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A treatise upon, or description of, the intestines; enterology.

Of or relating to entomology. -- En`to*mo*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

One versed in entomology.

To collect specimens in the study of entomology. C. Kingsley.

uarrel." Shak. St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, makes a kind of apology. Hakewill.

It is used to refer to the maximum performance available at the current state of the technology, and therefore refers to a class of machines in general, not a specific machine. push the envelope Increase the capability of some type of machine or system; -- usu. by technological development.

Connected with, or pertaining to, epidemiology.

A person skilled in epidemiology.

A personification, in German and Scandinavian mythology, of a spirit natural power supposed to work mischief and ruin, esp. to children.

wledge; well instructed; learned. "A most erudite prince." Sir T. More. "Erudite . . . theology." I. Taylor. -- Er"u*dite`ly, adv. -- Er"u*dite`ness, n.

ts subject the characteristics of the human family, developing the details with which ethnology as a comparative science deals; descriptive ethnology. See Ethnology.

Of or pertaining to ethnology.

One versed in ethnology; a student of ethnology.

One who studies or writes upon ethology.

Pertaining to etymology, or the derivation of words. -- Et`y*mo*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

To give the etymology of; to trace to the root or primitive, as a word. Camden

Euchology. [R.]

The theory, held by Euhemerus, that the gods of mythology were but deified mortals, and their deeds only the amplification in imagination of human acts.

To interpret (mythology) on the theory of euhemerism.

one who holds the doctrine of evolution, either in biology or in metaphysics. Darwin.