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fidence, ignorance. That ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. James i. 4. With strength entire and free will armed. Milton. One entire and perfect chrysolite. Shak.

otality; as, the entireness of an arch or a bridge. This same entireness or completeness. Trench.

. divers epochs of time were used. Usher. Great epochs and crises in the kingdom of God. Trench. The acquittal of the bishops was not the only event which makes the 30th of June, 1688, a great epoch in history. Macaulay.

An apparatus for testing or proving the strength of gunpowder.

perior to another; one having the same or a similar age, rank, station, office, talents, strength, or other quality or condition; an equal quantity or number; as, "If equals be taken from equals the remainders are equal." Those who were once his equals envy and defame him. Addison.

y to another. Milton. (c) A violent commotion. All Paris was quiet . . . to gather fresh strength for the next day's eruption. W. Irving.

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 thing spoken of is regarded with interest by some one; as, Quid mihi Celsus agit How does my friend Celsus do

ds; to deduce words from their simple roots. How perilous it is to etymologize at random. Trench.

resembling the organ in tine and the upright piano in form. It is characterized by great strength and sweetness of tone.

ument. The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of evading the Christian miracles. Trench.

r religion bodies not regarded as orthodox. Evangelical Alliance, an alliance for mutual strengthening and common work, comprising Christians of different denominations and countries, organized in Liverpool, England, in 1845. -- Evangelical Church. (a) The Protestant Church in Germany. (b) A church founded by a fusion…

The latter portion, as of life; the declining period, as of strength or glory.

will I drown your exclamations. Shak. A festive exclamation not unsuited to the occasion. Trench.

ive faculty; to put in vigorous action; to bring into active operation; as, to exert the strength of the body, limbs, faculties, or imagination; to exert the mind or the voice.

power or faculty; an effort, esp. a laborious or perceptible effort; as, an exertion of strength or power; an exertion of the limbs or of the mind; it is an exertion for him to move, to-day.

cally; to use or expend wholly, or till the supply comes to an end; to deprive wholly of strength; to use up; to weary or tire out; to wear out; as, to exhaust one's strength, patience, or resources. A decrepit, exhausted old man at fifty-five. Motley.

The state of being exhausted or emptied; the state of being deprived of strength or spirits.

accidental; accompanying; superficial. The external circumstances are greatly different. Trench.

ntion; to hold in view. Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportioned strength. Milton.

exterior covering or sheathing; as, the facing of an earthen slope, sea wall, etc. , to strengthen it or to protect or adorn the exposed surface.