Webster's Dictionary 1913

3025

Eradiate

E‐ra″di‐ate (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Eradiated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Eradiating (?).] [Pref. e- + radiate.] To shoot forth, as rays of light; to beam; to radiate. Dr. H. More.

3026

Eradiation

E‐ra′di‐a″tion (?), n. Emission of radiance.

3027

Eradicable

E‐rad″i‐ca‐ble (?), a. Capable of being eradicated.

3028

Eradicate

E‐rad″i‐cate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Eradicated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Eradicating (?).] [L. eradicatus, p. p. of eradicare to eradicate; e out + radix, radicis, root. See Radical....

3029

Eradication

E‐rad′i‐ca″tion (?), n. [L. eradicatio: cf. F. éradication.] 1. The act of plucking up by the roots; a rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.2. The state of being plucked ...

3030

Eradicative

E‐rad″i‐ca‐tive (?), a. [Cf. éradicatif.] Tending or serving to eradicate; curing or destroying thoroughly, as a disease or any evil.

3031

Eradicative (2)

E‐rad″i‐ca‐tive, n.(Med.) A medicine that effects a radical cure. Whitlock.

3032

Erasable

E‐ras″a‐ble (?), a. Capable of being erased.

3033

Erase

E‐rase″ (ē̍‐rās″), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Erased (–rāst″); p. pr. & vb. n.. Erasing.] [L. erasus, p. p. of eradere to erase; e out + radere to scrape, scratch, shave. See Rase.] 1. ...

3034

Erased

E‐rased″ (ē̍‐rāst″), p. p. & a. 1. Rubbed or scraped out; effaced; obliterated.2. (Her.) Represented with jagged and uneven edges, as is torn off; — used esp. of the head or lim...

3035

Erasement

E‐rase″ment (rās″ment), n. The act of erasing; a rubbing out; expunction; obliteration. Johnson.

3036

Eraser

E‐ras″er (?), n. One who, or that which, erases; esp., a sharp instrument or a piece of rubber used to erase writings, drawings, etc.

3037

Erasion

E‐ra″sion (?), n. The act of erasing; a rubbing out; obliteration.

3038

Erastian

E‐ras″tian (?; 106), n.(Eccl. Hist.) One of the followers of Thomas Erastus, a German physician and theologian of the 16th century. He held that the punishment of all offenses s...

3039

Erastianism

E‐ras″tian‐ism (?), n.(Eccl. Hist.) The principles of the Erastains.

3040

Erasure

E‐ra″sure (?; 135), n. [From Erase.] The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.

3041

Erasure (2)

E‐ra″sure (?), n. An instance of erasing; also, the place where something has been erased.

3042

Erative

Er″a‐tive (?), a. Pertaining to the Muse Erato who presided over amatory poetry. Stormonth.

3043

Erato

Er″a‐to (?), n.(Class. Myth.) The Muse who presided over lyric and amatory poetry.

3044

Erbium

Er″bi‐um (?), n. [NL. from Ytterby, in Sweden, where gadolinite is found. Cf. Terbium, Yttrium, Ytterbium.] (Chem.) A rare metallic element associated with several other rare el...

3045

Erbium (2)

Er″bi‐um (?), n. [NL. Named from Ytterby, in Sweden, where gadolinite is found. Cf. Terbium, Yttrium, Ytterbium.] (Chem.) A metallic element of the rare earth group, found in ga...

3046

Ercedeken

Er′ce‐de″ken (?), n. [OE., fr. pref. erce- = archi- + deken a deacon.] An archdeacon.

3047

Erd

Erd (?), n. [OE. erd, eard, earth, land, country, AS. eard; akin to OS. ard dwelling place, OHG. art plowing, tillage, Icel. örð crop, and to L. arare to plow, E. ear to plow.] ...

3048

Ere

Ere (ār or âr; 277), prep. & adv. [AS. ǣr, prep., adv., & conj.; akin to OS., OFries., & OHG. ēr, G. eher, D. eer, Icel. ār, Goth. air. √204. Cf. Early, Erst, Or, adv.] 1. Befor...

3049

Ere (2)

Ere (?), v. t. To plow. See Ear, v. t.Chaucer.

3050

Erebus

Er″e‐bus (?), n. 1. (Greek Myth.) A place of nether darkness, being the gloomy space through which the souls passed to Hades. See Milton's “Paradise Lost,” Book II., line 883.2....

3051

Erect

E‐rect″ (?), a. [L. erectus, p. p. of erigere to erect; e out + regere to lead straight. See Right, and cf. Alert.] 1. Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not ...