3. The act of pouring out words. Endless and senseless effusions of indigested prayers, oftentimes disgrace, in most unsumerable manner, the worthiest part of Christian duty towards God. Hooker. 4. Bounteous donation. Such great force the gospel of Christ had then upon men's souls, melting them into that liberal effusion of all that they had. Hamm. on Fundam. 5. The thing poured out. Purge me with the blood of my Redeemer, and I shall be clean; wash me with that precious effusion, and I shall be whiter than snow. K. Charles. Divers creatures sleep all the Winter; as the 2. Eminently bad; remarkably vicious. bear, the hedge-hog, the bat, and the bee; these This is the usual sense. all wax fat when they sleep, and egest not. Bacon's Natural History. EGE'STION. n. s. [egestus, Lat.] The act of throwing out the digested food at the natural vents. The animal soul or spirits manage as well their spontaneous actions as the natural or involuntary exertions of digestion, egestion, and circulation. Hale's Origin of Mankind. EGG. n. s. [œg, Sax. ough, Erse.] 1. That which is laid by feathered and some other animals, from which their young is produced. 2. An egg was found having lain many years at the bottom of a moat, where the earth had somewhat. overgrown it; and this cgg was come to the hardness of a stone, and the colours of the white and yolk perfect. Bacon. Fggs are perhaps the highest, most nourishing, and exalted of animal food, and most indigestible. Arbuthnot. The spawn or sperm of other creatures. Therefore think him as the serpent's egg, Which hatch'd, would, as his kind, grow mischievous. Shakesp. Ev'ry insect of each different kind, In its own egg, chear'd by the solar rays, Organs involv'd and latent life displays. Blackm. EFFUSIVE. adj. [from effuse.] Pouring 3. Any thing fashioned in the shape of an out; dispersing. The North-east spends its rage; th' effusive South Warms the wide air Thomson's Spring. EFT. n. s. [ereza, Sax.] A newt; an evet; a small kind of lizard that lives generally in the water. Peacocks are beneficial to the places where they are kept, by clearing of them from snakes, adders, and efts, upon which they will live. Mortim. Husb. The crocodile of Egypt is the lizard of Italy, Nicholas. and the eft in our country. EFT. adv. [ert, Sax.] Soon; quickly; speedily; shortly. Obsolete. Eft through the thick they heard one rudely rush, Down fell to ground, and crept into a bush, Fairfax. L'FTSOONS. adv. [eft and roon.] Soon afterwards; in a short time; again. An obsolete word; formed, as it seems, by the conjunction of two words of the same meaning. He in their stead eftsoons placed Englishmen, who possessed all their lands. Spenser's State of Ireland. Ffisoons the nymphs, which now had flowers their fill, Run all in haste to see that silver brood. Spenser. The Germans deadly hated the Turks, whereof it was to be thought that new wars should eftsoons ensue. Knolles's History. Eftsoons, O sweetheart kind, my love repay, And all the year shall then be holiday. Gay's Past E. G. [exempli gratia.] For the sake of an instance or example. EGER. n. s. [See EAGER.] An impetuous or irregular flood or tide. From the peculiar disposition of the earth at the bottom, wherein quick excitations are made, may arise those egers and flows in some estuaries and rivers; as is observable about Trent and Humber in England. Brown's Vulgar Errours. To EGEST. v. a. [egero, Lat.] To throw out food at the natural vents. egg. There was taken a great glass-bubble with a long neck, such as chemists are wont to call a philosophical egg. Boyle. To EGG. v. a. [eggia to incite, Islandick; eggian, Sax.] To incite; to instigate; to provoke to action: for this, edge is, I think, sometimes ignorantly used. Study becomes pleasant to him who is pursuing his genius, and whose ardour of inclination eggs him forward, and carrieth him through every EGLANTINE. n. s. [esglantier, Fr.] obstacle. Derham's Physico-Theology. species of rose; sweet-briar. A O'er-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk roses, and with eglantine. Shak. The leaf of eglantine, not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath. Shakesp. Cym. Sycamores with eglantine were spread, A hedge about the sides, a covering over head. Dryd. EGOTISM. n. s. [from ego, Lat.] The fault committed in writing by the frequent repetition of the word ego or I; too frequent mention of a man's self in writing or conversation. The most violent egotism which I have met with, in the course of my reading, is that of Cardinal Wolsey's; ego & rex meus, I and my king. Spect. EGOTIST. n. s. [from ego.] One that is always repeating the word ego, I; a talker of himself. A tribe of egotists, for whom I have always had a mortal aversion, are the authors of memoirs, who are never mentioned in any works but their Spectator. To EGOTIZE. v. n [from ego.] To talk Own. much of one's self. EGREGIOUS. adj. [egregius, Lat.] 1. Eminent; remarkable; extraordinary. He might be able to adorn this present age, and furnish history with the records of egregious exploits both of art and valour. Moore against Atheism. One to empire born; Egregious prince; whose manly childhood shew'd His mingled parents, and portended joy Unspeakable. We may be bold to conclude, that these last times, for insolence, pride, and egregious contempt of all good order, are the worst. Hooker's Preface Ah me, most credulous fool! Egregions murtherer! Shakesp. Cymbeline. And hence th' egregious wizzard shall foredoom The fate of Louis and the fall of Rome. Pope. EGREGIOUSLY. adv. [from egregious.] Eminently; shamefully. Make the Moor thank me, love me, and reward me, This water would have been locked up within the earth, and its egress utterly debarred, had the strata of stone and marble remained continuous. Woodward's Nat. Hist. EGRESSION. n. s. [egressio, Lat.] The act of going out. The vast number of troops is expressed in the swarms; their tumultuous manner of issuing out of their ships, and the perpetual egression, which seemed without end, are imaged in the bees pouring out. Pope. EGRET. n. s. A fowl of the heron kind, with red legs. Bailey. EGRIOT. n. s. [aigret, Fr. perhaps from aigre sour.] A species of cherry. We are not to value ourselves upon the merit of ejaculatory repentances, that take us by fits and L'Estrany. Philips To EJECT. v. a. [ejicio, ejectum, Lat.] An egregious and pregnant instance how far virtue surpasses ingenuity. starts. Woodward. 1. To throw out; to cast forth; to void. Infernal lightning sallies from his throat! Ejected sparks upon the billows float! Sandys. The heart, as said, from its contracted cave, On the left side ejects the bounding wave. Blackm. Tears may spoil the eyes, but not wash away the affliction; sighs may exhaust the man, but not eject the burthen. South. 2. To throw out or expel from an office or possession. It was the force of conquest; force with force Is well ejected, when the conquer'd can. Milton. The French king was again ejected when our king submitted to the church. Dryden. 3. To expel; to drive away; to dismiss with hatred. We are peremptory to dispatch This viperous traitor; to eject him hence, Were but our danger; and to keep him here, Our certain death; therefore it is decreed He dies to-night. Shakesp. Coriolanus. 4. To cast away; to reject. To have ejected whatsoever the church doth make account of, be it never so harmless in itself, and of never so ancient continuance, without any other crime to charge it with, than only that it hath been the hap thereof to be used by the church of Rome, and not to be commanded in the word of God, could not have been defended. Hooker. Will any man say, that if the words whoring and drinking were by parliament ejected out of the English tongue, we should all awake next morning chaste and temperate. EJECTION. n. s. [ejectio, Lat.] Swift. These stories are founded on the ejection of the fallen angels from heaven. Broome. 2. [In physick.] The discharge of any thing by vomit, stool, or any other emunctory. Quincy. EJECTMENT. n. s. [from eject.] A legal writ by which any inhabitant of a house, or tenant of an estate, is commanded to depart. EIGH. interj. An expression of sudden delight. EIGHT. adj. [eapta, Sax. ahta, Goth. acht, Scottish.] Twice four. A word of number. This island contains eight score and eight miles in circuit. Sandy's Journey. EIGHTH. adj. [from eight.] Next in order In the eighth month should be the reign of Sa- turn. I stay reluctant seven continued years, And water her ambrosial couch with tears; The eighth she voluntarily moves to part, Or urg'd by Jove, or her own changeful heart. EIGHTIETH. adj. [from eighty.] The next in order to the seventy-ninth; eighth tenth. Some balances are so exact as to be sensibly turned with the eightieth part of a grain. Wilkins's Math. Magic. EIGHTSCORE. adv. [eight and score. Eight times twenty; an hundred and sixty. What! keep a week away? seven days and Eightscore eight hours? and lovers absent hours, We never heard of any ship that had been seen to arrive upon any shore of Europe; no HOT Í either the East or West Indies. Bacon's New Ana What perils shall we find, If either place, or time, or other course, Cause us to alter th' order now assign'd. De Either your brethren have miserably deceived us, or power confers virtue. Swift to Pope EJULATION. n.s. [ejulatio, Lat.] Outcry; lamentation; moaning; wailing. Instead of hymns and praises, he breaks out into ejulations and effeminate wailings. Government of the Tengu With dismal groans And ejulation, in the pangs of death, Some call for aid. Philqa EIGHTY. adj. [eight and ten.] Eight EKE. adv. [eac, Sax. ook, Dut.] Also; times ten; fourscore. seen, Eighty odd years of sorrow have I And each hour's joy wreck'd with a week of teen. Shakesp. likewise; beside; moreover. If any strength we have, it is to ill; But all the good is God's, both power and eke wil Fairy Queen Now if 'tis chiefly in the heart To increase. Among all other climactericks three are most remarkable; that is, seven times seven, or fortynine; nine times nine, or eighty one; and seven times nine, or the year sixty-three, which is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality. EIGNE. adj. [aisne, Fr.] [In law.] De-1. Brown's Vulg. Err. notes the eldest or first Born. Here it signifies unalienable, as being entailed. It happeneth not seldom, that, to avoid the yearly oath, for averment of the continuance of some estate for life, which is eigne, and not subject to forfeiture for the alienation that cometh 2. after it, the party will offer to sue for a pardon uncompelled before the time; in all which, some mitigation of the uttermost value may well and worthily be offered. Bacon. Er'SEL. n. s. [eoril, Sax.] Vinegar, ver- How thou resemblest Christ, as with sowre poison, 1. Which soever of the two; whether one or the other. Lepidus flatters both, Of both is flatter'd ; but he neither loves, I do not ask whether bodies do so exist, that the motion of one body cannot really be without the motion of another:. to determine, this either way, is to beg the question for or against avaLocke. cuum. Pope-2. Each; both. EIGHTEEN. adj. [eight and ten.] Twice nine. In the process of natural beings, there seem some to be creatures placed, as it were, on the confines of several provinces, and participating something of either. Hale. Sev'n times the sun has either tropick view'd, The Winter banish'd, and the Spring renew'd. Dryden's Virgil. It is used sometimes of more than two; any one of a certain number. Any of an indeterminate number, as in the following passage: Henry VIII. Francis I. and Charles V. were so provident, as scarce a palm of ground could be gotten by either of the three, but that the other two would set the balance of Europe upright again. Bacon. EITHER. adv. [from the noun.] A distributive adverb, answered by or; either the one or the other. Pro. I dempt there much to have eked my store, -And mine to eke out her's. Shak. As you like it. To supply; to fill up deficiencies. Still be kind, And eke out our performance with your mind. Shaken, Your ornaments hung all, On some patch'd doghole ek'd with ends of wall. Pope 3. To protract; to lengthen. I speak too long; but 'tis to piece the time, To eke it, and to draw it out in length, To stay you from election. Shak. Mer. of Venice, 4. To spin out by useless additions. [In this sense it seems borrowed from the use of our old poets, who put eke into their lines, when they wanted a syllable.] Eusden ekes out Blackmore's endless line. Pepe. To ELABORATE. v. a. [elaboro, Lat.] 1. To produce with labour. 2. They in full joy elaborate a sigh. Young. To heighten and improve by successive endeavours or operations. The sap is diversified, and still more elaborated! and exalted, as it circulates through the vessels of the plant. Arbution. ELABORATE. adj. [elaboratus, Lat] Finished with great diligence; performed with great labour. Formalities of extraordinary zeal and piety are never more studied and elaborate than when politicians must agitate desperate designs. K. Charts. At least, on her bestow'd Too much of ornament, of outward shew Elaborate, of inward, less exact. Milton. Man is thy theme, his virtue or his rage Drawn to the life in each elab rate page. Waller Consider the difference between elaborate discourses upon important occasions, delivered to parliaments, and a plain sermon intended for the common people. Swift ELABORATELY. adv. [from elaborate.] Laboriously; diligently; with great study or labour. Politick conceptions, so elaborately formed and wrought, and grown at length ripe for delivery, do yet prove abortive. South. Some coloured powders, which painters use, may have their colours a little changed, by being very elaborately and finely ground. Newton's Opt. I will venture once to incur the censure of some persons, for being elaborately trifling. Bentley 2 ELDERS. n. s. [from elder.] 1. Persons whose age gives them a claim to credit and reverence. Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father, and the younger men as brethren. 1 Tim. v. 1. Our elders say, The barren, touched in this holy chase, Shakesp. Ju. Cæsar. 2. Ancestors. Gay. 3. LASTICK. the power of returning side; perfect freedom from confinement. to the form from which it is distorted or withheld; springy; having the power of a spring. By what elstick engines did she rear The starry roof, and roll the orbs in air. Blackm. If the body is compact, and bends or yields inward to pression, without any sliding of its parts, it is hard and elastick, returning to its figure with a force rising from the mutual attraction of its Newton's Opticks. The most common diversities of human constitutions arise from the solids, as to their different parts. Now my soul hath elbowroom; It would not out at windows nor at doors. Shak. The natives are not so many, but that there may be elbowroom enough for them, and for the adventives also. Bacon. A politician must put himself into a state of liberty to provide elbowroom for conscience to have its full play in. South. To 1. ELBOW. v. a. [from the noun.] One elbows him, one jostles in the shole. degrees of strength and tension; in some being 2. To push; to drive to a distance; to en- A fermentation must be excited in some assignable place, which may expand itself by its elastical power, and break through, where it meets Bentley. with the weakest resistance. ELASTICITY. n. s. [from elastick.] Force in bodies, by which they endeavour to restore themselves to the posture from whence they were displaced by any external force. Quincy. A lute-string will bear an hundred weight without rupture; but at the same time cannot exert its elasticity: take away fifty, and immediately it raiseth the weight. Arbuthnot. Pope. Me emptiness and dulness could inspire, And were my elasticity and fire. ELA'TE. adj. [elatus, Lat.] Flushed with success; elevated with prosperity; lofty; haughty. Oh, thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate! Too soon dejected, and too soon elate! Pope. I, of mind elate, and scorning fear, Thus with new taunts insult the monster's ear. Pope's Odyssey. To E'LATE. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To elevate with success; to puff up with prosperity. 2. To exult; to heighten. An unusual sense. croach upon. Dryd. It thrusts and stretches out, To E'LBOW. v. n. To jut out in angles. 1. Her heart with joy unwonted inly swell'd, As feeling wond'rous comfort in her weaker eld. Spenser. Thy blazed youth Becomes assuaged, and doth beg the alms Of palsied eld. Shakesp. Measure for Measure. He thought it touch'd his deity full near, If likewise he some fair one wedded not, Thereby to wipe away th' infamous blot Of long uncoupled bed and childless eld. Milton. 2. Old people; persons worn out with years. They count him of the green-hair'd eld. Chap. ELDER. adj. The comparative of eld, now corrupted to old. [eald, ealdon, Sax.] Surpassing another in years; survivor; having the privileges of primogeniture: opposed to younger. They bring the comparison of younger daughters conforming themselves in attire to their elder sisters. Hooker. Let still the woman take An elder than herself; so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. Shak. How I firmly am resolv'd, you know; That is, not to bestow my youngest daughter, Before I have a husband for the elder. Shakesp Among the Lacedemonians, the chief magistrates, as they were, so were they called, elder Raleigh's History. The elder of his children comes to acquire a degree of authority among the younger, by the same means the father did among them. Temple. men. Fame's high temple stands; Stupendous pile; not rear'd by mortal hands! Whate'er proud Rome, or artful Greece beheld, Or elder Babylon, its frame excell'd. Pope. I lose my patience, and I own it too, Those who are older than others. 4. [Among the Jews.] Rulers of the 5. [In the New Testaments.] Eccle 6. [Among Presbyterians.] Laymen introduced into the kirk-polity in sessions, presbyteries, synods, and assemblies. Flea-bitten synod, an assembly brew'd Of clerks and elders ana; like the rude ELDER. n. s. [ellara, Sax. sambucus.] The branches are full of pith, having but little wood: the flowers are monopetalous, divided into several segments, and expand in form of a rose: these are, for the most part, collected into an umbel, and are succeeded by soft succulent berries, having three seeds in each. Miller. Look for thy reward Amongst the nettles at the elder tree, Which overshades the mouth of that same pit. Shakesp. ELDERSHIP.n.s[from elder.] 1. Seniority; primogeniture. The world, while it had scarcity of people, underwent no other dominion than paternity and eldership. Raleigh. That all should Alibech adore, 'tis true; But some respect is to my birthright due: My claim to her by eldership I prove. That controversy sprang up between Beza and Erastus, about the matter of excommunications; whether there ought to be in all churches an eldership, having power to excommunicate, and a part of that eldership to be of necessity certain chosen Hooker, Pref. out from amongst the laity. ELDEST. adj. The superlative of eld, now changed to old. [eald, ealdor, ealdrre, Sax.] 1. The oldest; that has the right of primogeniture. We will establish our estate upon Our eldest Malcolm, whom we name hereafter The prince of Cumberland. Shakesp. Macbeth It The mother's and her eldest daughter's grace, seems, had brib'd him to prolong their space. Dryden. 2. The person that has lived most years. Eldest parents signifies either the oldest men and women that have had children, or those who have longest had issue. ELECAMPANE. u. s. [helenium, Lat.] A plant, named also starwort. Botanists enumerate thirty species of this plant. Locke. Miller. The Germans have a method of candying elecampane root like ginger, to which they prefer it, and call it German spice. Hill's Materia Med. To ELECT. v. a. [electus, Lat.] 1. To choose for any office or use; to take in preference to others. Henry his son is chosen king, though young; And Lewis of France, elected first, beguil'd Daniel. This prince in gratitude to the people, by whose consent he was chosen, elected a hundred senators out of the commoners. Swift. 2. [In theology.] To select as an object of eternal mercy. ELECT. adj. [from the verb.] 1. Chosen, taken by preference from among others. You have here, lady, And of your choice, these reverend fathers, Shakesp. Hen. VIII. 2. Chosen to an office, not yet in pos session. life, some enthusiasts entertaining, have been made remiss in the practice of virtue. Atterbury. 6. The ceremony of a publick choice. I was sorry to hear with what partiality, and popular heat, elections were carried in many places. King Charles. Since the late dissolution of the club, many persons put up for the next election. Add. Spectator. ELECTIVE. adj. [from elect.] 1. Regulated or bestowed by election or choice. I will say positively and resolutely, that it is impossible an elective monarchy should be so free and absolute as an hereditary. Bacon. The last change of their government, from elective to hereditary, has made it seem hitherto of less force, and unfitter for action abroad. Temple. 2. Exerting the power of choice. To talk of compelling a man to be good, is a contradiction; for where there is force, there can be no choice: whereas all moral goodness consisteth in the elective act of the understanding will. Grew's Cosmologia Sacra. ELECTIVELY. adj. [from elect.] By choice; with preference of one to another. How or why that should have such an influence upon the spirits, as to drive them into those muscles electively, I am not subtle enough to disRay on the Creation. cern. They work not electively, or upon proposing to themselves an end of their operations. Grew. ELECTOR. n. s. [from elect.] 1. He that has a vote in the choice of any officer. From the new world her silver and her gold Came, like a tempest, to confound the old; Feeding with these the brib'd electors' hopes, Alone she gave us emperors and popes. Waller. 2. A prince who has a voice in the choice of the German emperour. ELECTORAL. adj. [from elector.] Having the dignity of an elector. ELECTORATE. n. s. [from elector.] The territory of an elector. magnetical, it was wonderous what Helmont des If a piece of white paper, or a white cloth, the end of one's finger, be held at about a qu of an inch from the glass, the electrick vap cited by friction, will, by dashing against the vie paper, cloth, or finger, be put into such an agilə tion as to emit light. Newton's Opa ELECTRICITY. n. s. [from electrick. Se ELECTRE.] A property in some bodies, whereby, when rubbed so as to grow warm, they draw little bits of paper, such like substances, to them. Quiary Such was the account given a few years agot electricity; but the industry of the presenta first excited by the experiments of Gray, has de covered in electricity a multitude of philosophi wonders. Bodies electrified by a sphere of axe turned nimbly round, not only emit fans, a may be fitted with such a quantity of the excus cal vapour, as if discharged at once upon a haz body, would endanger life. The force of this ve pour has hitherto appeared instantaneous, pers if at both ends of a long chain seeming to be stTUK at once. The philosophers are now endeavour g to intercept the strokes of lightning. ELECTUARY. n. s. [electarium, Calis Aurel, which is now written electuary.] A form of medicine made of conserves and powders, in the consistence of honey. Electuaries made up with honey or sy rup, when the consistence is too thin, ferment: and when too thick, candy. By both which the ingredients will be altered or impaired. Quincy We meet with divers electuaries, which have no ingredient, except sugar, common to any two d Beyt. ELEEMO'SYNARY. adj. [inenμocím.] 1. Living upon alms; depending upon charity. Not used. 2. them. It is little better than an absurdity, that the cause should be an eleemosynary for its subsistence to its effects, as a nature posteriour to and dependent on itself. Glanville's Scepsů. Given in charity. This is the present He has a great and powerful king for his son- ELECTRE. n. s. [electrum, Lat.] Change silver plate or vessel into the compound stuff, being a kind of silver electre, and turn the rest into coin. Bacon. ELECTRICAL. adj. [from electrum.] 2. By electrick bodies do I conceive not such only as take up light bodies, in which number the ancients only placed jett and amber; but such as, conveniently placed, attract all bodies palpable. Brown's Vulg. Err. E'LEGANCE. } n. s. [elegantia, Lat.] 1. Beauty rather soothing than striking; beauty without grandeur; the beauty of propriety not of greatness. 2. St. Augustine, out of a kind of elegancy in wis ting, makes some difference. Kaleigh's Hot These questions have more propriety, and de gancy, understood of the old world. Burnet Any thing that pleases by its nicety. My compositions in gardening are altogether 1. 2. Pleasing by minuter beauties. Pope. Nice; not coarse; not gross. An electrick body can by friction emit an exhalation so subtile, and yet so potent, as by its emis-1. sion to cause no sensible diminution of the weight of the electrick body, and to be expanded through a sphere, whose diameter is above two feet, and yet to be able to carry up lead, copper, or leafgold, at the distance of above a foot from the electrick body. Newton. Produced by an electrick body. If that attraction were not rather electrical than Now read with them those organic arts which enable men to discourse and write perspicuously, elegantly, and according to the fittest style of lofty, mean, or lowly. Mitton. In a poem elegantly writ, I will not quarrel with a slight mistake. Roscom 2. Neatly; nicely; with minute beauty; with pleasing propriety. They describe her in part finely and elegantly, j Bacon. id in part gravely and sententiously. Whoever would write elegantly, must have reard to the different turn and juncture of every eriod: there must be proper distances and pauses. Pope's Odyssey, Notes. EGI'ACK. adj. [elegiacus, Lat.] Used in elegies. Pertaining to elegies. Mournful; sorrowful. Let elegiac lay the woe relate, oft as the breath of distant flutes. Gay's Trivia. EGY. n. s. [elegus, Lat.] A mournful song. He hangs odes upon hawthorns, and elegies upon rambles, all forsooth deifying the name of Rosa nd. A funeral song. Shakesp. So on Meander's banks, when death is nigh, The mournful swan sings her own elegy. Dryd. A short poem without points or affected elegancies. LEMENT. n. s. [elementum, Lat.] The first or constituent principle of any thing. If nature should intermit her course, those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have. Ilooker. A man may rationally retain doubts concerning the number of those ingredients of bodies, which some call elements, and others principles. Boyle. Simple substances are either spirits, which have no manner of composition, or the first principles of bodies, usually called elements, of which other Watis. bodies are compounded. The four elements, usually so called, are earth, fire, air, water, of which our world is composed. When it is used alone, element commonly means the air. The king is but a man: the violet smells to him as it doth to me; and the element shews to him as Shakesp. it doth to me. My dearest sister, fare thee well; The elements be kind to thee, and make Thy spirits all of comfort. Shakesp. Ant. and Cleop. The king, Contending with the fretful elements, Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Peter. Here be four of you, able to make a good world; for you are as differing as the four eleBacon. ments. He from his flaming ship his children sent, To perish in a milder element. Waller. . The proper habitation or sphere of any thing as water of fish. We are simple men; we do not know she works by charms, by spells, and such daubry as is beyond our element. Shakesp. Our torments may, in length of time, Become our elements. Milton. They shew that they are out of their element, and that logick is none of their talent. Baker on Learning. 4. An ingredient; a constituent part. Who set the body and the limbs In such a business. Of this great sport together, as you guess? One sure that promises no element Shakesp. Henry VIII. 5. The letters of any language. 6. The lowest or first rudiments of literature or science. With religion it fareth as with other sciences; the first delivery of the elements thereof must, for like consideration, be framed according to the weak and slender capacity of young beginners. Every parish should keep a petty schoolmaster, which should bring up children in the first elements Spenser. of letters. Hooker. Dryden's Virgil. Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip with nymphs their elemental tea. Pope. Arising from first principles. Leeches are by some accounted poison, not properly, that is by temperamental contrariety, occult form, or so much as elemental repugnancy; but inwardly taken, they fasten upon the veins, and occasion an effusion of blood. Brown. ELEMENTA'RITY. n. s. [from elementary.] Containing rudiments or first principles; the simplicity of nature, or absence of composition; being uncompounded. A very large class of creatures in the earth, far above the condition of elementarity. Brown's Vulg. Err. ELEMENTARY. adj. [from element.] Uncompounded; having only one principle or constituent part. This drug is improperly called gum elemi, being a resin. The genuine elemi is brought from Ethiopia in flattish masses, or in cylinders, of a yellowish colour. It is very rare in Europe, and supposed to be produced by a tree of the olive kind. The spurious or American elemi, almost the only kind known, is of a whitish colour, with a greater or less greenish or yellowish tinge. It proceeds from a tall tree, which the Brasilians wound, and collect the resin. Hill's Mat. Med. To lessen by detraction. This sense, though legitimately deduced from the Latin, is not now in use. When the judgments of learned men are alledged against you, what do they but either elevate their credit, or oppose unto them the judgments of others as learned? Hooker. ELEVATE. part. adj. [from elevated.] On each side an imperial city stood, |