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. ENCROACHMENT, or ACCROACHMENT, an un- ENDORSED, or ENDOSSE, in Heraldry, is where

lawful gathering upon another Man : As, if two Men's Things are bore back to bade.

Grounds lying " together, the one prefs too far on the ENDORSING, or INDORSING, in Law, implies the

other : Or, a Tenant owe Two Shillings Rent Service, Writing on the backfide of a Deed, Inftrument, iSc. fome-

and the Lord exacts Three. thing relating to the Matters contain'd therein.

ENCRATITjE, anticnt Hercticks, thus call'd from their Endorsement is particularly ufed in Commerce for a making Profeffion of Continence, and abfolutely rejecting Writing on the Back of a Bill of Exchange, by the Pro- Marriage, prietor, or Bearer ; either, thereby, to transfer it to fome

The Word is form'd from the Greek, {\*.&™h Continent, other, or to render it payable to the Order of fome other ;

The Founder of this Seel was Tatian, a Difciple of ° r to fcrve for an Aquittance or Receipt. The Endorfe-

f„(l,n, and one of the moft learned Perfons of all Anti- ment is the fimpie Name of the Proprietor or Eudorjer.

nuity. After the Death of that Martyr, he made a Sepa- Note when the Endowment of a Bill of Exchange is

ration from the Church ; and form had his Followers ; who, to render it payable to another, it is calld an Orden

befide the Dogma iuft mention'd, borrow'd a great many ° c ° Urde ,?-, „ , _ , - , ,. ,

Things from Saturnius, and Martian, befide feveral Errors J° an Order, tis ncceffary the Endorfemcnt be dated .5

which they adhered to in common with the Gnojlicks and ™& ?!«*»_% Name of him who paid tl yjtlentinians.

They abftain'd from eating any Thing that had Life ; and denied that Adam was faved. They look'd on fuch as drink Wine to be very great Sinners ; and for this Reafon, only made Ufe of Water in celebrating the Eucharift : As holding that Wine came from the Devil. To maintain this Sentiment, they produced Paffages out of Scripture, where mention is made of what befel Noah and Lot when they were drunk.

They only admitted fuch of the Books of the Old Te- ftament as they thought good : But in Lieu thereof, they own'd feveral fpurious and Apocryphal Writings for Cano- nical and Divine. Such were the Acls of St. Andrew, John and Thomas.

ENCYCLOPAEDIA, the Circle, or Chain, of all Sciences and Arts. See Art and Science.

The Word is compounded of the Prepofition Iv, in, xiIka©-, Circle, and -mtihia., Science, ZJotlrine, 2)ifcipline, Learning ; the Root being waTs, Child, Infant*

'Tis miftakenly that fome derive the Word from ws'oe, a Chain, or Fetter, that holds by the Feet ; it being wrote in Greek by an at, not an s : H.yxuAho'TraifziA.

The Greeks ufed the Term for the Knowledge of the feven liberal Arts, and the Poffcffion oi all Sciences-

Orbis ille tDoBrinc? quern Grceci syxuxhtTaiJiiav vacant ; preffes fuch Contents of the Urine, as float about in the fays ^I'.intilian. They alfo call'd it xuKAoTaiJiia.. Vitril- middle, refcmbling a Cloud ; and thence alfo call'd Nube- vius fomewhere calls it Encyclics Dijciplina. cula Hypoftafis. See Nubecula and Urine.

ENDECAGON, or HENDECAGON, in Geometry, a ENERGUMENUS, a Term ufed by Divines, and Figure of eleven Angles, and confeouently eleven Sides. See Schoolmen, to fignifie a Perfon pojfefs'd with a Devil, or

In which Cafe the Bill belongs to the Perfon with whofe Name the Order is fill'd ; without any other Transfer : Without thefe Conditions, the Bill is judg'd to belong to the Perfon who Endorfed it.

The Bearer of a Bill of Exchange protefted, has a Re- medy againfr the Endorsers, for the Payment of the Re- change of the Places where the Bill was negotiated by their Order. In Cafe a Bill or Note is refus'd to be paid, ££c. the Bearer has a Remedy againfl any one ot the Endorfers, where there are feveral. See Bill.

ENDOWMENT, the giving, or affigning, of a Dowel- to a Woman. See Dower.

The Word is alfo ufed figuratively for the fetting fortbj or fevering, of a lufficient Portion for a Vicar, towards his perpetual Maintenance, when the Benefice is appropriated ; Whence fuch a Vicarage, is called a Vicarage endowed* See Vicarage.

ENEMA, from ssift;, immitto, I fend in ; is fometimes ufed to exprefs a Clyjier. See Clyster.

ENJ5MON, according to Blanchard, is a Medicine which flops or flanches the Blood : Or which, by binding, cooling, or drying, clofes the Paffages of the Veliels before open ; or diminifhes the Fluidity and Motion of the Blood, See Styptic.

ENjEOREMA, from hiu S ia, I lift up, or float 5 ex-

POLYGON.

The Word is Greek, spAi^r©-, form'd of hfuy., Eleven, and yaviay Angle.

ENDECASYLLABUS, or HENDECASYLLABUS, a Verfe confifling of Eleven Syllables. See Verse.

Of this we have Abundance of Inflances in the Greek and Latin, and ftill more in the Italian Poetry.

The Greek and Latin Endecafyllabus, is alfo call'd 'Ehaleucns, from the Name of its Author : Tho', in Ca-

an Evil Spirit. See Possession.

Tho' 'Papias fays, the Energumeni were fuch as counter- feited the Adlions of the Devil, performing Things which feem'd fupernatural. The Council of Orange debars, or deprives, the Energumeni of the Functions ot the Prieflhood.

The Word is form'd from the Greek, itt$y£<&i, to is azitated, icork'd, of w and '-syv, Opus.

ENERGY, an uncommon Force, or Strength,

tutlus, we have IPhaleuci, that only contain two Syllables. Difcourfe, a Sentence, or a Word. Thus, we fay, the Words See Phaleucus. of Holy Scripture are full of Energy.

ENDEMICK, ENDIMIAL, or ENDEMIOUS Difeafc, The Word is Greek, Wf)*U, form'd of the Prepofition: (thus call'd from ev, in, and J^f.©-, 'Pofulns, People) is any iv and inn, Work, Labour.

We alfo fay Energic, as Energic Sty\e, E»ergicTams,&c. The fame Appellation Energici, has been given to a re- ligious Sect, of the Sixteenth Century, by Reafon they held

Difeafe which affects many People together, in the fame Country ; as proceeding from fome Caufe, peculiar to the Country where it reigns. See Disease.

Such are the Scurvy to the Northern Climes, intermitting Fevers in marfhy Places, iSc.

ENDENTED,ENDENCHE,DENTED,INDENTED, in Heraldry, is applied to a Fefs, a Pale, and other triangular

that the Eucharift was the Energy, and Virtue of Jefus Chrift, not his Body, nor a Reprefentation thereof.

ENERVATE, to deftroy the Force, Ufe, or Office of the Serves ; either by cutting them, by weakening them

Pieces, when divided alternately between two different Colours, with Debauchery, or by fome other Violence.

Coupe] or Undented, with Or and Azure. See Indented. Excefs of Wine, and other flrong, hot, fpirituous Li- ENDITEMENT, or INDICTMENT, in Common Law, cmors, enervate, weaken the Nerves. When they would

is much the fame as Accufatio in the Civil Law ; tho', in render a Horfe ufelefs, they Enervate him, or cut his

fome Points, it differs. Nerve.

It may be defined a Bill, or Declaration made, in Form In the Manage, Enervating is particularly ufed for the

of Law, (for the Benefit of the Common-Wealth) exhibited cutting two Tendons in the Side of a Horfc's Head, under

as an Accufation of a Perfon, for fome Offence, either the Eyes, which meet on the Tip of the Nofe : They

Criminal, or Penal; unto the Jurors; and by their Verdict, Enervate Horfes to make their Head fmall and lean.

found, and prefented to be true, before an Officer having The Word is alfo ufed figuratively : 'Tis no fmall Ar-

Power to punifh the faid Offence. See Indictment. tifice in difputing, to be able to Enervate, and extenuate It is always at the Suit of the King, and differs from the Allegations of one's Antagonift. This Author has a

an Accufation in this, that the Preferer is no Way tied to weak, Enervate Style. See Nerve.

the Proof thereof, upon any Penalty, if it be not proved ; ENERVATION, a Term in the antient Anatomy, ap-

except there appear Confpiracy. See Jury, (5c. plied to the Tendons of the Recti, or direct Mufclcs, of

ENDORSE, in Heraldry, an Ordinary, the Abdomen, containing the eighth Part of a Pale. This, The Fibres of the Refli of the Abdomen, do not go Leigh fays, is never ufed but when a Pale from one Extreme of the Mufcle to the other, but are is between two fuch : Others hold, that an interfecfed by feveral Nervous Places, called by the An- Endorfe may be bore between Birds, Fifties, tients Enervations ; tho' they be real Tendons. _ Beafts, £SV. Sir J. Feme adds, that it Their Number is not alike in all : Some having three, fhews the fame Coat has been fometimes others four, iSc. Sec Recti. two Coats and afterwards conjoyncd within ENFANS ferdrn, a French Phrafe, literally implying

one Efcutcheon, for fome Myflery of Arms. He bears Azure loft Children, and by a little Extenfion, 'Perjous forlorn- j

an Endorfe Argent.

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