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Attachment to the doctrines of Epicurus; the principles or belief of Epicurus.

Luxuriously. Nash.

Epicurean. [Obs.]

The doctrines of Epicurus.

To profess or tend towards the doctrines of Epicurus. Cudworth.

d its proper center. The schoolmen were like astronomers which did feign eccentries, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs. Bacon.

Pertaining to, resembling, or having the motion of, an epicycle. Epicyclic train (Mach.), a train of mechanism in which epicyclic motion is involved; esp., a train of spur wheels, bevel wheels, or belt pulleys, in which an arm, carrying one or more of the wheels, sweeps around a center lying in an axis common to the ot…

A curve traced by a point in the circumference of a circle which rolls on the convex side of a fixed circle.

Pertaining to the epicycloid, or having its properties. Epicycloidal wheel, a device for producing straight-line motion from circular motion, on the principle that a pin fastened in the periphery of a gear wheel will describe a straight line when the wheel rolls around inside a fixed internal gear of twice its diameter…

The killing of a bishop.

Same as Æsopian, Æsopic.

Of or relating to Ethiopia or the Ethiopians.

The language of ancient Ethiopia; the language of the ancient Abyssinian empire (in Ethiopia), now used only in the Abyssinian church. It is of Semitic origin, and is also called Geez.

Diverging from, or lacking conformity to, a type.

Relating to the inspection of entrails for prognostication. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Beyond or outside of the tropics. Whewell.

Of or pertaining to a galvanoscope.

Of or pertaining to gastroscopy.

Relating to, or showing, geotropism.

Pertaining to the gyroscope; resembling the motion of the gyroscope.