EU'CHARIST, noun [Gr. a giving of thanks; well, favor.]
1. The sacrament of the Lord's supper; the solemn act or ceremony of commemorating the death of our Redeemer, in the use of bread and wine, as emblems of his flesh and blood, accompanied with approprite prayers and hymns.
2. The act of giving thanks.
EUCHARIS'TIC
EUCHARIS'TICAL, adjective Containing expressions of thanks.
1. Pertaining to the Lord's supper.
Euchloric gas, the same as euchlorine.
EUCHARIS'TICAL, a. Containing expressions of thanks.
1. Pertaining to the Lord's supper.Euchloric gas, the same as euchlorine.
EUCHLO'RINE, noun [See Chlorine.] In chimistry, protoxyd of chlorine.
EUCHOL'OGY, noun [Gr. prayer or vow, and discourse.]
A formulary of prayers; the Greek ritual, in which are prescribed the order of ceremonies, sacraments and ordinances.
EU'CHYMY, noun [Gr.] A good state of the blood and other fluids of the body.
EUCHYSID'ERITE, noun A mineral, considered as a variety of augite.
EU'CLASE, noun [Gr. to break; easily broken.]
A mineral, a species of emerald, prismatic emerald, of a greenish white, apple or mountain green, bluish green, or dark sky blue color. It is a rare mineral, and remarkably brittle, whence its name.
EU'CRASY, noun [Gr. well, and temperament.]
In medicine, such a due or well proportioned mixture of qualities in bodies, as top constitute health or soundness.
EU'DIALYTE, noun A mineral of a brownish red color.
EUDIOM'ETER, noun [Gr. serene, and Jove, air, and measure.]
An instrument for ascertaining the purity of the air, or the quantity of oxygen it contains.
EUDIOMET'RIC
EUDIOMET'RICAL, adjective Pertaining to an eudiometer; performed or ascertained by an eudiometer; as eudiometrical experiments or results.
EUDIOMET'RICAL, a. Pertaining to an eudiometer; performed or ascertained by an eudiometer; as eudiometrical experiments or results.
EUDIOM'ETRY, noun The art or practice of ascertaining the purity of the air by the eudiometer.
EU'GE, noun Applause. [Not used.]
EUGH, a tree. [See Yew.]
EUHARMON'IC, adjective [Gr. well, and harmonic.]
Producing harmony or concordant sounds; as the euharmonic organ.
EUK'AIRITE, noun [Gr. opportune.] Cupreous seleniuret of silver, a mineral of a shining lead gray color and granular structure.
EULOG'IC
EULOG'ICAL, adjective [See Eulogy.] Containing praise; commendatory.
EU'LOGIST, noun [See Eulogy.] One who praises and commends another; one who writes or speaks in commendation of another, on account of his excellent qualities, exploits or performances.
EULO'GIUM, noun An eulogy.
EU'LOGIZE, verb transitive [See Eulogy.] To praise; to speak or write in commendation of another; to extol in speech or writing.
EU'LOGIZED, participle passive Praised; commended.
EU'LOGIZING, participle present tense Commending; writing or speaking in praise of.
EU'LOGY, noun [Gr.] Praise; encomium; panegyric; a speech or writing in commendation of a person, on account of his valuable qualities, or services.
EU'NOMY, noun [Gr. law.] Equal law, or a well adjusted constitution of government.
EU'NUCH, noun [Gr. a bed, and to keep.] A male of the human species castrated.
EU'NUCHATE, verb transitive To make a eunuch; to castrate.
EU'NUCHISM, noun The state of being an eunuch.
EU'PAHTY, noun [Gr.] Right feeling.
EU'PATORY, noun [Latin eupatorium.] The plant hemp agrimony.
EUPEP'SY, noun [Gr. concoction.] Good concoction in the stomach; good digestion.
EUPEP'TIC, adjective Having good digestion.
EU'PHEMISM, noun [Gr. well, and to speak.] A representation of good qualities; particularly in rhetoric, a figure in which a harsh or indelicate word or expression is softened, or rather by which a delicate word or expression is substituted for one which is offensive to good manners or to delicate ears.
EUPHON'IC
EUPHON'ICAL, adjective [See Euphony.] Agreeable in sound; pleasing to the ear; as euphonical orthography.
The Greeks adopted many changes in the combination of syllables to render their language euphonic by avoiding such collisions.
EU'PHONY, noun [Gr. voice.] An agreeable sound; an easy, smooth enunciation of sounds; a pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear.
EUPHOR'BIA, noun [Gr. with a different signification.]
In botany, spurge, or bastard spurge, a genus of plants of many species, mostly shrubby herbaceous succulents, some of them armed with thorns.
EUPHOR'BIUM, noun [Latin from Gr.]
In the materia medica, a gummi-resinous substance, exuding from an oriental tree. It has a sharp biting taste, and is vehemently acrimonious, inflaming and ulcerating the fauces.
EU'PHOTIDE, noun A name given by the French to the aggregate of diallage and saussurite.
EU'PHRASY, noun [According to DeTheis, this word is contracted from euphrosyne, joy, pleasure; a name given to the plant on account of its wonderful effects in curing disorders of the eyes.]
Eyebright, a genus of plants, Euphrasia, called in French casse-lunette.
EU'RIPUS, noun [Gr. Latin euripus ] A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide or a current flows and reflows, as that in Greece, between Euboea and Attica, or Euboea and Boeotia. It is sometimes used for a strait or frith much agitated.
EU'RITE, noun The white stone [weiss stein] of Werner; a very small-grained granite, with the parts intimately blended, and hence often apparently compact. It is gray, red, etc., according to the color of the felspar, of which it is principally composed.
Whitestone is a finely granular felspar, containing grains of quartz and scales of mica.
EUROC'LYDON, noun [Gr. wind, and a wave.] A tempestuous wind, which drove ashore, on Malta, the ship in which Paul was sailing to Italy. It is supposed to have blown from an easterly point. Acts 27:14.
EU'ROPE, noun [Bochart supposes this word to be composed of white face, the land of white people, as distinguished from the Ethiopians, black-faced people, or tawny inhabitants of Asia and Africa.]
The great quarter of the earth that lies between the Atlantic ocean and Asia, and between the Mediterranean sea and the North sea.
EUROPE'AN, adjective Pertaining to Europe.
EUROPE'AN, noun A native of Europe.
EU'RUS, noun [Latin] The east wind.
EU'RYTHMY, noun [Gr. rythmus, number or proportion.]
In architecture, painting and sculpture, ease, majesty and elegance of the parts of a body, arising from just proportions in the composition.
EUSE'BIAN, noun An Arian, so called from one Eusebius.
EU'STYLE, noun [Gr. a column.] In architecture, a sort of building in which the columns are placed at the most convenient distances from each other, the intercolumniations being just two diameters and a quarter of the column, except those in the middle of the face, before and behind, which are three diameters distant.
EU'THANASY, noun [Gr. death.] An easy death.
EUTYCH'IAN, noun A follower of Eutychius, who denied the two natures of Christ.
EUTYCH'IANISM, noun The doctrines of Eutychius, who denies the two natures of Christ.