E*con`o*mi*za"tion (?), n. The act or practice of using to the best effect. [R.] H. Spenser.
E*con"o*mize (*kn"*mz), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Economized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Economizing.] [Cf. F. économiser.] To manage with economy; to use with prudence; to expend with frugality; as, to economize one's income. [Written also economise.]
Expenses in the city were to be economized.
Jowett (Thucyd. ).
Calculating how to economize time.
W. Irving.
E*con"o*mize, v. i. To be prudently sparing in expenditure; to be frugal and saving; as, to economize in order to grow rich. [Written also economise.] Milton.
E*con"o*mi`zer (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, economizes.
2. Specifically: (Steam Boilers) An arrangement of pipes for heating feed water by waste heat in the gases passing to the chimney.
E*con"o*my (-m), n.; pl. Economies (#). [F. économie, L. oeconomia household management, fr. Gr. o'ikonomi`a, fr. o'ikono`mos one managing a household; o'i^kos house (akin to L. vicus village, E. vicinity) + no`mos usage, law, rule, fr. ne`mein to distribute, manage. See Vicinity, Nomad.] 1. The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy.
Himself busy in charge of the household economies.
Froude.
2. Orderly arrangement and management of the internal affairs of a state or of any establishment kept up by production and consumption; esp., such management as directly concerns wealth; as, political economy.
3. The system of rules and regulations by which anything is managed; orderly system of regulating the distribution and uses of parts, conceived as the result of wise and economical adaptation in the author, whether human or divine; as, the animal or vegetable economy; the economy of a poem; the Jewish economy.
The position which they [the verb and adjective] hold in the general economy of language.
Earle.
In the Greek poets, as also in Plautus, we shall see the economy . . . of poems better observed than in Terence.
B. Jonson.
The Jews already had a Sabbath, which, as citizens and subjects of that economy, they were obliged to keep.
Paley.
4. Thrifty and frugal housekeeping; management without loss or waste; frugality in expenditure; prudence and disposition to save; as, a housekeeper accustomed to economy but not to parsimony.
Political economy. See under Political.
Syn. -- Economy, Frugality, Parsimony. Economy avoids all waste and extravagance, and applies money to the best advantage; frugality cuts off indulgences, and proceeds on a system of saving. The latter conveys the idea of not using or spending superfluously, and is opposed to lavishness or profusion. Frugality is usually applied to matters of consumption, and commonly points to simplicity of manners; parsimony is frugality carried to an extreme, involving meanness of spirit, and a sordid mode of living. Economy is a virtue, and parsimony a vice.
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I have no other notion of economy than that it is the parent to liberty and ease.
Swift.
The father was more given to frugality, and the son to riotousness [luxuriousness].
Golding.
||É`cor`ché" (?), n. [F.] (Fine Arts) A manikin, or image, representing an animal, especially man, with the skin removed so that the muscles are exposed for purposes of study.
||É`cos`saise" (?), n. [F.] (Mus.) A dancing tune in the Scotch style.
E*cos"tate (?), a. [Pref. e- + costate.] (Bot.) Having no ribs or nerves; -- said of a leaf.
||É`coute" (?), n. [F., a listening place.] (Mil.) One of the small galleries run out in front of the glacis. They serve to annoy the enemy's miners.
||Ec"pha*sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to speak out.] (Rhet.) An explicit declaration.
||Ec`pho*ne"ma (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a thing called out, fr. &?; to cry out; 'ek out + &?; voice.] (Rhet.) A breaking out with some interjectional particle.
Ec"pho*neme (?), n. [See Ecphonema.] A mark (!) used to indicate an exclamation. G. Brown.
||Ec`pho*ne"sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;. See Ecphonema.] (Rhet.) An animated or passionate exclamation.
The feelings by the ecphonesis are very various.
Gibbs.
Ec*phrac"tic (?), a. [Gr. &?;, from &?; to open; 'ek out + &?; to block up: cf. F. ecphractique.] (Med.) Serving to dissolve or attenuate viscid matter, and so to remove obstructions; deobstruent. -- n. An ecphractic medicine. Harvey.
||É`crase`ment" (?), n. [F.] (Surg.) The operation performed with an écraseur.
É`cra`seur" (?), n. [F., fr. écraser to crush.] (Surg.) An instrument intended to replace the knife in many operations, the parts operated on being severed by the crushing effect produced by the gradual tightening of a steel chain, so that hemorrhage rarely follows.
||É`cru" (?), a. [F., fr. L. crudus raw.] Having the color or appearance of unbleached stuff, as silk, linen, or the like.
Ec"sta*sy (?), n.; pl. Ecstasies (#). [F. extase, L. ecstasis, fr. Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to put out of place, derange; &?; = 'ek out + &?; to set, stand. See Ex-, and Stand.] [Also written extasy.] 1. The state of being beside one's self or rapt out of one's self; a state in which the mind is elevated above the reach of ordinary impressions, as when under the influence of overpowering emotion; an extraordinary elevation of the spirit, as when the soul, unconscious of sensible objects, is supposed to contemplate heavenly mysteries.
Like a mad prophet in an ecstasy.
Dryden.
This is the very ecstasy of love.
Shak.