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vol. iv. p. 2.—God, which moveth meer natural agents 
as an efficient only, doth otherwife move intellectual crea¬ 
tures, and efpecially his holy angels. Hooker. —He that 
makes ; the effeftor.—Obfervations of the order of na¬ 
ture carry the mind up to the admiration of the great 
efficient of the world. Hale. 
EFFI'CIENT, adj. Caufing effefts; that makes the 
effeft to be what it is.—Your anfwering in the final 
caufe, makes me believe you are at a lofs for the efficient. 
Collier. 
Ei FIC'TION, J. [from the Lat. ex , out of, and jingp, 
to fafliion.] The aft of fafhioning, the aft of reprefent- 
ing. Not uj'ed. 
To EFFI'GIATE, v. a. {effigio, Lat.] To form a fem- 
blance ; to image. 
EFFIGI A'TION,/! The adt of imaging ; or forming 
the femblance of things or perfons. 
EFFI'GIES, or Ef'fig Y,y. {effigies, Lat. effigy is from 
being in tffigy.^ Refemblance ; image in painting or fculp- 
ture ; reprefentation ; idea.—We behold the fpecies of 
eloquence in cur minds, the effigies or aftual image of 
which we fe'ek in the organs of our hearing. Dryden, 
Obferve thofe numerous wrongs in effigy , 
The gods have fav.’d.from the devouring tea. Garth, 
EF'FINGHAM, a village in the county of Surrey, 
three miles from Leatherhead, which gives the title of 
earl to the noble family of Howard. It was once, accord¬ 
ing to tradition, a large and populous place, in which were 
Sixteen churches. There are evident proofs of its having 
been much larger than at prefent; for wells, and cavities 
like cellars, are frequently found in the fields and woods 
in its vicinity ; and in the church are fome very ancient 
and curious flails and monuments. 
EF'FINGHAM, formerly Leavitllown, a townfhip of 
the American States, in Strafford county, New Hamp- 
fhire, fouth-eafl of Offipee pond, on Offipee river, incor¬ 
porated in 17 66. 
EF'FINGHAM, a county of the American States, in 
the lower didrift of Georgia, bounded by Savannah ri¬ 
ver on the north-eadward, which feparates it from South 
Carolina; by Ogechee river on the fouth-wedward, which 
divides it from Liberty county. It contained, by the cen- 
fus, in 1796, 2424 inhabitants. Chief towns, Ebenezer 
and Elberton. 
To EFFLA'GITATE, v. a. {efflagitare , Lat.] To dc- 
fire a thing earneftly. Bailey. 
EFFLAGITA'TION,/! [from the Lat. ex, out of, and 
jlagito, to crave. ] An earned defire. Not much ujed. 
EFFLA'TED, adj. Puffed up. Chaucer. 
EFFLA'TION, J. [from the Lat. ex, out of, and flo, 
to blow.] The aft of belching, the aft of breaking wind. 
Not much uj'ed. 
EFFLORES'CENCE, or Efflorescency, f. {efffo- 
refco, Lat.] Produftion of flowers. The time or feafon 
in which plants put forth their bloffoms.—Where there 
is lefs heat, there the fpirit of the plant is digeded, and 
feveredfrom the grofferjuice in efflorejfcence. Bacon. —Excref- 
cencies in the form of flowers.—Two white fparry incruf- 
tations, with efflorefcencies in form of fhrubs, formed by the 
trickling of water. Woodward. —[In phyfic.] The break 
ing out of fome humours in the fkin, indidempers called 
•exanthematous; as in the meafles, See. Quincy. —A wart 
beginneth in the cutis, and feemeth to be an effiorefcence 
of the ferum of the blood. Wijeman. —[In chemidry.] 
The effeft which takes place when foiid or confident 
bodies gradually and fpontaneoufly become converted 
into a powder. See the article Chemistry, vol. iv. 
p. 219. 
EFFLORES'CENT, adj. {efflorefco, Lat.] Shooting 
out in form of flowers.—Yellow ejflorrjcent fparry incruda- 
tions on done. Woodward. 
EFFLU'ENCE,/! {ejfluo, Lat.] That which iffues from 
fome other principle.—Bright effluence of bright effence 
isicreate. Milton. 
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From the bright effluence of his deed 
They borrow that refiefted light, 
With which the lading-lamp they feed, 
Whole beams difpel the damps of envious night. Prior. 
EFFLU'ENT, adj. [from ex, out of, and jluo, Lat. ta 
flow.] Flowing from; running out. Cole. 
EFFLUT, a town of Norway: thirty-two miles north 
of Chridianiarid. 
EFFLU'VI A, or Effluvium, f. [from effluc, Lat.] 
Thofe fmall particles which are continually flying off 
from bodies ; the fubtilty of which appears from their 
being able, a long time together, to produce very fen- 
fible effefts, without any fenfible diminution of the body 
from whence they arife. Ouiney. 
If thefe effluvia, which do upward tend, 
Becaufe lefs heavy than the air, afeend ; 
Why do they ever from their height retreat, 
And why return to feek their central feat ? Blachmore. 
EF'FLUX, f. {effluxus, Lat.] The aft of flowing out. 
—Through the copious efflux of matter through the ori¬ 
fice of a deep ulcer, he was reduced to a Ikeleton. Harvey. 
—Effufion ; flow.—The firll cffiux of men’s piety, after 
receiving of the faith, was the felling and confecrating 
their poffeffions. Hammond. —That which flows from fome- 
thing elfe ; emanation: 
Prime chearerj light] 
Of all material beings, fil'd and bed! 
Efflux divine ! Thomfon. 
The aft of flowing is more properly effluence, and that 
which flows more properly efflux. 
To EFFLU'X, v. n. [ ejffluo , Lat.] To run out; to flow 
away.—Five thoufand and fome odd centuries of years 
are effluxed fince the creation. Boyle. 
EFFLUX'ION,/. {effiuxum, Lat.] The aft of flowing 
out. — By effiuxiun and attraftion, bodies tend towards 
the earth. Brown. —That which flows out; effluvium; 
emanation.—There are fome light ejfluxions from fpirit to 
fpirit, when men are one with another; as from body to 
body. Bacon. 
To EFFOR'CE, v. a. {efforccr, Fr.] To force; to break 
through by violence: 
In all that room was nothing to be feen, 
But huge great iron chefls and coffers drong, 
All barr’d with double bonds, that none could weera 
Them to effiorce by violence or wrong. Spenfcr. 
To force ; to ravifli; to violate by force : 
Then ’gan her beauty fliine as brighteft Iky, 
And burnt his beaflly heart t’ effiorce her chadity. Spevfer, 
To drain ; to exert with effort or vehemence ; 
The palmer lent his ear into the noife. 
To wheet who called fo importunely; 
Again he heard a more e{forced voice, 
That bad him come in hade. Spenfer. 
To EFFO'RM, v. a. [ ffiormo , Lat.] To make in any 
certain manner ; to fhape ; to falhion.-—Merciful and gra¬ 
cious, thou gaved us being, raifing us from nothing, and 
effiorming us after thy own image. Taylor. 
EFFORMA'TION, J. The aft of fadiioning or giving 
form to.—Nature begins to fet upon her work of efforma - 
tion. More. 
EF'FORT,/. {.effort, Fr.] Struggle; drain; vehement 
aftion ; laborious endeavour : 
Though the fame fun, with all diffufive rays, 
Blufli in the rofe, and in the diamond blaze, 
We prize the dronger effort of his pow’r, 
And always fet the gem above the flow’r. Pope. 
EFFOS'SION, J. [effodio , Lat.] The aft of digging 
up from the ground ; deterration.—He fet apart annual 
firms for the recovery of manuferipts, the effoffion of coins, 
and the procuring of mummies. Arbuthnot. 
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