EMPIERCE 155 EMPROSTHOTONOS sense. ganeæ, tipulariæ, &c., which they seize Emplastert (em-plas'tër), n. [Gr. emplastron of employing or using; the state of being when flying. They may be seen in great = emplaston, a plaster, from emplastos, employed. swarms, like gnats, flying about water in daubed over-em for en, in, on, and plassó, The hand of little employment hath the daintier fine summer evenings. Empis, the typical to mould, to form.] A plaster. Wiseman. Shak. genus, contains over thirty known species. Emplastert (em-plas'ter), v.t. To cover with 2. Occupation; business; that which engages Empierce, Empierset (em-pers'), v. t. [Pre- or as with a plaster. Chaucer. the head or hands; that which consumes fix em for en, in, and pierce.] To pierce into; Emplastic (em-plas'tik), a. (Gr. emplastikos. time or attention; office or position involvto penetrate. See PLASTER, PLASTIC.) Viscous; glutinous; ing business; as, agricultural employments; He stroke so hugely with his borrowd blade, adhesive; fit to be applied as a plaster; as, mechanical employments; public employThat it empierst the Pagan's burganet. Srenser. emplastic applications. ment. Empight+ (em-pit), p. and a. Prefix em, Emplastic (em-plas’tik), n. In med. a con- If any station, any employment upon earth be in, and pight, fixed. ] Fixed. “Three bodies stipating medicine. honourable, theirs was. Bp. Atterbury, in one waste empight.' Spenser. Empleadt (em-pled'), v. t. (Prefix em for en, Syn. Business, vocation, occupation, avocaEmpire (em'pir), n. [Fr., from L. imperium. in, and plead.) To charge with a crime; to tion, engagement, office, trade, profession, See EMPEROR. ] 1. Supreme power in gov- accuse; to implead. post, function. erniny: supreme dominion , sovereignty; Emplecton, Emplectum (em-plek'ton, em- Émplunge (em-plunj), v.t. [Prefix em for imperial power. The care that yokes with plek'tum), n. [Gr. emplekton (L. emplectum), en, in, and plunge.) To plunge. Daniel. empire.' 'Tennyson. from emplektos, interwoven, from emplekó, Empoison (em-poi'zn), v.t. [Prefix em for Westward the course of empire takes its way; to weave in-em for en, in, and plekö, to en, and poison; Fr. empoisonner. See Por. Bp. Berkeley. weave.) In arch. a method of building in use SON.] 1. To poison; to administer poison 2. The territory, region, or countries under to. Shak. the jurisdiction and dominion of an emperor The surfeit of them (mushrooms) may suffocate and or other powerful sovereign; usually a ter cm poison. Bacon, ritory of greater extent than a kingdom, 2. To taint with poison or venom; to render which may be, and often is, a territory of noxious or deleterious by any admixture of small extent; thus we say, the Russian Em poisonous substance. pire; the German Empire; the British Em The whole earth appears unto him blasted with a pire.-3. The population of an empire. curse, and empoisoned with the venom of the ser. pent. Situation of Paradise. Bury the Great Duke with an empire's lamentation. Tennyson. 3. To embitter; to deprive of sweetness; as, 4. Supreme control; governing influence; to empoison the joys and pleasures of life. rule; sway; as, the empire of reason or of among the Greeks and Romans, in which the One doth not know truth. outside surfaces on both sides were formed How much an ill word may empoison liking. Shak. of ashlar laid in regular courses, and the cen: Empoisont (em-poi'zn), n. Poison. Chaucer. Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay. Johnson. tral space between them filled in with rubble- Empire State, in the United States, the One who work, layers of cross stones being placed at Empoisoner (em-poi'zn-ėr), n. State of New York, so called from the en poisons. intervals in regular courses, and of suffiterprise of its people, its wealth, popula. cient size to act as girders to bind the whole Empoisonment (em-poi'zn-ment), n. The tion, extent of canals, railroads, &c. ---Em- together. Sometimes erroneously written act of administering poison. pire City, New York, as being the capital of Emplection. The empoisonment of particular persons by odours, the Empire State. -SYN. Sway, dominion, Emplie,t v.t. To infold; to involve. Chaucer. hath been reported to be in perfumed gloves or the like. Bacon. rule, reign, sovereignty, government. Emploret (em-plor), v.t. To implore. Mar. Emporetic, Emporetical (em-põ-ret'ik, emEmpiric (em-pi'rik), n. (L. empiricus; Gr. ston. em peirikos, experienced--en, in, and peira, Employ (em-ploi'), v.t. [Fr. employer; L. po-ret'ik-al), a. Of or pertaining to an ema trial.) 1. One who relies only on experi porium; relating to merchandise. implico, to enfold, involve, engage-in, and ence and observation, as opposed to theory plico, to fold. See PLY.) 1.7 To inclose; to Emporium (em-põ'ri-um), n. (L., from Grbased on scientific conclusions. infold. Chaucer. -2. To occupy the time, emporion, an emporium or mart, from em poros, a traveller, a merchant-en, and Among the Greek physicians, those who founded attention, and labour of; to keep busy or at their practice on experience called themselves em. poros, a way, a thoroughfare, from perao, work; to use; as, we employ our hands in porics; those who relied on theory, methodists; and to pass through. Akin A. Sax. faran, to go. those who held a middle course, dogmatists. labour; we employ our heads or faculties in See FARE.) 1. A town or city of extensive Fleming. study or thought; the attention is employed commerce, or in which the commerce of an Specifically-2. A physician who enters on when the mind is fixed or occupied upon an extensive country centres, or to which sellers practice without a regular professional eduobject. and buyers resort from different countries; cation, and relies on success from his own This is a day in which the thoughts of our country. a trading town or city; a commercial centre; experience. Hence-3. A quack; an igno men ought to be employed on serious subjects. Addison, a market-place; a warehouse; a shop. rant pretender to medical skill; a charlatan. Sometimes used without an expressed object. That wonderful emporium (Manchester), which in "Swallow down opinions as people do em Come, when no graver cares employ, population and wealth far surpasses capitals so much piric's pills.' Locke. God-father, come and see your boy. Tennyson, renowned as Berlin, Madrid, and Lisbon, was then a Empiric, Empirical (em-pi'rik, em-pi'rik mean and ill-built market-town, containing under six 3. To use as an instrument or means; as, thousand people. Macaulay. al), a. 1. Pertaining to experiments or expe we employ, pens in writing; we employ It is pride rience; depending upon the observation of which fills our streets, our empomedicines in curing diseases. riums, our theatres. phenomena Knox. In philosophical language the term empirical The cleanly cheese press she could never turn, 2.+ In med. the brain, because there all Her awkward fist did ne'er employ the churn. Gay. mental affairs are transacted. means simply what belongs to or is the product of experience or observation. Sir W. Hamilton. 4. To use as materials in forming anything. Empound (em-pound'), v. t. (Prefix em for According to some acceptations of the word meta- Thou shalt not destroy the treesand thou shalt Empoverish (em-pov'èr-ish), v.t. en, and pound.] Same as Impound. physical, which seem to make it synonymous with Same as not cut them down to employ them in the siege. transcendental, and referable solely to the operations Deut. xx. 19. Impoverish. of pure reason, to the rejection of whatever is founded 5. To engage in one's service; to use as an Empower (em-pou'èr), v.t. (Prefixem for en, on experiment, none of Hume's works are properly metaphysical; and by the very foundation he has agent or substitute in transacting business; and power.) 1. To give legal or moral power given to his philosophy, he has made it empirical, to commission and intrust with the man- or authority to; to authorize, as by law, and consequently not metaphysical. 3. H. Burton. agement of one's affairs; as, states employ commission, letter of attorney, verbal liNow here again we may observe the error into ambassadors at foreign courts.-6. To oc- cense, &c.; as, the Court of Session is emwhich Locke was led by confounding the cause of cupy; to use; to ap or devote to an ob- powered to try and decide all civil cases our ideas with their occasion. There can be no ject; to pass in business; as, to employ an throughout Scotland; the attorney is enidea, he argues, prior to experience; granted. There: fore he concludes the mind previous to it is, as it hour, a day, or a week; to employ one's life. powered to sign an acquittance and discharge were, a fabula rasa, owing every notion which it To study nature will thy time employ. Dryden. the debtor. -2. To give physical power or gains primarily to an empirical source. F. D. Morell. force to; to give efficacy to; to enable. That which engages 2. Versed in experiments; as, an empiric Employ (em-ploi'), n. Does not the same force that enables them to heal alchemist.-3. Known only by experience; the mind, or occupies the time and labour empower them to destroy? Baker. derived from experiment; depending upon of a person; business; object of study or experience or observation alone, without industry; employment; occupation; art; Syn. To authorize, commission, license, war rant, enable. trade; profession. due regard to science and theory; as, em Empress (em'pres), n. The consort or spouse piric skill; empiric remedies. Present to grasp, and future still to find, Pope. of an emperor; a female who governs an Empirically (em-pi'rik-al-li), adv. By expe empire; a female invested with imperial riment; according to experience; without They have always a foreigner for this employ. Addison. power or sovereignty. science; in the manner of quacks. Employable (em-ploi'a-bl), a. That may be Empresse, t v.i. To crowd. Chaucer. Empiricism (em-pi'ri-sizm), n. 1. The quaemployed; capable of being used; fit or pro- Empressement (au - prās-mai), n. (Fr.) lity or method of being empirical; reliance per for use. Eagerness; cordiality. on experience and observation rather than Employé (an-plwa-ā or em-ploi'ā), n. (Fr.) Emprintt (em-print), v.t. Same as Imprint. on theory.-2. The practice of medicine One who is employed; an employee. Emprise (em-priz'), n. (O. Fr. emprise-prefounded on experience and neglecting the Employee (em-ploi'e), n. (The English form fix em for en, and prise, a taking, from aid of science; hence, quackery; the preten- of the Fr. employé, one who is employed, prendre, to take.) An undertaking; an entersions of an ignorant man to medical skill. especially a clerk. ] One who works for an prise; adventure. (Poetical. ] Shudder to destroy life, either by the naked knife, employer or master; a clerk, workman, or The deeds of love and high emprise or by the surer and safer medium of empiricism. other person, working for salary or wages In battle done. Longfelloro. Dwight. Empiricistt (em-pi'ri-sist), n. An empiric. (but rarely if ever applied to a domestic Emprisont (em-pri'zon), v.t. Same as Im servant): generally used with the name of prison. Empiricutict(em-pi'ri-kū"tik),a. Empirical. the person who employs; as, the Messrs. Emprize (em-priz), n. Emprise. The most sovereign prescription in Galen is but Smith gave their employees a holiday. What other works empiricutic. Shak. Employer (em-ploi'ér), n. One who employs; Science, audacious in emprize, hath wrought, Emplacement . (em-plās'ment), n. (Fr.) one who uses; one who engages or keeps in Meet not the eye, but well may fill the mind. Southey. Place; ground; site, as of a building. Arun- service. Emprosthotonos (em-pros-thot'on-os), n. del. Employment (em-ploi'ment), n. 1. The act (Gr. emprosthen, before, and teino, to draw. EMPTIER 156 EMULOUSLY That may be In med. a spasmodic action of the muscles, Empurple (em-per'pl), v.t. pret. & pp. em- Emulable (em'ü-la-bl), a. That may be drawing the body forward; clonic spasın. purpled; ppr. empurpling. (Prefix em for emulated; that may be attained by emulous Emptier (em'ti-ér), n. One who or that en, and purple.) To tinge or dye of a purple efforts; worthy of emulation. Some imiwhich empties or exhausts. colour; to discolour with purple. table and emulable good.' Leighton. Emptiness (em'ti-nes), n. 1. A state of being And over it his huge great nose did grow, Emulate (em'ū-lát), v. t. pret. & pp. emuempty; a state of containing nothing, or Full dreadfully emfurpled all with blood. lated; ppr. emulating. (L. omulor, æmunothing but air; absence of matter; as, the Spenser. latus, to make one's self a rival, from æmuemptiness of a vessel. -2. Void space; va- Empuset (em-pūs), n. [Gr. empousa.) A lus, a rival.] 1. To strive to equal or excel, cuity; vacuum. phantom or spectre. Jer. Taylor. in qualities or actions; to imitate, with a Nor could another in your room have been, Empuzzlet (em-puz'l), v.t. To puzzle. view to equal or excel; to vie with; to Except an emptiness had come between. "Dryden. Empyema (em-pi-e'ma), n. [Gr. empyema, rival; as, learn early to emulate the good from empyö, to have abscesses-em for en, and the great. 3. Want of solidity or substance. The and pyö, to suppurate, pyon, pus.] In med. I would have emptiness of light and shade.' Dryden. a collection of pus, blood, or other fluid Him emulate you: 'tis no shame to follow 4. Unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy de- matter, in some cavity of the body, especially The better precedent. B. Jonson. sire. *The worth or emptiness of things here.' Bp. Atterbury.-5. Want of intellect Empyesis (em-pi-7'sis), n. (Gr., suppurain the cavity of the pleura or chest. 2. To be equal to; to imitate; to resemble. Shak. Thy eye would emulate the diamond. or knowledge; lack of sense. • The sins of tion. In med. pustulous eruption: a term emptiness, gossip, and spite.' Tennyson. Convulsion emulating the motion of laughter. used by Hippocrates, and including, in Arbuthnot. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray. Pope. Good's system, variola or small-pox Emulate + (em'ü- lāt). a. Ambitious. Emption (emp'shon), n. [L. emptio, from Empyocele (em'pi-7-sēl), n. [Gr. empyö, to _*Prick'd on by a most emulate pride.' Shak. emo, to buy. ] The act of buying; a pur have abscesses, and kéle, a tumour.) In Emulation (em-ū-lā'shon), n. 1. The act of chasing. [Rare. ! surg. a term for a collection of pus within attempting to equal or excel, in qualities Emptional (emp'shon-al), a. the scrotum. or actions; rivalry; desire of superiority, purchased. [Rare.) Empyreal (em-pir'e-al or em-pi-rē'al), a. attended with effort to attain it; ambition Empty (em'ti), a. [A. Sax. æmti, æmtig, (LL. empyræus, from Gr. empyros --en, and to equal or excel. eitig, vacant, free, idle; æmtian, to be at pyr, fire.) Formed of pure fire or light; re- The apostle extorts the Corinthians to an holy and leisure, to bé vacant; from amta, emta, fined beyond aerial substance; pertaining to general emulation of the charity of the Macedon. quiet, leisure. Probably of same root as the highest and purest region of heaven; lans, in contributing freely to the relief of the poor saints at Jerusalem. South. G. emsig, busy. (See EMMET.) Wedgwood pure; vital. compares the L. opera, labour, and also Go, soar with Plato to th' empyreal sphere. Pope. 2. Envy, jealousy: contention; strife; rivalry leisure, Fr. vaquer, to be unoccupied and Empyreal (em-pir'e-al or em-pi-rē'al), n. accompanied with a desire of depressing another. to attend to.) 1. Containing nothing, or Empyrean. Such factious emulations shall arise. Shak. nothing but air; void of contents or ap- The lord-lieutenant looking down sometimes My heart laments, that virtue cannot live propriate contents; destitute of solid matter; From the empyreal, to assure their souls Out of the teeth of emulation, Shak. not filled: said of any inclosure, as a box, E. B. Browning As envy is commonly used by Shakspere in the room, house, park, manacle, fetter, and the Empyrean (em-pi-rē'an), a. Empyreal. sense of malice or hatred, so emulation, as here, is like; as, an empty chest; einpty space; an Lispings empyrein will I sometimes teach with him often envy or malicious rivalry. There are empty purse; empty shackles; an empty Thine honeyed tongue. Keats. instances, however, of his employing the word, and room. Her place is empty.' Tennyson.- Empyrean (em-pi-rē'an), n. [See EMPY also the cognate terms em:ulator, emulate, and emu lous, not in an unfavourable sense. Prof. Craik. 2. Void; devoid; destitute. REAL, a.] The highest heaven, where the In civility, thou seemest so empty. - Emulation, Competition, Rivalry. EmuShak. pure element of fire was supposed by the I shall find you empty of that fault. lation, the spirit of contending, that disShak, ancients to exist. The deep-domed empyrean position of the mind which incites one to 3. Destitute of force or effect; destitute of Rings to the roar of an angel onset. Tennyson. strive with another for the same object. sense or sincerity; as, empty words; empty If Semiramis was a poem, a living creation, won Competition is the act of so striving. Emulacompliments. 4. Wanting substance or from the Empyrean by the silent power, and long. tion is the motive, competition the action. solidity; wanting reality; unsubstantial; continued toil of its author, what could the Cafe de Rivalry is a personal contest, wherein the unsatisfactory; not able to fill the mind or Procope know of it, what could all Paris know of it, rivals seek the attainment of their object at on the second night? Carlyle. the desires; as, empty air; empty dreams; any cost, and naturally gives rise to envy, the pleasures of life are empty and unsatisfy Empyreuma (em-pi-rū’ma), n. (Gr., coal to resentment, or detraction, while competition ing. preserve a smouldering fire, from empyreuo, merely stirs to exertion. A noble emulation heats your breast. Dryden. 5. Not supplied; having nothing to carry. In chem. the odour of some oily animal or Competition for the crown, there is none nor can be. Bacon. They beat him, and sent him away empty. Mark xii. 3. vessels, or when subjected to destructive Keen contention and eager rivalries. Feffrey. 6. Hungry. distillation. Syn. Rivalry, competition, contest, contenMy falcon now is sharp, and passing empty. Shak. Empyreumatic, Empyreumatical (empi'rů-mat''ik, em-pi'rů-mat"ik-al), a. Per tion, strife. 7. Unfurnished with intellect or knowledge; Inclined to destitute of sense: ignorant; as, an empty taining to or having the taste or smell of Emulative (em'ù-lat-iv), a. emulation; rivalling; disposed to competicoxcomb. —8. Unfruitful; producing no tion. Emulative zeal.' Hoole. stances thing. In an Empyreumatize (em-pi-rū’mat-īz), v.t. To Emulatively (em'ü-lāt-iv-li), adv. emulative manner. Seven empty ears blasted with the east wind. Emulator (em'ū-lāt-ér), n. One who emuGen. xli. 27. Empyrical (em-pīr'ik-al), a. (Gr. empyros, 9. Destitute; waste; desolate. in fire.) Of or pertaining to combustion or lates; a rival; a competitor. “An envious combustibility. Kirwan. (Rare.) emulator of every man's good part' Shak. She (Nineveh) is empty and void and waste. Nah. ii. 10. Empyrosis (em-pir-o'sis), n. (Gr. empyroo, As Virgil rivalled Homer, Milton was the emulator 10. Without effect; without having accom Warturton. to burn.) A general fire; conflagration. of both these. plished anything. Emrods (em'rodz), n. pl. Same as Emerods. Emulatory (em'ü-la-to-ri), a. Arising out The sword of Saul returned not empty. 2 Sam. i. 22. Emu, Emeu (e-mū'), n. The original and of emulation; indicating emulation; of or Empty (em'ti), n. belonging to emulation. An empty packing-case popular name of a large cursorial bird, or the like; as, 'returned empties.'. Dromaius Nove Hollandiæ, found in Aus- Whether some secret and emulatory brawles passed between Zipporah and Miriam. By. Hall. Empty (em'ti), v.t. pret. & pp. emptied; ppr. Emulatress (em'ü-lät-res), n. A female emptying. 1. To deprive of the contents of; who emulates. to remove the contents from; to discharge; as, to empty a vessel; to empty a well or a Emule (em'ūl), v.t. To emulate. (Rare.) cistern; the river empties itself into the This is the ground whereon the young Nassau, Emuling that day his ancestor's renown, ocean.—2. To lay waste; to make desolate. Received his hurt. Southey. Will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, Emulget (e-mulj), v.t. [L. emulgeo-e, out, and shall empty her land. Jer. li. 2. and mulgeo, to milk.] To milk out. Bailey. Empty (em'ti), v.i. 1. To pour out or dis Emulgent (ē-mul'jent), a. [L. emulgens, charge its contents, as a river into the emulgentis, ppr. of emulgeo. See EMULGE.] ocean. In anat. milking or draining out: said of The Ohio river empties into the Mississippi. the renal arteries, which supply the kidneys Worcester with blood; as, the emulgent veins return 2. To become empty. The chapel empties.' the blood, after the urine is secreted. B. Jonson. Emulgent (ē-mul'jent), n. 1. In anat an Empty-handed (em'ti-hand-ed), a. Having emulgent vein or vessel. — 2. In med. & nothing in the hands; carrying nothing of remedy which excites the flow of bile. value, as money or a present of some kind; Emulous (em'ū-lus), a. [L. æmulus, a rival. as, you need not go to him empty-handed. Emu (Dromains Vove Hollandiæ). See EMULATE.) 1. Desirous or eager to imiShe brought nothing and she shall not leave the here, but she has been a good tate, equal, or excel another; desirous of girl, a very good tralia. It is about 7 feet in length, and stands like excellence with another: with of; as, house emply-handed. A. Trollope. higher than the cassowary, from which it emulous of another's example or virtues. Emptying (em'ti-ing), n. 1. The act of differs in not having the helmet. It is By strength mikin: empty. Shak.-2. That which is unlike the ostrich in having its feet three- They measure all; of other excellence emptied out; specifically (pl.), in the United toed. Its feathers are double, and of a dull Not emulous. Milton. States, the lees of beer, cider, &c., yeast, or sooty-brown colour, and those about the 2. Rivalling; engaged in competition. *Emuany thing, by which bread is leavened. head and neck are of a hairy texture. The lous Carthage.' B. Jonson.-3. Factious; Emptysis (emp'ti-sis), n. [Gr., from emptyö, wings are small, and useless for flight. The contentious. to -pit upon.) In med. a discharge of blood name has sometimes been erroneously given He is not emulous as Achilles is. Snak. from the mouth, caused by hemorrhage of to the South American genus, which includes Emulously (em'ü-lus-li), adv. With desire the lungs; hæmoptysis. | the cassowary. of equalling or excelling another. EMULOUSNESS 157 ENAUNTER ours. Emulousness (em'ü-lus-nes), il. Quality of law enables us to dispose of our property enamel. - 3. To form a glossy surface like being emulous. by will. -- 4. To furnish with competent enamel upon; as, to enamel caril-paper. Emulsic (e-muls'ik), a. In chem. pertaining knowledge or skill, and in general, with 4. To variegate or adorn with different colto or procured from emulsine; specifically, adequate means; to endow. See ENAMELLED. applied to an acid procured from the albu Receive the Holy Ghost, said Christ to his apostles, Enamel (en-am'el), v.i. To practise the nse men of almonds. when he enabled them with pricstly power. of enamel or the art of enamelling. Boyle. Emulsify (e-mul'si-fí), v.i. To make or form Fer. Taylor. Enamelar, Enamellar (en-am'el-ar'), a. an emulsion. Enablementt (en-ā'bl-ment), n. The act of Consisting of enamel; resembling enamel; Emulsin, Emulsine (e-mul'sin), n. (See enabling; ability. Bacon. smooth; glossy. EMUISIÓN.) In chem. the name given to an Enach, n. In old Scots law, amends or Enameler, Enamelist (en-am'el-ér, en-am'. albuminous or caseous substance of which satisfaction for a crime, fault, or trespass. el-ist), n. the white part both of sweet and bitter Enact (en-akt'), v.t. Same as Enameller, Enamellist. [Pretix en, and act] Enamelled (en-an'eld). p. and a. Overlaid almonds chiefly consists. 1. To decree; to establish as the will of the with enamel; adorned with anything resemEmulsion (e-mul’shon), n. [Fr., from emul supreme power; to pass into an act or bling enamel; variegated with different geo, emulsum, to milk out-e, out, and established law; to perform the last act of colours. Paints the enamelled ground.' mulgeo, to milk.) A soft liquid remedy of a legislature to, as to a bill, giving it validity Gay. a colour and consistence resembling milk; as a law; to give sanction to, as a bill. Throw hither all your quaint enamell”d eyes, ... any milk-like mixture prepared by uniting 2. To act; to perform; to effect. And purple all the ground witin vernal flowers. oil and water, by means of another subThe king enacts more wonders than a man, Viltun. stance, saccharine or mucilaginous. Daring an opposite to every danger. Shak. - Enamelled cards, cards on which a coatEmulsive (ē-muls'iv), a. 1. Softening; milklike.-- 2. Yielding oil by expression; as, 3. To act the part of; to represent on or ing in imitation of enamel is produced. emulsire seeds. - 3. Producing or yielding a as on the stage. “I did not enact Hector.' Enameller, Enamellist (en-am'el ér, enShak. am'el-ist), n. One who enamels; one whose milk-like substance; as, emulsive acids. Enacting (en-akting), p. and a. 1. Passing occupation is to lay on enamels or inlay Emunctory (ē-mungk'to-ri), n. [L. emunc colours. into a law; giving sanction to a bill, and torium, a pair of snuffers, from emungo, establishing it as å law.-2. Giving legisla- Enamoradot (en-am-ā-rä'do), n. One deeply eiunctum, to wipe, to cleanse.) In anat. tive forms and sanction; as, the enacting Enamour (en-am'èr), v.t. [O.Fr. enamourer in love. Sir T. Herbert. any part of the body which serves to carry clause of a bill. off excrementitious or waste matter; an exEnactive (en-akt'iv), a. Having power to --en, and amour, L. amor, love.) To inflame cretory duct; as, the kidneys and skin are enact, or establish as a law. with love; to charm; to captivate: with of emunctories. Emuscationt (ē-mus - kā'shon ), n. Enactment (en-akt'ment), n. 1. The passing or with before the person or thing; as, to [L. of a bill into a law; the act of voting, de be enamoured of or with a lady; to be enemusco, emuscatum, to clear from moss-e, creeing, and giving validity to a law.-2. A amoured of or with books or science. priv., and muscus, moss.) A freeing from law enacted; a decree; an act.--3. The act- He became passionately enamoured of this shadow moss. Evelyn. of a dream. Emu-wren (ē'mū-ren), n. ing of a part or representation of a character 11'. Irving An Australian bird, the Stipiturus "malachurus, of the Enactor (en-aktér), n. in a play Enanthema (en-an-thoma), 1. [Gr, en, in, 1. One who enacts and anthema (used only in composition), family Sylviadæ, so named from the tail or passes a law; one who decrees or esta- from antheo, to flourish.] A name given to feathers being loose-webbed, and bearing blishes, as a law. - 2. One who performs certain eruptions of the mucous membrane, some resemblance to those of the emu. anything. Shak. Emydæ, Emydidæ (em'i-dė, e-mid'i-dē), n. on the type of exanthema, which is applied Enacturet (en-aktūr), n. Purpose; effect; to eruptions of the skin. pl." (Gr. emys, the water-tortoise, and eidos, action. Enanthesis (en-an-thé'sis), n. [Gr. en, and resemblance.) A family of chelonian repThe violence of either grief or joy anthesis, blossom, from antheő, to flourish.] tiles, comprehending the fresh-water tor Their own enactures with themselves destroy. Shak. An eruption on the skin from internal distoises or terrapins, and intermediate in form between the turtles and land-tortoises. Enaliosaur, Enaliosaurian (en-al'i-o-sar, ease, as in scarlet fever, measles, and the like. En-. A common adverbial or prepositional en-al'i-o-sa"ri-an), n. [Gr. enalios, living [Gr. prefix in English words, from L. in, as en- in the sea, and sauros, lizard.] A member Enantiopathy (en-an'ti-op"a-thi), n. due, or from Gr. en, as enclitic, or it simply of a group of fossil marine reptiles of great enantios, opposite, and pathos, suffering. ] represents the E. in, as en wrap. Words in size, one example of which is the ichthyo- 1. An opposite passion or affection, English which contain the Gr, en are mostly saurus (which see). Whatever may be the case in the cure of bodies, scientificor technical terms of modern forma. Enallage (en-alla-jē), n. Gr. enallage, enantiopathy, and not homeopathy, is the true medicine of minds. Sir Il'. Hamilton. change, from enallattő, to exchange-en, in, tion, though others, such as enthusiasm, form a portion of our everyday vocabulary. En, and allattó, to change.) In gram, a figure 2. Allopathy: a term used by the disciples derived from the L in, in many cases ap by which some change is made in the com- and followers of Hahnemann. pears in words that have come to us through mon mode of speech, as when one gender, Enantiosis (ē-nan'ti-o'sis), n. (Gr., contrathe French, though in other cases com number, case, person, tense, mood, or voice diction, from enantios, opposite.] In rhet. pounds with en are merely formed on the of the sane word is substituted for another, a figure of speech by which what is meant model of such Romance words, the Latin or or when one word is substituted for an- to be conveyed in the affirmative is stated English in assuming this form from the in- other; as, L. scelus, wickedness, for scelestus, in the negative, and vice rerse; as, he didn't fluence of the French. Hence, a form in en wicked; "We, the king' drink it oh no! He is a wonderfully good and one in in are frequently found co-exist. Enaluron (en-a-lūéron), a. [Probably Fr. man- oh yes! ing; as, enwrap, inwrap; engulf, ingulf; enen, in, and aileron, a small wing.) In her, a Enarcht (en-arch'), v.t. To quire, inquire ; with, however, a tendency term applied to a bordure charged with inarch. Lyugate. in one or other of the forms to disappear, eight birds Enarched (en-äreht), pp. except when, as in ensure, insure, a special Enambusht (en-am'bush), v.t. [Prefix en, [Prefixen, and arched.] In meaning has been assigned to each. Before and arnbush.) To hide in ambush; to place her. arched; as, a chevron labials en becomes em, as in embellish, emin ambush. The enambushed phalanx and enched brace, but may remain unchanged before the springing mine.' Cawthorne. Enarmed (en - ärmd), a. m, as enmew or emmew, enmarble. As a Enamel (en-am'el), n. [Prefix en, and the [Prefix en, and armed.] In verbal prefix en sometimes retains its ori old amel, ammel, amile, enamel, corrupted Enarched. her, having arms, that is, ginal meaning of in, as encage, engaol, enfrom 0. Fr. esmail, Mod. Fr. émail, enamel, horns, hoofs, &e., of a diffetter; or it denotes a change from one from G. schmelzen, to smelt, to melt. See ferent colour from that of the body. state into another, as enable, enrich, en SMELT.] 1. A coloured substance of the na- Enarration (ē-na-rä'shon), 7. (L. enarslave, enfranchise, enlarge, and hence has ture of glass, cliffering from it by a greater de- ratio, a detailed exposition, from enarro, often the effect simply of a verb-forming gree of fusibility or opacity, used as an orna- enarratum, to explain in detail-e, out, and prefix; sometimes it seems to have little in- mental coating for various articles. Enamels narro, to relate.) Recital; relation; account; iluence on the meaning of the principal have for their basis a pure crystal glass or exposition. ‘An historical enarration.' Bp. Hall. word, as in enkindle, encaptivate. frit, ground with a fine oxide of lead and -En. A suffix of common occurrence in tin. These baked together are the matter Enarthrosis (en-är-thro'sis), n. [Gr. enarEnglish words, having several origins and of enamels, and the colour is varied by add- throsis-en, in, and arthron, a joint.) In uses. (a) It is a verl-forming suffix (in ing other substances. Oxide of gold gives anat, a ball-and-socket joint; that species A. Sax. -nian), as in fatten, freshen, whiten, a red colour; that of copper, a green; man- of articulation which consists in the insersweeten, &c. () It is an adjective-forming ganese, a violet; cobalt, a blue; and iron, a tion of the round end of a bone in the cupsuffix from nouns signifying some kind of fine black. --2. A glassy opaque beat ob- like cavity of another, forming a joint movsubstance or material (common also in tained by the blowpipe. - 3. That which is able in every direction. A. Sax.), and in this usage represents an old enamelled; a smooth, glossy surface of Enascent (e-nas'ent), a. [L. enascens, ppr. genitive, as in golden, wooden, oaken, &c. various colours, resembling enamel. --4. In of enascor, to spring up-e, out, and nascor, (c) It is also a feminine suffix, as in vixen; anat. the smooth hard substance which to be born.) Coming into being; incipient. and perhaps a diminutive, as in maiden. covers the crown of a tooth, overlying the You just get the first glimpse, as it were, of an (d) It was formerly a plural termination of dentine.--5. Gloss; polish. enascent cquivocation. Warourton. nouns and of verbs, as housen, escapen, and There is none of the ingenuity of Filicaja in the Enatationt (ē-nā-tā'shon), n. is still retained in oxen, children. thought, none of the hard and brilliant enamel of (L. enato, Petrarch in the style. Macaulay. enatatum, to swim out-e, out, and nato, a Enable (en-a'bl), v.t. pret. & pp. enabled; freq. from no, natum, to swim.] A swinppr. enabling. [Prefix en, and able (which Enamel (en-am'el), a. Relating to the art ming out; escape by swimming. see)) 1. To make able; to supply with oi enamelling; as,enamel painting: --- Enamel Enatet (e-nāt'), a. '[L. enatus --e, out, and power, physical or moral; to furnish with painting, or more properly painting on natus, born.) Growing out. sufficient power or ability; as, learning and enamel, an art of modern date, by which The parts appertaining to the bones, which stand industry enable men to investigate the laws figures and other designs are painted on out at a distance from their bodies, are either the of nature; fortitude enables us to bear pain enamelled surfaces, and are then burned in adnate or the enale parts, either the epiphyses or without murmuring. 1 Tim. i. 12.-2. To by heating the whole. the apophyses of the bones. supply with means; as, wealth enables men Enamel(en-am'el), v. t. pret. & pp. enamelled; Smith, Portrait of Old Age. to be charitable.-3. To furnish with legal ppr, enuamelling. 1. To lay enamel on, as on Enauntert (en-an'tér), adv. (Contr. from ability or competency; to authorize; as, the gold, silver, copper, &c. -- 2. To paint in en for in, and adventure, which was formerly 1 ENAVIGATE 158 ENCHASE cer. written aventure, aunture, auntre.] Lest plements of war or of the chase, according Enchain (en-chān'), v.t. [Prefix en, and that to the purpose to which the building it or- chain.) 1. To fasten with a chain; to bind With them it sits to care for their heire, naments is appropriated. or hold in chains; to hold in bondage. DryEraunter their heritage doe impaire. Spenser. Encase (en-kås), v.t. Same as Incase. den.-2. To hold fast; to restrain; to confine; Enavigate (ē-na'vi-gāt), v.t. pret. & pp. ena- Encashment (en-kash'ment), n. In English as, to enchain the attention. - 3. To link to vigated; ppr. enavigating. (L. enavigo-, banking, payment in cash of a note, draft, gether; to connect. (Rare.) out, and navigo, to sail.) To sail out or &c. One contracts and enchains his words. Howell. over. Cockeram. Encauma (en-ka'ma), n. [Gr. enkaumaEnbibet (en-bib'), v.t. To imbibe. Skelton. en, in, and kaiö, to burn.) In surg. an old Enchainment (en-chān'ment), n. The act Enbosed, + pp. (See the old emboss, to shel of enchaining or state of being enchained; name for the mark left by a burn, or the concatenation. Such a connection and enter in a wood.] Sheltered in a wood. Chau- bleb or vesicle produced by it, as also for chainment of one fact to another.' Warsuperficial ulceration in the eye, on the burton. Enchant (en-chänt), v.t. [Fr. enchanterEnbraude, t v.t. To embroider. en, and kaustikos, caustic, from kaiö, to en, and chanter, to sing; L. incanto-in, and canto, freq. of cano, to sing. See CHANT This wofull lady ylearned had in youth, burn.) Pertaining to the art of enamelling and CANT.] 1. To practise sorcery or witchSo that she worken and enbrauden couth. and to painting in burned wax.- Encaustic Chancer. craft on; to give efficacy to by songs of sorpainting, a kind of painting among the Encænia (en-sē'ni-a), n. pl. Same as Encenia. ancients, in which, by heating or burning in cery or fascination; to subdue by charnis or Encage (en-káj'), v.t. pret. & pp. encaged; wax, the colours were rendered permanent spells; to hold as by a spell; to fascinate. ppr. encaging. (Prefix en, in, and cage.] To And now about the caldron sing, in all their original splendour. - Encaustic Like elves and fairies in a ring. shut up or confine in a cage; to coop. Writ tiles, decorated paving - tiles of baked pot- Enchanting all that you put in. Shak. ten also Incage. tery,much used in the pavements of churches John thinks them all enchanted: he inquires if He (Samson) carries away the gates wherein they and other ecclesiastical edifices of an early Nick had not given them some intoxicating potion. thought to have encaged him. By. Hall. Arbuthnot. Encalendar (en-ka'len-der), v.t. ( Prefix with various improvements. 2. To delight in a high degree; to charm; en, in, and calendar.) To register in a Encaustic (en - kąs'tik), n. The art of paint to ravish with pleasure. Bid me discourse, calendar, as the saints of the Roman Cathoing on enamel; the art of painting in burned I will enchant thine ear.' Shak.-Syn. To lic Church. wax or in any way wherein heat is used to charm, captivate, fascinate, ravish, enrapFor saints preferred, fix the colours. ture, bewitch. of which we find these four have been, And with their leader still to live encalendar'd. Encave (en-kāv'), v.t. pret. & pp. encaved; Enchanter (en-chänt'èr), n. 1. One who Drayton. ppr. encaving. (Prefix en, and cave.] Tó enchants; a sorcerer or magician; one who Encamp (en-kamp), v.i. [Prefix en, and hide in a cave or recess. has spirits or demons at his command; one camp.) To pitch tents or form huts, as an Do but encave yourself who practises enchantment or pretends to army; to halt on a march, spread tents, and And mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scorns, perform surprising things by the agency of remain for a night or for a longer time, as That dwell in every region of his face. Shak. demons.-2. One who charms or delights. an army or company; to pitch tents for the Enceinte (an-sänt), n. [Fr., pp. of enceindre; Enchanter's nightshade, a name common to purpose of a siege. from L. incingo, to gird in-in, and cingo, plants of the genus Circæa, nat, order OnThey encamped in Etham. Ex. xiii. 20. to gird.] In fort. inclosure; the wall or ram agraceæ, of which there are two British The Levites shall encamp about the tabernacle. part which surrounds a place, sometimes species, C. lutetiana and C. alpina. The Num. i. 50. composed of bastions and curtains. Called former grows to the height of about a foot Encamp against the city and ke it. 2 Sam. xii. 28. also Body of the Place. and a half, has delicate ovate leaves and Encamp (en-kamp'), v.t. To form into a Enceinte (an-sänt), a. [Fr., L. in, not, and small white flowers tinged with pink, which camp; to place in a temporary habitation cinctus, pp. of cingo, to gird.) Pregnant; are succeeded by small roundish seed-vessels or quarters. 'Bid him encamp his soldiers.' with child. thickly covered with hooked bristles, and Shak. Encenia (en-sē'ni-a), n. pl. [Gr. enkainia, a abounds in shady woods. When it finds its Encampment (en-kamp'ment), n. 1. The act feast of dedication-en, in, and kainos, new.) way into shrubberies it is difficult to extirof pitching tents or forming huts, as an Festivals anciently commemorative of the pate. C. alpina hardly differs from this army or travelling company, for temporary founding of a city or the dedication of a species, except in being smaller and more lodging or rest. delicate; it is found in Scotland and north Johnson. -2. The place church; and in later times, ceremonies rewhere a body of men is encamped, together newed at certain periods, as at Oxford, in of England. They have no affinity with the nightshades. with the tents or other conveniences set in commemoration of founders and benefac- Enchanting (en-chänt'ing), a. Charming; order for their accommodation; a camp; tors. delighting; ravishing; as, an enchanting tents or huts set up for the accommodation Encense, t n. Incense. Chaucer. of an army or troop. Encenset v.t. To burn incense; to burn voice; an enchanting face. When a general bids the martial train incense to Chaucer. Simplicity in manners has an enchanting effect. Spread their encampment o'er the spacious plain, Encephalalgia (en'se-fal-al”ji-a), n. [Gr. Thick rising tents a canvas city build. en, in, kephalë, the head, and algos, pain.) Enchantingly (en-chänt'ing-li), adv. With Encankert (en-kangk'er), v.t. [Prefix en, In med. deep-seated headache; cephalalgy. the power of enchantment; in a manner to and canker.] To corrode; to canker. Skel- Encephalartos (en-sef'al-är-tos), n. (Gr. delight or charm; as, the lady sings enchantton. ingly. en, in, kephale, the head, and artos, bread.) Enchantment (en-chänt'ment), n. 1. The Encanthis (en-kan'this), n. [Gr. en, and A genus of Cycadaceæ, having cylindrical or kanthos, the corner of the eye.) A small spherical trunks, with a terminal crown of act of producing certain wonderful effects tumour or excrescence growing from the pinnate leaves, which have coriaceous, often by the invocation or aid of demons or the inner angle of the eye. spiny leaflets. The species are found only agency of certain supposed spirits; the use Encaptivate (en-kap'ti-vāt), v.t. To capti- in Africa, but some of them have been intro of magic arts, spells, or charms; incantation. vate. (Rare.] duced into this country as ornaments of the The magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments. Ex. vii. 11. Encardion (en-kär'di-on), n. [Gr. (to) en- conservatory. The Caffers use the spongy kardion, pith, core-en, in, and kardia, the farinaceous pith of the trunk and cones as 2. That which enchants; an influence or heart.] In bot. the heart or pith of vegefood, hence the trees have received the power which fascinates or delights; irresisttables. name of Cafer-bread. ible influence; overpowering influence of Encarnalize (en-kär'nal-iz), v.t. [Prefix en, Encephalic (en-se-fal’ik), a. Situated in delight. and carnalize.) To make carnal; to sen- the head; belonging to the head or brain. The warmth of fancy-which holds the heart of a reader under the strongest enchantment. sualize. Pope, Inflamma Encephalitis (en-se'fal-i'tis), n. Dabbling a shameless hand with shameful jest, tion of the brain. SYN. Incantation, necromancy, charm, maEncarnalize their spirits. Tennyson. Encephalocele (en-se'fal-ő-sēl), n. (Gr. en gic, fascination, spell, sorcery, witchery, Encarpus (en-kär pus), n. (Gr. en, and kephalos, the brain, and kelë, a tumour.] In witchcraft. karpos, fruit.] In arch. a sculptured orna- med. hernia of the brain. Enchantress (en-chänt'res), n. A woman Encephaloid (en-se'fal-oid), a. [Gr. en who enchants, as by magic spells, beauty, kephalos, the brain, and eidos, resemblance.) and the like; a sorceress. Resembling the matter of the brain: a term From this enchantress all these ills are come. specifically applied to a morbid product Dryden. which constitutes the mass of the disease Encharge (en-chärj'), v.t. pret. & pp. encalled schirrus or cancer. charged; ppr. encharging. [Prefix en, and Encephalon, Encephalos (en-se'fa-lon, en charge.) To give in charge or trust. (Rare.) se'fa-los), n. [Gr. enkephalos, within the His countenance would express the spirit and the head-en, in, and kephalė, the head.] The passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey. brain; the contents of the skull, consist- Encharget (en-chärj'), n. An injunction; ing of the cerebrum, cerebellum, medulla a charge. Copley's Wits, &c. oblongata, and membranes. Enchase (en-chas), v.t. pret. & pp. enEncephalotomy (en-sef'al-ot" o-mi), n. (Gr. chased; ppr. enchasing. (Fr. enchusser-en, enkephalos, brain, and tomē, cutting.) In and chüsse, a frame; L. capsa, a reposianat, dissection of the brain. tory, a chest, a case, from capio, to take or Encarpus, from Palazzo Niccolini, Rome. Encephalous (en-sef'al-us), a. (See ENCE- receive.] 1. To incase or inclose in a border PHALON.] In zool. possessing a distinct or rim; to surround with an ornamental setment in imitation of a garland of fruits, head: usually applied to all the mollusca ting, as a gem with gold; to encircle. leaves, or flowers, suspended between two proper except the Lamellibranchiata: op- And precious stones, in studs of gold enchased, points. The garland is of greatest size in posed to acephalous. The shaggy velvet of his buskins graced. Mickle, the middle, and diminishes gradually to the Enchafe (en-chäf'), v.t. pret. & pp. encha fed; 2. To adorn by embossed work; to enrich points of suspension, from which the ends ppr. enchafing. [Prefix en, and chafe (which or beautify by some design or figure in low generally hang down. The encarpus is see).) To chafe or fret; to provoke; to en- relief, as a watch-case. 3. To adorn, as a sometimes composed of an imitation of dra- rage; to irritate. (Rare.] cup, by being embedded in its substance. pery similarly disposed, and frequently of Seizes the rough, encha fed northern deep. To drink in bowls which glittering gems enchase. an assemblage of musical instruments, im F. Baillie. Dryden. Gay. ENCHASTEN 159 ENCRATITES A pane 4.7 To delineate or describe, as by writing. Enclose (en-klöz'), v. t. pret. & pp. enclosed; Homer with his pomp of military processions and ppr. enclosing. [Prefix en, in, and close.] To his flash of hostile encounters. All which... for to enchase Proy. Blackie. Him needeth sure a golden pen. Spenser. inclose (which see). 3. Fig. an intellectual or moral conflict or Enchasten (en-chas'n), v.t. To chasten; to Encloser (en-klöz'er), n. He who or that contest; controversy; debate; eager and chastise; to correct. H. K. White. (Poetical.) which encloses. warm conversation, whether in love or Enchaufing, t n. (Fr. chauffer, to warm.] Enclosure (en-klõ’zhūr), n. Inclosure (which anger. Heat; burning effect. Chaucer. see). Let's shun this keen encounter of our wits. Shak. Encheason,t n. (O. Fr.] Cause; occasion. Enclothe (en-kloth), v.t. To clothe. West• The fond encheason that me hither led.' minster Rev. Who ever knew truth put to the worse in free and open encounter i Milton. Spenser. Encloud (en-kloud'), v. t. [Prefix en, and Encheckt (en-chek), v.t. To chequer. cloud.) To cover with clouds; to becloud; 4. A sudden or unexpected address or accostWhere th' artful shuttle rarely did encheck to shade. ing. – 5.7 Occasion; casual incident. Broome. In their thick breaths, SYN. Conflict, fight, skirmish, combat, asThe cangeant colour of a mallard's neck. Sylvester, D: Bartas. Rank of gross diet, shall we be enclouded, Shak. sault, rencounter, attack, onset. Encheert (en-chér'), v.t. To enliven; to Encoach (en-köch'), v. t. [Prefix en, and Encounter (en-koun'ter), v.t. (See the noun. ) cheer. Spenser. coach.) To carry in a coach. Like Phaë. 1. To meet face to face; particularly, to Enchelya (en-kel'i-a), n. pl. (Gr. enchelys, ton encoached in burnished gold.' Davies. meet suddenly or unexpectedly; as, I en(Rare.) a small eel. ) A family of Infusoria, of countered him just as I was turning the corner. very simple organization. They are cylin- Encoffin (en-koffin), v.t. (Prefix en, and If I must die, drical, oblong or ovoid, and are covered with coffin.) To put or inclose in a coffin. Weever. I will encounter darkness as a bride. Shak. vibratile cilia scattered over the body with | Encolden 1 (en-kold'n), v.t. [Prefix en, cold, out any regular order. They live in stag- and suffix en.) To make cold. 2. To meet in opposition or in a hostile nant water, and are multiplied by trans- The hands and feet, being the most remote from it, manner; to rush against in conflict; to enverse spontaneous divisions. are by degrees oncoldened to a fashionable clay. gage with in battle; as, two armies encoun. Feltham. ter each other.-3. To come upon; to light Enchest (en hest'), v.t. Same as Inchest. Enchiridion (en-ki-rid'i-on), n. Encollar (en-koller), v.t. upon; to meet with ; as, to encounter ob[Gr. en [Prefix en, and collar.) To surround with a collar. stacles, impediments, &c.-4. To meet and cheiridion, a manual-en, in, and cheir, the hand.) A manual; a book to be carried in Encombert (en-kum'ber), v.t. Same as En- oppose; to resist; to attack and attempt to cumber. confute; as, to encounter the arguments of the hand. Evelyn. Enchisel (en-chiz'el), v. t. pret. & pp. en Encomberment+ (en-kum'bėr- ment), n. opponents.-5. † To oppose; to oppugn. Molestation. Spenser. chiselled; ppr. enchiselling. (Prefix en, and Encomiast (en-ko'mi-ast), n. (Gr. enkomias Jurors are not bound to believe two witnesses, if the probability of the fact does reasonably encounter chisel.] To cut with a chisel. tēs, from enkūmiaző, to praise, to make an thein. Sir M. Hale. Enchodus (en'ko-dus), n. (Gr. enchos, a encomium-en, in, and kömos, a revel.) One 6. To meet in mutual kindness; to express spear, and odous, a tooth.] A genus of who praises another; a panegyrist; one who an equal amount of kindly feeling towards. scomberoid fossil fishes found in the chalk formation: so called from their spear-shaped utters or writes commendations. (Rare.! See, they encounter thee with their teeth. The Jesuits are the great encomiasts of the Chinese. hearts' thanks.' Shak.-7.1 To befall; to Locke. betide. 'Good time encounter her.' Shak. Enchondroma (en-kon'dro-ma), n. (Gr. en, Encomiastic, Encomiastical (en-ko'mi- Encounter (en-koun'tėr), v.i. 1. To meet in, and chondros, cartilage.] A term used ast"ik, en-ko'mi-ast"ik-al), a. Bestowing face to face; to meet unexpectedly. Upon that were my thoughts tiring, when we encoun. as, an encomiastic address or discourse. tered. Shak. bones or glandular structures. Encomiastical oration.' King. I will encounter with Andronicus. Shak. Enchorial, Enchoric(en-ko'ri-al, en-ko'rik), Encomiastic (en-ko'mi-ast"ik), n. a. [Gr. enchörios, in or of the country-en, gyric. B. Jonson. 2. To meet in hostile fashion; to come toin, and chóra, a country.) Belonging to or Encomiastically(en-ko'mi-ast"ik-al-li), adv. gether in combat; to fight; to conflict. Our used in a country; native; indigenous: pop- In an encomiastic manner. powers with smiling fronts encountering.' ular; common; demotic; as, enchurial or Encomiont (en-ko'mi-on), n. Encomium; Shak. If thou encounter with the boar.' enchoric alphabet. See DEMOTIC. panegyric. Shak.-3. To meet in opposition or debate. Enchymonia (en-ki-mo'ni-a), n. (Gr. en Encounterer (en-koun'tèr-ér), n. 1. One But these puling lovers! I cannot but laugh at cheo, to pour in.) In pathol. a spontaneous them, and their encomions of their mistresses. who encounters; an opponent; an antagoecchymosis or extravasation of blood from Ant. Brewer nist.--2. One who is ready to accost ansome internal cause, as a violent emotion Encomium(en-ko'mi-um), n. (Gr.enkoinion. other. ‘0, these encounterers, so glib of of the mind. See ENCOMIAST.] Praise; panegyric; com- tongue.' Shak. Encincture (en-singk'tūr), n. (Prefix en, in, mendation. Encourage (en-ku'rāj), v.t. pret. & pp. en. and cincture.) A cincture. * The vast en His encomiums awakened all my ardour. couraged; ppr. encouraging. (Fr. encour W'. Irving cincture of that gloomy sea.' Wordsworth. SYN. Panegyric, applause, eulogium, eulogy, ager-en, and courage, from caur, L. cor, Encinderedt (en-sin'derd), a. [From prefix the heart.) To give courage to; to inspire praise. en, in, and cinder. ] Burned to cinders. with courage, spir strength of mind; Encommont (en-kom'on), v. a. To make Cockeram. to embolden; to animate; to incite; to in common. Feltham. Encircle (en-sérkl), v. t. pret. & pp. encircled; spirit; to help forward; to countenance. ppr. encircling. (Prefix on, and circle. ] Encompass (en-kum'pas), v.t. [Prefix en, But charge Joshua and encourage him. Deut. iii. 28. 1. To form a circle about; to inclose or sur to encircle. round: said of a circle or ring, or anything SYN. To embolden, inspirit, animate, incite, in a circular form; as, luminous rings en Look how this ring encompasseth thy finger. Shak. cheer, urge, impel, stimulate, instigate, circle Saturn. Her brows encircled with 2. To environ; to inclose; to surround; to comfort, promote, advance, forward. his serpent rod.' Parnell.—2. To encom shut in; as, a besieging army encompassed Encouragement (en-ku'rāj-ment), n. 1. The Jerusalem, --3. To go or sail round; as, act of giving courage or confidence of sucpass; to surround; to environ; as, the army encircled the city. --3. To inclose within, or Drake encompassed the globe.-4. To get cess; incitement to action or to practice; as within, a ring; hence, to embrace; as, to into one's power; to obtain; to come by. as, the encouragement of youth in generous deeds. encircle one in the arms.-SYN. To encom Ah, ha! Mistress Ford and Mistress Page, have I Shak. encompassed you? pass, inclose, surround, environ. Somewhile with merry purpose fit to please, Encirclett (en-sér klet), n. A circle; a ring. Syn. To encircle, inclose, surround, include, And otherwhile with good encouragement. Spenser. Sir P. Sidney. environ, invest, hem in, shut up. For when he dies, farewell all honour, bounty, All generous encouragement of arts. Otway. Enclasp (en-klasp'), v. t. (Prefixen,and clasp. ] Encompassment (en-kum'pas-ment), n. To fasten with a clasp ; to clasp; to em1. The act of surrounding, or state of being 2. That which serves to incite, support, brace. surrounded.-2. Circumlocution in speak promote, or advance, as favour, counteEnclave (au-kläv), n. [Fr., a mortiseen, ing: periphrasis. This encompassment and nance, rewards, profit, incentive. To think of his paternal care Is a most sweet encouragement to prayer. Byroin. thing let into something else, especially when the thing so let in is square. --2. A from L (in) hanc horam, (to) this hour.) Encourager (en-ku'rāj-ér), n. One who enplace or country which is entirely sur- Again; once more: used by the auditors and courages, incites, or stimulates to action; rounded by the territories of another power. spectators of plays and other sports when one who supplies incitements, either by Thus several petty duchies and principali- they call for a repetition of a particular counsel, reward, or means of execution. ties are enclaves of Prussia. part. Our use of this word is unknown to The pope is a master of polite learning, and a Enclitic, Enclitical (en-klit'ik, en-klit'ik- the French, who use the word bis (twice) if great encourager of arts. Addison. al), a. (Gr. enklitikos, inclined, from en- they wish a part, song, or the like repeated. Encouraging (en-ku'rāj-ing), p. and a. 1. Inklino, to incline-en, in, and klino, to bend Encore (an-kor), v.t. pret. & pp. encored; spiring with hope and confidence; exciting or lean.) In gram. affixed; subjoined, and ppr. encoring. To call for a repetition of courage.-2. Furnishing ground to hope for as it were leaning on: said of a word or para particular part of an entertainment. success; as, an encouraging prospect. ticle which always follows another word, Dolly, in her master's shop, Encouragingly (en-ku’raj-ing-li), adv. In Whitehead, and is so closely connected with the pre Encores them, as she twirls her mop. a manner to give courage or hope of succeding word as to seem to be a part of it. Encorporing, t ppr. Incorporating. ChauEnclitic (en-klit'ik), n. In gram. a word Encradle (en-kra'dl), v.t. (Prefix en, and connected with the preceding word so closely Encounter (en-koun'tér), n. [Fr. encontre cradle.) To lay in a cradle. Spenser. as to almost form part of it; as que (and) in -en, and contre, L. contra, against.] 1. A Encratites (en'kra-tits), n. pl. (Gr. encratēs, L:arma virumque, arnis and the man. meeting, particularly a sudden or acciden moderate, self-disciplined -en, in, and kraEnclitically (en-klit'ik-al-li), ado. In an tal meeting, of two or more persons tos, strength.) Eccles. a name given to a enclitic manner; by throwing the accent To shun th' encounter of the vulgar crowd. Pope. sect in the second century because they back. 2. A meeting in contest; a fight; a conflict; condemned marriage, forbade the eating of Enclitics (en-klit'iks), n. The art of declin- a skirmish; a battle; but more generally a fesh or drinking of wine, and rejected all ing and conjugating words. (Rare.) fight between a small number of men, or an the comforts and conveniences of life. Encloister (en-kloist'er), v. t. (Prefix en, in, accidental meeting and fighting of detach. Tatian, an Assyrian and a disciple of Justin and cloister] To shut up, as in a cloister; ments, rather than a set battle or general Martyr, was the leader of this sect. Called to cloister; to immure. engagement. also Continents. cess. cer. |