E'MPHASIS. EMPHA'TICK. Fr. Emphase; It. Enfasi; Sp. Emphasis; Lat. EmphaEMPHATICAL. sis; Gr. Eupuois, from ev, EMPHATICALLY. and paris; from pa-ew, dicere, to speak. Est (says Minshew) cum altior subest intellectus, ac major efficacia et energia, quam verba prima fronte præ se ferunt. "Fr. Emphase,-a strong and vigorous pronunciation of a word, (syllable or letter,) an express or earnest signification of an act, a significant force in either," (Cotgrave.) Ham. What is he, whose griefes Beare such an emphasis? whose phrase of sorrow Coniures the wand'ring starres, and makes them stand Like wonder-wounded hearers? Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act v. sc. 1. One thing only remains to be duely considered of us; and that is, that all the ministeries, gifts, operations, doe flow from one and the same Spirit, Lord and God; this Trinity from an Unity; wherein yee easily discover the emphasis to lie, not so much in the author as in the identity. Bp. Hall. Noah's Dove. Aristotle was wont to say that Homer was the only poet who made and devised words that had motion, so emphaticall they were and lively expressed. Holland. Plutarch, p. 970. Theodorat and P. Galasius spake more emphatically, even to the nature of things, and the very philosophy of this question.-Bp. Taylor. A Dissuasive from Popery, pt.i. s. 5. We are sinners, and so afflictions are our wages, our due; and there is no reasonable man that will repine at just and equal dealing; there is a special emphasis to this purpose in the very phrase of that text forecited: A man for the punishment of his sins, implying, that if he be but a man, if he have but rational principles, he must needs acknowledge the equity of being punished for sin. Wilkins. Natural Religion, b. i. c. 17. Some understood the reduplication of those words, yea, yea, nay, nay, after a more emphatical manner; viz. that cur words must not only agree with the truth of the thing, but with the conception and sense of our minds; and so the greatest candour and sincerity is commanded by them. Stillingfleet, vol. ii. Ser. 5. By what words now could God more emphatically signify to his people, that it was his pleasure, that all sorts of men among them, unlearned as well as learned, should acquaint themselves with the word of God, than he hath done by those expressions? (in Deut. vi.)-Sharp, vol. vii. Ser. 4. The voice all modes of passion can express, VOL. I. Templum tenebit. The expression is emphatical; as intimating to us and prefiguring the secret purpose of the Eneis, which was, in the person of Æneas, to shadow forth and consecrate the character of Augustus. Hurd. Notes on the Epistle to Augustus. It is hoped the reader will pardon the verb saccharize, as no other so emphatically expressed the author's meaning; for some chymists define sugar to be a native salt, others a soap.-Granger. The Sugar Cane, b. i. Note. war. Those burthens which must be inevitably borne in a long I speak it emphatically, and with a desire that is should be marked, in a long war; because, without such a war, no experience has yet told us, that a dangerous power has ever been reduced to measure or to reason. Burke. On a Regicide Peace. EM-PHRE'NSY, v. To affect with phrensy or madness; to madden. Is it a ravenous beast, a covetous oppressour? his tooth like a mad dog's envenomes and emphrensies? Bp. Hall. St. Paul's Combat. EM-PIERCE, v. (Also Im.) Menage-to beat through; Skinner-to strike through; and Minshew-to bore through, to penetrate. The God himselfe did pensiue seem and sad, And hong adowne his head as he did dreame⚫ For, priuy loue his breast empearced had; Ne ought, but deare Bisaltis, ay could make him glad. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 9. The thought whereof empearc't his heart so deep, That of ne worldly thing he toke delight. Id. Ib. b. iv. c. 12. On his pale cheek the signs of dread imprest, July the emperour of Rome by his day com, Id. p. 106. To God aloone oure savyour bi Thesu Crist oure Lord be and now and into alle worldis of worldis, amen. glorie and magnyfiying, empire and power bifore alle worldis, Wiclif. Judas, c. 2. And Jhesus seide unto hem, whos is this ymage, and the writing above? They seiden to him the emperouris, thanne he seiden to hem therfore yielde ye to the emperour, the thingis that ben emperouris; and to God, the thingis that ben of God.-Id. Matthew, c. 22. The land, which warlike Britons now possesse, Massinger. The Virgin Martyr, Act i. sc. 1. Maximian, as emperiall and Warner. Albion's England, b. ix. That soueraigne queene, that mighty emperesse, Whose glory is to ayde all suppliants pore, And of weake princes to be patronesse, Chose Arthegall to right her to restore; For that to her he seem'd best skil'd in righteous lore. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 1. Look on England, The empress of the European isles, And unto whom alone ours yields precedence: When did she flourish so, as when she was The mistress of the ocean, her navies Putting a girdle round about the world Massinger. The Maid of Honour, Act i. sc. 1. If vice had once an ill name in the world, was once generally stigmatized with reproach and ignominy, it would quickly lose its empire, and thousands that are now slaves of it, would become proselytes to virtue.—Sharp, vol. ii. Ser. 1. Here men are forc'd at a venture, to be of the religion of the country; and must therefore swallow down opinions, as silly people do empirick's pills, without knowing what they are made of, or how they will work, and have nothing to do but believe that they will do the cure. Locke. On Hum. Underst. b. iv. c. 20. To diet a man into weakness and languor, afterwards to give him the greater strength, has more of the empirick than the rational physician. Burke. On a Regicide Peace, Let. 1. The progress of empirical fame and success is easily traced, though not easily retarded.-Knox, Ess. 38. He [Radcliffe] knew, it is true, that experience, the safest guide after the mind is prepared for her instructions by previous institution, is apt, without such preparation, to degenerate to a vulgar and presumptuous empiricism. Id. Ib. EM-PLA'STER, v. Fr. Emplastre; It. To form or mould, to fashion, fit or adapt, (sc. a prepared substance;) to spread over or cover with such substance. The spirits are sodainly moved both from vapours and passions, which work strangely upon them: and the parts by bathes, unguents, or emplasters, which in like manner make way by sodaine impressions. Bacon. On Learning, by G. Wats, b. iv. c. 2. Of emplastration or grafting with the scutcheon.--The manner of grafting by way of emplastre or scutcheon, may seeme also to have come from inoculation: and this devise agreeth best with those trees that have thicke barkes, as namely fig-trees.-Id. Ib. b. xvii. c. 16. EM-PLEAD. See IMPLEAD. In the passages EMPLOY, v. (Or Im.) Fr. Employer; The ships and the stocks araced with the flood moten assemblen, and the waters ymedled, wrappeth or emplieth many fortunell happes or manners.-Chaucer. Boecius, b. v. They determyned to make promysion of all thynges meete for their voyage; as namely in byinge of all the cartes and caryage beastes they could come by, in employing all their Golding. Cæsar, fol. 2. Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 109. Daniel. Civil Wars, b. viii. Remember I am she who sav'd your life, Dryden. The Wife of Bath's Tale. But I shall not only consent, but article, that not alone all Boyle. Works, vol. vi. p. 38. By a short contract you are sure of making it the interest of the contractor to exert that skill for the satisfaction of his employers.-Burke. On the Economical Reform. Had Jesus, on the contrary, made choice of the great and learned for this employment, they had discredited their own success; it might have been then objected, that the gospel had made its way by the aid of human power or sophistry. Warburton. Divine Legation, b. iv. s. 6. EM-PLUNGE, v. "Fr. Plonger,-to plunge, dive, duck, run over head and ears, thrust far into," (Cotgrave.) Soone as the cruell flames yflanked were, Out of the flames, which he had quench't whylere Parde as faire as ye his name emplastre, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 10. He [Solomon] was a lechour, and an idolastre, Chaucer. The Marchantes Tale, v. 10,171. Being emplaistered with brimstone and rosin, upon fistulaes or such hollow and blind ulcers, it draweth out the filth and corruption that lieth rankling and festering within. Holland. Plinie, b. xx. c. 6. To give or administer such potion or poison; to After the same sort, if it be spread and emplaistered, it apply, or in any way affect, with any thing poison ous or venomous. allayeth the swelling.-Id. Ib. b. xx. c. 14. Lima hire husbond on an even late Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Prologue, v. 6333. It is pride, avarice, or voluptuousness, which fills our streets, our emporiums, our theatres, with all the bustle of business and alacrity of motion. Knox. On the Lord's Supper, s. 21. EM-POVERISH, v. (Also anciently, and EMPOVERISHING, N. now more commonly, Im.) To reduce to poverty; to bring to want; to deprive of wealth or fruitfulness. And so they overran the marches of Rouerque, of Quercy, and of Lymosyn, and dyd great domage, and enpouerysshed greately the countrey, for nothynge helde agaynste them. Berners. Froissart. Cronycie, vol. i. c. 251. I thanked her moche of her most noble offer Muche robberye me dude aboute in euerych toun, And bounde men & emprisonede.-R. Gloucester, p. 463. When thou wer arested, and first time emprisoned, thou were loth to change thy way, for in thy hart thou wēdest to aue bin there thou sholdest. Chaucer. Testament of Loue, b. ii. Let them inhybyte his trueth, and forbyd his gospell, take, poyle, enprison, exyle, mourther, hange, heade, drowne, & orne, yet wyll Christ haue the victory ouer them, though it therwyse seme to the fleshelye chyldre of darkenesse. Bale. Image of both Churches, pt. i. And pointing forth, "Lo, yonder is" (said she) By that which lately hap'ned, Vna saw, Ib. Ib. EMPTY, v. EMPTY, adj. A. S. Empt-ian, vacuare, to put out, to throw, cast, or clear EMPTIER. out; to draw out or exhaust; E'MPTINESS. to drive out or expel; to cast ut or eject; (sc.) that which is within; that hich is contained; the contents; to cause to be become, to make or render, void or vacant; to vacuate. The adjective is applied metaphorically: having othing in it, (sc.) no brains, no sense, no thought r reflection; vacant, vain, unsubstantial, unsolid, nproductive, unfruitful. For sikirly, whan I was borne, anon Chaucer. The Reves Prologue, v. 3891. What maner man that casteth him therto, If he continue, I holp his thrift ydo; So help me God, therby shal he nat winne, Chaucer. The Chanones Yemannes Tale, v. 16,209. All people in comparyson of hym are rakened as nothynge, yea vayne vanyte and emptynesse.-Bible, 1551. Isaye, c. 11. The moderation of slepe must be measured by helthe and syckenes, by age, by time, by emptyness or fulnesse of the body, & by naturall complexions. Sir T. Elyot. Castel of Helth, b. ii. For the Lord hathe turned away the glory of Jaakób, as the glorie of Israel: for the emptiers haue emptied them out and marred their vine branches. Geneva Bible. Nahúm, ii. 2. The palmer seeing his left empty place, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 8. Upon the head he lent so violent a stroke, But more she maruailed, that no footings trace, For this th' avenging power employs his darts, EM-PY'REUM. Gr. Eμ-TUρ-Ew, incendere, EMPY'REAL. from ev, and up, fire. Fr. EMPYRE AN. Ciel empyré; It. and Sp. Cielo empireo; Lat. Cælum empyrium; Gr. Ovpavos europos, igniferum celum. The supreme heaven, says Minshew, is so called, the place and abode of God and the blessed, not because it contains any Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 11. clearness, and, as it were, fiery brightness or fire within itself, but on account of its excelling splendour. Dryden. Homer. Iliad, b. i. A word may be of frequent use and great credit with se For Piers love the Plouhman that empugnede ones Leste they shoulde gather thys people, not for the kynges sauegarde whome no man empugned, but for theyr destruccion.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 41. EM-PURPLE, v. (Or Im.) Lat. Purpura; To die, stain or imbue, tinge or steep, in purple. G. Fletcher. Christ's Triumph on Earth. go with one leg (whereupon it took the name, quasi Eumuoa :) for it has one foot, or leg of brasse, the other of an asse; and therefore it is named also ανακωλη, ΟΙ ονοσκέλες. Holland. Plutarch. Explanation of Obscure Words. -Tho' roseate morn And this is not a severe, fearful and austere conceit, as these imagine, who traduce and slander divine Providence, to make it odious and terrible, as folk do by little children, whom they use to scare with the fantastical illusion, Empusa, as if it were some infernal Fury, or tragical vengeance seizing upon them.-Id. Ib. p. 491. Empusa; a certain vain and fantasticall illusion, sent by the Deuill, or, as the Painims say, by Hecate, to fright infortunate people. It appears in divers forms, and seems to And to this it were well if the exorcist would rail upon, mock and jeer the Devil; for he cannot endure a witty and a sharpe taunt, and loves jeering and railing, no more than he loves holy water, and this was well tried of old against an Empuse that met Apollonius Tyanæus at Mount Caucasus, against whom he rail'd and exhorted his company to do so-Bp. Taylor. A Dissuasive from Popery, pt. i. c. 2. § 10. Shall every fowl the waters skim, E. More. Fables for the Ladies, Fab. 7. To oppose or contend against, to resist or with-it stand. Neither can any boast of a knowledge, which is depurate from the defilement of a contrary, within this atmosphear of flesh; it dwels no where in unblended proportions, on this side the empyreum. Glanvill. The Vanity of Dogmatizing, c. 7. So God's throne is the most glorious heaven, the heaven of heavens; for you see that the heaven and earth passe away, yet God's throne remain'd still, and he sitting on it; neither sinne nor dissolution may reach to the empyreall heaven the seat of God.-Bp. Hall. A Farewell Sermon, &c. Far above all heavens. In the exposition of which words is strange to consider the puerile fondness of some expositors; who will needs have the sense of them to be, that Christ ascended above the empyrean heaven, the highest of all the rest, and there sits enthroned in the convexity and outside of it, like a man sitting upon a globe. South, vol. ii. Ser. 1. Permit me only to take notice, that this was the second species of the epic poem; our own countryman, Milton, having produced the third; for just as Virgil rivalled Homer, so Milton was the emulator of both. Warburton. The Divine Legation, b. ii. s. 4. On thee Sylvanus, thee each rural God, On thee chief Ceres with unfailing love And fond distinction, emulously gaze. Granger. The Sugar Cane, b. iv. EMULGENT. Lat. Emulgere, emulgens, to milk out; e, and mulg-ere, to milk. A. S. Melc-an. "Fr. Emulgent, veine emulgente; one of the two main branches of the hollow vein, which goes to the reins, and there is divided into divers others; some call it the pumping vein," (Cotgrave.) The watery matter the two kidnies expurgate, by those emulgent veines, and vreteres the emulgent draw this superfluous moisture from the bloud; the two ureteres convey it to the bladder.-Burton. Anat. of Melanc. p. 18. In the same person, though he had been as good a fellow all his life as any of the college, yet he had but one kidney, but that was recompensed by its unusual greatness; and being divided into several lobes, it had likewise two emulgent arteries, and two emulgent veins, and two ureters. Boyle. Works, vol. vi. p. 471. We see the blood, or part of the blood, after it had passed through and undergone the action of the gland, coming from it by an emulgent vein or artery, i. e. by another pipe or conduit. Paley. Natural Theology, c. 7. EMULSION. Fr. and Sp. Emulsion; It. Emulcione; Lat. Mulc-ere; A. S. Milesc-ian, to soften, to soothe. Cotgrave calls it, "Any kind of seed, &c. brayed in water, and then strained to the consistence of an almond milk; also, any kind of cream or milkie humour." Look now to your aviary; for now the birds grow sick of their feathers; therefore assist them with emulsions of the cooler seeds bruised in their water as melons, cucumbers, &c. Evelyn. Kalendarium, (June.) And so to the small tuberous roots of gramen amygdalosum which they also roast, and make an emulsion of, to use in broaths as a great restorative.-Id. Acetaria. EMUNCTORY. Fr. Emunctorie; It. Emuntorio; Lat. Emunctoria, from Emungere, (e, and mung-ere; Gr. Μυ-ειν, μυξ-ειν, μυγ-είν, to close or press close; μvoo-eiv, mucum (nasi) exprimere.) "An emunctorie,-certain kernally places in the body, by which the principal parts void their superfluities, as under the arme-pits for the heart, and under the eares for the braine, and groin for the liver," (Minshew.) (e.g.) Include and intend; the former perhaps never at all, the latter never by modern authors written with e. In others, the e or i seems indiscriminate; as en or inclose, en or increase. In others again the e seems to prevail, as enforce, encroach. It would be an advance towards uniformity if in all unsettled cases the e were steadily observed. See Wallis, p. 132. En, in Composition, was used by our old writers more lavishly than now. Skelton appears to have wantoned in such compounds. In the very short space of six pages, in Mr. Chalmer's edition of the Poets, the following occur; of which (as they have not been met with elsewhere) the bare enumeration must suffice; viz. encraumpysh (ie. encramp,) ensowk, enhack, enhard, encrisp, engalary, enlosenge, enpave, envaut, enbulion, englase, encrown, entacle, ensand, enturf, engrape, engush, enswymm, ensilure, (ensilver,) englister, enverdure, enbrethe, en-beauty, enbud, enpicture, enflore, envive. En,-termination. (See AN.) En affixed as a termination, denotes, addition, in other cases besides those specified under an, as to length-en, to add length; to bright-en, to heart-en, to add brightness or heart. May not this en or an, with the Lat. article is or us, Gr. os, (the northern as or es) post-fixed, have furnished the Lat. termination-an-us, humanus; en-us, terrenus; in-us, caninus, and, by contraction, the participial termination ans, ens; from the plural of which, in tia, are our terminations ance, ence? EN-ABLE. (Also In.) Goth. Abal, roENABLEMENT. bur, strength. To give force, power, strength; to strengthen, to empower. Clerely to answere ye would aske long space, Chaucer. The Remedie of Loue. And therefore, I haue so farre as my slender practice hath enabled me, enterprised to ioigne an acquaintance betweene logike, and my countrimen: from the which they haue beene heretofore barred by tongues vnacquainted. Wilson. The Arte of Logike, Epistle. Now may I have your license, as I know With willingness I shall, to make the best Of the commodities, though you have execution, And after judgment, against all that's mine, As my poor body, I shall be enabled To make payment of my debts to all the world, And leave myself a competence. Massinger. The City Madam, Act iv. sc. 1. This is the property of religion, that it can enable a man to be content with his estate, and to live comfortably without such things as others know not how to want. Wilkins. Natural Religion, b. ii. c. 4. If exercise raises proper ferments in the humours, and promotes the circulation in the blood, temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigour.-Spectator, No. 195. These honours she [Venice] acquired by her commerce and by her fleets, which enabled her often to dispute, and frequently to share the empire of the seas with her adversary. Eustace. Italy, vol. iii. c. 14. EN-ACT, v. (Also In.) To put in act or ENACTOR. action; to perform; to do or cause, to require, to do, to require or determine to be done; to determine or decree to be law. Such indignacion he had against the pope, by reason of the scisme whiche than was at Rome, that he in his parlamente enacted it, that none of hys subiectes should thytherward repayre vnder forfaiture of bodye and goodes, or els vnder paine of perpetuall exyle. Bale. English Votaries, pt. ii. But from cloudy pillar then Sir P. Sidney, Psalm 185. Euen so may wee iudge of the ceremoniall lawe, that although it appertaine nothing to vs, to keepe such ceremenies as Moses and Aaron haue enacted, yet, it is needfull that there bee an order in all our doings. Wilson. The Arte of Logike, fol. 15 The king enacts more wonders than a man, Daring an opposite to every danger: His horse is slaine, and all on foot he fights, Seeking for Richmond in the throat of death. Shakespear. Richard III. Act v. se. 4. streame Vsde to give all their cattell drinke; they there enambusht them: And sent two scouts out. EN-A'MEL, v. ENA'MEL, n. ENA'MELLER. Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. xviii. Explor'd th' embattled van, the deep'ning line, Th'enambush'd phalanx, and the springing mine; Then, pale with horrour, bent the suppliant knee, And heav'd the sigh, and drop'd the tear for thee! Cawthorne. An Elegy to the Memory of Capt. Hughes. (Also In.) Fr. EsmailIt. Sp. Esmalter; Smaltare; Ger. Schmetzen; ENA MELLING, N. Dut. Smelten, from the A. S. Mylan or meltan, to melt. In English, also, we have "to smelt," i. e. to melt. And thus, to enanel is To fix colour, or a variety of colours, by melting in fire. ; To enamel, (met.) is, to diversify, to variegate, to spot, to deck with spots or variations of colour. ter Nor no beauty doth so enamour our eies, and taketh & holdeth, as honestie should both take and lead with her, if shee were opened & shewed vnto vs. Vives. Instruction of a Christian Woman, b. i. c. 11. What trust is in these times ? They that when Richard liu'd would have him dye, Are now becom enamour'd on his graue. Shakespeare. 2 Part Hen. IV. Act i. sc. 3. Some also, from the help of this, (spiritual discerning faculty,) spy out that true loveliness and beauty in the ways of God, as to enamour them to a practice of them, and that even with delight, while others, void of this power, do indeed see and behold those ways, but see no beauty in them, why they should desire them.-South, vol. vii. Ser. 13. What though your beauty bless the faithful swain, No matter what the object is, whether business, pleasures, or the fine arts; whoever pursues them to any purpose, must do so con amore; and enamoratos, you know, of every kind, are all enthusiasts.-Fitzosborne, Let. 1. EN-ARCHED. To bow or curve towards a circular shape; to make, form or fashion in the See IN-ARCH. shape of a bow, or curve. And in a porche, bilt of square stones Lidgate. The Story of Thebes, pt. ii. E-NARRATION. Lat. Narratio, from Narrare, i. e. Gnarum reddere, to make knowing, to cause to know. A telling or communication of any thing unknown: and. generally, a tale, a relation; a detail of facts or circumstances. As for Sainct Augustine (ad Bonifacium) thauctor shall perceiue his faulte at Martyn Bucers hand, who in his epistel dedicatorye of hise narracions of the gospels, reber seth his mynde of Sainct Augustine in this wise. Bp. Gardner. Of the Presence in the Sacrament, fol. 43. This book did that high-priest embezell, wherein was contained their genealogies to the dayes of Phineas, together with an historicall enarration of the years of their generation of life.-Bp. Hall. Defence of the Remonstrance. E-NA'SCENT. Lat. Enasci, (e, and nasci, E/NATE. nascens.) Rising, springing forth; at the instant of its birth. Your grene eyen frowning and not glad, Your chekes enbolned like a melow custard. Chaucer. Another Balade. EN-CAGE, v. (Also In.) To shut in and fasten, to confine, to imprison. When he rises. and in a mocke of those ambushes which the Azzahites layd for him, he carries away the gates wherein they thought to haue encaged him. Bp. Hall. Cont. vol. i. p. 976. Samson's End. EN-CA'LENDER, v. To enter into, to record or register in a calendar. Of which we find these four have been for saints preferr'd, (And with their leader still do live encalender'd.) Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 24. EN-CAMP, v. (Also In.) To place or ENCAMPING, n. lodge, to station or form into, ENCAMPMENT. camps; to fix or pitch the camps, (or lodgments for an army;) to lodge or dwell in camps. Uercingetorix by easy and small iorneies folowed after Cesar, and chose a place to encampe in, fortified wyth woodes and maris groundes, aboute xv. miles distante from Auaricum.-Golding. Cæsar, fol. 185. They wanted not in anye place either ground for their encamping or victualles for their feeding, whereby their small nomber was alwayes sufficient whe they came to fyght. Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 25. Encamping both their powers, divided by a brook, Thereby the prudent earl, this strong advantage took. Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 22. He saw by the last, that he had of his forces sent into Britaine, that the French knew well enough how to make warre with the English; by not putting things to the hazard of a battaile, but wearing them by long sieges of townes, and strong encampings.-Bacon. Hen. VII. p. 99. And scarce any nation, though their enemies, but served to improve them [the Romans] in their encampments, weapons, husbandry, or something else which was useful to them.-Grew. Cosmo Sacra, b. iii. c. 3. Here interwoven branches from a wall, Guardian, No. 173. Hoole. Orlando Furioso, b. xiv. Its form [a camp] was an exact quadrangle; and we may calculate, that a square of about seven hundred yards was sufficient for the encampment of twenty thousand Romans: though a similar number of our own troops would expose to the enemy a front of more than treble that extent. Gibbon. The Roman Empire, c. 1. contain, enwrap, (sc.) as in a case. EN-CASE, v. (Also In.) To hold, surround, Yes, and can weep too: Beaum. & Fletch. The Night-Walker, Act i. sc. 1. Of deathful arts expert, his lord employs The ministers of blood in dark surprise; And twenty youths in radiant mail encas'd, Close ambush'd nigh the spacious hall he plac'd. Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. iv. EN-CAUSTICK. Fr. Encaustique; Gr. Ev, and KavσTIKOS, from Kai-ev, to burn. That which can or may burn. Evelyn speaks of encaustic as a kind of enamel; A certain enSee his Sculptura, caustic, or black enamel. p. 258 and 277 in Upcott's edition of his miscellaneous works. Lysippus also in his painted tables that he made at Ægina, used to entitle them with this inscription, AudioS EVEKavσev, i. Lysippus painted this with fire which veriely he would never have done, if the art of painting so with fire (called encaustice) had not been before devised. Holland. Plinie, b. xxxv. c. 11. To hide or be hid, (sc.) as EN-CAVE, v. in a cave. Do but encave yourselfe And marke the fleeres, the gybes, and notable scornes That dwell in euery region of his face. Shakespeare. Othello, Act iv. sc. 1 |