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e contra 106
1648. —école militaire, military school. —haute école, high military
horsemanship.
e contra [L], on the other hand.
e contrario [L], on the contrary.
écorcher les oreilles [Fr], to grate on one's ears.
écran [Fr], screen.
écrasé de travail [Fr], overwhelmed with work.
écrasement [Fr], lit., a crushing; surgical operation performed with an
écraseur (q.v.).
écraseur [Fr], lit., crusher; a surgical instrument, used esp. in the
removal of tumors.
écrasez l'infâme [Fr], crush the abomination (i.e., the persecuting and
entrenched orthodoxy of pre-Revolutionary France): Voltaire.
écrevisse [Fr], crawfish; specif., a piece of armor consisting of splints
sliding over one another in the manner of a crawfish's tail.
écrivain [Fr], writer.
écroulement [Fr], collapse.
écru [Fr], lit., unbleached; of a pale brown or neutral color, like that
of raw or unbleached fabrics; also, materials of this color or the color
itself.
ecu [Fr], orig., a small shield; any of several old French coins, esp. the
silver coin in use in the 17th and 18th centuries, equivalent to an
English crown or the French five-franc piece. —père aux ecus,
moneyed man, a man made of money.
edel ist der edel tut [Ger], noble is that noble does.
éditeur [Fr], publisher.
édition de luxe [Fr], a sumptuous edition.
editio princeps [L; pi. editiones principes], the first printed edition of
a book.
eenostrahnyets [Russ; fern, eenostrahnka], foreigner.
effleurer [Fr], to graze; skim over; glance at; touch lightly.
efharisto [Mod Gr, fr. Gr Ευχαριστώ, eukharisto], thank you.
e fiamma petere cibum [L], to snatch (or fetch) food out of the flame;
to live by desperate means: Terence.
égalité [Fr], equality.
égards [Fr], regards; respects.
égaré [Fr; fern, égarée], strayed; roving; wild; bewildered.
égarement [Fr], losing one's way; blunder; error; also, wildness of look;
bewilderment. —égarement d'esprit, mental alienation.
ego et rex meus [L], my king and I: Cardinal Wolsey (the correct order
in Latin, but commonly translated "I and my king" in keeping with
Wolsey's character).
egomet mihi ignosco [L], I myself pardon myself: Horace.
ego spem pretio non emo [L], I do not purchase hope for a price; I
do not buy a pig in a poke: Terence.