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Pertaining to, or of the form of, an enthymeme.

Epidermal. [R.]

Epidermoid. Owen.

Writing epigrams; dealing in epigrams; as, an epigrammatical poet.

In the way of epigram; in an epigrammatic style.

One who composes epigrams, or makes use of them. The brisk epigrammatist showing off his own cleverness. Holmes.

To represent by epigrams; to express by epigrams.

One who writes in an affectedly pointed style. Epigrammatizers of our English prose style. Coleridge.

An epitomist. Sir W. Hamilton.

Characterized by, or causing, a morbid redness of the skin; relating to erythema.

Relating to, or causing, erythema.

or intrinsic (moral), value; to fix the worth of roughly or in a general way; as, to estimate the value of goods or land; to estimate the worth or talents of a person. It is by the weight of silver, and not the name of the piece, that men estimate commodities and exchange them. Locke. It is always very difficult to es…

The act of estimating. Shak.

Inclined, or able, to estimate; serving for, or capable of being used in, estimating. We find in animals an estimative or judicial faculty. Sir M. Hale.

One who estimates or values; a valuer. Jer. Taylor.

Lifeless; dead. [R.] "Carcasses exanimate." Spenser.

Deprivation of life or of spirits. [R.] Bailey.

Of, relating to, or characterized by, exanthema; efflorescent; as, an exanthematous eruption.

sound or words indicative of emotion, as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc. Exclamations against abuses in the church. Hooker. Thus will I drown your exclamations. Shak. A festive exclamation not unsuited to the occasion. Trench.

Exclamatory. Earle. -- Ex*clam"a*tive*ly, adv.