Ennomus (enomus)

[NL. (Treitschke, 1825), E. annoy: see annoy, n.] A painful or wearisome state of mind due to the An obsolete form of annoy . want of any object of interest, or to enforced attention to something destitute of interest; the condition of being bored; tedium. The only fault of it is insipidity; which is apt now and then to give a sort of ennui , which makes one form certain little wishes that signify nothing. Gray, Letters. Undoubtedly the very tedium and ennui which presume to have exhausted the variety and the joys of life are as old as Adam. Thoreau , Walden, p. 12. The dreadful disease of ennui , of life-wearine , attacks all who have no aim, no permanent purpose. J. F. Clarke , Self-Culture, p. 35. ennuyé (on-nwē-ya'), a . and n. [F. (fem. en nuyée), pp. of ennuyer , affect with ennui, the mod. form of OF. anoier, > E. annoy: see an noy, v., and cf. ennui.] I. a. Affected with ennui; bored; sated with pleasure. II. n. One affected with ennui; one whom satiety has rendered incapable of receiving pleasure from the occupations of life; one indifferent to or bored by ordinary pleasures or interests. enodal (e-no'dal), a . [ bot . , without nodes; jointle .-2. Not having nodes: said of an aspect of a polyhedron. Kirkman. Also enodous . enodally (e-no'dal-i), adv. In an enodal man ner or shape. enodationt (e-nō-da's hon), n. [ L.enodatio (n-), Scarcely anything that way proved too hard for him for his enodation. W. Sclater , Sermon at Funeral of A. Wheelock, 1654. enodet (e-nod'), a. [ F.énode , enodis , knotle , nodus = E. knot.] Destitute of knots; knotle .