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`emporici
`PoLDER] :
`to make (land that is underwater or periodically
`flooded) cultivable by the erection of banks or levees to pre-
`vent or control inundation and by adequate drainage
`em-po-Ii-um \ém'p6rEam,
`em-,
`-or-\
`11, pl emporiums
`\-éamz\ also empo-ria \-Ea\ [L, fr. Gk emporion, fr. em-
`poros traveler, trader, fr. em- 2en- + -poros (fr. pnros path,
`road, journey N more at FARE] 1 a :a place oftrade : MARKET-
`PLACE, MART: esp : a commercial center (the N of the innumer-
`able kinds of merchandise which are exchanged between China,
`Central Asia, and Europe —W.H.G.Kingston) (it has been pri-
`marily an industrial city rather than a commercial N ——Lewis
`Mumford)
`b : an esp. sizable place of business or center of
`activity that serves customers (earning his living at the local
`furniture N —William McFee) (he has built and equipped two
`eating Ns with a combined capacity of more than 200 food
`consumers at a sitting —Fred Hawthorne) (a hardware N)
`c : a store, shop, or similar enterprise making claim to fanci-
`ness or special commercial significance (drinking and gambling
`N —Amer. Guide Series: Oregon) (found his once sedate car-
`riage shop transformed into a sort of Hollywood hot-rod N
`NHugh Humphrey) (the dresses in the windows of the dry:
`goods N —Hamilton Basso) (one of the shiny movie Ns
`—P.E.Deutschman) (a Chinese chop-suey N —Bennett Cerf)
`2 : a store carrying a great diversity of merchandise (that
`general N which catered to a variety of human needs —Della
`Lutes) (an air-conditioned news, candy, and soda-fountain N
`—.l.P.Marquand)
`empory obs var of EMPORIUM
`to give
`em-power \:';m, em +\ vt [‘en- + power (n.)] 1 :
`official authority to : delegate legal power to : COMMISSION,
`AUTHORIZE (Ned the Supreme Court and the district courts of
`the U.S. to issue writs of habeas corpus in circumstances in-
`volving the exercise of jurisdiction by Federal authorities
`—C.B.Swisher) (these courts of appeal are also Ned to review
`and enforce orders of federal administrative bodies —W.S.
`Sayre) (the department was Net! by the legislature to begin
`courses in medicine —Amer. Guide Series: Minn.) 2 : to give
`faculties or abilities to : ENAELE (the emotion which Ns artists
`to create significant form —Clive Bell) (Ned by long training,
`the young priest blottcrl himself out of his own consciousness
`and meditated upon the anguish of his Lord —Willa Cather)
`— em-pow-er-merit \“mant\ II -S
`em-pre-sa-rio \,empra'S’JrE,E, -sa(a)r-,-ser-,-sar-\
`II
`-S [Sp,
`contractor, manager, prob.
`fr. It impresario —— more at
`IM-
`PRESARIO]
`: one who before Texas became part of the U.S.
`entered into a contract with the Spanish or Mexican govern-
`ment to settle a certain number of families in Texas in exchange
`for sizable grants of land
`‘em-press \'empréS\ n -Es [ME emperesse, fr. OF, fem. of em-
`pereor emperor — more at EMPEROR] 1 2 the wife or widow of
`an emperor 2 : a woman who holds an imperial title in her
`own right (in 1876 Parliament conferred the title Empress of
`India on Queen Victoria)
`Zempress abs var aj 7lMPRESS
`em-presse-ment \a"presma“\ n, pl empressements \—ma"(z)\
`[F, fr. (s’)empresser to hurry, be eager (fr, em- ‘en- + presser
`to hurry) + -merit — more at PRESS]
`: emotional interest or
`involvement : FERVOR (lively, too lively, fond of showing off,
`exhibiting abundance of N in everything —W.G.Hammond)
`(if I hear anything very sinister and dramatic related with great
`N —Ngaio Marsh) : WARMTH, coRDiALITY (came forward to
`welcome her with considerable N —Agatha Christie) (his
`mariner lacked N ~Elizabeth Bowen)
`em-press-ite \'empra,sit\ n -S [Empress Josephine mine,
`Kerber creek dist., Colorado + E -ite] : a mineral AgTe con-
`sisting of telluride of silver
`empress tree It [‘empress,' after Anna Pavlovna, after whom
`the genus Paulownia was named — more at PAULowNIA]
`: a paulownia (Paulowniti tomerttosa)
`em-prise \em'priz\ n -S [ME, fr. MF, fr. OF, fr. fem. of empris,
`past part. of er/iprendre to undertake,
`fr.
`(assumed) VL
`impreliendere, fr. L ini- Zin- + preliendere to seize — more at
`GET] 1 : UNDERTAKING, ENTERPRISE (when a nation of men
`starts making literature it invariably starts on the difficult N
`of verse, and goes on to prose as by an afterthought —A.T.
`Quiller-Couch); esp : adventurous, daring, or chivalric enter-
`prise (the deep-breathed glory of high N —S.E.White)
`2 : an instance of esp. adventurous or daring emprise (in a
`high N that to the rest of us is at once a challenge and a solace
`—R.M.Neal)
`em-pros-that-o-nos \,em.pras'thzit°n:;s\ n -ES [NL, fr. Gk
`drawn forward and stiffened, fr. emprostIio- (fr. emprost/ieii
`before, in front) + -tonos (fr.
`tenein to stretch)] : a tetanic
`spasm which bends the body ventralward
`empt \'em(p)t\ vb -ED/-ING/-S [ME empten, emptien, fr. OE
`émtian, Emettigian to empty, be at leisure, fr. a'Emtig, Emettig
`empty, unoccupied — more at EMPTY] now dial : EMPTY
`emptied past of EMPTY
`lemptier camparativa of EMPTY
`Iemp-ti-er \'em(p)tE9(r)\ n -S : one that empties
`empties pres 3d sing of EMPTY, pl of EMPTY
`emptiest superlative of EMPTY
`emp-ti-ly \'em(p)t:'>ll€,
`-t°ll,
`!i\ a_dv :
`in an empty manner
`Miller) (the play after that N
`(gazing N at television —Perry
`thins down —Stark Young)
`emp-ti-riess \-tenés, -tin-\ n -ES [ME emptinesse, fri empty +
`-iiesse -ness] 1 a : the quality or state of being empty b : the
`quality or state of lacking or being devoid of contents (as
`typical or customary) (the N of the coal bin) (the N of the
`garage)
`c : the quality or state of being uninhabited, unfre-
`quented, or containing no human beings (the N, the blankness
`of great solitudes —Laurence Binyon) (the peculiar N of the
`green meadows and the tiny hidden lanes —Margery Alling-
`ham) 2 a : EARRENNESS (a life .
`.
`. ghastly in its N and sterility
`—Aldous Huxley); esp : lack of imagination or creative ability
`(paintings marked by simplicity but not N) b : lack of some-
`thing necessary to spiritual growth or sustenance (the vul-
`garity, the cheapness, the showy pretentiousness, the dreadful
`N of life for the middle classes during the uneasy peace —W.L.
`Shirer) (the spiritual N of army life will have deeply affected
`the thinking habits of many men —B.B.Seligman) c : INANITY,
`F_O0LlSHNESS, SENSELESSNESS (he realized the N of mere opposi-
`tion to the U.S. on such questions —A.F.Buchan)
`d : lack
`_of significant purposefulness : an engaging in purposeless or
`inane activity (life without a customary companion was
`N, ennui, restiveness and fidget NFrancis Hackett) 3 : HUN-
`GER (the family had sat down, ill-humored from N, to dinner
`at four o'clock -Ellen Glasgow) 4 a : LACK (they were
`glad to overlook its
`frequent N of content —Van Wyck
`Brooks)
`b :
`lack of warmth,
`love, or affection (with her
`children she feels affectionate and at the same time has an
`impression of N, which she gloomily interprets as complete
`indifference —H.M.Parshley)
`c : marked unhappiness deriv-
`ing from the loss of something loved (the N of utter loss
`—F.R.Leavis)
`d : sense of loss esp. of something desirable
`(only an N, a feeling that something was over —Stuart Cloete)
`5 _: uninhabited or unknown territory (stood on the shores of
`this nameless lake at last .
`.
`. saying that we should turn back
`from the N which stretched ahead —Farley Mowat) (appears
`as a sort of outpost, standing almost on the edge of N —Green
`Peyton)
`6 : something lacking significant content
`: FRI-
`VOLITY 2 (a play that was nothing more than a competent
`piece of N) 7 Buddhism : NIRVANA
`emp-tins \'em(p)ténz\ or emp-tings \“, -tii;]z\ n pl [alter. of
`eniptyiiigs, pl. of emptying, fr. gerund of 2empty] dial : a liquid
`Ieavening usu. made at home from potatoes or hops and kept
`from one baking to the next
`emp-tion \'em(p)slian\ ii
`-5 [L emptian-, emptio, fr. emptus
`(past part. of emere to buy) + -ion-,
`-ia -ion — more at
`REDEEM] 1 : the act of buying : PURCHASE (relieved both of
`the N of stuffs and of the payment of tailors and property:
`makers —E.K.Chambers)
`2 : RIGHT or EMPTION — emp-
`tion-al \-shan°l\ adj
`emp-tio.-veii-_d1-tio \'em(p)tE.B,wen‘did-e,6\ or emptio et
`Veltdltlo \-te,o(,)et(,)w-\ n [L emptio et veiiditio buying and
`selling] : the consensual contract between two parties for the
`purchase of something by one party and its sale by the other
`at an agreed price
`-or]
`emp-tor \'em(p)tar, -,to(a)r\
`II
`--S
`[L,
`fr. emptus +
`: PURCHASER, BUYER
`
`fr. OE Ezmtig,
`lemp-t_y \'em(p)te, -ti\ _adj —ER/-EST [ME,
`2I71£‘lllg empty, unoccupied,
`fr. zenietta leisure, rest
`(fr. 5:-
`not, without + —merta, fr. m6tan to have to) + -ig -y N more at
`MUST] 1 a : containing nothing : devoid of contents : not
`filled (an N box); esp : lacking typical, expected, or former
`conten_ts (a cold N stove) (an N pantry) (an N purse) (an
`N chair) (shows the N cross and the distant rising sun —T.A.
`Stafford)
`‘ii
`: VACANT, UNOCCUPIED (an N house) (an N lot)
`(N factory space)
`0 : devoid of people (an N theater)
`(along the road that had been so quiet and N the night before,
`but was now crowded with people ——Archibald Marshall)
`: UNINHABITED (colonize N lands where the Red Indian nomad
`would be the only person aggrieved -—-G.M.Trevelyan) (most
`of the northeast coast is N except for the villages —P.E.Jarnes)
`: UNFREQUENTED (seemed less disagreeable when one could
`walk in quiet, N places after dark —W.B.Yeats) (the muddy
`waters a_re N, except for an occasional small ship such as the
`one taking me away —H.W.Carter)
`d of a female domestic
`animal
`: not bearing a fetus : not pregnant (an N heifer)
`e logic, of a class : having no members : NULL 2 : having
`nothing to carry or transport : not loaded or burdened (an N
`truck) (an N mail pouch) : lacking cargo (an N freighter)
`(an N camel train) 3 a : destitute of reality or substance (an
`N dream) (N lip service) b : destitute of value : HOLLow,
`vAIN (an N pleasure) (confirmation of appointments by the
`senate is anything but an N form ~—Amer. Guide Series: N.J.)
`(N_ bragging and all the playacting that springs from insin-
`ce_rity —H.M.Parshley) (an N display of erudition —Benja-
`n_iin Farrington) (unless our party is reunited .
`.
`. the nomina-
`tion for presidency will be purely an N honor —F.D.Roose-
`velt) (the idle or N use of God’s name —lnterpreter’s Bible)
`c : destitute of effect or force (N threats) d : devoid of sense
`: MEANINGLESS, rooLisi-i (a speech made up of N and platitudi-
`nous ideas) (if all that cannot be understood or satisfactorily
`explained is to be dismissed as impossible or unreal, life will
`be anAN thing indeed —W.F.Hambly)
`e : devoid of knowl-
`edge, intelligence, or sense (where a member of the aristocracy
`may he as husky of body and as N of mind as the most menial
`of the working caste —W.C.Allee)
`I : devoid of expression
`or of any sign of intelligence (an N face)
`4-. : HUNGRY (after
`missing lunch the children were very N by suppertime)
`5 a : lacking meaningful occupation or activity (she wakened
`in the morning with a slight feeling of anticipation, a faint
`stirring of hope, instead of the horror and dread of another N
`day ——Dorothy Witton) (summer in the city was an N season
`—Nancy Cardozo) : not occupied with any purposeful activity
`: IDLE (to fill the N hours, her daughter asked her to embroider
`a worsted picture —Current Biog.) (she enjoys turning her N
`leisure into a bountiful offering —H.M.Parshley) b : having
`no purpose : USELESS (a certain amount of N mileage is un-
`necessarily run —Brit. Transport Rev.)
`c : yielding no return
`(it was tedious work and involved following a lot of N leads
`~Best True Fact Detective) 6 a : marked by the absence of
`human life or activity or anything providing comfort or human
`warmth (the N silence of the night) (a cold and N wasteland)
`(blank and N fields NPearl Buck) b : lacking human affec-
`tion, warmth, or love (it had been an acrid N home with every-
`one growing alien to one another —N orman Mailer) 7 : DES-
`TITUTE, DEVOID (N of all purpose or meaning) (the streets are
`N of automobiles —Jean Stafford)
`(did the roads look
`peculiarly N of traffic —Meridel Le Sueur) (the air was never
`N of their sweet, sad calling ~Mary Webb) (N of meaning)
`8 a : marked by a strong sense of loss or unhappy purposeless-
`ness (the weeks after his wife‘s death were N and desolate)
`: experiencing a marked and unsatisfied emotional need (one
`evening you are lonely and N because the moon is shining
`and there is a strange beauty over the land —Charlton Laird)
`b : incapable of experiencing further emotion : emotionally
`dulled or exhausted (his outburst had left him completely N,
`like a shaken sack —Liam O’Flaherty)
`syn VAcANT, BLANK, VOID, vAcu0Us: EMPTY is a general term
`describing Something lacking content; its usual antonyms are
`full or filled (an empty basket) (an empty room from which
`the furniture had been moved) (the dark and empty audi-
`torium of a theater in the morning when only one or two
`cleaners are moving about ——Alan Moorehead) Figuratively,
`EMPTY indicates lack of content or significance (when words
`came they did not break the silence. The wall remained. The
`words that came were empty, meaningless words —Sherwood
`Anderson) (the unthinking mind is not necessarily dull, rude,
`or
`impervious;
`it
`is probably Simply empty —C.W.Eliot)
`VACANT describes what is without an occupant,
`incumbent,
`tenant,
`inmate, or person or thing appropriately settled or
`fixed within (a vacant room ready for a new tenant) (the nook
`among the brambles where his van had been standing was as
`vacant as ever the next morning —Thomas Hardy) (a vacant
`throne) (a vacant professorship) Figuratively, VACANT may
`indicate lack of an agency or attribute considered as a usual
`occupant (her partner, the poor snail, was a vacant creature,
`scarcely more than half-witted — and the hard work, of course,
`was put off on her —Willa Cather) (his vacant eye, his lack of
`interest in what went on about him, and his strange gestures
`and mutterings were symptoms of a failing mind —C.B.
`Nordhoff & J.N.Ha|1)
`BLANK describes what is free from
`writing or marking (a blank book) (a blank page) In more
`figurative uses it may indicate lack of signs of expression,
`comprehension, or meaning (she had not a word to say, and
`in blank astonishment she beheld the carriage drive off
`—William Black) (their utterances are more or less seriously
`taken because the public, equally ignorant, is just as blank and
`undiscriminating —C.H.Grandgent)
`VOID intensifies
`the
`notions of EMPTY (void barren desert) (a large smooth shin-
`ing face, void of a sign of mustache or whiskers —Henry
`James T1916) (void of human interest or poetic quality, as
`yet unstirred by a breath of life —H.0.Taylor) VACUOUS may
`Suggest the emptiness of a vacuum; in figurative applications
`to persons and their notions, it is a synonym of inane (the
`substances are dried in a bell jar or desiccator over concen-
`trated sulfuric acid. The drying takes place more rapidly if the
`containing vessel is rendered vacuous —J.F.Thorpe & Martha
`A. Whiteley) (to see whether he could detect any surprise or
`Suspicion. There was nothing to be read in the vacuous face,
`blank as a school notice-board out of term —Graham Greene)
`syn see in addition VAIN
`Iempty \“\ vb -Eo/-ING/—Es vi 1 a : to make empty, devoid of
`content, or vacant
`: deprive of contents, furnishings, or in-
`habitants (N a box) (N a truck) (N a house) (N a city)
`1) : DEPRIVE, DIVEST (N a phrase of all meaning) (emptied him-
`self of all power to control) (the Christ who emptied Himself
`of His glory and accepted humiliation and suffering —R.M.
`French) (his eyes emptied themselves of light and intelligence
`NR.H.Newnian) (a style emptied of human content—Anthony
`Blunt) (the curriculum can be emptied of all the studies and
`the disciplines which relate to faith and to morals —Walter
`Lippmann)
`c : to discharge (itself) of contents (the stream
`empties
`itself
`into the
`river)
`(the water pipe
`emptied
`itself into the rain barrel with a gurgling sound)
`[1 : to fire
`(a repeating firearm) until empty (he leaped to his feet and
`emptied his gun through the broken window —S.I-I.Holbrook)
`2 : to remove from what holds, encloses, or contains (as by
`carrying, pouring, or leading out) (N the grain from a sack)
`(N the money from a purse) (N the furniture from a house)
`(N the cattle from a stable) 3 : to place, deposit, carry, dump,
`or pour by emptying from what holds, encloses, or contains
`(N grain into a bin) (N his armful of packages onto the table)
`N the sacks from the truck onto the porch) (no waste,
`garbage, or
`refuse may be emptied on highways —Amer.
`Guide Series: N. H.) N vi 1 : to become empty (the theater
`emptied rapidly after the Show ended) 2 : to empty or dis-
`charge its contents (the river empties into the ocean) 3 : to
`defecate or urinate : EVACUATE
`fiempty \“\ II
`-ES : something that is empty; esp : an empty
`container (as a box, bottle, cask) or vehicle (as a cab or car)
`(an engine pulling five full boxcars, one coal car, and several
`empties) (always drunk two quarts of wine a day on the job,
`tossing his empties into the basement —Clifford Aucoin)
`empty-cell process or empty-cell treatment rt
`: a method of
`treating wood so that the chemical preservative coats the cell
`walls, the cell cavities remaining nearly or quite empty —-com-
`pare FULL-CELL PRoCEss
`
`emulsifiability
`
`empty glume n : GLUME
`empty-handed \I
`\_ adj : being without gain or acquisition
`: having acquired or gained nothing (went out to win a fortune
`but came home empty-handed) (_lack of mining equipment and
`geological data forced him to sail home empty-/1anded—Amer.
`Guide Series: Mich.)
`empty-headed \:
` \ adj’: uninformed and scatterbrained
`(an e/npty-liearle
`ggle-hipped ‘blonde —Time)
`\ adj : having an empty heart (hardly
`emptyhearted \§
`consistent with the levity of that society, alike N and empty:
`headed —.lames Martineau)
`empty out vt : EMPTY (empty out the water barrel to clear it of
`sediment) (empty a boat_our by beaching it and turning it over)
`empty weight n : the weight of the structure, power plant, and
`fixed equipment of an airplane in flying condition
`empty word it
`: FUNCTION WORD
`em-purple \ém, em+\ vb [‘en- + purple (adj.)] vi 1 a : RED-
`DEN (blood from a deep cut empurpli/ig the leg) b : to make
`flushed (as with effort or embarrassment) (broke off, his red
`face
`enipurpled, mouthing speechlessly —J.E.Macdonnell)
`2 : to make purple (as with cold or anger) (a dying sun em-
`purpling the distant hills) (a face empurpled by exposure) N vi
`:
`to become red or flushed (face empurpled, and the sweat
`poured down as she toiled away with the cranky thing -C.S.
`Forester)
`empurplecl adj : marked by purple passages (a lush and N
`prose) (a writer of N literature)
`em-pu-sa \em'pyi.isa, —ii'za\ [NL, fr. Gk empousa hobgobliri,
`specter] syn of ENTOMOPHTHORA
`em-py-e-ma \,em.pi'€ma,
`-_pE'E-\ I1, pl empyema-ta \-'Em-
`ad-9, -‘em-\ or empyemas [LL, fr. Gk empyema, fr. empyein
`to suppurate] : the presence of pus in a bodily cavity (as the
`pleural cavity) : purulent pleurisy — em-py-e-mic \{:,::Emik
`-:em-\ adj
`em-py-re-al \:em,pi:rEal, -_pa:-; (')em:pirEol, -fipir-\ adj [LL
`empyreus, empyrius (fr. LGk empyrios, fr. Gk empyros fiery,
`fr. em- 2en- + -pyros, fr. pyr fire) + E -111 — more at FIRE]
`1 : of or relating to the empyrean : CELESTIAL 2 : suaLiME
`(well-meaning ineptitude,
`that rises to N absurdity —M.S.
`Dworlcin)
`lem-py-re-an \-€an\
`adj [LL empyreus, empyrius + E -an]
`:EMPYREAL (the earthly perfection of the individual to a height
`no less N than Luther‘s ideal of religious salvation —Helen
`Sullivan) (N aplomb —Hamilton Basso)
`fiempyrean \“\ n -S 1 a :
`the highest heaven or heavenly
`sphere in ancient and medieval cosmology usu, described as a
`sphere of fire or light — compare ELEMENT 1; ETHER, HEAVEN
`ll : the true and ultimate heavenly paradise — used chiefly by
`certain Christian writers (as John Milton)
`2 : FIRMAMENT
`:HEAvENS (an inhabitant of Mars guiding his spaceship through
`the N NLucius Garvin) (the blue and cloudless N —F.L.
`Allen) 3 : a transcendentally sublime or lofty otherworldly
`place esp. from which lofty ideas may be thought to derive
`(forever to inhabit an N of blithe intellectual play, of charm-
`ing fancies and biting good sense —Edmund Wilson) (he alone
`stands still while the whole N of Greek life circles about him
`_—J.J.Chapman) (the social theorist high in the N of pure
`ideas uncontaminated by mundane facts —R.K.Merton)
`empyreum n -5 (ML. fr. neut. of LL empyreus] obs : EMPYREAN 2
`em-py-reti-ma. \.empé'rii‘ma, -pet, -,pi'-\ rt, pl empyreuma-ta
`\_-mod-o_\ [Gk, live coal covered with ashes, fr. empyreuein to
`light a fire, fr. em- 2en- + pyreueiri to light, fr. pyr] : the pe-
`culiar odor of the products of organic substances burned in
`closed vessels
`em-pv-reu-mat-ic \:=(.):,rti:mad-ik\ also em-py-reu-mat
`i-cal \-d-:':kol\ adj [Gk empyreumat-, empyreuma —l- E -ic.
`-ical] : being or having an odor of burnt organic matter
`as a result of decomposition at high temperatures (creosote
`and other N oils)
`em quad n [lem] : a quad whose point dimension and set
`dimension are the same or very nearly the same : a quad with
`a square or almost square body
`ems pl of EM
`emu \'E(,)myi.i sometimes -mi.i\ n -S [modif. of Pg emal 1 : a
`large Australian ratite bird (Drumiceius navae-Iiollandiae)
`now almost wholly restricted to northern and western Aus-
`tralia and being the largest existing bird next to the closely
`related ostrich, inhabiting open forests and plains, and having
`rudimentary wings and plumage of slender drooping feathers
`with greatly developed aftershafts and a head and neck
`feathered and without wattles 2 : any of various tall flightless
`birds (as the rhea and cassowary)
`EMU abbr, usii not cap electromagnetic unit
`emu apple n : an Australian tree (Owwzia acidula); also : its
`Subacid fruit that is about as large as a small nectarine
`emu bush n 1 : an Australian tree of
`the genus Pliolidia
`of the family Myoporaceae (esp. P. langijalia) 2 : an Aus-
`tralian tree (Heterodendron aleaejalium) of the family Sapinda-
`ceae
`emul abbr emulsion
`Iem-u-late \'emyo.lEt, usu -Ed--l—V\ vb -ED/-ING/-S [L demu-
`latus, past part. of acmulari, fr. aeniulus rivaling, envious,
`akin to Gk aitia cause — more at ETIOLOGY] vt 1 a : to strive
`to equal or excel
`: imitate with the intention of equaling or
`outdoing (a simplicity emulated without success by numerous
`modern poets ——T.S.Eliot)
`b :
`IMITATE (book-covering ma-
`terials which one way or another N leather —Baok Produc-
`tion) (some of the early Protestant congregations emulated
`this custom, but soon gave up the practice —/tmer. Guide
`Series: La.) 2 obs : to be jealous of : ENVY 3 : to equal or
`approach equality with : RIVAL (her companions she loved
`and admired, but could not N,
`for
`they were wise about
`things she knew not of —Rose Macaulay) (modern watercolor
`in the West, when it tries, as it often does, to N the force and
`solidity of oil painting, only succeeds in sacrificing its own spe-
`cial felicities ~—Laurence Binyon) (he became president .
`.
`. at
`the age of 32, emulating his father's election to the post when
`he was 34 —I-I.'1'.Brundidge) ~ vi, obs : STRIVE, ENDEAvoR
`iemulate adj [L aemulatus, past part.] abs : EMULOUS
`em-u-la-tion \.emya'lishan\ ii
`-s [L aeniulatian-, aemulatia,
`fr. aemulatus + -ion-, -io -ion] 1 a : a striving by imitation to
`equal others in accomplishment or quality (earlier there was
`rivalry and even antagonism between the two nations of
`British culture but there was little N —Edward Shils) (creating
`manufacturing industries in N of the U. S. —George Wythe);
`also :
`IMi'rATioN (slavish N of
`the elite ~M.D.Geismar)
`(native military traditions tolerated no blind N of a foreign
`prototype —Hajo 1-Iolborn)
`b : a striving to excel others in
`accomplishment or quality : RIVALRY (the spirit of N enters
`into the majority of games, and usually the contest element
`masks other features of
`the games —Nntes & Queries on
`Ant/iropolagy)
`c archaic : the ambition to equal or excel
`in
`accomplishment or quality
`(1 obs
`: contentious
`rivalry
`2 are/talc : JEALOUSY, ENVY
`em-u-la-tive \'emya,lHld-liv, -_la|,
`lt|,
`lev also lav\ adj : char-
`acterized by emulation (a son's N drive to achieve the same
`success as his father) : tending to emulation (a man’s character
`marked by strong N qualities) : deriving from emulation or
`the impulse or drive to emulation (the exploitation of ma-
`terialistic drives and N anxieties —D.M.Potter) — em-u’-1a-
`tive-ly \lévlE, -li\ adv
`em-u-la-tor \—,1ad-a(r),
`-'51::-\ ii -5 [L rieniulator, fr. aeniulatus
`: INIITATQR, RIVAL
`_
`'
`+ -or] : one that emulates
`-rt, cliiefly Brit -,lat:;ri or
`em-u-la-to-ry \'emyal:i,t6re, -or-,
`-J5-tri\ adj : EMULATIVE
`emulge \é'm:;lj, E’-\ vt —ED/-ING/-5 [L cniiilgere to milk out]
`archaic : to draw off the fluid from (a bodily organ)
`emul-gent \-jant\ adj [L emulgent-, etnulgens, pres. part. of
`einulgere to milk out, fr. e- + mulgere to milk — more at MILK]
`: that provides a drain for or strains out the product of some-
`thing (as the kidneys)
`em-Ii-lous \'emyalas\ adj [L aemulus rivaling, envious —
`more at EMULATE] 1 a : ambitious or eager to emulate : striv-
`ing for an accomplishment or quality equal or superior to that
`of another : marked by a desire to imitate or rival (N suitors)
`b : inspired by or deriving from a desire to emulate (N fervor)
`2 obs :
`JEALOUS, ENvious
`3 arc/mic : zEALoUs — 6111-11-
`lous-ly adv — em-u-lous-Iiess rt —Es
`emul-si-Ii-atiil-i-ty \-.malsa.fi:;'bilad-e\ or emul-si-bil-i-ty
`\-sa'bil-\ rt -Es : capacity for being emulsified
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