Emprise, "th' emprise of all this world" (N[46],a), generally an undertaking more or less onerous or risky. Here—the responsibility of subduing and righteously governing the material creation. "Then shal rejoysen of a grete empryse Acheved wel."—Chaucer, Troilus and Cressida (1369), ii. 1391.
Emprowed, "bought ... and emprowed" (R[219],a), improved: with an eye to a higher rent.
Encheson, "for th' encheson" (N[43],c), reason, cause, occasion. "Certes, said he, well mote I shame to tell The fond encheason that me hither led."—Spenser, Fairy Queen (1590), II. i. 30.
Encroaching of Lands, see Respublica.
Endrait, "live after that endrait" (N[59],d), quality.
Enformed, see Respublica.
England, see Courtesy.
Enquest, see Inquest.
Entriked, "I am wondrously entriked" (N[55],c; 59c), deceived, entangled, tricked, hindered. "That mirrour hath me now entriked."—Romaunt of the Rose, 1642.
Entunes, "entunes in silence of the night" (N[45],a), songs, tunes, chants, melodies. "So mery a soune, so swete entewnes."—Chaucer, Boke of the Duchesse (1371), 307.