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Of, pertaining to, or devoted to, Egyptology.

Electrical image (Elec.), a collection of electrical points regarded as forming, by an analogy with optical phenomena, an image of certain other electrical points, and used in the solution of electrical problems. Sir W. Thomson. -- Electrical light, the light produced by a current of electricity which in passing throu…

One versed in electro-biology.

Of or pertaining to embryology.

One skilled in embryology.

A prefix from Gr. in; as, encephalon, entomology. See In-.

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.

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

t 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.

name to a tribe, people, country, and the like. What becomes . . . of the Herakleid genealogy of the Spartan kings, when it is admitted that eponymous persons are to be canceled as fictions Grote.

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

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

s 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.