ELI 
probability, to the Jewifh doctors of the fchool of Tibe¬ 
rias, about the fixth century of the Chriftian era. His 
work, entitled Hajforet. Havunafforct , and his Scpktr Zickro- 
ncth, or Colleftion of Maflbreiic Obfervations from an¬ 
cient Authors, will be found of effential fervice in iliuf- 
trating the difficulties of the M a flora. He. llafalfo con¬ 
tributed more than any other of the learned Jews to faci¬ 
litate our acquaintance with the Targums, or Chaldee pa- 
'raphrafes, by drawing- up A Cltaldaic, Talmudic, and 
Rabbinic, Lexicon, which was publifhed in 1.541., in folio. 
Befides the treadles above-mentioned, he was the author 
of a Hebrew gloflary, entitled Thijbi , publifhed by Paul 
Fagius, in Hebrew and Latin, in 1542, 8vo. feveral works 
on Hebrew grammar, befides illuftra-tioins of.Kimchi’s 
valuable performance on the fame fubjeft, highly ufefnl 
to thole who would thoroughly underftajtd the Hebrew 
tongue. Traditio DoSlriiut, 4:0. in Hebrew, i538,.and'with 
the verfion of Munfter, in Svo. 1539. Colltciio Locorum in 
qui&iis G/ialdails Parapkraflts interjccit Npmen Chrijii, vetja a 
Genebra rdo, 8 vo. 1572. 
ELI'ASHIB, [Heb. the God of converfion.] A man’s 
name* 
ELI'ATHAI-I, [Heb. my Gcd comes.] The name of a 
Yuan. 
E'LICHMAN (Jolin), a native of Silefia in the feven- 
teenth century, who practifed phyfic at Leyden, and was 
remarkable for underftanding fixteen languages. He fup- 
ported an opinion, that the German and Perfian lan¬ 
guages were derived from the fame origin. His Latin 
tranflation of The Tablet of Cebes, with the Arabic 
verfion and the Greek, was printed at Leyden in 1640, 
under the care of Salmafius. 
ELICMRY'SO, f. in botany. See Achyranthes, 
Baccharis, Iva, Tarchonanthus, and Conyza. 
ELICHRY'SUM, f. in botany. See Athanasia, 
Chrysocoma, Conyza, Guaphalium, Stoebe, Ta- 
nacetum, Tarchonanthus, and Xf.ranthemum, 
To ELPCITE, v.a. [clicio, Lat.] To flrike out; to 
fetch out by labour or art.—Although the fame truths 
tnay be elicited, and explicated by the contemplation of 
animals, yet they are more clearly evidenced in the con¬ 
templation of man. Hale-. 
ELI'CIT, adj. [_elicitus, Lat.] Brought into aft; 
brought from poflibiiity to real exigence—The fchools 
difpute whether, in morals, the external action fuperadds 
any thing of good or evil to the internal elicit aft of the 
will. South. 
-ELICIT A'T.ION, f. [_elicio, Lat. ] The elicitation which 
the fchools intend, is a deducing of the power of the 
will into aft: that drawing which they mention, is merely 
from the appetibility of the objeft. Bramhall. 
To E'LIDE, v.a. [ dido , Lat.] To break in pieces; to 
crufh.—We are to cut oft’ that whereunto they, from 
whom thefe objeftions proceed, fly for defence, when the 
force and ftrengrh of the argument is elided. Hooker. 
ELIE'NESS, a cape of Scotland, on the fouth coaft of 
the county of Fife, at the mouth of the frith of. Forth. 
Lat. 56. 10. N. Ion. 8.22. E. Edinburgh. 
ELIE'ZER, faid to have been a Jewifh rabbi, and au¬ 
thor of a work, entitled The Chapters of Rabbi Eliczer, 
which is a compound of hiftory and allegory. It is held 
in efteem among the Jews, and confidered as one of the 
mod ancient books in their pofleffion. Some of them 
have placed the author in To early a period as the year 
73 or 75 of the Chriftian era, and reprefent him to have 
been one of the compilers of the Mifhna, Father Morin, 
■however, has (hewn, that the writer of that book did 
not compile it before the year 700; and that he was moft 
probably an impoftor, who affumed the name of Eliezer, 
and collected the fabulous materials which are difperfed 
through it, from the Talmud and other rabinical writings. 
Vorftius, in the preface to his tranflation of it, gives it as 
his opinion, that it is of a much later date than the Jews 
pretend ; and, though it is replete with abfurd tales and 
-fables, it furnifhes many valuable interpretations, which 
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ferve to IIIuftrate the hiftory and the traditions of the 
Jews. 
. ELIGIBILITY, f. Worthinefs to be chofen.—The 
bufinefs of the will is not to judge concerning the nature 
of things, but to choofe them in confequence of the re¬ 
port made by the underftanding as to their eligibility or 
goodnefs. Fiddes. 
EL'IGIBI.E, adj. [eligibility Lat.] Fit to be chofen; 
worthy of choicej preferable.—Certainty, in deep dif- 
trefs, is more eligible than fufpenfe. Clarijja. 
EL'IGIBLE 1 TESS, f Worthinefs to be chofen; pre, 
ferablenefs. - 
ELIGURI'TION, [Lat.] The aft of hafty eating or 
devouring. 
ELIHO'REPH, [Heb. the god of winter.] A man’s 
name. 
ELI'HU, [of "Fn my God, and ton lie, i.e. he is my 
God.] One of Job’s friends. 
ELI'JAH, [of God, and n* the Lord, i.e. Gcd the 
Lord.] Sometimes called Elias, one of the greateft of 
the .Hebrew prophets, had the furname of the Ti/hbit(, 
moft probably from the town or diftrift in.which he was 
born, and was a refident among the inhabitants of Gilead, 
if not a native of their country. He commenced his pro¬ 
phetic office nearly 920 years before Chrift, under the 
reign of Ahab, who was a prince of an impious charafter, 
and introduced among the Ifraelites the abominable rites 
of the Sidonian idolatry. The fil'd comtnifiion which 
the prophet received, was to appear before Ahab ; and, 
after feverely reproving him for his apoftacy, to threaten 
him with a long drought, in which there fliould be no 
rain, unlefs it were in anfyver to the prophet’s prayers. 
For this reproof Ahab was fo incenfed againft Elijah, 
that he determined to make him feel his vengeance; but 
the prophet, on receiving a divine admonition, withdrew 
from his power, and retired to a fecret place, where he 
was for fome time miraculoufiy fuftained. We refer to 
the facred books for the particulars of his million, the 
narrative of which cannot be abridged without injury to 
its beauty and effeft. Elijah’s tranflation took place in 
the year 896 before Chrift. The Jews, by mifeonftruing 
the prophecy in Malachi iv. 5. had very generally enter¬ 
tained the opinion, that before the advent of the Meffiah, 
Elijah would again perfonally appear on the earth, as the 
harbinger of that illuftrious charafter. But, it they had 
interpreted the prophetical language in this paffage in the 
fame manner which they were obliged to adopt in others, 
where a future prophet was .promiled in the name of 4. 
preceding one, as, for inftance, the Meffiah himfelf under 
the name of David, they could not have fallen into fnch 
an error. They would only have expefted the coming 
-of a prophet, as the forerunner of the Meffiah, who 
Ihould appear in the fpirit and power of Elijah, or ani¬ 
mated by the fame fanftity, courage, and zeal lor refor¬ 
mation, which diftinguilhed that celebrated prophet. As 
to the numerous apocryphal tales and reveries which fome 
of their writers, as well as fome Chriiiians and Maho¬ 
metans, have related concerning this prophet, we have 
no room for their infertion. The curious reader may find 
fpecimens of thefe fables in 'Bayle. Origen has cited a 
book, entitled The Ailumption, Apocalypfe, or the Se¬ 
crets of Elias, which he feemed to confider in the light 
of a genuine production ; but it is now generally allowed 
to be fuppofitious. 
ELI'KA, [Heb. the pelican»of God.] A man’s name. 
E'LIM, [Heb. the valleys.] The fifth encampment of 
the Ifraelites in their journey from Egypt to Canaan: 
here they found twelve wells of water, and feventy palm- 
trees. Exod. xv. 27. 
ELIMA'IS. See Elymais. 
To E'LIM ATE, v.a. [ elimatum , fup. of elimo , Lat.] 
To file ; to polith ; to fmooth. 
ELI'MELECFI, [Heb. God, my king.] Aman’sname. 
ELIMINA'TION, J. [elimino, Lat.] The aft of ba- 
niflung; the aft of turning out of doors ; rejection. 
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