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To soften; to render effeminate. Emolliated by four centuries of Roman domination, the Belgic colonies had forgotten their pristine valor. Pinkerton.

Softening; making supple; acting as an emollient. "Emollient applications." Arbuthnot.

The act of softening or relaxing; relaxation. Bacon.

The profit arising from office, employment, or labor; gain; compensation; advantage; perquisites, fees, or salary. A long . . . enjoyment of the emoluments of office. Bancroft.

Pertaining to an emolument; profitable. [R.] Evelyn.

, (prep. Among. [Obs.]

A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body. How different the emotions between departure and return! W. Irving. Some vague emotion of delight. Tennyson.…

Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable; easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature.

The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an emotional manner.

To give an emotional character to. Brought up in a pious family where religion was not talked about emotionalized, but was accepted as the rule of thought and conduct. Froude.

Affected with emotion. [R.] "The emotioned soul." Sir W. Scott.

Attended by, or having the character of, emotion. H. Brooke. -- E*mo"tive*ly, adv.

Susceptibility to emotion. G. Eliot.

Emotiveness. Hickok.

To move. [Obs.] Thomson.

To impair. [Obs.] Spenser.

Having to do with inlaid work; -- especially used with reference to work of the ancient Greeks.

To make pale. [Obs.] No bloodless malady empales their face. G. Fletcher.

Same as Impalement.

A list of jurors; a panel. [Obs.] Cowell.