ECCEN'TRIC,

ECCEN'TRICAL, adjective [Latin eccentricus; ex, from , and centrum, center.]

1. Deviating or departing from the center.

2. In geometry, not having the same center; a term applied to circles and spheres which have not the same center, and consequently are not parallel; in opposition to concentric, having a common center.

3. Not terminating in the same point, nor directed by the same principle.

4. Deviating from stated methods, usual practice or established forms or laws; irregular; anomalous, departing from the usual course; as eccentric conduct; eccentric virtue; an eccentric genius.

ECCEN'TRIC, noun A circle not having the same center as another.

1. That which is irregular or anomalous.

ECCEN'TRICAL, a. [L. eccentricus; ex, from , and centrum, center.]

ECCENTRIC'ITY, noun Deviation from a center.

1. The state of having a center different from that of another circle.

2. In astronomy, the distance of the center of a planet's orbit from the center of the sun; that is, the distance between the center of an ellipsis and its focus.

3. Departure or deviation from that which is stated, regular or usual; as the eccentricity of a man's genius or conduct.

4. Excursion from the proper sphere.

ECCHYM'OSIS, noun In medicine, an appearance of livid spots on the skin, occasioned by extravasated blood.

ECCLESIAS'TES, noun [Gr.] a canonical book of the old testament.

ECCLESIAS'TIC, ECCLESIAS'TICAL, . [L; Gr.an assembly or meeting, whence a church; to call forth or convoke; to call.]

Pertaining or relating to the church; as ecclesiastical discipline or government; ecclesiastical affairs, history or policy; ecclesiastical courts.

Ecclesiastical State is the body of the clergy.

ECCLESIAS'TIC, noun A person in orders, or consecrated to the service of the church and the ministry of religion.

ECCLESIAS'TICAL, . [L; Gr.an assembly or meeting, whence a church; to call forth or convoke; to call.]

Pertaining or relating to the church; as ecclesiastical discipline or government; ecclesiastical affairs, history or policy; ecclesiastical courts.

Ecclesiastical State is the body of the clergy.

ECCLESIAS'TICUS, noun A book of the aprocrypha.

ECCOPROT'IC, adjective [Gr. out or from, and stercus.] Having the quality of promoting alvine discharges; laxative; loosening; gently cathartic.

ECCOPROT'IC, noun A medicine which purges gently, or which tends to promote evacuations by stool; a mild cathartic.

ECHELON', noun In military tactics, the position of an army in the form of steps, or with one division more advanced than another.

ECH'INATE

ECH'INATED, adjective [Latin echinum, a hedgehog.] Set with prickles, prickly, like a hedgehog; having sharp points; bristled; as an echinated pericarp.

Echinated pyrites, in mineralogy.

ECH'INITE, noun [See Echinus.] A fossil found in chalk pits, called centronia; a petrified shell set with prickles or points; a calcarious petrifaction of the echinus or sea-hedgehog.

ECH'INUS, noun [Latin from Gr.] A hedgehog.

1. A shell-fish set with prickles or spines. The echinus in natural history, forms a genus of Mollusca. The body is roundish, covered with a bony crust, and often beset with movable prickles. There are several species and some of them eatable.

2. With botanists, a prickly head or top of a plant; an echinated pericarp.

3. In architecture, a member or ornament near the bottom of Ionic, Corinthian or Composite capitals, so named from its roughness, resembling, in some measure, the spiny coat of a hedgehog.

ECH'O, noun [Latin echo; Gr.sound, to sound.]

1. A sound reflected or reverberated from a solid body; sound returned; repercussion of sound; as an echo from a distant hill.

The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

2. In fabulous history, a nymph, the daughter of the Air and Tellus, who pined into a sound, for love of Narcissus.

3. In architecture, a vault or arch for redoubling sounds.

ECH'O, verb intransitive To resound; to reflect sound.

The hall echoed with acclamations.

1. To be sounded back; as echoing noise.

ECH'O, verb transitive To reverberate or send back sound; to return what has been uttered.

Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng.

ECH'OED, participle passive Reverberated, as sound.

ECH'OING, participle present tense Sending back sound; as echoing hills.

ECHOM'ETER, noun [Gr. sound, and measure.] Among musicians, a scale or rule, with several lines thereon, serving to measure the duration of sounds, and to find their intervals and ratios.

ECHOM'ETRY, noun The art or act of measuring the duration of sounds.

The art of constructing vaults to produce echoes.

ECLA'IRCISE, verb transitive To make clear; to explain; to clear up what is not understood or misunderstood.

ECLA'IRCISSEMENT, noun Explanation; the clearing up of any thing not before understood.

ECLAMP'SY, noun [Gr. a shining, to shine.] A flashing of light, a symptom of epilepsy. Hence, epilepsy itself.

ECLAT, noun ecla.

1. Primarily, a burst of applause; acclamation. Hence, applause; approbation; renown.

2. Splendor; show; pomp.

ECLEC'TIC, adjective [Gr. to choose.] Selecting; choosing; an epithet given to certain philosophers of antiquity, who did not attach themselves to any particular sect, but selected from the opinions and principles of each, what they thought solid and good. Hence we say, an eclectic philosopher; the eclectic sect.

ECLEC'TIC, noun A philosopher who selected from the various systems such opinions and principles as he judged to be sound and rational.

1. A christian who adhered to the doctrines of the Eclectics. Also, one of a sect of physicians.

ECLEC'TICALLY, adverb By way of choosing or selecting; in the manner of the eclectical philosophers.

ECLEGM', noun [Gr.] A medicine made by the incorporation of oils with syrups.

ECLIPSE, noun eclips'. [Latin eclipsis; Gr. defect, to fail, to leave.]

1. Literally, a defect or failure; hence in astronomy, an interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon or other luminous body. An eclipse of the sun is caused by the intervention of the moon, which totally or partially hides the sun's disk; an eclipse of the moon is occasioned by the shadow of the earth, which falls on it and obscures it in whole or in part, but does not entirely conceal it.

2. Darkness; obscuration. We say, his glory has suffered an eclipse

All the posterity of our first parents suffered a perpetual eclipse of spiritual life.

ECLIPSE, verb transitive eclips'. To hide a luminous body in whole or in part and intercept its rays; as, to eclipse the sun or a star.

1. To obscure; to darken, by intercepting the rays of light which render luminous; as, to eclipse the moon.

2. To cloud; to darken; to obscure; as, to eclipse the glory of a hero. Hence,

3. To disgrace.

4. To extinguish.

Born to eclipse thy life.

ECLIPSE, verb intransitive eclips'. To suffer an eclipse

ECLIPS'ED, participle passive Concealed; darkened; obscured; disgraced.

ECLIPS'ING, participle present tense Concealing; obscuring; darkening; clouding.

ECLIP'TIC, noun [Gr. to fail or be defective; Latin eclipticus, linea ecliptica, the ecliptic line, or line in which eclipses are suffered.]

1. A great circle of the sphere supposed to be drawn through the middle of the zodiac, making an angle with the equinoctial of 23deg.30', which is the sun's greatest declination. The ecliptic is the apparent path of the sun, but as in reality it is the earth which moves, the ecliptic is the path or way among the fixed stars which the earth in its orbit appears to describe, to an eye placed in the sun.

2. In geography, a great circle on the terrestrial globe, answering to and falling within the plane of the celestial ecliptic

ECLIP'TIC, adjective Pertaining to or described by the ecliptic

1. Suffering an eclipse.

EC'LOGUE, noun ec'log. [Gr. choice, to select.] Literally, a select piece. Hence, in poetry, a pastoral composition, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other, as the eclogues of Virgil; or it is a little elegant composition in a simple natural style and manner. An eclogue differs from an idyllion, in being appropriated to pieces in which shepherds are introduced.

ECONOM'IC

ECONOM'ICAL, adjective [See Economy.] Pertaining to the regulation of household concerns; as the economic art.

1. Managing domestic or public pecuniary concerns with frugality; as an economical housekeeper; an economical minister or administration.

2. Frugal; regulated by frugality; not wasteful or extravagant; as an economical use of money.

ECONOM'ICAL, a. [See Economy.] Pertaining to the regulation of household concerns; as the economic art.

ECONOM'ICALLY, adverb With economy; with frugality.

ECON'OMIST, noun One who manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time or labor judiciously, and without waste.

1. One who writes on economy; the writer of a treatise on economy.

ECON'OMIZE, verb intransitive To manage pecuniary concerns with frugality; to make a prudent use of money, or of the means of saving or acquiring property. It is our duty to economize in the use of public money, as well as of our own.

ECON'OMIZE, verb transitive To use with prudence; to expend with frugality; as, to economize one's income.

To manage and economize the use of circulating medium.

ECON'OMIZED, participle passive Used with frugality.

ECONOMIZING, participle present tense Using with frugality.

ECON'OMY, noun [Latin oeconomia; Gr. house, and law, rule.]

1. Primarily, the management, regulation and government of a family or the concerns of a household.

2. The management of pecuniary concerns or the expenditure of money. Hence,

3. A frugal and judicious use of money; that management which expends money to advantage, and incurs no waste; frugality in the necessary expenditure of money. It differs from parsimony, which implies an improper saving of expense. economy includes also a prudent management of all the means by which property is saved or accumulated; a judicious application of time, of labor, and of the instruments of labor.

4. The disposition or arrangement of any work; as the economy of a poem.

5. A system of rules, regulations, rites and ceremonies; as the Jewish economy

6. The regular operation of nature in the generation, nutrition and preservation of animals or plants; as animal economy; vegetable economy

7. Distribution or due order of things.

8. Judicious and frugal management of public affairs; as political economy

9. System of management; general regulation and disposition of the affairs of a state or nation, or of any department of government.

ECPHRAC'TIC, adjective [Gr.] In medicine, deobstruent; attenuating.

ECPHRAC'TIC, noun A medicine which dissolves or attenuates viscid matter, and removes obstructions.

EC'STASIED, adjective [See Ecstasy.] Enraptured; ravished; transported; delighted.

EC'STASY, noun [Gr. to stand.]

1. Primarily, a fixed state; a trance; a state in which the mind is arrested and fixed, or as we say, lost; a state in which the functions of the senses are suspended by the contemplation of some extraordinary or supernatural object.

Whether what we call ecstasy be not dreaming with our eyes open, I leave to be examined.

2. Excessive joy; rapture; a degree of delight that arrests the whole mind; as a pleasing ecstasy; the ecstasy of love; joy may rise to ecstasy

3. Enthusiasm; excessive elevation and absorption of mind; extreme delight.

He on the tender grass

Would sit and hearken even to ecstasy

4. Excessive grief or anxiety. [Not used.]

5. Madness; distraction. [Not used.]

6. In medicine, a species of catalepsy, when the person remembers, after the paroxysm is over, the ideas he had during the fit.

EC'STASY, verb transitive To fill with rapture or enthusiasm.

ECSTAT'IC

ECSTAT'ICAL, adjective Arresting the mind; suspending the senses; entrancing.

In pensive trance, and anguish, and ecstatic fit.

1. Rapturous; transporting; ravishing; delightful beyond measure; as ecstatic bliss or joy.

2. Tending to external objects. [Not used.]

ECSTAT'ICAL, a. Arresting the mind; suspending the senses; entrancing.

EC'TYPAL, adjective [infra.] Taken from the original.

EC'TYPE, adjective [Gr.] A copy. ]Not used.]

ECUMEN'IC

ECUMEN'ICAL, adjective [Gr. the habitable world.] General; universal; as an ecumenical council.

ECUMEN'ICAL, a. [Gr. the habitable world.] General; universal; as an ecumenical council.

EC'URIE, noun A stable; a covered place for horses.