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The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion.

Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.

The act or enlisting, or the state of being enlisted; voluntary enrollment to serve as a soldier or a sailor.

The act of making noble, or of exalting, dignifying, or advancing to nobility. Bacon.

Act of enouncing; that which is enounced.

Act of enraging or state of being enraged; excitement. [Obs.]

The state of being enravished or enraptured; ecstasy; rapture. Glanvill.

The act of making rich, or that which enriches; increase of value by improvements, embellishment, etc.; decoration; embellishment.

A mass of large stones thrown into water at random to form bases of piers, breakwaters, etc.

The act of enrolling; registration. Holland.

e act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude. A fresh enslavement to their enemies. South.

The act of enswathing, or the state of being enswathed.

See Entablature. [R.] Evelyn.

A thing entailed. Brutality as an hereditary entailment becomes an ever weakening force. R. L. Dugdale.

State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.

A heap; accumulation. [R.]

t, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general. The entertainment of Christ by faith. Baxter. The sincere entertainment and practice of the precepts of the gospel. Bp. Sprat.

The act of enthralling, or state of being enthralled. See Inthrallment.

The act of enthroning, or state of being enthroned. [Recent]

The act or practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions.