Quotes: E
1682 quotations.
Each
It is a bad thing that men should hate each other; but it is far worse that they should contract the habit of cutting one another's throats without hatred.
Let each His adamantine coat gird well.
In each cheek appears a pretty dimple.
Then draw we nearer day by day, Each to his brethren, all to God.
The oak and the elm have each a distinct character.
I know each lane and every alley green.
In short each man's happiness depends upon himself.
Eachwhere
The sky eachwhere did show full bright and fair.
Eager
And gazed for tidings in my eager eyes.
How eagerly ye follow my disgraces!
When to her eager lips is brought Her infant's thrilling kiss.
A crowd of eager and curious schoolboys.
Conceit and grief an eager combat fight.
Gold will be sometimes so eager, as artists call it, that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself.
Eagle
Though the Roman eagle shadow thee.
Ear
Songs . . . not all ungrateful to thine ear.
Dionysius . . . would give no ear to his suit.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
Eariness
The sense of eariness, as twilight came on.
Earing
Neither earing nor harvest.
Earldom
He [Pulteney] shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.
Earlet
The Ismaelites were accustomed to wear golden earlets.
Early
Those that me early shall find me.
You must wake and call me early.
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
The doorsteps and threshold with the early grass springing up about them.
Seen in life's early morning sky.
The forms of its earlier manhood.
The earliest poem he composed was in his seventeenth summer.
Earmark
Money is said to have no earmark.
Flying, he [a slave] should be described by the rounding of his head, and his earmark.
A set of intellectual ideas . . . have earmarks upon them, no tokens of a particular proprietor.
Earn
The high repute Which he through hazard huge must earn.
I earn that [what] I eat.
The bread I have earned by the hazard of my life or the sweat of my brow.
And ever as he rode, his heart did earn To prove his puissance in battle brave.
Earnest
Take heed that this jest do not one day turn to earnest.
And given in earnest what I begged in jest.
An earnest advocate to plead for him.
They whom earnest lets do often hinder.
To earnest them [our arms] with men.
Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
And from his coffers Received the golden earnest of our death.
Earnestness
An honest earnestness in the young man's manner.
Earning
As to the common people, their stock is in their persons and in their earnings.
Earsore
The perpetual jangling of the chimes . . . is no small earsore s.
Earth
That law preserves the earth a sphere And guides the planets in their course.
In heaven, or earth, or under earth, in hell.
God called the dry land earth.
He is pure air and fire, and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him.
Give him a little earth for charity.
Would I had never trod this English earth.
Our weary souls by earth beguiled.
The whole earth was of one language.
They [ferrets] course the poor conies out of their earths.
The miser earths his treasure, and the thief, Watching the mole, half beggars him ere noon.
Why this in earthing up a carcass?
Such land as ye break up for barley to sow, Two earths at the least, ere ye sow it, bestow.
Earthborn
Some earthborn giant.
All earthborn cares are wrong.
Earthling
Earthlings oft her deemed a deity.
Earthly
This earthly load Of death, called life.
Whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.
What earthly benefit can be the result?
Took counsel from his guiding eyes To make this wisdom earthly wise.
Earthmad
The earthmads and all the sorts of worms . . . are without eyes.
Earthquake
The earthquake voice of victory.
Earthy
How pale she looks, And of an earthy cold!
All over earthy, like a piece of earth.
The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy.
Earthy spirits black and envious are.
Ease
They him besought Of harbor and or ease as for hire penny.
Usefulness comes by labor, wit by ease.
Give yourself ease from the fatigue of watching.
Among these nations shalt thou find no ease.
Take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance.
Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, In him alone 't was natural to please.
Eased [from] the putting off These troublesome disguises which we wear.
Sing, and I 'll ease thy shoulders of thy load.
My couch shall ease my complaint.
Easement
In need of every kind of relief and easement.
Easily
Not soon provoked, she easily forgives.
Easiness
Give to him, and he shall but laugh at your easiness.
With painful care, but seeming easiness.
East
The east began kindle.
The gorgeous East, with richest hand, Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold.
Easter
Sundays by thee more glorious break, An Easter day in every week.
Easterling
Merchants of Norway, Denmark, . . . called . . . Easterlings because they lie east in respect of us.
Eastern
Eastern churches first did Christ embrace.
Easy
It were an easy leap.
He gained their easy hearts.
He is too tyrannical to be an easy monarch.
Eat
They . . . ate the sacrifices of the dead.
The lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine.
The lion had not eaten the carcass.
With stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab the junkets eat.
The island princes overbold Have eat our substance.
His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages.
He did eat continually at the king's table.
Eaves
And closing eaves of wearied eyes.
Eavesdrop
To eavesdrop in disguises.
Ebb
Thou shoreless flood which in thy ebb and flow Claspest the limits of morality!
Painting was then at its lowest ebb.
This alternation between unhealthy activity and depression, this ebb and flow of the industrial.
That Power who bids the ocean ebb and flow.
The hours of life ebb fast.
The water there is otherwise very low and ebb.
Ebon
Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne.
Ebony
This ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling.
Ebullient
The ebullient enthusiasm of the French.
Eccentric
His own ends, which must needs be often eccentric to those of his master.
He shines eccentric, like a comet's blaze.
Eccentrically
Drove eccentrically here and there.
Ecclesiastic
From a humble ecclesiastic, he was subsequently preferred to the highest dignities of the church.
Ecclesiastical
Every circumstance of ecclesiastical order and discipline was an abomination.
Echelon
Change direction to the left, echelon by battalion from the right.
Echo
The babbling echo mocks the hounds.
The woods shall answer, and the echo ring.
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them.
Many kind, and sincere speeches found an echo in his heart.
Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell.
Compelled me to awake the courteous Echo To give me answer from her mossy couch.
I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud again.
Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng.
The wondrous sound Is echoed on forever.
They would have echoed the praises of the men whom they envied, and then have sent to the newspaper anonymous libels upon them.
Eclaircissement
The eclaircissement ended in the discovery of the informer.
Eclipse
That fatal and perfidious bark, Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark.
All the posterity of our fist parents suffered a perpetual eclipse of spiritual life.
As in the soft and sweet eclipse, When soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
My joy of liberty is half eclipsed.
While the laboring moon Eclipses at their charms.
Economic
And doth employ her economic art And busy care, her household to preserve.
Just rich enough, with economic care, To save a pittance.
These matters economical and political.
There was no economical distress in England to prompt the enterprises of colonization.
Economic questions, such as money, usury, taxes, lands, and the employment of the people.
Economize
Expenses in the city were to be economized.
Calculating how to economize time.
economy
Himself busy in charge of the household economies.
The position which they [the verb and adjective] hold in the general economy of language.
In the Greek poets, as also in Plautus, we shall see the economy . . . of poems better observed than in Terence.
The Jews already had a Sabbath, which, as citizens and subjects of that economy, they were obliged to keep.
I have no other notion of economy than that it is the parent to liberty and ease.
The father was more given to frugality, and the son to riotousness [luxuriousness].
Ecphonesis
The feelings by the ecphonesis are very various.
Ecstasy
Like a mad prophet in an ecstasy.
This is the very ecstasy of love.
He on the tender grass Would sit, and hearken even to ecstasy.
That unmatched form and feature of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy.
Our words will but increase his ecstasy.
The most ecstasied order of holy . . . spirits.
Ecstatic
This ecstatic fit of love and jealousy.
Ectype
Some regarded him [Klopstock] as an ectype of the ancient prophets.
Edacious
Swallowed in the depths of edacious Time.
Eddy
And smiling eddies dimpled on the main.
Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play.
Eddying round and round they sink.
The circling mountains eddy in From the bare wild the dissipated storm.
Edge
He which hath the sharp sword with two edges.
Slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword.
Upon the edge of yonder coppice.
In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge Of battle.
Pursue even to the very edge of destruction.
The full edge of our indignation.
Death and persecution lose all the ill that they can have, if we do not set an edge upon them by our fears and by our vices.
To edge her champion's sword.
Hills whose tops were edged with groves.
By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged.
I must edge up on a point of wind.
Edgelong
Three hundred thousand pieces have you stuck Edgelong into the ground.
Edgeways
Glad to get in a word, as they say, edgeways.
Edict
It stands as an edict in destiny.
Edification
The assured edification of his church.
Out of these magazines I shall supply the town with what may tend to their edification.
Edify
There was a holy chapel edified.
It does not appear probable that our dispute [about miracles] would either edify or enlighten the public.
Edit
Philosophical treatises which have never been edited.
Education
To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge.
Educe
The eternal art educing good from ill.
They want to educe and cultivate what is best and noblest in themselves.
Eductor
Stimulus must be called an eductor of vital ether.
Edulcorate
Succory . . . edulcorated with sugar and vinegar.
E'en
I have e'en done with you.
And eke with fatness swollen were his een.
Eerie
She whose elfin prancer springs By night to eery warblings.
Efface
Efface from his mind the theories and notions vulgarly received.
Effect
That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it.
All the large effects That troop with majesty.
The effect is the unfailing index of the amount of the cause.
Patchwork . . . introduced for oratorical effect.
The effect was heightened by the wild and lonely nature of the place.
They spake to her to that effect.
No other in effect than what it seems.
Resolving all events, with their effects And manifold results, into the will And arbitration wise of the Supreme.
Shun the bitter consequence, for know, The day thou eatest thereof, . . . thou shalt die.
So great a body such exploits to effect.
To effect that which the divine counsels had decreed.
They sailed away without effecting their purpose.
Effective
They are not effective of anything, nor leave no work behind them.
Whosoever is an effective, real cause of doing his heighbor wrong, is criminal.
He assembled his army -- 20,000 effectives -- at Corinth.
Effectual
Effectual steps for the suppression of the rebellion.
Effectuate
A fit instrument to effectuate his desire.
In order to effectuate the thorough reform.
Effeminate
The king, by his voluptuous life and mean marriage, became effeminate, and less sensible of honor.
An effeminate and unmanly foppery.
Gentle, kind, effeminate remorse.
It will not corrupt or effeminate children's minds.
In a slothful peace both courage will effeminate and manners corrupt.
Effete
Effete results from virile efforts.
If they find the old governments effete, worn out, . . . they may seek new ones.
efficience
The manner of this divine efficiency being far above us.
efficient
The efficient cause is the working cause.
God . . . moveth mere natural agents as an efficient only.
Effigiate
[He must] effigiate and conform himself to those circumstances.
Efflation
A soft efflation of celestial fire.
Effluence
Bright effluence of bright essence increate!
And, as if the gloom of the earth and sky had been but the effluence of these two mortal hearts, it vanished with their sorrow.
Efflux
It is then that the devout affections . . . are incessantly in efflux.
Prime cheerer, light! . . . Efflux divine.
Effluxion
Some light effluxions from spirit to spirit.
Efform
Efforming their words within their lips.
Effort
We prize the stronger effort of his power.
Effrontery
Corruption lost nothing of its effrontery.
Effulge
His eyes effulging a peculiar fire.
Effulgence
The effulgence of his glory abides.
The bright and the balmy effulgence of morn.
Effuse
So should our joy be very effuse.
With gushing blood effused.
Effusion
To save the effusion of my people's blood.
Wash me with that precious effusion, and I shall be whiter than sow.
The light effusions of a heedless boy.
Eft
I wold never eft comen into the snare.
Eftsoon
And, if he fall from his capel [horse] eftsone.
The champion stout eftsoons dismounted.
Eger
The egre words of thy friend.
Egg
Adam and Eve he egged to ill.
[She] did egg him on to tell How fair she was.
Eglantine
Through the sweetbrier, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine.
Egoist
I, dullard egoist, taking no special recognition of such nobleness.
Egoistic
Ill-natured feeling, or egoistic pleasure in making men miserable.
Egotism
His excessive egotism, which filled all objects with himself.
Egregious
The egregious impudence of this fellow.
His [Wyclif's] egregious labors are not to be neglected.
Egress
Embarred from all egress and regress.
Gates of burning adamant, Barred over us, prohibit all egress.
Egret
A bunch of egrets killed for their plumage.
Either
Lepidus flatters both, Of both is flattered; but he neither loves, Nor either cares for him.
Scarce a palm of ground could be gotten by either of the three.
There have been three talkers in Great British, either of whom would illustrate what I say about dogmatists.
His flowing hair In curls on either cheek played.
On either side . . . was there the tree of life.
The extreme right and left of either army never engaged.
Either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth.
Few writers hesitate to use either in what is called a triple alternative; such as, We must either stay where we are, proceed, or recede.
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs?
Ejaculate
Its active rays ejaculated thence.
Ejaculation
In your dressing, let there be jaculations fitted to the several actions of dressing.
Eke
He eked out by his wits an income of barely fifty pounds.
'T will be prodigious hard to prove That this is eke the throne of love.
A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town.
Clumsy ekes that may well be spared.
El Dorado
The whole comedy is a sort of El Dorado of wit.
Elaborate
Drawn to the life in each elaborate page.
They in full joy elaborate a sigh,
The sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted as it circulates through the vessels of the plant.
Elance
While thy unerring hand elanced . . . a dart.
Elapse
Eight days elapsed; at length a pilgrim came.
Elastic
Capable of being drawn out by force like a piece of elastic gum, and by its own elasticity returning, when the force is removed, to its former position.
Elate
With upper lip elate.
And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes, elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
O, thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate, Too soon dejected, and dejected, and too soon elate.
Our nineteenth century is wonderfully set up in its own esteem, wonderfully elate at its progress.
By the potent sun elated high.
Foolishly elated by spiritual pride.
You ought not be elated at the chance mishaps of your enemies.
Elbow
Her arms to the elbows naked.
They [the Dutch] would elbow our own aldermen off the Royal Exchange.
Elbowroom
Then came a stretch of grass and a little more elbowroom.
Eld
As sooth is said, eelde hath great avantage.
Great Nature, ever young, yet full of eld.
Astrologers and men of eld.
Time, that eldeth all things.
Elder
Let the elder men among us emulate their own earlier deeds.
The elder shall serve the younger.
But ask of elder days, earth's vernal hour.
Carry your head as your elders have done.
Eldern
He would discharge us as boys do eldern guns.
Eldest
Their eldest historians are of suspected credit.
Elect
Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth.
Shall not God avenge his won elect?
The deputy elected by the Lord.
Election
Corruption in elections is the great enemy of freedom.
To use men with much difference and election is good.
There is a remnant according to the election of grace.
The election hath obtained it.
He has made his election to walk, in the main, in the old paths.
Electioneer
A master of the whole art of electioneering.
Elective
The independent use of their elective franchise.
Kings of Rome were at first elective; . . . for such are the conditions of an elective kingdom.
Elector
In favor of the electoral and other princes.
Electorate
The middle-class electorate of Great Britain.
Electrify
If the sovereign were now to immure a subject in defiance of the writ of habeas corpus . . . the whole nation would be instantly electrified by the news.
Try whether she could electrify Mr. Grandcourt by mentioning it to him at table.
Elegance
That grace that elegance affords.
The endearing elegance of female friendship.
A trait of native elegance, seldom seen in the masculine character after childhood or early youth, was shown in the General's fondness for the sight and fragrance of flowers.
The beautiful wildness of nature, without the nicer elegancies of art.
Elegant
A more diligent cultivation of elegant literature.
Elegiac
Elegiac griefs, and songs of love.
Element
The simplicity which is so large an element in a noble nature was laughed to scorn.
Of elements The grosser feeds the purer: Earth the Sea; Earth and the Sea feed Air; the Air those Fires Ethereal.
Does not our life consist of the four elements?
And the complexion of the element [i. e.,the sky or air] In favor's like the work we have in hand, Most bloody, fiery, and most terrible.
About twelve ounces [of food], with mere element for drink.
They show that they are out of their element.
The elements shall melt with fervent heat.
His very soul was elemented of nothing but sadness.
Elevation
His style . . . wanted a little elevation.
Elf
Every elf, and fairy sprite, Hop as light as bird from brier.
Elf all my hair in knots.
Elfish
The elfish intelligence that was so familiar an expression on her small physiognomy.
Eligible
The more eligible of the two evils.
Eliminate
Eliminate my spirit, give it range Through provinces of thought yet unexplored.
Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating.
Elixir
The . . . elixir of worldly delights.
The grand elixir, to support the spirits of human nature.
Ellipse
The Sun flies forward to his brother Sun; The dark Earth follows wheeled in her ellipse.
Elliptic
The planets move in elliptic orbits.
The billiard sharp who any one catches, His doom's extremely hard -- He's made to dwell In a dungeon cell On a spot that's always barred. And there he plays extravagant matches In fitless finger-stalls On a cloth untrue With a twisted cue And elliptical billiard balls!
Elmy
The simple spire and elmy grange.
Elocution
[Fruit] whose taste . . . Gave elocution to the mute, and taught The tongue not made for speech to speak thy praise.
To express these thoughts with elocution.
Eloign
From worldly cares he did himself eloign.
The sheriff may return that the goods or beasts are eloigned.
Elongation
May not the mountains of Westmoreland and Cumberland be considered as elongations of these two chains?
The distant points in the celestial expanse appear to the eye in so small a degree of elongation from one another, as bears no proportion to what is real.
Elope
Great numbers of them [the women] have eloped from their allegiance.
Eloquence
Eloquence is speaking out . . . out of the abundance of the heart.
Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.
The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.
O, let my books be then the eloquence And dumb presagers of my speaking breast.
Eloquent
O Death, all-eloquent! You only prove What dust we dote on when 't is man we love.
Else
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it.
Elude
Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Then, hid in shades, eludes he eager swain.
The transition from fetichism to polytheism seems a gradual process of which the stages elude close definition.
Elusive
Elusive of the bridal day, she gives Fond hopes to all, and all with hopes deceives.
Elvish
He seemeth elvish by his countenance.
Elysian
This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian.
Elysium
An Elysium more pure and bright than that of the Greeks.
Elzevir
The Elzevir editions are valued for their neatness, and the elegant small types used.
Emanate
That subsisting from of government from which all special laws emanate.
Emanation
Those profitable and excellent emanations from God.
An emanation of the indwelling life.
Emancipate
Brasidas . . . declaring that he was sent to emancipate Hellas.
From how many troublesome and slavish impertinences . . . he had emancipated and freed himself.
To emancipate the human conscience.
Emasculate
Luxury had not emasculated their minds.
Embale
Legs . . . embaled in golden buskins.
Embalm
Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm is father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.
With fresh dews embalmed the earth.
Those tears eternal that embalm the dead.
Embar
Where fast embarred in mighty brazen wall.
He embarred all further trade.
Embark
It was the reputation of the sect upon which St. Paul embarked his salvation.
Slow to embark in such an undertaking.
Embarrassment
The embarrassment which inexperienced minds have often to express themselves upon paper.
The embarrassments tom commerce growing out of the late regulations.
Embase
Embased the valleys, and embossed the hills.
Alloy in coin of gold . . . may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it.
Such pitiful embellishments of speech as serve for nothing but to embase divinity.
Embassador
Stilbon, that was a wise embassadour, Was sent to Corinth.
Myself my king's embassador will go.
Embassage
Except your embassages have better success.
Embassy
He sends the angels on embassies with his decrees.
Embattail
To embattail and to wall about thy cause With iron-worded proof.
Embattle
One in bright arms embattled full strong.
Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world.
Embay
If that the Turkish fleet Be not ensheltered and embayed, they are drowned.
Embayment
The embayment which is terminated by the land of North Berwick.
Embellishment
In the selection of their ground, as well as in the embellishment of it.
The graces and embellishments of the exterior man.
Ember
He takes a lighted ember out of the covered vessel.
Embezzle
To embezzle our money in drinking or gaming.
Emblaze
No weeping orphan saw his father's stores Our shrines irradiate, or emblaze the floors.
The imperial ensign, . . . streaming to the wind, With gems and golden luster rich emblazed.
Emblazon
The walls were . . . emblazoned with legends in commemoration of the illustrious pair.
Emblazonry
Thine ancient standard's rich emblazonry.
Emblem
Emblemed by the cozening fig tree.
Emblematize
Anciently the sun was commonly emblematized by a starry or radiate figure.
Emblossom
On the white emblossomed spray.
Embody
Devils embodied and disembodied.
The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided from sin.
Firmly to embody against this court party.
Embolden
The self-conceit which emboldened him to undertake this dangerous office.
Embosom
Glad to embosom his affection.
His house embosomed in the grove.
Some tender flower . . . . Embosomed in the greenest glade.
Emboss
Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss.
Then o'er the lofty gate his art embossed Androgeo's death.
Exhibiting flowers in their natural color embossed upon a purple ground.
In the Arabian woods embossed.
A knight her met in mighty arms embossed.
Embow
With gilded horns embowed like the moon.
Embowel
The barbarous practice of emboweling.
The boar . . . makes his trough In your emboweled bosoms.
Or deep emboweled in the earth entire.
Embrace
I will embrace him with a soldier's arm, That he shall shrink under my courtesy.
Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them.
What is there that he may not embrace for truth?
Low at his feet a spacious plain is placed, Between the mountain and the stream embraced.
Not that my song, in such a scanty space, So large a subject fully can embrace.
We stood tranced in long embraces, Mixed with kisses.
Embracement
Dear though chaste embracements.
In the embracement of the parts hardly reparable, as bones.
A ready embracement of . . . his kindness.
Embrangle
I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties.
Embrasure
Apart, in the twilight gloom of a window's embrasure, Sat the lovers.
Embrave
And with sad cypress seemly it embraves.
Embrawn
It will embrawn and iron-crust his flesh.
Embreathement
The special and immediate suggestion, embreathement, and dictation of the Holy Ghost.
Embroider
Thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen.
Embroidery
Fields in spring's embroidery are dressed.
A mere rhetorical embroidery of phrases.
Embroil
The royal house embroiled in civil war.
The Christian antiquities at Rome . . . are so embroiled with able and legend.
Embroude
Embrowded was he, as it were a mead All full of fresshe flowers, white and red.
Embrown
Summer suns embrown the laboring swain.
Embrute
All the man embruted in the swine.
Emerge
Those who have emerged from very low, some from the lowest, classes of society.
Emergence
The white color of all refracted light, at its very first emergence . . . is compounded of various colors.
When from the deep thy bright emergence sprung.
Emergency
Most our rarities have been found out by casual emergency.
To whom she might her doubts propose, On all emergencies that rose.
A safe counselor in most difficult emergencies.
Emergent
The mountains huge appear emergent.
Protection granted in emergent danger.
Emersion
Their immersion into water and their emersion out of the same.
Emicant
Which emicant did this and that way dart.
Emigrate
Forced to emigrate in a body to America.
They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths.
Eminence
Without either eminences or cavities.
The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence.
You 've too a woman's heart, which ever yet Affected eminence, wealth, sovereignty.
Emissary
Buzzing emissaries fill the ears Of listening crowds with jealousies and fears.
Emit
Lest, wrathful, the far-shooting god emit His fatal arrows.
No State shall . . . emit bills of credit.
Emmarble
Thou dost emmarble the proud heart.
Emmetropic
The normal or emmetropic eye adjusts itself perfectly for all distances.
Emolliate
Emolliated by four centuries of Roman domination, the Belgic colonies had forgotten their pristine valor.
Emolument
A long . . . enjoyment of the emoluments of office.
Emotion
How different the emotions between departure and return!
Some vague emotion of delight.
Emotionalize
Brought up in a pious family where religion was not talked about emotionalized, but was accepted as the rule of thought and conduct.
Empale
No bloodless malady empales their face.
All that dwell near enemies empale villages, to save themselves from surprise.
Empassion
Those sights empassion me full near.
Empassionate
The Briton Prince was sore empassionate.
Empawn
To sell, empawn, and alienate the estates.
Empeople
We now know 't is very well empeopled.
Emperished
I deem thy brain emperished be.
Empery
Struggling for my woman's empery.
emphasis
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.
External objects stand before us . . . in all the life and emphasis of extension, figure, and color.
emphatically
He was indeed emphatically a popular writer.
Empire
Over hell extend His empire, and with iron scepter rule.
Empire carries with it the idea of a vast and complicated government.
Another force which, in the Middle Ages, shared with chivalry the empire over the minds of men.
Empiric
Among the Greek physicians, those who founded their practice on experience called themselves empirics.
Swallow down opinions as silly people do empirics' pills.
In philosophical language, the term empirical means simply what belongs to or is the product of experience or observation.
The village carpenter . . . lays out his work by empirical rules learnt in his apprenticeship.
Employ
This is a day in which the thoughts . . . ought to be employed on serious subjects.
Jonathan . . . and Jahaziah . . . were employed about this matter.
Thy vineyard must employ the sturdy steer To turn the glebe.
The whole employ of body and of mind.
Employment
Cares are employments, and without employ The soul is on a rack.
Emporium
That wonderful emporium [Manchester] . . . was then a mean and ill-built market town.
It is pride . . . which fills our streets, our emporiums, our theathers.
Empressement
He grasped my hand with a nervous empressement.
Emprise
In brave pursuit of chivalrous emprise.
The deeds of love and high emprise.
I love thy courage yet and bolt emprise; But here thy sword can do thee little stead.
Emptiness
Eternal smiles his emptiness betray.
The sins of emptiness, gossip, and spite.
Empty
I shall find you empty of that fault.
When ye go ye shall not go empty.
Words are but empty thanks.
Pleas'd in the silent shade with empty praise.
Seven empty ears blasted with the east wind.
That in civility thou seem'st so empty.
The clouds . . . empty themselves upon the earth.
Empyreal
Go, soar with Plato to the empyreal sphere.
Empyrean
The empyrean rung With hallelujahs.
Emulable
Some imitable and emulable good.
Emulate
Thine eye would emulate the diamond.
Emulation
A noble emulation heats your breast.
Such factious emulations shall arise.
[Chivalry was] an ideal which, if never met with in real life, was acknowledged by all as the highest model for emulation.
1996 marked the year that emulation became a mainstream design verification tool.
Emulator
As Virgil rivaled Homer, Milton was the emulator of both.
Emulous
Emulous missions 'mongst the gods.
En bloc
En bloc they are known as “the herd”.
Enable
Receive the Holy Ghost, said Christ to his apostles, when he enabled them with priestly power.
Temperance gives Nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
Enact
The king enacts more wonders than a man.
I did enact Julius Caesar.
Enamel
Oft he [the serpent]bowed His turret crest and sleek enameled neck.
Enamor
Passionately enamored of this shadow of a dream.
Encamp
The host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
Bid him encamp his soldiers.
Encampment
A square of about seven hundred yards was sufficient for the encampment of twenty thousand Romans.
A green encampment yonder meets the eye.
Enceinte
The suburbs are not unfrequently larger than their enceinte.
Encephalos
In man the encephalos reaches its full size about seven years of age.
Enchafing
The wicked enchaufing or ardure of this sin [lust].
Enchant
And now about the caldron sing, Like elves and fairies in a ring, Enchanting all that you put in.
He is enchanted, cannot speak.
Arcadia was the charmed circle where all his spirits forever should be enchanted.
Enchanter
Like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing.
Enchantment
After the last enchantment you did here.
Such an enchantment as there is in words.
Encharge
His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with.
Enchase
Enchased with a wanton ivy twine.
An precious stones, in studs of gold enchased, The shaggy velvet of his buskins graced.
With golden letters . . . well enchased.
All which . . . for to enchase, Him needeth sure a golden pen, I ween.
Encincture
The vast encincture of that gloomy sea.
Encircle
Her brows encircled with his serpent rod.
Encomium
His encomiums awakened all my ardor.
Encompass
A question may be encompassed with difficulty.
The love of all thy sons encompass thee.
Encompassment
By this encompassment and drift of question.
Encore
[Rebecca] insisted upon encoring one of the duets.
Encounter
Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him.
I am most fortunate thus accidentally to encounter you.
I will encounter with Andronicus.
Perception and judgment, employed in the investigation of all truth, have in the first place to encounter with particulars.
To shun the encounter of the vulgar crowd.
As one for . . . fierce encounters fit.
To join their dark encounter in mid-air.
Encourage
David encouraged himself in the Lord.
Encouragement
All generous encouragement of arts.
To think of his paternal care, Is a most sweet encouragement to prayer.
Encourager
The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts.
Encroach
No sense, faculty, or member must encroach upon or interfere with the duty and office of another.
Superstition, . . . a creeping and encroaching evil.
Exclude the encroaching cattle from thy ground.
Encroachment
An unconstitutional encroachment of military power on the civil establishment.
encrustment
Disengaging truth from its encrustment of error.
Encumber
Not encumbered with any notable inconvenience.
Encysted
The encysted venom, or poison bag, beneath the adder's fang.
End
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof.
My guilt be on my head, and there an end.
O that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come!
Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end.
Confound your hidden falsehood, and award Either of you to be the other's end.
I shall see an end of him.
Losing her, the end of living lose.
When every man is his own end, all things will come to a bad end.
I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
On the seventh day God ended his work.
End-all
That but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here.
Endamage
The trial hath endamaged thee no way.
Endanger
All the other difficulties of his reign only exercised without endangering him.
He that turneth the humors back . . . endangereth malign ulcers.
Endearment
Her first endearments twining round the soul.
Endeavor
It is our duty to endeavor the recovery of these beneficial subjects.
And such were praised who but endeavored well.
He had . . . endeavored earnestly to do his duty.
To employ all my endeavor to obey you.
Endemic
The traditions of folklore . . . form a kind of endemic symbolism.
Fear, which is an endemic latent in every human heart, sometimes rises into an epidemic.
Endlong
The doors were all of adamants eterne, I-clenched overthwart and endelong With iron tough.
He pricketh endelong the large space.
To thrust the raft endlong across the moat.
Endow
Endowing hospitals and almshouses.
Endowment
His early endowments had fitted him for the work he was to do.
Endue
Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.
Endue them . . . with heavenly gifts.
Endurance
Slurring with an evasive answer the question concerning the endurance of his own possession.
Their fortitude was most admirable in their patience and endurance of all evils, of pain and of death.
Endurant
The ibex is a remarkably endurant animal.
Endure
Their verdure still endure.
He shall hold it [his house] fast, but it shall not endure.
Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong in the days that I shall deal with thee?
Both were of shining steel, and wrought so pure, As might the strokes of two such arms endure.
I will no longer endure it.
Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sake.
How can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people?
Manly limbs endured with little ease.
Enemy
To all good he enemy was still.
I say unto you, Love your enemies.
It was difficult in such a country to track the enemy. It was impossible to drive him to bay.
They . . . every day grow more enemy to God.
Energic
The energic faculty that we call will.
Energize
Of all men it is true that they feel and energize first, they reflect and judge afterwards.
energizing
Those nobler exercises of energizing love.
Energy
The great energies of nature are known to us only by their effects.
Enervate
A man . . . enervated by licentiousness.
And rhyme began t' enervate poetry.
Enfeeble
Enfeebled by scanty subsistence and excessive toil.
Enfeoff
[The king] enfeoffed himself to popularity.
Enflesh
Vices which are . . . enfleshed in him.
Enflower
These odorous and enflowered fields.
Enforce
Inward joy enforced my heart to smile.
As swift as stones Enforced from the old Assyrian slings.
Enforcing sentiment of the thrust humanity.
Enforce him with his envy to the people.
A petty enterprise of small enforce.
Enforcement
He that contendeth against these enforcements may easily master or resist them.
Confess 't was hers, and by what rough enforcement You got it from her.
Enforcement of strict military discipline.
The rewards and punishment of another life, which the Almighty has established as the enforcements of his law.
Enfreeze
Thou hast enfrozened her disdainful breast.
Engage
Good nature engages everybody to him.
Thus shall mankind his guardian care engage.
Taking upon himself the difficult task of engaging him in conversation.
A favorable opportunity of engaging the enemy.
How proper the remedy for the malady, I engage not.
Engagement
Religion, which is the chief engagement of our league.
In hot engagement with the Moors.
Engager
Several sufficient citizens were engagers.
Engender
Engendering friendship in all parts of the common wealth.
Thick clouds are spread, and storms engender there.
Engild
Fair Helena, who most engilds the night.
Engine
A man hath sapiences three, Memory, engine, and intellect also.
You see the ways the fisherman doth take To catch the fish; what engines doth he make?
Their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of lust.
To engine and batter our walls.
Enginery
Training his devilish enginery.
Enginous
That one act gives, like an enginous wheel, Motion to all.
The mark of all enginous drifts.
Engle
I 'll presently go and engle some broker.
English
Those gracious acts . . . may be Englished more properly, acts of fear and dissimulation.
Caxton does not care to alter the French forms and words in the book which he was Englishing.
Englishry
A general massacre of the Englishry.
Engore
Deadly engored of a great wild boar.
Engrail
A caldron new engrailed with twenty hues.
Engrain
Leaves engrained in lusty green.
The stain hath become engrained by time.
Engrave
Full many wounds in his corrupted flesh He did engrave.
Like . . . . a signet thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel.
Engrave principles in men's minds.
Engross
Waves . . . engrossed with mud.
Not sleeping, to engross his idle body.
To engross up glorious deeds on my behalf.
Some period long past, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials.
Laws that may be engrossed on a finger nail.
Engrossment
Engrossments of power and favor.
Engulf
It quite engulfs all human thought.
Enhance
Who, naught aghast, his mighty hand enhanced.
The reputation of ferocity enhanced the value of their services, in making them feared as well as hated.
Enhearten
The enemy exults and is enheartened.
Enhunger
Those animal passions which vice had . . . enhungered to feed on innocence and life.
enigma
A custom was among the ancients of proposing an enigma at festivals.
Enjoin
High matter thou enjoin'st me.
I am enjoined by oath to observe three things.
This is a suit to enjoin the defendants from disturbing the plaintiffs.
Enjoy
That the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.
To enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.
Enjoyment
The hope of everlasting enjoyments.
Enkerchiefed
That soft, enkerchiefed hair.
Enkindle
To enkindle the enthusiasm of an artist.
Enlace
Ropes of pearl her neck and breast enlace.
Enlarge
To enlarge their possessions of land.
O ye Corinthians, our . . . heart is enlarged.
It will enlarge us from all restraints.
To enlarge upon this theme.
Enlargement
Give enlargement to the swain.
An enlargement upon the vices and corruptions that were got into the army.
Enlight
Which from the first has shone on ages past, Enlights the present, and shall warm the last.
Enlighten
His lightnings enlightened the world.
The conscience enlightened by the Word and Spirit of God.
Enliven
Lo! of themselves th' enlivened chessmen move.
Enmesh
My doubts enmesh me if I try.
Enmity
No ground of enmity between us known.
The friendship of the world is enmity with God.
Ennoble
What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards.
Enormity
The enormity of his learned acquisitions.
These clamorous enormities which are grown too big and strong for law or shame.
Enormous
Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait.
That detestable profession of a life so enormous.
Enough
How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare!
I know you well enough; you are Signior Antonio.
Thou knowest well enough . . . that this is no time to lend money.
And Esau said, I have enough, my brother.
Enounce
The student should be able to enounce these [sounds] independently.
Enregister
To read enregistered in every nook His goodness, which His beauty doth declare.
Enrich
Seeing, Lord, your great mercy Us hath enriched so openly.
Enring
The Muses and the Graces, grouped in threes, Enringed a billowing fountain in the midst.
Enroll
An unwritten law of common right, so engraven in the hearts of our ancestors, and by them so constantly enjoyed and claimed, as that it needed not enrolling.
All the citizen capable of bearing arms enrolled themselves.
Ensample
Being ensamples to the flock.
Ensconce
She shall not see me: I will ensconce me behind the arras.
Enseal
This deed I do enseal.
Enseam
In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed.
Ensear
Ensear thy fertile and conceptious womb.
Enshrine
We will enshrine it as holy relic.
ensign
Hang up your ensigns, let your drums be still.
He will lift an ensign to the nations from far.
The ensigns of our power about we bear.
Henry but joined the roses that ensigned Particular families.
Enslave
The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.
Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will.
Enslavement
A fresh enslavement to their enemies.
Ensober
Sad accidents to ensober his spirits.
Ensphere
His ample shoulders in a cloud ensphered.
Enstamp
It is the motive . . . which enstamps the character.
Ensue
To ensue his example in doing the like mischief.
So spoke the Dame, but no applause ensued.
Damage to the mind or the body, or to both, ensues, unless the exciting cause be presently removed.
Entail
A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates.
Allowing them to entail their estates.
I here entail The crown to thee and to thine heirs forever.
To entail him and his heirs unto the crown.
Entailed with curious antics.
Entailment
Brutality as an hereditary entailment becomes an ever weakening force.
Entangle
The difficulties that perplex men's thoughts and entangle their understandings.
Allowing her to entangle herself with a person whose future was so uncertain.
Enter
That darksome cave they enter.
I, . . . with the multitude of my redeemed, Shall enter heaven, long absent.
No evil thing approach nor enter in.
Truth is fallen in the street, and equity can not enter.
For we which have believed do enter into rest.
He is particularly pleased with . . . Sallust for his entering into internal principles of action.
Enterdeal
The enterdeal of princes strange.
Enterprise
Their hands can not perform their enterprise.
The business must be enterprised this night.
What would I not renounce or enterprise for you!
Him at the threshold met, and well did enterprise.
Entertain
You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred.
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained unawares.
The weary time she can not entertain.
I am not here going to entertain so large a theme as the philosophy of Locke.
A rumor gained ground, -- and, however absurd, was entertained by some very sensible people.
To baptize all nations, and entertain them into the services institutions of the holy Jesus.
Entertainment
The entertainment of Christ by faith.
The sincere entertainment and practice of the precepts of the gospel.
Theatrical entertainments conducted with greater elegance and refinement.
Some band of strangers in the adversary's entertainment.
The entertainment of the general upon his first arrival was but six shillings and eight pence.
Enthrall
The bars survive the captive they enthrall.
Enthrone
Beneath a sculptured arch he sits enthroned.
It [mercy] is enthroned in the hearts of kings.
Enthronize
There openly enthronized as the very elected king.
Enthusiasm
Enthusiasm is founded neither on reason nor divine revelation, but rises from the conceits of a warmed or overweening imagination.
Resolutions adopted in enthusiasm are often repented of when excitement has been succeeded by the wearing duties of hard everyday routine.
Exhibiting the seeming contradiction of susceptibility to enthusiasm and calculating shrewdness.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Philip was greeted with a tumultuous enthusiasm.
Enthusiast
Enthusiasts soon understand each other.
Enthusiastic
A young man . . . of a visionary and enthusiastic character.
Entice
Roses blushing as they blow, And enticing men to pull.
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
Go, and thine erring brother gain, Entice him home to be forgiven.
Entire
That ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
With strength entire and free will armed.
One entire and perfect chrysolite.
Pure fear and entire cowardice.
No man had ever a heart more entire to the king.
Entirely
Euphrates falls not entirely into the Persian Sea.
To highest God entirely pray.
Entireness
This same entireness or completeness.
Entireness in preaching the gospel.
True Christian love may be separated from acquaintance, and acquaintance from entireness.
Entitle
That which . . . we entitle patience.
The ancient proverb . . . entitles this work . . . peculiarly to God himself.
Entity
Self-subsisting entities, such as our own personality.
Fortune is no real entity, . . . but a mere relative signification.
Entoil
Entoiled in woofed phantasies.
Entourage
The entourage and mode of life of the mikados were not such as to make of them able rulers.
Entrails
That treasure . . . hid the dark entrails of America.
Entrance
Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city.
St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, makes a kind of apology.
Him, still entranced and in a litter laid, They bore from field and to the bed conveyed.
And I so ravished with her heavenly note, I stood entranced, and had no room for thought.
Entrap
A golden mesh, to entrap the hearts of men.
Entreat
Fairly let her be entreated.
I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well.
I must entreat of you some of that money.
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door.
Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife.
It were a fruitless attempt to appease a power whom no prayers could entreat.
Of which I shall have further occasion to entreat.
Alexander . . . was first that entreated of true peace with them.
The Janizaries entreated for them as valiant men.
Entreaty
Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment.
Entropy
The entropy of the universe tends towards a maximum.
Entry
A notary made an entry of this act.
A straight, long entry to the temple led.
Entryng
So great an entryng and so large.
Entwine
Entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks.
Thy glorious household stuff did me entwine.
With whose imperial laurels might entwine no cypress.
Enucleation
Neither sir, nor water, nor food, seem directly to contribute anything to the enucleation of this disease.
Enumerate
Enumerating the services he had done.
Enumeration
Because almost every man we meet possesses these, we leave them out of our enumeration.
Enumerative
Enumerative of the variety of evils.
Enunciate
The terms in which he enunciates the great doctrines of the gospel.
Enunciation
By way of interpretation and enunciation.
Every intelligible enunciation must be either true or false.
Envelop
Nocturnal shades this world envelop.
Envenom
Alcides . . . felt the envenomed robe.
O, what a world is this, when what is comely Envenoms him that bears it!
The envenomed tongue of calumny.
On the question of slavery opinion has of late years been peculiarly envenomed.
Enviable
One of most enviable of human beings.
Envious
Each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch.
My soul is envious of mine eye.
Neither be thou envious at the wicked.
He to him leapt, and that same envious gage Of victor's glory from him snatched away.
No men are so envious of their health.
Environ
Dwelling in a pleasant glade, With mountains round about environed.
Environed he was with many foes.
Environ me with darkness whilst I write.
Lord Godfrey's eye three times environ goes.
Environment
It is no friendly environment, this of thine.
environmental
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Envisage
From the very dawn of existence the infant must envisage self, and body acting on self.
Envoy
The envoy of a ballad is the “sending” of it forth.
Envy
If he evade us there, Enforce him with his envy to the people.
Envy is a repining at the prosperity or good of another, or anger and displeasure at any good of another which we want, or any advantage another hath above us.
No bliss Enjoyed by us excites his envy more.
Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learned or brave.
Such as cleanliness and decency Prompt to a virtuous envy.
To lay the envy of the war upon Cicero.
This constitution in former days used to be the envy of the world.
A woman does not envy a man for his fighting courage, nor a man a woman for her beauty.
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.
I have seen thee fight, When I have envied thy behavior.
Jeffrey . . . had actually envied his friends their cool mountain breezes.
Or climb his knee the envied kiss to share.
If I make a lie To gain your love and envy my best mistress, Put me against a wall.
Who would envy at the prosperity of the wicked?
Enwallow
So now all three one senseless lump remain, Enwallowed in his own black bloody gore.
Enwind
In the circle of his arms Enwound us both.
Eon
The eons of geological time.
Among the higher æons are Mind, Reason, Power, Truth, and Life.
Epanodos
O more exceeding love, or law more just? Just law, indeed, but more exceeding love!
Ephemeral
Sentences not of ephemeral, but of eternal, efficacy.
Epic
The epic poem treats of one great, complex action, in a grand style and with fullness of detail.
Epical
Poems which have an epical character.
His [Wordsworth's] longer poems (miscalled epical).
Epicene
The literary prigs epicene.
He represented an epicene species, neither churchman nor layman.
Epichorial
Epichorial superstitions from every district of Europe.
Epicurean
Courses of the most refined and epicurean dishes.
Epicycle
The schoolmen were like astronomers which did feign eccentrics, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs.
Epidemic
It was the epidemical sin of the nation.
Epigram
Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?
Antithesis, i. e., bilateral stroke, is the soul of epigram in its later and technical signification.
Epigrammatist
The brisk epigrammatist showing off his own cleverness.
Epigrammatizer
Epigrammatizers of our English prose style.
Epilogue
A good play no epilogue, yet . . . good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues.
Epiphany
Whom but just before they beheld transfigured and in a glorious epiphany upon the mount.
An epic poet, if ever such a difficult birth should make its epiphany in Paris.
Episcopate
Feeding the flock episcopating.
Episodic
Such a figure as Jacob Brattle, purely episodical though it be, is an excellent English portrait.
Epistle
A madman's epistles are no gospels.
One sees the pulpit on the epistle side.
Epitaph
Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb.
Let me be epitaphed the inventor of English hexameters.
The common in their speeches epitaph upon him . . . “He lived as a wolf and died as a dog.”
Epitaphial
The noble Pericles in his epitaphian speech.
Epitaphial Latin verses are not to be taken too literally.
Epithalamium
The kind of poem which was called epithalamium . . . sung when the bride was led into her chamber.
Epithet
A prince [Henry III.] to whom the epithet “worthless” seems best applicable.
Never was a town better epitheted.
Epitome
[An] epitome of the contents of a very large book.
An epitome of English fashionable life.
A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome.
Epizeuxis
Alone, alone, all all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea.
Epizoötic
Epizoötic mountains are of secondary formation.
Epoch
In divers ages, . . . divers epochs of time were used.
Great epochs and crises in the kingdom of God.
The acquittal of the bishops was not the only event which makes the 30th of June, 1688, a great epoch in history.
The influence of Chaucer continued to live even during the dreary interval which separates from one another two important epochs of our literary history.
The long geological epoch which stored up the vast coal measures.
The capture of Constantinople is an epoch in the history of Mahometanism; but the flight of Mahomet is its era.
Eponymic
Tablets . . . which bear eponymic dates.
Eponymous
What becomes . . . of the Herakleid genealogy of the Spartan kings, when it is admitted that eponymous persons are to be canceled as fictions?
Equability
For the celestial bodies, the equability and constancy of their motions argue them ordained by wisdom.
Equal
The Scots trusted not their own numbers as equal to fight with the English.
It is not permitted to me to make my commendations equal to your merit.
Whose voice an equal messenger Conveyed thy meaning mild.
Are not my ways equal?
Thee, O Jove, no equal judge I deem.
Nor think it equal to answer deliberate reason with sudden heat and noise.
They who are not disposed to receive them may let them alone or reject them; it is equal to me.
Those who were once his equals envy and defame him.
On me whose all not equals Edward's moiety.
Who answered all her cares, and equaled all her love.
He would not equal the mind that he found in himself to the infinite and incomprehensible.
Equality
A footing of equality with nobles.
Equalization
Their equalization with the rest of their fellow subjects.
Equalize
One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low.
No system of instruction will completely equalize natural powers.
Which we equalize, and perhaps would willingly prefer to the Iliad.
It could not equalize the hundredth part Of what her eyes have kindled in my heart.
Equate
Palgrave gives both scrolle and scrowe and equates both to F[rench] rolle.
Equation
Again the golden day resumed its right, And ruled in just equation with the night.
Equestrian
An equestrian lady appeared upon the plains.
Equilibration
In . . . running, leaping, and dancing, nature's laws of equilibration are observed.
Equilibrist
When the equilibrist balances a rod upon his finger.
Equilibrium
Health consists in the equilibrium between those two powers.
Equine
The shoulders, body, things, and mane are equine; the head completely bovine.
Equinoctial
Thrice the equinoctial line He circled.
Equinox
When descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Stormwind of the equinox.
Equip
Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet.
The country are led astray in following the town, and equipped in a ridiculous habit, when they fancy themselves in the height of the mode.
Equipage
Did their exercises on horseback with noble equipage.
First strip off all her equipage of Pride.
The rumbling equipages of fashion . . . were unknown in the settlement of New Amsterdam.
Equipaged
Well dressed, well bred. Well equipaged, is ticket good enough.
Equipment
The equipment of the fleet was hastened by De Witt.
Armed and dight, In the equipments of a knight.
Equipoise
The means of preserving the equipoise and the tranquillity of the commonwealth.
Our little lives are kept in equipoise By opposite attractions and desires.
The equipoise to the clergy being removed.
Equiponderant
A column of air . . . equiponderant to a column of quicksilver.
Equitable
No two . . . had exactly the same notion of what was equitable.
Equitation
The pretender to equitation mounted.
Equity
Christianity secures both the private interests of men and the public peace, enforcing all justice and equity.
I consider the wife's equity to be too well settled to be shaken.
Equity had been gradually shaping itself into a refined science which no human faculties could master without long and intense application.
Equivalent
For now to serve and to minister, servile and ministerial, are terms equivalent.
He owned that, if the Test Act were repealed, the Protestants were entitled to some equivalent. . . . During some weeks the word equivalent, then lately imported from France, was in the mouths of all the coffeehouse orators.
Equivocal
For the beauties of Shakespeare are not of so dim or equivocal a nature as to be visible only to learned eyes.
In languages of great ductility, equivocals like that just referred to are rarely found.
Equivocate
All that Garnet had to say for him was that he supposed he meant to equivocate.
He equivocated his vow by a mental reservation.
Equivocation
There being no room for equivocations, there is no need of distinctions.
Equivocator
Here's an equivocator that could swear in both the scales against either scale, yet could not equivocate to heaven.
Era
The foundation of Solomon's temple is conjectured by Ideler to have been an era.
The first century of our era.
Painting may truly be said to have opened the new era of culture.
Eradicate
This, although now an old an inveterate evil, might be eradicated by vigorous treatment.
Ere
Myself was stirring ere the break of day.
Ere sails were spread new oceans to explore.
Sir, come down ere my child die.
I will be thrown into Etna, . . . ere I will leave her.
Erebus
To the infernal deep, with Erebus and tortures vile.
Erect
Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall.
Among the Greek colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect -- a column of ruins.
His piercing eyes, erect, appear to view Superior worlds, and look all nature through.
But who is he, by years Bowed, but erect in heart?
Vigilant and erect attention of mind.
That didst his state above his hopes erect.
I, who am a party, am not to erect myself into a judge.
It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance.
By wet, stalks do erect.
Erection
Her peerless height my mind to high erection draws up.
Erelong
A man, . . . following the stag, erelong slew him.
The world, erelong, a world of tears must weep.
Eremite
Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite.
Erewhile
I am as fair now as I was erewhile.
Ericius
I will make it [Babylon] a possession for the ericius and pools of waters.
Eristic
A specimen of admirable special pleading in the court of eristic logic.
Ermine
The snows that have ermined it in the winter.
Erode
The smaller charge is more apt to . . . erode the gun.
Erotesis
Must I give way and room to your rash choler? Shall I be frighted when a madman stares?
Err
What seemeth to you, if there were to a man an hundred sheep and one of them hath erred.
The man may err in his judgment of circumstances.
Do they not err that devise evil?
Errand
I have a secret errand to thee, O king.
I will not eat till I have told mine errand.
Errant
Seven planets or errant stars in the lower orbs of heaven.
Would make me an errant fool.
Erratic
The earth and each erratic world.
Erratum
A single erratum may knock out the brains of a whole passage.
Erroneous
Stopped much of the erroneous light, which otherwise would have disturbed the vision.
An erroneous conscience commands us to do what we ought to omit.
Error
The rest of his journey, his error by sea.
His judgment was often in error, though his candor remained unimpaired.
Erst
Tityrus, with whose style he had erst disclaimed all ambition to match his pastoral pipe.
Erudiate
The skillful goddess there erudiates these In all she did.
erudition
The management of a young lady's person is not be overlooked, but the erudition of her mind is much more to be regarded.
The gay young gentleman whose erudition sat so easily upon him.
erupt
When the amount and power of the steam is equal to the demand, it erupts with violence through the lava flood and gives us a small volcano.
eruption
All Paris was quiet . . . to gather fresh strength for the next day's eruption.
He would . . . break out into bitter and passionate eruditions.
Eruptive
The sudden glance Appears far south eruptive through the cloud.
Escalade
Sin enters, not by escalade, but by cunning or treachery.
Escape
They escaped the search of the enemy.
Haste, for thy life escape, nor look behind
Such heretics . . . would have been thought fortunate, if they escaped with life.
To escape out of these meshes.
I would hasten my escape from the windy storm.
I should have been more accurate, and corrected all those former escapes.
Escapement
An escapement for youthful high spirits.
Escheat
To make me great by others' loss is bad escheat.
Eschew
They must not only eschew evil, but do good.
He who obeys, destruction shall eschew.
Escort
The troops of my escort marched at the ordinary rate.
Esculent
Esculent grain for food.
Esloin
From worldly cares he did himself esloin.
Esoteric
Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.
Espalier
And figs from standard and espalier join.
Espial
Screened from espial by the jutting cape.
Espousal
The open espousal of his cause.
Espouse
A virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph.
Lavinia will I make my empress, . . . And in the sacred Pantheon her espouse.
Promised faithfully to espouse his cause as soon as he got out of the war.
Espy
As one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, . . . he espied his money.
A goodly vessel did I then espy Come like a giant from a haven broad.
He sends angels to espy us in all our ways.
Stand by the way, and espy.
Esquimau
It is . . . an error to suppose that where an Esquimau can live, a civilized man can live also.
Essay
What marvel if I thus essay to sing?
Essaying nothing she can not perform.
A danger lest the young enthusiast . . . should essay the impossible.
Essence
The laws are at present, both in form and essence, the greatest curse that society labors under.
Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence of this virtue [charity].
The essence of Addison's humor is irony.
And uncompounded is their essence pure.
As far as gods and heavenly essences Can perish.
He had been indulging in fanciful speculations on spiritual essences, until . . . he had and ideal world of his own around him.
The . . . word essence . . . scarcely underwent a more complete transformation when from being the abstract of the verb “to be,” it came to denote something sufficiently concrete to be inclosed in a glass bottle.
Nor let the essences exhale.
Essential
Majestic as the voice sometimes became, there was forever in it an essential character of plaintiveness.
Is it true, that thou art but a name, And no essential thing?
Judgment's more essential to a general Than courage.
How to live? -- that is the essential question for us.
Essoin
From every work he challenged essoin.
Establish
So were the churches established in the faith.
The best established tempers can scarcely forbear being borne down.
Confidence which must precede union could be established only by consummate prudence and self-control.
By the consent of all, we were established The people's magistrates.
Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed.
He hath established it [the earth], he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited.
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!
At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
Establishment
Exposing the shabby parts of the establishment.
Estate
Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate.
God hath imprinted his authority in several parts, upon several estates of men.
She's a duchess, a great estate.
Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee.
See what a vast estate he left his son.
I call matters of estate not only the parts of sovereignty, but whatsoever . . . concerneth manifestly any great portion of people.
Then would I . . . Estate them with large land and territory.
Esteem
Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Thou shouldst (gentle reader) esteem his censure and authority to be of the more weighty credence.
Famous men, -- whose scientific attainments were esteemed hardly less than supernatural.
Will he esteem thy riches?
You talk kindlier: we esteem you for it.
We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love, or gift, which is of force.
Most dear in the esteem And poor in worth!
I will deliver you, in ready coin, The full and dear'st esteem of what you crave.
Nor should thy prowess want praise and esteem.
Esteemer
The proudest esteemer of his own parts.
Estimable
A pound of man's flesh, taken from a man, Is not so estimable, profitable neither, As flesh of muttons, beefs, or goats.
A lady said of her two companions, that one was more amiable, the other more estimable.
One of the peculiar estimables of her country.
Estimate
It is by the weight of silver, and not the name of the piece, that men estimate commodities and exchange them.
It is always very difficult to estimate the age in which you are living.
Weigh success in a moral balance, and our whole estimate is changed.
No; dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price.
Estimation
If he be poorer that thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest, and the priest shall value him.
I shall have estimation among multitude, and honor with the elders.
I speak not this in estimation, As what I think might be, but what I know.
Estimative
We find in animals an estimative or judicial faculty.
Estop
A party will be estopped by his admissions, where his intent is to influence another, or derive an advantage to himself.
Estrade
He [the teacher] himself should have his desk on a mounted estrade or platform.
Estrange
We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and distinctly evidenced.
Had we . . . estranged ourselves from them in things indifferent.
They . . . have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods.
I do not know, to this hour, what it is that has estranged him from me.
He . . . had pretended to be estranged from the Whigs, and had promised to act as a spy upon them.
Estrangement
An estrangement from God.
A long estrangement from better things.
Estuary
it to the sea was often by long and wide estuaries.
Estuation
The estuations of joys and fears.
Esurient
An insatiable esurient after riches.
Etch
I was etching a plate at the beginning of 1875.
There are many empty terms to be found in some learned writes, to which they had recourse to etch out their system.
Etern
Built up to eterne significance.
Eternal
The eternal God is thy refuge.
To know wether there were any real being, whose duration has been eternal.
That they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.
And fires eternal in thy temple shine.
Hobbes believed the eternal truths which he opposed.
What are the eternal objects of poetry among all nations, and at all times?
Law whereby the Eternal himself doth work.
Eternally
That which is morally good or evil at any time or in any case, must be also eternally and unchangeably so.
Where western gales eternally reside.
Eternify
Fame . . . eternifies the name.
Eternity
The high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity.
Thou know'st 't is common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.
Eternize
This other [gift] served but to eternize woe.
St. Alban's battle won by famous York, Shall be eternized in all age to come.
Ethereal
Go, heavenly guest, ethereal messenger.
Vast chain of being, which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man.
Ethereality
Something of that ethereality of thought and manner which belonged to Wordsworth's earlier lyrics.
Etherealize
Etherealized, moreover, by spiritual communications with the other world.
Ethereous
This ethereous mold whereon we stand.
Ethic
The ethical meaning of the miracles.
Ethics
The completeness and consistency of its morality is the peculiar praise of the ethics which the Bible has taught.
Ethnic
No better reported than impure ethnic and lay dogs.
Etiquette
The pompous etiquette to the court of Louis the Fourteenth.
Etna
There should certainly be an etna for getting a hot cup of coffee in a hurry.
Etymologize
How perilous it is to etymologize at random.
Etymon
Given as the etymon or genuine sense of the word.
Eucharist
Led through the vale of tears to the region of eucharist and hallelujahs.
Eucharistic
The eucharistical part of our daily devotions.
Euctical
Sacrifices . . . distinguished into expiatory, euctical, and eucharistical.
Eudemonist
I am too much of a eudæmonist; I hanker too much after a state of happiness both for myself and others.
Eulogy
Eulogies turn into elegies.
Eupeptic
Wrapt in lazy eupeptic fat.
euphrasy
Then purged with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see.
Euroclydon
A tempestuous wind called Euroclydon.
Europeanize
A state of society . . . changed and Europeanized.
Euthanasia
The kindest wish of my friends is euthanasia.
Evacuate
Evacuate the Scriptures of their most important meaning.
The Norwegians were forced to evacuate the country.
Evade
The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of evading the Christian miracles.
Unarmed they might Have easily, as spirits evaded swift By quick contraction or remove.
The ministers of God are not to evade and take refuge any of these . . . ways.
Evanesce
I believe him to have evanesced or evaporated.
Evanescent
So evanescent are the fashions of the world in these particulars.
The difference between right and wrong, in some petty cases, is almost evanescent.
evangel
Her funeral anthem is a glad evangel.
evangelist
The Apostles, so far as they evangelized, might claim the title though there were many evangelists who were not Apostles.
Evangelization
The work of Christ's ministers is evangelization.
evangelize
His apostles whom he sends To evangelize the nations.
Evangely
The sacred pledge of Christ's evangely.
Evangile
Above all, the Servians . . . read, with much avidity, the evangile of their freedom.
Evanid
They are very transitory and evanid.
Evanish
Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm.
Evaporate
To give moderate liberty for griefs and discontents to evaporate . . . is a safe way.
My lord of Essex evaporated his thoughts in a sonnet.
evasion
Thou . . . by evasions thy crime uncoverest more.
evasive
Thus he, though conscious of the ethereal guest, Answered evasive of the sly request.
Stammered out a few evasive phrases.
Eve
Winter oft, at eve resumes the breeze.
Even
And shall lay thee even with the ground.
To make the even truth in pleasure flow.
Whether the number of the stars is even or odd.
His temple Xerxes evened with the soil.
It will even all inequalities
Even so did these Gauls possess the coast.
Thou wast a soldier Even to Cato's wish.
Without . . . making us even sensible of the change.
I have made several discoveries, which appear new, even to those who are versed in critical learning.
I knew they were bad enough to please, even when I wrote them.
By these presence, even the presence of Lord Mortimer.
Evening
In the ascending scale Of heaven, the stars that usher evening rose.
Evenness
It had need be something extraordinary, that must warrant an ordinary person to rise higher than his own evenness.
Event
To watch quietly the course of events.
There is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked.
Dark doubts between the promise and event.
Ever
No man ever yet hated his own flesh.
He shall ever love, and always be The subject of by scorn and cruelty.
To produce as much as ever they can.
And all the question (wrangle e'er so long), Is only this, if God has placed him wrong.
You spend ever so much money in entertaining your equals and betters.
She [Fortune] soon wheeled away, with scornful laughter, out of sight for ever and day.
Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio!
Everlasting
I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee . . . the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession.
And heard thy everlasting yawn confess The pains and penalties of idleness.
Whether we shall meet again I know not; Therefore our everlasting farewell take; Forever, and forever farewell, Cassius.
From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
Evermore
Seek the Lord . . . Seek his face evermore.
And, behold, I am alive for evermore.
Which flow from the presence of God for evermore.
I evermore did love you, Hermia.
Eversive
A maxim eversive . . . of all justice and morality.
Every
Every man at his best state is altogether vanity.
Every door and window was adorned with wreaths of flowers.
Daily occasions given to every of us.
In each division there were four pentecosties, in every pentecosty four enomoties, and of each enomoty there fought in the front rank four [soldiers].
If society is to be kept together and the children of Adam to be saved from setting up each for himself with every one else his foe.
Everyday
The mechanical drudgery of his everyday employment.
Everything
More wise, more learned, more just, more everything.
Evict
The law of England would speedily evict them out of their possession.
Eviction
Full eviction of this fatal truth.
Evidence
Faith is . . . the evidence of things not seen.
O glorious trial of exceeding love Illustrious evidence, example high.
Evident
Your honor and your goodness is so evident.
And in our faces evident the signs Of foul concupiscence.
Evidentiary
When a fact is supposed, although incorrectly, to be evidentiary of, or a mark of, some other fact.
Evidently
Before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth.
He was evidently in the prime of youth.
Evil
A good tree can not bring forth evil fruit.
Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, When death's approach is seen so terrible.
Because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel.
The owl shrieked at thy birth -- an evil sign.
Evil news rides post, while good news baits.
It almost led him to believe in the evil eye.
Evils which our own misdeeds have wrought.
The evil that men do lives after them.
The heart of the sons of men is full of evil.
He [Edward the Confessor] was the first that touched for the evil.
It went evil with his house.
The Egyptians evil entreated us, and affected us.
Evince
Error by his own arms is best evinced.
Common sense and experience must and will evince the truth of this.
Evocation
The evocation of that better spirit.
Evocative
Evocative power over all that is eloquent and expressive in the better soul of man.
Evoke
To evoke the queen of the fairies.
A regulating discipline of exercise, that whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.
Evolution
Those evolutions are best which can be executed with the greatest celerity, compatible with regularity.
Evolution is to me series with development.
Evolve
The animal soul sooner evolves itself to its full orb and extent than the human soul.
The principles which art involves, science alone evolves.
Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above.
Ewer
Basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands.
Exact
I took a great pains to make out the exact truth.
An exact command, Larded with many several sorts of reason.
He said into them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.
Years of servise past From grateful souls exact reward at last
My designs Exact me in another place.
The anemy shall not exact upon him.
Exaction
Take away your exactions from my people.
Daily new exactions are devised.
Illegal exactions of sheriffs and officials.
Exactly
His enemies were pleased, for he had acted exactly as their interests required.
Exactness
He had . . . that sort of exactness which would have made him a respectable antiquary.
Exaggerate
A friend exaggerates a man's virtues.
Exaggeration
No need of an exaggeration of what they saw.
Exalt
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God.
Exalt thy towery head, and lift thine eyes
Righteousness exalteth a nation.
He that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
In his own grace he doth exalt himself.
They who thought they got whatsoever he lost were mightily exalted.
Now Mars, she said, let Fame exalt her voice.
With chemic art exalts the mineral powers.
Exaltation
Wondering at my flight, and change To this high exaltation.
Exalted
Wiser far than Solomon, Of more exalted mind.
Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny.
Examination
He neglected the studies, . . . stood low at the examinations.
Examine
Examine well your own thoughts.
Examine their counsels and their cares.
The offenders that are to be examined.
Example
For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
I gave, thou sayest, the example; I led the way.
Such temperate order in so fierce a cause Doth want example.
Hang him; he'll be made an example.
Now these things were our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
Burke devoted himself to this duty with a fervid assiduity that has not often been exampled, and has never been surpassed.
Exasperate
Like swallows which the exasperate dying year Sets spinning.
To exsasperate them against the king of France.
To exasperate the ways of death.
Exasperation
Extorted from him by the exasperation of his spirits.
Excavate
The material excavated was usually sand.
Excavation
The delivery of the excavations at a distance of 250 feet.
Exceed
Name the time, but let it not Exceed three days.
Observes how much a chintz exceeds mohair.
Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed.
Exceeding
His raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow.
The Genoese were exceeding powerful by sea.
Excel
Excelling others, these were great; Thou, greater still, must these excel.
I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
She opened; but to shut Excelled her power; the gates wide open stood.
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.
Then peers grew proud in horsemanship t' excel.
Excellence
Consider first that great Or bright infers not excellence.
With every excellence refined.
I do greet your excellence With letters of commission from the king.
Excellency
His excellency is over Israel.
Extinguish in men the sense of their own excellency.
Excellent
To love . . . What I see excellent in good or fair.
Their sorrows are most excellent.
Excellently
When the whole heart is excellently sorry.
Except
Who never touched The excepted tree.
Wherein (if we only except the unfitness of the judge) all other things concurred.
Except thou wilt except against my love.
God and his Son except, Created thing naught valued he nor . . . shunned.
And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
But yesterday you never opened lip, Except, indeed, to drink.
Excepting
No one was ever yet made utterly miserable, excepting by himself.
Exception
Such rare exceptions, shining in the dark, Prove, rather than impeach, the just remark.
That proud exception to all nature's laws.
I will never answer what exceptions they can have against our account [relation].
He . . . took exception to the place of their burial.
She takes exceptions at your person.
Exceptionable
This passage I look upon to be the most exceptionable in the whole poem.
Exceptional
This particular spot had exceptional advantages.
Exceptionless
A universal, . . . exceptionless disqualification.
Exceptious
At least effectually silence the doubtful and exceptious.
Exceptive
A particular and exceptive law.
Exceptless
My general and exceptless rashness.
Excerpt
Out of which we have excerpted the following particulars.
Excerption
His excerptions out of the Fathers.
Excess
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, . . . Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
That kills me with excess of grief, this with excess of joy.
Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess.
Thy desire . . . leads to no excess That reaches blame.
Excessive
Excessive grief [is] the enemy to the living.
Exchange
Exchange his sheep for shells, or wool for a sparking pebble or a diamond.
And death for life exchanged foolishly.
To shift his being Is to exchange one misery with another.
Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet.
Exchangeability
The law ought not be contravened by an express article admitting the exchangeability of such persons.
Exchangeable
The officers captured with Burgoyne were exchangeable within the powers of General Howe.
Excise
The English excise system corresponds to the internal revenue system in the United States.
An excise . . . is a fixed, absolute, and direct charge laid on merchandise, products, or commodities.
Excision
Such conquerors are the instruments of vengeance on those nations that have . . . grown ripe for excision.
Excitement
The cares and excitements of a season of transition and struggle.
Exciter
Hope is the grand exciter of industry.
Exclaim
Cursing cries and deep exclaims.
Exclamation
Exclamations against abuses in the church.
Thus will I drown your exclamations.
A festive exclamation not unsuited to the occasion.
Exclude
And none but such, from mercy I exclude.
Exclusion
His sad exclusion from the doors of bliss.
The exclusion of the duke from the crown of England and Ireland.
Exclusivist
The field of Greek mythology . . . the favorite sporting ground of the exclusivists of the solar theory.
Excogitate
This evidence . . . thus excogitated out of the general theory.
Excommune
Poets . . . were excommuned Plato's common wealth
Excommunicable
What offenses are excommunicable ?
Excommunicate
Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate.
Martin the Fifth . . . was the first that excommunicated the reading of heretical books.
Excommunion
Excommunication is the utmost of ecclesiastical judicature.
Excoriable
The scaly covering of fishes, . . . even in such as are excoriatable.
Excoriation
A pitiful excoriation of the poorer sort.
Excrement
Living creatures put forth (after their period of growth) nothing that is young but hair and nails, which are excrements and no parts.
Excrescence
The excrescences of the Spanish monarchy.
Excrescent
Expunge the whole, or lip the excrescent parts.
Excretion
To promote secretion and excretion.
Excruciate
And here my heart long time excruciate.
Their thoughts, like devils, them excruciate.
Exculpate
He exculpated himself from being the author of the heroic epistle.
I exculpate him further for his writing against me.
Exculpation
These robbers, however, were men who might have made out a strong case in exculpation of themselves.
Excursion
Far on excursion toward the gates of hell.
They would make excursions and waste the country.
I am not in a scribbling mood, and shall therefore make no excursions.
Excursive
The course of excursive . . . understandings.
Excusable
The excusableness of my dissatisfaction.
Excuse
A man's persuasion that a thing is duty, will not excuse him from guilt in practicing it, if really and indeed it be against Gog's law.
I must excuse what can not be amended.
And in our own (excuse some courtly stains.) No whiter page than Addison remains.
I pray thee have me excused.
Think ye that we excuse ourselves to you?
Pleading so wisely in excuse of it.
Hence with denial vain and coy excuse.
If eyes were made for seeing. Then beauty is its own excuse for being.
Excuss
To excuss the notation of a Geity out of their minds.
To take some pains in excusing some old monuments.
Execration
Cease, gentle, queen, these execrations.
Ye shall be an execration and . . . a curse.
Executant
Great executants on the organ.
Execute
Why delays His hand to execute what his decree Fixed on this day?
Execution
The excellence of the subject contributed much to the happiness of the execution.
A warrant for his execution.
The first quality of execution is truth.
To do some fatal execution.
Executor
Delivering o'er to executors paw The lazy, yawning drone.
Executory
The official and executory duties of government.
Exemplar
Such grand exemplar as make their own abilities the sole measure of what is fit or unfit.
The exemplar piety of the father of a family.
Exemplarily
She is exemplarily loyal.
Some he punisheth exemplarily.
Exemplarity
The exemplarity of Christ's life.
Exemplary
[Bishops'] lives and doctrines ought to be exemplary.
Exemplify
He did but . . . exemplify the principles in which he had been brought up.
Exempt
Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry.
True nobility is exempt from fear.
T is laid on all, not any one exempt.
Death So snatched will not exempt us from the pain We are by doom to pay.
Exenterate
Exenterated rule-mongers and eviscerated logicians.
Exequy
But see his exequies fulfilled in Rouen.
Exercise
exercise of the important function confided by the constitution to the legislature.
O we will walk this world, Yoked in all exercise of noble end.
An exercise of the eyes and memory.
The wise for cure on exercise depend.
Lewis refused even those of the church of England . . . the public exercise of their religion.
To draw him from his holy exercise.
The clumsy exercises of the European tourney.
He seems to have taken a degree, and performed public exercises in Cambridge, in 1565.
Patience is more oft the exercise Of saints, the trial of their fortitude.
Herein do I Exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence.
About him exercised heroic games The unarmed youth.
Where pain of unextinguishable fire Must exercise us without hope of end.
I am the Lord which exercise loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth.
The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery.
I wear my trusty sword, When I do exercise.
Exert
So from the seas exerts his radiant head The star by whom the lights of heaven are led.
When we will has exerted an act of command on any faculty of the soul or member of the body.
Exhalation
Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake.
I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening.
Exhale
Less fragrant scents the unfolding rose exhales.
Their inspiration exhaled in elegies.
Exhaust
A decrepit, exhausted old man at fifty-five.
Exhaustibility
I was seriously tormented by the thought of the exhaustibility of musical combinations.
Exhibit
Exhibiting a miserable example of the weakness of mind and body.
He suffered his attorney-general to exhibit a charge of high treason against the earl.
Exhibition
What maintenance he from his friends receives, Like exhibition thou shalt have from me.
I have given more exhibitions to scholars, in my days, than to the priests.
Exhibitioner
A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital.
Exhilaration
Exhilaration hath some affinity with joy, though it be a much lighter motion.
Exhort
Examples gross as earth exhort me.
Let me exhort you to take care of yourself.
With many other words did he testify and exhort.
Exhortation
I'll end my exhortation after dinner.
Exigent
Why do you cross me in this exigent?
Exile
Let them be recalled from their exile.
Thou art in exile, and thou must not stay.
Calling home our exiled friends abroad.
Eximious
The eximious and arcane science of physic.
Exinanition
Fastings to the exinanition of spirits.
Exist
Who now, alas! no more is missed Than if he never did exist.
To conceive the world . . . to have existed from eternity.
Existence
The main object of our existence.
The existence therefore, of a phenomenon, is but another word for its being perceived, or for the inferred possibility of perceiving it.
Existent
The eyes and mind are fastened on objects which have no real being, as if they were truly existent.
Existential
Existentially as well as essentially intelligent.
Exit
They have their exits and their entrances.
Sighs for his exit, vulgarly called death.
Forcing the water forth through its ordinary exits.
Exody
The time of the Jewish exody.
Exonerate
All exonerate themselves into one common duct.
Exorbitance
The lamentable exorbitances of their superstitions.
Exorbitant
Foul exorbitant desires.
The Jews . . . [were] inured with causes exorbitant, and such as their laws had not provided for.
Exorcise
He impudently excorciseth devils in the church.
Exorcise the beds and cross the walls.
Mr. Spectator . . . do all you can to exorcise crowds who are . . . processed as I am.
Exorcist
Certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists.
Thou, like an exorcist, hast conjured up My mortified spirit.
Exordial
The exordial paragraph of the second epistle.
Exornation
Hyperbolical exornations . . . many much affect.
Exoteric
The foppery of an exoteric and esoteric doctrine.
Exotery
Dealing out exoteries only to the vulgar.
Exotic
Nothing was so splendid and exotic as the ambassador.
Plants that are unknown to Italy, and such as the gardeners call exotics.
Expand
Then with expanded wings he steers his flight.
Expanse
Lights . . . high in the expanse of heaven.
The smooth expanse of crystal lakes.
That lies expansed unto the eyes of all.
Expansible
Bodies are not expansible in proportion to their weight.
Expansile
Ether and alcohol are more expansile than water.
Expansion
The starred expansion of the skies.
Lost in expansion, void and infinite.
Expansive
A more expansive and generous compassion.
His forehead was broad and expansive.
Expatiate
Bids his free soul expatiate in the skies.
He expatiated on the inconveniences of trade.
Afford art an ample field in which to expatiate itself.
Expatriate
The expatriated landed interest of France.
Expatriation
Expatriation was a heavy ransom to pay for the rights of their minds and souls.
Expect
Let's in, and there expect their coming.
The Somersetshire or yellow regiment . . . was expected to arrive on the following day.
Expectance
The expectancy and rose of the fair state.
Expectant
An expectant of future glory.
Those who had employments, or were expectants.
Expectation
My soul, wait thou only upon God, for my expectation is from him.
Why our great expectation should be called The seed of woman.
His magnificent expectations made him, in the opinion of the world, the best match in Europe.
By all men's eyes a youth of expectation.
Expedience
Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice.
To determine concerning the expedience of action.
Much declamation may be heard in the present day against expediency, as if it were not the proper object of a deliberative assembly, and as if it were only pursued by the unprincipled.
Making hither with all due expedience.
Forwarding this dear expedience.
Expedient
It is expedient for you that I go away.
Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a greater good to a less.
His marches are expedient to this town.
What sure expedient than shall Juno find, To calm her fears and ease her boding mind?
Expediment
A like expediment to remove discontent.
Expedite
To make the way plain and expedite.
Nimble and expedite . . . in its operation.
Speech is a very short and expedite way of conveying their thoughts.
To expedite your glorious march.
Such charters be expedited of course.
Expedition
The expedition miserably failed.
Narrative of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains.
Expel
Did not ye . . . expel me out of my father's house?
Forewasted all their land, and them expelled.
He shall expel them from before you . . . and ye shall possess their land.
Then he another and another [shaft] did expel.
Expend
If my death might make this island happy . . . I would expend it with all willingness.
They go elsewhere to enjoy and to expend.
Expenditure
Our expenditure purchased commerce and conquest.
The receipts and expenditures of this extensive country.
Expense
Husband nature's riches from expense.
Courting popularity at his party's expense.
And moan the expense of many a vanished sight.
Expensive
War is expensive, and peace desirable.
An active, expensive, indefatigable goodness.
The idle and expensive are dangerous.
Experience
She caused him to make experience Upon wild beasts.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.
When the consuls . . . came in . . . they knew soon by experience how slenderly guarded against danger the majesty of rulers is where force is wanting.
Those that undertook the religion of our Savior upon his preaching, had no experience of it.
Whence hath the mind all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience.
Experience may be acquired in two ways; either, first by noticing facts without any attempt to influence the frequency of their occurrence or to vary the circumstances under which they occur; this is observation; or, secondly, by putting in action causes or agents over which we have control, and purposely varying their combinations, and noticing what effects take place; this is experiment.
The partial failure and disappointment which he had experienced in India.
The youthful sailors thus with early care Their arms experience, and for sea prepare.
experienced
The ablest and most experienced statesmen.
Experient
The prince now ripe and full experient.
Experiential
It is called empirical or experiential . . . because it is given to us by experience or observation, and not obtained as the result of inference or reasoning.
Experientialism
Experientialism is in short, a philosophical or logical theory, not a psychological one.
Experiment
A political experiment can not be made in a laboratory, nor determined in a few hours.
Adam, by sad experiment I know How little weight my words with thee can find.
Expert
A valiant and most expert gentleman.
What practice, howsoe'er expert In fitting aptest words to things . . . Hath power to give thee as thou wert?
Die would we daily, once it to expert.
Expiate
To expiate his treason, hath naught left.
The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury.
Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire.
Expiation
His liberality seemed to have something in it of self-abasement and expiation.
Those shadowy expiations weak, The blood of bulls and goats.
Expilation
This ravenous expilation of the state.
Expiration
The true cause of cold is an expiration from the globe of the earth.
Before the expiration of thy time.
The aspirate “he,” which is . . . a gentle expiration.
Expire
Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air.
This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire.
The expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter.
Expire the term Of a despised life.
Expiry
He had to leave at the expiry of the term.
The Parliament . . . now approaching the expiry of its legal term.
Expiscate
Dr. Burton has with much ingenuity endeavored to expiscate the truth which may be involved in them.
Explain
The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf.
Commentators to explain the difficult passages to you.
Explanation
Different explanations [of the Trinity].
Explat
Like Solon's self explatest the knotty laws.
Expletive
Expletive phrases to plump his speech.
While explectives their feeble aid to join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
Explicable
It is not explicable upon any grounds.
Explicate
The last verse of his last satire is not yet sufficiently explicated.
Explication
The explication of our Savior's parables.
Explicit
The language of the charter was too explicit to admit of a doubt.
Explode
Him old and young Exploded, and seized with violent hands.
Old exploded contrivances of mercantile fraud.
To explode and exterminate dark atheism.
But late the kindled powder did explode The massy ball and the brass tube unload.
Exploit
Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises.
He made haste to exploit some warlike service.
In no sense whatever does a man who accumulates a fortune by legitimate industry exploit his employés or make his capital “out of” anybody else.
Exploration
“An exploration of doctrine.”
Explore
Explores the lost, the wandering sheep directs.
Explosion
A formidable explosion of high-church fanaticism.
Export
[They] export honor from a man, and make him a return in envy.
The ordinary course of exchange . . . between two places must likewise be an indication of the ordinary course of their exports and imports.
Exportability
To increase the exportability of native goods.
Expose
Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them examined.
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel.
You only expose the follies of men, without arraigning their vices.
Exposition
You know the law; your exposition Hath been most sound.
Expository
A glossary or expository index to the poetical writers.
Expostulate
Men expostulate with erring friends; they bring accusations against enemies who have done them a wrong.
To expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is.
Expostulation
We must use expostulation kindly.
Exposure
The exposure of Fuller . . . put an end to the practices of that vile tribe.
When we have our naked frailties hid, That suffer in exposure.
The best exposure of the two for woodcocks.
Expound
He expounded both his pockets.
Expound this matter more fully to me.
Express
Their human countenance The express resemblance of the gods.
I have express commandment.
A messenger sent express from the other world.
The only remanent express of Christ's sacrifice on earth.
She charged him . . . to ask at the express if anything came up from town.
All the fruits out of which drink is expressed.
And th'idle breath all utterly expressed.
Halters and racks can not express from thee More than by deeds.
Each skillful artist shall express thy form.
So kids and whelps their sires and dams express.
My words express my purpose.
They expressed in their lives those excellent doctrines of morality.
Mr. Phillips did express with much indignation against me, one evening.
Moses and Aaron took these men, which are expressed by their names.
Expression
With this tone of philosophy were mingled expressions of sympathy.
The imitators of Shakespeare, fixing their attention on his wonderful power of expression, have directed their imitation to this.
It still wore the majesty of expression so conspicuous in his portraits by the inimitable pencil of Titian.
Expressive
Each verse so swells expressive of her woes.
You have restrained yourself within the list of too cold an adieu; be more expressive to them.
Through her expressive eyes her soul distinctly spoke.
Expressly
The word of the Lord came expressly unto Ezekiel.
I am sent expressly to your lordship.
Expressure
An operation more divine Than breath or pen can give expressure to.
Exprobration
A fearful exprobration of our unworthiness.
Expropriate
Expropriate these [bad landlords] as the monks were expropriated by Act of Parliament.
Expropriation
The expropriation of bad landlords.
Expulse
If charity be thus excluded and expulsed.
Expulsion
The expulsion of the Tarquins.
Expulsive
The expulsive power of a new affection.
Expunge
Expunge the whole, or lop th' excrescent parts.
Exquisite
Plate of rare device, and jewels Of reach and exquisite form.
I have no exquisite reason for 't, but I have reason good enough.
His books of Oriental languages, wherein he was exquisite.
Exquisitely
To a sensitive observer there was something exquisitely painful in it.
Exscind
The second presbytery of Philadelphia was also exscinded by that Assembly.
Exsert
A small portion of the basal edge of the shell exserted.
Exsufflicate
Such exsufflicate and blown surmises.
Extant
That part of the teeth which is extant above the gums.
A body partly immersed in a fluid and partly extant.
Writings that were extant at that time.
The extant portraits of this great man.
Extemporize
Themistocles . . . was of all men the best able to extemporize the right thing to be done.
Pitt, of whom it was said that he could extemporize a Queen's speech
Extend
Few extend their thoughts toward universal knowledge.
His helpless hand extend.
Extendlessness
An . . . extendlessness of excursions.
Extense
Men and gods are too extense; Could you slacken and condense?
Extension
The law is that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio of its extension.
The extension of [the term] plant is greater than that of geranium, because it includes more objects.
Extensive
Silver beaters choose the finest coin, as that which is most extensive under the hammer.
Extent
Life in its large extent is scare a span.
Extenuate
His body behind the head becomes broad, from whence it is again extenuated all the way to the tail.
But fortune there extenuates the crime.
Let us extenuate, conceal, adorn the unpleasing reality.
Who can extenuate thee?
Extenuation
To listen . . . to every extenuation of what is evil.
Exterior
Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man Resemble that it was.
Without exterior help sustained.
Exteriorly
They are exteriorly lifelike.
Exterminate
They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion.
To explode and exterminate rank atheism.
External
Of all external things, . . . She [Fancy] forms imaginations, aery shapes.
Her virtues graced with external gifts.
The external circumstances are greatly different.
Adam was then no less glorious in his externals
God in externals could not place content.
Externalism
This externalism gave Catholicism a great advantage on all sides.
Externality
Pressure or resistance necessarily supposes externality in the thing which presses or resists.
Externalize
Thought externalizes itself in language.
Extillation
An exudation or extillation of petrifying juices.
Extimulation
Things insipid, and without any extimulation.
Extinct
Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct.
Extinguish
A light which the fierce winds have no power to extinguish.
This extinguishes my right to the reversion.
Natural graces that extinguish art.
Extirp
It is impossible to extirp it quite, friar.
Extol
Who extolled you in the half-crown boxes, Where you might sit and muster all the beauties.
Wherein have I so deserved of you, That you extol me thus?
Extract
The bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
I have extracted out of that pamphlet a few notorious falsehoods.
Extraction
They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Extractive
Certain branches of industry are conveniently designated extractive: e.g., agriculture, pastoral and mining pursuits, cutting of lumber, etc.
Extractives, of which the most constant are urea, kreatin, and grape sugar.
Extradictionary
Of these extradictionary and real fallacies, Aristotle and logicians make in number six.
Extraneous
Nothing is admitted extraneous from the indictment.
Extraordinary
Which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts.
Their extraordinary did consist especially in the matter of prayers and devotions.
Extraught
Knowing whence thou art extraught
Extravagance
Some verses of my own, Maximin and Almanzor, cry vengeance on me for their extravagance.
The income of three dukes was enough to supply her extravagance.
Extravagant
The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine.
There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in great natural geniuses.
Extreme
Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire.
The Puritans or extreme Protestants.
His parsimony went to the extreme of meanness.
Extremity
They sent fleets . . . to the extremities of Ethiopia.
Divers evils and extremities that follow upon such a compulsion shall here be set in view.
Upon mere extremity he summoned this last Parliament.
Extricate
We had now extricated ourselves from the various labyrinths and defiles.
Extrinsic
The extrinsic aids of education and of artificial culture.
Extroitive
Their natures being almost wholly extroitive.
Exudation
Resins, a class of proximate principles, existing in almost all plants and appearing on the external surface of many of them in the form of exudations.
Exude
Our forests exude turpentine in . . . abundance.
Exulcerate
Minds exulcerated in themselves.
Exult
The dumb shall sing, the lame his crutch forego, And leap exulting like the bounding roe.
Exultant
Break away, exultant, from every defilement.
Exultation
His bosom swelled with exultation.
Exuviate
There is reason to suppose that very old crayfish do not exuviate every year.
Eyas
Like eyas hawk up mounts unto the skies, His newly budded pinions to assay.
Eye
In my eye, she is the sweetest lady that I looked on.
We shell express our duty in his eye.
Her shell your hear disproved to her eyes.
Booksellers . . . have an eye to their own advantage.
Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts.
Red with an eye of blue makes a purple.
Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportioned strength.
My becomings kill me, when they do not Eye well to you.
Eye-saint
That's the eye-saint, I know, Among young gallants.
Eye-spotted
Juno's bird, in her eye-spotted train.
Eyeservice
Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers.
Eyesight
Josephus sets this down from his own eyesight.
Eyesore
Mordecai was an eyesore to Haman.
Eyewitness
We . . . were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
Eyne
With such a plaintive gaze their eyne Are fastened upwardly on mine.
Eyrie
The eagle and the stork On cliffs and cedar tops their eyries build.