Vocabulary : Ecballium to Eccentrical

Ecballium : A genus of cucurbitaceous plants consisting of the single species Ecballium agreste (or Elaterium), the squirting cucumber. Its fruit, when ripe, bursts and violently ejects its seeds, together with a mucilaginous juice, from which elaterium, a powerful cathartic medicine, is prepared.
Ecbasis : A figure in which the orator treats of things according to their events consequences.
Ecbatic : Denoting a mere result or consequence, as distinguished from telic, which denotes intention or purpose; thus the phrase / /, if rendered "so that it was fulfilled," is ecbatic; if rendered "in order that it might be." etc., is telic.
Ecbole : A digression in which a person is introduced speaking his own words.
Ecbolic : A drug, as ergot, which by exciting uterine contractions promotes the expulsion of the contents of the uterus.

Ecboline : An alkaloid constituting the active principle of ergot; -- so named from its power of producing abortion.
Eccaleobion : A contrivance for hatching eggs by artificial heat.
Ecce homo : A picture which represents the Savior as given up to the people by Pilate, and wearing a crown of thorns.
Eccentric : Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation from the center or from true circular motion. ;; Not having the same center; -- said of circles, ellipses, spheres, etc., which, though coinciding, either in whole or in part, as to area or volume, have not the same center; -- opposed to concentric. ;; Pertaining to an eccentric; as, the eccentric rod in a steam engine. ;; Not coincident as to motive or end. ;; Deviating from stated methods, usual practice, or established forms or laws; deviating from an appointed sphere or way; departing from the usual course; irregular; anomalous; odd; as, eccentric conduct. ;; A circle not having the same center as another contained in some measure within the first. ;; One who, or that which, deviates from regularity; an anomalous or irregular person or thing. ;; In the Ptolemaic system, the supposed circular orbit of a planet about the earth, but with the earth not in its center. ;; A circle
Eccentrical : See Eccentric.

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