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Webster 1913 Edition


En-

En-

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1.
[F.
en
-, L.
in
.]
A prefix signifying in or into, used in many English words, chiefly those borrowed from the French. Some English words are written indifferently with en-or in-. For ease of pronunciation it is commonly changed to em-before p, b, and m, as in employ, embody, emmew. It is sometimes used to give a causal force, as in enable, enfeeble, to cause to be, or to make, able, or feeble; and sometimes merely gives an intensive force, as in enchasten. See
In-
.
2.
A prefix from Gr. [GREEK] in, meaning in;
as,
en
cephalon,
en
tomology
. See
In-
.