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115 escritura, buena memoria
équivoque [Fr], adj. ambiguous; doubtful; equivocal; n. ambiguity;
equivocation; quibble; also, an ambiguous word or phrase.
e re nata [L], under the present circumstances; as matters stand.
erev tov [Heb], good evening.
ergebet euch or ergeben Sie sich! [Ger], surrender!
ergo [L], therefore; hence.
erhaben [Ger], elevated; lofty; stately.
er hat Haare auf den Zähnen [Ger], lit., he has hairs on his teeth; he
knows what's what; he's aggressive.
Erin go bragh [Irish], Erin (or Ireland) forever: ancient battle cry of
the Irish.
Erinnerung [Ger], recollection; reminiscence; reminder.
eripuit caelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis [L], he snatched the thunderbolt
from heaven and the scepter from tyrants: inscription under
the bust of Benjamin Franklin by Houdon.
erlaubt ist was gefällt [Ger], what pleases us is permissible; what a man
likes to do, that he thinks right to do: Goethe.
ernst [Ger], earnest; grave; serious: music. —ernst ist das Leben, heiter
ist die Kunst, life is earnest, art is joyous: Schiller.
eroico [It; fern, eroica], heroic: music.
errare humanum est [L], to err is human.
erreur ou omission exceptée [Fr], error or omission excepted: abbr.
e.o.o.e.
Ersatz [Ger], amends; compensation; reparation; substitute.
erstens [Ger], in the first place.
erstgeboren [Ger], adj. first-born.
erst wägen, dann wagen [Ger], first consider, then venture.
erubuit; salva res est [L], he blushed; the affair is safe: Terence.
Erzherzog [Ger; fern. Erzherzogin], archduke.
esa es la herencia de Adán [Sp], that is the heritage of Adam: Calderón
(said of misery).
es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, sich ein Charakter in dem Strom
der Welt [Ger], a talent is developed in quiet (or solitude), a character
in the stream of the world: Goethe.
es bleibt dabei! [Ger], agreed!
escadrille [Fr], naval or aviation squadron; as, the Lafayette escadrille.
escalier [Fr], staircase; stairs. —escalier dérobé, private staircase.
escamotage [Fr], juggling; sleight of hand; fig., pilfering.
escargot [Fr], edible snail.
escarmouche [Fr], skirmish; brush; running fight: mil.
esclandre [Fr], uproar; scandal; a quarrel in public.
escouade [Fr], squad; gang (of workmen).
escribiente [Sp], clerk; amanuensis.
escrime [Fr], fencing. —salle d'escrimer, fencing school.
escritura, buena memoria [Sp], writing, the best memory.