latter conveys the idea of not using or spending superfluously, and is opposed to lavishness or profusion.
Frugality is usually applied to matters of consumption, and commonly points to simplicity of manners;
parsimony is frugality carried to an extreme, involving meanness of spirit, and a sordid mode of living.
Economy is a virtue, and parsimony a vice.
I have no other notion of economy than that it is the parent to liberty and ease.
Swift.
The father was more given to frugality, and the son to riotousness [luxuriousness].
Golding. Écorché
(||É`cor`ché")
n. [F.] (Fine Arts) A manikin, or image, representing an animal, especially man, with
the skin removed so that the muscles are exposed for purposes of study.
Écossaise
(||É`cos`saise")
n. [F.] (Mus.) A dancing tune in the Scotch style.
Ecostate
(E*cos"tate) a. [Pref. e- + costate.] (Bot.) Having no ribs or nerves; — said of a leaf.
Écoute
(||É`coute")
n. [F., a listening place.] (Mil.) One of the small galleries run out in front of the glacis.
They serve to annoy the enemy's miners.
Ecphasis
(||Ec"pha*sis) n. [NL., fr. Gr. fr. to speak out.] (Rhet.) An explicit declaration.
Ecphonema
(||Ec`pho*ne"ma) n. [NL., fr. Gr. a thing called out, fr. to cry out; 'ek out + voice.] (Rhet.)
A breaking out with some interjectional particle.
Ecphoneme
(Ec"pho*neme) n. [See Ecphonema.] A mark (!) used to indicate an exclamation. G.
Brown.
Ecphonesis
(||Ec`pho*ne"sis) n. [NL., fr. Gr. . See Ecphonema.] (Rhet.) An animated or passionate
exclamation.
The feelings by the ecphonesis are very various.
Gibbs. Ecphractic
(Ec*phrac"tic) a. [Gr. from to open; 'ek out + to block up: cf. F. ecphractique.] (Med.) Serving
to dissolve or attenuate viscid matter, and so to remove obstructions; deobstruent. — n. An ecphractic
medicine. Harvey.
Écrasement
(||É`crase`ment")
n. [F.] (Surg.) The operation performed with an écraseur.
Écraseur
(É`cra`seur")
n. [F., fr. écraser to crush.] (Surg.) An instrument intended to replace the knife in
many operations, the parts operated on being severed by the crushing effect produced by the gradual
tightening of a steel chain, so that hemorrhage rarely follows.
Écru
(||É`cru")
a. [F., fr. L. crudus raw.] Having the color or appearance of unbleached stuff, as silk, linen,
or the like.
Ecstasy
(Ec"sta*sy) n.; pl. Ecstasies [F. extase, L. ecstasis, fr. Gr. fr. to put out of place, derange; =
'ek out + to set, stand. See Ex-, and Stand.] [Also written extasy.]
1. The state of being beside one's self or rapt out of one's self; a state in which the mind is elevated
above the reach of ordinary impressions, as when under the influence of overpowering emotion; an extraordinary
elevation of the spirit, as when the soul, unconscious of sensible objects, is supposed to contemplate
heavenly mysteries.
Like a mad prophet in an ecstasy.
Dryden.
This is the very ecstasy of love.
Shak.
