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2581 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EDGE.22 (Noah Webster)
6. To incite; to provoke; to urge on; to instigate; that is, to push on as with a sharp point; to goad. Ardor or passion will edge a man forward, when arguments fail.
2582 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ELENCH.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A vicious or fallacious argument, which is apt to deceive under the appearance of truth; a sophism. [Little used.]
2583 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ELICIT.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To draw out; to bring to light; to deduce by reason or argument; as, to elicit truth by discussion.
2584 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ELOCUTION.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Pronunciation; the utterance or delivery of words, particularly in public discourses and arguments. We say of elocution, it is good or bad; clear, fluent or melodious.
2585 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ELOQUENCE.2 (Noah Webster)
… or argument.
2586 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ELUCIDATE.2 (Noah Webster)
… . An argument may elucidate an obscure question. A fact related by one historian may elucidate an obscure passage in another’s writings.
2587 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ELUDE.2 (Noah Webster)
… an argument; to elude a blow or stroke.
2588 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ENCOUNTER.14 (Noah Webster)
4. To meet and oppose; to resist; to attack and attempt to confute; as, to encounter the arguments of opponents. Acts 17:18 .
2589 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ENFORCE.7 (Noah Webster)
5. To urge with energy; to give force to; to impress on the mind; as, to enforce remarks or arguments.
2590 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ENLARGEMENT.5 (Noah Webster)
4. Diffusiveness of speech or writing; an expatiating on a particular subject; a wide range of discourse or argument.
2591 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ENSUE.5 (Noah Webster)
ENSUE, v.i. To follow as a consequence of premises; as, from these facts or this evidence, the argument will ensue.
2592 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ENTERTAIN.4 (Noah Webster)
… or argument. The advocate entertained his audience an hour, with sound argument and brilliant displays of eloquence.
2593 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ENTERTAINMENT.3 (Noah Webster)
… , discourse, argument, oratory, music, dramatic performances, etc.; the pleasure which the mind receives from any thing interesting, and which holds or arrests …
2594 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ENTHYMEME.1 (Noah Webster)
… , an argument consisting of only two propositions, an antecedent and a consequent deduced from it; as, we are dependent, therefore we should be humble. Here the …
2595 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ENUMERATION.3 (Noah Webster)
2. In rhetoric, a part of a peroration, in which the orator recapitulates the principal points or heads of the discourse or argument.
2596 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EPITROPE.1 (Noah Webster)
… own argument.
2597 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EVADE.4 (Noah Webster)
3. To elude by subterfuge, sophistry, address or ingenuity. The advocate evades an argument or the force of an argument.
2598 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EVAPORATE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. To escape or pass off without effect; to be dissipated; to be wasted. Arguments evaporate in words. The spirit of a writer often evaporates in translating.
2599 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EVASION.2 (Noah Webster)
… an argument, from an accusation or charge, from an interrogatory and the like; excuse; subterfuge; equivocation; artifice to elude; shift. Evasion of a direct …
2600 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EVASIVE.3 (Noah Webster)
1. Containing evasion; artfully contrived to elude a question, charge or argument; as an evasive answer; an evasive argument or reasoning.