endeavor, endeavour (endevor)

[The second form usual in England. Early mod. E. also endevor, endevoir, in dev or, in devour, indever, I indever my selfe to do a thyng, I payne my selfe, I indever me to do the best I can. Palsgrave. 2. To attempt to gain; try to effect; strive to achieve or attain; strive after. [Archaic.] Lord Loudoun arrived at Philadelphia, expre ly, as he told me, to endeavor an accommodation between the gov ern or and A embly. Franklin, Autobiog., p. 253. This intensity of mood which insures high quality is by its very nature incapable of prolongation, and Words worth, in endeavoring it, falls more below himself. Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 243. II. in trans. 1. To labor or exert one's self to do or effect something; strive; try; make an effort: followed by an infinitive. But he endevored with speaches mild Her to recomfort, and accourage bold. Spenser, F. Q., III. viii. 34. A great slaughter was made after this among the routed, Source of the IMG:content-0455.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0456.png:[blocks in formation] endellionite (en-del'yon-it), n. (see def.) + -ite2 .] The mineral bournonite, found in the parish of Endellion, in Cornwall, England. Also end ell i one. endemialt (en-de'mi-al), a . [ ἐνδήμιος , be- longing to the people: see endemic .] Same as endemic. There are endemial and local infirmities proper unto certain regions, which in the whole earth make no small number. Sir T. Browne, Letter to a Friend. The distemper... is endemial among the great, and may be termed a scurvy of the spirits. Goldsmith, Proper Enjoyment of Life. endemic (en-dem'ik), a. and n. [F. endé- mique Sp. endémico = Pg. It. endemico (cf. D. G. endemisch = Dan. Sw. endemisk ), ἐνδημικός for ἐνδήμιος , equiv. to ένδημος , native, belonging to a people, ἐν , in, + δῆμος , the peo- ple: see deme2 . Cf. epidemic.] I. a. 1. Pecu- liar to a people or nation, or to the residents of denizen.] Same as endenizen. Specially since that learning, after long banishment, was recalled in the time of King Henry the Eighth, it [our tongue] hath been beautified and enriched out of other good tongues, partly by enfranchising and endenizing strange words. Camden, quoted in Hall's Mod. Eng., p. 6. And having by little and little in many victories van quished the nations bordering upon them, [they] brought at length to be endenized and naturalized Holland, tr. of Ammianus, p. 401. owne name, like as the Persians also did.