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Enthymeme
EN'THYMEME, noun [Gr. to think or conceive; mind.] In rhetoric, an argument consisting of only two propositions, an antecedent and a consequent deduced from it; as, we are dependent, therefore we should be humble. Here the major proposition is suppressed; the complete syllogism would be, dependent creatures should be humble; we are dependent creatures; therefore we should be humble.
Entice
ENTI'CE, verb transitive [Latin titio, a firebrand.]
1. To incite or instigate, by exciting hope or desire; usually in a bad sense; as, to entice one to evil. Hence, to seduce; to lead astray; to induce to sin, by promises or persuasions.
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. .
2. To tempt; to incite; to urge or lead astray.
Every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. .
3. To incite; to allure; in a good sense.
Enticed
ENTI'CED, participle passive Incited; instigated to evil; seduced by promises or persuasions; persuaded; allured.
Enticement
ENTI'CEMENT, noun The act or practice of inciting to evil; instigation; as the enticements of evil companions.
1. Means of inciting to evil; that which seduces by exciting the passions. Flattery often operates as an enticement to sin.
2. Allurement.
Enticer
ENTI'CER, noun One who entices; one who incites or instigates to evil; one who seduces.
Enticing
ENTI'CING, participle present tense Inciting to evil; urging to sin by motives, flattery or persuasion; alluring.
1. Having the qualities that entice or allure.
Enticingly
ENTI'CINGLY, adverb Charmingly; in a winning manner.
She sings most enticingly
Entire
ENTI'RE, adjective [Latin integer, said to be in neg. and tango, to touch.]
1. Whole; undivided; unbroken; complete in its parts.
2. Whole; complete; not participated with others. This man has the entire control of the business.
3. Full; complete; comprising all requisites in itself.
An action is entire when it is complete in all its parts.
4. Sincere; hearty.
He run a course more entire with the king of Arragon.
5. Firm; solid; sure; fixed; complete; undisputed.
Entire and sure the monarch's rule must prove,
Who founds her greatness on her subjects' love.
6. Unmingled; unalloyed.
In thy presence joy entire
7. Wholly devoted; firmly adherent; faithful.
No man had a heart more entire to the king.
8. In full strength; unbroken.
9. In botany, an entire stem is one without branches; an entire leaf is without any opening in the edge, not divided.
Entirely
ENTI'RELY, adverb Wholly; completely; fully; as, the money is entirely lost.
1. In the whole; without division.
Euphrates--falls not entirely into the Persian sea.
2. With firm adherence or devotion; faithfully.
Entireness
ENTI'RENESS, noun Completeness; fullness; totality; unbroken form or state; as the entireness of an arch or a bridge.
1. Integrity; wholeness of heart; honesty.
Entirety
ENTI'RETY, noun Wholeness; completeness; as entirety of interest.
1. The whole.
Entitative
EN'TITATIVE, adjective [from entity.] considered by itself. [This word, and entitatively, rarely or never used.]
Entitle
ENTI'TLE, verb transitive [Latin titulus, a title.]
1. To give a title to; to give or prefix a name or appellation; as, to entitle a book, Commentaries on the laws of England.
2. To superscribe or prefix as a title. Hence as titles are evidences of claim or property, to give a claim to; to give a right to demand or receive. The labor of the servant entitles him to his wages. Milton is entitled to fame. Our best services do not entitle us to heaven.
3. To assign or appropriate by giving a title.
4. To qualify; to give a claim by the possession of suitable qualifications; as, an officer's talents entitle him to command.
5. To dignify by a title or honorable appelation. In this sense, title is often used.
6. To ascribe.
Entitled
ENTI'TLED, participle passive Dignified or distinguished by a title; having a claim as, every good man is entitled to respect.
Entitling
ENTI'TLING, participle present tense Dignifying or distinguishing by a title; giving a title; giving a claim.
Entity
EN'TITY, noun [Low Latin entitas.] Being; existence.
Fortune is no real entity
1. A real being, or species of being.
Entoil
ENTOIL', verb transitive [See Toil.] To take with toils; to ensnare; to entangle.
Entomb
ENTOMB, verb transitive entoom'. [from tomb.] To deposit in a tomb, as a dead body.
1. To bury in a grave; to inter.
Entombed
ENTOMBED, participle passive Deposited in a tomb; buried; interred.
Entombing
ENTOMBING, participle present tense Depositing in a tomb; burying; interring.
Entombment
ENTOMBMENT, noun Burial.
Entomolite
EN'TOMOLITE, noun [Gr. insect, stone.]
A fossil substance bearing the figure of an insect, or a petrified insect.
Entomological
ENTOMOLOG'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to the science of insects.
Entomologist
ENTOMOL'OGIST, noun One versed in the science of insects.
Entomology
ENTOMOL'OGY, noun [Gr. insect, to cut, discourse.]
That part of zoology which treats of insects; the science or history and description of insects.
Entortilation
ENTORTILA'TION, noun A turning into a circle.
Entrail
EN'TRAIL
EN'TRAILS, noun
1. The internal parts of animal bodies; particularly, the guts or intestines; the bowels; used chiefly in the plural.
2. The internal parts; as the entrails of the earth.
The dark entrails of America.
ENTRA'IL, verb transitive To interweave; to diversify. [Not in use.]
Entrails
EN'TRAILS, n. 1. The internal parts of animal bodies; particularly, the guts or intestines; the bowels; used chiefly in the plural.2. The internal parts; as the entrails of the earth.The dark entrails of America.
Entrammeled
ENTRAM'MELED, adjective [from trammel.] Curled; frizzed. [Not used.]
Entrance
EN'TRANCE, noun [Latin intrans, intro.]
1. The act of entering into a place; as the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment.
2. The power of entering. Let the porter give no entrance to strangers.
Where diligence opens the door of the understanding, and impartiality keeps it, truth is sure to find an entrance and a welcome too.
3. The door, gate, passage or avenue, by which a place may be entered.
They said, show us the entrance into the city. .
4. Commencement; initiation; beginning. A youth at his entrance on a difficult science, is apt to be discouraged.
5. The act of taking possession, as of land; as the entrance of an heir or a disseizor into lands and tenements.
6. The act of taking possession, as of an office. Magistrates at their entrance into office, usually take an oath.
7. The act of entering a ship or goods at the custom-house.
8. The beginning of any thing.
St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, makes a kind of apology.
Entranse
ENTR'ANSE, verb transitive or i. [Latin transeo.]
1. To put in a transe; to withdraw the soul, and leave the body in a kind of dead sleep or insensibility; to make insensible to present objects. The verb is seldom used, but the participle, entransed, is common.
2. To put in an ecstasy; to ravish the soul with delight or wonder.
And I so ravish'd with her heavenly note,
I stood entransed, and had no room for thought.
Entransed
ENTR'ANSED, participle passive Put in a transe; having the soul withdrawn, and the body left in a state of insensibility; enraptured; ravished.
Entransing
ENTR'ANSING, participle present tense Carrying away the soul; enrapturing; ravishing.
Entrap
ENTRAP', verb transitive To catch as in a trap; to insnare; used chiefly or wholly in a figurative sense. To catch by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to entangle; to catch or involve in contradictions; in short, to involve in any difficulties from which an escape is not easy or possible. We are entrapped by the devices of evil men. We are sometimes entrapped in our own words.
Entrapped
ENTRAP'PED, participle passive Ensnared; entangled.
Entrapping
ENTRAP'PING, participle present tense Ensnaring; involving in difficulties.
Entreaat
ENTREA'AT, verb transitive [Latin tracto, to handle, feel, treat, use, manage.]
1. To ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to solicit pressingly; to importune.
Isaac entreated Jehovah for his wife. .
2. To prevail on by prayer or solicitation. Hence in the passive form, to be prevailed on; to yield to entreaty.
It were a fruitless attempt to appease a power, whom no prayers could entreat.
3. To treat, in any manner; properly, to use or manage; but I believe, entreat is always applied to persons, as treat is to persons or things. Applied to persons, to entreat is to use, or to deal with; to manifest to others any particular deportment, good or ill.
I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well. .
The Egyptians evil-entreated us. .
[In this application, the prefix en is now dropped, and treat is used.]
4. To entertain; to amuse.
5. To entertain; to receive.
Entreat
ENTRE'AT, verb intransitive To make an earnest petition or request.
The Janizaries entreated for them, as valiant men.
1. To offer a treaty. [Not used.]
2. To treat; to discourse. [Not used.]
Entreatance
ENTRE'ATANCE, noun Entreaty; solicitation.
Entreated
ENTRE'ATED, participle passive Earnestly supplicated, besought or solicited; importuned; urgently requested.
1. Prevailed on by urgent solicitation; consenting to grant what is desired.
2. Used; managed.
Entreater
ENTRE'ATER, noun One that entreats, or asks earnestly.
Entreating
ENTRE'ATING, participle present tense Earnestly asking; pressing with request or prayer; importuning.
1. Treating; using.
Entreative
ENTRE'ATIVE, adjective Pleading; treating.
Entreaty
ENTRE'ATY, noun Urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation; supplication.
The poor useth entreaties; but the rich answereth roughly. .
Entremets
ENTREMETS, noun [Latin intromissum.] Small plates set between the principal dishes at table, or dainty dishes.
Entrepot
ENTREPOT, noun A warehouse, staple or magazine, for the deposit of goods.
Entrhoned
ENTRHO'NED, participle passive Seated on a throne; exalted to an elevated place.
Entrick
ENTRICK, verb transitive [from trick.] To trick; to deceive; to entangle.
Entrochite
EN'TROCHITE, noun [Gr. a wheel.] A kind of extraneous fossil, usually about an inch in length, and made up of round joints, which, when separated, are called trochites. These seem to be composed of the same kind of substance as the fossil shells of the echini. They are striated from the center to the circumference and have a cavity in the middle. They appear to be the petrified arms of the seastar, called stella arborescens.
Entry
EN'TRY, noun The passage by which persons enter a house or other building.
1. The act of entering; entrance; ingress; as the entry of a person into a house or city; the entry of a river into the sea or a lake; the entry of air into the blood; the entry of a spear into the flesh.
2. The act of entering and taking possession of lands or other estate.
3. The act of committing to writing, or of recording in a book. Make an entry of every sale, of every debt and credit.
4. The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the custom house, to procure license to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods.
Entune
ENTU'NE, verb transitive [from tune.] To tune.
Entwine
ENTWINE, verb transitive [from twine.] To twine; to twist round.
Entwist
ENTWIST', verb transitive [from twist.] To twist or wreath round.
Enubilate
ENU'BILATE, verb transitive [Latin e and nubila, mist, clouds.]
To clear from mist, clouds or obscurity. [Not in use.]
Enubilous
ENU'BILOUS, adjective Clear from fog, mist or clouds.
Enucleate
ENU'CLEATE, verb transitive [Latin enucleo; e and nucleus, a kernel.] Properly, to take out the kernel. Hence,
1. To clear from knots or lumps, to clear from intricacy; to disentangle.
2. To open as a nucleus; hence, to explain; to clear from obscurity; to make manifest.
Enucleated
ENU'CLEATED, participle passive Cleared from knots; disclosed; explained.
Enucleating
ENU'CLEATING, participle present tense Clearing from knots; explaining.
Enucleation
ENUCLEA'TION, noun The act of clearing from knots; a disentangling.
Neither air, nor water, nor food seem directly to contribute any thing to the enucleation of this disease [the plica Polonica.]
1. Explanation; full exposition.
Enumerate
ENU'MERATE, verb transitive [Latin enumero; e and numero, numerus, number.]
To count or tell, number by number; to reckon or mention a number of things, each separately; as, to enumerate the stars in a constellation; to enumerate particular acts of kindness; we cannot enumerate our daily mercies.
Enumerated
ENU'MERATED, participle passive Counted or told, number by number; reckoned or mentioned by distinct particulars.
Enumerating
ENU'MERATING, participle present tense Counting or reckoning any number, by the particulars which compose it.
Enumeration
ENUMERA'TION, noun [Latin enumeratio.] The act of counting or telling a number, by naming each particular.
1. An account of a number of things, in which mention is made of every particular article.
2. In rhetoric, a part of a peroration, in which the orator recapitulates the principal points or heads of the discourse or argument.
Enumerative
ENU'MERATIVE, adjective Counting; reckoning up.
Enunciate
ENUN'CIATE, verb transitive [Latin enuncio; e and nuncio, to tell.]
To utter; to declare; to proclaim; to relate.
Enunciated
ENUN'CIATED, participle passive Uttered; declared; pronounced; proclaimed.
Enunciating
ENUN'CIATING, participle present tense Uttering; declaring; pronouncing.
Enunciation
ENUNCIA'TION, noun The act of uttering or pronouncing; expression; manner of utterance. In a public discourse, it is important that the enunciation should be clear and distinct.
1. Declaration; open proclamation; public attestation.
2. Intelligence; information.
Enunciative
ENUN'CIATIVE, adjective Declarative; expressive.
Enunciatively
ENUN'CIATIVELY, adverb Declaratively.
Enunciatory
ENUN'CIATORY, adjective Containing utterance or sound.
Envassal
ENVAS'SAL, verb transitive [from vassal.] To reduce to vassalage.
1. To make over to another as a slave.
Envelop
ENVEL'OP, verb transitive
1. To cover by wrapping of folding; to inwrap; to invest with a covering. Animal bodies are usually enveloped with skin; the merchant envelops goods with canvas; a letter is enveloped with paper.
2. To surround entirely; to cover on all sides; to hide. A ship was enveloped in fog; the troops were enveloped in dust.
3. To line; to cover on the inside.
His iron coat--enveloped with gold.
ENVEL'OP, noun A wrapper; an inclosing cover; an integument; as the envelop of a letter, or of the heart.
1. In fortification, a work of earth, in form of a parapet or of a small rampart with a parapet.
Enveloped
ENVEL'OPED, participle passive Inwrapped; covered on all sides; surrounded on all sides; inclosed.
Enveloping
ENVEL'OPING, participle present tense Inwrapping; folding around; covering or surrounding on all sides, as a case or integument.
Envelopment
ENVEL'OPMENT, noun A wrapping; as inclosing or covering on all sides.
Envenom
ENVEN'OM, verb transitive [from venom.] To poison; to taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; never applied, in this sense, to persons, but to meat, drink or weapons; as an envenomed arrow or shaft; an envenomed potion.
1. To taint with bitterness or malice; as the envenomed tongue of slander.
2. To make odious.
O what a world is this, when what is comely
Envenoms him that bears it!
Envenomed
ENVEN'OMED, participle passive Tainted or impregnated with venom or poison; embittered; exasperated.
Envenoming
ENVEN'OMING, participle present tense Tainting with venom; poisoning; embittering; enraging.
Envermeil
ENVER'MEIL, verb transitive To dye red.
Enviable
EN'VIABLE, adjective [See Envy.] That may excite envy; capable of awakening ardent desire of possession. The situation of men in office is not always enviable
Envied
EN'VIED, participle passive [See Envy, the verb.] Subjected to envy.
Envier
EN'VIER, noun One who envies another; one who desires what another possesses, and hates him because his condition is better than his own, or wishes his downfall.
Envious
EN'VIOUS, adjective Feeling or harboring envy; repining or feeling uneasiness, at a view of the excellence, prosperity or happiness of another; pained by the desire of possessing some superior good which another possesses, and usually disposed to deprive him of that good, to lessen it or to depreciate it in common estimation. Sometimes followed by against, but generally and properly by at, before the person envied.
Neither be thou envious at the wicked. .
Be not envious of the blessings or prosperity of others.
1. Tinctured with envy; as an envious disposition.
2. Excited or directed by envy; as an envious attack.
Enviously
EN'VIOUSLY, adverb With envy; with malignity excited by the excellence or prosperity of another.
How enviously the ladies look.
When they surprise me at my book.
Environ
ENVI'RON, verb transitive [Eng. to veer.]
1. To surround; to encompass; to encircle; as a plain environed with mountains.
2. To involve; to envelop; as, to environ with darkness, or with difficulties.
3. To besiege; as a city environed with troops.
4. To inclose; to invest.
That soldier, that man of iron,
Whom ribs of horror all environ
Environed
ENVI'RONED, participle passive Surrounded; encompassed; besieged; involved; invested.
Environing
ENVI'RONING, participle present tense Surrounding; encircling; besieging; inclosing; involving; investing. The appropriation of different parts of the globe to some particular specles of stone environing it.
Environs
ENVI'RONS, noun plural The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood, on different sides; as the environs of a city or town.
Envoy
EN'VOY, noun [Latin via; Eng. way, contracted from viag, vag, or wag.]
1. A person deputed by a prince or government, to negotiate a treaty, or transact other business, with a foreign prince or government. We usually apply the word to a public minister sent on a special occasion, or for one particular purpose; hence an envoy is distinguished from an embassador or permanent resident at a foreign court, and is of inferior rank. But envoys are ordinary and extraordinary, and the word may sometimes be applied to resident ministers.
2. A common messenger. [Not in use.]
3. Formerly, a postscript sent with compositions, to enforce them.
Envoyship
EN'VOYSHIP, noun The office of an envoy.
Envy
EN'VY, verb transitive [Latin invideo, in and video, to see against, that is, to look with enmity.]
1. To feel uneasiness, mortification or discontent, at the sight of superior excellence, reputation or happiness enjoyed by another; to repine at another's prosperity; to fret or grieve one's self at the real or supposed superiority of another, and to hate him on that account.
Envy not thou the oppressor. .
Whoever envies another, confesses his superiority.
2. To grudge; to withhold maliciously.
To envy at, used by authors formerly, is now obsolete.
Who would envy at the prosperity of the wicked?
EN'VY, noun Pain, uneasiness, mortification or discontent excited by the sight of another's superiority or success, accompanied with some degree of hatred or malignity, and often or usually with a desire or an effort to depreciate the person, and with pleasure in seeing him depressed. envy springs from pride, ambition or love, mortified that another has obtained what one has a strong desire to possess.
Envy and admiration are the Scylla and Charybdis of authors.
All human virtue, to its latest breath,
Finds envy never conquered, but by death.
Emulation differs from envy in not being accompanied with hatred and a desire to depress a more fortunate person.
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave,
Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
It is followed by of or to. They did this in envy of Caesar, or in envy to his genius. The former seems to be preferable.
1. Rivalry; competition. [Little used.]
2. Malice; malignity.
You turn the good we offer into envy
3. Public odium; ill repute; invidiousness.
To discharge the king of the envy of that opinion.
Envying
EN'VYING, participle present tense Feeling uneasiness at the superior condition and happiness of another.
EN'VYING, noun Mortification experienced at the supposed prosperity and happiness of another.
1. Ill will at others, on account of some supposed superiority. .
Enwallowed
ENWAL'LOWED, adjective [from wallow.] Being wallowed or wallowing.
Enwheel
ENWHEE'L, verb transitive [from wheel.] To encircle.
Enwiden
ENWI'DEN, verb transitive [from wide.] To make wider. [Not used.]
Enwomb
ENWOMB, verb transitive enwoom'. [from womb.] To make pregnant. [Not used.]
1. To bury; to hide as in a gulf; pit or cavern.
Enwombed
ENWOMBED, participle passive Impregnated; buried in a deep gulf or cavern.
Enwrap
ENWRAP', verb transitive enrap'. To envelop. [See Inwrap.]
Enwrapment
ENWRAP'MENT, noun A covering; a wrapping or wrapper.
Eolian
EO'LIAN
EOL'IC, adjective Pertaining to Aeolia or Aeolis, in Asia Minor, inhabited by Greeks.
The Eolic dialect of the Greek language, was the dialect used by the inhabitants of that country.
Eolian lyre or harp, is a simple stringed instrument that sounds by the impulse of air, from Aeolus, the deity of the winds.
Eolic
EOL'IC, a. Pertaining to Aeolia or Aeolis, in Asia Minor, inhabited by Greeks.
The Eolic dialect of the Greek language, was the dialect used by the inhabitants of that country.
Eolian lyre or harp, is a simple stringed instrument that sounds by the impulse of air, from Aeolus, the deity of the winds.
Eolipile
EOL'IPILE, noun [Aeolus, the deity of the winds, and pila, a ball.]
A hollow ball of metal, with a pipe or slender neck, used in hydraulic experiments. The ball being filled with water, is heated, till the vapor issued from the pipe with great violence and noise, exhibiting the elastic power of steam.
Eon
E'ON, noun [Gr. age, duration.] In the platonic philosophy, a virtue, attribute or perfection. The Platonists represented the deity as an assemblage of eons. The Gnostics considered eons as certain substantial powers or divine natures emanating from the Supreme Deity, and performing various parts in the operations of the universe.
Ep
EP, EPI, [Gr. in composition, usually signifies on.]
Epact
E'PACT, noun [Gr. adscititious, to adduce or bring; to drive.]
In chronology, the excess of the solar month above the lunar synodical month, and of the solar year above the lunar year of twelve synodical months. The epacts then are annual or menstrual. Suppose the new moon to be on the first of January; the month of January containing 31 days, and the lunar month only 29 days, 12h. 44'3', the difference, or 1 day, 11h. 15'57', is the menstrual epact The annual epact is nearly eleven days; the solar year being 365 days, and the lunar year 354.
Eparch
EP'ARCH, noun [Gr. dominion.] The governor or prefect of a province.
Eparchy
EP'ARCHY, noun [Gr. a province; government.] A province, prefecture or territory under the jurisdiction of an eparch or governor.
Epaulet
EP'AULET, noun A shoulder-piece; an ornamental badge worn on the shoulder by military men. Officers, military and naval, wear epaulets on one shoulder, or on both, according to their rank.
Epaulment
EPAUL'MENT, noun In fortification, a side-work or work to cover sidewise, made of gabions, fascines or bags of earth. It sometimes denotes a semi-bastion and a square orillon, or mass of earth faced and lined with a wall, designed to cover the cannon of the casemate.
Epenetic
EPENET'IC, adjective Laudatory; bestowing praise.
Epenthesis
EPEN'THESIS
EPEN'THESY, noun [Gr. to put.] The insertion of a letter or syllable in the middle of a word, as alituum for alitum.
Epenthesy
EPEN'THESY, n. [Gr. to put.] The insertion of a letter or syllable in the middle of a word, as alituum for alitum.
Epenthetic
EPENTHET'IC, adjective Inserted in the middle of a word.
Epha
E'PHA, noun [Heb. properly a baking.] A Hebrew measure of three pecks and three pints, or according to others, of seven gallons and four pints, or about 15 solid inches.
Ephemera
EPHEM'ERA, noun [Latin from Gr. daily; a day.] A fever of one day's continuance only.
1. The Day-fly; strictly, a fly that lives one day only; but the word is applied also to insects that are very short-lived, whether they live several days or an hour only. There are several species.
Ephemeric
EPHEM'ERAL, EPHEM'ERIC, adjective Diurnal; beginning and ending in a day; continuing or existing one day only.
2. Short-lived; existing or continuing for a short time only. [Ephemeral is generally used. Ephemerous is not analogically formed.]
Ephemeris
EPHEM'ERIS, noun plural ephemer'ides. [Gr.]
1. A journal or account of daily transactions; a diary.
2. In astronomy, an account of the daily state or positions of the planets or heavenly orbs; a table, or collection of tables, exhibiting the places of all the planets every day at noon. From these tables are calculated eclipses, conjunctions and other aspects of the planets.
Ephemerist
EPHEM'ERIST, noun One who studies the daily motions and positions of the planets; an astrologer.
Ephemeron-Worm
EPHEM'ERON-WORM, noun [See Ephemera.] A worm that lives one day only.
Ephereral
EPHER'ERAL
EPHE'SIAN, adjective s as z. Pertaining to Ephesus, in Asia Minor. As a noun, a native of Ephesus.
Ephesian
EPHE'SIAN, a. s as z. Pertaining to Ephesus, in Asia Minor. As a noun, a native of Ephesus.
Ephialtes
EPHIAL'TES, noun [Gr.] The night-mar.
Ephipora
EPHIP'ORA, noun [Gr. to bear.] The watery eye; a disease in which the tears, from increased secretion, or an obstruction in the lachrymal duct, accumulate in front of the eye and trickle over the cheek.
Ephod
EPH'OD, noun [Heb. to bind.] In Jewish antiquity, a part of the sacerdotal habit, being a kind of girdle, which was brought from behind the neck over the two shoulders, and hanging down before, was put across the stomach, then carried round the waist and used as a girdle to the tunic. There were two sorts; one of plain linen, the other embroidered for the high priest. On the part in front were two precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. Before the breast was a square piece or breastplate.
Ephor
EPH'OR, noun [Gr. to inspect.]
In ancient Sparta, a magistrate chosen by the people. The ephors were five, and they were intended as a check on the regal power, or according to some writers, on the senate.
Ephoralty
EPH'ORALTY, noun The office or term of office of an ephor.
Epi
EP, EPI [Gr. in composition, usually signifies on.]
Epic
EP'IC, adjective [Latin epicus; Gr. a song, or to speak.] Narrative; containing narration; rehearsing. An epic poem, otherwise called heroic, is a poem which narrates a story, real or fictitious or both, representing, in an elevated style, some signal action or series of actions and events, usually the achievements of some distinguished hero, and intended to form the morals and affect the mind with the love of virtue. The matter of the poem includes the action of the fable, the incidents, episodes, characters, morals and machinery. The form includes the manner of narration, the discourses introduced, descriptions, sentiments, style, versification, figures and other ornaments. The end is to improve the morals, and inspire a love of virtue, bravery and illustrious actions.
Epicede
EP'ICEDE, noun [Gr.] A funeral song or discourse.
Epicedian
EPICE'DIAN, adjective Elegiac; mournful.
Epicedium
EPICE'DIUM, noun An elegy.
Epicene
EP'ICENE, adjective [Gr. common.] Common to both sexes; of both kinds.
Epictetian
EPICTE'TIAN, adjective Pertaining to Epictetus, the Grecian writer.
Epicure
EP'ICURE, noun [Latin epicurus, a voluptuary, from Epicurus.]
Properly, a follower of Epicurus; a man devoted to sensual enjoyments; hence, one who indulges in the luxuries of the table. [The word is now used only or chiefly in the latter sense.
Epicurean
EPICU'REAN
EPICURE'AN, adjective [Latin epicureus.] Pertaining to Epicurus; as the epicurean philosophy or tenets.
1. Luxurious; given to luxury; contributing to the luxuries of the table.
EPICU'REAN
EPICURE'AN, noun A follower of Epicurus.
Epicureanism
EPICU'REANISM, noun Attachment to the doctrines of Epicurus.
Epicurism
EP'ICURISM, noun Luxury; sensual enjoyments; indulgence in gross pleasure; voluptuousness.
1. The doctrines of Epicurus.
Epicurize
EP'ICURIZE, verb intransitive To feed or indulge like an epicure; to riot; to feast.
1. To profess the doctrines of Epicurus.
Epicycle
EP'ICYCLE, noun [Gr. a circle.] A little circle, whose center is in the circumference of a greater circle; or a small orb, which, being fixed in the deferent of a planet, is carried along with it, and yet by its own peculiar motion, carries the body of the planet fastened to it round its proper center.
Epicycloid
EPICYC'LOID, noun [Gr. form.] In geometry, a curve generated by the revolution of the periphery of a circle along the convex or concave side of the periphery of another circle.
A curve generated by any point in the plane of a movable circle which rolls on the inside or outside of the circumference of a fixed circle.
Epicycloidal
EPICYCLOID'AL, adjective Pertaining to the epicycloid, or having its properties.
Epidemic
EPIDEM'IC
EPIDEM'ICAL, adjective [Gr. people.] Common to many people. An epidemic disease is one which seizes a great number of people, at the same time, or in the same season. Thus we speak of epidemic measles; epidemic fever; epidemic catarrh. It is used in distinction from endemic or local. Intemperate persons have every thing to fear from an epidemic influenza.
1. Generally prevailing; affecting great numbers; as epidemic rage; an epidemic evil.
EPIDEM'IC, noun A popular disease; a disease generally prevailing. The influenza of October and November 1789, that of March and April 1790, that of the winter 1824-25, and of 1825-26, were very severe epidemics.
Epidemical
EPIDEM'ICAL, a. [Gr. people.] Common to many people. An epidemic disease is one which seizes a great number of people, at the same time, or in the same season. Thus we speak of epidemic measles; epidemic fever; epidemic catarrh. It is used in distinction from endemic or local. Intemperate persons have every thing to fear from an epidemic influenza. 1. Generally prevailing; affecting great numbers; as epidemic rage; an epidemic evil.
Epidermic
EPIDERM'IC
EPIDERM'IDAL, adjective Pertaining to the cuticle; covering the skin.
The epidermic texture.
Epidermidal
EPIDERM'IDAL, a. Pertaining to the cuticle; covering the skin.
The epidermic texture.
Epidermis
EPIDERM'IS, noun [Gr. skin.] In anatomy, the cuticle or scarf-skin of the body; a thin membrane covering the skin of animals, or the bark of plants.
Epidote
EP'IDOTE, noun [From Gr.; so named from the apparent enlargement of the base of the prism in one direction. It is called by Werner, pistazit, and by Hausmann, thallit.]
A mineral occurring in lamellar, granular or compact masses, in loose grains, or in prismatic crystals of six or eight sides, and sometimes ten or twelve. Its color is commonly some shade of green, yellowish, bluish or blackish green. It has two varieties, zoisite and aranaceous or granular epidote
Epidote is granular or manganesian.
Epigastric
EPIGAS'TRIC, adjective [Gr. belly.] Pertaining to the upper part of the abdomen; as the epigastric region; the epigastric arteries and veins.
Epigee
EPIGEE or EPIGEUM. [See Perigee.]
Epiglot
EP'IGLOT
EPIGLOT'TIS, noun [Gr. the tongue.] In anatomy, one of the cartilages of the larynx, whose use is to cover the glottis, when food or drink is passing into the stomach, to prevent it from entering the larynx and obstructing the breath.
Epiglottis
EPIGLOT'TIS, n. [Gr. the tongue.] In anatomy, one of the cartilages of the larynx, whose use is to cover the glottis, when food or drink is passing into the stomach, to prevent it from entering the larynx and obstructing the breath.
Epigram
EP'IGRAM, noun [Gr. inscription; a writing.] A short poem treating only of one thing, and ending with some lively, ingenious and natural thought. Conciseness and point form the beauty of epigrams.
Epigrams were originally inscriptions on tombs, statues, temples, triumphal arches, etc.
Epigrammatic
EPIGRAMMAT'IC
EPIGRAMMAT'ICAL, adjective Writing epigrams; dealing in epigrams; as an epigrammatic poet.
1. Suitable to epigrams; belonging to epigrams; like an epigram; concise; pointed; poignant; as epigrammatic style or wit.
Epigrammatical
EPIGRAMMAT'ICAL, a. Writing epigrams; dealing in epigrams; as an epigrammatic poet. 1. Suitable to epigrams; belonging to epigrams; like an epigram; concise; pointed; poignant; as epigrammatic style or wit.
Epigrammatist
EPIGRAM'MATIST, noun One who composes epigrams, or deals in them. Martial was a noted epigrammatist
Epigraph
EP'IGRAPH, noun [Gr. to write.] Among antiquaries, an inscription on a building, pointing out the time of its erection, the building, its uses, etc.
Epilepsy
EP'ILEPSY, noun [Gr. to seize.] The falling sickness, so called because the patient falls suddenly to the ground; a disease accompanied with spasms or convulsions and loss of sense.
Epileptic
EPILEP'TIC, adjective Pertaining to the falling sickness; affected with epilepsy; consisting of epilepsy.
EPILEP'TIC, noun One affected with epilepsy.
Epilogism
EP'ILOGISM, noun Computation; enumeration.
Epilogistic
EPILOGIS'TIC, adjective Pertaining to epilogue; of the nature of an epilogue.
Epilogize
EP'ILOGIZE, verb intransitive To pronounce an epilogue.
EP'ILOGUIZE, verb transitive To add to, in the manner of an epilogue.
Epilogue
EP'ILOGUE, noun ep'ilog. [Latin epilogus, from Gr. conclusion; to conclude; to speak.]
1. In oratory, a conclusion; the closing part of a discourse, in which the principal matters are recapitulated.
2. In the drama, a speech or short poem addressed to the spectators by one of the actors, after the conclusion of the play.
Epiloguize
EP'ILOGUIZE
EPINI'CION, noun [Gr. to conquer.] A song of triumph. [Not in use.]
Epiphany
EPIPH'ANY, noun [Gr. appearance; to appear.] A christian festival celebrated on the sixth day of January, the twelfth day after Christmas, in commemoration of the appearance of our Savior to the magians or philosophers of the East, who came to adore him with presents; or as others maintain, to commemorate the appearance of the star to the magians, or the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles. Jerome and Chrysostom take the epiphany to be the day of our Savior's baptism, when a voice from heaven declared, 'This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased.' The Greek fathers use the word for the appearance of christ in the world, the sense in which Paul used the word. .
Epiphonem
EPIPH'ONEM
EPIPHONE'MA, [Gr. exclamation, to cry out.] In oratory, an exclamation; an ecphonesis; a vehement utterance of the voice to express strong passion, in a sentence not closely connected with the general strain of the discourse; as, O mournful day! Miserable fate! Admirable clemency!
Epiphonema
EPIPHONE'MA, [Gr. exclamation, to cry out.] In oratory, an exclamation; an ecphonesis; a vehement utterance of the voice to express strong passion, in a sentence not closely connected with the general strain of the discourse; as, O mournful day! Miserable fate! Admirable clemency!
Epiphyllospermous
EPIPHYLLOSPERM'OUS, adjective [Gr. a leaf, and seed.] In botany, bearing their seeds on the back of the leaves, as ferns.
Epiphysis
EPIPH'YSIS
EPIPH'YSY , noun [Gr. to grow.] Accretion; the growing of one bone to another by simple contiguity, without a proper articulation.
The spongy extremity of a bone; any portion of a bone growing on another, but separated from it by a cartilage.
Epiphyses are appendixes of the long bones, for the purpose of articulation, formed from a distinct center of ossification, and in the young subject connected with the larger bones by an intervening cartilage, which in the adult is obliterated.
Epiploce
EPIP'LOCE
EPIP'LOCELE, noun [Gr. the caul, and a tumor.] A rupture of the caul or omentum.
Epiplocele
EPIP'LOCELE, n. [Gr. the caul, and a tumor.] A rupture of the caul or omentum.
Epiplocy
EPIP'LOCY, noun [Gr. implication; to fold.] A figure of rhetoric, by which one aggravation, or striking circumstance, is added in due gradation to another; as, 'He not only spared his enemies, but continued them in employment; not only continued them, but advanced them.'
Epiploic
EPIP'LOIC, adjective [Gr. the caul.] Pertaining to the caul or omentum.
Epiploon
EPIP'LOON, noun [Gr.] The caul or omentum.
Episcopacy
EPIS'COPACY, noun [Latin episcopatus; Gr. to inspect, to see. See Bishop.]
Government of the church by bishops; that form of ecclesiastical government, in which diocesan bishops are established, as distinct from and superior to priests or presbyters.
Episcopal
EPIS'COPAL, adjective Belonging to or vested in bishops or prelates; as episcopal jurisdiction; episcopal authority.
1. Governed by bishops; as the episcopal church.
Episcopalian
EPISCOPA'LIAN, adjective Pertaining to bishops or government by bishops; episcopal.
EPISCOPA'LIAN, noun One who belongs to an episcopal church, or adheres to the episcopal form of church government and discipline.
Episcopally
EPIS'COPALLY, adverb By episcopal authority; in an episcopal manner.
Episcopate
EPIS'COPATE, noun A bishopric; the office and dignity of a bishop.
1. The order of bishops.
EPIS'COPATE, verb intransitive To act as a bishop; to fill the office of a prelate.
Episcopy
EPIS'COPY, noun Survey; superintendence; search.
Episode
EP'ISODE, noun [From the Gr.] In poetry, a separate incident, story or action, introduced for the purpose of giving a greater variety to the events related in the poem; an incidental narrative, or digression, separable from the main subject, but naturally arising from it.
Episodic
EPISOD'IC
EPISOD'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to an episode; contained in an episode or digression.
Episodical
EPISOD'ICAL, a. Pertaining to an episode; contained in an episode or digression.
Episodically
EPISODICALLY, adverb By way of episode.
Epispastic
EPISPAS'TIC, adjective [Gr. to draw.] In medicine, drawing; attracting the humors to the skin; exciting action in the skin; blistering.
EPISPAS'TIC, noun A topical remedy, applied to the external part of the body, for the purpose of drawing the humors to the part, or exciting action in the skin; a blister.
Epistilbite
EPISTIL'BITE, noun A mineral, said to be the same as the heulandite.
Epistle
EPIS'TLE, noun epis'l. [Latin epistola; Gr. to send to; to send.]
A writing, directed or sent, communicating intelligence to a distant person; a letter; a letter missive. It is rarely used in familiar conversation or writings, but chiefly in solemn or formal transactions. It is used particularly in speaking of the letters of the Apostles, as the epistles of Paul; and of other letters written by the ancients, as the epistles of Pliny or of Cicero.
Epistler
EPIS'TLER, noun A writer of epistles. [Little used.]
1. Formerly, one who attended the communion table and read the epistles.
Epistolary
EPIS'TOLARY, adjective Pertaining to epistles or letters; suitable to letters and correspondence; familiar; as an epistolary style.
1. Contained in letters; carried on by letters; as an epistolary correspondence.
Epistolic
EPISTOL'IC
EPISTOL'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to letters or epistles.
1. Designating the method of representing ideas by letters and words.
Epistolical
EPISTOL'ICAL, a. Pertaining to letters or epistles. 1. Designating the method of representing ideas by letters and words.
Epistolize
EPIS'TOLIZE, verb intransitive To write epistles or letters.
Epistolizer
EPIS'TOLIZER, noun A writer of epistles.
Epistolographic
EPISTOLOGRAPH'IC, adjective Pertaining to the writing of letters.
Epistolography
EPISTOLOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. a letter, to write.] The art or practice of writing letters.
Epistrophe
EPIS'TROPHE
EPIS'TROPHY, noun [Gr. a return.] A figure, in rhetoric, in which several successive sentences end with the same word or affirmation.
Epistrophy
EPIS'TROPHY, n. [Gr. a return.] A figure, in rhetoric, in which several successive sentences end with the same word or affirmation.
Epistyle
EP'ISTYLE, noun [Gr. a column.]
In ancient architecture, a term used by the Greeks for what is now called the architrave, a massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately over the capital of a column or pillar.
Epitaph
EP'ITAPH, noun [Gr. a sepulcher.]
1. An inscription on a monument, in honor or memory of the dead.
The epitaphs of the present day are crammed with fulsome compliments never merited.
Can you look forward to the honor of a decorated coffin, a splendid funeral, a towering monument--it may be a lying epitaph
2. An eulogy, in prose or verse, composed without any intent to be engraven on a monument, as that on Alexander:
'Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis.'
Epitaphian
EPITAPH'IAN, adjective Pertaining to an epitaph.
Epithalamium
EPITHALA'MIUM
EPITHAL'AMY , noun [Gr. a bed-chamber.] A nuptial song or poem, in praise of the bride and bridegroom, and praying for their prosperity.
The forty fifth Psalm is an epithalamium to Christ and the church.
Epithalamy
EPITHAL'AMY , n. [Gr. a bed-chamber.] A nuptial song or poem, in praise of the bride and bridegroom, and praying for their prosperity. The forty fifth Psalm is an epithalamium to Christ and the church.
Epithem
EP'ITHEM, noun [Gr. to place.] In pharmacy, a kind of fomentation or poultice, to be applied externally to strengthen the part.
Any external application, or topical medicine. The term has been restricted to liquids in which cloths are dipped, to be applied to a part.
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.