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Dependent on choice; bestowed or passing by election; as, an elective study; an elective office. Kings of Rome were at first elective; . . . for such are the conditions of an elective kingdom. Dryden. Elective affinity or attraction (Chem.), a tendency to unite with certain things; chemism.

The praise bestowed on a person or thing; panegyric; eulogy.

In some other place; in other places, indefinitely; as, it is reported in town and elsewhere.

High; lofty; towering; prominent. "A very eminent promontory." Evelyn

A place of trade; a market place; a mart; esp., a city or town with extensive commerce; the commercial center of a country. That wonderful emporium [Manchester] . . . was then a mean and ill- built market town. Macaulay. It is pride . . . which fills our streets, our emporiums, our theathers. Knox.

The area or town inclosed by a line of fortification. The suburbs are not unfrequently larger than their enceinte. S. W. Williams.

Bestowing praise; praising; eulogistic; laudatory; as, an encomiastic address or discourse. -- En*co`mi*as"tic*al*ly, adv.

An exertion of physical or intellectual strength toward the attainment of an object; a systematic or continuous attempt; an effort; a trial. To employ all my endeavor to obey you. Sir P. Sidney. To do one's endeavor, to do one's duty; to put forth strenuous efforts to attain an object; -- a phrase derived from the Midd…

The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support.

To act the part of a patron towards; to patronize. [Obs.] Shak.

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

his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage. Allowing them to entail their estates. Hume. I here entail The crown to thee and to thine heirs forever. Shak.

To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use. [Obs.] Fairly let her be entreated. Shak. I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well. Jer. xv. 11.

pressure. Sometimes called the thermodynamic function. The entropy of the universe tends towards a maximum. Clausius.

urround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town. Chesterfield.

To feel envy at or towards; to be envious of; to have a feeling of uneasiness or mortification in regard to (any one), arising from the sight of another's excellence or good fortune and a longing to possess it. A woman does not envy a man for his fighting courage, nor a man a woman for her beauty. Collier. Whoever envi…

Bestowing praise; eulogistic; laudatory. [Obs.] E. Phillips.

To profess or tend towards the doctrines of Epicurus. Cudworth.

les. Epistle side, the right side of an altar or church to a person looking from the nave toward the chancel. One sees the pulpit on the epistle side. R. Browning.

To describe by an epithet. [R.] Never was a town better epitheted. Sir H. Wotton.