*ellen*

a. [ L. divellens, p. pr. ] Drawing asunder. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ a., n }. See Elenge, Elengeness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. excellence, L. excellentia. ] 1. The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consider first that great
Or bright infers not excellence. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue. [ 1913 Webster ]

With every excellence refined. Beattie. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A title of honor or respect; -- more common in the form excellency. [ 1913 Webster ]

I do greet your excellence
With letters of commission from the king. Shak.

Syn. -- Superiority; preëminence; perfection; worth; goodness; purity; greatness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Excellencies 1. Excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority. [ 1913 Webster ]

His excellency is over Israel. Ps. lxviii. 34. [ 1913 Webster ]

Extinguish in men the sense of their own excellency. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A title of honor given to certain high dignitaries, esp. to viceroys, ministers, and ambassadors, to English colonial governors, etc. It was formerly sometimes given to kings and princes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. excellent, L. excellens, -entis, p. pr. of excellere. See Excel. ] 1. Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims, action. [ 1913 Webster ]

To love . . .
What I see excellent in good or fair. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality; -- used with words of a bad significance. [ Obs. or Ironical ] “An excellent hypocrite.” Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their sorrows are most excellent. Beau. & Fl.

Syn. -- Worthy; choice; prime; valuable; select; exquisite; transcendent; admirable; worthy. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Excellently; eminently; exceedingly. [ Obs. ] “This comes off well and excellent.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In an excellent manner; well in a high degree. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In a high or superior degree; -- in this literal use, not implying worthiness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

When the whole heart is excellently sorry. J. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] A native of either ancient or modern Greece; a Greek. Brewer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the Hellenes, or Greeks. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, fr. &unr_; the Greeks. ] Of or pertaining to the Hellenes, or inhabitants of Greece; Greek; Grecian. “The Hellenic forces.” Jowett (Thucyd. ). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The dialect, formed with slight variations from the Attic, which prevailed among Greek writers after the time of Alexander. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. Hellénisme. ] 1. A phrase or form of speech in accordance with genius and construction or idioms of the Greek language; a Grecism. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The type of character of the ancient Greeks, who aimed at culture, grace, and amenity, as the chief elements in human well-being and perfection. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. Helléniste. ] 1. One who affiliates with Greeks, or imitates Greek manners; esp., a person of Jewish extraction who used the Greek language as his mother tongue, as did the Jews of Asia Minor, Greece, Syria, and Egypt; distinguished from the Hebraists, or native Jews (Acts vi. 1). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One skilled in the Greek language and literature; as, the critical Hellenist.

{ } a. [ Cf. F. Hellénistique. ] Pertaining to the Hellenists. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hellenistic language,
Hellenistic dialect, or
Hellenistic idiom, the Greek spoken or used by the Jews who lived in countries where the Greek language prevailed; the Jewish-Greek dialect or idiom of the Septuagint. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. According to the Hellenistic manner or dialect. J. Gregory. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] To use the Greek language; to play the Greek; to Grecize. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] To give a Greek form or character to; to Grecize; as, to Hellenize a word. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Ivorytype. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. impellens, p. pr. of impellere. ] Having the quality of impelling. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An impelling power or force. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Mutually repellent. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Romaic. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Hellenism as surviving or revival in modern times; the practice or pursuit of ancient Greek ideals in modern life, art, or literature, as in the Renaissance. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ See Panhellenium. ] Of or pertaining to all Greece, or to Panhellenism; including all Greece, or all the Greeks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A scheme to unite all the Greeks in one political body. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An advocate of Panhellenism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., from Gr. Panellh`nion; pa^s, pa^n, all + "E`llhnes the Greeks.] (Gr. Antiq.) An assembly or association of Greeks from all the states of Greece. [1913 Webster]

n. A friend of Greece, or of the Greeks; a philhellenist. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to philhellenism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Love of Greece. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Philo- + Gr. "E`llhn a Greek: cf. F. philhellène.] A friend of Greece; one who supports the cause of the Greeks; particularly, one who supported them in their struggle for independence against the Turks; a philhellene. [1913 Webster]

n. A philhellenist. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. praecellentia, from praecellens, p. pr. of praecellere to excel, surpass: cf. OF. precellence. ] Excellence; superiority. [ Obs. ] Sheldon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. praecellens, p. pr. ] Excellent; surpassing. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The principle of repulsion; the quality or capacity of repelling; repulsion. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. repellens, -entis, p. pr. ] Driving back; able or tending to repel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. That which repels. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A remedy to repel from a tumefied part the fluids which render it tumid. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A kind of waterproof cloth. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. revellens, p. pr. of revellere. See Revel, v. t. ] Causing revulsion; revulsive. -- n. (Med.) A revulsive medicine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being self-repelling. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. pl. (Far.) See Sallenders. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Superior excellence; extraordinary excellence. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. super- + excellent: cf. L. superexcellens. ] Excellent in an uncommon degree; very excellent. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any species of Tellina. [ 1913 Webster ]