Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 41
Epicurism (n.) 貪口福；美食主義 Epicurean habits of living; luxury.
Compare: Luxury
Luxury (n.) (pl. luxuries) 奢侈，奢華 [U]；奢侈品 [C]；享受；樂趣 [U] [C] The state of great comfort and extravagant living.
‘He lived a life of luxury.’
Luxury (n.) An inessential, desirable item which is expensive or difficult to obtain.
‘Luxuries like raspberry vinegar and state-of-the-art CD players.’
‘He considers bananas a luxury.’
Luxury (a.) 奢侈的；驕奢淫逸的；豪華的；非常舒適的；精選的 Luxurious or of the nature of a luxury.
‘A luxury yacht.’
‘Luxury goods.’
Epicurism (n.) The disposition and habits of an epicure.
Compare: Disposition
Disposition (n.) 性格；性情 [C]； 傾向；意向 [C] [+to-v] ； 配置；排列；部署 [C] [U] A person's inherent qualities of mind and character.
‘Your sunny disposition has a way of rubbing off on those around you.’
Disposition (n.) [Often with infinitive ] An inclination or tendency.
‘The judge's disposition toward clemency.’
‘The cattle showed a decided disposition to run.’
Disposition (n.) The way in which something is placed or arranged, especially in relation to other things.
‘The plan need not be accurate so long as it shows the disposition of the rooms.’
Disposition (n.) The action of arranging or ordering people or things in a particular way.
‘The prerogative gives the state widespread powers regarding the disposition and control of the armed forces.’
Disposition (n.) (pl. Dispositions) Military preparations, in particular the stationing of troops ready for attack or defense.
‘The new strategic dispositions of our forces.’
Disposition (n.) (Law) The action of distributing or transferring property or money to someone, in particular by bequest.
‘This is a tax that affects the disposition of assets on death.’
Disposition (n.) The power to deal with something as one pleases.
‘If Napoleon had had railroads at his disposition, he would have been invincible.’
Disposition (n.) [Archaic ] The determination of events by divine power.
Compare: Epicure
Epicure (n.) 講究飲食的人；愛奢侈享受的人 A person who takes particular pleasure in fine food and drink.
‘They see themselves as epicures—delighting in food that is properly prepared.’
Epicurize (v. i.) To profess or tend towards the doctrines of Epicurus. -- Cudworth.
Compare: Epicurus
Epicurus (n.) Epicurus, 伊比鳩魯 (Born 341 BC, Samos, Greece—died 270, Athens), Greek philosopher, author of an ethical philosophy of simple pleasure, friendship, and retirement. He founded schools of philosophy that survived directly from the 4th century BC until the 4th century AD.
Epicurize (v. i.) To feed or indulge like an epicure. -- Fuller.
Epicurize (v. i.) (Obsolete) To profess or practice Epicureanism.
Compare: Profess
Profess (v. t.) [With object] (v. t.) 公開宣稱；表示；承認[O2] [O8] [O9] [+that]；自稱；假裝 [+to-v] (v. i.) 表白；聲稱；承認；宣誓入教 Claim that one has (a quality or feeling), especially when this is not the case.
‘He had professed his love for her.’
[With infinitive ]‘I don't profess to be an expert.’
[With complement] [P rofess oneself] ‘He professed himself amazed at the boy's ability.’
Profess (v. t.) [Archaic] Have or claim knowledge or skill in (a subject or accomplishment).
‘Though knowing little of the arts I professed, he proved a natural adept.’
Profess (v. t.) Affirm one's faith in or allegiance to (a religion or set of beliefs).
‘A people professing Christianity.’
Profess (v. t.) [Be professed] Be received into a religious order under vows.
‘She entered St. Margaret's Convent, and was professed in 1943.’
Profess (v. t.) [Archaic, humorous ] Teach (a subject) as a professor.
‘A professor—what does he profess?’
Compare: Epicureanism
Epicureanism (n.) 美食主義；享樂主義 An ancient school of philosophy founded in Athens by Epicurus. The school rejected determinism and advocated hedonism (pleasure as the highest good), but of a restrained kind: mental pleasure was regarded more highly than physical, and the ultimate pleasure was held to be freedom from anxiety and mental pain, especially that arising from needless fear of death and of the gods.
Epicycle (n.) (Ptolemaic Astron.) 【天】本輪；【數】周轉圓 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.
The schoolmen were like astronomers which did feign eccentrics, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs. -- Bacon.
Epicycle (n.) (Mech.) A circle which rolls on the circumference of another circle, either externally or internally. Epicyclic
Epicycle (n.) A circle that rolls around (inside or outside) another circle; generates an epicycloid or hypocycloid.
Epicyclic (a.) 周轉圓的 Pertaining to, resembling, or having the motion of, an epicycle.
Epicyclic train (Mach.), A train of mechanism in which epicyclic motion is involved; esp., a train of spur wheels, bevel wheels, or belt pulleys, in which an arm, carrying one or more of the wheels, sweeps around a center lying in an axis common to the other wheels.
Epicyclic (a.) Of or relating to an epicycle; "epicyclic gear train" [syn: epicyclic, epicyclical].
Epicycloid (n.) (Geom.) 【數】外擺線 A curve traced by a point in the circumference of a circle which rolls on the convex side of a fixed circle.
Note: Any point rigidly connected with the rolling circle, but not in its circumference, traces a curve called an epitrochoid. The curve traced by a point in the circumference of the rolling circle when it rolls on the concave side of a fixed circle is called a hypocycloid; the curve traced by a point rigidly connected with the rolling circle in this case, but not its circumference, is called a hypotrochoid. All the curves mentioned above belong to the class class called roulettes or trochoids. See Trochoid.
Epicycloid (n.) A line generated by a point on a circle rolling around another circle.
Epicycloidal (a.) 【數】外擺線的 Pertaining to the epicycloid, or having its properties.
Epicycloidal wheel, 外擺線輪 A device for producing straight-line motion from circular motion, on the principle that a pin fastened in the periphery of a gear wheel will describe a straight line when the wheel rolls around inside a fixed internal gear of twice its diameter.
Epideictic (a.) （文章，演講等）意在表現詞藻技巧的；富於詞藻的 Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade. Epidemic
Epideictic (a.) Designed primarily for rhetorical display; "epideictic orations" [syn: epideictic, epideictical].
Epidemic (a.) Alt. of Epidemical
Epidemical (a.) 流行的，傳染性的 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.) 傳染病，流行病 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.
Epidemic (a.) 流行性，傳染的；（風尚等）極為流行的 Also, epidemical. (of a disease) affecting many persons at the same time, and spreading from person to person in a locality where the disease is not permanently prevalent.
Epidemic (a.) Extremely prevalent; widespread.
Epidemic (n.) 流行病，時疫；（流行病的）傳播；（風尚等的）流行 A temporary prevalence of a disease.
Epidemic (n.) A rapid spread or increase in the occurrence of something.
// An epidemic of riots.
Epidemically (adv.) 流行地，盛行地；傳染性地 In an epidemic manner.
Epidemiography (n.) (Med.) 流行病誌 A treatise upon, or history of, epidemic diseases. Epidemiologic.
Epidemiological (a.) 流行病學的 Connected with, or pertaining to, epidemiology.
Epidemiologically (adv.) (Comparative more epidemiologically, superlative most epidemiologically) With regard to epidemiology.
Epidemiologist (n.) 流行病學家 A person skilled in epidemiology.
Epidemiologist (n.) A medical scientist who studies the transmission and control of epidemic diseases.
Compare: Transmission
Transmission (n.) 傳送；傳達[U]；傳染，傳播[U]；【機】傳動裝置；變速器 [C] The action or process of transmitting something or the state of being transmitted.
‘The transmission of the virus.’
Transmission (n.) A program or signal that is broadcast or sent out.
‘Television transmissions.’
Transmission (n.) The mechanism by which power is transmitted from an engine to the wheels of a motor vehicle.
‘A three-speed automatic transmission.’
Epidemiology (n.) 流行病學 That branch of science which treats of epidemics.
Epidemiology (n.) The branch of medicine that deals with the study of the causes, distribution, and control of disease in populations.
Epidemy (n.) (Med.) An epidemic disease. -- Dunglison.
Epiderm (n.) (Anat.) 【解】表皮；外皮 The epidermis.
Epidermal (a.) 【解】表皮的；皮上的 Of or pertaining to the epidermis; epidermic; cuticular.
Epidermal (a.) Of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula [syn: {cuticular}, {epidermal}, {epidermic}, {dermal}].
Epidermatic (a.) Epidermal. [R.]
Epidermatoid (a.) 表皮樣的 Epidermoid. -- Owen.
Epidermeous (a.) Epidermal.
Epidermic (a.) Epidermal; connected with the skin or the bark.
Epidermical (a.) Epidermal. [R.]
Periostracum (n.; pl. {Periostraca}.) (Zool.) 殼皮；殼外層 A chitinous membrane covering the exterior of many shells; -- called also {epidermis}.
Epidermis (n.) (Anat.) 【解】表皮；外皮 The outer, nonsensitive layer of the skin; cuticle; scarfskin. See Dermis.
Epidermis (n.) (Bot.) 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.
Epidermis (n.) The outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates [syn: {epidermis}, {cuticle}].
Epidermoid (a.) (Anat.) 表皮樣的；表皮樣瘤 Like epidermis; pertaining to the epidermis.
Epidermose (n.) [See {Epidermis}.] (Physiol. Chem.) Keratin. Epidictic.
Epidictic (a.) Alt. of Epidictical
Epidictical (a.) [L. epidictius. See {Epideictic}.] Serving to explain; demonstrative.
Compare: Epideictic
Epideictic (a.) [Cf. {Epidictic}.] Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade. Epidemic
Epideictic (a.) Designed primarily for rhetorical display; "epideictic orations" [syn: {epideictic}, {epideictical}].
Epididymis (n.) (Anat.) 【解】副睪 An oblong vermiform mass on the dorsal side of the testicle, composed of numerous convolutions of the excretory duct of that organ. -- {Ep`i*did"y*mal}, a.
Epididymis (n.) A convoluted tubule in each testis; carries sperm to vas deferens.
Epididymis (n.) [C] (pl. Epididymides) (Specialized) 附睪；副睪 A tube that carries sperm from the testes (= the two round male sex organs).
// Harmless cysts may occur in the epididymis.
Compare: Testis
Testis (n.) [C] (pl. Testes) (Specialized) 睪丸 A Testicle.
Compare: Testicle
Testicle (n.) [C] 睪丸 Either of the two round male sex organs that produce sperm and are contained in the scrotum (= bag of skin) below and behind the penis.
Compare: Scrotum
Scrotum (n.) [C] (pl. Scrotums or formal Scrota) (Specialized) 陰囊 In most male mammals, a bag of skin near the penis that contains the testicles.
Epididymitis (n.) (Med.) 【醫】附睪炎 Inflammation of the epididymis, one of the common results of gonorrhea.
Epididymitis (n.) Painful inflammation of the epididymis.
Epidote (n.) 綠簾石 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.
Note: The Epidote group includes ordinary epidote, zoisite or lime epidote, piedmontite or manganese epidote, allanite or cerium epidote.
Epidotic (a.) Related to, resembling, or containing epidote; as, an epidotic granite.
Epigaea (n.) (Bot.) An American genus of plants, containing but a single species ({E. repens), the trailing arbutus.
Epigaea (n.) Small creeping evergreen shrubs: trailing arbutus [syn: Epigaea, genus Epigaea].
Epigaeous (a.) (Bot.) Growing on, or close to, the ground.
Epigastrial (a.) (Anat.) Epigastric.
Epigastric (a.) (Anat.) Pertaining to the epigastrium, or to the epigastric region.
Epigastric (a.) (Zool.) Over the stomach; -- applied to two of the areas of the carapace of crabs.
Epigastric region. (Anat.) The whole upper part of the abdomen.
Epigastric region. (Anat.) An arbitrary division of the abdomen above the umbilical and between the two hypochondriac regions.
Epigastric (a.) Of or relating to the anterior walls of the abdomen; "epigastric artery".
Epigastric (a.) Lying on or over the stomach.
Epigastrium (n.) (Anat.) The upper part of the abdomen.
Epigastrium (n.) The region lying on or over the stomach (just below the sternum).
Epigeal (a.) (Bot.) Epigaeous. [R.]
Compare: Perigee
Perigee, Perigeum, (n.) (Astron.) That point, in the orbit of the moon or other body orbiting the earth, which is nearest to the earth; -- opposed to apogee. It is sometimes, but rarely, used of the nearest points of bodies not orbiting the earth, such as of a comet, a planet, etc. Called also epigee, epigeum.
Epigee (n.) See Perigee. [Obs.]
Epigene (a.) (Crystallog.) Foreign; unnatural; unusual; -- said of forms of crystals not natural to the substances in which they are found.
Epigene (a.) (Geol.) Formed originating on the surface of the earth; -- opposed to hypogene; as, epigene rocks.
Epigenesis (n.) (Biol.) 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.
Epigenesis (n.) A geological change in the mineral content of rock after the rock has formed.
Epigenesist (n.) (Biol.) 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.
Compare: Perigee
Perigee, Perigeum, (n.) (Astron.) That point, in the orbit of the moon or other body orbiting the earth, which is nearest to the earth; -- opposed to apogee. It is sometimes, but rarely, used of the nearest points of bodies not orbiting the earth, such as of a comet, a planet, etc. Called also epigee, epigeum.
Epigeum (n.) See Perigee. [Obs.]
Epiglottic (a.) (Anat.) Pertaining to, or connected with, the epiglottis.
Epiglottidean (a.) (Anat.) Same as Epiglottic.
Epiglottis (n.) (Anat.) A cartilaginous lidlike appendage which closes the glottis while food or drink is passing while food or drink is passing through the pharynx.
Epiglottis (n.) A flap of cartilage that covers the windpipe while swallowing.
Epignathous (a.) (Zool.) Hook-billed; having the upper mandible longer than the lower.
Epigone (n.) 追隨者；模仿者 An undistinguished imitator, follower, or successor of an important writer, painter, etc. -- Epigonic (a.) -- Epigonism (n.).
Epigone (n.) An inferior imitator of some distinguished writer or artist of musician [syn: {epigone}, {epigon}].
Epigram (n.) [C] 警句，雋語；機智的短詩；諷刺短詩 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.
Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram? -- Shak.
Note: Epigrams were originally inscription on tombs, statues, temples, triumphal arches, etc.
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.
Antithesis, i. e., bilateral stroke, is the soul of epigram in its later and technical signification. -- B. Cracroft. Epigrammatic
Epigram (n.) A witty saying [syn: epigram, quip].
Epigram (n.) A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.
Following are some of the more notable epigrams of the learned and ingenious Dr. Jamrach Holobom:
We know better the needs of ourselves than of others. To serve oneself is economy of administration.
In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
There are three sexes; males, females and girls.
Beauty in women and distinction in men are alike in this: they seem to be the unthinking a kind of credibility.
Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.
While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are safe, for you can watch both his.
Epigrammatic (a.) Alt. of Epigrammatical
Epigrammatical (a.) 警句（式）的；諷刺短詩（般）的 Writing epigrams; dealing in epigrams; as, an epigrammatical poet.
Epigrammatical (a.) 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.
Epigrammatizers of our English prose style. -- Coleridge.
Epigrammist (n.) An epigrammatist. -- Jer. Taylor.
Epigraph (n.) Any inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the building itself, its founding or dedication.
Epigraph (n.) (Literature) 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
Epigraph (n.) A quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing.
Epigraph (n.) An engraved inscription.
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.
Epigraphy (n.) The study of ancient inscriptions.
Epigynous (a.) (Bot.) 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.) (Anat.) A segment next above the ceratohyal in the hyoidean arch.
Epilepsy (n.) (Med.) 【醫】癲癇；（俗稱）羊癲瘋 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. -- Dunglison.
Epilepsy (n.) A disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions.
Epileptic (a.) 癲癇症的 Pertaining to, affected with, or of the nature of, epilepsy.
Epileptic (n.) 癲癇症患者 One affected with epilepsy.
Epileptic (n.) A medicine for the cure of epilepsy.
Epileptic (a.) Of or relating to or characteristic of epilepsy; "epileptic seizure".
Epileptic (n.) A person who has epilepsy.
Epileptic (a.) 患癲癇的；由癲癇所引起的 Suffering from or caused by epilepsy.
// An epileptic fit.
// Her aunt is epileptic.
Epileptic (n.) 癲癇患者 Someone who has epilepsy.
Epileptical (a.) (In British English) A variant form of epileptic.
Epileptiform (a.) Resembling epilepsy.
Epileptogenous (a.) (Med.) Producing epilepsy or epileptoid convulsions; -- applied to areas of the body or of the nervous system, stimulation of which produces convulsions.
Epileptoid (a.) (Med.) Resembling epilepsy; as, epileptoid convulsions.
Epilogation (n.) A summing up in a brief account. [Obs.] -- Udall. Epilogic
Epilogic (a.) Alt. of Epilogical
Epilogical (a.) Of or pertaining to an epilogue.
Epilogism (n.) Enumeration; computation. [R.] -- J. Gregory.
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. -- T. Warton.
Epilogue (n.) (Drama) (= Epilog) 結束語；尾聲；跋；收場白；唸收場白的演員 A speech or short poem addressed to the spectators and recited by one of the actors, after the conclusion of the play.
A good play no epilogue, yet . . . good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues. -- Shak.
Epilogue (n.) (Rhet.) The closing part of a discourse, in which the principal matters are recapitulated; a conclusion.
Epilogue (n.) A short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play [syn: epilogue, epilog].
Epilogue (n.) A short passage added at the end of a literary work; "the epilogue told what eventually happened to the main characters" [syn: epilogue, epilog].
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.