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The quality of being discernible.

In a manner to be discerned; perceptibly; visibly. Hammond.

Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted. Macaulay.

In a discerning manner; with judgment; judiciously; acutely. Garth.

The act of discerning.

The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire. "The eagerness of love." Addison.

Situated or dwelling in the east; oriental; as, an eastern gate; Eastern countries. Eastern churches first did Christ embrace. Stirling.

portion of the Christian church which prevails in the countries once comprised in the Eastern Roman Empire and the countries converted to Christianity by missionaries from them. Its full official title is The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern Church. It became estranged from the Western, or Roman, Church over the que…

Most eastern.

Made of elder. [Obs.] He would discharge us as boys do eldern guns. Marston.

The part of each apodeme derived from the intersternal membrane in Crustacea and insects.

See Entoplastron. -- En`to*ster"nal, a.

Of or pertaining to the episternum.

A median bone connected with the sternum, in many vertebrates; the interclavicle.

Eternal. [Poetic] Shak. Built up to eterne significance. Mrs. Browning.

Without beginning or end of existence; always existing. The eternal God is thy refuge. Deut. xxxiii. 27. To know wether there were any real being, whose duration has been eternal. Locke.

One who holds the existence of matter to be from eternity. T. Burnet.

To make eternal. Shelton.

In an eternal manner. That which is morally good or evil at any time or in any case, must be also eternally and unchangeably so. South. Where western gales eternally reside. Addison.

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