in Pharmacy, a form of medicine composed of powders and other ingredients, incorporated with some conserve, honey, or syrup; to be divided into doses, like boluses, when taken.

Vossius observes, that all the remedies prescribed for the sick, as well as the confections taken by way of regale, were called by the Greeks ἐλεκτορικόν, and ἐλεκτορία, of the verb ἐλέγχω, "I like;" whence, says he, was formed the Latin electorium, and afterwards electuarium. This conjecture he supports from the laws of Sicily, where it is ordained, that electuaries, syrups, and other remedies, be prepared after the legal manner. The Bollandists, who relate this etymology, seem to confirm it. For the composition and different sorts of electuaries, see PHARMACY.

ELEEMOSYNA Carucarum, or pro Aratris, or Aratri, in our ancient customs, a penny which King Ethelred ordered to be paid for every plough in England towards the support of the poor. Sometimes it is also called eleemosyna regis, because first appointed by the king.