Part 799

Tablets . . . which bear eponymic dates.

I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

E*pon"y*mist (?), n. One from whom a race, tribe, city, or the like, took its name; an eponym.

E*pon"y*mous (?), a. [Gr. &?;; 'epi` upon, to + &?; for &?; name.] Relating to an eponym; giving one's name to a tribe, people, country, and the like.

What becomes . . . of the Herakleid genealogy of the Spartan kings, when it is admitted that eponymous persons are to be canceled as fictions?

Grote.

E*pon"y*my (?), n. [Gr. &?; a surname given after some person or thing.] The derivation of the name of a race, tribe, etc., from that of a fabulous hero, progenitor, etc.

||Ep`o*öph"o*ron (?), n. [NL., from Gr. 'epi` upon + &?; egg + fe`rein to bear.] (Anat.) See Parovarium.

{ Ep"o*pee` (?), ||Ep`o*pœ"ia (?), } n. [F. épopée, Gr. &?;; 'e`pos song + &?; to make. See Epos.] An epic poem; epic poetry.

Ep"opt (?), n. [Gr. &?; one initiated into the Eleusinian mysteries.] One instructed in the mysteries of a secret system. Carlyle.

||Ep"os (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;.] An epic.

Ep`o*ta"tion (?), n. [L. epotare, epotatum, to drink; e out + potare to drink.] A drinking up; a quaffing. [Obs.] Feltham.

||É`prou`vette" (?), n. [F.] (Gun.) An apparatus for testing or proving the strength of gunpowder.

Ep"som*ite (?), n. Native sulphate of magnesia or Epsom salt.

{ Ep"som salts` or salt` (?) }. (Med.) Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities; -- originally prepared by boiling down the mineral waters at Epsom, England, -- whence the name; afterwards prepared from sea water; but now from certain minerals, as from siliceous hydrate of magnesia.

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Ep"u*la*ry (?), a. [L. epularis, fr. epulum a feast: cf. F. épulaire.] Of or pertaining to a feast or banquet. [Obs.] Smart.

Ep`u*la"tion (?), n. [L. epulatio.] A feasting or feast; banquet. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

||E*pu"lis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a gumboil; Gr. 'epi` upon + &?; gums.] (Med.) A hard tumor developed from the gums.

Ep"u*lose` (?), a. [L. epulum a feast.] Feasting to excess. [Obs.]

Ep`u*los"i*ty (?), n. A feasting to excess. [Obs.]

Ep`u*lot"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to scar over or heal; 'epi` upon, over + &?; whole.] Promoting the skinning over or healing of sores; as, an epulotic ointment. -- n. An epulotic agent.

Ep`u*ra"tion (?), n. [L. e out, quite + purare to purify, purus pure.] Purification.

||É`pure" (?), n. [F.] (Fine Arts) A draught or model from which to build; especially, one of the full size of the work to be done; a detailed drawing.

E`qua*bil"i*ty (?), n. [L. aequabilitas, fr. aequabilis. See Equable.] The quality or condition of being equable; evenness or uniformity; as, equability of temperature; the equability of the mind.

For the celestial bodies, the equability and constancy of their motions argue them ordained by wisdom.

Ray.

E"qua*ble (?; 277), a. [L. aequabilis, fr. aequare to make level or equal, fr. aequus even, equal. See Equal.] 1. Equal and uniform; continuing the same at different times; -- said of motion, and the like; uniform in surface; smooth; as, an equable plain or globe.