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And as concernynge their lyues, more God desyreth not of the Christian minister, then to expende hys whole studye, laboure, and tyme to the lightening of other. Bale. Image, pt. i. For in all matters that man takes in hand, this consideration ought first to be had, that we first diligently expend the cause before we go through with it, that we may be assured whether it be lawfull or otherwise.

Wilson. The Arte of Rhetorique, p. 101. This oration liked Tissaphernes very well, wherevpon he allowed them not so liberal expences.

Golding. Justine, fol. 28.

His hand is open and bounteous, yet not so as that he should rather respect his glory than his estate; wherein his wisdome can distinguish betwixt parasites and friends, betwixt changing of favours and expending them.

Bp. Hall. Characters. Of the Truly Noble.

Jage. Thus do I euer make my foole, my purse:
For i mine owne gain'd knowledge should prophane
If I would time expend with such a snipe
But for my sport, and profit.

Shakespeare. Othello, Act i. sc. 3.

A man had need, if he be plentifull in some kind of expence, to be as saving again, in some other.

Bacon. Ess. Of Expence.

Alinda. Who will have me?
Who will be troubled with a pettish girl?
It may be, proud, and to that vice-expenceful.

Beaum. & Fletch. Pilgrim, Act i. sc. 1.

Here is harmless and cheap plente; there guilty and expenceful luxury.-Cowley. Ess. Of Agriculture.

Hereupon the states made up the sun presently, which came in convenient time, for it served to defray the expenceful progress he made to Scotland the summer following. Howell, b. i. s. 1. Let. 11.

Which he who can wisely and timely do, is not only a great physician to himself and to his friends, but also may at some time or other, save an army by this frugal and expenseless means only.-Millon. Of Education.

So as when we meet with the greatest industry, and expensive carving, full of fret and lamentable imagery, sparing neither of pains nor cost, a judicious spectator is distracted and quite confounded.-Evelyn. Of Architecture.

Lastly, such as were beneath the place, as men of too narrow estates to discharge that office, especially as it were formerly in the magnificent expensivenesse thereof, though such persons might be esquires of right ancient extraction. Fuller. General Worthies of England, c. 14.

3. This duty implies a due esteem and valuation of benefits; that the nature and quality, the measure and quantity, the circumstances and consequences of them be well expended; else the gratitude is like to be none, or very defective. Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 8.

I made a seasonable discovery of money, plate, and jewels, to the value of about £1200 walled up by the enemy. Part of this sum I expended upon the garrison, and gave an account thereof to the parliament.

Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. i. p. 61.

Already I am worn with cares and age,
And just abandoning th' ungrateful stage;
Unprofitably kept at Heaven's expense,

I live a rent charge on his providence.-Dryden, Epis. 10. When the Emperor began to engage in this design, the Pope, being jealous of his greatness, and desirous to intangle him in a long and expenceful war, published the secret ends of the league.-Burnet. Reform. b. i. au. 1547.

Where now is seen, saith Camden, the fair habitation of Sir William Sidley; a learned knight painfully and expensefully studious of the common good of his country. Weever. Funeral Monuments, p. 316.

The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory: there is no end of suits, especially when they are brought into chancery.

Burnet. Own Time, vol. iv. The Conclusion.

Schimei, whose youth did early promise bring
Of zeal to God, and hatred to his King;
Did wisely from expensive sins refrain,
And never broke the sabbath-but for gain.

Dryden. Absalom & Achitophel.

He knows that our expenditure purchased commerce and conquest: theirs acquired nothing but defeat and bankruptcy.-Burke. On a late State of the Nation.

But Wealth with nobler Virtue join'd
The means and fair occasions must procure;
In Glory's chase must aid the mind,
Expense, and toil, and danger to endure.

West. Pindar. Olympic Odes, Ode 2.

Whoever doubted the truth, or the insignificance of these propositions? what do they prove? that war is expensive, and peace desirable.-Burke. On a late State of the Nation.

My lords, the length and expensiveness of the proceedings in our Courts are not the only considerations, which make it expedient that the power should be placed in ourselves personally.-Horsley. Speech. June 10, 1803.

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I haue good experience that though my bodye cannot be in two places at ones (bothe in the Tower and where I wolde haue it besyde) yet, blessed be God, in this one place I am not without company.-A Boke made by John Fryth, fol. 65.

(They sayde) that as they neuer were his enemies, (but as they were prouoked by occasion of the warres,) euen so, if he woulde make an experiment of them rather by a benefite, then an iniurie, theye would labour not to bee ouercome in good will, nor in doyng yt thyng that pertayned to theire duetie.-Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 202.

Se what oure auncient Englysh wryters had saide in this mater, which more experimerly knew it, and let the foren liares go, whyche beinge farre of cared the lesse to lye. Bale. Englishe Votaries, pt. i.

And thus the prowesse of the old captains, the good ser vices of the veterans and well experimented soidiers by the insolent, distemperat, and lewd life of these new-comes, was discredited.-Holinshed. Conquest of Ireland, b. ii. c. 38.

Vpon his card and compass firmes his eye,
The masters of his long experiment,
And to them does the steady helpe apply,
Bidding his winged vessell fairely forward fly.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 7
Call me a foole,
Trust not my reading, nor my obseruations,
Which with experimental seale doth warrant
The tenure of my booke.

Shakespeare. Much Adoe about Nothing, Act iv. sc. 1. 2. Some things were discovered experimentally, though perchance not intentionally, or by design in the first discovery.-Hale. Origin. of Mankind, p. 153.

But besides this, the modern experimenters think, that the

philosophers of elder times, though their wits were excellent, yet the way they took was not like to bring much advantage to knowledge, or any of the uses of human life; being for the most part that of notion and dispute, which still runs round in a labyrinth of talk, but advanceth nothing. Glanvill, Ess 3.

He who is bigot enough to believe these things, must bid adieu to the natural rule, of reasoning from analogy; must run counter to the maxim of common sense, That men

ought to form their judgments of things unexperienced from what they have experienced.-Guardian, No. 27.

And so for the evidence of experience, I am by that to a great degree assured of the succession of night and day,

winter and summer; and have no such reason to doubt, whether the house wherein now I am, shall the next minute fall upon me, or the earth open and swallow it up, as to be in continual fear of such accidents.

Wilkins. Natural Religion, b. i. c. I. Certain it is, from the united testimony of many of the most experienced followers of Christ, that these abstinences and sour rudiments of self-denial have a signal influence, both to the pronouncing of mercies, and to the removal of impending judgment.-South, vol. ix. Ser. 5.

This I accidentally experimented by exposing a couple of goats to the asperity thereof; which in four hours' space, or thereabouts, were deprived of life.

Dampier. Voyages, vol. ii. pt. iii. p. 50.

This difference of intention, and remission of the mind in thinking, with a great variety of degrees between earnest study, and very near minding nothing at all; every one, I think, has experimented in himself.

Locke. Of Hum. Underst. b. ii. c. 19,

But they, finding the majority of the House of Lords could not be brought to favour their designs, resolved to make an experiment that none of our princes had ventured on in former times: a resolution was taken up very suddenly of making twelve peers all at once.

Burnet. Own Time, an. 1711. The Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq. was a person no less

Of one thyng I am sure, and I saie it not because I haue seen it, but experimeted in myself, that though the husband do al that his wife wil, yet will she do nothyng that hir hus-zealously solicitous for the propagation of true religion, and bande wolde haue done.-Golden Boke, c. 19.

He through the armed files Darts his experienc't eye, and soon traverse The whole battalion, viewes thir order due, Thir visages and stature as of Gods.

Millon. Paradise Lost, b. i. Of all the which (for want there of mankind) She caused him to make experience Vpon wild beasts, which she in woods did find, With wrongfull powre oppressing others of their kind. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 1.

When the consuls in this so great a broile and storme of outrage came in, to prevent further mischiefe, they knew soone by experience how slenderly guarded against danger, the majestie of rulers is, where force is wanting. Holland. Livivs, p. 82. Especiallie such as doo dwell in the marches, by reason of their continuall wars they are very valient, bold, and of great experiences.-Holinshed. Conq. of Ireland, b. ii. c. 40. For long experienc'd wo well witnesse beares, That teares cannot quench sighes, nor sighes drie teares. Stirling. Avrora, s. 2.

And, a curious experiencer did affirm, that the likeness of any object (but particularly he often observ'd it of an iron grate.) if it be strongly inlightned, will appear to another, in the eye of him that looks strongly and steadily upon it till he be dazel'd by it; even after he shall have turn'd his eyes from it.-Digby. Of Bodies, c. 8.

Age. But pray you, tell me,

Why is the Prince. now ripe and full experient,
Not made a dore [door] in the State?
Nis. Because he is honest.

Beaum. & Fletch. Cupid's Revenge, Act iil. sc. 1. For want of a clear, and sensible, and experimented observation of them, our positions and conclusions touching their causes, effects, order, and methods of their procedure are but fictions and imaginations, accommodated to our inventions, rather then to the things themselves.

Hale, Origin. of Mankind, p. 8.

the practice of piety and virtue; than diligent and successful in improving experimental philosophy, and enlarging our knowledge of nature.-Clarke. On the Evidences, Pref.

That which the text here offers for the subject of this discourse, is flattery; a thing condemned by the mouth of one who could very well judge, as being a king, and therefore experimentally acquainted with the ways of flatterers, a sort of cattle that usually herd in the courts of princes, and the houses of great persons.-South, vol. vii. Ser. 7.

Another thing that disposes an experimentarian philosopher to embrace religion, is, that his genius and course of studies accustoms him to value and delight in abstracted truths; by which term, I here mean such truths as do not at all, or do but very little, gratify men's ambition, sensua lity, or other inferior passions and appetites.

Boyle. Works, vol. v. p. 22. Another thing then, that qualifies an experimentarian for the reception of a revealed religion, and so of Chris tianity, is, that an accustomance of endeavouring to give clear explications of the phænomena of nature, and discover the weakness of those solutions, that superficial wits are wont to make and acquiesce in, does insensibly work in him a great and ingenuous modesty of mind.-Id. Ib. p. 537. The examination of some of them was protracted for many days, the nature of the experiments themselves, and also the design of the experimentators requiring such chasms. Id. Ib. vol. iv. p. 507.

Those that undertook the religion of our Saviour upon his preaching, had no experience of it: They were to be the first experimenters themselves.-Sharp, vol. i. Ser. 6.

The youthful sailors thus with early care
Their arms experience, and for sea prepare:
On some smooth lake their lighter oars essay,
And learn the dangers of the watry way.

Harte. The Sixth Thebaid of Statius. I shall make no scruple to comprehend under the name of Experience, the grounds of our assent to all the facts on which our reasonings proceed, provided only that the certainty of these facts be, on either supposition, equally indisputable.

Stewart. On the Human Mind, vol. ii. c. 4. s. 5. Note.

These records of wars, intrigues, factions, and revolutions, are so many collections of experiments, by which the politician or moral philosopher fixes the principles of his science; in the same manner as the physician or natural philosopher becomes acquainted with the nature of plants, minerals, and

other external objects, by the experiments which he forms concerning them.-Hume. Of Liberty and Necessity.

i. e. impiè agere, and expiare, are contraries. Minshew says, To pacify God by sacrifice and prayer; to purge and cleanse by sacrifice.

To atone for impious by pious deeds; to atone for, to annul, guilt or the consequences of guilt, by pious deeds; to atone or make reparation for; to avert by atonement or acts of piety.

In such cases a decision can be made by the judgment alone. This must examine the pretensions of every experimentalist.-Cogan. Ethical Questions, Q. 6. Your Ambrose appoynteth to your prestes the judical The assembly recommends to its youth a study of the expiacios, for companieng wyth theyr wyues. bold experimenters in morality. Bale. Apology, fol. 74. How many heathen lawgivers have subscribed to Moses? Arabians, Grecians, Romans, yea very Gothes, the dregs of EXPERRECTION. Lat. Expergisci, exper- barbarisme, have thought this wrong not expiable, but by rectus, to rouse, to rise or raise up. bloud.-Bp. Hall. Epistles, Dec. 3.

Burke. Letter to the National Assembly.

The Phrygians also imagining that God sleepeth all winter, and lieth awake in the summer; thereupon celebrate in one season, the feast of lying in bed and sleeping; in the other, of experrection or waking, and that with much drinking and belly cheer.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 1069.

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EXPERT, v. EXPERT, adj.

EXPERTNESS.

Fr. Expert; It. Esperto; Lat. Expertus, from experiri. (See EXPERIENCE.) Expert is

used as a verb by Spenser. An expert man is one who has the readiness, adroitness, presence of mind of experience, of much practice. And thus

Ready, adroit, dexterous, skilful. Expertly, though in common conversational usage. has not occurred in writing.

And though he were not depe expert in lore,
He wiste it was the eighte and twenty day
Of April, that is messager to May.

Chaucer. The Man of Lawes Prologue, v. 4424.

And whan that I have told thee forth my tale
Of tribulation in mariage,

Of which I am expert in all min age,

(This is to sayn, myself hath ben the whippe) Than maiest thou chesen wheder thou wolt sippe Of thilk tonne, that I shal abroche.

Id. The Wif of Bathes Prologue, v. 5756.

Yea, the wise and expert man will aske of themselues, how hangeth this to the purpose? To what ende do ye speake it?-Wilson. Arte of Rhetorique, p. 89.

Vnwise and wretched men to weet what's good or ill:
We deeme of death as doome of ill desert:
But knew we fooles what it vs brings vntill
Die would we daily, once it to expert.

Spenser. Shepheard's Calendar. November.

At length, by both allow'd, it to this issue grew,
To make a likely choice of some most expert crew,
Whose number coming near unto the other's dow'r,
The English should not urge they were o'er-borne by pow'r.
Drayton, Poly-Olbion, s. 4.

What pilot so expert but needs must wreck,
Ambarqu'd with such a stears-mate at the helm.
Milton. Samson Agonistes.

Int. What say you to his expertnesse in warre?
Par. Faith, sir, b'as led the drumme before the English
Tragedians.-Shakes. All's Well that Ends Well, Activ. sc. 3.

The greatest part of the way was thick woods, where the Spaniards might easily lay in ambush for them, at which they are very expert.-Dampier. Voyage, an. 1684.

Now the Bituriges forget their fears,
And Suessons nimble with unwieldy spears;
Exult the Leuci, and the Remi now,

Expert in javelins, and the bending bow.

Rowe. Lucan, b. i.

That monster which is daily found Expert and bold thy country's peace to wound; Yet dreads to handle arms, nor manly counsel knows. Akenside, b. i. Ode 18. There were no marks of expertness in the trick played by the woman of Endor, upon the perturbed mind of Saul. Cogan. Theological Disquisitions, Dis. 2.

EXPETIBLE. Lat. Expetibilis, from expetere, to seek after.

That may or should be sought for; coveted.

And in a manner the same speeches or very like thereto, he hath delivered in the third book of such things as be expetible, and to be chosen for themselues.

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For the Gregorian purgatory supposed only an expiation of small and light faults, as immoderate laughter, impertinent talking, which nevertheless he himself sayes are expiable by fear of death.

Bp. Taylor. Dissuasive from Popery, pt. ii. b. ii. § 2. For malefactors, whilst that their misdeeds Repentance expiats, made happy so, Do (as from beds) to heaven from scaffolds go. Stirling. Domes-day. The Tenth Houre. This glorious prerogative hath betonie, that looke about what house soever it is set or sowed, the same is thought to

be in the protection of the Gods, and safe ynough for committing any offence, which may deserve their vengeance, and need any expiation or propitiatorie sacrifice. Holland. Plinie, b. xxv. c. 8. When intelligence came of the cruel execution and bloodie massacre committed in Argos, wherein the Argives caused to be put to death 1,500 of their own citizens, they caused in a solemn procession, and general assembly of the whole city, an expiatory sacrifice to be carried about, that it might please the Gods to avert and turn away such cruel thoughts from the hearts of the Athenians.-Id. Plutarch, p. 303.

They cannot tell in what measures God will exact the repentance, what sorrow is sufficient, what fruits acceptable, what is expiatory, and what rejected; according to the saying of Solomon, who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Bp. Taylor. On Repentance, c. 9. s. 3. Which are not to be expounded as if ordination did confer the first grace, which in the schools is understood only to be expiatorious; but the increment of grace and sanctification. Id. Office Ministerial, §7.

It was a common and received doctrine among the Jews, that, for some sins, a man was pardoned presently upon his repentance; that other sins were not pardoned, 'till the solemn day of expiation, which came once a year: That other sins, which were yet greater, were not to be expiated but by some grievous temporal affliction.

Sharp, vol. iii. Ser. 11.

The sacrifice expiatory for our offences was to be a lamb without blemish, and without spot, whence he was to be fully sanctified; and to become To άov, that holy thing (absolutely) as he was termed by the celestial messenger. Barrow, vol. ii. Ser. 24.

Wherefore, ye powers!
Am I to misery deliver'd up!
What kindred crime, alas! am I decreed
To expiate, that misfortunes fall so thick

On my poor head.-Smollett. The Regicide, Act iv. sc. 6. But in the place of the numerous ceremonies of heathenism, burthensome in themselves and apt to turn the attention from the business of devotion, rather than promote it, Christ established but two, both of them strongly significant, of cleansing from pollution by water; and the eucharist, of expiation by a sacrificed victim. Knox. On the Lord's Supper, s. 22.

The depth of contrition was manifested by the value of the sacrifice; until at length human sacrifices, and the oblation of their beloved offspring, on the altars of their gods, being the most valuable offerings that could possibly be made, were considered as the most expiatory.

Cogan. Theological Disquisitions, Dis. 2.

EXPILATE. Fr. Expile; Lat. Expilare, (er, and pilare,) from the Gr.Пλovv, densare, to thicken, to stow thick or close.

To take out of a thick or close quantity or number; to pluck out, to plunder, to rob.

Pilate would expilate the treasures of it for aquæ ductæ, which denied, cost the Jewes much bloud.

Bp. Hall. Serm. at the Earle of Exceter's in St. John's. Some suggest, that he was loth to go back to Bath, having formerly consented to the expilation of that bishoprick: whilst others make his consent to signify nothing, seeing impowered sacriledge is not so mannerly as to ask any, By your leave.-Fuller. Worthies. Sussex. Whence, says he, proceeds This rav'nous exoilation of the State. Daniel. Civil War, b. ii. Where profit hath prompted, no age hath wanted such miners [for sepulchrall treasure.] For which the most barbarous expilators found the most civil rhetorick. Brown. Urne Burial, c. 3.

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After that manie dayes were expyred, when sorow had losened his tong, he [Herodes] spake of nothing but Pacorus, he thought he sawe Pacorus, he thought he heard Paco us,

he woulde talke as though he had ben with him.

Golding. Justine, fol. 174. That so a little we may ease our ouercharged hands; Draw some breath, not expire it all.

Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. xi. Those that did offend in such crimes and afterwardes repented, were appointed a time of publique repentance, according to the qualitie of the fault committed, and vntill that time was expired, they were not admitted vnto the Lorde's table, except onely at the point of death. Whitgift. Defence, p. 147,

I die for food,
And like a shadow waxe, whiles with entire
Affection I doe languish and expire.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 2.
O! why do wretched men so much desire
To draw their dayes vnto the vtmost date,
And doe not rather wish them soone expire,
Knowing the misery of their estate.-Id. Ib. b. iv. c. 3,

Rom. I feare too early, for my mind misgiues, Some consequence yet hanging in the starres, Shall bitterly begin his fearefull date

With this night's reuels, and expire the tearme Of a despised life.-Shakespeare. Rom. & Jul. Acti. sc. 4. Saul is fain to be struck down in the place; a kind of AeroVuxia or swooning fit, an expiration of the animal man, necessary to so great a change. Hammond. Works, vol. iv. p. 478.

This is the proper action of the lungs, to draw wind from without; wherewith when it is filled there is made another attraction by a second appetition; and the breast deriveth the said wind into it; which being likewise repleat therewith, not able to draw any more, it transmitteth back againe the superfluity thereof into the lungs, whereby it is sent forth by way of exspiration: and thus the parts of the body reciprocally suffer one of another by way of interchange. Holland. Plutarch, p. 687.

Also close aire, is warmer than open aire; which (it may be) is for that the true cause of cold, is an expiration from the globe of the earth which in open places is stronger: and again, aire itselfe, if it be not altered by that expiration, is not without some secret degree of heat. Bacon. Naturall Historie, s. 866.

The first means of producing cold, is that which Nature presenteth us withall; namely, the expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter, when the sun hath no power to overcome it; the earth being (as hath been noted by some) primum frigidum.-Id. Ib. s. 69.

Or endless apathy succeeds to death,
And sense is lost with our expiring breath;
Or if the soul some future life shall know,
To better worlds immortal shall she go.

Rowe. Lucan, b. iii.

Yet London, Empress of the northern clime,
By an high fate thou greatly didst expire;
Great as the World's, which, at the death of time,
Must fall, and rise a nobler frame by fire.

Dryden. Annus Mirabilis. The nearest to them is the aspirate he, which is no other than a gentle expiration.-Sharp. Dissertations, p. 41.

that they had faithfully and zealously discharged their

The Consuls at the expiration of their office took an oath

trust.-Melmoth. Cicero, b. i. Let. 3.

EXPISCATION. Lat. Expiscari, to fish out, (ex, and piscis, a fish.

A fishing out.

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express clearly, to illustrate; to interpret or expound; to expose, to lay open.

The Constantinopolitan, or horse-chesnut, is turgid with buas, and ready to explain its leaf.

Evelyn. Letter to the Secretary of the Royal Society.

But yet, what are the instruments of sensitive perception, and particular convers [conveyers) of outward motions to the seat of sense, is difficult to find; and how the pure mind can receive information from things that are not like itself, nor the objects they represent, is, I think, not to be explained.-Glanvill, Ess. 1.

And thus it is symbolically explainable, and implieth purification and cleanness, when in the burnt offerings the priest is commanded to wash the inwards and legs thereof in water.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. v. c. 21.

If he once willed adultery should be sinful, and to be punisht with death, all his omnipotence will not allow him to will the allowance that his holiest people might as it were by his own antinomie, or counter-statute, live unreproved in the same fact as he himself esteemed it, according to our common explainers.-Milton. Of Divorce, b. ii. c. 3.

I demanded of him who was to explain them? the Papists, I told him, would explain some of them one way, and the Reform'd another; the Remonstrants and Anti-Remonstrants gave them different senses; and probably the Trinitarians and Unitarians will profess, that they understand not each other's explications.

Locke. Vindication of Christianity, &c.

And therefore, unless he can show his authority to be the sole explainer of fundamentals, he will in vain make such a pudder about his fundamentals. Another explainer, of as good authority as he, will set up others against them.-Id.Ib. The ill effects that were like to follow on those different explanations [of the Trinity] made the bishops move the king to set out injunctions requiring them to see to the repressing of error and heresy with all possible zeal, more particularly in the fundamental articles of the Christian faith: and to, watch against and hinder the use of new terms or new explanations in those matters.-Burnet. Own Time, an. 1698.

Yet to such as are grounded in the true belief, these explanatory creeds, the Nicene and this of Athanasius, might perhaps be spared; for what is supernatural, will always be a mystery in spite of exposition.-Dryden. Rel. Laici, Pref. With easy verse most bards are smitten, Because they think it's easy written; Whereas the easier it appears,

The greater marks of care it wears;
Of which to give an explanation
Take this.

Lloyd. Epistle to Mr. Colman.

This appears from what follows, which, by necessary construction, is explanative of what went before.-Warburton. Of Julian's attempt to Rebuild the Temple, b. ii. c. 5.

On the one hand, to give a long catalogue of pictures and statues, without explanatory observations, appeared absurd; and on the other, to execute such a work in a becoming manner requires leisure, technical information, and the pen of a professed artist, perhaps of a Reynolds.

Eustace. Tour in Italy, vol. i. Pref. p. ix.

EXPLAT. Ex, and plat; Fr. Plesser, to plash, to bow, to fold or plait, (young branches) one within another, (Cotgrave.)

To unfold, to explain.

While thou dost deale

Desired justice to the publique weale,
Like Solon's selfe, explat'st the knottie laws
With endlesse labours; whilst thy learning drawes
No lesse of praise, then readers in all kinds
Of worthiest knowledge, that can take men's minds.
B. Jonson. Epigram on Sir Edward Coke.
EXPLETION. Lat. Explere, etum, to fill
EXPLETIVE, adj. out, er, and plere, to fill, from
EXPLETIVE, n. the obsolete Gr. Πλ-ειν,
EXPLETORY. whence Πληθύειν,

Filled out, fulfilled or accomplished. Expletive, applied to certain words or syllables, which seem to be used rather to fill out the line than add to the sense.

They conduce nothing at all to the perfection of men's natures, nor the expletion of their desires. Killingbeck. Ser. p. 374.

While expletives their feeble aid do join,
And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.

Pope. Ess. On Criticism.

To excuse these faults the swearer will be forced to confess, that his oaths are no more than waste and insignificant words; deprecating being taken for serious, or to be understood that he meaneth any thing by them; but only that he useth them as expletive phrases to plump his speech, and fill up sentences.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 15.

It is true, the word successor favoured these seizures; except that be thought an expletory word, put in out of form, but still to be limited to an estate of inheritance.

Burnet. Reformation, vol. i. b. iii. an. 1538.

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Behold a group of figures awe create,
Set off with all th' impertinence of state;
By lace and feather consecrate to fame,
Expletive kings, and queens without a name.

Churchill. The Rosciad.

The strong figurative language so characteristic of the apostle's style, should inspire caution. In the impetuosity of his thoughts, he despises expletives, or paraphrastic diction. Cogan. On the Passions. Theol. Disq. Note F.

EXPLICATE, v. E'XPLICATE, adj. EXPLICABLE. EXPLICATION. EXPLICATIVE. EXPLICATORY. EXPLICIT. EXPLICITLY. EXPLICITNESS.

Hereupon also are grounded those evangelical commands, explicatory of this law as it now standeth in force; that as we have opportunity we should do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith; that we should abound in love one toward another, and towards allmen, &c.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 25.

If it be said, "the understanding hath an implicit know ledge of these principles, but not an explicit, before this first hearing," (as they must, who will say, "that they are in the understanding before they are known,") it will be hard to conceive what is meant by a principle imprinted on the understanding implicitly; unless it be this, that the mind is capable of understanding and assenting firmly to such propositions.-Locke. Hum. Underst. b. i. c. 2.

Fr. Expliquer; It. Esplicare; Sp. Explicar: Lat. Explicare, to unfold, to untwine, or untwist, (ex, and plicare; Gr. ПAEK-explicitly in it at least all the fundamentals of faith. ev, to knit, to intertwine.)

To unfold, to untwine or untwist, to evolve; to explain; to make straight

or plain, clear or manifest.

And Tertullian therfore, beyng red thus, as appeareth to be most probable, that (that is to say in Tertullian) should be onely referred to the explicacio of the first (this.)

Bp. Gardner. Of the Presence in the Sacrament, fol. 42. Then I beseeched her to explicate without delay, wherein true happinesse consisteth. To which she answered, I will willingly doe so for thy sake.

Boetius. Philosophicall Comfort, b. iii. p. 51.

We must suppose her [the Church] to be a building, and that she relies upon the foundation, which is therefore supposed to be laid before, because she is built upon it, or (to make it more explicate) because a cloud may arise from the allegory of building and foundation, it is plainly thus.

Bp. Taylor. Liberty of Prophesying, s. 1. Thus was his person made tangible, and his name utterable, and his mercy brought home to our necessities, and the mystery made explicate, at the circumcision of this holy babe.-Id. The Great Exemplar, pt. i. 8. 5.

Though we can never get a complete idea of the divine regiment, yet we may attain such a notion thereof as may render it evidently credible, and in some kind explicable. Hale. Origin. of Mankind, p. 34.

In the explication of this question it is much insisted upon, that it be enquired whether, when we say we believe Christ's body to be really in the Sacrament, we mean, that body, that flesh, that was born of the Virgin Mary, that was crucified, dead, and buried?

Bp. Taylor. Of the Real Presence, s. 1.

How contrary it is to Christianity, and the nature of explicative love; I appeal to those minds where grace hath sown more charity.-Feltham, pt. i. Resolve 24.

And so here is forbidden, not only the outward act, but the inward inclinations to murder, that is, an anger with deliberation, and purpose of revenge, this being explicative and additionall to the precept forbidding murder.

Bp. Taylor. The Great Exemplar, pt. ii. s. 10.

Again, if we look upon the supposition of Epicurus, and

his explicator, Lucretins, and his advancer, Gassendus, how

many things must be taken for granted, that are not only perfectly inevident to our sense, but altogether improbable. Hale. Origin. of Mankind, p. 10.

It [the doctrine of a life to come] must arise then either from some universal explicite revelation, or a universal instinct, or voice of nature.-Glanvill, Ser. 6.

And that the earth shall be burnt, is as explicitly affirmed, as any thing can be spoken.-Id. Pre-existence of Souls.

difficult, more remote from matter and humane observation, The judgment (of speculative doctrine) is of itself more and with less curiosity and explicitness declared in Scripture, as being of less consequence and concernment in order to God's and man's great end.

Bp. Taylor. Liberty of Prophesying, § 12.

Then her infallibility, as well
Where copies are corrupt or lame, can tell,
Restore lost canon with as little pains,
As truly explicate what still remains.

Dryden. Religio Laici. He himself allows that the air has a spring, whereby it is able, when it has been violently compressed, to recover its due extension; the manner whereof, if he will intelligibly explicate his adversaries, will have no great difficulty to make out the spring of the air.-Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 134. Lastly; if whatever arises not from, and is not explicable by, the natural powers of body be a miracle; then every animal motion whatsoever is a miracle.

Clarke. Third Reply to Mr. Leibnitz, p. 91.

All life from that of a worm to that of a man is explained, and as I may so speak, the wondrous works of the creation, by the observations of this author [Derham] lle before us as objects that create love and admiration, which, without such explications, strike us only with confusion and amazement. Guardian, No. 175.

The baptismal creed, I say, must of necessity contain Clarke. On the Trinity, Introd.

Otherwise, surely, the knowledge of this article could but very obscurely be gathered from the bare writings of Moses and the prophets, and consequently was by no means received with that explicitness in the ancient Jewish church, that it is now in the Christian.-South, vol. iv. Ser. 7.

Besides, it is not explicable upon any grounds, that can be avowed, why the Nabob, who could afford to give these bills as a present to Mr. Hastings, could not have equally given them in discharge of the debt, which he owed to the company.-Burke. Report of a Comm. on the Affairs of India.

The wrong explications of this poem, [Horace, Art of Poetry,] have arisen, not from the misconception of the subject only, but from an inattention to the method of it. Hurd. Works, vol. i. Introd.

But, if the type had been designed to carry a single sense, and kings had been that sense, as explicatory of hills, it had been very preposterous to give the interpretation of the type, and then to interpret the interpretation, unless the expression had been so guarded as to convey this purpose in the most distinct manner.-Id. Ib. vol. v. Ser. 11.

Except a man be born again of the Spirit, we read in express language, he cannot see the kingdom of God," na words can be more explicit. They mean regeneration by grace, or what else do they mean. Knox. Christian Philosophy, s. 53.

After what your friend had published in the world, and what you had said yourself, I thought it incumbent upon me to tell you explicitly, and to repeat it, that I was not to be frightened.-Warburton. Letters from Dr. Lowth.

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Priority is exploded, though there be

A difference in the parties; and shall I,
His vassal, from obscurity raised by him
To this so eminent light, presume t' appoint him
To do, or not to do, this, or that.

Massinger. The Emperor of the East, Act iii. sc. 2. Oracles, omens, portents, were generally exploded; the old fables of Elysian fields, and Pluto's kingdom, were grown ridiculous, and given over to poets and painters as the same author [Cicero] informs us.-Law. Theory of Religion, pt. ii.

As for the story of the Manucodiata, or bird of Paradise, which in the former age was generally received and accepted as true, even by the learned, it is now discovered to be a fable, and rejected and exploded by all men: those birds being well known to have legs and feet as well as others. Ray. On the Creation, pt. i.

We must not take patience here for a willingness of disposition to suffer, only where a man has no power to resist: according to the republican divinity of some scandalous exploders of the doctrine of passive obedience.

South, vol. vi. Ser. 7.

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Thereat the multitude that stood around,
Sent up at once a universal roar

Of boisterous joy: the sudden-bursting sound,
Like the explosion of a warlike store
Of nitrous grain, th' afflicted welkin tore.

West. Education.

Churches, play-houses, coffee-houses, all alike are destined to be mingled, and equalized, and blended into one common rubbish; and well-sifted and lixiviated, to crystallize into true democratick, explosive, insurrectionary nitre. Burke. A Letter to a Noble Lord.

EXPLOIT, v. Fr. n. Exploict, done, perEXPLOIT, n. formed, says Skinner, (q.d.) EXPLOITING, N. explicatum, (see EXPLICATE,) EXPLOITURE. or, according to Minshew, expletum, (see EXPLETE.) Menage, from explicare; thus, explicitum, explict im, explectum, expletum,———— exploit.

"Fr. Exploicter,-to perform, despatch; act, execute, achieve," (Cotgrave.)

I dwell with hem that proude be,

And full of wiles and subteltie;
That worship of this worlde coueiten,
And great nede connen expleiten,
And gon and gadren great pitaunces.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose.

Wherfore I say, all the enuy, all the iangling, that welnie people vpon my seruauntes maken efte, is rather cause of exploit, than of any hindring.-Id. Testament of Loue, b. i.

Admytte it to be thy foote, that is to say, thy seruaunte er factour, whose seruyce thou canste not lacke for the exploiture of suche affayres, as thou hast to dooe in thys worlde.-Udal. Marke, c. 9.

Suruiue, and tell the westerne world
What we exployted haue:

How that to Rome, amidst her roofe,
The mayden sacke we gaue.

Warner. Albion's England, b. iii. c. 16.

One act there is reported of his, when he was neither generall, nor in any office at all, which he exploited in Thessaly, not inferiour to any one of his other worthy deeds.

Holland. Plutarch, p. 329.

She therefore besaught the Faerie Queene to assygne her some one of her knights to take on him that exploit.

Spenser. Faerie Queene. Letler to Sir W. Raleigh.

The love and pleasure of hunting, carrieth men into mountains, woods, and forests; through frost and snow, after their game: shal not we then use the like sufferance in the needfull exploits of warre, which pastimes, sports, and delights, are wont to draw and fetch out of us? Holland. Livivs, p. 183.

He shewed himself (above all others) most forward in the enterprize, as having contributed (for the exploiting of this service) two thousand dragmes weight in silver, and two hundred targuets.-Id. Plutarch, p. 754.

To high exploits, the praises that belong
Live, but as nourish'd by the poet's song.

Lansdowne. To the Memory of Waller.
The spirit-stirring form
Of Cæsar raptur'd with the charm of rule
And boundless fame; impatient for exploits,
His eager eyes upcast, he soars in thought
Above all height.

Dyer. The Ruins of Rome.

For the apostolical imposition of hands that there was an exploration of doctrine, and a profession of faith, the history doth manifestly witness. Acts, xix.-Id. Impos. of Hands.

You are to know, that this your imployment is, for the present, meerly exploratory and provisional, to give us a clear and distinct accompt of the present affairs, both how they stand at your arrival there, (being every day changeable,) and how they incline in the future.

Reliquiae Wottonianæ, p. 496. Percy, their explorator, was let out like a raven, and sent as a spy, to desery, by the best inducements he could find, whether the state took hold of their proceedings or not. Proceedings against Garnet, an. 1606.

It is surely very rare, as we are induced to believe from some enquiry of our own: from the trial of many who have been deceived; and the frustrated search of Porta, who, upon the explorement of many, could scarce finde one. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 13.

What cause so'er the wond'rous motion guide,
And press the ebb, or raise the flowing tide,
Be that your task, ye sages, to explore,
Who search the secret springs of nature's power.
Rowe. Lucan, b. i.
The use lately proposed of our hydrostatical way of explo-
ration suggests to me another, which may be deduced from
it as a kind of corollary.-Boyle. Works, vol. v. p. 463.

Hark, his hands the lyre explore!
Bright-ey'd Fancy, hovering o'er,
Scatters from her pictur'd urn
Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
But ah! 'tis heard no more.

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The occasion of his epistle is thys: Dardanus did write vnto S. Auste for the exposicio of those wordes that Christ spake vnto the thefe saying: This daye shalt thou be with me in Paradyse.-A Boke made by John Fryth, fol. 52.

And also the tongue, which is rayson's exposytour, is depriued of his office as it appereth in them whyche are drunke, and them whyche haue greuous peynes in theyr head, procedynge of replecion. Sir T. Elyot. The Castel of Helth, b. iii. A definition is a perfect sentence, whereby the verie nature of the thing itselfe, is set fourth and expounded. Wilson. The Arte of Logike, fol. 37.

If question happen to be moued touchinge the meanings of a lawe, first of al we must see, what order hath been vsed in the like cases in times past. For the custome and Gray. Progress of Poesy. practise of the people, is the best expounder of the law. Jewel. A Replie to M. Hardinge, p. 120.

On the report of the cowardly explorers of the land, they relapse again into their old delirium, "Wherefore hath the Lord brought us into this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should be a prey?"

Warburton. Divine Legation, b. iv. s. 6. EXPOLIATION. See EXSPOLIATION. EXPORT, v. E'XPORT, n. EXPORTATION. EXPORTER. To bear or carry out. Exports,-articles of commerce carried out of one country or place, and imported, or carried into, another.

Fr. Exporter; Lat. Exportare, to carry out, (ex, and portare, to carry.)

Likewise glorious followers who make themselves as trumpets, of the commendation of those they follow, are full of inconvenience; for they taint businesse through want of secrecy; and they export honour from a man, and make him a return in envie.-Bacon. Ess. Of Followers.

Whom, when their home-bred honesty is lost,
We disembogue on some fair Indian coast:
Thieves, panders, paillards, sins of every sort,
Those are the manufacturers we export.

Dryden. The Hind and the Panther. Being informed, that the English fleet was in great want of all sorts of naval stores, they [the Dutch] published a placart to prohibit the exportation of them under severe penalties. Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 4. But this advance will be but little, and will always keep within the bounds which the risque and trouble of melting down our coin shall set to it in the estimation of the exporter.-Locke. Concerning raising the Value of Money.

The ordinary course of exchange being an indication of the 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.

EXPLORE, v. Fr. Explorer; It. Esplo- ordinary state of debt and credit between two places, must EXPLORATE, D. rare; Sp. Explorar; Lat. EXPLORATION. Explorare, i. e. ploratu tenEXPLORATOR. tare animum, to try to affect EXPLORATORY. the mind by weeping; as EXPLO'REMENT. they usually do who are enEXPLORER. deavouring to obtain pardon for an offence; or are earnest to accomplish any thing or purpose, (Vossius.) Hence, generally, he adds, to seek or search, that you may learn. To seck, search or enquire into; to try or prove by searching; to pry or examine into.

Then doth she see by spectacles no more,
She hears not by report of double spies;
Herself in instants doth all things explore;
For each thing's present, and before her lies.
Davies. Immortality of the Soul.

Not caring to observe the wind,
Or the new sea explore,
Snatcht from myselfe, how far behinde
Already I behold the shore.

F. Beaumont. Of Louing at First Sight, They will neverthelesse exclude their hornes, and therewith explorate their way as before.

Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 20.

And since my refuter will find out a match for her out of the chayre of exploration, why should we not dance at the wedding.-Bp. Hall. Honour of the Married Clergie, b. ii,

The two principles being established, however, that wealth consisted in gold and silver, and that those metals could be brought into a country which had no mines, only by the balance of trade, or by exporting to a greater value than it imported; it necessarily became the great object of political œconomy to diminish as much as possible the importation of foreign goods for home consumption, and to increase as much as possible the exportation of the produce of domestic industry. Id. Ib. D. iv. c. 1.

EXPO'SE, v.
EXPO'SEDNESS.
EXPO'SING, n.
EXPOSITION.
EXPO'SITOR.
EXPO'SITORY.

EXPOSURE.
EX10'UND, v.
EXPOUNDER.

Fr. Exposer; It. Esponere; Sp. Exponer; Lat. Exponere, (ex, and ponere ; of uncertain origin,) to put, place or set

out.

But for all yt ye expounders do differ in the declaration of the metaphor.-Caluine. Shorte Declaration upon Ps. 87. As he that hath espyde a vermeill rose,

To which sharpe thornes and briers the way forestall, Dare not for dread his hardy hand expose, But wishing it farre off his idle wish doth lose.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 1.

But whilst mild Eli and good Samuel were
Busied with age, and th' altars sacred care,
To their wild sons they their high charge commit,
Who expose to scorn and hate both them and it.

Cowley. The Davideis, b. iv.

By vertue of this act, the great expositours of the law, denie that any man is sacrosainct or inviolable: but (say they) it is enacted only, That whosoever hurt any of them shall be accursed.-Holland. Livies, p. 125.

Which his faire tongue (conceit's expositor)
Deliuers in such apt and gracious words,
That aged eares play treuant at his tales,
And younger hearings are quite rauished.

Shakespeare. Love's Labour Lost, Act ii. sc. 1
And when we haue our naked frailties hid,
That suffer in exposure; let vs meet,"
And question this most bloody piece of works,
To know it further.
Id. Macbeth, Act ii. sc. 3.

And sets Thercite
A slaue, whose gall coines slanders like a mint,
To match vs in comparisons with durt,
To weaken and discredit our exposure,
How ranke so euer rounded in with danger.

Shakespeare. Troil. & Cress. Act 1. sc. 3

This was that woman, this that deadly wound,
That Proteus prophecide should him dismay;
The which his mother vainely did expound
To be heart-wounding loue, which should assay
To bring her sonne into his last decay.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 4. Both himselfe [Julian] and the expounders of visions, considering the present occasions, pronounced, that the day following, which was the foureteenth day before the kalends of Aprill should be well observed. Holland. Ammianus, p. 220.

When all is said, it is a vain thing for any man to expect a tolerable easy passage through this world, unless he have the hopes of God's favour to support him under the multitude of evil accidents, which the state of human life will

necessarily expose him to.-Sharp, vol. i. Ser. 9.

The Duke of Monmouth, who understood what a rabble was, and what troops were, looked on this as a mad exposing of themselves, and of their friends.

Burnet. Own Time, an. 1683.

Nobody can think that any text of St. Paul's epistles has two contrary meanings, and yet so it must have to two different men, who taking two commentators of different sects for their respective guides into the sense of any one of

To put or lay out; put or lay open, (sc.) to view, for examination; to make clear or plain, to explain; to make the epistles, shall build upon their respective expositions. Locke. Paraphrase on St. Paul's Epistles, Fref. known, to show openly, discover, disclose, make manifest.

Expound, is, by general usage, to lay open, (sc.) the meaning; and thus, to explain, to interpret.

Thanne he lefte the puple, and cam unto an hous, and hise disciplis camen to him and seiden, expowne to us the parable of taris of the felde.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 13.

For those, who find they need help, and would borrow

light from expositors, either consult only those who have the good luck to be thought sound and orthodox, avoiding those of different sentiments from themselves in the great and approved points of their systems, as dangerous and not ht to be meddled with; or else with indifferency look into the notes of all commentators promiscuously.-Id. Ib.

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The Jewish doctors and Pharisees, though they be hypocrites, and covetous, and vain-glorious men, yet since they succeed Moses and the Prophets, in being teachers and expounders of the law of God; ye ought to hearken and attend to their teaching.

Dr. Clarke. Paraphrase. Matthew, xxiii. 2.

And because we refuse to sacrifice to those, to whom we had formerly done, we are made to suffer extreme tortures; and being exposed to death, we rejoice, trusting that God will raise us up through his Christ, and render us incorruptible, impassible, and immortal.

Sharpe. Def. of Christianity (from Justin Martyr,) p. 127.

So that, on the whole, the exposedness to guilt or blame is left just as it was.-Edwards. On the Will, pt. ill. s. 3.

Shall we then allow these two circumstances to compensate each other, to wit, monastic vows and exposing of children, and to be unfavourable, in equal degrees, to the propagation of mankind? I doubt the advantage is here on the side of antiquity-Hume, Ess. 11.

Amongst other expositions of which words, (in Zechariah, ch. iv. ver. 11, and 12,) Junius and Turnovius interpret them, to mean the various gifts and effusions of the Holy Spirit, which are by Christ derived upon the church.

Thompson. Sickness, Note.

With these predictions of the Messiah, (predictions which by all expositors, Jews as well as Christians, by Rabbis of Jater times as well as by the more candid and more knowing Jews of earlier ages, are understood of the Messiah,) with these predictions Balaam intermixes many brief but eloquent assertions of the first principles of natural religion: the omnipotence of the Deity, his universal providence, and the immutability of his counsels.

Bp. Horsley. A Dissertation on the Prophecies. This book may serve as a glossary or expository index to the poetical writers.

Johnson. Preface to his Abridged Dictionary. They will regard with much more satisfaction, as he will contemplate with infinitely more advantage, whatever in his pedigree has been dulcified by an exposure to the influence of heaven in a long flow of generations, from the hard, acidulous, metallic tincture of the spring. Burke. Letter to a Noble Lord.

But then, so unusual an exposure of the globe of the eye requires for its lubricity and defence, a more than ordinary protection of the eyelid, as well as a more than ordinary supply of moisture.-Paley. Natural Theology, c. 16.

And, if neglect had lavish'd on the ground
Fragment of bread, she would collect the same;
For well she knew, and quaintly could expound,
What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she found.
Shenstone. The Schoolmistress.

The Pundits are the expounders of the Hindu Law; in which capacity two constantly attended the Supreme Court of Judicature, at Fort William.

Sir W. Jones. To Charles Chapman, Esq. Note. EXPOSTULATE, v. Fr. Expostuler; It. EXPOSTULATION.

EXPO'STULATORY,

Lat.

Espostulare; Expostulare, ex, and

For if there had, the heathens, to whom he revealed it not, could not have been thus without excuse; but might have rationally expostulated the case with their great Judge, and demurr'd to the equity of the sentence, had they been condemned by him-South, vol. ii. Ser. 7.

The men too, as to different camps they go,
Join their sad voices to the public woe;
Impatient to the gods they raise their cry,
And thus expostulate with those on high.

Rowe. Lucan, b. ii. Thus also he expostulates the case with us as pathetically, with as much affection and earnestness, as a tender father did with his rebellious son, Ezek. xxxiii. 11.

Beveridge, vol. ii. Ser. 86. The Queen sent the next day for the Duke of Marlborough, after some expostulations, she told him Harley should immediately leave his post, which he did within two days.

Burnet. Own Time, an. 1708.

It was a long expostulatory letter full of freedom and as great wisdom.-Strype. Memorials, vol. ii. b. i. c. 22.

Are we not still children with all our beard and gravity about us, if we play till we quarrel? Our conduct, in this respect, is almost too absurd to admit of serious expostulation. Knox, Ess. 119. EXPRESS, v. EXPRESS, n. EXPRESS, adj. EXPRESSEDLY. EXPRE'SSIBLE. EXPRESSION. EXPRESSING, n. EXPRESSIVE. EXPRESSIVELY. EXPRESSIVENESS. EXPRESSLY. EXPRE'SSMENT. EXPRESSNESS. EXPRESSURE.

Fr. Exprimer; It. Esprimere; Sp. Expressar; Lat. Exprimere, expressum, to press or squeeze out, (ex, and premere, to press or squeeze.)

To press or squeeze out, force out by pressure; to press or force out, (sc.) the form or manner, the image; and thus, to present or represent, to portray, to delineate or describe the image or likeness, to resemble.

To press or force out; to utter or give utterance to; and thus, to present or represent, delineate or describe, the ideas or thoughts; to declare them, show or exhibit them clearly; in clear and firm marks or characters, terms or words; in decisive language. And, generallyTo represent, to delineate, to describe, to signify or designate, to denote.

An express, a messenger or message despatched, for some express, i. e. some clear, direct or especial purpose.

Lady, thy bountie, thy magnificence,
Thy vertue and thy gret humilitee,
Ther may no tong expresse in no science.

Chaucer. The Prioresses Tale, v. 14,406.

Lo here expresse of wimmen may ye find,
That woman was the losse of all mankind.

Id. The Wif of Bathes Prologue, v. 6301.

But we! I wot, expresse withouten lie,
God bad us for to wex and multiplie;
That gentil text can I wel understond.-Id. Ib. v. 5609.
Redeth the Bible, and find it expresly
Of wine yeving to hem that haue justice.
Id. The Pardoneres Tale, v. 12,520.
But for finall conclusion,
I thynke a supplicacion,
With plaine wordes and expresse,

Writte vnto Venus the Goddesse.-Gower. Con. A. b. viii.
It is not we that can fynde out the Almightye: for in power,

postulare, which Vossius thinks is from the obsolete supine poscitum, (contracted into postum,) of the verb poscere, i. e. aliquid pro potestate ac jure equite, & ryghteousnesse, he is hyer tha can be expressed. petere: to seek or demand authoritatively, or as a right.

To demand or require, as a right; to remon strate, as against an invasion of right; to dispute on matter of right; to dispute, to discuss, to debate; to investigate, to examine.

The reprobate (as obstinately ill}
Expostulating blasphemy doe use,

And with their crimes would burden others still,
Not to be clear'd, but that they may accuse.
Stirling. Doomes-day. The Tenth Houre.

I have great cause to expostulate with you for this your Vnchristian, vnbrotherly, and most vniust handling of me. Whitgift. Defence, p. 704.

Gong. What I have done, sir, by the law of arms

I can and will make good.
Ast. I have no commission
To expostulate the act.

Massinger. The Maid of Honour, Act iii. sc. 1. The same expostulation that Jeptha makes with Gilead, God also at the same time makes with Israel; ye haue forsaken me, and serued other Gods, wherefore should I deliuer you any more? goe and cry vnto the Gods whom ye haue Gerued.-Bp. Hall. Cont. Jeptha.

Bible, 1551. Job.

For in those ii. ch. is no such matter to be seene, neyther yet is ther any expresse doctryne of vowes in all the whole wurk containing ix. bokes.-Bale. Apology, fol. 117.

But here muste we consider, wherfore God putteth this name Face expressedly.-Caluine. Foure Godlie Sers. Ser. 4. Cæsar had expresselye commaunded him that he should not ioyne battell with his enemies before suche time as he saw his armye neare vnto their camp, to th' intet that assault might have ben made vpon them on al sides at ones. Golding. Cæsar, fol. 17. A mighty man and tyrannous of conditions, named Eboryn, as shall appeare by his condicions ensuynge, when the tyme convenyent of the expressement of them shall come. Fabyan. Works, vol. i. c. 37.

"Twixt his two mighty armes him vp he snatcht,
And crusht his carcase so against his brest,
That the disdainfull soule be thence dispatcht,
And th' idle breath all vtterly exprest.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 11.
Thou shalt command
The Lydian Tmolus, and Campanian mounts,
To nod their grape-crown'd heads into thy bowls,
Expressing their rich juice.

Ford. The Sun's Darling, Act iv. sc. 1.

Some marke his words, as tokens fram & t expresse

The sharpe conclusion of a sad successe.

Sir J. Beaumont. Bosworth Field

Seb. I perceiue in you so excellent a touch of modestie, that you will not extort from me, what I am willing to keep in: therefore it chargeth me in manners, the rather to express myself.-Shakespeare. Twelfth Night, Act ii. sc. 1.

Whereby [hieroglyphical pictures] they [the Egyptians] discoursed in silence, and were intuitively understood from the theory of their expresses.-Brown. Vulg. Err. b. v. c. 20. It is sufficiently justifiable out of old coins, inscriptions, and express assertion, that the ancient character among the Greeks was almost the same with that which is now the Latins. Selden. Illustrations of Poly-Olbion, a. 11.

All the gazers on the skies

Read not in faire heaven's stone,
Expresser truth, or truer glorie,

Than they might in her bright eyes.-B. Jonson, Epig. 40. The defect in our tongue for the expressing of this, is 3 little repair'd by the use of the word sent, and so read it thus, God having raised up his son Jesus, gave him commission to bless us.-Hammond. Works, vol. iv. p. 525.

This [hieroglyphical pictures] many conceive to have been the primitive way of writing, and of greater antiquity then letters; and thus indeed might Adam well have spoken, who understanding the nature of things, had the advantage of natural expressions-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. v. c. 20.

Eternal God, (for whom whoever dare
Seek new expressions, do the circle square,
And thrust into strait corners of poor wit

Thee who art cornerless and infinite)

I would but bless thy name, not name thee now. Donne. Upon the Translation of the Psalms. You haue restrain'd yourselfe within the list of too cold an adieu be more expressive to them.

Shakespeare. All's Well that Ends Well, Act ii. sc. 1. Nature also is most expressively set forth with a biformed body, in reference to the differences betweene superior and inferior bodies.-Bacon. On Learning, by G. Wate, b. ii. e. 13.

John Prideaux, an excellent linguist; but so that he would make words wait on his matter, chiefly aiming at expressivenesse therein.-Fuller. Worthies. Devonshire.

They were heathens, such as the Prophet speaks, had not the knowledge of God's law, (viz.) in the fulness and ex

pressness of it; and yet they repented.-Glanvill, Ser. 9.

And now considering the expressness of all these places, I cannot see but that any duty of religion may be more easily evaded than this.-Id. Ser. 2.

And therefore for want of such an expressness in the meaning of this day's creation as is in the others, the mystery thereof may well be look'd upon as sealed and locked up from vulgar sight, and thereby the most concerning things in the whole Cabbala.

More. Def. of the Philosophical Cabbala, App. c. 5. By the colour of his beard, the shape of his legge, the manner of his gate, the expressure of his eye, forehead, and complection, he shall finde himselfe most feelingly personated.-Shakespeare. Twelfth Night, Act ii. sc. 3.

There is a mysterie (with whom relation
Durst neuer meddle) in the soule of state;
Which hath an operation more diuine,
Then breath or pen can giue expressure to.

Id. Troil. & Cress. Act iii. sc. 3. When St. John Baptist came preaching repentance unt Israel, the people asked him, saying, What shall we do! meaning in what manner they should express their repentance: Ilis answer was this, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do so likewise.-Sharp, vol. i. Ser. 4.

We have shewn of time in particular, that it is so far from being consequent on God's existence, that it is absolutely incompatible with it, and cannot be applied to it without an express contradiction; the idea either of actual or possible change or succession necessarily accompanying all time, as our author himself allows; and God's sole existence as necessarily excluding both.-Law. Enquiry, c. 2. p. 93.

All that knew him, when they read them, did without any sort of doubting conclude that he [King Charles II.] never composed them: for he never read the Scriptures, nor laid things together, further than to turn them to a jest, for some lively expression.--Burnet. Own Time, an. 1685.

Besides, the edges of these clouds are gilded with various and afrighting colours, the very edg of all seems to be of a pale fire colour, next that of a dull yellow, and nearer the body of the cloud a copper colour, and the body of the cloud which is very thick appears extraordinary black: and altogether it looks very terrible and amazing even beyond expression.-Dampier. Voyage, vol. ii. pt. iii. p. 71.

"Is this," the serious said, "is this the man
Whose golden sayings, and immortal wit,
On large phylacteries expressive writ,
Were to the forehead of the rabbins ty'd,
Our youth's instruction, and our age's pride."
Prior. Solomon, b. il

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