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Enchain
ENCHA'IN, verb transitive
1. To fasten with a chain; to bind or hold in chains; to hold in bondage.
2. To hold fast; to restrain; to confine.
3. To link together; to connect.
Enchained
ENCHA'INED, participle passive Fastened with a chain; held in bondage; held fast; restrained; confined.
Enchaining
ENCHA'INING, participle present tense Making fast with a chain; binding; holding in chains; confining.
Enchant
ENCH'ANT, verb transitive [Latin incanto; in and canto, to sing. See Chant and Cant.]
1. To practice sorcery or witchcraft on any thing; to give efficacy to any thing by songs of sorcery, or fascination.
And now about the cauldron sing,
Like elves and fairies in a ring,
Enchanting all that you put in.
2. To subdue by charms or spells.
3. To delight to the highest degree; to charm; to ravish with pleasure; as, the description enchants me; we were enchanted with the music.
Enchanted
ENCH'ANTED, participle passive Affected by sorcery; fascinated; subdued by charms; delighted beyond measure.
1. Inhabited or possessed by elves, witches, or other imaginary mischievous spirits; as an enchanted castle.
Enchanter
ENCH'ANTER, noun One who enchants; a sorcerer or magician; one who has spirits or demons at his command; one who practices enchantment, or pretends to perform surprising things by the agency of demons.
1. One who charms or delights.
Enchanter's nightshade, a genus of plants, the Circaea.
Enchanting
ENCH'ANTING, participle present tense Affecting with sorcery, charms or spells.
1. Delighting highly; ravishing with delight; charming.
2. Charming; delighting; ravishing; as an enchanting voice; an enchanting face.
Simplicity in manners has an enchanting effect.
Enchantingly
ENCH'ANTINGLY, adverb With the power of enchantment; in a manner to delight or charm; as, the lady sings enchantingly
Enchantment
ENCH'ANTMENT, noun The act of producing certain wonderful effects by the invocation or aid of demons, or the agency of certain supposed spirits; the use of magic arts, spells or charms; incantation.
The magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments. .
1. Irresistible influence; overpowering influence of delight.
The warmth of fancy--which holds the heart of a reader under the strongest enchantment
Enchantress
ENCH'ANTRESS, noun A sorceress; a woman who pretends to effect wonderful things by the aid of demons; one who pretends to practice magic.
1. A woman whose beauty or excellencies give irresistible influence.
From this enchantress all these ills are come.
Encharge
ENCH'ARGE, verb transitive To give in charge or trust. [Not in use.]
Enchase
ENCHA'SE, verb transitive [Eng. a case.]
1. To infix or inclose in another body so as to be held fast, but not concealed.
2. Technically, to adorn by embossed work; to enrich or beautify any work in metal, by some design or figure in low relief, as a watch case.
3. To adorn by being fixed on it.
To drink in bowls which glittering gems enchase
4. To mark by incision.
5. To delineate.
Enchased
ENCHA'SED, participle passive Enclosed as in a frame or in another body; adorned with embossed work.
Enchasing
ENCHA'SING, participle present tense Inclosing in another body; adorning with embossed work.
Encheason
ENCHE'ASON, noun Cause; occasion.
Enchiridion
ENCHIRID'ION, noun [Gr. the hand.] A manual; a book to be carried in the hand. [Not used.]
Encindered
ENCIN'DERED, adjective Burnt to cinders.
Encircle
ENCIR'CLE, verb transitive ensur'cl. [from circle.]
1. To inclose or surround with a circle or ring, or with any thing in a circular form.
2. To encompass; to surround; to environ.
3. To embrace; as, to encircle one in the arms.
Encircled
ENCIR'CLED, participle present tense Surrounded with a circle; encompassed; environed; embraced.
Encirclet
ENCIR'CLET, noun A circle; a ring.
Encircling
ENCIR'CLING, participle present tense Surrounding with a circle or ring; encompassing; embracing.
Enclitic
ENCLIT'IC, adjective [Gr. inclined; to incline.]
1. Leaning; inclining, or inclined. In grammar, an enclitic particle or word, is one which is so closely united to another as to seem to be a part of it; as que, ne, and ve, in virumque, nonne, aliusve.
2. Throwing back the accent upon the foregoing syllable.
ENCLIT'IC, noun A word which is joined to the end of another, as que, in virumque, which may vary the accent.
1. A particle or word that throws the accent or emphasis back upon the former syllable.
Enclitically
ENCLIT'ICALLY, adverb In an enclitic manner; by throwing the accent back.
Enclitics
ENCLIT'ICS, adjective In grammar, the art of declining and conjugating words.
Enclose
ENCLOSE. [See Inclose.]
Enclouded
ENCLOUD'ED, adjective [from cloud.] Covered with clouds.
Encoach
ENCOACH, verb transitive To carry in a coach..
Encoffin
ENCOF'FIN, verb transitive To put in a coffin.
Encoffined
ENCOF'FINED, participle passive Inclosed in a coffin.
Encomber
ENCOM'BER, [See Encumber.]
Encomberment
ENCOM'BERMENT, noun Molestation. [Not used.]
Encomiast
ENCO'MIAST, noun One who praises another; a panegyrist; one who utters or writes commendations.
Encomiastic
ENCOMIAS'TIC
ENCOMIAS'TICAL, adjective Bestowing praise; praising; commending; laudatory; as an encomiastic address or discourse.
ENCOMIAS'TIC, noun A panegyric.
Encomiastical
ENCOMIAS'TICAL, a. Bestowing praise; praising; commending; laudatory; as an encomiastic address or discourse.
Encomium
ENCO'MIUM, noun plural encomiums. Praise; panegyric; commendation. Men are quite as willing to receive as to bestow encomiums.
Encompass
ENCOM'PASS, verb transitive [from compass.] To encircle; to surround; as, a ring encompasses the finger.
1. To environ; to inclose; to surround; to shut in. A besieging army encompassed the city of Jerusalem.
2. To go or sail round; as Drake encompassed the globe.
Encompassed
ENCOM'PASSED, participle passive Encircled; surrounded; inclosed; shut in.
Encompassing
ENCOM'PASSING, participle present tense Encircling; surrounding; confining.
Encompassment
ENCOM'PASSMENT, noun A surrounding.
1. A going round; circumlocution in speaking.
Encore
ENCO'RE, adjective French word, pronounced nearly ongkore, and signifying, again, once more; used by the auditors and spectators of plays and other sports, when they call for a repetition of a particular part.
ENCO'RE, verb transitive To call for a repetition of a particular part of an entertainment.
Encounter
ENCOUNT'ER, noun [Latin contra, against, or rather rencontre.]
1. A meeting, particularly a sudden or accidental meeting of two or more persons.
To shun th' encounter of the vulgar crowd.
2. A meeting in contest; a single combat, on a sudden meeting of parties; sometimes less properly, a duel.
3. A fight; a conflict; a skirmish; a battle; but more generally, a fight between a small number of men, or an accidental meeting and fighting of detachments, rather than a set battle or general engagement.
4. Eager and warm conversation, either in love or anger.
5. A sudden or unexpected address or accosting.
6. Occasion; casual incident. [Unusual.]
ENCOUNT'ER, verb transitive
1. To meet face to face; particularly, to meet suddenly or unexpectedly.
[This sense is now uncommon, but still in use.]
2. To meet in opposition, or in a hostile manner; to rush against in conflict; to engage with in battle; as, two armies encounter each other.
3. To meet and strive to remove or surmount; as, to encounter obstacles, impediments or difficulties.
4. To meet and oppose; to resist; to attack and attempt to confute; as, to encounter the arguments of opponents. .
5. To meet as an obstacle. Which ever way the infidel turns, he encounters clear evidence of the divine origin of the scriptures.
6. To oppose; to oppugn.
7. To meet in mutual kindness. [Little used.]
ENCOUNT'ER, verb intransitive To meet face to face; to meet unexpectedly. [Little used.]
1. To rush together in combat; to fight; to conflict. Three armies encountered at Waterloo.
When applied to one party, it is sometimes followed by with; as, the christian army encountered with the Saracens.
2. To meet in opposition or debate.
Encountered
ENCOUNT'ERED, participle passive Met face to face; met in opposition or hostility; opposed.
Encounterer
ENCOUNT'ERER, noun One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist.
Encountering
ENCOUNT'ERING, participle present tense Meeting; meeting in opposition, or in battle; opposing; resisting.
Encourage
ENCOUR'AGE, verb transitive enkur'rage. To give courage to; to give or increase confidence of success; to inspire with courage, spirit, or strength of mind; to embolden; to animate; to incite; to inspirit.
But charge Joshua, and encourage him. .
Encouraged
ENCOUR'AGED, participle passive Emboldened; inspirited; animated; incited.
Encouragement
ENCOUR'AGEMENT, noun The act of giving courage, or confidence of success; incitement to action or to practice; incentive. We ought never to neglect the encouragement of youth in generous deeds. The praise of good men serves as an encouragement of virtue and heroism.
1. That which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, rewards, profit. A young man attempted the practice of law, but found little encouragement The fine arts find little encouragement among a rude people.
Encourager
ENCOUR'AGER, noun One who encourages, incites or stimulates to action; one who supplies incitements, either by counsel, reward or means of execution.
The pope is a master of polite learning and a great encourager of arts.
Encouraging
ENCOUR'AGING, participle present tense Inspiring with hope and confidence; exciting courage.
1. Furnishing ground to hope for success; as an encouraging prospect.
Encouragingly
ENCOUR'AGINGLY, adverb In a manner to give courage, or hope of success.
Encradle
ENCRA'DLE, verb transitive [en and cradle.] To lay in a cradle.
Encrimson
ENCRIM'SON, verb transitive s as z. To cover with a crimson color.
Encrimsoned
ENCRIM'SONED, participle passive Covered with a crimson color.
Encrinite
EN'CRINITE, noun [Gr. a lily.] Stone-lily; a fossil zoophyte, formed of many joints, all perforated by some starry form.
Encrisped
ENCRISP'ED, adjective [from crisp] Curled; formed in curls.
Encroach
ENCROACH, verb intransitive [Eng. crook.] Primarily, to catch as with a hook. Hence,
1. To enter on the rights and possession of another; to intrude; to take possession of what belongs to another, by gradual advances into his limits or jurisdiction, and usurping a part of his rights or prerogatives; with on. The farmer who runs a fence on his neighbor's land, and incloses a piece with his own, encroaches on his neighbor's property. Men often encroach in this manner, on the highway. The sea is said to encroach on the land, when it wears it away gradually; and the land encroaches on the sea, when it is extended into it by alluvion. It is important to prevent one branch of government from encroaching on the jurisdiction of another.
2. To creep on gradually without right.
Superstition--a creeping and encroaching evil.
3. To pass the proper bounds, and enter on another's rights.
Exclude th' encroaching cattle from thy ground.
Encroacher
ENCROACHER, noun One who enters on and takes possession of what is not his own, by gradual steps.
1. One who makes gradual advances beyond his rights.
Encroaching
ENCROACHING, participle present tense Entering on and taking possession of what belongs to another.
ENCROACHING, adjective Tending or apt to encroach.
The encroaching spirit of power.
Encroachingly
ENCROACHINGLY, adverb By way of encroachment.
Encroachment
ENCROACHMENT, noun The entering gradually on the rights or possessions of another, and taking possession; unlawful intrusion; advance into the territories or jurisdiction of another, by silent means, or without right.
1. That which is taken by encroaching on another.
2. In law, if a tenant owes two shillings rent service to the lord, and the lord takes three, it is an encroachment
Encrust
ENCRUST', verb transitive To cover with a crust. It is written also incrust.
Encumber
ENCUM'BER, verb transitive
1. To load; to clog; to impede motion with a load, burden or any thing inconvenient to the limbs; to render motion or operation difficult or laborious.
2. To embarrass; to perplex; to obstruct.
3. To load with debts; as, an estate is encumbered with mortgages, or with a widow's dower.
Encumbered
ENCUM'BERED, participle passive Loaded; impeded in motion or operation, by a burden or difficulties; loaded with debts.
Encumbering
ENCUM'BERING, participle present tense Loading; clogging; rendering motion or operation difficult; loading with debts.
Encumbrance
ENCUM'BRANCE, noun A load; any thing that impedes motion, or renders it difficult and laborious; clog; impediment.
1. Useless addition or load.
Strip from the branching Alps their piny load,
The huge encumbrance of horrific wood.
2. Load or burden on an estate; a legal claim on an estate, for the discharge of which the estate is liable.
Encyclical
ENCYC'LICAL, adjective [Gr. a circle.] Circular; sent to many persons or places; intended for many, or for a whole order of men. [This word is not used. We now use circular.]
Encyclopedia
ENCYCLOPE'DIA
ENCYCLOPE'DIAN, adjective Embracing the whole circle of learning.
Encyclopedian
ENCYCLOPE'DIAN, a. Embracing the whole circle of learning.
Encyclopedist
ENCYCLOPE'DIST, noun The compiler of an Encyclopedia, or one who assists in such compilation.
Encyclopedy
ENCYCLOPE'DY, noun [Gr. in, a circle, and instruction; instruction in a circle, or circle of instruction.]
The circle of sciences; a general system of instruction or knowledge. More particularly, a collection of the principal facts, principles and discoveries, in all branches of science and the arts, digested under proper titles and arranged in alphabetical order; as the French Encyclopedia; the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Encysted
ENCYST'ED, adjective [from cyst.] Inclosed in a bag, bladder or vesicle; as an encysted tumor.
End
END, noun
1. The extreme point of a line, or of anything that has more length than breadth; as the end of a house; the end of a table; the end of a finger; the end of a chain or rope. When bodies or figures have equal dimensions, or equal length and breadth, the extremities are called sides.
2. The extremity or last part, in general; the close or conclusion, applied to time.
At the end of two months, she returned. .
3. The conclusion or cessation of an action.
Of the increase of his government there shall be no end .
4. The close or conclusion; as the end of a chapter.
5. Ultimate state or condition; final doom.
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace. .
6. The point beyond which no progression can be made.
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end .
7. Final determination; conclusion of debate or deliberation.
My guilt be on my head and there's an end!
8. Close of life; death; decease.
Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end
9. Cessation; period; close of a particular state of things; as the end of the world.
10. Limit; termination.
There is no end of the store. Hahum 2.
11. Destruction. .
The end of all flesh is come. .
12. Cause of death; a destroyer.
And award
Either of you to be the other's end
13. Consequence; issue; result; conclusive event; conclusion.
The end of these things is death. .
14. A fragment or broken piece.
Old odd ends.
15. The ultimate point or thing at which one aims or directs his views; the object intended to be reached or accomplished by any action or scheme; purpose intended; scope; aim; drift; as private ends; public ends.
Two things I shall propound to you, as ends.
The end of the commandments is charity. l Tim.1.
A right to the end implies a right to the means necessary for attaining it.
16. An end for on end upright; erect; as, his hair stands an end
17. The ends of the earth, in scripture, are the remotest parts of the earth, or the inhabitants of those parts.
END, verb transitive To finish; to close; to conclude; to terminate; as, to end a controversy; to end a war.
On the seventh day God ended his work. .
1. To destroy; to put to death.
King Harry, thy sword hath ended him.
END, verb intransitive To come to the ultimate point; to be finished; as, a voyage ends by the return of a ship.
1. To terminate; to close; to conclude. The discourse ends with impressive words.
2. To cease; to come to a close. Winter ends in March, and summer in September. A good like ends in peace.
END'-ALL, noun Final close. [Not used.]
Endamage
ENDAM'AGE, verb transitive [from damage.] To bring loss or damage to; to harm; to injure; to mischief; to prejudice.
The trial hath endamaged thee no way.
So thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings. .
Endamaged
ENDAM'AGED, participle passive Harmed; injured.
Endamagement
ENDAM'AGEMENT, noun Damage; loss; injury.
Endamaging
ENDAM'AGING, participle present tense Harming; injuring.
Endanger
ENDANGER, verb transitive [from danger.] To put in hazard; to bring into danger or peril; to expose to loss or injury. We dread any thing that endangers our life, our peace or our happiness.
1. To incur the hazard of. [Unusual.]
Endangered
ENDANGERED, participle passive Exposed to loss or injury.
Endangering
ENDANGERING, participle present tense Putting in hazard; exposing to loss or injury.
ENDANGERING, noun Injury; damage.
Endangerment
ENDANGERMENT, noun Hazard; danger.
Endear
ENDE'AR, verb transitive [from dear.] To make dear; to make more beloved. The distress of a friend endears him to us, by exciting our sympathy.
1. To raise the price. [Not in use.]
Endeared
ENDE'ARED, participle passive Rendered dear, beloved, or more beloved.
Endearing
ENDE'ARING, participle present tense Making dear or more beloved.
Endearment
ENDE'ARMENT, noun The cause of love; that which excites or increases affection, particularly that which excites tenderness of affection.
Her first endearments twining round the soul.
1. The state of being beloved; tender affection.
Endeavor
ENDEAV'OR, noun endev'or. An effort; an essay; an attempt; an exertion of physical strength, or the intellectual powers, towards the attainment of an object.
The bold and sufficient pursue their game with more passion, endeavor and application, and therefore often succeed.
Imitation is the endeavor of a later poet to write like one who has written before him on the same subject.
Labor is a continued endeavor or a succession of endeavors.
ENDEAV'OR, verb intransitive endev'or. To exert physical strength or intellectual power, for the accomplishment of an object; to try; to essay; to attempt. In a race, each man endeavors to outstrip his antagonist. A poet may endeavor to rival Homer, but without success. It is followed by after before a noun; as, the christian endeavors after more strict conformity to the example of Christ.
1. verb transitive To attempt to gain; to try to effect.
It is our duty to endeavor the recovery of these beneficial subjects.
Endeavored
ENDEAV'ORED, participle passive Essayed; attempted.
Endeavorer
ENDEAV'ORER, noun One who makes an effort or attempt.
Endeavoring
ENDEAV'ORING, participle present tense Making an effort or efforts; striving; essaying; attempting.
Endecagon
ENDEC'AGON, noun A plain figure of eleven sides and angles.
Endeictic
ENDEI'CTIC, adjective [Gr. to show.] Showing; exhibiting. An endeictic dialogue, in the Platonic philosophy, is one which exhibits a specimen of skill.
Endemial
ENDE'MIAL, adjective [Gr. people.] Peculiar to a people or nation. An endemic disease, is one to which the inhabitants of a particular country are peculiarly subject, and which, for that reason, may be supposed to proceed from local causes, as bad air or water. The epithet is also applied to a disease which prevails in a particular season, chiefly or wholly in a particular place.
Endemic
ENDEM'IC
ENDEM'ICAL
ENDEN'IZE, verb transitive To make free; to naturalize; to admit to the privileges of a denizen. [Little used.]
Endemical
ENDEM'ICAL
Endenize
ENDEN'IZE, v.t. To make free; to naturalize; to admit to the privileges of a denizen. [Little used.]
Endenizen
ENDEN'IZEN, verb transitive [from denizen.] To naturalize.
Endict
ENDICT, ENDICTMENT. [See Indict, Indictment.]
Endictment
ENDICT, ENDICTMENT. [See Indict, Indictment.]
Ending
END'ING, participle present tense [from end.] Terminating; closing; concluding.
END'ING, noun Termination; conclusion.
1. In grammar, the terminating syllable or letter of a word.
Endite
ENDITE. [See Indite.]
Endive
EN'DIVE, noun [Latin intybum.] A species of plant, of the genus Cichorium or succory; used as a salad.
Endless
END'LESS, adjective [See End.] Without end; having no end or conclusion; applied to length, and to duration; as an endless line; endless progression; endless duration; endless bliss.
1. Perpetual; incessant; continual; as endless praise; endless clamor.
Endlessly
END'LESSLY, adverb Without end or termination; as, to extend a line endlessly
1. Incessantly; perpetually; continually.
Endlessness
END'LESSNESS, noun Extension without end or limit.
1. Perpetuity; endless duration.
Endlong
END'LONG, adverb In a line; with the end forward. [Little used.]
Endoctrine
ENDOC'TRINE, verb transitive To teach; to indoctrinate. [See the latter word.]
Endorse
ENDORSE, ENDORSEMENT. [See Indorse, Indorsement.]
Endorsement
ENDORSE, ENDORSEMENT [See Indorse, Indorsement.]
Endoss
ENDOSS', verb transitive To engrave or carve.
Endow
ENDOW', verb transitive [Latin dos, doto, or a different Celtic root.]
1. To furnish with a portion of goods or estate, called dower; to settle a dower on, as on a married woman or widow.
A wife is by law entitled to be endowed of all lands and tenements, of which her husband was seized in fee simple or fee tail during the coverture.
2. To settle on, as a permanent provision; to furnish with a permanent fund of property; as, to endow a church; to endow a college with a fund to support a professor.
3. To enrich or furnish with any gift, quality or faculty; to indue. Man is endowed by his maker with reason.
Endowed
ENDOW'ED, participle passive Furnished with a portion of estate; having dower settled on; supplied with a permanent fund; indued.
Endowing
ENDOW'ING, participle present tense Settling a dower on; furnishing with a permanent fund; inducing.
Endowment
ENDOW'MENT, noun The act of settling dower on a woman, or of settling a fund or permanent provision for the support of a parson or vicar, or of a professor, etc.
1. That which is bestowed or settled on; property, fund or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as the endowments of a church, of a hospital, or of a college.
2. That which is given or bestowed on the person or mind by the creator; gift of nature; any quality or faculty bestowed by the creator. Natural activity of limbs is an endowment of the body; natural vigor of intellect is an endowment of the mind. Chatham and Burke, in Great Britain, and Jan, Ellsworth and Hamilton, in America, possessed uncommon endowments of mind.
Endrudge
ENDRUDGE, verb transitive endruj'. To make a drudge or slave. [Not used.]
Endue
ENDU'E, verb transitive [Latin induo.] To indue, which see.
Endurable
ENDU'RABLE, adjective That can be borne or suffered.
Endurance
ENDU'RANCE, noun [See Endure.] Continuance; a state of lasting or duration; lastingness.
1. A bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without sinking or yielding to the pressure; sufferance; patience.
Their fortitude was most admirable in their presence and endurance of all evils, of pain, and of death.
2. Delay; a waiting for. [Not used.]
Endure
ENDU'RE, verb transitive [Latin durus, duro.]
1. To last; to continue in the same state without perishing; to remain; to abide.
The Lord shall endure forever. .
He shall hold it [his house] fast, but it shall not endure .
2. To bear; to brook; to suffer without resistance, or without yielding.
How can I endure to see the evil that shall come to my people? .
Can thy heart endure or thy hands be strong? .
ENDU'RE, verb transitive To bear; to sustain; to support without breaking or yielding to force or pressure. Metals endure a certain degree of heat without melting.
Both were of shining steel, and wrought so pure.
As might the strokes of two such arms endure
1. To bear with patience; to bear without opposition or sinking under the pressure.
Therefore, I endure all things for the elect's sake. .
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons. .
2. To undergo; to sustain.
I wish to die, yet dare not death endure
3. To continue in. [Not used.]
Endured
ENDU'RED, participle passive Borne; suffered; sustained.
Endurer
ENDU'RER, noun One who bears, suffers or sustains.
1. He or that which continues long.
Enduring
ENDU'RING, participle present tense Lasting; continuing without perishing; bearing; sustaining; supporting with patience, or without opposition or yielding.
1. Lasting long; permanent.
Endwise
END'WISE, adverb On the end; erectly; in an upright position.
1. With the end forward.
Enecate
EN'ECATE, verb transitive [Latin eneco.] To kill. [Not in use.]
Eneid
E'NEID, noun [Latin Eneis.] A heroic poem, written by Virgil, in which Eneas is the hero.
Enemy
EN'EMY, noun [Latin inimicus.]
1. A foe; an adversary. A private enemy is one who hates another and wishes him injury, or attempts to do him injury to gratify his own malice or ill will. A public enemy or foe, is one who belongs to a nation or party, at war with another.
I way to you, love your enemies. .
Enemies in war; in peace friends.
2. One who hates or dislikes; as an enemy to truth or falsehood.
3. In theology, and by way of eminence, the enemy is the Devil; the archfiend.
4. In military affairs, the opposing army or naval force in war, is called the enemy
Energetic
ENERGET'IC
ENERGET'ICAL, adjective [Gr. work. See Energy.]
1. Operating with force, vigor and effect; forcible; powerful; efficacious. We say, the public safety required energetic measures. The vicious inclinations of men can be restrained only by energetic laws. [Energic is not used.]
2. Moving; working; active; operative. We must conceive of God as a Being eternally energetic
Energetical
ENERGET'ICAL, a. [Gr. work. See Energy.] 1. Operating with force, vigor and effect; forcible; powerful; efficacious. We say, the public safety required energetic measures. The vicious inclinations of men can be restrained only by energetic laws. [Energic is not used.]2. Moving; working; active; operative. We must conceive of God as a Being eternally energetic.
Energetically
ENERGET'ICALLY, adverb With force and vigor; with energy and effect.
Energize
EN'ERGIZE, verb intransitive [from energy.] To act with force; to operate with vigor; to act in producing an effect.
EN'ERGIZE, verb transitive To give strength or force to; to give active vigor to.
Energized
EN'ERGIZED, participle passive Invigorated.
Energizer
EN'ERGIZER, noun He or that which gives energy; he or that which acts in producing an effect.
Energizing
EN'ERGIZING, participle present tense Giving energy, force or vigor; acting with force.
Energy
EN'ERGY, noun [Gr. work.]
1. Internal or inherent power; the power of operating, whether exerted or not; as men possessing energies sometimes suffer them to lie inactive. Danger will rouse the dormant energies of our natures into action.
2. Power exerted; vigorous operation; force; vigor. God, by his Almighty energy called the universe into existence. The administration of the laws requires energy in the magistrate.
3. Effectual operation; efficacy; strength or force producing the effect.
Beg the blessed Jesus to give an energy to your imperfect prayers, by his most powerful intercession.
4. Strength of expression; force of utterance; life; spirit; emphasis. The language of Lord Chatham is remarkable for its energy
Enervate
ENERV'ATE, adjective [infra.] Weakened; weak; without strength or force.
1. To deprive of nerve, force or strength; to weaken; to render feeble. Idleness and voluptuous indulgences enervate the body. Vices and luxury enervate the strength of state.
2. To cut the nerves; as, to enervate a horse.
Enervated
EN'ERVATED, participle passive Weakened; enfeebled; emasculated.
Enervating
EN'ERVATING, participle present tense Depriving of strength, force or vigor; weakening; enfeebling.
Enervation
ENERVA'TION, noun The act of weakening, or reducing strength.
1. The state of being weakened; effeminacy.
Enerve
ENERVE, verb transitive everv'. To weaken; the same as enervate.
Enfamish
ENFAM'ISH, verb transitive To famish. [See Famish.]
Enfeeble
ENFEE'BLE, verb transitive [from feeble.] To deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate; to enervate. Intemperance enfeebles the body, and induces premature infirmity. Excessive grief and melancholy enfeeble the mind. Long wars enfeeble a state.
Enfeebled
ENFEE'BLED, participle passive Weakened; deprived of strength or vigor.
Enfeeblement
ENFEE'BLEMENT, noun The act of weakening; enervation.
Enfeebling
ENFEE'BLING, participle present tense Weakening; debilitating; enervating.
Enfeloned
ENFEL'ONED, adjective [See Felon.] Fierce; cruel.
Enfeoff
ENFEOFF, verb transitive enfeff'. [Law Latin feaffo, feoffare, from fief, which see.]
1. To give one a feud; hence, to invest with a fee; to give to another any corporeal hereditament, in fee simple or fee tail, by livery of seizin.
2. To surrender or give up. [Not used.]
Enfeoffed
ENFEOFF'ED, participle passive Invested with the fee of any corporeal hereditament.
Enfeoffing
ENFEOFF'ING, participle present tense Giving to one the fee simple of any corporeal hereditament.
Enfeoffment
ENFEOFF'MENT, noun The act of giving the fee simple of an estate.
1. The instrument or deed by which one is invested with the fee of an estate.
Enfetter
ENFET'TER, verb transitive To fetter; to bind in fetters.
Enfever
ENFE'VER, verb transitive To excite fever in.
Enfierce
ENFIERCE, verb transitive enfers'. To make fierce. [Not in use.]
Enfilade
ENFILA'DE, noun [Latin filum.] A line or straight passage; or the situation of a place which may be seen or scoured with shot all the length of a line, or in the direction of a line.
ENFILA'DE, verb transitive [from the noun.] To pierce, scour or rake with shot, in the direction of a line, or through the whole length of a line.
In conducting approaches at a siege, care should be taken that the trenches be not enfiladed.
In a position to enfilade the works at Fort Isle.
Enfiladed
ENFILA'DED, participle passive Pierced or raked in a line.
Enfilading
ENFILA'DING, participle present tense Piercing or sweeping in a line.
Enfire
ENFI'RE, verb transitive To inflame; to set on fire. [Not used.]
Enforce
ENFO'RCE, verb transitive
1. To give strength to; to strengthen; to invigorate. [See Def.5.]
2. To make or gain by force; to force; as, to enforce a passage.
3. To put in act by violence; to drive.
Stones enforced from the old Assyrian slings.
4. To instigate; to urge on; to animate.
5. To urge with energy; to give force to; to impress on the mind; as, to enforce remarks or arguments.
6. To compel; to constrain; to force.
7. To put in execution; to cause to take effect; as, to enforce the laws.
8. To press with a charge.
9. To prove; to evince. [Little used.]
ENFO'RCE, verb intransitive To attempt by force. [Not used.]
ENFO'RCE, noun Force; strength; power. [Not used.]
Enforceable
ENFO'RCEABLE, adjective That may be enforced.
Enforced
ENFO'RCED, participle passive Strengthened; gained by force; driven; compelled; urged; carried into effect.
Enforcedly
ENFO'RCEDLY, adverb By violence; not by choice.
Enforcement
ENFO'RCEMENT, noun The act of enforcing; compulsion; force applied.
1. That which gives energy or effect; sanction. The penalties of law are enforcements.
2. Motive of conviction; urgent evidence.
3. Pressing exigence; that which urges or constrains.
4. In a general sense, any thing which compels or constrains; any thing which urges either the body or the mind.
5. A putting in execution; as the enforcement of law.
Enforcer
ENFO'RCER, noun One who compels, constrains or urges; one who effects by violence; one who carries into effect.
Enforcing
ENFO'RCING, participle present tense Giving force or strength; compelling; urging; constraining; putting in execution.
Enform
ENFORM', verb transitive To form; to fashion. [See Form.]
Enfouldered
ENFOUL'DERED, adjective Mixed with lightning. [Not in use.]
1. To make free of a city, corporation or state; to admit to the privileges of a freeman. The English colonies were enfranchised by special charters.
2. To free or release from custody.
3. To naturalize; to denizen; to receive as denizens; as, to enfranchise foreign words.
Enfranchised
ENFRAN'CHISED, participle passive Set free; released from bondage.
1. Admitted to the rights and privileges of freemen.
Enfranchisement
ENFRAN'CHISEMENT, noun Release from slavery or custody.
1. The admission of persons to the freedom of a corporation or state; investiture with the privileges of free citizens; the incorporating of a person into any society or body politic.
Enfranchiser
ENFRAN'CHISER, noun One who enfranchises.
Enfranchising
ENFRAN'CHISING, participle present tense Setting free from slavery or custody; admitting to the rights and privileges of denizens or free citizens in a state, or to the privileges of a free man in a corporation.
Enfroward
ENFRO'WARD, verb transitive To make froward or perverse. [Not used.]
Enfrozen
ENFRO'ZEN, adjective Frozen; congealed. [Not used.]
Engage
ENGA'GE, verb transitive
1. To make liable for a debt to a creditor; to bind one's self as surety.
2. To pawn; to stake as a pledge.
3. To enlist; to bring into a party; as, to engage men for service; to engage friends to aid in a cause.
4. To embark in an affair; as, be not hasty to engage yourself in party disputes.
5. To gain; to win and attach; to draw to.
Good nature engages every one to its possessor.
To very duty he could minds engage
6. To unite and bind by contract or promise. Nations engage themselves to each other by treaty. The young often engage themselves to their sorrow.
7. To attract and fix; as, to engage the attention.
8. To occupy; to employ assiduously. We were engaged in conversation. The nation is engaged in war.
9. To attack in contest; to encounter. The army engaged the enemy at ten o'clock. The captain engaged the ship, at point blank distance.
ENGA'GE, verb intransitive To encounter; to begin to fight; to attack in conflict. The armies engaged at Marengo, in a general battle.
1. To embark in any business; to take a concern in; to undertake. Be cautious not to engage in controversy, without indispensable necessity.
2. To promise or pledge one's word; to bind one's self; as, a friend has engaged to supply the necessary funds.
Engaged
ENGA'GED, participle passive or adjective Pledged; promised; enlisted; gained and attached; attracted and fixed; embarked; earnestly employed; zealous.
Engagedly
ENGA'GEDLY, adverb With earnestness; with attachment.
Engagedness
ENGA'GEDNESS, noun The state of being seriously and earnestly occupied; zeal; animation.
Engagement
ENGA'GEMENT, noun The act of pawning, pledging or making liable for debt.
1. Obligation by agreement or contract. Men are often more ready to make engagements than to fulfil them.
2. Adherence to a party or cause; partiality.
3. Occupation; employment of the attention.
Play, by too long or constant engagement becomes
like an employment or profession.
4. Employment in fighting; the conflict of armies or fleets; battle; a general action; appropriately the conflict of whole armies or fleets, but applied to actions between small squadrons or single ships, rarely to a fight between detachments of land forces.
5. Obligation; motive; that which engages.
Engager
ENGA'GER, noun One that enters into an engagement or agreement.
Engaging
ENGA'GING, participle present tense Pawning; making liable for debt; enlisting; bringing into a party or cause; promising; binding; winning and attaching; encountering; embarking.
1. Winning; attractive; tending to draw the attention or the affections; pleasing; as engaging manners or address.
Engagingly
ENGA'GINGLY, adverb In a manner to win the affections.
Engallant
ENGAL'LANT, verb transitive To make a gallant of. [Not used.]
Engaol
ENGAOL, verb transitive enja'le. To imprison. [not used.]
Engarboil
ENG'ARBOIL, verb transitive To disorder. [Not in used.]
Engarland
ENG'ARLAND, verb transitive To encircle with a garland.
Engarrison
ENGAR'RISON, verb transitive To furnish with a garrison; to defend or protect by a garrison.
Engastrimuth
ENGAS'TRIMUTH, noun A ventriloquist.
Engender
ENGEN'DER, verb transitive [Latin gener, genero, geno, gigno. See Generate.]
1. To beget between the different sexes; to form in embryo.
2. To produce; to cause to exist; to cause to bring forth. Meteors are engendered in the atmosphere; worms are sometimes engendered in the stomach; intemperance engenders fatal maladies; angry words engender strife.
ENGEN'DER, verb intransitive To be caused or produced.
Thick clouds are spread, and storms engender there.
Engendered
ENGEN'DERED, participle passive Begotten; caused; produced.
Engenderer
ENGEN'DERER, noun He or that which engenders.
Engendering
ENGEN'DERING, participle present tense Begetting; causing to be; producing.
Engild
ENGILD', verb transitive To gild; to brighten.
Engine
EN'GINE, noun [Latin ingenium.]
1. In mechanics, a compound machine, or artificial instrument, composed of different parts, and intended to produce some effect by the help of the mechanical powers; as a pump, a windlas, a capstan, a fire engine a steam engine
2. A military machine; as a battering ram, etc.
3. Any instrument; that by which any effect is produced. An arrow, a sword, a musket is an engine of death.
4. A machine for throwing water to extinguish fire.
5. Means; any thing used to effect a purpose.
6. An agent for another; usually in an ill sense.
Engineer
ENGINEE'R, noun In the military art, a person skilled in mathematics and mechanics, who forms plans of works for offense or defense, and marks out the ground for fortifications. Engineers are also employed in delineating plans and superintending the construction of other public works, as aqueducts and canals. The latter are called civil engineers.
1. One who manages engines or artillery.
Enginery
EN'GINERY, noun en'ginry. The act of managing engines or artillery.
1. Engines in general; artillery; instruments of war.
2. Machination.
Engird
ENGIRD', verb transitive [See Gird.] To surround; to encircle; to encompass.
Engirded
ENGIRD'ED
ENGIRD'ING, participle present tense Encircling; surrounding.
Engirding
ENGIRD'ING, ppr. Encircling; surrounding.
Engirt
ENGIRT', participle passive Surrounded; encompassed.
Englad
ENGLAD', verb transitive To make glad; to cause to rejoice.
Englaimed
ENGLA'IMED, adjective Furred; clammy. [Not used.]
England
ENGLAND, noun [See English.]
English
ENGLISH, adjective ing'glish. [Latin ango, from the sense of pressing, depression, laying, which gives the sense of level.]
Belonging to England, or to its inhabitants.
ENGLISH, noun The people of England.
1. The language of England or of the english nation, and of their descendants in India, America and other countries.
ENGLISH, verb transitive To translate into the english language.
Englished
ENGLISHED, participle passive Rendered into English.
Englishry
ENGLISHRY, noun The state or privilege of being an Englishman. [Not used.]
Englut
ENGLUT', verb transitive [Latin glutio.]
1. To swallow.
2. To fill; to glut. [This word is little used. See Glut.]
Engore
ENGO'RE, verb transitive To pierce; to gore. [See Gore.]
Engorge
ENGORGE, verb transitive engorj'. To swallow; ; to devour; to gorge; properly, to swallow with greediness, or in large quantities.
ENGORGE, verb transitive engorj'. To devour; to feed with eagerness or voracity.
Engorged
ENGORG'ED, participle passive Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts.
Engorgement
ENGORGEMENT, noun engorj'ment. the act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity.
Engorging
ENGORG'ING, participle present tense Swallowing with voracity.
Engraft
ENGR'AFT, verb transitive To ingraft, which see.
Engrail
ENGRA'IL, verb transitive In heraldry, to variegate; to spot as with hail; to indent or make ragged at the edges, as if broken with hail; to indent in curve lines.
Engrailed
ENGRA'ILED, participle passive Variegated; spotted.
Engrain
ENGRA'IN, verb transitive [from grain.] To dye in grain, or in the raw material to dye deep.
Engrained
ENGRA'INED, participle passive Dyed in the grain; as engrained carpets.
Engraining
ENGRA'INING, participle present tense Dyeing in the grain.
Engrapple
ENGRAP'PLE, verb transitive [from grapple. To grapple; to seize and hold; to close in and hold fast. [See Grapple, which is generally used.]
Engrasp
ENGR'ASP, verb transitive [from grasp.] To seize with a clasping hold; to hold fast by inclosing or embracing; to gripe. [See Grasp, which is generally used.]
Engrave
ENGRA'VE, verb transitive preterit tense engraved; participle passive engraved or engraven.
Literally, to scratch or scrape. Hence,
1. To cut, as metals, stones or other hard substances, with a chisel or graver; to cut figures, letters or devices, on stone or metal; to mark by incision.
Thou shalt engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel. .
2. To picture or represent by incisions.
3. To imprint; to impress deeply; to infix.
Let the laws of God and the principles of morality be engraved on the minds in early years.
4. To bury; to deposit in the grave; to inter; to inhume. [Not now used.]
Engraved
ENGRA'VED
ENGRA'VEMENT, noun engraved work; act of engraving.
Engravement
ENGRA'VEMENT, n. Engraved work; act of engraving.
Engraven
ENGRA'VEN, participle passive Cut or marked, as with a chisel or graver; imprinted; deeply impressed.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.