enorm 
enormt (e-norm'), a. [= D. G. Dan. Sw. enorm 
= F. enorme = Pr. Sp. Pg. It. enorme, < L. enor- 
mis, irregular, immoderate, immense, < e, out 
of, + norma, rule: see norm. Cf. enormous.] 1. 
Deviating from rule or standard; abnormal. 
All uniform, 
Pure, pervious, immixed, . . . nothing enorm. 
Dr. H. More, Song of the Soul, I. ii. 22. 
2. Excessively wicked; enormous. 
That they may suffer such punishment as so enorm . . . 
actions have justly deserved. 
Sir C. Cornwallis, To James I., Supp. to Cabala, p. 99. 
enormt (e-n6rm'), v. t. [Also inorm ; < enorm, 
a.] To make monstrous. 
Then lets hee friends the fantacie enorme 
With strong delusions and with passions dire. 
Davies, Minim in Modum, p. 9. 
enormal (e-n6r'mal), a. [As enorm + -al.] De- 
viating from the norm, standard, or type of 
form; subtypieal; etypic. [Bare.] 
enormioust (e-n6r'mi-us), a. [< L. enorm-is (see 
enorm) + E. '-ous. Cf.. enormous.'] Enormous. 
Observe, sir, the great and enormious ahuse hereof 
amongst Christians, confuted of an Ethnicke philospher. 
Benvenuto, Passengers' Dialogues (1612). 
The enormious additions of their artificial heights. 
Jer. Taylor(f), Artif. Handsomeness, p. 60. 
enormitant (e-nor'mi-tan), n. [Irreg. < enor- 
mity + -an.] A wretch; a monster. L 'Es- 
trange. 
enormity (e-nor'mi-ti), .; pi. enormities (-tiz). 
[< OF. enormite, F. enormite = Sp. enormidad = 
Pg. enormidade = It. enormita, enormitade, enor- 
mitate = D. enormiteit = Gr. enormitdt, < L. enor- 
mita(t-)s, irregularity, hugeness, < enormis, ir- 
regular, huge: see enorm, enormous.] 1. The 
state or quality of being enormous, immoderate, 
or extreme; atrociousness ; vastness : in a bad 
sense : as, the enormity of his offense. 
We are told that crimes of great enormity were perpe- 
trated by the Athenian Government and the democracies 
under its protection. Macaulay, Mitford's Hist. Greece. 
2. Enprmousness ; immensity: without derog- 
atory implication. [Rare.] 
In the Shakspeare period we see the fulness of life and 
the enormity of power throwing up a tropical exuberance 
of vegetation. De Qtiincey, Style, iii. 
3. That which surpasses endurable limits, or 
is immoderate, extreme, or outrageous; a very 
grave offense against order, right, or decency ; 
atrocious crime ; an atrocity. 
And if any deeme it a shame to our Nation to haue any 
mention made of those inormities, let them pervse the 
Histories of the Spanyards Discoveries and Plantations. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's True Travels, I. 164. 
As to salutations, ... I observe, as I stroll about town, 
there are great enormities committed with regard to this 
particular. Steele, Spectator, No. 259. 
=Syn. 1 and 3. Enormity, Enormousness. Enormousness 
is strictly limited to vastness in size ; enormity, to vastness 
in atrocity, baseness, etc. 
enormous (e-n6r'mus), a. [< L. enorm-is (see 
enorm) + -ous. Cf. enormious.] If. Deviating 
from or transgressing the usual measure or rule ; 
abnormal. 
The seal 
And bended dolphins play : part huge of bulk, 
Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, 
Tempest the ocean. Milton, P. L., vii. 411. 
2f. Spreading or extending beyond certain lim- 
its; redundant. 
The enormous part of the light in the circumference of 
every lucid point. Newton, Opticks. 
3. Greatly surpassing the common measure ; 
exceeding the usual size : as, enormous debts ; 
a man of enormous size. 
An enormous harvest here, and every appearance of 
peace and plenty. Sydney Smith, To the Countess Grey. 
The mischiefs wrought by uninstructed law-making, 
enormmu in their amount as compared with those caused 
by uninstructed medical treatment, are conspicuous to all 
who do but glance over its history. 
H. Spencer, Man vs. State, p. 48. 
4. Extremely wicked ; uncommonly atrocious : 
as, enormous crime or guilt. 
A certaine fellow . . . had been a notorious robber and 
a very enormous liver. Coryat, Crudities, I. 91. 
5f. Disordered; perverse. 
I ... shall find time 
From this enormous state seeking to give 
Losses their remedies. Shak., Lear, 11. 2. 
The influences of a spirit possess'd of an active and enor- 
mous imagination may be malign and fatal, where they 
cannot be resisted. Glanville, Essays, vi. 
Syn. 3. Enormous, Immense, Excessive, huge, vast, 
monstrous, prodigious, gigantic, immoderate, unwieldy. 
The first three words agree in expressing greatness, and 
the first two vastness ; anything, however small, is exces- 
sive if for some special reason too great in amount. Lit- 
erally, enormous is out of rule, out of proportion ; im- 
mense, unmeasured, immeasurable ; excessive, going be- 
1940 
yond bounds, surpassing what is fit, right, tolerable, etc. 
Enormous is peculiarly applicable to magnitude, primarily 
physical, but also moral: as, enormous egotism; immense. 
to extent, quantity, and number : as, an immense national 
debt ; immense folly ; excessive, to degree : as, an excessive 
dose ; an excessive opinion of one's own merits. 
The total quantity of saline matter carried invisibly 
away by the Thames from its basin above Kingston will 
. . . reach, in the course of a year, to tile enormous amount 
of 548,230 tons. Huxley, Physiography, p. 126. 
The controversy between Protestantism and Catholicism 
comprises an immense mass of complicated and hetero- 
geneous arguments. Lecky, Rationalism, I. 177. 
An excessive expenditure of nerve-force involves exces- 
sive respiration and circulation, and excessive waste of tis- 
sue. H. Spencer, Prin. of Biol., 21. 
4. Villainous, Abominable, etc. (see nefarious) ; heinous, 
atrocious. 
enormously (e-n&r'mus-li), adv. In or to an 
enormous degree ; extremely ; vastly ; beyond 
measure. 
The rise in the last year . . . affords the most consoling 
and encouraging prospect. It is enormously out of all 
proportion. Burke, A Regicide Peace, iii. 
But there can be no doubt that all the forms of living 
matter are enormously complex in chemical constitution. 
IF. A'. Clifford, Lectures, II. S15. 
enormousness (e-nor'mus-nes), . The state 
of being enormous or extreme ; greatness be- 
yond measure. 
Loud sounds have a certain enormousness of feeling. 
W. James, Mind, XII. 3. 
= Syn. Immensity, vastness, hugeness. See enormity. 
enornt, enournt, v. t. [ME. enurnen, enournen, 
var. of anournen, var. of aornen, aournen, for 
adornen, adorn : see adorn.] To adorn. 
An auter enournet in nome of a god. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1675. 
enorthotrope (en-6r'tho-trop), TO. [< Gr. h, in, 
+ opBof, straight, right, + rpiiretv, turn.] A 
toy similar to the thaumatrope, consisting of a 
card on different parts of which are detached 
portions of a picture, which on rapid revolution 
appear to become joined, by virtue of the prin- 
ciple of persistence in visual impressions. See 
thaumatrope. 
enostosis (en-os-to'sis), n. ; pi. enostoses (-sez). 
[NL., < Gr. ev, in, + oariov. bone, + -osis.] A 
circumscribed bony growth in the interior of a 
bone : opposed to exostosis. 
enough (e-nuf), a. and n. [Early mod. E. also 
inough, etc. , and enow, dial, enow, cnoo (also enuf, 
enif, a spelling recognized even in late ME. 
enoffe) = So. eneuch, eneugli ; < ME. enogh, enoh, 
enow, enou, also with prefix spelled i-, y-, a-, 
inough, inogh, inouh, inoh, inow, inou, etc., 
ynough, etc., anough. etc., pi. ending in -e, 
enoghe, enoice, etc., earliest ME. genoh, < AS. 
genoh, pi. genoge = OS. ginog, ginuog = OFries. 
enoch, anog, noch = D. genoeg = LG. genaug, 
enaug, natig = OHG. ginuog, ginuoc, MHG. ge- 
nuoc, also OHG. ginogi, MHG. ginuege, G. genug, 
sometimes gug, genung = Icel. gnogr = Sw. 
nog = Dan. nolc = Goth, ganohs, enough, suffi- 
cient, abundant, in pi. many (cf. Goth, ganauha, 
sufficiency, AS. genyht = OHG. ginuht, G. ge- 
uiige, sufficiency) ; < AS. geneah = OHG. ginah 
= Goth, ganah (Goth, also binah, with pp. &j- 
nauhts), it suffices, an impers. pret. pres. verb; 
< ga-, ge-, generalizing prefix, -I- Teut. -^ "noli 
= Skt. y nay, attain, reach to, = L. nancisci 
(\/ *ac), acquire, = Gr. rjveym (/ *VEK), irreg. 
2d aor. of fyepttv, bear.] I. a. Answering the 
purpose; adequate to want or demand; suffi- 
cient; satisfying desire; giving content; meet- 
ing reasonable expectation. 
The nexte daye, Frydaye, that was Newe Yeres daye, 
there was metely wynde ynoughe, but it was so scarse to- 
wardes oure waye that we made noo spede. 
Sir Ji. Buylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 72. 
How many hired servants of my father's have bread 
enough and to spare ! Luke xv. 17. 
It were enough to put him to ill thinking. 
Shak., Othello, iii. 4. 
Have you not yet found means enow to waste 
That which your friends have left you ? 
B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, i. 1. 
[Enough usually follows the noun which it qualifies, but 
it is sometimes put before it. 
There is not enough leek to swear by. 
Shak., Hen. V., v. 1.] 
= Syn. Sufficient, Competent, etc. See adequate. 
II. n. A quantity of a thing or act, or a num- 
ber of things or persons, sufficient to satisfy 
desire or want, or adequate to a purpose ; suf- 
ficiency : as, we have enough of this sort of cloth. 
He answerde, that he was gret Lord y now, and well in 
pees, and hadde ynowghe of worldly Ricchesse. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 146. 
Inough is a feast; more than ynough is counted fool- 
ishnesse. Bailees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 83. 
And Esau said, I have enough, my brother. 
Gen. xxxiii. 9. 
en pied 
What I attempted to consider was the mischief of set- 
ting such a value upon what is past as to think we have 
done enough. Steele, Spectator, No. 374. 
Enough and enought, more than enough. 
Every one of us, from the bare sway of his own inherent 
corruption, carrying enough and enough about him to as- 
sure his final doom. South, Sermons, VI. cxxvi. 
= Syn. Plenty, abundance. 
enough (e-nuf), adv. [Early mod. E. also 
inough, etc., and enew, etc. ; < ME. enogh, etc. 
(like the adj.), < AS. genoh (= OS. ginog, ginuog 
= OFries. enoch, etc., = D. genoeg = LG. genaug, 
enaug, naug = OHG. MHG. ginuog, G. genug, 
etc.), adv., neut. ace. of adj.] 1. In a quantity 
or degree that answers the purpose, satisfies, or 
is equal to the desires or wants ; to a sufficient 
degree ; sufficiently. 
The wey from Rome it ys knowen perfyghthly / now 
with many Sondry persons to Englond, And ther for I Doo 
not wryght itt. Torkinyton, Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 67. 
The land, behold, it is large enough for them. 
Gen. xxxiv. 21. 
I have seen many a philosopher whose world is large 
enough foronlyoneperson. Emerson, Society and Solitude. 
2. To a notable extent; fairly; rather: used 
to denote a slight augmentation of the positive 
degree, the force depending upon the connec- 
tion or the emphasis : as, he is ready enough to 
embrace the offer. 
It is sometimes pleasant enough to consider the different 
notions which different persons have of the same thing. 
Addison. 
Another admired simile in the same play, . . . though 
academical enough, is certainly just. 
Goldsmith, Sequel to a Poetical Scale. 
3. In a tolerable or passable degree : used to 
denote diminution, or a degree or quality 
rather less than is desired, or such a quanti- 
ty or degree as commands acquiescence rather 
than full satisfaction : as, the performance is 
well enough. 
I was . . . virtuous enough : swore little ; diced, not 
above seven times a week. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., iii. 3. 
Thou singest well enough for a shift. 
Shak., Much Ado, 11. 3. 
4f. To a great degree ; very much. 
Game of hounde's he louede inou & of wilde best. 
Robert of Gloucester, 1. 375. 
enough (e-nuf), interj. An elliptical exclama- 
tion, signifying 'it (or that) is enough,' 'I have 
had enough,' 'you have done enough,' etc. 
Lay on, Macduff ! 
And damn'd be him that first cries " Hold, enough!" 
Shak., Macbeth, v. 7. 
Henceforth I'll bear 
Affliction, till it do cry out itself, 
Enough, enough, and die. Shak., Lear, iv. 6. 
enounce (e -nouns'). " t.; pret. and pp. 
enounced, ppr. enouncing. [< F. enoncer = Sp. 
Pg. enunciar = It. enunciarc, enunziare, < L. 
enunciare, prop, enuntiare, say out, declare: 
see enunciate. Cf. announce, denounce, etc.] 
To utter; declare; enunciate; state, as a prop- 
osition or an argument. 
Aristotle, in whose philosophy this presumption ob- 
tained the authority of a principle, thus enounces the ar- 
gument. Sir W. Hamilton. 
Very few of the enlightened deputies who occasionally 
enounce the principle [the necessity of good roads for the 
nation] feel the necessity of having good roads in their 
own district. D. M. Wallace, Russia, p. 226. 
enouncement (e-nouns'ment), n. [< enounce 
+ -ment.] The act of enouncing; enunciation. 
It might seem to him too evidently included in the very 
conception of the argument to require enouncement. 
Sir W. Hamilton. 
enournt, v. t. See enorn. 
enow (e-nou'), a., n., and adv. A dialectal or 
obsolete form of enough. 
enpairet, v. t. A Middle English form of impair. 
en passant (on pa-son'). [F.: en, in, < L. in; 
passant, verbal n. of passer, pass.] While 
passing; by the way: often used as introduc- 
tory to an incidental remark or a sudden dis- 
connected thought. In chess, when, on moving a pawn 
two squares, an adversary's pawn is at the time in such a 
position as to take the pawn moved if it were moved but 
one square, the moving pawn may be taken en passant, 
the phrase being used in its literal sense. 
enpatront (en-pa'tron), v. t. [< en- 1 + patron.] 
To have under one's patronage or guardian- 
ship ; be the patron saint of. 
For these, of force, must your oblations be, 
Since I their altar, you enpatron me. 
Shak., Lover's Complaint, 1. 224. 
enpayret, enpeiret, t. Middle English forms 
of impair. 
en pied (on pya). [F. : en, in, on ; pied, < L. 
pes (ped-) = E./oof.] Inhcr., standing erect: 
said of a creature used as a bearing, especially 
a bear. 
