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Webster 1913 Edition


Enchiridion


Enˊchi-rid′i-on

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Noun.
[L., from Gr. [GREEK]; [GREEK] in + [GREEK] hand.]
Handbook; a manual of devotions.
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Webster 1828 Edition


Enchiridion

ENCHIRID'ION

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Noun.
[Gr. the hand.] A manual; a book to be carried in the hand. [Not used.]

Definition 2024


enchiridion

enchiridion

English

Noun

enchiridion (plural enchiridions or enchiridia)

  1. A handbook or manual.
  2. A dagger.[1]
    • 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:
      This [their laick rabble] may have much reason to discourage the Ministers when such a low conceit is had of all their exhortations, and the benefiting of their hearers, as that they are not thought fit to be turn'd loose to three sheets of paper without a Licencer, that all the Sermons, all the Lectures preacht, printed, vented in such numbers, and such volumes, as have now well-nigh made all other Books unsalable, should not be armor anough against one single enchiridion, without the Castle St. Angelo of an Imprimatur.

References

  1. Milton, John. Thomas White, ed. Areopagitica: A Speech to the Parliament of England, for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, pp. 115 f., n. 4. R. Hunter, 1819.

Latin

Noun

enchiridion m (genitive enchiridiī); second declension

  1. a manual

Declension

Second declension, Greek type.

Case Singular Plural
nominative enchiridion enchiridia
genitive enchiridiī enchiridiōrum
dative enchiridiō enchiridiīs
accusative enchiridion enchiridia
ablative enchiridiō enchiridiīs
vocative enchiridion enchiridia

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