EPHEMERA
EPHEM'ERA, noun [Latin from Gr. daily; a day.] A fever of one day's continuance only.1. The Day-fly; strictly, a fly that lives one day only; but the word is applied also to ins...
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EPHEMERIC
EPHEM'ERAL, EPHEM'ERIC, adjective Diurnal; beginning and ending in a day; continuing or existing one day only.2. Short-lived; existing or continuing for a short time only. [Ephe...
EPHEMERIS
EPHEM'ERIS, nounplural ephemer'ides. [Gr.]1. A journal or account of daily transactions; a diary.2. In astronomy, an account of the daily state or positions of the planets or he...
EPHEMERIST
EPHEM'ERIST, noun One who studies the daily motions and positions of the planets; an astrologer.
EPHEMERON-WORM
EPHEM'ERON-WORM, noun [See Ephemera.] A worm that lives one day only.
EPHERERAL
EPHER'ERALEPHE'SIAN, adjective s as z. Pertaining to Ephesus, in Asia Minor. As a noun, a native of Ephesus.
EPHESIAN
EPHE'SIAN, a. s as z. Pertaining to Ephesus, in Asia Minor. As a noun, a native of Ephesus.
EPHIALTES
EPHIAL'TES, noun [Gr.] The night-mar.
EPHIPORA
EPHIP'ORA, noun [Gr. to bear.] The watery eye; a disease in which the tears, from increased secretion, or an obstruction in the lachrymal duct, accumulate in front of the eye an...
EPHOD
EPH'OD, noun [Heb. to bind.] In Jewish antiquity, a part of the sacerdotal habit, being a kind of girdle, which was brought from behind the neck over the two shoulders, and hang...
EPHOR
EPH'OR, noun [Gr. to inspect.]In ancient Sparta, a magistrate chosen by the people. The ephors were five, and they were intended as a check on the regal power, or according to s...
EPHORALTY
EPH'ORALTY, noun The office or term of office of an ephor.
EPI
EP, EPI [Gr. in composition, usually signifies on.]
EPIC
EP'IC, adjective [Latin epicus; Gr. a song, or to speak.] Narrative; containing narration; rehearsing. An epic poem, otherwise called heroic, is a poem which narrates a story, r...
EPICEDE
EP'ICEDE, noun [Gr.] A funeral song or discourse.
EPICEDIAN
EPICE'DIAN, adjective Elegiac; mournful.
EPICEDIUM
EPICE'DIUM, noun An elegy.
EPICENE
EP'ICENE, adjective [Gr. common.] Common to both sexes; of both kinds.
EPICTETIAN
EPICTE'TIAN, adjective Pertaining to Epictetus, the Grecian writer.
EPICURE
EP'ICURE, noun [Latin epicurus, a voluptuary, from Epicurus.]Properly, a follower of Epicurus; a man devoted to sensual enjoyments; hence, one who indulges in the luxuries of th...
EPICUREAN
EPICU'REANEPICURE'AN, adjective [Latin epicureus.] Pertaining to Epicurus; as the epicurean philosophy or tenets.1. Luxurious; given to luxury; contributing to the luxuries of t...
EPICUREANISM
EPICU'REANISM, noun Attachment to the doctrines of Epicurus.
EPICURISM
EP'ICURISM, noun Luxury; sensual enjoyments; indulgence in gross pleasure; voluptuousness.1. The doctrines of Epicurus.
EPICURIZE
EP'ICURIZE, verb intransitive To feed or indulge like an epicure; to riot; to feast.1. To profess the doctrines of Epicurus.
EPICYCLE
EP'ICYCLE, noun [Gr. a circle.] A little circle, whose center is in the circumference of a greater circle; or a small orb, which, being fixed in the deferent of a planet, is car...
EPICYCLOID
EPICYC'LOID, noun [Gr. form.] In geometry, a curve generated by the revolution of the periphery of a circle along the convex or concave side of the periphery of another circle.A...
EPICYCLOIDAL
EPICYCLOID'AL, adjective Pertaining to the epicycloid, or having its properties.