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of Russia. The Eastern Church accepts the first seven ecumenical councils (and is hence styled only schismatic, not heretical, by the Roman Catholic Church), has as its creed the Niceno- Constantinopolitan (without the later addition of the filioque, which, with the doctrine it represents, the church decisively rejects…

m constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth; as, easy manners; an easy style. "The easy vigor of a line." Pope.

scing. "Ebullient with subtlety." De Quincey. The ebullient enthusiasm of the French. Carlyle.

The rounded molding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve. See Entablature.

A dancing tune in the Scotch style.

Given to eating; voracious; devouring. Swallowed in the depths of edacious Time. Carlyle. -- E*da"cious*ly, adv. -- E*da"cious*ness, n.

Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined. "An edgy style of sculpture." Hazlitt.

To blossom forth. Carlyle.

Capable of being given off as an effluvium. "Effluviable matter." Boyle.

To give forth effluvium. [R.] "An effluviating power." Boyle.

To run out; to flow forth; to pass away. [Obs.] Boyle.

The capability of flying off in fumes or vapor. [Obs.] Boyle.

thoughts of self. I, dullard egoist, taking no special recognition of such nobleness. Carlyle.

something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues.

Olefiant gas or ethylene; -- so called by Berzelius from its forming an oil combining with chlorine. [Written also elayle.] See Ethylene.

Keble. Elder hand (Card Playing), the hand playing, or having the right to play, first. Hoyle.

A style of engraving in relief by means of voltaic electricity. A picture is drawn on a metallic plate with some material which resists the fluids of a battery; so that, in electro-typing, the parts not covered by the varnish, etc., receive a deposition of metal, and produce the required copy in intaglio. A cast of thi…

or alms; having the nature of alms; as, eleemosynary assistance. "Eleemosynary cures." Boyle.

grace given by art or practice; fine polish; refinement; -- said of manners, language, style, form, architecture, etc. That grace that elegance affords. Drayton. The endearing elegance of female friendship. Johnson. A trait of native elegance, seldom seen in the masculine character after childhood or early youth, was…

h, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure. A more diligent cultivation of elegant literature. Prescott.