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tween the equatorial and polar semidiameters, divided by the equatorial; thus, the ellipticity of the earth is

Evangelicism.

. (Math.) Same as Eccentricity.

The state of being happy; blessedness; blissfulness; enjoyment of good. Our own felicity we make or find. Johnson. Finally, after this life, to attain everlasting joy and felicity. Book of Common Prayer.

The state of being feracious or fruitful. [Obs.] Beattie.

Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance. The pride and ferocity of a Highland chief. Macaulay.

The quality of being fugacious; fugaclousness; volatility; as, fugacity of spirits. Boyle.

Addictedness to theft; thievishness. [Obs.]

The property possessed by vegetable tissues of absorbing or discharging moisture according to circumstances.

Uncleanness; filthness. [R.] W. Montagu.

Implicitness. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

Immodesty. Sheldon.

Want of capacity; lack of physical or intellectual power; inability.

Want of elasticity.

e; want of suitableness or appropriateness. I. Watts. Whatever is the ignorance and infelicity of the present state, we were made wise and happy. Glanvill.

Want of veracity.

The absence of pomp or display which Jefferson aimed at in his administration as President (1801-1809), eschewing display or ceremony tending to distinguish the President from the people, as in going to the capital on horseback and with no escort, the abolition of court etiquette and the weekly levee, refusal to recogn…

ly or excessively; inclination to talk too much; talkativeness; garrulity. Too great loquacity and too great taciturnity by fits. Arbuthnot.

moothness; freedom from friction; also, property, which diminishes friction; as, the lubricity of oil. Ray.

Electricity evolved by the action of magnets.