EBBING — EDUCATED NWAD EBBING.1

EBBING, ppr. Flowing back; declining; decaying. NWAD EBBING.1

EBBING, n. The reflux of the tide. NWAD EBBING.2

EBBTIDE, n. The reflux of tide-water; the retiring tide. NWAD EBBTIDE.1

EBIONITE, n. The ebionites were heretics who denied the divinity of Christ and rejected many parts of the scriptures. NWAD EBIONITE.1

EBON, a. [See Ebony.] Consisting of ebony; like ebony; black. NWAD EBON.1

EBONIZE, v.t. [See Ebony.] To make black or tawny; to tinge with the color of ebony; as, to ebonize the fairest complexion. NWAD EBONIZE.1

EBONY, n. [L. ebenus.] A species of hard, heavy and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss; said to be brought from Madagascar. The most usual color is black, red or green. The best is a jet black, free from veins and rind, very heavy, astringent and of an acrid pungent taste. On burning coals it yields an agreeable perfume, and when green it readily takes fire from its abundance of fat. It is wrought into toys, and used for mosaic and inlaid work. NWAD EBONY.1

EBONY-TREE, n. The Ebenus, a small tree constituting a genus, growing in Crete and other isles of the Archipelago. NWAD EBONY-TREE.1

EBRACTEATE, a. [e priv. and bractea.] In botany, without a bractea or floral leaf. NWAD EBRACTEATE.1

EBRIETY, n. [L. ebrietas, from ebrius, intoxicated.] NWAD EBRIETY.1

Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors. NWAD EBRIETY.2

EBRILLADE, n. A check given to a horse, by a sudden jerk of one rein, when he refuses to turn. NWAD EBRILLADE.1

EBRIOSITY, n. [L. ebriositas.] Habitual drunkenness. NWAD EBRIOSITY.1

EBULLIENCY, n. [See Ebullition.] A boiling over. NWAD EBULLIENCY.1

EBULLIENT, a. Boiling over, as a liquor. NWAD EBULLIENT.1

EBULLITION, n. [L. ebullitio, from ebullio, bullio; Eng. to boil, which see.] NWAD EBULLITION.1

1. The operation of boiling; the agitation of a liquor by heat, which throws it up in bubbles, or more properly, the agitation produced in a fluid by the escape of a portion of it, converted into an aeriform state by heat. Ebullition is produced by the heat of fire directly applied, or by the heat or caloric evolved by any substance in mixture. Thus, in slaking lime, the caloric set at liberty by the a absorption of water, produces ebullition. NWAD EBULLITION.2

2. Effervescence, which is occasioned by fermentation, or by any other process which causes the extrication of an aeriform fluid, as in the mixture of an acid with a carbonated alkali. NWAD EBULLITION.3

ECAUDATE, a. [e priv. and L. cauda, a tail.] In botany, without a tail or spur. NWAD ECAUDATE.1

ECCENTRIC, ECCENTRICAL, a. [L. eccentricus; ex, from, and centrum, center.] NWAD ECCENTRIC.1

1. Deviating or departing from the center. NWAD ECCENTRIC.2

2. In geometry, not having the same center; a term applied to circles and spheres which have not the same center, and consequently are not parallel; in opposition to concentric, having a common center. NWAD ECCENTRIC.3

3. Not terminating in the same point, nor directed by the same principle. NWAD ECCENTRIC.4

4. Deviating from stated methods, usual practice or established forms or laws; irregular; anomalous, departing from the usual course; as eccentric conduct; eccentric virtue; an eccentric genius. NWAD ECCENTRIC.5

ECCENTRIC, n. A circle not having the same center as another. NWAD ECCENTRIC.6

1. That which is irregular or anomalous. NWAD ECCENTRIC.7

ECCENTRICITY, n. Deviation from a center. NWAD ECCENTRICITY.1

1. The state of having a center different from that of another circle. NWAD ECCENTRICITY.2

2. In astronomy, the distance of the center of a planet’s orbit from the center of the sun; that is, the distance between the center of an ellipsis and its focus. NWAD ECCENTRICITY.3

3. Departure or deviation from that which is stated, regular or usual; as the eccentricity of a man’s genius or conduct. NWAD ECCENTRICITY.4

4. Excursion from the proper sphere. NWAD ECCENTRICITY.5

ECCHYMOSIS, n. In medicine, an appearance of livid spots on the skin, occasioned by extravasated blood. NWAD ECCHYMOSIS.1

ECCLESIASTES, n. [Gr.] a canonical book of the old testament. NWAD ECCLESIASTES.1

ECCLESIASTIC, ECCLESIASTICAL, [L. Gr. an assembly or meeting, whence a church; to call forth or convoke; to call.] NWAD ECCLESIASTIC.1

Pertaining or relating to the church; as ecclesiastical discipline or government; ecclesiastical affairs, history or policy; ecclesiastical courts. NWAD ECCLESIASTIC.2

Ecclesiastical State is the body of the clergy. NWAD ECCLESIASTIC.3

ECCLESIASTIC, n. A person in orders, or consecrated to the service of the church and the ministry of religion. NWAD ECCLESIASTIC.4

ECCLESIASTICUS, n. A book of the aprocrypha. NWAD ECCLESIASTICUS.1

ECCOPROTIC, a. [Gr. out or from, and stercus.] Having the quality of promoting alvine discharges; laxative; loosening; gently cathartic. NWAD ECCOPROTIC.1

ECCOPROTIC, n. A medicine which purges gently, or which tends to promote evacuations by stool; a mild cathartic. NWAD ECCOPROTIC.2

ECHELON, n. In military tactics, the position of an army in the form of steps, or with one division more advanced than another. NWAD ECHELON.1

ECHINATE, ECHINATED, a. [L. echinum, a hedgehog.] Set with prickles, prickly, like a hedgehog; having sharp points; bristled; as an echinated pericarp. NWAD ECHINATE.1

Echinated pyrites, in mineralogy. NWAD ECHINATE.2

ECHINITE, n. [See Echinus.] A fossil found in chalk pits, called centronia; a petrified shell set with prickles or points; a calcarious petrifaction of the echinus or sea-hedgehog. NWAD ECHINITE.1

ECHINUS, n. [L. from Gr.] A hedgehog. NWAD ECHINUS.1

1. A shell-fish set with prickles or spines. The Echinus, in natural history, forms a genus of Mollusca. The body is roundish, covered with a bony crust, and often beset with movable prickles. There are several species and some of them eatable. NWAD ECHINUS.2

2. With botanists, a prickly head or top of a plant; an echinated pericarp. NWAD ECHINUS.3

3. In architecture, a member or ornament near the bottom of Ionic, Corinthian or Composite capitals, so named from its roughness, resembling, in some measure, the spiny coat of a hedgehog. NWAD ECHINUS.4

ECHO, n. [L. echo; Gr. sound, to sound.] NWAD ECHO.1

1. A sound reflected or reverberated from a solid body; sound returned; repercussion of sound; as an echo from a distant hill. NWAD ECHO.2

The sound must seem an echo to the sense. NWAD ECHO.3

2. In fabulous history, a nymph, the daughter of the Air and Tellus, who pined into a sound, for love of Narcissus. NWAD ECHO.4

3. In architecture, a vault or arch for redoubling sounds. NWAD ECHO.5

ECHO, v.i. To resound; to reflect sound. NWAD ECHO.6

The hall echoed with acclamations. NWAD ECHO.7

1. To be sounded back; as echoing noise. NWAD ECHO.8

ECHO, v.t. To reverberate or send back sound; to return what has been uttered. NWAD ECHO.9

Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng. NWAD ECHO.10

ECHOED, pp. Reverberated, as sound. NWAD ECHOED.1

ECHOING, ppr. Sending back sound; as echoing hills. NWAD ECHOING.1

ECHOMETER, n. [Gr. sound, and measure.] Among musicians, a scale or rule, with several lines thereon, serving to measure the duration of sounds, and to find their intervals and ratios. NWAD ECHOMETER.1

ECHOMETRY, n. The art or act of measuring the duration of sounds. NWAD ECHOMETRY.1

The art of constructing vaults to produce echoes. NWAD ECHOMETRY.2

ECLAIRCISE, v.t. To make clear; to explain; to clear up what is not understood or misunderstood. NWAD ECLAIRCISE.1

ECLAIRCISSEMENT, n. Explanation; the clearing up of any thing not before understood. NWAD ECLAIRCISSEMENT.1

ECLAMPSY, n. [Gr. a shining, to shine.] A flashing of light, a symptom of epilepsy. Hence, epilepsy itself. NWAD ECLAMPSY.1

ECLAT, n. ecla. NWAD ECLAT.1

1. Primarily, a burst of applause; acclamation. Hence, applause; approbation; renown. NWAD ECLAT.2

2. Splendor; show; pomp. NWAD ECLAT.3

ECLECTIC, a. [Gr. to choose.] Selecting; choosing; an epithet given to certain philosophers of antiquity, who did not attach themselves to any particular sect, but selected from the opinions and principles of each, what they thought solid and good. Hence we say, an eclectic philosopher; the eclectic sect. NWAD ECLECTIC.1

ECLECTIC, n. A philosopher who selected from the various systems such opinions and principles as he judged to be sound and rational. NWAD ECLECTIC.2

1. A christian who adhered to the doctrines of the Eclectics. Also, one of a sect of physicians. NWAD ECLECTIC.3

ECLECTICALLY, adv. By way of choosing or selecting; in the manner of the eclectical philosophers. NWAD ECLECTICALLY.1

ECLEGM, n. [Gr.] A medicine made by the incorporation of oils with syrups. NWAD ECLEGM.1

ECLIPSE, n. eclips’. [L. eclipsis; Gr. defect, to fail, to leave.] NWAD ECLIPSE.1

1. Literally, a defect or failure; hence in astronomy, an interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon or other luminous body. An eclipse of the sun is caused by the intervention of the moon, which totally or partially hides the sun’s disk; an eclipse of the moon is occasioned by the shadow of the earth, which falls on it and obscures it in whole or in part, but does not entirely conceal it. NWAD ECLIPSE.2

2. Darkness; obscuration. We say, his glory has suffered an eclipse. NWAD ECLIPSE.3

All the posterity of our first parents suffered a perpetual eclipse of spiritual life. NWAD ECLIPSE.4

ECLIPSE, v.t. eclips’. To hide a luminous body in whole or in part and intercept its rays; as, to eclipse the sun or a star. NWAD ECLIPSE.5

1. To obscure; to darken, by intercepting the rays of light which render luminous; as, to eclipse the moon. NWAD ECLIPSE.6

2. To cloud; to darken; to obscure; as, to eclipse the glory of a hero. Hence, NWAD ECLIPSE.7

3. To disgrace. NWAD ECLIPSE.8

4. To extinguish. NWAD ECLIPSE.9

Born to eclipse thy life. NWAD ECLIPSE.10

ECLIPSE, v.i. eclips’. To suffer an eclipse. NWAD ECLIPSE.11

ECLIPSED, pp. Concealed; darkened; obscured; disgraced. NWAD ECLIPSED.1

ECLIPSING, ppr. Concealing; obscuring; darkening; clouding. NWAD ECLIPSING.1

ECLIPTIC, n. [Gr. to fail or be defective; L. eclipticus, linea ecliptica, the ecliptic line, or line in which eclipses are suffered.] NWAD ECLIPTIC.1

1. A great circle of the sphere supposed to be drawn through the middle of the zodiac, making an angle with the equinoctial of 23 deg. 30’, which is the sun’s greatest declination. The ecliptic is the apparent path of the sun, but as in reality it is the earth which moves, the ecliptic is the path or way among the fixed stars which the earth in its orbit appears to describe, to an eye placed in the sun. NWAD ECLIPTIC.2

2. In geography, a great circle on the terrestrial globe, answering to and falling within the plane of the celestial ecliptic. NWAD ECLIPTIC.3

ECLIPTIC, a. Pertaining to or described by the ecliptic. NWAD ECLIPTIC.4

1. Suffering an eclipse. NWAD ECLIPTIC.5

ECLOGUE, n. ec’log. [Gr. choice, to select.] Literally, a select piece. Hence, in poetry, a pastoral composition, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other, as the eclogues of Virgil; or it is a little elegant composition in a simple natural style and manner. An eclogue differs from an idyllion, in being appropriated to pieces in which shepherds are introduced. NWAD ECLOGUE.1

ECONOMIC, ECONOMICAL, a. [See Economy.] Pertaining to the regulation of household concerns; as the economic art. NWAD ECONOMIC.1

1. Managing domestic or public pecuniary concerns with frugality; as an economical housekeeper; an economical minister or administration. NWAD ECONOMIC.2

2. Frugal; regulated by frugality; not wasteful or extravagant; as an economical use of money. NWAD ECONOMIC.3

ECONOMICALLY, adv. With economy; with frugality. NWAD ECONOMICALLY.1

ECONOMIST, n. One who manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time or labor judiciously, and without waste. NWAD ECONOMIST.1

1. One who writes on economy; the writer of a treatise on economy. NWAD ECONOMIST.2

ECONOMIZE, v.i. To manage pecuniary concerns with frugality; to make a prudent use of money, or of the means of saving or acquiring property. It is our duty to economize, in the use of public money, as well as of our own. NWAD ECONOMIZE.1

ECONOMIZE, v.t. To use with prudence; to expend with frugality; as, to economize one’s income. NWAD ECONOMIZE.2

To manage and economize the use of circulating medium. NWAD ECONOMIZE.3

ECONOMIZED, pp. Used with frugality. NWAD ECONOMIZED.1

ECONOMIZING, ppr. Using with frugality. NWAD ECONOMIZING.1

ECONOMY, n. [L. oeconomia; Gr. house, and law, rule.] NWAD ECONOMY.1

1. Primarily, the management, regulation and government of a family or the concerns of a household. NWAD ECONOMY.2

2. The management of pecuniary concerns or the expenditure of money. Hence, NWAD ECONOMY.3

3. A frugal and judicious use of money; that management which expends money to advantage, and incurs no waste; frugality in the necessary expenditure of money. It differs from parsimony, which implies an improper saving of expense. Economy includes also a prudent management of all the means by which property is saved or accumulated; a judicious application of time, of labor, and of the instruments of labor. NWAD ECONOMY.4

4. The disposition or arrangement of any work; as the economy of a poem. NWAD ECONOMY.5

5. A system of rules, regulations, rites and ceremonies; as the Jewish economy. NWAD ECONOMY.6

6. The regular operation of nature in the generation, nutrition and preservation of animals or plants; as animal economy; vegetable economy. NWAD ECONOMY.7

7. Distribution or due order of things. NWAD ECONOMY.8

8. Judicious and frugal management of public affairs; as political economy. NWAD ECONOMY.9

9. System of management; general regulation and disposition of the affairs of a state or nation, or of any department of government. NWAD ECONOMY.10

ECPHRACTIC, a. [Gr.] In medicine, deobstruent; attenuating. NWAD ECPHRACTIC.1

ECPHRACTIC, n. A medicine which dissolves or attenuates viscid matter, and removes obstructions. NWAD ECPHRACTIC.2

ECSTASIED, a. [See Ecstasy.] Enraptured; ravished; transported; delighted. NWAD ECSTASIED.1

ECSTASY, n. [Gr. to stand.] NWAD ECSTASY.1

1. Primarily, a fixed state; a trance; a state in which the mind is arrested and fixed, or as we say, lost; a state in which the functions of the senses are suspended by the contemplation of some extraordinary or supernatural object. NWAD ECSTASY.2

Whether what we call ecstasy be not dreaming with our eyes open, I leave to be examined. NWAD ECSTASY.3

2. Excessive joy; rapture; a degree of delight that arrests the whole mind; as a pleasing ecstasy; the ecstasy of love; joy may rise to ecstasy. NWAD ECSTASY.4

3. Enthusiasm; excessive elevation and absorption of mind; extreme delight. NWAD ECSTASY.5

He on the tender grass NWAD ECSTASY.6

Would sit and hearken even to ecstasy. NWAD ECSTASY.7

4. Excessive grief or anxiety. [Not used.] NWAD ECSTASY.8

5. Madness; distraction. [Not used.] NWAD ECSTASY.9

6. In medicine, a species of catalepsy, when the person remembers, after the paroxysm is over, the ideas he had during the fit. NWAD ECSTASY.10

ECSTASY, v.t. To fill with rapture or enthusiasm. NWAD ECSTASY.11

ECSTATIC, ECSTATICAL, a. Arresting the mind; suspending the senses; entrancing. NWAD ECSTATIC.1

In pensive trance, and anguish, and ecstatic fit. NWAD ECSTATIC.2

1. Rapturous; transporting; ravishing; delightful beyond measure; as ecstatic bliss or joy. NWAD ECSTATIC.3

2. Tending to external objects. [Not used.] NWAD ECSTATIC.4

ECTYPAL, a. [infra.] Taken from the original. NWAD ECTYPAL.1

ECTYPE, a. [Gr.] A copy. [Not used.] NWAD ECTYPE.1

ECUMENIC, ECUMENICAL, a. [Gr. the habitable world.] General; universal; as an ecumenical council. NWAD ECUMENIC.1

ECURIE, n. A stable; a covered place for horses. NWAD ECURIE.1

EDACIOUS, a. [L. edax, from edo, to eat.] Eating; given to eating; greedy; voracious. NWAD EDACIOUS.1

EDACITY, n. [L. edacitas, from edax, edo, to eat.] Greediness; voracity; ravenousness; rapacity. NWAD EDACITY.1

EDDER, n. In husbandry, such wood as is worked into the top of hedge-stakes to bind them together. NWAD EDDER.1

EDDER, v.t. To bind or make tight by edder; to fasten the tops of hedge-stakes, by interweaving edder. NWAD EDDER.2

EDDISH, EADISH, n. The latter pasture or grass that comes after mowing or reaping; called also eagrass, earsh, etch. [Not used, I believe, in America.] NWAD EDDISH.1

EDDOES, EDDERS, n. A name given to a variety of the Arum esculentum, an esculent root. NWAD EDDOES.1

EDDY, n. [I find this word in no other language. It is usually considered as a compound of Sax. ed, backward, and ea, water.] NWAD EDDY.1

1. A current of water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main stream. Thus a point of land extending into a river, checks the water near the shore, and turns it back or gives it a circular course. The word is applied also to the air or wind moving in a circular direction. NWAD EDDY.2

2. A whirlpool; a current of water or air in a circular direction. NWAD EDDY.3

And smiling eddies dimpled on the main. NWAD EDDY.4

Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play. NWAD EDDY.5

EDDY, v.i. To move circularly, or as an eddy. NWAD EDDY.6

EDDY, a. Whirling; moving circularly. NWAD EDDY.7

EDDY-WATER, n. Among seamen, the water which falls back on the rudder of a ship under sail, called dead-water. NWAD EDDY-WATER.1

EDDY-WIND, n. The wind returned or beat back from a sail, a mountain or any thing that hinders its passage. NWAD EDDY-WIND.1

EDELITE, n. A siliceous stone of a light gray color. NWAD EDELITE.1

EDEMATOUS, a. [Gr. a tumor; to swell.] Swelling with a serous humor; dropsical. An edematous tumor is white, soft and insensible. NWAD EDEMATOUS.1

EDEN, n. [Heb. pleasure, delight.] The country and garden in which Adam and Eve were placed by God himself. NWAD EDEN.1

EDENIZED, a. Admitted into paradise. NWAD EDENIZED.1

EDENTATED, a. [L. edentatus, e and dens.] Destitute or deprived of teeth. NWAD EDENTATED.1

EDGE, n. [L. acies, acus.] NWAD EDGE.1

1. In a general sense, the extreme border or point of any thing; as the edge of the table; the edge of a book; the edge of cloth. It coincides nearly with border, brink, margin. It is particularly applied to the sharp border, the thin cutting extremity of an instrument, as the edge of an ax, razor, knife or scythe; also, to the point of an instrument, as the edge of a sword. NWAD EDGE.2

2. Figuratively, that which cuts or penetrates; that which wounds or injures; as the edge of slander. NWAD EDGE.3

3. A narrow part rising from a broader. NWAD EDGE.4

Some harrow their ground over, and then plow it upon an edge. NWAD EDGE.5

4. Sharpness of mind or appetite; keenness; intenseness of desire; fitness for action or operation; as the edge of appetite or hunger. NWAD EDGE.6

Silence and solitude set an edge on the genius. NWAD EDGE.7

5. Keenness; sharpness; acrimony. NWAD EDGE.8

Abate the edge of traitors. NWAD EDGE.9

To set the teeth on edge, to cause a tingling or grating sensation in the teeth. NWAD EDGE.10

EDGE, v.t. NWAD EDGE.11

1. To sharpen. NWAD EDGE.12

To edge her champion’s sword. NWAD EDGE.13

2. To furnish with an edge. NWAD EDGE.14

A sword edged with flint. NWAD EDGE.15

3. To border; to fringe. NWAD EDGE.16

A long descending train, NWAD EDGE.17

With rubies edged. NWAD EDGE.18

4. To border; to furnish with an ornamental border; as, to edge a flower-bed with box. NWAD EDGE.19

5. To sharpen; to exasperate; to embitter. NWAD EDGE.20

By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged. NWAD EDGE.21

6. To incite; to provoke; to urge on; to instigate; that is, to push on as with a sharp point; to goad. Ardor or passion will edge a man forward, when arguments fail. NWAD EDGE.22

7. To move sideways; to move by little and little; as, edge your chair along. NWAD EDGE.23

EDGE, v.i. To move sideways; to move gradually. Edge along this way. NWAD EDGE.24

1. To sail close to the wind. NWAD EDGE.25

To edge away, in sailing, is to decline gradually from the shore or from the line of the course. NWAD EDGE.26

To edge in with, to draw near to, as a ship in chasing. NWAD EDGE.27

EDGED, pp. Furnished with an edge or border. NWAD EDGED.1

1. Incited; instigated. NWAD EDGED.2

2. a. Sharp; keen. NWAD EDGED.3

EDGELESS, a. Not sharp; blunt; obtuse; unfit to cut or penetrate; as an edgeless sword or weapon. NWAD EDGELESS.1

EDGETOOL, n. An instrument having a sharp edge. NWAD EDGETOOL.1

EDGEWISE, adv. [edge and wise.] With the edge turned forward, or towards a particular point; in the direction of the edge. NWAD EDGEWISE.1

1. Sideways; with the side foremost. NWAD EDGEWISE.2

EDGING, ppr. Giving an edge; furnishing with an edge. NWAD EDGING.1

1. Inciting; urging on; goading; stimulating; instigating. NWAD EDGING.2

2. Moving gradually or sideways. NWAD EDGING.3

3. Furnishing with a border. NWAD EDGING.4

EDGING, n. That which is added on the border, or which forms the edge; as lace, fringe, trimming, added to a garment for ornament. NWAD EDGING.5

Bordered with a rosy edging. NWAD EDGING.6

1. A narrow lace. NWAD EDGING.7

2. In gardening, a row of small plants wet along the border of a flower-bed; as an edging of box. NWAD EDGING.8

EDIBLE, a. [from L. edo, to eat.] Eatable; fit to be eaten as food; esculent. Some flesh is not edible. NWAD EDIBLE.1

EDICT, n. [L. edictum, from edico, to utter or proclaim; e and dico, to speak.] NWAD EDICT.1

That which is uttered or proclaimed by authority as a rule of action; an order issued by a prince to his subjects, as a rule or law requiring obedience; a proclamation of command or prohibition. An edict is an order or ordinance of a sovereign prince, intended as a permanent law, or to erect a new office, to establish new duties, or other temporary regulation; as the edicts of the Roman emperors; the edicts of the French monarch. NWAD EDICT.2

EDIFICANT, a. [infra.] Building. [Little used.] NWAD EDIFICANT.1

EDIFICATION, n. [L. oedificatio. See Edify.] NWAD EDIFICATION.1

1. A building up, in a moral and religious sense; instruction; improvement and progress of the mind, in knowledge, in morals, or in faith and holiness. NWAD EDIFICATION.2

He that prophesieth, speaketh to men to edification. 1 Corinthians 14:3. NWAD EDIFICATION.3

2. Instruction; improvement of the mind in any species of useful knowledge. NWAD EDIFICATION.4

EDIFICATORY, a. Tending to edification. NWAD EDIFICATORY.1

EDIFICE, n. [L. oedificium. See Edify.] A building; a structure; a fabric; but appropriately, a large or splendid building. The word is not applied to a mean building, but to temples, churches or elegant mansion-houses, and to other great structures. NWAD EDIFICE.1

EDIFICIAL, a. Pertaining to edifices or to structure. NWAD EDIFICIAL.1

EDIFIED, pp. Instructed; improved in literary, moral or religious knowledge. NWAD EDIFIED.1

EDIFIER, n. One that improves another by instructing him. NWAD EDIFIER.1

EDIFY, v.t. [L. oedifico; oedes, a house, and facio, to make.] NWAD EDIFY.1

1. To build, in a literal sense. [Not now used.] NWAD EDIFY.2

2. To instruct and improve the mind in knowledge generally, and particularly in moral and religious knowledge, in faith and holiness. NWAD EDIFY.3

Edify one another. 1 Thessalonians 5:11. NWAD EDIFY.4

3. To teach or persuade. [Not used.] NWAD EDIFY.5

EDIFYING, ppr. Building up in christian knowledge; instructing; improving the mind. NWAD EDIFYING.1

EDIFYINGLY, adv. In an edifying manner. NWAD EDIFYINGLY.1

EDILE, n. [L. oedilis, from oedes, a building.] A Roman magistrate whose chief business was to superintend buildings of all kinds, more especially public edifices, temples, bridges, aqueducts, etc. The ediles had also the care of the highways, public places, weights and measures, etc. NWAD EDILE.1

EDILESHIP, n. The office of Edile in ancient Rome. NWAD EDILESHIP.1

EDIT, v.t. [from L. edo, to publish; e and do, to give.] NWAD EDIT.1

1. Properly, to publish; more usually, to superintend a publication; to prepare a book or paper for the public eye, by writing, correcting or selecting the matter. NWAD EDIT.2

Those who know how volumes of the fathers are generally edited. NWAD EDIT.3

2. To publish. NWAD EDIT.4

Abelard wrote many philosophical treatises which have never been edited. NWAD EDIT.5

EDITED, pp. Published; corrected; prepared and published. NWAD EDITED.1

EDITING, ppr. Publishing; preparing for publication. NWAD EDITING.1

EDITION, n. [L. editio, from edo, to publish.] NWAD EDITION.1

1. The publication of any book or writing; as the first edition of a new work. NWAD EDITION.2

2. Republication, sometimes with revision and correction; as the second edition of a work. NWAD EDITION.3

3. Any publication of a book before published; also, one impression or the whole number of copies published at once; as the tenth edition. NWAD EDITION.4

EDITOR, n. [L. from edo, to publish.] A publisher; particularly, a person who superintends an impression of a book; the person who revises, corrects and prepares a book for publication; as Erasmus, Scaliger, etc. NWAD EDITOR.1

1. One who superintends the publication of a newspaper. NWAD EDITOR.2

EDITORIAL, a. Pertaining to an editor, as editorial labors; written by an editor, as editorial remarks. NWAD EDITORIAL.1

EDITORSHIP, n. The business of an editor; the care and superintendence of a publication. NWAD EDITORSHIP.1

EDITUATE, v.t. [Low L. oedituor, from oedes, a temple or house.] NWAD EDITUATE.1

To defend or govern the house or temple. [Not in use.] NWAD EDITUATE.2

EDUCATE, v.t. [L. educo, educare; e and duco, to lead.] NWAD EDUCATE.1

To bring up, as a child; to instruct; to inform and enlighten the understanding; to instill into the mind principles of arts, science, morals, religion and behavior. To educate children well is one of the most important duties of parents and guardians. NWAD EDUCATE.2

EDUCATED, pp. Brought up; instructed; furnished with knowledge or principles; trained, disciplined. NWAD EDUCATED.1