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being afterwards furprifed by ficknefs, &c. cannot at¬ 
tend, but fends two elfoiners, who openly proteft in 
court that lie is detained by ficknefs in'fuch a village 
that he cannot come, pro lucrari & pro perdere ; and this 
will be admitted, for it lies on the plaintiff to prove 
whether the effoin is true or not. 
ESSOM'iVlES, a town of France, in the department 
of the Aifne, on the Marne : one league fouth-weft of 
Chateau Thierry. 
ESSO'NE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Seine and Oi(e : five leagues fouth of Paris. 
ESSO'NE, a river of France, formed by the union of 
the Juine and Eftampes, which runs into the Seine, near 
Corbeil. 
ESSOY'ES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Aube, and chief place of a canton in the diftrictof 
Bar.fur-Seine : eight miles eaft of Bar-fur-Seine. 
To ESTA'BLISII, v.a. [ctablir , Fr.] To fettle firmly; 
to fix unalterably. — I will efablifh my covenant with him 
for an everlafting covenant. Gen. xvii. 19.—The Nor¬ 
mans never obtained this kingdom by fuch a right of con- 
quefl, as did or might alter the efabli/hed \.vws of the king¬ 
dom. Hale. —To fettle in any privilege or pofTeflion ; to 
confirm.—Soon after the rebellion broke out, the Prefby- 
terian feift was cfabljhed in all its forms by an ordinance 
of the lords and commons. Swift. —To make firm ; to ra¬ 
tify.—Every vow, and every binding oath to afflidl the 
foul, her hufband may efablifi it, or her hufband may 
make it void. Numbers. —To fix or fettle in an opinion.— 
So were the churches efablified in the faith. A Els xvi. 5. 
To form or model.—He appointed in what manner his 
family fhould be cjlablijhed. Clarendon —To found ; to build 
firmly ; to fix immoveably. A fenfe not in ufe. —For he 
hath founded it upon the leas, and ejiablifhed it upon the 
floods. Pf. xxiv. 2.—To make a fettlement of any in¬ 
heritance. Not in ufe : 
We will ejlablijh our eflate upon 
Our eldeft Malcolm, whom we name hereafter, 
The prince of Cumberland. Shahefpeare. 
ESTAB'LISHER, f. [from ejlablijh .] He who efta- 
blifhes.—I reverence the holy fathers as divine ejlabljkers 
of faith. /.. Digby. 
ESTAB'LISHMENT, f [from ejlablijh ; etablijfement. 
Fr.] Settlement ; fixed ftate : 
All happy peace, and goodly government, 
Is fettled there in fttre ejlabljkment. Sp;nfer. 
Confirmation of fomething already done ; ratification.— 
He had not the add penned by way of recognition of right; 
as, on the other fide, he avoided to have it by new law ; 
but chofe rather a kind of middle way, by way of ejla- 
blijhmcnt. Bacon. —Settled regulation ; form ; model of a 
government or family.—Now come into that general re¬ 
formation, and bring in that ejlabti/hment by which all men 
fhould be contained in duty. Spenfer. —Foundation; fun¬ 
damental principle; fettled law.—The facred order to 
which you belong, and even the ejlablijhment on which 
it fubfifts, have often been ftruck at; but in vain. Attcr- 
bury. —Allowance; income; falary.—His excellency, who 
had the foie difpofal of the emperor’s revenue, might 
gradually lelfen your ejlablijhment. Swift. —Settled or final 
red.—•Whilft we fet up our hopes and flablifimcnt here, 
we do not ferioufly confider that God has provided ano¬ 
ther and better place for us. Wake. 
EST AFFLl'CHEN, a town of Poland, in the palati¬ 
nate of Kalifh : fourteen miles north-eaft of Kalilh. 
EST AFO'RT, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lot and Garonne, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftriit of Agen : three leagues fouth of Agen. 
PISTAGE'L, a town of France, in the department of 
the Eaftern Pyrennees : three leagues and a half north- 
well of Peripignan. 
EST A'IN, a town of France, and principal place of a 
diftricl, in the department of the Meufe : three leagues 
EST 
and a half eafl-north-eafl of Verdun, and eight fouth-eafl 
of Stenay. 
ESTA'ING, a town of France, in the department of 
the Aveiron, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriil 
of St. Genies-de-Rivedolt : four leagues and a half north 
of Rhodez. 
ESTATRES, a town of France, in the department of 
North, on the Lis : four leagues weft of Lille. 
ESTAM'BOLTC, or Istambel Antir, a town of 
Arabia, in the theriffat of Mecca, near the coaft of the 
Red Sea : 180 miles north-north-weft of Medina. 
ESTAM'PES, or Etampes, a town of France, and 
principal place of a diftriit, in the department of the 
Seine and Oife, on the river Juine, containing, before the 
revolution, five churches, fix convents, and an hofpital: 
fix pofts and a half fouth of Paris. Lat. 48.26. n! Ion. 
19. 50. E. Ferro. 
ESTAM'PES, or Loet, a river of France, which 
united with the Juine, forms the Elfone. 
ESTANFO'RDE, a town of Flanders : twelve miles 
fouth-weft of Ypres. 
ESTA'PA, or Estape, a town belonging to the pro¬ 
vince of Tabafco, and audience of Mexico, in New-Spain, 
North America. It is mentioned by Dumpier, as fituated 
on Tabafco river, four leagues beyond Villa de Mofe. It 
is faid to be a place of conliderable trade ; and fo ftrong, 
that it repulfed captain Hewet, when he attacked it with 
200 defperate buccaneers. 
ESTA'PO, a ftrong town in New-Spain, inhabited by 
Spaniards and native Americans; fituated at the mouth 
of the river Tlaluc. Lat. 17. 30. N. Ion. 103.5. W. 
ESTARRE'J A, a town of Portugal, in the province of 
Beira : eighteen miles fouth of Oporto. 
ESTA'TE, f. \_ejlat, Fr.] The general intereft ; the 
bufinefs of the government; the public. In this fenfe it 
is now commonly written Jlate. —Many times the things 
adduced to judgment may be meum & tuum, when the rea- 
fon and confequences thereof may reach to point of ejlate ; 
I call matters of ejlate not only the parts of fovereignty, 
but whatioever introduceth any great alteration, or dan¬ 
gerous precedent, or concerneth manifeftlyany great por¬ 
tion of people. Bacon. —Condition of life, with regard to 
profperity or adverlity : 
Thanks to giddy chance, 
She caft us headlong from our high ejlate. Dryden. 
Condition; circumftances in general.—Truth and cer¬ 
tainty are not at all fecured by innate principles ; but men 
are in the fame uncertain floating ejlate with as without 
them. Locke. —Fortune ; pofleflion : 
Go, mifer! go ; for lucre fell thy foul; 
Truck wares for w'ares, and trudge from pole, 
That men may fay, when thou art dead and gone. 
See what a valt ejlate he left his fon ! Dryden. 
Rank ; quality.—Who hath not heard of the greatnefs of 
your ejlate ? Who feeth not that your ejlate is much ex¬ 
celled with that fweet uniting of all beauties. Sidney. 
—A perfon of high rank. This fenfe is dfuj'cd. —She is a 
duchefs, a great efate. Latimer. —Herod, on his birth-day, 
made a fupper to his lords, high captains, and chief efates 
of Galilee. Mark vi. 21. 
To ESTA'TE, v. a. To fettle as a fortune : 
A contrail of true love to celebrate. 
And fome donation freely to efate 
On the bleft lovers. Shahefpeare. 
ESTA'TE,/. in law, is that which a man poffeffes in 
lands, tenements, Sec. An eftate in lands, tenements, 
and hereditaments, (fays Blackftone,)lignifies fuch intereft 
as the tenant hath therein ; to that it a man grants all 
his eftate in Dale to A. and his heirs, every thing that he 
can poflibly grant fhall pafs thereby. Co.Litt. 345. It 
fignifies the ftate,condition, or circumftance, in which the 
owner (lands, with regard to his property. And, to 
afeertam 
