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Relating to an eponym; giving one's name to a tribe, people, country, and the like. What becomes . . . of the Herakleid genealogy of the Spartan kings, when it is admitted that eponymous persons are to be canceled as fictions Grote.

ox, or Equational box, a system of differential gearing used in spinning machines for regulating the twist of the yarn. It resembles gearing used in equation clocks for showing apparent time. -- Equation of the center (Astron.), the difference between the place of a planet as supposed to move uniformly in a circle, an…

Relating to erethism.

the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodite, equivalent to the Latin god Cupid.

The breaking out of pimples, or an efflorescence, as in measles, scarlatina, etc.

Characterized by, or causing, a morbid redness of the skin; relating to erythema.

Relating to, or causing, erythema.

Of or relating to Ethiopia or the Ethiopians.

Of or relating to ancient Etruria, in Italy. "Etrurian Shades." Milton, -- n.

Of or relating to Etruria. -- n.

Relating to the etymon; as, an etymic word.

Relating to, or consisting of, euchlorine; as, euchloric . Davy.

Of, relating to, or resembling, the Euphorbia family.

Of or pelating to eurite.

Relating to time or duration. [Obs.]

Contained in, or relating to, the four Gospels; as, the evangelical history.

The act of eventilating; discussion. [Obs.] Bp. Berkely.

Relating to, or affording, evidence; indicative; especially, relating to the evidences of Christianity. Bp. Fleetwood. "Evidential tracks." Earle.. -- Ev`i*den"tial*ly, adv.

To call out; to summon forth. To evoke the queen of the fairies. T. Warton. A requlating discipline of exercise, that whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted. De Quincey.

Relating to evolution. "Evolutional changes." H. Spenser.