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Your hand 
Gave fign for me to leave yoti: fo I did, 
.Fearing to ftrengthen that impatience. 
Which feem’d too much enkindled. Shakefpeare. 
EN KIO'PTNG, a town of Sweden, on the north fide of 
tlie Mceler lake, in the province of Upland : twenty-one 
miles fouth-weft of Upfat. 
EN'KIRCH, a town of Germany, in the circle of the 
Upper Rhine, and county of Sponheim : three miles 
north of Traarbach. 
ENKU'SEN, a town of the iflandof Borneo. 
To ENLA'RD, v. a. To pamper.—That were to enlard 
his fat-already pride. Shakefpeare. 
To ENLAR'GE, v. a. [ clargir , Fr.] To make greater 
in quantity or appearance : 
The wall, in lufire and effedl like glafs, 
Which o’er each objedl calling various dyes, 
Enlarges fome, and others multiplies. Pfe. 
To increafe any thing in magnitude, to extend.—Where 
there is fometlving both lading and fcarce, and fo valuable 
to be hoarded up, there men will not be apt to enlarge 
their podeflions of land. Locke. —To increafe by reprefen- 
tatioji; to magnify; to exaggerate. To dilate; to ex¬ 
pand.—O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, 
our mouth is enlarged. 2 Cor. vi. 11.—To let free from 
limitation.—Though die appear honed to me, yet at 
other places die enlargetk her mirth fo far, that there is 
fhrevvd condrudlion made of her. Shakefpeare. —To extend 
to more purpofes or ufes.—It hath grown from no other 
root than only a delire to enlarge the neceflary ufe of the 
word of God, which defire hath begotten an error, en¬ 
larging it farther than foundnefs of truth will bear. Hooker. 
To amplify; to aggrandife.—This is that fcience which 
would truly enlarge mens minds, were it dudied. Locke. — 
To releafe from confinement: 
Enlarge the man committed yederday, 
That rail’d againd our perfon. Shakefpeare. 
To diffufe in eloquence.—They enlarged themfelves upon 
this fubjedt w ith all the invidious infinuations they could 
devife. Clarendon. 
To ENLAR'GE, v. n. To expatiate; to fpeak in many 
words.—They appoint ’d the chancellor of the exchequer 
to enlarge upon any of thofe particulars. Clarendon .—To 
be further extended.—The caliphs obtained a mighty 
empire, which was in a fair way to have enlarged, until 
they fell out among themfelves. Raleigh. 
ENLAR'GEMENT,y. Increafe ; augmentation ; far¬ 
ther extenfion: 
The ocean, which fo long our hopes confin’d. 
Could give no limits to his vader mind: 
Our bounds’ enlargement was his fated toil, 
Nor hath he left us printers to our ifle. Waller. 
Releafe from confinement or fervitude.—If thou holdeft 
thy peace at the time, then (hall their enlargement and deli¬ 
verance arife to the Jews from another place. EJlker iv. 14. 
—Magnifying reprefentation: 
And all who told it, added fomething new; 
And all who heard it, made enlargements too. Pope. 
Expatiating fpeech ; copious difeottrfe.—He concluded 
with an enlargement upon the vices and corruptions which 
were got into the army. Clarendon. 
ENLAR'GER,y Amplifier; one that increafes or 
dilates any thing.—We (hall not contentioufly rejoin, but 
confer what is in us unto his name and honour, ready to 
be fwailowed in any worthy enlarger. Brown. 
To ENLl'GHT, v.a. To illuminate; to fupply with 
light; to enlighten: 
Wit from the fird has (hone on ages pad, 
Enlights the prefent, and dial! warm the lad. Pope. 
To ENLIGH'TEN, v. a. To illuminate; to fupply with 
light.—God will enlighten my darknefs. P/alms. —As the 
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fun fhineth to the whole world, fo there is no faith but 
this one publiflied, the brightnefs whereof mud enlighten 
all that come to the knowledge of the truth. Hooker.— To 
quicken in the faculty of vifion. — His eyes were enlight¬ 
ened. Samuel. 
Love never fails to mader what he finds; 
The fool enlightens , and the wife he blinds. Dry den. 
To indruft; to furnifh with increafe of knowledge.__ 
This doctrine is fo agreeable to reafon, that we mee "with 
it in the writings of the enlightened heathens. SpeRalor.— 
To cheer; to exhilarate ; to gladden. To illuminate with 
divine knowledge. — Thofe who were once enlightened. 
Hebrews. 
ENLIGH'TENER, f. Illuminator; one that gives 
light. Indrudtor: 
O, feut from lieav’n, 
Enlight'ner of my darknefs! gracious things 
Thou hud reveal’d. Milton. • 
To ENI.INK', v. a. To chain to ; to connect. — Enlinks 
to wafte and defolation. Shakefpeare. 
To ENLI'VEN, v.a. [from life, live.] To make quick; 
to make alive; to animate. To make vigorous or active; 
Thofe grett orbs thus radically bright, 
Primitive founts and origins of light, 
Enliven worlds denied to human fight. Prior. 
To make fprightly or vivacious. To make gay or cheer¬ 
ful in appearance. 
ENLI VENER.y. That which animates; that which 
puts in motion ; that which invigorates : 
But fire, th’ enlivener of the general frame, 
Is one, its operation dill the fame : 
Its principle is in itfelf; while ours 
Works, as confed’rates war, with mingled pow’rs. Dryden . 
To ENLU'MINE, v.n. [enluminer, Fr.] To illumine; 
to illuminate; to enlighten. Not in ufe: 
For having yet, in his dedudled fpright, 
Some fparks remaining of that heav’nly fire. 
He is enlumin'd with that goodly light, 
Unto like goodly fentblance to afpire. Spenfer. 
EN'MITY, f. [from enemy, as if enemity, inamity .] Un¬ 
friendly difpofition ; malevolence ; averfion.—Their being 
forced to their books, in an age at enmity with all redraint, 
has been the reafon why many have hated books. Locke.— 
Contrariety of intereds or inclinations; mutual malignity: 
Between thee and the woman I will put 
Enmity, and between thine and her feed; 
Her (eed (hall bruife thy head, thou bruife his heel. Milton. 
State of oppofition.—Know ye not that the friendfhip of 
the world is enmity with God ? Jam. iv. 4.—Malice ; mif. 
chievous attempts.—He who performs his duty in a dation 
of great power, mud needs incur the utter enmity of many, 
and the high difpleafure of more. Atterbury. 
To ENMAR'BLE, v.a. To turn to marble; to harden. 
Obfolete : 
Their dying to delay. 
Thou do’d enmarble the proud heart of her, 
Whofe love before their life they do prefer. Spenfer. 
To ENME'SH, v. a. To net; to entangle; to intrap : 
So will I turn her virtue into pitch ; 
And out of her own goodnefs make the net 
That (hall enmefi them all. Shakefpeare. 
EN'NA, anciently a town of Sicily, fituated on an emi¬ 
nence to the louth of the Chryfas; called the centre of 
Sicily. It was famous for a facred grove, in which the 
rape of Proferpine happened ; for a temple of Ceres, 
thence furnamed Ennaa, and Entw/fs -, and for fine fprings; 
whence the name. Bockart. 
EN'NEAD, /. [from tma?, Gr.] The number nine. 
ENNEADECA'TERIS,y [of tvnoo, nine, and hxa.'rti, 
Gr. ten.] I.n chronology, a cycle or period of 19 folar 
.1 years, 
