from authority, power or place. Within the same yeare the king made an acte, that men of the church commytting offences notable, should be exautorised or dysgraded by the bishop of the dyocese, a iustyce beying present, and so delyuered to secular kepyng tyll he suffered accordyng to his demerites. Bale. English Votaries, pt. ii. Sometimes [the Pope and his Archbishop] animating the subject by censorious exauthorising the prince, then assisting and moving forward his proneness, to faithless abrogation, by pretence of an interceding universal authority. Selden on Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 17. God is also the supreme Judge, and can punish and exauthorate whom he please; and substitute others in their room.-Bp. Taylor. Rule of Conscience, b. ii. c. 1. When I consider that the first bishop that was exauctorated was a prince too, Prince and Bishop of Geneva, methinks it was an ill omen, that the cause of the prince and the bishop should be in conjunction ever after. Id. Episcopacy Asserted, Pref. The people of the church would have no reason to complain that the fountains of our Saviour were stopp'd from them, nor the rulers of the church, that the misteriousness of Scripture were abused by the petulancy of the people to consequents harsh, impious, and unreasonable in despight of government, in exauctoration of the power of superiours, or for the commencement of schisms and heresies. Id. Apologie for Sel Forms of Liturgy, Pref. Lat. Exaugurare, EXAUGURATE, v. EXAUGURATION. AUGUR.) } (ex, and augurare, see To desecrate, to unhallow. And to the end, that the floore and plot of ground freed and exempted from all other kind of religions, must wholly be dedicated to Jupiter and his temple, there to be built; he determined to exaugurate and to unhallow certain churches and chappels.-Holland. Livivs, p. 38. When as the birds by signes out of the augur's learning, admitted and allowed the exauguration and unhallowing all other cels and chappels besides, only in that of Terminus, they gave no token to confirme the unhallowing thereof: which was taken for an ominous presage.-Id. Ib. EXC EXC EXCALFACTORY. Lat. Calefieri to be or become hot. Cotgrave has Excalfactif; which he reigned in those parts as of him (Cirus] and Semiramis renders " Excalfactive, heating, chafing, warming." The Greeks have gone so neare, that they have scraped the very filth from the walls of their publicke halls and places of wrestling, and such like exercises; and the same (say they) hath a speciall excalfactorie vertue, whereby it discusseth and resolveth the biles and impostume called pani.-Holland. Plinie, b. xxviii. c. 4. EXCANTATION. as equivalent to— A word used by Gayton, Disenchantment, a deliverance from enchantment, from the influence or power of charms or spells. The don-enchanted in his cage, out of which there was no possibility of getting out, but by the power of a higher excantation.-Gayton. Notes on Don Quixote, p. 277. EXCA/RNATE, v. From the Lat. Ex, and caro, carnis, flesh. See CARNALIZE. To dispossess or deprive of, to divest from, flesh. The mate [of the chirurgeon] shall practise anatomy and manual operations; make skeletons of the sundry rare animals, which he shall have the opportunity to cut up; excarnate bowels; artificially dry the muscles, &c. Sir W. Petty. Advice to Hartlib, (1648). p. 14. He [Dr. Glesson] hath likewise given us certain notes for the more easy distinguishing of the vena cava. porta, and vasa fellea in excarnating the liver.-Wood. Fasti, vol. i. EXCAVATE, v. Į Lat. Excavare, to hollow EXCAVATION. Sout, (er, and cavus, hollow. Cavus a chao dictum, a vast gap or opening. See CAVE.) To hollow out, to dig out a cavity, hole or hollow. Striges, which (not to insist upon what the learned Vossius and other critics have contended) are those excavated channels, by our workmen called flutings and grooves. Evelyn. On Architecture. The appearance therefore of the dry land was by the excavation of certain sinus and tracts of the earth, and exaggerating and lifting up other parts of the terrestrial matters, and by this means the water subsided into those caverns and vallies prepared for its reception. Hale. Origin. of Mankind, p. 299. Faber himself put a thousand of them (cups turned of ivory by Oswaldus Norlinger of Suevia) into an excavated pepper corn.-Ray. On the Creation, pt. i. Though nitrous tempests, and clandestine death, A grotto is not often the wish or the pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage. EXCEED, v. EXCEEDER. EXCEEDING, adj. EXCEEDING, ad. EXCE'EDING, n. EXCEEDINGLY. EXCEEDINGNESS. EXCE'SS. Johnson. Life of Pope. Fr. Excéder; Lat. Exced-ere, essum, to go out from, to go beyond. To go or pass beyond, (sc.) due or allotted bounds or measure; to pass beyond measure, or moderation, or temperance; to be superfluous or extreme; to pass on, to reach an extremity; Andto surpass. Excess, the noun, is applied to immoderate and intemperate conduct, or to riotousness, prodigality, profusion. EXCESSIVE. EXCESSIVENESS. So it exceed the bounds of measure Is nothing able, that pain for to discriue. Chaucer. Lamentation of Marie Magdaleine. A kynge after the reule is holde Gower. Con. A. b. vii. For he had not so great admiracyon of any king that had whose magnanimitie of minde, and fame of her actes seemed to him to exceede all the rest. Brende. Quintus Curtiss, fol. 192. Therefore, O ye children of Israell, turne agayne, like as ye haue exceaded in your goinge backe. Bible, 1551. Of Esay, c. 31. For oure excedynge tribulacyon which is momentary and lyght, prepareth an exceadynge and an eternall waight of glory vnto vs, whil we loke not on the thynges whych are sene, but on the thynges which are not sene. Id. 2 Cor. c. 4. But rejoyce, in as much as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. Id. Modern Version. 1 Pet. iv. 13. And God behelde al that he had made, and loo, they were exceading good and so of the euenynge and mornynge was made the first day.-Id. 1551. Gen. c. 2. He answered them: I am an Ebrue, and I fear the Lorde God of heauen whyche made bothe the sea and drye lande. Then were the men excendyngly afrayed, and said vnto him: why dydest thou so.-Id. Jonas, c. I. And it seemeth to them a straunge thynge that ye runne not also with the vnto the same excesse of ryot, and therfore speake they euyll of you.-Id. 1 Pet. c. 4. His frendes caused it to be noised that his excesriac dronkennesse was the cause of his disease. Goiding. Justine, fol. 64. Moreouer the beastes which the Galles do most delight in and whyche they pay for excessiuely, the Germanes occupy not, if they be brought to the out of any other country, Id. Cæsar, fol. The Egiptians alledging that in the fyrst beginning thinges some countreyes dyd so bourne through the fertente heate of the sonne, and other some so fryse through the excessiuenesse of the cold, that not onely they were not al to engender men, but also not able to receive and kepe en that came out of other countreyes, before the garments were inuented to defende the bodye from heate or colce, that the faultes of the places were eased with remedia founde out by cunninge and practise.-Id. Justine, fɔl. §. Never saw she creature so astonished as Zelmane, ener ing sorry for Pamela, but exceedingly exceeding that exte ingness in feare for Philoclea.-Sidney. Arcadia, b. iii. The nation of the Hunnes, little or nothing known by th ancient records, seated along the Frozen Sea, beyond the marishes of Mæotis, exceedeth in fulnesse and crueltie be yond all measure.-Holland. Ammianus, p. 399. And so they have done in the church of Rome: bet the abuse doth not evacuate the commission: not in the ceeders and transgressors, much lesse in them that eas not.-Mountagu. Appeale to Cæsar, c. 36. He used to treat strangers at his table with good che and seemingly kept pace with them in eating morsell morsell, whilst he had a secret contrivance wherein he c veyed his exceedings above his monasticall pittance. Fuller. Worthies. Yorkshir B. Jonson. Sejanus, Att Semblably in the dayes of Marcus the emperour, a ra rabble of sundrie and different nations banding thems together, after exceeding great frights and horrible warr after many a citie won, sacked, and rased downe to the T had like to have left but small parcels of them untouch and whole.-Holland. Ammianus, p. 409. But when approaching neare he plainely found His [Gluttony] belly was vpblowne with luxury, b.i Perhaps it exceeds the power of human understanding to decide where mechanism ends, and where the liberty of indifference (the only notion of liberty that comes up to the purpose) may be supposed to commence. Law. Theory of Religion, pt. i. (Note a.) Who all that while was thought exceeding wise, Only for taking pains and telling lies. Dryden. Absalom & Achitophel. Tho' the comprehension of our understandings comes exreeding short of the vast extent of things, yet we shall have cause enough to magnify the bountiful author of our being, for that portion and degree of knowledge he has bestowed on us, so far above all the rest of the inhabitants of this our mansion.-Locke. Of Hum. Underst. b. i. c. 2. s. 5. From a thousand snares and treacherous allurements, from innumerable rocks and dangerous surprises, from exceedingly many needless incumbrances and vexatious toils of fruitless endeavour, she [wisdom] redeems and secures us. Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 1. Thou pleasing torture of my breast, Sure thou wert fram'd to plague my rest; Since both the ill and good you do, alike my peace destroy; That kills me with excess of grief, this with excess of joy. Walsh. Jealousy. for, indeed, she was exceedingly engaged in penning an legy on the lapdog, who had died of a looseness; and had nt ended to finish her address to the duchess on the hardai ps of the labouring poor.-Knox. Winter Evenings, E. 55. All catch the frenzy downward from her grace, Is hackney'd home unlackey'd.-Cowper. Task, b. ii. Excessive lenity and indulgence are ultimately excessive igour.-Knox, Ess. 141. But sue ghe the bettre goostli ghiftis, and ghit I schew to Faire was this in excellent beautee Chaucer. The Doctoures Tale, v. 11,944. The golde betoketh excellence, That men shulde doone hym reuerence, As to her liege souerayne.-Gower. Con. A. b. vii. The same thyng also is a cause why the Heluetians hauing ily conflict with the Germanes eyther in their owne fence, or by way of inuasion, do in prowesse excell the ate of the Galles.-Golding. Cæsar, fol. 1. I save that wisdom excelleth foolishnesse, as farre as light th darknesse.-Bible, 1551. Ecclesiastes, c. 2. Oye me, it is not the greate kynge, it is not the multitude men, nether is it wyne that excelleth.-Id. Esdras, c. 4. Johan Wycleaue in England, and John Husse in Boheme, en of excellet lyfe and learning, with diuers other more, plyed earnestlye againste their transsubstanciacions and her sorcerie.-Bale. Image, pt. iii. Moreover what nacyon on the erth is lyke thy people rael whiche God went and redemed to be his owne people, ad to make the a name of excellencie and terriblenesse. Bible, 1551. 1 Chron. c. 17. Synge unto the Lorde, for he hath done excellentlye, and that is knowen thorowe oute the worlde. Pistles, 1527. Lewis. English Translations of the Bible. But in the end being put to repulse by our horsmen they hyd theselves in the woods, where they hadde gotten a plot excellently wel fortified both by nature and mann's hande.-Golding. Cæsar, fol. 114. Her name was hight Detraction, and her dwelling Of all God's works, which do this world adorn, Id. Ib. b. ii. c. 9. If now thy beauty be of such esteem, Drayton. Edw. IV. to Mrs. Shore. Id. The Legend of Thomas Cromwell. The notion that they have of the Deity is very obscure; yet by the figures which they make representing this God, they manifestly show that they do believe him to excel in sight, strength, courage, and wisdom, justice, &c. Dampier. Voyage, 1688. Would it be any derogation from their excellence and authority; or any excuse for our not labouring to understand these laws, that all men did not reason right about them? Law. Theory of Religion, pt. i. Note. As the son of Noah he had a right superior to any of being considered as a king and a priest; and from the excellency of his behaviour to his father and mankind, he was properly styled the King of Righteousness; and from his disposition, as well as from the name of this city, the King of Salem, or of peace.-Sharpe. Disc. on Psalm xxix. 9. Your excellencies having been the protectors of the author of these Memoirs during the many years of his exile, are justly entitled to whatever acknowledgment can be made for those noble favours which you extended so seasonably and so constantly to him and his fellow-sufferers. Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. i. Ep. Ded. To mark the matchless workings of the Power That shuts within its seed the future flower, Bids these in elegance of form excel, In colour these, and those delight the smell. Cowper. Retirement. O, may my verse deserv'd applause obtain Beattie. Lucretius, b. i. Would they but speak as well as write, The outward action being taught, To show the strength of inward thought. Byrom. Advice to the Rev. Messrs. H. & H. to preach slow. He [Erasmus] has written so excellently, that all the learned, except a few envious contemporaries, from his own time to ours, have uniformly considered him as a prodigy. Knox. Essays, No. 132. EXCEPT, v. EXCEPT, prep. EXCEPTER. EXCEPTION. EXCEPTIONAble. EXCEPTIONER. EXCEPTIOUS. EXCEPTIOUSNESS. EXCEPTIVE. Fr. Exceptor; It. Eccettuare; Sp. Exceptuar, exceptar; Lat. Excipere, to take out, (ex, and capere, to take.) To take out, to put, to shut out; to exclude, (sc.) through dislike or disapproval; and thus, to disEXCEPTLESS. like, to oppose, to object to. Except, the preposition, without, unless; i. e. taken out or away; put away, dismissed. Hit were ageyn kynde quath he. and alle kynne reisonne That eny creature sholde conne al. excepte Chryst one. Piers Plouhman, p. 275. But first, if I should make mencion In the primitiue church, families were baptized, children, and all: for we reade not that they were excepted, and some doubt, and that the greatest clerks, whether children haue faith or no.-Wilson. The Arte of Logike, fol. 82. Wherfore he commaunded the baggage and stuffe of the whole to be brought together in one place excepting only such thinges as were very necessary. Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 151. There is no exceptio or pretence of preuilege, which high or low, rich or poore, may or ought to vsurpe vnto them selues.-Caluine. Foure Godlie Sermons, Ser. 1. For as we thinke it not vnlawful to make open confession before many, so wee thinke it not vnlawful, abuses alwayes excepted, to make the like confession in priuate either before a fewe, or before one alone.-Jewel. Defence, p. 154. Not one man tells a lye of all the yeare, Bp. Hall, b. vi. Sat. 1. In conclusion, they judged P. Scipio, the sonne of that Cn. who was killed in Spaine, a very young man and as yet not of full age to be a questor, the very best man without exception in the whole citie.-Holland. Livivs, p. 719. Thus much (readers) in favour of the softer-spirited Christian, for other exceptioners there was no thought taken. Milton. Animad. upon Remonstrants' Defence. For Renaldo, quoth Don Quixote, I dare boldly say, he was broad-faced, his complexion high, quick and full ey'd, very exceptious, and extremely cholerick; a lover of thieves and debaucht company.-Shelton. Don Quixote, b. ii. c. 1. Let me behold thy face; surely, this man Was borne of woman. Forgiue my generall and exceptlesse rashnesse. Shakespeare. Timon of Athens, Act iv. sc. 3. The only ground for this was, that one of the rebels, excepted in the indemnity that was proclaimed some time before, being taken, and, it being evident that his brain was turned, it was debated in council, whether he should be proceeded against or not.-Burnet. Own Time, an. 1667. They also settled a pay for such of the subjects of the three kingdoms as would come and serve under our princes; but few came except from Ireland; of these some regiments were formed.-Burnet. Own Time, b. 1. The first part of it was an exception to the authority of the court, as being not only founded on no law, but contrary to the express words of the act of parliament that put down the high commission.-Id. Ib. an. 1686. The only piece of pleasantry in Paradise Lost, is where the Evil Spirits are described as rallying the Angels upon the success of their new invented artillery. This passage I look upon to be the most exceptionable in the whole poem, as being nothing else but a string of puns, and these too very indifferent ones.-Spectator, No. 279. Perhaps the man did it by an innocent carelessness, not sufficiently alarmed by an experience of the baseness, and falseness, and the exceptiousness of men, to set a greater caution or guard upon his behaviour.-South, vol. x. Ser. 9. It [admonition] becomes unsavory and odious, and both in show and effect resembles a froward, malicious exceptiousness.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 1. Exceptive propositions will make such complex syllogisms; as, None but physicians came to the consultation; the nurse is no physician; therefore the nurse came not to the consultation.-Watts. Logick, pt. iii. c. 2. Though you tel me not who objected against your writing occasional meditations, because you have named me, who encourage you to write more of them, I dare venture to lay my credit with you, that you yourself do think your celebrater as competent a judge, in such cases, as your exceptionsmaker. Boyle. Works, vol. vi. p. 525. The exceptor makes a reflection upon the impropriety of those expressions.-Burnet. Theory of the Earth. Strength in his heart, dominion in his nod, And, thunderbolts excepted, quite a God! So sings he, charm'd with his own mind and form, A dream to any, except those that dream, Id. Conversation, EXCERN, v. Lat. Excernere, (ex, and cernere, kρi-ew, to separate, to disjoin.) To separate, to sift; to strain out. The body of a living creature assimilates that which is good, for it excerneth what is unprofitable; a piece of sponge even when it is raised above the surface of the water, sucks in water, expells ayre; and the like. Bacon. On Learning, by G. Wats, b. iv. c. 3. The covetous man, of the first kind, is like a greedy ostrich, which devours any metal, but it is with an intent to feed upon it, and in effect it makes a shift to digest and excern it.-Cowley. Ess. Of Avarice. Certain it is, that the humours excerned by sweat and urine are near akin, if not the same. EXCERP, v. Ray. On the Creation, pt. ii. Lat. Ex-cerp-ere, tum, to pluck out, (ex, and carpere, to pluck.) Adam, in v. Ex cerpta, uses the noun excerpts. To pick out, to cull, to choose, to select, to extract. In your reading excerp, and note in your books such things as you like.-Hale. Remains, p. 288. And if so, then amber may properly enough be called by the same name, as it is in the Persian author, whence the papers I sent were excerpted.-Boyle. Works, vol. vi. p. 558. Times have consumed his works, saving some few excerptions.-Ralegh. I have not been surreptitious of whole pages together out of the doctor's printed volumes, and appropriated them to myself without any mark, or asterism, as he has done. I am no such excerptor.-Barnard. Life of Heylin, p. 12. EX-CHANGE, v. Fr. Changer; It. CanEXCHANGE, n. giare. See CHANGE. EXCHANGER. To give and receive (Thou hast) drawn a line It is wonderful to consider, how a command, or call to be They [the French] had, in imitation of exchequer-bills And the house hath appointed a committee to receive any School-helps I want, to climb on high, one thing for, in return for, another. To marchaunde with monye. and maken here eshaunge. Piers Plounman, p. 101. These women all of rightwiseness For thilke time (I vnderstonde) The bishopriches for to change.-Gower. Con. A. Prol. Ne shee the laws of Nature onely brake, And wrong of right, and bad of good did make, Spenser. Faerie Queene. Of Mutabilite, c. 6. Then would he be a broker, and draw in Id. Mother Hubberd's Tale. Thou oughtest therefore to haue put my money to the exchangers, and then at my comming should I haue receiued mine owne with vantage.-Bible, 1583. Matthew, xxv. 27. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what whall a man give in exchange for his soul?-Matthew, xvi. 26. Whereupon, having commanded the guard to fire upon them, I charged the enemy with as many of my party as were willing to follow me, exchanging several shot with them.-Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. i. p. 122. The Lord Arundel endeavouring to make good his promise of procuring my exchange for his two sons, earnestly solicited the king to it.-Id. Ib. vol. i. p. 94. The ordinary course of exchange being an indication of the ordinary state of debt and credit between two places, must likewise be an indication of the ordinary course of their exports and imports, as these necessarily regulate that state. Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. iv. c. 3. less. See the quotations from Bp. Taylor, and In the levying and imposing tribute, by the voice of most The two houses at Westminster, who called themselves, Clarendon. Civil War, vol. ii. p. 453. Pope. Sat. of Donne, Sat. 4. By custom safe, the Poet's numbers flow, Churchill. Epistle to Robert Lloyd. Th' excise is fatten'd with the rich result Cowper. The Task, b. iv. The tricking tradesman, and the merchant bold, The most material are the general licences which the In requires to be taken out by all dealers in exeiseable goods. Burke. On a Regicide Peace, Let. EXCITE, v. EXCITA'TION. EXCITEMENT. EXCITING, n. Fr. Exciter; It. Ecc tare; Sp. Ercitar; La Excitare, (ex, and citar idem quod movere, (F tus;) perhaps from the G Ki-ew, to go, to move.) To move, to stir, raise, to rouse, to animate, to inspirit. And excited othere And whanne he wolde go to Achaie britheren ercific and wroten to the disciplis that thei schulden resseyue by Wiclif. Dedis, c. And whan he, thurgh his madnesse and folie Chaucer. The Chanones Yemannes Tale, v. 16,21 Oft the lothe thing is doen, by excitacion of other man. opinion. Id. Test. of Loue, b. i. And foundeth howe he might excite And set her hertes to pitee.-Gower. Con. A. b. vii. What shal he doe to such fathers, that excite & me their children vnto lechery, pleasure, and vngratious a eyther with wordes or els with deeds. Vives. Instruction of Christian Women, b. ii. e The people of that secte [Pythagorici] or of that va were accustomed euery mornynge whan they shoulder frome their beddes to here the sounde of an harpe, whe their spyrites myght be more quicke and ready to rec their studies, thinking nothyng more profytable than it v the free & noble excityng of their mindes. Fisher. On the Seuen Psalmes, Pa. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c I say conveniently placed, that is, in regard of the sh that it be not too ponderous, or any way affixed, in regar the agent, that it be not foul or sullied, but wiped, and excitated.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 4. But their iterated clamations to excitate their dying dead friends, or revoke them into life again was a vanity affection.-Id. Urn Burial, c. 4. As the Spartans used it, it served still for an ercitatio valour, and honourable actions: but then they were so full of the manner of it, as they fined Terpander, and f his harp to the post, for being too inventive, in sida string more than usual.-Feltham, pt. i. Resolve 85. When I view the fairness and equality of his temper carriage, I can in truth descry in his own name, no cr excitement of such distaste, which commonly ariseth, no much from high fortune, as from high looks. Reliquia Wottoniana, p Its humble method nothing has of fierce, The balance of power is kept up amongst them in gen Id. Ib. Letter from Dr. T No lovely Helens now with fatal charms It should be allowed, as is indeed true, that the alternate excitation of hope and fear is attended with considerable delight in consequence of the exercise it affords to the animal spirits and the imagination.-Knox. Winter Evenings, E.45. Just before the battle of Trebia, the General, encouraging his followers, by all the usual excitements to do their duty, concludes with a promise of the most magnificent spoils, as the reward for their valour. EXCIZE, v. sion Warburton. Divine Legation, b. ix. c. 2. A cutting out or off; extirpation, destruction. This is the case here described, and cannot be drawn to any thing else but its parallel, that is, a malicious renouncing charity, or holy life, as these men did the faith, to both which they had made their solemn vows in baptism; but this can no way be drawn to the condemnation and final excision of such persons, who after baptism fall into any great sin, of which they are willing to repent. Bp. Taylor. Of Repentance, c. 9. s. 4. The copy of [the book] was taken from the author [John Birkenhead] by those who said they could not rob, because all was theirs; so exciz'd what they liked not. Wood. Athena Oxon. In the next place, as to that extermination and excision of the Canaanites, which carries so horrible an appearance of severity, we may find it qualifiable, if we consider, that for the nature of the trespasses which procured it, they were insufferably heinous and abominable. Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 37. The history of the various and strange vicissitudes they underwent, from their first erection into a people down to their final excision, is punctually registered and transmitted to us.-Atterbury, vol. i. Ser. 7. Fr. Exclamer; Sp. Exclamar; It. Eschiamare; Lat. Exclamare, to call out, (ex, and clamare, to call.) To call out, to cry out, to raise an outcry; to shout aloud. They ran streight to harneys, and clustring togeather about the place where the murder was done, made an exclamacion, that except Polidamus and the other doers of that deede were deliuered to their handes, they woulde ouerthrowe the wall, and make sacrifice to their dead captain with the blood of the offenders. Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 176. I will exclaim to the world on thee, and beg justice of the He set this gentleman to doe me shame, The Costly Whore, (1633.) B. 2. Yet marking them by whom so many fell Stirling. Doomes-day. The Tenth Houre. In his charges to the clergy, he [Bp. Burnet] exclaimed against the pluralities, as a sacrilegious robbery of the reverues of the church.-Burnet. Own Time. Life of the Author. I must have leave to tell this exclaimer, in my turn, that if that were his real airn, his manner of proceeding is very strange, wonderful, and unaccountable. Atterbury. Ser. vol. ii. Pref. It is said, that Monsieur Torcy, when he signed this instrument, broke into this exclamation; Would Colbert have signed such a treaty for France? On which a minister present was pleased to say, Colbert himself would have been proud to have saved France in these circumstances on such terins-Tatler, No. 20. Let us therefore pass for a third way, by which God delivers over a sinner to error and circumvention. Which point 1 shall conclude with those exclamatory words of St. Paul, so full of wonder and astonishment, in Rom. xi. 33. unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!-South, vol. iv. Ser. 7. How I could see Vice in robes array'd, These holy groves Permit no exclamation 'gainst Heav'n s will To violate their echoes: Patience here, Her meek hands folded on her modest breast In mute submission lifts th' adoring eye, Evin to the storm that wrecks her.Mason. Caractacus. EXCLUDE, v. EXCLUSION. Fr. Exclure; Sp. Excluir; It. Escludere; Lat. Excludere, to shut out, (ex, and claudere, to be, or cause to be, so near as to touch; to keep close or confined, to shut in.) To shut out, to block or bar out, to debar; to Who shal me gide? who shal me now conuey, Chaucer. The Testament of Creseide. Wherfore our faithe stayed vpon God and vpon his promises to be herd and forgeuen for Christis sake, whom the father willed to be offred vp a sacrifice for our sinnes, excludeth al maner a doute, and al that may let or fight agenst this merciable forgeuenes. Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 12. I thynke that euery wise man after he hath read this boke, will not saie that I am the principal auctour of this worke, nor yet to iudge me so ignoraunt to exclude me cleane from it, for so high sentences are not founde at this present time, nor to so high a style thei of time past neuer atteined. Golden Boke, Prol. This man is so cunning in his inclusiues & exclusiues, that he dyscerneth nothing betwene copulatives and disiunctiues. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 943. Some there be who not unaptly say, That we ought no O, put it in the publick voice, Milton. Paradise Lost, b. iii. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. viii. To this I reply, that, when water is taken exclusively to the spirit, it is very true, that it is not water that cleanses the soul, and the cleansing of the body cannot save us; but whoever urges the necessity of baptism, urges it but as a necessary sacrament or instrument to convey or consign the spirit.-Bp. Taylor. Liberty of Prophesying, s. 18. I ought to thank you in particular for the affection which you have testified to me, in the affair of the succession, which excludes at the same time all the Catholic heirs, who have always caused so many disorders in England. The Life of Burnet. Letter from Sophia, Electress. I was forced to trust to my sword for the keeping down of the enemy, being alone in the chamber, and all relief excluded from me, except such as came in by one of my windows that looked into the court of the castle. Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. i. p. 77. In the mean time, to improve the present opportunity, His strength as yet in David's friendship lies, Dryden. Absalom & Achitophel. Hume. History of England, c. 67. an. 1679. The exclusionists had a fair prospect of success, and their plan being clearly the best, they were justified in pursuing it.-Fox. History of the early part of James II. c. 1. Various persons may concur in the same measure on various grounds. They may be various, without being contrary to, or exclusive to each other. Burke. On a Regicide Peace, Let. 1. War, or the chace, are exclusively their province, and when engaged in these, the men endure much greater fatigues and hardships than those allotted to their partners. Cogan. On the Passions, pt. ii. c. 2. To boil out, to force out by boiling, to boil thoroughly. Salt and sugar, which are excocted by heat, are dissolved by cold and moisture.-Bacon. Naturall History, s. 843. For in the excoctions and depurations of metals it is a EX-COGITATE, v. Fr. Excogiter; Lat. cogitare,) a cogendo dictum. The mind, says Varro, "Fr. Excogiter,-seriously to think, earnestly to consider, intentively to study of; also, to invent by serious thinking, devise after an exact consideration, find out with earnest study," (Cotgrave.) In his incomparable warres and busynes almost incredible, he [Cæsar] dydde excogitate most excellēt pollycies and deuyses, to väquish or subdewe his ennemyes. Sir T. Elyot. The Governovr, b. i. c. 23. Stirling. Chorus Fourth, in the Alexandrian Tragedy. Whether design was the production of chance or excogitation, we determine not, certain it is that practice and experience was its nurse and perficient. Evelyn. Sculptura, c. 5. [These] seem to have been excogitated only to shun the necessity of admitting a vacuum. Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 135. It was this passion which gave birth to writing, and brought literary composition to an art; whereby the public was made a sharer in those important truths which particulars had with so much toil excogitated for its use and entertainment.-Warburton. Ded. (1738) to Free-Thinkers. EXCOMMENGE, v. To excommunicate. Fr. Excommange,— ‚—an excommunication. They inhansed the slaughter of the fraternitie so heinous- EXCOMMUNICATE, v. EXCOMMUNICATOR. EXCOMMUNICABLE. Fr. Excommunier; It. Scomunicare; Mid. Lat. Excommunicare, (ex, and communicare, to share with, or impart to others.) See To expel, exclude, prohibit or interdict, from communion; i. e. from sharing or participating ; from communion or fellowship (with the faithful.) He that was ones excommunycated, muste haue his discharge of the spirituall court, and not of the kynge. Bale. English Votaries, pt. ii. For if thou take of the excommunicate thynges, so shall you make the hoste of Israel excommunycale and shall trouble it.-Bible, 1551. Joshua, c. 6. Who knoweth not howe that if his hotte thunderboltes of excommunication could any thing harme vs, we had therewith ben beaten to powder long since. Bale. The Pageant of Popes, fol. 197 Yea although they bee impious idolaters, wicked heretickes, persons excommunicable, yea, and cast out for notorious improbitie.-Bp. Hall. Apolog. Advert. to the Reader. It is clear, that the goatish kings which reigned in Spain were not hereditary, but elective, yea, censurable, excommunicable, and desposable by them for their male-administrations.-Prynne. Treachery & Disloyalty, &c. pt. v. p. 57. Thus for a while continued the realm without divine sacraments or exercises, excepted only confession, extreme unction, and baptism, the king being also excommunicated, and burials allowed only in highways and ditches without ecclesiastic ceremony. Selden. Illust. of Drayton's Poly-Olbion, s. 17. Athanasius, Bishop at that time of Alexandria, bearing himselfe too high above his profession, and one who went about to enquire into matters that to him belonged not (as the daily bruit and rumor went of him) the congregation (or the Synode, as they tearme it) of the same place, excommunicated and remooved from the sacramentall dignitie, which he held and celebrated.-Holland. Ammianus, p. 42. |