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ELABORATE a. 3 definitions
r; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research. Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. Waller.
ELABORATED n.
developed or executed with care and in minute detail; as, the carefully elaborated theme. Syn. -- detailed, elaborate. [WordNet 1.5]
ELECTORATE n. 2 definitions
to vote in an election, or any distinct class or division of them. The middle-class electorate of Great Britain. M. Arnold.
ELUCUBRATE v.
See Lucubrate. [Obs.] Blount.
EMACERATE v.
To make lean or to become lean; to emaciate. [Obs.] Bullokar.
EMIGRATE v. 2 definitions
To remove from one country or State to another, for the purpose of residence; to migrate from home. Forced to emigrate in a body to America. Macaulay. They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths. J. H. Newman.
ENUMERATE v.
; to number; to reckon up; to mention one by one; to name over; to make a special and separate account of; to recount; as, to enumerate the stars in a constellation. Enumerating the services he had done. Ludlow.
EQUILIBRATE v.
To balance two scales, sides, or ends; to keep even with equal weight on each side; to keep in equipoise. H. Spenser.
EQUIPARATE v.
To compare. [R.]
EQUIPONDERATE v. 2 definitions
To make equal in weight; to counterbalance. "More than equiponderated the declension in that direction." De Quincey.
EROSTRATE a.
Without a beak.
EVAPORATE v. 6 definitions
s off without effect; to be dissipated; to be wasted, as, the spirit of writer often evaporates in the process of translation. To give moderate liberty for griefs and discontents to evaporate . . . is a safe way. Bacon.
EVENTERATE v.
To rip open; todisembowel. [Obs.] Sir. T. Brown.
EVIBRATE v.
To vibrate. [Obs.] Cockeram.
EVIRATE v.
To emasculate; to dispossess of manhood. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
EVISCERATE v.
To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.
EXAGGERATE v. 2 definitions
To heap up; to accumulate. [Obs.] "Earth exaggerated upon them [oaks and firs]." Sir M. Hale.
EXAGGERATED a.
Enlarged beyond bounds or the truth. -- Ex*ag"ger*a`ted*ly, adv.
EXARATE v.
To plow up; also, to engrave; to write. [Obs.] Blount.
EXASPERATE a. 3 definitions
Exasperated; imbittered. [Obs.] Shak. Like swallows which the exasperate dying year Sets spinning. Mrs. Browning.
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