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to epigrams; belonging to epigrams; like an epigram; pointed; piquant; as, epigrammatic style, wit, or sallies of fancy.

In the way of epigram; in an epigrammatic style.

One who writes in an affectedly pointed style. Epigrammatizers of our English prose style. Coleridge.

Of or pertaining to epigraphs or to epigraphy; as, an epigraphic style; epigraphical works or studies.

ining to epistles or letters; suitable to letters and correspondence; as, an epistolary style.

Pertaining to letters or epistles; in the form or style of letters; epistolary.

pact or condensed representation of anything. An epitome of English fashionable life. Carlyle. A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Dryden.

A projection on the outer side of the distal end of the humerus; the external condyle.

One instructed in the mysteries of a secret system. Carlyle.

Equiangular. [Obs.] Boyle.

Equality of power, force, signification, or application. Boyle.

Contemporaneous. [Obs.] Boyle.

Previously; before; formerly; heretofore. Chaucer. Tityrus, with whose style he had erst disclaimed all ambition to match his pastoral pipe. A. W. Ward. At erst, at first; at the beginning. -- Now at erst, at this present time. Chaucer.

y which one breaks loose from the rules of propriety or good sense; a freak; a prank. Carlyle.

A suffix of certain words from the French, Italian, and Spanish. It denotes manner or style; like; as, arabesque, after the manner of the Arabs.

To form or constitute the essence or being of. [Obs.] Boyle.

A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth. [Obs.] Boyle.

Inclined to eat; hungry; voracious. [R.] Bailey. "Poor, but esurient." Carlyle.

Ethylene; olefiant gas.

Pertaining to, derived from. or resembling, ethene or ethylene; as, ethenic ether.