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chair at Leyden. He died there in-1609, in his eighty- 
fourth year. Lis principal works are, 1. Rarioruin aliquot 
Stirpium per Hifpanias Obfervat. Hifioria, l.ii. 1576, 8vo. 
mod of the fpecies here defcribed are new, and beautifully 
delineated with his own hand. 2. Rariorum aliquot Stir¬ 
pium per Pannoniam, Aujlriam, &c. Obferv. Hijl. 1 . iv. 1583, 
8vo. a very valuable work, containing many Alpine and 
other curious plants, with figures. 3. Exoticorum, libri x. 
1605, contain the plants.of Garcias ab Orta, C. a Coda, 
Monardus, and Bellonius, with the notes and figures of 
Clufius: he has added fix new books of exotics: with 
this was publifiied, 4. another Appendixplantaruvivariorum. 
After hisdeath were publiflied, 5, his Cura pofieriores , 1611, 
folio, containing principally garden plants. He edited 
feveral pieces on botanical fubjedls, written by his friends. 
Clufius was a great linguift, and alfo a fkilful cofmogra- 
pher, and drew feveral maps with his own hand. 
E'CLYSIS, f. [from hlKvoj, to diffolve.] With phyfi- 
cians, an univerfal faintnefs ; a proftralion of ftrength. 
• ECOMOY', a town of France, in the department of 
the Sarte, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridt of 
Le lyians : four leagues fouth of Le Mans. 
ECONO'MIC, or Economical, adj. Pertaining to 
the regulation of an houfehold. Frugal.—In economical 
affairs, having propofed the government of a family, we 
confider the proper means to effedt it. Watts. 
Her quick’ning power in every living part. 
Doth as a nurfe, or as a mother ferve ; 
And doth employ her economic art, 
And bufy care, her houfehold to preferve. Davies. 
ECO'NOMY, f. [ oixovofjua.. This word is often writ¬ 
ten, from its derivation, ceconomy ; but as being no diph¬ 
thong in Englifh, it is placed here with the authorities 
for different orthography. ] The management of a family ; 
the government of a houfehold.—By St. Paul’s economy, 
the heir differs nothing from a fervant, while he is in his 
minority ; fo a fervant fhould differ nothing from a child 
in the fubftantial part. Taylor. —Diftribution of expence. 
.—Particular films are not laid out to the greateft advan¬ 
tage in his economy, but are fometimes fulfered to run wafte, 
while he is only careful of the main. Dryden. —Fruga¬ 
lity ; diferetion of expence ; laudable parfimony.—I have 
no other notion of economy, than that it is the parent of 
liberty and eafe. Swift. —Difpofition of things; regula¬ 
tion.—All the divine and infinitely-wife ways of economy 
that God could ufe towards a rational creature, obliges 
mankind to that courfe of living which is mod agreeable 
to our nature. Hammond. —The difpofition or arrangement 
of any work.—In the Greek poets, as in Plautus, we fee 
the economy and difpofition of poems better obferved than 
in Terence. Ben Jon/on. —Syftem of matter; diftribution 
of every thing active or pafiive to its proper place : 
Thefe the ftrainers aid, 
That by a conftant reparation made, 
They may a due economy maintain, 
Exclude the noxious parts, the good retain. Blackmore. 
E'COTS, or Ecos, a town of France, inthedepartment 
of the Eure, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridt of 
Grand Andelys : feven miles north-north-eaft of Vernon. 
ECOU'CHE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Orne, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridt of 
Argentan. The principal trade of the inhabitants is 
making clocks, with manufactures of cloth and Hulls ; 
one league and a half weft of Argentan. 
ECOUEN', a town of France, in the department of 
the Seine and Oife, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftridt of Gonnelfe : five miles north of St. Denys. 
ECOU'Y, a town of France, in the department of the 
Eure, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridt of Grand 
Andelys : four miles north of Grand Andelys. 
ECPEPIES'IVIENUS, / [Gr, from vzszifiei, to prefs 
out.] With furgeons, an epithet applied to ulcers with 
protuberant lips. 
ECS 
t EC'PHASIS, f. [from the Greek v/., out, and <pau, to 
give.] A plain declaration ; an explicit propofition. 
ECPI-IONE'MA, or Ecphone.sis, f. [from the Greek 
ek, out, and (pom1, a voice.] An exclamation ; a figure in 
rhetoric by which the fpeaker exprefles the pMicn of his 
own mind, and endeavours to excite that of the hearers. 
EC'PHORA,y. in architedlure, [from the Greek ex, 
out, and (pjpoj, to bear.] The moulding, or diftance be¬ 
tween the extremity of a member and the part from which 
it projedts. 
ECPHRAC'TIC, adj. [from the Greek ex, from, and 
(pfxacroj, to break.] Attenuating; diftolving tough hu¬ 
mours. 
EPHRAC'ITCS, f. [from sv.ippac-cw, to remove. ] Deob- 
ftruents. Medicines which attenuate and remove obftruc- 
tions. 
ECPMR AX'IS,y. [from extygoorla, Gr. to remove ob- 
ftrudtions.] A diaphorefis ; an opening of the pores. 
ECPIES'MA,y. [from exmt'Ca, to prefs out. ] A knead¬ 
ed mafs. The juice which is prelied from plants. Alfo a 
fradture of the ikull, in which the bones prefs inwardlv. 
ECPIES'MUS, y [from exTr.e^a, to prefs out.] A dif- 
order of the eye, in which the globe is almoft prelfed out 
of the focket by an afflux of humours. 
ECPLEX'IS,y. [from ex% Ma-ca, to aftonifh.] A hid¬ 
den ftupor of the fenfes from foine external accident. 
ECPTO'MA,y [from exmsrlu, to fall out. ] An exclu- 
fion or difplacing of any part. The falling down of any 
part, as the womb. 
ECPYC'TICS, y. [from ex.irvv.a.tjoi, to condenfe.] In- 
craflants ; medicines that render the fluids more (olid. 
ECPYE'MA,/. [from ex, and itvoi, pus.] A fupoura- 
tion. A colledtion of matter. 
E'CRYSIS.y [from expvoj, to flow out.] An efflux of 
the femen before it has produced a foetus. 
EC'STASY, J. \_cxtafc, Fr. efiafi, It. ecjlafs, Lat. 
excfixcne, Gr. properly fignifies the removal of a thing 
from the ftate in which it was, to another.] Any paffion 
by which the thoughtSare abforbed, and in which the mind 
is for a time loft.—Whether what we call eefiafy be not 
dreaming with our eyes open, I leave to be examined. 
Locke. —Exceilive joy ; rapture.—The religious pleafure 
of a well-difpofed mind moves gently, and therefore con- 
ftantly : it does not affedt by rapture and ccfafy\ but is 
like the pleafure of health, ftill and fober. South. 
Each delighted, and delighting, gives 
The pleafing eefiafy which each receives. Prior. 
Enthufiafm ; excefiive elevation and abforption of the 
mind : 
He lov’d me well, and oft would beg me fing; 
Which when I did, he on the tender grafs 
Would fit, and harken even to eefiafy. Milton, 
Exceilive grief or anxiety. This is not now ufed: 
Sighs and groans, and fhrieks that rend the air, 
Are made, not mark’d ; where violent forrow feems 
A modern ecfi.afy. Shakejpearc. 
Madnefs ; diftradtion. This fenfe is not now in ufe: 
Now fee that noble and moft fovereign reafon, 
Like fweet bells jangled out of tune, and harfh, 
That unmatch’d form, and feature of blown youth, 
Blafted with eefiafy. Shakefpearc. 
EC'STASIED, adj. Ravifhed; filled with, enthufiafm. 
—Thefe are as common to the inanimate things as to the 
moft eefiafied foul upon earth. Norris. 
ECSTA'TIC, or Ecstatical, adj. [exo-larixoc, Gr.] 
Ravifhed; rapturous; elevated beyond the ulual bounds 
of nature: 
There doth my foul in holy vifion fit, 
In penfive trance, and anguifh, and ecfiatic fit. Milton. 
In trance ecfiatic may thy pangs be drown’d ; 
Bright clouds defeend, and angels watch thee round. 
Pope. 
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