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fevcn miles north of Fry burg, and nineteen fouth-fouth- 
eart of Strafburg. 
EMME'NIA, f. "[from vj, in, and Gr. a month.] 
A term with phyficians for the monthly purgation of 
women. 
EM'MERICH, or Embrich, or Emmeric’k, a town 
of Germany, in the circle of Wettphalia, and duchy of 
Cleves, furrounded witli walls and ditches in 1247. It 
contains four churclie's, for Lutherans, Calvinifts, Roman 
catholics, and Mennonites, one each ; the Roman catho¬ 
lics have four convents. It has a voice and feat at the 
provincial affemblies. It was taken by the French in 1672, 
and reftored to the debtor of Brandenburg in 1673: lix 
miles eafl of Cleves. Lat. 51, 51. N. Ion. 23, 40. E. Ferro. 
EM'MKT,/. [a:me«e, Sax.] An ant; a pifmire. 
See the article Formica. , 
To EMMEW', v. a. To mew or coop up : 
This outward-fainted deputy, 
Whofe fettl’d vifage and delib’rate word, 
Nips youth i’ th’ head, and follies doth emmew. 
As faulcon doth the fowl, is yet a devil. Shahcfpcare. 
EM'MIUS (Ubbo), a learned philologifl and hiftorian, 
horn in 1547 at Gretha, a village in Eafl Friefland, of 
which his father was paftor. He fludied at the univerfity 
cl Roftock, where he attended the lectures of David 
Chytrasus and Henry Bruce, On the death of his father 
he returned to his native place, where he lived and en¬ 
gaged hs matter of the fchcol of Norden in Eafl Friefland, 
in 1579. Under his direblion this feminary fl.oiiriflied 
greatly ; but as he declined to fubfcribe the confeflion of 
Auglburg, lotne bigotted Lutherans caufed him to be de¬ 
prived of his falary, and prohibited from teaching. He 
therefore accepted an invitation to undertake the fame 
office at Leer, to the fchool of which he gave a reputation 
which durably injured that of Norden. Several Calvi-’ 
nitts expelled by the Lutherans from Groningen came to 
refide at Leer, and contracted an intimacy with Emmins. 
Through their influence, when Groningen alfociated itfelf 
with the United Provinces, and planned the re-eftablilh- 
ment of its college, Emmius was invited to become its di¬ 
rector, with the power of forming fuch ftatutes for its 
government as he fliould think proper. He removed 
thither in 1594, and exercifed his office near twenty years 
to the great advantage of the inftitutio.n. At the end of 
that time, the city of Groningen having erefted its col¬ 
lege into an univerfity, Emmius was appointed profeflbr 
of hiftory and Greek. This fituation he retained to old 
age, and no offers from other univerfities could tempt 
him to remove. He died at Groningen in 1623, in the 
feventy-ninth year of his age. The principal works of 
Emmius are, 1. Decades Rcrum Frifcarum, folio, 1616; a 
valuable performance, and the more fo, as his fuperiority 
to the national partiality fo common in hiftorians of their 
own country, has led him to rejebt and refute the fables 
concerning the Frilian antiquities related by other au¬ 
thors; yet he has incurred reproach for this attachment 
to truth. 2. Vetus Gracia illuflrata, 3 vols. Svo. 1626; a 
valuable fummary of the geography, hiftory, polity, Sic. 
of ancient Greece. 3. Opus Chronologicum Novum , folio, 
1619. 4. Chronologica Rerum Romanarum, cum ferie Confulum, 
folio, 1619. 3. Appendix Chronologica, folio, i' 620. All 
thefe difplay a profound knowledge of hiftory, and have 
been much applauded by learned men. 
EM'MOR, [from the Heb. fignifying an afs.] The 
name of a man. 
Jo EMMC'VE, v. a. \_emmouvoir, Fr.] To excite; to 
roufe ; to put into emotion. Not ufed. 
One day, when him high courage did emmove, 
He pricked forth. Spenfer. 
EMOL'LIENT, adj. [ emolliens , Lat.] Softening, flip¬ 
ping-—Barley is emollient, moiftening, and expectorating. 
—Diuretics are decoctions, emulfions, and oils of emollient 
vegetables, fo far as they relax the urinary pafTages : 
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fuch as relax ought to be tried before fuch as ftimulate. 
Arbutknot. 
EMOl?LIENTS, y. Such things as flieath and foften 
the afperities of the humours, and relax and fupple the 
folids at the fame time. ■ Quincy. — Emollients ought to be 
taken in operr'air, to hinder them from perfpiring, and on 
empty ftomachs. Arbuthnot. 
EMOLLI'TION, f. [ emollitio, Lat.] The a<St of foft- 
ening.—Laflitude is remedied by bathing, or .anointing 
witlr'oil arid warm water.; the caufe is, for that all lafii- 
tude is a kind of contufion and compreflion of the par , 
and bathing and anointing give a relaxation or emollction. 
Bacon. 
EMO'I.UMENT, f. \_emolumentum, Lat.] Profit; ad¬ 
vantage.—Let them confult how. politic they were, for a 
temporal emolument to throw away eternity. South. —No¬ 
thing gives greater fatisfablion than the ferife of having 
difpatched a great deal of bufinefs to public emolument'. 
Taller. 
EMOLUMEN'TAL, adj. Ufefnl,—Who receive and 
promote his dictates in all that is laudable, and truly 
cmolumental of this nature. Evelyn's Preface. 
EMON'GST, prep, [fo written by Spenfer. ] Among: 
The merry birds of every fort, 
Chaunted aloud their chearful harmony ; 
And made emongf themfelves a fweet confort, 
That quick’ned the dull fp’rit with mufical comfort. 
Fairy Queen. 
EMO'TION, f. [Fr.] Diflurbance of mind; vehe¬ 
mence of paffion, or pleafing or painful.—I wili appeal 
to any man who lias read this poet, whether he finds not 
the natural emotion, of the fame pafiion in himfelf, which 
the-poet deferibes in his feigned perfons > Dryden. • 
Tliofe rocks and oaks that fuch emotion felt, 
Were rural maids whom Orphe.us taught to melt. Granville. 
EMOUI', or Hia-men, an ifland near the fouth-eaft 
coaft of China, in the province of Fo-kien, about fifteen 
miles in circumference, with a port capable of containing 
any number of vefiels, witli fufficient depth of water"; 
where the emperor keeps a garrifon of feveral thou fluid 
men. In the beginning of the eighteenth century it was 
frequented by European veffels for trade, but is now neg- 
leCted for Canton. Lat. 24. 30. N. Ion. 1.32. E. Peking. 
To EMPA'LE, v. a. [ empaler, Fr.] fto fence with a, 
pale: 
How happy’s he, which hath due place affign’d 
T’ his beafls, and difaforefted his mind ? 
Empal'd himfelf to keep them out, not in; 
Can fow, and dares truft corn, where they have been. 
Donne. 
To fortify.—‘The Englifh empaled, themfelves with their 
pikes, and therewith bare off their enemies. Hayward .— • 
To inclofe ; to flint in : 
They have empal'd within a zodiac 
The free-born fun, and keep twelve figns awake 
To watch his fteps: the Goat and Crab controul 
And fright him back. Donne. 
To put to death by fpitting on a flake fixed upright: 
Let them each be broken on the rack ; 
Then, with what life remains, empal'd, and left 
To writhe at leifure round the bloody flake. Addifon. 
EMPA'LEMENT, f. The kind of punifliment in 
which a fharp pole was thruft up the fundament. I11 
botany, the calyx, that part which furrounds and fup- 
ports the petals or flower leaves of a plant. 
EMPATING, part. aEl. Fencing, fortifying, inclofing, 
putting to death by fpitting the body on a pole. 
EMPAN'NEL, f. [from panne, Fr.] The writing or 
entering the nahies of a jury into a parchment fchedule, 
or roll of paper, by the fheriff, which lie lias fummoned 
to appear for the performance of fuch public feryice as 
juries are employed in, Cowel. 
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