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<p><b>2.</b> <def>Fully; quite; -- used to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to <i>very</i>; <as>as, he is ready <ex>enough</ex> to embrace the offer</as>.</def>

<blockquote>I know you well <b>enough</b>; you are Signior Antonio. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Thou knowest well <b>enough</b> . . . that this is no time to lend money. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>In a tolerable degree; -- used to express mere acceptableness or acquiescence, and implying a degree or quantity rather less than is desired; <as>as, the song was well <ex>enough</ex></as>.</def>

<note>&hand; <i>Enough</i> usually follows the word it modifies.</note>

<h1>Enough</h1> <Xpage=495>

<hw>E*nough"</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A sufficiency; a quantity which satisfies desire, is adequate to the want, or is equal to the power or ability; <as>as, he had <ex>enough</ex> to do take care of himself</as>.</def> "<i>Enough</i> is as good as a feast."

<blockquote>And Esau said, I have <b>enough</b>, my brother. <i>Gen. xxxiii. 9.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Enough</h1> <Xpage=495>

<hw>E*nough"</hw>, <tt>interj.</tt> <def>An exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form of <i>it is enough</i>.</def>

<h1>Enounce</h1> <Xpage=495>

<hw>E*nounce"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Enounced</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Enouncing</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[F. <ets>\'82noncer</ets>, L. <ets>enuntiare</ets>; <ets>e</ets> out + <ets>nuntiare</ets> to announce, fr. <ets>nuntius</ets> messenger. See <er>Nuncio</er>, and cf. <er>Enunciate</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument.</def>

<i>Sir W. Hamilton.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To utter; to articulate.</def>

<blockquote>The student should be able to <b>enounce</b> these [sounds] independently. <i>A. M. Bell.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Enouncement</h1> <Xpage=495>

<hw>E*nounce"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Act of enouncing; that which is enounced.</def>

<h1>Enow</h1> <Xpage=495>

<hw>E*now"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <def>A form of <er>Enough</er>.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Enpatron</h1> <Xpage=495>

<hw>En*pa"tron</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To act the part of a patron towards; to patronize.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Enpierce</h1> <Xpage=495>

<hw>En*pierce"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Empierce</er>.]</ety> <def>To pierce.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Enquere</h1> <Xpage=495>