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Show EL fekeme {s wifelt, they can perfuade him, that nex is th that of the governmen plan to his ow Addifen's Freeholder wroft eligible Did they really think, that going on with th war was more eligible for their couptry than th Sawift feaft abatement of thofe cmditionfi/ That the mof plain lawfu fhort, a t wa any good end, is more e/igible than one direily con Sawift trary in fome.or all of thefe ualities Certainty, in a deep diftrefs, is more eligible tha C/r.n'ifiz fufpenfe B/LicIBLENESS. 7 [ [from eligible. Worthinefs to be chofen; preferablenefs Evivina'tion. s /i [elimino, Latin.] Th a& of banithing; the aét of turning ou Dig of doors; rejettion Evrt'sion. z f. [¢ifie, Latin. k) cen'z th' ar 1. The a& of cutting off; as zempt, there is an elifion of a {yllable You will obferve the abbreviations and e/ifforrs by which confonants of moft obdurate founds ar joined together, without any foftening vowel t Savift intervene 2. Divifion feparation of parts The caufe given of found, that it would be a elifion of the air, whereby, if they mean any thing they mean a cutting or dividing, or elfe an attenuating of the air, is buta term of ignoranc Bacon's Natural Hiffory Evixa'tion. » f. [elixus, Latin.] Th alt of boiling or ftewing any thing and more perfe&t animals Even to ourfelves wa ter performs no fubftantial nutrition; ferving for refrigeration, dilution of folid aliments and its e/ix ation in the ftomach Brown Evi'xir. #. /. [Arabick. 1, A medicine made by ftrong infufion - where the ingredients are almoft diffolve in the menftruum, and give it a thicke confiftence than a tincture Quincy For when no healing art prevail'd Whe cordials and elixirs fail*d On your pale cheek he dropp'd the fhow'r Reviv'd you like a dying flow'r Waller 2. The liquour or whateve it be, wit which chymifts hope to tranfmute metals to gold No ¢hymift yet the e/ixir got But glorifies his pregnant pot If by the way to him befa Some odoriferous thing, or medicinal [5." Donre In the foul, when the fupreme faculties mov regularly, the inferior paflions and affeétions following, there arifes a ferenity infinitely beyond th ~ higheft quinteflence and e/ixir of worldly delight South " 4. Any cordial; or invigorating fubftance What wonder then, if fields and regions her Breathe forth e/ixir pure Milton's Par., Loft. Evk. #. /. [=lc, Saxon. .The e/k 1s a large and ftately animal of the fta ‘kind Th nec is thor an flender the ear . nine inches in length, and four in breadth. Th colour of its coat in Winter is greyith, in Summe it is paler/. The horns of the male e/# are fhor and thick near the head, where it By degrees expands into a great breadth, with feveral prominencé in its edges Hill And, fcarce his hea . Rais'd o'er the heapy wreath, the branching / *_Lies flumb'ring filent in the white abyfs. Thomfon ;E';.L, . /. [eln, Saxon. 1. A meafure containing forty-five inches "or a yard and a quarter Thewar faid to make yearly forty thoufan pieces of linen cloth, reckonin to the piece two hundred e// Addifon 2. It is taken proverbially for a long meaAure Acquit thee bravely, play the man "Look not on pleafures as they coine, but go VOL I 1 Defer not the laft virtue; life's poor fpa . Herbert Makes not an e// by trifling in thy woe BLEVESIS. 7. /; ['e'Ath‘;g, 3. Th Hammond ivs 18 generated fro thoughts, fo muc with elocution E'vocy by a plane cutting both fides of the cone but not parallel to the bafe, which produces a circle, an bafe when produced Ervi'ericar adj. [from ellipfis.] Hav ErLrtPTiCK lipfis; oval ing the form of an el law for the paracentrical motion, that may mak the orbits e//iptick In animals Cheyne's P'hil. Prin tha gathe foo fro ch ground, the pupil isoval ore//iptical; the greateft giameter going tranfverfely from fide to fide Cheyne's Phil. Prin ErM. #. fo [#hnus, Latin 1. The mam of a tree Praife Boyle To E'Lo1cNE: w. a. [elvigner, French. put at a diftance No another o Holder's Elements of Speech T to remove one far fro difufed ¥rom worldly care himfelf he did e/oin And greatly fhunned manly exercife Fairy Queern I'11 tell thee now, dear love! what thou fhalt d To anger deftiny, as the doth us HowI fhall ftay though fhe e/oigne me thus And how pofterity fhall know it too.Donne 7o ELONGATE tin. w. a. [from lngus La 1. To lengthen; to draw out; to protract to ftretch 2. 'To put further off The firft ftar of Aries, in the time of Meton th Athenian elm, Saxon. The fpecie French, thought Dryden elogy, have confidered this fubjett Since the planets move in e//iptick otbits, in on of whofe foci the fun is, and by a radius from th fun defcribe equal areas in equal: times, which n other law of 4 circulating fluid, but the harmenica circulation, can account for; we muit find out [eloge thof Some excellent perfons, above my approbatio Wilkins's Deedalus The planets could not poflibly acquire fuch revolutions in circular orbs, or in e//ipfes very littl Bentley eccentricks expref author On the cylinder inclined, defctibean e//ip/is pa rallel to the horizon n. f t If T durft fay all T know of the elogies receive concerning him, I fhould offend the modefty of ou with th Harris meetin Buckingham lay under millions of maledictions which at the prince's arrival did vanifh into praife Wotion and elogies of a cone the fe@io mor panegyrick An oval figure, bein 2. [In geometry. or diftion The third happinefs of his poet's imagination i elocution, or the art of cloathing or adorning tha thought fo found, and varied, in apt, fignificant dryde and founding words As I have endeavoured to adorn it with nobl by the hearer: as, the thing I leve, for th thing which I love The words are delivered by way of e//ipfis, Ror power of expreflio eloquence; beauty of words 1. Afigure of rhetorick, by which fomething is left out neceffary to be fupplie wa place i ‘th ver which is now elozgated and move ty-eight degrees are interfection eaftward twenBrowrn the commo rough-leaved elm; the 7 2 ELo'NcaTE. w. 7 'To go off to witch hazel, or broad-leaved elm, by fom diftance from any thing About Caps Frio in Brafilia, the South point o called the Britith elm; the {fmooth-leave the compafs varieth twelve degrees usito the Weft or witch elm Neither of them wer but elongating from the coaft of Brafilia, toward originally natives of this country; bu the thore of Africa, it varieth eaftward they have propagated themfelves by feed Brown's Vulgar Erreurs and fuckers in fuch plenty as hardly t roots Eronca'rion, z f. [from elngate. 7s The a@t of firetching or lengthening it felf fields "To this motion of clongation of the fibres, i owing the union or conglutination of the parts o " be rooted out; efpecially in hedgerows where there is harbour fo thei They are very proper to place in hedge row 3. The extra& or quinteflence of any thing n EL e L upo the border of th the body, when they are feparated by a wound where they will thrive better than whe planted in a wood or clofe plantation and their thade will not be very injuriou to whatever grows under them; for the may be trained up in form of an hedge keeping them cut every year, to th height of forty or fifty feet: but the 2. 'The ftate of being ftretched An imperfet luxation 3. [In medicine. when the ligament of any joint is {fo extended or relaxed as to lengthen the limb thould not be planted too near fruit trees Elongatisns are the effe& of an humour foakin Arbutimot on Aliments but yet not let the bone go quite out o its place becaufe the roots of the elm will intermix with the roots of other trees, an deprive them of nourifhment Miller The fural feats Whofe lofty e/ms and venierable oaks upon a ligament, thereby making it liable, to b firetched, and to be thruft quite out upon ever little force Wifeman's Surgery i Diftance; fpace at which onc thing i diftant from another The diftant pointsiin the celeftial expanfe appea to the eye info {mall a degree of elongation fro another, as bears no proportion to what is real Glanville's Scepfis Invite the rook, who high amid' the boughs In early Spring 2, It was ufe Thomfoa his airy city builds to fupport vines to whic the poets allude g. Departure Thou art an e/, my hufband; I a vine Whofe weaknefs married to thy ftronger ftate Shake/peare A travelled doctor of phyfick elocution 2. Power of fpeaking Gave elocution to the mute of bold, and of abl Wotton fpeech Whofe tafte, oo long forborne at firft effa and taugh "T'he tongue not made for {pecch to fpeak thy praife remova Nor then had it been placed in a middle poing but that of defcent, or elongation Makes me with thy ftrength to comumunicate Erocvu'tion. z f. [elocutio, Latin. 1. 'The power of fluent {peech Ruincy Milton Brown's Vulgar Ervours To ELO'PE. w. a., [lopen, to run, Dutth. To runaway; to break loofe; to efcap from law or reftraint It is neceflary to treat women as members of ‘th of them hav body politick, fince great num eloped from their allegiance. .Addijon's Freeholder What from the dame can Paris hope She may as well from him e/spe Prior The fool whofe wife e/gpes fome thrice a quarter For matrimenjal folace dics a martyz Pope Evorement |