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Show E X5 B g+ The ceflation of any thing to which lif # /i [expletivam, Latin, Efxererive Something ufed only to take up room fomething of which the ufe is only t is figuratively afcribed To fatisfy ourfelves of its expiration we darkene the rcom and in vain endeayoure t {park of fire difcover an 6. The conclufion of any limited time prevent a vacancy Thefe are not only ufeful expletives to matter Bayle Swift but great ornaments of ftyle Oft the ear the open vowels tire Pope While expletives their feeble aid do join Expletives, whether words or {yllables, are mad ufe of purely to fupply a vacancy : do, before verb plural, is abfolutely fuch; and future refiners ma If "ill the expiration of your month You will return - and fojourn with my fifter Difx{}imng half your train, come then to me Shak. K. Lear Thi he di in a fortnigh of the treaty of Uxbridge after the expiratio Clarendon To EXPI'RE. «. a. [expire, Latin. ¥. To breathe out Many difficulties, fcarce explicable with any certainty, occur in the fabrick of human nature. Hale Great variety there is in compound bodies, an Boyle little many of them feem to be explicable he from hellith entrails did expire Fairy Queen Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motio of infpiring and expiring air Harvey This chaff'd the boar 2. To exhale 70 EXPLICATE. . a. [explico, Latin. 1. To unfold; to expand his noftrils flames expire And his red eyeballs roll with living fire Dz yden They explicate the leaves, and ripen foo For the filk labourers of the mulberry wood Blackmore to fend out in exhalations The fluid which is thus fecreted, and expire forth along with the air, goes off in infenfible parcels 3. To clofe; to conclude; to bring t end Obfolete They do mot underftand that part of Chriftia philofophy which explicates the fecret nature of thi a Although the truths may be elicited and explicated by the contemplation of animals, yet they ar Should render up a reck'ning of their travels more clearly evidenced in the contémplation of man Hale's Origin of Mankind The laft verfe of his laft fatyr is not yet fuffiDryden ciently explicated Hubb. Tale T ExP1'RE. @, 2 1. To make an emiffion of the breath If the infpiring and expiring organ of any anima be ftopt, it fuddenly dies Walton's Angler Exprica'tion. z /i [from explicate. 1. The act of opening; unfolding or expanding 2. The aét of explaining ; interpretation explanation to breathe the laft For when the fair in all their pride expire To their firft elements the fouls retire Pope 3. To perith; to fall; to be deftroyed All thy praife is vain The church preacheth, firft publifhing by way o Save what this verfe, which never fhall expire Shall to thee purchafe teftimony Spenfer fecondly s there fcarce afk'd, for whom ; and good mens live &xpire before the flowers in their caps Dying or ere they ficken Shakefpeare The vigorous feaman every porthole plies And adds his heart to every gun he fires fcope Dryd to com To EXPLA'IN. @. a. [explano, Latin. T folded; plain merely implied Thefe {peculations commentator to fhew how impoffibl Exprana'rion. » /. [from explain. 1. The at of explaining or interpreting. z. The fenfe given by an explamer or in printed the names an m notice th I would hay writ explanatory notes Swwift whe brin thing Burnet moft refined, ferve onl it is for us to have a clea Expri'cirry. adw. [from explicit.] Plainly directly ; not merely by inference or implication bill found upon it, fome lawyers fhould fully infor the jury Sawift the printer give no and explicit notion of that which is infinite South's Sermons terpreter Ha not obfcure thod of cenfuring by the lump, an clofe to explicit prootand evidence Brown's Vulgar Evrours [from ZXP[[II'H.]' Ex ExprLa/naTORY, adj. [from explain.] Containing explanation clear We muft lay afide that lazy and fallacious me implieth puri an Ex EXPLICIT. adj. [explicitus, Latin.] Un [from explain.] Ca this explanation be condemned it is called explicative5 for i Exprica'tor. #. [, [from explicate. pounder; interpreter; explainer pable of being explained or interpreted Befor Atterbury only explains the fubject ; as every mortal man is fon of Adam Watts's Logick Such is the original defign, however we may explain it away Aylijfe's Parergon You will have variety of commentators to exp/ai the difficult paffages to you Gay Some explained the meaning quite away Pope interpreter neceflary to it, the or commentaries pofitor‘ Hooker If the term which is added to the fubject of complex propofition be either effential or any wa expound; to illuftrate; to clear by notes fication and cleannefs ExpraiNzEr 7. o th E'xpL1CATIVE. .adj. [ from explicate. Having a tendency to explain Shakefpeare Itis {ymbolically explainable, an difcoverin >Tis the fubttance of this theory I mainly depen upon: many fingle explications and particularitie may be retified upon farther thoughts Burnet A month befor ‘This bond expires, 1 do expe& retur Of thrice three times the value of this bond adj of explication 3. The fenfe given by an explainer ; interpretation toan end ExprarvasrLe volumes of Scripture Allowances are made in the explication of ou Saviour's parables, which hold only as to the mai ponderous ball expires to terminate fhe hath re Many things are needful for exp/ication, and man Hooker for application unto particular occafions The diftance judg'd for fhot of every fize conclude by wa the myfteries which lie hid therein 4+ Tofly out with a blaft 5. T the truth which fro written in the facre \ ceived The dead man's knell th Taylor divine {acrament When as time flying with wings {wift Zxpired had the term that thefe two javel "The linftocks touch to clear; to interpret 2. §o explain Woodward 2. To die Ex E'spricaBLE. adj. [from explicate. plainable ; poflible to be explained To fave his body from the fcorching fire Whic Pope explode did and does This querulous humour carries an implicit repugnance to God's difpofals; but where it is indulged it ufually is its own expofitor, and explicitly avow i Government of the Tongue 7o EXPLO'DE. w. a. [explods, Latin. 1. T drive out difgracefully with fom noife of contempt ; to treat with ope contempt ; t tre cat no onl gle&, but open difdain or fco}r' Tim old and y w tth Exploded, and had feiz'd wi} hugigtyl ent ha ds Had not a cloud defcending fnate 'd him Unfeen amid' the throng. ~ Mil ms Par‘:d?nc Th was th?' applauf the meantIfiLQ/ Turn'd to exploding hifs, triump t t a e Caft on themfelves from their wn mouths Mil Old age explodes all but morality : fcommon There is pretended, that a magne ica 1 globe o terrella, being placed upon its poles, w haye conft_ant rotgtion; but this is common Y exploded, as g;':ng aiamfi all experience all that"man pafs for a proficient i' Wilking Chrift' fcheol, who would have been el;p/ode; inmt € rchoo of Zeno S ou h Provided that no word, which a focier a fap&lonhto, be antiquate'd and exp/(;fil:d? {?12]; 5:: ?2i.exve whatet ver new ones the fhall find occafio Swify 2. To drive out with noife and viole Ce But late the kindled powder did explod The mafly ball, and the brafs tube unload Blackmop Expro'pER, 2. /. [from explode.] An hiff: rtone who drives out any perfon or rhing __with open contempt EXPLOTT. 7. [ [expletum, Latin, res e ])/ega.] A defig accomplithed; an 4 chievement ; a fuccefsful attempt Know'ft thou not any whom corrupting gol Would tempt into a clofe exploit of death Shak Flight cannot ftain the honour you have wo But mine it will that no exploit have done Sjgh How fhall I relat To human fenfe th' invifible explojt Of warring [pirits Milton's Paradife Lof He breaks fierce Hannibal's infulting heats Of which exploit thus our friend Ennius treats Will you thus difhonou Your paft exploits, and fully all your wars 7o ExpLo'IT. w. 2 perform Denbam Addy [from the noun] T to atchieve Not ufed He cxploited great matters in his own perfon i Gallia, and by his fon in Spain 70 EXPLO'RATE w. a Camden [exploro, Latin, To fearch out; to try by fearching; t explore Snails exclude their horns, and therewith expl rate their way Exrrora'rioN Brown's Vulgar Errours = f [from explorate. Search; examination For exatt exploration fcales fhould be fufpende where the air is quiet, that, clear of impediments they may the more freely convert upon their natura Brown''s Vulgar Errours verticity Ufe may be made of the like way of exploratio in that enquiry which puzzles fo many modern naBgle turalifts On ExpLORA'TOR. 7./. [from explorate. who fearches; a fearcher; an examiner ExrLo'RATORY adj Searching ; examining To EXPLO'RE w. [ from explrat. [exploro, Latin To try; to fearch into; to examinc b trial Abdiel that fight endur'd not, where he floo Among the mightieft, bent on higheft deeds And thus his own undaunted heart explores iilt Divers opinions I have been inclined to quefilllol not only as a naturalift, butasa chymift, W}};e‘ ‘ they be agreeable to true grounds of philofo the exploring experiments of the fire But Capys, and the reft of founder'nu_n,d '7 gy The fatal prefent to the flames defign'd Or to the wat'ry deep; at leaft to bore ;«Zn' egf fraud hidde an fides hollo Th The might Stagyrite firft left the fhore Spread all :i1isyfails,gyand durft the deeps explore Pope He fteer'd fecurely, and difcover'd far r ft i o M Fxrlo/REMENT Led by the light of th |