egotism 
attention, Ignoring the opinions of others, etc. It differs 
from conceit chlelly iti 1U selfishness and unconsciousness 
of Its appearance ill the eyes of others. Coiuvil lu'emms 
eyotixin when it in Hellish enmiKli to disparage others for 
its own comparative elevation. Sf(f-cotuKwusnens in often 
confoumlfcl with .;'i'*//i, o./i.r//. nr nuuii/, Imt it may 
be only an embarrassing sense of one's own personality, 
an inability to refrain from thinking how one appears to 
others ; it therefore often makes one shrink nut of notice. 
Vanity makes men ridiculous, pride odious. Stale. 
J'riite, indeed, pervaded the whole man, was written In 
the liar.ih, rigid lines of liis face, was marked by the way 
in which lie stood, and, above all. in which he bowed. 
Macaulay, William 1'itt. 
Ills excessive egotism, which filled all objects with him- 
self. Uazlitt. 
We never could very clearly understand how it Is that 
egotism, MI unpopular in conversation, should be so popu- 
lar in writing. Macaulay, Moore's Byron. 
These sparks with awkward vanity display 
What the tine gentleman wore yesterday. 
Pope, Essay on Criticism, 1. 329. 
Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up. 
Ruskin, True and Beautiful. 
They that have the least reason have the most aelf-con- 
ceit. Whichcote. 
Something which befalls you may seem a great misfor- 
tune; you . . . begin to think that it is a chastisement, 
or a warning. . . . But give up this egotistic Indulgence of 
your fancy; examine a little what misfortunes, greater 
a thousand fold, are happening, every second, to twenty 
times worthier persons ; and your self -consciousness will 
change into pity and humility. 
Ruikin, Ethics of the Dust, v. 
egotist (e'go-tist or eg'o-tist), n. [< ego + t 
(inserted to avoid hiatus, or after the analogy 
of dramatist, epigrammatist, etc.) + -is*. Cf. 
egoist, egoism, etc.] One who is characterized 
by egotism, in either sense of that word. 
We are all ejolista in sickness and debility. 
0. W. Holmet, Old VoL of Life, p. 28. 
egotistic, egotistical (e-go- or eg-o-tis'tik, e-go- 
or eg-o-tis ti-kal), a. Pertaining to or of the 
nature of egotism ; characterized by egotism : 
as, an egotistic remark ; an egotistic person. 
It would, indeed, be scarcely safe to draw any decided 
inferences as to the character of a writer from passages 
directly egotistical. Macaulay. 
-Syn. Conceited, vain, self-important, opinionated, as- 
suming. See egotism. 
egotistically (e-go- or eg-o-tis'ti-kal-i), adv. In 
an egotistical manner. 
egotize (e'go-tiz or eg'o-tlz), v. i. ; pret. and 
pp. egotized, ppr. egotizing. [< ego + t (see ego- 
tist) + -tee.] To talk or write much of one's 
self; exhibit egotism. [Rare.] 
I eyotize In my letters to thee, not because I am of much 
importance to myself, but because to thee both ego and 
all that eyo does are Interesting. 
Courper, To Lady Hesketh. 
In these humble essaykins I have taken leave to etrotize. 
Thackeray, A Hundred Years Hence. 
egranulose (e-gran'u-16s), a. [< L. e- priv. + 
grtinulose.] In bot., not granulose; without 
granulations. 
egret (e'gr), n. Same as eager" 2 . 
egreet, prep. phr. as adv. A Middle English 
form of agree. 
Thene the emperour was egree, and enkerly fraynes 
The answere of Arthure. 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 607. 
egre-flnt, See eagle-fin. 
egregious (e-gre'jus), a. [< L. egregius, distin- 
guished, surpassing, eminent, excellent, < e, 
ex, out, -I- grex (greg-), flock : see gregarious.] 
Above the common ; beyond what is usual ; ex- 
traordinary, (at) In a good sense, distinguished ; re- 
markable. 
Erictho 
'Bove thunder sits : to thee, egregious soule, 
Let all flesh bend. Martton, Sophonisba, Iv. 1. 
He might be able to adorn this present age, and furnish 
history with the records of egregious exploits, both of art 
and valour. Dr. II. More, Antidote against Atheism. 
This essay [Pope's " Essay on Man "| affords an egregious 
instance of the predominance of genius, the dazzling splen- 
dour of imagery, and the seductive powers of eloquence. 
Johnson, Pope. 
(6) Now, more commonly in a bad or condemnatory sense, 
extreme ; enormous. 
These last times, ... for insolency, pride, and egreyimis 
contempt of all good order, are the worst. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, Pref., Iv. 
Ah me, most credulous fool, 
Egregious murderer, thief, anything 
That's due to all the villains past, in being, 
To come ! Shak., Cymbellne, T. 5. 
People that want sense do always In an eareqious man- 
ner want modesty. stftle, Tatier, No. 47. 
You have made, too, some egregious mistakes about 
English law. pointed out to me by one of the first lawyers 
in the King's Bench. .>>// y >,/</,. T,, Francis Jeffrey. 
= Syn. (b). Huge, monstrous, astonishing, surprising, 
Unique, exceptional, uncommon. unpreredeuteil. 
egregiously (e-gre'jus-li), adr, Iu an egregious 
manner. 
1855 
Make the Moor thank me, love me, and reward inc. 
For making him egreyiouttij an ass. 
Shak., Othello, il. 1. 
What can be more egregiously absurd, than to dissent in 
our opinion, and discord in our choice, from Infinite wis- 
dom? Borrow, Works, I. xvili. 
egregiousness (e-gre'jus-nes), n. The state or 
quality of being egregious, 
egremoinet, . An obsolete variant of agri- 
iiniiii/. cliniicfr. 
egress (e'gres, formerly e-gres'), H. [= Pg. It. 
egresso, < L. egressus, a going out, < egressus, 
pp. of egredi, go out, < e, out, + gradi, go : see 
grade. Cf. ingress, progress, regress.] 1. The 
act of going or issuing out; a going or passing 
out ; departure, especially from an inclosed or 
confined place. 
Their [bishops'] lips, as doors, are not to be opened but 
for egrets of instruction and sound knowledge. 
Uooker, Eccles. Polity, vll. 24. 
Gates of burning adamant, 
BarrM over us, prohibit all egreti. 
Milton, P. L, II. 437. 
2. Provision for passing out ; a means or place 
of exit. 
The egress, on this side, is under a great stone archway, 
thrown out from the palace and surmounted with the 
family arms. //. James, Jr., Trans. Sketches, p. 162. 
3. In astron., the passing of a star, planet, or 
satellite (except the moon) out from behind 
or before the disk of the sun, the moon, or a 
planet. 
egress (e-gres'), r. t. [< L. egressus, pp. of egredi. 
go out: see egress, n. Cf. aggress, progress.] 
To go out ; depart ; leave. [Rare.] 
egression (e-gresh'on), n. [= 8p. (obs.) egre- 
sion, < L. egressio(n-), < egressus, pp. of egredi, 
go out: see egress.] The act of going out, 
especially from an inclosed or confined place ; 
departure ; outward passage ; egress. [Rare.] 
I ni:i. So thou mayst have a triumphal egression. 
Pug. In a cart, to be hanged ! 
B. Jonson, Devil is an Ass, v. 4. 
The wise and good men of the world, . . . especially In 
the days and periods of their joy and festival egressions, 
chose to throw some ashes into their chalices. 
Jer. Taylor, Holy Dying, II. 1. 
egressqr (e-gres'or), n. One who goes out. 
egret (e'gret), . " [Also, in some senses, aigret, 
aigrette, formerly egrett, egrette, (egret; < P. ai- 
grette, a sort of heron, a tuft of feathers, a tuft, 
a cluster (of diamonds, etc.), the down of seeds, 
etc., dim. of OF. "aigre, "aigron, mod. F. dial. 
fyron , found in OF. onlywithlossofthe guttural, 
liiron, mod. F. heron, a heron, whence E. heron : 
see heron.] 1. A name common to those spe- 
cies of herons which have long, loose-webbed 
plumes, forming tufts on the head and neck, 
or a flowing train from the back. 
In the famous feast of Archbishop Nevill, we find no less 
than a thousand asterides, eyrrts or eyrittes, as it Is differ- 
ently spelt. Pennant, Brit. Zoology. 
2. A heron's plume. 
Their head tyres of flowers, mlx'd with silver, and gold, 
with some sprigs of cegrets among. 
/.'. Jonson, Masques, Chloridia. 
3. A topknot, plume, or bunch of long feathers 
upon the head of a bird ; a plumicorn : as, the 
egrets of an owl. 4. Same as aigret, 2. 5. In 
bot., the flying, feathery, or hairy down of seeds, 
as the down of the thistle. 6. A monkey, Ma- 
cacus cynomolgus, an East Indian species com- 
monly seen in confinement. Great white egret, 
the white heron of Europe (Herodias alba), or of America 
Egyptian 
with an egret on the head, and a recurved denial train. 
Reddish egrets, dlchrolc egrets, henm* nf tl. 
em ffyriiWMHM, Bmnmana '. Demi ' "". etc., with 
variegated I-MH tun- - white) plumage, and long dorsal 
train. 
egrettt, egrettet, ". See cgrrt. 
egrimouy't, " An obsolete form of agrimony. 
Egrimony bread Is very pleasant. /(. Sharroek, 1668. 
egrimony 2 * (eg'ri-mo-ni), n. [< L. (egrimonia, 
sorrow, anxiety, < a-ger, sick, troubled, sorrow- 
ful.] Sickness of the mind ; sadness; sorrow. 
t'nckerum. 
egriot (e'gri-ot), n. [Formerly also agriot, < OF. 
mjriiite, "agfioHe, the ordinary sharp or tart 
cherry, which we also call Agriot-cherry " (Cot- 
grave), mod. F. griotte, prob. ult. < Or. "aypt- 
UTIK (f) for aypuTtK, wild, ayptnf, wild, < oypof, 
field: see Agrostis, etc.] A kind of sour cherry. 
egritudet (e'gri- or eg'ri-tud), n. [= It. egri- 
ttuline, < L. tegritudo, < ager, sick, troubled, sor- 
rowful.] Mental trouble; sorrow; distress; 
more rarely, bodily sickness. 
I do not intende to write to the cure of effritudes or 
syckenesses confyrmed. 
Sir T. Elyot, Castle of Health, Iv. 
Now, now we symbolize in egrilude, 
And simpathlze In Cupids malady. 
Cyprian Academy (1647), p. 34. 
egualmente (a-gwal-men'te), adv. [It., equal- 
ly, evenly, < eguale, < L. (equalis, equal.] In 
music, evenly: a direction in playing. 
eguise (e-gwe-za'), a. In her., same as aiguist 1 . 
Egyptian (e-jip'shan), a. and . [Early mod. 
E. also Egiptian, fcgypcien, Egipcien (also by 
apheresis Gipcien, Gipsen, etc., whence mod\ 
Gipsy, q. v.); < OF. Egyptien, F. Sgyptfen = 
8p. Lgipciano, < L. sEgyptius, < Gr. Ai-yvimof, 
Egyptian, < AlymTos (L. jEgyptus), m., Egypt, 
fern., the Nile. Thejname does not appear to 
be of Egyptian or Semitic origin.] I. a. 1. 
Pertaining to Egypt, a country in the north- 
eastern part of Africa, in the valley and delta 
of the Nile. 2f. Gipsy. See II., 2. Egyptian 
architecture, the architecture of ancient Egypt which, 
among its peculiar monument*, exhibits pyramids, rock- 
cut temples and tombs, and gigantic monolithic obelisks. 
The characteristic features of the style are solidity and 
the majesty attending colossal size. Among its peculiar- 
ities are : (a) The gradual converging or sloping inward 
of most of its exterior wall-surfaces. This is especially 
noticeable in the pylons or monumental gateways stand- 
ing singly or in series before Its temples. ('<) Roofs and 
American Great White 
(Herodias erjretta), 3 feet or more in length, entirely white, 
with a magnificent train of long, decomposed, fastigiate 
Illumes drooping far beyond the tall. Little White 
egret, the small white heron of Europe (Oarzetla nirea), 
or of America (Garzetta candidiosima), about 2 feet long, 
Egyptian Architecture. 
Portico of the Temple of Edfou. Ptolemaic period. 
covered ways, flat, and composed of Immense blocks of 
stone, reaching from one wall or stone epistyle beam to 
another, the arch, although in all its forms of frequent 
use in drains and similar works, not being employed in 
architecture above ground, which holds consistently to 
the system of lintel-construction, (e) Columns, numerous, 
close, and massive, without bases, or with broad, flat, low 
Dues, and exhibiting great variety In their capitals, from 
a simple square block to a wide-spreading bell, elaborately 
carved with palm-leaves or other forms suggested by vege- 
tation, especially In some adaptation of the lotus plant, 
bnd, or flower, (d) The employment of a large concave 
molding to crown the entablature, decorated with vertical 
flutings or leaves, (e) Walls and columns decorated with 
profusion of sculptures In Incised outline, often of ad- 
mirable precision (see capo-rilievo), or in low relief, rep- 
resenting divinities, men, and animals, with innumerable 
hieroglyphics, brilliant and true, though simple, coloring 
being superadded. A remarkable feature of Egyptian 
architecture is the grandeur of its mechanical operations, 
as in cutting, polishing, sculpturing, and transporting 
enormous blocks of limestone and of granite, and in its 
stupendous excavations in the solid rock. The prototype 
of the Greek Doric order is to be sought in such Egyptian 
columnar structures as the grotto-facades of Beni- Hassan ; 
and from the KL'> ptian lotus carvings and decoration were 
developed many characteristic Assyrian decorative mo- 
tives, as well as the Ionic capital and the graceful anthe- 
mion-moldlng of Greece. See mastalxt. obelifk. pylon, 
pyramid, s\irintie. etc. Egyptian art, the architecture, 
sculpture, and painting of amicnt F.uvpt, one of the most 
important of the great artistic developments of the world. 
(See Egyptian architecture, above.) The earliest known 
