ECLIPTICAL.
ECLIPTIC
circle, line, -way
1391 CHAUCER Astral. Prol. 3 To knowe in owre orizonte
the arising of any planete aftur his latitude fro the Eclip-
t b. Ecliptic
var. of
Ecness, -nyss,
t Eco'd, int. Obs.
sb.
1
.
.
ECONOMIST.
34
=
1594 BLUNDEVIL Exerc. lit. i. xjv. (ed. 7) 305 You
must have respect only to the Ecliptique line. i66a HOBBES
t Prob. Wks. 1845 VII. 10 Does not the earth move.
tik lyne.
.
ECHENESS,
[var.
of EGAD, tgod>
Ac AD,
Used as a mild oath.
q.v.]
1713 FIELDING Don Quix. \. viii, 'Ecod it runs in my
headT 1777 SHERIDAN Trip Scarb, in. iv, It's well I have
a husband acoming. or ecod I'd marry the baker. 1865
DICKENS Mut. Fr. xiv. 371 Ecod, when I say to him
Obs. rare. In 7 ceconomacy.
t
!
.
.
1649 SELDEN
fig.
Laws Eng.
He would
n. xxx. (17391 137
therefore have his way like that of the Zodiack, broad
could not
enough for Planetary motion of any one that
contain himself within the Ecliptick Line ofthe Law.
H Used by mistake for ELLIPTIC.
Row
The Exercise
of Pro(1842; 53
1634-46
phesieing, or, in ecliptick expression, the Exercise of the
Kirk
Hist.
Ministers.
The great circle of the celestial sphere which
So called bethe apparent orbit of the sun.
cause eclipses can happen only when the moon is
on or very near this line. Sometimes put for the
1.
is
plane of the ecliptic.
1635 N. CARPENTER Geog. Del. i. ix. 208 The distance of
the Pole circles from the Pole is iust so much as the declination of the Eclipticke from the Equatour.
1646 SIR
T. BROWNE Pseud. Ep. 291 If we imagine the Sun to make
his course out of the Eclyptick, ana upon a line without
any obliquity. 1698 KFII.L Exam. The. Eartk(ij-^) 225 It
[is] .. impossible to conceive how a Sphere can be inclin'd
to a Plane, passing thro' its Center as the Ecliptick does
thro* the Center ofthe Earth.
1774 GOLDSMITH Nat. Hist.
(1862) I. iv. ii Its equator was in the plane of the ecliptic.
1854
KELLY
&
TOMLINSON
Aragos Astron.
tr.
121
The
in-
comet to the ecliptic is 12 34'.
2. The great circle on the terrestrial sphere
which at any given moment lies in the plane of
the celestial ecliptic.
1819 Pantologia, Ecliptic, in geography, an imaginary
great circle on the terrestrial globe
falling upon the plane
clination of the orbit of this
.
.
of the celestial ecliptic.
Ecliptical
(/Vli-ptikal), a.
Pertaining to the ecliptic
;
[f.
ECLIPTIC + -AL.]
situated
on the
ecliptic.
1556 RECORDE Cast. Knowl. (1556) 281 The Eclipticall
pointes, whiche be commonly called the Headde and the
CLERKE Pop.
Hist. Astron. 420
In carrying out the work of ecliptical charting .. M. ftL
. . resolved . . to have recourse to the Camera.
Henry
Used in error for ELLIPTICAL.
When the sentence is
1583 FVLKE Defence (1845) 402
ecliptical or defective. 1642 FULLER Holy $ Prof. St. iv. xii.
299 He conceives this word, On mine Honour, wraps up a
great deal in it . . and no lesse then an eclipticall oath,
calling God to witnesse, who hath bestowed that Honour
upon him.
Hence Ecll'ptlcally adv., in the direction of
Payle ofthe Dragon.
1885
^
apparent) annual motion in the ecliptic.
SIR T. BROWNE Gard. Cyrus, The flower twists
the sun's
<;
1658
Aequinoctionally from the left hand to the right.. the stalk
twineth ecliptically from the right to the left.
t Eclipti'City.
CAKTE
1747
rare~
Ofis.
Hist. Eng.
l
.
68 Discoveries, with regard
I.
to the eclipticity of the Zodiac.
(e-kUfd^it). Min. Also 9 eclogyte,
Gr. f/cAo-yij selection ; see quot.
metamorphic rock, consisting of granu-
Eclogite
eklogite.
A
f f.
iSaa.]
lar garnet and hornblende, with grass-green smaragdite Dana Man. Geol. (1880) 74).
I iSza HAUY
MitUralofie IV. 548 Diallage, Espece unique
Eclogite, d' eAoyij choix, parce que les composans de cette
roche n'etant pas de ceux qui existent plusieurs ensemble
semMent s'etre choisis pour
dans les roches primitives
faire bande a part.J
185* TH. Ross tr. Hutnboldt's Trar.
III. xxix. 169 Feldspar with a basis of souda. .forms, .with
1866 LAWRENCE tr. Cotta's Rocks Class.,
irnet, eclogyte.
his rock, to which Hauy gave the name of eklogite, is
firm
and
coherent.
usually very
:
.
.
Eclogue
'.e'kl^g).
Forms
:
6-8 eglog(ue,
(6,
6- eclogue, [ad. L. ecloga, a.
9 seglogue, -ge
Gr. tK\oyrj selection, f. iic\tyttv to select.
The spelling sfglognt (medL. xgloga, Fr. tglogut} was
associated with a fanciful derivation from al, aty-ot goat
,
(as if
'
discourse of goatherds
A
blanche their passions with
deuising how to
1605 CAMDEN Rttn. 172 His
seglofjues, songs and sonnets.
meaning might be perceyved out of the last Eglogue of
POPH
Past.
Disc.
Poetry 55 It is not suffiVirgili.
1704
cient that the sentences only be brief, the whole Eclogue
should be so too. 1876 GHKHN Short Hist. \. 4^ (1882) 37
A little eclogue descriptive ofthe approach of spring.
2. Erroneously for
Conversation, discourse.
1613 R. C. Table Alph. (ed. 3), Eglogve, n talking toether.
0x670 HACKET Cent. Serm. (1675) 288 The ShepJ erds in the Eclogue which they had together about going
to Bethlem to find Christ, use this Speech.
3. attrib.) also eclogut-wise adv., as in an eclogue.
1580 SIDNEY Arcadia (1613) 210 Which gaue occasion to
Histor and Damon
to present Basilius with some other of
their complaints Eclogue-wise.
Ibid. 388 In eclogue wise.
i,
Some
. .
.
U
.
:
i!
.
.
Hence E clogney
ofthe nature
18..
a.
nonce-wd., pertaining
to,
or
an eclogue or pastoral poem.
BAMBiAnMffXtaMf Dial., They poems .. fill my
of,
heart wi'. .The most ecloguey thoughts they do
t
erron. form of EXCLUDE v .
1681 R. KNOX Hist, dylon 66 He is utterly ecluded from
Eclude,
his family.
L. ccconom-us (ad. Gr. ofcopo/zos steward) +
The position or office of being * spiritual
ceconomus' or controller of ecclesiastical affairs.
1651 C. CARTWRIGHT Cert. Relig. i. 45 That Objection of
Protestants against the ceconomacy of the Bishop of Rome.
Economic (zk0np'mik), a. For forms cf.
ECONOMY, [ad. L. ccconomicus y ad. Gr. ofropoiuiror,
[f.
-ACT.]
f.
oiHovuftoy
see
;
ECONOMY and
The
-1C.
Fr.
of earlier date, and may have been
the first source of the Eng. word.]
1. f a- Pertaining to the management of a household, or to the ordering of private affairs (p&s.)
b. Relating to private income and expenditure.
1591 SIR JOHN DAMES tmmort. Soul xil (1697) 52 Doth
her Household to preserve,
employ her Oeconomick Art
1603 t LORIO Montaigne (1634) in In this Oeconomklce or
houshold order. 16*7 DRAYTON Agincowrt 212 A man of
natural! goodness, .whose courses .. serue me for Oeconomike booke.
1650 Row Hist. Kirk (18421 193 Imploying
them in oeconomick & natural! moral duties. 1669 GALE
Crt. Gentiles i. in. i. 17 Oeconomic Poesie ..also .. Politic
had their Original from Moses's Oeconomics, and
Poesie
Politics.
1791 CowfEK Odyss. xix. 408 That I in wisdom
ceconomic aught Pass other women. 1831 CARLYLE Sari.
Res. (1858) 77 Landlords' Bills, and other economic Docuis
.
.
1
. .
ments.
Sterling i.\x.(i^T2)^ His outlooks into the future,
whether for his spiritual or economic fortunes, were confused.
2. Relating to the science of economics relating
to the development and regulation of the material
;
resources of a community or nation.
1835 I. TAYLOR Spir. Despot, ii. 70 The economic experiment. 1863 FAWCETT Pol. Econ. \. iv. 35 Principles which
will enable us to investigate economic problems.
1883
Mane ft. Exam. 22 Nov. 5/3 M. Leroy-Beaulieu. .one of the
ablest writers on economic subjects.
b. Maintained for the sake of profit. Abo,
Connected with the industrial arts. (The former
'
title of what is now the
Museum of Practical
'
Geology* was Museum of Economic Geology*.)
1854 BADHAM Halieut. 36 The advantages to be derived
from economic fish-ponds. Mod. The many economic ap-
f3. Thrifty, careful, saving, sparing. Obs.
1755 H. WALPOLE Mtnt. Ceo. //, II. 96 We should be
nomic. 1801 MAR. EDGEWORTH Belinda vi. (1832)
never saw any one so economic of her smiles.
I.
eco-
112,
I
f4. Economic Rat: a
mints
t
name
a
transl. of Afus ccconogiven by Linnaeus to a burrowing
found in Siberia and Kamtchatka (now
called Arvicola aconomus}. Obs.
i8oj BINGLEY Anim. Biog.dtiy I. 378 The migrations of
rodent
Economic Rats, are not less extraordinary.
'
6. Pertaining to ' economy in religious teaching,
or to ' economy of truth '. Cf. ECONOMY 6.
[1815 J. C. HOBHOUSE Substance of some Letters (1816) I.
1 1 That
species of writing called by Voltaire, the ceconomic
1851 ROBERTstyle, or an expedient falsification of facts.]
SON St-rm. Ser. iv. vi. (1863) I. 34 His economic management of Truth. I use this word though it may seem pedantic.
6. Pertaining to a dispensation, or method of
the Divine government.
Cf. ECONOMY 5 b.
1817 1. S. FABER Eight Dissertations (1845) I. 31 Jacob
the
(
gives to this agent the . . economic
title
of The Angel.
B. sb.
fl. The
art or science of managing a house;
housekeeping. Obs.
(IOWF.R
1393
Conf. III. 141 That othirpoint, which to practique Belongith, is economique. 1609 C. BUTLER Fern. Aton.
v.d6a3)Kiv, As well in Mu.siclc as Oeconomick there must
sometime be Discords.
2. //. (after L. OBOMMvte, Gr. rd oiKovofuxa^
f a. The science or art of managing a household ; a treatise on that subject. Obs.
1586 COG AN Harsn Health (1636) 16 Aristotle .. in his
CFxronomikes . . biddeth us to rise before day. a 1619 Foii. xtv. $ 2(1622)
356 Morall Philosophic
hath three parts Ecclesiastickes, Oeconomickes, and Politickes. [i6i Bk.Discip. Ch.Scot. 43 Kthica.Occonomica &
THERBY Attuvm.
. .
:
Politica.] 1665 GLWVILL Setts. Set. xix. 123 The more pracones of Politicks and (Kconomicks. 1770 LANGHOKNK
tical
Plutarch
Economics, so far as they regard
only inanimate things, serve only the low purposes of gain
but where they regard human beings they rise higher.
b. The art of regulating income and expendi(1879) II. 586/2
;
ture
also, pecuniary position.
;
1851 CARLYLE Sterling i. iv. (1872) 27 The family economics
Ibid. n.
getting yearly more propitious and flourishing,
vi. 140 The Original Regulations, .a very solid lucid piece
of economics.
The
science relating to the production and
distribution of material wealth ; sometimes used
as equivalent to political economy^ but more frec.
Those moral
attributes . are independent of economics.
tr. /'. Brewer's Greece I. v. 138 The
of
Greece in economics. 1881 P. GEDDES in
improvement
Nature XXIV. 526 Those sections .. were devoted to ..
physical economics,
understands the art of housekeept 3. One
.
MARY HOWITT
1863
who
ing. Obs.
1656 TRAPP Comm. Eph. i. 10 God is the best economic
his house is exactly ordered for matter of good husbandry.
T^.
;
An administrator of the revenues
benefice [ = med.L. ceconomtis]. Obs.
Eccl. Hist.
of a vacant
1616 N. BRENT Hist. Counc. Trent (1676) 611 There being
a suit for a benefice, an Oiconoimck may be created. Ibid.
The Episcopal See being void, the Chapter shall elect
one or two economicks.
Forms: see
('~k0np'mikal), a.
ECONOMY. Also 6 oiconomical. [f. as prec. + -AL.]
1. Pertaining to a household or its management ;
735
Economical
resembling what prevails in a household, arch.
1579 G. HARVEY Lett.-tk. (1884)61 The other ceconomical
matter you wotte of. 1586 T. B. La Prhnaud. Fr. Acad.
493 Oeconomicall science, that is. .the art of ruling a house
i6i T. TAYLOR Comm. Titus i. 6 Those priuate vertues. .concerne his economicall administration. 1680 SIR R.
2 Adam had only economical
FILMER Patriarchal ii.
power, but not political. 1748 HARTLEY Observ. Man i. iv.
I i. 425 CEconomical Convenience first determined the
Ratio s of Doors, Windows, etc,
i.
weft.
b. Pertaining to pecuniary position.
economical
1825-45 CARLYLE Schiller App. (ed. 2! 270
circumstances render it impossible for me to travel much.
My
2. Pertaining to, or concerned with, the development of material resources relating to political
;
economy.
Cf.
ECONOMY
3.
1781 GIBBON Decl. fy F. II. xxxi. 173 The economical
wnters of antiquity
recommend the former method. 1790
BURKE Fr. Rev. 117 Commerce .. and manufacture, the
gods of our (Economical politicians, are themselves perhaps
. .
but creatures.
1878 MORLEY Condorcet 43
France sink under her economical disorders?
ECONOMIC
b.
Why
did not
2 b.
1791 A. YOUNG Trar. France 210 He had the direction
of the ceconomical garden. i8s* IMISON Sc. <y A rt II. 28
very important applications of this principle have
been made by Count Rumford to ceconomical purposes.
1856 KMERSON En^. Traits v.oo Bakewell created . breeds
In which everything is omitted out what is economical.
. .
Many
.
3. Characterized by, or tending to economy of
persons ; saving, thrifty ; opposed to wasteful. Cf.
;
plications of electricity.
.
'). ]
short poem of any kind, esp. a pastoral
dialogue, such as Virgil*s Bucolics.
BARCLAY
1514
Cyf. <$ Uplondyshtn. (heading}, The fyfte
EgioeofAlexandre Barclay of the Cytizen&Upiondyshman.
a They be
1579 E. K. in Spenser's Sheph. CaL Gen. Arg.
not termed Eclogues. 1591 FLORIO awrf Fruites Ep. Ded.
1.
Econo'macy.
tconwnique
iv. (1858* 17 The oppression has
gone
far farther than into the economics of Ireland.
1841-4
EMERSON Ess. Ser. i. vii. 11876) 181 Chemistry, natural history, and economics.
1844 DISRAELI Comngsby HI. iii. 100
CARLYLE Chartism
Obs.
quently with reference to practical and sj>ecific
Sometimes qualified by an adj. preapplications.
fixed, as in Rural Economics. Also, the condition
of a country with regard to material prosperity.
179* A. YOUNG Trav. France 176 He. .engaged to go with
me. .to Tour D'Aigues to wait on The baron, .whose essays
are among the most valuable on rural ceconomics.
1839
ECONOMY
4.
1780 BURKE Sp. <m CEconomical Reform 17 An (economical
constitution is a necessary basis for an ceconomical ad*
ministration.
1837 THIRLWALL Greece IV. xxxii. 228 The
more economical application of the
revenue. 1851
public
(ed. 2) 259 The use of animal flesh
. . as a principal
article of diet . . is very far from
being
economical.
1878 JKVONS Prim. Pol. Econ. 89 He will
1880 L. STEPHEN Pope
not work in an economical way.
iv. 93 Illustrative of his economical habits.
CARPENTER Man, Pnys.
= ECONOMIC
4.
5.
NEWMAN Hans 80 Careful ever to maintain
substantial truth in our use of the economical method.
1864
Apol. 386 She observes no half-measures, no economical reserve.
A
1833 J. H.
6. a. Pertaining to a dispensation; cf. ECONOMY fb.
b. Pertaining to an organization ; cf. ECONOMY 8.
1577 tr. Bnllinger's Decades (1502) 631 The Trinity, .doth
defcnde the Oiconomical state, that is, the mistery of the
1646 Uttrd. Issackar in Phenix (1708) II. 265
dispensation.
This Sanhedrim is Christ's Vicegerent in his oeconomical
Kingdom. 1670 MAYNWARING Vita Sacra iii. 40 The Oeconomical harmony is disturbed, a 17*6 W. REEVE Strnt.
Son of God had served the prophetic
(1729) 171 When the
and pnestly parts of his ceconomical charge. 1817 G. S.
FABER Eight Dissertations (1845) I. 37 The economical
is to declare the Father to his creatures.
office of the Word
.
.
.
.
(/~k<?nfmikali), adv. [f. prec.
In an economical manner.
1. \Vith reference to, or from the point of view
Economically
+ -LY^.]
of,
economic
science.
1856 OLMSTF.D Slave States 172 The best examples of the
application of science, economically to agriculture, can. .be
found in Virginia. 1868 ROGERS Pol. Ecc<n. \. (ed. 3) 49
Economically considered, the existence of mankind is conditioned by some sort of saving.
2. In a thrifty or saving, as opposed to n wasteful,
manner.
i8ia Examiner 28 Sept. 620/1 Those resources the kingshould economically apply.
1844 H. H. WILSON Brit.
India (1845-8) III. 549 The object might be attained.,
more economically, by the appointment of a LieutenantGovernor. 1879 Cassell's Tcchn. Educ. IV. 415/2 Labour
can be more, .economically carried out.
dom
3. Thcol. According to the method or subject to
the conditions ofthe divine economy.
The Sin of Man .
1696 LORIMER Goodivin's Disc, vil 71
.
disabled the Law of Works that it could not give that
Eternal Life which after the Fall it promised only (Economically. i8i7<;.. S.
FABFR
f-Iigkt
Dissertatiotis(i^^-^ GoA
the Father, .economically declares his high behests through
the medium of the Word.
1864 J. H. NEWMAN AjwI. 67
The system which is of less importance is economically or
sacramentally connected with the more momentous system.
Economist
v/Vnumist).
[C Gr.
oiKovopos
ECONOMY) + -IST. Cf. Fr. AMMwtor.]
1 1. One who manages a household ; a house-
(see
keeper. Obs. or arch.