E N S 
To ENSEA'R, v.a. To cauterife 5 to ftanch or flop 
with fire : 
Enfear thy fertile and conceptions womb ; 
Let it no more bring out t’ ingrateful man. Shakefpcare . 
ENSEI'NT, adj. [law Fr.] With child.—A. died 
without ilTiie born, but leaving his wife enfeint, or big 
with child. Blackjlove. 
EN'SENE, a town of Egypt, on the eaft fide of the 
Nile: 120 miles (oiith of Cairo. Lat. 28. 5. N. Ion. 48. 
40. E. Ferro. 
To ENSHIE'LD, v.a. To fliield ; to cover; to protedt: 
Thefe black maflcs 
Proclaim an enjhield beauty, ten times louder 
Than beauty could difplay. Shakefpcare. 
To ENSHRI'NE, v. a. To enclofe in a cheft or cabinet; 
to preferve and feeure as a thing facred : 
Fair fortune next, with looks ferene and kind, 
Receives ’em, in her ancient fane enfirin'd. Addifon. 
ENSIF'EROUS, adj. \enffer, Lat.] Sword-bearing. 
EN'SIFORM, adj. [enfformis, Lat.] Having the fhape 
of a fword, as tiie xiphoeides or cnjrform cartilage. In 
botany, it denotes plants with fword-fhaped leaves, ta¬ 
pering from the bafe towards the point. 
EN'SIGN,/". [en/cigne, Fr.] The flag or ftandard of a 
regiment.—Hang up your enfiqns, let your drums be (till. 
Shakfpeare. —Any fignal to alfemble.—He will lift up an 
tnfvgn to the nations from far. Ifaiah v.—Badge ; or mark 
of diftinftion, rank, or office.—The marks or enfigns of 
virtues contribute, by their nohjenefs, to the ornament of 
the figures ; as the decorations belonging to the liberal 
arts, to war, or facrifices. Dryden. 
Princes that fly, their feeptres left behind. 
Contempt or pity, where they travel, find ; 
The enjigns of our pow’r about we bear, 
And ev’ry land pays tribute to the fair. Waller. 
The officer of foot who carries the flag. See the articles 
Flag, and Standard. 
EN'SIGN-BEAK SR,y. He that carries the d ig; the 
enfign.—If it be tine that the giants ever made war 
againft heaven, he had been a fit crfgn-beartr for that 
company. Sidney. 
EN'SISHEIM, a town of France, in the department 
of the Upper Rhine, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftrift of Colmar : four leagues fouth of Ci n ; r. 
ENSKY'ED, part. adj. Carried to heaven.—I hold 
you as a thing enjky'd and fainted. Shakefpcare. 
To ENSLA'VE, v. a. To reduce to fervitude ; to de¬ 
prive of liberty.—While the balance of power is equally 
held, the ambition of private men gives neither danger 
nor fear, nor can poffibly erflave their country. Swift. 
The conquer’d alfo, and enjlav'd bv war, 
Shall, with their freedom loft, their virtue lofe. Milton. 
To make over to another as his Have or bondman.—No 
man can make another man to be his (lave, unlefs he hath 
firft enjlaved himfelf to life and death, to pleafure or pain, 
to hope or'fear ; command tbofe paffions, and you are 
freer than the Parthiap king. Taylor. —L'lie more virtu- 
oufly any man lives, and the lefs he is enfaved to any hift, 
the more ready he is to entertain the principles of reli¬ 
gion. Tillotfon. 
ENSLA'VEMENT, f. The (late of fervitude ; fla- 
very ; abjedt fubjedlion.—The children of Ifrael, accord¬ 
ing to their method of finning, after mercies, and there¬ 
upon returning to a freffi enflavement to their enemies, had 
row p.a fifed (even years in cruel fubjedlion. South. 
ENSLA'VER,/i He that reduces others to a (late of 
fervitude : 
What indignation in her mind,. 
Againft enf avers of mankind ! Swift. 
ENSNA'RE. See Insnare, 
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To ENSNAR'LE, v. a. To entangle.—They inawayt 
would clofely him tnfnarlc. Spetfcr. 
To ENS rA'L, &c. See I.nstal. 
EN'STORF, a town of Germany, in the circle of Ba¬ 
varia and Upper Palatinate : ■ twenty-two miles north of 
Ratifbon. 
To ENSTY'LE, v. a. To denominate : 
High on the plains of that renowned ile, 
Which all men beauty’.-, garden-plot enjlyle. W. Browne. 
To ENSU'E, v.a. [ enfuivre , Fr ] To follow ; to pur- 
fue.—Flee evil, and do good; feek peace, and enfue it. 
Common Prayer. 
To ENSU E, v. n. To follow as a confeqttence to pre- 
mifes.—Let this be granted, and it dull hereupon plainly 
enfue , that the light of (cripture once ftiining in the wot Id, 
all other light of nature is therewith in fuch fort drown¬ 
ed, that now we need it not. Hooker. —To fttcceed in a train 
of events, or courfe of time.—Of worfe deeds worfe buf¬ 
ferings nutft enfue. Milton. 
Then grave Clarifla graceful wav’d her fan ; 
Silence enfu'd, and thus the nymph began. Pope. 
ENSU'R ANCE, f. Exemption from hazard, obtained 
by the payment of a certain fum- The fum paid for 
fecurity. 
ENSU'RANCER, f. He who undertakes to exempt 
from hazard : 
The vain enfurancers of life, 
And they who mod perform’d, and promis’d lefs, 
Ev’n Short and Hobbes, forfook th’ unequal ftrife. Dryd. 
To ENSU'RE, v. a. [from/«rf, afurer , Fr.] To afeer- 
tain ; to make certain ; to fecure.—It is eafy to entail 
debts on fucceeding ages, but how to enfure peace for any 
term of years is difficult enough. Swift. —To exempt any 
thing from hazard by paying a certain fum, on condition 
of being teimburfed for mifearriage. To promife reim- 
burfement of any mifearriage for a certain reward ftipu- 
lated.—A mendicant contracted with a country fellow 
for a quantity of com, to enfure his (heep for that year.. 
V EJlrange. 
ENSU'RER,/! One who makes contracts of enfurance ; 
one who for a certain fum exempts any thing from hazard. 
EN F (George), a learned phyfician and anatomift, 
born, in 1603, at Sandwich, (on of a Flemifh merchant 
who took refuge in England from the tyranny of the duke 
of Alva. He was brought up to letters ; and after finifti- 
ing his education at Cambridge, went abroad for the ftudy 
of phyfic, and took his doctor’s degree at Padua, in which, 
upon his return, he was incorporated at Oxford. He let- 
tied in London, and was admitted into the college of 
phylicians, of which he filled the various offices with great 
reputation. He firft made himfelf known as an author by 
a defence of Harvey’s dodlrine of the circulation, in a 
work entitled Apologia pro Circulatione Sanguinis, qua refpon- 
detur Ae.milio Parifano, 1641, reprinted with large additions- 
in 1685. The anatomical reputation he had acquired 
caufed him to be appointed one of the ledturers in that 
fcience before the college of phylicians. Charles IT. 
once condefcended to be his auditor, and after the ledhire 
conferred upon him the honour of-knighthood. He was 
one of the original members of that private philofophical 
fociety, which, after the reftoration, formed the Royal 
Society. 'He publifhed, in 1679, a controverfia! piece, 
inti tied Antidialriba in Malachiam Thrujlon de Refpirationis Ufa 
primario, containing fome obfervations upon Dr. Thruf- 
ton’swork upon refpiration, which he had firft communi¬ 
cated to him in manufeript. Sir George Ent died in 1689, 
at the age of eighty-fix. 
ENTA’BLATURE, or Entablement,/; [from table.'] 
In architedlure, that part of an order of column which is 
over the capital, comptehending the architrave, frize, 
and cornice. It is alfo ufed for the la ft row of (tones on 
the top of the wall of. a building, on which the timber and 
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