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ENATIC :  adj  See quotation. Compare ANACLITIC

And little n is as well the abbreviation of the Latin natus, meaning `born´, which returns us full-belly to the word `enate´, growing outward, and to its fetal twin, `enatic´, related on the mother's side.

--DeLillo, Ratner's Star, p. 153.

ENDOSMIC :  adj  osmosing inwardly as opposed to "exosmic." See PATIBULARY

ENTELECHY :  noun  the complete and/or perfect realization of a concept See PATIBULARY

. . . above Watt, or about Watt, a shade uncast, a light unshed, or the grey air aswirl with vain entelechies?

--Beckett, Watt, p. 220.

I had to take into account all things bright and beautiful and all things their exact opposite. The fancy word for this was "entelechy," which meant not only something's is-ness, but how its is-ness had evolved and was evolving. . . .

--West, Out of My Depths, p. 89.

EOAN :  adj  having to do with dawn, sunrise, or the east

. . . a young actor with handsome Irish features . . . pressed upon me what he called a Honolulu Cooler, but at the eoan stage of an attack I am beyond alcohol, so could only taste the pineapple part of the mixture.

--Nabokov, Look at the Harlequins!, p. 145.

EPHEBE :  noun  Greek for an adolescent, a young man. EPHEBIC, adj

I felt lacquered from head to foot, like that naked ephebe, the bright clou† of a pagan procession who died of dermal asphyxia in his coat of golden varnish.

--Nabokov, Look at the Harlequins!, p. 206.

EPHECTIC :  adj  skeptical, unconvinced, dubious

Can one be ephectic otherwise than unawares?

--Beckett, The Unnamable, p. 402.

EPICLIMACTICALLY :  adv  after the climax

. . . (these onversations were all post coitally, anyhow epiclimactically, couched). . . .

--Barth, Chimera, p. 77.

ESCUTCHEON :  noun  the crotch of a quadruped animal. Compare COUN, COUNTRY MATTERS, COYNTE, DELTA, FOTZEPOLITIK, FURBELOW, MERKIN, QUIM, QUIMTESSENCE

I turned to the red-faced lady I was complimenting and touched my stick lightly to her crotch. "Do you have a special name for it, ma'am? What we call the escutcheon?"

--Barth, Giles Goat-Boy, p. 158.

EPINASTIC :  adj  bent out and down. Compare EVAGINATE

. . . and they stood there motionless as plants, Valentine in epinastic curve as the expression on his face unfolded to immediacy. . . .

--Gaddis, Recognitions, pp. 544-545.

ERUMPENT :  adj  bursting forth, breaking out. Compare DEHISCENCE, DISSILIENT, GURN, IRRUMPENT.

. . . on his head--pressing down his erumpent red hair--the vaguely Westernish broad-brimmed hat that signalled his difference from other philosophers (as if any such signal were needed), aligning him more nearly with the Southern or Western poets who came, every week or so, to read their flashy junk to the Department of Anguish.

--Gardner, Mickelsson's Ghosts, p. 19.

EUTRIPSIA :  noun  felicitous fondling. Compare CONTRECTATION, DACTYLIC, HAPTIC

They were erudite and sensual about the orectic,† the synchronous, the vellicative,† about eutripsia, salacious aromas, amplitudes.

--Davenport, "The Dawn in Erewhon,"
Tatlin!, p. 256.

EVAGINATE :  verb  to unsheath; to turn out. Compare EPINASTIC

"A turing outward. Not that I'd say the word. I'd rather commit the act than say the word. Particularly in front of a lady."
"What word?"
"Evaginate."

--DeLillo, Ratner's Star, p. 242.

EXOLETE :  noun  someone obsolete, out of use. Compare PARACHRONIC, PRETERIST

. . . all the exoletes, dunces, procumbents†, and unpalteringly† ugly bagmen she called her councillors. . . .

--Theroux, Darconville's Cat, p. 235.