enrichment (enrichment)

[ The enrichment of the rich, the poverty of the poor, the public dishonesty, the debasement of the coinage, the robbery of the Church and of learning, went on undiminished. R. W. Dixon , Hist. Church of Eng., xvii. The hard sufferings of the poor are intensified by the wrongful conversion of the Government to the enrichment of its partisans. N. A. Rev., CXXVII. 274. (b) Fertilization, as of the soil; a making productive. (c) Improvement by the abundant supply of what is useful or desirable. I grant that no labour tends to the permanent enrich ment of society which is employed in producing things for the use of unproductive consumers. J. S. Mill . The great majority of those who favor some enrichment of the meager ritual of the Puritan churches yet prefer that the leader of their worship shall have some liberty of expre ion. The Century, XXXI. 152. (d) The garnishing of any object with rich ornaments, or with elaborate decorative motives: as, the enrichment of a bookbinding, or of a stole; also, the ornamentation itself: as, ornamented with a bra enrichment. West of the Church stands the atrium, with the windows of the west front and the remains of mosaic enrich ment rising above it. E. A. Freeman , Venice, p. 106. enridget (en-rij'), v. t. [ ridge .] To ridge; form into ridges. As I stood here below, methought his eyes Were two full moons; he had a you sand noses, Horns whelk'd, and wav'd like the enridged sea. Shak ., Lear, iv. 6. enregiment (en-rej'i-ment), v. t. regiment.] To enroll in regiments. [Rare.] enring (en-ring'), v . t. [ You cannot drill a regiment of knaves into a regiment of honest men, enregiment and organize as cunningly as you will. Froude, Carlyle, II. enregister (en-rej'is-tèr), v . t. [Formerly also in register ; enregistrer , registrer , re- Shak ., Macbeth, iii. 4. gister: see register .] To register; enroll or record. [Obsolete or rare.] I pray you, speak not; he grows worse and Question enrages him. What doubt we to incense worse; His utmost ire? which, to the highth enraged , Will. quite consume us. Milton , P. L., ii. 95. =Syn. To irritate, incense, anger, madden, infuriate. II. in trans. To become angry or enraged. [A Gallicism.] My father.. will only enrage at the temerity of of fering to confute him. Mi Burney , Cecilia, ix. 7. enraged (en-rājd'), p . a. [Pp. of enrage , v.] 1. Angry; furious; exhibiting anger or fury: as, an enraged countenance. The loudest seas and most enraged winds Shall lose their clangor. B. Jonson, Sad Shepherd, iii. 2. 21. Aggravated; heightened; pa ionate. By my troth, my lord, I cannot tell what to think of it; but that she loves him with an enraged affection-it is past the infinite of thought. Shak., Much Ado, ii. 3. 3. In her., having a position similar to that noted by salient: said of a horse used as a bearing.