Come, good Lorenzo, fare ye well awhile, Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice, Act I. sc. 1. And he wrote vnto those Scots letters exhortatorie, requirIng them most instantlie to an vnitie of Catholike orders as might be agreeable with the church of Christ, spred and dispersed through the world.-Holinshed. England, an. 610. By the [heart] here, which we are exhorted to keep, we are to unde: stand the inward thoughts, and notions, and affections of our souls or spirits; all which, in the inspired writings are constantly said to be seated in the heart. Sharp, vol. i. Ser. 14. Urge those who stand; and those who faint, excite; Drown Hector's vaunts in loud exhorts of fight; Conquest, not safety, fill the thoughts of all; Seek not your fleet, but sally from the wall. Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. xii. Every man, that will make himself eminent in any virtue, will be a light to the world, his life will be a constant sermon, and he will often prove as effectual a benefactor to those about him by his example, as others are by their counsels and exhortations.-Sharp, vol. i. Ser. 3. These words, although (as the very syntax doth imme. diately discover) they bear a relation to, and have a fit coherence with, those that precede, may yet (especially considering St. Paul's style, and manner of expression in the preceptive and exhortative part of his epistles) without any violence, or prejudice on either hand, be severed from the context, and considered distinctly by themselves. Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 8. I close all the discourse with that, at which in pitching on this subject I chiefly did aim, an application exhortatory to ourselves, urging the practice of this virtue by considerations peculiar to us as scholars, and derived from the nature of our calling.-Id. vol. iii. Ser. 19. To confirm that pray'r I have employ'd my exile; not in quest Indeed the subject matter of them [the Psalms] is very different: but those of joy are much more numerous than any other sort; and all of them afford ground of praise at least; the doctrinal, the exhortatory, the historical, as well as the rest.-Secker, vol. ii. Ser. 26. Mr. Flaquet says, in his collection of tracts relative to the exhumation in the great church at Dunkirk, that the town became more healthy after the bodies of those, who had been buried in it, had been taken up. Seward. Anecdotes, vol. v. p. 288. EXICCATE. See EXSICCATE. EXICONIZE, v. Gr. Εξεικων-ιζειν, to image forth, to delineate, to depicture. Our faith, if you take in the whole, is no other but what is exiconized in the Apostle's creed, included in the Scriptures.-Hammond. Works, vol. ii. p. 701. But the Grekes hearing of the Kinges flight consulted together to breake the bridge whyche he as lord of the sea had made at Abydus, to the intent that his passage being cut of, he might either with his army be vtterly destroyed or else be brought to suche an exigent, that as clerely ouercome, he should be compelled to desyre peace at theyr handes. Golding. Justine, fol. 18. Icilius and Numitorius tooke up the bloudlesse corps, and held it aloft to the people; blaming and cursing the wickedness of Appius; pittying the unhappy and unfortunate beautie of the damsell: and bewailing the hard exigent and extremitie of the father.-Holland. Livivs, p. 120. These eyes, like lampes, whose wasting oyl is spent, Shakespeare. 1 Part Hen. VI. Act i sc. 5. What charms, that can reverse extent, And null decree and exigent.-Hudibras, pt. iii. c. I. No man will hire a general to cut wood, or shake hay with a sceptre, or spend his soul, and all his faculties upon the purchase of a cockle-shell; but he will fit instruments to the dignity and exigence of the design. Bp. Taylor. Holy Dying, c. 2. s. 4. Devout persons are directed to several saints, for their several exigencies, to the end that both every saint may have his share in the worship, and every client in the relief. Brevint. Saul & Samuel, c. 4. p. 73. Thus should a benefaction be done with a good grace, and shine in the strongest point of light; it should not only answer all the hopes and exigences of the receiver; but even outrun his wishes.-Spectator, No. 292. Dr. Gough, a Popish priest, in the Queen's name, had conjured the King to make his speedy escape, and in his own beseeched him not to insist too nicely upon terms in the present exigency of his affairs. Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. i. p. 100. As the nature of the proposition decides what proofs are exigible, and what not, so the kind of proof determines the class into which the proposition is to be ranged. Bolingbroke. Letter to Mr. De Pouilly. By public exigence, till annual food Its payments [may be] subjected to the inspection of the superior minister of finance; who is to judge of it on the result of the total collective exigencies of the state. Burke. On Economical Reform. EXIGUOUS. Į Lat. Exiguus, perhaps from EXIGUITY. Exig-ere, to drive or force out being applied to such things as can be easily driven or forced out. Minute, little, small. We shall proceed to represent, that the newly mentioned exiguity and shape of the extant particles being supposed, it will then be considerable, &c.--Boyle. Works, vol. i. p.683. But to prosecute a little what I was saying of the conduciveness of bringing a body into small parts, in some cases the comminution may be much promoted by employing physical, after mechanical, ways; and that, when the parts are brought to such a pitch of exiguity, they may be elevated much better than before.-Id. Ib. vol. iv. p. 296. & how alle his kynde exile was on tham laid.-Id. p. 131. Joon sig [saw] and wroot in the ile of Patmos whanne he was exiled of Domycian the moost wicked prince. Wiclif. Prolog. Apocalips, fol. 143. But yet n'ere Cristen Bretons so exiled, Chaucer. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 4967. And of Saturne also I fynde, This Jupiter hym dyd exile.-Gower. Con. A. b. v. For thinking to haue made himselfe strong by the affinitie of Philip, he was at length by him depriued of the whole kyngdome, and ended his life miserably in exyle. Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 3. I fonder than Cephisus, foolish child, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 2. Yet she, most faithfull lady, all this while Fitz Osborn (as some report was executed under him, or at the most) was discarded into a foreign service, for a pretty shadow of exilement.-Reliquia Wottonianæ, p. 103. Being now no longer able to dissemble her resentment, [she] grew in wrath with Ibrahim, and gave a second and more cruel exilement to the unfortunate nurse and her darling child whom she banished out of the seraglio, and could never after abide the Aga that introduced them. Evelyn. History of Padre Ottemano. But they, on earth, or the devouring main, Whom righteous Jove with detestation views, With envious horrour hear the heavenly strain, Exil'd from Praise, from Virtue, and the Muse. West. Pindar. The First Pythian Ode. Brutus, in the book which he writ on Virtue, related that he had seen Marcellus in exile at Mitylene, living in all the happiness which human nature is capable of, and cultivating with as much assiduity as ever, all kinds of laudable knowledge.-Bolingbroke. Reflections upon Exile. EXILE, adj. Fr. Exile; Lat. Erilis; perEXILITY. haps by syncope, says Vossius, from ETλ-os, which denotes exile, evanidum, obscurum for those things are called exile, (exilia,) which are so minute, and thin, as scarcely to be perceptible. May it not be ex-ibilis, ex-ilis; that may go, or pass, or be passed, out? and consequentially, Minute, thin, slender, small. may be, to draw forth the exile heat which is in the air; for And it were also good to enquire, what other meanes thero that may be a secret of great power to produce cold weather. Bacon. Naturall Historie, s. 75. hear his voice plainly; but yet made extreme sharp and Then let him speak, and any that shall stand without, shali exile, like the voice of puppets.—Id. Ib. s. 155. Yet there are certain flies that are called Ephemera, that live but a day. The cause is the exilitie of the spirit; or, perhaps, the absence of the sun.-Id. Ib. s. 697. But then the voice, or other sound, is reduced, by such passage, to a great weakness, or exility.—Id. Ib. s. 154. Empedocles blameth exility or smallness, the low posture, and the over-streight conformation of the matrix. Holland. Plutarch, p. 691. By reason of the exility and smallness of the parts, there can be perceived no difference.-Id. Ib. p. 836. This extreme exility, (of a particle of light,) though difficult to conceive, it is easy to prove. Paley. Natural Theology, c. 21. EXILITION. More correctly written Exsilition. Lat. Ex-silire, to leap out, (ex. and salire. to leap.) See EXULT. Leaping, or springing out. From salt-petre proceedeth the force and the report; for sulphure and smal-coal mixed will not take fire with noise or exilition.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 5. EXIMIOUS. Lat. Eximius, quasi exemptus et extra cæteros positus; as if taken out and placed beyond others: particularly applied to animals selected for sacrifice, (Vossius.) And see EGREGIOUS. Select, choice; and thus, excellent. Take a taste out of the beginning of his dedicatory epistle : "Egregious Doctors and masters of the eximious and arcane Science of Physick, of your urbanity exasperate not yourselves against me for making this little volume of physick," &c.-Fuller. Worthies. London. Hence who sees not that, in this first and principal mystery of our religion, the Holy Spirit is exhibited to us as a person, that about him as such, this excellent part of our duty, this eximious worship, is conversant. Barrow, vol. ii. Ser. 34. EX-INANITION. Lat. Exinanire, to empty out, (ex, and inan-is; Gr. Ivav, to empty.) Cockeram has the verb to exinanite, which he explainsTo make empty, to spoil, weaken or make of no force. There is some pain in spiritualizing of flesh, racking it, fetching it from the lees, rarifying and attenuating the πνευμα παχυνωμένον απομοχθηρας διαιτης, the spirit incrassate by vicious diet, as Philoponus calls the habituate sinner, of returning the gross habit of sin to a spareness and slenderness of stature, an exinanition of that carnal appetite which hath brought in all the grosser joyes which hitherto we have fed on.-Hammond. Works, vol. iv. p. 478. It was χρηστότης και φιλανθρωπια, the benignity and phi lanthropy of God, which induced him to engage his son upɔn such a debasement and exinanition of himself, that we thereby might be raised to a capacity of salvation. Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 23. There is one part provided for the formation of the body before its exit into the world, and another part provided for its nourishment after it is come into the world, till the bird is able to shift for and help itself. Derham. Physico-Theology, b. vii. c. 4. Is such a life so tediously the same, That poor Jonquil, with almost ev'ry breath, Deadly, mortal, destructive. And to this end is come that beginning of setting up of images in churches, then iudged harmlesse, in experience proved not only harmfull, but exitious, and pestilent, and to the destruction, and subversion of all good religion. Homilies. Against the Perill of Idolatry, pt. iii. Such as repair to Paris (where it is excellent) and other like places, perfectly recovering of their health; which is a demonstration sufficient to confirm what we have asserted concerning the perniciousnesse of that about this city, produced only from this exitial and intolerable accident. Evelyn. Fumifugium. From him that is by apperence.-Chaucer. Rom. of the R. from Gr. Etodos, ex-itus, way or passage out. I do beseech you, The way or passage out, egress, departure; the end, termination, or conclusion; the catastrophe: also, a dramatic entertainment introduced at the Shakespeare. Othello, Act ill. sc. 4. concluding act; Aristotle, that part which has no end of the regular play. Mr. Twining calls it, the That by your vertuous means, I may againe By the operation of the orbes, From whom we do exist, and cease to be, And as a stranger to my heart and me, Hold thee from this for euer.-Id. K. Lear, Act i. sc. 1. The metaphysicians look upon existence, as the formal and actual part of a being. H. More. Antidote against Atheism, App. c. 4. Yea, there was a great and famous sect among them that denied a life to come, and the existence of immaterial beings, for the Sadducees say, there is no resurrection, neither angels, nor spirit, Acts, viii. 23.-Glanvill, Ser. 6. Nor is it onely of rarity, but may be doubted whether it be of existency, or really any such stone in the head of a toad at all.-Brown. Vulgar Brrours, b. iii. c. 13. Neither is there so firm and close an union betwixt the soul and body, as there is betwixt Christ and the believing soul, for as much as that may be severed by death, but this never; away yet with all gross carnality of conceit, this union is true and really existent, but yet spiritual. Bp. Hall. Holy Raptures, &c. Enjoying the good of existence, and the being deprived of that existential good.-Bp. Barlow. Rem. p. 483. Whatever exists, has a cause, a reason, a ground of its existence; (a foundation, on which its existence relies; a ground of reason why it doth exist, rather than not exist ;) either in the necessity of its own nature, and then it must have been of itself eternal: or in the will of some other being; and then that other being must at least in the order of nature and causality have existed before it. Clarke. On the Attributes, Prop. 1. The reason then of their indefiniteness is with me, not "because in their real existent natures they are necessarily infinite," but quite the reverse, viz. because they have no real existent nature at all.-Law. Enquiry. Of Space, c. 1. We know the reasons, in part at least, for which beings, much lower than us, exist: why may there not then be very sufficient reasons for our being no higher than we are? Secker, vol. ii. Ser. 28. EXISTIMATION. Lat. Existimatio, from Existimare, (ex, and æstimare, to fix a price or value.) Opinion, valuation. How this is to be accounted for. I know not; but men's existimation follows us according to the company we keep. Spectator, No. 456. EXIT. Lat. Ex-ire, exitum, to go out. They haue their exits and their entrances, Shakespeare. As You Like It, Act v. sc. 1. Yet that we might Find fair concordance. 'twixt his race and flight, Choral Ode after it. The debt thus exonerated of so great a weight of its odium. and otherwise reduced from its alarming bulk, the agents thought they might venture to print a list of the creditors. Burke. On the Nabob of Arcot's Debts. EXORABLE. Į Fr. Exorable; It. Esorabile; EXORATION. Sp. Exorable; Lat. Exorabilis. from euorare, (er, and orare, from os, oris, the mouth.) See ADORE, and INEXORABLE. That can or may be prevailed upon by prayer; that can or may be persuaded. Concerning the punishment of the senatours of Capua, Fulvius and Claudins could not agree. Claudius was more tractable and exorable, and might soone have bene intreated for a pardon.-Holland. Livivs, p. 594. I am blind Beaum. & Fletch. Love's Cure, Act v. sc. 1. It [Religion] prompts us to bear the infirmities of our brethren, to be gentle in censure, to be insensible of petty affronts, to pardon injuries, to be patient, exorable and reconcileable to those that give us greatest cause of offence. EXORBITATE, v. sphere or circle.) Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 1, Fr. Exorbitant; It. Esorbitante; Sp. Erorbitante; Lat. Exorbi tans, excentrick, (ex, and orbis, an orbit, To go or move out of an orbit or circle; to move out of, deviate from, the regular course or path; to exceed bounds, to go out of or beyond compass; to deviate from rule or order. And thus exorbitant is, Then the youth leaving to comedians, the acting of parts But it is not so easy to account for the patience, with Common sense is sufficient to convince us, that the whole The exode or catastrophe is prepared by the coming of Mason. Caractacus. Argument. EXOLUTION. See EXSOLUTION. A common confession. And upon this account all publick criminals were tied to a publick exomologesis or repentance in the church, who by confession of their sins, acknowledged their error, and entered into the state of repentance; and by their being separate from the participation and communion of the mysteries, were declared unworthy of the communion with Christ, and a participation of his promises, till by repentance, and the fruits worthy of it, they were adjudged capable of God's pardon.-Bp. Taylor. On Repentance, c. 10. Irregular, enormous, immoderate. excessive. Whereas the other having the body still at command and for company, are more seen and discovered, not for that they be more foolish, and have lesse use of reason, but because they have greater meanes to show their folly. Holland. Plutarch, p. 569. He was by nature over dull and slow; but this infirmitie he tempered with a very good and wise course that he tooke. suffering himselfe to be corrected and reformed, whensoever hee did exorbitate and swerve from the way of honestie Id. Ammianus, p. 269. A cleare resolution, that the law, with the earles and barons assembled in parliament, are above the king, and ought to bridle him when he exorbitates from the law. Prynne. Treachery & Disloyalty, p. 5. And now, sir, since I cannot (how secretly faulty soever) guesse at my own publick exorbitances, I beseech you, where you hear my name traduced, learn of mine accuserS (whose Lyncean eyes would seem to see farther into me then my own) what singular offence I have committed. Bp. Hall. Letter sent from the Tower to Mr. H. S. For it is easie for any reader to observe, that all the seve ralities of the degrees prohibited run still upon the male; under which if the like exorbitances of the other sex were not meant to be comprehended, females should be lawless, and the law imperfect.-Id. Cases of Consc. Dec. 4. Case 4. Whose crime [the earle of Strafford's] coming under the cognizance of no human law, a new one was made, not to be a precedent, but his destruction; to such exorbitancy were things arrived.-Evelyn. Memoirs, an. 1641. Your too much indulgence To the exorbitant waste of young Caldoro, An absolute power in men is, for the most part, sinful EXONERATE, v. Į Lat. Exonerare, (ex, and injurious; because of the imperfection of their will, EXONERATION. and onus, a load.) To free from load or burthen; to disburthen; to free or relieve from charge; to relieve; to discharge. But when those borderers wanted further place, whereunto they might exonerate their swelling multitudes, that were bounded in by the great ocean, then did they return upon the nations, occupying the countries through which they had formerly passed, oppressing first their neighbours, afterwards the people more remote. Ralegh. History of the World, b. i. c. 8. s. 4. For the body which we now have is adapted unto eating, drinking, nutrition, coition, and other ways of repletion and exoneration. Things no way agreeable to the life for which we are intended.-Grew. Cosmo-Sacra, b. iii. c. 4. They [glands] give the blood time to stop and separate through the pores of the capillary vessels into the secretory ones, which afterwards ali exonerate themselves unto one Feltham, Lesoria, 23. On Sir Rowland Cotton. common ductus.-Ray. On the Creation, pt. ii which is not able to bound the exorbitancies of that power; and if it does not prove actually the cause of sin, yet it is always a temptation to it —South, vol. i. Ser. 8. 'Tis the naked man's apparel which we shut up in our presses, or which we exorbitantly ruffle aud flaunt in: 'tis the needy person's gold and silver which we closely hide in our chests, or spend idly, or put out to useless use. Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 31. He is able not only to set bounds to the raging sea, and effectually say to it, hitherto shalt thou come, and no farther, and here shall the proud waves be stayed; but, (what is far more,) so to curb and moderate those stupendously rapid motions of the mundane globes and intercurrent fluids, that neither the unwieldiness of their bulk, nor celerity of their motions, have made them exorbitate or fly out, and this for many ages. Boyle. Works, vol. v. p. 135. If the planets had moved in those lines above named; sometimes they would have approached to the sun as near as the orb of Mercury, and sometimes have exorbitaled | beyond the distance of Saturn.—Bentley, Ser. S. The distresses of government aided the friends of liberty, who managed their advantage so well as, in process of time, to support their claims, redress their grievances, establish their rights, and, in a word, to reduce the crown from the exorbitances it affected, within the ancient and legal boundaries of the constitution. Hurd. Serm. before the Lords, Jan. 30, 1786. We complain of what we call the exorbitant multiplication of some troublesome insects; not reflecting, that large portions of nature might be left void without it. Paley. Natural Theology, c.26. EXORCISE, v. Fr. Exorcizer; Sp. ExE'XORCISER. orcizar; It. Esorcizzare; EXORCISING, N. Lat. Exorcisare; Gr. EE'XORCISM. ορκίζειν, εξ, and ορκιζειν, EXORCIST. adjurare, sacramento adigere, from opkos, juramentum quasi septum, (sc.) veritatis, (Lennep.) In which I dare say they did not long continue, after the exorcist had thus consigned them over to Satan, now let loose to do Mr. Wesley honour. Warburton. Doctrine of Grace, b. ii. c. 5. EXORDIUM. Į Fr. Exorde; It. Esordio; EXO'RDIAL. Sp. Exordio; Lat. Exordium, from Exordiri, to begin from, (ex, and ordiri, to begin.) A beginning, a preface. And at last, out of some premeditate flourish, there comes forth by him who is the bolder of the twaine and more confident of speech, some pleasant and delightsome exordium or beginning of speech.-Holland. Ammianus, p. 387. This whole exordium [of Paradise Lost] rises very happily into noble language and sentiment, as I think the transition to the fable is exquisitely beautiful and natural. Spectator, No. 303. this way of writing, by reason of the long prefaces and I have sometimes, however, been very much distasted at exordiums into which it often betrays a writer. Addison. Of Ancient Medals, Dial. 3. To bind by oath; to charge upon oath; and thus, by the use of certain words, and performance of certain ceremonies, to subject the devil and other evil spirits to command, and exact obedience. Minshew calls an exorcist, a conjurer; and it The exordium of the Scribleriad proposes only to lead an is so used by Shakespeare; and exorcism, conju-hero, whose curiosity has already carried him into so many perilous adventures, through new attempts equally difficult and hazardous.-Cambridge. The Scribleriad. ration. But also summe of the Iewis, exorcistis, gheden aboute and assaieden to clepe the name of the Lord Ihesu Crist on hem that hadden yuele spiritis, and seiden, I conioure ghou bi Ihesu Crist whom Poul prechith. Wiclif. Dedis, c. 19. Then certaine of the vagabounde Jewes, exorcistes, toke vpon them to call ouer them whiche had euell spirites, the name of the Lord Jesus, sayīg: we adiure you by Jesu whome Paull preacheth.-Bible, 1551. Ib. Lo what auailen incantacions Lidgate. Story of Thebes, pt. iii. For hither than brought he al vain and crafty sciences, of countyng, riming, shauing, exorcising, enchaunting and coniuring. Bale. Englishe Votaries, pt. i. Sauynge ones (I remembre) as I was at Malden in Essexe, about xx yeares ago, I found an olde bishoppes ordynary, or boke of their exorcismes, for church halowinges, belle blessinges, and oyled orders geuynge.-Id. Apology, fol. 23. He impudently exorcizeth devils in the church, whose pleasures he applaudes in stage playes. rynne. Histrio-Mastix, pt. i. Act vi. sc. 12. Guid. No exorcisor harme thee. Shakespeare. Cymbeline, Act iv. sc. 2. Their ministery and monuments exposed to utter scorne: their masses; their oblations; their adorations; their invocations; their anoylings; their exorcizings; their shrift; their absolutions; their images, rood lofts, and whatsoever else of this kind.-Bp. Hall. Apologie against Brownists. And even at this day there remaineth a most notable precedent and example to all posteritie, in that prescript form of exorcisme, whereby the two Decij, both father and sonne, betooke themselves to all the hellish furies and fiends infernall.-Holland. Plinie, b. xxviii. c. 2. Bulling. Master Hume, we are therefore provided; will her ladyship behold and heare our exorcismes. Shakespeare. 2 Pt. Hen. VI. Act i. sc. 4. Whosoever readeth the praier or exorcisme that is used, and which the warden or principall of the colledge of the Quindeccmvirs is wont to read and pronounce to the exorcist, he would no doubt confesse that such charmes and execrations be of great importance: and namely, seeing they have been all approved and found effectuall by the experience and events observed for the space of eight hundred and thirtie yeares.-Holland. Plinie, b. xxviii. c. 2. Surprises none, but those who 'ave priests And magazines of ammunition.-Hudibras, pt. ii. c. 2. They compared this performance of our Lord with those, and perhaps with things which they had seen done in their own times by professed exorcisers; and the comparison brought them to this conclusion, that "it was never so seen in Israel."-Horsley, vol. i. Ser. 10. To evince these great truths, seems to have been the end both of possessions and of the exorcisms. Warburton. Doctrine of Grace, b. ii. c. 5. Prolixity of paragraph, and length of sentence are peculiar to Milton. This is seen, not only in some of his exordial invocations in the Paradise Lost, and in many of the religious addresses of a like cast in the prose works, but in his long verse-Warton. Milton, Pref. EXORNATION. Lat. Exornatio, from Exornare, to deck or dress out, (ex, and ornare, to deck or dress.) See ADORN. Decoration, adorning, or ornament. Exornation is a gorgious beautifying of the tongue with borrowed wordes, and change of sentence or speech with much varietie.-Wilson. Arte of Rhetorique, p. 172. Oh, it flowes from her like nectar, and shee doth give it, that sweete, quicke grace, and exornation in the composure, that (by this good ayre, as I am an honest man, would I might never stirre, sir, but,) she does observe as pure a phrase, and use as choice figures in her ordinary conferences, as any be i' the Arcadia. B. Jonson. Every Man Out of his Humour, Act ii. sc. 3. He [Dinarchus] did imitate Hyperides, or as some think Demosthenes in regard of that pathetical spirit in moving affections, and the emphatical force which appeareth in his stile. Certainly in his figures and exornations he followeth him very evidently.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 769. EXOSSATION. Lat. Exos, boneless, (ex, EXO'SSEOUS. and os, bone.) Exosseous, Boneless, without bone. Experiment solitary touching exossation of fruits. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 854. The like also in snails, a soft and erosseous animal, whereof in the naked and greater sort, as though she would requite the defect of a shell on their back, nature, neer the head hath placed a flat white stone, or rather testaceous concretion.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 13. EXOTE/RICK, adj. Fr. Exotique; It. Esotico; Sp. Exotico; Lat. Eroticus; Gr. ΕξωτεριKos, external, EğWTIKOS, foreign; from E&w, out, forth. Exoterical, is applied toExternal professions of doctrine; public doctrines; and thus is, external, open, public. Exotick External; and thus, foreign, or, according to our old English, outlandish. Aristotle was wont to divide his lectures and readings into acroamatical and exoterical, some of them contained onely choice matter, and they were read privately to a select auditory: others contained but ordinary stuff, and were promiscuously, and in public exposed to the hearing of all that would.-Hale. Rem. Ser. John, xviii. 36. Who think new air new vices may create, Cartwright. On the Death of Lord Bayning. So dainty were the Romans in their language then, that they would not suffer any exotic or strange word to be enfranchis'd among them, or enter into any of their diplomata, and publick instruments of command or justice. Howell, b. iv. Let. 19. I will the rather shew and proove, that we may both preserve and recover our health well enough without these exoticall and forein drugs; and that each region is furnished sufficiently with home-physick of their owne. Holland. Plinie, b. xxii. c. 24. No more is there between us and perfumes or other forraine and exoticall sauces, and yet you would have us to abstain from them, rejecting and blaming on all sides, that which in any pleasure is neither profitable or needfull. Id. Plutarch, p. 476. Those vast exotick animals, which the multitude flocks to see, and which men give money to be allowed to gaze on have had many of them less of my admiration than the little caterpillar, (as learned naturalists esteem it) to which we are beholden for silk.-Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 22. Exotick terms, I hope you will find, that I have not at all affected, but rather studiously declined the use of them, which custom has not rendered familiar, unless it be to avoid the frequent and unwelcome repetition of the same word (so troublesome to the ear, and so much forbidden by orators) or for some peculiar significancy of some such word, whose energy cannot be well expressed in our language, at least without a tedious circumlocution.-Id. Ib. vol. i. p. 30. The philosophy of the Pythagoreans, like that of the other sects, was divided into the exoteric and esoteric; the open, taught to all; and the secret, taught to a select number. Warburton. Divine Legation, b. ii. Note B. B. He divided his disciples (says Origen) into two classes, the one he called esoteric, the other exoteric. For to those he intrusted the more perfect and sublime doctrines; to these he delivered the more vulgar and popular.-Id. Ib. b. iii. s. 3. It is then evident from these passages that, in his exoterics, he gave the world both a beginning and an end. Id. Ib. b. iii. Note [F.] It would be hard, on the supposition that this knowledge was ever entirely lost among inen, to account for the belief of one Supreme Being which prevailed in the esoterical, or secret doctrines of philosophers, while their exoterical, or publick doctrines, were favourable to polytheism. Bolingbroke, Ess. 3. On Monotheism. But if the nature of the subject will not teach these objectors that it must needs be handled exoterically, Jamblichus's authority must decide between us. Warburton. Divine Legation, b. iii. s. 3. The first observation I shall make on this long passage is, that the same subject, namely the nature of superior beings, was handled in a two-fold manner, exoterically; and then the discourse was of the national gods: esoterically; and then it was of the first cause of all things. 2. That the exoteric teaching admitted fable and falsehood, fabulosa vel licita, the esoteric only what the teacher believed to be true, nihil fabulosum penitus.-Id. Ib. b. iii. s. 2. The ancients delivering their lectures by word of mouth. could adapt their subjects to their audience, reserving their esoteries for adepts, and dealing out exoteries only to the vulgar. Search. Freewill, p. 172. N. Our choice exotics to the breeze exhale Is hope exotic? grows it not at home? EXPAND, v. EXPA'NSE. EXPA'NSED. EXPA'NSIBLE. EXPANSIBILITY. EXPANSION. EXPANSIVE. EXPA'NSURE. It. Espandere; Lat. Expandere, to open out, (ex, and pandere, which Vossius thinks is from Gr. Pavelv, whence αναλογως may be pavros, apertus, open.) To throw or lay, to stretch or spread, open; to dilate, to extend, to widen, to broaden. He catches at the stream with greedy lips; Cowley. Ess. Of Avarice. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. i. Again th' Almighty spake: let there be lights High in th' expance of heaven, to divide The day from night. Id. Ib. b. vii. The like doth Beda report of Belerophon's horse which, framed of iron, was placed between two loadstones, with wings expansed, pendulous in the ayre. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 3. So that bodies are not expansible in proportion to their weight, or to the quantity of matter to be expanded. Grew. Cosmo Sacra, b. i. c. & For the extent of his fathome, or distance betwixt the extremity of the fingers of either hand upon expansions, is equal unto the space between the sole of the foot and the crown.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iv. c. 5. But by increase of swift expansive light, Davenant. Gondibert, b. li. c. 1. Marlow & Chapman. Hero & Leander. Stil: nearer heaven his virtues shone more bright, Like rising flames expanding in their height; The martyr's glory crown'd the soldier's fight. Dryden. Epit. on Sir Palmes Fairbone. From the bleak beach, and broad expanse of sea, Parnell. The Gift of Poetry. Hezekiah. All have springiness in them, and (notwithstanding) be, by reason of their shape, readily expansible on the score of their native structure, as also by heat, girations, and other motions, and compressible by an external force into a very little room.-Boyle. Works, vol. v. p. 614. Distance or space, in its simple, abstract conception, to avoid confusion, I call expansion, to distinguish it from extension, which by some is used to express this distance only as it is in the solid parts of matter, and so includes, or at least intimates, the idea of body: whereas the idea of pure distance includes no such thing. Locke. Of Hum. Underst. b. ii. c. 15. s. 1. Th' expansive atmosphere is cramp'd with cold; Lifts the light clouds sublime, and spreads them thin, Thomson. Spring. (Oft from the boxes we perceived her spy us,) Whether she [Taste] lik'd us and our warm endeavours, I know not, but 'tis certain she commanded Cunningham. A Prologue spoken at York. Praise him, Sun, at each extreme, Silv'ring in the blue expanse. Smart, Ps. 148. Venus, all-bounteous queen, whose genial pow'r Through seas and fertile plains, and all that lies Beattie. Lucretius, b. i. A distant view of Ægina and of Megara, of the Piræus and of Corinth, then in ruins, melted the soul of an ancient Roman, for a while suspended his private sorrows, and abserbed his sense of personal affliction, in a more expansive and generous compassion for the fate of cities and states. Eustace. Tour through Italy, c. 10. EXPATIATE, v. More properly Ex-spaEXPATIATION. tiate. Lat. Er-spatiari, EXPATIATOR. ex, and spatiari, from Spatium, which Vossius derives from the Gr. Στάδιον, and this απο της στάσεως; denoting the place or station for spectators, of athletic contests, quia stantes spectarent; because they behold those contests standing. Stadium was thence generalized in its application to any place: and as from the place or room which any thing occupies, we judge of its size or magnitude, hence it was extended by usage to express, magnitude, size, room. To roam, to occupy, to spread through, room or space; to rove or ramble; to make excursions, to enlarge or extend, or give extent or enlargement to; to take a wider or more extensive range. There may we see thy soule expaciate, Beaumont. An Elegy to Sir John Beaumont. - They [the Bees] among fresh dews and flowers Fly to and fro, or on the smoothed plank, The suburb of the straw-built citadel, New rub'd with baum expatiale and confer Thir State affairs. Millon. Paradise Lost, b. i. Therefore Nature commandeth all, and these three are her substitute administrators, the course of Nature, the expatiation of Nature and Art, or the cooperation of Man with Nature in particular. Bacon On Learning, by G. Wats, b. ii. c. 2 The pipe of seven reeds, doth evidently demonstrate the consent and harmony, or discordant concord of Nature, which is caused by the motion of the seaven wand'ring starres: for there are no other errors, or manifest expatiations in Heaven, save those of the seaven planets. Bacon. On Learning, by G. Wats, b. ii. c. 13. It would be too long to expatiate upon the sense all mankind have of Fame, and the inexpressible pleasure which there is in the approbation of worthy men, to all who are capable of worthy actions.-Spectator, No. 218. Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate therein. Id. No. 494. If I was large in my discourse concerning the nature and end of the Grecian mysteries, it was to show the sense the ancient lawgivers had of the use of Religion to Society, and if I had expatiated on the origin and use of the Egyptian hieroglyphics, it was to vindicate the logical propriety of the Prophetic language and sentiment. Warburton. Ded. (1765) to Lord Mansfield. The person intended by Montfaucon as an expatiator on the word "Endovellicus," I presume is Thomas Reinesius. Pegge. Anonym. p. 201. EXPATRIATE. Lat. Ex, and Patria, our country, or paternal land. Cotgrave has Expatriation and expatrie, which last he explains ; "from home, banished, absent from, or out of his own country." The word does not appear to have been familiarly used in English till the period of the French revolution. Fr. Expatrier. The allied powers possess also an exceedingly numerous, well-informed, sensible, ingenious, high principled, and spirited body of cavaliers in the expatriated landed interest of France.-Burke. Remarks on the Policy of the Allies. EXPECT, v. EXPECT, n. EXPECTABLE. EXPECTANT, adj. EXPECTANT, n. EXPECTANCE. EXPECTANCY. EXPECTATIVE, adj. EXPECTATIVE, n. EXPECTER. EXPECTINGLY. More properly Erspect. It. Aspettare; Lat. Exspectare, to look out, (er, and spectare, to look;) Gr.ZKETE. Exspectantes sæpe eximus spectandi causâ. To look out; to stand, stay or await, upon the look out for; to await the coming; to look for or await an event; to see the probability or likelihood of an event: sometimes, with a subaudition of hope or fear. Expectaunt aie till I may mete To getten mercy of that swete.-Chaucer. Rom. of the R. [Perseus]; that was heire apparant Upon the reigne expectaunt.-Gower. Con. A. b. ii. When contrarye to theyr expectacion, our enemyes saw vs who they beleued to haue hen fled, return vpon them with force of armes, they were not able to abide so much as the onset, but at the fyrst meting taking themselues to their heles, fled to the next woodes.-Golding. Cæsar, fol. 151. He so stirred the multitude to the fauor of frugality, that some of them which were vtterlye drowned in riot, were, contrary to all hope and expectation broughte again to good thrift. Id. Justine, fol. 94. Whereunto the multitude of expectative graces hath beene a great impediment and let.-Fox. Martyrs, Hen. VI. p.640. And if piety be wanting in the priests, equity in the judges, or the magistrate be found rated at a price, what justice or religion is to be expected? which are the only two attributes make kings akinne to Gods.-B. Jonson. Discoveries. Nor is its substantial conversion expectible in any composition or aliment wherein it is taken. Brown. Vulgar Errours b. ii. c. 5. He [Sir Julius Cæsar] continued more than twenty years Master of the Rolls; and, though heaved at by some expectanis, sate still in his place, well poyzed therein with his gravity and integrity.-Fuller. Worthics. Middlesex. Ene. There is expectance here from both the sides, What further you will doe? Shakespeare. Troil. & Cress. Act iv. 8. 5. Ophe. O what a noble minde is heere o're-throwne! The courtiers, soldiers, schollers; eye, tongue, sword; Th' expectansie and rose of the faire State, The glasse of fashion and the mould of forme, Th' obseru'd of all obseruers, quite, quite downe. Id. Hamlet, Act iii. sc. 1. But Perseus by that deed, as he confirmed the hearts of the Romanes, so he quailed not a little the courages of the Macedonians, who depended upon the hope and expectancie of their aid.-Holland. Lities, p. 1187. He hath a mighty burden to sustain, Whose fortune doth succeed a gracious prince; Or where men's expectations entertain Hopes of more good, and more beneficence. Daniel. A Panegyric to the King's Majesty. For by his royal goodness and by your favorable medi ation, I am already abundantly satisfied in some expectatives, (as marks of his grace, and of your patronage) which have not only exceeded my merits, but even quieted mine appetites. Reliquiæ Woltonianæ, p. 486. Heet. Eneas, call my brother Troyìus to me: Shakespeare. Troil. & Cress. Act iv. sc. 5. Dam. Who's that, boy? O that your Boy. Another juggler, with a song name. expertors would be gone hence, now, at the first act; or expect no more hereafter than they understand. B. Jonson. The Magnetick Lady, Act i Meanwhile, unknowing of the captive chief, Pompey prepares to march to his relief, He means the scattering forces to unite, And with increase of strength expect the fight. It is counted a valuable thing, and may be estimated at a certain rate, for a man to be one amongst four or five equal competitors for a place, to be the fourth or fifth expectant of an inheritance.-Wilkins. Natural Religion, b. i. c. 2. But long expectance of a bliss delay'd, How often doth a man do that in the fury and expectancies of lust, for which, when his ardours are over, he is ready to bite his nails for very vexation.-Sharp, vol. i. Ser. 2. Though Virtue is unquestionably worthy to be chosen for its own sake, even without any expectation of reward; yet it does not follow that it is therefore intirely self-sufficient, and able to support a man under all kind of sufferings, and even death itself, for its sake, without any prospect of future recompence.-Clarke. On the Evidences, Prop. 1. Prepar'd for fight, expectingly he lies. Dryden. Juvenal. Sat. 6. I mean that when any organ of sense is for some time affected in some one manner, if it be suddenly affected otherwise, there ensues a convulsive motion; such a con vulsion as is caused when any thing happens against the expectance of the mind.-Burke. Sublime and Beautiful. Thus for example, in joy the pleasing part of the impres sion owes its origin to the possession, or undoubted expec tancy, of some desirable good. Cogan. On the Passions, pt. ii. c. 1. 'Tis therefore many, whose sequester'd lot Cowper. Task, b. v. In its general operation, the indulgence of hope is mixed with certain portions of doubt and solicitude, but when doubt is removed, and the expectation becomes sanguine, hope rises into joy, and it has been known to produce transports and ecstacies, equally with the full accomplishment of ardent desires.-Cogan. On the Passions, pt. i. c. 2. EXPECTORATE, v. EXPECTORATION. EXPECTORATIVE, n. Lat. Expectorare, to throw out from the breast, (er, and pectus, the breast.) Used chiefly in inedical works. To throw or heave out, eject or emit from the breast. They affirm, that as well the one as the other, doth expectorat the fleame gathered in the chest. Holland. Plinie, b. xxiv. c. 16. Copious bleeding is the most effectual remedy in the beginning of this disease, [inflammation of the lungs ;] but, when the expectoration goes on successfully, not so proper, because it sometimes suppresseth it, and, in that case, sudorifics thicken the matter that is expectorated. Arbuthnot. Of Diet, c. 3. Syrups and other expectoratives, in coughs, must neces sarily occasion a greater cough.-Harvey. Consumptions. If we take but a cursory view of past times, we shall see that many who are now justly considered as medels of virtuo and of political wisdom, were in their day aspersed with all the venom which the virulence of party could expectorais upon them.-Knox, Ess. 6. EXPEDIATE, v. EXPEDIENT, adj. EXPEDIENT, n. EXPEDIENCE. EXPEDIENCY. EXPEDIENTLY. EXPEDITE, V. EXPEDITE, adj. EXPEDITELY. EXPEDITION, EXPEDITIOUS. EXPEDITIOUSLY. Fr. Expedier; It. Espedire; Sp. Expedir; Fr. Expedient, It. Espediente; Sp. Expediente; Lat. Exped-ire. Expedire dicitur, qui pedem retentum liberat; he is said, expedire, who sets at liberty a foot held fast. See DESPATCH. To free, disentangle or disenthrall, from that which holds fast or retains; to free from hinderance, entanglement or im-pe-diment; to set free for motion, for flight; and thus, to set forward, give a quick or ready way; give speed or despatch to; to quicken, to hasten, to accelerate. Expedient, the n. is a quick, prompt, ready way or means; sometimes, a by-way or path, taken instead of, or to avoid the direct way; and thus, a shift or device, an evasion. Expedient, the adj.-quick, ready, easy, apt, convenient, suitable, fit, or proper. An expedition,-a march or journey, or voyage, requiring promptness or despatch; and thus, Shakespeare uses expedience. He also uses expedient as expeditious is now commonly used. Burnet uses the v. Ex-pede, opp. to im-pede. Neuerthelesse I tell you the truthe, it is expedient for you that I go awaye, for yf I goo not away, that Comforter wyll not come vnto you.-Bible, 1551. John, c. 16. She committed the same woorke to Maister Frauncisce Malet, doctour in the facultie of diuenitee, with all celeritee and expedicion to be finished and made complete. Udal. To Queen Catherine. Whe winter time was expired, cotrary to his custome, he goeth into Italy with as much expeditio as might be. Golding. Cæsar, fol. 270. He landed his armye in the hauen of Tarent, leadynge with him his two yonger sonnes, Helen and Alexander, to beare him company in his farre expedition.-Id. Justine, fol. 85. Now for the rebels, which stand out in Ireland, Shakespeare. Rich. II. Act i. sc. 4. She [the mother of Cleomenes] wrote unto him, that he should not spare to do any thing that should be expedient for the honour of Sparta, without fear of displeasing Ptolemy, or for regard of an old woman and a young boy. North. Plutarch, p. 675. And the Roman religion is commodious in nothing more, than in finding out expedients either for removing quite away, or for shifting from one to another, all personal punishments.-Brevini. Saul & Samuel, c. 21. Then let me heare Of you, my gentle cousin Westmerland, Shakespeare. 1 Pl. Hen. IV. Act i. sc. 1. Matters of good order in holy affaires may be ruled by the wise institution of men according to reason and expediency. Bp. Hall. Cont. The Angell & Zacharie. Well, push him out of dores, And let my officers of such a nature Shakespeare. As You Like It, Act iii. sc. 1. All this is plainly expedited with the same ease, and less perplexity and multiplicity, by the immediate command of the divine will and power in the first production of things. Hale. Origin. of Mankind, p. 323. In these dayes, remarkable above the rest, was the profitable and expedite service of Julius, colonell of the footmen on the further side of Taurus.-Holland. Ammianus, p. 431. Great plentie of them is in the country of the Sydraci, the utmost limit of Alexander the Great his expeditions and voiages. Id. Piinie, b. xii. c. 6. I apprehend it as a safest course, Massinger. The Old Law Act i. sc. 1. For which he expeditiously provided Drayton. The Barons' Wars, b. i. But I mean not to purchase the praise of expeditive in that kind; but as one that have a feeling of my duty, and of the case of others. My endeavour shall be to hear patiently, and to cast my order into such a mold as may soonest bring the subject to the end of his journey. Bacon. Speech, on Taking his Piace in Chancery. chancery for seising on all the temporalities of the bishoprick, When any see was vacant, a writ was issued out of the and then the king recommended one to the Pope, upon which his bulls were expeded at Rome. Burnet. Hist, of the Reformation, b. i. Great alterations in some kind of merchandise may serve for the present instant, to expediate their business. Sir E. Sandys. State of Religion. Prerogative being wound up to this height in England, and the affairs of the Church tending to a conjunction with the See of Rome, before any farther progress should be made therein here, it was thought expedient that the pulse of Scotland should be felt, and they perswaded or compelled to the like conformity.-Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. i. p. 6. Like tricks of State, to stop a raging flood, Or mollify a mad-brain'd senate's mood: Of all expedients never one was good. Dryden. The Hind & the Panther. But it is a very easy matter in most cases to determine concerning the expedience of actions; that is to say, whether it be best and fittest for a man to do them or no. Sharp, vol. i. Ser. 7. From a wise consideration of humane affairs, and obvious events here, we may collect the reasonableness, the equity, the expediency, the moral or prudential necessity of a future judgment, according to which men shall receive due recompences, answerable to their demeanour in this life. Barrow, vol. ii. Ser. 32. The Earl of Ormond being willing to see his relations and his estate in those parts, as also to expedite that service, accepted their invitation, and marched thither with about 3 or 4000 horse and foot for his guard. Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. i. p. 139. One observation, relating to the motion of the bones in their articulations, I shall here add, That is, the care that is taken, and the provision that is made, for the easie and expedite motion of them.-Ray. On the Creation, pt. ii. Speech is a very short and expedite way of conveying their thoughts one to another.-Locke. Hum. Underst. b. ii. c.19. Who would not more readily learn to write fairly and expeditely by imitating one good copy, than by hearkening to a thousand oral prescriptions.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 2. He sends them forth amongst wolves: a hard expedition, you will say, to go among wolves; but yet much harder to convert them into sheep.-South, vol. i. Ser. 3. No man will or can be easily convinced, that the latter short expeditious way of appealing to the Bishop of Rome in all controverted cases, was ever so much as thought of when the Bible was written.-Sharp, vol. vii. Ser. 4. The tincture of the glass of antimony is very tedious to make, being to be thrown with spirit of vinegar, I once made a menstruum to draw it more expeditiously. Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 11. What sure expedient then shall Juno find, To calm her fears, and ease her boding mind? Philips. The Fable of Thule. And some, perhaps, who, busy as they are, Yet make their progeny their dearest care, (Whose hearts will ache, once told what ills may reach Their offspring, left upon so wild a beach) Will need no stress of argument t' enforce Th' expedience of a less advent'rous course. Cowper. Tirocinium. Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice; nor admits of the carnival of a single day, for the indulgence of falsehood, profligacy, fraud, and cruelty. Cogan. Ethical Treat. On the Passions, pt. ii. Dis. 2. c. 1. Your Imperial Majesty's just influence, which is still greater than your extensive power, will animate and expedite the efforts of other sovereign's. Burke. Letter.to the Empress of Russia. In unequal conflict joins Th' unwieldy spear that loads the borderer, With the broad targe and expeditious sword. Smollett. The Regicide, Act iv. sc. 2. The surgeon boasted that he could not only shave, which on the continent is a surgical operation, but that he could dress hair neatly and expeditiously; nor had he any objection to cleaning of shoes, or acting as a menial servant, till some opportunity should offer of improving his condition. Cogan. Ethical Treat. On the Passions, pt. i. Note A. EXPEDITATION. EXPEDITATE, v. Į Lat. Expeditare, (ex, and pede, the foot,) a word, says Minshew, usual in the forest, signifying to cut out the balls of the dogg's foot, for the preservation of the king's game. Euerie one that keepeth any great dogs not expeditated forfeiteth to the king three shillings, four-pence, (Crompton, Jurisd. p. 152.) Manwood says, that the three claws of the fore-foot on the right side shall be cut off by the skin; and Rastell, citing Charta de Forestâ, c. 6, describes the lawing of dogs in the same manner. The which thing when he forseing had fled vnto Cæsar, they persewed hym to the uttermost borders of theyr teritory, and vtterlye expulsed him both fro his kingdome and countrey.-Golding. Cæsar. Commen, fol. 142. For the man standeth as it were in the middest betweene his mother and his wife; and so either of them hateth other, as an expulser of herselfe. Vives. Instruction of Christian Women, b. ii. c. 13. Neuertheles, gentel reader, thou shalt not looke for a particular declaration of the shifting, remouing and expulsing of euery seuerall kind of people, nor of the alteration of the state of euerye seueral contry in that region. Golding. Cæsar, Pref. — That had of yore Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 1. From Cuneglasus he cometh to the foresaid Maglocunus, whome he naineth the Dragon of the Isles, and the expeller of manie tyrants.-Holinshed. England, vol. i. b. v. c. 17. Those wrongs the king had from the earl receiv'd, Expuls'd the kingdom only by his pow'r, Ev'n to the height his pow'rful hand up-heav'd For full revenge in this unhappy hour. Drayton. The Miseries of Queen Margaret. Alans. For euer should they be expuls'd from France, And not have title of an earldome here. Shakespeare. 1 Pt. Hen. VI. Act ill. sc. 3. Then came the destruction of the inhabitantes: first at the comming of the Danes, and now in the expulsing of the English by the Normans.-Stow. Harold, 1066. The assembly shall lay a considerable pecuniary mulet upon any one who shall be proved to have entered so far into a quarrel as to give uncivil language to his brother professor: and that the perseverance in enmity shall be punished by the governors with expulsion.-Cowley. Ess. College. We had much ado to kindle a fire this evening, our huts were but very mean and ordinary, and our fire small, so that we could not dry our cloths, scarce warm ourselves, and no sort of food for the belly; all which made it very hard with I confess these hardships quite expell'd the thoughts of an enemy.-Dampier. Voyages, an. 1681. us. But we apprehending such extraordinary expulsions as had been lately used, to be extremely hazardous to the publick safety, made it our endeavour to keep those from a readmission who might necessitate another occasion of using the like remedy.-Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. i. p. 253. For the expulsive faculty being oppressed by too great a repletion, stirs up so much of perspiration as without the staticks no one would believe.-Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 112. Had not sedition's civil broils Expell'd thee from thy native Crete, And driven thee with more glorious toils Th' Olympic crown in Pisa's plain to meet. West. Pindar. Olympic Odes, Ode 12. One great object is pursued throughout the Scriptures, from the expulsion of our first parents out of Eden, to the last of the prophets of Israel, namely, the coming of a great person under various titles; the deliverer from death and destruction; the promised seed that was to come of the woman, not of man, and therefore of a virgin. To weigh; and thus, to balance, examine, consider; and as money in ancient times was not counted but weighed, the Lat. Expendere, Eng. Expend, is,— |