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Show EQ ER gu to in ca iv eg falf you ye -B d mi pr io mo ev' you eye you s loo You s hoo fal i n' lea an ds fra i rip ar But yo Smith thare Yn equal balance laid with earth and hell Flings up the adverfe {cale, and fhuns proportion Prior fiuival."m‘, or fecond! which compell' e thus, though importune perhaps, to com And gaze, and wortip thee. Milion's Paradife Lo 8. Equal in force or power The dread of Ifrael's foes, who, with a ftrengt Eguivalent to angels, walk'd their ttreets Milton's Agoniftes None offering fight . Of the fame cogency or weight The confideration of public utility is, by very goo advice, judged at the leaft the eguivalent to the eafie Hooker kind of neceflity g, Of the fame import or meaning minifter is brought dow to the literal fignification of it, a fervant; for no to ferve and to minifter, fervile and minifterial, ar South terms eguivalent EQur'vaLenT. 7. /. A thing of the fam weight, dignity, or value The flave without a ranfom fhall be fent Dryden Xt refts for you to make th' equivalent Fancy a regular obedience to one law will be Rogers [wquivocus, Latin. adj 1. Of doubtful fi]gnification ferent things, ftanding for different notions Being ftrong on both fides, are equivocal Shakefp Wo:ds of different fignifications, taken in general are of an eguivocal fenfe; but being confidered wit all their particula fenfe reftrained circumftances the thei hav Stilling flect The greater number of thofe who held this wer Savift mifguided by equivocal terms 2. Uncertain; doubtful happening differ ent ways Eguivocal generation is the produion of plants without feed, or of infeds or animals without parents i th natura wa of coition between mal and female; which is now believed never to happe but that all bodies are univocally produced Harris There is no fuch thing as eguivocal or fpontaneous generation ; but all animals are generated b animal parents of the fame fpecies with themfelves Ray Thofe half-learn'd witlings, num'rous in our ifl As half-forni'd infes o the Banks of Nile Unfinifh'd things, one knows not what to call Their generation's fo egwivocal Pope Equi'vocar., #./. Ambiguity doubtful meaning word o Shall two or three wretched equiwocals have th force to corrupt us Dennis EqQuivocaLvry. adv. [from equivocal. 1. Ambiguoufly; in a doubtful or doubl fenfe Words abftraled from their proper fenfe and fignification lofe th eguivocally fo called natur of words and are onl South 2. By uncertain or irregular birth; b equivocal generation; by generation ou of the ftated order No infe@ or animal did ever proceed eguivocall from putrefa&ion unlefs in miraculous cafes; as i Egypt by the divine judgments Bentley EQui'vocaLNEss. # /. [from equivocal. Ambiguity; double meaning Diftinguith the equivocalnefs or laflitude of th word, and then point out that determinate par whic is the ground of my demonftration 70 EQu1'VOCATE tin. t uf w. 7 [@quivocatio Norris La To ufe words of double meaning ambiguou expreflions one thing and exprefs another t mea prs Here's an eguivocalor that coul 2. E'rA [@ra, Latin. cam in hot another face thanii Shakef Erelong to fwim at large The time are dated and our eras move They govern, and enlighten all below As thou do'ft all above 1 faw two ftock-doves bil Will take the neft 1t pleafes me to t a portion -of th furface of this globe, fhall erelo the fwiftnefs of imagination, a of nature's operations Ereno'w. adv. [fromer this time ~_Ah, gentle foldiers God gives me a heart humbly to converfe wit majefty Ha K. Charles an Aconit to b moved 2. 'To completel off EREWHILE ErewHULES to be gathered not to b eradicared, yet thi Brown lon - a little while 1 am as fair now as I w We fit down to our meals trufion of armed uninvite if a gouty perfon can bring himfelf entirely to milk diet, ke may fo change the whole juices o Arbuthnot his bady as to.eradicate the dittemper 1fwice cannot wholly be eradicared, it ought a we know were wont t furpr erel To EREI(:T-‘:D.( 1. To raife in a ftraight to the h pendicularl 2. To ERECT a Perpe Swift leaft to be confined to particular objeGts 'VE & Since night you lov' to cu deftroy; to end the world eternall brought to perfectio o ERA'DICATE. @. a. [eradico, Latin. 1. To pull up by the root He fuffereth the poifon of Nubi hi My father has repente alone are all the eradiations o works {low and painful fteps cree Erapta'rioN. 7 /o [e and radius, Latin. Emiflion of radiance him, from who fwi The world erelong a wor ‘Nothing is lafting that i time from any particular date or epoch Ou to a man to defir his back, and following th account o From the bleffings they befto had n ardon The wild horfe having enmity Er, a fyllable in the middle of names o places, . comes by contration from th Gibjon's Camden Saxon pana, dwellers Th {iEsns colours, erelong h ‘the fcales againft either fcale; yet could not equivocate to Heaven [ The anger already began Equivoca'tror. #. [ [from eguivocate. One who ufes ambiguous language ; on i who ufes mental refervation fwea adv a long time had elapfed ke Ho ted wre o at wo I pull in refolution and ‘begi To doubt the equivocatian of the fien Shake[peare's Macbeth That lies like truth dif meanin Thefe fentences to fugar, or to gall Ere'Lone Ambiguity of {peech 3 double meaning Reproof is ealily mifapglied, and, through egui No fair to thin EQU U'VOCA Our fruitful Ni Flow'd ere the wonted fe in La ti oc ui [@ / # N I A o ' Equ 2. Equal in any excellence full-eguivalent for their breach of another murmut, ere Erz. prep. Before My foul difdain'd a promife ; By lot ave parted; but the value, high heav'n, th The ufe of the wor The vinds 2o breathe, the w And ftreams t Drydest Not only Jefuits can eguimocate Thing WWeil nigh equivalent, and neighb'ring value Erapzca'rion. o /. [from eradicate. 1. The a& -of tearing up by the root; de one line by anothe ftrution; excifion 2. The ftate of being torn up by the roots. | 3 To raife; to build They affirm the roots of mandrakes give a thrie upon eradication, which is falfe below confutation Happier walls expect Which, wand'ring long, ErA/DICATIVE. adj. [from eradicate.] Tha which cures radically ; that which drive quite away "There are many monument Brown Ty ERA'SE. w. a. [rafer, French. to the republick. 4. To eftablith anew; to ett Great difference ther 1. To deftroy; to ex{cind The heads of birds, for the moft part, are give erafed ; that is, plucked off. Peacham on Blazoning 2. 'To expunge; to rub out ErA'SEMENT. 7 f. [from erafe. 1. Deftruétion; devaftation 2. Expunétion ; abolition ERrE. adv. [®p, Saxon ; air, Gothick; eer Dutch. This word is fometimes vitioufl It is like- written e, as if from ewer wife written or before ewer, opn and @n i Saxon being indifcriminately written. Mr Lye.] Before; fooner than _ Er he woul have hang'd a man for the get ting a hundred baftards, he would haye paid for th Shak nurfing a thoufand The lions brake all their bones in pieces or eve they came to the bottom of the den Daniel _ Juft trial, ere I meri My exaltation without change or end Milton The mountain trees in diftant profpet pleafe Ere yet the pine defcended to the feas .Erre fails were fpread new oceans to explore. Drydern The birds fhall ceafe to tune their ev'ning fong e7eé ings, wh ereé? have neither regim was, and theirs who only re He fuffers fe‘venty-fwo di ed out of the firft monaxch)( u & ‘,To elevate; to exalt 1, who am a party, am not to e Dr judge. I am far from pretending infallib be to erec? myfelf into an apoftle All'the little fcramblers after fa and hav recourfe to- their ow than fuffer him to ereé? himfelf int impunity 6. To raife confequenéés‘fforhdfpr ¥rom fallaciou foundations. a mediums, men erec? conclufion n Brown from the premifes ‘Men being too hafty to ereé? to the n f es or th d u r l i a o t p deceived in their frock of knowledge Malebranche ereés this propofitio things in God; upon their ruin 7. To animate ; not to deprefs rage te |