Faculty; operation,—Matter, though divided into the 
fublimeft 'parts, moved fwiftly, is fenfelefs and (tupid, 
and makes no approach to vital energy. Ray. —Strength 
of expretlion : force of fignification ; fpirit; life.—Swift 
and ready, and familiar communication is made by f'peech ; 
and, when animated by elocution, it acquires a greater 
life and energy , ravithing and captivating the hearers. 
Holder. 
Who did ever, in French authors, fee 
The coihprehenfive Englifli energy. Rofcommon. 
To ENER'VATE, v. a. [ enervo , Lat.] To weaken; 
to deprive of force; to emafcrlate.—Sheepifh foftnefs 
often enervates thole who are bred like fondlings at home. 
Locke. 
On eacli encn&tc firing they taught the note 
To’pant, or tremble through an eunuch’s throat. Pope. 
ENERVA'TION, f The adt of weakening; emafeu- 
lation.—The (late of being weakened ; effeminacy.—This 
colour of meliority and preheminence is a fign of enerva¬ 
tion. and weaknefs. Bacon. 
To ENER'VE, v. a. \_enervo, Lat.] To weaken ; to 
break the force of; to crufh.—We ff.all be able to folve 
and cnerve their force. Digby. 
Such objedt hath the pow’r to foft’n and tame 
Severed temper, fmooth the rugged’d brow, 
Encrvc, and with voluptuous hope diilolve. Milton. 
To ENFA'MISII, v. a. T6 darve ; to famifli; to kill 
with hunger. 
ENFA'MOUSED, adj. Made famous: 
To Pddus’ diver dream then glides (he on, 
E'lfanwnJed by recklefs Phaeton. IV. Browne. 
ENFA'NS PERDUS,/ [Fr.] The forlorn hope ; a 
military term. 
To ENFEE'BLE, v.a. To weaken; to enervate; to 
deprive of drength.—My people are with (ickuefs much 
enfeebled. Shakcjpcare. 
Sure, nature form’d me of her fofted mold, 
Enfeebled all my foul with tender padions, 
And funk me ev’n below my own weak fex. Adclifon. 
E^NFE'LON E D, adj. Full of felonious rage : 
With that, like one cnfelon'd or didraught, 
She forth did roam. Spenfcr. 
To' ENFE'OFF, v.a. \_fcoffamefum. , low tat.] To in- 
vell with any dignities or poffellions.—If the c-lded fon 
enfeoff the- fecond, reserving homage, and that homage 
paid, and then the fecond fon dies without iffue, it will 
defeend to the elded as heir, and the feignory is extindl. 
Hale. 
ENFE'OFFMENT.yi The a£l of enfeoffing. The in- 
drument or deed by which one is inveded with poffellions. 
To ENFET'TER, v. a. To bind in fetters; to enchain. 
Not in uftt 
His foul is fo enfetter'd to her love, 
That die may make, unmake„do what die lid. Siiahefpeare. 
EN'FIELD (William, LLD.) an elegant and edimable 
writer, born at Sudbury, in 1741. He was educated 
for -the minidry among the protedant diffenters at the 
academy at Daventry, where he didinguifhed himfelf by 
his early compofitions. In 1763 he was chofen to the 
padoral office by the congregation of Benn’s-garden in 
Liverpool, and foon obtained notice as a pleafing preach¬ 
er, and an amiable man in fociety. During his relidence 
in that town, he publifhed two volumes of Sermons, in 
i2mo. which were very favourably received, ana alfo a 
collection of Plymns, and Family Prayers, the latter of 
his own compodtion. In 1770 he accepted an invitation 
to undertake the pod of reddent tutor and lecturer in the 
belles-lettres in the academy at Warrington. With 
great diligence and general reputation he fulfilled thefe 
offices for fome years, adding to them that of mathemati- 
Vol. VI. No. 369. 
cal tutor. He likewife publidied various works, rffod of 
them of the clafs of compilations', but excellently calcu¬ 
lated for the improvement of young perfons. One of the 
mod popular of thefe was entitled The Speaker, a (elec¬ 
tion of mifcellaneous pieces frotv. the bed Engfjfh writers 
for the purpofes of recital, to which he prefixed a valua¬ 
ble effay on elocution. A feqnel to this work was after¬ 
wards printed under, the title of Exercifes in Elocution. 
Of his other publications during this period, were, The 
Preacher’s Directory, an arrangement of topics and texts; 
The Englifh Preacher, a collection of fermons from vari¬ 
ous authors, nine vols. 121T10; Biographical Sermons oil 
the principal Characters in the Old and New T eft-ament:; 
and feveral fingle fermons on particular occafions. He 
alfo drew up Inditutes of Natural Phiiofophyp theoretical 
and experimental, in one vol. 4to. a mod valuable work, 
which has already paffed two editions, the lad of which 
was publifined in 1 799. The title of doClor of laws was con¬ 
ferred upon him during his academical employment by 
the univerfity of Edinburgh. After thcvdiTTolution of-the 
academy in 1783 he remained two years at Warrington, 
occupied with the education of private pupils, and with 
his duty as minider of the diffenting congregation there. 
In 17S5 he accepted an invitation from the fociety at the 
oCtagon diffenting meeting-houfe at Norwich. In that 
city lie continued for fome time to purfue his plan of pri¬ 
vate tuition; -but at length he devoted himfelf entirely to 
literary occupations and the padoral office. He was en¬ 
gaged for a confiderable time in the laborious' talk of 
abridging Brnckex’s Midory of Philosophy,; a work of 
great value, but little attractive iu its original form, on 
account of its prolixity, and its harffi and involved Latin 
dyle. Dr. Enfield publidied his Abridgement in two, 
vols. 410. 1791, and probably the tenets, of the different 
feels of.phi-lo.fophers were never before difplayed with fo 
much elegance and perfpicuity. It was, indeed, his 
peculiar talent to exprefs the ideas of other men to the 
greated advantage. His language, chafte, clear, -correlt, 
and free from all affedlaticn, is one of the bed fpecimetis 
of that middle dyle which is fitted for all topics, and he 
communicates to his reader all that clearnef§ of idea 
which reigned in his own mind. He died on the third of 
November, 1797, in his fifty-feventh year. Few men 
have lived more generally beloved, or have died more la¬ 
mented. After his death a publication was made, of his 
Sermons, in thr£e vols. 8vo. 
EN'FIELD, a neat and pleafant town in Middle fex, 
fen miles from London; it is called in fome old records 
Enfen, or Infen, from the fenny foil of its pari (It'; but (o 
drained fince, that, except the part called Enfield-wafh, 
that it is now become good land. It was formerly noted 
for-tanning of hides; had a royal palace in the reign of 
Henry VII. and the ehace near it is a parcel of the duchy 
of Lancafter. In the centre of the ehace are the ru.ins.of 
an old manfion, faid to have belonged to the earls-of 
Effex. Here is a raolt fumptuous lodge for the ranger; 
and the (kirts of the chace are Pored with country-feats 
belonging to the citizens of London. This chace was 
full ot deer, and all forts of game, when James I. refi.ded 
at Theobalds; but in the civil wars it was dripped both 
of the game and timber, and let out in farms. Yet after 
the redoration it was laid open again, woods and groves, 
were re-planted, and the whole chace dored with deer. 
But, by an ail of parliament itf 1779, it was disforelfed. 
Part of it was allotted to different pari (Ire.s, and e’ncloied, 
when it was found to contain 8349 acres; and another 
part, referved to the crown, was afterwards fold, in eight 
lots, at the office of the duchy of Laneader. The church 
is large and very ancient, and has been lately repaired and 
beautified. Oppofite the church is an ancient (Iruclure, 
built in the reign of Henry VII, by Sir Thomas Lovel. 
Henry VIII. is luppofed to have pttrehafed it as a nurfery 
for the royal children. Edward VI. went hence to the 
Tower on It is acceflion to the throne. In April, t 557, the 
Ptincefs Elizabeth was efcorted from Hatfield to Enfield 
6 S Chace, 
