Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EF-FEM'IN-A-TED, pp.

Made or become womanish.

EF-FEM'IN-ATE-LY, adv.

1. In a womanish manner; weakly; softly.
2. By means of a woman; as, effeminately vanquished. Milton.

EF-FEM'IN-ATE-NESS, n.

Unmanlike softness.

EF-FEM'IN-A-TING, ppr.

Making womanish.

EF-FEM-IN-A'TION, n.

The state of one grown womanish; the state of being weak or unmanly. [Little used.] Bacon.

EF-FEN'DI, n.

In Turkish, a master; a title applied to various officers, as to emirs, the Mufti, priests of mosks, men of learning and law. The grand chancellor of the empire is called Reis-effendi. Encyc.

EF-FER-VESCE, v.i. [efferves'; L. effervesco, from ferveo, to be hot, to rage. See Fervent.]

To be in natural commotion, like liquor when gently boiling; to bubble and hiss, as fermenting liquors, or any fluid, when some part escapes in an elastic form; to work, as new wine.

EF-FER-VES'CENCE, n.

A kind of natural ebullition; that, commotion of a fluid, which takes place, when some part of the mass flies off in an elastic form, producing innumerable small bubbles; as, the effervescence or working of new wine, cider or beer; the effervescence of a carbonate with nitric acid.

EF-FER-VES'CENT, a.

Gently boiling or bubbling by means of the disengagement of an elastic fluid. Encyc.

EF-FER-VES'CI-BLE, a.

That has the quality of effervescing; capable of producing effervescence. A small quantity of effervescible matter. Kirwan.

EF-FER-VES'CING, ppr.

Boiling; bubbling, by means of an elastic fluid extricated in the dissolution of bodies.

EF-FETE, a. [L. effœtus, effetus; ex and fœtus, embryo.]

1. Barren; not capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth. An animal becomes effete, by losing the power of conception. The earth may be rendered effete by drouth, or by exhaustion of fertility. Ray. Bentley.
2. Worn out with age; as, effete sensuality. South.

EF-FI-CA'CIOUS, a. [L. efficax, from efficio. See Effect.]

Effectual; productive of effects; producing the effect intended; having power adequate to the purpose intended; powerful; as, an efficacious remedy for disease.

EF-FI-CA'CIOUS-LY, adv.

Effectually; in such a manner as to produce the effect desired. We say, a remedy has been efficaciously applied.

EF-FI-CA'CIOUS-NESS, n.

The quality of being efficacious. Ash.

EF'FI-CA-CY, n. [Sp. and It. efficacia; Fr. efficace; from L. efficax.]

Power to produce effects; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of the gospel in converting men from sin; the efficacy of prayer; the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of manure in fertilizing land.

EF-FI'CIENCE, or EF-FI'CIEN-CY, n. [L. efficiens, from efficio. See Effect.]

1. The set of pricing effects; a causing to be or exist; effectual agency. The manner of this divine efficiency is far above us. Hooker. Gravity does not proceed from the efficiency of any contingent or unstable agent. Woodward.
2. Power of producing the effect intended; active competent power.

EF-FI'CIENT, a.

Causing effects; producing; that causes any thing to be what it is. The efficient cause is that which produces; the final cause is that for which it is produced.

EF-FI'CIENT, n.

1. The agent or cause which produces or causes to exist.
2. He that makes.

EF-FI'CIENT-LY, adv.

With effect; effectively.

EF-FIERCE, v.t.

To make fierce or furious. [Not used.] Spenser.

EF-FIG'I-ATE, v.t. [L. effigio, effigies.]

To image; to form a like figure. [Little used.]

EF-FIG'I-A-TED, pp.

Formed in resemblance.

EF-FIG'I-A-TING, ppr.

Imaging.

EF-FIG'I-A-TION, n.

The act of forming in resemblance.