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To EMPAN'NEL, v. a. To fmnmon to ferve on a 
jury.—I (hall not need to empannel a jury of moralids or 
divines, every man’s own bread fufficiently indrubting 
him. Government of the Tongue. 
EMPAR'LANCE, f. in law, fee Imparlance. —A 
parley in the midfi of a conflict: 
Full often times did Britomart affay 
To fpeak to them, and fome emparlance move. Sperfer. 
EM'PASM,/! [ empafma , Lat. from evj and nacrco, G r. 
to Iprip.kle.] A medicine compofed of fvveet powders, to 
take away fweatf correct the bad feent of the body, and 
allay inflammations, by being fprinkled or rubbed upon 
the parts affebted. 
To EMPAS'SION, v. a. To move with paflion ; to 
affect drongly; to throw off from equanimity : 
So (landing, moving, or to height upgrown, 
The tempter, all empajjion’d, thus began. Milton. 
EMPAS'SION A T E, adj. Strongly affe&ed : 
With the neare touch whereof in tender hart 
Tiie Briton prince was fore empajjionatc. 
And woxe inclined much unto iter part. Spetifer. 
EMPE'DOCLF.S, an eminent Sicilian philofopher and 
poet, a native of Agrigentum, who flourifhed about the 
84th olympiad, or 444 years before (Thrift. Upon the 
deatli of his father Meto, who was a wealthy citizen of 
Agrigentum, he became a man of confequence and weight 
among his fellow-citizens, and fecured their confidence 
and efleem by efpoufi ng, in all druggies of a political na¬ 
ture, the interests of the great body of the people, and 
by the liberal and generous purpofes to which he applied 
a confiderable fliare of his large paternal eflate. Among 
other inftances, he bellowed a part of it in the form of 
dowries, on indigent young women, who by thofe means 
were enabled to marry into refpebfuble connections. There 
was fomething of oflentation, however, in the didinbtion 
of drefs which heaffumed, wearing a purple robe,.a golden 
girdle, and a Delphic crown ; in the numerous train of fer- 
vants by which lie chofe to be attended ; and in the grave 
and commanding afpedl which he always maintained. Such 
(lately appearances would have been confidered a^ indica¬ 
tions, in mod men, of a wifh to obtain the polfeflion ot 
fovereign power. But Empedocles had no inch defire. 
On the contrary, he was, as Ariftotle affirms, utterly 
averl'e to taking any government upon him, and, accord¬ 
ing to Xanthus, refufed a crown which was once offered 
hint, whether by the Agrigentines, or by what other 
people, we are not informed; (hewed himfelf a deter¬ 
mined enemy to tyranny, under whatever form it was at¬ 
tempted to be eftablifned ; and condantly employed his 
wealth and influence in preferving and defending the 
rights and liberties of his countrymen. Empedocles alfo 
pofieffed poetical talents. Some of his pieces were fung 
at the Olympic games ; and his dile is faid by Aridotle to 
have been homerical, forcible in expreffion, and adorned 
with numerous m'etaphofs and other poetical figures. 
Henry Stephens has collected fragments of his verfes 
which are difperfed through various ancient writers; and 
Their exidence affords fome ground for the opinion of 
Fabricius, that Empedocles was the real author of that 
ancient fragment which bears the name of The Golden 
V.erfes of Pythagoras. He is alfo faid to have written 
fome tragedies, and treatifes on politics. That he was an 
eminent maderof the art of eloquence, may be concluded 
not only from the effebts produced on his fellow-citizens 
by his harangues to them, but from the circumdance that 
Georgius Leontinus, a celebrator orator, was his pupil. 
There is much uncertainty in the accounts relative to 
the time and manner of his death. According to certain 
writers, he perilhed in the burning crater of mount Etna. 
(Me of their accpunts dates, that he incautioufly (lipped 
into it while attempting to examine the phenomenon; 
and that the accident was difeovered by means of one of 
3 iis brazen fundals, which was thrown out from the moun- 
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tain in a fubfequent eruption. Strabo, however, and 
other writers, rejebt this-dory as fictitious. Timaeus’s 
relation, mod probably, is the true one, which affirms 
that towards the clofe of his life, Empedocles went into 
Greece, and that he never returned to Sicily; by which 
means the time and manner of his death remain unknown. 
According to Aridotle, he died when he completed his 60th 
year; but fome make him 67, and others 309, years old. 
A datue was eredted to his memory at Agrigentum, which 
was afterwards carried to Rome. The following is the fub- 
flance of his philofophy, ascolledted from his Fragments: 
That it is impoffible to judge of truth by the fenfes, with¬ 
out the aid of reafon, which is led, through their medium, 
to contemplate the real nature and immutable effences of 
things ; that the fird principles of nature are of two kinds, 
adtive and paffive, the former of which is unity, or God, 
the latter, matter; that the adtive principle is a fifbtle 
ethereal fire, intelligent and divine, which gives being to 
all things, animates all things, and into which all things 
will finally be refolved ; that there are in the regions of 
the air numerous demons, emanations from the divine 
•nature, who prefide over human affairs ; that brute ani¬ 
mals are allied to the Divinity, as conflituting a part of 
thofe animated beings which the fame fpir-it unites to it- 
felf, and to one another, on which account it is unlaw¬ 
ful to kill or eat animals; that the world is one whole, 
circutnfcribed by the revolution of-the fun, and fur- 
rounded by a mais of inabtive matter; that the fird ma¬ 
terial principles of the four elements are limilar atoms, 
indefinitely (mail, and of a round form, poffeffing the 
primary qualities of frienddiip and difeord ; that thefe 
atoms being excited to motion by the energy of the in- 
telledhial fire, or the divine mind, homogeneous parts 
became united, and heterogeneous feparated, and the 
four elements compofed of which all bodies are genera¬ 
ted ; that all motion, as well as all life and being, mud 
therefore be aferibed to God ; that the fird principles of 
the elements are eternal ; that nothing can begin to exifl, 
or be annihilated, and that all the varieties of nature are 
produced by combination or feparation ; that in the for¬ 
mation of the world ether was fird fecreted from chaos, 
then fire, then earth, by the agitation of which were pro¬ 
duced water and air; that the heavens are a folid body of 
air crydallifed by fire; that the dars are bodies compofed 
of that fiery fubdance which proceeded from ether at its 
fird fecretion, and fixed in the crydal of heaven, while 
the planets wander freely beneath it; that the fun is-of 
a fiery mafs, larger than the moon ; that the moon is in 
the form of a hollow difh, and twice as far from the fun 
as from the earth; that the foul of man confids of two 
parts, the fenlitive, produced from the fame fird princi¬ 
ples w ith the elements, and the rational, a demon fprung 
from the divine foul of the world, and placed in the 
body by way of punifliment for its crimes in a formeV 
date, which it is to fudain till it is fufficiently purified 
to return to God ; that in the courfe of the tr'atffmigra¬ 
tion to which all human fouls are liable, they may inha¬ 
bit not only different human bodies, but the bodies of 
any animal or plant; and that all nature is-fubjebt to 
the immutable and eternal law of necefiity. 
To EMPE'OPLE, v. a. To form into a people or com¬ 
munity : 
Fie wonder’d much, and ’gan enquire 
What dately building durd fo high extend 
Her lofty towers unto the darry fphere, 
And what unknown nation there empeopled were? Spenfr „ 
EMPEREU'R (Condantine P), a. learned Dutch di¬ 
vine and oriental fcholar, native of Oppyck, in FJolland- 
He applied himfelf to the fludy of jurifprudence and' 
theology, and took the degree of doblor in the latter fa¬ 
culty. But he principally didinguiffied himfelf by his 
proficiency in oriental literature, and Jewiffi antiquities. 
After having made himfelf acquainted with the Syriac,. 
Arabic, and Hebrew, languages, he took much pains to 
encourage' 
