Epicurism (n.) Epicurean habits of living; luxury.
Epicurize (v. i.) To profess or tend towards the doctrines of Epicurus.
Epicurize (v. i.) To feed or indulge like an epicure.
Epicycle (n.) A circle, whose center moves round in the circumference of a greater circle; or a small circle, whose center, being fixed in the deferent of a planet, is carried along with the deferent, and yet, by its own peculiar motion, carries the body of the planet fastened to it round its proper center.
Epicycle (n.) A circle which rolls on the circumference of another circle, either externally or internally.
Epicyclic (a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or having the motion of, an epicycle.
Epicycloid (n.) A curve traced by a point in the circumference of a circle which rolls on the convex side of a fixed circle.
Epicycloidal (a.) Pertaining to the epicycloid, or having its properties.
Epideictic (a.) Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade.
Epidemic (a.) Alt. of Epidemical
Epidemical (a.) Common to, or affecting at the same time, a large number in a community; -- applied to a disease which, spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time; as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc. See Endemic.
Epidemical (a.) Spreading widely, or generally prevailing; affecting great numbers, as an epidemic does; as, epidemic rage; an epidemic evil.
Epidemic (n.) An epidemic disease.
Epidemic (n.) Anything which takes possession of the minds of people as an epidemic does of their bodies; as, an epidemic of terror.
Epidemically (adv.) In an epidemic manner.
Epidemiography (n.) A treatise upon, or history of, epidemic diseases.
Epidemiological (a.) Connected with, or pertaining to, epidemiology.
Epidemiologist (n.) A person skilled in epidemiology.
Epidemiology (n.) That branch of science which treats of epidemics.
Epidemy (n.) An epidemic disease.
Epiderm (n.) The epidermis.
Epidermal (a.) Of or pertaining to the epidermis; epidermic; cuticular.
Epidermatic (a.) Epidermal.
Epidermatoid (a.) Epidermoid.
Epidermeous (a.) Epidermal.
Epidermic (a.) Epidermal; connected with the skin or the bark.
Epidermical (a.) Epidermal.
Epidermidal (a.) Epidermal.
Epidermis (v. t.) The outer, nonsensitive layer of the skin; cuticle; scarfskin. See Dermis.
Epidermis (v. t.) The outermost layer of the cells, which covers both surfaces of leaves, and also the surface of stems, when they are first formed. As stems grow old this layer is lost, and never replaced.
Epidermoid (a.) Like epidermis; pertaining to the epidermis.
Epidermose (n.) Keratin.
Epidictic (a.) Alt. of Epidictical
Epidictical (a.) Serving to explain; demonstrative.
Epididymis (n.) An oblong vermiform mass on the dorsal side of the testicle, composed of numerous convolutions of the excretory duct of that organ.
Epididymitis (n.) Inflammation of the epididymis, one of the common results of gonorrhea.
Epidote (n.) A mineral, commonly of a yellowish green (pistachio) color, occurring granular, massive, columnar, and in monoclinic crystals. It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and oxide of iron, or manganese.
Epidotic (a.) Related to, resembling, or containing epidote; as, an epidotic granite.
Epigaea (n.) An American genus of plants, containing but a single species (E. repens), the trailing arbutus.
Epigaeous (a.) Growing on, or close to, the ground.
Epigastrial (a.) Epigastric.
Epigastric (a.) Pertaining to the epigastrium, or to the epigastric region.
Epigastric (a.) Over the stomach; -- applied to two of the areas of the carapace of crabs.
Epigastrium (n.) The upper part of the abdomen.
Epigeal (a.) Epigaeous.
Epigee (n.) See Perigee.
Epigene (a.) Foreign; unnatural; unusual; -- said of forms of crystals not natural to the substances in which they are found.
Epigene (a.) Formed originating on the surface of the earth; -- opposed to hypogene; as, epigene rocks.
Epigenesis (n.) The theory of generation which holds that the germ is created entirely new, not merely expanded, by the procreative power of the parents. It is opposed to the theory of evolution, also to syngenesis.
Epigenesist (n.) One who believes in, or advocates the theory of, epigenesis.
Epigenetic (a.) Of or pertaining to the epigenesis; produced according to the theory of epigenesis.
Epigeous (a.) Same as Epigaeous.
Epigeum (n.) See Perigee.
Epiglottic (a.) Pertaining to, or connected with, the epiglottis.
Epiglottidean (a.) Same as Epiglottic.
Epiglottis (n.) A cartilaginous lidlike appendage which closes the glottis while food or drink is passing while food or drink is passing through the pharynx.
Epignathous (a.) Hook-billed; having the upper mandible longer than the lower.
Epigram (n.) A short poem treating concisely and pointedly of a single thought or event. The modern epigram is so contrived as to surprise the reader with a witticism or ingenious turn of thought, and is often satirical in character.
Epigram (n.) An effusion of wit; a bright thought tersely and sharply expressed, whether in verse or prose.
Epigram (n.) The style of the epigram.
Epigrammatic () Alt. of Epigrammatical
Epigrammatical () Writing epigrams; dealing in epigrams; as, an epigrammatical poet.
Epigrammatical () Suitable to epigrams; belonging to epigrams; like an epigram; pointed; piquant; as, epigrammatic style, wit, or sallies of fancy.
Epigrammatically (adv.) In the way of epigram; in an epigrammatic style.
Epigrammatist (n.) One who composes epigrams, or makes use of them.
Epigrammatized (imp. & p. p.) of Epigrammatize
Epigrammatizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Epigrammatize
Epigrammatize (v. t.) To represent by epigrams; to express by epigrams.
Epigrammatizer (n.) One who writes in an affectedly pointed style.
Epigrammist (n.) An epigrammatist.
Epigraph (n.) Any inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the building itself, its founding or dedication.
Epigraph (n.) A citation from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a work or of its separate divisions; a motto.
Epigraphic (a.) Alt. of Epigraphical
Epigraphical (a.) Of or pertaining to epigraphs or to epigraphy; as, an epigraphic style; epigraphical works or studies.
Epigraphics (n.) The science or study of epigraphs.
Epigraphist (n.) A student of, or one versed in, epigraphy.
Epigraphy (n.) The science of inscriptions; the art of engraving inscriptions or of deciphering them.
Epigynous (a.) Adnate to the surface of the ovary, so as to be apparently inserted upon the top of it; -- said of stamens, petals, sepals, and also of the disk.
Epihyal (n.) A segment next above the ceratohyal in the hyoidean arch.
Epilepsy (n.) The "falling sickness," so called because the patient falls suddenly to the ground; a disease characterized by paroxysms (or fits) occurring at interval and attended by sudden loss of consciousness, and convulsive motions of the muscles.
Epileptic (a.) Pertaining to, affected with, or of the nature of, epilepsy.
Epileptic (n.) One affected with epilepsy.
Epileptic (n.) A medicine for the cure of epilepsy.
Epileptical (a.) Epileptic.
Epileptiform (a.) Resembling epilepsy.
Epileptogenous (a.) Producing epilepsy or epileptoid convulsions; -- applied to areas of the body or of the nervous system, stimulation of which produces convulsions.
Epileptoid (a.) Resembling epilepsy; as, epileptoid convulsions.
Epilogation (n.) A summing up in a brief account.
Epilogic (a.) Alt. of Epilogical
Epilogical (a.) Of or pertaining to an epilogue.
Epilogism (n.) Enumeration; computation.
Epilogistic (a.) Of or pertaining to epilogue; of the nature of an epilogue.
Epilogize (v. i. & t.) To speak an epilogue to; to utter as an epilogue.
Epilogue (n.) A speech or short poem addressed to the spectators and recited by one of the actors, after the conclusion of the play.
Epilogue (n.) The closing part of a discourse, in which the principal matters are recapitulated; a conclusion.
Epiloguize (v. i. & t.) Same as Epilogize.
Epimachus (n.) A genus of highly ornate and brilliantly colored birds of Australia, allied to the birds of Paradise.
Epimera (n. pl.) See Epimeron.
Epimeral (a.) Pertaining to the epimera.
Epimere (n.) One of the segments of the transverse axis, or the so called homonymous parts; as, for example, one of the several segments of the extremities in vertebrates, or one of the similar segments in plants, such as the segments of a segmented leaf.