- 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.