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of Ceylon prepare a perfume. The wood is of a light 
chocolate colour, mlic'h variegated with darker coloured 
veins; it is hard, durable, and ufed for a variety of pur- 
poles. The fruit, delicious to the tafte ami exqujfitely 
fragrant, is not only nutritious, but pofledes a laxative 
and aperient quality, confirmed by experience, which 
renders it particularly ferviceable in habitual coftivenefs. 
The mucus of the feed makes a very good cement for 
feveral purpofes. 
E'GLETONS, a town of France, in the department 
of the Correze, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridt 
of Tulle : five leagues north-eaft of Tulle. 
EGLIN'GEN, a lordfhip of Germany, in the circle of 
Swabia, joining the county of Oettingen, and duchy of 
Neuburg, with a town of the fame name, purchafed by 
the prince of Tour-Taxis, for 200,000 florins. It pays 
twenty florins for a Roman month, and is taxed at five 
rixdollars thirty-fix kruitzers. The town is fix miles 
north of Dillingen, and iii fouth of Norlingen. 
EGLISAU', a town and bailiwic of Swifferland, in 
the canton of Zurich, on the Thur: fifteen miles north 
of Zurich. 
EGLI'SE-NEUVE, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Puy-de-Dome, and chief place of a canton, 
in the diftrift of Belle : eight miles fouth of Befle. 
EG'LOFF, or Megloff, a lordfliip and principality 
of Germany, in the circle of Swabia, which pays fixteen 
florins for a Roman month, and is taxed at twenty-fix 
rixdollars to the chamber of Wetzlar: the town of Egloff 
is four miles weft of Ifni. 
To EGLO' < MER ATE, v. n. [from e, Lat. out of, and 
glomero, to gather into a round mafs.] To unwind itfelf. 
Not much ufed. 
E'GLON, [Heb. round.] A city of Palelline, in the 
tribe of Judah, fituated in the low parts of that province. 
JoJh. xv. 39. 
EG'MONT, a town of Holland, on the fea coaft : three 
miles fouth-weft of Alcmaer. 
EG'MONT BAY, a bay on the fouth-weft of the 
if!and of St. John, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Lat. 
46. 30. N. Ion. 64. o. W. Greenwich. 
EG'MONT ISLAND, an ifland in the South Pacific 
Ocean, fix miles long, and four broad, the land low and 
full of trees; difcovered by captain Carteret. The Spa¬ 
niards called it Santa Cruz. Lat. 19. 20. N. Ion. 138. 
30. W. Greenwich. 
EGNA'ZIO (Batifta), a learned Italian, whofe true 
name was Giavibatijla Cipelli, born at Venice of poor pa¬ 
rents about 1478. He received a literary education under 
Benedetto Brognolo and Francefco Bragadino; and at 
the perfuafion of the latter, opened a private fchool of 
belles-lettres at Venice, when only eighteen years of age. 
His riling reputation and fttccefs excited the jealoufy of 
Marcantonio Sabellico, public prbfeflbr in the fame city, 
who began to ufe all means of diferediting his rival. 
-Egnazio retaliated by a fevere cenfure of the labours of 
-Sabellico on various ancient autliors, which he publiftied 
in 1502, under the title of Raccmationes . He afterwards 
undertook to write, n-ew annotations upon the authors 
commented on by Sabellico; and, Hill further to vex 
him, opened.a public fchool in the.vicinity of his. It 
is to the honour of both thefe learned adverfaries, that 
.Sabellico on his; death-bed, jn 1506, fent for, Egnazio, 
afked him pardon for the enmity with which lie had 
-treated him, and commit.tecl to his care his ten mapufeript 
books of Examples, in order for their publication ; and 
that Egnazio not qnly complied with this requelt, Jmt 
pronounced his funeral eulogy. The Venetian republic 
mean time had conferred upon him the right of citizen¬ 
ship, with the title of notary ; and as he had early em¬ 
braced the ecclefiaflical Hate, he was prefented with the 
benefice of Gelurino, in the diocefe of Trevigi. In 1511 
he was appointed pariIh pried of St. Baiio, tind prior of 
the hofpitaJ cf St. Mark in,Venice. In 1315 he accom¬ 
panied to Milan, four procurators of St. MJtrk, fent to 
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compliment king Francis I. to whofe honour Egnazio 
compofed a panegyric, for which he was rewarded with 
a ( ’gold medal. On the death of Regio, public profefibr 
of eloquence at Venice, in 1520, he was eledled, againft 
feveral competitors, to the vacant chair, and was allowed 
to hold his fchool in the hofpital of which he was prior. 
Such was tfie concourfe from various parts to hear him, 
that he had fometimes more than five hundred daily au¬ 
ditors. He was alfo frequently confulted upon important 
affairs by the fenators, who had a great opinion of his 
vvifdom. He died in 1353, at the age of feventy-five, be¬ 
queathing-his property and library to ’three noble Vene¬ 
tian families;. .Egnazio was an author in various walks. 
He compofed Orations on feveral-occafions; Epiftles ; 
the Panegyric above-mentioned ; a treatife De Romanis 
pnneipibus vcl Cafaribus, containing the lives of Roman 
emperors, from Julius Caefar to Conftantine Palteologus, 
and from Charlemagne to Maximilian I. a treatife O11 
the Origin of the Turks; and a work in nine books, Dt 
Excmplis Virorum illujlrium. But he principally employed 
himfelf in corre£ling and commenting upon the works of 
the ancients, in the editing of which he was of great ufe 
to the elder Aldus. His Raccvmtiones have been inferted 
in Gruter’s Lampas. 
EGN'BERG, a town of Germany, in the archduchy 
of Auftria: eight miles north-eaft of Gmunden. 
E'GOIST, J. [from ego, Lat.] A peculiar kind of 
Cartefian.—Hitherto Des Cartes was uncertain of every 
th.jng but his own .exigence, and the exiftence of the ope¬ 
rations and ideas of his own mind. Some of his difciples, 
it is faid, remained at this ftage of his fyftem, and got the 
nante.of egcifls. Reid. > 
EGO'ITY, J. lego, Lat.] The being or e(fence of I, 
or myfelf. 
EGORBE'USK, a town of Ruffia, in the gqvernment 
of Riazan : twenty-eight mil,es north of Riazan. 
EGOREVS'KOI, a town of Ruffia : forty miles north, 
eaft of Kologrin. 
E'GOTISM,/ [from ego, Lat.] The fault committed 
in writing, by the frequent repetition of the word ego, or 
7 ; too frequent mention of a man’s felf in writing or con- 
verfatron.—The mo ft- violent egolifm which I have met 
with, in the courfe of my reading, is that of cardinal 
Wolfey’s; ego & rex meus, I and my king. Spectator. ' 
E'GOTIST, J'. [from ego, Lat.] One that is always 
repeating the word ego, /; a talker of himfelf.—-A tribe 
of egotijls, for whom I have always had a mortal averfton, 
are the authors of memoirs, who are never mentioned in 
any works but their own. Spectator. 
To E'GOTIZE, v. n. [from ego, Lat.] To talk much 
of one’s relf. 
E'GRA, or Chebbe, a town of Bohemia, in the circle 
of Saatz, formerly imperial, and in polfeffion of towns 
and villages ; it yet preferves fome valuable privileges, 
and contains a college and three convents'. Near it are 
Fome medicinal fprings, exported in bottles fealed with 
the arms of the town. It was taken by the French in 
1742, but retaken by the Auftrians in 1743. The diftri£l 
'to which it belongs at one time made part of the duchy 
of Bavaria, from which it was fold to the king of Bohe¬ 
mia : feventeen miles fouth-weft of Elnbogen, and feven- 
ty-fix weft of Prague. Lat. 49. 59. N. Ion. 39. 9. £. Ferro. 
E'GRA, or Eger, a river which rifes in the marg- 
graviate of CulnVbacli, and runs into the Elbe near Leit- 
meritz in Bohemia. 
EGRE'GIOUS, adj. [r gregius, Lat.] Eminent; re¬ 
markable; extraordinary.—He might be able to adorn 
'this prefent age, and furnilh hiftory with the records of 
egregious exploits both of art and valour. Moore. 
One to empire born ; 
Egregious prince ; whofe manly childhood fhew.’d 
His mingled parents, and portended joy. Philips. 
Eminently bad ; remarkably vicious. This is the ufualfenfe. 
.—We may be bold to conclude, that thefe iaft times, fur 
infolence. 
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