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According to elements; literally; as, the words, "Take, eat; this is my body," elementally understood.

Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign; as, the Elizabethan writers, drama, literature. -- n.

The writer, or one of the writers, of the passages of the Old Testament, notably those of Elohim instead of Jehovah, as the name of the Supreme Being; -- distinguished from Jehovist. S. Davidson.

A writer or inventor of emblems. Sir T. Browne.

To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual criticism, generally verbal.

bly; in a striking manner or degree; preëminently. He was indeed emphatically a popular writer. Macaulay.

, one whose knowledge embraces the whole range of the sciences. The Encyclopedists, the writers of the great French encyclopedia which appeared in 1751-1772. The editors were Diderot and D'Alembert. Among the contributors were Voltaire and Rousseau.

A subordinary, resembling the pale, but of one fourth its width (according to some writers, one eighth).

The albumen of a seed; -- limited by recent writers to that formed within the embryo sac.

A collective name for reviews, magazines, and all kinds of periodical literature. Brande & C.

Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other. The literary prigs epicene. Prof. Wilson. He represented an epicene species, neither churchman nor layman. J. A. Symonds.

A writer of epistles, or of an epistle of the New Testament. M. Arnold.

A writer of epistles.

A writer of epitaphs. Nash.

ricles in his epitaphian speech. Milton. Epitaphial Latin verses are not to be taken too literally. Lowell.

during the dreary interval which separates from one another two important epochs of our literary history. A. W. Ward.

Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory. Burke.

Rubbed or scraped out; effaced; obliterated.

The act of erasing; a rubbing out; expunction; obliteration. Johnson.

The act of erasing; a rubbing out; obliteration.