Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: EN-FOR-CED-LY – EN-GAR'BOIL
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EN-FOR-CED-LY, adv.
By violence; not by choice. Shak.
EN-FORCE-MENT, n.
- The act of enforcing; compulsion; force applied. Ralegh.
- That which gives force, energy or effect; sanction. The penalties of law are enforcements. Locke.
- Motive of conviction; urgent evidence. Hammond.
- Pressing exigence; that which urges or constrains. Slack.
- In a general sense, any thing which compels or constrains; any thing which urges either the body or the mind.
- A putting in execution; as, the enforcement of law.
EN-FOR-CER, n.
One who compels, constrains or urges; one who effects by violence; one who carries into effect.
EN-FOR-CING, ppr.
Giving force or strength; compelling; urging; constraining; putting in execution.
EN-FORM', v.t.
To form; to fashion. [See Form.]
EN-FOUL'DER-ED, a. [Fr. foudroyer.]
Mixed with lightning. [Not in use.] Spenser.
EN-FRANCHISE, v.t. [s as z. from franchise.]
- To set free; to liberate from slavery. Bacon.
- To make free of a city, corporation or state; to admit to the privileges of a freeman. The English colonies were enfranchised by special charters. Davies. Hale.
- To free or release from custody. Shak.
- To naturalize; to denizen; to receive as denizens; as, to enfranchise foreign words.
EN-FRAN'CHIS-ED, pp.
- Set free; released from bondage.
- Admitted to the rights and privileges of freemen.
- Release from slavery or custody. Shak.
- The admission of persons to the freedom of a corporation or state; investiture with the privileges of free citizens; the incorporating of a person into any society or body politic.
EN-FRAN'CHIS-ER, n.
One who enfranchises.
EN-FRAN'CHIS-ING, ppr.
Setting free from slavery or custody; admitting to the rights and privileges of denizens or free citizens in a state, or to the privileges of a freeman in a corporation. Cowel.
EN-FRO'WARD, v.t.
To make froward or perverse. [Not used.] Sandy.
EN-FRO'ZEN, a.
Frozen; congealed. [Not used.] Spenser.
EN-GAGE, v.i.
- To encounter; to begin to fight; to attack in conflict. The armies engaged at Marengo, in a general battle.
- To embark in any business; to take a concern in; to undertake. Be cautious not to engage in controversy, without indispensable necessity.
- To promise or pledge one's word; to bind one's self; as, a friend has engaged to supply the necessary funds.
EN-GAGE, v.t. [Fr. engager; en and gager, to lay, to bet, to hire; Arm. ingagi. See Gage and Wage.]
- To make liable for a debt to a creditor; to bind one's self as surety. Shal.
- To pawn; to stake as a pledge. Hudibras.
- To enlist; to bring into a party; as, to engage men for service; to engage friends to aid in a cause.
- To embark in an affair; as, be not hasty to engage yourself in party disputes.
- To gain; to win and attach; to draw to. Good nature engages every one to its possessor. To every duty he could minds engage. Waller.
- To unite and bind by contract or promise. Nations engage themselves to each other by treaty. The young often engage themselves to their sorrow.
- To attract and fix; as, to engage the attention.
- To occupy; to employ assiduously. We were engaged in conversation. The nation is engaged in war.
- To attack in contest; to encounter. The army engaged the enemy at ten o'clock. The captain engaged the ship, at point blank distance.
EN-GAG-ED, pp.
or a. Pledged; promised; enlisted; gained and attached; attracted and fixed; embarked; earnestly employed; zealous.
EN-GAG-ED-LY, adv.
With earnestness; with attachment.
EN-GAG-ED-NESS, n.
The state of being seriously and earnestly occupied; zeal; animation. Flint's Massillon. Panoplist.
EN-GAGE-MENT, n.
- The act of pawning, pledging, or making liable for debt.
- Obligation by agreement or contract. Men are often more ready to make engagements than to fulfill them.
- Adherence to a party or cause; partiality. Swift.
- Occupation; employmemt of the attention. Play, by too long or constant engagement, becomes like an employment or profession. Rogers.
- Employment in fighting; the conflict of armies or fleets; battle; a general action; appropriately the conflict of whole armies or fleets, but applied to actions between small squadrons or single ships, rarely to a fight between detachments of land forces.
- Obligation; motive; that which engages. Hammond.
EN-GAG-ER, n.
One that enters into an engagement or agreement.
EN-GAG-ING, ppr.
- Pawning; making liable for debt; enlisting; bringing into a party or cause; promising; binding; winning and attaching; encountering; embarking.
- adj. Winning; attractive; tending to draw the attention or the affections; pleasing; as, engaging manners or address.
EN-GAG-ING-LY, adv.
In a manner to win the affections.
EN-GAL'LANT, v.t.
To make a gallant of. [Not used.] B. Jonson.
EN-GAOL, v.t. [enja'le.]
To imprison. [Not used.] Shak.
EN-GAR'BOIL, v.t.
To disorder. [Not in use.]