E words

Words beginning with e encountered during online reading for some reason deemed interesting, mysterious in some way at the time, or used oddly perhaps so checked and arriving from out of the blue. These were actually used to say something, but most are not recommended for daily use. Unless you want to purposefully alienate or work up a comedy routine.

A comedy routine without trying, if you figure out what's funny let me know and we'll have this comedy routine thing nailed. A few days ago I went downstairs to get mail and answered an inquiry crossly. I launched into a quick description of a serious problem and the guy I was speaking to broke out in laughter at something with no humor to it. Now, this is the wrong reaction and that's medically diagnosable.I asked him why he is laughing he said I should write a book, still chuckling. Now I'm really confused. Why? "Because... your vocabulary, Dude."

I reviewed in my mind what I had just said and there is nothing in there laughable. Nothing, I had just said, "she casually issues instructions with an existential threat then is oh so delicate about how she is to be spoken to when the firestorm breaks out that she set." That's not funny. So these words, don't even think of using them. Not recommended for daily verbal use. On t.v. the intriguingly odd and childlike twenty-six year old dancer on Prancing Elite asked what "mysterious" means. A joke of mine failed because my audience of adults didn't know what "ladle" means.

* ebullition: bubbling or boiling

* ecdysiast: a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music, strip tease dancer, exotic dancer

* Echolalia: the automatic repetition of vocalizations made by another person. It is closely related to echopraxia, the automatic repetition of movements made by another person.derived from the Greek ἠχώ meaning "echo" or "to repeat",and λαλιά (laliá) meaning "babbling, meaningless talk" (of onomatopoeic origin from the verb λαλέω (laléo) meaning "to talk").

* Ectrodactyly:congenital abnormality involving the absence of some fingers or toes, sometimes referred to as the “Lobster-Claw Syndrome” involves the deficiency or absence of one or more central digits of the hand or foot and is also known as split hand/split foot malformation, Total or partial absence of fingers.

* ecumenicism:  movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations: aimed at universal Christian unity, the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group.

* edacious: voracious - gluttonous - ravenous - greedy - piggish

* Effendi: nobility title meaning a lord or master.[1] It is a title of respect or courtesy which was used equivalent to the English Sir, in Turkey. It follows the personal name, when it is used, and is generally given to members of the learned professions, and to government officials who have no higher rank, such as Bey or Pasha. It may also indicate a definite office, as Hekim efendi, chief physician to the sultan. The possessive form efendim (my master) is used by servants and in formal intercourse.

* efflorescence: flowering, an example or result of growth and development: These works are the efflorescence of his genius. chemistry, the resulting powdery substance. Rash or eruption of the skin.

* eggcorn: substitution of a word or phrase for a word or words that sound similar or identical in the speaker's dialect. The new phrase introduces a meaning that is different from the original, but plausible in the same context ("old-timers' disease" for "Alzheimer's disease"). This is as opposed to a malapropism, where the substitution creates a nonsensical phrase.

* Eid: a holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide to commemorate the willingness of Abraham (Ibrahim) to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to God. Eid is also about spending time with family and enjoying the fact that we all have food and a roof over our heads.

* eidolon: In ancient Greek literature, an eidolon (plural: eidola or eidolons) (Greek εἴδωλον: "image, idol, double, apparition, phantom, ghost") is a spirit-image of a living or dead person; a shade or phantom look-alike of the human form. The concept of Helen of Troy's eidolon was explored both by Homer and Euripides. However, where Homer uses the concept as a free-standing idea which gives Helen life after death, Euripides entangles it with the idea of kleos, one being the product of the other. Both Euripides and Stesichorus, in their respective works concerning the Trojan War, claim that Helen was never physically present in the city at all.

irrespective of reformist efforts to achieve the impossible and which result only in creating an eidolon that Stephen Kirby has called “Fantasy Islam.”

* eisegesis: While exegesis draws out the meaning from a text in accordance with the context and discover-able meaning of its author, eisegesis occurs when a reader imposes his or her interpretation into and onto the text. As a result, exegesis tends to be objective when employed effectively while eisegesis is regarded as highly subjective.

* eldritch: weird and sinister or ghostly."an eldritch screech"

* elegiac: elegy, expressing sorrow often for something past; "an elegiac lament for youthful ideals" a mournful poem; a lament for the dead. Elegiac refers either to those compositions that are like elegies or to a specific poetic meter used in Classical elegies. The Classical elegiac meter has two lines, making it a couplet: a line of dactylic hexameter, followed by a line of dactylic pentameter. Because the hexameter line is in the same meter as epic poetry, and because the elegiac form was always considered lower style than epic, elegists frequently wrote with epic in mind and positioned themselves in relation to epic.

* eleutherophobia: fear of freedom

* elyron: el·y·tron  (l-trn) n. pl. el·y·tra (-tr) Either of the leathery or chitinous forewings of a beetle or a related insect, serving to encase the thin, membranous hind wings used in flight. Also called wing case. elytroid adj.

* emetic: causing vomiting. nauseating or revolting."that emetic music in department stores", a medicine or other substance that causes vomiting.

* éminence grise: a powerful decision-maker or advisor who operates "behind the scenes" or in a non-public or unofficial capacity. Originally referred to François Leclerc du Tremblay, the right-hand man of Cardinal Richelieu. Leclerc was a Capuchin friar who was renowned for his beige robe attire (as beige was termed "grey" in that era.) The title "His Eminence" is used to address or reference a Cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church.[1] Although Leclerc never achieved the rank of Cardinal, those around him addressed him as such in deference to the considerable influence this "grey" friar held over "His Eminence the Cardinal".

Popularly referenced in several works. Aldous Huxley wrote an English biography of Leclerc entitled Grey Eminence. There is also an 1873 painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme, L'Éminence Grise, which depicts him descending the grand staircase of the Palais Cardinal. Leclerc is referenced in Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers as the character Father Joseph, a powerful associate of Richelieu and one to be feared.

An éminence grise may alternatively refer to an elderly ("grey-haired") personage who is renowned for accomplishments in the past, but now acts as an advisor rather than a principal actor. He may be politically influential as a consequence of his honored status within an influential group or society as a whole. For example, a distinguished retired physics professor emeritus who advises scientific leaders and government officials on nuclear energy; or a retired U.S. Senator who advises the President on an informal basis, etc.

* emolument: a salary, fee, or profit from employment or office."the directors' emoluments"

* empathogenic: empathogen and entactogen are used to designate a class of psychoactive drugs that produce experiences of emotional communion, oneness, relatedness, emotional openness—that is, empathy

“I wore fishnets and a little black dress to vote,” she writes, “then walked around with a spring in my slinky step. It lasted for days. I can summon it when I’m blue. It’s more effective than exercise or ecstasy or cheesecake.” And that of course is the highest purpose of our ancient constitutional order: to provide adult children with pleasures exceeding those of cheesecake or empathogenic phenethylamines.

* empiricism:The view that experience, especially of the senses, is the only source of knowledge. Employment of empirical methods, as in science.
An empirical conclusion. The practice of medicine that disregards scientific theory and relies solely on practical experience.

* empyrean: The highest reaches of heaven, believed by the ancients to be a realm of pure fire or light. The abode of God and the angels; paradise.

* en passant: By the way; incidentally, in passing: incidentally; in the course of doing something else; "he made this remark in passing",(chess) a chess pawn that is moved two squares can be captured by an opponent's pawn commanding the square that was passed

* Enantiodromia: Literally, "running counter to," referring to the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time. This characteristic phenomenon practically always occurs when an extreme, one-sided tendency dominates conscious life; in time an equally powerful counterposition is built up, which first inhibits the conscious performance and subsequently breaks through the conscious control.

* encomia: Warm, glowing praise. A formal expression of praise; a tribute.

* enigmatic: not clear to the understanding; "I didn't grasp the meaning of that enigmatic comment until much later"; "prophetic texts so enigmatic that their resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought; "the oracular sayings of Victorian poets"; "so enigmatic that priests might have to clarify it"; "an enigmatic smile"

* enjoins: An injunction is an equitable remedy in the form of a court order, whereby a party is required to do, or to refrain from doing, certain acts. order: give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority; "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping"; "The mother told the child to get dressed" (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity; "injunction were formerly obtained by writ but now by a judicial order"


* ensorcellement: enchantment, bewitchment [maybe this belongs in French. The card, rather long, is in french.]

* entrepôt: A port, city, or other center to which goods are brought for import and export, and for collection and distribution.
 
* Epagomenal: The Egyptian year was divided into twelve months of thirty days each, which means that each year was about five days short of the astronomical year. To compensate for this difference, five extra days were added to the year, called epagomenal days.

* epater les bourgeois: shock the middle classes

* epenthetic: In phonology, epenthesis (/əˈpɛnθəsɪs/; Greek: ἐπένθεσις) means the addition of one or more sounds to a word, especially to the interior of a word. The word epenthesis comes from epi "in addition to" and en "in" and thesis "putting".

Listen to the way Rugnetta says “trapping” at 35 seconds here. “Terraping.” “I’ve added a little vowel between the t and the r,” Baron says. “It elongates the word, it adds an extra syllable to the word, it emphasizes the word. There’s a name for this: epenthetic vowel.”

* epergne: a large table centerpiece with branching holders for fruit or sweets or flowers, usually made of silver, but may be made of any metal or glass or porcelain. An ornate centerpiece consisting of a frame supporting dishes, vases, and/or candleholders in tiers around a central focal point (either a larger container or ornamental motif).

* ephebophilia: In research environments, specific terms are used for chronophilias: ephebophilia to refer to the sexual preference for mid-to-late adolescents, hebephilia to refer the sexual preference for pubescent persons, and pedophilia to refer to the sexual preference for prepubescent persons.

* Epicanthic fold: Epicanthic fold (/ɛpɪˌkænθɪkˈfoʊld/), epicanthal fold, epicanthus, or simply eye fold are names for a skin fold of the upper eyelid, covering the inner corner, An epicanthal fold is normal in people of Asian descent. An epicanthal fold is also common in children with Down syndrome.

* epicene: having characteristics of both sexes or no characteristics of either sex; of indeterminate sex."the sort of epicene beauty peculiar to boys of a certain age" effeminate; effete."the actor infused the role with an epicene languor"


* epicycle: Astronomy. a small circle the center of which moves around in the circumference of a larger circle: used in Ptolemaic astronomy to account for observed periodic irregularities in planetary motions. Mathematics. a circle that rolls, externally or internally, without slipping, on another circle, generating an epicycloid or hypocycloid.

* Epidemiology: the description and causation of not only epidemic disease, but of disease in general, and even many non-disease health-related conditions, such as high blood pressure and obesity.

* epigone: a less distinguished follower or imitator of someone, especially an artist or philosopher.

* Epiphenomenon: secondary phenomenon that occurs alongside or in parallel to a primary phenomenon.

* epistemic: Epistemology (from Greek ' - episteme-, "knowledge, science" + ', "logos") or theory of knowledge is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope (limitations) of knowledge. It addresses the questions: * What is knowledge? * How is knowledge acquired? * What do people know? ...'Epistemicism' is a position about vagueness in the philosophy of language or metaphysics, according to which there are facts about the boundaries, epistemically - In a manner that pertains to knowledge. The theory or science of the method or grounds of knowledge


* Eppur si muove: and yet it does move

* Eschatology: meaning "last" and -logy meaning "the study of", first used in English around 1550)[1] is a part of theology, philosophy, and futurology concerned with what are believed to be the final events in history, or the ultimate destiny of humanity, commonly referred to as the end of the world or the World to Come.

* eschaton: Judgment Day

* esse quam videri: to be rather than to seem to be

* essentialism: the view that, for any specific entity (such as an animal, a group of people, a physical object, a concept), there is a set of attributes which are necessary to its identity and function. In Western thought the concept is found in the work of Plato and Aristotle.

* etiolated: developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light; "etiolated celery"


* etiology: the study of the causes of diseases.the cause or origin of a disease. Any study of causes, causation, or causality, as in philosophy, biology, or physics.

* ettin: two headed ogre

* eudaemonia: wellbeing: a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous; "the town was finally on the upbeat after our recent troubles". a Greek word commonly translated as 'happiness'. Etymologically, it consists of the word "eu" ("good" or "well being") and "daimōn" ("spirit" or "minor deity", used by extension to mean one's lot or fortune). ...

* eustress: Moderate or normal psychological stress interpreted as being beneficial for the experiencer. a term coined by endocrinologist Hans Selye which is defined in the model of Richard Lazarus (1974) as stress that is healthy, or gives one a feeling of fulfillment or other positive feelings. Eustress is a process of exploring potential gains.

* eutrophic: Having waters rich in mineral and organic nutrients that promote a proliferation of plant life, especially algae, which reduces the dissolved oxygen content and often causes the extinction of other organisms. Used of a lake or pond.
 
* evitable: capable of being avoided; avoidable.

* ex parte: Law From or on one side only, with the other side absent or unrepresented: testified ex parte; an ex parte hearing. From a one-sided or strongly biased point of view. a Latin legal term meaning "from (by or for) one party". An ex parte decision is one decided by a judge without requiring all of the parties to the controversy to be present. In Australian, Canadian, U.K., South African, Indian and U.S. legal doctrines, ex parte means a legal proceeding brought by one person in the absence of and without representation or notification of other parties. It is also used more loosely to refer to improper unilateral contacts with a court, arbitrator or represented party without notice to the other party or counsel for that party.

* exception that proves the rule: Actually it's quite funny, because it means the exact opposite of how the sheeple use it.

(In case you didn't know, "prove" in this context means "test", not "confirm". If there's an exception, the rule has been *disproved* - it's not a valid rule.)

* excrescence: A distinct outgrowth on a human or animal body or on a plant, esp. one that is the result of disease or abnormality. An unattractive or superfluous addition or feature.

* execrable: deplorable: of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment "abominable: unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke
damnable: deserving a curse; "her damnable pride" wof the poorest quality; hateful


* exeunt: Performing Arts / Theatre) they go out: used as a stage direction

* exiguous: Adj. Very small in size or amount. Synonyms scanty - small - little - meagre - meager - slender

* exogenous: of, relating to, or developing from external factors.

* expatiate: –verb (used without object), -at·ed, -at·ing. to enlarge in discourse or writing; be copious in description or discussion: to expatiate upon a theme. Archaic . to move or wander about intellectually, imaginatively, etc., without restraint.

* explate: Make amends for; "expiate one's sins", to atone or make reparation for; To make amends or pay the penalty for; To relieve or cleanse of guilt, he doctrine of expiation or atonement for neglected duties, sins of omission and commission, is distinguished in the Muslim religion from the...