EN-DURE, v. ENDURANCE.

(Also In.) Lat. Indurare; Fr. Endurer; Lat. Durare, ENDU'RER. to be or cause to be hard, or ENDURING, N. hardy; from Gr. Aoupov, lignum, wood. Wiclif renders the Vulg. Indurarentur, were harded, (Acts, xix. 9.)

To harden; to suffer, to bear up against hardships; and thus, to abide, to last, (sc.) without yielding, without decay.

"Fr. Endurer,-to dure, last, continue long; also (and most properly) to indure, tolerate, suffer, bear, sustain, abide, undergo," (Cotgrave.)

Therfore of whom God wole he hath mercy, and whom he wole he endurith.-Wiclif. Romaynes, c. 9.

For she, that doth me all this wo endure,
Ne recceth never, whether I sinke or flete.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2398.

For certes suche a maladie

As I now haue, and longe haue hadde,

It might make a wise man madde,

If that it shulde longe endure.-Gower. Con. A. b. i.

For in their complaynt Diorippus perceyued by lookes, that they noted hym as the chiefe, which he could not endure, but partyng out of the feast (after hee had written a letter to the kyng) he killed himselfe.

Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 275.

And eke that age despised niceness vaine, Enur'd to hardnesse and to homely fare,

Which them to war-like discipline did traine,
And manly limbs endur'd with little care,
Against all hard mishaps, and fortunelesse misfare.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 8.

And now he has so long remained there,
That vitall powres gan waxe both weake and wan,
For want of food, and sleepe; which two vpbeare,
Like mighty pillours, this fraile life of man,
That none without the same enduren can.

Id. Ib. b. ii. c. 8.

All which, when she with hard endurance had
Heard to the end, she was right sore bestad,
With sodaine stounds of wrath and griefe attone.
Id. lb. b. v. c. 6.

Lap. Say no more, sir,

I'll fit you with my scholars, new practitioners,
Endurers of the time.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Passionate Madman, Act iv. sc. 1. His hardinesse in fight, the many warres that hee made, sufficiently do prove; as also his patient enduring of extreame cold and heat both.-Holland. Ammianus, p. 268.

And I am sure it will be no comfort to them in another world, that they were accounted wits for deriding those miseries which they then feel and smart under the severity of: it will be no mitigation of their flames that they go laughing into them: nor will they endure them the better because they would not believe them. Stillingfleet, vol. i. Ser. 1.

'Tis confessed, when through the cross circumstances of a man's temper or condition, the enjoyment of a pleasure would certainly expose him to a greater inconvenience,then religion bids him quit it,-that is, it bids him prefer the endurance of a lesser evil before a greater, and nature itself does no less.-South, vol. i. Ser. 1

Certainly these examples [Regulus and Socrates] should make us courageous in the endurement of all worldly misery, if not out of religion, yet at least out of shame. South, vol. viii. Ser. 9. Each in his tent invoke the pow'r of sleep To brace his vigour, to enlarge his strength For long endurance. Glover. Leonidas, b. x.

The favour of God is, to them that obtain it, a better and an enduring substance, which, like the widow's barrel and cruse, wasted not in the evil days of famine, nor will fail in that evil day of eternal want, when the foolish virgins shall ploring a drop of water to cool his tongue. be calling in vain for oil, and the rich glutton as vainly imHorne. Com. on Psalms, Ps. 37. ENEMY. Fr. Ennemi; It. Inimico; Sp. E/NMITY. Enemigo; Lat. Inimicus; qui non amat; minimè amicus. The adjective is written

inimical.

One who loves not; one who dislikes; who opposes our good; does, or endeavours to do, ill;

bears ill will or malice.

An adversary, foe, antagonist; emphatically, the devil is so called.

And he werred ofte tyme and wise Worthily vpon Godes enemyse.-R. Gloucester, p. 588. App. In the morning it was, he mette with his enemys & alle the day thei fauht, at euen he had the pris. R. Brunne, p. 67. Ne be afered of enemye.-Piers Plouhman, p. 215. Ghe han herd that it was seid thou schalt love thi neighbore, and hate thin enemy. But I seye to you, love ye your enemyes, do ye wel to hem that haten you, and prie for hem that pursuen and sclaundren you.-Wiclif. Matth. c. 5.

Ye have heard howe it is sayde: Thou shalt loue thy neighboure, and hate thine enemie. But I say vnto you, love your enemies, blesse them that curse you, doe good to them that hate you. Praye for them whiche doe you wronge and persecute you.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

He who does a man an injury, generally, becomes the rancorous enemy of the injured man; and even the friends of him, whose power is on the decline, cautiously withdraw from his interest.

Mickle. History of the Portuguese Empire in Aria, And by these guileful means he more prevail'd Than had he open enmity profest;

The wolf more safely wounds when in sheep's clothing drest.-Lloyd. The Progress of Envy.

ENERGY.
ENERGICK.
ENERGETICK.
ENERGETICAL.
ENERGETICALLY.
E'NERGIZE, V.
E'NERGIZER.

is applied to—

Gr. Eveрyela; ev and ep. you, an act, work, opera tion. Wilkins calls it-efficient faculty, or act.

"Fr. Energie, Enerqu, effectual operation, force, efficacy," (Cotgrave.) It

Vigorous power to act; vigorous power in action; active resolution; a lively strength; a forcible spiritedness.

by secret inspirations, by proper arguments, by actual perThe spirit of grace is the spirit of wisdom, and teaches us suasions, by personal applications, by effects and energies.

Bp. Taylor, vol. iii. Ser 7.

These species are made a medium between body and spirit, and therefore partake of no more of being, then what the charity of our imaginations affords them; and the suppo sition infers a creative energie in the object their producent, which philosophy allows not to creature efficients. Glanvill. The Vanity of Dogmatizing, e. 4.

If then we will conceive of God truly, and as far as we can, adequately; we must look upon him not only as an eternal, but also as a being eternally energetick.

Grew. Cosmologia, b. i. e. 1.

Of the same consideration is the form of our church c.lects, which are made pleasant by their variety of matter, are made energetical and potent by that great endearment of, [per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum.]

Bp. Taylor. Polemical Discourses, Pref

Witchcraftes, enemytees, striuingis, yndignaciouns.

And now I am so caitif and so thral,
That he that is my mortal enemy,
I serve him as his squier prively.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 1556.

The book sayth, that no wight retourneth safely into the grace of his olde enemie. And Ysope sayth, Ne trost not to hem, to which thou hast somtime had werre or enmitee, le telle hem not thy counseil.-Id. The Tale of Melibeus.

A lawe was made, that no prince should shette his gates night nor daye: for thei saied, thei had made hym kyng for to dryue awaie their enemies, and not to be dayntily nourished.-Golden Boke, c. 17.

Juste forgettynge that their captiuitee hadde not mitigated their enemielyke myndes so much, but yt his wrongfull demeanor towardes the had more styrred the to [be] displeasut against him.-Golding. Justine, fol. 172.

Nath'lesse, th' enchaunter would not spare his paine,
In hope to win occasion to his will;
Which when he long awaited had in vaine,
He chang'd his mind from one to other ill:
For to all good he enemy was still.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 1.

Valum. Prythe now,
Goe, and be rul'd, although I know thou hadst rather
Follow thine enemie in a fiery gulfe,
Than flatter him in a bower.

Shakespeare. Coriolanus, Act iii. sc. 2. The man, it may be, is chaste, because he hates the immodesty of those addresses which prepare to uncleanness ; or he loves his quiet, or fears the accidents of his enemycrime.-Bp. Taylor. Rule of Conscience, b. i. c. 2.

For, th' aire was milde, and cleared was the sky,
And all his windes Dan Aeolus did keepe
From stirring vp the stormy enmity.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 8.

So civil and temperate were men's enmities at that time, regarding the common benefit of their publick state and weal and so much did their ambition (being the most vehement passion of all others, and that most troubleth men's minds) give place, and yield to the necessities and affairs of the commonweal.-North. Plutarch, p. 419.

Is it not much better to be let into the knowledge of one's self, than to hear what passes in Muscovy or Poland; and to amuse ourselves with such writings as tend to the wearing out of ignorance, passion, and prejudice, then such as naturally conduce to inflame hatreds and make enmities irreconcileable?-Spectator, No. 10.

As eloquent as they [some of the Fathers] naturally went. yet they never appear so eloquent, never put on such a va riety of thought and expression, such an elevation of sc and style, as when they are discoursing of the energy a power of church music.-Atterbury, vol. iv. Ser. 9.

The Holy Ghost or the Spirit of the Father and the Sea: is shadowed out to us by the most penetrating energic things known; (to wit) wind, light, and fire.

Cheyne. On Regimen, Disc. 4. §. The great energies of nature are known to us only by ther effects. The substances which produce them, are as muc concealed from our senses as the divine essence itself. Paley. Natural Theology, c. 23.

Arise, as in that elder time, Warm, energick, chaste, sublime!-Collins. The Paris Martha, we know, was so overwhelmed with family cares and embarrassments, so immoderately anxious to preve an entertainment worthy of her illustrious guest, so cu bered, as our version very energetically expresses it, with much serving, that, like many others engaged in the bastile of active life, she conceived the business she was employed in to be the most important of all human concerns. Porteus, vol. ii. Ser. 17

For I trust it is less the purpose of our present meeting 19 feast the ravished ear with the enchanting sounds of hey harmony (which afford indeed the purest of the pleasures of the senses) than to taste those nobler ecstasies of energizing love, of which flesh and blood, the animal part of us, can no more partake than it can inherit heaven.

Horsley, vol. iii. Ser. 25. All verbs, that are strictly so called, denote energies. Now as all energies are attributes, they have reference of course to certain energizing substances.-Harris. Hermes, D. i. c. 9.

Farther, every energy doth not only require an energizer, but is necessarily conversant about some subject.-Id. I ENERVE, v. Fr. Enerver; Sp. Enervar; ENE'RVATE. It. and Lat. Enervare, (q.d.) ENERVATE, adj. eximere nervos.-Gr. Eve ENERVATION. pic-ew, from ex, and reupor, ENERVOUS. stringeth or strengtheneth. See STRENGTH. nervus: a string, that which To take away, to deprive of, nerve; "to bereave of force, of pith, of vigour; to weaken, to debilitate, to enfeeble."

Such object hath the power to soft'n and tame
Severest temper, smooth the rugged'st brow,
Enerve, and with voluptuous hope dissolve.

Milton. Paradise Regained, b

But yet I feel no weakness, nor hath length
Of winters quite enervated my strength.

Denham. Of Old Age, pt. ii. For great empires, while they stand, do eneruate and destroy the forces of the natives which they have subdued, resting upon their owne protecting forces.

Bacon. Ess. Of Vicissitude of Things. For when they be praised exceedingly they waxe carelesse, dissolute and enervate; neither will they be willing afterwards to take more paines.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 9.

So that this colour of meliority and preheminence is a signe of enervation and weaknesse.

Bacon. A Table of the Colours of Good and Evill.

They thought their whole party safe ensconced behind the sheriffs of London and Middlesex, with their partisans of ignoramus; and that the law was enervous as to them.

State Trials. Stephen Colledge, 1681. North's Examen. But all in vain she throws her darts, They hit, but cannot hurt our hearts: Age has enerv'd her charms so much, That fearless all her eyes approach.

Their tongue, enfeebled, is refin'd too much;
And, like pure gold, it bends at every touch.

Dryden. Ep. To Mr. Motteaux.

Then all the Muses in one ruin lie,
And rhyme began t' enervate poetry.

Dryden. To Sir Godfrey Kneller
The Muse, which should instruct, now entertains,
Un trifling subjects, in enervate strains.

Somervile. To Allan Ramsay.

Hail, noble Albion: where no golden mines,
No soft perfumes, nor oils, nor myrtle bowers,
The vigorous frame and lofty heart of man
Enervate.
Dyer. The Fleece, b. i.

In a word, we ought to act in party with all the moderation which does not absolutely enervate that vigour, and quench that fervency of spirit, without which the best wishes for the publick good must evaporate in empty speculation. Burke. On a late State of the Nation.

Cold-blooded critics, by eneruate sires
Scarce hammer'd out, when Nature's feeble fires
Glimmer'd their last.
Churchill. The Rosciad.

EN-FAME, i. e. Infamy.

Ye forsooth (qd. I) and that so comenly the people woll lie and bring aboute suche enfame.

Chaucer The Test. of Loue, b. i. Some men there been that their owne enfame can none otherwise void, or els excuse, but be hindering of other men's fame.-Id. Ib.

EN-FA'MINED, i. e. Famished, hungry.

Unneth is Demophon to lond ywonne

Weake and eke wery, and his folke forpined
Of werinesse, and also enfamined.

Chaucer. Legend of Phillis.

EN-FA/MOUSED, i. e. rendered famous.

The midland sea so swiftly was she scouring,
The Adriatic Gulfe brave ships devouring,
To Padus' silver streame then glides she on
(Enfamoused by rekeles' Phaeton.)

Browne. Pastorals, b. ii. s. 1.

That though a man a mile from hem be
The savour wol enfect him, trusteth me.

Chaucer. The Chanones Yemannes Tale, v. 16,357.
There was a chanon of religioun
Amonges us, wold enfect all a toun,
Though it as gret were as was Ninive.-Ib. Ib. v. 16,416.
(In.) Fr. Foible, fible;

EN-FE/EBLE, v. ENFEEBLER. vole, debilis, languidus, (q. d.) flebilis, as we say (Skinner adds) lamentable, and pitiful, weak. See also Menage, Le Origini della Lingua Italiana, in v. Fiebole; and in Du Cange, Flebilis, and Flebilitas, which were used in Low Latin as equivalent to debilis and debilitas.

To weaken, to debilitate, to enervate, to deprive of strength; to reduce to infirmity or imbecility.

They say that they spende vpon noughty beggers the good that was wonte to keepe good yomen, and that thereby they both enfeable & also dishonour the realme. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 892.

With that, like one enfelon'd or distraught, She forth did rome, whither her rage her bore With frantick passion, and with fury frought. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 9. EN-FEOFF, v. (Also In.) To give or ENFE OFFMENT. grant, yield, surrender, or give possession of, (sc.) a feud, fief, or fee; which last appellation (says Blackstone) signifies in the northern languages, a conditional stipend or reward. Blackstone is probably right as to the legal application, but not as to the meaning of the word. (See FEE.) Fee is the old Fr. Fe; Lat. Fides; and a fee, any thing granted by one, and held by another, upon oath or promise of fealty or fidelity. Enfeoffment is a common legal term. Grew a companion to the common streets, Enfeoff'd himselfe to popularitie.

Shakespeare. 1 Pt. Hen. VI. Act iii. sc. 2. Imputation doth both; it is that which enfeoffes our sinnes upon Christ, and us in his righteousnesse, as he was made our sinne.-Bp. Hall. The Old Religion, s. 2. He that so gives or enfeoffs, is called the feoffor; and the person enfeoffed is denominated the feoffee. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. c. 20. EN-FETTER, v. To bind or fasten the feet; to bind, fasten or enslave.

His soule is so enfetter'd to her loue,

That she may make, vnmake, do what she list,
Euen as her appetite shall play the God,

With his weak function.-Shakes. Othello, Act ii. sc. 3.

EN-FIERCE, v. (See also EFFIERCE.) Lat.

Ferus.

To render fierce, cruel, savage.

Yet nathmoe
Was he abashed now, not fighting so;
But, mo enfierced through his currish play,
Hym sternely gryp't, and haling to and fro,
To ouerthrowe him strongly did assay.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 4. EN-FILADE. Lat. Filum; Fr. Filer, (Enfiler,) to draw out threads; to extend in length, in a line.

To enfilade, (a military term,) is to proceed in a straight line, to pierce or penetrate straight forwards; and, further, to sweep the whole length of a straight line with artillery.

In the course of a century, nature has obliterated the forms of art, the trees have swelled out beyond the line traced for them, and destroyed the enfilade, by advancing into the walks, or retiring from them.

Swinburne. Spain, Let. 38. EN-FILE, v. A. S. Feol-an, limare; Ger. Feelen. To smoothen, to polish, (sc.) with a file, (qv.) Thei taughten hym a lace to braied, And weue a purs, and to enfile A perle.

Gower. Con. A. b. vii. And verily, the common people of India make holes through them, and so wear them enfiled as carkans and collars about their neckes onely. Holland. Plinie, b. xxxvii. c. 6. EN-FIRE, v. To warm, to heat, to inflame, to enkindle.

Whom so sore your pleasant looke enfireth
That printed is your beauty in his hart.

Chaucer. Balade. Pitie.

ardere, urere, to burn.

To warm, to enkindle, to fill with warmth, with ardour, with any warm, animating feeling or passion, or affection.

The tunge is ordeyned in oure membris which defoulith al the bodie, and it is enflawmed of helle, and enflawmeth the wheel of oure birthe.-Wiclif. James, c. 3.

Exceeding rage enflam'd the furious beast,
To be avenged of so great despight;
For, neuer felt his impearceable brest

So wondrous force from hand of liuing wight.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 11.

I then express'd my zeale
Unto the glory; now, the need enflames me.
B. Jonson. Catili ne, Act i.
-The gen'rous youth,

My lov'd compeers, hence with redoubled toil
Shall strive to merit such auspicious smiles;
And through life's various walks, in arts or arms,
Or tuneful numbers, with their country's love
And with true loyalty enflam'd, t' adorn
This happy realm.

Dr. Warton. Spoken to the King by Lord Shaftesbury. EN-FOLD, v. (Commonly In.) Goth. Faldan; A. S. Feald-an; Dut. Vouden; Ger. Falten, plicare, complicare.

To lap or wrap over, to enwrap, to enclose, to encircle.

Let them all being quite forgoe,
And make it playne,

That God, who Jacob's rule upholds,

Rules all, all-bearing earth enfolds.-Sir P. Sidney, Ps. 69. A wounded dragon vnder him did lie,

Whose hideous tail his left foot did enfold, And with a shaft was shot through either eye, That no man forth might drawe, ne no man remedy. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 11. Noble Banquo, Thou hast no lesse deseru'd, nor must be knowne No less to haue done so let me enfold thee, And hold thee to my heart.

Shakespeare. Macbeth, Act i. sc. 4. Shep. Are you a Courtier, and 't like you, sir? Ant. Whether it like me, or no, I am a Courtier. Seest thou not the ayre of the Court in these enfoldings? Id. Winter's Tale, Activ. sc. 3.

The holy Jesus made a whip of cords to represent and to chastise the implications and enfoldings of synne and the cords of vanity.-Bp. Taylor. Great Exemplar, pt. ii. s. 3. Around this world a waxen vault extends, And wide like yon enfolding concave bends; Magnific cupola; on either hand,

Unfolded, two mysterious portals stand, Emblems of human life.-Brooke. Universal Beauty, b.vi. EN-FORCE, v. (Also In.) Fr. Forcer; ENFORCE, n. It. Forzare; Sp. Forzar, ENFORCEDLY. from the Lat. Fortis, strong, q. d. (says Skinner,) fortiare.

ENFORCEMENT.

ENFORCER. ENFORCIVE. "Fr. Enforcer, to enforce, confirm, strengthen, add power, apply force, give strength unto," (Cotgrave.)

To do, or try, or attempt to do, with force or strength; with violence; to compel; to give force or strength to; to give energy, power, weight or authority; to urge, to press, to impress, strongly or deeply.

He also enforside to defoule the temple, whom also we tooken and wolden deme after our lawe.-Wiclif. Dedis, c. 24.

And whanne the schip was rauyschid and myghte not enforse aghens the wynd, whanne the schip was ghouun to the blowingis of the wynd we weren borun with cours into an yle that is clepid Canda.-Id. Ib. c. 27.

And yet, with sorwe, thou enforcest thee,
And sayest thise wordes in the apostle's name.

Chaucer. Wif of Bathes Prologue, v. 5922. For Salomon saith, Ther as thou ne mayst have non audience, enforce thee not to speke.-Id. Tale of Melibeus. So haue I enforsed myselfe to preache the gospell, not where Christe was named, lest I shoulde haue bylte on another man's foundacion.-Bible, 1551. Romanes, c. 15.

Such a newe herte and lusty corage vnto the lawe warde, canste thou neuer come by of thyne owne strength and enforcement, but by the operacion and workinge of the spirite. Udal. Prologue to the Romaynes.

And so muche the rather, that they offer themselues to
stand to judgemente, by whyche thair doinge, we may not
reasonably go agaynste them, as outragious & enforcers.
Nicolls. Thucidides, fol. 32.
Feare gave her winges, and rage enforst my flight;
Through woods and plaines so long I did her chace,
Till this mad man, whom your victorious might
Hath now fast bound, me met in middle space.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 4.

Sici. Let them assemble;
And, on a safer judgment, all reuoke
Your ignorant election: enforce his pride,
And his old hate vnto you.

Shakespeare. Coriolanus, Act ii. sc. 3.

Bas. Portia, forgiue me this enforced wrong,
And in the hearing of so many friends

I swear to thee, euen by thine owne faire eyes
Wherein I see myself-

Id. Merchant of Venice, Act v. sc. 1.
These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant,
Though by his blindness maim'd for high attempts,
Who now defies thee thrice to single fight;
As a petty enterprise of small enforce.

Milton. Samson Agonistes, v. 1223.
Ape. If thou didst put this soure cold habit on
To castigate thy pride, 'twere well but thou
Dost it enforcedly: thou'dst Courtier be againe
Wert thou not beggar.

Shakespeare. Timon of Athens, Act iv. sc. 3.
With my soveraignes leave

I'll wed thee to this man, will he, nill he.
Phil. Pardon me, sir, I'll be no love enforcer :

I use no power of mine unto those ends.
Beaum. & Fletch. The Maid of the Mill, Act v. sc. 1.

A sucking hinde calfe [the eagle] trust, in her enforcive

seeres,

And by Jove's altar let it fall, amongst th' amazed peeres. Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. viii.

If good and evil, right and wrong, fitness and unfitness of being practised, be (as has been shown) originally, eternally and necessarily, in the nature of things themselves; 'tis plain that the view of particular rewards or punishments, which is only an after-consideration, and does not at all alter the course of things, cannot be the original cause of the obligation of the law, but is only an additional weight to enforce the practice of what men were before obliged to by right reason. Clarke. On the Evidences, Prop. 1.

Our gospel-scribe or preacher, in the entertainment of his spiritual guests, is not always to set before them, only the main substantials of religion, whether for belief, or practice, but as the matter shall require, to add also illustration to the one, and enforcement to the other, sometimes persuading, sometimes terrifying.-South, vol. iv. Ser. 1.

Here by a set of men 'tis thought,
A scheme, by politicians wrought,
To strengthen and enforce the law,
And keep the vulgar more in awe.

Dodsley. Religion, a Simile.

Thider to Saynt Edmour com the tresorere,
Walter of Langtoun, that had been messengere
With the cardinalle forto enforme the pes.-Id. p. 285.

He knew the diuerse went of mortall waies,

And in the mindes of men had great insight:
Which, with sage counsell, when they went astray,
He could enforme, and them reduce aright,
And al the passions heale, which woud the weaker spright.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 6. s. 3.

EN-FORM, v. (Now commonly In.) Fr. ENFO'RMING, n. Enformer; It. Informare; Sp. ENFORMATION. Informar; Low Lat. Informare; a word indeed (says Skinner) entirely unknown to classic authors, yet truly elegant.

To represent to, and impress upon the mind or intellect of another, the form or idea of any thing. To give or convey ideas; to convey or communicate knowledge; to instruct with knowledge or intelligence, to teach; to fill with ideas or sensations; to inspire with, to animate.

But therfore I haue getun merci, that Crist Iesu schuld eschewe in me first al pacience to the enformyng of hem that schulen bileeue to him into euerlastynge lyf. Wiclif. 1 Tim. c. 1. For, as sayth the philosophere, a man is a quick thing, by nature debonaire, and treatable to goodnesse: but whan debonairtee is enformed of grace then it is the more worth. Chaucer. The Persones Tale.

When that his doughter twelve yere was of age,
He to the court of Rome, in subtile wise
Enformed of his will, sent his message.

Chaucer. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8614.

Enformed whan the king was of the knight,
And hath conceived in his wit aright
The maner and the forme of all this thing,
Full glad and blith, this noble doughty king'
Repaireth to his revel, as beforne.

Id. The Squieres Tale, v. 10,649. For thou wer wont to hurtelen and dispisen her with many words, wha she was blandishing and present, and pursudest her with sentences that were drawen out of mine entre, that is to say, of mine enformation. Id. Boecius, b. ii. Gower. Con. A. b. i.

And to the kynge knelende he tolde,
As he enformed was to fore.
And for thyn enformacion,
That thou this vice (as I the rede)
Eschewe shalte, a tale I rede.

Id. Ib.

He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance.

That he myght enfourme hys prynces after his wyll, and teach his senatours wysedome.-Bible, 1551. Psalm, c. 105.

Unkinde fate

To play the tyrant and subvert the state

Of setled goodnesse! Who shall henceforth stand
A pure example to enforme the land

Of her loose riot?-Habington. Death of the Earle of S.
EN-FORREST, v.

To make or turn into

The Provincials flocked in; even slaves were no sooner enfranchised than they were advanced to the highest posts; and the plan of comprehension, which had overturned the Republick strengthened the Monarchy.

Burke. An Abridgement of English History, b. i. c. §. He holds an estate under certain cities in your government, of which he is desirous to procure the enfranchisement; and I am persuaded he may easily obtain his point by the intervention of your good offices.

EN-FREED. ENFREEDOMING.

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Melmoth. Cicero, b. iii. Let. 24.

To give or bestow freedom or liberty; to set free.

Par. His purpose meets you; it was to bring this Greek To Calchas' house; and there to render him, For the enfreed Anthenor, the fair Cressid.

Shakespeare. Troil. & Cress. Act iv. st. 1. Arm. By my sweete soule I meane, setting thee at liber tie, enfreedoming thy person. Id. Love's Labour Lost, Act iii. sc. 1. EN-FROZEN, v. Past part. of Enfreeze. (Met.)—to chill; to render insensible. Yet to augment the anguish of my smart, Thou hast enfrozened her disdainfull brest, That no one drop of pittie there doth rest. Spenser. An Hymn in Honour of Lose.

EN-FO ULDred.

Sir P. Sidney. Psalm 125. "Fr. Fouldroyer,—to cast or dart thunderbolts; to strike, burn, or blast with lightning or (inlightened thunderbolts, ") Cotgrave.

Hart cannot thinke, what outrage, and what cries,
With foul enfouldred smoke and flashing fire,
The hell-bred beast threw forth unto the skies,
That all was couered with darkness dire.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 11.
(Also In.) To en-
dow with the liberties
and privileges of a

EN-FRANCHISE, v. ENFRANCHISING, n. ENFRANCHISEMENT.

free citizen; to free, to set at liberty; to admit to freedom, to endenizen.

An olde man late enfranchised,

in dawnynge of the day,

With hāds fair washe wold walk the stretes

and most deuoutlye praye.-Drant. Horace, b. ii. Sat. 3. But when he saw his love, his youth's fair foe, He held such petty bondage in disdain; Throwing the base thong from his bending crest, Enfranchising his mouth, his back, his breast. Shakespeare. Venus & Adonis. Alas! and must it be That love, which thus torments and troubles me In settling it, so small advice hath lent To make me captive, where enfranchisement Cannot be gotten.-Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. i. Such illustrious and noble geniuses were Cosmo di Medicis, Francis the First, Carlo Borromeo, and others, who built or appointed for them stately apartments even in their own palaces, and under the same roofe; procuring models, and endowing them with charters, enfranchisements, and ample honoraries.-Evelyn. Sculptura, c. 5.

Now as concerning the multitude, so augmented by the enfranchising of slaves as touching the land also, parted and distributed among the poor and needie, I can maintaine and justify my doings herein, and protect me under the de

fence and priviledge of the very time.

Holland. Livivs, p. 870. Within the silent shades of soft repose, Where Fancy's boundless stream for ever flows; Where the enfranchis'd soul at ease can play Tir'd with the toilsome business of the day.

Duke of Buckinghamshire. The Vision.

O Freedom! first delight of human kind!
Not that which bondmen from their master's find,
The privilege of doles: nor yet t' inscribe
Their names in this or t' other Roman tribe;
That false enfranchisement with ease is found:
Slaves are made Citizens, by turning round.
Dryden. Persius, Sat. 3.

(Tooke.)

To engage, is

To bind or pledge, (sc.) to certain fulfilments,to fulfil or perform certain promises or conditions; to stake, to hazard; to undertake to do, to embark in, to occupy or employ, to be busy in, to be (busily, earnestly, zealously) occupied or em ployed, (sc. in a conflict, a battle;) to bind, attach, enlist.

The queen perceiving in what case she stood,
To loose her minion, or engage her state;
After with long contention in her blood,
(Love and ambition did the cause debate)
She yields to pride.
Daniel. Civil Wars, b.v.

- Or consume,
In prodigal and wanton gifts on drones,
The Kingdom's treasure, yet detain from us
The debt that with the hazard of our lives,
We have made you stand engaged for.

Massinger. The Unnatural Combat, Act iii. sc. 1
Portia go in awhile,
And by and by thy bosome shall partake
The secrets of my heart,
All my engagements I will construe to thee.

Shakespeare. Julius Cæsar, Actii. sc. 1. And here again, in the opinion of many judicious persons, we lost, as at Edge-hill before, a favourable opportunity engaging the enemy with great advantage; our numbers exceeding theirs, and their reputation being utterly lost in the last attempt.-Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. i. p. 47.

The king objected, that the rendezvous being appointed for the next week, he was not willing to quit the army that was passed; because if the superior officers prevaled they would be able to make good their engagement; if not, they must apply themselves to him for their own security. Id. Ib. p. 156.

And that they [the Italian Opera] might be performed with all decency, seemliness, and without rudeness and profaneness, John Maynard, Sergeant at Law, and severa sufficient citizens were engagers.

Wood. Athenæ Ozon. D'Arensa Important is the moral we would teach; Oh may this island practice what we preach! Vice in its first approach with care to shun; The wretch, who once engages, is undone.

Mallet. Prologue to Mr. Thomson's AgamenOS The battle proved decisive in favour of the house of York. and in consequence of it, Edward was, in June, 14 crowned King of England. &c. There were killed in t engagement 36,776 men.-Fawkes. Braham Park, Note 8. EN-GALLANT, v.

fine fellow.

To make a gallant, a

Within my mouth you haue engaol'd my tongue. Shakespeare. Rich. II. Act i. sc. 3.

EN-GARBOIL, v. To confuse or confound, to throw into disorder, to disturb.

It is strange, that for wishing, advising, and in his owne particular using and ensuing that moderation, thereby not to engarboile the church, and disturb the course of piety, he should so, by you and yours, bee blamed, accused, and tradaced for a papist and an Arminian. Montagu. Appeale to Cæsar, c. 9. EN-GA'RRISON, v. To prepare, provide or Furnish, (sc.) with military stores, with ammuniion, with arms, with soldiery; to fortify, to inrench.

There was John engarrison'd, and provided for the assault ith a trusty sword, and other implements of war.

Glanvill. Witchcraft, p. 127.

Whem straight another new conspiracy
(As if it were a certain successor,
Ally'd to this) engender'd in the north,
Is by the Archbishop Scroope with pow'r brought forth.
Daniel. Civil Wars, b. iv.

Du. Sen. True it is that we have seen better dayes,
And haue with holy bell bin knowld to church,
And sat at good men's feasts, and wip'd our eyes
Of drops, that sacred pity had engendred.
Shakespeare. As you Like It, Act ii. sc. 7.

Mercy should pardon, but the sword compel :
Compassion's else a Kingdom's greatest harm,
Its warmth engenders rebels till they swarm.

Otway. Windsor Castle.

Dropp'd hints they scarcely wished to smother,
And talk'd not to, but at each other,
Till strife engendring more and more,
They downright wrangled, if not swore.

Whitehead. The Goat's Beard.

ENGHLE See ANGLE.

Right as a man hath sapiences there,
Memorie, engine, and intellect also.

Chaucer. The Second Nonnes Tale, v. 15,807.

If any vertue in thee be
To tell all my dreme aright,
Now kith thy engin and thy might.

Id. The House of Fame, b. ii.
Arte thou my sonne of suche engyn,
Telle on?

Gower. Con. A. b. ii.
The women were of great engyne.—Id. Ib. b. iv.
It maketh a man ben enginous,

And swifte of fote, and eke yrous.-Id. Ib. b. vii.
Then wrought her wit

With her broke vow,-her Goddess wrath,-her fame,-
All tools that enginous despair could frame:
Which made her strew the floor with her torn hair,
And spread her mantle piecemeal in the air

Mariowe. Hero & Leander, Sestyad 2.
For that's the marke of all their inginous drifts,
To wound my patience, howsoe're they seeme
To aime at other objects.

B. Jonson. Cynthia's Revells, Act iii. sc. 4.

EN-GINE, v. ENGINE, n. ENGINE'ER, or E'NGINER. E'NGINERY. ENGINEERING, n.

any

Fr. Engin; It. Ingegno; Sp. Engeno, (q.d.) Ingenio, because not made without great effort (ingenii) of genius, of ingenuity, of contrivance. And thus it is applied to

Machine, tool, or instrument, ingeniously worked, wrought, or contrived,-whether of war, of torture, to throw water, &c. And, generally, a machine, tool, or instrument.

In

To engine, in Chaucer, is to put upon an engine of torture; and thus, to torture, to torment. the second quotation of Gower, " ' engined together," contrived to get together.

Thrittene grete engynes of alle the reame the best
Brouht thei to Striuelyne, the kastelle doun to kest.
R. Brunne, p. 326.

And right anon, the ministres of the toun
Han hent the carter, and so sore him pined,
And eke the hosteler so sore engined,
That they bek new hir wickednesse anon,
And were anbanged by the necke bon.

Chaucer. The Nonnes Preestes Tale, v. 15,066.
And all within in preuy place
A softe bed of large space
Thei hadde made, and encorteined,
Where she was afterward engined.-Gower. Con. A. b. i.

Id. Ib. b. v.

He tolde hym eke as for the myne
He wolde ordeine suche engyne,
That thei the werke shuld vndersette
With tymbrc.
Therefore his subtile engines he does bend
His practick witt and his fayre fyled tonge,
With thousand other sleightes.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 1.
The same he snatcht, and with exceeding sway
Threw at his foe, who was right well aware
To shunne the engin of his meant decay;

It booted not to thinke that throwe to beare,
But ground he gaue, and lightly leap'd areare.

Proceeded on with no less art,

My tongue was engineer;

I thought to undermine the heart By whispering in the ear.

Id. Ib. b. ii. c. 11.

Suckling. 'Tis now, since I sate down before.

EN-GILD, v.
ightness, the brilliancy of gold.

Faire Helena; who more engilds the night,
Then all yon fierie oes, and eies of light.

Shakespeare. Midsummer Night's Dreame, Act iii. sc. 2.

EN-GINE. (Also In.) From the Lat. InENGINOUS. genium, used as equivalent to innuity, (qv.)

“Fr. Engin,-understanding, policy, reach of It," (Cotgrave.)

The 4to B. Jonson reads enginous; the folio innous. Engine and ingine, Mr. Gifford adds, are oth used by our old poets for craft, artifice, and >metimes, in a better sense, for wit, that is, enius or the inventive faculty.

courageously.-Holland. Ammianus, p. 127.

He is a good enginer that alone can make an instrument to get preferment.-Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 134. When behold

Not distant far with heavie pace the foe Approaching gross and huge; in hollow cube Training his devilish enginric.-Milton. Par. Lost, b. vi. In the like manner as skilful an engineer as the Devil is, he will never be able to play his engines to any purpose, unless he finds something to fasten them to. South, vol. vi. Ser. 8.

Safe they advance, while with unweary'd pain
The wrathful engines waste their stores in vain ;
High o'er their heads the destin'd deaths are tost
And far behind in vacant earth are lost.
Rowe. Lucan, b. iii.

These from on high, fire, darts, and jav'lins throw,
And pond'rous stones the rafters send below.
The thund'ring tempest falls, and batters down
The planks of engines rais'd against the town.

Hoole. Orlando Furioso, b. xl.

What once gave a rational pleasure will continue to give it, like a natural spring, which, though it may not throw its waters into so great a variety of forms as the artificial fountain of the engineer, will continue to supply an exuberant stream, when the scanty canal is exhausted, or machinery is destroyed.-Knox. Winter Evenings, Even. 3.

The Roman Conclave succeeded to the Roman senate in this engineering work. Warburton. Div. Leg. Pref. to the Ed. of 1758.

Who kindling a combustion of desire,
With some cold moral think to quench the fire,
Though all your engineering proves in vain ;—
The dribbling stream ne'er puts it out again.

Couper. The Progress of Error.

Genius and Art, Ambition's boasted wings,
Our boast but ill deserve. A feeble aid!
Dedalian enginery! if those alone
Assist our flight, Fame's flight is Glory's fall.

EN-GIRD, or ENGIRT, V. ENGIRDLE, v.

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Young. Complaint, Night 6. A. S. Gyrdan.

To enclose, to surround, to encompass, to environ.

First th' earth, on adamantine pillers founded
Amid the sea, engirt with brazen bands;
Then th' aire still flitting, but yet firmely bounded
On everie side, with pyles of flaming brands.
Spenser. Of Heauenly Beauty, Hymne 6.
King. I, Margaret: my heart is drown'd with griefe,
Whose floud begins to flowe within mine eyes;
My body round engyrt with miserie:

For what's more miserable than discontent.

Shakespeare. 2 Part Hen. VI. Act iii. sc. 1 The insulting waters for three moneths' space trample over all, and send colonies of fishes to inhabite the soile, engirting meane while all the townes with a strait siege. Purchas. Pilgrimage, b. vi. c. 14. s. 1.

About which lodgings, tow'rds the upper face,
Ran a fine bordure circularly led,

As equal 'twixt the high'st point and the base,
That as a zone the waist engirdled.

Drayton. Barons' Wars, b. vi.

She saw him smile along the tissu'd clouds,
In colours rich-embroider'd by the sun,
Engirt with cherub-wings and kindred forms.

Thompson. Sickness, b. ii.

EN-GLAD, v. I To cheer, to enliven, to ex-
ENGLA'DDEN. Shilarate.

Lyke as the larke vpon the somer's daye,
When Titan radiant burnisheth his beames bright,
Mounteth on hye, with her melodious laye
Of the son shyne engladed with her lyght.

Skelton. The Crowne of Laurell.
Th' engladden'd Spring forgetful now to weep,
Began t' emblazon from her leavy bed.

G. Fletcher. Christ's Triumph after Death. E/NGLE. See ANGLE, and INGLE. ENGLE/YME, v. Lye says, for encleamed, i. e. See CLAM.

Where ere I wander, boast of this I can,
Though banish'd, yet a true born Englishman.
Shakespeare. Rich. II. Act i. sc. 3.

Sul. There was an Englishman.
Ja. There was an Englishman?
You'l scant find any now to make that name good;
There were those English that were men indeed,
And would perform like men, but now they are vanisht.
Beaum. & Fletch. Custom of the Country, Act iii. sc. 3.

Lucretius English'd! 'twas a work might shake
The power of English verse to undertake;
This all men thought; but you are born we find,
T' out do the expectations of mankind.

Otway. To Mr. Creech.

EN-GLUE, v. "Fr. Engluer, gluer; to lime, to glew, to join or close very fast, as with birdlime, or glew," (Cotgrave.)

For thy my sonne holde vp thin heade,

And let no slepe thyn eye englue,

But whan it is to reason due.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv.

But whan he sawe, and redie fonde

This coffre made, and well englued,
The dead bodie was besewed

In cloth of golde, and leide therin.-Id. Ib. b. viii.

EN-GLUT, v. (Also In.) Fr. Engloutir; Lat. Glutire, gluttus, (Gr. FAWTTIS,) that part of the neck by which food is transmitted. See DE

GLUTITION.

To swallow; to swallow in abundance; to fill by swallowing, to fill, to cram full.

For my particular griefe

Is of so flood-gate and ore-baring nature,
That it engluts and swallows other sorrowes,

And it is full itselfe.-Shakespeare. Othello, Act i. sc. 3.

Mont. Once more I come to know of thee King Harry,

If for thy ransome thou wilt now compound,
Before thy most assured ouerthrow;
For certainly, thou art so neere the gulfe,
Thou needs must be englutted.-Id. Hen. V. Act iv. sc. 3.

EN-GLUTING.

Perhaps Engluing, (qv.) Mr. Tyrwhitt says, rather Enluting, stopping with clay. Skinner, Glued, stopped. See GLUTINOUS. And of the pottes, and glasses engluting, That of the aire might passen out no thing.

Chaucer. The Chanones Yemannes Tale, v. 16,234.

EN-GORE, v. To penetrate, to pierce; to bore through.

As when an eager mastiff once doth proue
The taste of bloud of some engored beast,
No words may rate, nor rigour him remoue
From greedy hold of that his bloody feast.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 9.
As salvage bull whom two fierce mastiues bayt,
When rancour doth with rage him once engore,
Forgets with warie ward them to await,

But with his dreadfull hornes them driues afore.
Id. Ib. b. ii. c. 8.

EN-GORGE, v. (In.) Fr. Engorger; It. Ingorgiare; Lat. Ingurgitare, from the Lat. Gurges. Fr. Engorger,-to raven, devour, glut, swill up, swallow down," (Cotgrave.)

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But everie man's bellie is his dyall or clocke, which when it strikes, they fall to whatsoever comes next hand: neither doth any man after he hath once satisfied hunger, engorge superfluous meats.-Holland. Ammianus, p. 237.

Then fraught with rancour, and engorged ire,
He cast at once him to avenge for all,

And gathering vp himselfe out of the mire,
With his vneuen wings did fiercely fall
Vpon his sunne-bright shield, and gript it fast withall.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 11.

EN-GRAFF, v. (Also In.) See ENGRAVE. ENGRA'FT, V. To carve or cut into, to ENGRA FTMENT. hollow out; to insert (one thing) into a hole cut out (of another); and thus, to impregnate the one with the qualities of the other; to insert or set in, to seat deeply, to implant, to root deeply.

For whether beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit, Or any of these all, or all, or more, Entitled in thy parts do crowned sit, I make my love engrafted to this store. Shakespeare, Son. 37. Things very bitter may work pleasant effects; upon the wildest stock divine husbandry can engraft most excellent fruit.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 23.

Neither can that reciprocal attraction in the minds of men be accounted for by any other cause. It is not the result of education, law or fashion; but is a principle originally engrafted in the very first formation of the soul by the author of our nature.-Guardian, No. 126.

Those trees with sweetest charms invite our eyes,
Which, from our own engraftment, fruitful rise.
Still we love best what we with labour gain,
As the child's dearer for the mother's pain.

And eke by that he saw on every tree,
How he the name of one engrauen had,
Which likely was his liefest loue to bee
For whom he now so sorely was bestad.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 7.

As for that manner of paving with small tiles or quarrels engrauen, the first that ever was seene-at Rome, was made within the temple of Jupiter Capitolinum, and not before the thirde Punicke warre begun.

Holland. Plinie, b. xxxvi. c. 25.

But before they went out of the cittie, the decemvirall lawes (which now are knowne by the name of the twelve tables,) they set up openly to be seene, engraves in brasse. Id. Livits, p. 127.

Only it seems to me that these images are not made in
the brain itself, as the pencil of a painter or engraver makes
the image in the table or metal, but are imprinted in a won-
Savage. Epistle to Mr. John Dyer. derfull method in the very soul it selfe.
Hale. Origin. of Mankind, p. 47.

Why could not nature (fostering nurse of earth!)
Without thy aid give man his happier birth?
As trees, by human skill engrafted bear
The juicy fig, smooth plum, or racy pear.

Hoole. Orlando Furioso, b. xxvii.
Much puzzle hath been occasioned among the naturalists
concerning the engraftment here mentioned.
Smart. The Hilliad, Notes.
EN-GRAIL, v. Fr. Engrelle; en, and grelle,
hail; which Menage thinks is derived from gran-
dine, the ablative of grando.

To dot or spot, as with hail; to variegate, to notch, to indent, to jag, (sc.) the edges, as in Heraldry.

The people wondered,

And stood astonisht, th' archer pleas'd, shewes

hewes; Prisde at an oxe.

acides then

A long lance, and a caldron, new engrail'd with twenty Chapman. Homer. Iliad, p. 325. EN-GRAIN, v. (Also In.) To work into the natural texture; to impregnate the whole texture. Seest how fresh my flowers bene spredde, Dyed in lilly white and cremsin redde With leaves engrained in lustie green. Spenser. Shepheard's Calendar. February. EN-GRAPPLE, v. (Also In.) To gripe or seize hold of. There shall young Hotspur, with a fury led, Engrapple with thy son, as fierce as he There martial Worc'ster, long experienced In foreign arms, shall come t'encounter thee. Daniel. Civil Wars, b. iv.

EN-GRASP, v. hold of.

It would be tedious (as we said) to transcribe the names but of the pieces only of all those renowned men whom he there celebrates for their engravings on armour, caps, rings, glass.-Evelyn. Sculptura, c. 3.

On the other side was engraven the cross and the harp, being the arms of England and Ireland, with this inscrip tion, "God with us:" ordering all writs formally running in

the king's name to be issued out in the names of the keepers of the liberty of England.-Ludlow, Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 247.

Can it be thought, that the ideas men have of God, are the characters and marks of himself, engraven in ther minds by his own finger; when we see that in the same country, under one and the same name, men have far dife rent, nay often contrary and inconsistent ideas and concep tions of him?-Locke. Of Hum. Underst. b. i. c. 4. s. 14.

I have by me a lump of mineral substance, wherein a petrescent liquor, that fills the large intervals between them, is transparent enough and harder than most stones, as far as we could guess by some trial of it made by a skilful engraser of gems. Boyle. Works, vol. iii. p. 547.

We therefore being the offspring of God, ought not to think that the God-head is like unto gold, or silver, or stake, the engravement of art, and man's device.

Barrow. Exposition of the Decalogue.

Those faults which artful men conceal
Stand here engraved with pen of steel,
By conscience, that impartial scribe!
Whose honest palm disdains a bribe.

Cotton. Visions in Verse Were it not for these prejudices, could we easily think that a printseller or engraver should be able to obtain that for his baubles, which learning hath so long sued for in vain. Warburton. Letter concerning Literary Property

It appears from two stone tables of the law, and from the To grasp, gripe, or seize fast engravings on Aaron's breast-plate, that letters were in cotmon use amongst the Israelites at the time of their egress from Egypt.-Id. Divine Legation, b. iv. s. 5.

Now gan Pyrrhochles wax as wood as hee,
And him affronted with impatient might:
So both together fierce engrasped bee,
Whiles Guyon standing by, their vncouth strife does see.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 5.
Vpon him lightly leaping without heed,
"Twixt his two mighty armes engrasped fast,
Thinking to ouerthrowe, and down him tread.

EN-GRAVE, v. ENGKA VER. ENGRAVEMENT. hollow out. ENGRAVING, N.

Id. Ib. b. ii. c. 8.

(Also In.) Fr. Engraver; from the A. S. Graf-an, fodere, insculpere, excavare, to dig, to cut into, to

To dig out a grave; and, consequentially, to bury in a grave, or place dug out.

To cut a grave or groove into; to cut or carve into; to make incisions; (met.) to imprint or impress, (sc.) upon the mind.

For he shall make ye no image (saithe the Lorde) nor engraue non (nor set vp non) no not so miche as a stonne to helpe your memory or imaginacion of any saint to thentent ye shuld do by it, at it or before it, any externe reueret behauior.-Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 3.

Sometime t'encrease his [Phereus] horrid crueltie,
The quick with face to face engraued he
Each other's death that each might liuing see.
Mirrour for Magistrates, p. 441.
The sixt had charge of them now being dead,
In seemly sort their corses to engraue,
And deck with dainty flowres their bridal bed.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 10.
So both agree their bodies to engraue;
The great earth's wombe they open to the sky,
And with sad cypresse seemly it embraue,
Then couering with a clod their closed eye,
They lay therein those corses tenderly,
And bid them sleep in euerlasting peace.

ENGRE'GGEN.

"Fr. S'engreger, to grow worse, become sorer, wax more painful, grievous. or troublesome," (Cotgrave.)

To aggravate, (qv.)

All thise thinges, after that thei ben gret or smale, engreggen the conscience of a man or woman.

Chaucer. The Persones Take.

EN-GRIEVE, v. Fr. Grever, from the Lat Gravare, to weigh down.

"Fr. Grever, to grieve, to aggrieve, pain, vex, hurt, afflict, annoy, trouble, disquiet, molest, wrenz. injure, overcharge, overburthen, oppress,” (Cotgrave.)

For yet nothing engreueth me.-Chaucer. Rom. of the R.
Apollo came; who soone as he had sought,
Through his disease, did by and by out find,
That he did languish of some inward thought,
The which inflicted his engrieued mind.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 12.
The gnawing anguish and sharp jealousie,
Which his sad speech infixed in my breast,
Rankled so sore and festered inwardly,
That my engrieved mind could find no rest.

EN-GROSS, v. ENGRO'SSER. ENGRO'SSING, N. ENGRO'SSMENT.

Id. Ib. b. il. c. 4.

(Also In.) Fr. Engrosser; It. Ingrossare; Fr. Gros; It. Grosso; Ger. Gross; Mid. Lat. Grossus, from the Lat. Crassus, (a multâ carne, Vossius,) fleshy; thick in flesh.

To thicken, to enlarge, to increase; to be or become thick, large, heavy, fat; to do any thin large or largely; to write in large letters; and, Id. Ib. b. ii. c. 1. generally, to write or copy fair; also, to buy in largt