END

LONG.

ENDORSE

Endlang the bankis of flude Minionis:

Douglas, booke x. p. 320.
That who from East to West will end-long seeke,
Cannot two fairer citties find this day,
Except Cleopolis.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, book iii. can. 9.

The singular discipline and order of that nation in old time, was going downward and endlong many yeeres and ages alredie, and the popular government of many, growne to decay and ruine, which can not possibly continue long without some chaunge and alteration of Holland. Livius, fol. 921.

state.

ENDOCTRINATED, e, and doctrina. See DocTRINE, (in v. DOCIBLE,) that which any one teaches. Taught or instructed.

Now then suppose, that one of those (who having been taught by Christ's own mouth, had received by the confirmation of the Holy Ghost, that he could neither forget nor forgo this received doctrine) should have preached over and over again the same doctrine, not long, nor hard to be carried away, in all the cities, townes, and boroughs of some great country, so that whilst he stayed there, they were thoroughly understanding and edoctrinated in that way.

Hammond. Answer to Lord Falkland, c. 1. ENDOMYCUS, in Zoology, a genus of Trimerous, Coleopterous insects, belonging to the family Cycoperdinida, established by Paykull, and very generally adopted.

Generic character. Maxillary palpi enlarged near the end; the third joint of the antenne as long or a little longer than the fourth. The body is oval; the mouth produced forwards; the eyes rather long; the antennæ are half as long as the body, and formed of short cylindrical joints; the thorar is nearly square, flat, and rather narrower than the abdomen, which is rounded, and covered by the hard elytra.

The type of the

genus is

E. Coccineus, of Paykull, Fabricius, &c., which is of a fine scarlet colour, with a black spot on the thorax, and two on each elytra.

It is found in England, in putrid Boleti, and sometimes on trees.

ENDONBRANCHIATA, in Zoology, a family of Annelides, or red-blooded Worms, established by Dumeril in his Zoologie Analitique, which is translated and forms the article Classification in the Edinburgh Encyclopedia.

Character of the Family. Annelide without any external gills.

This family contains, according to Dumeril, the genera Naias, Lumbricus, Thalassema, Gorgius, Hirundo, and Planaria.

ENDO'RSE, or E'NDOSS,

Sometimes written Indorse, q. v. -En, and dorse, from the Lat. dorENDO'RSEMENT. sum, the back. To back; to put on, get on, sit on, write on, strike on, the back. It is used by Spenser generally, to write, inscribe or ingrave, cut or carve,

"Fr. endosser; to indorse; also, to back, to put a back unto; also, to put on the back, whence, Endosser un harnois; to arm himself, to put on his harness; to get an armour on his back." Cotgrave.

For the commercial effect of Endorsement, see BILL of Exchange.

True is, that I at first was dubbed knight

By a good knight, the knight of the Redcrosse;
Who, when he gaue me armes, in field to fight,
Gaue me a shield in which he did endosse
His deere Redeemer's badge vpon the bosse.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, book v. can. 11.

Her name on every tree I will endosse,

That as the trees do grow, her name may grow;
And in the ground each where will it engrosse;
And fill with stones that all men may it knowe.
Spenser. Colin Clout's Come home again.

They no sooner espyed the morninges mistresse, with disheueled tresses, to mount her iuorie chariot, but they endossed their armours. The Knight of the Sea. (See Todd's Spenser, voi. vi. p. 294. n.) Nay, so your seate his beauties did endorse

As I began to wish myself a horse.

Ben Jonson. Epigram to William, Earl of Newcastle.

The field all iron cast a gleaming brown,
Nor wanted clouds of foot, nor on each horn
Cuirassiers all in steel for standing fight,
Chariots or elephants endorst with towers
Of archers.

Milton. Paradise Regoined, book iii. v. 329. thereby to endear me the more to you. This perchance may be your policy, to endorse me your brothir, Howell. Letter 1. book iv. Sire was also appropriate only to the king: but now, adding a name after it, 'tis applicable to any mean man upon the endorsement of a letter or otherwise. Id. Letter 19. book iv.

haue sat down lately with a meek silence and sufferance under many Or whether the examples of men, either noble or religious, who libellous endorsements, may be a rule to others, I might well appease myself to put up any reproaches in such an honourable society of fellow-sufferers, using no other defence. Milton. An Apology for Smectymnuus,

He no sooner came within reach, but the first of them with his whip took the exact dimension of his shoulders, which he very ingeniously call'd endorsing; and indeed I must say that every one of them took due care to endorse him as he came through their hands.

Spectator, No. 498.

Care will be taken for the future, that the letters I send to you be dated. But in case at any time it should be forgotten, you may be letter when you receive it; for by that it will appear, that at least it pleased in great part to supply the omission, by endorsing or the was written as early as the time mentioned in the endorsement.

Boyle. Works, vol. vi. p. 70. Letters of Mr. Boyle. For I am only mistaken, Mr. Spec. if some of these endorsements were not wrote in so strong a hand, that they are still legible. Spectator, No. 498.

What he [Hastings] has endorsed on the bonds, or when he made the endorsement, or whether in fact he has made it at all, are matters known only to himself.

Burke. Report of a Committee on the affairs of India. ENDOUBT, en, and doubt, q. v.

To throw into doubt or fear, to fear.

And if I ne had endoubted me

To haue ben hated or assailed
My thankes woll I not haue failed.

Chaucer. The Romant of the Rose, fol. 124. ENDO'W, or Also Endew. Skinner has no doubt ENDU'E, -that endue is corruptly written for ENDOWMENT.) endow; en, and dow, q. v. from the Lat. dos; Gr. ĉws, any thing given.

To give; to bestow; to give or bestow, sc. a dowry or gift on marriage; a marriage portion; to bestow or any qualities of mind or body. settle any gift of property upon; to give or bestow, sc

Take mesure in your talking be not outrage,
For this rehearseth Romance de la Rose,
A man endued with plenteous language
Oft time is denyed his purpose.

Chaucer,

Certaine Balades, fol. 343.

Among so manye notable benefites wherewith God hath alreadie liberally and plentifullye endued vs there is nothing more beneficiall, than that wee haue by hys grace kept vs quiet from rebellion at this time. Sir John Cheeke. The Hurt of Sedition, Sig. A 2.

That hast with borrowed plumes thyself endewed,
And others worth with leasing doost deface,
When they are all restor'd thou shalt rest in disgrace.
Id. Ib. book v. can. 3.

Then like a faery knight himself he drest;
For, euery shape on him he could endew:
Then like a king he was to her exprest,
And offred kingdomes vnto her in view.

Id. Ib. book iii. can. 8.

To tell my riches, and endowments rare,
That by my foes are now all spent and gone;
To tell my forces matchable to none.

Id. The Ruines of Time. Our laws give great encouragement to the best, the noblest, the most lasting works of charity: such as erecting work-houses for the poor that are able to work, endowing hospitals and alms-houses for the impotent, distempered and aged poor; setting up free-schools for the education of youth. Stilling fleet. Sermon 3. vol. ix.

Now an unintelligent being, 'tis evident, cannot be endued with all the perfections of all things in the world; because intelligence is one of those perfections. Clarke On the Attributes, p. 52.

And yet I do not take humility in man to consist in disowning or denying any gift or ability that is in him, but in a just valuation of such gifts and endowments, yet rather thinking too meanly than too highly of them. Ray. On the Creation, part viii.

But in my Delia all endowments meet,
All that is just, agreeable or sweet;
All that can praise and admiration move,
Ail that the wisest and the bravest love.

Pomfret. Strephon's Love for Delia.
For some there are whose mighty frame
The hand of Jove at birth endow'd
With hopes that mock the gazing crowd.

Akenside. Ode 13. On Lyric Poetry.

Neither, in those days of feodal rigour, was the husband allowed to endow her ad ostium ecclesia with more than the third part of the lands whereof he then was seized, though he might endow her with less; lest by such liberal endowments the lord should be defrauded of his wardships and other feodal profits.

Blackstone. Commentaries, book ii. ch. viii.

O Hastings, not to all

Can ruling heaven the same endowments lend,
Yet still doth nature to her offspring call,

That to one general weal their different powers they bend,
Uneñvious.

Akenside. Ode 18. book i. ENDOWMENT, in Law, is the giving or assigning It is used also for the stipend assigned to an appropriated Benefice.

DOWER.

ENDRACHYUM, in Botany, a genus of the class Pentandria, order Monogynia. Generic character: calyx coriaceous, five-leaved; corolla bell or pitchershaped, the exterior hirsute; stamens exserted; stigma two-cleft; capsule woody, two-celled.

One species, E. Madagascariense, native of Madagascar, Gmelin, Syst. Veget.

ENDRUDGE, en, and drudge, q. v. A. S. dreogan, to labour, to undergo.

A slave's slave goes in rank with a beast; such is every one that endrudgeth himself to any known sin.

Bishop Hall. Remains, p. 29. ENDUCE, commonly written Induce, q. v. To draw or lead to or into.

I was easily enduced to turne it into English, vnderstanding that the same was no lesse grateful to you here, then I know it to be acceptable to many great and worthie persons there. Hakluyt. Voyage, &c. vol. iii. fol. 301. The Description of

Florida.

ENDU'RE, ENDURANCE, ENDU'RER, or cause to be hard or hardy; from ENDU'RING. Gr. dopov, lignum, wood. Wiclif renders the Vulgate Indurarentur, were harded. Acts xix. 9.

Lat. indurare; Fr. endurer; en, ENDURE and dure, q. v. Lat. durare, to be

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, ch. ix.

For she, that doth me all this wo endure,
Ne recceth never, whether I sinke or flete.
Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2398.
And first of o thing warne I thee
That paine and great aduersitie
He mote endure.

Id. The Romant of the Rose, fol. 125.

Now he hurteth, and now he cureth
For seld in o point Loue endureth.

Id. Ib. fol. 133.

And the thinges eke, that men wenen ne haue no soules, ne desire they not by semblable reason, to kepen that is his, that is to sain, that is according to her nature, in conseruacion of her being and enduring? Id. The third Booke of Boecius, fol. 228.

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. Conf. Am. book i. fol. 8. 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, book ix. fol. 275.

And now he has so long remained there,
That vitall powres gan waxe both weake and waD,
For want of food, and sleepe; which two vpbeare,
Like mighty pillours, this fraile life of man,

That none without the same enduren can.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, book ii. can. 8.

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.
Id. Ib. book iv. can. 8. st. 27.

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. Ib. book v. can. 6.
BENE. O she misusde me past the indurance of a block.
Shakspeare. Much Ado About Nothing, fol. 106.
LAP. Say no more, sir,

I'll fit you with my scholars, new practitioners,
Endurers of the time.
Beaumont and Fletcher. The Passionate Madman, act iv. sc. 1.

His hardinesse in fight, the many warres that hee made, suffi ciently do prove; as also his patient enduring of extreame cold and heat both. Holland. Ammianus, fol. 268. Julianus.

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. Sermon 1. voi. i.

ENDURE.

'Tis confessed, when through the cross circumstances of a man's temper or condition, the enjoyment of a pleasure would certainly ENEMY. 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. Sermons, vol. i. p. 4. Certainly these examples [Regulus and Socrates] should make us courageous in the endurement of all worldly misery, if not out of eligion, yet at least out of shame. Id. Ib. vol. viii. p. 254.

Each in his tent invoke the pow'r of sleep
To brace his vigour, to enlarge his strength
For long endurance.

Glover. Leonidas, book 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 be calling in vain for oil, and the rich glutton as vainly imploring a drop of water to cool his tongue. Horne. Commentary on Psalm 37.

ENEMA, Gr. évinu, I put in; a clyster. ENEMION, in Botany, a genus of the class Polyandria, order Polygynia, natural order Ranunculaceœ. Generic character: corolla of five deciduous petals, filaments clavate, anthers two-lobed; capsules two to six, stellate, ovate, compressed, two-seeded, seeds oval. One species, E. biternatum, native of Kentucky. Decandolle, Prod.

E'NEMY,
Fr. ennemi; It. inimico; Sp. ene-
E'NEMY-LIKE, migo; Lat. inimicus; qui non amat;
E'NMITY. 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 týme and wise
Worthily vpon Godes enemyse.

R. Gloucester, p. 588. Appendix. In be morning it was, he mette with his enemys & alle pe day pei fauht, at euen he had pe pris.

R. Brunne, p. 67.

Ne be afered of enemye.
Piers Plouhman. Vision, 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. Matthew, ch. v.

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, Anno 1551.
Witchcraftes, enemytees, striuingis, yndignaciouns.
Wiclif. Galathies, ch. v.
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 Tule, 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 hed werre or enmitee, ne telle hem not thy counseil. Id. The Tale of Melibeus, vol. ii. P. Hym were leuer for to saue

One of his liges, than to haue Of enemies a hundred dede.

89.

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 enemy-crime.

Taylor. Rule of Conscience, book i. ch. ii.
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, book iii. can. 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.

Sir Thomas North. Plutarch, fol. 419 Cimon.

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 batreds and make enmities irreconcileable?

Spectator, No. 10.

Fr. energie; energy, effectual operation, force, efficacy." Cotgrave. It is applied to Vigorous power to act; vigoactive resolution; a lively

rous power in action;
strength; a forcible spiritedness.

Of the same consideration is the form of our church collects, which are made pleasant by their variety of matter, are made energetical and potent by that great endearment of, [per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum.] Taylor. Polemical Discourses. Preface, sig. C 2.

So does all our naturall endeavour, when first set awork by God's preventing grace, decline to the imperfection of its owne kinde, unlesse the same force be made energetical and operative by the continuation and renewing of the same supernatural influence.

Id. The Great Exemplar, part i. sec. 4. p. 51.

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 supposition infers a creative energie in the object their producent, which philosophy allows not to creature efficients. Glanville. The Vanity of Dogmatizing, ch. iv.

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

Taylor. Sermons, part iii. fol. 108. serm. 7.

ENER

GIZE.

For I trust it is less the purpose of our present meeting to feast the ravished ear with the enchanting sounds of holy 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, Sermon 25. vol. iii.

The great energies of nature are known to us only by their effects. The substances which produce them, are as much concealed from our senses as the divine essence itself.

Paley. Natural Theology, ch. xxiii.

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, book i. ch. ix.

Farther, every energy doth not only require an energizer, but is necessarily conversant about some subject. Id. Ib.

Martha, we know, was so overwhelmed with family cares and embarrassments, so immoderately anxious to provide an entertainment worthy of her illustrious guest, so cumbered, as our version very energetically expresses it, with much serving, that, like many others engaged in the bustle of active life, she conceived the business she was employed in to be the most important of all human concerns. Porteus. Sermon 17. vol. ii.

ENERGUMENS, Gr. éveрyouμevo, the possessed, sc. in a restricted sense by an evil Spirit, called also, in the Primitive Church, δαιμονιζόμενοι, κατεχόμενοι, χειpaçoμevoi, or kλvdioμevo. These were committed to the especial care of Exorcists, who were instructed to pray for them, to employ them in innocent business, as sweeping the church, and similar occupations, (Conc. Carthag. iv. 91,) "to prevent more violent agitations of Satan, lestidl eness should tempt the Tempter," (Bingham, Orig. Eccl. iii. 4,7;) and also to provide their food while they were in the Church, which was their chief residence. An especial form of prayer for them was assigned in the public service, and will be found in Bingham, (xiv. 5, 7,) from the Apostolical Canons, (viii. 6;) during service they occupied the lower part of the Church, (Bingham, viii. 4, 3.) The Council of Eliberis (37) permitted them to be baptized in cases of extremity, and under visible appearances of Death. The first Council of Orange extended this permission. as necessity required, or opportunity allowed, (Id. xi. 5, 3.) So during intermission they might receive the Eucharist, (Id. xv. 4, 16, from Timoth. Resp. Can. 3, apud Bevereg. ii.) The Council of Orange (16) enjoined also that they should not be ordained; and that if any of them had been so admitted into the Priesthood, they should be immediately deposed. (Id. xvii. 5, 3.)

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

ENERVE

Denham. Of Old Age, part ii. ENFECT

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. Essay 58. 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 pain.es. Holland. Plutarch, fol. 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, sig. A a. 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. Trial of 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.

Dorset. The Antiquated Coquet.

Then all the Muses in one ruin lie,
And rhyme began t' enervate poetry.
Dryden. Epistle 14. To Sir Godfrey Kneller.
The Muse, which should instruct, now entertains,
On 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, book i. does not absolutely enervate that vigour, and quench that fervency of In a word, we ought to act in party with all the moderation which 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 enervate sires
Scarce hammer'd out, when Nature's feeble fires
Glimmer'd their last.
Churchill. The Rosciad.

ENFAME, i. e. Infamy, q. v.

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

Chaucer. The Testament of Loue, fol. 290. Some men there been that their own enfame can none otherwise

void, or els excuse, but be hindering of other men's fame.

Id. Ib. fol. 292.

ENFAMINED, i. e. famished, q. v. Hungry.

Unneth is Demophon to lond ywonne
Weake and eke wery, and his folke forpined
Of werinesse, and also enfamined.

Chaucer. Of Phillis, fol. 209. ENFAMOUSED, i. e. rendered famous, q. v.

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, book ii. song 1. ENFAUNCE, i. e. Infancy, q. v.

The which Deuil in her enfaunce
Had lerned of louer's art.
Chaucer. The Romant of the Rose, fol. 136.

ENFECT, i. e. Infect, q. v.

For all the world they stinken as a gote;

Hir savour is so rammish and so hote,
That though a man a mile from hem be
The savour wol enfect him, trusteth me.

Chaucer. The Chanones Yemannes Tale, v. 16357.

There was a chanon of religioun
Amonges us, wold enfect all a toun,
Though it as gret were as was Ninive.

Id. 13. v. 16416.

ENFEEBLE.

EN

ENFE'EBLE, Fr. foible, fible; Sp. feble; It. ENFE EBLER. Sfiebole, fievole, debilis, languidus, q. d. flebilis, as we say (Skinner adds) lamentable, and FIERCE. 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 Thos. More. Workes, fol. 892. The Apology, ch. xxvii. Onely I fear my wits enfeebled late

Through the sharp sorrows which thou hast me bred, Should faint and words should fail me to relate The wondrous triumphs of thy great God-hed Spenser. Hymn 1. In Honour of Love. My people are with sicknesse much enfeebled.

Shakspeare. Henry V. fol. 80.

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

Dryden. Epistle 12. To Mr. Motteaux.

Bane of every manly art,

Sweet enfeebler of the heart!

O, too pleasing in thy strain,

Hence, to southern climes again.

Philips. Odes to Signora Cuzzino.

Abject fear, which views some tremendous evil impending, from which it cannot possibly escape, as it depresses the spirits, so it enfeebles the corporeal frame; and it renders the victim an easy prey to the evil he dreads.

Cogan. Beneficial agency of the Passions, &c. ch. i. sect. 2. parti. ENFELONED, see FELON. "Fr. enfelonni; become fierce, waxt curst, grown cruel." Cotgrave.

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, book v. can. 9. ENFE/OFF, To give or grant, yield, surrenENFE'OFFMENT. Jder, 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.

Shakspeare. Henry VI. First Part, fol. 63.
Imputation doth both; it is that which enfeoffes our sinnes upon
Christ, and us in his righteousnesse, as he was made our sinne.
Hall. Works, part ii. vol. ii. fol. 10. The Old Religion, sec. 2.
He that so gives or enfeoffs, is called the feoffor; and the person
enfeoffed is denominated the feoffee,

Blackstone. Commentaries, book ii. ch. xx. ENFETTER, en, and fetter, q. d. footer, feeter, as the Lat. ped-ica, from pes, pedis. Skinner.

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.

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, book ii. can. 4. ENFILADE, en, and file. Lat. filum; Fr. filer, to draw out threads; to extend in length.

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, p. 347. ENFILE, A. S. feol-an, limare; Ger. feelen; which Junius thinks may be from the Gr. palès, bright, and Wachter from the Lat. pol-ire.

To smoothen, to polish, sc. with a file, q. v.
Thei taughten hym a lace to braied,

And weue a purs, and to enfile

A perle.

Gower. Conf. Am. book vii. fol. 168.

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, vol. ii. fol. 615. ENFIRE, en, and fire, q. v. A. S. fyr; Ger. feur; Omnia ut volunt, says Skinner, from the

D. vier. Gr. πύρ.

To warm, to heat, to inflame, to enkindle.

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

Chaucer. Certaine Balades, fol. 342.
So hard those heauenly beauties be enfired,
As things diuine, least passions doe impresse,
The more of stedfast minds to be admired,
The more they stayed be on stedfastnesse.
Spenser. An Hymn in Honour of Loue.
ENFLAME, commonly written Inflame, q. v. En,
and flame; It. fiamma; Sp. llama; Lat flamma;
Gr. préqua, préy-eiv, ardere, urere, to burn.

To warm, to enkindle, to fill with warmth, with ardor, with any warm, animating feeling or passion, or affec

tion.

birthe.

The tunge is ordeyned in oure membris which defoulith al the
bodie, and it is enflaumed of helle, and enflawmeth the wheel of oure
Wiclif. James, ch. iii.
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 living wight.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, book i. can. 11.
I then express'd my zeale
Unto the glory; now, the need enflames me.
Ben Jonson. Catiline, 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. ENFOLD, commonly written Infold, q. v. En, and fold, q. v. Goth. fald-an; A. S. feald-an; D. vouden; Gr. falten, plicare, complicare. And from plic are,

Wachter is inclined to think the northern word is derived. To lap or wrap over, to enwrap, to enclose, to en

circle.

Let them all being quite forgoe,

And make it playne,