Part 3755

<h1>Encyclopedia, Encyclop\'91dia</h1> <Xpage=489>

<hw><hw>En*cy`clo*pe"di*a</hw>, <hw>En*cy`clo*p\'91"di*a</hw><hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/, for <?/ <?/, instruction in the circle of arts and sciences: cf. F. <ets>encyclop\'82die</ets>. See <er>Cyclopedia</er>, and <er>Encyclical</er>.]</ety> <altsp>[Formerly written <asp>encyclop\'91dy</asp> and <asp>encyclopedy</asp>.]</altsp> <def>The circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge; esp., a work in which the various branches of science or art are discussed separately, and usually in alphabetical order; a cyclopedia.</def>

<h1>Encyclopediacal</h1> <Xpage=489>

<hw>En*cy`clo*pe*di"a*cal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Encyclopedic.</def>

<h1>Encyclopedian</h1> <Xpage=489>

<hw>En*cy`clo*pe"di*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Embracing the whole circle of learning, or a wide range of subjects.</def>

<h1>Encyclopedic, Encyclopedical</h1> <Xpage=489>

<hw><hw>En*cy`clo*ped"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>En*cy`clo*ped"ic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>encyclop\'82dique</ets>.]</ety> <def>Pertaining to, or of the nature of, an encyclopedia; embracing a wide range of subjects.</def>

<h1>Encyclopedism</h1> <Xpage=489>

<hw>En*cy`clo*pe"dism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The art of writing or compiling encyclopedias; also, possession of the whole range of knowledge; encyclopedic learning.</def>

<h1>Encyclopedist</h1> <Xpage=489>

<hw>En*cy`clo*pe"dist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>encyclop\'82diste</ets>.]</ety> <def>The compiler of an encyclopedia, or one who assists in such compilation; also, one whose knowledge embraces the whole range of the sciences.</def>

<cs><col>The Encyclopedists</col>, <cd>the writers of the great French encyclopedia which appeared in 1751-1772. The editors were Diderot and D'Alembert. Among the contributors were Voltaire and Rousseau.</cd></cs>

<h1>Encyst</h1> <Xpage=489>

<hw>En*cyst"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To inclose in a cyst.</def>

<h1>Encystation</h1> <Xpage=489>

<hw>En`cys*ta"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Encystment.</def>

<h1>Encysted</h1> <Xpage=489>

<hw>En*cyst"ed</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Inclosed in a cyst, or a sac, bladder, or vesicle; <as>as, an <ex>encysted</ex> tumor</as>.</def>

<blockquote>The encysted venom, or poison bag, beneath the adder's fang. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Encystment</h1> <Xpage=489>

<hw>En*cyst"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>A process which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc.</def>

<note>&hand; The animal (<it>a</it>) first contracts its body to a globular mass (<it>b</it>) and then secretes a transparent cyst (<it>c</it>), after which the mass divides into two or more parts (as in <it>d e</it>), each of which attains freedom by the bursting of the cyst, and becomes an individual animal.</note>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A process by which many internal parasites, esp. in their larval states, become inclosed within a cyst in the muscles, liver, etc. See <er>Trichina</er>.</def>

<h1>End</h1> <Xpage=489>

<hw>End</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. & AS. <ets>ende</ets>; akin to OS. <ets>endi</ets>, D. <ets>einde</ets>, <ets>eind</ets>, OHG. <ets>enti</ets>, G. <ets>ende</ets>, Icel. <ets>endir</ets>, <ets>endi</ets>, Sw. <ets>\'84nde</ets>, Dan. <ets>ende</ets>, Goth. <ets>andeis</ets>, Skr. <ets>anta</ets>. <?/<?/<?/<?/. Cf. <er>Ante-</er>, <er>Anti-</er>, <er>Answer</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being <i>side</i>); hence, extremity, in general; the concluding part; termination; close; limit; <as>as, the <ex>end</ex> of a field, line, pole, road; the <ex>end</ex> of a year, of a discourse; put an <ex>end</ex> to pain</as>; -- opposed to <ant>beginning</ant>, when used of anything having a first part.</def>