enforest 
Henry the VIIHh niforrstti'tl the grounds thereabouts, 
. . . though they never attained the full reputation of i 
torrent In common discourse . 
Fuller, Worthies, Middlesex. 
enformt (en-form'), r. t. An obsolete variant 
nt' 111 /'unit ' . 
enforsootht, r. ' [ME. fnforsotlirn; < en- 1 + 
forsooth.'] To make true; rectify; reform. 
Y enj'orn'ifhf me (ithir wliilis, 
Ami thlnn > wolde lyue u trewe lljf. 
1'i.iitiml 1'iH'iiix, ell', (ed. Knrnivnll), p. 183. 
enfortt (en-fort'), r. t. [< OF. enfortir = Pr. 
enfortir = It. infortire, strengthen, < L. in, in, 
+ fortis, strong: sec fort, and cf. enforce.] To 
strengthen; fortify. 
AsSiilein liruvetli with her hilly hullwarks, 
ltoniidl> </</", -I- </, MI.- the create Jehova 
Closeth his sen-antes, as u hilly hullwark 
Ever abiding. 
Sir P. Sidney, Pa. cxxv. 
enfortunet (en-f6r'tun), v. t. [ME. enfortunen, 
< OF. ciifortuner, < "en- + fortune, fortune: see 
en- 1 a,ud fortune.] To endow with a fortune. 
He that wroght it enfortuned It so 
That every wight that had it shuldc have wo. 
Chaucer, Complaint of Mars, 1. 259. 
enfoulderedt, r>. . [Pp. of "enfoulder, < OF. 
en- + fouldre, F. foudre, < L. fulgur, lightening, 
flashing, < fulgere, flash : see fulgent.] Mingled 
with lightning. 
Hart cannot thinke what outrage and what cries, 
With fnwle tnfmildred smuakeaud Hashing tin-, 
The hell-bred beast threw forth unto the skies. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. xi. 40. 
enframe (en-fram'), v. t.; pret. and pp. en- 
framed, ppr. enframing. [< en- 1 + frame.] To 
inclose in or as in a frame. [Rare.] 
All the powers of the house of Godwin 
Are not enframed in thee. Tennyson, llarold, 1. 1. 
Out of keeping with the style of the relief upon the gates 
which it [the frieze] enframes. 
C. C. Perkins, Italian Sculpture, p. 116. 
enfranchise (en-fran'chiz), r. t. ; pret. and pp. 
< iifranchised, ppr. enfranchising. [Formerly 
also infranchise ; < OF. enfranchis-, stem of cer- 
tain parts of enfranchir, enfraitnchir, enfran- 
chier, set free, enfranchise, < en- + francliir, 
set free: see franchise.] 1. To set free; lib- 
erate, as from slavery ; hence, to free or release 
from custody, bad habits, or any restraint. 
If a man have the fortitude and resolution to enfranchise 
himself [from drinking] at once, that is the best. 
Bacon, Nature in Men (ed. 1887). 
This is that which hath enfranchis'd, enlarg'd and lifted 
up our apprehensions degrees above themselves. 
Milton, Areopagitica, p. 50. 
Our great preserver 1 
You have enfranchix'd us from wretched bondage. 
Fletcher, Double Marriage, v. 3. 
Prisoners became slaves, and continued BO in their gen- 
erations, unless enfranchised by their masters. 
Sir If. Temple. 
The enfranchised spirit soars at last ! 
Mem. of H. II. llarham, in Ingoldsby Legends, I. 28. 
2. To make free of a state, city, or corporation ; 
admit to the privileges of a freeman or citizen ; 
admit to citizenship. 
The English colonies, and some sepU of the Irishry, en- 
franc/lined by special charters, were admitted to the bene- 
fit of the laws. Sir J. Danes, State of Ireland. 
Specifically 3. To confer the electoral fran- 
chise upon ; admit to the right of voting or 
taking part in public elections : as, to enfran- 
chise a class of people ; to enfranchise (in Great 
Britain) a borough or a university. 
From the year 1246 a mayor took the place of the alder- 
men, . . . hut the postman-mote and the nu'trhant guild 
retained their names and functions, the latter as a means 
by which the freemen of the borough were enfranchised. 
HtuW*, Const. Hist. (2d ed.), i 810. 
4. To endonizen ; naturalize. 
Tlu-se words have been enfranchised amongst us. Watts. 
= Syn. 1. M'lHin/iit, Lihf,-at>-. ete. See 'timncipate. 
enfranchisement (en-frau'chiz-ment), n. [< 
enfranchise + -incut.] 1. The act of setting 
free ; release from slavery or from custody ; 
enlargement. 
As low as to thy foot does Cassius fall. 
To beg enfranchisement for Publius Cimber. 
Shale., J. C., iii. 1. 
2. The admission of a person or persons to the 
freedom of a state or corporation; investiture 
with the privileges of free citizens ; the incor- 
porating of a person into any society or body 
politic ; now, specifically, bestowment of the 
electoral franchise or the right of voting. 
How fame the law to ivtivat aft.T apparently advancing 
farther than the Middle Roman I,u\v in the proprietary 
en.franchixetm'iit of women .' 
Maine, Early Hist, of Institutions. ; 
Enfranchisement of copyhold lands, lenai eon\, \ 
ance iu fee dimple of copyholil U'nemeuU by the lord of 
1920 
a manor to the tenant!, to as to convert such tenements 
into freeholds. 
enfranchiser (en-fran'chi-zer), n. One who en- 
franchises. 
enfrayt, " [A Middle English variant of af- 
fray.] An affray. 
Let no man wyt that we war, 
For ferdnes of a fowle enfray. 
Towneley Mysteries, p. 170. 
enfreet (en-fre'), v. t. [< en- 1 + free.] To set 
free ; release from captivity. 
To render him. 
For the enfreei'. Antenor, the fair Cressid. 
Shak., T. and C., IT. 1. 
enfreedomt (en-fre'dum), v. t. [< en- 1 + free- 
dom.] To give freedom to; set free. 
By my sweet soul, I mean, setting thee at liberty, en- 
freedoming thy person. Shak., L. L. L., ill. 1. 
enfreezet (en-frez'), v. t. [< en- 1 + freeze.] To 
freeze ; turn into ice ; congeal. 
Thou heatenfraten her disdalnefull brest. 
Spenser, In Honour of Love, 1. 146. 
enfrenzy (en-fren'zi), v. t. ; pret. and pp. en- 
frenzied, ppr. enfrenzying. [< en- 1 + frenzy.] 
To excite to frenzy; madden. [Rare.] 
With an enfrenzied grasp he tore the jasey from his 
head. Itnrham, Ingoldsby Legends, II. 363. 
en froid (on frwo). [F. : en, < L. in, in ; froid, 
< L. frigidus, cold.] In a cold state : said of 
anything which is more commonly put on or 
finished by the agency of heat. 
Specimens (of majolica) on which gold 1s applied en 
froid. South Kensington Handbook, Spanish Arts. 
enfrowardt (en-fro'wftrd), r. t. [< en- 1 + fro- 
ward.] To make froward or perverse. 
The multitude of crooked and side respects, which are 
the only clouds that eclipse the truth from shining more 
lightly on the face of the world, and the only pricks 
which so enfrovard men's affections as not to consider 
and follow what were for the best, do cause that this chief 
unity nndeth small acceptation. 
Sir E. Sandyi, State of Religion. 
enfumet (en-fiim'), f. t. [< F. enfumer = Pr. 
enfumar, smoke, blind with smoke, < en- + fu- 
mer, smoke: see fume.] 1. To dry or cure by 
smoking; smoke. 2. To blind or obscure with 
smoke. 
Perturbations . . . gainst their Guides doe fight, 
And so enfuine them that they cannot see. 
Danes, Microcosmos, p. 38. 
eng (eng), n. [Native name.] A large decid- 
uous tree, Dipterocarpus tuberculatus, of Chitta- 
gong in Bengal, and of Burma. The wood Is red- 
dish and hard, and Is largely used for house-posts, canoes, 
etc. It yields a clear yellow resin. 
Eng. A common abbreviation of England and 
of English. 
engage (en-gaj'), v. ; pret. and pp. engaged, ppr. 
engaging. [Formerly also ingage; = D. engage- 
ren = G. engagiren = Dan. etigagere = Sw. enga- 
gcra, < OF. engager, F. engager = Pr. engatgar, 
enguatgar, engatjar = It. ingaggiare, < ML. in- 
radiare, pledge, engage, < in, in, + vadiare (>F. 
fager, etc. ), pledge, gage: see en- 1 and gage 1 .] 
. trans. 1. To pledge; bind as by pledge, 
promise, contract, or oath ; put under an obli- 
gation to do or forbear doing something ; spe- 
cifically, to make liable, as tor a debt to a credi- 
tor ; bind as surety or in betrothal : with a re- 
flexive pronoun or (rarely) a noun or personal 
pronoun as object: as, nations engage them- 
selves to each other by treaty. 
Who Is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? 
Jer. xxi. 21. 
I have engag'd myself to a dear friend. 
Shale., M. of V., Hi. 2. 
To the Pope hee ingag'd himself to hazzard life and es- 
tate for the Roman Religion. Milton, Eikonoklastes, xx. 
Besides disposing of all patronage, civil, military, legal, 
and ecclesiastical, for this end, he [Lord Townshend] rn- 
gaged himself to new pensions said to amount to 25.000/. a 
year. Gladstone, Nineteenth Century, XXII. 461. 
The league between virtue and nature engages all things 
to assume a hostile front to vice. Emerson, Compensation. 
2. To pawn ; stake ; pledge. 
He is a noble gentleman ; I dare 
Engage my credit, loyal to the state. 
Ford, Love's Sacrifice, I. 2. 
For an armour he would haue engaged vs a bagge of 
pearle. but we refused. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith'i True Travels, I. 83. 
And most perfidiously condemn 
Those that engag'd their lives for them. 
S. Butler, Hndlbras, II. II. 338. 
He that commends another engages so much of his own 
reputation as he gives to that person commended. 
Steele, Spectator, No. 188. 
3. To secure for aid, employment, use, or the 
like: put under requisition by agreement or 
bargain; obtain a promise of; as, to engage 
engage 
one's friends in support of a cause; to engage 
workmen ; to engage a carriage, or a supply of 
provisions. 
I called at Melawe to complain of our treatment at 
shrkh Abaiie, and see if 1 could engage him, u he had 
nothing eUe to employ him, to pay a visit to my friends at 
that inhospitable place. Ilrucr, Source of the Nile, I. 9t. 
He engaged seven [reindeer], which arrived the ne>t 
evening, In the charge of a tall, handsome Finn, who was 
to be our conductor. II. Taylor, Northern Travel, p. 109. 
4. To gain ; win and attach ; draw ; attract and 
fix : as, to engage the attention. 
Your bounty has engag'd my truth. 
. lever's Melancholy, III. 2. 
The Servant . . . joyfully acquaint* his Master how 
gratefully you recelv'd the present : and this still engages 
him more; and he will complement you with great respect 
whenever he meets you. Dauipier, Voyages, II. I. 66. 
Tills humanity and good-nature engages everybody to 
him. Addison, Sir Roger at Home. 
While the nations of Europe aspire after change, our 
constitution engages the fond admiration of the people 
by which it has been established. 
Bancroft, Hist. U. 8., I., Int. 
6. To occupy ; employ the attention or efforts 
of: as, to engage one in con-ersation ; to be 
engaged in war; to engage one's self in party 
disputes. 
I left my people behind with my firelock, and went 
alone to see If I could engage them in a conversation. 
Bruce, Source of the Nile, I. 157. 
Thus shall mankind his guardian care engage. 
Pope, Messiah, 1. 56. 
Sir Peter. So, child, has Mr. Surface returned with you? 
Maria. No, sir, he was engaged. 
Sheridan, School for Scandal, III. 1. 
It Is considered extremely sinful to Interrupt a man 
when engaged in his devotions. 
K. W. Lane, Modem Egyptians, I. 92. 
6. To enter into contest with ; bring into con- 
flict ; encounter in battle : as, the army engaged 
the enemy at ten o'clock. 
He engages the bravest warrior of all the Greeks, A chilles ; 
and falls by his hand, In single combat. 
Bacon, Moral Fables, 1. 
The great commanders of antiquity never engaged the 
enemy without previously preparing the minds of their 
followers by animating harangues. 
Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 368. 
Grey was forced to leave Herbert, and hurry back to 
bring up the reserves ; returning, he attacked Arundel 
with artillery, and completely ingageil him. 
R. W. Dixon, Hist. Church of Eng., xv. 
7. To interlock and become entangled; entan- 
gle; involve. 
There be monks in Russia, for penance, that will sit a 
whole night in a vessel of water, till they be engaged with 
hard ice. Bacon, Custom and Education (ed. 1887). 
O limed soul, that struggling to be free, 
Art more engagd! Shak., Hamlet, iii. 3. 
Once, however, engaged among the first ravines and hlU 
spurs thrown out by the great mountain chain, 1 turned 
my horse s head and rode swiftly in the direction of Merv. 
O' Donovan, Merv, xv. 
8. In mi i-li., to mesh with and interact upon ; 
enter and act or be acted upon ; interlock with, 
as the teeth of geared wheels with each other, 
or the rack and pinion in a rack-and-pinion 
movement. =Syn. 1. To commit, promise. 8. To en- 
gross, busy. 6. To attack, join battle with. 
II. intrans. 1. To pledge one's word ; prom- 
ise; assume an obligation ; become bound; un- 
dertake : as, a friend has engaged to supply the 
necessary funds. 
Many brave lords and knights likewise 
To free them did engage. 
The Seven Champions of Christendom (Child's ** 11 *^. 
[1.80). 
How proper the remedy for the malady, I engage not. 
Fuller. 
I dare engage, these creatures have their titles and dis- 
tinctions of honour. Sirift, Gulliver's Travels, il. ::. 
How commonly . . . rulers have engaged, on succeeding 
to power, not to change the established order ! 
a. Spencer, JYin. of Sociol., | 468. 
2. To occupy one's self ; be busied; take part: 
as, to engage in conversation ; he is zealously 
engaged in the cause. 
Tis not indeed my talent to engage 
In lofty trifles. Dryden, tr. of Perslus s Satires. 
The present argument is the most abstracted that ever 
I engaged in. Svifl, Tale of a Tub, ix. 
All her slumbering energies engage with real delight In 
what lies before them. U'. M. Baker, New Timothy, p. 318. 
3. To have an encounter ; begin to fight ; enter 
into conflict. 
I'pon advertisement of the Scots army, the Earl of Hol- 
land was sent with a body to meet and engage with it. 
Clarendon, Great Rebellion. 
It Is a part of the military art to reconnoitre and feel 
your way before you engage too deeply. 
WaihiHgton, In Bancroft's Hist. Const., I. 4M. 
