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Of or pertaining to the church. See Ecclesiastical. "Ecclesiastic government." Swift.

To improve. [R.] Swift.

Personality. [R.] Swift.

To throw out suddenly and swiftly, as if a dart; to dart; to eject. [Archaic or Technical] Its active rays ejaculated thence. Blackmore.

not yet executed. "The company little suspected what a noble work I had then in embryo." Swift.

necessity; exigency. To whom she might her doubts propose, On all emergencies that rose. Swift. A safe counselor in most difficult emergencies. Brougham.

Novæ- Hollandiæ and D. irroratus), related to the cassowary and the ostrich. The emu runs swiftly, but is unable to fly. [Written also emeu and emew.]

To put in motion or action by violence; to drive. As swift as stones Enforced from the old Assyrian slings. Shak.

The act of engrossing; as, the engrossment of a deed. Engrossments of power and favor. Swift.

One who enslaves. Swift.

To inclose in a vault; to entomb. [R.] Swift.

Retinue; train; suite. Swift.

ith from. "Evading from perils." Bacon. Unarmed they might Have easily, as spirits evaded swift By quick contraction or remove. Milton.

a soldier Even to Cato's wish. Shak. Without . . . making us even sensible of the change. Swift.

The act of vomiting. [Obs.] Swift.

Capable of being discharged by spitting. [Obs.] Swift.

One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another. Swift.

ether material or spiritual. Who now, alas! no more is missed Than if he never did exist. Swift. To conceive the world . . . to have existed from eternity. South.

good. An expectant of future glory. South. Those who had employments, or were expectants. Swift.

dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition. With winged expedition Swift as the lightning glance.