Chapter Embarrrass to Enchant of E by Soule's Synonymes

2. Advantage, profit, benefit.

Emotion, n. Feeling, passion, excitement (of sensibility), mental agitation.

Empawn, v. a. Pawn, pledge, put in pawn.

Emphasis, n.

1. Stress (on certain words), force of utterance.

2. Impressiveness, significance, weight.

Emphatic, Emphatical, a. Expressive, significant, strong, forcible, energetic, decided, positive, unequivocal, distinct.

Empire, n.

1. Sovereignty, supremacy, dominion, absolute authority, supreme dominion, imperial power.

2. Rule, sway, command, control, government.

Empiric, n. Quack, charlatan, pretender, mountebank, impostor, cheat, mere experimenter (without scientific training).

Empiric, Empirical, a.

1. Experimental, experiential, from experience (as distinguished from inference or reasoning), based on evidence of the senses (in opposition to the creations of reason).

2. Tentative, provisional, hypothetical, experimental, that feels its way, awaiting verification.

3. Charlatanic, quackish.

Empiricism, n.

1. Dependence on experience, reliance on the evidence of sense alone.

2. (Philos.) Empirical philosophy, sensationalism, sensualism, theory of the sole validity of sense.

3. Quackery, charlatanism, charlatanry.

Emplastrum, n. [L. pl. Emplastra.] (Med.) Plaster.

Employ, v. a.

1. Busy, engage, engross, exercise, occupy.