Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EN-JOIN'ED, pp.

Ordered; directed; admonished with authority; commanded.

EN-JOIN'ER, n.

One who enjoins.

EN-JOIN'ING, ppr.

Ordering; directing. Brown.

EN-JOIN'MENT, n.

Direction; command; authoritative admonition.

EN-JOY', v.i.

To live in happiness. [Unusual.] Milton.

EN-JOY', v.t. [Fr. jouir; Arm. jouiçza; It. gioire. See Joy.]

1. To feel or perceive with pleasure; to take pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or experience of. We enjoy the dainties of a feast, the conversation of friends, and our own meditations. I could enjoy the pangs of death, / And smile in agony. Addison.
2. To possess with satisfaction; to take pleasure or delight in the possession of. Thou shalt beget sons, but thou shalt not enjoy them. Deut. xxviii.
3. To have, possess and use with satisfaction; to have, hold or occupy, as a good or profitable thing, or as something desirable. We enjoy a free constitution and inestimable privileges. That the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers. Numb. xxxvi. The land shall enjoy her sabbaths. Lev. xxvi. To enjoy one's self, is to feel pleasure or satisfaction in one's own mind, or to relish the pleasures in which one partakes; to be happy.

EN-JOY'A-BLE, a.

Capable of being enjoyed. Pope.

EN-JOY'ED, pp.

Perceived with pleasure or satisfaction; possessed or used with pleasure; occupied with content.

EN-JOY'ER, n.

One who enjoys.

EN-JOY'ING, ppr.

Feeling with pleasure; possessing with satisfaction.

EN-JOY'MENT, n.

1. Pleasure; satisfaction; agreeable sensations; fruition.
2. Possession with satisfaction; occupancy of any thing good or desirable; as, the enjoyment of an estate; the enjoyment of civil and religious privileges.

EN-KIN'DLE, v.t. [from kindle.]

1. To kindle; to set on fire; to enflame; as, to enkindle sparks into a flame. In this literal sense, kindle is generally used.
2. To excite; to rouse into action; to inflame; as, to enkindle the passions into a flame; to enkindle zeal; to enkindle war or discord, or the flames of war.

EN-KIN'DLED, pp.

Set on fire; inflamed; roused into action; excited.

EN-KIN'DLING, ppr.

Setting on fire; inflaming; rousing; exciting.

EN-LARD', v.t.

To cover with lard or grease; to baste. Shak.

EN-LARD'ED, pp.

Basting with lard.

EN-LARD'ING, pp.

Greasing.

EN-LARGE', v.i. [enlàrj.]

1. To grow large or larger; to extend; to dilate; to expand. A plant enlarges by growth an estate enlarges by good management; a volume of air enlarges by rarefaction.
2. To be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate. I might enlarge on this topic.
3. To exaggerate. Swift.

EN-LARGE', v.t. [enlàrj; from large.]

1. To make greater in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits, breadth or size; to expand in bulk. Every man desires to enlarge his possessions; the prince, his dominions; and the landholder, his farm. The body is enlarged by nutrition, and a good man rejoices to enlarge the sphere of his benevolence. God shall enlarge Japhet. Gen. ix.
2. To dilate; to expand; as with joy or love. O, ye Corinthians, our mouth is open to you, our heart is enlarged. St. Paul.
3. To expand; to make more comprehensive. Science enlarges the mind.
4. To increase in appearance; to magnify to the eye; as by a glass.
5. To set at liberty; to release from confinement or pressure. Shak.
6. To extend in a discourse; to diffuse in eloquence. They enlarged themselves on this subject. Clarendon. In this application, the word is generally intransitive.
7. To augment; to increase; to make large or larger, in a general sense; a word of general application. To enlarge the heart, may signify to open and expand in good will; to make free, liberal and charitable.

EN-LARG'ED, pp.

Increased in bulk; extended in dimensions; expanded; dilated; augmented; released from confinement or straits.

EN-LARG'ED-LY, adv.

With enlargement. Mountagu.

EN-LARGE'MENT, n.

1. Increase of size or bulk, real or apparent; extension of dimensions or limits; augmentation; dilatation; expansion. The enlargement of bulk may be by accretion or addition; of dimensions, by spreading, or by additions to length and breadth; of a sum or amount, by addition, collection or accumulation.
2. Expansion or extension, applied to the mind, to knowledge, or to the intellectual powers, by which the mind comprehends a wider range of ideas or thought.
3. Expansion of the heart, by which it becomes more benevolent and charitable.
4. Release from confinement, servitude, distress or strait. Esther iv. Shak.
5. Diffusiveness of speech or writing; an expatiating on a particular subject; a wide range of discourse or argument. Clarendon.

EN-LARG'ER, n.

He or that which enlarges, increases, extends or expands; an amplifier. Brown.

EN-LARG'ING, n.

Enlargement.

EN-LARG'ING, ppr.

Increasing in bulk; extending in dimensions; expanding; making free or liberal; speaking diffusively.