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titution; property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church, a hospital, or a college.

Act of enduing; induement.

Endurance. [Obs.] South.

The act of weakening; enervation; weakness.

The instrument or deed by which one is invested with the fee of an estate.

The act of infolding. See Infoldment.

The act of enforcing; compulsion. He that contendeth against these enforcements may easily master or resist them. Sir W. Raleigh. Confess 't was hers, and by what rough enforcement You got it from her. Shak.

corporation or body politic; investiture with the privileges of free citizens. Enfranchisement of copyhold (Eng. Law), the conversion of a copyhold estate into a freehold. Mozley & W.

That which engages; engrossing occupation; employment of the attention; obligation by pledge, promise, or contract; an enterprise embarked in; as, his engagements prevented his acceptance of any office. Religion, which is the chief engagement of our league. Milton.

The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting.

See Ingraftment. [Obs.]

The act of ingrafting; ingraftment. [R.]

The ring of dots round the edge of a medal, etc. Brande & C.

Engraving.

The act of engrossing; as, the engrossment of a deed. Engrossments of power and favor. Swift.

A swallowing up as if in a gulf. [R.]

The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.

Direction; command; authoritative admonition. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

sfaction, as in the possession or occupancy of anything; possession and use; as, the enjoyment of an estate.

The act of enlacing, or state of being enlaced; a surrounding as with a lace.