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Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains. Elegiac griefs, and songs of love. Mrs. Browning.

Belonging to elms. [Obs.]

Belonging to, or resembling, the Embiotocidæ. -- n.

Belonging to, or used in, a country; native; domestic; popular; common; -- said especially of the written characters employed by the common people of ancient Egypt, in distinction from the hieroglyphics. See Demotic.

A fossil crinoid, esp. one belonging to, or resembling, the genus Encrinus. Sometimes used in a general sense for any crinoid.

Belonging to an enneagon; having nine angles.

Belonging to the Entomostracans.

efficacy. Sir J. Stephen. Ephemeral fly (Zoöl.), one of a group of neuropterous insects, belonging to the genus Ephemera and many allied genera, which live in the adult or winged state only for a short time. The larvæ are aquatic; -- called also day fly and May fly.

Suitable to epigrams; belonging to epigrams; like an epigram; pointed; piquant; as, epigrammatic style, wit, or sallies of fancy.

Belonging to, or vested in, bishops; as, episcopal jurisdiction or authority; the episcopal system.

Pertaining, or belonging, to the episperm, or covering of a seed.

Belonging to, or designed for, an epithalamium.

Belonging to an epoch; of the nature of an epoch. "Epochal points." Shedd.

Belonging to, or composed of, the ancient Roman equities or knights; as, the equestrian order. Burke.

Belonging to the Equisetaceæ, or Horsetail family.

Belonging to the Heath family, or resembling plants of that family; consisting of heats.

Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is. Majestic as the voice sometimes became, there was forever in it an essential character of plaintiveness. Hawthorne.

Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata. Lyell.

Of, or belonging to, morals; treating of the moral feelings or duties; containing percepts of morality; moral; as, ethic discourses or epistles; an ethical system; ethical philosophy. The ethical meaning of the miracles. Trench. Ethical dative (Gram.), a use of the dative of a pronoun to signify that the person or thin…

Belonging to races or nations; based on distinctions of race; ethnological.