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  • English Word En route Definition On the way or road.
  • English Word En- Definition A prefix signifying in or into, used in many English words, chiefly those borrowed from the French. Some English words are written indifferently with en-or in-. For ease of pronunciation it is commonly changed to em-before p, b, and m, as in employ, embody, emmew. It is sometimes used to give a causal force, as in enable, enfeeble, to cause to be, or to make, able, or feeble; and sometimes merely gives an intensive force, as in enchasten. See In-.
  • English Word En- Definition A prefix from Gr. / in, meaning in; as, encephalon, entomology. See In-.
  • English Word Enable Definition To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.
  • English Word Enable Definition To make able (to do, or to be, something); to confer sufficient power upon; to furnish with means, opportunities, and the like; to render competent for; to empower; to endow.
  • English Word Enabled Definition of Enable
  • English Word Enablement Definition The act of enabling, or the state of being enabled; ability.
  • English Word Enabling Definition of Enable
  • English Word Enact Definition To decree; to establish by legal and authoritative act; to make into a law; especially, to perform the legislative act with reference to (a bill) which gives it the validity of law.
  • English Word Enact Definition To act; to perform; to do; to effect.
  • English Word Enact Definition To act the part of; to represent; to play.
  • English Word Enact Definition Purpose; determination.
  • English Word Enacted Definition of Enact
  • English Word Enacting Definition of Enact
  • English Word Enactive Definition Having power to enact or establish as a law.
  • English Word Enactment Definition The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law.
  • English Word Enactment Definition That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as, a prohibitory enactment; a social enactment.
  • English Word Enactor Definition One who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law.
  • English Word Enacture Definition Enactment; resolution.
  • English Word Enaliosaur Definition One of the Enaliosauria.
  • English Word Enaliosauria Definition An extinct group of marine reptiles, embracing both the Ichthyosauria and the Plesiosauria, now regarded as distinct orders.
  • English Word Enaliosaurian Definition Pertaining to the Enaliosauria.
  • English Word Enaliosaurian Definition One of the Enaliosauria.
  • English Word Enallage Definition A substitution, as of one part of speech for another, of one gender, number, case, person, tense, mode, or voice, of the same word, for another.
  • English Word Enambush Definition To ambush.
  • English Word Enamel Definition A variety of glass, used in ornament, to cover a surface, as of metal or pottery, and admitting of after decoration in color, or used itself for inlaying or application in varied colors.
  • English Word Enamel Definition A glassy, opaque bead obtained by the blowpipe.
  • English Word Enamel Definition That which is enameled; also, any smooth, glossy surface, resembling enamel, especially if variegated.
  • English Word Enamel Definition The intensely hard calcified tissue entering into the composition of teeth. It merely covers the exposed parts of the teeth of man, but in many animals is intermixed in various ways with the dentine and cement.
  • English Word Enamel Definition To lay enamel upon; to decorate with enamel whether inlaid or painted.