elixiviation (eliksiviashon)

[ And by examining these substances by fit and proper ways, as also the cap. mort. by calcination, elixiviation , and (if it will bear such a fire) vitrification. Boyle , Works, IV. 800. Elizabeth an (e-liz-a-beth'an), a. Of or pertaining to Elizabeth (daughter of Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn), Queen of England from 1558 to 1603, or to her times. A new crop of geniuses like those of the Elizabeth an age may be born in this age, and, with happy heart and a bias for theism, bring asceticism, duty, and magnanimity into vogue again. Emerson, in N. A. Rev., CXXVI. 417. Elizabeth an architecture, a name given to the mixed or debased architecture of the times of Elizabeth and James I., when the worst forms of the Pointed and degenerate Italian styles were combined, producing a sin Elizabeth an Architecture.-Hargrave Hall, England. gular heterogeneousne in detail, with, however, much picturesquene in general effect. Its chief characteristics are: windows large, either in the plane of the wall lor or deeply embayed, long galleries, tall and highly decorated chimneys, and a profuse use of ornamental strap work in par ell apets, window-heads, etc. The Elizabeth an style is the last stage of the Tudor or Perpendicular, and, from its correspondence in period with the Renai ance of the continent, has sometimes been called the English Renais sance. The epithet Jacobean has been given to the latest variety of the Elizabeth an, differing from the Elizabeth an proper in showing a greater proportion of corrupt Italian forms. The house was an admirable specimen of complete Elizabeth an , a multitudinous cluster of gables and porches, oriels and turrets, screens of ivy and pinnacles of slate. H. James, Jr. , Pa . Pilgrim, p. 47. Elizabeth an literature, the literature produced during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, which was one of the most prolific and well-marked periods of English literary acIt was very remarkable for the variety, vigor, and permanent value of much of its prose and verse, and especially for the great number and productivene of its dramatic writers. The two most eminent names in this literature are those of Francis Bacon, one of the greatest of philosophers, and William Shakspere, the greatest of all dramatists. - Elizabeth an type. Same as church text (which see, under church, a.).