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The murrain at the end [of the 3d Georgic] has all the expressiveness that words can give it.

Addison. On Virgil's Georgics.

But Lockhart and Cunningham, the two lawyers on whose opinion they depended chiefly, said, that a commission to represent the king's person fell not under the notion of an office, and since it was not expressly named in the Acts of Parliament, they thought it did not fall within the general words of all places and offices of trust." Burnel. Own Time, an. 1682. Now through the deep'ning wood's projected gloom, To Dido's Cave with devious step we come, Where the dim twilight of the arch above Seems to express the queen's disastrous love.

Boyse. The Triumphs of Nature.

So far was Mr. Fox's bill from providing funds for it, as this ministry have wickedly done for this, and for ten times worse transactions, out of the publick estate, that an express clause immediately preceded, positively forbidding any British subject from receiving assignments upon any part of the territorial revenue, on any pretence whatsoever.

Burke. On the Nabob of Arcot's Debts.

This is a diphthong composed of our first and third vowels, and expressible, therefore, by them, as in the word Vaidya derived from Véda, and meaning a man of the medical cast: in Bengall it is pronounced as the Greek diphthong in Poimén, a shepherd, was probably sounded in ancient Greece.

Sir W. Jones. On the Orthography of Asiatic Words.

Tell how each beauty of her mind and face
Was brightened by some sweet, peculiar grace:
How eloquent in every look
Through her expressive eyes her soul distinctly spoke.
Littelton. To Miss Lucy Fortescue.

As to any other method more agreeable to them than a congress, an alternative expressly proposed to them, they did not condescend to signify their pleasure.

Burke. On a Regicide Peace, Let. 1.

EXPROBRATE, v.

Lat. Exprobrare, (ex, EXPROBRA'TION. and probrum, which sig nifies generally,-Any thing not consentaneous to virtue.)

To hold out, to show forth, as vicious, shameful or scandalous; to reproach or upbraid with.

He [Demetrius] was sente agayne vnto Hyrcanie his olde place of penaunce, and was rewarded with a payre of dyce of golde in exprobration of hys chyldishe lightnesse. Golding. Justine, fol. 148. The stork in heaven knoweth her appointed times, the turtle, crane, and swallow observe the time of their coming, but my people know not the judgment of the Lord. Wherein to exprobrate their stupidity, he induceth the providence of storks. Now if the bird had been unknown, the illustration had been obscure, and the exprobration not so proper. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 27. And long before this, it was so known a business that one city should have but one bishop, that Cornelius exprobrates to Novatus his ignorance.

Bp. Taylor. Episcopacy Asserted, § 43.

If the Church of Rome do vse any such kind of silly exprobration, it is no such vgly thing to the eare, that wee should think the honour and credit of our religion to receiue thereby any great wound.

Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. iv. § 9.

This chapter [Ezek. xvi. 30.] is the exactest history of the spiritual estate of the Jews, i. e. The elect of God, and the powerfulest exprobration of their sins, that all the writings under heaven can present to our eyes.

Hammond. Works, vol. iv. p. 561. Yea, it will be a denial with scorn, with taunting exprobrations; and to be miserable without commiseration, is the height of misery.-South, vol. i. Ser. 3.

What remonstrances concerning the gentleness, kindness, and equity of his dealings, what exprobrations of their stubbornness and stupidity God did anciently make to Israel under that particular dispensation, (which yet in tendency and in representation may be deemed general) the same he might now use toward all mankind, under this universal œconomy.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 39.

Prophet Micha: addressing himself to his corrupt and idolatrous countrymen, amongst his other exprobrations, ridicules, and, at the same time, instructs them, in this manner, Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, &c.

Warburton. Divine Legation, b. ix. Notes.

EXPROPRIATE. Į Lat. Er, and proprius, EXPROPRIATION. perhaps from prope, (with r inserted,) near.

"Fr. Exproprie,-expropriated, put from the propriety of, deprived of all propriety in," (Cotgrave.)

The soul of man then is capable of a state of much peace and equanimity, in the exterior bands and agitations; but this capacity is rather an effect of the expropriation of our reason, then a vertue resulting from her single capacity. Mountague. Devoute Essayes, pt. i. Treat. 19. s. 2.

When you have resigned, or rather consigned, your expropriated will (if I may so call it) to God, and thereby (as it were) entrusted him to will for you; all his disposals of, and dispensations towards you are in effect the acts of your own will, with the advantage of their being directed and specified by him an advantage that does at once assure you both of their rectitude and success.-Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 255.

EXPUGN, v. From Lat. Expugnare, to beat, to overpower. Cotgrave has, "Expugner,-to expugne, force, break open, or into by violence; win by assault; vanquish, conquer, overcome. Expugnable, expugnable, &c. Expugnateur, -an expugner, &c. Expugnation, an expugnation."

Ouer and besides all this, secretlie and sleightlie they suborned certain men, which when they could not expugne him by arguments and disputations, should by intreatie and faire promises, or any other meanes allure him to recantation perceiuing otherwise what a great wound they should receiue, if the archbishop had stood stedfast in his sentence: and again on the other side, how great profit should they get, if he as the principall standerd bearer should be ouerthrown.-Foz. Mart. p. 1710. Recantation of Dr. Cranmer.

When the reuengefull flames of Troy, properly called Ilion, then the principall citie of all Asia, had perfected the more than tenne yeares' siege of the Grecians expugning of the same, then Eneas, &c.

Warner. Addition to the Sec. Book of Albion's Eng. Since the nasturtia are singly, and alone as it were, the most effectual and powerful agents in conquering and expugning that cruel enemy, it were enough to give the salletdresser direction how to choose, mingle, and proportion his ingredients.-Evelyn. Discourse of Sallets.

EXPULSE. See EXPELL.
EXPUNGE, v.
EXPUNCTION.
EXPUNGING, n.'

Lat. Expungere, er, and pungere, to prick, properly (says Gessner) applied to letters, when they are struck out, puncto styli.

To strike out; to efface.

Yet do they afford our junior capacities a frequent occasion of error, setling impressions in our tender memories, which our advanced judgements generally neglect to expunge. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. i. c. 9.

There be also books which are partly usefull and excellent, partly culpable and pernicious; this work will ask as many more officials, to make expurgations and expunctions, that the common-wealth of learning be not damnyfied.

Milton. Of Unlicens'd Printing.

Every step was to be made by a vote, against which many lords protested; and the reasons given in some of their protestations were thought to be so injurious to the house, that they were by vote ordered to be expunged; a thing that seldom happens.-Burnet. Own Time, an. 1701.

Neither do they remember the many alterations, additions, and expungings made by great authors in those treatises which they prepare for the publick.-Swift.

Is every word in the declaration from Downing-street, concerning their conduct, and concerning ours and that of our allies, so obviously false that it is necessary to give some new invented proofs of our good faith in order to expunge the memory of this perfidy?

Burke. On a Regicide Peace, Let 3.

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The watry matter the two kidnies expurgate, by those emulgent veines, and vreteres. Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 18.

That glosse would tel us more; and so would Gratian himself, if their tongues were not clipt by a guiltie expurgation.-Bp. Hall. The Old Religion, s. 3.

And wise men cannot but know, that arts and learning want this expurgation: and if the course of truth be permitted unto itself; like that of time and uncorrected computations, it cannot escape many errors which duration still enlargeth.-Brown. Vulgar Errours. To the Reader.

Henricus Boxhornius was one of the principal expurgators.-Jenkins. Hist. Ex. of Councils, p. 6.

After all your monkish prohibitions, and expurgatorious indexes, your gags and snaffles.

Milton. Animad. upon Remonstrants' Defence. Herein there surely wants expurgatory animadversions, whereby we might strike out great numbers of hidden qualities.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 7.

It was a rude kind of blasphemy, but not much more than that which their severest men do say, and were never corrected by their expurgatory indices.

Bp. Taylor. The Real Presence, ED. Ded.

Which course Leo the Xth, and his successors followed, until the Council of Trent, and the Spanish Inquisition engend'ring together, brought forth, or perfected those catalogues, and expurging Indexes, that rake through the entrails of many an old good author, with a violation worse than any could be offer'd to his tomb.-Milton. Areopagitica.

What courses they have taken for the prohibiting of those authors which they censure as heretical, and for the expurg. ing of those of their own, whom they dare not deface, I refer my reader to the painfull and usefull observations of D. James.-Bp. Hall. The Peace Maker, s. 20.

It ought here to be remarked, that this mode of conviction not only concludes the party has failed in his expurgatory proof, but it is sufficient also to subject to the penalties and incapacities of the law the infant upon whose account the person has been so convicted. Burke. Tracts on the Popery Law.

There are some annotations reprehensible in another point of view, which I should gladly have omitted, but they have so long retained their places, that such an expurgatory liberty seemed to me to be going beyond the bounds of my "limited service."-Boswell. Adv. to Shakespeare,

EXQUIRE, v. EXQUISITE. EXQUISITELY. EXQUISITENESS.

Fr. Exquis; It. Esquisito, Sp. Exquisito; Lat. Exquisitus, from exquirere,to search out, (ex, and quærere, to search. See CONQUIRE.) Exquisite is,Sought, picked, culled, chosen or choice, select; and thus, excellent, perfect, exact, elaborate.

Who hath ben there and liking for to here
His second tong, and termes exquisite
Of rethorike the practike he might lere

In brefe sermon.-Chaucer. The Testament of Creseide. Askyng his journey first into Egypt, and afterward to Babylo, to learn perfectly the mouing of the planets, and to searche out the beginning of the world, whereof it was made, he [Pythagoras] attained meruelous exquisite knowledge. Golding. Justine, fol. 94.

Certesse it is great pity, that such fine wits so exquisitely polished withal kind of learning, and traded in so goodly and institutions, should be so far ouer-seene as to commit so heinous an act.-Id. Ib. fol. 42.

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By pencils this was exquisitely wrought;
Rounded in all the curious would behold;
Where life came out, and met the painter's thought.
The force was tender, though the strokes were bold.
Davenant. Gondibert, b. ii. c. 6.

Howbeit, the most probable opinion is, that they were so called of separation; because they were or would seeme to bee separated from others: first, in cleanenesse of life; secondly, in dignitie; thirdly, in regard of the exquisiteness of those obseruations, whereto they were separated. Purchas. Pilgrimage, b. ii. c. 8. s. 3.

Where greatness is to Nature's works deny'd,
In worth and beauty it is well supply'd:

In a small space the more perfection's shown,
And what is exquisite in little's done.-Yalden. Insect..

His [the younger Pliny] ingenuous manner of owning it [passion for fame] to a friend, who had prompted him to undertake some great work, is exquisitely beautiful, and raises him to a certain grandeur above the imputation of vanity. Spectator, No. 555.

Christ suffered only the exquisiteness and heights of pain, without any of those mitigations, which God is pleased to temper and allay it with, as it befalls other men; like a man who drinks only the spirits of a liquor separated and extracted from the dull, unactive body of the liquor itself. South, vol. iii. Ser. 9.

But can these men after all their confidence produce any one person in the world, who by the exquisiteness of his natural temper hath ever walked upon the waters, or poised himself in the air, or kept himself from being singed in the fire. Stillingfleet, vol. i. Ser. 9.

One altar erected by the late bishop, of the finest marbles, chastest decorations, and best proportions, cannot fail to attract the eye of the observer; it is exquisite in its kind, and was, in our opinion, almost the only object in the cathedral worthy of attention.-Eustace. Classical Tour, vol. i. c. 7.

It is the same in the present instance, molle atque facetum, i. e. a soft-flowing versification, and an exquisitely finished expression: the two precise, characteristic merits of Virgil's rural poetry.-Hurd. Notes on the Epistle to Augustus.

EX-SANGUIOUS. (Corruptly written Eranguious.) Lat. Exsanguis; Fr. Exangue; er, and sanguis, blood.

Without blood, bloodless.

The third is the paucity of blood observed in this animal, scarce at all to be found but in the eye, and about the heart;

which defect being observed, inclined some into thoughts,

that the ayr was a sufficient maintenance for these exanguious parts.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 21.

The exanguious [insects] alone, by what that learned and critical naturalist, my honoured friend, Dr. Martin Lister, hath already observed and delineated, I conjecture, cannot be fewer than 3000 species, perhaps many more.

Ray. On the Creation, pt. i. The whole heart [a flounder's] observed for a pretty while such a succession of motion in its divided and exsanguious pieces, as I had taken notice of in them, whilst they were coherent.-Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 69.

EXSCIND, v. Lat. Exscindere, to cut out or off, (er, and scindere; Gr. Exif-ew, to cut off, to split off.)

To cut off; and thus to destroy.

In the most terrible and amazing examples of divine justice, (such as were the ejecting and excluding mankind from Paradise; the general destruction of the Deluge; and exscinding, and extirpation of the Amorites, together with other the inhabitants of Canaan.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 36.

Had the exsiccation been progressive, such as we may suppose to have been produced by an evaporating heat, how came it to stop at the point at which we see it? Paley. Natural Theology, c. 22. EX-SOLUTION. Corruptly written Erolution. Lat. Exsolutio, from Exsolvere, exsolutum, (ex, and solvere, to loosen.) See DISSOLVE. Fr. Exolution,—a faintness or looseness in all parts of the body.

And if any have been so happy as truely to understand Christian annihilation, extasis, exolution, liquefaction, transformation, the kisse of the spouse, gustation of God, and ingression into the divine shadow, they have already had an handsome anticipation of heaven; the glory of the world is surely over, and the earth in ashes unto them. Brown. Urne Burial, c. 5. p. 30. EX-SPOLIATION. Corruptly written Erpoliation. Fr. Expolier, to deprive or bereave of. Lat. Er, and spoliare; Spolium, Tooke derives from A. S. Spill-an, privare, to deprive, to divest.

Now thy bloody passion begins; a cruel exspoliation begins that violence; againe doe these grim and mercilesse soldiers lay their rude hands upon thee, and strip thee naked. Bp. Hall. Cont. The Crucifixion. EX-STIMULATE. Corruptly written ExEXSTIMULATION. Stimulate. Lat. Erstimulare, to spur or goad, (ex, and stimulus; Gr. EXSCRIBE, v. Lat. Erscribere, to write out, Ti-ev, pung-ere, to prick.) See STIMULATE.

(ex. and scribere, to write.)

To write out; and thus, to copy.

I that have beene a louer, and could shew it,

Though not in these, in rithmes not wholly dumbe,
Since I exscribe your sonnets, am become
A better lover, and much better poet.

B. Jonson. To the Lady Mary Worth.

EXSECTION. Lat. Exsecare, to cut out or off, (ex, and secare, sectum, to cut.) A cutting out.

Sometimes also they [frogs] would nimbly leap first out of the vessel, and then about the room, surviving the exsection of their hearts, soine about an hour, and some longer.

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To dry or drain out; to press out moisture; to free from moisture or humidity.

They enter into emplastres, which are devised and made for to exiccate.-Holland. Plinie, b. xxxv. c. 16.

If in a full dissolution of steel a separation of parts be made by precipitation or exhalation, the ersiceated powder hath lost its wings, and ascends not unto the loadstone. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 3.

Air exsiccates and draws to itself.-Feltham, pt. i. Res. 69. That which is concreted by exsiccation or expression of humidity, will be resolved by humectation, as earth, dirt, and clay.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 1.

It is one of the ingredients also to those emplastres which are devised for gentle refrigeratives and exiccatives. Holland. Plinie, b. xxxiv. c. 13.

In generall, any ruddle whatsoever is exiccative, in which regard it agreeth well with salves and healing plastres. Id. Ib. b. XXXV. c. 6. If it be dry bare, you must apply next to it some dry or exsiccant medicine.-Wiseman. Surgery, b. vi. c. 5.

Some are moderately moist, and require to be treated with medicines of the like nature, such as fleshy parts; others dry in themselves, yet require exsiccants, as bones.-Id. Ib.

I cannot imagine after what manner the preservation of bodies uncorrupted for many years, without embalming or other artifice, can be performed, except it be by intense natural cold, or by exsiccating sands. Boyle. Works, vol. vi. p. 196.

Now what more easily refuted, than that old vulgar assertion of an universal drought and exsiccation of the earth? as if the sun could evaporate the least drop of its moisture, so that it should never descend again, but be attracted and elevated quite out of the atmosphere ?-Bentley, Ser. 4.

These last words I add, because that, when there is an

obstruction, or any other expulsion of the menstruum by Boyle. Works, vol. iv. p. 338.

heat, if it be total it is called exsiccation.

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To spur or goad on; to incite; to sharpen; to quicken.

That is, the fat and pitch being cleaving bodies, and the air continually extimulating the parts; by the action of the one, nature was provoked to expell, but by the tenacity of the other forced to retain.-Brown. Vulgar Err. b. ii. c. 5.

The choler is the naturall glister, or one excretion whereby nature excludeth another; which descending daily into the bowels, extimulates those parts, and excites them unto expulsion. Id. Ib. b. iii. c. 2.

Hence proceed most of the vertues, and qualities (as we call them) of bodies; but the air intermixt, is without vertues, and maketh things insipide and without any extimulation.-Bacon. Naturall Historie, s. 841.

EX-STRUCT, v. Corruptly written ExEXSTRUCTIVE. Struct, &c. Lat. Exstruere, erstructum, (ex, and struo, to build out, pile up.) If it were not as easy for us to say, that papistry is both

affirmative and extructive of all wickedness.

Fulke. Answer to Frarine's Declaration, (1580.) p. 41. These high extructed spires he writ That mortal Dellius must quit.

uccous.

Byrom. Remarks on Horace, b. ii. Ode 3. EX-SUCCOUS. Corruptly written ExLat. Exsuccus, without moisture, (ex, and succus, moisture.) Without moisture, juice, or sap, and therefore, dry.

And this is to be effected not only in the plant yet growing, but in some manner also in that which is brought exuccous and dry unto us.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 6.

The reticulum by these crossed cels, makes a further digestion, in the dry and exuccous part of the aliment received from the first ventricle.-Id. Cyrus' Garden, c. 3.

EXSUCTION. Lat. Exsug-ere, ex-suctum, to suck out, (ex, and sug-ere, to suck; A. S. Succ-an.) To suck out, to draw out, exhaust or extract by suction.

What operation the exsuction of the air hath on other liquors, as oil, wine, spirit of vinegar, milk. Glanvill, Ess. 3.

In his book of the air we have a great improvement of the Magdeburgh experiment, of emptying glass vessels by exsuction of the air to far greater degrees of evacuation, ease,

and conveniences.-Id. Ib.

This bladder being conveyed into the receiver, and the cover luted on, the pump was set to work, and after two or three exsuctions of the ambient air (whereby the spring of that which remained in the glass was weakened) the imprisoned air began to swell in the bladder. Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 18. The first folio of

EXSUFFLATION. Į EXSU'FFLICATE.

(consequentially) to signify contemnere, despucre, rejicere; arising from the custom in the Romish administration of baptism, of renouncing the devil and all his works, exsufflando et despuendo, by blowing and spitting him away. Hence also, the application of exsufflare, and exsufflatio (common words among early Latin ecclesiastical writers,) to a species of exorcism. (See Du Cange, and Spelman, and the quotation from Puller.) Exsufflation is used by Bacon in its ordinary sense. And

Exufflicate, in Shakespeare, is not improbably a misprint for Exsufflate, i.e. efflate or efflated, puffed out, and consequently, exaggerated, extravagant, -to which blow'd is added, not so much for the sake of a second epithet, with a new meaning, as of giving emphasis to the first.

The primitive Church used, in the first admission of infants to the entrance of a new birth to a spiritual life, pray against the power and frauds of the devil; and that brought in the ceremony of exsuffiation for ejecting of the devil. Bp. Taylor. Of Repentance, c. 7. s. 1.

So of volatility, the utmost degree is, when it will fly away without returning. The next is, when it will fly up, but with ease return. The next is, when it will fly upwards over the helm by a kind of exsufflation without vapouring. Bacon. Physiological Remains.

Exchange me for a goat, When I shall turne the businesse of the soule To such exufflicate, and blow'd surmises, Matching thy inference.-Shakes. Othello, Act iii. sc. 3. That wondrous number of ceremonies in exorcism, exsuffation, use of salt, spittle, inunction, &c. in the church of Rome required.-Puller. Moderat. of the Ch. of Eng. p. 282.

EX-SUPERANCE. Corruptly written Exuperance. Lat. Ex-superare, to pass over or beyond.

A passing over or beyond; an excess.

The exuperance of the density of A to water is 10 degrees, but the exuperance of B to the same water is 100 degrees. Digby. Of Bodies, c. 10. Lat. Exsuscitare, ez, and suscitare, (i. e. sursum citare,) to awaken. An awakening.

EXSUSCITA'TION.

Virtue is not a thing that is merely acquired, and transfused into us from without, but rather an exsuscitation and raising up of those intellectual principles, pro re nata, and according as the circumstances of human actions invite, which were essentially engraven and sealed upon the soul at her first creation.

Hallywell. Excellency of Moral Virtue, (1692.) p. 54. EXTANT. Etymology requires Ex-stant. E'XTANCE. Lat. Ex-stans, pres. part. of E'XTANCY. exstare, to stand out.

Standing out; standing or being above; rising or remaining above; exposed to view; being or remaining. See EXIST.

Though for no other cause, yet for this, that posteritie may know, we haue not loosely through silence permitted things to passe awaye as in a dreame, there shall be for men's information extant thus much concerning the present state of the church of God established amongst vs, and their careful endeavour which would haue vpheld the same.

Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, Prof.

The British story says, Brute built it, [Tours.] (so also Nennius,) and from one Turon, Brute's nephew there buriel, gives it the name. Homer is cited for testimony; in his works extant 'tis not found.

Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 1.

I believe [Ovid] was not only acquainted with the Mosaical history, but with most of those writings that were extant in that time, containing the origination of the world and mankind; though he mingle his own fancies with what he has so learned.-Hale. Origin, of Mankind, p. 248.

There is nothing more frequent among us than a sort of poems entitled Pindarick odes; pretending to be written in imitation of the manner and style of Pindar, and yet I do not know that there is to this day extant in our language, one ode contrived after his model.

Congreve, Discourses on the Pindaric Ode. [This] renders clear a different effect as to the swelling and extancies of the parts, then we find it in works where this method [of perspective] has not been observed. Evelyn. Sculptura, c. 5. And then it is odds but the order of the little extancies, and consequently that of the little depressions in point of situation will be altered likewise.

Shakespeare reads Exufflicate. Hanmer substituted Exsuffolate. Todd says it should be Ersufficate; and means contemptible. (See Shakespeare, by Boswell.) Ersufflare, it is true, is explained by Du Cange of God shouted for joy, he must answer who asked it; who

Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 687. Where we were when the foundations of the earth were laid, when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons

understands entities of preordination, and beings yet unbeing; who hath in his intellect the ideal existences of things and entities before their extances.

Brown. Christian Morals, iii. 25.

There are some ancient writings still extant, which pass under the name of Sibylline oracles; but these oracles "seem to have been all, from first to last, and, without any exception, mere impostures."-Melmoth. Cicero, b. i. Let. 12. Also written Ecstasy. Fr. Ecstase; It. Estasi; Sp. Exstasi; Gr. ExoTaσis, from Eşiστασθαι, το remove from its place; e, from, and tor-aσeal, to place.

E'XTASY, v. EXTASY, n. EXTA'TICK.

EXTA'TICAL.

The removal of any thing from its place; applied (met.) to the amotion or emotion of the mind, the unsettling of the powers of the mind, (from whatever cause,) and, consequentially, to the loss of the senses; to madness; to any excess of emotion or passion, of joy or grief, hope or fear, rapture, delight, enthusiasm.

It is now more commonly restricted to excess of joy or delight.

Let no poetaster command or entreat
Another extempore verses to make.

B. Jonson. Miscel. Rules for the Tavern Academy. Which he did with that readiness and sufficiency, as at once gave testimony to his ability, and to the evidence of the truth he asserted; which, amidst the disadvantage of extempore against premeditation, dispelled with ease and perfect clearness all the sophisms that had been brought against him.-Fell. Life of Hammond.

poetical persons, practised in versifying, sit yet about the And many you may hear to report, that there be certaine oracle, for to receive and catch some words there delivered; which presently and extempore they reduce and contrive into verse, metre, and rhime, as if they were panniers to bestow all the answers in.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 977.

intention of braine then our nice minds for the most part The reason whereof being not perceiued, but by greater can well away with, faine we would bring the world, if we might, to think it but a needlesse curiositie, to rip vp any thing further then extemporall readines of wit doth serue to reach vnto.-Hooker. Ser. On the Nature of Pride. The quicke comedians

Extemporally will stage vs, and present

Our Alexandrian reuels.-Shakes. Ant. & Cleop. Act v. sc. 2. And for those other faults of barbarisme, Dorick dialect,

To extasy, the verb, is,―to enrapture, to tran- extemporanean stile, tautologies, apish imitation, &c. sport.

Leo. They are too slow, despatch new messengers, To entreat 'em fairly hither, I am extasid.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Coronation, Act v. sc. 1. At hearing this, they us'd to be so extasi'd and impassion'd, as presently to tear their garments.

Feltham, pt. ii. Res. 1.

The persons meeting together to compare and unite their joyes, and their Eucharist, and then made propheticall and inspired, must needs have discoursed like seraphims, and the most extasied order of intelligencies.

Bp. Taytor. The Great Exemplar, pt. i. s. 2.

He maruail'd more, and thought he yet did dreame, Not well awak't, or that some extasie Assotted had his sense, or dazed was his eye.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 8.

Which when the principall person of the embassage once heard, even hee, whose big and brave words a little before the whole senate Louse was hardly able to containe, fell downe flat before them in a swoune and extasie. Holland. Livivs, p. 1179. Qu. This is the very coynage of your braine, This bodilesse creation extasie is very cunning inHam. Extasie?

My pulse as yours doth temperately keep time,
And makes as healthfull musicke. It is not madnesse
That I haue vttered: bring me to the test,

And I the matter will re-word: whiche madnesse

Burton. Democritus, to the Reader, p. 9.

I had not time to lick it into forme, as she doth her young ones, but even so to publish it, as it was first written, quicquid in buccum venit, in an extemporanean stile, as I do commonly all other exercises.-Id. Ib. p. 12.

God feeds his people with extemporary provisions, that by needing always they may learn to pray to him, and by being still supplied, may learn to trust him for the future, and thank him for that is past, and rejoyce in the present.

Bp. Taylor. The Great Exemplar, pt. ii. Dis. 12. Here it may be observed, that as in their publick prayer one pray'd, and others held their peace; so it was in their singing, at least in that singing which was of extempore hymns by the impulse of the Spirit.

Locke. On 1 Cor. c. 14. Note (n.) For (first) the accustoming one's self to make extemporal reflections, and that upon all kind of occasions, does by degrees bring the mind to a readiness of conception, which keeps a man from being easily surprized by the subject he has occasion to consider, and enables him oftentime to surprize his hearers.-Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 347.

But if it happen, (as it often will in extemporaneous discourse) that a philosopher be not rightly understood, either because he has not the leisure, no more than a design to explain himself fully, or because the persons he converses with bring not a competent capacity and attention; he then runs a greater danger than beforc.-Id. Ib. vol. iv. p. 54.

And so whoever has the legislative or supream power of any commonwealth, is bound to govern by establish'd standextemporary decrees.-Locke. Of Civil Government.

Would gamboll from.-Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act iii. sc. 4. ing laws, promulgated and known to the people, and not by

Which suddein fit, and half exstatick stoure When the two fearefull women saw, they grew Greatly confused in behavioure.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 3.

And whether that which we call extasy, be not dreaming with the eyes open, I leave to be examined.

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

This they manage at first by graue nods, and secret whispers, by deep sighs, and extatick motions, by far-fetched discourses, and tragical stories, till they find the people capable of receiving their impressions, and then seem most unwilling to mention that which it was at first their design to discover. Stillingfleet, vol. i. Ser. 7.

When the mind is conversant about the divine objects, the innumerous and (as to our way of apprehension) manifold prospects they afford, are such, both for excellency and number, that the mind can never exhaust that fountain of rational, and perhaps extatical delights.

Boyle. Works, vol. vi. p. 762.

But, hark, methinks I hear her hallow'd tongue!
In distant trills it echoes o'er the tide;
Now meets mine ear with warbles wildly free,
As swells the lark's meridian extasy.

Mason. Ode 6. To Independency.

When the Christian army, after a tedious march towards the land of Canaan, came within view of the Holy City, and beheld afar off the towers and turrets of Jerusalem, they were so extasied with joy, that they made the heavens ring with triumphant shouts and acclamations.

Scott. Christian Life, pt. i. c. 4. s. 5.

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It seems to me the more probable opinion, that he rather imitated the fine raileries of the Greeks which he saw in the pieces of Andronicus, than the coarseness of all his old countrymen in their clownish extemporary way of jeering. Dryden. Dedication to Juvenal. Certainly the extemporizing faculty is never more out of its element than in the pulpit.-South, vol. ii. Ser. 3.

He [Crichton] then visited Padua, where he engaged in another publick disputation, beginning his performance with an extemporal poem in praise of the city and the assembly then present, and concluding with an oration equally unpremeditated in commendation of ignorance.-Adventurer, No. 81. To those we owe his famous book of fragments, composed occasionally, and taken as an extemporaneous cordial, each stronger than the other, to support himself under his frequent paroxysms.-Warburton. Of Ld. Bolingbroke's Philosophy.

There is no doubt but that the practice which prevails among some respectable sects, of filling up a long portion of time in their public service, with extemporary prayer, has contributed greatly to increase the length of prayers, beyond the limits both of reason and of sincere and attentive devotion. Knox. Winter Evenings, Even. 23.

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In his auhtend gere that William was regnand, Extendours he sette forto extend the land, Eridam & baronie how mykelle thei helde.

R. Brunne, pe

& William wist of alle what it suld amounte Of lordyng & of thralle the extente thorgh accounte.

Id. Tb.

Flemer of fendes, out of him and here On which thy limmes faithfully extenden, Me kepe, and yeve me might my lif to amenden. Chaucer. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 4881. Therefore men and women, hauinge their bodies feble, and their flesshe louse, and not firme, must reade oftentimes loude, and in a base voyce, extendyng out the wind pipe, and other passages of the breath.

Sir T. Elyot. The Castel of Helth, b. iii. c. 35. Alexander in the meane season came to the Ryuer of Tanais, where hee enclosed aboute wyth a wall so much ground as his campe did conteyne, extendyng in compasse lx. furlonges, and named the same cittie Alexandria.

Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 193.

In this no sorenes is felt, but onely an heuynesse with extension or thrustinge out of the body. Sir T. Elyot. The Castel of Helth, b. iv. c. 5. Who thus, both having gain'd a glorious end, Soon ended that great day; that set so red, As all the purple plains that wide extend, A sad tempestuous season witnessed.

Daniel. Civil Wars, b. vi.

Mes. Labienus (this is stiffe-newes)
Hath with his Parthian force
Extended Asia: from Euphrates his conquering
Banner shooke, from Syria to Lydia,

And to lonia.-Shakes. Antony & Cleopatra, Act i. sc. 2.
Over. Good! good! conspire

With your new husband, lady; second him

In his dishonest practices; but when
This manor is extended to my use,

You'll speak in an humbler key, and sue for favour.
Massinger. New Way to Pay Old Debts, Act v. sc. 1.
But both his hands, most filthy feculent,
Aboue the water were on high extent,
And faynd to wash themselues incessantly;
Yet nothing cleaner were for such intent.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 7,
Let thy faire wisdome, not thy passion sway
In this vnciuill, and vnjust extent
Against thy peace.-Shakes. Twelfth Night, Act iv. sc. 1
Yet there lives a foolish creature
Call'd an under-sheriff, who, being well paid, will serve
An extent on lords or lowns' land.

Massinger. The City Madam, Act v. sc. 2. The rule of Solon, concerning the territory of Athens, is not extendible unto all; allowing the distance of six foot unto common trees, and nine for the fig and olive.

Brown. Cyrus' Garden, c. 4.

Certain moleculæ seminales must be supposed to make up that defect, and to keep the world and its integrals from an infinitude and extendlessness of excursions every moment into new figures and animals.

Hale. Origin. of Mankind, p. 10. The Earl of Bristol addressed their lordships in these words: 46 My lords; being to speak unto your lordships somewhat more extendedly than what is my use, and upon a subject wherein there may be, perhaps, not only difference, but even fervour of opinions, I find myself obliged," &c.

Parliamentary History. 12 Charles II. 1660.

Our love of one opinion induceth us to embrace it; and our hate of another doth more than fit us for its rejection : And, that love is blind, is extensible beyond the object of poetry.-Glanvill. The Vanity of Dogmatizing, c. 13.

We know too, by the chymical analysis of a muscule, that it is compounded of divers kind of principles. But of what just number they are, or in what precise manner, they are mixed together so as to give a fiber extensibility, and all its other qualities, who can say? Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. ii. . 5.

For Reason put t' her best extension, Almost meets Faith, and makes both centres one. Donne. On the Death of Prince Henry. You run upon these extensional phantasms, which I look upon as contemptuously, as upon the quick wrigglings up and down of pismires.-More. Divine Dialogues. -But these two

Make the rest ductile, malleable, extensive.

B. Jonson. The Alchymist, Act ii. sc. 3. For let it [Westminster] be taken (as truly it ought) extensively with the liberty of Lancaster from Temple Bar, and it filleth as much ground (not to say containeth more reasonable souls) than any city in the land. Fuller. Worthies. Westminster.

The cheerful ruby then, much lov'd,
That doth revive the spirit,
Whose kind to large extensure grown,
The colour so inflamed

Is that admired mighty stone
The carbuncle that's named.

Drayton. Muses' Elysium, Nymph. 9.

And instantly an embassy is sent

To Charles of France, to will him to restore Those territories, of whose large extent The English kings were owners of before. Drayton. The Battle of Agincourt. O'er barren mountains, o'er the flowery plain, The leafy forest, and the liquid main, Extends thy uncontrol'd and boundless reign. Dryden. Lucretius, b. i. The extension made, the extenders are to be loosened gently.-Wiseman. Surgery, b. vii. c. 1.

The extenders of empire are admired and commended, however they doe it, although with cruel wars, or by any unjust means.-Barrow. Of the Pope's Supremacy.

I exposed a copper box of a pear fashion, which did bear three several freezings, by reason of the great extensibility of that metal; but at the fourth essay, it cracked all along une side of it, almost to the screw. Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 706.

In proportion as these small [blood] vessels become solid, the larger must of course become less extensile, and more rigid.-Armstrong. Of Preserving Health, b. ii. Note 6.

§ 15. If any one ask me, what this space, I speak of, is? I will tell him, when he tells me what his extension is. For

to say, as is usually done, that extension is to have partes extra partes, is to say only, that extension is extension: for what am I the better inform'd in the nature of extension, when I am told that extension is to have parts that are extended, exterior to parts that are extended, i. e. extension consists of extended parts. Locke. Of Hum. Underst. b. ii. c. 13. § 15.

Neither could Saint Peter's charge be more extensive than was that of the other apostles; for they had a general and unlimited care of the whole church; that is, according to their capacity and opportunity.

Barrow. Of the Popes Supremacy.

For what a power must that be (how unconceivably great both intensively and extensively must it be?) which could so expeditely and easily rear such a stupendious vast frame? vast beyond the reach of our sense, of our imagination, of any rational collection that we can make.-Id. vol. ii. Ser. 12.

Here, by the by, we take notice of the wonderful dilatabiI lity or extensiveness of the throats and gullets of serpents : myself have taken two entire adult mice out of the stomach of an adder, whose neck was not bigger than my little finger. Ray. On the Creation, pt. i. The peronæus longus helps to constrict the foot, and to direct the power of the other extensors towards the ball of the great toe.-Derham. Physico-Theology, b. v. c. 2. (Note 8.)

Yet he [Leighton] gave his vote for it, not having sufciently considered the extent of the words, and the consequences that might follow on such an act; [assenting to the King's supremacy ;] for which he was very sorry, as long as he lived.-Burnet. Own Time, an. 1669.

Rate not th' extension of the human mind

By the plebeian standard of mankind,

But by the size of those gigantic few,
Whom Greece and Rome still offer to our view.

Jenyns. On the Immortality of the Soul.
One great cause of our insensibility to the goodness of the
Creator, is the very extensiveness of his bounty.
Paley. Theology, c. 26.

It is evident, that the reciprocal energetic motion of the limbs, by which we mean motion with force in opposite directions, can only be produced by the instrumentality of opposite or antagonist muscles, of flexors and extensors answering to each other.-Id. Ib. c. 9.

One of the chief reasons commonly assigned for the fitness of the time of Christ's appearing in the world, was the exteni of learning and commerce through the then known parts of it; which tended very much to open men's minds, and qualify them to receive his institution.

Law. Theory of Religion, pt. i.
What antic notions form the human mind!
Perversely mad, and obstinately blind.
Life in its large extent is scarce a span,
Yet, wondrous frenzy, great designs we plan,
And shoot our thoughts beyond the date of man!
Cotton. An Allusion to Horace, b. ii. Ode 16.

The process hereon is usually called an extent or extendi
facics, because the sheriff is to cause the lands, &c. to be
appraised to their full extended value, before he delivers
them to the plaintiff, that it may be certainly known how
soon the debt will be satisfied.
Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iii. c. 26.
Fr. Exténuer; It. Es-
tenuare; Sp. Extenuar;
Lat. Extenuare, (ex, and
tenuare, to thin or make

EXTENUATE, v.
EXTENUATE, adj.
EXTENUATION.

EXTENUATOR. thin.) See ATTENUATE.

To thin, to rarefy; to make thin, slender or small; to lessen or diminish, weaken or impair; to weaken the force, lessen the consequences; and thus, to palliate, to mitigate.

Radishe rootes haue the vertu to extenuate, or make thyn, and also to warm.-Sir T. Elyot. Castel of Helth, b. ii.

We shall find fauour by speaking of the matter; if in handling our owne cause, we commende it accordingly, and dispraise the attempt of our aduersary extenuating all his chief purposes, so much as shall be necessarie. Wilson. The Arte of Rhetorique, p. 105.

It doth extenuat and resolve all excressence of proud, ranke, or dead flesh.-Holland. Plinie, b. xx. c. 9.

It much extenuates the ill of his action, that he was besieged with continual and undigestable incentives of the clergy, with traitorous confidence striking at his crown, and in such sort, as humanity must have exceeded itself, to have endured it with any mixture of patience. Selden. On Drayton's Poly-Olbion, §. 18.

Yet such extenuation let me begge.

Shakespeare. 1 Pt. Hen. IV. Act iii. sc. 2.

If Anna had been tainted with this sinne, shee would hane denied it with more fauour, and haue disclaimed it with extenuation; what if I should haue been merry with wine? yet I might be deuout.-Bp. Hall. Cont. Eli & Anna. Thinness. Having extenuate parts.

Scott. Essays. On Drapery, (1635.) p. 7. Now even to extenuate, or excuse a sin, is bad enough; but to defend it is intolerable.-South, vol. iv. Ser. 3.

But since it would be infinitely in vain for a finite power to contend with an infinite, innocence (if any thing) must be the plea; and that must be either by an absolute denial, or, at least, by an extenuation or diminution of his sin. Id. vol. ii. Ser. 7.

The power of covering sin, is in Scripture ascribed to no other grace or virtue whatsoever but charity: when, therefore, the multitude of our sins is to be judged and punished, the fittest and kindest enquiry that our judge can make, is, what deeds of charity we have to alledge in extenuation of our punishment.-Atterbury, vol. ii. Ser. 5.

As to the other matters objected against me, which in their turn I shall mention to you, remember once more I do

not mean to extenuate or excuse.

Burke. Speech at Bristol, previous to the Election. The extenuators of the sacrament sometimes suggests a hint that the command to perform this slight service may possibly not extend to us in these days, but might have been confined to the Apostles, to whom it was immediately given by the institution.-Knox. On the Lord's Supper.

EXTERIOR, adj. EXTERIOR, n. EXTERIORLY. EXTERN, adj. EXTERNAL, n. EXTERNAL, adj EXTERNALLY. EXTERNALITY.

Fr. Extérieur; It. Esteriore; Sp. Exterior; Lat. Exterior; Fr. Externe ; It. Esterno; Sp. Externo; Lat. Externus, from Exterus, outward. Outward, foreign.

The exteriour ayre whyche compasseth the body beinge cold, causeth the heate to withdrawe into the inner partes. Sir T. Elyot. Castel of Helth, b. ii. What did Roboam to his calues, if this be not honouring, define mee what honouring is: what more exteriour honour can you deuise then this is?-Barnes. Workes, p. 341.

Fortunate I call them that haue goodnesse eyther of mind or of body, or externall: infortunate I call those, that lack any of thes thre.-Vives. Instruct. of Christ. Women, b.ii. c.4.

If (quoth I) I consider liuing creatures, which haue any nature to will and to nill, I find nothing, that without externe compulsion, forsake the intētion to remain, and of their owne accord hasten to distruction.

Boecius. Philosophical Comfort, p. 79. Fal. O she did so course o're my exteriors with such a greedy intention, that the appetite of her eye did seeme to scorch me vp like a burning glass.

Shakespeare. Merry Wiues of Windsor, Act i. sc. 3.

In speech of man, the whispering, which they call susurrus in Latine, whether it be louder or softer, is an interiour sound; but the speaking out, is an exteriour sound. Bacon. Naturall Historie, s. 188. And you haue slander'd nature in my forme Which howsoeuer rude exteriorly, Is yet the couer of a fayrer minde, Then to be butcher of an innocent childe.

Shakespeare. K. John, Act iv. sc. 2. For when my outward action doth demonstrate The natiue act, and figure of my heart In complement externe, 'tis not long after But I will wear my heart vpon my sleeue For dawes to pecke at.-Id. Merch. of Ven. Act i. sc. 1. It is certain, the end, unlesse it be in products meerly natural, does not take its estimate and degrees from the external means.-Bp. Taylor. Great Exemplar, pt. ii. s. 10. For divinity never knew any other vicious restraining the

spirit, but either suppressing those holy incitements to vertue and good life, which God's spirit ministers to us externally, or internally, or else a forbidding by publick

authority the ministers of the word and sacraments, to speak such truths as God hath commanded, and so taken away the liberty of prophesying.

Bp. Taylor. On Set Forms of Liturgy, s. 126.
All which is done, I say, by enlarging those simple ideas
we have taken from the operations of our own minds, by re-
flection; or by our senses, from exteriour things, to that
vastness to which infinity can extend them.
Locke. Of Hum. Underst. b. ii. c. 24. s. 1

But Fortune's gifts if each alike possest,
And each were equal, must not all contest?
If then to all men happiness was meant,
God in externals could not place content.

Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. 4. Supremacy cannot be an absolute or essential character in the divine nature, because it is a relative term, and only supposes, that when God has made any thing, he has a right of dominion over it, but it does not follow, that if he had never proceeded to make any thing, or to operate externally, this attribute could in a proper sense have belonged to him. Fiddes. Theologia Speculativa, p. 98.

What though the sword lay treach'rous at my side?
Sure, guilt could never want the craft to hide!
The spots of bloody circumstance explain,
That inward truth fears no exterior stain.

Brooke. Constantia.

I have hinted above, that few churches present an exterior and interior equally finished; in reality, one-half of the great churches in Italy are left in a very imperfect state with regard to the outside.-Eustace. Italy, vol. i. Prel. Disc.

These qualities of the mind, like the features of the face, are more prominent and conspicuous in southern countries, and in these countries perhaps the traveller may stand in more need of vigilance and circumspection to guard him against the treachery of his own passions, and the snares of external seduction.-Cogun. Passions, vol. i. Prel. Disc.

The next circumstance to be remarked, is, that whilst the cavities of the body are so configurated as externally to exhibit the most exact correspondency of the opposite sides, the contents of these cavities have no such correspondency. Paley. Natural Theology, c. 11. Pressure or resistance necessarily supposes externality in the thing which presses or resists. A. Smith. On the External Senses.

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Fr. Exterminer; It. Esterminare; Sp. ExtermLat. Exterminare, e terminis finibusque profligare, (ex, and terminus, a bound or limit; Gr. Tepuwv, TEрμovos.) See DETERMINE.

EXTERMINATORY.

To drive out or expel, from the bounds or limits, from the land, country or territory; to root out or eradicate; to utterly destroy.

No doubte, but the towne of Bruges must nedes fall in ruyne and vtter extermination.-Hall. Hen. VII. an. 5.

By the chacing the Britons out of England into Wales, their language was wholly exterminated from hence with them, and by the successive incursions and invasions of the Saxons, Danes, and Normans, the English language grew a kind of mixture of them all, which yet in process of time hath been so much varied, that the English that was written in the time of Henry I. is not now intelligible.

Hale. Origin. of Mankind, p. 163.

It is the custom of kings to impute all misfortunes to their servants that chance in their affairs, and to attribute the good success unto themselues: and this makes them very easily incline to the extermination of them, of whom report is made, that they have not done that which was committed to their charge.-North. Plutarch, p. 1227.

Sil. Whereuer sorrow is, reliefe would be.
If you doe sorrow at my grief in loue,
By giuing loue, your sorrow and my griefe
Were both extermin'd.

Shakespeare. As You Like It, Act iii. sc. 5. They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion, warning the whole church to reject and disavow him [Paulus Samosatenus.]-Barrow. Of the Pope's Supremacy.

The Spaniards, as they pretend, conscious of their own inability to occupy the vast regions which they had discovered, and foreseeing the impossibility of maintaining their authority over a people infinitely superior to themselves in number, in order to preserve the possession of America, resolved to exterminate the inhabitants, and by converting a great part of the country into a desert, endeavoured to secure their own dominion over it.

Robertson. History of America, b. viil. Indeed we should be mutually justified in this exterminatory war upon each other, full as much as you are in the unprovoked persecution of your present countrymen, on ac count of the conduct of men of the same name in other times.-Burke. On the French Revolution.

Against this new, this growing, this exterminatory system, all these churches have a common concern to defend themselves. Id. Letter to Richard Burke, Esq.

EXTINCT, v.
EXTINCT, adj.
EXTINCTION.
EXTINCTURE.
EXTINGUISH, V.
EXTINGUISHABLE.
EXTINGUISHER.

EXTINGUISHMENT.

Gr. Er-ew, pungere.

Etymology requires Ex-stinct. Fr. Esteindre; It. Estinguere; Sp. Extinguir; Lat. Exstinguere, exstinctum; pungendo delere, to erase with the point, (see EXPUNGE;) from ex, and stinguere ; See DISTINGUISH.

To put out; erase or obliterate; to put out or to quench: to annul or anhihilate; to abolish; to destroy.

Whiche bryngeth forthe the charettes and horses, the host and the power, that they may fal aslepe and neuer ryse, and be extincte, lyke as tow is quenched.-Bible, 1551. Is. c. 43.

Nowe ah lasse howe is this doctrine to praye obscured and extincted vtterly with praying to the dead with a false faithe with so many mediators.-Joye. Expos. of Daniel, c. 12.

From thence came theire latter kynges, whose lynage the power of the Romaynes long after did extincte. Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 225.

For Jhon Capgraue saithe, that Ethelredus the abbot of Reinall, not only by it abated thardent heates of his flesh, but extinguished also the flames of all other vices.

Bale. Englishe Votaries, pt. ii.
As in the sacrament the visible element is not extinguished
by the presence of Christes most precious body, no more is
Christes humanitie by his Godhode.

Bp. Gardner. On Transubstantiation, fol. 142.
Great Joue, Othello guard,

And swell his saile with thine owne powerfull breath,
That he may blesse this bay with his tall ship,
Giue renew'd fire to our extincted spirits.

A hollow chrystal pyramid he takes,
In firmamental waters dipt above;
Of it a brode extinguisher he makes,
And holds the flames that to their quarry strove.
Dryden. Annus Mirabilis, s. 281.

If age of ministers is then the test,
And, as of wines, the oldest are the best,
Let's try and fix some era, if we can,
When good ones were extinct, and bad began.
Jenyns. Horace, Ep. 1. b. ii.

A scene where Virtue sickening dies,
Where Vice to dark extinction flies,
And spurns the future day.

Mickle. Odes. Knowledge, Ode 1.

O that some Angel's more than magic art
Would kindly tear the hermit from this heart!
Extinguish every guilty sense, and leave
No pulse to riot, and no sigh to heave.

Cawthorn. Abelard to Eloisa.

If more you wish,

His Cyclops shall bestir
Their brawny stumps, and for thy sake,
Of Pinchbeck's own mixt-metal make
A huge extinguisher.

Mason. Ode to Mr. Pinchbeck.

By way of extinguishment: as if my tenant for life makes
a lease to A for life, remainder to B and his heirs, and I
release to A, this extinguishes my right to the reversion.
and shall enure to the advantage of B's remainder as well
as A's particular estate.—Blackstone. Com. b. ii. c. 20.
Etymology requires Ex-stirp.
Fr. Extirper It. Estirpare;
Sp. Extirpar; Lat. Ex-stirp-
are, to root out, (ex, and stirps, the root.)
To root out or eradicate;

EXTIRP, v.
EXTIRPATE, V.
EXTIRPA'TION.

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to exterminate;

Shakespeare. Othello, Act ii. sc. 1. utterly to erase; to remove, to destroy, all traces
or vestiges of.

The memoriall thereof farre surpassing all the treasures in the world, for a time through malice mai be couered, but neuer suppressed nor extincted: but as fire long hid, shall in the end breake out into great flames, and for euer remain in perpetual memorie.-Holinshed. Cong. of Ireland, c. 16.

Yet though these men against their conscience strive,
There are some sparcles in their flinty breasts,
Which cannot be extinct, but still revive;
That though they would, they cannot quite be beasts.

Davies. Immortality of the Soul, s. 30. R. 2.

Divers of their doctrines, such as, the sleep, and natural mortality of the soul, the utter extinction, and annihilation of the wicked after the day of judgment, are very cbnoxious to philosophy and reason.-Glanvill, Ess. 5.

Did we think their souls vanisht into air (as that heathen poet profanely expresseth it) and their bodies resolved into dust, without all possibility of reparation, we might well crie out our eyes for the utter extinction of those we loved; but if they do but sleep, they shall do well. Bp. Hall. Balm of Gilead. What breast so cold that is not warmed here? O cleft effect! cold modesty, hot wrath, Both fire from hence and chill extincture hath.

Shakespeare. Lover's Complaint.

Since those fair tables, where
The law was writ by death, now broken are,
By death extinguisht is that star, whose light
Did shine so faithfull, that each ship sayld right
Which steer'd by that.-Habington. Castara, Eleg. 7. pt. ii.

Nor would I, you should melt away yourselfe

In flashing brav'rie, least while you affect

To make a blaze of gentrie to the world,

A little puffe of scorne extinguish't it,

And you be left, like an unsav'ry snuffe,
Whose propertie is only to offend.

B. Jonson. Every Man in his Hum:ur, Act i. sc. 1. The old heroes in Homer dreaded nothing more than water or drowning; probably upon the old opinion of the fiery substance of the soul onely extinguishable by that element.-Brown. Urne Burial, c. 1. p. 4.

For when death's form appears, she [the wicked soul] feareth not

An utter quenching or extinguishment; She would be glad to meet with such a lot, That so she might all future ill prevent.

Davies. Immortality of the Soul, s. 30. R. 4. The two former [distance and order] are perhaps no more necessary than the things themselves, i. e. Take away the things: and their respective order and distance, as well as the measure whereby we computed that order and distance, may cease and be extinct.-Law. Enquiry. Of Space, c. 1.

By his own blood he cancels the original covenant, and purchases a new one full of grace and mercy; freeing us from the whole of Adam's curse, viz. death and utter extinction-Law. Theory of Religion, pt. ii.

When lo! the burning fire that shone so bright,
Flew off, all sudden, with ertinguish'd light,
And left one altar dark. a little space,

Which turn'd self-kindled, and renew'd the blaze.
Dryden. Palamon & Arcile.

VOL. I.

Neither haue ye any care (we are enformed, to extirpe
and plucke the same vp by the rootes [sc. wild cockle from
the pure wheate.]
State Trials. Pope's Bull. Wickliffe, an. 1383.

He thought it best to make a peregrinatio, and take his
progresse into ye other quarters of his realme, yt he might
wede, extirpate, and purdge the myndes of me spotted and
cotaminate with the cōtagious smoke of dissencion, and
preuy faccions.-Hall. Hen. VII. an. 1.

By the means of certayne abbottes and ignorant prestes
[they were] not a litle stirred and prouoked for the suppres-
sion of certain monasteries, for the extirpacion and abho-
lishyng of the byshoppe of Rome.-Id. Hen. VIII. an. 28.

Sophy. Then to extirp you all ye Persian powers,
Assist our courage, make the conquest ours.

Heywood. Foure Prentices of London, Act i. sc. 1.
And from black cinders, and rude heaps of stones,
Shall gather up the martyr's sacred bones;
And shall extirp the pow'r of Rome again,
And cast aside the heavy yoke of Spain.

Drayton. Lady J. Gray, to Lord Dudley.
(Nothing is permanent within this round,)
One age is now, another that succeeds,
Extirping all things which the former breeds.

Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. ii. 8. 2.

Luc. Yes, in good sooth, the vice is of a great kindred, it is well allied, but it is impossible to extirpe it quite, Frier, till eating and drinking be put downe.

Shakespeare. Measure for Measure, Act iii. sc. 2.

If we could do that,
France were no place for Henryes warriers,
Nor should that nation boast it so with vs.
But be extirped from our prouinces.

Id. 1 Pt. Hen. VI. Act iii. sc. 3.

I, for all horrid practises, am fit:
To wrap this roofe in flame, and him in it:
His eyes, his tongue, or what did thee enforce,
T'extirp: or with a thousand wounds divorce
His guiltie soule.-Sandys. Ovid. Metam. b. vi.

The Carthaginians taking indignation and great disdaine,
that the people of Rome should require all those to be yielded
unto justice (as offenders and malefactors) that had besieged
Saguntum, have thereupon passed the river Iberus, with this
intent, even to destroy and extirp the Roman name, and to
set free the whole world out of their servitude and bondage.
Holland. Livivs, p. 409.

This King of Naples being an enemy
To me inveterate, hearkens to my brother's suit,
Which was, That he in lieu o' th' premises,
Of homage, and I know not how much tribute,
Should presently extirpate me and mine
Out of the dukedome, and confer fair Millaine
With all the honours on my brother.

Shakespeare. Tempest, Act i. sc. 2.

And albeit, great was their malice, yet was their nobilitie so honourable and great; that by no meanes, doo what they could, was the same to be extirpated or rooted out. Holinshed. Conquest of Ireland, c. 16.

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Together with the oyle of this unction, here was a charge of revenge; a revenge of the blood of the prophets, upon Jezebel; of wickednesse and idolatry, upon Ahab neither was the extirpation of this lewd family fore-prophesied onely to Jehu, but injoyned.—Bp. Hall. Cont. Jehu with Jehoram.

What think you of extirpation, and rooting up? even this you shall hear denounced, and executed on those that cast a faire shadow, either as on degenerous or unprofitable trees, either for bad fruit, or none at all, cut it down, why cum bereth it the ground?-Hammond. Works, vol. iv. p. 612. When lawless men their neighbours dispossess, The tenants they extirpate or oppress, And make rude havoc in the fruitful soil, Which the right owners plough'd with careful toil. Dryden. Suum Cuique. And that our liberties might be extirpated at once, and we become tenants at will to the king, that rare invention of ship-money was found out by Finch. Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. i. p. 5.

All who pleaded for the bill [against occasional conformity] did in words declare for the continuance of the toleration; yet the sharpness with which they treated the dissenters in all their speeches, showed as if they designed their extirpation.-Burnet. Own Time, an. 1702.

The vicious are the disorderly members of a moral state; and were not the supreme governor more mild than his representatives, they would be immediately extirpated from the society they offend and insult.

Cogan. Ethical Treatise on the Passions, Disc. 2. c. 2. The case with our historian stood thus: His country was now in great distress; its constitution overturned, and his brethren in apparent danger of utter extirpation. Warburton. Divine Legation, b. v. s. 4. EXTISPICIOUS. Cotgrave has " Extipiof the entrails of beasts." Lat. Extispicium, from cine, divination or soothsaying by the inspection exta, and specere, to look into the entrails.

Thus hath he deluded many nations in his augurial and extispicious inventions; from casual and uncontrived contingencies divining events succeeding.

EXTO'L, v.
EXTO'LLER.
EXTO'LLING, n.
EXTO'LMENT.

turn up,-Tooke.)

Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. i. c. 11.

Fr. Extoller; It. Estollere; Lat. Extollere, to raise out, (ex, and tollere, from the A. S. Til-ian, to lift up, raise or

To raise or lift up, to elevate, to exalt; to raise or elevate, (sc.) by praise or commendation; and thus, to praise, to commend highly.

But this kinge shall do what himself lysteth. And shall extoll and preferre himself aboue all the Goddis or aboue the most highe God.-Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 12.

If man should then waxe proude and glorye (as of himself) and extolle his owne deuotion in these ministeries, suche men should bewraye their own noughtye hypocrisye, and yet therby empayre not the very dignitie of the mynesterie, ne the very true frute and effecte therof.

Bp. Gardner. On the Presence in the Sacrament, p. 54.
That was the righteous virgin, which of old
Liv'd here on earth, and plenty made abound;
But after wrong was lov'd, and justice solde,
She left th' vnrighteous world, and was to heauen extold.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, c. 7. Of Mutabilitie.

All spirits, that arround their raies extoll,
Possesse each point of their circumference
Presentially. More. Song of the Soul, pt. iii. c. 2. s. 28.
Chlo. Poets? they did not talk of me since I went, did
they?
Cri. O yes, and extoll'd your perfections to the heavens.
B. Jonson. Poetaster, Act ii. sc. 2.
Whatsoever hath been said or written on the other side,
all the late statutes, which inflict capital punishment upon ex-
tollers of the Pope's supremacy, deniers of the King's supre-
macy, Jesuits and seminaries, and other offenders of that
nature, have for their principal scope, not the punishment
of the error of conscience, but the repressing of the pearl
[peril] of the state.

Bacon. Charge upon the Commission for the Verge. These praisings and extollings, said the other, do more properly belong to you than ine, for truely you may give two to one, to the best and skilfullest brayer in the world. Shelton. Don Quixote, vol. iii. b. ii. c. 24.

In the verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of great article.-Shakespeare. Humlet, Act v. sc. 2.

And some men say that great delight have we,
To be for truth extoll'd, and secrecy.

Dryden. The Wife of Bathes Tale..

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