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ferland, England, in woods, with us in a calcareous foil, 
as near Berkhamftead, in Herts ; Marlow and Harnbieton, 
in Bucks; Henley and Stokenchurch, in Qxfordftiire ; 
Ripton woods, Huutingdonfhire ; rocks oppofite Mat- 
lock baths ; in the north frequent. Perennial ; flower¬ 
ing in June. It is a coarfe grafs, like nioft of thofe which 
grow in woods ; and like them is loinetimes drawn up to 
a great height. 
9. Elymus caput Meduftc, or Portugal llme-grafs: 
fpikelets two-flowered; involucres bridle-form, fpreud- 
ing very much. Native of Spain and Portugal, on the 
coafts. Annual; flowering in July. 
10. Elymus hyftrix, or rough lime-grafs : fpike up¬ 
right; fpikelets without involucre, fpreading. Native of 
the Levant; flowers here in July and Augult. 
11. Elymus giganteus, or large elymus; fpike ercci, 
dole ; fpikelets in fixes, fix-flowered, villofe ; calyxes 
awl-lliaped, fmooth, longer that the fpikelets. Its coun¬ 
try is-iinknown. For the propagation and culture, fee 
Grass : and fee Hordeum and Zizania. 
EL'YOT (fir Thomas), a learned man in the reign of 
Henry VIII. fon of fir Richard Elyot, of Suffolk, born 
about the commencement of the fixteenth century. He 
was educated at St. Mary’s-hall, Oxford, ancl afterwards 
travelled abroad. On his return lie was knighted, and 
■ employed by the king in various embafiies. He was at 
Rome in 1532, negociating the affair of the divorce of 
queen Catharine; and, in 1536, was fent to the emperor 
■Charles V. He lived in habits of intimacy with feveral 
of the learned men of his time, among whom were lir 
Thomas More, and Leland the antiquary, the laft of whom 
addrefied a copy of Latin verfes to him in his Encomia il- 
liiftrium Virorum. He died in 1546. SirThomas Elyot 
was the author of a number of works, which appear to 
have bqen chiefly tranflations and compilations, but had 
their ufe at the time in promoting knowledge and enrich¬ 
ing the Englifli language. One of the tnoft noted of tliefe 
was his Cafiell of Health, feveral times reprinted. 
Another work entitled The Governor, became popu¬ 
lar. Its purpofe was to give moral inftruftions to the 
higher orders of fociety. Its futirical vein is faid to liave 
given fome offence; but the book was much applauded 
by the king. He alfo wrote on education ; on remarka¬ 
ble events in Englifli hiftory ; on good women ; and a 
library or dictionary. It ought not to be omitted, that 
he is ranked among literary impofiors, on account of his 
Image of Governance compiled of the ACts and Sen¬ 
tences notable of Alexa'nder Severus, which he pretend¬ 
ed to have tranflated from a Greek manufcript of Encol- 
pius, lent him by a Neapolitan gentleman, but which is 
proved to liave been taken from Lumpridius and Herodi- 
an, with mifreprefentations and "additions from his own 
invention. 
E'LYS BAY, a bay of the ifland of Antigua, on the 
north court, a little to the fouth of Beggar’s Point. 
ELY'SIUM,/ [eA va<nv, Gr. or of py, Heb. to rejoice.] 
The place affigned by the heathens to happy fouls; any 
place exquilitely pleafant: 
To have thee with thy lips to flop my mouth, 
So fiiould’lt thou either turn my flying foul. 
Or I (bould breathe it fo into my body, 
And then it liv’d in fweet Elyfium. Shakejbcare. 
According to the mythology of the ancients, Elyfiurrf 
was the paradife where the fouls of the virtuous were 
placed after death. "There happinefs was complete, the 
pleafures were innocent and refined. Bowers for ever 
green, delightful meadows, with pleafant dreams, were 
the ,mofl finking objeCts. The air was wholefome, 
ferene, and temperate; the birds continually warbled in 
the groves, and the inhabitants were defied with another 
fun and other ftars. The employments of the heroes who 
dwelt in thefe regions of blils were various; the manes 
of Achilles are reprefented as waging war with the wild 
hearts, while the Trojan chiefs are innocently exerciling 
themfelves in managing horfes, or in handling arms. Ta 
thefe innocent amufements fome poets have added conti r 
nual feafting and revelry, and they fuppofe that the Ely- 
fian fields were filled with all the incontinence and volup- 
tuoufnefs which Mahomet has pictured to his difciples as 
the reward of every true mu (Tel man, who rtiould perirti in 
attempting to eftablifh the doCtrines of the Koran. The 
Elyfian fields were, according to fome, in the fortunate 
iflands on the court of Africa, in the Atlantic. Others 
place them in the irtand of Leuce ; and, according to the 
authority of Virgil, they were (ituate in Italy. Accord¬ 
ing to Lucian, they were near the moon ; or in the center 
of the earth, if we believe Plutarch. Virg./En.v i. Homer. 
Od. iv.—Dr. Bryant and other modern writers place the 
Elyfian fields upon the fide of the charonian canal, near the 
ancient Memphis, in E^ypt. 
ELY'TRA,/ The liiells or wing-cafes of the coleop- 
tric order of infeCis. They are generally highly poliflied, 
• and enriched with various colours. See the article En¬ 
tomology, in this volume. 
ELY'TROCELE,/. [from EXtrrpoi', Gr. the vagina, and 
kvjA y„ a tumour.] In medicine, a hernia in the vagina. 
ELYTROI'DES, J. [from eXvrpoii, Gr. a Iheath, and 
etooc, a likenefs. ] In anatomy, the'name of the tunica va¬ 
ginalis, becaufe it includes the tefies as it were in a Iheath. 
ELY'TRON,/. [from eAv&>, Gr. to involve.] The va¬ 
gina. A fheath. In anatomy, the membranes which in¬ 
volve the fpinal marrow are called elytra. 
EL'ZE, or Eltz, a town of Germany in the circle of 
Lower Saxony, and bilhopric of Hildefiieim, on the 
Saale : nine miles fouth-weft of Hildelheim. 
EL'ZEVIRS, famous printers of Amfterdam and Ley¬ 
den, are jurtly commemorated for the many valuable 
books they printed, and the perfection to which they car¬ 
ried their 3rt, at a comparatively early period. Lewis, 
the firft of the family, was diftinguilhed for his editions 
from the year 1395. He was lucceeded by Bonaven- 
ture, Abraham,.and Daniel, the latter of whom died 
about 1680. The Elzevirs were lefs learned than the 
Etiennes, (Stephenfes,) but they equalled them in the 
choice of books and the knowledge of bnfinefs, and fur- 
parted all the world in the beauty of typography. Their 
(mail types, in particular, have a clearnefs and elegance 
which perhaps have never been equalled. Their Virgil, 
Terence, Greek Teftament 1633, and fome other books 
diftinguilhed by characters in red ink, are reckoned maf- 
ter-pieces; and the belt of their dallies (till maintain a 
high value. Tlie laft catalogue of their editions was 
printed by Daniel in 1674, in (even parts, but it contains 
many books not of their own printing. 
’EM. A contraction of them : 
For he could coin and counterfeit 
New words with little or no wit; 
And when with hafty noife he fpoke ’em , 
The ignorant for current took ’em. Hudibras. 
EMACER A'TION, f. A making lean or wafting; 
alfo foaking or fowfing. 
To EMA'CIATE, v. a. \_ernatio, Lat.] Towafte; to 
deprive of flelh.—All dying of the confumption, die ema- 
dated and lean. Graunt. 
To EMA'CIATE, v. n. To lofe flelh; to pine; to 
grow lean.—He emanated and pined away in the too 
anxious .enquiry of tlie lea’s reciprocation, although not 
drowned therein. Brown. 
EMACIA'TION, J\ [emaciatus, Lat.] The a.Ct of 
making lean. The (late of one grown lean.—Searches 
cannot tell whether this emaciation or leannefs were from 
a phthifis, or from a heCfic fever. Graunt. 
EMA'CITY, f. [ emacitas , Lat.] A defire to be al¬ 
ways buying. 
To EMA'CULATE, v.a. [emacularc., Lat.] To take 
out fpots. 
EM ACUL A'TION,/. [emaculo, Lat.] The ad of free¬ 
ing any thing from fpots or foulnefs. 
E'MANANT. 
