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Marrying within the same tribe; -- opposed to exogamous.

; a custom restricting a man in his choice of a wife to the tribe to which he belongs; -- opposed to exogamy.

ite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms, Trichina, etc.; -- opposed to ectoparasite. See Entozoön. -- En`do*par`a*sit"ic, a.

curs with absorption of heat; formed by such a reaction; as, an endothermic substance; -- opposed to exothermic.

The act of developing a new coat of hair, a new set of feathers, scales, etc.; -- opposed to ecdysis.

Toward the inside or central part; away from the surface; -- opposed to ectad. B. G. Wilder.

Pertaining to, or situated near, central or deep parts; inner; -- opposed to ectal. B. G. Wilder.

dy; -- especially applied to feelings, such as hunger, produced by internal disturbances. Opposed to epiperipheral.

Formed originating on the surface of the earth; -- opposed to hypogene; as, epigene rocks.

created entirely new, not merely expanded, by the procreative power of the parents. It is opposed to the theory of evolution, also to syngenesis.

on the outer surface, as the sensation produced by touching an object with the finger; -- opposed to entoperipheral. H. Spenser.

braces the main action of a play, poem, and the like, and leads on to the catastrophe; -- opposed to protasis.

Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; -- opposed to mixed. [R.]

The side of the ditch next the parapet; -- same as scarp, and opposed to counterscarp.

g impressions from the surface of the body to the spinal cord; -- said of certain nerves. Opposed to exodic.

ic; -- said of the private and more recondite instructions and doctrines of philosophers. Opposed to exoteric. Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them. De Quincey.

Mystery; esoterics; -- opposed to exotery. A. Tucker.

sting at all times without change; immutable. Hobbes believed the eternal truths which he opposed. Dryden. What are the eternal objects of poetry among all nations, and at all times M. Arnold.

Pertaining to the gentiles, or nations not converted to Christianity; heathen; pagan; -- opposed to Jewish and Christian.

ther than realistic or emotional situations or individual character in a narrow sense; -- opposed to pathos.