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1.3. lie had a considerable share in the contest relating to Ari- 1s; whose cause he and several other bishops defended, being |jersuaded that Anus had been unjustly persecuted by Alexander, Iu.shop of Alexandria. lie assisted at the council of Nice in 32 3 ; jwhen he made a speech to the emperor Constantine on his com-ing to the council, and was placed next him on his right hand. lietea. present at the council of Antioch , in which Eustathius, bi-hopof that city, was deposed ; hut though lie was chosen by the bi-shop and people of Antioch to succeed him, he refused it. In 33 jiie assisted at the council of Tv re held against Athanasius ; and atthe assembly of bishops at Jerusalem , at the dedication of thechurch there. By these bishops lie was sent to the emperor Con-stantine to defend what they had done against Athanasius ; whenlie pronounced the panegyric on that emperor, during the publicrejoicings, in the thirtieth rear of his reign. Eusebius died in 338.He wrote, 1. An Ecclesiastical Hi-torv, of which Valesius hasgiven a good edition in Creek and Latin ; but the best is tiieCambridge edition, 3 vols. folio, 1730: 3. The Life of Constan-tine : 3. A Treatise against IIieroclos: 4. Chronicon: 3- Prepn a-tiones Evangelical: 6. Demonstrate Evangelica , an invaluablework: the best edition yet published is that of Franc. Vigcro.Greek and Latin , Rothomag, 1028.

EUSTACHIAN Tube, in anatomy, begins from the interiorextremity of the tympanum, and runs forward and inwards in abony canal, which terminates with a portion of the temporal bone.See Av atom v.

EUSTAT11IANS, a uame given to the Catholics of Antioch in the 4th ceuturv, on occasion of their refusal to acknowledgeany other bishop beside St. Eustathius , deposed by the Ariar.s.This denomination was given them during the episcopate of Pau-1'mis, whom the Avians sub-titiited to St. 'Eustathius , about A. 1).330, when they began to hold their assemblies apart.

Eustathiavs, a sect of lie reties in the 4th century, denominat- |e.ji from 1 fecit- founder Eustathius, a monk so fooli-hly tond of his ,own profession, that lie condemned all other conditions of life. |Whether this Eustathius was the same with the bishop of Sebastia Iami chief of the .Seniiarians, is not certain.

EUSTATHIUS, a monk of the 4tb century, who excludedmarried people from salvation; prohibited bis followers from pray-ing in their houses; and obliged them to quit all tiiev had as in-compatible with tiie hopes of heaven.

Eustathius, Archbishop of Thessalonica , in the 12th century,under the emperors Emanuel, Alexander, and Andronicus Com-nenus. He was an eminent grammarian: and wrote commenta-ries up on 11 omer, a ml Dionysius the geographer. Tiie best edi-tion of his commentaries on Homer is that of Rome, printed inGreek, in 1542, in 4 vols. folio. His commentaries on tiie Pe-riegesisof Dionysius were printed by Mr. Hudson at Oxford, in1097, 8vo. He was alive in 1194.

EUSTATIA, or EUSTATIUS , Sr. one of the Caribbeeislands, belonging till very latelv to the Dutch . It is little elsethan a huge mountain, which formerly lias, in ail probability,been a volcano.

Eustatius St. or Eustatia Town, the capital of the aboveisland. Eon. 63. 5. W. l.at. 17.29 N.

EUSTEPHI A, in botauv, a genus of (he liexnmlria monogyniaclass and order. Corolla superior, tubular, cylindrical, bilid;nectary six cavities in the tube of tiie corolla; filaments, tricuspi-date, distinct, it has one species, viz. the coccinea.

. EUSTYLE, [from iv of <u, proper, and, a co-

lumn,] in architecture, is a sort of building in w Inch the pillars areplaced at the most convenient distance one from the other.

EUTIIYMIA, [from iv, good, and G-jpo;, the mind,] such astate of the mind, as could not be ruffled either by good or badfortune, bv sickness or health, good or evil.

EUTYCHES, an archimandrite or abbot of a monastery atConstantinople , who began to propagate ids opinion against thetwo natures in Christ , A. D. 448. He did not, however, seemquite consistent in his sentiments: for he allowed of two naturesbefore the union ; he believed that the soul of Jesus Christ hadbeen united to the divinity before the incarnation ; but he allowedno distinction of natures "in Jesus Chri-t since bis incarnation; al-legin'! that the Divine Nature had sw allowed up the human.

EUTYCIHANS, ancient heretics, w ho denied the two naturesfn Christ; thus denominated from Eutyches .

Eutychians, another sect, hah'Arian , half Eunomian ; whicharose at Constantinople in tiie 4th century.

EUTYCH 1 US, the founder of the last mentioned sect, withone Tlieopromus, were the movers of all tiie changes made by tiieEunomians in tiie administration of baptism ; which consisted,according to Nicephorus , in only using one immersion, and notdoing it in the name of the Trinity, but in memory of thedeath of Jesus Christ .

KUXINE, or BLACK SEA , forms part of tiie boundary be-twixt Europe and Asia, (t receives the Dnieper, the Danube ,and other large rivers; and extends from 28° to 41° Lon. E. andfrom 40° to 46° Lut. N, The ancients imagined this sea to haw.been originally only a lake, which broke first in tiie Propontis,and then into the /Egean, washing away by degree's the earthwhich first kept it within bounds, and formed tiie two channels otthe Bosphorus Thracitis ami Hellespont, now the Dardanelles .

EWEL, a town of Surrey, 10 miles N. E, by N. of Dorking ,and 13 S. E. by E. of London .

EWRY', an office in the king’s household, where they takecare of the linen for the king’s table, lay the cloth and serve upwater in silver ewers alter dinner.

EX, a Latin preposition often prefixed to compounded words;sometimes meaning out, as exhaust, to draw tint ; sometimes onlyenforcing the meaning, and sometimes producing little altera-tion.

Ex Officio, among lawyers, signifies the [rower a person has,by virtue of his office, to do certain acts without being ap-plied to.

Ex Post Facto , in law, something done after another; thusan estate granted may be good by matter ex post facto, that wasnot so at first, as in ease of election.

Ex, in geography, a river of Somersetshire , which rises in aban en tract of land, called Exmoor; runs by Tiverton, washestiie walls of Exeter ; and falls into tiie English channel at Ex-mouth, after a course of about 40 miles.

EXACTION, in law, a wrong done by an officer, or a personin pretended authority, in taking a reward or fee that is not al-lowed by law. A person guilty of exaction may be lined andimprisoned.

EX.ACUM, a genus of the monogynia order, and tetrandriaclass of plants; natural order, Rolaceax Calyx four-leaved ; co-rolla salver-shaped, with an inflated lube; capsule two-furrowed,two-celled, many-seeded, bursting at the top. There are tenspecies.

EX.ERES1S, in surgery, the operation of extracting, or takingaway, something that is hurtful to the human body.

EXAGGERATION, in rhetoric, a kind oi hyperbole, where-by tilings are augmented or amplified, In saying more than thetruth, either as to good or bad. There are two kinds ot exagge-ration ; the one oi tilings, the other of words. The first is pro-duced, 1. By a multitude of definitions. 2. By a multitude ofadjuncts. 3. By a detail of causes and effects. 4. By an enu-meration of consequences. 3. By comparisons. And 6, By diecontrast of epithets and rational interenee. Exaggeration by wordsis effected, 1. By using metaphois. 2. By hyperboles. 3. By sy-nonymous terms. 4. By a collection of splendid and magnificentexpressions. 5. By periphrasis. 6. By repetition. And, lastly,by confirmation with an oath : as lor example, “ Parietes, mediusI’ldius, gratias tibi agere gestiunt.”

Exaggeration, in painting, a method by which the artist, inrepresenting tilings, charges them too much, or makes them toostrong, either in respect of tiie design or colouring, It differsfrom caricature, in that the latter perverts or gives a turn to thefeatures of a face, &c. which they hail not; whereas exaggerationonly heightens or improves what they had.

lvXAEI ATION, in astrology, is a dignity which it is pre-tended a planet acquires iii cerium signs or parts oi the zodiac,which dignity is supposed to give it an extraordinary efficacy andinfluence. Thus tiie 15° of cancer is the exaltation of Jupiter.

Exaltation, in chemistry, signifies an operation by which sisubstance has its properties changed, and raised to a higher de-gree of efficacy or virtue.

Exaltation of the Cross, a feast of the Latin chtireh,held oil the 14th September in memory of the emperor Heraclius having brought back the true cross of Jesus Christ on his shouF

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