Nothing l so vnplciixunt I 
ill Ills < llii !r ;lllrrtil>ll. 
encounter 
ii man, n* to l>c ruemintred 
Arte uf Km;, rein*, p. 2i'>. 
Jurors are tint bound I" u-li. \r two witnesses, if the 
probability of the f 
4f. To befall ; betide. 
( ...... 1 I mi , ,i,:,,,i,il,,- >.< r: StMk., W. T., ii. 1. 
= Syn. 2. 'I'" confront, struggle with, contend against 
II. iiiinnix. 1. To meet ; come together; come 
into contact or collision. 
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encroach 
An obsolete form of increase. 
An obsolete variant of increase. 
.'i .!>., i. :I-,.II;L|.I.V ,-it,-n,ntt. r ihi-m. 
Sir JC. //ote. 
An obsolete form of increase. 
. >, that were my thought. ****" "fTwT encouragement (en-kur'aj-ment), ... [Fora 
ly iilso iin-iiiii-iii/i-,,,ciit, iiiriiriii/i nil-ill ; < OF. 
coragement, encouragement, F. encouragement 
The occupation dearest to hit heart encreaset, i 
Wai to encourage goodnew. pnrrpnt // 
co^r.Ta.k.u.709. encrest, --. 
Whatever la meant by Cbrtefi yoke belug ey, Christ en crestet i 1 . 
doea not rnctmr<i;ir Kin. 
./ //. Xemnan, 1'aroehial Sermons, i. 101. Not doubting but, If the name may be contynued 
eniongea theyiu, they .hall to therbjr be encrrtted In 
3f. To make stronger. weltli, tliat they wold not gladly be pulled therefrn. 
Eraamua had hi. Lagena or flagon of wine (recruited 
weekly from his friend, at London), whleh he drank urnii. encr iingon (en-krim'zn), V. t. [< en- 1 + Crim- 
tiuiea singly by itsolfe, and sometimes encouraged his " f .rimi<nn rpddcii 
faint Ale with the mixture thereof. ] io mak 
fuller, Hiat. Cambridge, V. 48. 
Former- 
en- 
Look here what tribute, wounded fancies tent me, 
Of paled pearls, and rubles red u blood ; 
Figuring that they their passions likewise lent me, 
Full met their stern encountering glance. 
Scott, Munition, ill. 5. 
2. To meet in opposition or conflict ; come to- 
gether in combat ; contend; fight. 
I prophesy thy death, my living sorrow, 
If tliou encounter with the boar to-morrow. 
Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 672. 
encounter (eu-koun'ter), . [Formerly also 
incounter; < ME. eneontre (rare). < OF. encontre, 
F. encontre = Pr. encontre = op. encuentro = 
Pg. encontro = It. incontro, a meeting; from 
the verb. Cf. rencounter, n.] 1. A meeting, 
particularly a sudden or accidental meeting, of 
two or more persons or bodies of any kind; a 
coming together or in contact. 
To shun th' encounter of the vulgar crowd. Pope. 
Specifically 2. In physics, the coming within 
the sphere of one another's action of the rapidly 
moving molecules of a gaseous body. The word 
is .0 used by some writers in order to avoid collision, 
which might be understood to imply impact. The mole- 
cule, of gases move in nearly rectilinear paths, until they 
come >o close to one another that they are suddenly de- 
flected. Tlds very brief mutual action is the encounter. 
See gat. 
of grief and blushes, aptly understood 
In bloodless white and the encritnsan'd mood. 
(= ft. ineoraggiamento, incoraggimento)~, < en- 
coragier, encourager, encourage: see encourage encrinal (en'kri-nal), a. [< encrin(ite) + -al.] 
and -ment.] 1. The act of encouraging, or of Pertaining to an encrinite or encrinites; relat- 
giving courage or confidence of success; in- ing to or containing fossil crinoids ; belonging 
citement to action or to perseverance ; a pro- t o extinct forms of the order Crinoidea (which 
moting or advancing. see). 
Somewhlle with merry purpose, fit to please, encrinic (en-krin'ik), a. [< encrin(ite) + -1C.] 
And otherwhile with good encouragement. Same as encrinal. 
Spenter, F. Q., VI. v. 82. Encrinida (en-krin'i-de), n. pi. 
For when he dies, farewell all honour, bounty, 
All generous encouragement of arts, utway, Orphan. 
As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafe, to mor- 
tals any more than just that degree of encouragement 
which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion 
of their powers. Hawthorne, Seven Gables, ill. 
upon one another, there will be said to be an encounter 
between them. 
11. W. Watson, Kinetic Theory of Caw., p. 27. 
3. A meeting in opposition or conflict of any 
kind; a conflict; a battle; specifically, a con- 
test between individuals or a small number of 
men, or an accidental meeting and fighting of 
detachments. 
Full jolly knight he seemd, and faire did sitt, 
As one for knightly uiusts and fierce encounters fltt. 
Spenser, F. Q., 1. 1. 1. 
Leave this keen encounter of our wits. 
Shak., Rich. III., i. 2. 
Who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and 
open encounter f Milton, Areopagltica, p. 52. 
4. Manner of encountering ; mode of accost or 
address ; behavior in intercourse. 
Thus has he ... only got the tune of the time, and out- 
ward habit of encounter. Shak., Hamlet, v. 2. 
=Syn. 3. 
MMON, atfair. 
2. That which serves to excite courage or con- 
fidence ; an encouraging fact or circumstance ; 
an incentive or inducement ; that which serves 
to promote or advance. 
What encouragement is there to venture an acquaintance 
with the rash and unstable? 
Up. AUertniry, Sermons, II. xxili. 
To think of his paternal care 
Is a most sweet encouragement to prayer. 
Byrom, On the Lord's Prayer. 
encourager (en-kur'aj-er), n. One who encou- 
rages, incites, or stimulates to action ; one who 
promotes or advances. 
He (Plato] would have women follow the camp, to be 
spectators and encouragert of noble actions. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 529. 
The pope is a master of polite learning, and a great rn- 
courager of arts. Addisou. 
The extraordinary collection, made in every way by the 
late king [of Saxony], who was the greatest encourager of 
arts and sciences, and of every thing that is curious. 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. Ii. 235. 
encouragingly (en-kur'aj-ing-li), adv. In a 
manner to give courage or hope of success. 
encradle (en-kra'dl), v. t.; pret. and pp. en- 
cradled, ppr. encradling. [< en- 1 + cradle.] 
To lay in a cradle. 
Beginne from first, where he encradled was 
In simple cratch, wrapt in a wad of hay. 
Spenser, Hymn of Heavenly Love. 
Fig. i. 
[NL.,< A'nm- 
nus + -idee.] The former 'name of a family 
of crinoids which contained the permanently 
stalked forms, rooted during life. Nearly all the 
fossil forms, the stone-lilies or encrinites, are of this char- 
acter. But the family was alo represented by several liv- 
ing genera, or sea-lilies, as distinguished from the free 
feather-atan. It U now divided Into numerous, families. 
A. now used by some authors, the family ls restricted to 
flxtulatous crinoids with a dicyclic base, basal plates with 
well-developed axial canal, brachiaU of two pieces, and 
generally without 
anal plates. They 
lived chiefly in 
the Triassic seas. 
See Crinoidea. 
encrinital 
(en'kri-ni-tal), 
a. [< encrinite 
+ -al.] Same 
as encrinal. 
encrinite (en'- 
kri-nit), n. [= 
F. encrinite, < 
NL. encrinitei,, 
< Or. in, in, + 
Kpiwv. a lily 
Any fossil cn- 
EDcriuite : head and piece of stem on the 
lei I. 
a, a, parts of the stem ; b, 3, separate joints. 
F. 2. 
Kncounter, Re,icounter, Skirmish, Brush, col- encratic (en-krat'ik), a. [< Gr. fyitpaTfe, having 
power, possession, or control, sell-controlling, \ 
fv, in, + Kiiaror, power, strength, < tcparvr,, strong, 
hard, = E. hard.] Of or pertaining to self-con- 
trol and self-denial, especially in the forms of 
continence and fasting or abstinence from ani- Encrinites 
mal food. ni'tez), n. 
As conflicts in war these are shorter, with 
, and of less importance, than those com- 
pared under battle. An encounter Is often an accidental 
meeting, resulting in some conflict, but not .ulfered to 
grow into a general engagement. Rencounter is the same 
thing, expressed by a term less common. A skirmish is an 
irregular or desultory contest between parts of armies, as 
scouting parties or skirmish-lines, not generally resulting 
in battle. A brush is short and sharp, perhaps engaging 
the wh"l <>( so, no force for a time, but not being pushed 
into a long or hard-fought struggle. See strife. 
encounterer (en-koun'ter-er), . 1. One who 
encounters ; an opponent ; an antagonist. 2. 
One who goes to an encounter, or seeks encoun- 
ters; one who is ready for encounter of any 
kind. 
O, these eneounterers, so glib of tongue, 
That give a coasting welcome ere it comes, 
And wide unclasp the table of their thoughts 
To every tickling reader! Shak., T. and C., Iv. 5. 
encourage (eu-kur'aj), r. t. ; pret. and pp. en- 
/niiraned, ppr. MeMMfiNA [Formerly also in- 
niiirinji' ; < OF. encourayier, encoraigier, encou- 
F. rncottraiirr (= Pr. rncorajar = Sp. Pg. 
= It. incoraggiare, incoraggire), < en, 
fi>itrii</i', courage, heart: see courage, n. 
Cf. ML. incordari, encourage, inspire, 
(see crinoid), + -ites, E. -ite'A] 
noid; a stone-lily: a term especially applied 
to the ordinary stalked form with a cylindrical 
stem and well-formed arms. Encrinites compose 
vast strata of marble in 
northern F.urope and 
North America. In flg. 2 
the variety in the figures 
of the encrinite. i. caused 
by the different sections 
represented. See Crinoi- 
dea. [The words associated 
with encrinite are now ar- 
chaic In zoology. In com- 
position encrinite (NL. 
enrrinites) is generally 
represented by its radical 
element (Or. *pi*m), giv- 
ing two parallel series of 
generic word, ending in 
-crinus and ^rinites. ] 
Piece of Derbyshire Marble, show- 
ing Encrinites. 
(en-kri- 
The prior form of 
n-kri-noi'de-S), n. pi 
group of crinoids. See Crinoidea. 
iu, + 
and v. 
the doctrine that the union of the sexes i 
sentially evil. 
Encratit 
Or. . 
ciplined, 
continent, p , 
of power, < tv, in, 4- icparof, power, strength.] j nj + Kpivov, lily (see encrinite), + ovpa, tail.] 
In the early history of the church, especially The typical genus of the family Encrinurida?. 
among the Gnostics, one of those ascetics who Encrinus (en'kri-nus), n. [NL. (Lamarck, 
refrained from marriage and from the use of 1816), < Gr. h, in, + Kpivov, lily: see encrinite.'] 
The name-giving genus of crinoids of the fam. 
ily Encrinidte, formerly of wide extent, but 
now restricted to a few closely related species. 
Also Encrinites. 
crisp.] 
flesh-meat and wine. They were members of various 
heretical sects, although sometimes spoken of as a dis- 
' 1 " 
wicked doctrine Tatianus, a learned Christian, did so de- 
tcst. that he fell into a quite contrary, . . . and thence 
came the sect Encratites. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), II. 312. 
< L. I'M. in, + cor(it-) = E. heart.] 1. To give 
courage to; inspire with courage, spirit, or 
firmness of mind; incite to action or perse- encra ty (en'kra-ti), n. [< Gr. ryupareui, mastery, 
control, self-control, < f)Kparfc, having power, 
11. ni iii. 28. possession, or control: see encratic.] Mastery 
verance. 
but charge Joshua, and encmtra;!' him. 
Kin- i:i.ii;ml. to encourage his Soldiers, made a solemn over the senses; abstinence from pleasures of a _ ( _ na _i 1 / 
jeech to tl,, ,. Baker, Chronicles, p. 233. senge; gelf-control. as excrcisrd in fasting and el 
'"!' '!?:.'" ':'l'i'V' "' r':. 1 :" 1 .;..^. 1 :: ls ': ri ''': 1 .. t ^.. 1 " lU8e continence, especially the latter. '.'''' 
Speech 
to his imtlUlll tilllhlit). ;ittflll)i1r,l In , in-'^u ,-,1'!,- him. 
(inlilfuiitli, Vicar, xix. 
2. To help forward ; promote; give support to : 
as, to t'neouraijr manufactures. 
Tlie martyrs at Lyons, as we have seen, and it may be 
said the School of s. John in ueneral. were distinguished 
by a nolile moderation : by rnrrahi. or temperance, in tin- 
truest sense of the word. Mahan, Church History, p. 1B1. 
pp. of "encrisp, v., <. en- 1 
formed in curls. [Rare.] 
Thai .hall have softe encritped wolle [wool] 
And womlerly prolonged atte the fulle. 
Palladiut, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 154. 
With heris [hairs) encritped, yalowe as the golde. 
Skeftmi, Garland of Laurel, 1. 280. 
en-kroch'), r. [Formerly also '- 
. ME. encrochen, < OF. encrochier, en- 
, encrocier, encroquier, encrocquier (ML. 
incrocare), seize upon, take, < en, in, + croc, a 
hook: see crook, and cf. act-roach.] I.t trans. 
To seize ; take ; take possession of; get ; obtain. 
