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bability, arifes the Neceffity ofTerfion; the watery Particles form'd the Latin ffleftariu being apt to run together, and condenfe on the Surfa the Body, and fo obftrucT: the Paffage of the Matter.

wwYium. and afterword's Tft/f&^i/frti/iw being apt to run together, and condenfe on the Surface of This Opinion he proves from the Laws of tiM Jh^ he Body and fo obflruct the Paffage of the Matter. it i s orcfain'd, that EteSmries, Syrupf f A *&' v^Z

6. EleSrical Bodies are more forcible, Ceteris paribus, dies, be prepared lawfully. The Sollandi/l s Z L,T; in hot Weather than in cold; in Summer than in Winter; this Etymology, feem to confirm it. AS UnS Mart by Reafon the more vigorous Aflion of the Solar Rays? Rll. p. 131 See Eclegma. "' ***""

does more effectually make the Parts of Bodies, and un- EleSuaries are either [oft, or folid ; and of each Kind lock the Pores, and fo make Room for a more plentiful fome are Alterative, others Corroborative, others Vur- Emiffion of Effluvia. Befidc, that in warmer Weather, gative &c

the Medium being rarer, makes lefs Oppofition to the Paf- The foft are of the Confidence of Honey, and confift of fage of the Effluvia. ., Ounces of Powders to a Pound of Honey or Sugar.

,. The Air being exhaufted out of the Tube, it lofes The folid are in Manner of TabelU, or Lozenges. The almoft all its Ele Brian : Sothat tho' rubb'd, and heated Purgative are ufually of the foft Kind: But the Corro- more vehemently, and Leaf-Gold applied nearer than borative only admit of an Ounce and half or two Ounces, ufual, it fcarce attracts at all. And what little Attraflion Among the foft EleSuanes are reckon'd Treacle, M- remams, Mr. Hauksbee conjeftures may anfe from the thridate, the Confeftion of Hamecb, that of Alkcrmes, the Jmle Portion of Air remaining in the Tube : And fo the Catholicon, tDiaprwmm, Diap/mmc, Galens Hiera picra. Attraction .may continue in Proportion^ to the Quantity of &c. which fee explained under their refpcclive Articles.

Among the folid EleSuaries, are reckon'd Carthamum t

Air. When the Air is let into the Tube again, the at- tractive Power is immediately reftor'd ; and that before any new Attrition can be given the Tube, or e're it be re- moved from the Diftance and Pofition it was in when exhaufted. Mr. "Boyle, however, found that a Piece of

Rofe Jmce, Voilet Juice, &c. Monf. Lemery reckons up above 1 jo Sorts of EleSuaries.

_ ELEEMOSINA Carucarum, or pro Aratris, or Aratri, - in our antient Cuftoms, a Penny which King Ethelred Amber did ienfibly attraft when the Air was pump'd out order'd to be paid for every Plough in England, towards „ t^- 6 " 1 ™'; „ „ the Support of the Poor.

Sometimes 'tis called Eleeimfma Regis, becaufe firfl ap- pointed by the King.

Eleemofin£ are alfo ufed for the Poffeffions belonging to Churches.

ELEEMOSINAR1A. See Ameuy.

ELEGANCE, ELEGANCY, confider'd in the general,, is a Manner of doing or faying Things with Choice, Po- litenefs and Agrceablenefs : With Choice, in going out of the common Ways : With folitenefi, in giving the Thing a Turn which ftrikes People of a delicate Tafte : And with Agrceablenefs, in diffufing a ReliJh throughout which.

10. Alter an EleSrical Body has been well rubb'd, there hits every Body.

Elegasitite poetics, poetical Elegancies, are of Service to

Scholars in making their Verfes. By being too regular in the Grammatical Conftruction, we lo<e certain Licences^ wherein the Elegance of Language confifls. Elegance, tho' irregular, is better than Regularity without Elegance.

The Elegance of a Painting is not founded on the Corrcctnefs of the Defign, as appears in Raphael and the Antique. It is mod felt in Works otherwife careless and Tube, would they be thus luddenly and precipitantly driven inaccurate ; as in Corrrgio, where, maugre all the Defects from it ; but alfo in their Motion of Afcent towards it. as to Juftnefs of Defign, there is an Elegance even in tlie

11. A Glafs Globe, being contrived to be whirled round, Manner of the Defign it felt; as well as in the Turn of cha with its Axis parallel to the Horizon, and a Semi-circle of Attitudes. f5c.

Wire fitted round the upper Hemilphere thereof, at the The Elegance of a Defign, is a Manner of Being, which Diftance of 4 or 5 Inches, with feveral Pieces of Woollen Embelifhes, and heightens Objects either as to their Form, Thread hung thereon, of fuch Lengths, as that when ex- or Colour, or both ; without deftroying or perverting the tended in a Direction towards the Centre of the Glafs, they Truth

8. EleSrical Bodies attract all Things indifferently, whereas the Magnet draws only Iron and Steel.

9. A large Piece of very EleSrical Amber being fuf- pended by a filken Thread, and one End of it rubb'd Strongly on a little Culhion ; the Culhion being brought nearer, towards the Amber at reft, will plainly make the Amber tend towards it, and follow it. Whence it appears that the EleSric Body, is attracted by the other Bodies, as well as it attracts them. And that it is only by Ac- cident that the fmall attracted Bodies approach to the EleSric ones.

is a certain Nick of Time in' which the light Body, Head of being attracted, will be actually repell'd, or driven away from the EleSrical one, by the Effluvia going brifkly out, and not returning again.

Mr. Hauskbee allures us, that the Pieces of Leaf Gold would be fometimes thrown off from his Tube with a great Force, even to the Diflance of fix or feven Inches. And thus, not only when they adhered to the Surface of the

would reach within an Inch of the Circumference thereof; but when left at Liberty, hang down in a parallel Pofi- tion : Upon applying the Hand, and fo adding an Attri- tion to the former Rotation, the Threads prcfently began to change their Direction, and all harmonioufly pointed to the Centre of the Globe ; and to put it pais Doubt, this Effect depended on the Attrition, the Experimentator, by ihifting the Place of the Attrition hither and thither, cou'd draw the Threads towards this or that End of the Globe, tho' they all {till went uniformly converging towards fome

ELEGIAC, in the Latin Poetry, fomething that be-< longs to Elegy. See Elegv.

Elegiac Verfes, Elegi, are alternately Hexameter and, Pentameter. See Verse.

g>iiintilian effeems 'Tibullus the Top of the Elegiac Poets : Bi^t the younger 'Pliny gives the Preference to c Propertius. They have each of them Reafon on their Side ; and one might make a third Choice, as true as either of them.

ELEGIT, in Law, a Writjudicial, which lies for him

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Centre, in the Axis thereof; and fo tormd a Kind of that has recover d Debt, or Damages; or upon a Recoo-

Conical Surface. nizance in any Court, againlt one not able in his Goods

The fame Phenomena follow'd upon fhifting the Wire, to fatisfy ; and directed to the Sheriff; commandino him

and putting it on the lowet Hemifphere. Add, that upon to make Delivery of half the Party's Lands, and all his

fufpending the Motion and Attrition, the Threads would Goods, Oxen and Beafts for the Plough, excepted,

continue in their ffrait direct Pofture for the Space of The Creditor /hall hold the Moiety of the faid Land fo

four or five Minutes. And in the mean Time, if the deliver 'd to him, till his whole Debt and Damages are

linger, or any other Body, were applied near the Extre- fatisfied ; and during that Time, he is Tenant by Elegit.

tremity, or Points of the Threads, they would avoid and ELEGY, a Kind of Poem, or Poefy, u!ed on mournful

fly from the fame : But if applied about an Inch Diftance plaintive Occafions. See Poem.

fiom the End of fuch Thread, the Thread would ufually The firfl Inventor of the Elegy is not known .- Some

be attracted towards it. ELECTRTJM, the fame as Amber. See Amber. ELECTUARY, in Pharmacy, a Form of Medicine,

fay 'twas one Theocles of Naxi, or, according to others, of

Etreria ; who, in the Heat of his Frenzy, firfl produced

But, no Wonder we are in the Dark

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this Kind of Verfe.

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competed of Powders and other'ferugs, incorporated with J s \°} Matter : Horace allures us,

Honey or Sugar ; to be divided into Dofes, like Bolus's, », ettlc f among the Grammarians even in his Time, who

when taken.

It is thus call'd, by Reafon all the Parts, or Ingredients it confifls of, mould be well chofen ; from the Latin Verb Eligere, to chufe, whence EleSus, chofen. Others derive it from Lac ; and accordingly the Greeks, under the Eajtern Empire, call'd it KaKtmietov. Scaliger derives it from *«';£>, to lick ; and calls it in Latin, ElinSum.

Voffms obferves, that all the Remedies prefcribed for

ghiis tamett exiguos Elegos emiferit AuBor Grammatici cert ant (3 adhuc fub Judice lis eft.

The chief Writers of Elegy among the Greeks, are Callimachus, farthenius and Eupborion : And among the Latins, Ovid, Catullus, Tibullus, and Vropertius.

The Flemijb have diftingui/li'd rhcmfelves among the

the Sick, as well as the Confections taken by Way of Mo d*;' ms f or - this Kincl of latin Verfe : And the Elegies Regale, were called by the Greeks, Uhayyxi* and ex.- f siderman, Grotiits, and cfpecially Sednnius and Pal- MIX7B, of the Verb *fi;tf>, to lick ; Whence, fays he, was Hus, might become the purett Antiquity, The Countefi

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