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Delightful beyond measure; rapturous; ravishing; as, ecstatic bliss or joy.

Of or pertaining to Eden; paradisaic. "Edenic joys." Mrs. Browning.

tural expression, feelings that can not be repressed or concealed; as, to effervesce with joy or merriment.

Poured out freely; profuse. [Obs.] So should our joy be very effuse. Barrow.

To produce with labor They in full joy elaborate a sigh, Young.

nt, or labor; gain; compensation; advantage; perquisites, fees, or salary. A long . . . enjoyment of the emoluments of office. Bancroft.

ent and of descent, charged on productive real estate, the right being coupled with the enjoyment of the property on condition of taking care of the estate and paying taxes, and sometimes a small rent. Heumann.

rce upon; to force; to constrain; to compel; as, to enforce obedience to commands. Inward joy enforced my heart to smile. Shak.

ate of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.

capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, and the like; as, knowledge enlarges the mind. O ye Corinthians, our . . . heart is enlarged. 2 Cor. vi. 11.

of common right, so engraven in the hearts of our ancestors, and by them so constantly enjoyed and claimed, as that it needed not enrolling. Milton. All the citizen capable of bearing arms enrolled themselves. Prescott.

Lively manifestation of joy or zeal. Philip was greeted with a tumultuous enthusiasm. Prescott.

ny good of another which we want, or any advantage another hath above us. Ray. No bliss Enjoyed by us excites his envy more. Milton. Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learned or brave. Pope.

One devoted to dainty or luxurious sensual enjoyments, esp. to the luxuries of the table.

The act of estuating; commotion, as of a fluid; agitation. The estuations of joys and fears. W. Montagu.

Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; vanishing; fleeting; as, evanescent joys. So evanescent are the fashions of the world in these particulars. Hawthorne.

To lift up with joy, pride, or success; to inspire with delight or satisfaction; to elate. They who thought they got whatsoever he lost were mightily exalted. Dryden.

eful and ridiculous excess. Shak. That kills me with excess of grief, this with excess of joy. Walsh.

The act of substituting one thing in the place of another; as, an exchange of grief for joy, or of a scepter for a sword, and the like; also, the act of giving and receiving reciprocally; as, an exchange of civilities or views.

; sudden expression of sound or words indicative of emotion, as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc. Exclamations against abuses in the church. Hooker. Thus will I drown your exclamations. Shak. A festive exclamation not unsuited to the occasion. Trench.