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iE.gr- If a Man, having a yearly Rent due to him out Quantity of the Menftruum is drawn off, rcduceth the

„f my Lands, afterwards purchafe the fame Lands ; both remaining Mixture to the Confluence of Honey • as in th«

the Property and Rent becoming Confolidated, or United in ExtraSs of Saffron, Gentian, and the like. '

one Pcflef.br, the Rent is faid to be extinguifi'd. ExtraSs are chiefly made from Vegetables, and require

So, where a Man has a Lcafe tor Years, and afterwards different Menftruums, according to the different Nature

buys the Property, there is a Confolidation of the Property, of the Plants ; cfpecially in Gummous Kind : For fuch as

and an Extinguipment of the Leafe. See Consoli- are mucilaginous, as Gum Arabic, and Tragacanth, &c, are

jiation. not eafily diffolved but in aqueous Liquors ; whereas, on &

So alfo if there be Lord, Mefn, and Tenant, and the Lord other Hand, refinous Gums, as Galbanum, Scamrmny, &c,

purchafe the Tenancy, the Mefnalty is extinS. muft have burning Spirits to diffolve them. Sec Gum!

EXTIRPATION, the Act of pulling up, or deftroying There are others again of a middle Nature, which may

a Thing to the very Roots. — Dogs Grafs is a Weed very be diffolved in either Sort of Menftruums, tho' not {0

difficult to Extirpate. eafily in one as the other. See Gummo Rejin.

Among the Prayers of the Romifi Jubilee, there is one Thus Aloes, and Rhubarb, which arc fomethrog refinous,

rbr the Extirpation of Herefy.

The Word is form'd of the Latin ex and ftirps. its chief Ufe is in a figurative Senfc.

are better made into ExtraSs with Spirit of Wine, than But Water: But Plants, which abound lefs with Rcfin, fuch as Hellebore, (Sc. are more commodioufly extraSed with Extirpation, is alfo ufed in Chirurgcry, for the cut- Water — To perform ExtraSion therefore aright, a proper ting off any Part entirely ; as a Wen, ac. or the eating Menflruum is neceffary, and one which is as near a-kin it away, as a Wart, 2>c. by corrofive Medicines. as poffible to the Body to be extraSed. See Menstruum.

EXTISPEX, in Antiquity, an Officer who viewed, and Extraction, in Chirurgery, an Operation whereby examined the Entrails of Victims ; in order to draw Pre- fome foreign Matter, formed in the Body, contrary to the fages therefrom as to Futurity. See Sacrifice. Order of Nature, is drawn out of the lame.

This Kind of Divination, call'd Extifpicimn, was migh- Such is the ExtraSion of a Stone, formed in the Bladder,

or in the Kidneys, (3c. See Stone. See alfo Lithotomy. ExtraSion belongs to the Exierejis, as a Species to its

Genus. See Exieresi Extraction, or Defcent,

in Genealogy, is the Line, defcended from.

tily in Vogue throughout Greece, where there were two Families, the Jamides and Clytides, confecrated, or fet a-part, peculiarly for it.

In Italy, the firft Extifpices were the Hetrurians ;

among whom, likewife, the Art was in great Repute. Stem, Branch, or Family which a Perfon

Lucan gives us a fine Defcription of one of thefe Ope- See Descent. rations in his Firft Book. In fome military Orders, Chapters, t$c. a Candidate

The Word is form'd from the Latin exta and fpicere, muft make Proof of the Nobility of his ExtraSion ere

cifpicio, I view, confider. he is admitted. See Descent.

EXTORTION, in Law, an illegal Manner of wreft- Extraction of Roots, is the Method of finding the

ing any Thing from a Man, either by Force, Menace, or Root of a given Number or Quantity. See Root. Authority. The Square, Cube, and other Powers of a Number, or

Thus, e.gr. if an Officer, by terrifying, or fpunging ano- Root, are form'd by multiplying the given Number into

ther on Pretence of his Office, takes more than his ordinary it felf a greater, or lefs Number of Times, as the Power

Fees, or Dues, he commits, and is indictable for Extortion, required is higher or lower.

So alfo the Exact ing of unlawful Ufury, winning by This Multiplication compounds the Powers ; and the

unlawful Games, and, in fine, all taking of more than is ExtraSion of the Root decompounds them again, or re-

juftly due by Colour or Pretence of Right, as exceffive Tolls duces them to their firft Principles or Roots. So that the

ExtraSion of the Root is to the Multiplication of the Power, what the Analyfis is ro the Syuthefis.

Thus, 4, multiplied by 4, produces 1(5 ; which is the Square of 4, or the Factum of 4 by it felf: And 16 multiplied by 4, makes 64, which is the Cube of 4,

- Such is the Com-

in Millers, "exceffive Prices of Ale, Bread, Visuals, Wares, &c. comes under Extortion. See Exaction.

Crompton fays, that Wrong done by any Man, is pro- perly a Trefpalvbut exceffive Wrong is Extortion ; which is moft properly applicable to Sheriffs, Majors, Bailiffs,

and other Officers, who, by Colour of their Office, greatly or the Factum of 4 by its Square .- •

opprefs and wrong the King's Subjects, by taking exceffive paption of 'Rowers. Rewards, or Fees, for executing their Office. Again, the Square Root of 16 is 4, by Reafon 4 is the

EXTRA Judicial, in Law, is when Judgment is given Quotient of 16 divided by 4 ; and the Cube Root of 64

in a Caufe, or Cafe, not depending in that Court where is likewife 4 5 by Realbn 4 is the Quotient of 64 divided

fuch Judgment is given, or wherein the Judge has not by the Square of 4 : — Such is the ExtraSion of Roots. Turifdiction. Hence, to extraS the Root out of a given 'Rower, is

Extra 'Parochial, what is out of the Bounds of any the fame Thing as to find 3 Number, e. gr. 4, which

Parifti ; or privileged, and freed from the Duties of a being multiplied a certain Number 6t Times into it felf,

Parifh. See Parochial. produces the given Power, e.gr. 16 or 1S4. See Power.

EXTRACT, in Pharmacy, the pureft, and fineft Part For the ExtraSion of Square and Cube Roots, 'tis ne-

of a Vegetable, or other Body, feparated from the coarfer, ceffary to have the Squares, and Cubes of all the Digits in

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by diffolving and digefting it with a proper Menftruum ^ and afterwards reduced into a thick, moiit Confiftence by a DiftiUation, or Evaporation of the Humidity of the Men- flruum. See Extraction.

Extract, in Matters of Literature, (3c. is uied tor fome Matter, Doctrine, Paffage, or the like taken from a Book, or Regifter.

The Journals, Nouvelles, Sibliotheques, Memoires, and other Monthly or Quarterly Accounts of the Affairs of Learning, confift principally of ExtraSs of the moft ma- terial Paffages, Doctrines, Qc. found in the feveral Books,

Readinefs ; as exhibited in the following Table.

Roots

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'

'■■10

8 | 9

Square 14

9

l.

«

3« | 49

«4J Si

Cubic 1 1

8

\,

64

,,

21«

3+3

51= | 7^9

publifh'd in that Time. See Journal.

EXTRACTING, an artful drawing out of the Juices,

'To Extract the Square Root out of a given Number. 1°. Divide the given Number into Claffes, of two Figures a-piece 5 and include each Oafs between two Dots, com- mencing with the Place of Unites, or right Hand Figure : Vinues andQualitiesofanaturalBodyrSeeExTRACTioN. The Root will confift of fo many Parts, or Figures, as There are divers Ways of ExtraSing the Virtues of you have Claffes. _ By the Way obferve it may happen Vegetables Minerals, (3c. by 'Prejfwn, Inftffion, Lotion, that for the laft Clafs on the left Hand there ihall only Calcination, DiftiUation, Cohcbation, and other Operations be one Figure left ,--,'■■ taught in Chvmiftry and Pharmacy. See Pression, $6 „ *"■ Th ™> *e left Hand Clafs being the Square of the EXTRACTION, in Pharmacy and Chymiftry, an Ope- firft Figure of the Root (ought ; look in the Table of B.oot3 ration whereby Effences, Tinfturcs, ci?c. are drawn from for the Square Root anfwermg to that Number : Or, it that natural Bodies. See Extract. SquareNumber benot precifely there.tothenextlefs Number :

Some will kave ExtraSion to fignify any Solution made This Root write down for the firft Figure of the Qaot.ent : bv Menftruums : But, in Strictnefs, there is this Diffe- And fubttaft its Square from the left Hand Clafs. - To

-i-cl-i- .1™ ,,-knle the Remainder, bring down the next Clals toward tlie rignr, ■ 3°. Write down the double of the Quotient Figure un- der the left Hand Figure of the fecond Clafs ; and feek ... this Duple is contain'd in the Figure over it , faid to be extraSed; for the Refin i. only taken out by The Quotient gives the fecond Figure : of '* **» the Menftruum, the other Particles being left untouched. See 4°. Write the fame Quotient under the tight Hand F.gue Solution and Dissolution. , of the fame Clafs ; and fub.racf the Produa of the whole

ExtraSion does alfo frequently fignify fuch an Infpif- Number underwritten multiplied by the alt figure of the fation. or thickening of a Solution as that when a certain Root, from the Number over it, as in Divinon,

s Hhh* }'. Ths

., that in Solution the Menftruums abforb the whole Subftance of the Body, but in ExtraSion they carry off only certain Part of it : And in this Senfe, Camphire is diffolved in Spirit of Wine, but Jalap is more properly how oft this