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To gain over; to win and attach; to attract and hold; to draw. Good nature engages everybody to him. Addison.

ivil engineering. -- Military engineer, one who executes engineering works of a military nature. See under Engineering.

Pertaining to, affected with, or of the nature of, epilepsy.

Of or pertaining to epilogue; of the nature of an epilogue. T. Warton.

Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an epiphysis.

Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an epiphyte. -- Ep`i*phyt"ic*al*ly, adv.

Relating to, or of the nature of, an epitaph. The noble Pericles in his epitaphian speech. Milton. Epitaphial Latin verses are not to be taken too literally. Lowell.

Of the nature of a disease which attacks many animals at the same time; -- corresponding to epidemic diseases among men.

Belonging to an epoch; of the nature of an epoch. "Epochal points." Shedd.

a balance, or state of being balanced; equipoise. In . . . running, leaping, and dancing, nature's laws of equilibration are observed. J. Denham.

raised; uplifted. His piercing eyes, erect, appear to view Superior worlds, and look all nature through. Pope.

Partaking of the substance or nature of copper, or of the rust copper; resembling the trust of copper or verdigris; æruginous.

Resembling erysipelas, or partaking of its nature.

eing, divested of all logical accidents; that quality which constitutes or marks the true nature of anything; distinctive character; hence, virtue or quality of a thing, separated from its grosser parts. The laws are at present, both in form and essence, the greatest curse that society labors under. Landor. Gifts and a…

The degree, quality, nature, and extent of one's interest in, or ownership of, lands, tenements, etc.; as, an estate for life, for years, at will, etc. Abbott. The fourth estate, a name often given to the public press.

t death; immortality. Thou know'st 't is common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity. Shak.

treme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc. Vast chain of being, which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man. Pope.

zicus (4th century A. D.), who held that Christ was not God but a created being, having a nature different from that of the Father. -- a.

vine and the human in the person of Christ were blended together as to constitute but one nature; a monophysite; -- opposed to Nestorian.

Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop. A good tree can not bring forth evil fruit. Matt. vii. 18.