2. (Philos.) A believer in egoism.

{ E`go*is"tic (?), E`go*is"tic*al (?), } a. Pertaining to egoism; imbued with egoism or excessive thoughts of self; self-loving.

Ill-natured feeling, or egoistic pleasure in making men miserable.

G. Eliot.

E`go*is"tic*al*ly, adv. In an egoistic manner.

E*go"i*ty (?), n. Personality. [R.] Swift.

E"go*mism (?), n. Egoism. [R.] A. Baxter.

E`go*phon"ic (?), a. Belonging to, or resembling, egophony.

E*goph"o*ny (?), n. [Gr. &?;, &?;, goat + &?; voice.] (Med.) The sound of a patient's voice so modified as to resemble the bleating of a goat, heard on applying the ear to the chest in certain diseases within its cavity, as in pleurisy with effusion.

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