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en- 1 or em- or in-
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1.
a. To put into or onto: encapsulate.
b. To go into or onto: enplane.
2. To cover or provide with: enrobe.
3. To cause to be: endear.
4. Thoroughly. Used often as an intensive: entangle.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin in-, in; see en in Indo-European roots.]
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Although my book is intended mainly for the en- tertainment of boys and girls, I hope it will not be shunned by men and women on that account, for part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in.
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Even at this first en- counter, this first glimpse, I was overcome with disgust and dread.
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Not en- tirely; for there was a fellow on a horse, looking down at me -- a fellow fresh out of a picture-book.
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