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PRINCE EUGENE OF SAVOY [FRANCOIS EUGENE] (1663-1736)

EUGENICS (from the Gr. euyevits, well born)

EUGENOL (allyl guaiacol, eugenic acid), C10H1202

EVEMERUS] EUHEMERUS [EUEMERUS

TILL EULENSPIEGEL [ULENSPIEGEL]

LEONHARD EULER (1707-1783)

EUMENES (c. 360-316 B.C.)

EUMENIDES (from Gr. evµevtits, kindly; di, well, and jAvos, disposition)

EUMENIUS (c. A.D. 260-311)

EUMOLPUS (" sweet singer ")

EUNOMIUS (d. c. 393)

EUNUCH (Gr. Evvoi3Xos)

EUPATORIA (Russ. Evpatoria; also known as Kozlov and to the Turks as Gezlev)

EUPATRIDAE (Gr. di, well; 7raTijp, father, i.e. " Sons of noble fathers ")

EUPEN (Fr. Neau)

EUPHEMISM (from Gr. eiiidirl sos, having a sound of good omen; et)

EUPHONIUM (Fr. baryton; Ger. Tenor Tube)

EUPHRATES (Babylon. Purattu, Heb. Perath, Arab. Frdt or Furst, Old Pers. Ufratu, Gr. Eb4 parrls)

EUPION (Gr. eu, well, rhea, fat)

EUPOLIS (c. 446-411 t.c.)

EURIPIDES (48o–4o6 B.C.)

EUROCLYDON (Gr. eupos, east wind; KM)bwv, wave)

EUROPA (or rather, EUROPE)

EUROPE AND TEMPERATE

EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL

EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

EUROPEAN PORCELAIN TO THE END OF THE 18TH

EURYDICE (Evpuiixq)

LAURENCE EUSDEN (1688-1730)

EUSEBIUS (Gr. EuOi/3tos, from ebaegils, pious, cf. the Latin name Pius)

EUSEBIUS OF LAODICEA

EUSEBIUS [OF CAESAREA] (c. 260-c. 340)

EUSEBIUS [OF EMESA] (d. c. "36o)

EUSTATHIUS, or EUMATHIUS

EUSTYLE (from Gr. ev, well, and a-Taos, column)

EUTYCHES (c. 380-c. 456)

EVAGRIUS (c. 536–600)

EVANDER (Gr. EvavSpos, " good man ")

EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE

EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION

EVANGELICAL CHURCH CONFERENCE

EVANGELICAL UNION

CHRISTMAS EVANS (1766-1838)

EVAN HERBER EVANS (1836-1896)

OLIVER EVANS (1755–1819)

SIR GEORGE DE LACY EVANS (1787–1870)

SIR JOHN EVANS (1823-1908)

EDWARD EVANSON (1731–1805)

WILLIAM MAXWELL EVARTS (1818–1901)

EVECTION (Latin for " carrying away ")

EVELYN PIERREPONT (c. 1655-1726)

JOHN EVELYN (1620-1706)

ALLART VAN EVERDINGEN (1621-?1675)

SIR GEORGE EVEREST (1790—1866)

ALEXANDER HILL EVERETT (1790-1847)

CHARLES CARROLL EVERETT (1829-1900)

EDWARD EVERETT (1794–1865)

EVERLASTING, or IMMORTELLE

CHARLES SHAW LEFEVRE EVERSLEY

EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

GEORG HEINRICH AUGUST VON EWALD (1803-1875)

JOHANNES EWALD (1743-1781)

WILLIAM EWART (1798-1869)

RICHARD STODDERT EWELL (1817-1872)

ALEXANDER EWING (1814-1873)

THOMAS EWING (1789-1871)

EXARCH (EEapxos, a chief person or leader)

EXCAMBION (a word connected with a large class of Low Latin and Romance forms, such as cambium, concambium, scambium, from Lat. cambire, Gr. KhOety or Kh/s7rTav, to bend, turn or fold)

EXCAVATIONS AND ARCHAEOLOGY

EXCELLENCY (Lat. excellentia, excellence)

EXCHEQUER AUGMENTATION

EXCHEQUER RECORDS

EXCHEQUER TREASURY OF

EXCISE (derived through the Dutch, excijs or accijs, possibly from Late Lat. accensare,—ad, to, and census, tax; the word owes something to a confusion with excisum, cut out)

EXCOMMUNICATION (Lat. ex, out of, away from; communis, common)

EXCRETION (Lat. ex, out of, cernere, cretum, to separate)

EXECUTION (from Lat. ex-sequor, exsecutus, follow or carry out)

EXECUTORS AND ADMINISTRATORS

COUNT RENE JOSEPH ISIDORE EXELMANS (1775-1852)

EXETER BOOK [Codex Exoniensis]

MARQUESS AND DUKE OF EARL EXETER

EXHIBITING SOCIETIES

EXHUMATION (from Med. Lat. exhumare; ex, out of, and humus, ground)

EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)

1ST VISCOUNT EDWARD PELLEW EXMOUTH (1757-1833)

EXOGAMY (Gr. few, outside; and yaµor, marriage)

EXORCISM (Gr. EEop,d av, to conjure out)

EXORCIST (Lat. exorcista, Gr. i oprcio•T17s)

EXOTIC (Gr. EWTIK6s, foreign, from few, outside)

EXPATRIATION (from Late Lat. expairiare, to exile, and patria, native land)

EXPERIMENTS WITH DIRIGIBLE

EXPERT (Lat. expertus, from experiri, to try)

EXPORTS AND IMPORTS OF THREE SOUTH AMERICAN

EXPRESS (through the French from the past participle of the Lat. exprimere, to press out, by transference used of representing objects in painting or sculpture, or of thoughts, &c. in words)

EXPULSION (Lat. expulsio, from expellere)

EXTENSION (Lat. ex, out ; tendere, to stretch)

EXTENSOR CARPI RADIALS

EXTENSOR LONGUS POLLICIS EXTENSOR

EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES

EXTERIOR POLICY

EXTERRITORIALITY

EXTORTION (Lat. extorsio, from extorquere, to twist out, to take away by force)

EXTRACT (from Lat. extrahere, to draw out)

EXTRADITION (Lat. cx, out, and traditio, handing over)

EXTRADOS (extra, outside, Fr. dos, back)

EXTREME UNCTION

JONATHAN EYBESCHUTZ (1690-1764)

EYE (O. Eng. edge, Ger. Auge; derived from an Indo-European root also seen in Lat. oc-ulus, the organ of vision (q.v.)

EYLAU (Preussisch-Eylau)

EYRA (Felis eyra)

EDWARD JOHN EYRE (1815-1901)

SIR JAMES EYRE (1734-1799)

EZEKIEL (SKpm', " God strengthens" or " God is strong "; Sept. 'IE'EKL?)X; Vulg. Ezechiel)

EZRA (from a Hebrew word meaning " help ")

BOOKS OF EZRA AND NEHEMIAH

FOURTH BOOK EZRA (or APOCALYPSE) OF

THIRD BOOK OF [I Esdras] EZRA

EZZO, or EHRENFRIED (c. 954–1024)

EZZOLIED, or ANEGENGE

ANGELO FABBRONI (1732-1803)

FABER (or LEFEVRE), JOHANN (1478-1541)

BASIL FABER (1520-c. 1576)

FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER (1814-1863)

ABRAHAM DE FABERT (1599-166o)

SAINT FABIAN [FABIANUS] (d. 250)

QUINTUS FABIUS PICTOR

FABLE (Fr. fable, Lat. fabula)

FERDINAND FABRE (183o—1898)

RAPHAEL FABRETTI (1618–1700)

SEVERING FABRIANI (1792–1849)

GAIUS LUSCINUS FABRICIUS (i.e. " the one-eyed ")

GEORG FABRICIUS (1516-1571)

HIERONYMUS FABRICIUS

JOHANN ALBERT FABRICIUS (1668-1736)

JOHANN CHRISTIAN FABRICIUS (1745-18o8)

NICOLA FABRIZI (1804-1885)

CHARLES ANNIBAL FABROT (1580-1659)

ROBERT FABYAN (d. 1513)

SACOPO FACCIOLATI (1682-1769)

FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

FACTION (through the French, from Lat. factio, a company of persons combined for action, facere, to do; from the other French derivative facon comes " fashion ")

FACTOR (from Lat. facere, to make or do)

FACULA (diminutive of fax, Lat. for " torch ")

FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

THOMAS FAED (1826-1900)

FAENZA (anc. Faventia)

FAEROE (also written FAROE or THE FAEROES, Danish Faeroerne or Fliroerne, "the sheep islands ")

FAESULAE (mod.. Fiesole, q.v.)

FAGGING (from " fag," meaning " weary"; of uncertain etymology)

GUSTAVE CHARLES FAGNIEZ (1842- )

EMILE FAGUET (1847- )

CHRISTIAN ERIK FAHLCRANTZ (179o-1866)

GABRIEL DANIEL FAHRENHEIT (1686–1936)

LOUIS LEON CESAR FAIDHERBE (1818–1889)

PIERRE LOUIS CHARLES DE FAILLY (1810–1892)

AGATHON JEAN FRANCOIS FAIN (1778–1837)

ANDREW MARTIN FAIRBAIRN (1838- )

SIR WILLIAM FAIRBAIRN

ERASTUS FAIRBANKS (1792–1864)

2ND BARON FERDINANDO FAIRFAX FAIRFAX OF CAMERON (1584-1648)

3RD BARON THOMAS FAIRFAX FAIRFAX OF CAMERON (1612-1671)

EDWARD FAIRFAX (c. 1580-1635)

FREDERICK WILLIAM FAIRHOLT (1814-1866)

FAIRUZABADY [Abu-t-Tahir ibn Ibrahim Majd ud-Din ul-Fairuzabadi] (1329-1414)

FAIRY (Fr. fee, faerie; Prov. facia; Sp. hada; Ital. fata; med. Lat. fatare, to enchant, from Lat. fatum, fate, destiny)

WILLIAM FAITHORNE (1626 or 1627-1691)

FAKIR (from Arabic faqir, " poor ")

FALASHAS (i.e. exiles; Ethiopic falas, a stranger)

CHRISTOVAO DE SOUSA FALCAO (? 1512-1557)

ANTON REINHARD FALCK (1777–1843)

FALCON (Lat. Falco;' Fr. Faucon; Teutonic, Falk or Valken)

ANIELLO FALCONE (x600–x665)

HUGH FALCONER (18o8–1865)

WILLIAM FALCONER (1732–1769)

TIENNE MAURICE FALCONET (1716-1791)

FALCONRY (Fr. fauconnerie, from Late Lat. falco, falcon)

FALDSTOOL (from the O.H. Ger. falden or fallen, to fold, and stool, Mod. Ger. Stuhl, a stool; from the medieval Latin faldistolium is derived, through the old form faudesteuil, the Mod. Fr. fauteuil)

FALERII [mod. Civitd Castellana (q.v.)]

JEAN ALEXANDRE JOSEPH FALGUIERE (1831-1900)

FALIERO (or FALTER), MARINO (1279-1355)

JOHANN DANIEL FALK (1768-1826)

PAUL LUDWIG ADALBERT FALK (1827-1900)

JOHANN FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB FALKE (1823-1876)

FALKLAND ISLANDS (Fr. Malouines; Span. Malvinas)

LUCIUS CARY FALKLAND

FALLACY (Lat. fall-ax, apt to mislead)

CLEMENT ARMAND FALLILRES (1841– )

JAKOB PHILIPP FALLMERAYER (1790–1861)

FALLOPIUS (or FALLOPIO), GABRIELLO (1523-1562)

FREDERIC ALFRED PIERRE FALLOUX

FALSE PRETENCES

FALTICHENI (FalticenI)

FAMA (Gr. cI i.a1, "Ovoa)

FAMAGUSTA (Gr. Ammochostos)

FAMILIAR (through the Fr. familier, from Lat. familiaris, of or belonging to the familia, family)

FAMINE (Lat. fames, hunger)

FAN (Lat. vannus; Fr. eventail)

FANCY (a shortened form, dating from the 15th century, of " fantasy," which is derived through the O. Fr. fantasie, modern fantaisie. from the Latinized form of the Gr. cbavraoia, Oavrai'ecv, Oat Pais, to show)

FANG (FAN, FANWE, PANWE, PAHOUIN, PAOUEN, MPANGWE)

FANO (anc. Fanum Fortunae, q.v.)

SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE

FANTASIA (Italian for " fantasy," a causing to be seen, from Greek, 4aivew, to show)

MANFREDO FANTI (1806-1865)

FANUM FORTUNAE (mod. Fano)

FARABI [Abu Na*r Muhammad ibn Tarkhan ul-Farabi] (ca. 870-950)

MICHAEL FARADAY (1791-1867)

known as al-Farazdaq] FARAZDAQ [Hammam ibn Ghalib ibn Sa'sa' (ca. 641-ca. 728)

GUILLAUME FAREL (1489-1565)

JOHN FAREY (1766-1826)

WILLIAM GEORGE FARGO (1818-1881)

MANUEL DE FARIA Y SOUSA (1590-1649)

FARIDPUR, or FURREEDPORE

SALVATORE FARINA (1846– )

PAOLO FARINATO (1522–1606)

FARINELLI (1705–1782)

LUIGI CARLO FARINI (1812–1866)

RICHARD FARMER (1735–1787)

FARNABY (or FARNABIE), THOMAS (c. 1575–1647)

BARON THOMAS ERSKINE MAY FARNBOROUGH (1815-1886)

Or THE STAPLES] FERN FARNE ISLANDS [also FEARNE

ALEXANDER FARNESE (1545-1592)

ELIZABETH FARNESE (1692-1766)

FARO (from Pharaoh, a picture of the Egypidan king appearing on a card of the old French pack)

GEORGE FARQUHAR (1677-1707)

WILLIAM FARR (1807-1883)

DAVID GLASGOW FARRAGUT (1801-1870)

RICHARD FARRANT

FREDERIC WILLIAM FARRAR (1831-1903)

ELIZABETH FARREN (c. 1759-1829)

WILLIAM FARREN (1786-1861)

1ST BARON THOMAS HENRY FARRER FARRER (1819-1899)

FARS (the name Farsistan is not used)

FARTHING (A.S. Jeortha, fourth, ring, diminutive)

FARTHINGALE (from the O. Fr. verdagalle, or vertugalle, a corruption of the Spanish name of the article, verdagado, from verdago, a rod or stick)

FARUKHABAD, FARRAKHABAD, or FURRUCKABAD

FASCIA (Latin for a bandage or fillet)

FASCINATION (from Lat. fascinare, to bewitch, probably connected with the Or. f3ao-Kaiveev, to speak ill of, to bewitch)

FASCINE (from the Lat. fascina, fascis, a bundle of sticks)

FASHION (adapted from Fr. facon, agon, Lat. factio, making, facere, to do or make)

FASHODA (renamed, 1904, K000K)

FASTING (from " fast," derived from old Teutonic fastejan; synonyms being the Gr. vnorebety, late Lat. jejunare)

SIR JOHN FASTOLF (d. 1459)

FAT (O.E. fdett; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vet, Ger. Fett, &c., and may be ultimately related to Greek Irian, and =apos, and Sanskrit pivan)

FATALISM (Lat. fatum, that which is spoken, decreed)

FATHIPUR FATEHPUR

FATHERS OF THE CHURCH