In his examen of this experiment our author makes me Infer from the phænomena he repeats, that aot 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 fait, Of genius in them? surely, no. Lloyd. A Dialogue between the Author & his Friend. Shall I with Bavius then my voice exalt, Young. To Mr. Pope, Ep. 2. The proper office of examination, enquiry, and ratiocination, is, strictly speaking, confined to the production of a just discernment and an accurate discrimination. Cogan. Ethical Treatise. On the Passions, pt. ii. Introd. The rigid examiners of Christ's pretensions (a favourite word of such persons, and used by Bishop Hoadley, on the sacrament,) seldom take into consideration what the Scriptures dwell upon, the love of God, the love of Christ, and the return of love which is due from man to his Maker, Preserver, and Redeemer. Knox. Considerations on the Lord's Supper, s. 21. EXAMPLE, v. EXAMPLELESS. EXEMPLAR, n. EXEMPLIFICATION. 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. Eg, and ouaAos, similis, (sc.) one from others like it. Cotgrave well explains the noun: "A sample, pattern or precedent to follow, a copy or counterpane of a writing; one thing alledged to prove or inforce another that resembles it." To exemplify,-to produce, give, or set such pattern, &c. Tho nine crowned be very exemplaire, 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. weaknesses; there is no copy without a blur: Be ye followers They that durst so strike 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 exem plar 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 fin 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 Yet indeed it is true that it [the denial of Christian sepul- 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 There were ambassadors sent to Athens, Sp. Posthumius On war intent, to that he bends his cares, And would the dire example far excell.-Rowe. Lucan, b.i. For thei be to the worldes eie They [the prynters] desyred hym, for default of a better learned, diligently to overloke and peruse the hole copy, and in case he should fynd any notable default that needed correction, to amende the same according to the true exemplars, which thing according to his talent he had gladly done. Taverner. Ded. to the N. Test. of our Sauyor Jesu Christ, 1539. This epistle he wrote from Athenes by Tichicus a ministre after the Grekes writinges: and our Latine argumentes saye also, that Onesimus bare him cumpanye: howbeit there is no certayne auctour in the commune exemplares. Udal. 1 Thess. Pref. For the more exemplification of the same, he sent the 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 example 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 one of the greatest improvements of wisdom to know whom, in what, and how far we may imitate; the best have their VOL. I. the oaths and imprecations, all the sanctifi'd perjuries, to This illustrious character [Plato] has its proper influence 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 Flesh and blood will not reveal unto us, nor can any man 721 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. Autipolemus. 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 exemplifi cation may be generally given by a distich. Johnson. The Plan of an English Dictionary. EXANGUIOUS. See EXSANGUIOUS. EXANIMATE, adj. The verb eranimate, 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 Thomson. Spring. ex EXANTLATE, v. Lat. Exantlare, which EXANTLA'TION. (Vossius) signifies haurire sentinam, and generally exhaurire, to draw out. Gr. Εξαντλειν, εκ, and αντλ-ειν, το draw, from avτλos, sentina. To draw out; to empty, to evacuate; and consequentially, to exhaust or wear out. For questionless in knowledge there is no slender difficulty, and truth which wise men say doth lye in a well, is not recoverable but by exantiation. 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 exantiation, or display by incision.-Swift. Tale of a Tub, Introd. "Fr. Exarche, a vice-emEXARCH.1 EXA'RCHATE. perour or lieutenant of the emErarcat, the chief place of dignity under pire. the emperor; the lieutenancy of the empire," (Cotgrave.) Gr. Etapxos, ek, and aρxn, 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. 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 he envispered, and gentle yf the man fai 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, That here my Muse it doth exasperate; Although unwilling that my pen should give Stain to that sex, by whom her fame doth live. Daniel. Civil Wars, b. v. Fab. Shee did shew favour to the youth in your sight onely to exasperate you, to awaken your dormouse valour. Shakespeare. Twelfth Night, Act iii. sc. 2. And this report Hath so exasperate their king, that hee Prepares for some attempt at warre. 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 erasperations 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, (er, 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 Set 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 he 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. 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. EXCARNATE, 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, (ex, 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 exagge. rating 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 coru.-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. Johnson. Life of Pope. For he had not so great admiracyon of any king that had reigned in those parts as of him [Cirus] and Semiramia: whose magnanimitie of minde, and fame of her actes seemed to him to excecde all the rest. Brende, Quintus Curtius, fol. 192. Therefore, O ye children of Israell, turne agayne, like as ye haue cxceaded 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 exceadyngly 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 excessiue dronkennesse was the cause of his disease. Golding. 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. 85. The Egiptians alledging that in the fyrst beginning of thinges some countreyes dyd so bourne through the feruente heate of the sonne, and other some so fryse through the excessiuenesse of the cold, that not onely they were not able to engender men, but also not able to receive and kepe men, that came out of other countreyes, before the garmentes were inuented to defende the bodye from heate or colde, or that the faultes of the places were eased with remedies founde out by cunninge and practise.-Id. Justine, fol. 8. Never saw she creature so astonished as Zelmane, exceeding sorry for Pamela, but exceedingly exceeding that exceedingness in feare for Philoclea.-Sidney. Arcadia, b. iii. The nation of the Hunnes, little or nothing knowne by the ancient records, seated along the Frozen Sea, beyond the marishes of Mæotis, exceedeth in fulnesse and crueltie beyond all measure.-Holland. Ammianus, p. 399. And so they have done in the church of Rome: but that abuse doth not evacuate the commission: not in the exceeders and transgressors, much lesse in them that exceed not.-Mountagu. Appeale to Cæsar, c. 36. He used to treat strangers at his table with good chear, and seemingly kept pace with them in eating morsell for morsell, whilst he had a secret contrivance wherein he conveyed his exceedings above his monasticall pittance. Fuller. Worthies. Yorkshire. Next did Sir Triamond vnto their sight The face of his deare Canacee unheale; Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 5. They are grown exceeding circumspect, and wary, B. Jonson. Sejanus, Act it. Semblably in the dayes of Marcus the emperour, a ragrag rabble of sundrie and different nations banding themselves together, after exceeding great frights and horrible warres, after many a citie won, sacked, and rased downe to the ground, had like to have left but small parcels of them untouched and whole.-Holland. Ammianus, p. 409. But when approaching neare he plainely found Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 8. And kingdoms ever suffer this distress, Daniel. Civil Wars, 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. The the comprehension of our understandings comes exceeding 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, Bounteous, but almost bounteous to a vice: Dryden. Eleonora. And it is remarkable that such mosses as grow upon walls, the roofs of houses and other high places, have seeds so excessively small, that when shaken out of their vessels they appear like vapor or smoke, so that they may either ascend of themselves, or by an easy impulse of the wind be raised up to the tops of houses, walls, or rocks. Kay. On the Creation, pt. i, Of decency. Nor let it faith exceed, That nature forms a rustic taste so nice, Ah! had they been of court or city breed, Such delicacy were right marvellous indeed. Beattie. The Minstrel, b. i. For, indeed, she was exceedingly engaged in penning an elegy on the lapdog, who had died of a looseness; and had intended to finish her address to the duchess on the hardships 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 rigour.-Knox, Ess. 141. To surmount, (sc.) in worth or value, in great or good qualities; to rise above, to be eminent, to surpass, to outgo, to outstrip. Excellence and excellency are applied as titles of honour to certain persons in high official situations. But sue ghe the bettre goostli ghiftis, and ghit I schew to ghou a more excellent weie.-Wiclif. 1 Corynth. c. 12. Couet after the beste gyftes. And yet shew I vnto you a more excellente waye.-Bible, 1551. Ib. Faire was this in excellent beautee Chaucer. The Doctoures Tale, v. 11,944. The golde betoketh excellence, The same thyng also is a cause why the Heluetians hauing daily conflict with the Germanes eyther in their owne defence, or by way of inuasion, do in prowesse excell the reste of the Galles.-Golding. Cesar, fol. 1. I sawe that wisdom excelleth foolishnesse, as farre as light doth darknesse.-Bible, 1551. Ecclesiastes, c. 2. O ye me, it is not the greate kynge, it is not the multitude of men, nether is it wyne that excelleth.-Id. Esdras, c. 4. Johan Wycleaue in England, and John Husse in Boheme, men of excellet lyfe and learning, with diuers other more, replyed earnestlye againste their transsubstanciacions and other sorcerie.-Fale. Imaye, pt. iii. Moreouer what nacyon on the erth is lyke thy people Israel whiche God went and redemed to be his owne people, and 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. li. 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. 1. 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 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 Forgiue my generall and exceptlesse rashnesse. 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. In the beginning of this chapter we find St. Paul brought to his trial before Felix the Roman governor, wherein (if we only except the unfitness of the judge) all other things concurred, which could make such an action considerable, viz. the greatness of the cause, the quality of the persons, and the skill which was shewed in the management of it. Stillingfleet, vol. ii. Ser. 1 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 [ 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 Beattie. Lucretius, b. i. 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. Would they but speak as well as write, The outward action being taught, 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. To take out, to put, to EXCEPTIOUS. shut out; to exclude, (sc.) EXCEPTIOUSNESS. through dislike or disapEXCEPTIVE. proval; and thus, to disEXCEPTLESS. like, to oppose, to object to. Except, the preposition,-without, unless; i. e. taken out or away; put away, dismissed. Fr. Exceptor; It. Eccettuare; Sp. Exceptuar, exceptar; Lat. Excipere, to take out, (ex, and capere, to take.) Hit were ageyn kynde quath he, and alle kynne reisonne That eny creature sholde conne al. excepte Chryst one. Piers Ploukman, p. 275. 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, EXCERN, v. Lat. Excernere, (ex, and cernere, kрiv-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. Ray. On the Creation, pt. li. Lat. Ex-cerp-ere, tum, to pluck out, (er, and carpere, to pluck.) Adam, in v. Ex EXCERP, v. EXCERPTION. EXCERPTOR. 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. The tricking tradesman, and the merchant bold, EXCITE v. EXCITABLE. R. Brunne, p. 280. EXCITATE. (Thou hast) drawn a line Of masculine expression, which had good Old Orpheus seen, or all the ancient brood Our superstitious fools admire and hold Their lead more precious than thy burnish'd gold, Thou hadst been their exchequer, and no more They each in other's dung had search'd for ore. Carew. On the Death of Dr. Donne. It is wonderful to consider, how a command, or call to be liberal, either upon a civil or religious account, all of a sudden, impoverishes the rich, breaks the merchant, shuts up every private man's exchequer, and makes those men in a minute have nothing at all to give, who, at the very same instant, want nothing to spend.-South, vol. i. Ser. 10. They [the French] had, in imitation of exchequer-bills here in England, given out mint-bills to a great value; some said two hundred millions of livres. Burnet. Own Time, an. 1707. And the house hath appointed a committee to receive any such informations, who are to sit in the exchequer chamber upon Tuesday next in the afternoon, and so from time to time.-Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 285. EXCISE, v. Excise, n. EXCI'SEABLE. School-helps I want, to climb on high, To give and receive one thing for, in return for, another. Assize, or sitting of men deputed for that purpose; or, he adds, as the Dut. Tailour, (q.d.) quid exPiers Plounman, p. 101. cisum, (sc.) from the property of those subjected to it. The latter etymon receives confirmation from the application of the Sp. Sisa, viz. to the tax; and also to the lessening of any thing by Chaucer. Balade of Women-their doublenesse. subtracting some small part, or by cutting measures less. To marchaunde with monye. and maken here eshaunge. These women all of rightwiseness Most love eschaunge and doublenesse. For thilke time (I vnderstonde) The lumbarde made non eschange The bishopriches for to change.-Gower. Con. A. Prol. Ne shee the laws of Nature ouely brake, And wrong of right, and bad of good did make, Spenser. Faerie Queene. Of Mutabilile, 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. See the quotations from Bp. Taylor, and Clarendon. In the levying and imposing tribute, by the voice of most men, those things usually are excepted which are spent in our personal necessities. Whatsoever is for negotiation may This tribute, pay, but not what is to be eaten and drunk. nevertheless, is paid in Spain, for it is that which they call Alcavala; and in Portugal, where it is called Sisa. I suppose it is the same with the Excise in England and the Low Countries.-Bp. Taylor. Rule of Conscience, b. iii. c. 2. R. 9. The two houses at Westminster, who called themselves, and they are often called in this discourse, the Parliament, had at this time by an ordinance, that is by an order of both houses, laid an imposition, which they called an excise, upon wine, beer, ale, and many other commodities, to be paid in the manner very punctually and methodically set down by them, for the carrying on the war. This was the first time, that ever the name of payment of excise was heard of, or practised in England; laid on by those who pretended to be the most jealous of any exaction upon the people. Clarendon. Civil War, vol. ii. p. 453. Why turnpikes rise, and now no cit nor clown Can gratis see the country, or the town: Shortly no lad shall chuck or lady vole, But some excising courtier will have toll. Pope. Sat. of Donne, Sat. 4. Hardly any private business was done all that time, except an order given to the excise office for satisfying an old debt pretended by Colonel John Birch, one of their members, a nimble gentleman, and one who used to neglect no opportunity of providing for himself.-Ludlow. Mem. vol. ii. p. 59. By custom safe, the Poet's numbers flow, Free as the light and air some years ago. No Statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours, and excise our brains. Churchill. Epistle to Robert Lloyd. Th' excise is fatten'd with the rich result Couper. The Task, b. iv. EXCITATION, EXCITATIVE EXCITEMENT. EXCITING, n. Fr. Exciter; It. Ercitare; Sp. Excitar; Lat. Excitare, (ex, and citare, idem quod movere, (Festus;) perhaps from the Gr. Ki-ew, to go, to move.) To move, to stir, to raise, to rouse, to animate, to inspirit. And excited othere Throw my word and al my wit. hure yvel workes to shewe. Piers Plouhman, p. 88. And whanne he wolde go to Achaie britheren excitiden and wroten to the disciplis that thei schulden resseyue hym. Wiclif. Dedis, c. 18. And whan he, thurgh his madnesse and folie To lese hir good as he himself hath do. Chaucer. The Chanones Yemannes Tale, v. 16,212. Oft the lothe thing is doen, by excitacion of other manres opinion.-Id. Test. of Loue, b. i. And foundeth howe he might excite The judges through his eloquence, Fro dethe to torne the sentence And set her hertes to pitee.-Gower. Con. A. b. vii. What shal he doe to such fathers, that excite & moque their children vnto lechery, pleasure, and vngratious actes eyther with wordes or els with deeds. Vives. Instruction of Christian Women, b. ii. c. 11. The people of that secte [Pythagorici) or of that vsage were accustomed euery mornynge whan they shoulde ryse frome their beddes to here the sounde of an harpe, wherby their spyrites myght be more quicke and ready to receive their studies, thinking nothyng more profytable than it vnto the free & noble excityng of their mindes. Fisher. On the Seuen Psalmes, Ps. 38. But of all wisedome be thou precedent, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 2. I say conveniently placed, that is, in regard of the object, that it be not too ponderous, or any way affixed, in regard of the agent, that it be not foul or sullied, but wiped, rubbed and excitated.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 4. But their iterated clamations to excitate their dying or dead friends, or revoke them into life again was a vanity of affection.-Id. Urn Burial, c. 4. As the Spartans used it, it served still for an excitation to valour, and honourable actions: but then they were so carefull of the manner of it, as they fined Terpander, and nailed his harp to the post, for being too inventive, in adding a string more than usual.-Feltham, pt. i. Resolve 88. When I view the fairness and equality of his temper and carriage, I can in truth descry in his own name, no original excitement of such distaste, which commonly ariseth, not so much from high fortune, as from high looks. Reliquia Wottonianæ, p. 553. Its humble method nothing has of fierce, But hates the rattling of a lofty verse; There native beauty pleases and excites, And never with harsh sounds the ear affrights. Dryden. The Art of Poetry, c. 2. His heart was most soft and sensible, his actions were most quick and exciteable by their due objects. Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 32. The balance of power is kept up amongst them in general, as well as in most of the separate constitutions, by a due mixture of liberty, the grand preservative of public spirit, and best excitement to each private virtue. Law. Theory of Religion, pt. iii. The subject yields many practical remarks; and the warmest, and strongest excitations to piety. Id. Ib. Letter from Dr. Taylor. Admonitory of duty, and excitative of devotion. Barrow. Exposition on the Creed. Hope is the grand exciter of industry.-Decay of Piety. No lovely Helens now with fatal charms For whom contending Kings were proud to die. 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. Warburton. Divine Legation, b. ix. c. 2. EXCIZE, v. I Lat. Excidere, to cut out, EXCISION. (er, and cædere, to cut.) Exci sion A cutting out or off; extirpation, destruction. O poore and myserable citie, what sondry tourmetes, excisions, subuertions, depopulations, and other euyll aduentures hath hapned vnto the, sens thou were byrefte of that noble courte of Sapience.-Sir T. Elyot. Govern. b. iii. c. 22. 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.-Allerbury, vol. i. Ser. 7. EXCLAIM, v. EXCLAMATION. EXCLAMATORY. 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 revenues 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 aim, 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 terms-Tatler, No. 20. Let us therefore pass for a third way, by which God delivers over a sinner to error and circumvention. Which point I shall conclude with those exclamatory words of St. Paul, so full of wonder and astonishment, in Rom. xi. 33. How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!-South, vol. iv. Ser. 7. I could see Vice in robes array'd, Without exclaiming rogue or fool.-Churchill. Ghost, b. iv. 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. 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 familiar error, that to advance excoction, they augment the heate of the fornace or the quantity of the injection. Id. On Learning, by G. Wats, b. v. c. 2. EX-COGITATE, v. Fr. Excogiter; Lat. EXCOGITATION. Excogitare, (ex, and cogitare,) a cogendo dictum. The mind, says Varro, collects (cogit) many things together, from which it may select. See To COGITATE. "Fr. Excogiter,-seriously to think, earnestly to consider, intentively to study of; also, to invent by serious thinking, devise after an exact consiJoye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 12. deration, find out with earnest study," (Cotgrave.) 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 betwené 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, B. Jonson. Catiline, Act ii. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. iii. Whatever pure thou in thy body enjoy'st 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 In the mean time, to improve the present opportunity, His strength as yet in David's friendship lies, In his incomparable warres and busynes almost incredible, he [Cæsar] dydde excogitate most excellēt pollycies and deuyses, to vãquish or subdewe his ennemyes. Sir T. Elyot. The Governorr, b. i. c. 23. Stirling. Chorus Fourth, in the Alexandrian Tragedy. 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 excommunycate 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. A bill was brought in for the total exclusion of the duke from the crown of England and Ireland. Hume. History of England, c. 67. an. 1679. Bale. The Pageant of Popes, fol. 197. Yea although they bee impious idolaters, wicked hereDryden. Absalom & Achitophel.tickes, 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, ræcommunicable, and desposable by them for their male-admini. strations.--Prynne. Treachery & Disloyally, &c. pt. v. p. 57. 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. EXCO/CT, v. Į Lat. Excoquere, to boil out, EXCO'CTION. (ex, and coquere, to boil.) 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. |