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Bestowing praise; praising; eulogistic; laudatory; as, an encomiastic address or discourse. -- En*co`mi*as"tic*al*ly, adv.

Pertaining to encrinites; encrinal.

Having energy or energies; possessing a capacity for vigorous action or for exerting force; active. "A Being eternally energetic." Grew.

not easily explained or accounted for; darkly expressed; obscure; puzzling; as, an enigmatical answer.

Darkly; obscurely.

Occurring once in every nine times, days, years, etc.; every ninth. Enneatical day, every ninth day of a disease. -- Enneatical year, every ninth year of a man's life.

usiasm; characterized by enthusiasm; zealous; as, an enthusiastic lover of art. "Enthusiastical raptures." Calamy. -- En*thu`si*as"tic*al*ly, adv. A young man . . . of a visionary and enthusiastic character. W. Irving.

Pertaining to, or of the form of, an enthymeme.

Relating to epexegesis; explanatory; exegetical.

Serving to explain; demonstrative.

Writing epigrams; dealing in epigrams; as, an epigrammatical poet.

In the way of epigram; in an epigrammatic style.

Epileptic.

Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an epiphyte. -- Ep`i*phyt"ic*al*ly, adv.

Pertaining to, or abounding with, epithets. "In epithetic measured prose." Lloyd.

Pertaining to sexual desire; sensual. Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to an eremite; hermitical; living in solitude. "An eremitical life in the woods." Fuller. "The eremitic instinct." Lowell.

Controversial. [Archaic] A specimen of admirable special pleading in the court of eristic logic. Coleridge.

Of or pertaining to the passion of love; treating of love; amatory.

Erratic. -- Er*rat"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Er*rat"ic*al*ness, n.