endenizen (endenizn)

t. [Formerly also endenizon; Yet a Man may live as renown'd at home, in his own country, or a private village, as in the whole World. For it is Vertue that gives Glory; That will endenizon a Man every where. B. Jonson, Discoveries. Jews and Mahometans may be permitted to live in a Christian commonwealth with the exercise of their religion, but not to be endenizon'd . Locke , Third Letter on Toleration, iii. endentt, v. t. See indent . ender (en'der), n. One who or that which ends, terminates, or finishes. Allas, myn hertes queen! all as, my wyf! Myn hertes lady, endere of my lyf! Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1918. But yield them up where I myself must render, That is, to you, my origin and ender . Shak ., Lover's Complaint, 1. 222. a particular locality: chiefly applied to diseases. endert, prep . An obsolete dialectal form of This deformity, as it was endemic , and the people little used to strangers, it had been the custom to look upon as the greatest ornament of the human visage. Goldsmith, The Bee, No. 1. Amy hastily endeavoured to recall what she were best to say, which might secure herself from the imminent dangers that surrounded her. Scott, Kenilworth, xxxiv. 2. To direct one's efforts or labor toward some object or end; fix one's course; aim: with at, for, or after. [Archaic.] Thinking it sufficient to obtain immortality by their descendants, without endeavouring at great actions. Bacon , Physical Fables, iii., Expl. It was into this Gulph that Capt. Davis was gone with the two Canoas, to endeavour for a Prisoner, to gain intelligence, if po ible, before our Ships came in. Dampier , Voyages, I. 125. would. I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy endeavour after a handsome elocution. Add is on, Spectator, No. 106. We have a right to demand a certain amount of reality, however small, in the emotion of a man who makes it his busine to endeavor at exciting our own. Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 369. =Syn. Undertake , Endeavor , etc. (see attempt ); to seek, aim, struggle. ... A disease is said to be endemic to some peculiarity in a situation or locality. Thus, ague is endemic in marshy countries; goitre, at the base of lofty mountains. 2. In phytogeog. and zoögeog., peculiar to and characteristic of a locality or region, as a plant or an animal; indigenous or autochthonous in some region, and not elsewhere. It [the New Zealand flora] consists of 935 species, our own [British] islands po e ing about 1500; but a very large proportion of these are peculiar, there being no le than 677 endemic species, and 32 endemic genera. A. R. Wallace . They [bees] visit many exotic flowers as readily as the endemic kind. Darwin , Cro and Self Fertilisation, p. 415. Endemic disease, a disease to which the inhabitants of a particular country are peculiarly subject, and which for that reason may be supposed to proceed from local causes, as bad air or water. A disease may be endemic in a particular season and not in others, or endemic in one place and epidemic in another. See epidemic . II. n. A prevalence of endemic disease. In the light of these instructive, if not pleasant histori endeavor, endeavour (en-dev'or), n. [Early mod. E. also endevour ; endeavor , v.] An effort; cal facts and surroundings, and of our own investigations, an e ay; an attempt; an exertion of physical or mental powers toward the attainment of an object. His endeuour is not to offend, and his ayme the generall opinion. Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, A Plausible Man. If the will and the endeavour shall be theirs, the per form ance and the perfecting shall be his. Milton , Apology for Smectymnuus. Is the philanthropist or the saint to give up his endea tours to lead a noble life, because the simplest study of man's nature reveals, at its foundations, all the selfish pa ions and fierce appetites of the merest quadruped? Huxley, Man's Place in Nature, p. 131. we are to look for the cause of the recent endemic of Sanitarian, XV. 31. That fluxes are the general and endemical diseases in Ireland, I need not tell you. Boyle , Works, II. 190. endemically (en-dem'i-kal-i), adv . In an en- demic manner. Colds have been known to prevail endemically among the healthy crews of ve els lately arrived from the Arc- tic. Arc. Cruise of the Corwin, 1881, р . 13 . endemicity (en-de-mis'i-ti), n. [ endemicity of cholera in Lower Bengal means that self. [Now colloq.] Thinking myself bound in conscience and Christian charity to do my endeavor. R. Knox (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 450). Franklin, Autobiog., p. 448. And yet I have done my best endeavors. =Syn. Struggle, trial. endeavorer, endeavourer (en-dev'or-er), n. time at the great religious fairs has been gradually and permanently induced over a wide tract of soil in the basins and delta of the Ganges and Brahmapootra. Quarterly Rev., CXXVII. 209. endemiology (en-de-mi-ol'ō-ji), n. [ ἐν- δήμιος (see endemic ) + -λογία , λέγειν , speak: see -ology.] The scientific study and investigation of endemic diseases; the knowledge resulting IMG:content-0457.png:[blocks in formation] Voice, stature, motion, and other gifts, must be very bountifully bestowed by nature, or labour and industry Steele, Tatler, No. 167. will push the sun happy endeavourer in that way the furendeavormentt (en-dev'or-ment), n. [Early mod. E. endevourment; The Husbandman was meanly well content Triall to make of his endevourment . Spenser, Mother Hub. Tale, 1. 297. endeavour, v. and n. See endeavor . endeca-. An improper form of hendeca- . garding endemics. endemioust (en-de'mi-us), a. [ Kersey , 1715. endemism (en'dem-izm), n. [As endem-ic + -ism.] Same as endemicity . The Pyrenees are relatively as rich in endemic species as the Alps, and among the most remarkable instances of that endemism is the occurrence of the sole European species of Dioscorea (yam), the D. pyrenaica, on a sin gle high station in the Central Pyrenees, and that of the monotypic genus Xatardia only on a high Alpine pa be- tween the Val d'Eynes and Catalonia. Encyc. Brit., XX. 126. endenization (en-den-i-zā'shon), n. [ enden- denizen. [Rare.] under. That saw Roben hes men, As thay stode ender a bow [bough]. Robin Hood and the Potter (Child's Ballads, V. 21). ender-dayt, n. [ME., also enders- , enderes-, endres-, endris-, andyrs - day , ender- , appar. ante , before: see and , ante- , and end ) (hardly, as has been suggested, a dial. or foreign form of other , AS. ōther = G. ander , etc.), + day.] Former day; other day: a word used only in the adverbial phrase this ender - day , the other day (that is, at some indefinite time recently past). The mater of the [metyng] miztow here finde, As i descriued this ender day whan thow thi drem toldest. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3042. I me wente this endres - daye , Full faste in mynd makane my mone. Thomas of Er eldoune (Child s Ballads, I. 98). Quhen I was young this hendre day, My fadyr wes kepar off yor hou . Barbour MS ., x. 551.