enunciate 
vulge, declare, < e, out, + mntion, announce, 
tell, < tiuiilin.-i, a Micsscn^cr: s.-r miiicin. ('!'. 
enounce.] I. <)*. 1. To utter, aH words or 
syllables; pronounce: used especially with ref- 
erence to manner: as, he i-niinri<itt:.i his words 
distinctly. 2. To declare deliberately or in 
set terms; proclaim distinctly; announce; 
state: as, in .//.<.//< u proposition. 
The term* in which lie nmneiatet the great doctrines 
( the tt"-l" 1 Coleridge. 
= Byn. 1. A rticulatt, etc. See utter, v. 
II. in trans. To utter words or syllables : used 
especially with reference to manner: as, he 
fii minutes distinctly. 
Each has a little Bniniil he calls his own, 
And each entni'-inf<'< " ith a human tone. 
llart, Vision of Death. 
enunciation (e-nuu-gi-a'shon), n. [= F. enon- 
ciation = Sp.' enunciation = Pg. enunciafSo = 
It. enunciazione, < L. enunciatio(n-), prop, enun- 
ti<itii>(n-). < I'Hitiitinre, enunciate: see enunci- 
ate.] 1 . The act or mode of enunciating or pro- 
nouncing; manner of utterance ; pronunciation 
or utterance : used especially with reference to 
manner. 
Without a graceful and pleasing enunciation, all your 
elegancy of style in speaking is not worth one farthing. 
Chesterfield. 
2. The act of announcing or stating, or that 
which is announced ; deliberate or definite de- 
claration ; public attestation. 
The enunciation of the gospel, that life and immortality 
were brought to liuht by Jesus Christ. 
Warburton, Divine Legation, lv., notes. 
The bare enunciation of the thesis at which the lawyers 
and legislators arrived gives a glow to the heart of the 
reader. Emei-son, West Indian Emancipation. 
3. In logic, a proposition j that which is subject 
to truth and falsity; a judgment set forth in 
words. 
An enunciation Is an oration, form of speech, or declara- 
tion, in which something true or false is pronounced of 
another. Burgerstliciun, tr. by a Gentleman. 
Binary enunciation. See binary. Composite enun- 
ciation, an enunciation which states some relation be- 
tween facts described in dependent clauses : opposed to 
simple enunciation. A composite enunciation is copulative, 
hypothetical, disjunctive, adversative, or relative, accord- 
ing to the nature of the conjunctions uniting the clauses. 
Exceptive enunciation, an enunciation which con- 
tains an exceptive expression : as, all mankind were 
drowned except Noah and his family. Exclusive enun- 
ciation. ee exeiuni . Exponible enunciation, an 
enunciation which has to he replaced by another form 
of speech before applying the rules of syllogism, etc. 
Modal enunciation, an enunciation which states some 
fact to be possible or impossible, necessary or contin- 
gent: contradistinguished from pure enunciation. Pure 
enunciation, an enunciation which states a fact as posi- 
tive or undeniable. - Restrictive enunciation, an enun- 
ciation which contains a restrictive expression : as, Christ, 
in respect to his divine nature, is c mnipresent. See propo- 
x;r/,,;i._ Simple enunciation, an enunciation consisting 
of a subject anil predicate ; a categorical proposition : op- 
posed to composite enunciation. 
enunciative (e-nun'gi-a-tiv), a. [= F. fnonci- 
ntif = Sp. Pg. It. I'liinici/ilifii, < L. i-iiiiiii'intiriin, 
prop. enuntMtit'tis, < enuntiare, enunciate: see 
enunriatn.] Declaring something as true; de- 
clarative. 
The instance of Isaac blessing Jacob, which in the sev- 
eral parts was expressed in all forms, indicative, optative, 
nitive. Jer. Taylor, Office Ministerial. 
enunciatively (e-nun'gi-a-tiv-li), adv. Declar- 
atively. Johnson. 
enunciator (e-nun'gi-a-tor), n. [= It. enuncia- 
tore, < LL. enunciator, prop, enuntiator, a de- 
clarer, < L. enuntiare, enunciate, declare : see 
< H u ciate.~\ One who enunciates, pronounces, 
proclaims, or declares. 
The news of which she was the flret, and not very Intel- 
ligible enunciatin-. Mint Edijneorth, Ennui, xv. 
enunciatory (f'-nuii'si-a-to-ri), a. [< enunciate 
+ -ory.~] 1. Pertaining to utterance or sound. 
Snuirt. 2. Enouncing; giving utterance ; serv- 
ing as a means of enouncing: as, an enunciatory 
discourse. 
enure, r. See inure. 
enuresis (en-u-re'sis), n. [NL., < Gr. evovpelv, 
make water in, < lv, in, -I- ovpeiv, make water, 
< oi'pov, urine.] In \tuihol., incontinence or in- 
voluntary discharge of urine. 
enurny, enurney (en-er'ni), a. Inker., charged 
with beasts, especially lions, or rather lioncels, 
eight, ton. or more in number: said of a bor- 
dure only. The more modern custom is to bla- 
zon " on a border azure, eight lioncels or," or 
the like. 
envaport, envapourt (en-va'por), r. t. [< en-i 
+ I'li/iur.} To surround with vapor. 
On a still rcicki 111; couch lies hlear-cy'd Sleep, 
Sum-tin,; iiimvd. and with his panting breath, 
I'.l'iw, - n Mack fume, that all e nvapoiireth. 
T, tr. ,if Du Bartas's Weeks, it, The Vocation. 
1057 
envassalt (en-vas'al), v. t. [< en- 1 + vassal.'] 
To reduce to vassalage ; make a slave of. 
There He, thou husk of my rncauailtt state. 
Marnton, Jonson, and Chapman, Eastward Ho, ii. 1. 
envault (en-valf), v. t. [< en-l + i-milt.] To 
inclose in a vault ; entomb. [Rare.] 
I wonder, good man ! that you are not eneaulted ; 
Prithee ! go and lie dead, and be doubly exalted. 
Sw\ft, Conclusion drawn from two preceding Epigrams. 
envecked (en-vekt'), a. See invecked. 
enveiglet (en-ve'gl), v. t. See inveigle. 
enveil (en-val'), t. [<<m- 1 + veil.] To veil. 
The back of the head cnveiled. 
C. 0. Midler, Manual of Archieol. (trans.), | 357. 
envelop (en-vel'up), v. t.\ pret. and pp. envel- 
oped, ppr. enveloping. [Also envelope, and for- 
merly invelop, invelope; < ME. envolvpen, envoli- 
pen (rare), <OF. envoluper, enveloper, enveloppcr 
(mod. F. envelopper = Pr. envolopar, envolupar, 
envelopar = It. inviluppare, formerly also ingo- 
luppare), wrap up. envelop, < en- + 'veloptr, 
wrap (a verb found also in desveloper, etc., > E. 
develop, q. v.) ; the forms cited point to an prig, 
type "vlopp-, which must be of OLG. origin, 
namely, from the verb corresponding to ME. 
wlappen (> mod. E. fa;> 3 ), another form of wrap- 
pen (> mod. E. wrap), wrap, envelop: see lap s , 
wrap. Thus envelop is a Rom. doublet of inwrap, 
enwrap.] 1. To cover, as by wrapping or fold- 
ing; inwrap; invest with or as with a covering; 
surround entirely ; cover on all sides. 
I rede that our host heer shal biginne, 
For he is most envoluped in siune. 
Chaucer, Pardoner's Tale (ed. Skeat), 1. 942. 
Is not every great question already enveloped in a suf- 
ficiently dark cloud of unmeaning words? 
Macaulay, West. Reviewer's Def. of Mill. 
2. To form a covering about ; lie around and 
conceal. 
The best and wholesomest spirits of the night 
Envelop you, good provost ! Shak., M. for M., iv. 2. 
A cloud of smoke envelops either host. Dryden. 
The dust-cloud of notoriety which follows and enveloja 
the men who drive with the wrnd bewilders contemporary 
judgment Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 347. 
3f. To line ; cover on the inside. 
His iron coat, all overgrown with rust, 
Was underneath enveloped with gold. 
Spenser, F. Q. 
Enveloping cone of a surface, the locus of all tangents 
to the surface passing through a fixed point. = Syn. 1. To 
encircle, encompass, infold, wrap up. 
envelop, envelope (en-vel'up, en've-lop: see 
below), n. [= OF. envelope, F. enveloppe, a 
cover, envelop j from the verb.] 1. A wrap- 
per; an inclosing cover; an integument: as, 
the envelop of a seed. Specifically 2. A pre- 
pared wrapper for a letter or other paper, so 
made that it can be sealed. [In this sense, 
with the spelling envelope, often pronounced 
as if French, on've-lop.] 
Lend these to paper-sparing Pope, 
And when he sits to write, 
No letter with an envelope 
Could give him more delight. 
Sw\ft, Advice to Grub Street Verse- Writers. 
3. In fort., a work of earth in form of a para- 
pet, or of a small rampart with a parapet, raised 
to cover some weak part of the works. 4. In 
astron., a shell partly surrounding the nucleus 
envier 
stamp or other lgn of value by goveniment authority, and 
sold at a port-office for use In UM malls at its face value, 
usually with a small addition to cover the cost of paper 
anil manufacture. 
enveloped (en-vel'upt), p. a. In her., entwined : 
applied to charges around which 
serpents, or laurels or other ] 
plants, are loosely wound. Also 
- 
. 
Envelops of Comets. 
of a comet on the side next the sun and away 
from the tail, and appearing like a semicircu- 
lar arch. Large comets generally show several of these 
under the telescope. They successively rise from the nu- 
cleus and disappear. 
8. In geom., a curve or surface touching a con- 
tinuous series of curves or surfaces. Thus, sup- 
pose a plane curve to undergo a continuous change in its 
shape and position ; then the curve u it is at any instant 
Is Intersected by the curve as it Is at any subsequent In- 
stant, and the closer the second instant follows after the 
first the closer do these intersections approach certain 
positions on the Bret curve. These positions are points 
on the envelop, and In this way all the poinU on the en- 
velop are determined. If Ms a variable parameter, and 
P = is the equation of the surface, then the equation 
obtained by eliminating ( between P = and dP / At = 
is the equation to the envelop. Or if there are two vari- 
able parameters. * and t, the equation of the envelop is 
obtained by eliminating them between P = 0, dP / d* = 
0, and dP / iU = 0. Every curve may thus be regarded as 
an envelop. Caustics, evolutes, etc.. are so by their den 
nitimis. Floral envelop, the perianth of a flower- 
Stamped envelop, an envelop imprinted with a postage- 
envelop-machine (en - vel ' up- 
ma-shen"), . A power-ma- 
chine for making envelops for 
letters. It cuts the blanks from a 
continuous roll of paper, bends them ciownS land Envef 
Into shape, and gums, folds, and press- oped by a Snake, 
es the edges together. The machine 
then gums the edge of the flap, driei the gum, folds the 
flap, counts the finished envelops Into bundles of twenty- 
five, delivers them, and records the total count. Some- 
times the blanks are first cut to shape in a separate ma- 
chine. The capacity of a good machine Is estimated at 
120 envelops a minute, or 72,000 in one day. 
envelopment (en-vel'up-ment), n. [= OF. en- 
velopement, F. enveloppemetii= Pr. envolopament, 
evolopament = It. inviluppamento ; as envelop + 
-ment."] 1. The act of enveloping, or of inwrap- 
ping or covering on all sides. 2. A wrapper or 
covering; anything that surrounds, inwraps, or 
conceals. 
They have found so many contrary senses In the same 
text that it is become difficult to see any sense at all 
through their envelopments. 
Search, Free Will (1763), Pref. 
His thoughts are like mummies, . . . wrapped about 
with curious envelopment g. Longfellow, Hyperion, I. 6. 
envenimef, v. t. An obsolete form of envenom. 
envenom (en-ven'um), f. t. [Formerly also en- 
venome, invenom, invenome ; < ME. envenimen, 
envenymen, also anvenimen, anvempnen, < OF. 
envenimer, envelimer, F. envenimer = Pr. enveri- 
nar, everinar = Sp. Pg. envenenar = It. invele- 
nare, invelenire (obs. ), poison, envenom (It. now 
invelenire, intr. or reft., be exasperated), < ML. 
invenenare, poison, envenom, < L. in, in, on, + 
venenum (> It. veleno = Sp. Pg. veneno = OF. 
renim, venin), poison, venom : see m-^ and ven- 
om.'] 1 . To taint or impregnate, as meat, drink, 
or weapons, with venom or any substance nox- 
ious to life; make poisonous: chiefly in the past 
participle : as, an envenomed arrow or shaft ; an 
envenomed potion. 
The treacherous instrument is In thy hand, 
t'nbated and envenom'd. Shak., Hamlet, v. 2. 
\ewswas brought to the Court for certain, that the King 
was slain at Oking, twenty Miles from London, stabbed 
with an invenomed Knife. Baker, Chronicles, p. 408. 
They powre the water out of the dores, because the 
Angell of Death washeth his sword (lately vsed) In water, 
and enuenometh it. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 219. 
2. Figuratively, to imbue as it were with ven- 
om ; taint with bitterness or malice. 
To hear 
The envenomed tongue of calumny traduce 
Defenceless worth. Smollett, The Regicide. 
3f. To make odious or hateful. 
O, what a world Is this, when what is comely 
Envenoms him that bears it ! 
.SVi.it., As you Like it, IL 3. 
4t. To make angry; enrage; exasperate. 
Envenoming men one against another. 
Glanvi/le, Essays, iv. 
enverdure (en-ver'dur), r. *. ; pret. and pp. en- 
verdured, ppr. enverduring. [< en- 1 + verdure."] 
To in vest or cover with verdure. Mrs. Brotcning. 
envermeilt (en-ver'mil), v. t. [< OF. envermeil- 
lir, make red, < en- + vermeil, vermilion : see 
vermeil, vermilion.'} To dye red; give a red 
color to. 
That lovely dye 
That did thy cheek enrennril. 
Milton, Death of Fair Infant, 1. 6. 
enveront, enverount, adv. and r. See environ. 
enviable (en'vi-a-bl), a. [< F. enviable (= Pg. 
inrcjitrtl = Sp. envidiable = It. inridiabile). < 
envier, envy: see envy and -able."] That may 
excite envy ; worthy to be envied. 
They [honest burghers of Communipaw) live in pro- 
found and enviable ignorance of all the troubles, anxieties, 
and revolutions of this distracted planet 
Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 99. 
If he [Procter) escaped the discipline of learning in 
suffering what he taught in song, I, for one, do not regret 
this enviable exception to a very bitter rule. 
Stedman. Viet. Poets, p. 108. 
enviableness (en'vi-a-bl-nes), n. [< enviable + 
-ness.] The state or quality of being enviable, 
enviably (en'vi-a-bli), adr. In an enviable 
manner. 
enviet, n. and r. An obsolete form of envy. 
envier (en'vi-r), n. One who envies. 
They ween'd . . . 
To win the mount of God, and on his throne 
To set the envier of his state. Milton, P. L., vi. 89. 
