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Enid
Enid [cf. W enaid, life, soul]. Name borne both by a Welsh heroine and by her Arthurian counterpart. The Welsh Enid is the lover of Geraint fab Erbin and a leading figure in Geraint ac Enid [Geraint and Enid]. Geraint once finds Enid weeping because he prefers the luxury of home life instead of the challenges of knighthood, but he mistakenly thinks that she is weeping for an absent lover. Thus when he takes her with him on a sequence of adventures, he forbids her to speak with him, which prevents her from warning him of dangers. Later they are reconciled. Her father was Yniwl Iarll.
Alfred Lord Tennyson adapted this story in Geraint and Enid (1859). The most important Arthurian parallel is Erec et Enide by Chrétien de Troyes (d. 1180); in French and Continental Arthuriana, her husband is Erec. In the German of Hartmann von Aue (c.1170–c.1215) she is Enite. To call a woman a ‘second Enid’ in the age of chivalry was to bestow upon her the highest compliment. |
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JAMES MacKILLOP. "Enid." A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 25 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JAMES MacKILLOP. "Enid." A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 25, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O70-Enid.html JAMES MacKILLOP. "Enid." A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. 2004. Retrieved May 25, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O70-Enid.html |
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Enid
Enid ♀ Celtic name of uncertain derivation, borne by a virtuous character in the Arthurian romances, the long-suffering wife of Geraint. The name was revived in the second half of the 19th century, following Tennyson's Idylls of the King (1859), which contains the story of Geraint and Enid, in which Enid recovers her husband's trust by patience and loyalty after he has suspected her, wrongly, of infidelity.
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PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Enid." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 25 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Enid." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (May 25, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O41-Enid.html PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Enid." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Retrieved May 25, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O41-Enid.html |
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Enid
Enid , city (1990 pop. 45,309), seat of Garfield co., N central Okla.; inc. 1893. It is an important trade and processing center for an area rich in wheat, dairy cattle, poultry, and oil. There are flour mills, food-processing plants, and many oil-related industries in the city. The Museum of the Cherokee Strip , of which Enid was a part, is in the city. Vance Air Force Base is nearby. |
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"Enid." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 25 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Enid." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 25, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Enid.html "Enid." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 25, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Enid.html |
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Enid
Enid, Oklahoma/USA Originally a tented city that sprang up overnight in 1893 around a land office when the Cherokee Strip was opened to settlers. The name is believed to come from Enid, a character in Tennyson's Idylls of the King published in 1859.
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JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Enid." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 25 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Enid." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (May 25, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O209-Enid.html JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Enid." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Retrieved May 25, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O209-Enid.html |
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Enid
Enid ♀ (Welsh) Of uncertain derivation.
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PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Enid." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 25 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Enid." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (May 25, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O41-Enid1.html PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Enid." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Retrieved May 25, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O41-Enid1.html |
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Enid
Enid
•carangid • alleged • aged
•frigid, rigid
•turgid • naked • wicked • whizz-kid
•orchid • crooked
•pallid, valid
•gelid • skidlid • eyelid
•solid, squalid, stolid
•Euclid • unsullied • annelid
•chrysalid • Ozalid • desmid • timid
•Fatimid
•humid, tumid
•pyramid • MacDiarmid • crannied
•arachnid • Enid • hominid • honied
•Leonid, Oceanid
•salmonid • Achaemenid
•unaccompanied • Sassanid • learned
•winged
•rapid, sapid, vapid
•intrepid, tepid
•insipid, lipid
•limpid • poppied • torpid
•Cupid, stupid
•canopied
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"Enid." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 25 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Enid." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 25, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Enid.html "Enid." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 25, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Enid.html |
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