Part 3594

<cs><col>Lunar ecliptic limit</col> <fld>(Astron.)</fld>, <cd>the space of 12&deg; on the moon's orbit from the node, within which, if the moon happens to be at full, it will be eclipsed.</cd> -- <col>Solar ecliptic limit</col>, <cd>the space of 17&deg; from the lunar node, within which, if a conjunction of the sun and moon occur, the sun will be eclipsed.</cd></cs>

<h1>Eclogite</h1> <Xpage=469>

<hw>Ec"lo*gite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Ecloque</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>A rock consisting of granular red garnet, light green smaragdite, and common hornblende; -- so called in reference to its beauty.</def>

<h1>Eclogue</h1> <Xpage=469>

<hw>Ec"logue</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>ecloga</ets>, Gr. <?/ a selection, choice extracts, fr. <?/ to pick out, choose out; <?/ out + <?/ to gather, choose: cf. F. <ets>\'82gloque</ets>, <ets>\'82cloque</ets>. See <er>Ex-</er>, and <er>Legend</er>.]</ety> <def>A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; <as>as, the <ex>Ecloques</ex> of Virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has been established</as>.</def>

<h1>Economic; 277, Economical</h1> <Xpage=469>

<hw><hw>E`co*nom"ic</hw> <tt>(?; 277)</tt>, <hw>E`co*nom"ic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>\'82conomique</ets>, L. <ets>oeconomicus</ets> orderly, methodical, Gr. <?/ economical. See <er>Economy</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Pertaining to the household; domestic.</def> "In this <i>economical</i> misfortune [of ill-assorted matrimony.]"

<i>Milton.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Relating to domestic economy, or to the management of household affairs.</def>

<blockquote>And doth employ her <b>economic</b> art And busy care, her household to preserve. <i>Sir J. Davies.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Managing with frugality; guarding against waste or unnecessary expense; careful and frugal in management and in expenditure; -- said of character or habits.</def>

<blockquote>Just rich enough, with <b>economic</b> care, To save a pittance. <i>Harte.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Managed with frugality; not marked with waste or extravagance; frugal; -- said of acts; saving; <as>as, an <ex>economical</ex> use of money or of time</as>.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Relating to the means of living, or the resources and wealth of a country; relating to political economy; <as>as, <ex>economic</ex> purposes; <ex>economical</ex> truths.</as></def>

<blockquote>These matters <b>economical</b> and political. <i>J. C. Shairp.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>There was no <b>economical</b> distress in England to prompt the enterprises of colonization. <i>Palfrey.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Economic</b> questions, such as money, usury, taxes, lands, and the employment of the people. <i>H. C. Baird.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Regulative; relating to the adaptation of means to an end.</def>

<i>Grew.</i>

<note>&hand; <i>Economical</i> is the usual form when meaning frugal, saving; <i>economic</i> is the form commonly used when meaning pertaining to the management of a household, or of public affairs.</note>

<h1>Economically</h1> <Xpage=469>

<hw>E`co*nom"ic*al*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>With economy; with careful management; with prudence in expenditure.</def>

<h1>Economics</h1> <Xpage=469>

<hw>E`co*nom"ics</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/, equiv. to <?/ <?/. See <er>Economic</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The science of household affairs, or of domestic management.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Political economy; the science of the utilities or the useful application of wealth or material resources. See <cref>Political economy</cref>, under <er>Political</er>.</def> "In politics and <i>economics</i>."

<i>V. Knox.</i>