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All generous encouragement of arts.

Otway.

2. That which serves to incite, support, promote, or advance, as favor, countenance, reward, etc.; incentive; increase of confidence; as, the fine arts find little encouragement among a rude people.

To think of his paternal care, Is a most sweet encouragement to prayer.

Byron.

En*cour"a*ger (?), n. One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer.

The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts.

Addison.

En*cour"a*ging (?), a. Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring. -- En*cour"a*ging*ly, adv.

En*cowl" (?), v. t. To make a monk (or wearer of a cowl) of. [R.] Drayton.

En*cra"dle (?), v. t. To lay in a cradle.

En"cra*tite (?), n. [L. Encratitae, pl., fr. Gr. &?; self-disciplined; &?; in + &?; strength.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect in the 2d century who abstained from marriage, wine, and animal food; -- called also Continent.

En*crease" (?), v. t. & i. [Obs.] See Increase.

En*crim"son (?), v. t. To give a crimson or red color to; to crimson. Shak.

{ En*crin"ic (?), En*cri"nal (?), En*crin"i*tal (?), } a. (Paleon.) Relating to encrinites; containing encrinites, as certain kinds of limestone.

En"cri*nite (?), n. [Gr. &?; in + &?; a lily: cf. F. encrinite.] (Paleon.) A fossil crinoid, esp. one belonging to, or resembling, the genus Encrinus. Sometimes used in a general sense for any crinoid.

{ En`cri*nit"ic (?), En`cri*nit"ic*al (?), } a. (Paleon.) Pertaining to encrinites; encrinal.

||En`cri*noid"e*a (?), n. pl. [NL. See Encrinus and -oid.] (Zoöl.) That order of the Crinoidea which includes most of the living and many fossil forms, having jointed arms around the margin of the oral disk; -- also called Brachiata and Articulata. See Illusts. under Comatula and Crinoidea.

||En"cri*nus (?), n.; pl. Encrini (#). [NL. See Encrinite.] (Paleon.) A genus of fossil encrinoidea, from the Mesozoic rocks.

En*crisped" (?), a. Curled. [Obs.] Skelton.

En*croach" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Encroached (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Encroaching.] [OF. encrochier to perch, prop., to hook, fasten a hook (perh. confused with acrochier, F. accrocher, to hook, get hold of, E. accroach); pref. en- (L. in) + F. croc hook. See Crook, and cf. Accroach.] To enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another; to trespass; to intrude; to trench; -- commonly with on or upon; as, to encroach on a neighbor; to encroach on the highway.

No sense, faculty, or member must encroach upon or interfere with the duty and office of another.

South.

Superstition, . . . a creeping and encroaching evil.

Hooker.

Exclude the encroaching cattle from thy ground.

Dryden.

Syn. -- To intrude; trench; infringe; invade; trespass.