enpierce 
enpiercet, v, t. See impieree. 
enpightt, c. t. Seo <//m//<f. 
enpledet, enpleett, '. '. See implead. 
enpoisont, c. '. Scr rni/mixon. 
enpovert, c. ' See empon r. 
enpowdert, < [< en- + powder.] To sprin- 
kle; powder. 
Clothe of golde enpoivdered cmong patches of canuesse, 
or pri'lrs iiii'l <li;iiiii'inl fiuong peeble stones. 
Udall, To Queen Katherine. 
enprentt, enpreyntr, v. t. See imprint. 
enpresst, '' ' Aii obsolete variant of impress. 
en prince (<> prans). [F.] In a princely style 
or manner: liberally; magnificently: as, he 
does everything m /n im-r. 
I supp'd this nluht with Mr. Secretary, at one Mr. HOII- 
hlon's, a French merchant, who hud his house furnish'd 
en prince, and ^avc us a splendid entertainment. 
Ki-fiiin, Diary, Jan. 16, 1679. 
enprintt, ' ' See imprint. 
eilpriset, >< See emprise. 
enprisont, '- '. See imprison. 
enpropret, c. ' A variant of appropre. Chaucer. 
enqueret, v. t. See inquire. 
enquestt, See inquest. 
enquickent (en-kwik'n), v. t. [< en- 1 + quick- 
en.] To quicken ; make alive. 
He hath not yet enquickened men generally with this 
deiform life. Dr. If. More, Notes on Psychozota. 
enquire, enquiry, etc. See inquire, etc. 
enracet (en-ras')^ v. t. [< CM- 1 + race 2 .] To 
give race or origin to ; implant ; enroot. 
Eternall God, in his aliuightie powre, . . . 
In Paradize whylome did plant this flowre ; 
\Yhfiice he it fetcht out of her native place, 
And did in stocke of earthly Hesh tnrace. 
Spetuer, F. Q., III. v. 52. 
enrage (en-raj'), v. ; pret. and pp. enraged, ppr. 
eiiruyiny. [< OF. enrager, intr., rage, rave, 
storm, r. enrager (= Pr. enrabiar, enratjar, en- 
rapjar, enranjar), < en- + rage, rage : see rage.] 
I. trans. To excite rage in ; exasperate ; pro- 
voke to fury or madness ; make furious. 
I pray you, spuak not ; he grows worse and worse ; 
Question enrage* him. Shak., Macbeth, 111. 4. 
What doubt we to incense 
His utmost Ire? which, to the highth enraged, 
Will . . . quite consume us. Milton, P. L., 11. 95. 
Syn. To irritate, incense, anger, madden, infuriate. 
II. intrans. To become angry or enraged. 
[A Gallicism.] 
My father . . . will only enrage at the temerity of of- 
fering to confute him. Misn Burney, Cecilia, tx. 7. 
enraged (en-rajd'), p- a. [Pp. of enrage, v.] 
1. Angry; furious; exhibiting anger or fury : 
as, an enraged countenance. 
The loudest seas and most enrayed winds 
Shall lose their clangor. 
B. Juwon, Sad Shepherd, Hi. 2. 
2f. Aggravated; heightened; passionate. 
By my troth, my lord, I cannot tell what to think of it ; 
but that she loves him with an enrayeii affection It is 
past the Infinite of thought. Shale., Much Ado, It. 3. 
3. In her., having a position similar to that 
noted by salient : said of a horse used as a bear- 
ing. 
enragementt (en-raj'ment), n. [< OP. enraye- 
ni: at; a,senrage + -ment.] The act of enraging, 
or the state of being enraged; excitement; ex- 
altation. 
With sweete enrageinent of celestiall love. 
Sponger, Heavenly Love. 
enrailt (en-ral' ),v.t. [< en- 1 + rail 1 .] To sur- 
round with a rail or railing ; fence in. 
Where fani'd St. Giles's ancient limits spread, 
An enrail'd column rears its lofty head. 
Qay, Trivia, II. 
enranget (en-rani'), v. t. [Early mod. E. also 
i nriiuiuji- ; < c-l + rutiye. Cf. arrange.'] 1. 
To put in order or in line. 
Fuyre Diana, in fresh sommers day, 
Beholdes her nymphes enravnn'd in shady wood. 
Spenter, F. Q., I. nil. 7. 
2. To rove over ; range. 
In all this forrest and wyld wooddie raine : 
Where, as this clay I was enraunyiny it, 
I chaunst to meete this knight. 
Spenaer, F. Q., VI. II. 9. 
enrankt (en-rank'), v. t. [< en- 1 + rantf.] To 
place in ranks or in order. 
No leisure had he to enrank his men. 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., i. 1. 
en rapport (oil ra-p6r'). [F. : en, in; rapport, 
connection : see rapport.] In relation or con- 
' i<>" : in or into communication or associa- 
tion; especially, in sympathetic relation: as, 
to bring A en rapport with B, or two persons 
with each other. 
1941 
enrapt ( en-rapt'), a. [< en- 1 + rapt.] Rapt; 
ravished ; in a state of rapture or ecstasy. 
I myself 
Am like a prophet suddenly enrapt, 
To tell thee that this day is ominous. 
Shale., T. and C., v. 3. 
He stands enrapt, the half-known voice to hear, 
And stalls, half -conscious, at the falling tear. 
Craabe, Works, V. 24. 
enrapture (en-rap'tur), v. t. ; pret. and pp. en- 
rii/iliircil, ppr. enrapturing. [<en-l + raptitr' . \ 
To move to rapture; transport with pleasure ; 
delight beyond measure; ravish. 
As long as the world has such lips and such eyes, 
As before me this moment enraptured I see, 
They may say what they will of their orbs in the ikies, 
But this earth Is the planet for you, love, and me. 
Moore, Irish Melodies. 
The natives of Egypt are generally enraptured with the 
jterformances of their vocal and instrumental musicians. 
E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, II. 61. 
enravisht (en-rav'ish), v. t. [< en- 1 + ravish.] 
To ravish ; enrapture. 
What wonder, . . . 
Fraile men, whose eyes seek heavenly things to see, 
At sight thereof so much enraviiht bee? 
Spenter, In Honour of Love, I. 119. 
enravishinglyt (en-rav'ish-ing-li), adv. Rav- 
ishingly; ecstatically. 
The subtilty of the matter will . . . more exquisitely 
and enraviihtnyly move the nerves than any terrestrial 
body can possibly. 
/'-. //. More, Antidote against Atheism, App., xiil. 
enravishmentt (en-rav'ish-ment), n. [< enrav- 
ish + -ment.] Ravishment; rapture. 
They [the beauties of nature! contract a kind of splen- 
dour from the seemingly obscuring veil ; which adds to 
the enravishmenU of her transported admirers. 
ulniieillf, Vanity of Dogmatizing, xxiv. 
enregiment (en-rej'i-ment), v. t. [< en- 1 + 
regiment.] To enroll in regiments. [Rare.] 
You cannot drill a regiment of knaves into a regiment 
of honest men, enregiment and organize as cunningly as 
you will. Froude, Carlyle, II. 
enregister (eu-rej'is-ter), v. t. [Formerly also 
inregister ; < F. enregistrer, < en- + registrer, re- 
gister: see register.] To register; enroll or 
record. [Obsolete or rare.] 
To reade enreyittred in every nooke 
His goodnesse, which his beautie doth declare. 
Spenser, Hymn of Heavenly Beauty, 1. 132. 
en regie (on reg'l). [F. : en, in; regie, < L. 
regula, rule: see rule.] According to rule; in 
order; in due form; as it should be. 
enrheumt (en-r6m'), r. i. [< F. enrhumer, give 
a cold to, refl. take a cold, < en- + rhume, rheum : 
see rheum.] To have rheum through cold. 
The physician is to enquire where the party hath taken 
cold or enrheitmed. Harvey. 
enrich (en-rich'), r. t. [Formerly also inrich ; 
< ME. enrichen, < OF. enrichier, enrichir, F. 
enrichir (= Pr. enrequezir, enriquir, enrriquir, 
enrequir = Sp. Pg. enriquecer = It. inricchire), < 
en- + riche, rich: see rich.] 1. To make rich, 
wealthy, or opulent ; supply with abundant 
property: as, agriculture, commerce, and man- 
ufactures enrich a nation. 
Hee inriched with reuenues and indued with priulledges 
ul places of religion within his Islands. 
Hakluyt'l Voyage*, I. 12. 
War disperses wealth in the very Instant it acquires it ; 
but commerce, well regulated, ... is the only thing that 
ever did enrich extensive kingdoms. 
Bruce, Source of the Nile, I. 367. 
Lavish as the Government was of titles and of money, 
its ablest servant was neither ennobled nor enriched. 
Macaulay, Sir William Temple. 
2. To fertilize; make fertile; supply with nu- 
triment for plants. 
The benefit and usefulness of this effusion of the Spirit ; 
like the Rivers of Waters that both refresh and enrich, 
and thereby make glad the City of God. 
StiUinfjJteet , Sermons, I. ix. 
See the sweet brooks In silver mazes creep, 
Enrich the meadows, and supply the deep. 
Sir 11. Blackmore. 
3. To supply with an abundance of anything 
desirable ; fill or store : as, to enrich the mind 
with knowledge, science, oruseful observations. 
Enrich my fancy, clarify my thoughts. 
Refine my dross. Quarto, Emblems, I., Inv. 
The commentary with which Lyndwood enriched his 
text was a mine of learning. 
R. W. Dixon, Hist. Church of Eng., xix. 
Across the north of Africa came again the progressive 
culture of Greece and Rome, enriched with precious jew- 
els of old-world lore. W. K. Clifford, Lectures, II. 266. 
4. To supply with anything splendid or orna- 
mental ; adorn : as, to enrich a painting with 
elegant drapery; to enrich a poem or an oration 
with striking metaphors or images ; to enrich a 
capital with sculpture. 
enroll 
The columns are enrich'd with hieroglyphic* lx yni I 
any that I have seen in Egypt. 
Pocockc, Description of the East, I. 76. 
A certain mild intellectual apathy belonged properly to 
In i- i> pe uf beauty, and had always seemed to round and 
enrich It. //. Jama, Jr., Pass. Pilgrim, p. 290. 
= Syn. 3. To endow. 4. To decorate, ornament, embellish. 
enncher (en-rich'er), . One who or that which 
enriches. 
enrichment (en-rich 'ment), n. [< enrich + 
-ment.] The act of enrictiing. (a) The actof mak- 
ing rich ; augmentation of wealth. 
The enrichment of the rich, the poverty of the poor, the 
public dishonesty, the debasement of the coinage, the rob- 
bery of the Church and of learning, went on uudiminlshed. 
K. W. Dixon, Hist. Church of Eng., xvii. 
The hard sufferings of the poor are intensified by the 
wrongful conversion of the Government to the enrichment 
of it* partisans. Jf. A. Her., CXJCVII. 274. 
(b) Fertilization, as of the soil ; a making productive, (c) 
Improvement by the abundant supply of what is useful or 
desirable. 
I grant that no labour tends to the permanent enrich- 
ment of society which is employed In producing things for 
the use of unproductive consumers. ./. S. Mill. 
The great majority of those who favor some enrichment 
of the meager ritual of the Puritan churches yet prefer 
that the leader of their worship shall have some liberty 
of expression. The Century, XXXI. 152. 
(d) The garnishing of any object with rich ornaments, or 
with elaborate decorative motives : as, the enrichment of 
a bookbinding, or of a stole; also, the ornamentation It- 
self: as, ornamented with a brass enrichment. 
West of the Church stands the atrium, with the win- 
dows of the west front and the remains of mosaic enrich- 
ment rising above it. K. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 106. 
enridget (en-rij'), r. t. [< en-l + ridge.] To . 
ridge ; form into ridges. 
As I stood here below, methought his eyes 
Were two full moons ; he had a thousand noses, 
Horns whelk'd, and wav'd like the enridffed sea. 
Ska*., Lear, iv. 6. 
enring (en-ring'), v. t. [< en- 1 + ring 1 .] To 
form a circle about ; encircle ; inclose. 
Ivy . . . enritiys the barky nngers of the elm. 
Shak., M. N. D., Iv. 1. 
The Muses and the Graces, group'd in threes, 
Enrinyd a billowing fountain in the midst. 
Tennyton, Princess, II. 
enripent (en-ri'pn), r. <. [< en- 1 + ripen.] To 
ripen ; bring to perfection. 
The Summer, how it enripen'd the year ; 
And Autumn, what our golden harvests were. 
Donne, Elegies, xiv. 
enrivet (en-riv'), r. t. [< en- 1 + rice.] To rive ; 
cleave. 
The wicked shaft, guyded through th' ayrle wyde 
By some bad spirit that it to mischlefe liore, 
Stayd not, till through his curat it did glyde, 
And made a grlesly wound In his enriven side. 
Spenter, t. Q., V. viii. 34. 
Where shall I unfold my Inward pain 
That my fnri'-fn heart may find relief ? 
Lady Pembroke (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 260). 
enrobe (en-rob'), r. t. ; pret. and pp. enrobed, 
ppr. enrobing. [< en- 1 + robe.] To clothe; at- 
tire; invest; robe. 
Quaint in green, she shall be loose enrob'd. 
Shak., M. W. of W., Iv. 6. 
In flesh and blood enrnb'd. J. BaiUie. 
enrobement (en -rob 'ment), n. [< enrobe + 
-ment.] Vesture; clothing; investment. 
The form of dialogue is here [in Plato] no external as- 
sumption of an imaginary enrobement, for the sake of in- 
creased attractiveness and heightened charm. 
Jour. Spec. Phil., XIX. 41. 
enrockment (en-rok'ment), n. [< en- 1 + rock 1 
+ -ment.] A mass of large stones thrown into 
the water to protect the outer face of a dike 
or breakwater, or a shore subject to encroach- 
ment of the sea. 
enroll, enrol (en-rol'), v. t. [Formerly also in- 
roll, inrol, early mod. E. also enroule, inroule; 
< ME. enrollen, < OF. enroller, enrouler (also en- 
rotuler), F. enroler, write in a roll, = Sp. enrollar 
= Pg. enrolar (cf. equiv. Sp. arrollar = It. ar- 
rolare), roll up, < ML. inrotulare, write in a roll, 
< L. in, in, + rotulus, a little wheel, ML. a roll: 
see en- and roll.] 1 . To write in a roll or regis- 
ter; insert or enter the name of in a list or 
catalogue : as, to enroll men for military service. 
For that [the religion of Mahomet) makes it not only 
lawful! to destroy those of a different Religion, but en- 
roll* them for Martyrs that die in the Field. 
Stillingjleet, Sermons, II. II. 
Heroes and heroines of old 
By honour only were enrM'd 
Among their brethren of the skies. Stri.fl. 
2. To record ; insert in records; put into writ- 
ing or on record. 
That this saide ordynanncez and constitucionz . . . 
schall be ferme and stable, we the sal<le Mainur bailifs 
and commune couusayle haue lette enroll hit in a roll. 
i'n./lA Vila* (E. E. T. S.), p. 334. 
