emphatic (emfatik)

[= F. emphatique = Sp. enfático = Pg. emphatico = It. enfatico (cf. G. emphatisch = Dan. Sw. emfatisk ), *sive: as, an emphatic gesture. When I wish to group our three homes and their names in an emphatic way, it certainly answers my purpose better to speak of Angeln as Old England than to speak of England as New Angeln. E. A. Freeman, Amer. Lects., p. 28. His [Fox's] acceptance of office. would... have been the most emphatic demonstration of the union of all parties against the invaders. Lecky , Eng. in 18th Cent., xiv. =Syn. Expre ive, earnest, energetic, striking. IMG:content-0398.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0399.png:[merged small][graphic][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][merged small][subsumed][subsumed] 1, 2, pupa, ventral and lateral views (line shows natural size); 3, fly, enlarged (wings on one side detached); 4. larva; 5, fly with wings closed; 6, larva curled up; 7, cocoon; 8, antenna; 9, egg. (4, 5, 6, and 7 natural size; 8 and 9 enlarged., transverse head, prominent eyes, and a long abdomen, cylindrical in the male, and broad and carinate in the female. The larvæ have 22 legs, and are leaf-feeders. The male of E. maculatus is black, the female honey-yellow; its larva feeds on the straw the strawberry false-worm. berry, and is known in the United States and Canada as Empidæ (em'pi-dē), n. pl. [NL., contr. of Em pididæ, characterized by a globose head with contiguous eyes, a simple third antenna-joint, and lengthened tarsal cells of the wings. They are very active and voracious, and in general resemble the Asilida. Species of this family may be seen dancing in swarms over running water in springtime. The slender larvæ live in garden-mold. Also Em pididæ and Empides. Empididæ (em-pid'i-dē), n. pl. [NL.] Same as Empida.