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pvopofition; a fyllogifm where the major propofition is 
fupprefled, and only the minor and confequence produced 
in words.—Playing much upon the limple or luftrative 
argumentation, to induce their mthymemes unto the peo¬ 
ple, they take up popular conceits. Brown .—What is an 
enthymeme, quoth Cornelius ? Why an enthymeme, replied 
Crambe, is when the major is indeed married to the 
minor, but the marriage kept fecret. Arbuthnot. 
To ENTI'CE, v. a. [of uncertain etymology.] To al¬ 
lure ; toattradf; to draw by blandishments or hopes to 
iomething (infill or dedrudfive.—If a man entice a maid 
that is betrothed, he fhall furely endow her to be his wife. 
Ex. xxii. 16. 
So fang the fyrens with enchanting found, 
Enticing all to liften, and be drown’d. Granville. 
ENTI'CEMENT, f The adt or practice of alluring 
to ill.—Suppofe we that the facred word of God can at 
their hands receive due honour, by whofe enticement the 
holy ordinances of the church endure every where open 
contempt ? Hooker. 
And here to every thirfty wanderer, 
By fly enticement gives his baneful cup, 
With many murmurs mixt. Milton. 
The means by which one is allured to ill ; blandifliment; 
allurement.-—In all thefe inftances we mud feparate in¬ 
treaty and enticements from deceit or violence. Taylor. 
ENTI'CER,/. One that allures to ill. 
- ENTI'CINGLY, adv. Charmingly ; in a winning 
manner.—She ftrikes a lute well, and fings mod enticingly. 
Addifon. 
EN'TIERTY, f. [ entierte Fr.] The whole; not 
barely a part.—Sometime the attorney thrufteth into the 
writ the uttermoft quantity ; or, elfe fetteth down an 
entier/y, where but a moiety was to be palfed. Bacon. 
ENTI'RE, adj. Rentier, Fr. integer , Lat.] Whole; 
undivided.—It is not fafe to divide, but to extol the en¬ 
tire , ftill in general. Bacon. —Unbroken ; complete in its 
parts.—An antique model of the famous Laocoon is entire 
in thofe parts where theftatue is maimed. AddiJ'on on Italy. 
■—Full ; complete ; comprifing all requifites in itfelf.— 
An action is entire when it is complete all its parts : or, 
as Ariftotle deferibes it, when it conii.'ts of a beginning, 
a middle, and an end. Speblator. —Sincere ; hearty : 
Love’s not love, 
When it is mingled with regard that (lands 
Aloof from the entire point. Skakefpeare. 
Firm ; Cure ; folid ; fixed : 
Entire and fare the monarch’s rule mu ft prove, 
Who founds her greatnels on her fubjedts’ love. Prior. 
Unmingled ; unallayed : 
Wrath (hall be no more 
Thenceforth, but in thy prefence joy entire. Milton. 
Honed; firmly adherent ; faithful.—No man had ever a 
heart more entire to the king, the church, or his country ; 
but he never fiudied the eafieft ways to thofe ends. Cla- 
rerdon. —In full drength ; with vigour unabated ; with 
power unbroken.—Then back to fight again, new breathed 
and entire. Spenfer. —Inward 
Deep in the clofet of my parts entire 
Her worth is written with a golden quill. Spenfer. 
ENTIRETY, adv. In the whole ; without divifion. 
—Euphrates, running, finketh partly into the lakes of 
Chaldea, and falls not entirely into the Perfian (ea. Raleigh. 
—Chyle may be faid to be a vegetable juice in the fto- 
mach and intedines ; as it paffeth into the ladleals it 
grows dill more-animal, and when it hath circulated often 
with the blood, it is entirely, fo. Arbuthnot. 
Completely ; fully : 
Here finifh’d he, and all that he had made 
View’d; and. behold! all was entirely good. Milton. 
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With firm adherence ; faithfully : 
Which when his penfive lady faw from far. 
Great woe and forrow did her foul aflay, 
As weening that the fad end of the war, 
And ’gan to highed God entirely pray. Spenfer. 
ENTI'RENESS, f. Totality; completenefs; fulr.efs, 
•—In anarch, each Angle done, which, if fevered from the 
reft, would be perhaps defencelefs, is diffidently fecured 
by the folidity and entirenefs of the whole fabric, of which 
it is a part. Boyle .—Honefly ; integrity. 
EN.TI'RET Y, f. Completenefs.—This is the natural 
and regular confequence of the union and entirety of their 
intereft. Blackfone. 
To ENTI'TLE, v. a. [ entituler, Fr.] To grace or dig¬ 
nify with a title or honourable appellation. To give a 
title or diferiminative appellation ; as, to entitle a book. 
—Befides the Scripture, the books which they call eccle- 
fiadical were thought not unworthy to be brought into 
public audience, and with that name they entitled the 
books which we term apocryphal. Hooker. 
Next favourable thou, 
Who highly thus to entitle me vouchfaf’d 
Far other name deferving ! Milton. 
To fuperferibe, or prefix as a title.—How ready zeal for 
party is to entitle Chriftianity to their defigns, and to 
charge atheifm on thofe who will not fubmit. Locke .—To 
give a claim to any thing.—God difeovers the martyr and 
confeflbr without the trial of flames and tortures ; and 
will hereafter entitle many to the rewards of adtions which 
they had never the opportunity of performing. Addifon. 
—To grant any thing as claimed by a title.—This is to 
entitle God’s care how and to what we pleafe. Locke. 
EN'TITY,/. \_entitas, low Lat.] Something which 
really is ; a real being.—Fortune is no real entity, nor 
phyflcal eflence, but a mere relative figmfication. Bentley. 
Dear hope, earth’s dowry and heaven’s debt, 
The entity of things that are not yet : 
Subt’left, but Cured being. Crafiaw. 
A particular fpecies of being.—All eruptioas of air, 
though (mail and flight, give an entity of found, which we 
call crackling, puffing, and [pitting ; as in bay fait and 
bay leaves, cad into the fire. Bacon. 
ENTLIBU'CH, a town of Swiffierland, in the canton 
of Lucern ; the principal place of a baili.vic, about nine 
leagues long, and fix wide -. which applied to the Swifs 
to be relieved from the oppredions of its lords in the year 
13S6 : twelve miles welt of Lucern. 
ENTO'GANUM, f. in bot .ny. See Melicope. 
To ENTO'IL, v. a. Toenfnare; to entangle ; to bring 
into toils or nets.—He cut oft' their land forces from their 
lhips, and entailed both their navy and their camp with a 
greater power than theirs, both by (eapnd land. Bacon. 
To ENTO'MB, v. a. To put into a tomb ; to bury.— 
Procefiions were firft begun for the interring of holy mar¬ 
tyrs, and the vifiting of thofe places, where they were 
entombed. Hooker. 
They within the bead’s vafl womb,. 
The choice and flow’r of all their troops entomb. Denham.. 
ENTOMO'LOGY, f. [from evropov, an infedt; of e»,, 
in, and rspyu, to cut, becaufe of the cuts or indented 
rings on its abdomen; and A070?, Gr. difeourfe.] The 
fcience which inveftigatesthe nature, drudlure, and econo¬ 
my, of infedts ; called likewtfe infeblology. On the flighted 
view of this fubjedt, we cannot but be ftruck with the 
extenfive range which Providence has afligned to thefe 
diminutive animals, which are found to pervade the whole 
empire of Nature, in numbers which defy all powers of 
computation: and in nothing does the immenfity of crea¬ 
tion more wonderfully appear, than in the infinite variety 
and beauty of the infedt tribes. In their manners and 
habitudes they form refemblances with almoft every other 
animal: feme walk like quadrupeds, or creep like rep- 
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