800 
yearn; for the cognate-words, in other 
Gothic diaie&ts, begin with g afpirate, 
which in Englith is mofily foftened (as in 
the participal augment_pc/ad, yelept, 8c.) 
info y. Such allied or kin words are in 
Ottfried, gerzo; in Tatian, geruiliho, wil- 
lingly ; in Icelandith, girz; Swedith, 
gerna ; Moelo-Gothic, gairnan; Aoglo- 
Saxon, geornian; Danith, giarex'; Low- 
Dutch, gheren, to defire, &c. all perhaps 
from fome patriarchial word, fignifying, 
like the Friefith gere, the fide. : 
Dr. John{cn ignorantly gives, as the ety- 
men of yearz, the Anglo-Saxon earzan, 
which means fo ear, to /hoot in ears, to 
bear {pikes : and belongs ioa different fa- 
mily. NE 
Efierced.—A word evidently formed by 
the fame rule of analogy as, to abajfe, to 
efcertat, and others quoted already inthe 
article Abear; which ought therefore to 
be written offerced. : 
Ele&ral.—The adje&tives eleGric, elec- 
tral, and ele&rical have all been ufed by 
writers of education: are they in purity, 
as in meaning, equivalent ? 
The termination ic derives from the 
Greek ios, as peoveeyns, monarch, povaexs- 
%0¢, Monarchic 5 xwoc, fun, xweses, CO- 
mic: the termination qa] derives trom the 
Latin alis, as aquare, to level, equalis, 
equal; zavis,a hip, zavalis naval: but 
the termination ica/ is a hybrid coalefcence 
of the Gre-k and Latin formative fyila- 
bles, a mongrel affix peculiar te Englifh 
language. If then (as was obferved at 
the word Antiguggler) the {pirit of our lan- 
guage does not favour thé breed of 
mule-words ; it would follow, that, where 
the radical fubftantive or etymonis Greek, 
the infletion of the derived adjective 
fhouid be in zc; and where the etymon is 
Latin, in a@/: but that, to words of low and 
judicrous fignification, an affix ical, fome- 
what barbarous and illiterate in its very 
compofition, would beft be adapted: as 
wwhimfcal, fnical, pedantical, fatirical. 
As the old word eleéire, amber, may 
come from the Greek, or from the Latin, 
the adje&tives elecizvic or, eleGral are alike 
proper. Would it not be worth while to 
revive the ufe of this fubftantive, which 
Lord Bacon long ago employed, as the 
name of that fluid whica occafions all 
electric phenomena? 
Embarquement.—This fubftantive is a 
regular derivative of the verb to embark or 
imbark, and can only fignify (1) the fate 
af being on fhipboard. (2) any thing put on 
foipboard, a cargo, in which laf fenfe it 
zpparently occurs in Coriolanus. Mr. 
ads 
Account of an ancient Monument at Vienne. 
[ Nov. Is 
Mafon confounds the word with embar- 
O« 4 
? Enchafe.—-Mr. Mafon propofes, as 2 
fifth fenfe of the word enchafe, **to deli- 
neate:”? he then quotes tnefe two lines of 
Spenfer : . 
My ragged rimes are all too rude and bafe 
Her heavenly lineaments for to enchafe. 
Here the word obvioufly means ‘‘to in- 
fhrine,”’ theca condere, which is its primitive 
meaning. So in French: Exchafer une 
relique dans une chaffe d'argent; to en- 
chafe a relique in a filver fhrine : Exchaffer 
une feneire dans fon chaffis; to frame a 
window in a fafh: Exchefer uae pierre 
daus de lor; to feta ftone in gold. 
Endofs.—There is an habitual negle&t of 
precifion in the definitions of Mr. Mafon ; 
this word dces not mean ‘to mark by inci- 
Jion,”’ but <‘to.mark on the back:”’ and alfo to 
put on one’s back. Its etymon is the 
French dos, the back... 
Il shabillé en berger, endoffe un hoqueton. 
LAFONTAINE. 
Chariots, or elephants endoffed with towers. 
_ MILtTon. 
Exorable.—Mr. Mafon has-dilcovered in 
an obfcure corner an authority for this 
word: do fuch words require to be au- 
thorized > We are in the familiar ofe of 
inexorable, unweildy, iudefirudtible,. uncon- 
teftible, fure.y we may infer the legitimacy 
of exorable, wieldy, deftrudiible, contefla- 
ble: privatives imply the exiftence of the 
integral word. 
(To be continued.) 
a — 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
ACCOUNT of am ANCIENT. MONUMENT 
_at VIENNE. ; 
IT. Scuneiper, Profeflor of De- 
fign at Vienne, has lately read to the 
Lyceum of Grenoble a Diflertation on the 
Cenotaph in the former city, called the 
Spire (le Plan de I Aiguille), im which he 
enters into an exact defcription of its 
conftruétion, according to the principles 
of architecture, and accompanies thefe 
details with a number of conjectures; 
which may -ferve to fhew on what occafion 
¢ 
this monument was ereéted; conjectures, 
he obferves, which carry with them the 
greater air of probability, as they will be 
found to be fupported by the ufage of the 
Romans, and. by general hiftory. The 
fingular ftruéture of this monument at- 
tracts the curiofity of travellers; but no 
one, there is reafon to think, has hitherto 
difcovered its precife deftination ner its 
archite&ture. Ir would appear, according 
to. many defigns and memoirs which tlie 
Profeflor 
