enemy, enemi, enemye

& a. [O. Fr. way or breaking. "Both were of shining steel, and wrought so pure, As might the strokes of two such arms endure " Dryden: Palamon and Arcite , ii. 175, 176. 4. To bear with patience; to suffer. "O Valentine, this I endure for thee." Shakesp.. Two Gentlemen of Verona, v. 3. 5. To suffer, to put up with, to tolerate, to abide. "I could not endure a husband with a beard." Shakesp.: Much Ado About Nothing , ii. 1. 6. To suffer, to undergo, to experience, to meet with. hostile: in = not, and amicus =a friend; Sp. ene migo; Port. inimigo; Ital. nemico.] A. As substantive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. One who is very unfriendly or hostile to another; an adversary, an antagonist, an opponent.. "He who does a man an injury, generally becomes the rancorous enemy of the injured man, and even the friends of him whose power is on the decline, withdraw from his interest."- Mickle : Portuguese Empire in Asia. 2. A public foe. [1.] IMG:content-0985.png:[blocks in formation] II. Fig .: Time. Usually in the phrase, How goes the enemy? ( Slang .) *B. As adj .: Inimical, hostile, opposed. "They every day grow more enemy to God." -Jeremy Taylor . Crabb thus discriminates between enemy, ad. versary, foe, opponent , and antagonist : "An eneту is not so formidable as a foe ; the former may be reconciled, but the latter remains always deadly. An enemy may be so in spirit, in action, or tion; a foe is always so in spirit, if not in action likewise; a man may be an enemy to himself, though not a foe . Those who are national or pol it. ical enemies are often private friends, but a foe is never anything but a foe . A single act may create an enemy , but continued warfare will create a foe . Enemies are either public or private, collective or personal; in the latter sense the word enemy is most analogous in signification to that of adver sary, opponent, antagonist. Enemies seek to injure each other commonly from a sentiment of hatred; the heart is always more or le implicated: adver saries set up their claims, and frequently urge their pretensions with angry strife, but interest more than sentiment stimulates to action: opponents set up different parties, and treat each other sometimes with acrimony; but their differences do not nece arily include any thing personal: antagonists are a species of opponents who are in actual engage ment: emulation and direct exertion, anger, is concerned in making the antagonist." ( Crabb: Eng. Synon.) *enemy-like, *enemie-lyke, a . Characteristic of an enemy; hostile, opposed.