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Show Y or beftowed by ele&tion o 1 will fay pofitively and refolutely, that it is im fhould be fo free an poffible an e/eclive monarch The laft chang it fee tive to hereditary, has mad Temple lefs force, and unfitter for action abroad 2. Exerting the power of choice To talk of compelling2 man to be good, is a con¢radiion; for where there is force, there can b qo choice : whereas all moral goodnefs confiftet - Evelerivery. adv.[fromelect.] By choice with preference of one to another 1 am not fubtle enough to difcern Ray on the Creation philofophers are now endeavourin Eve'ctuary powders officer From the new world her filver and her gol ! Came, like'a tempeft, to confound the old Feeding with thefe the brib'd e/ectors' hopes Waller Alone fhe gave us emperors and popes Havin \Ers'cTora L. adj. [from cleZor. the dignity of an elettor Eve'c1oraTE. 2. /. [from eleor. "territory of an elettor 'Th He has a great and powerful king for his fon-inlaw; and can himfelf command, when he pleafes the whole ftrengt of an e/ecForare in the empire Addifon's Freeholder BLe'cTRE 7. /. [eleftrum, Lat. 1, Amber; which, having the quality whe warmed by frition of attratting bodies ‘gav t on {pecie name of elefricity o attrattio th and to the bodies tha fo attract the epithet eledzrick th W confiftenc meet with divers e/efuaries fugar vefle int commo to an reft into coin _ L ' T I A ELECTRICK adj Bacon [fro Thef gancy in whic Brown's Pulgar Errours Aneleclrick body can by friction emit an exhalation fo fubtile, and yet fo potent, as by its emif . fion to caufe no. fenfible diminution of ‘the weigh of the e/efZrick body, and to be expanded thrmi a fphere, whofe diameter is above two feet, an yet to be able to carry up lead, copper, or leat-gold at the diftance of above a foot from the electric body Neawton - 2. Produced by an ele@rick body Ifthfxt attraction were not rather e/ec?rical tha magnetical, it was wonderous what Helmont delivereth concerninga glafs, wherein rhe magi tery o lgadfione was prepared, which retained an atirac tive quality ‘Brown If a piece of white paper, or a whit cloth o the end of one's finger, be held at about a quare of an inch from the glafs, the elefrick Vapour, ex cited by friction, will, by dathing againft the whit paper, cloth, or finger, be put into fuch an agitation as to emit light Neaton's Oplicks LECTRI'CITY, 7 /. [from elecirich Se n out of a kin queftion hav without th nicer elegancie Bids th [elegans, Lat. adj RLEGANT 1. Pleafing by minuter beauties Trifles themfelves are elegant'in him Pope There may'ft thou find fome e/egant retreat Nice not coarfe Polite with candour E'CeGANTLY adv not grofs rea wit the elegant with eafe Pope [from elegant. thof organi arts. whic enable men! to difcourfe and write perlpicuoully elegantly. and according to the fittett fyle o loft mean, or lowly In a poem elegantly writ I will not quarrel with a {light miftake, = Rofeom 2. Neatly; nicely; wit with pleafing propriety minut beauty 3 and eleg T ntly They defcribe her in part fi and in part gravely and fen acon, Whoever would write elegantly, muft have regard to the different turn-and jun&ure of every pe viod: there muft be proper difiances and paufes Evecr/ack adj Pb/‘rt Ay (J‘lj;/;;_}‘ [elegiacus, Lat. 1. Ufed in elegies 2. Pertaining to elegies 3. Mournful; forrowful, and the e/ement fhew to thee WNotes to him a S hake/? and mak blow the earth into the fea an Shakefp. King Lear the eart will paf the elements melt with fervent heat Here be four of you, able t world away and Pete a.good mak for you are as differing as the four elements Bacon He from his flaming fhip his children fent To perith in a milder element Waller 3. The proper habitation or fphere of an thing: as water of fifh We are fimple men; we do not know fhe work by charms, by fpells, and fuch daubry as is beyond Shakefb our elezment Our torments _may, in length of time Becom our elements Miltorn They fiew that they are out of their element, and.that logick is none of their talent Batker on Learning 4 Aningredient a conftituent part Who fet the body and the limb f this great fport together, asyou guefs One fure that promifes no elemen In fuch a bufinefs 1. In fuch a manner as to pleafe No win The heaven London 2 means the air the violet fmells to hi Or {well the curled waters I Speét element commonl The king Contending with the fretful elements Burnet of art alone Thy fpirits all of comfort. Shakefp. Ant. and Clecp: My compofitions in gardening are altogether Pindarick, and.run into the beautiful wildnefs of nature is compofed The elements be kin and e/e underftood of the old world it is ufe Whe worl My deareft fifter, fare thee well of elegancy in, wripropriety 'The four elements, ufually fo called are earth, fire, air, water, of which ou as it doth to me itdoth to me Raleigh's Hift mor Watts The king is but a man this fenfe it has a plural number the an cients only placed jett and ambers but fuch as conveniently placed, attract all bodies palpable 2 othe of whic elements calle ufuall or the firft principles o bodies are compounded two o Boyle 2. Any thing that pleafes by its nicety By elecirick bodies do I conceive not fuch onl bodies bodies 2. Given in charity. 'This is, the prefen ufe E' EcANCE . /. [elegantia, Lat. E'ircaNcy 1. Beauty rather foothing than ftriking beauty without grandeur; the beauty o propriety not of greatnefs eleGrum See ELecTRE. z. Attrattive without magnetifm; attractive by a peculiar property, fuppofe once to belong chiefly to amber no manner of compofition hav whic fpirits eithe fubftances ar Simpl It is little better than an abfurdity, that th caufe fhould be an elcemafynary for its fubfiftenc to, its effets, as a nature pofteriour to and dependent on itfelf Glanwille's Scepfis the compoun turn th honey which hav ting, makes fome difference o o ELeeM0'sYNARY. adj. [érsmmocivn, 1. Living upon alms; depending upon charity. Not ufed St. Auguftine ~ ftuff, being a kind of filver e/e?re, an as take up ligh i ingredient, excep them 2. A mixed metal Change filver plat [ele&arium, Calius Au Eleftuaries made up with honey or {yrup when the confiftence is too thin, ferment and when too thick, candy By bot which the ingredients will be altered o impaired LQuincy 1. He that has a vote in the choice of an 2, A prince who has a voice in the choic of the German emperour cipal and mother e/ements of the world, whereof al things in this lower world are made, fhould lof Hooker the qualities which now they have A man may rationally retain doubts concernin the number of thofe ingredients of bodies, whic fome call e/ements, and others principles Boyle zel. which issnow written electuary. form of medicine made of conferves an rew ELe/cTOR. 2. /. [from eles2, n. / thofe prin her courfe If nature fhould intermi to intercept th ftrokes of lightning . They work not elecZively, or upon propofing t themfelves an end of their operations So on Meander's banks, when death is nigh Dryd. The mournful fwan fings her own e/egy 3. A fhort poem without points or affetted elegancies difcharged at once upon a human body, would enE'LEMENT, #. /. [elementum, Lat. danger life. © The force of this vapour has hithert an o principl conflituen o fir Th 1 appeared inftantancous, perfons at both ends of thing The long chain feeming to be ftruck at once Grew's Cofmologia Sacra cles electively 2. A funeral fong bly round, not only emit flame, but may be fitte with fuch a quantity of the cleétrical vapour, as, i in'the eective at of the underftanding will How or why that fhouid have fuch an influenc upon the fpirits, as to drive them into thofe muf He ‘hangs odes upon hawthorns, and elegies upst brambles, all forfooth deifying the name of Ro lind Shake p Such was the account given a few years ago o ele@ricity; but the induftry of the prefent age, firf excited by the experiments of Gray, has difcovere in eleétricity a multitude of philofophical wonders Bodies electrified by a fphere of glafs, turned nim o hithert Gay's Trivi 1 E'vecy. n. /. [elegus, Lat. 1. A mournful fong Quincy of their government, from elec- relate Soft as the breath of diftant flutes per, or fuch like fubftances, to. them Bacon abfolute as an hereditary Let elegiac lay the wo dies, whereby, when rubbed fo as t grow warm, they draw little bits of pa choice A property in fome bo Erectre. Shakefp. Henry VI . The letters of any language ‘ .. The loweft or firft rudiment ture or {cience '1. Regulate EL BoL With religion it fareth the firft delivery of th as wit element ,of litera- othe fciences thereof muft f or like confideration, be framed according to the Vear and flender capacity of young beginners Hooker Every parith fhould keep a petty. fchoolmafter which fhould bring up children in the fuft of letters We whe w under. the e/ement wer children wer of the world i bondag Gal. iv. 3 . There is nothing more pernicious torayouth, i the elements of painting,.than an ignorant mater .D,_yxfc;i.". 7o E'LEMENT... 4. [from thenoun. { 1. To compound of elements Whethe an one fuc body be me with thofe faid to be elsmented. bodies, Fnow queition z. To conlitute tomake.a i afirlt prin ple. A |
