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Eastern Church consists of twelve (thirteen if the Bulgarian Church be included) mutually independent churches (including among these the Hellenic Church, or Church of Greece, and the Russian Church), using the vernacular (or some ancient form of it) in divine service and varying in many points of detail, but standing…

; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on. [Obs.] By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged. Hayward.

esult; consequence; outcome; fruit; as, the effect of luxury. The effect is the unfailing index of the amount of the cause. Whewell.

Pertaining to, or consisting in, choice, or right of choosing; electoral. The independent use of their elective franchise. Bancroft.

An instrument for exciting electricity, and repeating the charge indefinitely by induction, consisting of a flat cake of resin, shelllac, or ebonite, upon which is placed a plate of metal.

lid an element may be infinitesimal portion between any two planes that are separated and indefinitely small distance. In the calculus, element is sometimes used as synonymous with differential.

An imaginary liquor capable of transmuting metals into gold; also, one for producing life indefinitely; as, elixir vitæ, or the elixir of life.

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

The act of notching or indenting the margin, or the state of being so notched; also, a notch or shallow sinus in a margin.

To stop; to hinder by prohibition; to block up. He embarred all further trade. Bacon.

To hinder from freedom of thought, speech, or action by something which impedes or confuses mental action; to perplex; to discompose; to disconcert; as, laughter may embarrass an orator.

Having indentations like a battlement. [Obs.] Chaucer.

rth of Christ; the emergent year of the United States is that of the declaration of their independence. -- E*mer"gent*ly, adv. -- E*mer"gent*ness, n. [R.]

An Arabian military commander, independent chieftain, or ruler of a province; also, an honorary title given to the descendants of Mohammed, in the line of his daughter Fatima; among the Turks, likewise, a title of dignity, given to certain high officials.

To hinder. See Impeach. [Obs.] Spenser.

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

etween being filled with broken stone and mortar. Cross layers of stone are interlaid as binders. [R.] Weale.

A tract of land or a territory inclosed within another territory of which it is independent. See Exclave. [Recent]

hich leans back upon the preceding word so as to become a part of it, and to lose its own independent accent, generally varying also the accent of the preceding word.

To indent with small curves. See Engrailed.