Emily Dickinson Lexicon

E-MO'TIVE, a.

Exciting emotion. Chalmers. [1841 Addenda only.]

E-MO'TIVE, a.

1. Indicating affection of the mind. Mackintosh.
2. Exciting emotion. Chalmers. [1841 Addenda only.]

EM-PAIR', v.t.

To impair. [Obs.] See Impair.

EM-PALE, v.t. [Port. empalar; Sp. id.; It. impalare; Fr. empaler; en, in, and L. palus, It. and Sp. palo, a stake, a pale.]

1. To fence or fortify with stakes; to set a line of stakes or posts for defense. All that dwell near enemies empale villages, to save themselves from surprise. Ralegh. [We now use stockade, in a like sense.]
2. To inclose; to surround. Round about her work she did empale, / With a fair border wrought of sundry flowers. Spenser.
3. To inclose; to shut in. Impenetrable, empal'd with circling fire. Milton.
4. To thrust a stake up the fundament, and thus put to death; to put to death by fixing on a stake; a punishment formerly practiced in Rome, and still used in Turkey. Addison. Encyc.

EM-PAL'ED, pp.

Fenced or fortified with stakes; inclosed; shut in; fixed on a stake.

EM-PALE'MENT, n.

1. A fencing, fortifying or inclosing with stakes; a putting to death by thrusting a stake into the body.
2. In botany, the calyx of a plant, which surrounds the other part of fructification.
3. In heraldry, a conjunction of coats of arms, pale-wise. Warton.

EM-PAL'ING, ppr.

Fortifying with pales or stakes; inclosing; putting to death on a stake.

EM-PAN'NEL, n. [Fr. panneau; Eng. pane, a square. See Pane and Pannel.]

A list of jurors; a small piece of paper or parchment containing the names of the jurors summoned by the sherif. It is now written Pannel, – which see.

EM-PAN'NEL, v.t. [See IMPANNEL.]

EM-PARK', v.t. [in and park.]

To inclose as with a fence. King.

EM-PAR'LANCE, n. [See IMPARLANCE.]

EM-PASM', n. [empazm'; Gr. εμπασσω, to sprinkle.]

A powder used to prevent the bad scent of the body. Johnson.

EM'PAS'SION, v.t.

To move with passion; to affect strongly. [See Impassion.] Milton.

EM-PAS'SION-ATE, a.

Strongly affected. Spenser.

EM-PEACH', v. [See IMPEACH.]

EM-PEO'PLE, v.t. [empee'pl.]

To form into a people or community. [Little used.] Spenser.

EM'PER-ESS, n. [See EMPRESS.]

EM-PER'ISH-ED, a. [See Perish.]

Decayed. [Not in use.] Spenser.

EM'PER-OR, n. [Fr. empereur; Sp. emperador; It. imperadore; L. imperator, from impero, to command, W. peri, to command, to cause.]

Literally, the commander of an army. In modern times, the sovereign or supreme monarch of an empire; a title of dignity superior to that of king; as, the emperor of Germany or of Russia.

EM'PER-Y, n.

Empire. [Obs.] Shak.

EM'PHA-SIS, n. [Gr. εμφασις; εν and φασις.]

In rhetoric, a particular stress of utterance, or force of voice, given to the words or parts of a discourse, whose signification the speaker intends to impress specially upon his audience; or a distinctive utterance of words, specially significant, with a degree and kind of stress suited to convey their meaning in the best manner. Encyc. E. Porter. The province of emphasis is so much more important than accent, that the customary seat of the latter is changed, when the claims of emphasis require it. E. Porter.

EM'PHA-SIZE, v.t.

To utter or pronounce with a particular or more forcible stress of voice; as, to emphasize a word, for the purpose of rendering the sense more distinct or impressive than other words in the sentence.

EM'PHA-SIZ-ED, pp.

Uttered with force.

EM'PHA-SIZ-ING, ppr.

Uttering with emphasis.

EM-PHAT'IC, or EM-PHAT'IC-AL, a.

1. Forcible; strong; impressive; as, an emphatic voice, tone or pronunciation; emphatical reasoning.
2. Requiring emphasis; as, an emphatical word.
3. Uttered with emphasis. We remonstrated in emphatical terms.
4. Striking to the eye; as, emphatic colors. Boyle.