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Enseatical Tears, are every Ninth Tear of Life. See Climacteric.

ENORMOUS, fomcthing exceffively, or immenfely, big. Thus we fay, the Colojfus oF Rhodes was of an Enormous Stature.

which will now be more liquid than before, and feparating from it the Dregs, or groffer Parts, digeft it anew in a gentle Bath 5 that the remaining groffer Parts may alfo fubfidc : Filtrate it, and add to it the fix'd Salt, drawn from the former Dregs, dried and calcined._ To the Liquor thus

The Word is form'd of the Privative e and norma ; prepared, add equal Parts of the Liquor of good Sea-Salt

Rule q. d. void of, or contrary to Rule, or Meafure, con- well purified, and melted, and then let it runner deliquium-

tra normam. In the corrupt Ages of Latinity, they ufed Laftly, feal up the Mixture in a Bolt-Head; and expofe it

' inv.ormis and inormis. to the Sun fix Weeks longer. At the End of which Term,

In the Civil Jurisprudence, Lefw Enormis, Enormous the Ens priimim of the Plant will be found fwimming

Damage, is that whichexceeds half the Value of the Thing on the Liquor, in a liquid, tranfparent Form, fometimes

fold. And this gave Room for the Refciffion of the of a green, and fometimes a reddilh Colour, according to

Contract. See Rescission. the Plant ufed.

ENQUEST, or INQUEST, is taken for an Inquifi- Ens Veneris, or Flower of Venus, a chymical Prepara-

See,

tion from Vitriol, firfl publiihed by Mr. Boyle. Vitriol.

It is held a Specific in the Rickets, and is much com-

Lofs of

tion of a Jury, by hearing of Witncffcs. See Inquest.

This is the mod ufua) Trial, in all Caufes, both Civil and Criminal, within this Realm. In Civil Caufes, after

Proof is made on either Side, of fo much as each Party mended in nervous Cafts, obilinate Cachexies,

thinks good for himfelf; if the Doubt be in the Facf, it Appetite, and Obftruclions of all Kinds, is refer'r'd to the Discretion of Twelve indifferent Men, It is had by fubliming equal Parts of the Powder 01

impanelled by the Sheriff for that Purpofe ; and as they Cyprus Vitriol, (calcined till it is of a dark Colour) and

bring in their Verdifl, fo Judgment pa&th ; for the Judge of Sal Ammoniac, into the Form of yellow Flower, faith, 'fbe Jury findeth the Fat! thus. It has its Name from the Particles of Copper thereinj

For the E.nquefl in Criminal Caufes. See Jury. carried away from the Vitriol.

ENS, Being, in Metaphyficks, is applied, in its moft ENSCONCED. See Insconced. general Senfe, to every Thing that the Mind any Way ap- ENSEMBLE, a French Term, fometimes ufed in our

prehends, and whereof it affirms, denies, proves, ordifproves Language. The Word is an Adverb, and literally fignifies

any Thing. together, or one with another; being form'd of in and

This, other Philofophers call Cogitabile, and Intelligibile ; fimul. and the Logicians, Ehema. Hence, in Architecture, we fay the Enfemble, or, tout

Ens, in a lefs general Senfe, fignifies fomething that is, Enfemble, of a Building, to fignifie the whole Work, ot

or exitts, fome Way further than in being conceiv'd, or Compofition, ^confider'd together, and not in parts being capable of being conceiv'd in the Mind.

and

This is particularly call'd, Ens fofitivmn, pofitive, or real Being. In Oppofition to which {lands Non Ens.

Ens, in its proper, or reflrain'd Senfe, is that to which there are real Attributes belonging ; or that which has a Reality, not only out of the Intellect, butinitfelf.

This is what is properly meant by Res, fhing ; and

fometimes alfo to fignifie the relative Proportion of the Parts to the whole. All thefe Pieces of Building make a fine Enjemble.

In Sculpture, we fay, To judge well of-a Work, a Statue, iSc. one mull firfl examine, whether the Enfemble be good.

In Painting, we frequently ufe the Phra r e, Wit Enfemble: The tout Enfemble of a Painting, is the Harmony refult-

what we otherwife call Ens reale, and alfo Subftance. See ing from the Diftribution of the teveral Objects or Figures,

Substance. . whereof it is compofed. This Painting is very good,

Ens rationis, is that which depends on the Mind; or taking it feparately : But the tout Eiij emble is naught,

which exifts only in the Imagination.

Of this they diflinguifh three Kinds : Ens rationis effeSi- miin, which is done, or produced by the Mind ; as Know- ledge : Ens rationis fubjeclivzim, which is received into the Mind ; as Science : And Ens rationis objeclivum, which is reprefented by the Mind ; as a Golden Mountain.

Which lafl, if it have no other Manner of Being, i.e. if it be reprefented fo as it does not, or cannot be, it is what we moil properly call Ens rationis.

The Generality of School Philofophers, and the Peripa- ,. teticks among the reft, affert, that there are of thefe Entia 'Pegafus, in theirs: The Athenians an Owl: IheyWe^ rationis objecliva. Others deny, there are, or can be any femans, the Greek Letter M : The Lacedei

ENS1FORM1S 'Cartilago. See Cartilaco Enfiformis.

ENSIGN, in the Military Art, a Banner, or Colours, under which the Soldiers are ranged, according to the dif- ferent Companies, or the different Parties they are of. See Banner.

The Chinefe Enfigus, are Horfes Tails : Thofe ot the Europeans, are Pieces of Taffaty, with divers Figures, Colours, Arms, and Devifes. Xenophon tells us, that the

Enflgn, bore by the 'Perfians, was a Golden Eagle on a white Flao : The Corinthians bore the winged Horfe, or

fuch Thing.

Ens, or ens primum, among the Chymifts, is the effica- cious Part of any natural mixt Body, whether Animal, "Vegetable, or Foflile ; wherein, all the Qualities or Virtues of the Ingredients of the mixt, are comprehended in a little Compafs. See Essence.

'Paracelfus pretends to have been able to feparate the Ens primum from Bodies, and with it to effect prodigious Things towards the Renovation, and Reftoration ot Youth : But his Proceffes are fo obfeurely deliver'd, that Nobody has been induced to try 'em.

The Romans had a great Diverfity of Enfigns ; the Wolf, Minotaur, Horfe, Boar, and at length the Eagle, where they ftopp'd : This they firft affumed under the fecond Year of the Confulate of Afari us. See Eagle.

A Military Enflgn, on a Medal of a Roman Colony, denotes it a Colony peopled with old Soldiers.

Ensign, is alfo ufed for an Officer in the Infantry, who bears the Enflgn, or Colours ; by the Latins call'd Signifer, and VexiUifer.

He has the Charge of the Enflgn in Combats ; and if he be kill'd, the Captain is to take it in his Stead. The

Mr. "Boyle gives us a Procefs from M. le Fevre, whereby Enflgn is under the Command of the Lieutenant, and in

the Ens primum, or Effence of Balm, is eafily obtain'd : He his Abfence fupplies his Poll.

adds, that the Effefts of an Ens of Balm, thus drawn, are no ENTABLATURE, or ENTABLAMENT, m Archi-

Ways inferior to thofe of 'Paracelfus ; and inftances in a tefture, by Vitruvius and Vignola call'd Ornament, a

fpecial Friend of his, who, upon taking it only for a Fort- that Part of an Order of Column which is over the Ca-

night, the Nails of his Hands and Feet fell off, and were pital ; comprehending the Architrave, Frize, and Comic/let

fuccceded by a Set of new ones; Which convinced him fo See Architrave, Frize, and Corniche.

far of its Efficacy, that he left off taking it himfelf : The Entablature is alfo called the Trabeation : It is

But giving fome of it to an old Woman of 70 Years of different in the different Orders : Indeed it confifts of the

Age who ferved in the Houfe, it produced the Menfes three grand Parts, or Divifions above-mentioned, in all ;

again • and that fo copioufly, as wonderfully to ftartle the But thofe Parts confiil of a greater, or lefs Number ot

Woman. particular Members, or Sub-divifions,

Upon giving a little of it to an old Hen, her Feathers more or lefs rich. See Order.

began to moult on the fixth Day, and fhe grew ftark naked ; Vignola makes the Entablature

, ° »,_ -._• L^ /I... 1 J ».l,o» in their

the Orders are

1 Quarter of the Height

but"'ere"a Fortnight was over, fhe ha<i others in their of the whole Column, in all the Orders. SeeCoiui

Room, fairer, and better colour'd than the former.

The Relation is odd enough ; yet considering the Hands we have it from, and how eafily the Thing is tried, tis much no body has yet attempted to profecute it. The Procefs is thus :.

Having gather'd, e. gr. fome Balm, or other fitting

Plant, at the proper Seafon and Time ; beat it into a Pulp in a Marble Mortar, and putting it into a Bolt-Head hermetically feal'd, digeft it 40 Days in a Dunghill, ^ or ,h e laft Row of Stones on the Top of ^^J] aM(| -

other analogous Heat.

putting

~ K - This done, take out the Matter

In the Thfcan and' 'Doric, the Architrave, Frize, and Corniche, are all of the fame Height. See Tuscan and Doric. ,,.

In the Ionic, Corinthian, and Compofite, the whoie Entablature being 15 Parts; 5 of them are allow d tor the Architrave, 4 for the Frize, and 6 tor the Corniche. See Ionic, Corinthian, iSc. .

Entablature, or Entablament, is alfo ufed for

g, whereon the Timber and the Covering reft.

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