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word which fignifies the precinft of which the priefthad the 
care. Throne , in Saxon, is exprelfed by a compound 
word, which fignifies the feat of majefiy. Death is ex- 
prefled by a compound word, fignifying the reparation of 
the foul from the body, one of which fignifies foul or 
fpirit, and the other reparation.” Befides the Saxon ori¬ 
gin, the etymologies of our Englifh words are in great part 
derived from the Welfh, Walloon, Danifit, French, La¬ 
tin, Greek, &c. 
E'TYMON,/ [Gr.] Origin: primitive word.—Blue 
hath its etymon from the High Dutch blaw ; from whence 
they call himmel-blue, that which we call iky-colour or 
heaven’s blue. Peacham. 
EU, a fea-port town of France, in the department of 
the Lower Seine, and chief place of a canton, in the djf- 
tridL of Dieppe ; fituated on the Breile, near the coaft of 
the Englifh channel : five leagues north of Dieppe, and 
twelve north-north-eaff of Rouen. Lat. 50. 2. N. Ion. 
19.4. E. Ferro. 
To EVA'CATE, v. a. \_vaco, Lat.] To empty out; to 
throw out.'—Dry air opens the furface of the earth to 
difincarcerate venene bodies, or to evacate them. Harvey on 
the Plague. 
To EVA'CUATE, v.a. \_evacuo, Lat.] To make emp¬ 
ty ; to clear.—There is no good way of prevention but by 
evacuating clean, and emptying the church. Hooker. —To 
throw out as noxious, or offenfive. To void by any of 
the excretory paffages.—Boerhaave gives an inftance of a 
patient, who by a long ufe of whey and water, and gar¬ 
den fruits, evacuated a great quantity of black matter, and 
recovered his fenfes. Arbuthnot. —To make void ; to nul¬ 
lify ; to annul.—The defect, though it would not eva¬ 
cuate a marriage, after cohabitation and actual confum- 
mation, yet it was enough to make void a contract. Ba¬ 
con. —To quit; to withdraw from out of a place.—As 
this neutrality was never obferved by the emperor, fo he 
never effectually evacuated Catalonia. Swift. 
EVA'CUANTS, f. \_evaciians > 'LM.~\ Medicines proper 
to expel or carry off any peccant or redundant humours in 
the animal body by the proper way of the emunftories. 
EVACUA'TION,/! Suchemiffionsas leave a vacancy; 
difeharge.—Confider the vaft evacuations of men that Eng. 
land hath had by affiftances lent to foreign kingdoms. 
Hale. —Abolition ; nullification.—Popery hath not been 
able to re-eftablifh itfelf in any place, after provifion made 
againft it, by utter evacuation of all Romith ceremonies. 
Hooker. —The practice of emptying the body by phyfic. 
—The ufual practice of phyfic among 11s, turns in a man¬ 
ner wholly upon evacuation, either by bleeding, vomit, or 
fome purgation. Temple. —Difcharges of the body by any 
vent natural or artificial. 
To EVA'DE, v.a. [evado, Lat. ] To elude ; to efcape 
by artifice or ftratagem.—He might evade the accomplilh- 
ment of thefe afflictions he now gradually endureth. 
Brown. —To avoid ; to decline by fubterfuge : 
Our queftion thou evad’Jl ; how didft thou dare 
To break hell bounds ? Dryden. 
To efcape or elude by fophifiry.—My argument evidently 
overthrows all that he brings to evade the teftimonies of 
the fathers. Stillingjleet. —To efcape as imperceptible or 
unconquerable, as too great or too fubtle to be feized or 
fubdued.—We have feen how a contingent even baffles 
man’s knowledge, and evades his power. South. 
To EVA'DE, v. n. To efcape; to flip away. It is not 
now ufed with from. —His wildorn, by often evading from 
perils, was turned rather into a dexterity to deliver him¬ 
felf from dangers, than into a providence to prevent it. 
Bacon. —To praCtife fophifiry or evafions.—The minifters 
of God are not to evade or take refuge in any of thefe two 
fore-mentioned ways. South. 
EVAD'NE, in fabulous hiftory, a daughter of Iphis or 
Iphicles of Argos, who flighted the addrelfes of Apollo, 
and married Capaneus one of the feven chiefs who went 
againfl; Thebes. When her hulband had been ftruck 
with thunder by Jupiter for his blafphemies and impiety, 
and his allies had been feparated from thofe of the reft of 
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the Argives, flie threw herfelf on his burning pile, and 
perifhed in the flames. Virgil. 
EV AG A'TION, f. [ eva'gor , Lat.] The aft of wan¬ 
dering ; excurfion ; ramble ; deviation.—Thefe long 
chains of lofty mountains, which run through whole 
continents eaft and well, ferve to Hop the, evagation of the 
vapours to the north and fouth in hot countries. Piny. 
EVAGINA'TION, f. [from the Lat. e from, and va¬ 
gina, a (heath.] The aft of unflieathing. Scott. 
EV A'GORAS, a king of Cyprus, who retook Salamis, 
which had been taken from his father by the Perfians. He 
made war againft Artaxerxes, the king of Perfia, with the 
aftiftance of the Egyptians, Arabians, and Tyrians, and 
obtained fome advantage over the fleet of his enemy. 
The Perfians, however, foon repaired their lofles, and 
Evagoras faw himfelf defeated by fea and land, and ob¬ 
liged to be tributary to the power of Artaxerxes, and,to 
be dripped of all his dominions except the town of Sala- 
mis. He was aflafiinated fcon after this fatal change of 
fortune, by an eunuch, 374 years before Chrift. He left 
two Ions, Nicocles, who fucceeded him, and Protagoras, 
who deprived his nephew Evagoras of his polfeffions. 
Evagoras deferves to be commended for his fobriety, mo¬ 
deration, and magnanimity, and if he was guilty of any 
political error in the management of his kingdom, it may 
be faid, that his love of equity was a full compenfation. 
His grandfon bore the fame name, and fuCceeded his fa¬ 
ther Nicocles. He fnowed himfelf oppreflive, and his 
uncle Protagoras took advantage of his unpopularity to 
deprive him of his power. Evagoras fled to Artaxerxes 
Ocluis, who gave him a government more extenfive than 
that of Cyprus, but his oppreflion rendered him odious, 
and he was accufed before his benefaftor, and by his or¬ 
ders put death. C. Nepos. v 
EVA'GRIUS, furnamed Ponticus, and by St. Jerome 
Hypcrborita , from the fituation of his native place, v\ Inch 
was not far from the Euxine fea, flourilhed towards the 
end of the fourth century. He was appointed by St. 
Bafil leftor ot the church at Cefarea, and afterwards or¬ 
dained a deacon of Conftantinople by St. Gregory Nazian- 
zen. By that bifliop he was inftrufted in biblical learn¬ 
ing, and was promoted to the office of his archdeacon. 
Travelling to Jerufalem, he determined to embrace the 
monadic life ; and for that purpofe went to Egypt, where 
he palfed fifteen .years in a monaftery amidft thedefertsof 
Nitria, and was a difciple of both the Maccarii in the af- 
cetic difeipline. While he was in this fituation he refilled 
the epifcopal dignity, with which Theophilus bifliop of 
Alexandria was v.ery defirous that he fflould be inverted. 
Afterwards he proved a zealous defender of the opinions 
of Origen, and, according to Jerome, Epiphanius, Theo¬ 
philus of Alexandria, and other orthodox writers, laid 
the foundation of thofe notions which_within a few years 
were propagated by Pelagius and his followers. He ap¬ 
pears to have died at an advanced age, but in what year 
is uncertain. He was a man, according to the teftimony 
of Sozomen, eminent for learning, judgment, and elo¬ 
quence ; of irreproachable manners, abftemious, humble, 
and ardently devout. Palladius alfo, who was his difei- 
ple for three years, in his Monadic Hiftory, fpeaks in very 
high terms of his character. His writings were, P,ationes r 
five prcces centum ; Sexcenta prognofica Problemata ; Epiflola 
ad Melaniam de hnpajfibilitate , c 3 c. in Anachorctarum UJum 3 
Elementarium Lib. III. alter ad monac. ad virgincs Deo fac. 
alter ; Monachus, five de vita Affiua ; Gnoficus , feu de ii’s qui 
Cognitionis munere donatifunt ; Anthirreticus, contra D-cmonass 
Tentatores, &c. Some of thefe treatifes are dill to be 
found entire, in the Bibliotheca Patrum, and in Cote/erius’s 
Monument. Ecclef. Grac. but of the greater part a few frag¬ 
ments only remain, difperfea in the writings of Socrates, 
and other authors, to which the reader may find references 
in Cave and Du Pin, 
EVA'GRIUS, furnamed Scholajlicus, a famous hifto- 
rian, born at Epiphania, about the year 536. He prac¬ 
ticed the profeflion of an advocate, from which he was 
called Scholajlicus , which name was then given to the 
pleaders at the bar. He was alfa tribune and keeper of 
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