Part 3595

<h1>Economist</h1> <Xpage=469>

<hw>E*con"o*mist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>\'82conomiste</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste.</def> "<i>Economists</i> even to parsimony."

<i>Burke.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>One who is conversant with political economy; a student of economics.</def>

<h1>Economization</h1> <Xpage=469>

<hw>E*con`o*mi*za"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act or practice of using to the best effect.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>H. Spenser.</i>

<h1>Economize</h1> <Xpage=469>

<hw>E*con"o*mize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Economized</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Economizing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>\'82conomiser</ets>.]</ety> <def>To manage with economy; to use with prudence; to expend with frugality; <as>as, to <ex>economize</ex> one's income</as>.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>economise</asp>.]</altsp>

<blockquote>Expenses in the city were to be <b>economized</b>. <i>Jowett (Thucyd. ).</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Calculating how to <b>economize</b> time. <i>W. Irving.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Economize</h1> <Xpage=469>

<hw>E*con"o*mize</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To be prudently sparing in expenditure; to be frugal and saving; <as>as, to <ex>economize</ex> in order to grow rich</as>.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>economise</asp>.]</altsp>

<i>Milton.</i>

<h1>Economizer</h1> <Xpage=469>

<hw>E*con"o*mi`zer</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who, or that which, economizes.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Specifically: <fld>(Steam Boilers)</fld> An arrangement of pipes for heating feed water by waste heat in the gases passing to the chimney.</def>

<h1>Economy</h1> <Xpage=469>

<hw>E*con"o*my</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Economies</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[F. <ets>\'82conomie</ets>, L. <ets>oeconomia</ets> household management, fr. Gr. <?/, fr. <?/ one managing a household; <?/ house (akin to L. <ets>vicus</ets> village, E. <ets>vicinity</ets>) + <?/ usage, law, rule, fr. <?/ to distribute, mange. See <er>Vicinity</er>, <er>Nomad</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; <as>as, a careful <ex>economy</ex></as>.</def>

<blockquote>Himself busy in charge of the household <b>economies</b>. <i>Froude.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Orderly arrangement and management of the internal affairs of a state or of any establishment kept up by production and consumption; esp., such management as directly concerns wealth; <as>as, political <ex>economy</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The system of rules and regulations by which anything is managed; orderly system of regulating the distribution and uses of parts, conceived as the result of wise and economical adaptation in the author, whether human or divine; <as>as, the animal or vegetable <ex>economy</ex>; the <ex>economy</ex> of a poem; the Jewish <ex>economy</ex>.</as></def>

<blockquote>The position which they [the verb and adjective] hold in the general <b>economy</b> of language. <i>Earle.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>In the Greek poets, as also in Plautus, we shall see the <b>economy</b> . . . of poems better observed than in Terence. <i>B. Jonson.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The Jews already had a Sabbath, which, as citizens and subjects of that <b>economy</b>, they were obliged to keep. <i>Paley.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Thrifty and frugal housekeeping; management without loss or waste; frugality in expenditure; prudence and disposition to save; <as>as, a housekeeper accustomed to <ex>economy</ex> but not to parsimony</as>.</def>