EDA 
Rnifed to the higheft degree of joy : 
To gain Pefcennius one employs his fchemes; 
One grafps a Cecrop's in ecjlatic dreams. Pope. 
Tending to external objects.—I find in me a great deal 
of ccjlalical love, which continually carries me out to good 
without myfelf. Norris. 
ECST A' flCI, [ey.alccTiy.oi, from cflnfM, I am en¬ 
tranced.] In antiquity, a fedt of diviners who were call 
into trances or eeftafies, in which they lay like men afleep, 
deprived of all fenfe and. motion ; but, after fome time, 
returning to themfelves, gave ftrange relations of what 
they had feen and heard. 
ECT'ERNACH, or Efternach, a town of the duchy 
of Luxemburg, on the Sour: fixteen miles north-north- 
eaft of Luxemburg. 
ECTHELYN'SIS, f. [from ly.QyXctivco, to effeminate.] 
A foftnefs of the flefii or bones. Effeminacy. 
ECTHE'SIS, in clnirch-hiflory, a confeflion of faith, 
in tiie form of an :di£t, publiftied in 639, by the emperor 
Heraclius, with a view to pacify the troubles occafioned 
by the Eutychian herefy in the eattern church. 
ECTHLIP'SIS,/! [from exSAi&v, to prefs again ft. ] An 
ulceration caufed by preffure on the Ikin. Alfo an eli- 
iion or fiafh of light before the eyes. 
ECTHLIP'SIS, f. [Lat.] With grammarians, the cut¬ 
ting off a vowel or confonant, efpecially the letter m , in 
Latin or Greek verfe, at the end of a word, when the 
next word begins with a vowel or h, as, div’ incido , for 
divum incido , StrAoju.’ tya, for /SyAoju.ai syce. 
EC'THYMA,y. [frQRi exOvv, to break out.] Apu.ftule, 
or cutaneous eruption. 
ECTILLO'TICS,y [from ejftiAAia, to pull out. ] Medi¬ 
cines which eradicate tubercles or corns, or deftroy fu- 
perfiuous hairs. 
ECTOPOCYS'TICUS, f. [from sj-Wo?, mifplaced, 
and y.vdlt;, the bladder.-] A luppreflion of urine from a rup 
tured or mifplaced bladder is called ifckuria edlopocyjlica. 
ECL R A PELOG AS'TER, y [from F.dlpsirofj.cx.i, to de¬ 
generate, and ycCerlm. ] One who has a monttrous belly, or 
whole appetite is voracioufly large. 
ECTRO'PlUM,y [front sx1po7nu, to divert.] Aninver- 
fion of the eye-iids, fo that the red Ikin becomes vifible. 
ECTRO'TICS,y [from Eklfigwo-Kfc', to mifcarry.] Me- 
cines which caufe abortion. 
EC'TYPE, y. [eut w7toc, Gr.] An image or picture 
made according to the pattern ; a copy taken from the 
original.—The complex ideas of fubftances are eiHypes, 
copies, but not perfect ones, not adequate. Locke., 
ECU', or Escu,y. A French crown. 
ECURI'E,y. [French; equus, Lat.] A place covered 
for the lodging or holding of horfes. 
ED, [eb, Sax. ede, Dut. ere , Ger.] The termination 
of the preterite tenfes and participles paftive, in the 
Englilh regular verbs adtive. 
ED, [Hen. a witnefs.] The name of an altar eredted 
by the two tribes and a half that inhabited Paleftine, eaft 
of Jordan, upon the borders of their territory, after their 
return from the conqitefl of Canaan; in witnefs that they 
were of the fame nation with thofe on the other fide of 
the river Jordan. In confequence of which a very ferious 
mifuhderftanding had nearly taken place. JoJh. xxii. 34. 
ED, a town of Sweden, in the province of Weft Goth¬ 
land : thirty-three miles north of Uddevalla. 
ED, a town of Sweden, in the province of Smaland : 
eighty miles north of Calmar. 
E'DA, a town of Sweden, in the province of Warme- 
land : forty miles north of Carleftadt. 
E'DA, one of the Orkney ifiands, about feven miles 
long, and half a mile to two miles broad, and fituated 
about eight miles north-north-eaft from Pamona. It con¬ 
tains feveral villages. Lat. 59. 2. N. Ion. 0.33. E. Edin¬ 
burgh. 
EDA'CIOUS, adj. [edax, Lat.] Eating; voracious; 
devouring; predatory; ravenous; rapacious; greedy. 
Vol. VI. No. 346. 
E D I) C4I 
EDA'CITY, y [edetcitas, 1 . at.] Voracity; ravenouf- 
nefs; greedinefs ; rapacity.—The wolf is a beaft of great 
edacity and digeftion ; it may be the parts of him comfort 
the bowels. Bacon. 
E'DAM, an ifiand near Batavia, where the Dutch 
placed criminals, and employed them in divers forts of 
work. 
E'DAM, a town of Holland, or Batavian Republic, 
fituated near the Zuyder Sea. It is built in a triangular 
form, and has a good port, formed by the river Ey, on 
which it Hands, and which, with the dam thrown up 
againft the inundations of that river, gives its name to the 
town. It holds the ninth rank among the final! cities of 
the ftates, and fends a deputy to the ftates-general: twelve 
miles north of Amfterdam. Lat. 52. 32. N. Ion. 22. 27. E. 
Ferro. 
E'DAR, the name of a tower in Canaan, near which 
the patriarch Jacob pitched his tent, in his journey to 
vifit his father. Gcrc.xxxv.21. 
ED'BO, a town of Sweden, in the province of Upland : 
thirty miles eafl-north-eaft of Upfal. 
ED'DA, y. in antiquities, is a fyftem of the ancient 
Icelandic or Runic mythology, containing many curious 
particulars of the theology, philofophy, and manners, of 
the northern nations of Europe ; or of the Scandinavians, 
who had migrated from Alia, and from whom our Saxon 
anceftors were defeended. M. Mallet apprehends that it 
was originally compiled, foon after the Pagan religion 
was abolifhed, as a courfe of poetical lectures, for the life 
of Inch young Icelanders as devoted themfelves to the 
profeflion of a [raid, or poet. It confifts of two principal 
parts; the 'firji, containing a brief fyftem of mythology, 
properly called the Edda-, thtjcccnd, a kind of art of poe¬ 
try, called J'calda, or poetics. The mod ancient Edda was 
compiled by Soemund Sigfuffon,- furnamed the Learned, 
who was born in Iceland about the year 1037. This was 
abridged, and rendered more intelligible about 120 years 
afterwards, by Snorro Sturlcfon, who was fupreme judge- 
of Iceland. He added alfo the fecond part, in the form of 
a dialogue, being a detail of different events tranfacled 
among the divinities. The only three pieces that are 
known to remain of the more ancient Edda of Soemund, 
are the Volufpa, the Havamaal, and the Runic chapter. 
The Volufpa, or prophecy of Vola or Fola, appears to be 
the text on which the Edda is the comment. It contains 
in two or three hundred lines the whole fyftem of mytho¬ 
logy difclofed in the Edda, and may be compared to the 
Sibylline verfes, on account of its laconic yet bold ftyle, 
and its imagery and obfeurity. It is profefiedly a revela¬ 
tion of the decrees of the Father of Nature, and the adlions 
and operations of the gods. It deferibes the chaos, the 
formation of the world, with its various inhabitants, the 
function of the gods, their moft fignal adventures, their 
quarrels with Loke their great adverfary, and the ven¬ 
geance that enfued; and concludes with a long deferip- 
tioii of the final ftate of the nniverfe, its diffoluticn and 
conflagration, the battle of the inferior deities, and the 
evil beings, the renovation of the world, the happy lot 
of the good, and the puniftiment of the wicked. 
To ED'DER, v. a. [probably from edge.) To bind or 
interweave a fence.—To add ftrength to the hedge, edder 
it; which is, bind the top of the (lakes with fome fmall 
long poles on each fide. Mortimer. 
ED'DER, f. Such wood as is commonly put upon the 
top of fences, to keep the ftakes tight: 
In lopping and felling, fa wz'edder and ftake, 
Thine hedges, as needeth, to mend or to make. TuJJer. 
ED'DERBRECHE, f. [from the Saxon, now ohfolete.) 
The offence of hedge-breaking. 
ED'DISH,yi [ebiyc, Sax.] The ftubble after the 
corn is cut; the latter grafs. 
ED'DRED-SI, a fmall ifiand in the Red Sea, two 
leagues from the coaft of Arabia. Lat. 17.10. N. Ion. 41. 
33. E. Greenwich. 
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