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Excttrfion from the proper orb.'—The duke at his return 
from his eccentricity , for fo I account favourites abroad, 
met no good news. Waller.—Eccentricity of the earth is 
tire diliance between the focus and the center of the 
earth’s elliptic orbit. 
ECCHELLEN'SIS (Abraham), a learned Maronite, 
who flourifhed in the feventeenth century, was induced 
by his countryman, Gabriel Sionita, to vilit Paris, to be¬ 
come his coadjutor in preparing for the prefs the magni¬ 
ficent Polyglot Bible, publilhed by M. le Jai. It was he 
who furnifhed the Arabic and Syriac texts of the Book 
of Ruth, with the Latin verfion. He was afterwards ap¬ 
pointed profelfor of the Syriac and Arabic languages in 
college-royal at Paris. In 1636, the college Be Propa¬ 
ganda Fide added him fo the number of thofe who were 
to be employed in tranflating the feriptures into Ara¬ 
bic, and recalled him for that purpofe out of France to 
Rome, where he was engaged on that work in 1652. He 
was alfo made profelfor of the oriental languages at Rome; 
and was chofen by the archduke Ferdinand II. to tranf- 
late out of the Arabic into: Latin the fifth, fixth, and fe- 
venth, Books of Apollonius’s Conics, in which work he 
was afiilied by John Alphonfo Borelli, a celebrated ma¬ 
thematician. The whole work was printed at Florence, 
with Archimedes’s book De Affumptis, in 1661, in folio. 
He died at Rome in the year 1664. Befides what have 
been already mentioned, Ecchellenfis was the author of, 
j. Inflitvtio Lingua Syriaca, izmo. 1628. 2. Synopjis Phi- 
lofophia Oricntalium, 4to. 1641. 3. Verjio Durrhamani de 
medicis Virtutibus animalium, plantarum, & gummarum, 8vo. 
1647. 4. Chronicon Orientate Latine red. cum Supplemento 
Hip ria Orientalis, folio, 1651. 5. Eutychius vindicatus , 
againlt Selden and Hottinger, 4to. 1661. 6. Remarks on 
the Catalogue of Chaldee Writers, compofed by Hebed- 
Jefu, 1653. 
ECCHYMO'STS, f. [from eyyyoi, Gr. to pour out, or 
from »i|, out of, and p/v/zo?, juice.] An elfufion of hu¬ 
mours from their refpeftive veffels, under the integu¬ 
ments; or, as Paulus 2 Egineta fays, “ When the flefit 
is bruifed by the violent collifion of any ohjedt, and its 
final 1 veins broken, the blood is gradually difeharged 
from them.” This blood, when colledted under the Ikin, 
is called an ccc'hymofis , the lkin in the mean time remain¬ 
ing entire ; fometimes a tumor is formed by it, which is 
foft and livid, and generally without pain. If the quan¬ 
tity of blood is not confiderable, it is ufilially reforbed ; 
if much, it fuppurates: it rarely happens that any fur¬ 
ther inconvenience follows ; though, in cafe of a very bad 
habit of body, a mortification may be the refult; and in 
fuch a cafe regard mull be had to the mode of cure. 
EC'CI.ESBOURN, a river of England, which runs in¬ 
to the Derwent in Derbyfhire. 
ECCLESFE'CHAN, a town of Scotland, in the county 
of Dumfries : fifteen miles eaft from Dumfries. 
EC'CLESHALL, a fmall town in Staffordfhire, 142 
meafured miles from London. It Hands near the river 
Sow., is a neat place, noted for pedlars wares, and has a 
good charity-fchool. The market-day is Friday: fairs, 
Midlent-Tlntrfday, Holy-Thurfday, Augufl: 16, and the 
firft Friday in November. Here is a palace of the lord 
bifitop of Litchfield and Coventry. 
ECCLE'SIA,/. [Gr.] A church, the church, an af- 
fembly • 
ECCLE'SIAN,/ One who adheres to the church, a 
churchman. 
ECCLESI A'lJI, / in ecclefiafiical hi (lory, thofe who 
adhered to the church in oppofition to the civil magif- 
trate. 
ECCLE'SIARCH,/ [from ExxAticrta, Gr. the church, 
and apvQ? a chief.] The ruler of a church. 
ECCLESIASTES, /. IPeccle/iq/le, Fr. ecclefiafle, Ital. 
ecclcjiujles, Lat. ExxA'/jcnar'/i;, Gr. i. e. the preacher.] A ca¬ 
nonical book' of the Old Teftament, the defign of which 
is to fhew .the vanity of all fiublunary things. It was 
compofed by Solomon; who enumerates the feveral ob- 
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je£ts on which men place their temporal happtnefs, and 
then fltews the infufficiency of all worldly enjoyments. 
The Talmudifls. made king Hezekiah to be the author 
of it; Grotius aferibes it to Zorobabel, and others to 
Ifaiah ; but the generality of commentators believe this 
book to be the produce of Solomon’s repentance, after 
having experienced all the follies and pleafures incident 
to human life. 
ECCLESIASTIC, or Ecclesiastical, adj. [ eccleji . 
ajlicus, Lat,] Relating to the church ; not civil.—Is dif- 
cipline an ecclefiafiical matter or civil ? If an ecclefiafiical it 
mu ft belong to the duty of the minifters. ELooker. —Cler¬ 
gymen, otherwife little fond of obfeure terms, yet in their 
fermons are liberal of thofe which they find in eccltjiajlical 
writers. Swift. 
ECCLESf AS'TIC, f. A perfion dedicated to the mi- 
niftries of religion.—The ambition of the ccclejiajlics de- 
ftroyed the purity of the church. Burnet. 
ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS. See Courts of 
Law, vol. v. p. 300. 
ECCLESIASTICAL CORPORATIONS,/ Thofe 
where the members that compofe them are fpiritual per- 
fions. They were eredted for the furtherance of religion, 
and perpetuating the rights of the church. See Corpo¬ 
ration, vol. v. p. 222. 
ECCLESIASTICAL LAW. See Canon-Law, vol. 
hi. p. 734 - 
ECCLESIASTICAL STATE. See Clergy, vol. 
iv. p. 660. 
ECCLESIASTICALLY, adv. In an ecclefiaftical 
manner. 
ECCLBSTAS'TICUS,/ An apocryphal book, gene¬ 
rally bound up with the feriptures; and fo called, from 
its being read in the church, ecclefa, as a book of piety 
and inflrudtion, but not of infallible authority. The au¬ 
thor was a Jew, called JfeJiis the Son of Sirach. The Greeks 
called it the Wifdom of the Son of Sirach. 
EC'CLESTONE, a town in Lancaihire; it has a mar¬ 
ket on Saturday, and is 205 miles from London. 
ECCOPE'US, f. [from ExxoTrr&t, Gr. to cut off.] An 
inftrument for cutting off limbs, ufed by the ancient chi- 
rurgeons. It is limilar to the modern rafpatory. 
ECCOPRO'TICS,/ [frdm ex and xcr^oc, Gr. dung.] 
Mild cathartics. Medicines which operate gently by 
ftool. 
ECCRINO'LOGY, / [from exx^jw, Gr. to fecrete,, 
and Xoyoc, a difeourfe.] Thedodtrine of the fecretioris of 
the body. 
ECCRY'SIS,/ [from exx^e*.*, Gr. to flow out.] An 
excretion, expullion, or removal, of any excrementitioHS 
or morbific matter from the body, either by the bowels, 
or any other convenient paffages. It is alfo taken fur the 
excreted matter itfelf. It is fimilar to apocrifis, which 
alfo, according to Hippocrates, is applied to the conta¬ 
gious effluvia of the air, or to a certain morbid quality, 
impreffed upon the air by exhalation, called iniafma. 
ECDI'CI, / [exAxoi, Gr.] Among the ancients, pa¬ 
trons of cities, who defended their rights, and took care 
of the public money. Their office refembled that of the 
modern fyndics. 
EC'DICUS,/ [ex/xoc, of ex and Ax>), Gr. juftice ; in 
civil law.] An attorney or prodtor of a corporation ; a 
recorder. 
ECDO'RICS,/ [front tyfegui, Gr. to excoriate.] Me¬ 
dicines which excoriate and burn through the Ikin. 
ECHALAR', a town of Spain, in Navarre: twenty 
miles north of Pamplona. 
ECHALLE'NS, a town of Swifferland, in the canton 
of'Bern, with a bailiwic of the fame name, belonging to 
the cantons of Bern and Friburg, conquered by the Swifs 
in 1475, ar| d ceded to the two cantons in the year 1484: 
fix miles from Laufanne. 
ECHAPE'R, v. a. in the manege, a gallicifnt tiled in 
the academies, implying to give a horfe head, or to put 
on at full Ipecd. 
ECH'ARD, 
