English Dictionary: epicyclic | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Efficacious \Ef`fi*ca"cious\, a. [L. eficax, -acis, fr. efficere. See {Effect}, n.] Possessing the quality of being effective; productive of, or powerful to produce, the effect intended; as, an efficacious law. Syn: See {Effectual}. -- {Ef`fi*ca"cious*ly}, adv. -- {Ef`fi*ca"cious*ness}, n. | |
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Efficacious \Ef`fi*ca"cious\, a. [L. eficax, -acis, fr. efficere. See {Effect}, n.] Possessing the quality of being effective; productive of, or powerful to produce, the effect intended; as, an efficacious law. Syn: See {Effectual}. -- {Ef`fi*ca"cious*ly}, adv. -- {Ef`fi*ca"cious*ness}, n. | |
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Efficacious \Ef`fi*ca"cious\, a. [L. eficax, -acis, fr. efficere. See {Effect}, n.] Possessing the quality of being effective; productive of, or powerful to produce, the effect intended; as, an efficacious law. Syn: See {Effectual}. -- {Ef`fi*ca"cious*ly}, adv. -- {Ef`fi*ca"cious*ness}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Efficacity \Ef`fi*cac"i*ty\, n. [L. efficacitas: cf. F. efficacit[82].] Efficacy. [R.] --J. Fryth. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Efficacy \Ef"fi*ca*cy\, n. [L. efficacia, fr. efficax. See {Efficacious}.] Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of prayer. [bd]Of noxious efficacy.[b8] --Milton. Syn: Virtue; force; energy; potency; efficiency. | |
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Effigy \Ef"fi*gy\, n.; pl. {Effigies}. [L. effigies, fr. effingere to form, fashion; ex + fingere to form, shape, devise. See {Feign}.] The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits. {To burn}, [or] {To hang}, {in effigy}, to burn or to hang an image or picture of a person, as a token of public odium. | |
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Epagoge \Ep`a*go"ge\, n. [L., from Gr. 'epagwgh` a bringing in, fr. 'epa`gein. See {Epact}.] (Logic) The adducing of particular examples so as to lead to a universal conclusion; the argument by induction. | |
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Epagogic \Ep`a*gog"ic\, a. Inductive. --Latham. | |
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Epexegetical \Ep*ex`e*get"ic*al\, a. Relating to epexegesis; explanatory; exegetical. | |
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Epicycle \Ep"i*cy`cle\, n. [L. epicyclus, Gr. [?]; 'epi` upon + [?] circle. See {Cycle}.] 1. (Ptolemaic Astron.) 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 eccentries, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs. --Bacon. 2. (Mech.) A circle which rolls on the circumference of another circle, either externally or internally. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Epicyclic \Ep`i*cyc"lic\, a. 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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Epicyclic \Ep`i*cyc"lic\, a. 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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Epicycloid \Ep`i*cy"cloid\, n. [Epicycle + -oid: cf. F. [82]picyclo[8b]de.] (Geom.) 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}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Epicycloidal \Ep`i*cy*cloid"al\, a. Pertaining to the epicycloid, or having its properties. {Epicycloidal wheel}, 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. | |
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Epicycloidal \Ep`i*cy*cloid"al\, a. Pertaining to the epicycloid, or having its properties. {Epicycloidal wheel}, 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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Epig91ous \Ep`i*g[91]"ous\, a. [Gr. [?]. See {Epig[91]a}, and cf. {Epigee}.] (Bot.) Growing on, or close to, the ground. | |
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Epigastrial \Ep`i*gas"tri*al\, a. (Anat.) Epigastric. | |
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Epigastric \Ep`i*gas"tric\, a. [Gr. [?] over the belly; 'epi` upon + [?] belly: cf. F. [82]pigastrique.] 1. (Anat.) Pertaining to the epigastrium, or to the epigastric region. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Over the stomach; -- applied to two of the areas of the carapace of crabs. {Epigastric region}. (Anat.) (a) The whole upper part of the abdomen. (b) An arbitrary division of the abdomen above the umbilical and between the two hypochondriac regions. | |
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Epigastric \Ep`i*gas"tric\, a. [Gr. [?] over the belly; 'epi` upon + [?] belly: cf. F. [82]pigastrique.] 1. (Anat.) Pertaining to the epigastrium, or to the epigastric region. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Over the stomach; -- applied to two of the areas of the carapace of crabs. {Epigastric region}. (Anat.) (a) The whole upper part of the abdomen. (b) An arbitrary division of the abdomen above the umbilical and between the two hypochondriac regions. | |
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Epigastrium \Ep`i*gas"tri*um\, n. [NL., from Gr. [?].] (Anat.) The upper part of the abdomen. | |
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Epigeous \Ep`i*ge"ous\, a. Same as {Epig[91]ous}. | |
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Epozoic \Ep`o*zo"ic\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Living upon the exterior of another animal; ectozoic; -- said of external parasites. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Ephesus, GA (town, FIPS 27708) Location: 33.40809 N, 85.26181 W Population (1990): 324 (136 housing units) Area: 7.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
EBASIC A {BASIC} by Gordon Eubanks, now at {Symantec}, that led to {CBASIC}. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Ephesus the capital of proconsular Asia, which was the western part of Asia Minor. It was colonized principally from Athens. In the time of the Romans it bore the title of "the first and greatest metropolis of Asia." It was distinguished for the Temple of Diana (q.v.), who there had her chief shrine; and for its theatre, which was the largest in the world, capable of containing 50,000 spectators. It was, like all ancient theatres, open to the sky. Here were exhibited the fights of wild beasts and of men with beasts. (Comp. 1 Cor. 4:9; 9:24, 25; 15:32.) Many Jews took up their residence in this city, and here the seeds of the gospel were sown immediately after Pentecost (Acts 2:9; 6:9). At the close of his second missionary journey (about A.D. 51), when Paul was returning from Greece to Syria (18:18-21), he first visited this city. He remained, however, for only a short time, as he was hastening to keep the feast, probably of Pentecost, at Jerusalem; but he left Aquila and Priscilla behind him to carry on the work of spreading the gospel. During his third missionary journey Paul reached Ephesus from the "upper coasts" (Acts 19:1), i.e., from the inland parts of Asia Minor, and tarried here for about three years; and so successful and abundant were his labours that "all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks" (19:10). Probably during this period the seven churches of the Apocalypse were founded, not by Paul's personal labours, but by missionaries whom he may have sent out from Ephesus, and by the influence of converts returning to their homes. On his return from his journey, Paul touched at Miletus, some 30 miles south of Ephesus (Acts 20:15), and sending for the presbyters of Ephesus to meet him there, he delivered to them that touching farewell charge which is recorded in Acts 20:18-35. Ephesus is not again mentioned till near the close of Paul's life, when he writes to Timothy exhorting him to "abide still at Ephesus" (1 Tim. 1:3). Two of Paul's companions, Trophimus and Tychicus, were probably natives of Ephesus (Acts 20:4; 21:29; 2 Tim. 4:12). In his second epistle to Timothy, Paul speaks of Onesiphorus as having served him in many things at Ephesus (2 Tim. 1:18). He also "sent Tychicus to Ephesus" (4:12), probably to attend to the interests of the church there. Ephesus is twice mentioned in the Apocalypse (1:11; 2:1). The apostle John, according to tradition, spent many years in Ephesus, where he died and was buried. A part of the site of this once famous city is now occupied by a small Turkish village, Ayasaluk, which is regarded as a corruption of the two Greek words, hagios theologos; i.e., "the holy divine." | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Ephesus, desirable |