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- English Word Encourage Definition To give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to raise, or to increase, the confidence of; to animate; enhearten; to incite; to help forward; -- the opposite of discourage.
- English Word Encouraged Definition of Encourage
- English Word Encouragement Definition The act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity.
- English Word Encouragement Definition That which serves to incite, support, promote, or advance, as favor, countenance, reward, etc.; incentive; increase of confidence; as, the fine arts find little encouragement among a rude people.
- English Word Encourager Definition One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer.
- English Word Encouraging Definition of Encourage
- English Word Encouraging Definition Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring.
- English Word Encowl Definition To make a monk (or wearer of a cowl) of.
- English Word Encradle Definition To lay in a cradle.
- English Word Encratite Definition One of a sect in the 2d century who abstained from marriage, wine, and animal food; -- called also Continent.
- English Word Encrease Definition i. [Obs.] See Increase.
- English Word Encrimson Definition To give a crimson or red color to; to crimson.
- English Word Encrinal Definition Alt. of Encrinital
- English Word Encrini Definition of Encrinus
- English Word Encrinic Definition Alt. of Encrinital
- English Word Encrinital Definition Relating to encrinites; containing encrinites, as certain kinds of limestone.
- English Word Encrinite Definition A fossil crinoid, esp. one belonging to, or resembling, the genus Encrinus. Sometimes used in a general sense for any crinoid.
- English Word Encrinitic Definition Alt. of Encrinitical
- English Word Encrinitical Definition Pertaining to encrinites; encrinal.
- English Word Encrinoidea Definition That order of the Crinoidea which includes most of the living and many fossil forms, having jointed arms around the margin of the oral disk; -- also called Brachiata and Articulata. See Illusts. under Comatula and Crinoidea.