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7,739 words match “ENS”

ENSTORE v.
To restore. [Obs.] Wyclif.
ENSTYLE v.
To style; to name. [Obs.]
ENSUABLE a.
Ensuing; following.
ENSUE v. 2 definitions
To follow; to pursue; to follow and overtake. [Obs.] "Seek peace, and ensue it." 1 Pet. iii. 11. To ensue his example in doing the like mischief. Golding.
ENSURE v. 2 definitions
To make sure. See Insure.
ENSURER n.
See Insurer.
ENSWATHE v.
To swathe; to envelop, as in swaddling clothes. Shak.
ENSWATHEMENT n.
The act of enswathing, or the state of being enswathed.
ENSWEEP v.
To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. [R.] Thomson.
A MENSA ET THORO n.
A kind of divorce which does not dissolve the marriage bond, but merely authorizes a separate life of the husband and wife. Abbott.
ACCENSION n.
The act of kindling or the state of being kindled; ignition. Locke.
ACCENSOR n.
One of the functionaries who light and trim the tapers.
ACCIPENSER n.
See Acipenser.
ACIPENSER n.
A genus of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons, having the body armed with bony scales, and the mouth on the under side of the head. See Sturgeon.
ADMENSURATION n.
Same as Admeasurement.
AFTERSENSATION n.
A sensation or sense impression following the removal of a stimulus producing a primary sensation, and reproducing the primary sensation in positive, negative, or complementary form. The aftersensation may be continuous with the primary sensation or follow it after an interval.
ALBIGENSES; ALBIGEOIS n.
A sect of reformers opposed to the church of Rome in the 12th centuries.
ALBIGENSIAN a.
Of or pertaining to the Albigenses.
ALPENSTOCK n.
A long staff, pointed with iron, used in climbing the Alps. Cheever.
AMANUENSIS n.
A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.
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