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Upper Saxony, and circle of Neuftadtt four mile's eaft- 
north-eaft of Weyda. 
To ENDU'E, v. a. [induo, Lat.] To fupply with men¬ 
tal excellencies; to invert with intellect pal powers.— 
Endue them with thy Holy Spirit. Common Prayer. 
Thefe banirtt’d men that I have kept wifhal, 
Are men endu'd with worthy qualities. Shakefpeare. 
In the following paffage it feems incorrectly .printed for 
endow. — Leah faid, God hath endued me with a good 
dowry. Gen. 
ENDU'RANCE, f. Continuance; lartingnefs.—Some 
of them are oT very great antiquity and continuance, 
others more late and of \<tl^endurance ., Spaifers Ireland, 
Patience; fufferance : 
Great things of fin all 
One can create; and'in what place foe’er 
Thrive under evil, and work eafe out of pain, 
Through, labour and endurance. Milton. 
State of fuffering.—I would fain know whether that man 
lakes a rational courfe to prelerve ldmfelf, who refufes 
the endurance oi thefe higher trouble?, to /•Lecture himfelf 
from'a condition infinitely more miferable. South. —De¬ 
lay; procraftination. Obfolete: 
I fhould have ta’en fome pains to bring together 
Yourfelf and your accufer, and have heard you 
Without endurance further. Shakefpeare. 
To ENDU'RE, v. a. [ endurer , Fr. durare, Lat,] To 
bear; to fuftain; to fupport unbroken.— The hardnefs of 
bodies is caufed chiefly by the jejunenefs of the fpirits, 
and their imparity with the tangible parts, which make 
them not only hard, but fragile, and lefs enduring of 
preffure. Bacon. 
Both were of fliining fteel, and wrought fo pure, 
As might the ftrokes of two fuch arms endure'. Dryden. 
To bear with patience.—The gout, haunts ufually the 
eafy and the rich, the nice and the lazy, who grow to 
endure much, becaufe they can endure little. Temple. 
So dear I love him, that with him all deaths 
I could endure, without him, live no life. Milton. 
fons, Paeon, Epeus, and /Eolus, and a daughter called 
Eurydice. The fable of Endyniion’s amours with Diana, 
or the moon, arofe from his knowledge of artrononty ; 
and as he parted the night on fome high mountain to ob- 
ferve the heavenly bodies, it came to be faid that he was 
courted by the moon. Some fuppofe that there were 
two of that name; the fon of a king of Elis, and the 
fhepherd or aftronomer of Caria. The people of Hera- 
dea maintained that.Endymion died on mount Latmos, 
and the Eleans pretended to fliow his tomb at Olympia, 
in Peloponnefus. ‘ 
ENE'AS, a Trojan prince; a man’s name. 
To EN'ECATE, v.a. [eneco , Lat.] .To kill; to de- 
flroy.—Some, plagues partake of fuch a pernicious degree 
of malignity, that in the manner of a moft prefentaneous 
poifon, they enecate in two or three hours, fuddenly cor¬ 
rupting or extinguirtiing the vital fpirits. Harvey. 
ENE'DA, a town of Swirterland, in the canton of 
Claris : two miles eaft of Glaris. 
ENE'ID,/. [from Eneds.! The heroic poem of Virgil 
in honour of Eneas. 
EN'EMA. See En^sma. 
ENEM AS'SAR, a man’s name. Toh. i. 13. 
EN'EMY,yi [ ennemi , Fr. inimicus, Lat.] A public foe, 
—The enemy thinks of railing thveefcore thoufand men 
for'the next fummer. Addifon. —A private opponent; an 
antagonift.—I fay unto you, love.your enemies.,Matt.— Any 
one.who regards another with malevolence; not a friend : 
Kent in difguife,' 
Folldw’d his enemy king, and did him fervice 
Improper for a flave. ' Shakefpeare. 
-One that diflikes.— He that defignedly ufes ambiguities, 
ought to be looked on as an enemy/ to truth and know¬ 
ledge. Locke. 
Bold is the critic, who dares prove 
Thefe heroes were no friends to love; 
And bolder he who dares aver, 
That they w'ere enemies to war. Prior. 
[In theology.] The fiend ; the devil.—Defend us from 
the danger of the enemy. Common Prayer. 
ENEN'TI-IIUS, in heathen mythology, an idol of the 
Phoenicians. 
To undergo ; to fuftain.—I wiftt to die, yet dare not death 
endure. Dryden. —To-continue in. Notufed. —The deer en- 
durcllt the womb but eight months,.and is complete at fix 
years. Brown. —[A Latinifm, from induro. ] To harden : 
And manly limbs, endur'd with little care 
Againft all hard milhaps, and fortunelefs misfare. Spcnfer. 
To ENDU'RE; v. n. To laft ; to remain ; to continue. 
.—Labour not for the meat which perifheth, but fur that 
meat which endureth unto everlafting life. John. 
A charm that Audi to age endure 
The mind benevolent and pure. Anon. 
To brook; to bear ; to admit.—For how can I endure to 
fee the evil that (hall come unto my people? Or how can 
I endure to fee the deftruftion of my kindred ? EJlh.v iii. 6. 
ENDU'RER,yi One that can bear or endure ; fuftainer; 
fufferer.—They are very valiant and hardy ; for the moft 
part great endurers of cold, labour, hunger, and all hardi- 
nefs. Spen/er.— Continuer ; lafter. 
END'WISE, adv. Ereftly ; uprightly; on end.—A 
rude and unpoliflied America, peopled with flothful and 
naked Indians, living in pitiful huts and cab.bins, made 
of poles fet tndwife. Ray. 
ENDY'MION, in fabulous hiftory, a fhepherd, fon of 
LEthlius and Calyce. It is faid that he required of Ju¬ 
piter to grant to him to be always young, and to deep as 
much as he would ; whence ctflme the proverb of En- 
dymionis fomnum dormire, to exprefs a long deep. Diana 
faw him naked as he dept on mount Latmos ; and was 
fo ftruck with his beauty, that die came down from hea¬ 
ven every night to enjoy his company. Endymion mar¬ 
ried Chromia daughter of I tonus; by whom he had three 
ENERGE'TIC, adj. [si/Eg^Tnio;, Gr.J Forcible; ac¬ 
tive; vigorous; powerful in effeft; efficacious.—Thefe 
miafms entering the body, are not fo energetic as to vene- 
nate the entire mafs of blood in an inftant. Harvey. _ 
Operative; active; working; not at reft.—If then we 
will conceive of God truly, and, as far as we can, ade¬ 
quately, we mu ft look upon Jiim not only as an eternal 
Being, but alfo as a Being eternally energetic. Grew. 
To EN'ERGIZE, v. n. To aft with energy.—Thefe 
heroic virtues could never have had exiftence, had not 
thofe things called evils fir ft. eftablidied them into ha¬ 
bits, and afterwards given occafion for them to energize. 
J. Harris. 
ENER'GUMENS, f. In church hiftory, perfons fup- 
pofed to be pofl’elFed by the devil, concerning whom there 
were many regulations among the primitive Chriftians. 
They were denied baptifm and the eucharift; and though 
they were under the care of exorcifts, yet it was thougiit 
a becoming aft of charity, to offer up for them the pub¬ 
lic prayers of the church, at which they were permitted 
to be prefent. 
EN'ERGY, J. [ energia, Lat. from ei>, and egyov, Gr. 
work.] Pow’er not exerted in aftion.—They are not efi- 
feftive of any thing, but are energies merely; for their 
working upon mirrors, and places of echo, doth not alter 
any thing in thofe bodies. Bacon. —Force; vigour; effi¬ 
cacy; influence.—Beg the bleft’ed Jefus to give an energy 
to your imperfeft prayers, by his moft powerful inter- 
ceflion. Smalridge. 
What but God, who, boundlefs fpirit all, 
And unremitting energy, pervades, 
Adjufts, fuftains, and animates, the whole, Thomfon. 
Faculty; 
