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Belonging to an epoch; of the nature of an epoch. "Epochal points." Shedd.

One who believes in equalizing the condition of men; a leveler.

Belonging to, or composed of, the ancient Roman equities or knights; as, the equestrian order. Burke.

Belonging to the Equisetaceæ, or Horsetail family.

A stub, like soft horn, about the size of a chestnut, situated behind and below the pastern joint.

Belonging to the Heath family, or resembling plants of that family; consisting of heats.

To eject, as wind, from the stomach; to belch. [R.] Howell.

The act of belching wind from the stomach; a belch.

A stairway or incline arranged like an endless belt so that the steps or treads ascend or descend continuously, and one stepping upon it is carried up or down; -- a trade term.

rmor-bearer, an attendant on a knight; in modern times, a title of dignity next in degree below knight and above gentleman; also, a title of office and courtesy; -- often shortened to squire.

The constituent quality or qualities which belong to any object, or class of objects, or on which they depend for being what they are (distinguished as real essence); the real being, divested of all logical accidents; that quality which constitutes or marks the true nature of anything; distinctive character; hence, vir…

Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is. Majestic as the voice sometimes became, there was forever in it an essential character of plaintiveness. Hawthorne.

y, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and distinctly evidenced. Glanvill. Had we . . . estranged ourselves from them in things indifferent. Hooker.

Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata. Lyell.

Existing at all times without change; immutable. Hobbes believed the eternal truths which he opposed. Dryden. What are the eternal objects of poetry among all nations, and at all times M. Arnold.

f being ethereal; etherealness. Something of that ethereality of thought and manner which belonged to Wordsworth's earlier lyrics. J. C. Shairp.

Of, or belonging to, morals; treating of the moral feelings or duties; containing percepts of morality; moral; as, ethic discourses or epistles; an ethical system; ethical philosophy. The ethical meaning of the miracles. Trench. Ethical dative (Gram.), a use of the dative of a pronoun to signify that the person or thin…

Belonging to races or nations; based on distinctions of race; ethnological.

In an ethnological manner; by ethnological classification; as, one belonging ethnologically to an African race.

One who believes in eudemonism. I am too much of a eudæmonist; I hanker too much after a state of happiness both for myself and others. De Quincey.