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To life as materials.—The labour of thofe who felled 
and framed the timber employed about the plough, muft be 
charged on labour. Locke. —To commiflion ; to entrufl 
with the management of any affairs.—Jonathan and Ja- 
haziah were employed about this matter. Ezra, x. 15.—To 
fill up with bufinefs : 
To fludy nature will thy time employ ; 
Knowledge and innocence are perfect joy. Dry den. 
To pafs or fpend in bufinefs: 
Why, whilfl we druggie in this vale beneath, 
With want and forrovv, with difeafe and death, 
Do they more blefs’d perpetual life employ 
In fongs of pleafure, and in feenes of joy ? Prior. 
EMPLO'Y, f. Bufinefs; obje£l of induflry: 
Prefent to grafp, and future dill to find, 
The whole employ of body and of mind. Pope. 
Public office.—The honours and the burdens of great 
poffs and employs were joined together. Attcrbury. 
EMPLOYA'BLE, adj. Capable to be ufed; proper 
for life.—The objections made againfl the dodtrine of the 
chemitts, feetn employable againft this hypothefis. Boyle. 
EMPLOY'ER, J '. One that ufes, or caufes to be ufed. 
—That man drives a great trade, and is owner or employer 
of much (hipping, and' continues and increafes in trade 
and (hipping. Child on Trade. 
EMPLOY'MENT, f. Bufinefs; objedt of induftry; 
objedt of labour. Bufinefs; the date of being employed. 
Office; pod of bulinefs.—Leaders, on each fide,- inftead 
of intending the public weal, have their hearts wholly 
fet toget or to keep employments. Swift. —Bufinefs intruded : 
Call not your flocks.for me; I ferve the king, 
On whofe employment I was fent to you. Skakefpeare. 
Implement: 
My flay hath been prolongued 
With hunting obfeure nooks for thefe employments.'* 
[* An iron crow and a halter.] Chapin. Widow's Tears. 
EMPNEUMATO'SIS, f. [from tv, in, and nnu, to 
blow.] With phyficians, an inflation of the flomach, or 
womb, or any other part. 
To EMPOI'SON, v. a. \_empoifonner , Fr.] To deflroy 
by poifon ; to deflroy by venomous food or drugs*; to 
poilon.—M11 (hrooms caufe the incubus, or mare in the 
ftomach, therefore the forfeit of them may fuffocate and 
empoifen. Bacon. —To taint with poifon; to envenom. 
This is the more ufualfenfe. It frequently occurs with a 
metaphorical meaning in poetry.—Or want’s empoifon'd 
arrow, ridicule. Shciiftone. 
One doth not know, 
How much an ill word may empoifon liking. Shakefpeare. 
EMPOI'SONER, f. [empofonneur, Fr.] One who de- 
ftroys another by poilon.—He is vehemently fufpedted to 
have been the empoifoner of his wife, thereby to make va¬ 
cant his bed. Bacon. 
EMPOI'SONMENT,/! [empoifonnement, Fr.] The prac¬ 
tice of deflroying by poifon.—It were dangerous for fe- 
cret empoifonments. Bacon. 
EM'POLIS, a town of Italy, in the duchy of Tuf- 
cany, fituated on the Arno : fifteen miles wed of Flo¬ 
rence. It is deferibed by Dr. John Targioni Tozetti, in 
his Travels through Tufcany, publiflied in 1792, as-fol¬ 
lows : “ Empolis is fituated as happily as can be defired 
for a great metropolis ; in the middle of an immenfe plain, 
falubrious and fruitful, well aired, furrounded by deli¬ 
cious and abundant bills, neither too far from, nor too 
.near to, the.mountains, and rifes above a majedical navi¬ 
gable river, lufficiently near to the fea. I never cad my 
eyes on this fuperb town without feeling an indignation 
againd the famous Farinati Degli Oberti, who, in 1260, 
dared fingly to oppofe the projedl of dedroying Florence, 
and removing the inhabitants to Empolis. This tranf- 
migration was certainly not to the tade of our ancedors, 
but would have been extremely advantageous for its; 
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for Empolis would have become, in time, a town infi¬ 
nitely more beautiful, and more falubrious, than Flo¬ 
rence : remains of the admired ages of antiquity have 
been found in it, and it has been confiderable alfo in 
more modern times. The prefent houfes are very low, 
and into mod of them the entrance is by a defeent; which 
dievvs the furface of the earth to be new foil, fomewhat 
raifed.” 
EMPORE'TIC, adj. [emporetiats, Lat. of ttjiro^-ny.oe, 
Gr.] That which is difpofed of at markets, or in,mer¬ 
chandize. 
EMPO'RIiE, anciently a double city of the Hither 
Spain, near the Pyrenees ; feparated by a wall; one part 
was occupied by the Greeks of Phocasa, whence origi¬ 
nally aredhe Maifilienfes ; the other, by native Spaniards, 
to whom, was added by Augudits a Roman colony. Now 
Ampurias, in Catalonia. 
EMPO'RIUM,/. [from t/jmocta, G r. to negotiate.] A 
place of merchandize; a mart; ‘a town of trade; a com¬ 
mercial city: 
And while this fam’d emporium we prepare, 
The Britifh ocean fhall fuch triumphs boad, 
That thofe who now difdain the trade to fliare, 
Shall rob like pirates on our wealthy coad. Dryden. 
The brain is fo called, as being the place where all ra¬ 
tional and fenfitive trailfa.flions are colle6ted. * 
EMPO'RIUM, two ancient cities near Placentia ; one 
fortified and guarded by a ftrong garrifon, at which Han¬ 
nibal met a repulfe : the other, Hannibal took and plun¬ 
dered ; now thought to be Ponte Nura, in the duchy of 
Placentia. 
7 bEMPO'VERISH, v.a. [panvre, Fr.] To make poor; 
to depauperate; to reduce to indigence.—To leffen fer¬ 
tility; as, tillage empoverijkcs land.—For fenfe of honours, 
if it empoverijhetk a man, it is, in his efleem, neither honour 
nor fenfe. South. 
Frefh rofes bring, 
To ftrow my bed, ’till the empovtrijVd Spring 
Confefs her want. Prior. 
EMPO'Y r ERISHER, f. One that'makes others poor. 
That which impairs fertility.*—They deflroy the weeds, 
and fit the land for after-crops, being an improver, and 
not an impqverijhcr, of land. Mortimer. 
EMPO'VERISHMENT, f. Depauperation; caufe of 
poverty; drain of wealth.—Being paid, as it is, now 
fome, and then fome, it is no great burden unto her, nor 
any great enipoverijhment to her coffers. Spcnfer’s Stale of 
Ireland. 
To EMPOW'ER, v. a. To authorife; to commiflion; 
to give power or authority to any purpofe.—You are em¬ 
powered,. when you pleafe, ip give the final decifion of 
wit. Dryden. —To give natural force ; to enable.—Does 
not'the fame power that enables them to heal, empower 
them to deflroy ? Baker. 
EM'PRESS, f. [contrafted from emperefs, w hicli is re¬ 
tained by JonJon in the following lines.] The queen of an 
emperor: 
Let your nimble feet 
Tread fubtile circles, that may always meet 
In point to him ; and figures to exprefs 
The grace of him, and his great emperefs. Ben Jonfon. 
A female inveded with imperial dignity ; a female fove- 
reign.— Emprefs of this fair world, refplendent Eve ! Milton. 
Wifdom, thou fay’d, from heav’n receiv’d her birth ; 
Her beams tranfmitted to the fubjeft earth; 
Yet this great emprefs of the human foul, 
Does only with imagin’d power controul. Prior. 
EMPRI'MED, adj. with hunters, feparated from the 
herd. 
EMPRI'SE,/ [Fr.] Attempt of danger; undertaking 
of hazard ; enterprife : 
Fierce faces threan’ning wars; 
Giants of mighty bone, and bold emprife. Milton. 
Thus, 
