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A do?, o parrot, or an ape. 
Or fome worle brute in lmman ftiape, 
EngfcJ's the fancies of the fair. Swift. 
To purchafe the whole of any commodity for the fake of 
felling at a high price. To write or ropy in a large hand: 
Here is th’ indictment of the good lord Hadings-, 
Wj.iich in a fet hand fairly is engrofs'd. Shakefpeare. 
ENGROSS'ER, f. He that purchafes large quantities 
of any commodity, in order to (ell it at a high price.—A 
new fort of engrcfcrs , or foredallers, having the feeding 
and fupplying this numerous body of workmen in the 
woollen manufactures, out of their warehoufes, fet the 
price upon the poor landholder. Locke. 
ENGROSS'MENT, f. Appropriation of things in the 
grofs ; exorbitant acquilition.—Thofe held their immo¬ 
derate cngrojfments of rovi er and favour by no other tenure 
than prelumption. Swift. 
To ENGUA'RD, v. a. Toproteft; to defend; to fur- 
round as guards. Not uj'cd. 
A hundred knights! yes, that on ev’ry dream, 
He may cnguard his dotage with their pow’rs, 
And ho : d our lives at mercy. Shakefpeare'. 
ENGUELEGUIN'GIT, a town of Africa, in the em¬ 
pire of Morocco, not far from Mogador. 
EN'G YSCOPE, f. The fame a, microfcope. 
ENHAL'I.OW, one of the lmaller Orkney iflands, be¬ 
tween Rowfa and Pamona. 
To ENHAN'CE, v. a. [ haiijf r, cnhavjfer, Fr.J To lift 
tip ; to raife on high. Afenfe now ohjolete • 
Both of them high at once their hands enhanc'd, 
And both at once their huge blows down did fway .Spcrfer. 
To raife; to advance ; to heighten in price_The defire 
of money is every where the fame; its vent varies very 
little, but as its greater fcarcity enhances its price, and in. 
creafes the fcramble. Locke .—To raife in elleein.—What 
is it but the experience of want that enhances the value of 
plenty? L,' FJlran ,e. —The remembrance of the difficulties 
we now undergo, will contribute to enhance our pleafure. 
Atterbury. —To aggravate ; to increafe from bad to worle. 
•—To believe or pretend that whatever our hearts incite is 
the will of God within us, is the principle of villainy that 
hath acted in the children of difobedience, enhanced and 
improved with circnmftances of greater impudence than 
the mod abominable heathens weie guilty of. Hammond. 
EjM H AN'CEMENT, f. Increafe; augmentation of 
value.—Their yearly rents are not improved, the land¬ 
lords making no lefs gain by fines than by enhancement of 
rents. Bacon. —Aggravation; increafe of ill. — Jocular 
danders have, from the fiightnefs of the temptation, an 
enhancement of guilt. Government of the Tongue. 
To ENHAR'BOUR, v.a. To harbour in : 
O true delight, enkarbouring the breds 
Of thofe fweet creatures with the plumy creds. IV. Browne. 
ENHARMO'NIC, adj. The lad of the three kinds of 
mufic. It abounds in diefes, or the lead fenfible divisions 
of a tone. See the article Music. 
ENJE'DIM (George), a learned unitariap, divine in 
the fixteenth century, native of Hungary, whence he re¬ 
moved into TranfyIvania, where he became one of the 
fuperintendants of tire Unitarian churches in that princi¬ 
pality. He died in 1597 According to father Simon, lie 
was'one of the mod a^ute defenders of that fenle of fieri p- 
ture for which the Socinian writers contend, and was the 
author of a work entitled Explicatio Loccrum Scripture Vete- 
ris C 3 Novi Tefanunti, ex quibus dogma Trinitatis fabilirijoict, 
quarto. The greater part of the fird impreffion of this 
work, which appeared in Tranfylvania, having been burnt 
through the zeal of (ome advocates for tile orthodox faith, 
a new edition of it was afterwards publidied in the Nether¬ 
lands, where the fide of the quedion which it embraces 
has of courie many Supporters. 
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ENTG'MA, f. [anigma , Lat. Gr.J A riddle; 
an obfcuie quedion; a polition exprelfed in remote and 
ambiguous terms. 
ENIGMATICAL, adj. Obfcure ; ambiguoufly or 
darkly exp elled.—Your anfwer, fir, is enigmatical. Shake¬ 
fpeare. —Cloudy; obfeurely conceived or apprehended.— 
Faith here is the afient to thofe things which come to us 
by hearing, and are fo believed by adherence, or dark 
enigmatical knowledge, but hereafter are feen or known 
demondratively. Hammond. 
ENIGMATICALLY, adv. In a fenfe different from 
that which the words in their familiar acceptation imply. 
—Homer fpe.ks enigmatically , and intends that theie lnorr- 
ders are merely the creation of poetry. Broome. 
ENIG'M ATIST, f. One who deals in obfcure and 
ambiguous matters; a maker of riddles.—That I may 
deal more ingenuoufly with my reader th in the above- 
mentioned enigmatifl lias done, 1 (hall prefent him with a 
key to my riddle. Addifm. 
To ENJO'IN, v a. [enjoindre, Fr.J To dire«£t ; to or¬ 
der, to preferibe. It is more authoritative than dircEl, 
and lefs imperious than command: 
To fatisfy the good old man, 
I would bend under any heavy weight 
That he’ll enjoin me to. Shakefpeare . 
ENJOI'NER, f. One who idues injunctions. 
ENJOIN'MENT, f. DireCtiori; command.—Critical 
trial Ihould be made by public enjoinment, whereby deter¬ 
mination might be fettled beyond debate. Brown. 
To ENJO'Y, v. a. [ jouir , enjouir, Fr.] To feel or per¬ 
ceive with pleafure ; to have a pleating, fenle of; to be 
delighted with : 
I could enjoy the pangs of death, 
And (mile in agony. Addfon. 
To obtain poffeffion or fruition of.— Edvyard the faint, in 
whom it pleafed God, righteous and juft, to let England 
fee what a bieding fin and iniquity would not differ it to 
enjoy. Hooker. 
He, who, to enjoy 
Plato’s elyfium, leap’d into the fea. Milton. 
To pleafe ; to gladden ; to exhilarate ; to glad ; to delight. 
This fenfe is ufual with the reciprocal pronoun, and is 
derived from enjouir. —Creatures are made to enjoy them- 
felves, as well as to ferve us. More. 
To ENJO'Y, v n. To live in happinefs : 
Then I (hall be no more! 
And Adam, wedded to another Eve, 
Shall live with her enjoying , I exiinCt. Milton. 
ENJOY'ER, f One that has fruition or pofieffion. 
ENJOY'MENT, f. Pleafure; happinefs ; fruition- 
His hopes and expectations are bigger than his enjoyments. 
Tillotfon. 
ENISE'I, a river of Ruffia, which rifes in the borders 
of Chinefe Tartary, and taking a northern courfe, runs 
into the Frozen Ocean. Lat. 72. 20. N. Ion. 100. o. E. 
Ferro. 
ENISEI'SK, a town of Ruffian Siberia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Tobolik, on the river Enifci ; large, populous, 
and fortified,, with an extenfive jurifdiCtion, which pays 
annually a tribute in (kins to the crown of Ruffia : 400 
miles ead-north-ead of Kollivan, 1692 ead-north ead of 
Aftrachan, and 2293 ead-fouth-ead of Peterffiurgh. Lat. 
38. 1 6. N. bin. 109. 36. E. Ferro. 
E'NIX,. a towirof Spain, in the province of Grenada: 
eight miles wed of Almeria. 
To EN KlIN'DLE, v.a. To fet on fire; to inflame ; to 
put in a flame : 
Edmund, enkindle all the fparks of nature 
To-quit this horrid aft. Shakefpeare. 
To roufe paffions; to fet the foul into a flame. To in¬ 
cite to any act or hope ; 
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