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Chace, by a retinue of twelve ladies in white fatin, on 
ambling palfries, and twenty yeomen in green, all on 
horfeback, that her grace might hunt the hart. On enter¬ 
ing the chace, (lie was met by fifty archers, in fcarlet boots 
.and yellow caps, armed with gilded bows, each of whom 
prefented her with a filver-headed arrow winged, with 
peacock’s feathers. By way of clofing the fport, the 
princefs was gratified with the privilege of cutting the 
throat of the buck. In the garden is ftill a fine cedar of 
Libanus, planted about the middle of the feventeenth 
century. It was planted by Dr. Uvedale, who kept a 
flonrifliing fchool in the houfe at the time of the'plague in 
1665, and was a great botanift. Tradition fays that the 
plant was brought immediately from Mount Libanus in a 
portmanteau. Enfield Park, part of this royal demefne, 
affords a mod beautiful difplay of rural fcenery. The 
market is on Saturdays ; fairs September 23, and Novem¬ 
ber 3. The river Lea runs through part of the parifli, as 
does alfo the New River, which winds in various direc¬ 
tions, and adds greatly to the beauty of the country. 
Here is a free-fchool for boys belonging to the parilh, and 
ieveral other charities. 
EN'FIELD, a townfiiip of the American States, in 
Hartford county, Connecticut, on the eaft bank of Con¬ 
necticut river, bounded on the north by the Maffachufett’s 
line, and fettled in 1681. The parts contiguous to the 
river are extremely pleafant and productive : eighteen 
miles north of Hartford. 
EN'FIELD, a townfiiip of [he American States, in 
Grafton county, New Hampfiiire, incorporated in 1761. 
It contains by the cenfus 724 inhabitants, chiefly farmers : 
eleven miles fouth-eafl of Dartmouth College. 
ENFILA'DE, f [French.] A ftraight paffage; any 
thing through which a right line may be drawn. In for¬ 
tification, it is applied to thofe trenches, and other lines, 
that are ranged in a right line, and fo may be fcoured or 
fwept by the cannon lengthways, or in the direction of 
the line.— A battery d'enfilade, is that where the cannon 
fweep a right line.— A poji or command d 1 enfilade, is a 
height from whence a whole line may be fwept at once. 
To ENFILA'DE, v.a. To pierce in a right line; to 
fweep lengthways by the firing of cannon, &c—The ave¬ 
nues, being cut through the wood in right lines, were en¬ 
filaded by the Spanifli cannon. Expedition to Carthagena. 
ENFINE', a modern name for Antinoe ; an ancient 
city of Egypt, built by Adrian in honour of his favourite 
Antinous. See the article Egypt, p. 359, of this volume. 
To ENFI'RE, v, a. To fire ; to let on fire ; to kindle. 
Obfoletc: • 1 
So hard thofe heavenly beauties be etfir'd. 
As things divine, lead paffions do imprefs. Spenfer. 
To ENFOR'CE, v.a. [erforcir, Fr.] To give flrerigth 
to; to (Lengthen ; to invigorate. To make or gain by 
force : 
Sometimes with lunatic bans, fometimes with pray’rs 
Enforce their charity. Skakefpeare. 
To put in ad: by violence. To inftigate ; to provoke; 
to urge on ; to animate : 
Fear gave her wings, and rage enforc'd my flight 
Through woods and plains. Spenfer. 
To urge with energy.—To avoid all appearance of difaf- 
feftion, I have taken care to enforce loyalty by an invin¬ 
cible argument. Swift. —To compel; to conftrain: 
For competence of life I will allow you, 
That lack of means enforce you not to evil. Skakefpeare. 
To prefs with a charge. Little ufed: 
If he evade us there, 
Enforce him with his envy to the people, 
And that the fpoil got on the Antiates 
Was ne’er diftributed. Skakefpeare. 
To ENFO'RCE, v. n. To prove ; to evince ; to fiiew 
beyond contradiction.—Which laws in fuch cafe we mu ft 
E N F 
obey, unlefs there be reafon (hewed, which may neceffa- 
rily enforce that the law of reafon, or of God, doth en¬ 
join the contrary. Hooker. 
ENFOR'CE, f. Power; ftrength. Notvfed: 
He now defies thee thrice to Angle fight, 
As a petty enterprife of fmall enforce. Milton. 
ENFOR'CEDLY, adv. By violence; not voluntarily; 
not fponfaneoufly ; not by choice : 
If thou did’lt put this four cold habit on, 
To caftigate thy pride, ’twere well, but thou 
Dolt if enforcedly : thoud’ft courtier be,' 
Wert thou not beggar. Skakefpeare. 
ENFORCEMENT, f. An aft of violence; compill- 
fion ; force offered : 
Confefs ’twas her’s, and by what rough enforcement 
You got it from her. " Skakefpeare. 
Sanftion ; that which gives force to a law.—The rewards 
and punifhments of another life, which the Almighty 
has eftablifhed as the enforcements, of his law, are of weight 
enough to determine the choice. Locke. —-Motive of con¬ 
viction ; urgent evidence.—The perfonal defeent of God 
himfelf, and his affumption of our flefii to his divinity, 
was an enforcement beyond all the methods of wifdom that 
were ever made life of in the world. Hammond. —Prefling 
exigence : 
More than I have faid, 
The Ic-ifure and enforcement of the time 
Forbids to dwell oij. Skakefpeare. 
ENFOR'CER, f. Compeller; one who effefts by vio¬ 
lence.—When a man tumbles a cylinder or roller down 
an hill, ’tis certain that the man is the violent enforcer 
of the firft motion of it. Hammond. 
ENFOUL'DRED, adj. fromfoudre, Fr.] Mixed with . 
lightning. Obfolete : 
Heart cannot think what courage and what cries, 
With fould cnfouldrecl fmoak and flaftiing fire. 
The hell-bred beaft threw forth unto the Ikies. Spenfer. 
To ENFRANCHISE, v. a. To admit to the privilege 
of a freeman.—The Englifh colonies, and fome fepts of 
the Irifhry, enfranchifed by fpecial charters, were, admit¬ 
ted to the benefit of the laws. Davies.- —Romulus was the 
natural parent of all thofe people that were the firft in¬ 
habitants of Rome, or of thofe that were after incorpo¬ 
rated and enfranchfed into that name, city, or government. 
Hale. —To fet free from (lavery.-—If they won a battle, 
prifoners became (laves, and continued fo in their gene¬ 
rations, unlefs enfranchifed by their mafters. Temple.— To 
free or'releafe from cuftody : 
His miftrefs 
Did hold his eyes loekt in her cryftal looks. 
.—Belike, that now fhe hath enfranchis'd them, 
Upon fome other pawn for fealty. Skakefpeare. 
To denizen ; to endenizen.—Thefe. words have been en- 
franchifed amongft 11s. Watts. 
ENFRANCHISEMENT,/. Inveftiture of the privi¬ 
leges of a denizen.—The incorporating a man into any 
fociety, or body politic. For example, he that is by 
charter made denizen of England, is faid to be evfran- 
chifed ; and fo is he that is made a citizen of London, or 
other city, or burgefs of any town corporate, becaufe he 
is made partaker of thofe liberties that appertain to the 
corporation. Couiel. —Releafe from prifon or from flaveiy t 
Never did captive With a freer heart 
Caft off his chains of bondage, and embrace 
His golden uncontroul’d enfranchifement. Skakefpeare. 
To ENFREE'DOM, v. a. To make free.—I mean fit¬ 
ting thee at liberty, cnfrecdoming thy perfon. Skakefpeare's 
Love's Labour lofi.— Thisunufual word (being put into the 
mouth of Armado) is probably meant for the coinage of 
affeftation. Mafon's Supplement to Johifon’s DiEhonary. 
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