Good Ethelbert of Kent, first christened English king. 
  To preach the faith of Christ was first did hither bring
  Wise Au’gustine the monk, from holy Gregory sent... 
  That mighty fane to Paul in London did erect.

Drayton, Polyolbion, xi. (1613).

ETH’ERINGTON (The late earl of) father of Tyrrel and Bulmer.

The titular earl of Etherington, his successor to the title and estates.

Marie de Martigny (La comtesse), wife of the titular earl of Etherington.—­Sir W. Scott, St. Ronan’s Well (time, George III.).

ETHIOPIANS, the same as Abassinians.  The Arabians call these people El-habasen or Al-habasen, whence our Abassins, but they call themselves Ithiopians or Ethiopians.—­Seldon, Titles of Honor, vi. 64.

  Where the Abassin kings their issue guard,
  Mount Amara.

Milton, Paradise Lost, iv. 280 (1665).

ETHIOP’S QUEEN, referred to by Milton in his Il Penseroso, was Cassiope’a, wife of Ce’pheus (2 syl.) king of Ethiopia.  Boasting that she was fairer than the sea-nymphs, she offended the Nereids, who complained to Neptune.  Old father Earth-Shaker sent a huge sea-monster to ravage her kingdom for her insolence.  At death Cassiopea was made a constellation of thirteen stars.

  ... that starred Ethiop queen that strove
  To set her beauty’s praise above
  The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended.

Milton, Il Penseroso, 19 (1638).

ETHNIC PLOT.  The “Popish Plot” is so called in Dryden’s satire of Absalom and Achitophel. As Dryden calls the royalists “Jews,” and calls Charles II.  “David, king of the Jews,” the papists were “Gentiles” (or Ethnoi), whence the “Ethnic Plot” means the plot of the Ethnoi against the people of God.—­Pt. i. (1681).

ETIQUETTE (Madame), the Duchesse de Noailles, grand mistress of the ceremonies in the court of Marie Antoinette; so called from her rigid enforcement of all the formalities and ceremonies of the ancien regime.

ETNA.  Zens buried under this mountain Enkel’ados, one of the hundred-handed giants.

  The whole land weighed him down, as Etna does
  The giant of mythology.

Tennyson, The Golden Supper.

ETTEILLA, the pseudonym of Alliette (spelt backwards), a perruquier and diviner of the eighteenth century.  He became a professed cabalist, and was visited in his studio in the Hotel de Crillon (Rue de la Verrerie) by all those who desired to unroll the Book of Fate.  In 1783 he published Maniere de se Recreer avec le Jeu de Cartes nommees Tarots.  In the British Museum are some divination cards published in Paris in the first half of the nineteenth century, called Grand Etteilla and Petit Etteilla, each pack being accompanied with a book of explication and instruction.