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. The elfish intelligence that was so familiar an expression on her small physiognomy. Hawthorne.

ign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion. [Recent, and not well authorized]

To brutify; to imbrute. All the man embruted in the swine. Cawthorn.

An orange-red crystalline substance, C15H10O5, obtained from the buckthorn, rhubarb, etc., and regarded as a derivative of anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of rhubarb (Rheum emodei).

To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an acquittance, and discharge the debtor.

To decree; to establish by legal and authoritative act; to make into a law; especially, to perform the legislative act with reference to (a bill) which gives it the validity of law.

An iron-black mineral of metallic luster, occurring in small orthorhombic crystals, also massive. It contains sulphur, arsenic, copper, and often silver.

A chitinous structure above the nervous cord in the thorax of certain Crustacea.

That which enforces, constraints, gives force, authority, or effect to; constraint; force applied. The rewards and punishment of another life, which the Almighty has established as the enforcements of his law. Locke.

engage. Pope. Taking upon himself the difficult task of engaging him in conversation. Hawthorne.

hen clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials. Hawthorne. Laws that may be engrossed on a finger nail. De Quincey.

To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge. High matter thou enjoin'st me. Milton. I am enjoined by oath to observe three things. Shak.

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

A mineral of the pyroxene group, orthorhombic in crystallization; often fibrous and massive; color grayish white or greenish. It is a silicate of magnesia with some iron. Bronzite is a ferriferous variety.

r gained ground, -- and, however absurd, was entertained by some very sensible people. Hawthorne.

To seat on a throne; to exalt to the seat of royalty or of high authority; hence, to invest with sovereign authority or dignity. Beneath a sculptured arch he sits enthroned. Pope. It [mercy] is enthroned in the hearts of kings. Shak.

A citation from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a work or of its separate divisions; a motto.

nct orders of ministers -- bishops, priests, and deacons -- of whom the bishops have an authority superior and of a different kind.

Belonging to, or vested in, bishops; as, episcopal jurisdiction or authority; the episcopal system.

By episcopal authority; in an episcopal manner.