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, or connected with, the two primitive germ layers, the ectoderm and ectoderm; as, the "ectental line" or line of juncture of the two layers in the segmentation of the ovum. C. S. Minot.

The state of being effeminate; unmanly softness. Fuller.

e more liquid or volatile portion of certain oily substance, as distinguished from stearoptene, the more solid parts. [Written also elaoptene.]

See Elæoptene.

Sending forth; emissive. Boyle.

To chasten. [Obs.]

To give heart to; to fill with courage; to embolden. The enemy exults and is enheartened. I. Taylor.

To supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth. His lightnings enlightened the world. Ps. xcvii. 4.

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

Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.

To attend to; to apply one's self to. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To make tender. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

Attentive; zealous. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Having the same potential. Equipotential surface, a surface for which the potential is for all points of the surface constant. Level surfaces on the earth are equipotential.

Having a position intermediate between erect and patent, or spreading.

state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul; immortal existence. The main object of our existence. Lubbock.

Existence. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

Having being or existence; existing; being; occurring now; taking place. The eyes and mind are fastened on objects which have no real being, as if they were truly existent. Dryden.

Having existence. [Archaic] Bp. Barlow. --Ex`is*ten"tial*ly, adv. [Archaic] Existentially as well as essentially intelligent. Colerige.

Quality of being expedite.