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twfelity-first of March, at which time the 
vernal equinox happened upon that day, 
should be deemed the paschal full moon, and 
tiiat the Sunday after should be Easter-day ; 
and it is upon this account that our rubric 
has appointed it upon the first Sunday after 
the first full moon immediately following 
the twenty-first day of March. Whence 
it appears, that the true time for celebratisig 
Easter, according to the intention of the 
council of Nice, was to be the first Sunday 
after the first full moon following the vernal 
equinox, or when the sun entered into the 
first point of aries ; and this was pope Gre- 
gory’s principal view in reforming the ca- 
lendar, to have Easter celebrated according 
to the intent of the council of Nice. 
Having first found the epact and domini- 
cal letter, according to the method deli vered : 
see Chronology and Epact, Easter-day 
may be found by the two following rules. 
1. To find Easter-limit, or tlie day of the 
paschal full moon, counted from March 1 
inclusive, the rule is this : add 6 to the 
epact, and if this sum exceeds 30, take 30 
from it; then from 50 subtract this re- 
mainder, and what is left will be the limit ; 
if the sum of the epact, added to 6, does not 
amount to 30, it must be subtracted from 
50, and the remainder is the limit required ; 
which is never to exceed 49, nor fall short 
of 21. 
2. From the limit and dominical letter, to 
find Easter-day : add 4 to the dominical 
letter ; subtract this sum from the limit, 
and the remainder from tire next higher 
number which contains 7 without any re- 
mainder ; lastly, add this remainder to tlie 
limit, and their sum will give the number of 
days from the first of March to Easter-day, 
both inclusive. 
Thus, to find Easter-day for the year 
1808, for instance. First find the epact 3, 
which added to 6 gives 9 : and as this sum 
does not amount to 30, it must be sub- 
tracted from 50,andthe remainder 41 is the 
limit. Then adding 4 to 2, the number of 
the dominical letter B subtract this sum, 
viz. 6, from the limit 41, and the remainder 
35 from 42, the next superior number that 
contains 7 a < ertain number of times with- 
out any remainder, and there remains 7, 
which being added to the limit 41, gives 48 
for the number of days from the first of 
March to Easter-day, both inclusive : hence, 
allowing 31 for March, there remains the 
17th of April for Easter-day. Here follows 
the operation at length. 
3-j- 6 =9 
50 — 9 = 41 = paschal limit 
Dominical letter B =: 2 
2 + 4 = 6 
41 — 6 = 35 
42 — 35 = 7 
41 + 7 = 48 from which subtracting 
3 1 , the number of days inMarch, 
17 there remains 17, the day of 
Apr?^ answ'ering to Easter-day for the year 
1808. 
EASTLAND company, under charter 
from Queen Elizabeth in 1579, traded to 
the east country, meaning the ports in the 
Baltic, but by statute 25 Car. II. c. 7, all 
persons may use the Eastland trade ; and 
they may be admitted a free member of the 
company for 40s. 
Eag de Lmcc, a fragrant liquor, possessing 
and retaining a milky opacity, made chiefly 
of mastic dissolved in alcohol, to which are 
added, elemi and aqua ammoni® purse. See 
Nicholson’s Journal. 
EBENUS, in botany, a genus of the 
Diadelphia Decandria class and order. 
Essential character ; calyx with teeth, the 
length of the corolla ; wings scarcely any ; 
seed one, rough with hairs. There are 
two species, viz. E. cretica, Cretan ebony, 
and E. pinnata, pinnated ebony: the former 
grows naturally in Crete, and some islands 
of the Archipelago ; the latter is found in 
Barbary and the Levant. 
EBIONITES, in church history, here- 
tics of the first century, so called from 
their leader Ebion. They held the same 
errors with the Nazarenes, united the cere- 
monies of the mosaic institution with the 
precepts of the gospel, observed both the 
Jewish sabbath and Christian Sunday, and 
in celebrating the Eucharist, made use of 
unleavened bread. They abstained from 
the flesh of animals, and even from milk. 
In relation to Jesus Christ, some of them 
held that he was bom, like other men, of 
Joseph and Maiy, and acquired sanctifica- 
tion only by his good works. Others of 
them allowed that he w'as born of a Virgin, 
but denied that he was the w'ord of God, 
or had any existence before his human gene- 
ration. They said, he was, indeed, the 
only true prophet ; but yet a mere man, 
who by his virtue had arrived at being 
'called Christ, and the son of God. They 
also supposed that Christ and the devil 
were two principles, which God had op- 
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