EF'FABLE, adjective [Latin effabilis, from effor; ex and for, to speak.]

Utterable; that may be uttered or spoken. [This word is not used; but ineffable is in common use.]

EFFA'CE, verb transitive [Latin ex and facio or facies.]

1. To destroy a figure on the surface of any thing, whether painted or carved, so as to render it invisible or not distinguishable; as, to efface the letters on a monument.

2. To blot out; to erase, strike or scratch out, so as to destroy or render illegible; as, to efface a writing; to efface a name.

3. To destroy any impression on the mind; to wear away; as, to efface the image of a person in the mind; to efface ideas or thoughts; to efface gratitude.

To deface is to injure or impair a figure; to effect is to rub out or destroy, so as to render invisible.

EFFA'CED, participle passive Rubbed or worn out; destroyed, as a figure or impression.

EFFA'CING, participle present tense Destroying a figure, character or impression on any thing.

EFFECT', noun [Latin effectus, from efficio; ex and facio, to make.]

1. That which is produced by an agent or cause; as the effect of luxury; the effect of intemperance.

Poverty, disease and disgrace are the natural effects of dissipation.

2. Consequence; event.

To say that a composition is imperfect, is in effect to say the author is a man.

3. Purpose; general intent.

They spoke to her to that effect 2 Chronicles 34:22.

4. Consequence intended; utility; profit; advantage.

Christ is become of no effect to you. Galatians 5:4.

5. Force; validity. The obligation is void and of no effect

6. Completion; perfection.

Not so worthily to be brought to heroical effect by fortune or necessity.

7. Reality; not mere appearance; fact.

No other in effect than what it seems.

8. In the plural, effects are goods; movables; personal estate. The people escaped from the town with their effects.

EFFECT', verb transitive [from the Noun.] To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be. The revolution in France effected a great change of property.

1. To bring to pass; to achieve; to accomplish; as, to effect an object or purpose.

EFFECT'ED, participle passive Done; performed; accomplished.

EFFECT'IBLE, adjective That may be done or achieved; practicable; feasible.

EFFECT'ING, participle present tense Producing; performing; accomplishing.

EFFECT'IVE, adjective Having the power to cause or produce; efficacious.

They are not effective of any thing.

1. Operative; active; having the quality of producing effects.

Time is not effective nor are bodies destroyed by it.

2. Efficient; causing to be; as an effective cause.

3. Having the power of active operation; able; as effective men in any army; an effective force.

EFFECT'IVELY, adverb With effect; powerfully; with real operation.

This effectively resists the devil.

[In this sense, effectually is generally used.]

EFFECT'LESS, adjective Without effect; without advantage; useless.

EFFECT'OR, noun One who effects; one who produces or causes; a maker or creator.

EFFECT'UAL, adjective Producing an effect, or the effect desired or intended; or having adequate power or force to produce the effect. The means employed were effectual

According to the gift of the grace of God given me by the effectual working of his power. Ephesians 3:7.

1. Veracious; expressive of facts. [Not used.]

2. effectual assassin, in Mitford, is unusual and not well authorized.

EFFECT'UALLY, adverb With effect; efficaciously; in a manner to produce the intended effect; thoroughly. The weeds on land for grain must be effectually subdued. The city is effectually guarded.

EFFECT'UATE, verb transitive To bring to pass; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfil; as, to effectuate a purpose or desire.

EFFECT'UATED, participle passive Accomplished.

EFFECT'UATING, participle present tense Achieving; performing to effect.

EFFEM'INACY, noun [from effeminate.] The softness, delicacy and weakness in men, which are characteristic of the female sex, but which in males are deemed a reproach; unmanly delicacy; womanish softness or weakness.

1. Voluptuousness; indulgence in unmanly pleasures; lasciviousness.

EFFEM'INATE, adjective [Latin effoeminatus, from effoeminor, to grow or make womanish, from foemina, a woman. See Woman.]

1. Having the qualities of the female sex; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; tender; womanish; voluptuous.

The king, by his voluptuous life and mean marriage, became effeminate and less sensible of honor.

2. Womanish; weak; resembling the practice or qualities of the sex; as an effeminate peace; an effeminate life.

3. Womanlike, tender, in a sense not reproachful.

EFFEM'INATE, verb transitive To make womanish; to unman; to weaken; as to effeminate children.

EFFEM'INATE, verb intransitive To grow womanish or weak; to melt into weakness.

In a slothful peace courage will effeminate

EFFEM'INATELY, adverb In a womanish manner; weakly; softly.

1. By means of a woman; as effeminately vanquished.

EFFEM'INATENESS, noun Unmanlike softness.

EFFEMINA'TION, noun The state of one grown womanish; the state of being weak or unmanly. [Little used.]

EFFERVESCE, verb intransitive efferves'. [Latin effervesco, from ferveo, to be hot, to rage.See Fervent.] To be in natural commotion, like liquor when gently boiling; to bubble and hiss, as fermenting liquors, or any fluid, when some part escapes in an elastic form; to work, as new wine.

EFFERVES'CENCE, noun A kind ofnatural ebullition; that commotion of a fluid, which takes place, when some part of the mass flies off in an elastic form, producing innumerable small bubbles; as the effervescence or working of new wine, cider or beer; the effervescence of a carbonate with nitric acid.

EFFERVES'CENT, adjective Gently boiling or bubbling by means of the disengagement of an elastic fluid.

EFFERVES'CIBLE, adjective That has the quality of effervescing; capable of producing effervescence.

A small quantity of effervescible matter.

EFFERVES'CING, participle present tense Boiling; bubbling, by means of an elastic fluid extricated in the dissolution of bodies.

EFFE'TE, adjective [Latin effoetus, effetus; ex and foetus, embryo.]

1. Barren; not capable of producing young, as

animal, or fruit, as the earth. An animal becomes effete by losing the power of conception. The earth may be rendered effete by drouth, or by exhaustion of fertility.

2. Worn out with age; as effete sensuality.

EFFICA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin efficax, from efficio. See Effect.]

Effectual; productive of effects; producing the effect intended; having power adequate to the purpose intended; powerful; as an efficacious remedy for disease.

EFFICA'CIOUSLY, adverb Effectually; in such a manner as to produce the effect desired. We say, a remedy has been efficaciously applied.

EFFICA'CIOUSNESS, noun The quality of being efficacious.

EF'FICACY, noun [Latin efficax.] Power to produce effects; production to the effect intended; as the efficacy of the gospel in converting men from sin; the efficacy of prayer; the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of manure in fertilizing land.

EFFI'CIENCE

EFFI'CIENCY, noun [Latin efficiens, from efficio. See Effect.]

1. The act of producing effects; a causing to be or exist; effectual agency.

The manner of this divine efficiency is far above us.

Gravity does not proceed from the efficiency of any contingent or unstable agent.

2. Power of producing the effect intended; active competent power.

EFFI'CIENCY, n. [L. efficiens, from efficio. See Effect.]

EFFI'CIENT, adjective Causing effects; producing; that causes any thing to be what is is. The efficient cause is that which produces; the final cause is that for which it is produced.

EFFI'CIENT, noun The agent or cause which produces or causes to exist.

1. He that makes.

EFFI'CIENTLY, adverb With effect; effectively.

EFFIERCE, verb transitive effers'. To make fierce or furious. [Not used.]

EF'FIGY, noun [Latin effigies, from effingo, to fashion; ex and fingo, to form or devise.]

1. The image or likeness of a person; resemblance; representation; any substance fashioned into the shape of a person.

2. Portrait; likeness; figure, in sculpture or painting.

3. On coins, the print or impression representing the head of the prince who struck the coin.

To burn or hang in effigy is to burn or hang an image or picture of the person intended to be executed, disgraced or degraded. In France, when a criminal cannot be apprehended, his picture is hung on a gallows or gibbet, at the bottom of which is written his sentence of condemnation.

EFFLA'TE, verb transitive [Latin efflo.] To fill with breath or air. [Little used.]

EFFLORESCE, verb transitive efflores'. [Latin effloresco, from floresco, floreo, to blossom, flos, a flower. See Flower.

1. In chimistry, to form a mealy powder on the surface; to become pulverulent or dusty on the surface. Substances effloresce by losing their water of crystallization.

Those salts whose crystals effloresce belong to the class which is most soluble, and crystalize by cooling.

2. To form saline vegetation on the surface; or rather to shoot out minute spicular crystals; as the efflorescence of salts on plaster.

EFFLORES'CENCE, noun In botany, the time of flowering; the season when a plant shows its first blossoms.

1. Among physicians, a redness of the skin; eruptions; as in rash, measles, small pox, scarlatina, etc.

2. In chimistry, the formation of small white threads, resembling the sublimated matter called flower, on the surface of certain bodies, as salts. This is properly a shooting out of minute spicular crystals, called sometimes a saline vegetation, as that of the sulphate of magnesia on the deserts of Siberia, and of natron in Egypt. In butter much salted, the salt shoots in spiculae, and an efflorescence is often seen on walls formed with plaster. In some species of salts, as in sulphate and carbonate of soda, the efflorescence consists of a fine white dust. This kind of efflorescence is the contrary of deliquescence. In the latter, the saline crystals decompose the air, or rather abstract moisture from it; in the former, the atmosphere decomposes the saline crystals, and the water of crystallization is abstracted from the salts.

EFFLORES'CENT, adjective Shooting into white threads or spiculae; forming a white dust on the surface.

EF'FLUENCE, noun [Latin effluens, effluo; ex and fluo, to flow. See Flow.] A flowing out; that which flows or issues from any body or substance.

Bright effluence of bright essence increate.

EFFLU'VIUM, noun plural effluvia. [Latin from effluo, to flow out. See Flow.] The minute and often invisible particles which exhale from most, if not all terrestrial bodies, such as the odor or smell of plants, and the noxious exhalations from diseased bodies or putrefying animal or vegetable substances.

EF'FLUX, noun [Latin effluxus, from effluo, to flow out.]

1. The act of flowing out, or issuing in a stream; as an efflux of matter from an ulcer.

2. Effusion; flow; as the first efflux of men's piety.

3. That which flows out; emanation.

Light--efflux divine.

EFFLUX', verb intransitive To run or flow away. [Not used.]

EFFLUX'ION, noun [Latin effluxum, from effluo.]

1. The act of flowing out.

2. That which flows out; effluvium; emanation.

EFFO'RCE, verb transitive

1. To force; to break through by violence.

2. To force; to ravish.

3. To strain; to exert with effort.

[This word is now rarely used; perhaps never, except in poetry. We now use force.]

EFFORM', verb transitive [from form.] To fashion; to shape.

[For this we now use form.]

EFFORMA'TION, noun The act of giving shape or form.

[We now use formation.]

EF'FORT, noun [Latin fortis. See Force.] A straining; an exertion of strength; endeavor; strenuous exertion to accomplish an object; applicable to physical or intellectual power. The army, by great efforts, scaled the walls. Distinction in science is gained by continued efforts of the mind.

EFFOS'SION, noun [Latin effossus, from effodio, to dig out.] The act of digging out of the earth; as the effossion of coins.

EFFRA'Y, verb transitive To frighten. [Not in use.]

EFFRA'YABLE, adjective Frightful; dreadful. [Not in use.

EFFRENA'TION, noun [Latin effroenatio, from froenum, a rein.]

Unbridled rashness or license; unruliness. [Not in use.]

EFFRONT'ERY, noun Impudence; assurance; shameless boldness; sauciness; boldness transgressing the bounds of modesty and decorum. Effrontry is a sure mark of ill breading.

EFFULGE, verb intransitive effulj'. [Latin effulgeo; ex and fulgeo, to shine.]

To send forth a flood of light; to shine with splendor.

EFFUL'GENCE, noun A flood of light; great luster or brightness; splendor; as the effulgence of divine glory. It is a word of superlative signification, and applied, with peculiar propriety, to the sun and to the Supreme Being.

EFFUL'GENT, adjective Shining; bright; splendid; diffusing a flood of light; as the effulgent sun.

EFFUL'GING, participle present tense Sending out a flood of light.

EFFUMABIL'ITY, noun The quality of flying off in fumes or vapor.

EFFU'ME, verb transitive To breathe out. [Not used.]

EFFU'SE, verb transitive effu'ze. [Latin effusus, from effundo; ex and fundo, to pour.] To pour out as a fluid; so spill; to shed.

With gushing blood effused.

EFFU'SE, adjective Dissipated; profuse. [Not in used.]

EFFU'SED, participle passive effu'zed. Poured out; shed.

EFFU'SING, participle present tense effu'zing. Pouring out; shedding.

EFFU'SION, noun effu'zhon. The act of pouring out as a liquid.

1. The act of pouring out; a shedding or spilling; waste; as the effusion of blood.

2. The pouring out of words.

3. The act of pouring out or bestowing divine influence; as the effusions of the Holy Spirit; effusions of grade.

4. That which is poured out.

Wash me with that precious effusion and I shall be whiter than snow.

5. Liberal donation. [Not used.]

EFFU'SIVE, adjective Pouring out; that pours forth largely.

Th' effusive south.

EFT, noun A newt; an evet; the common lizard.

EFT, adverb After; again; soon; quickly.

EFTSOONS', adverb Soon afterwards; in a short time.

E.G. [exempli gratia.] For the sake of an example; for instance.