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t. [ME. enorlen, enourlen, The vale was evene rownde with vynes of silver, Alle with grapis of golde, gretter ware never! Enhorilde with arbor ye and alkyns trees, Erberis fulle honeste, and byrdez there undyre. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3245. Angelez enourled in alle that is clene, Bothe with-inne & with-outen, in wedez ful bryzt. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 19. enormt (e-norm'), a. [= D. G. Dan. Sw. enorm = F. énor me = Pr. Sp. Pg. It. enorme, enor- mis , irregular, immoderate, immense, norma , rule: see norm . Cf. enormous.] 1. Deviating from rule or standard; abnormal. All uniform, Pure, pervious, immixed, nothing enorm . Dr. H. More, Song of the Soul, I. ii. 22. 2. Exce ively wicked; enormous. That they may suffer such punishment as so enorm actions have justly deserved. Then lets hee friends the fantacie enorme With strong delusions and with pa ions dire. IMG:content-0514.png:[blocks in formation] I... shall find time From this enormous state seeking to give Lo es their remedies. Shak., Lear, ii. 2. yond bounds, surpa ing what is fit, right, tolerable, etc. Enormous is peculiarly applicable to magnitude, primarily physical, but also moral: as, enormous egotism; immense , to extent, quantity, and number: as, an immense national debt; immense folly; exce ive , to degree: as, an exce ive dose; an exce ive opinion of one's own merits. The total quantity of saline matter carried invisibly away by the Thames from its basin above Kingston will reach, in the course of a year, to the enormous amount of 548,230 tons. The controversy between Protestant ism and Catholicism comprises an immense ma of complicated and hetero- geneous arguments. Lecky, Rationalism, I. 177. An exce ive expenditure of nerve-force involves exces- sive respiration and circulation, and exce ive waste of tis- H. Spencer, Prin. of Biol., § 21. The rise in the last year... affords the most consoling and encouraging prospect. It is enormously out of all proportion. Burke, A Regicide Peace, iii. But there can be no doubt that all the forms of living matter are enormously complex in chemical constitution. W. K. Clifford, Lectures, II. 315. enormousne (e-nor'mus-nes), n. The state of being enormous or extreme; greatne be- yond measure. Loud sounds have a certain enormousne of feeling. W. James, Mind, XII. 3. Syn. Immensity, vastne , hugene . See enormity . enornt, enournt, v. t. [ME. enurnen , enournen, var. of anournen , var. of aornen, aournen, for adornen , adorn: see adorn .] To adorn. An auter enournet in nome of a god. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1675. enorthotrope (en-ôr thō-trop), n. [ ev , in, + ὀρθός , straight, right, + τρέπειν, turn.] A toy similar to the thaumatrope, consisting of a card on different parts of which are detached portions of a picture, which on rapid revolution appear to become joined, by virtue of the prin- ciple of persistence in visual impre ions. See thaumatrope. IMG:content-0515.png:[blocks in formation] enostosis (en-os-tō'sis), n.; pl. enostoses (-sēz). [NL., ἐν , in, + ὀστέον , bone. + -osis .] A 4t. To a great degree; very much. Game of hounde's he louede inou & of wilde best. Robert of Gloucester , 1. 375. enough (e-nuf'), interj . An elliptical exclama- tion, signifying 'it (or that) is enough,' 'I have had enough,' 'you have done enough,' etc. Lay on, Macduff! And damn'd be him that first cries "Hold, enough!" Shak., Macbeth, v. 7. Henceforth I'll bear Affliction, till it do cry out itself, Enough, enough , and die. circumscribed bony growth in the interior of a bone: opposed to exostosis . enough (e-nuf'), a. and n. [Early mod. E. also inough , etc., and enow , dial. enow , enoo (also enuf , enif , a spelling recognized even in late ME. enoffe ) = Sc. eneuch , eneugh ; enogh , enoh, enow, enou, also with prefix spelled i-, y-, a-, inough, inogh, inouh, in oh, inow, inou, etc., ynough, etc., anough, etc., pl. ending in -e, enoghe, enowe, etc., earliest ME. gen oh , genōh , pl. genōge = OS. ginōg , ginuog = OFries. enoch, anog, noch = D. genoeg enang, naug = OHG. ginuog , ginuoc, MHG. ge- nuoc , also OHG. ginōgi , MHG. ginuege , G. genug , sometimes gnug, genung = Icel. gnogr = Sw. nog = Dan. nok = Goth. ganōhs , enough, suffi- cient, abundant, in pl. many (cf. Goth. ganauha , sufficiency, AS. genyht = OHG. ginuht, G. ge- nüge , sufficiency); gene ah = OHG. gin ah = Goth. gan ah (Goth. also bin ah , with pp. bi- nauhts ), it suffices, an impers. pret. pres. verb; ga- , ge- , generalizing prefix, + Teut. ✓ * noh = Skt. V naç, attain, reach to, = L. nancisci (✔*nac), acquire, = Gr. ήνεγκα (✓ * νεκ ), irreg. 2d aor. of φέρειν , bear.] Ι. a . Answering the purpose; adequate to want or demand; suffi- + -ment . ] The act of enouncing; enunciation. cient; satisfying desire; giving content; meet- ing reasonable expectation. The nexte daye, Frydaye, that was Newe Yeres daye, there was metely wynde ynoughe , but it was so scarse to wardes oure waye that we made noo spede. Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 72. How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare! Luke xv. 17. It were enough to put him to ill thinking. Shak ., Othello, iii. 4. Have you not yet found means enow to waste That which your friends have left you? B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, i. 1. [ Enough usually follows the noun which it qualifies, but it is sometimes put before it. IMG:content-0516.png:[blocks in formation] He answerde, that he was gret Lord y now, and well in pees, and hadde ynowghe of worldly Ricche e. Mandeville , Travels, p. 146. Inough is a feast; more than ynough is counted fool- Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 83. And Esau said, I have enough , my brother. Gen. xxxiii, 9, ishne e. It might seem to him too evidently included in the very conception of the argument to require enouncement . Sir W. Hamilton . enournt, v. t. See enorn. enow (e-nou'), a ., n ., and adv . A dialectal or obsolete form of enough . enpairet, v . t. A Middle English form of impair . en pa ant (on pa-son'). [F.: en , in, in ; pa ant , verbal n. of pa er , pa .] While pa ing; by the way: often used as introduc- tory to an incidental remark or a sudden dis- connected thought. In che , when, on moving a pawn two squares, an adversary's pawn is at the time in such a position as to take the pawn moved if it were moved but one square, the moving pawn may be taken en pa ant , the phrase being used in its literal sense. enpatront (en-pa'tron), v . t . [ en -1 + patron .] To have under one's patronage or guardian- ship; be the patron saint of. For these, of force, must your oblations be, Since I their altar, you enpatron me. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary IMG:content-0518.png:[blocks in formation]