Chapter 70

The most ecstasied order of holy . . . spirits.

Jer. Taylor.

Ec*stat"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?;, fr. &?;: cf. F. extatique. See Ecstasy, n.] 1. Pertaining to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive emotion; of the nature, or in a state, of ecstasy; as, ecstatic gaze; ecstatic trance.

This ecstatic fit of love and jealousy.

Hammond.

2. Delightful beyond measure; rapturous; ravishing; as, ecstatic bliss or joy.

Ec*stat"ic, n. An enthusiast. [R.] Gauden.

Ec*stat"ic*al (?), a. 1. Ecstatic. Bp. Stillingfleet.

2. Tending to external objects. [R.] Norris.

Ec*stat"ic*al*ly, adv. Rapturously; ravishingly.

{ Ect- (?), Ec"to- (?) }. [Gr. &?; outside.] A combining form signifying without, outside, external.

Ec"tad (?), adv. [Ect- + L. ad towards.] (Anat.) Toward the outside or surface; -- opposed to entad. B. G. Wilder.

Ec"tal (?), a. [See Ect-.] (Anat.) Pertaining to, or situated near, the surface; outer; -- opposed to ental. B. G. Wilder.

||Ec*ta"si*a (?), n. [NL. See Ectasis.] (Med.) A dilatation of a hollow organ or of a canal.

||Ec"ta*sis (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;; 'ek out + &?; to stretch.] (Pros.) The lengthening of a syllable from short to long.

Ec*ten"tal (?), a. [Gr. &?; outside + &?; inside.] (Biol.) Relating to, or connected with, the two primitive germ layers, the ectoderm and ectoderm; as, the "ectental line" or line of juncture of the two layers in the segmentation of the ovum. C. S. Minot.

Ec"ter*on (?), n. [See Ect-.] (Anat.) The external layer of the skin and mucous membranes; epithelium; ecderon. -- Ec`ter*on"ic (#), a.

Ec*teth"moid (?), a. [Ect- + ethmoid.] (Anat.) External to the ethmoid; prefrontal.

||Ec*thlip"sis (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to squeeze out.] 1. The dropping out or suppression from a word of a consonant, with or without a vowel.

2. (Lat. Pros.) The elision of a final m, with the preceding vowel, before a word beginning with a vowel.

||Ec`tho*re"um (?), n.; pl. Ecthorea (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; to leap out; ek out + &?;, &?;, to leap, dart.] (Zoöl.) The slender, hollow thread of a nettling cell or cnida. See Nettling cell. [Written also ecthoræum.]

||Ec*thy"ma (?), n.; pl. Ecthymata (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; pimple, fr. &?; to break out.] (Med.) A cutaneous eruption, consisting of large, round pustules, upon an indurated and inflamed base. Dunglison.

Ec"to- (?). See Ect-.

Ec"to*blast (?), n. [Ecto- + Gr. &?; bud, germ.] (Biol.) (a) The outer layer of the blastoderm; the epiblast; the ectoderm. (b) The outer envelope of a cell; the cell wall. Agassiz.

||Ec`to*bron"chi*um (?), n.; pl. Ectobronchia (#). [NL. See Ecto-, and Bronchia.] (Anat.) One of the dorsal branches of the main bronchi in the lungs of birds.

{ Ec`to*cu*ne"ri*form (?), Ec`to*cu"ni*form (?), } n. [Ecto- + cuneiform, cuniform.] (Anat.) One of the bones of the tarsus. See Cuneiform.

Ec"to*cyst (?), n. [Ecto- + Gr. &?; bladder.] (Zoöl.) The outside covering of the Bryozoa.

Ec"to*derm (?), n. [Ecto- + - derm.] (Biol.) (a) The outer layer of the blastoderm; epiblast. (b) The external skin or outer layer of an animal or plant, this being formed in an animal from the epiblast. See Illust. of Blastoderm.

{ Ec`to*der"mal (?), Ec`to*der"mic (?), } a. (Biol.) Of or relating to the ectoderm.

Ec`to*lec"i*thal (?), a. [Ecto- + Gr. &?; the yolk of an egg.] (Biol.) Having the food yolk, at the commencement of segmentation, in a peripheral position, and the cleavage process confined to the center of the egg; as, ectolecithal ova.

Ec"to*mere (?), n. [Ecto- + - mere.] (Biol.) The more transparent cells, which finally become external, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.

Ec`to*par"a*site (?), n. (Zoöl.) Any parasite which lives on the exterior of animals; -- opposed to endoparasite. -- Ec`to*par`a*sit"ic (#), a.

||Ec*to"pi*a (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'ek out + &?; place.] (Med.) A morbid displacement of parts, especially such as is congenial; as, ectopia of the heart, or of the bladder.

Ec*top"ic (?), a. (Med.) Out of place; congenitally displaced; as, an ectopic organ.

Ec"to*plasm (?), n. [Ecto- + Gr. &?; form.] (Biol.) (a) The outer transparent layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum. (b) The outer hyaline layer of protoplasm in a vegetable cell. (c) The ectosarc of protozoan.

Ec`to*plas"tic (?), a. [Ecto- + Gr. &?; to mold.] Pertaining to, or composed of, ectoplasm.

||Ec`to*proc"ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; outside + &?; the anus.] (Zoöl.) An order of Bryozoa in which the anus lies outside the circle of tentacles.

Ec"to*py (?), n. (Med.) Same as Ectopia.

Ect*or"gan*ism (?), n. [Ect- + organism.] (Biol.) An external parasitic organism.

Ec"to*sarc (?), n. [Ecto- + Gr. &?;, &?;, flesh.] (Biol.) The semisolid external layer of protoplasm in some unicellular organisms, as the amœba; ectoplasm; exoplasm.

Ec*tos"te*al (?), a. (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to ectostosis; as, ectosteal ossification.

||Ec`tos*to"sis (?), n. [NL. See Ect-, and Ostosis.] (Physiol.) A process of bone formation in which ossification takes place in the perichondrium and either surrounds or gradually replaces the cartilage.

Ec`to*zo"ic (?), a. (Zoöl.) See Epizoic.

||Ec`to*zo"ön (?), n.; pl. Ectozoa (#). [NL., fr. Gr. 'ekto`s outside outside + zw^,on an animal.] (Zoöl.) See Epizoön.

||Ec*tro"pi*on (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;, fr. &?; a turning aside; &?; from + &?; to turn.] (Med.) An unnatural eversion of the eyelids.

||Ec*tro"pi*um (?), n. [NL.] (Med.) Same as Ectropion.

Ec*trot"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?; for abortion; 'ek out + &?; to wound, cause mischief to.] (Med.) Having a tendency to prevent the development of anything, especially of a disease.

Ec"ty*pal (?), a. [L. ectypus worked in high relief, Gr. &?;; 'ek out + &?; stamp, figure. See Type.] Copied, reproduced as a molding or cast, in contradistinction from the original model.

Ec"type (?), n. [Cf. F. ectype. See Ectypal.] 1. (Classical Archæol.) (a) A copy, as in pottery, of an artist's original work. Hence: (b) A work sculptured in relief, as a cameo, or in bas-relief (in this sense used loosely).

2. A copy from an original; a type of something that has previously existed.

Some regarded him [Klopstock] as an ectype of the ancient prophets.

Eng. Cyc. .

Ec`ty*pog"ra*phy (?), n. [Ectype + -graphy.] A method of etching in which the design upon the plate is produced in relief.

{ Ec`u*men"ic (?), Ec`u*men"ic*al (?), } a. [L. oecumenicus, Gr. &?; (sc. &?;) the inhabited world, fr. &?; to inhabit, from &?; house, dwelling. See Economy.] General; universal; in ecclesiastical usage, that which concerns the whole church; as, an ecumenical council. [Written also œcumenical.]

Ecumenical Bishop, a title assumed by the popes. -- Ecumenical council. See under Council.

Ec"u*rie (?), n. [F. See Equerry.] A stable.

Ec"ze*ma (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'e`kzema; "ek out + zei^n to boil.] (Med.) An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.

Ec*zem"a*tous (?), a. (Med.) Pertaining to eczema; having the characteristic of eczema.

-ed (?). The termination of the past participle of regular, or weak, verbs; also, of analogous participial adjectives from nouns; as, pigmented; talented.

E*da"cious (?), a. [L. edax, edacis, fr. edere to eat.] Given to eating; voracious; devouring.

Swallowed in the depths of edacious Time.

Carlyle.

-- E*da"cious*ly, adv. -- E*da"cious*ness, n.

E*dac"i*ty (?), n. [L. edacitas.] Greediness; voracity; ravenousness; rapacity. Bacon.

Ed"da (?), n.; pl. Eddas (#). [Icel., lit. great-grandmother (i. e., of Scandinavian poetry), so called by Bishop Brynjúlf Sveinsson, who brought it again to light in 1643.] The religious or mythological book of the old Scandinavian tribes of German origin, containing two collections of Sagas (legends, myths) of the old northern gods and heroes.

There are two Eddas. The older, consisting of 39 poems, was reduced to writing from oral tradition in Iceland between 1050 and 1133. The younger or prose Edda, called also the Edda of Snorri, is the work of several writers, though usually ascribed to Snorri Sturleson, who was born in 1178.

{ Ed*da"ic (?), Ed"dic (?) }, a. Relating to the Eddas; resembling the Eddas.

Ed"der (?), n. [See Adder.] (Zoöl.) An adder or serpent. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

Ed"der, n. [AS. edor hedge, fence; akin to etar.] Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together. [Obs.] Tusser.

Ed"der, v. t. To bind the top interweaving edder; as, to edder a hedge. [Obs.]

Ed"dish (?), n. [AS. edisc; cf. AS. pref. ed- again, anew. Cf. Eddy, and Arrish.] Aftermath; also, stubble and stubble field. See Arrish. [Eng.]

Ed"does (?), n. pl. (Bot.) The tubers of Colocasia antiquorum. See Taro.

Ed"dy (d"d), n.; pl. Eddies (-dz). [Prob. fr. Icel. iða; cf. Icel. pref. ið- back, AS. ed-, OS. idug-, OHG. ita-; Goth. id-.] 1. A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.

2. A current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool.

And smiling eddies dimpled on the main.

Dryden.

Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play.

Addison.

Used also adjectively; as, eddy winds. Dryden.

Ed"dy, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Eddied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Eddying.] To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle.

Eddying round and round they sink.

Wordsworth.

Ed"dy, v. t. To collect as into an eddy. [R.]

The circling mountains eddy in From the bare wild the dissipated storm.

Thomson.

||E"del*weiss (?), n. [G., fr. edel noble + weiss white.] (Bot.) A little, perennial, white, woolly plant (Leontopodium alpinum), growing at high elevations in the Alps.

E*de"ma (?), n. [NL.] (Med.) Same as œdema.

{ E*de"ma*tous (?), or E*de"ma*tose` (?) }, a. (Med.) Same as œdematous.

E"den (?), n. [Heb. den delight, pleasure; also, a place of pleasure, Eden.] The garden where Adam and Eve first dwelt; hence, a delightful region or residence.

E*den"ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to Eden; paradisaic. "Edenic joys." Mrs. Browning.

E"den*ite (?), n. [From Edenville, N. Y.] (Min.) A variety of amphibole. See Amphibole.

E"den*ized (?), a. Admitted to a state of paradisaic happiness. [R.] Davies (Wit's Pilgr. ).

E*den"tal (?), a. See Edentate, a. -- n. (Zoöl.) One of the Edentata.

E*den"tal*ous (?), a. See Edentate, a.

||E`den*ta"ta (?), n. pl. [NL., neut. pl. from L. edentatus, p. p. of edentare to render toothless; e out + dens, dentis, tooth.] (Zoöl.) An order of mammals including the armadillos, sloths, and anteaters; -- called also Bruta. The incisor teeth are rarely developed, and in some groups all the teeth are lacking.

E*den"tate (?), a. 1. Destitute of teeth; as, an edentate quadruped; an edentate leaf.

2. (Zoöl.) Belonging to the Edentata.

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E*den"tate (?), n. (Zoöl.) One of the Edentata.

E*den`ta*ted (?), a. Same as Edentate, a.

E`den*ta"tion (?), n. A depriving of teeth. [R.] Cockeram.

E*den"tu*lous (?; 135), a. [L. edentulus; e out + dens, dentis, tooth.] Toothless.

Edge (j), n. [OE. eg, egge, AS. ecg; akin to OHG. ekka, G. ecke, Icel. & Sw. egg, Dan. eg, and to L. acies, Gr. 'akh` point, Skr. açri edge. &radic;1. Cf. Egg, v. t., Eager, Ear spike of corn, Acute.] 1. The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.

He which hath the sharp sword with two edges.

Rev. ii. 12.

Slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword.

Shak.

2. Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice.

Upon the edge of yonder coppice.

Shak.

In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge Of battle.

Milton.

Pursue even to the very edge of destruction.

Sir W. Scott.

3. Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.

The full edge of our indignation.

Sir W. Scott.

Death and persecution lose all the ill that they can have, if we do not set an edge upon them by our fears and by our vices.

Jer. Taylor.

4. The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening. "On the edge of winter." Milton.

Edge joint (Carp.), a joint formed by two edges making a corner. -- Edge mill, a crushing or grinding mill in which stones roll around on their edges, on a level circular bed; -- used for ore, and as an oil mill. Called also Chilian mill. -- Edge molding (Arch.), a molding whose section is made up of two curves meeting in an angle. -- Edge plane. (a) (Carp.) A plane for edging boards. (b) (Shoemaking) A plane for edging soles. -- Edge play, a kind of swordplay in which backswords or cutlasses are used, and the edge, rather than the point, is employed. -- Edge rail. (Railroad) (a) A rail set on edge; -- applied to a rail of more depth than width. (b) A guard rail by the side of the main rail at a switch. Knight. -- Edge railway, a railway having the rails set on edge. -- Edge stone, a curbstone. -- Edge tool. (a) Any tool or instrument having a sharp edge intended for cutting. (b) A tool for forming or dressing an edge; an edging tool. -- To be on edge, to be eager, impatient, or anxious. -- To set the teeth on edge, to cause a disagreeable tingling sensation in the teeth, as by bringing acids into contact with them. Bacon.

Edge (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Edged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Edging.] 1. To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.

To edge her champion's sword.

Dryden.

2. To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool.

3. To furnish with a fringe or border; as, to edge a dress; to edge a garden with box.

Hills whose tops were edged with groves.

Pope.

4. To make sharp or keen, figuratively; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on. [Obs.]

By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged.

Hayward.

5. To move little by little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; as, edging their chairs forwards. Locke.

Edge, v. i. 1. To move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way.

2. To sail close to the wind.

I must edge up on a point of wind.

Dryden.

To edge away or To edge off (Naut.), to increase the distance gradually from the shore, vessel, or other object. -- To edge down (Naut.), to approach by slow degrees, as when a sailing vessel approaches an object in an oblique direction from the windward. -- To edge in, to get in edgewise; to get in by degrees. -- To edge in with, as with a coast or vessel (Naut.), to advance gradually, but not directly, toward it.

Edge"bone` (?), n. Same as Aitchbone.

Edge"less, a. Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon.

Edge"long (?; 115), adv. In the direction of the edge. [Obs.]

Three hundred thousand pieces have you stuck Edgelong into the ground.

B. Jonson.

Edge"shot (?), a. (Carp.) Having an edge planed, -- said of a board. Knight.

{ Edge"ways (?), Edge"wise (?), } adv. With the edge towards anything; in the direction of the edge.

Glad to get in a word, as they say, edgeways.

Sir W. Scott.

Edg"ing (?), n. 1. That which forms an edge or border, as the fringe, trimming, etc., of a garment, or a border in a garden. Dryden.

2. The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal.

Edging machine, a machine tool with a revolving cutter, for dressing edges, as of boards, or metal plates, to a pattern or templet.

Edg"ing*ly, adv. Gradually; gingerly. [R.]

Edg"y (?), a. [From Edge.] 1. Easily irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper.

2. (Fine Arts) Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined. "An edgy style of sculpture." Hazlitt.

Edh (?), n. The name of the Anglo- Saxon letter ð, capital form Ð. It is sounded as "English th in a similar word: ðer, other, dôð, doth." March.

Ed`i*bil"i*ty (?), n. Suitableness for being eaten; edibleness.

Ed"i*ble (?), a. [L. edibilis, fr. edere to eat. See Eat.] Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes. Bacon. -- n. Anything edible.

Edible bird's nest. See Bird's nest, 2. -- Edible crab (Zoöl.), any species of crab used as food, esp. the American blue crab (Callinectes hastatus). See Crab. -- Edible frog (Zoöl.), the common European frog (Rana esculenta), used as food. -- Edible snail (Zoöl.), any snail used as food, esp. Helix pomatia and H. aspersa of Europe.

Ed"i*ble*ness, n. Suitableness for being eaten.

E"dict (?), n. [L. edictum, fr. edicere, edictum, to declare, proclaim; e out + dicere to say: cf. F. édit. See Diction.] A public command or ordinance by the sovereign power; the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority, as if by the very act of announcement; a decree; as, the edicts of the Roman emperors; the edicts of the French monarch.

It stands as an edict in destiny.

Shak.

Edict of Nantes (French Hist.), an edict issued by Henry IV. (A. D. 1598), giving toleration to Protestants. Its revocation by Louis XIV. (A. D. 1685) was followed by terrible persecutions and the expatriation of thousands of French Protestants.

Syn. -- Decree; proclamation; law; ordinance; statute; rule; order; manifesti; command. See Law.

E*dic"tal (?), a. Relating to, or consisting of, edicts; as, the Roman edictal law.

Ed"i*fi*cant (?), a. [L. aedificans, -antis, p. pr. of aedificare. See Edify.] Building; constructing. [R.] Dugard.

Ed`i*fi*ca"tion (?), n. [L. aedificatio: cf. F. édification. See Edify.] 1. The act of edifying, or the state of being edified; a building up, especially in a moral or spiritual sense; moral, intellectual, or spiritual improvement; instruction.

The assured edification of his church.

Bp. Hall.

Out of these magazines I shall supply the town with what may tend to their edification.

Addison.

2. A building or edifice. [Obs.] Bullokar.

Ed"i*fi*ca`to*ry (?), a. Tending to edification. Bp. Hall.

Ed"i*fice (?), n. [L. aedificium, fr. aedificare: cf. F. édifice. See Edify.] A building; a structure; an architectural fabric; -- chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings; as, a palace, a church, a statehouse.

Ed`i*fi"cial (?), a. [L. aedificialis.] Pertaining to an edifice; structural.

Ed"i*fi`er (?), n. 1. One who builds. [Obs.]

2. One who edifies, builds up, or strengthens another by moral or religious instruction.

Ed"i*fy (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Edified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Edifying.] [F. édifier, L. aedificare; aedes a building, house, orig., a fireplace (akin to Gr. &?; to burn, Skr. idh to kindle, OHG. eit funeral pile, AS. d, OIr. aed fire) + facere to make. See Fact, -fy.] 1. To build; to construct. [Archaic]

There was a holy chapel edified.

Spenser.

2. To instruct and improve, especially in moral and religious knowledge; to teach.

It does not appear probable that our dispute [about miracles] would either edify or enlighten the public.

Gibbon.

3. To teach or persuade. [Obs.] Bacon.

Ed"i*fy, v. i. To improve. [R.] Swift.

Ed"i*fy`ing (?), a. Instructing; improving; as, an edifying conversation. -- Ed"i*fy`ing*ly, adv. -- Ed"i*fy`ing*ness, n.

E"dile (?), n. [L. aedilis: cf. F. édile. Cf. Ædile.] (Rom. Antiq.) See Ædile.

E"dile*ship, n. The office of ædile. T. Arnold.

Ed"ing*ton*ite (?), n. (Min.) A grayish white zeolitic mineral, in tetragonal crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta.

Ed"it (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Edited; p. pr. & vb. n. Editing.] [F. éditer, or L. editus, p. p. of edere to give out, put forth, publish; e out + dare to give. See Date a point of time.] To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication; as, to edit a newspaper.

Philosophical treatises which have never been edited.

Enfield.

E*di"tion (?), n. [L. editio, fr. edere to publish; cf. F. édition. See Edit.] 1. A literary work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner; as, a good edition of Chaucer; Chalmers' edition of Shakespeare.

2. The whole number of copies of a work printed and published at one time; as, the first edition was soon sold.

||É`di`tion" de luxe" (?). [F.] See Luxe.

E*di`tion*er (?), n. An editor. [Obs.]

Ed"i*tor (?), n. [L., that which produces, from edere to publish: cf. F. éditeur.] One who edits; esp., a person who prepares, superintends, revises, and corrects a book, magazine, or newspaper, etc., for publication.

Ed`i*to"ri*al (?), a. Of or pertaining to an editor; written or sanctioned by an editor; as, editorial labors; editorial remarks.

Ed`i*to"ri*al, n. A leading article in a newspaper or magazine; an editorial article; an article published as an expression of the views of the editor.

Ed`i*to"ri*al*ly (?), adv. In the manner or character of an editor or of an editorial article.

Ed"i*tor*ship (?), n. The office or charge of an editor; care and superintendence of a publication.

Ed"i*tress (?), n. A female editor.

E*dit"u*ate (?), v. t. [LL. aedituatus, p. p. of aedituare, fr. L. aedituus a temple warden; aedes building, temple + tueri to guard.] To guard as a churchwarden does. [Obs.] J. Gregory.

E"dom*ite (?), n. One of the descendants of Esau or Edom, the brother of Jacob; an Idumean.

||Ed`ri*oph*thal"ma (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. "edrai^os steadfast + 'ofqalmo`s the eye.] (Zoöl.) A group of Crustacea in which the eyes are without stalks; the Arthrostraca. [Written also Edriophthalmata.]

Ed`ri*oph*thal"mous (?), a. (Zoöl.) Pertaining to the Edriophthalma.

Ed`u*ca*bil"i*ty (d`*k*bl"*t), n. [Cf. F. éducabilité.] Capability of being educated.

Ed"u*ca*ble (d"*k*b'l; 135), a. [Cf. F. éducable.] Capable of being educated. "Men are educable." M. Arnold.

Ed"u*cate (-kt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Educated (- k`td); p. pr. & vb. n. Educating (-k`tng).] [L. educatus, p. p. of educare to bring up a child physically or mentally, to educate, fr. educere to lead forth, bring up (a child). See Educe.] To bring up or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the mental activities or senses; to expand, strengthen, and discipline, as the mind, a faculty, etc.; to form and regulate the principles and character of; to prepare and fit for any calling or business by systematic instruction; to cultivate; to train; to instruct; as, to educate a child; to educate the eye or the taste.

Syn. -- To develop; instruct; teach; inform; enlighten; edify; bring up; train; breed; rear; discipline; indoctrinate.

Ed"u*ca`ted (?), a. Formed or developed by education; as, an educated man.

Ed`u*ca"tion (?; 135), n. [L. educatio; cf. F. éducation.] The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education.

To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge.

H. Spenser.

Syn. -- Education, Instruction, Teaching, Training, Breeding. Education, properly a drawing forth, implies not so much the communication of knowledge as the discipline of the intellect, the establishment of the principles, and the regulation of the heart. Instruction is that part of education which furnishes the mind with knowledge. Teaching is the same, being simply more familiar. It is also applied to practice; as, teaching to speak a language; teaching a dog to do tricks. Training is a department of education in which the chief element is exercise or practice for the purpose of imparting facility in any physical or mental operation. Breeding commonly relates to the manners and outward conduct.