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Demonstrative warmth or cordiality of manner; display of enthusiasm.

The act of enabling, or the state of being enabled; ability. Bacon.

The act of encasing; also, that which encases.

The state of being an enclave. [Recent]

The act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity. All generous encouragement of arts. Otway.

Damage; injury; harm. [Obs.] Shak.

Diademed. [R.]

Same as Indorsement.

Act of enduing; induement.

Endurance. [Obs.] South.

The act of weakening; enervation; weakness.

The act of enforcing; compulsion. He that contendeth against these enforcements may easily master or resist them. Sir W. Raleigh. Confess 't was hers, and by what rough enforcement You got it from her. Shak.

corporation or body politic; investiture with the privileges of free citizens. Enfranchisement of copyhold (Eng. Law), the conversion of a copyhold estate into a freehold. Mozley & W.

tion; obligation by pledge, promise, or contract; an enterprise embarked in; as, his engagements prevented his acceptance of any office. Religion, which is the chief engagement of our league. Milton.

The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting.

Engraving.

act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.

The act of enlacing, or state of being enlaced; a surrounding as with a lace.

Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an enlargement of views, of knowledge, of affection.

The act of making noble, or of exalting, dignifying, or advancing to nobility. Bacon.