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session or experience of; to feel or perceive with pleasure; to be delighted with; as, to enjoy the dainties of a feast; to enjoy conversation.

Capable of being enjoyed or of giving joy; yielding enjoyment. Milton.

One who enjoys.

The condition of enjoying anything; pleasure or satisfaction, as in the possession or occupancy of anything; possession and use; as, the enjoyment of an estate.

To enjoi anew. Pope.

Renewed enjoiment.

Enjoyment of one's self; self-satisfaction.

To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as, to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was admitted to bail.

Inclined to love; having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment; loving; fond; affectionate; as, an amorous disposition.

The state, activity, or enjoyment of animals; mere animal life without intellectual or moral qualities; sensuality.

Devoted to enjoyment.

The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made.

made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act, perform some business, or enjoy some right, privilege, or property; as, an assignee of a bankrupt. See Assignment (c). An assignee may be by special appointment or deed, or be created by jaw; as an executor. Cowell. Blount. (b) pl.

Having the power to impart or complete blissful enjoyment; blissful. "The beatific vision." South. -- Be`a*tif"ic*al*ly, adv.

To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment. "Beatified spirits." Dryden.

Having the sensibilities deadened by excess or frequency of enjoyment; sated or surfeited with pleasure; used up.

Enjoying happiness or bliss; favored with blessings; happy; highly favored. All generations shall call me blessed. Luke i. 48. Towards England's blessed shore. Shak.

To use; to enjoy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A short contest, or trial, of speed. Let us enjoy a brush across the country. Cornhill Mag. Electrical brush, a form of the electric discharge characterized by a brushlike appearance of luminous rays diverging from an electrified body.

A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough.