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Fr. Expedier: It. Espedire; Sp. Expedir; Fr. Expedient, It. Espediente; Sp. Expediente; Lat. Exped-ire. Expedire dicitur, qui pedem retentum liberat; he is said, expedire, who sets at liberty a foot for the present instant, to expediate their business.

held fast. See DESPATCH.

EXPEDIATE, v. EXPEDIENT, adj. EXPEDIENT, n. EXPEDIENCE. EXPEDIENCY. EXPEDIENTLY. EXPEDITE, v. EXPEDITE, adj. EXPEDITELY. EXPEDITION. EXPEDITIOUS. EXPEDITIOUSLY.

To free, disentangle or disenthrall, from that which holds fast or reEXPEDITIVE, adj. tains; to free from hinderance, entanglement or im-pe-diment; to set free for motion, for flight; and thus, to set forward, give a quick or ready way; give speed or despatch to; to quicken, to hasten, to accelerate.

Expedient, the n. is a quick, prompt, ready way or means; sometimes, a by-way or path, taken instead of, or to avoid the direct way; and thus, a shift or device, an evasion.

Expedient, the adj.-quick, ready, easy, apt, convenient, suitable, fit, or proper.

An expedition,-a march or journey, or voyage, requiring promptness or despatch; and thus, Shakespeare uses expedience. He also uses expedent as expeditious is now commonly used.

Burnet uses the v. Ex-pede, opp. to im-pede. Neuerthelesse I tell you the truthe, it is expedient for you that I go awaye, for yf I goo not away, that Comforter wyll not come vnto you.-Bible, 1551. John, c. 16.

She committed the same woorke to Maister Frauncisce Malet, doctour in the facultie of diuenitee, with all celeritee and expedicion to be finished and made complete. Udal. To Queen Catherine. Whe winter time was expired, cotrary to his custome, he goeth into Italy with as much expeditio as might be. Golding. Cæsar, fol. 270. He landed his armye in the hauen of Tarent, leadynge with him his two yonger sonnes, Helen and Alexander, to beare him company in his farre expedition.-Id. Justine, fol. 85. Now for the rebels, which stand out in Ireland, Expedient manage must be made, my liege, Ere further leysure yield them further meanes For their advantage, and your highnesse losse. Shakespeare. Rich. II. Act i. sc. 4.

She [the mother of Cleomenes] wrote unto him, that he should not spare to do any thing that should be expedient for the honour of Sparta, without fear of displeasing Ptolemy, or for regard of an old woman and a young boy. North. Plutarch, p. 675. And the Roman religion is commodious in nothing more, than in finding out expedients either for removing quite away, or for shifting from one to another, all personal punishments.-Brevint. Saul & Samuel, c. 21.

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and to cast my order into such a mold as may soonest bring the subject to the end of his journey.

Bacon. Speech, on Taking his Place in Chancery.

When any see was vacant, a writ was issued out of the

chancery for seising on all the temporalities of the bishoprick, and then the king recommended one to the Pope, upon which Burnet. Hist. of the Reformation, b. i. Great alterations in some kind of merchandise may serve

his bulls were expeded at Rome.

Sir E. Sandys. State of Religion.

Prerogative being wound up to this height in England, and the affairs of the Church tending to a conjunction with the See of Rome, before any farther progress should be made therein here, it was thought expedient that the pulse of Scotland should be felt, and they perswaded or compelled to the like conformity.-Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. i. p. 6. Like tricks of State, to stop a raging flood, Or mollify a mad-brain'd senate's mood: Of all expedients never one was good.

Dryden. The Hind & the Panther. But it is a very easy matter in most cases to determine concerning the expedience of actions; that is to say, whether

it be best and fittest for a man to do them or no. Sharp, vol. i. Ser. 7. From a wise consideration of humane affairs, and obvious events here, we may collect the reasonableness, the equity, the expediency, the moral or prudential necessity of a future judgment, according to which men shall receive due recompences, answerable to their demeanour in this life. Barrow, vol. ii. Ser. 32.

The Earl of Ormond being willing to see his relations and his estate in those parts, as also to expedite that service, accepted their invitation, and marched thither with about 3 or 4000 horse and foot for his guard. Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. i. p. 139.

One observation, relating to the motion of the bones in their articulations, I shall here add, That is, the care that is taken, and the provision that is made, for the easie and expedite motion of them.-Ray. On the Creation, pt. ii.

Speech is a very short and expedite way of conveying their thoughts one to another.-Locke. Hum. Underst. b. ii. c.19.

Who would not more readily learn to write fairly and expeditely by imitating one good copy, than by hearkening to a thousand oral prescriptions.--Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 2.

He sends them forth amongst wolves: a hard expedition, you will say, to go among wolves; but yet much harder to convert them into sheep.-South, vol. i. Ser. 3.

No man will or can be easily convinced, that the latter short expeditious way of appealing to the Bishop of Rome in all controverted cases, was ever so much as thought of when the Bible was written.-Sharp, vol. vii. Ser. 4.

The tincture of the glass of antimony is very tedious to make, being to be thrown with spirit of vinegar, I once made a menstruum to draw it more expeditiously. Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 11. What sure expedient then shall Juno find, To calm her fears, and ease her boding mind? Philips. The Fable of Thule. And some, perhaps, who, busy as they are, Yet make their progeny their dearest care, (Whose hearts will ache, once told what ills may reach Their offspring, left upon so wild a beach) Will need no stress of argument t' enforce Th' expedience of a less advent'rous course. Cowper. Tirocinium. Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice; nor admits of the carnival of a single day, for the indulgence of falsehood, profligacy, fraud, and cruelty.

Cogan. Ethical Treat. On the Passions, pt. ii. Dis. 2. c. 1. Your Imperial Majesty's just influence, which is still greater than your extensive power, will animate and expedite the efforts of other sovereigns.

Burke. Letter.to the Empress of Russia. In unequal conflict joins Th' unwieldy spear that loads the borderer, With the broad targe and expeditious sword. Smollett. The Regicide, Act iv. sc. 2. The surgeon boasted that he could not only shave, which on the continent is a surgical operation, but that he could dress hair neatly and expeditiously; nor had he any objection to cleaning of shoes, or acting as a menial servant, till some opportunity should offer of improving his condition.

Cogan. Ethical Treat. On the Passions, pt. i. Note A.

EXPEDITATE, v. Į Lat. Expeditare, (ex, EXPEDITATION. and pede, the foot,) a word, says Minshew, usual in the forest, signifying to cut out the balls of the dogg's foot, for the preservation of the king's game. Euerie one that keepeth any great dogs not expeditated forfeiteth to the king three shillings, four-pence, (Crompton, Jurisd. p. 152.) Manwood says, that the three claws of the fore-foot on the right side shall be cut off by the skin; and Rastell, citing Charta de Foresta, c. 6, describes the lawing of dogs in the same

manner.

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That had of yore
Their scepters stretcht from east to westerne shore,
And all the world in their subiection held;
Till that infernall fiend with foule vprore
Forewasted all their land, and them expeld.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 1.
From Cuneglasus he cometh to the foresaid Maglocunus,
whome he nameth the Dragon of the Isles, and the expeller
of manie tyrants.-Holinshed. England, vol. i. b. v. c. 17.
Those wrongs the king had from the earl receiv'd,
Expuls'd the kingdom only by his pow'r,
Ev'n to the height his pow'rful hand up-heav'd
For full revenge in this unhappy hour.

Drayton. The Miseries of Queen Margaret. Alans. For euer should they be expuls'd from France,, And not have title of an earldome here.

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

Then came the destruction of the inhabitantes: first at the comming of the Danes, and now in the expulsing of the English by the Normans.-Stow. Harold, 1066.

The assembly shall lay a considerable pecuniary mulct upon any one who shall be proved to have entered so far into a quarrel as to give uncivil language to his brother professor and that the perseverance in enmity shall be punished by the governors with expulsion.-Cowley. Ess. College.

EXPEND, v. EXPENDITURE. EXPE'NSE. EXPE'NSEFULL. EXPENSEFULLY. EXPE'NSELESS. EXPENSIVE. EXPENSIVELY. EXPENSIVENESS.

We had much ado to kindle a fire this evening, our huts were but very mean and ordinary, and our fire small, so that we could not dry our cloths, scarce warm ourselves, and no sort of food for the belly; all which made it very hard with us. I confess these hardships quite expell'd the thoughts of an enemy.-Dampier. Voyages, an. 1681.

But we apprehending such extraordinary expulsions as had been lately used, to be extremely hazardous to the publick safety, made it our endeavour to keep those from a readmission who might necessitate another occasion of using the like remedy.-Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. i. p. 253.

For the expulsive faculty being oppressed by too great a repletion, stirs up so much of perspiration as without the staticks no one would believe.-Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 112. Had not sedition's civil broils Expell'd thee from thy native Crete, And driven thee with more glorious toils Th' Olympic crown in Pisa's plain to meet.

West. Pindar. Olympic Odes, Ode 12. One great object is pursued throughout the Scriptures, from the expulsion of our first parents out of Eden, to the last of the prophets of Israel, namely, the coming of a great person under various titles; the deliverer from death and destruction; the promised seed that was to come of the woman, not of man, and therefore of a virgin.

Sharpe. Defence of Christianity, pt. ii. c. 1. Prophets. It. Spendere; Lat. Expend-ere, to weigh out, (ex, and pendere, to weigh.)

To weigh; and thus, to balance, examine, consider; and as money in ancient times was not counted but weighed, the Lat. Expendere, Eng. Expend, is,—

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Where now is seen, saith Camden, the fair habitation of Sir William Sidley; a learned knight painfully and expensefully studious of the common good of his country. 1

Weever. Funeral Monuments, p. 316.

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

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

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

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

West. Pindar. Olympic Odes, Ode 2.
Whoever doubted the truth, or the insignificance of these
propositions? what do they prove? that war is expensive,
and peace desirable.-Burke. On a late State of the Nation.

He knows that our expenditure purchased commerce and conquest theirs acquired nothing but defeat and bankruptcy.-Burke. On a late State of the Nation. 1

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

EXPERIENCE, v.
EXPERIENCE, n.
EXPERIENCER.
EXPERIENT.
EXPERIMENT, v.
EXPERIMENT, n.
EXPERIMENTAL.
EXPERIMENTALLY.
EXPERIMENTALIST.
EXPERIMENTA'RIAN, adj.
EXPERIMENTA'RIAN, n.
EXPERIMENTA'TOR.
EXPERIMENTER.
And thus, Experience is—
Knowledge or wisdom acquired or gained by
repeated trial, by frequent and repeated proof;
by practice.

Experience, though non auctoritee
Were in this world, is right ynough for me
To speke of wo that is in mariage.

Fr. Expérimenter, expérience, n; It. Esperienza, esperimento; Sp. Esperiencia, experimento; Lat. Experiri, (ex, and periri; lent, yet the way they took was not like to bring much ad

But besides this, the modern experimenters think, that the philosophers of elder times, though their wits were excel

Gr. Пeip-av, to try.)

vantage to knowledge, or any of the uses of human life; being for the most part that of notion and dispute, which still runs round in a labyrinth of talk, but advanceth nothing. Glanvill, Ess. 3.

To try, prove, essay; to make trial; to search or enquire, to learn or ascertain by trial, by repeated trials; by practice.

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

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. i.
Of all the which (for want there of mankind)
She caused him to make experience
Vpon wild beasts, which she in woods did find,
With wrongfull powre oppressing others of their kind.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 1.
When the consuls in this so great a broile and storme of
outrage came in, to prevent further mischiefe, they knew
soone by experience how slenderly guarded against danger,
the majestie of rulers is, where force is wanting.
Holland. Livivs, p. 82.
Especiallie such as doo dwell in the marches, by reason of
their continuall wars they are very valient, bold, and of
great experiences.-Holinshed. Conq. of Ireland, b. ii. c. 40.
For long experienc'd wo well witnesse beares,
That teares cannot quench sighes, nor sighes drie teares.
Stirling. Avrora, s. 2.
And, a curious experiencer did affirm, that the likeness of
any object (but particularly he often observ'd it of an iron
grate,) if it be strongly inlightned, will appear to another, in
the eye of him that looks strongly and steadily upon it till he

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be dazel'd by it; even after he shall have turn'd his eyes
from it.-Digby. Of Bodies, c. 8.

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

Age. But pray you, tell me,
Why is the Prince, now ripe and full experient,
Not made a dore [door] in the State!
Nis. Because he is honest.

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

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

Hale. Origin. of Mankind, p. 8.

Vpon his card and compass firmes his eye,
The masters of his long experiment,
And to them does the steady helpe apply,
Bidding his winged vessell fairely forward fly.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 7
Call me a foole,

Trust not my reading, nor my obseruations,
Which with experimental seale doth warrant
The tenure of my booke.

Shakespeare. Much Adoe about Nothing, Act iv. sc. 1.

2. Some things were discovered experimentally, though perchance not intentionally, or by design in the first discovery. Hale. Origin. of Mankind, p. 153.

He who is bigot enough to believe these things, must bid adieu to the natural rule, of reasoning from analogy; must run counter to the maxim of common sense, That men ought to form their judgments of things unexperienced from what they have experienced.-Guardian, No. 27.

Wilkins. Natural Religion, b. i. c. 1. Certain it is, from the united testimony of many of the most experienced followers of Christ, that these abstinences and sour rudiments of self-denial have a signal influence, both to the pronouncing of mercies, and to the removal of impending judgment.-South, vol. ix. Ser. 5.

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

Dampier. Voyages, vol. ii. pt. iii. p. 50. This difference of intention, and remission of the mind in thinking, with a great variety of degrees between earnest study, and very near minding nothing at all; every one, I think, has experimented in himself.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Boyle. Works, vol. v. p. 29. Another thing then, that qualifies an experimentarian for the reception of a revealed religion, and so of Christianity, is, that an accustomance of endeavouring to give clear explications of the phænomena of nature, and discover the weakness of those solutions, that superficial wits are wont to make and acquiesce in, does insensibly work in him a great and ingenuous modesty of mind.-Id. Ib. p. 537. The examination of some of them was protracted for many days, the nature of the experiments themselves, and also the design of the experimentators requiring such chasms. Id. Ib. vol. iv. p. 507. Those that undertook the religion of our Saviour upon his preaching, had no experience of it: They were to be the first experimenters themselves.-Sharp, vol. i. Ser. 6.

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Burnet. Own Time, an. 1711. The Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq. was a person no less zealously solicitous for the propagation of true religion, and the practice of piety and virtue; than diligent and successful in improving experimental philosophy, and enlarging our knowledge of nature.-Clarke. On the Evidences, Pref.

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

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

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

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And whan that I have told thee forth my tale

Of tribulation in mariage,

Of which I am expert in all min age,

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

Id. The Wif of Bathes Prologue, v. 5756. Yea, the wise and expert man will aske of themselues, how hangeth this to the purpose? To what ende do ye speake it?-Wilson. Arte of Rhetorique, p. 89.

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

Spenser. Shepheard's Calendar. November.

At length, by both allow'd, it to this issue grew, To make a likely choice of some most expert crew, Whose number coming near unto the other's dow'r, The English should not urge they were o'er-borne by pow'r. Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 4. What pilot so expert but needs must wreck, Embarqu'd with such a stears-mate at the helm. Milton. Samson Agonistes. Int. What say you to his expertnesse in warre? Par. Faith, sir, b'as led the drumme before the English Tragedians.-Shakes. All's Well that Ends Well, Act iv. sc. 3.

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Minshew says, To pacify God by sacrifice and 1. e. impiè agere, and expiare, are contraries. prayer; to purge and cleanse by sacrifice.

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

Your Ambrose appoynteth to your prestes the judical expiacios, for companieng wyth theyr wyues. Bale. Apology, fol. 74.

How many heathen lawgivers have subscribed to Moses? Arabians, Grecians, Romans, yea very Gothes, the dregs of barbarisme, have thought this wrong not expiable, but by bloud.-Bp. Hall. Epistles, Dec. 3.

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

Bp. Taylor. Dissuasive from Popery, pt. ii. b. ii. § 2. For malefactors, whilst that their misdeeds Repentance expiats, made happy so, Do (as from beds) to heaven from scaffolds go. Stirling. Domes-day. The Tenth Houre. This glorious prerogative hath betonie, that looke about be in the protection of the Gods, and safe ynough for comwhat house soever it is set or sowed, the same is thought to mitting any offence, which may deserve their vengeance, and need any expiation or propitiatorie sacrifice. Holland. Plinie, b. xxv. c. 8. When intelligence came of the cruel execution and bloodie massacre committed in Argos, wherein the Argives caused to be put to death 1,500 of their own citizens, they caused in a solemn procession, and general assembly of the whole city, an expiatory sacrifice to be carried about, that it might please the Gods to avert and turn away such cruel thoughts from the hearts of the Athenians.-Id. Plutarch, p. 303.

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

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

It was a common and received doctrine among the Jews, that, for some sins, a man was pardoned presently upon his repentance; that other sins were not pardoned, 'till the solemn day of expiation, which came once a year: That other sins, which were yet greater, were not to be expiated but by some grievous temporal affliction. Sharp, vol. iii. Ser. 11.

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

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

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

Knox. On the Lord's Supper, s. 22. The depth of contrition was manifested by the value of the sacrifice; until at length human sacrifices, and the oblation of their beloved offspring, on the altars of their gods, being the most valuable offerings that could possibly be made, were considered as the most expiutory.

Cogan. Theological Disquisitions, Dis. 2. EXPILATE. Fr. Expile; Lat. Expilare, (ex, and pilare,) from the Gr. Пλovv, densare, to thicken, to stow thick or close.

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

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After that manie dayes were expyred, when sorow had losened his tong, he [Herodes] spake of nothing but Pacorus, he thought he sawe Pacorus, he thought he heard Pacorus, he woulde talke as though he had ben with him.

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

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

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

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

Rom. I feare too early, for my mind misgiues, Some consequence yet hanging in the starres, Shall bitterly begin his fearefull date With this night's reuels, and expire the tearme Of a despised life.-Shakespeare. Rom. & Jul. Acti. sc. 4.

Saul is fain to be struck down in the place; a kind of λeоuxia or swooning fit, an expiration of the animal man, necessary to so great a change.

Hammond. Works, vol. iv. p. 478.

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

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

A fishing out.

All thy worth, yet, thyselfe must patronise By quaffing more of the Castalian head; In expiscation of whose mysteries,

Our nets must still be clogg'd with heavie lead
To make them sinke and catch.

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Chapman. On B. Jonson's Sejanus. Fr. Explaner; Sp. ExplaLat. Explanare, to smoothen, (ex, and planus, smooth; Gr. Пλa, tabula plana.) To smoothen or make smooth, or plain; to declare or make clear, evident or manifest; to

EXPLAIN, v. EXPLAINABLE. EXPLANATION. EXPLANATORY.

EXPLAINER.

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

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

Evelyn. Letter to the Secretary of the Royal Society.

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

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

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

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

Locke. Vindication of Christianity, &c.

And therefore, unless he can show his authority to be the sole explainer of fundamentals, he will in vain make such a pudder about his fundamentals. Another explainer, of as good authority as he, will set up others against them.-Id.Ib.

The ill effects that were like to follow on those different explanations [of the Trinity] made the bishops move the king to set out injunctions requiring them to see to the repressing of error and heresy with all possible zeal, more particularly in the fundamental articles of the Christian faith and to watch against and hinder the use of new terms or new explanations in those matters.-Burnet. Own Time, an. 1698.

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

Lloyd. Epistle to Mr. Colman.

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

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

Eustace. Tour in Italy, vol. i. Pref. p. ix. EXPLAT. Ex, and plat; Fr. Plesser, to plash, to bow, to fold or plait, (young branches) one within another, (Cotgrave.)

To unfold, to explain.

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

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

Boetius. Philosophicall Comfort, b. iii. p. 51. We must suppose her [the Church] to be a building, and that she relies upon the foundation, which is therefore supposed to be laid before, because she is built upon it, or (to make it more explicate) because a cloud may arise from the allegory of building and foundation, it is plainly thus.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

his explicator, Lucretius, and his advancer, Gassendus, how

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

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

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

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

Bp. Taylor. Liberty of Prophesying, § 12. Then her infallibility, as well Where copies are corrupt or lame, can tell; Restore lost canon with as little pains, As truly explicate what still remains. Dryden. Religio Laici. He himself allows that the air has a spring, whereby it is able, when it has been violently compressed, to recover its due extension; the manner whereof, if he will intelligibly explicate his adversaries, will have no great difficulty to make out the spring of the air.-Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 134.

Lastly; if whatever arises not from, and is not explicable by, the natural powers of body be a miracle; then every animal motion whatsoever is a miracle.

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

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

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

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

The baptismal creed, I say, must of necessity contain

explicitly in it at least all the fundamentals of faith.

Clarke. On the Trinity, Introd.

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

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

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

Knox. Christian Philosophy, s. 53.

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

EXPLODE, v. EXPLO'DER. EXPLO'SION. EXPLOSIVE.

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- Him old and young Exploded and had seiz'd with violent hands, Had not a cloud descending snatch'd him thence Unseen amid the throng.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. xi.

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

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Except a man be born again of the Spirit, we read in express language, "he cannot see the kingdom of God," no words can be more explicit. They mean regeneration by ki grace, or what else do they mean.

PLAUD.

To clap off, to drive off by clapping of hands; to go or cause to go off, to expel,—with much noise; and, generally, to expel or eject, to reject; to drive out (of use or practice.)

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Whose stately cities in the dark abrupt Swallow'd at once, or vile in rubbish laid, A nest for serpents; from the red abyss New hills, explosive, thrown.

Fr. Exploder, explauder; Lat. Explodere, to clap out or off, (ex, and plaudere, to' clap or beat.) See AP

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In vulgar nuptials
Priority is exploded, though there be
A difference in the parties; and shall I,
His vassal, from obscurity raised by him

To this so eminent light, presume t' appoint him
To do, or not to do, this, or that.

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

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

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

South, vol. vi. Ser. 7. When to the startled eye the sudden glance Appears far south, eruptive through the cloud; And following slower, in explosion vast, The thunder raises his tremendous voice.

Thomson. Summer.

Id. Liberty, pt. i.
Among th' obscene, the violent, the false,
Of justice and religion, truth and peace,

He [Enoch] spake exploded, and from menac'd death
To God withdrew.
Glover. The Athenaid, b. XXX.

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Of Cæsar raptur'd with the charm of rule
And boundless fame; impatient for exploits,
His eager eyes upcast, he soars in thought
Above all height.

EXPLORE, v. EXPLORATE, V. EXPLORATION. EXPLORA'TOR. EXPLORATORY. EXPLO'REMENT. EXPLORER.

Dyer. The Ruins of Rome.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reliquiae Wottonianæ, p. 496.

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

It is surely very rare, as we are induced to believe from some enquiry of our own: from the trial of many who have been deceived; and the frustrated search of Porta, who,

upon the explorement of many, could scarce finde one.
Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 13.
What cause so'er the wond'rous motion guide,
And press
the ebb, or raise the flowing tide,
Be that your task, ye sages, to explore,

Who search the secret springs of nature's power.
Rowe. Lucan, b. i.

The use lately proposed of our hydrostatical way of exploration suggests to me another, which may be deduced from it as a kind of corollary.-Boyle. Works, vol. v. p. 463.

Hark, his hands the lyre explore!
Bright-ey'd Fancy, hovering o'er,
Scatters from her pictur'd urn

Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
But ah! 'tis heard no more. Gray. Progress of Poesy.

The ordinary course of exchange being an indication of the

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

likewise be an indication of the ordinary course of their exports and imports; as these necessarily regulate that state. Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. iv. c. 3. The two principles being established, however, that wealth consisted in gold and silver, and that those metals could be brought into a country which had no mines, only by the balance of trade, or by exporting to a greater value than it imported; it necessarily became the great object of political œconomy to diminish as much as possible the importation of foreign goods for home consumption, and to increase as much as possible the exportation of the produce of domestic industry. Id. Ib. b. iv. c. 1.

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

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

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

EXPO'SE, v. EXPO'SEDNESS. EXPO'SING, n. EXPOSITION. EXPO'SITOR. EXPO'SITORY. To put or lay out; put or EXPO'SURE. lay open, (sc.) to view, for EXIO UND, V. examination; to make clear EXPO'UNDER. or plain, to explain; to make known, to show openly, discover, disclose, make manifest. Expound, is, by general usage, to lay open, (sc.) the meaning; and thus, to explain, to interpret.

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

Amonges other Daniel was on,

That was the wisest child of everich on,
For he the dremes of the king expouned,
Wher as in Caldee clerk ne was ther non,
That wiste to what sin his dremes souned.

Chaucer. The Monkes Tale, v. 14,162.
But sothly yet, some expositours
Grounding hem vpon old aucthours,
Saine that Cadmus the famous old man, &c.
Lidgate. The Story of Thebes, pt. i.
And than he speaketh of that and this,
And maketh his exposicion
After his disposicion,

Of that he wold.

Gower. Con. A. b. iv.

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

And also the tongue, which is rayson's exposytour, is depriued of his office as it appereth in them whyche are drunke, and them whyche haue greuous peynes in theyr head, procedynge of replecion.

Sir T. Elyot. The Castel of Helth, b. iii.

A definition is a perfect sentence, whereby the verie nature of the thing itselfe, is set fourth and expounded. Wilson. The Arte of Logike, fol. 37.

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

Shakespeare. Troil. & Cress. Act i. sc. 3.
This was that woman, this that deadly wound,
That Proteus prophecide should him dismay;
The which his mother vainely did expound
To be heart-wounding loue, which should assay
To bring her sonne into his last decay.

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

Holland. Ammianus, p. 220.

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

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

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

Burnet. Own Time, an. 1683.

Nobody can think that any text of St. Paul's epistles has two contrary meanings, and yet so it must have to two

different men, who taking two commentators of different sects for their respective guides into the sense of any one of the epistles, shall build upon their respective expositions. Locke. Paraphrase on St. Paul's Epistles, Fref.

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

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

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