enhabilet

An obsolete form of enable. enhabitt (en-hab'it), v. t. See inhabit. enhablet, v. t. An obsolete form of enable. enhalo (en-hālō), v. t. [ Her captain still lords it over our memories, the greatest sailor that ever sailed the seas, and we should not look at Sir John Franklin himself with such admiring interest as that with which we enhaloed some larger boy who had made a voyage in her [the sloop Harvard). Lowell, Fireside Travels, p. 41. IMG:content-0500.png:[blocks in formation] enharmonic, enharmonical (en-här-mon'ik, -i-kal), a. [= F. enharmonique = Sp. enar mónico = Pg. enharmonico = It. enarmonico, The other me enhalse , With welcome cos in, now welcome out of Wales. Mir. for Mags ., p. 406. enhance (en-hans'), v.; pret. and pp. enhanced, ppr. enhancing. [Formerly also in hance; early mod. E. also enhaunce, enhaunse, ult. E. advance, equiv. to enhance): see avant, avaunt, advance.] I. trans. 11. To raise up; lift up; elevate. He that mekith himself shall be enhaunsed. IMG:content-0501.jpg:[blocks in formation] 2. To raise to a higher degree; increase to a higher point; carry upward or to a greater extent; heighten; make greater: as, to enhance make grea prices, or one's reputation or dignity; to en hance misery or sorrow. I move you, my lords, not to be greedy and outrageous in enhancing and raising of your rents. Latimer , 5th Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1549. The remembrance of the difficulties we now undergo will contribute to enhance our pleasure. Bp. Atterbury. The pulsation of a stretched string or wire gives the ear the pleasure of sweet sound before yet the musician has enhanced this pleasure by concords and combinations. Emerson, Art. =Syn. 2. To swell, augment, aggravate. II. in trans. To be raised; swell; grow larger: as, a debt enhances rapidly by compound interest. [Rare.] Leaving fair Voya cro 'd up Danuby, As high as Saba, whose enhauncing streams Cut 'twixt the Tartars and the Ru ians. Greene, Orlando Furioso. enhanced (en-hanst'), p. a. [Pp. of enhance, v.] In her., removed from its proper position and set higher in the field: said of any bearing. Also inhanced. and ( a ) refer on instruments of fixed intonation, like the pianoforte, to identical keys or tones; thus (a) are enharmonically distinct, but practically identical. Enharmonic change or modulation, a change of key or of chord-relationship effected by indicating a given tone first by one staff-degree and then by another, so as to a ociate it with two distinct tonalities. It is a somewhat arbitrary use of the imperfect modulatory capacities of b instruments of fixed intonation. Enharmonic diësis. See diesis. Enharmonic interval or relation, an in 00 IMG:content-0502.jpg:[ocr errors] IMG:content-0503.jpg:[ocr errors] terval or a relation based on the nominal distinctiou mentioned in def. 2 (b). - Enharmonic organ, an organ having more than twelve keys to the octave. - Enhar monic scale, a scale having more than twelve tones to the octave. enharmonically (en-här-mon'i-kal-i), adv. In an enharmonic manner, or in accordance with an enharmonic scale.