Emily Dickinson Lexicon

E-THE'RE-AL-LY, adv.

In a celestial or heavenly manner.

E-THE'RE-OUS, a.

Formed of ether; heavenly. Milton.

E'THER-I-FORM, a. [ether and form.]

Having the form of ether. Prout.

E'THER-IZE, v.t.

To convert into ether. Med. Repos.

E'THER-IZ-ED, pp.

Converted into ether.

E'THER-IZ-ING, ppr.

Converting into ether.

ETH'IC, or ETH'IC-AL, a. [L. ethicus; Gr. ηθικος, from ηθος, manners.]

Relating to manners or morals; treating of morality; delivering precepts of morality; as, ethic discourses or epistles.

ETH'IC-AL-LY, adv.

According to the doctrines of morality.

ETH'ICS, n.

1. The doctrines of morality or social manners; the science of moral philosophy, which teaches men their duty and the reasons of it. Paley. Encyc.
2. A system of moral principles; a system of rules for regulating the actions and manners of men in society.

E'THI-OP, or E-THI-O'PI-AN, n.

A native of Ethiopia.

ETHIOPS-MARTIAL, n. [Ethiops martial.]

Black oxyd of iron; iron in the form of a very fine powder.

ETHIOPS-MINERAL, n. [Ethiops mineral.]

A combination of mercury and sulphur, of a black color; black sulphuret of mercury. Thomson. Nicholson.

ETH'MOID, or ETH-MOID'AL, a. [Gr. ηθμος, a sieve, and ειδος, form.]

Resembling a sieve.

ETH'MOID, n.

A bone at the top of the root of the nose.

ETH'NARCH, a. [Gr. εθνος and αρχη.]

A chief of heathen or of nations.

ETH'NIC, or ETH'NIC-AL, a. [L. ethnicus; Gr. εθνικος, from εθνος nation, from the root of G. heide, heath, woods, whence heathen. See Heathen.]

Heathen; pagan; pertaining to the gentiles or nations not converted to Christianity; opposed to Jewish and Christian.

ETH'NIC, n.

A heathen; a pagan.

ETH'NI-CISM, n.

Heathenism; paganism; idolatry. B. Jonson.

ETH-NOG'RA-PHER, or ETH-NOL'O-GIST, n.

One who cultivates ethnography; one who treats of the different natural races and families of men.

ETH-NO-GRAPH'IC, or ETH-NO-GRAPH'IC-AL, a. [See the noun.]

Describing heathen nations, or nations and tribes in general.

ETH-NOG'RA-PHY, n. [Gr. εθνος, nation, and γραφω, to describe.]

An account of heathen nations, or of nations in general.

ETH-NOG'RA-PHY, or ETH-NOL'O-GY, n. [Gr. εθνος, γραφω, and λογος.]

The science which treats of the different natural races and families of men, or a treatise on that science.

ETH-NOL'O-GY, n. [Gr. εθνος, nation, and λογος, discourse.]

A treatise on nations.

ETH-O-LOG'IC-AL, a. [See Ethology.]

Treating of ethics or morality.

E-THOL'O-GIST, n.

One who writes on the subject of manners and morality.