EPIDEMIC
EPIDEM'ICEPIDEM'ICAL, adjective [Gr. people.] Common to many people. An epidemic disease is one which seizes a great number of people, at the same time, or in the same season. T...
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EPIDEMICAL
EPIDEM'ICAL, a. [Gr. people.] Common to many people. An epidemic disease is one which seizes a great number of people, at the same time, or in the same season. Thus we speak of ...
EPIDERMIC
EPIDERM'ICEPIDERM'IDAL, adjective Pertaining to the cuticle; covering the skin.The epidermic texture.
EPIDERMIDAL
EPIDERM'IDAL, a. Pertaining to the cuticle; covering the skin.The epidermic texture.
EPIDERMIS
EPIDERM'IS, noun [Gr. skin.] In anatomy, the cuticle or scarf-skin of the body; a thin membrane covering the skin of animals, or the bark of plants.
EPIDOTE
EP'IDOTE, noun [From Gr.; so named from the apparent enlargement of the base of the prism in one direction. It is called by Werner, pistazit, and by Hausmann, thallit.]A mineral...
EPIGASTRIC
EPIGAS'TRIC, adjective [Gr. belly.] Pertaining to the upper part of the abdomen; as the epigastric region; the epigastric arteries and veins.
EPIGEE
EPIGEE or EPIGEUM. [See Perigee.]
EPIGLOT
EP'IGLOTEPIGLOT'TIS, noun [Gr. the tongue.] In anatomy, one of the cartilages of the larynx, whose use is to cover the glottis, when food or drink is passing into the stomach, t...
EPIGLOTTIS
EPIGLOT'TIS, n. [Gr. the tongue.] In anatomy, one of the cartilages of the larynx, whose use is to cover the glottis, when food or drink is passing into the stomach, to prevent ...
EPIGRAM
EP'IGRAM, noun [Gr. inscription; a writing.] A short poem treating only of one thing, and ending with some lively, ingenious and natural thought. Conciseness and point form the ...
EPIGRAMMATIC
EPIGRAMMAT'ICEPIGRAMMAT'ICAL, adjective Writing epigrams; dealing in epigrams; as an epigrammatic poet.1. Suitable to epigrams; belonging to epigrams; like an epigram; concise; ...
EPIGRAMMATICAL
EPIGRAMMAT'ICAL, a. Writing epigrams; dealing in epigrams; as an epigrammatic poet.1. Suitable to epigrams; belonging to epigrams; like an epigram; concise; pointed; poignant; a...
EPIGRAMMATIST
EPIGRAM'MATIST, noun One who composes epigrams, or deals in them. Martial was a noted epigrammatist
EPIGRAPH
EP'IGRAPH, noun [Gr. to write.] Among antiquaries, an inscription on a building, pointing out the time of its erection, the building, its uses, etc.
EPILEPSY
EP'ILEPSY, noun [Gr. to seize.] The falling sickness, so called because the patient falls suddenly to the ground; a disease accompanied with spasms or convulsions and loss of se...
EPILEPTIC
EPILEP'TIC, adjective Pertaining to the falling sickness; affected with epilepsy; consisting of epilepsy.EPILEP'TIC, noun One affected with epilepsy.
EPILOGISM
EP'ILOGISM, noun Computation; enumeration.
EPILOGISTIC
EPILOGIS'TIC, adjective Pertaining to epilogue; of the nature of an epilogue.
EPILOGIZE
EP'ILOGIZE, verb intransitive To pronounce an epilogue.EP'ILOGUIZE, verb transitive To add to, in the manner of an epilogue.
EPILOGUE
EP'ILOGUE, noun ep'ilog. [Latin epilogus, from Gr. conclusion; to conclude; to speak.]1. In oratory, a conclusion; the closing part of a discourse, in which the principal matter...
EPILOGUIZE
EP'ILOGUIZEEPINI'CION, noun [Gr. to conquer.] A song of triumph. [Not in use.]
EPIPHANY
EPIPH'ANY, noun [Gr. appearance; to appear.] A christian festival celebrated on the sixth day of January, the twelfth day after Christmas, in commemoration of the appearance of ...
EPIPHONEM
EPIPH'ONEMEPIPHONE'MA, [Gr. exclamation, to cry out.] In oratory, an exclamation; an ecphonesis; a vehement utterance of the voice to express strong passion, in a sentence not c...
EPIPHONEMA
EPIPHONE'MA, [Gr. exclamation, to cry out.] In oratory, an exclamation; an ecphonesis; a vehement utterance of the voice to express strong passion, in a sentence not closely con...
EPIPHYLLOSPERMOUS
EPIPHYLLOSPERM'OUS, adjective [Gr. a leaf, and seed.] In botany, bearing their seeds on the back of the leaves, as ferns.
EPIPHYSIS
EPIPH'YSISEPIPH'YSY, noun [Gr. to grow.] Accretion; the growing of one bone to another by simple contiguity, without a proper articulation.The spongy extremity of a bone; any po...