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Orators and there open'd their Commiffion, arid acquainted Mr. Somner thinks they „.». v n ■ n-
the People with their BufineG and Errand: a! Rome, do^lEg* cTSe $£**£ £& f ft " uW t0 be S
they were introduced to the Senate, and deliver'd their ' Thefe Ember-Weeks are r™ \- a ,
Commiffion to them : Among us, they make their Addrefs on Account of the Ordimtion "f^t^n Notice of,
immediately and folely to the King. ZJt%^l r\ '„ " ,dl ' wt,on °f Pnefts and Deacons;
.**.«, and i>«£ fays M. /Wr„7, when in all their cSdhS ,t ^3 rrVT'T ?? ^^ " e » ?ul
Glory, were never fo much delighted, as To fee and hear Son 8 TWh 'Z R n * e ' ofan " Times of Ordi-
a Number of Embalfadors in Their Affemblies W for on a "v w"? rw M PS */ ^ pkafc ' ma y ° rdai "
the Protectioo, or Alliance of the one or the other Smte! It "SKfc?56* °^?? W ^ . Sec , °i»'»«™ feem d to them the nobleff Homage that could be paid them ; and that State, which received the rnoft Embaffics, was judg'd to have the Advantage over the other.
The Name of Embaffador, Cicero obferves, is- facred Such is that verv
and inviolable ; Non modo inter Sociorum Jura, fed his Hand in the vL
etiam inter Hoftium Tela incolume verfatur. In Verr. fortia Romania. i ?ti
Orat.VI. 'David, we read, m^w,, ,„,;„a ,i,« a,„„„. -V— — V "" /S ' ZKW e Yf
EMBLEM, a Kind of painted JEnigma ; which ,- COTC . tenting fome obvious Hiftory, with Reflections underneath mftruSs us in fome Moral Truth, or other Matter of Knowledge.
Such is that very fignificant Image of Scevola, holding
• With the Words, Agere iS fati
To do and futfer couragioufly is
., TrT - — v"«»- *■**»> irtwrnme verjatnr. in verr. rorzia iLomanum
Urat. VI. 'David, we read, made War againft the Ammo- Roman
mtes, to revenge the Injury done his Embaffddors. Kin«s The Emblem U r™ u ,. i • 4
Z.II. C.^ 9 Alexander put the Inhabitants of Tyre ?o than &7l,La See £ P f ""' 3 "^ ° bv, ° US the Sword, for having infulted his Embaffadors ; and the Gale tiSt 1 M "- IOM v- a r ■
Youth of Rome, for affronting the Embaffadors of Val- Thing to th Ev a„d TT ^"f/f/' T g °" e to, were deliver'd up into tfcir Hands, to be punifhed The Emblems J J, I t° Underfta » d '"g-
at Difcretion. f P Bu i tion am't^ ,£""?" have been in as much Re-
The Embaffadors of Kings mould never attend at any among the Vufgar """* kamed ' aS th ° fe of «*** public AiUmbues, Marriages, Interments, or other Solem- The Word is ™*> r,w * „ r , , r , . .
,..,i,r, .u:. kji." 't.J /•. „ . . „, nora ls P u,e G"s«, ?/^>i(««, form'd of the Verb,
.„„, ....... ..„g VO , 41 ,. t .n lv _.| La , ux ULi
attics, unlefs their Matters have fome Interefts there... nor mufl they go into Mourning, or the like, on any Oc- casions of their own, by Reafon they reprefent the Pcrfons of their Princes, and mufl conform and keep Pace with him. Scaliger in Verb. Embajfador.
The Word is derived from the corrupt Latin Ambafcia- tor, form'd of AmbaBus, an old Word borrow'd from the Galilifh, fignifying Servant, Client, Domeftic, or Officer : Such is the Origin given by Sorel, Menage, and Chiflet, after Salmafms and Spelman. But the Jefuites of Antwerp reject this Opinion, in the ABa SanB. Mart. Tom. II. fag. 128. by Reafon the Gauliih AmbaB had been difcontinued
lntirr pnr.iKih (• iv> t-l-in T it-!r-> /}i*.i A st C i ., .1 __._.! . r
, , l -"■--, ^if-^i'.ti^a.y iurnm ui cue vero.
S" toffii", '<> i»fert. Suetonius relates, that •Tiberius made the Word be erafed out of a Decree of ^ Roman Senate, becaufe borrow'd from another Lan-
The -Greeks gave the fame Name vfcW, to inlaid,
V.f M ^t' a '^ eVen t0 a!1 KiS. of Oi'naments of Vales Moveables, Garments, &c. And the £«,«j „fed EmWema,jz the fame Senre , Accordingly, Gee™ rs- proaching Ferris ;with the Statues, and fine wrought Works he had plunder d from the Sicilians, calls the Ornament* fix d thereto (and which on Occalion might be feparated fong enough e're the Latin AmbafcTa was ever thought of" , ^ Emblemata. Add, that the Z*»«i Authors fi-e-
Which, however, is not flriflly true • the Word Anibafna ^ a ? n J. c " m l &XE thc figures and Ornaments of Difemrfe occurring in the Salic Law, tit. i 9 and being form'd of w ^ Edemata : Thus, an antient Latin Poet, praifing
AfcS^, by pronouncing' the , as in aBi^ and S«- p^f "V^ that *" *" W ° rdS Were ran S ed " k = •» foS;« came from AmbaBus. Fltc< - S In Moiiuc '
Lindenbrock derives the Word from the German, Am- Vacht, Work ; as fignifying a Perfon hired, to perform a Work, or Legation : And Charier, meeting with the fame Word in the. Laws of the Sonrguignons, gives into the
Sentiment of Lindenbrock. Alb. Acharifms 'in his Italian , , , don f ufe our ^nglijh Word Emblem in this Dictionary derives it from the Latin Ambulare, to walk '? , , antlent J"™ confulti, always retain the Latin
Emblem ■« to exprefs fuch Ornaments, by Reafon the
gHiam lefidi *£f«r comfoft*, nt tefferulte mines. Endo favimento, atque Emblemate Vermiculato.
We don't ufe our Englijh Word Emblem in this Senfe 5
„*■ travel.
And, laflly, the Jefuites of Antwerp, in the Place lafl cited, obferving that the Word Ambafcia occurs in the Laws of the Sowguignons, derive thence the Words Am- baffcatores, and Ambafciatores, as fignifying Envoys, or Agents, from one Prince, or State, to another! Their Sen- timent then is, that among the Barbarians, who over-
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, -- -...aments, by Reafon
Greek ipfram, literally denotes any Thing applied added to a Body by Way of Enrichment. '
With us, Emblem ordinarily fignifies no more than a Painting, Baffo Relievo, or other Reprefentation, intended to hold forth fome Moral, Political, or Academical In- ffruaion.
That which diftingui/hes an Emblem from a Devife, is,
fpread Europe, Ambafcia fignificd the Difcourfe of a ,
Peifon who ftoops or humbles himfelf ; being form'd from ™' the Words of ah Emblem have a full compleat Senfe +Kp fame Root with abaifTpr vW t*$ //., ™ »«« ~~a i.~* °i themfelves ; nay, all the Senfe and Signification which
they have with thc Figure.
But there is a yet further Difference between Emblem >r a Devife is a Symbol affected, or de-
jrtiiuii niiu uuuj'o ui iniuiLiji.a inijiicii 5 uemg rorni a irom the fame Root with abaiffer, viz. of an, or am, and bas.
EMBASSY, Legatio, a Million from one Soveraign Prince, or State, to another, of fome able experienced Perfon, to negotiate fome Affair, in Quality of .Embajfador.
Fa. ^Daniel obferves, that under the antient French Kin^s, their Fir/bajjies confifred of a Body, or Number of Per- fons, joyn'd together in Commiffion, and who compofed a Kind of Council : Something like which is {till rctain'd at Treaties of Peace. Thus the E?nbaffy of Fiimeguen, -a, , ' . for the Peace, confined of three Plenipotentiaries 3 that of „ ° rt ,4 ? :1U
TT+vcrht r>f 1-u/n ?5r. SpP F.MR A.SS A TinB _ G JjEVI
Utrecht of two, &c. See Embassador.
We likewife read of Ftnba.JJ'adreJJes : Madam the Mare-
t, LuJ.... ]ZC«...Ja»* ^U/'„_ ..! C ~H __J
perhaps the WUJ WVJUjan, a^»il uy Ally \jUUrL iAl J^UI OJ'C,
in Quality of Embaffadrefs. Metth. LAV. Vie. d' Henry IV. tells us, that the King of Terfia fent a Lady of his Court on an Embafiy to the Grand Signior, during the Troubles of the Empire,
Wc likewne read ot nmeajjaarejjes : Madam tne Mare- r T
chale de Guebriant, Wicquefort obferves, was the firif, and ot ^? n v
perhaps the only Woman, fent by any Court in Europe, any Profits arifing, and growing naturally from the Ground -
f„ n„„l;M, nf RmbafradreCs. Mntrh T IV V,„ J' TJevrn as Grals, Fruit, (Sc.
tcrmined to fome Perfon, or that expreffes fomethini which concerns him particularly , whereas an Emblem is a Symbol that regards all the Word alike. Thefe Difte rences will be apparent, from comparing the Emblem mil quoted, with the Devife of a Candle lighted- and the Words, juvando conflmlor, I wafle my felf in doing good*
EMBLEMENTS, a Term flriaiy fignifying the profits of Lands fown ; tho' fometimes ufed more largely for
n r-i r-T r— 1 n 1— EMBATTELED, a Term in -- -
I LI LI U U U Heraldry, when the Out-line of K-everhoii, /hall have thc Emblements, and not he the
_ . Leliee.
a n n nant ' for Life ' fow tlle Land - and die i his Exe* cutor mail have the Emblements, and not he in Reverfion But if the Tenant, for Tears, fow the Land, and before Severance the Term expires, there the Lcffor, or he in
any Ordinary is of this Fi^ which reprefents the Battlements of a Wall, or'Caffle. ^
EMBER- or EMBRE-W-e^j, are thofe wherein the Ember- or Embriug-ZJays fall.
In the Laws of King Alfred, and thofe of Canute, they are called Tmbren, that is, Circular Days, from whence they are corrupted into Ember-Days : By the Canoniffs - — -- --".-, wiz«.u auiutiwrai mourn
' four Cardinal " t < em < becaufe inferred or intercalated. See Year.
rns. . The Word Embolifm comes from the Greek, hppstoffijil
iLISMIC.
Lcffee.
EMBOLISM, in Chronology, Intercalation. As the Greeks made ufe of the Lunar Year, which is only -,« Days ; in Order to bring ir to the Solar, which is \l\ Days; they had every two or three Years an Embolifm, i.e. they added a thirteenth Lunar Month every two or three Years ; which additional Month they called Emboli*
they are called, fjhiatuor Anni Tempore., the
"eafons, on which the Circle of the Year turns. -^" e W° r d Embolifm comes from the Greek, s/
They are the Wednefday, Friday,- and Saturday, after form'd of ty&a&m, to infert. See Embolismi
Inadragefima Sunday, after Whitfuniay, after Holy- EMBOLISMIC, Intercalary. The Term is ch
aragepma sunaay, after Wlntjuudsy, after Holy- EMBOLISMIC, Intercalary. The Term is chiefly ufed
< Uay in September, and after St. Lucies Day in for the additional Months, which the Chronologifts infert to
ember: Which four Times anfwer well enough to form the Lunar Cycle of 19 Years. See Intercalaev
tour Quarters of the Year, Sprinx, Summer, Autumn, For the 10 Sd. r T™ ™«»!nij nf <n. n n ',
Rood _ ^December :
" , v nuiw— .. — — - - — -- — — . ...v jjmiai «jywc ui ly .tears, oee iNitttLALAgr
the tour Quarters of the Year, Spring, Summer, Autumn, For the i 9 Solar Years, confiftinf of do. 9 Davs a'nr?
milliliter. lS K°™i and the S9 Lunar i ears, only making' ^"«
Mm*'
Days!
