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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,
That marks the proper word with proper stress.
But none emphatic can that actor call,
Who lays an equal emphasis on all.—Lloyd. The Actor.

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.
Much was the knight empassion'd at the scene,
But more his blooming son, whose tender breast
Empierced deep with sympathizing teen,

On his pale cheek the signs of dread imprest,
And fill'd his eyes with tears.-West. On Education.

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July the emperour of Rome by his day com,
And moche del of the world bi Est to hys power nom.
R. Gloucester, p. 44.
He louede hyr, vor heo was eyr and hey empresse.
He brogte hyre tho to Engelond about Myclmasse.
Id. p. 440.
Of the kynde blod of emperie ther nys bi leued non,'
Ne that by kynde were emperour, non bute thou on.
Id. p. 85.
Sythen with grete nobley, and with mykelle honoure,
Henry toke his way toward the emperoure,
To the emperour of Almayn his douhter to gyue.
R. Brunne, p. 105.
And Malde the emperice is heyre of Henry right.

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.

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The land, which warlike Britons now possesse,
And therein haue their mighty empire rays'd,
In antique times was salvage wildernesse,
Vnpeopled, unmannur'd, vnprov'd, vnprays'd.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 10.
When I am scorch'd
With fire, can flames in any other quench me?
What is her love to me, greatness, or empire,
That am slave to another, who alone
Can give me ease or freedom?

Massinger. The Virgin Martyr, Act i. sc. 1.
As though she meant her emperey to have,
Where e'en but lately she beheld her grave.
Drayton. The Barons' Wars, b. i.

Maximian, as emperiall and
As valerous as any,
With Brittish armour did subdue
Both kinges and kingdomes many.

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.

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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.
EMPLA'STER, n.
Empiastro; Sp. Emplas-
EMPLASTRA'TION. tro; Lat. Emplastrare;
Gr. Εμ-πλαστρον, from Εμπλασσ-ειν, adformare ;
ev, and wλaσo-ew, fingere, formiare ;

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
editions read Em.
there quoted from Glanvill and Dryden, some

EMPLOY, v.
EMPLOY, n.
EMPLOYEDNESS.
EMPLOYER.
EMPLOYMENT.
To enfold, to enclose, to
entangle, to engage, to occupy, to busy, or be
busy, to exercise.

(Or Im.) Fr. Employer;
It. Impiegare; Sp. Emplear;
from the Lat. Implic-are, to
infold.

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
ground to tyllage, to the intent to furnyshe theim selues
abundantly with corn in their iourneye.

Golding. Cæsar, fol. 2.
He answered, that when he beheld the boorde, whereupon
Darius was wont to eate, employed to so base an use, he
could not beholde it withoute great griefe.

Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 109.
During which time that he did there remaine,
His studie was true justice how to deale,
And day and night employ'd his busie paine
How to reforme that ragged common-weale.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 12.
So that now he must
Bring home his reputation cauteris'd
With idle mark of serving others' lust
In frivolous employments; or be sent
Out of the way, to colour some intent.

Daniel. Civil Wars, b. viii.

Remember I am she who sav'd your life,
Your loving, lawful, and complying wife:
Not thus you swore in your unhappy hour,
Nor I, for this return, employ'd my power.

Dryden. The Wife of Bath's Tale.
The honours and the burthens of great posts and employs,
as they were joined together at the first, so were they de-
signed never to be separated.-Atterbury, vol. ii. Ser. 3.

But I shall not only consent, but article, that not alone all
ceremony and compliment, but even all rhetoric and care of
language, may be severally banished from our commerce;
as things yet less consistent with chemistry and employed-
ness, than with freedom, or with truth.

Boyle. Works, vol. vi. p. 38.
Poets we prize, when in their verse we find
Some great employment of a worthy mind.
Waller. Of Divine Poesy.

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,
Malbecco, seeing how his loss did lye,

Out of the flames, which he had quench't whylere
Into huge waues of griefe and jealousie
Full deepe emplonged was.

Parde as faire as ye his name emplastre,

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 10.
EM-POISON, v. (Or Im.) Fr. Empoi-
EMPOISONER, sonner, poison; Sp. Em-
EMPOISONING, n.
ponzonar, ponzona; from
EMPOISONMENT. the Lat. Potio, a drink;
simply a drink; then applied to a medicated
drink or draught, and thence to one in which some
venomous, mortal, or deadly ingredient is mixed;
and further, to other venomous, mortal, or deadly
substances.

He [Solomon] was a lechour, and an idolastre,
And in his elde he veray God forsoke.

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
Empoysoned hath, for that she was his fo.

Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Prologue, v. 6333.
Or dedly empoyson, like the sugar white.
Id. The Remedie of Loue.

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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.

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I thanked her moche of her most noble offer
Affiaunsynge her myne hole assuraunce
For her pleasure to make a large profer
Empryntyng her wordes in my remembraunce.
Skelton. The Crowne of Laurell.
This maketh me not a littell to muse thinkynge that you
haue some other preuie imaginacion, by love or by grudge,
engraved and emprinted in your harte.
Hall. Rich. III. an. 2.

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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)
"The brazen towre, in whiche my parents deare
For dread of that huge feend emprison'd be."
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 10.

By that which lately hap'ned, Vna saw,
That this her knight was feble and too faint:
And all his sinewes woxen weake and raw,
Through long emprisonment, and hard constraint.

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
Deth drow the tappe of life, and let it gon:
And ever sith so the tappe yronne,
Til that almost all empty is the tonne.

Chaucer. The Reves Prologue, v. 3891.
Hir chekes ben with teres wette,
And riuelyn, as an empty skyn,
Hangyng downe vnto the chyn.-Gower. Con. A. b. i.

What maner man that casteth him therto,

If he continue, I holp his thrift ydo;

So help me God, therby shal he nat winne,
But emple his purse, and make his wittes thinne.

Chaucer. The Chanones Yemannes Tale, v. 16,209.
Heere's hore aren shad ouertimeliche vpon my head: and
he slack skinne trembleth of mine empted body.
Id. Boecius, b. i.

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,
And his slowe eyes beguiled of their sight,
Woxe sore affraid, and standing still a space,
Gaz'd after him, as fowle escapt by flight.

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

Upon the head he lent so violent a stroke,
That the poor empty skull like some thin potsherd broke:
The brains and mingled blood were spirted on the wall.
Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 2.

But more she maruailed, that no footings trace,
Nor wight appear'd but wasteful emptinesse,
And solemne silence ouer all that place.

For this th' avenging power employs his darts,
And empties all his quivers in our hearts;
Thus will persist, relentless in his ire,
Till the fair slave be rendered to her sire.

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
veral authors, and be by them made use of as if it stood for
some real being; but yet if he that reads cannot frame any
distinct idea of that being, it is certain to him a mere empty
sound, without a meaning, and he learns no more by all that
is said of it, or attributed to it, than if it were affirmed only
of that bare empty sound.-Locke. Cond. of the Underst. s. 28.
Where cities stood,
Well fenc'd and numerous, desolation reigns,
And emptiness.
J. Philips. Blenheim.

For Piers love the Plouhman that empugnede ones
Alle kyne kunynges. and all kyne craftes
Saue love and leaute. and louhnesse of herte.
Piers Plouhman, p. 249.

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;
Gr. Пoppupa, which Martinius thinks is a Tyrian
word.

To die, stain or imbue, tinge or steep, in purple.
And ouer it his huge great nose did grow,
Full dreadfully empurpled all with bloud.
Spenser, Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 7.
Ouer the hedge depends the grasping elm,
Whose greener head, empurpuled in wine,
Seemed to wonder at the bloody helm.

G. Fletcher. Christ's Triumph on Earth.
Now shake the teeming trunk,
Down run th' empurpled balls, ambrosial fruit.
J. Philips. Cider, b. i.

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
Pour all her splendours on th' empurpled scene.
Warton. The Pleasures of Melancholy.
EM-PUSE. Gr. Εμπουσα, (έν, one, and πους,
a foot.) See the explanation by Holland.

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,
Because we geese are known to swim?
Humility they soon shall learn,
And their own emptiness discern.

E. More. Fables for the Ladies, Fab. 7.
EMPUGN, v. (Now Im.) Fr. Impugner; Lat.
Impugnare; (in, and pugn-are, from pugnus, the
fist;) eo quod principio homines pugnis confligere
solent, (Vossius.)

To oppose or contend against, to resist or with-it stand.

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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.

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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.
Thus stood th' angelic power, prepar'd for flight,
Then instant darted from th' empyreal height,
Direct to Lebanon his course he bent,
There clos'd his plumes, and made his first descent.
Hoole. Jerusalem Delivered, b. i.
From yonder realms of empyrean day
Bursts on my ear th' indignant lay:
There sit the sainted sage, the bard divine.
Gray. Ode for Music.

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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.)

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(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,
The matter is doubtfull and opinable
To assertain you I woll myselfe enable.

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
God did daigne to talk with men:
He enacting, they observing,
From his will there was no swerving.

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.

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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.

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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,
And in th' enamour'd heart like queens ye reign,
Yet in their prime does death the fairest kill,
As ruthless winds the tender blossoms spill.
Philips, Past. 4.

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
Full mightily enarched enuiron
Where the domes, and ples [pleas] of the toun
Were executed, and lawes of the king.

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.

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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,
And from the living fence green turrets rise
There ships of myrtle sail in seas of box;
A green encampment yonder meets the eye,
And loaded citrons bearing shields and speares.

Guardian, No. 173.
King Agremont his numerous foot had plac'd
In suburbs near; where part encamping fac'd
The threaten'd walls, far stretch'd from tower to tower
In that assault to prove his utmost power.

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:
But 'tis for you, that ever I believ'd you,
Tears of more pious value than your marriage;
You would encase yourself, and I must credit you,
So much my old obedience compels from me.

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

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