Part 3752

<h1>Encouragement</h1> <Xpage=489>

<hw>En*cour"age*ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>encouragement</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; <as>as, the <ex>encouragement</ex> of youth in generosity</as>.</def>

<blockquote>All generous <b>encouragement</b> of arts. <i>Otway.</i></blockquote>

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

<blockquote>To think of his paternal care, Is a most sweet <b>encouragement</b> to prayer. <i>Byron.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Encourager</h1> <Xpage=489>

<hw>En*cour"a*ger</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer.</def>

<blockquote>The pope is . . . a great <b>encourager</b> of arts. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Encouraging</h1> <Xpage=489>

<hw>En*cour"a*ging</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>En*cour"a*ging*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Encowl</h1> <Xpage=489>

<hw>En*cowl"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To make a monk (or wearer of a cowl) of.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Drayton.</i>

<h1>Encradle</h1> <Xpage=489>

<hw>En*cra"dle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To lay in a cradle.</def>

<h1>Encratite</h1> <Xpage=489>

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

<h1>Encrease</h1> <Xpage=489>

<hw>En*crease"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t. &</tt> <def>i. <mark>[Obs.]</mark> See <er>Increase</er>.</def>

<h1>Encrimson</h1> <Xpage=489>

<hw>En*crim"son</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To give a crimson or red color to; to crimson.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Encrinic, Encrinal, Encrinital</h1> <Xpage=489>

<hw><hw>En*crin"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>En*cri"nal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>En*crin"i*tal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Paleon.)</fld> <def>Relating to encrinites; containing encrinites, as certain kinds of limestone.</def>

<h1>Encrinite</h1> <Xpage=489>

<hw>En"cri*nite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ in + <?/ a lily: cf. F. <ets>encrinite</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Paleon.)</fld> <def>A fossil crinoid, esp. one belonging to, or resembling, the genus Encrinus. Sometimes used in a general sense for any crinoid.</def>

<h1>Encrinitic, Encrinitical</h1> <Xpage=489>