DefinitionsEcht; Egocentricity; Egoic; Élan; Eld; Emit; EmpathyEmpiricism/ Rationalism; Empyreal; Empyrean; En Bloc; EncapsulateEnclitic; Eolithic; Epicaricacy; Epithet; Equity; Eristic; Essay;Establishable; Evolutionary Psychologists; Examen; Experientialism
Echt: • echt (adj.): real; authentic; genuine. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • echt (adj.): not fake or counterfeit; genuine (=‘being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of
something’). ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). [Dictionary Definition]: ‘egocentricity: ‘Holding the view that the ego is the norm of all experience; viewed or perceived from one’s own mind as a centre; assessing people via the filter of one’s own ego (also ‘ethnocentric’: judging people through a belief in the superiority and rightness of one’s own ethnic group; racism; nationalism)’. Oxford Dictionary I am using the word egocentric – ‘viewed or perceived from one’s own mind as a centre’ (The American Heritage® Dictionary) – in the same way as ‘ethnocentric’ is used:
Élan: élan (n.): a combination of stylish elegance and vigorous liveliness; (synonyms): style, spirit, dash, flair, animation, vigour,
verve, zest, panache, esprit, brio, vivacity, impetuosity; [e.g.]: “The part was performed with élan by a promising young tenor”.
~ (Collins English Thesaurus). Eld: • eld or eild (n.): 1. old age; 2. olden days; antiquity. [Old English eldu; related to Old Norse elli; see old; viz.: Old English eald, ‘old’; related to Old Saxon ald, Old High German, German alt, Latin altus, ‘high’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • elderly (adj.): 1. quite old; past middle age; 2. (as collective noun; preceded by the): the elderly; geriatric; (n.): elderliness; eldership. [Old English eldra, comparative of eald, ‘old’; related to Old Norse ellri, Old High German altiro, Gothic althiza + -ly]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • eld (n.; archaic): 1. age; 2. old age; 3. olden times; antiquity. [before 1000; Middle English elde, Old English eldo, ieldo, derivative of (e)ald, ‘old’; cf. world; viz.: Old English w(e)orld, cf. Germanic *wer-ald-, literally, ‘age of man’]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • elderly (adj.): 1. approaching old age; 2. of or pertaining to persons in later life; (n.): 3. the elderly, elderly persons collectively; (n.): elderliness; eldership. [1605-15, from Old English eldra, comparative of eald, ‘old’ + -ly]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • eld (n.): 1. a late time of life; [e.g.]: “a beard white with eld”; (synonyms): old age, years, age, geezerhood; [e.g.]: “old age is not for sissies”; “he’s showing his years”; “age hasn’t slowed him down at all”; “on the brink of geezerhood”; 2. a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises; [e.g.]: “tall for his eld”; (synonym): age; [e.g.]: “she was now of school age”; lifespan, lifetime, life-time, life (the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death); [e.g.]: “the battery had a short life”; “he lived a long and happy life”. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • eld (n.; obsolete or poetical in all uses): 1.
age: said of any period of life; [e.g.]: “Fyfe hundredth wyntres I am of elde, | Me thynk ther ȝeris as
yestirday”. (“York Plays”, p. 43); “Lest miȝte the faylled | In thyne olde elde”. (Piers Plowman; B,
xii. 8); “That faire child was of foure ȝer eld”. (William of Palerne; E. E. T. S., 1. 3498); 2. old age;
senility; also, an old person; [e.g.]: “Weake eld hath left thee nothing wise”. (Edmund Spenser, “Fairie
Queene”, II. iii. 16); “The weak fantasy of indigent eld”. (Charles Lamb, “Witches, And Other
Night-Fears”); “Time hath reft whate’er my soul enjoy’d, | And with the ills of Eld mine earlier years
alloy’d”. (Lord Byron, “Childe Harold”, ii. 98); “Green boyhood presses there, | And waning eld, pleading
a youthful soul, | Intreats admission”. (Robert Southey, “Count Pedro’s Castle”); 3. an age; an indefinitely
long period of time; [e.g.]: “The thridde werldes elde cam quanne [when], | Thare begat Abram”. (“Genesis and
Exodus”, 1. 705); 4. time; [e.g.]: “This storie olde,... | That elde which al can frete and bite... | Hath nygh
devoured out of our memorie”. (Geoffery Chaucer, “Anelida and Arcite”, 1. 10); 5. former ages; old times;
antiquity; [e.g.]: “Traditions of the saint and sage, | Tales that have the rine of age, | And chronicles of eld”.
(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Prelude”). [= Scottish eild, from
Middle English eld, elde, eelde, earlier ylde,
Anglo-Saxon yldu, yldo, rarely aldu, æld, eld,
‘old age’, ‘an age’, ‘antiquity’ (=Old Saxon eldi = Old High German alti, elti = Icelandic öld, Danish ælde, Gothic alds, ‘age’, ‘an age’), from eald, ‘old’; see old and world]. ~ (Century Dictionary and
Cyclopaedia). Emit: The word ‘emit’ in its monetary sense:
Empathy (n.) 1908, modelled on German Einfühlung (from ein, ‘in’ + Fühlung, ‘feeling’), which was coined
1858 by German philosopher Rudolf Lotze (1817-1881) as a translation of Greek empatheia, ‘passion, state of emotion’, from assimilated form of
en, ‘in’ + pathos, ‘feeling’ (see pathos; viz.: ‘quality that arouses pity or sorrow’; 1660s, from Greek pathos, ‘suffering,
feeling, emotion, calamity’, literally ‘what befalls one’, related to paskhein, ‘to suffer’, and penthos, ‘grief, sorrow’]. ~ (Online Etymology Dictionary). [Dictionary Definition]: ‘empiricism: the doctrine or theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience; the
doctrine or theory that concepts and statements have meaning only in relation to sense-experience; (opp. rationalism)’. (Oxford Dictionary). ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• [Dictionary Definition]: ‘rationalism: the doctrine or theory that reason rather than sense-experience is the foundation of
certainty in knowledge; (opp. empiricism)’. (Oxford Dictionary). • empyreal (adj.): 1. empyrean; 2. of the sky; celestial; 3. elevated; sublime. [Middle English emperiall, from Medieval Latin empyreus, from Late Latin empyrius, ‘fiery’, from Greek empurios, from en-, ‘in²’ + pūr, ‘fire’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).• empyreal (adj.): 1. pertaining to the highest heaven in the cosmology of the ancients; 2. pertaining to the sky; celestial; 3. exalted; sublime. [1475-85; from Late Latin empyre(us), variant of empyrius, ‘of fire’, ‘belonging to the empyrean’; from Late Greek empýrios, from em-² + -pȳrios, derivative of pŷr, ‘fire’]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).• empyreal (adj.): 1. of or relating to the sky or heavens; 2.inspiring awe; [e.g.]: “well-meaning ineptitude which rises to empyreal absurdity”. (M. S. Dworkin); (synomyns); empyrean, sublime; [e.g.]: “the empyrean sphere”; “empyrean aplomb”. (Hamilton Basso); “the sublime beauty of the night”; glorious (having or deserving or conferring glory; [e.g.]: “a long and glorious career”; “our glorious literature”). ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0).• empyreal (a. and n.): I. (adj.): formed of pure fire or light; pertaining to the highest and purest region of heaven; pure; [e.g.]: “Go, soar with Plato to th’ empyreal sphere”. (Pope, “Essay on Man”, ii. 23); II. (n.; rare): the empyrean; the region of celestial purity; [e.g.]: “The lord-lieutenant looking down sometimes | From the empyreal, to assure their souls | Against chance-vulgarisms”. (Mrs. Browning). [formerly also emperiall (simulating imperial) = French empyréal, from Medieval Latin *empyroeus (as if from Greek *ἐμπυραῖος, a false form), Late Latin empyrǐus or empyrěus, ‘fiery’, from Low Greek ἐμπύριος, for Greek ἐμπυρος, ‘in, on, or by the fire’, ‘fiery’, ‘torrid’, from ἐν, ‘in’ + πῡρ = English ‘fire’; see pyre, fire]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).
Empyreal:
• empyrean (n.): 1. (a.) the highest reaches of heaven, believed by the ancients to be a realm of pure fire or light; (b.) the abode of God and the angels; paradise; 2. the sky; (adj.): of or relating to the empyrean of ancient belief. [from Medieval Latin empyreum, from empyreus, ‘empyreal’; see empyreal]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • empyrean (n.): 1. (archaic): the highest part of the (supposedly spherical) heavens, thought in ancient times to contain the pure element of fire and by early Christians to be the abode of God and the angels; 2. (poetic): the heavens or sky; (adj.): 3. of or relating to the sky, the heavens, or the empyrean; 4. heavenly or sublime; 5. (archaic): composed of fire. [C17: from Medieval Latin empyreus, from Greek empuros, ‘fiery’, from pur, ‘fire’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).• empyrean (n.): 1. the highest heaven, supposed by the ancients to contain the pure element of fire; 2. the visible heavens; the firmament; (adj.): 3. empyreal. [1605-15]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).• empyrean (n.): 1. the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected; (synomyns): celestial sphere, firmament, heavens, vault of heaven, welkin, sphere; (adj.): of or relating to the sky or heavens; [e.g.]: “the empyrean sphere”; (synomyn): empyreal; 2. inspiring awe; [e.g.]: “well-meaning ineptitude which rises to empyreal absurdity”. (M. S. Dworkin). ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0).• empyrean (n.): (archaic): the highest part of the (supposedly spherical) heavens, thought in ancient times to contain the pure element of fire and by early Christians to be the abode of God and the angels. ~ (Collins Discovery Encyclopedia).• empyrean: in ancient cosmologies, the Empyrean Heaven, or simply the Empyrean; the place in the highest heaven, which was supposed to be occupied by the element of fire (or aether in Aristotle the Stagirite’s natural philosophy). The word derives from the Medieval Latin empyreus, an adaptation of the Ancient Greek ἔμπυρος (empyros), meaning ‘in or on the fire (pyr)’; the Empyrean was thus used as a name for the firmament, and in Christian literature for the dwelling-place of God, the blessed, celestial beings so divine they are made of pure light, and the source of light and creation; notably, at the very end of Dante’s Paradiso, Dante visits God in the Empyrean; the word is used both as a noun and as an adjective, but empyreal is an alternate adjective form; the scientific words empyreuma and empyreumatic, applied to the characteristic smell of the burning or charring of vegetable or animal matter, have the same Greek origin. ~ (2023 Wikipedia Encyclopaedia).• empyrean ( a. and n.): I. (adj.) empyreal; celestially refined; [e.g.]: “In th’ empyrean heaven, the bless’d abode. | The Thrones and the Dominions prostrate lie. | Not daring to behold their angry God”. (John Dryden, “Annus Mirabilis”; 1667, 1. 1114); “Yet upward she [the goddess] incessant flies; | Resolv’d to reach the high empyrean Sphere”. (Matthew Prior, “Carmen Seculare”; 1700, St. 23); “Lispings empyrean will I sometimes teach | Thine honeyed tongue”. (John Keats, Endymion”; 1880, li); • empyreum† (n.): same as empyrean; [e.g.]: “Passed through all | The winding orbs like an Intelligence, | Up to the empyreum”. (Ben Jonson, “The Fortunate Isles and Their Union”; 1625). [Medieval Latin *empyroeum; see empyreal]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).• empyry† (n.): the empyrean; [e.g.]: “This hevcn is cald empiry: that is at say, heven that is fyry”. (Richard Rolle de Hampote, “The Pricke of Conscience”, l. 7761). [Middle English empiry, from Old French empyrée, see empyrean]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).
Empyrean: Encapsulate (v.tr.): 1. to encase in or as if in a capsule; 2. to express in a brief summary; epitomise; [e.g.]: “headlines that encapsulate the news”; (v.intr.): to become encapsulated; (n.): encapsulation, encapsulator; (v.): encapsulated, encapsulating, encapsulates. (American Heritage Dictionary). enclitic (n.): (a). denoting or relating to a monosyllabic word or form attached to the end of the preceding word;
(b). denoting or relating to a word which throws an accent back onto the preceding word. [e.g. “give’em the
works” and “we’re”]. [square-bracketed insert added]. ~ (Collins Dictionary). eolithic (adj.): of or relating to the earliest stone-age period characterised by the use of eoliths (=‘crude stone artefacts, usually chipped flint, utilised as primitive tools’). ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0).
• epithet (n.): an abusive or contemptuous word or phrase. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). equity (n.; pl. equities): the state, action or quality of even-handed dealing, even-handedness; fairness, justness; \
impartiality; unbiased; (adj.): equitable; (adv.): equitably; (n.): equitability, equitableness; equitarian.\
~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). • eristic (n.): 1. a person who engages in disputation; 2. the art of disputation; 3. (adj.): (also, eristical): pertaining to controversy or disputation; (adv.): eristically. [1630-40; from Greek eristikós; from erist(ós), verbal adjective of erízein, derivative of éris, ‘discord’ + -ikos, ‘-ic’]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • eristic (n.): a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys
controversy; (synonyms): arguer, debater, disputant, controversialist; polemicist,
polemist, polemic (a writer who argues in opposition to others, esp. in theology); reasoner,
ratiocinator (someone who reasons rationally); analogist (someone who looks for analogies or
who reasons by analogy); apologist (a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or
institution; [e.g.]: “an apologist for capital punishment”); advocate, advocator,
exponent, proponent (a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea); justifier,
vindicator; confuter, disprover, rebutter, refuter (a debater who refutes or disproves by
offering contrary evidence or argument); reformer, reformist, social reformer, crusader,
meliorist (a disputant who advocates reform); 2. the art of logical disputation (especially if
specious); (synonyms): hair-splitter (a disputant who makes unreasonably fine
distinctions); quarreller (a disputant who quarrels); wrangler (someone who argues noisily or
angrily); logomach, logomachist (someone given to disputes over words); 3. (adj.): (also
eristical): given to disputation for its own sake and often employing specious arguments;
argumentative (given to or characterised by argument; [e.g.]: “an argumentative
discourse”; “argumentative to the point of being cantankerous”; “an
intelligent but argumentative child”); (synonyms): casuist, sophist (someone whose
reasoning is subtle and often specious); devil’s advocate (someone who takes the worse side
just for the sake of argument). ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • eristic (n.; pl. eristics): one who makes specious arguments; one who
is disputatious; [e.g.]: “a specimen of admirable special pleading in the court of
eristic logic” (Coleridge); (adj.): provoking strife, controversy or discord; *eristical*
(adj.): obsolete form of eristic; eristically (adv.): in an eristic manner. [emphasis added].
[etymology: borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐ ριστικός
(eristikós), ‘eager for strife’; from Ancient Greek Ἔρις (Éris 8206;),
from ἔρις (éris), ‘strife’; Eris, the goddess of discord, confusion,
and strife, is traditionally blamed for the Trojan War but is celebrated in Discordianism (a
modern absurdist religion) as the creative principle]. ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary).
Eristical: eristical (adj.): given to or characterised by disputatious, often specious argument; eristic. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). essay (n.): a short literary composition dealing with a subject analytically; (synonyms): composition,
study, paper, article, piece, assignment, discourse, tract, treatise, dissertation, disquisition; [e.g.]: “He was asked to write an essay about
his home town”. ~ (Collins English Thesaurus). establishable (adj.): able to be established or secured.~ (Collins English
Dictionary). Evolutionary psychologists, so-named in 1973 & popularised in 1992 Viz.:
• examen (n.): a critical study (as of a writer’s work); criticism, critique. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • examen (n.): an examination; an investigation. [Latin exāmen, ‘a weighing out’, from exigere, ‘to weigh out’, ‘demand’, from ex- + agere, ‘to weigh’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).
[Dictionary Definition]: ‘the theory or doctrine that all knowledge is based on experience’. (Oxford Dictionary). The Third Alternative (Peace On Earth In This Life Time As This Flesh And Blood Body) Here is an actual freedom from the Human Condition, surpassing Spiritual Enlightenment and any other Altered State Of Consciousness, and challenging all philosophy, psychiatry, metaphysics (including quantum physics with its mystic cosmogony), anthropology, sociology ... and any religion along with its paranormal theology. Discarding all of the beliefs that have held humankind in thralldom for aeons, the way has now been discovered that cuts through the ‘Tried and True’ and enables anyone to be, for the first time, a fully free and autonomous individual living in utter peace and tranquillity, beholden to no-one.
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