Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EN-DEAV'OR, v.i. [endev'or.]

1. To exert physical strength or intellectual power, for the accomplishment of an object; to try; to essay; to attempt. In a race, each man endeavors to outstrip his antagonist. A poet may endeavor to rival Homer, but without success. It is followed by after before a noun; as, the Christian endeavors after more strict conformity to the example of Christ.
2. v. t. To attempt to gain; to try to effect. It is our duty to endeavor the recovery of these beneficial subjects. Chatham.

EN-DEAV'OR-ED, pp.

Essayed; attempted.

EN-DEAV'OR-ER, n.

One who makes an effort or attempt.

EN-DEAV'OR-ING, ppr.

Making an effort or efforts; striving; essaying; attempting.

EN-DEC'A-GON, n. [Gr. εν, δεκα, and γωνια.]

A plain figure of eleven sides and angles. Bailey. Johnson.

END'ED, pp.

Finished; concluded.

EN-DEIC'TIC, a. [Gr. ενδεικνυμι, to show.]

Showing; exhibiting. An endeictic dialogue, in the Platonic philosophy, is one which exhibits a specimen of skill. Enfield.

EN-DEM'IC, or EN-DEM'IC-AL, a. [or EN-DE'MI-AL. Gr. ενδημιος, εν, and δημος, people.]

Peculiar to a people or nation. An endemic disease, is one to which the inhabitants of a particular country are peculiarly subject, and which, for that reason may be supposed to proceed from local causes, as bad air or water. The epithet is also applied to a disease which prevails in a particular season, chiefly or wholly in a particular place.

EN-DEM'IC-AL-LY, adv.

In an endemic manner.

EN-DEN'IZE, v.t. [from denizen, or its root.]

To make free; to naturalize; to admit to the privileges of a denizen. [Little used.] Camden.

EN-DEN'I-ZEN, v.t. [from denizen.]

To naturalize. B. Jonson.

END'ER, n.

Ono who ends or finishes.

EN-DICT', or EN-DICT'MENT, n. [See INDICT, INDICTMENT.]

END'ING, n.

1. Termination; conclusion.
2. In grammar, the terminating syllable or letter of a word.

END'ING, ppr. [from end.]

Terminating; closing; concluding.

EN-DITE', v.t. [See INDITE.]

EN'DIVE, n. [Fr. endive; It. endivia; Sp. endibia; L. intybum; Ar. هِنْدَبٌ hindabon.]

A plant, a species of the genus Cichorium or succory; used as a salad.

END'LESS, a. [See End.]

1. Without end; having no end or conclusion; applied to length, and to duration; as, an endless line; endless progression; endless duration; endless bliss.
2. Perpetual; incessant; continual; as, endless praise; endless clamor.

END'LESS-LY, adv.

1. Without end or termination; as, to extend a line endlessly.
2. Incessantly; perpetually; continually.

END'LESS-NESS, n.

1. Extension without end or limit.
2. Perpetuity; endless duration.

END'LONG, adv.

In a line; with the end forward. [Little used.] Dryden.

END'MOST, a.

Furthest; remotest.

EN'DO-CARP, n. [Gr. ενδον and καρπος.]

In botany, the inner lining of the pericarp. Lindley.

EN-DOC'TRINE, v.t.

To teach; to indoctrinate. [See the latter word.] Donne.

EN'DO-GENE, n.

An endogenous plant.