Webster's Dictionary 1828

1486

EPIPLOCE

EPIP'LOCEEPIP'LOCELE, noun [Gr. the caul, and a tumor.] A rupture of the caul or omentum.

1487

EPIPLOCELE

EPIP'LOCELE, n. [Gr. the caul, and a tumor.] A rupture of the caul or omentum.

1488

EPIPLOCY

EPIP'LOCY, noun [Gr. implication; to fold.] A figure of rhetoric, by which one aggravation, or striking circumstance, is added in due gradation to another; as, 'He not only spar...

1489

EPIPLOIC

EPIP'LOIC, adjective [Gr. the caul.] Pertaining to the caul or omentum.

1490

EPIPLOON

EPIP'LOON, noun [Gr.] The caul or omentum.

1491

EPISCOPACY

EPIS'COPACY, noun [Latin episcopatus; Gr. to inspect, to see. See Bishop.]Government of the church by bishops; that form of ecclesiastical government, in which diocesan bishops ...

1492

EPISCOPAL

EPIS'COPAL, adjective Belonging to or vested in bishops or prelates; as episcopal jurisdiction; episcopal authority.1. Governed by bishops; as the episcopal church.

1493

EPISCOPALIAN

EPISCOPA'LIAN, adjective Pertaining to bishops or government by bishops; episcopal.EPISCOPA'LIAN, noun One who belongs to an episcopal church, or adheres to the episcopal form o...

1494

EPISCOPALLY

EPIS'COPALLY, adverb By episcopal authority; in an episcopal manner.

1495

EPISCOPATE

EPIS'COPATE, noun A bishopric; the office and dignity of a bishop.1. The order of bishops.EPIS'COPATE, verb intransitive To act as a bishop; to fill the office of a prelate.

1496

EPISCOPY

EPIS'COPY, noun Survey; superintendence; search.

1497

EPISODE

EP'ISODE, noun [From the Gr.] In poetry, a separate incident, story or action, introduced for the purpose of giving a greater variety to the events related in the poem; an incid...

1498

EPISODIC

EPISOD'ICEPISOD'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to an episode; contained in an episode or digression.

1499

EPISODICAL

EPISOD'ICAL, a. Pertaining to an episode; contained in an episode or digression.

1500

EPISODICALLY

EPISODICALLY, adverb By way of episode.

1501

EPISPASTIC

EPISPAS'TIC, adjective [Gr. to draw.] In medicine, drawing; attracting the humors to the skin; exciting action in the skin; blistering.EPISPAS'TIC, noun A topical remedy, applie...

1502

EPISTILBITE

EPISTIL'BITE, noun A mineral, said to be the same as the heulandite.

1503

EPISTLE

EPIS'TLE, noun epis'l. [Latin epistola; Gr. to send to; to send.]A writing, directed or sent, communicating intelligence to a distant person; a letter; a letter missive. It is r...

1504

EPISTLER

EPIS'TLER, noun A writer of epistles. [Little used.]1. Formerly, one who attended the communion table and read the epistles.

1505

EPISTOLARY

EPIS'TOLARY, adjective Pertaining to epistles or letters; suitable to letters and correspondence; familiar; as an epistolary style.1. Contained in letters; carried on by letters...

1506

EPISTOLIC

EPISTOL'ICEPISTOL'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to letters or epistles.1. Designating the method of representing ideas by letters and words.

1507

EPISTOLICAL

EPISTOL'ICAL, a. Pertaining to letters or epistles.1. Designating the method of representing ideas by letters and words.

1508

EPISTOLIZE

EPIS'TOLIZE, verb intransitive To write epistles or letters.

1509

EPISTOLIZER

EPIS'TOLIZER, noun A writer of epistles.

1510

EPISTOLOGRAPHIC

EPISTOLOGRAPH'IC, adjective Pertaining to the writing of letters.

1511

EPISTOLOGRAPHY

EPISTOLOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. a letter, to write.] The art or practice of writing letters.

1512

EPISTROPHE

EPIS'TROPHEEPIS'TROPHY, noun [Gr. a return.] A figure, in rhetoric, in which several successive sentences end with the same word or affirmation.