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tHology, a term denoting darknefs. According to Efefiod, 
Erebus was the fon of Chaos and the Night, and the fa¬ 
ther of the Day. This was alfo the name of part of the 
inferi among the ancients.' Erebus properly fignificd the 
gloomy region, and was didinguiflted both from Tartarus 
the place of torment, and from Elyfium the region ot 
blifs: according to Virgil, it forms the third grand divi- 
fion of the invifible world beyond the Styx, and compre¬ 
hends feveral imaginary didrifts, as the limbus infantum , or 
receptacle for infants ; the limbus for thofe who have been 
put to death without caule : that for fuch as dedroyed 
themfelves; the fields of mourning, full of dark groves 
and woods, inhabited by thofe who died for love; and 
beyond thefe, an open champaign country for departed 
heroes. 
E'RECH, one of the primitive kingdoms of the world, 
founded by Nimrod in the land of Shinar. Gen. x. io. 
EREC'THEUS, king of Athens, and the fixth from 
Cecrops, fucceeded his father Pandion about 1399 before 
Chrid. He was the mod powerful Grecian prince of his 
time. Among his children was a daughter, Orithyia, 
who is fabled to have been forcibly carried away by the 
wind Boreas, which is with probability interpreted to re¬ 
fer to her rape by a Thracian king. In his reign the 
Athenians were indrufted by a drangerin the cultivation 
of corn, whence Ceres is faid to have vifited Athens at 
that period. Ereftheus, after a reign of fifty years, was 
llain in a battle againft the Eleufians. 
To ERE'CT, v. a. [erettus, Lat. ] To raife in a ftraight 
line; to place perpendicularly to the horizon. 
To Erect a Perpendicular. Tocrofsone line by another 
at right angles. To raife; to build : 
Happier walls expeft, 
Which, wand’ring long, at lad thou fhalt ereEl. Dryden. 
To eftablilh anew ; to fettle.—He fuffers feventy-two dif- 
tinft nations to be ereEled out of the fil'd monarchy under 
didinft governors. Raleigh. —To elevate; to exalt.—I, 
who am a party, am not to ereEl myfelf into a judge. 
Dryden. —I am far from pretending infallibility : that 
would be to ereEl myfelf into an apodle. Locke. —To raife 
confequences from premifes.—From fallaciousfoundations 
and mifapprehended mediums, men ereEl conclufions no 
way inferrable from the premifes. Brown. —To animate ; 
not to deprefs ; to encourage : 
Why diould not hope 
As much ereEl our thoughts, as fear dejeft them ? Denham. 
To ERE'CT, v. n. To rife upright.—The trefoil againd 
Tain fwelletit in the dalk, and fo dandeth more upright; 
for by vvet, dalksdo ereEl, and leaves bow down. Bacon. 
ERE'CT, adj. [ereElus, Lat.] Upright; not leaning; 
not prone.—Bafil tells us that the ferpent went ereEl like 
man. Brown. —Direfted upwards : 
Vain were vows, 
And plaints and fuppliant hands, to Heav’n ereEl. Philips. 
Bold; confident; undiaken: 
Let no vain fear thy gen’rous ardour tame ; 
But dand ereEl, and found as loud as fame. Glanville. 
Vigorous ; not depreded.—That vigilant and ereEl atten¬ 
tion of mind, which in prayer is very necedary, is waded 
or dulled. Hooker. 
EREC'TION, y. The aft of raiding, or date of being 
raided upward.—We are to confider only the ercElion of 
the hills above the ordinary land. Brerewood. —The aft of 
building or railing edifices.—Pillars were fet up above one 
thoufand four hundred and twenty-fix years before the 
flood, counting'Seth to be an hundred years old at the 
ercElion of them. Raleigh. —Edablidiment ; fettlement.— 
It mud needs have a peculiar influence upon the ercElion, 
continuance, and didolution, of every fociety. South. — 
Elevation; exaltation of fentiments.—Her peerlefs height 
my mind to high ercElion draws up. Sidney. —Aft of rouf- 
ing ; excitement to attention.—Starting is an apprehen- 
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fion of the thing feared, and in that is a dirinking, and 
likewife an inquifitionwhat the matter diould be ; and in 
that it is a motion ot cve.El.i n : fo that when a man would 
liden fuddcnly he darteth ;*for the darting is an crcEhon 
of the fpirits to attend. Bacon. 
ERECT'NESS,/ Uprightnefs of podure or form.— 
We take ercElnefs driftly as Galen defined it : they only, 
fayeth he, have an ereft figure, whofe fpine and thigh¬ 
bone are carried on right lines. Brown. 
EREC'TOR,/. [from erigo, Lat. to lift up.] A mul- 
cle of the penis, whofe office it is to raife or lift it up. 
See Anatomy, vol. i. p. 620. 
ER'EGEM, a town of Flanders : ten miles fouth-wedt 
of Bruges. 
EREK'LI, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the province 
of Caramania: fixty miles ead of Cogni. 
EREI.O'NG, adv. Before a long time had elapfed. 
Nec longum tempus. —Nothing is lading that is feigned: it 
will have another face than it had erelong. Ben Jorfon. 
They fwim in joy. 
Erelong to fwim at large, and laugh, for which 
The world erelong a world of tears mud weep. Milton. 
EREMEG'IKE, a town of Alia, in Thibet: twenty- 
five miles fauth of Tourfan. 
E'REMITE, /. Zeremita, Lat. e ? n^, Gr.] One who 
lives in a wildernefs ; one who lives in folitude; an her¬ 
mit ; a folitary ; we now fay hermit: 
Embryoes and ideots, eremites and friars. 
White, black, and grey, with all their trumpery. Milton. 
EREMI'TICAL, adj. Religioudy folitary; leading 
the life of an hermit.—They have multitudes of religious 
orders, eremitical and cenobitical. Stilling feet. 
ERENOW', adv. Before this time.—Had the world, 
eternally been, fcience had been brought to perfection 
long erenow '. Cheyne. 
Ah, gentle foldiers, fome fliort time allow ; 
My father has repented him erenow. Dryden. 
EREPTA'TION, f. Zereptio, Lat.] A creeping forth. 
EREP'TION, f Zereptio, Lat.] A fnatching or taking 
away by force. 
E'RES, or Eris, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Sceirvan, on the borders of Armenia ; falling to decay s 
eighty miles fouth-wed of Derbend, and 1 20 fouth ead of 
Teflis. 
ERE'SIA,y. in botany. See Theophrasta. 
ERES'MA, a river of Spain, which runs into the 
Duero, between Simancas and Tordefillas. 
ERE'SUS, a town of Lefbos, where Theophradus was 
born. 
ERE'TRI A. a city of Euboea on the Euripus, anciently 
called Melaneis and Arotria. It was dedroyed by the 
Perfians, and the ruins were hardly vifible in the age of 
Strabo. It received its name from Eretrius, a fon of 
Phaeton. 
ERE'TUM, a town of the Sabines near the Tiber, 
whence came the adjeftive Eretinus. 
ERETHIS'MUS,/. [from ^6^, Gr. to irritate.] An 
irritation of the intedines from thin acrimonious humours. 
EREUX'SIS, f. [from egevya, to eruftate.] Erufta- 
tion, or flatulence in the domach. 
EREWHl'LE, or Erewhiles, adv. Some time ago ; 
before a little while.—We lit down to our meals, fufpeft 
not the intrufion of armed uninvited gueds, who erewhiles 
we know were wont to furprife us. Decay of Piety. 
I am as fair now as I was erewhile : 
Since night you lov’d me, yet fince night you left me. Shakef. 
ER'FA, a town of the ifiand of Corfica-. twenty-five 
miles north-north-wed of Badia. 
ER'FURT, or Erfort, a city of Germany, in the 
circle of the Lower Rhine, founded in the fifth century ; 
belonging to the eleftor of Mentz, who governs it by a 
ftadtholder. It ha,s anecclefiadical, a civil, and criminal, 
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