Energy
(En"er*gy) n.; pl. Energies [F. énergie, LL. energia, fr. Gr. fr. active; in + work. See In, and
Work.]
1. Internal or inherent power; capacity of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or
not; as, men possessing energies may suffer them to lie inactive.
The great energies of nature are known to us only by their effects.
Paley. 2. Power efficiently and forcibly exerted; vigorous or effectual operation; as, the energy of a magistrate.
3. Strength of expression; force of utterance; power to impress the mind and arouse the feelings; life; spirit; —
said of speech, language, words, style; as, a style full of energy.
4. (Physics) Capacity for performing work.
The kinetic energy of a body is the energy it has in virtue of being in motion. It is measured by one
half of the product of the mass of each element of the body multiplied by the square of the velocity of
the element, relative to some given body or point. The available kinetic energy of a material system
unconnected with any other system is that energy which is due to the motions of the parts of the system
relative to its center of mass. The potential energy of a body or system is that energy which is not kinetic; —
energy due to configuration. Kinetic energy is sometimes called actual energy. Kinetic energy is
exemplified in the vis viva of moving bodies, in heat, electric currents, etc.; potential energy, in a bent
spring, or a body suspended a given distance above the earth and acted on by gravity.
Accumulation, Conservation, Correlation, &and Degradation of energy, etc. (Physics) See under
Accumulation, Conservation, Correlation, etc.
Syn. — Force; power; potency; vigor; strength; spirit; efficiency; resolution.
Enervate
(E*ner"vate) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enervated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Enervating.] [L. enervatus, p.
p. of enervare, fr. enervis nerveless, weak; e out + nervus nerve. See Nerve.] To deprive of nerve,
force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers
of.
A man . . . enervated by licentiousness.
Macaulay.
And rhyme began t' enervate poetry.
Dryden. Syn. — To weaken; enfeeble; unnerve; debilitate.
Enervate
(E*ner"vate) a. [L. enervatus, p. p.] Weakened; weak; without strength of force. Pope.
Enervation
(En`er*va"tion) n. [L. enervatio: cf. F. énervation.]
1. The act of weakening, or reducing strength.
2. The state of being weakened; effeminacy. Bacon.
Enervative
(E*ner"va*tive) a. Having power, or a tendency, to enervate; weakening. [R.]
Enerve
(E*nerve") v. t. [Cf. F. énerver. See Enervate.] To weaken; to enervate. [Obs.] Milton.
Enervous
(E*nerv"ous) a. [L. enervis, enervus.] Lacking nerve or force; enervated. [R.]
Enfamish
(En*fam"ish) v. t. To famish; to starve.
Enfect
(En*fect") a. [See Infect, a.] Contaminated with illegality. [Obs.] Chaucer.
