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EFFEMINATELY adv. 2 definitions
In an effeminate or womanish manner; weakly; softly; delicately. "Proud and effeminately gay." Fawkes.
EFFEMINATENESS n.
The state of being effeminate; unmanly softness. Fuller.
EFFEMINATION n.
Effeminacy; womanishness. [Obs.] Bacon.
EFFRENATION n.
Unbridled license; unruliness. [Obs.] Cockeram.
EGERMINATE v.
To germinate. [Obs.]
ELIMINATE v. 5 definitions
To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty. Eliminate my spirit, give it range Through provinces of thought yet unexplored. Young.
ELIMINATION n. 4 definitions
The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate,
ELIMINATIVE a.
Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
ELOIGNATE v.
To remove. [Obs.] Howell.
ELOINATE v.
See Eloignate.
EMANATE v. 3 definitions
To issue forth from a source; to flow out from more or less constantly; as, fragrance emanates from flowers.
EMANATION n. 2 definitions
ng or proceeding from a fountain head or origin. South. Those profitable and excellent emanations from God. Jer. Taylor.
EMANATIVE a.
Issuing forth; effluent.
EMANATIVELY adv.
By an emanation.
EMANATORY a.
Emanative; of the nature of an emanation. Dr. H. More.
EMARGINATE v.
To take away the margin of.
EMARGINATE; EMARGINATED a. 3 definitions
Having the margin interrupted by a notch or shallow sinus.
EMARGINATELY adv.
In an emarginate manner.
EMARGINATION n.
The act of notching or indenting the margin, or the state of being so notched; also, a notch or shallow sinus in a margin.
EMBRYONATE; EMBRYONATED a.
In the state of, or having, an embryonal.
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