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Capable of imparting or exercising energy. Those nobler exercises of energizing love. Bp. Horsley.

One possessed by an evil spirit; a demoniac.

of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or not; as, men possessing energies may suffer them to lie inactive. The great energies of nature are known to us only by their effects. Paley.

To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of. A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. Macaulay. And rhyme began t' enervate poetry. Dryden.

The act of weakening, or reducing strength.

Having power, or a tendency, to enervate; weakening. [R.]

To weaken; to enervate. [Obs.] Milton.

Lacking nerve or force; enervated. [R.]

A generator having its revolving part carried on the shaft of the driving engine.

A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines. [Obs.] Shak.

Engines, in general; instruments of war. Training his devilish enginery. Milton.

One who enjoins.

One who enlightens or illuminates; one who, or that which, communicates light to the eye, or clear views to the mind.

One who, or that which, enlivens, animates, or invigorates.

One who entertains.

An attorney who sufficiently excuses the absence of another.

One who, or that which makes even.

rogates; an officer or person charged with the duty of making an examination; as, an examiner of students for a degree; an examiner in chancery, in the patent office, etc.

The office or rank of an examiner.

One who takes exceptions or makes objections. [Obs.] Milton.