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Let your remembrance (till apply to Banquo ; 
^Prefent him eminence both with eye and tongue. Shakefp. 
EM'INENT, adj. ^cminens^ Lat.] High ; lofty.—Thou 
haft built unto thee'tin'eminent place. Ezek. ■ 
Satan, in gefture proudly' eminent, 
- Stood like a tow’r. Milton. 
Dignified; exalted: 
.Rome for your fake fliall pufti her conquefts on, 
And bring new titles home from nations won, 
To dignify lo eminent a fon. Dryden. 
Confpicuous; remarkable.—She is eminent for a lincere 
piety in the practice of religion. Addifon. 
Eminent he mov’d 
In Grecian arms, the wonder of his foes. Glover. 
B.MINEN' I IAL EQUATION, f. A term tifed by 
feme algebraifts, in the inveftigatiou of the areas of enr- 
vilineal figures, for a kind of aftumed equation that con¬ 
tains another equation eminently, the latter being a par¬ 
ticular cafe of the former. 
EMINENTLY, adv. Confpicuoufly; in a manner that 
attracts obfervation : 
Such as thou haft folemnly elebted, 
With gifts and graces eminently adorned. Milton. 
In a high degree.—All men are equal in their judgment 
of what is eminently heft. Dryden. 
E'MIR, f. a title of dignity among the Turks, figni- 
fying a prince.o This title was-firft given to the caliphs; 
but when they affumed the title of fuTtans", that of emir 
remained to their children ; as that of C;efar among the 
Romans. At length the title came to be attributed to 
all who were judged to defeend from Mahomet by. his 
daughter Fatimah, and who wear the green turban. The 
Turks alfo call the vizirs, ba/haws, or governors of pro- 
■vinces, by this name. 
E'MIR, a town of Curdiftan, fituated on the weft fide 
of a well-cultivated and pleafaht valley, with a fine river 
running towards the north. 
E'MIR-B.ACH A, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the 
province of Natolia: eighty miles weft of Tocat. 
EM'ISSARY, f. [ emijfarhis , Lat.] One fent out on 
private meffages; afpy; afecPetagent.—Clifford, a nemif- 
fary and fpy of the king’s, fled over into Flanders with his 
privity. Bacon. 
You fliall neither eat nor fleep, 
No, nor forth your window peep. 
With your cmijfary eye, 
To fetch in the forms go by. ' Ben JunJbn. 
One that emits or fends out. A technical fenfe .— Where- 
ever there are emijfaries, -there are abforbeiit veftels in the 
(kin ; and, by the abforbeiit veifels, mercury will pafs 
into the blood. Arbuthnot. 
EMIS'SILE, adj. Capable of being call out, capable 
of being lent out. Scott. Not much ufed. 
EMlS'S10N,y'. \_cmijJio, Lat.] The act of fending out; 
—Tickling caulelh laughter: the caufe may be the emif- 
Ifio.n of the fpirits, and fo of the breath by a flight from 
titillation. Bacon .— Afiedtion, in the ftate of innocence, 
was happily pitched upon its right objedt j it flamed up 
in diredt fervours of devotion to God, and in collateral 
emij/ions of charity to its neighbour. South. 
To EMIT','0. a. [ emit to , Lat.] To fend forth ; to left 
go ; to give v.ent to.—The foil, being fruitful and rich, 
emits ftcams, confiding of volatile and trdtive parts. Ar¬ 
buthnot.. —To let fly ; to dart: 
Pay facred rev’rence to Apollo’s long; 
Left, wrathful, the far-fhooting god emit 
His fatal arrows. Prior. 
To iffue out juridically.—That a citation be valid, it 
ought to be decreed and emitted by the judge’s authority, 
and at the inftance of the party. Aylijfe. 
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"EM'I.Y, a village of Ireland, in the County of Tippe¬ 
rary ; the fee of a bifhop, Laid to have been founded fo 
early as the fifth century; and afterwards erected into an 
archbifhopric. In 1568, it was united to Cafhel, in which 
ftate it ftill continues: fifteen miles weft of Cafhel. 
EM'LYN (Thomas), an eminent Englifti proteftant- 
diflenting divine, born at Stamford in J.incolnfbire, in 
1663.. His parents were frequenters of the eftabliftied 
church, but, being inclinable to the principles.of the non- 
conformifts, chofe to bring up their fon to the miriiftry in 
that connection. Mr. Emlyn .made his ficft appearance', 
in the character of a preacher', in December,, 1682. In 
1683, he became chaplain to the courttefs of Donegal, who 
then lived in London, and in the year following went over 
with her and her family to Belfaft in Ireland, where fhe 
was married to fir William Franklin; who, having a good 
eftate in the weft of England, offered him a confiderable 
living in that country ; but this offer he declined, on ac^ 
count of his diffatisfaCtion with the terms of minifterial 
conformity, though at that time he entertained no Icru- 
ples on the I'ubjeCt of the Trinity. He was the author 
of a confiderable number of tracts on religious controverly. 
In the year 1731, he alio wrote Obfervations on Dr. Water- 
land’s Notions in Relation to Polytheifm, Ditheifm, &c. 
and in the lame year drew up fome Memoirs of the Lite 
and Sentiments of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Clarke. Thofe 
pieces were not publilhed till a complete collection was 
made of the author’s works in 1746, in two volumes 8vo. 
to which are added Memoirs of his Life! He died on the 
30th of July, 1743, in the feventy-ninth year of his age.. 
His fon, Mr. Sollom Emlyn, who was bred to fhe law., 
and became an eminent counfellor, was employed to pub- 
lilh lord-chief-juftice H.de’s Hiftory of the Pleas of the 
Crown, which he did in 1736) > n two volumes folio, to¬ 
gether with a preface and large notes, 
EM’MA, a woman’s name. 
EMM A'NUEL, or Immanuel, a Hebrew word which 
occurs Ifaiah viii. 14, in that celebrated prophecy, where¬ 
in he declares to Ahaz the birth of the Mefliah, who was 
to be born of a virgin, and be Emmanuel, that is, God 
with us. The fame prophet (viii. 8.) repeats the fame 
thing, while he is fpeaking of the enemy’s army, which, 
like a torrent, was to overflow Judea. “ The ftretching 
out of his wings fliall fill the breadth of thy land, O Em¬ 
manuel.-” The evangelift Matthew, i. 23. informs 11s, 
that this prophecy was accompliftied in the birth of 
Chrift, in whom the two natures divine and human were 
united, and who in this fenfe was really Emmanuel, or 
God with us. 
EM'MAUS, a village of Paleftine, fituated in Judea, 
fixty furlongs froim Jerufalem ; near which, Judas Mac- 
cabeirs-vanquiftied the army under the command of Gor- 
gias ; and where Chrift, after his refurreef ion, made him- 
felf known to two of his difciples. 1 Macc. iv. Luke, 
xxiv. 13. 
EM'ME, a river of Swifferland, which rifes near Ent- 
libuch, in the canton of Lticern, and runs into the Aar 
at Biberifch, in the canton of Soleure, through a fertile 
valley, called Emmenthal. 
EMMELOO'RT, a town in the north part of the 
ifiand of Schockland, in the Zuyder fea : ten miles eaft 
of Vollenhovp. 
F.MMEN'AGOGUES, f. [ 'emmenagoga , Lat. from e/x- 
fMtnct, Gr. the menfes, and a.yu>, to move.] Medicines 
that promote the courfes, either by giving a greater 
force to the blood in its circulation, or by making it 
thinner. Quincy. — F.mmenagogucs are fuch as produce a 
plethora, or fulnefs of the veffels, confequently Inch as 
ftrengthen tlie organs of digeftion, fo as to make good 
blood. Arbuthnot. 
EMMENALO'GlA,yi [from tjjy.r.r.a, Gr. the menfes, 
and Xoyoc, a difconrle.] A treatife on the emmenia. 
EMMENDIN'GEN, a town *of Germany, in the cir¬ 
cle of Swabia, and marggraviate of Baden, on the Enz : 
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