envious, envios, enviouse, envius, envyous

[O. Fr. envios, envieus; Fr. envieux, from Lat. invidiosus, from invidium =envy; Ital. invidioso; Sp. envidioso; Port. invijoso.] 1. Full of or infected with envy; feeling envy, pain, or discontent at the succe , prosperity, or fortune of another. "An envious man, if you succeed, May prove a dangerous foe indeed." Cowper: Friendship. It is now followed by of before the object of the envy; but formerly at and against were also used. "Be not thou envious against wicked men."-Proverbs xxiv. 19. 2. Instigated or directed by envy. *3. Enviable; calculated to excite or inspire envy. "He to him leapt, and that same envious gage Of victor's glory from him snatched away." Spenser: F. Q., I. iv. 39. *4. Careful, watchful, anxious. "No men are so enuious of their health." -Jer . Taylor . ěn-vi-oŭs-lý, adv . [Eng. envious ; -ly .] In an envious manner; with envy or malignity; through envy. "How enviously the ladies look, When they surprise me at my book."-Swift. ěn'-vi-oŭs-ne , s. [Eng.envious; -ne .] The quality or state of being envious. ěn-vi-ron, *en-vi-ronne, *en-vi-roun, *envy-rone, *en-vy-roun, *en-vy-rowne, v . t . [Fr. environner, from environ around about: en in, and virer =to turn, to veer; Low Lat. viro .] 1. To surround, to encompa , to encircle. "He entered now the bordering desart wild, And with dark shades and rocks environed round." Milton: P. R. , i. 194. 2. To hem in, to surround, or besiege. "Thin enemyes schulen envyrowne thee with a pale."Wycliffe: Luke xix. 3. To involve, to envelop, to surround; as, to en viron with obscurity or darkne . "But darkne and the gloomy shade of death Environ you, 'till mischief and despair Drive you to break your necks." *4. To travel round. Shakesp.; Henry VI ., Pt . I., v. 4. "The mone enviro une the the erthe more hastyly than ony othere planete." - Maundeville , p. 162. *5. To travel over, to traverse. "To envyrone that holy lond with his ble ede feet." Maundeville , p. 1. For the difference between to environ and to surround , see SURROUND. IMG:content-1057.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Ord. Lang.: Surrounded, encompa ed, encircled, shut in. 2. Her .: Bound round or about; encircled. ěn-vi-ron-ment, s. [Eng. environ ; -ment . ] 1. The act of environing or surrounding. 2. That which environs, encompa es, or sur rounds; surroundings. "I wot not what complexions and environments."-P Holland : Plutarch , p. 827.