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county, Pennfylvania, fituated ontheeaft bank of Sufque- 
liannah river, a little north of Harrifbttrg. 
ESTHIO'MENOS, f. [from co-6 Gr. to eat.] An 
inflammation in the (kin, attended with a (harp humour ; 
properly the herpes exedens: but the term is applied to 
any inveterate ulcer. 
ESTIA'IA,/. Solemn facrifices to Vefta, of which it 
was unlawful to carry away any thing or communicate it 
to any body. 
ES'TIMABLE, adj. [Fr.] Valuable; worth a large 
price : 
A pound of man’s flefli, taken from a man, 
Is not fo ejlimable or profitable 
As flefli of muttons, beefs, or goats. Skakefpeare. 
Worthy of efteem ; worthy of fome degree of honour and 
refpeft.—You lofl one who gave hopes of being, in time, 
every thing that was ejlimable and good. Temple. 
ES'TIMABLENESS, f. The quality of deferving 
regard. 
To ES'TIMATE, v. a. [ ajlimo , Lat.] To rate; to ad- 
Juft. the value of; to judge of any thing by its proportion 
to fomething elfe.—When a man (hall fa notify his houfe 
to the Lord, then the pried: (hall ejlimate it whether it 
be good or bad : as the pried fliall ejlimate it, fo thall it 
Hand. Lev. xxvii. 14.—To calculate ; to compute. 
ES'TIMATE, f. Computation; calculation.—Upon 
a moderate ejlimate and calculation of the quantity of wa¬ 
ter now a (dually contained in the abyfs, I found that this 
alone was full enough to cover the whole globe to the 
height afligned by Mofes. Woodward. —Value: 
I’d love 
My country’s good, with a refpeft more tender. 
More holy and profound, than mine own life, 
My dear wife’s ejlimate , her womb’s increafe, 
The treafure of my loins. S/iakeJpearc. 
Valuation; afligament of proportional value ; compara¬ 
tive judgment.—The only way to come to a true ejlimate 
upon the odds betwixt a public and a private life, is to 
try bSth. VEJlrange. 
ESTIMA'TION,yi The aft of adjuding proportional 
value.—If a man (hould fanftify unto the Lord fome part of 
a field, the ejlimation (hall be according to the feed. Leviticus. 
—Calculation; computation. Opinion; judgment.—In 
our own ejlimation we account fuch particulars more wor¬ 
thy than thofe that are already tried and known. Bacon. 
•—Efleern ; regard ; honour.—I (hall have ejlimation among 
the multitude, and honour with the elders. WiJd.vxW. 10. 
I know the gentleman 
To be of worth and worthy ejlimation, 
And not without defert fo well reputed. Shakefpeare. 
ES'TIMATIVE, adj. Having the power of comparing 
and adjuding the preference.—The error is not in the 
eye, but iruthe ejlimative faculty, which midakingly con¬ 
cludes that colour to belong to the wall, which indeed 
belongs to the objeft. Boyle. 
ESTIMA'TOR, f. A fettler of rates ; a computid. 
ESTISSAC', a town of France, in the department of 
the Gironne : five leagues north-ead of Bourdeatix. 
ES'TIVAL, adj. \_ajlivus, Lat.] Pertaining to the dim¬ 
mer. Continuing for the dimmer. 
ES'TIVAL, a town of France, in the department of 
the Vofges, and chief place of a canton, in the didrift of 
St. Diey : two leagues north of St. Diey. 
ESTIVAREIL'LES, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Allier, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diflrift of Montluyon : five miles north of Montluyon. 
ESTIVA'TION, J. [eejlivalio , Lat.] The aft of palling 
the dimmer.—A grotto is a place of fliade, or ejlivation. 
Bacon. 
ES'TIUS (William), a learned Dutch catholic divine, 
born at Gorcum in Holland, about the year 1542. After 
finilhing his education at Utrecht, he entered upon the 
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ftudy of philofophy and theology at Louvain, and taught 
thofe fciences at that univerfity for the (pace of ten years. 
The fame of his learning and talents occafioned his being 
invited to undertake the offices of profeflbrof theology in 
the univerfity of Douay, and fuperior of the feminary in 
that city ; which promotion was followed bv his election 
to the chancellordiip of the univerfity of Douay. Fie 
was a man' who difeharged the duties of his different ap¬ 
pointments with the utmofc fidelity ; and was alfo efti- 
mable on account of his piety, his modefty, and his aftive 
virtues. He died at Douay in 1613, when feventy-one 
years of age. While he was at Louvain, he aflifted in 
editing a new edition of the works of St. Auguftin ; but 
his principal works are: 1. Commentarii in Omnes S. Pauli 
£3 VII. Catholicas Apoflolorum Epijlolas, 1614, in 2 vols. folio. 
2. Commentarii in IV. Libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi , 
1615, in 2 vols. folio. 3. Annotationcs in pracipua ac Dijji - 
ciliora S. Scripture Loca, 1620, in folio. On thefe works 
D11 Pin pafles very high commendations, on account of the 
learning, judgment, and perfpicuity, which they difplay. 
ESTOIL'LE (Peter de 1 ’), known by his hiftorical 
writings, was of the profeflion of the law, and became 
grand audiencer of the chancellery of Paris. He died in 
1611. From his manuferipts were publifhed A Journal 
of Henry III. feveral times printed, and iaff by the abbe 
du Frefnoi, in 1744, 5 vols. 8vo. alfo, A Journal of the 
Reign of Henry IV. 4 vols. 8vo. Editions of both thefe 
journals were publiflied by M. Godefroi, at Cologne, in 
1719 and 1732, in 6 vols. 8vo. which, as containing feve¬ 
ral things omitted in Du Frefnoi’s edition, are moltly 
fought by the curious. 
ESTOIL'LE (Claude de 1 ’), fon of the preceding, a 
poet, and member of the French academy, into which he 
was received in 1632. He was one of the dramatic writers 
employed by cardinal Richelieu ; but he had not the 
happinefs to pleafe the public in that capacity. His odes 
and ftanzas were more efteemed ; and he is allowed to 
have had a talent for verfification, and alfo a good know¬ 
ledge of the rules of the ftage. His private charafter was 
honourable and independent. He died in 1652. 
ESTO'NI A. See Revel. 
ESTOP'PEL, J. [from ejlouper, Fr. i. e. oppilare, objli- 
pare.~\ In law, an impediment or bar to a right of aftion 
arifing from a man’s own aft : or where he is forbidden 
by law, to fpeak againft his own deed ; for by his aft or 
acceptance he may be eftopped to allege or fpeak the 
truth. Co. Lit. 352. If a perfon is bound in an obligation 
by the name of A. B. -and is afterwards (tied by that name 
on the obligation; now he fliall not be received to fay in 
abatement, that he is mifnamed, but (hall anfwer ac¬ 
cording to the obligation, though it be wrong ; and foraf- 
much as he is the fame perfon that was bound, he is 
effopped and forbidden in law to fay contrary to his own 
deed, otherwife he might take advantage of his own 
wrong, which the law will not fuffer. If a man enters 
into a bond, with condition to give to another all the 
goods which are devifed to him by the father; in this 
cafe the obligor is eftopped to plead that the father made 
no will, but he may plead that he had not any goods 
devifed to him by his father. 1 Nelf. Abr. 751. 
In a deed, all the parties are eftopped to fay any thing 
againft what is contained in it: it eftops a lelfee to fay 
that the leffbr had nothing in the land, &c. And parties 
and privies are bound by eftoppel. Co. Lit. 352. None 
but privies and parties fliall regularly have advantage by 
eftoppels : but if a man makes-a leafe of part of a term 
whereby he is eftopped, and after ailign away the term, 
the aflignee will be eftopped alfo. Hen. VI. 2. In 
eftoppels, both parties muft be eftopped; and therefore, 
where an infant or feme covert makes a leafe, they are 
not eftopped to fay that it is not their deed, becaufe they 
are not bound by it; and as to them it is void. And 
though eftoppels conclude parties to deeds to fay the 
truth, yet jurors are not concluded, who are fworn ad 
veritatem 
