endearment 
2. Endearing action; a manifestation of affec- endeictic (en-dik'tik), a. 
tion; loving conduct; a caress, or the like. 
\V.' luivu driiwn you, worthy sir, 
To make your fair ID our acufhter, 
Or. tvf, 
vat, point out 
in, 4- ietKi'i fa, pnint out: see deictic, apodic- 
tic.] Showing; exhibiting Endeictic dialogue, 
In Ihe rintvnie philos.. a dialogue which exhibits a spcci- 
in, n of dialectic skill. 
and ntilfaruienls, why should the "mother bo willing to endeixls (en-dik'sis), n. [NL., prop, endixin, < 
divide it with a stranger 1 ; (J T ivAcific. a pointing out, demonstration, < 
Jer. Taylor, Work, (ed. 183*), I. 40. iv6etlcvi . v ^ oi ^ oat , 8 | e e , tdeic tie.] An indica- 
endeavor, endeavour (en-dev^ or), v. [The sec- tion . 80me times used as a synonym of symptom. 
And worthy services known t our subjects. 
I:, mi. aiul /'(., I'hilnster, I. 1. 
If the mime of mothrr lie MI appellative of alt' > ti :i- 
endiable 
[Prop, 'endiftif, < endenizet (on-dcn'iz), r. t. [Short form of en- 
iii ni :i-n. \ Same as endenizen. 
Specially since that learning, after long banishment, was 
iv,-;illed in the time of King Henry tlie Klglith, it [our 
! hath len beautified and enriched out of otli. r 
t I tongues, partly by enfranchising and endemziva 
strange words. Camden, quoted in Hall's Hod. Bug., p. 0. 
And having by little and little In many victories van- 
Kof, probative, indicative, < ivAeuevi-- 
ut, show, give proof, indicate, < ev, 
:i nitwit v/*. | \j*i,\*\ji*i \ ../' a T" i HUH OUlllCLlHico itncw o n aj jv**j ** 
outl form usual in England. Early mod. k. also endellionite (en-del'yon-it), n. [< Endtllioii endenizen (on-den'j-zn), v. t. 
rntli-rnr. /mlt'roii; iiiilrrm; indevour, indever, < ( 8CO ( l ( .f.) + -i(c2.] Tne mineral bournonite, endeiii:iiii ; < en- 1 + denizen.'] 
late MK. fiidi-nn; iiidi-mr, u verb due to the orig. f oun ,i j n t ne parish of Endellion, in Cornwall, zen of; recognize as a legal r 
phrase put in dever: in, prep., taken in comp. ,,,,. ^ IOU cnllf .,. 
as the prefix en-, I'M-; <'", <l<ror, devour, Avty, en d em ialt (en-de'mi-al), a. [< Gr. tvomwof, sM- 
obligation : see derer, devoir.] I. trans. It. To i on gi UK to the people': see endemic.] Same as 
put, apply, or exert (one's self) to do a thing : 
used ronexively. 
I indeixr my telfe to do a thyng, I payne my selfe, I in- 
dever me to do the best I can. J'alsyravr. 
told me 
Its very nature fncapableof prolongation, and Wordsworth, 
in endeavoring it, falls more below himself. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 243. 
quished the nations bordering upon them, [they] brought 
thriii at length to be endeniud and naturalized In their 
owne name, like as the Persians also did. 
Holland, tr. of Ammlanus, p. 401. 
t. [Formerly also 
To make a deni- 
, ,- resident; natural- 
ize to a partial extent. [Rare.] 
Yet a Man may live as renown'd at home, In his own 
country, or a private village, as In the whole World. 
For It is Vertue that gives Glory ; That will endenizon a 
Man every where. B. Janson, Discoveries. 
There are endemial and local Infirmities proper unto 
certain regions, which in the whole earth make no small 
number. Sir T. Browne, Letter to a friend. 
2 To attempt to gain ; try to effect ; strive to The distemper ... is "I* 5 """* among the great, and 
achieve or attain; strive after. [Archaic.] ' s TuW,uM iCpTr Enjoyment of Life. ..,*... 
Lord Loudoun arrived at Philadelphia, expressly, as he _ nd( , mlc ( er ,^ e m'ik) a and n f= F. ende- ender (en'der), . One who or that which ends, 
Id me, to endeavor an accommodation between the gov- endemic en-Uem IK;, a. ana n. \- r. enue fe ; t or fishes. 
nor and Assembly. Franklin, Autobiog., p. 253. mtque = Sp. endemtco = Pg. It. endemtco (ct. U. 
This intensity of mood which insures high quality is by G. endemisch = Dan. Sw. etidemuk), < Ur. as i: 
'; for Mf//Jiof, equiv. to Mnfior,, native, 
g to a people, < ev, in, + <i;///of , the peo- 
ple: see rferae 2 . Cf. epidemic.] I. a. 1. Pecu- 
liar to a people or nation, or to the residents of 
Jews and Mahometans may be permitted to live In a 
Christian commonwealth with the exercise of their reli- 
gion, but not to be endenizon'd. 
Locke, Third Letter on Toleration, lil. 
v. t. See indent. 
Alias, myn hertes queen ! alias, ray wjrf I 
Myn hertes lady, endere of my lyf 1 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1918. 
But yield them up where I myself must render, 
That is, to you, my origin and ender. 
Shak., Lover's Complaint, 1. 222. 
II. intrans. 1. To labor or exert one's self to ur to a people or nation, or to the residents o 
do or effect something: strive; try; make an a particular locality : chiefly applied todiseases. endert, prep. An obsolete dialectal form of 
effort : followed by an infinitive. 
But he endevored with speaches mild 
Her to recomfort, and accourage bold. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. vlll. 84. 
A great slaughter was made after this among the routed, 
and many of the first nobility were slain in ctuleamuring 
to escape. Bruce, Source of the Nile, II. 203. 
Amy hastily endeavoured to recall what she were best 
to say, which might secure herself from the imminent dan- 
gers that surrounded her. Scott, Kenilworth, xxxiv. 
2. To direct one's efforts or labor toward some 
object or end; fix one's course; aim: with at, 
for, or after. [Archaic.] 
Thinking It sufficient to obtain immortality by their 
descendant!!, without endeavouring at great actions. 
Bacon, Physical Fables, ill., Expl. 
It was into this Oulph that Capt. Davis was gone with 
the two Canoas, to endeavour for a Prisoner, to gain intel- 
ligence, if possible, before our Ships came In. 
Dainpier, Voyages, I. 125. 
I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy 
would . . . endeavour after a handsome elocution. 
Addison, Spectator, No. 108. 
We have a right to demand a certain amount of reality, 
however small, in the emotion of a man who makes it his 
business to endeavor at exciting our own. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 389. 
= Syn. Undertake, Endeavor, etc. (see attempt); to seek, 
aim, struggle. 
endeavor, endeavour (en-dev'or), n. [Early 
mod. E. also cndevour; < endeavor, v.] An effort ; 
an essay; an attempt; an exertion of physical 
This deformity, as it was endemic, and the people little 
used to strangers, it had been the custom ... to look 
upon as the greatest ornament of the human visage. 
Goldsmith, The Bee, No. 1. 
We have not been able to escape one national and en- 
demic habit, and to be liberated from interest in the elec- 
tions and In public affairs. Emerson, Misc., p. 329. 
A disease is said to be endemic . . . when it Is owing 
to some peculiarity In a situation or locality. Thus, ague 
Is endemic in marshy countries ; goitre, at the base of lofty 
mountains. Dunglison. 
2. In phytogeog. and zoogeog., peculiar to and 
characteristic of a locality or region, as a plant 
or an animal ; indigenous or autochthonous in 
some region, and not elsewhere. 
It [the New Zealand flora) consists of 935 species, our 
own [British) Islands possessing about 1600; but a very 
large proportion of these are peculiar, there being no less 
than 077 endemic species, and 32 endrmir genera. 
A. R. Wallace. 
They [bees] visit many exotic flowers as readily as the 
endemic kind. Darwin, Cross and Self Fertilisation, p. 415. 
Endemic disease, a disease to which the inhabitants of 
under. 
That saw Roben hes men, 
As thay stode ender a bow [hough]. 
Robin Hood and the Potter (Child's Ballads, V. 21). 
ender-dayt, [ME., also enders-, enderes-, en- 
ares-, endris-, andyrs-day, < ender-, appar. < Icel. 
endr, adv., in times of yore, formerly, before 
(ult. akin to L. ante, before : see and, ante-, and 
end) (hardly, as has been suggested, a dial, or 
foreign form of other, AS. other = G. nnder, etc.). 
+ day.] Former day; other day: a word used 
other day (that is, at some indefinite time re- 
cently past). 
The mater of the (metyng) mljtow here flnde, 
As 1 descriued this ender day whan thow thi drem toldest. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3042. 
I me wente this endres-daye, 
Full faste In mynd makane mvmone. 
Thomas of Ersseldoune (CllilS's Ballads, I. 98). 
Quhcn I was young this hendre day, 
My fadyr wes kepar off yor houss. 
IlarlxmrMS.,*. 551. 
a particular country are peculiarly subject, and which for en( i erm atic (en-der-mat'ik), a. K Gr. ev, in, + 
that reason may be supposed to proceed from local causes, eni j'JYA j. ,vi <= 
as bad air or water. A [disease may be endemic In a par- 6epua(r-), the skin (see derm), + -1C.] Same as 
as 
ticular season and not in others, or endemic in one place etldermic. 
and epidemic in another. See epidemic. endermic (en-der'mik), a. [< Gr. ev, in, + 
13. . A prevalence of endemic disease. 
In the light of these Instructive, if not pleasant histori- 
cal facts and surroundings, and of our own Investigations, 
we are to look for the cause of the recent endemic of fever. 
Sanitarian, XV. 31. 
iep/ia, the skin (see derm), + -ic.] In med., in- 
volving direct application to the skin : said of 
that method of administering medicines in 
which they are applied to the skin after the 
or mental powers toward the attainment of an endemical (en ^ e m'i-kal), a. Same as endemic, epidermis has been removed by blistering. See 
object, 
His endeuour is not to offend, and his ayme the general! 
opinion. 
lip. Karle, Mlcro-cosmographie, A Plausible Man. 
If the will and the endeavour shall be theirs, the per- 
formance and the perfecting shall be his. 
Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus. 
Is the philanthropist or the saint to give up his endea- 
vours to lead a noble life, because the simplest study of ... ... 
man's nature reveals, at its foundations, all the selfish endemiClty (en-ae-mis 1-ti;, n. 
passions and fierce appetites of the merest quadruped? 
Ihtileij, Man's Place In Nature, p. 131. 
To do one's endeavor, to do one's best; exert one's 
self, [Now eolloq.J 
Thinking myself hound in conscience and Christian 
rlun ity to do my ein ! 
R. KIIOX (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 450). 
And yet I have done my best endeavors. 
Franklin, Autobiog., p. 448. 
= Syn. Struggle, trinl. 
endeavorer, endeavourer (en-dev'or-er), n. 
One who makes an effort or attempt. [Bare.] 
Greater matters may be looked for than those which 
were tin- inventions of single endcavourers or results of 
Voice, stature, motion, and other gifts, must be very 
bountifully hi-sti'wed by nature, or labour and industry 
will push the unhappy endeavourer in that way the fur- endemism (eu'dem-izm), n. 
H"i '' his wishes. Stetle, Tatler, No. 17. , ism -j Same as endemicity. 
endeavormentt (en-dev'pr-ment), n. [Early 
mod. E. cnderourment ; 'I endeavor + -ment.) 
The act of endeavoring; effort. 
Tlie Husbandman was meanly well content 
Triall to make of his sjmder<<urnicnt. 
,-.'//!. < r, Mother Hub. Talc, 1. 297. 
endeavour, ''. and n. SOP niilmrnr. 
endeca-. An improper form of hcndeca-. 
hypodermic. 
i-kal-i), adv. In an en- 
demic manner. 
Colds have been known to prevail endemically among 
the healthy crews of vessels lately arrived from the Arc- 
tic. Arc. Cruise of the Corwin, 1881, p. 13. 
ww __^ [< endemic 4" 
-ity.] The state or quality of being endemic. 
The cndemicitji of cholera In Lower Bengal means that 
the same state of soil which used to arise from time to 
time at the great religious fairs has been gradually and 
permanently induced over a wide tract of soil In the basins 
and delta of the Ganges and Brahmapootra. 
Quarterly Rev., CXXVII. 209. 
endemiology (en-de-mi-ol'Wi), n. [< Gr. ev- 
M/fiio<; (see endemic) + -toyia, \ Myetv, speak: see 
-<>li>uy.] The scientific study and investigation 
of endemic diseases; the knowledge resulting 
from such investigation; what is known re- endettedt, a. 
garding endemics. dehted. 
endemioust (en-de'mi-us), a. [< Gr. 
belonging to the people: see endemic.] 
as endemic. Kersey, 1715. 
[As endem-ic + 
cous membrane ; the cerium, derma, or true 
skin, and the corresponding deep part of mu- 
cous membrane, as distinguished from epider- 
mis or epithelium. See cut under skin. 
Teeth formed by the calcification of papillary elevations 
of the enderon of the lining of the mouth are confined to 
the Vertebrate ; unless ... the teeth of the Echinidea 
have a similar origin. Huxley, Anat. Invert., p. 5. 
enderonic (en-de-ron'ik), a. [< enderon + -ic.] 
Of or pertaining to the enderon; of the nature 
of, formed by, or derived from the enderon. 
In Vertebrate true teeth are Invariably enderonic, or de- 
veloped, not from the epithelium of the mucous mem- 
brane of the alimentary canal, but from a layer between 
this and the vascular deep substance of the enderon, which 
answers to the dermls in the integument. 
Huxley, Anat. Vert., p. 80. 
A Middle English form of iw- 
The Pyrenees are relatively as rich In endemic species 
as the Alps, and among the most remarkable tasUnces 
ende wt, t>. t. An obsolete form of endue*, en- 
Same du<V, endue 3 . 
endexoteric (en-dek-so-ter'ik), a, [< Gr. lv- 
in,, within, + iZoreputAf, outside : see exoteric. ] 
In med., resulting from internal and external 
causes simultaneously ; including both C8O- 
t er j c an( J exoteric I 
as the Alps, and among tne most remaritaoie instances t er j e and exotenc agency. 
of that rndemitm is the occurrence of the sole European -_ jj-vi-. ... r< f cn'diaJilcr Pr SD endi- 
s,K,i, s of Dioseorea (yam). the_D. pyrenaica, on a sin- t *g^J*^~$Z3^^ 
with a devil, < L. in, in, + LL. diabolus (> F. 
diable, etc.), devil : see dccil.] To possess with 
or as if with a devil. .Danes. [Bare.] 
glc high station in the Central Pyrenees, and that of the 
mouotypic genus Xatardia only on a high Alpine pass be- 
tnci-n tin- Yul d'Kvnes and Catalonia. 
Encyc. Brit., XX. 126. 
. 
endecagon, endecagonal. See hendecagon, hen- 
decagonal. 
endenization (en-den-i-za'shon). n. [< enden- 
i:e + -afion.] Admission to the rights of a 
denizen. [Rare.] 
Such an one as might best endiabtee the rabble, and set 
them a bawling against popery. 
Roger Xorth, Examen, p. 57L 
