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Ecce Signum

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See it, in proof; Behold the proof!        

“Iʹam eight times thrust through the doublet, four through the hose; my buckler cut through and through; my sword backed like a handsaw—ecce signum!”—Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV., ii. 4.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Eating Together
Eau de Cologne
Eau de Vie
Eaves-dropper
Ebionism
Ebionites
Eblis or Ibleis
Ebony
Ebudæ
Ecce Homo
Ecce Signum
Eccentric
Eccentric Sensation
Eccentric Theory (The)
Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastical
Ecclesiasticus
Echidna (E-kid-na)
Echo
Echo
Eckhardt