alliances." Washington.
The difficulties that perplex men's thoughts and entangle their understandings.
Locke.
Allowing her to entangle herself with a person whose future was so uncertain.
Froude. Entanglement
(En*tan"gle*ment) n. State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which
entangles; intricacy; perplexity.
Entangler
(En*tan"gler) n. One that entangles.
Entasia
(||En*ta"si*a) n. [NL., fr. Gr. . See Entasis.] (Med.) Tonic spasm; — applied generically to
denote any disease characterized by tonic spasms, as tetanus, trismus, etc.
Entasis
(||En"ta*sis) n. [NL., from Gr. a stretching; fr. in + to extend.]
1. (Arch.) A slight convex swelling of the shaft of a column.
2. (Med.) Same as Entasia.
Entassment
(En*tass"ment) n. [F. entassement, fr. entasser to heap up.] A heap; accumulation. [R.]
Entastic
(En*tas"tic) a. [Formed as if fr. (assumed) Gr. . See Entasis.] (Med.) Relating to any disease
characterized by tonic spasms.
Entelechy
(En*tel"e*chy) n. [L. entelechia, Gr. prob. fr. to be complete; + completion, end + to have
or hold.] (Peripatetic Philos.) An actuality; a conception completely actualized, in distinction from mere
potential existence.
Entellus
(||En*tel"lus) n. [NL., the specific name, fr. Gr. to command.] (Zoöl.) An East Indian long-
tailed bearded monkey (Semnopithecus entellus) regarded as sacred by the natives. It is remarkable
for the caplike arrangement of the hair on the head. Called also hoonoomaun and hungoor.
Entend
(En*tend") v. i. [F. entendre, fr. L. intendere. See Intend.] To attend to; to apply one's self to.
[Obs.] Chaucer.
Entender
(En*ten"der) v. t.
1. To make tender. [R.] Jer. Taylor.
2. To treat with tenderness. [R.] Young.
Ententive
(En*ten"tive) a. [OF. ententif.] Attentive; zealous. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Enter-
(En"ter-) [F. entre between, fr. L. inter. See Inter-] A prefix signifying between, among, part.
Enter
(En"ter) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Entering.] [OE. entren, enteren, F. entrer,
fr. L. intrare, fr. intro inward, contr. fr. intero fr. inter in between, between. See Inter-, In, and cf.
Interior.]
1. To come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to
pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet, a country, a door, etc.; the river enters the sea.
That darksome cave they enter.
Spenser.
I, . . . with the multitude of my redeemed,
Shall enter heaven, long absent.
Milton.
