Antiacademy, Dictionary of English Language, vol. 2

By Estéfano Luján

The great dictionary of English Dictionary, compiled by ESTEFALU, the "father of the Personal Lexicography", which contains definitions, quotations, etymologies, translations, synonyms, antonyms, etc. For example, we find the definition of the verb HUMOR: To behave in accordance with the humor, or mood, of (a person or another animal); to please (someone) by simulating having the same temporary state of mind as him..

• Language: English
• Publisher: Estéfano Luján
• Release date: Mar 8, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463367896

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Antiacademy, Dictionary of English Language

Vol. 2 E-L

by Estéfano Luján Romero (aka Estefalu)

The FATHER of PERSONAL LEXICOGRAPHY

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About Estéfano Luján Romero

What is PERSONAL LEXICOGRAPHY?

About Estéfano Luján Romero

I am a lexicographer, writer, and philosopher. I like dictionaries since I was a child, and this is why I compile now four of them in four languages: Italian, French, Spanish, and English.

PERSONAL LEXICOGRAPHY: the art of questioning everything by making a personal dictionary.

/ease/

Noun.

Plural: eases.

Pronunciation: i:z.

Etymology: of uncertain origin. The Italian agio, and the French aise are from the same origin.

1. The fact of something being comfortable.

Translation: aise, in French; comodidad, in Spanish; agio, in Italian.

Synonym: comfort.

[…] the ease of her circumstances, in regard to pecuniary matters, had not the magical effect on Rosa’s mind.

Agnes Maria… The Beggar Girl

-) To take one's ease: to make oneself comfortable.

So after tea, while his wife departed on some domestic task, Mr McCunn took his ease with a pipe in a wicker chair on the little terrace...

John Buchan… Castle Gay

At supper the men took their ease on the ground.

Constance Skinner… Pioneers of the Old Southwest

2. State of a person who is comfortable or easy; state of consciousness during which a person does not undergo discomfort or uneasiness; state of being unaffected by pain or annoyance.

Antonyms: uneasiness, disease.

Synonyms: painlessness, untroubledness, comfort.

Having regained a little ease, he eagerly pressed Pat with inquiries about Jane and the children, and the reason of his appearance there.

Felix Hamel – Lionel Hexham… Harry Roughton

I do not think I am naturally very polite, he replied, "but mother has always tried to teach me to observe and do all I can for the comfort of my sisters, and so it is easy to attend to the wants of other ladies. I feel much happier for it, even if it has been at the expense of a little ease or enjoyment.

Cornelia Bradley… At Home and Abroad

When Harriet was seated in the chaise, Sindall took notice of the flutter into which this accident had thrown her; she confessed that she had been a good deal alarmed, lest there should have been a quarrel on her account, and begged Sir Thomas, if he had any regard for her ease of mind, to think no more of any vengeance against the other gentleman.

Henry Mackenzie… Miscellaneous works

Rosa did not altogether enjoy perfect ease of mind after Charley Stewart had left her.

Thomas Lauder… Tales of the highlands

He explained to me that posts were few and uncertain, and that my writing now would ensure ease of mind to my friends.

Bram Stoker… Dracula

-) At ease, at one's ease: in comfort; without discomfort. Cf. French à l’aise, à mon aise, etc.

[…] it had greatly contributed to our comfort as regards position, we being much more at ease, and in infinitely less danger, than before.

Edgar Poe

My wants are, simply to find my lost way, and then to procure some food, of which I stand much in need, replied Inverawe.

"Be at ease then, for I shall help you to both," replied the person with whom he was conversing.

Thomas Lauder… Tales of the highlands

He has become so far one of the family, as to be welcome at all times […], and we find ourselves so much at ease with him, that we never think even of talking more than we choose, to entertain him.

Henry Mackenzie… Miscellaneous works

Her daughter entered the room just then; she went up to her mother, and asked how she found herself. "More at ease, my child," said she.

Henry Mackenzie… Miscellaneous works

I now and then visit a place where I can contemplate, at my ease, a beautiful lady — without even my presence being suspected.

George Reynolds… The mysteries of London

Mrs Ronald smiled and talked, as she sat at her ease and drank her tea.

Sarah Whitehead… Rose Douglas, vol. II

[…] I tore up from the rock half a dozen soft turfs, and, disposing them like a pillow, begged Lady Biddy to lie down at her ease.

Frank Barrett… Lady Biddy Fane

-) Ill at ease: uncomfortable, uneasy.

[…] our hero and his guide journeyed on in safety; the former ill at ease from fatigue and the pain of his foot.

Eyre Crowe… Today in Ireland, vol. I

The young man endeavored to join in the laugh this speech excited among the rest, though it was evident he felt ill at ease from the ridicule.

Charles Lever… Tom Burke of Ours

-) Particularly: relief from discomfort or an unpleasant feeling, as pain, etc.; with the preposition from, or of.

Philip, now at ease from foreign disturbances, began to be disquieted…

Alexander Tytler… Elements of general history

[…] after promising them luxury and ease from their toils, on their arrival at Moscow.

John Laskey… Medals Struck

3. The quality, fact, or state of being easy or easily performed; found chiefly in the phrase, with ease.

Antonym: difficulty.

But the ease with which these variable fancies were entertained, and the very plausibility which each assumed, should have been understood as indicative rather of the difficulties than of the facilities which must attend elucidation.

Edgar Poe

It was astonishing to observe with what ease and safety our mules ascended and descended the rough and uneven paths over the mountains.

William Lempriere… A tour from Gibraltar

[The squirrel] is usually kept in a box, and fed with hazel nuts. Some find amusement in observing with what ease it bites the nut open and eats the kernel.

Oliver Goldsmith… A history of the earth

Nor would I counsel such a proceeding, said Greenwood, who was himself astonished at the ease with which he had obtained this victory.

George Reynolds… The mysteries of London

4. An easy attitude or position; an unconstrained position or attitude; --found particularly in the phrase, "to stand at ease".

The vanquished departed, clinching their empty hands at their opponents, and swearing inextinguishable hatred; while the smiling victors stood at ease, each grasping his booty--bag, basket, parcel, or portmanteau.

Maria Edgeworth… The Absentee

Words derived from EASE: easy, easiness, easing, easily, easer, easement, easeless, easeful, easefully, easefulness, eased, unease, uneasy, uneaseful, uneasefulness, uneasily, uneasiness, disease, diseasing, diseased, diseasedly, diseasedness, diseaseful, diseaseless, diseasement.

/elate/

Verb.

Pronunciation and accent: ɪˈleɪt.

Etymology: from Latin elatus (= lifted), preterite participle of efferre (= to bring out, elevate), which is analysed into ex- (= out) + ferre (= bear).

Preterite tense: elated. Preterite participle: elated.

Present participle: elating.

Transitively: 1. Obsolete: to elevate.

2. To cause the elation or exultation of; to cause (a person) to exult; to make feel exultant.

Synonym: to flush.

Translation: faire exulter, in French; hacer exultar, in Spanish; fare esultare, in Italian.

The admiral was no more elated by this adulation, than he had been intimidated by the previous dissatisfaction.

J. Cooper… Mercedes of Castile

I will neither discourage you nor elate you with vain hopes.

The London Journal, vol. 7

English words derived from elate: elated, elatedly, elatedness, elatement, elater, elator, elation, elative.

To learn or remember other words derived from Latin ferre, see INFERRIBLE.

/elope/

Verb.

Pronunciation and accent: ɪləʊp.

Third-person singular simple present: elopes.

Preterite tense, preterite participle: eloped.

Present participle: eloping.

Etymology: of uncertain origin. It is said that this verb might be a compound in which –lope would be of the same origin as leap (noun, verb).

Intransitively: 1. (The subject is a wife) to depart surreptitiously from her husband, in order to the establishment of a cohabitation with another man; this is, to abandon secretly and illicitly one’s spouse, for another man with whom she is to cohabit.

Translation: abandonner subrepticement le mari, in French; abandonar subrepticiamente al marido, in Spanish; abbandonare surrettiziamente il marito, in Italian.

[…] guardian to an eloped lady.

Henry Fielding… The History of Tom Jones

-) It may be construed with the prepositions to (place of destination), from (place or person abandoned) and with (the man who plotted with the eloper to run away together):

[…] the deceit of the only woman he had ever loved, and the deceit of the only friend he had ever made: who eloped from him to be married together […]

Charles Dickens… Mugby Junction

Angry quarrels and recriminations took place, and when they had been married nearly seven years, […], she eloped with a younger man, and left him.

Charles Dickens… Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Yes, he has had the impudence, added the enraged husband, "even to intrude into my house, when he knew I was out of the way, and try to persuade my wife to elope with him, and even bribe my servant to bring his insulting letters to her […]"

Hannah Jones… The Gipsy Mother

2. (The subject is an unmarried woman) to depart surreptitiously from her parents with the will either to cohabit with a man or to marry him, and without the knowledge or consent of her parents.

Translation: abandonner subrepticement la maison peternelle afin de cohabiter avec un homme, in French; fuggire surrettiziamente dalla casa paterna per coabitare con un uomo, in Italian; huir subrepticiamente de la casa paterna para cohabitar con un hombre, in Spanish.

Why, then, I'll just tell you what I would do, were I in your place, returned Charles, […]. "I would persuade Fanny, without further ceremony or delay, to elope and, when you are once married, leave Earl Raeburn […]"

Hannah Jones… The Gipsy Mother

In her mad love for him, she would gladly have eloped -been married privately, and accompanied him to Europe.

Virginia Townsend… While it was Morning

Adela, at the age of sixteen, eloped with a young man, whose worthless character precluded any chance of felicity for the unhappy girl.

Mrs. C. Durang… The Blind Girl

I urged her to elope with me to America.

Lydia Pierson… My Grandfather’s Story

By the assistance of a friend, Machim escaped, and induced her to elope with him, to seek an asylum in France.

Charles Wilkes… Narrative of the United States…

[My mother] eloped with him, bearing with her jewels sufficient to constitute a considerable dowry.

H. Jones… The Scottish Chieftains

[Mrs. Charles Levison] had become so infatuated by the seductive arts of […] George, that she had yielded to his persuasions and eloped with him, it was believed, to Italy.

Hannah Jones… The Gipsy Mother

3. (The subject is a man) to make a woman depart surreptitiously or illicitly from her parents with the will of cohabiting together.

Andrew has never reappeared, and he and Mabel the dairymaid are still supposed to have eloped together?

Catherine Crowe… Susan Hopley

How he was recognized as the person who eloped from your castle with the Lady Margaret, I know not.

H. Jones… The Scottish Chieftains

[…] one morning, two days before the wedding was to take place, Miss Sallie was missing from her home, as was likewise Curly Thorn from the neighborhood. Yes, Thorn had eloped with her and they were married the next morning in Nacogdoches.

Andy Adams… A Texas Matchmaker

4. Hence: (the subject is an animated being) to escape; abscond.

As soon as it was recognised [the body of Sir John ] and carried home, the faithful valet, true to his master's creed, eloped with all the cash and movables he could lay his hands on, and started as a finished gentleman upon his own account.

Charles Dickens… Barnaby Rudge

The detectives in fact remained constant to their original theory, that Bartley had gone to Europe, and they were able to name with reasonable confidence the person with whom he had eloped.

William Howells… A Modern Instance

English words derived from ELOPE: elopement, eloper, eloping.

/encroach/

Verb.

Pronunciation and accent: ɛnkrəʊtʃ.

Etymology: from Old French encrochier (= to seize), which is analysed into en- (= prefix equivalent to in) and croc (= hook). Literally: to catch in a hook. Accroach and accroachment are also related to croc.

Preterite tense: encroached. Preterite participle: encroached

Present participle: encroaching.

Intransitively: 1. To commit an encroachment; to intrude or usurp upon the territory of another by gradual advances or stealthily (without the use of violence).

Synonyms: infringe, trench, usurp, trespass, intrude, invade.

Translation: invadir, in Spanish; empiéter, in French; sconfinare, in Italian.

When was the invasion first reported?

" The Russians have been always encroaching, and building forts on our frontier. This year they have come in greater force and a little farther than usual."

James Abbott… Narrative of a journey…

-) With the preposition on (or upon) + noun of the territory upon which the encroacher intrudes:

Two farms had often been joined in one; some of them were untenanted, and encroached upon by their neighbours; some of the few houses that did exist were vacant, and some were tumbling down.

George James… The robber

-) The object of the preposition on (or upon) may be the owner of the territory:

You would hardly believe how much the Hollanders have already daunted the Portuguese and Spaniards in these parts, especially in the Moluccas, where they daily encroach on the Spaniards, who are unable to withstand them, and are even in fear that they may shortly deprive them of the Philippine islands.

Robert Kerr… Voyages and Travels

[…] this tribe having been greatly encroached on by the inhabitants of the plains, and pushed off among the mountains.

Walter Hamilton… Hindostan

2. To intrude on something incorporeal pertaining to another person, or distinguishable as not to be intruded upon.

Yielding to the counsels of those about him, he refused, through a sentiment of mistaken pride, to accept the constitution tendered by the senate, accusing that body of encroaching upon his hereditary rights.

John Frost… Napoleon Bonaparte

Although Ellen had by this time attained to the unwelcome conviction that she was not fully admitted into her husband's confidence, and although a natural, yet unfortunate timidity induced her to shrink from all appearance of encroaching on it…

C. Burdett… Walter Hamilton

[…] now you are encroaching on forbidden subjects.

Clara Cameron… Lights and shadows

I did not intend to have encroached again upon your attention; but I cannot repress my indignation.

Edward Creasy… Memoirs… of Etonians

When the trustees perceived that their kindness was encroached upon, they represented to him the necessity of driving to some other place, but he rejected the invitation, and refused to stir an inch without remuneration.

The Visitor: Or, Monthly Instructor

Do not encroach too far on my patience with your predications.

Catherine Frances… Mothers and daughters

3. Metaphorical: (the subject being something): to extend its limits upon those of another.

The sea encroaches on the land.

Charles Alexander… A week at the Lizard

That the sea has encroached on some tracts of land, and retired from others, is certain.

James Playfair… A System of Geography

[A family] will rise early,-between six and eight o'clock, -if a ball or a party of the preceding night has not encroached on the morning.

Charles Sealsfield… Austria as it is

Even as I gazed, the rising clouds began to encroach on the western firmament, until only a narrow speck