s distinguished 3; to jump, to n from Brow annus s others by one rd. oucester, p. 296. athe Toukman, p. K you upright on (Dedis, c e rest which with us, and aa ye bat It admits then of a conjecture that to learn may mean, to gather or take up; (take or teach, qv. and see BETECHE.) To learn, is (by modern usage) only— To take to ourselves, (sc.) the knowledge of any thing; formerly also, to take it to another, to deliver, impart, or communicate it; to teach. To take, accept, or receive (knowledge); to And so heo schulde lerne, with Christenemen to fygte. Take my yocke on you, and learn of me, for I am meke Lerneth to suffren, or so mote I gon, Chaucer. The Frankeleines Tale, v. 11,090. Certis I know not other men's witts, what I should aske, er in answere, what I should saie, I am so leude my self, that mockell more lernyng, yet me behoueth. Id. The Testament of Loue, b. iii. Besides, the king set in a course so right, When I was yet a child, no childish play Serious to learn, and know, and thence to do Ralegh. History of the World, b. i. c. 11. 6. 2. For it is true, the late learners cannot so well take the e; except it be in some mindes, that have not suffered themselves to fix, but have kept themselves open and prepared, to receive continual amendments,-which is exceedng rare-Bacon. Ess. Of Custome. 1 The parts of human learning have reference to the three parts of man's understanding which is the seat of learning; story to his memory, poesy to his imagination, and philophy to his reason.-Id. Advancement of Learning, b. ii. Thus then to man the voice of Nature spake, Go, from the creatures thy instructions take: And seem more learnedish than those Whether, retiring from your weighty charge, Butler. Miscellaneous Thoughts. Stern, rugged nurse; thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore: What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learn'd to melt at others' woe. Men that, if now alive, would sit content LEASER. granted. LEASE, v. Skinner says, "To leas corn, (from the Dut. and Ger. Les-en, gere, legere, carpere, to collect, to gather.' Lessor, lessee, &c. are common legal terms. And those not by chance Made, or indenture, or leas'd out t'advance B. Jonson. To the Memory of Sir Lucius Cary. This land of such deere soules, this deere deere land, Shakespeare. Rich. II. Act ii. sc. 1. colledge [Lincolne's Inne] tooke an estate of long time by I could begin again to court and praise, An infant Phenix from the former springs, false rein to hold an horse by; any such long string," together with a leash, or lash. to the number (3) Now it is behovely to tellen whiche ben dedly sinnes, that Then should the warlike Harry, like himself Or Cerberus himself pronounce LE'ASIE. This word has been found only in The word is Goth. and A.S. Lis-an, les-an leaveth, whiles the sense itselfe be left both lowse and leasie. For studying therebie to make everie thing straight and easie, in smoothing and playning all things to much, never Ascham. The Schole-master, b. ii. and the application, probably, consequential : To gather or pick up, to collect, to glean, (2) that which is loose or scattered. Aren, that in harvest used to lease: But harvest done to chair work did aspire; Meat, drink, and two pence was her daily hire. Dryden. Theocritus, Idyl. 3. game as no offce which a man from England might a the cand I looked upon all who were born here as hy condition of leasers and gleaners.-Swifl. LEASING. LEA Lesingmongeris and forsworun.-Wiclif. 1 Tim. c. 1. Than wol I shewe al openly by right, That thou hast made a ful gret lesing here. Chaucer. The Chanones Yemannes Prologue, v. 15 943 With softe speeche and with lesynge.-Gower. Con. A. b. i. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 8. For trading free shall thrive again, LEATHER. the A. S. Hlid-an, Gay. The Shepherd's Week, Past. 1 Goth. Hlethr, hleithr; A. S. tegere, to cover; pellis, qua Lether; Dut. and Ger. Leder; Sw. Leader. Wachter suggests The hide with which the skin, the flesh, or body of the animal is covered: it is most usually applied to the hide when stripped from the animal and manufactured by the tanner. Piers Plouhman, p. 97. And as a letherne pors. lolled his chekus. Chaucer. The Milleres Tale, v. 3300. Clad with a garmente wouen of camel's heeres, and girded with a lethere girdill.-Udal. Matthew, c. 3. "Lat him enchantors," quoth Merlyn, "sone bi for me The prices of that commodity [leather] rose to great, high, and unsupportable rates, which caused a proclamation dated from Westminster, June 1, that no manner of person should carry or export out of the realm any manner of leather, or salt hides, into any strange nation without express licence. Strype. Memorials. Edw. VI. an. 1548. Her lips were, like raw lether, pale and blew. Milton. Comus. Wormius calls this crust a leathery skin.-Grew. Museum. Of wing-worke still presum'de. Warner. Albion's England, b. vii. c. 36 The first said the wine tasted of iron; the other affirmed it had a twang of goat's leather; the owner protested the pipe was clean. Time passed on, the wine was sold, and when the pipe came to be cleaned, they found in it a small key, tied to a leathern thong. Smollett. Don Quixote, b. i. c. 13. concede, or allow (any thing) to stay, abide or Corineus saide, that he nolde nomen asche leue, To honto and to wynne hys mete, and habbe solas and Bot Segbert of Estsex at home left stille.-R. Brunne, p. 3. Peace I leue with you, my peace I geue vnto you. Not as 70 LEA Upon the wardein besily they crie, To yeve hem leve but a litel stound, To gon to mille, and seen her corn yground. Within an yle me thought I was, This old Pandion, this king gan wepe Id. Dreame. Id. Legend of Philomene. For as much as this vertue is more estemed of the affeccion of the leauer, than of the greatness of the thyng that is leaft.-Udal. Matthew, c. 19. Leave, ah! leave off, whatever wight thou bee, To let a weary wretch from her due rest, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 1. Shakespeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act i. sc. 1. Then let us not think hard One easie prohibition, who enjoy Free leave so large to all things else, and choice Oh Anthony, Forgiue me in thine owne particular, Id. Anthony & Cleopatra, Act iv. sc. 9. The Queen provides companions of her flight, Dryden. Virgil. Æneis, b. i. Short was your answer in your usual strain; LEC Troy. Haue I not tarried? The cruel something, unpossess'd, LE CHER, n. There can be no doubt that Lecher is from the verb to lick. Fr. Lecher or lescher. Cotgrave says-Lecheresse, a licorous or saucy woman, LECHEROUSNESS. lescheur, a licker; a licorous companion; lescherie, licorousness, and in v. lie, to leacher it, or get a lick at it. LECHEROUS. A lecherous man or woman is a licorous man or woman; though the word (lechery) is now confined Other copies and various lections and words omitted, and corruptions of texts and the like, these you are full of; but no footstep of any solid learning appears in all you have writ. Milton. A Defence of the People of England. This was a great and devout scholar, whose aid Alfred used in his disposition of lectures. Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 11. Selden. Illustrations. Corbet. Iter Boreale. These lectures must be read onely in the Tearme tymes: to euery lecturer, or reader, is prouided and allowed by this founder, fiftie pounds of annuall fee or stipend, and a fayre lodging within this his pallace like house. Stow. Of the Vniuersities in England, c. 30. William Rufus was buryed at Winchester in the Cathedral Church, or Monastery of Saynt Swithen, vnder a playne flatte marble stone, before the lectorne in the queere. Id. William Rufus, an. 1099. Some persons opened their mouthes against me, both obliquely in the pulpit, and directly at the court, complaining of my too much indulgence to persons disaffected, and my too much liberty of frequent lecturings within my charge. Bp. Hall. Some Specialities in his Life. to a particular lust, or desire; (sc.) for sexual in-worthy of such an undertaking, it was to preach Mr.Boyle's tercourse. A lustful, lewd, or libidinous person. So foul lechour was the kyng, that anon in the howse His barons gave him conseile for to take a wyfe. He [John] was of licherous life. Id. p. 35. Lo Loth in hus lyue. yorowe lecherouse drinke Ye han herd that it was seid to olde men thou shalt not do leecherie.-Id. Matthew, c. 5. The youngere sone went forth in pilgrimage into a fer countree and there he wastid his goodis: in lyuinge lecherFrancis. Horace, b. i. Sat. 6. ously.-Id. Luke, c. 15. LE'AVEN, v. To raise, to lighten, (sc. by the intermixture of another ingredient that may cause fermentation;) (met.) to intermix with a substance of less purity; to savour or season, stain, tinge, or imbue. He is the leuein of the breade. Whiche soureth all the paste about.-Gower. Con. A. b. iii. And he was also lecherous. Bible, 1551. Isaiah, c. 56. Notes. Do's letcher in my sight.-Shakespeare. Lear, Act iv. sc.6. Upon a bearded gote whose rugged heare, Was like the person selfe, whom he did beare: But all too late commeth the lectuarie LECTURE, v. LECTIONARY. Chaucer. Troil. & Cres. In the year 1704, he [Clarke] was called forth to an office, Lecture, founded by that honourable gentleman, to assert and vindicate the great fundamentals of natural and revealed religion.-Clarke. Life, by Hoadley. He [Tillotson] soon became lecturer at St. Laurence Jury, which he continued till his advancement to the see of Canterbury.-Tillotson. Life, by Birch. The Lectionary contained all the lessons, which were directed to be read in the course of the year. Warton. Life of Sir T. Pope, p. 337. If the teacher happens to be a man of sense, it must be an unpleasant thing to him to be conscious, while he is leoturing his students, that he is either speaking or reading nonsense, or what is very little better than nousense. Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. v. c. 1. I was informed by an acquaintance, that a certain clergyman in the city was about to resign his lectureship, and that he would probably resign in my favour, if I were early enough in my application.-Knox. Essays, No. 117. Tyrwhitt Thurgh which she understood wel every thing Chaucer. The Squieres Tale, v. 10,749. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 11. lay. A narrow board upon which we are wont to lay small things, (Skinner.) That upon which we lay any thing; a narrow A lecture, a reading; a sermon or discourse 1202 Ye sydes were as it were flat borders between the ledges. Falconer. Shipwreck, c.2 سلام to the wind; to be under the lee is to be under As sea-men tell, Moores by his side under the lee.-Milton. Par. Lost, b. i. Thus they generally reason: Barbadoes is the Easter-most of the Carribbe Islands, therefore the rest are said to be leeward of it, and so of any other island; as indeed it usually holds true, because the winds there are commonly at East. Dampier. Voyages, vol. ii. pt. iii. c. 2. Which just like ours, how rigg'd and mann'd, And got about a league from land By change of wind to leeward side, The pilot knew not how to guide.-Swift. On the Union. Though sorely buffeted by ev'ry sea, Then might I with unrivall'd straines, deplore Seeing now that I am entred thus far into a discourse of LEER, v. A. S. Hleare, hleor, maxilla, Lere, in Chaucer, is explained by Mr. Tyrwhitt down-cast, or lowering; as if to attract or invite A loveliche lady of lere in linnen y clothid His face frounsed, his lere was like the lede. Chaucer. The Testament of Creseide, p. 295. Shakespeare. Love's Labour Lost, Act v. sc. 2. P. Fletcher. The Purple Island, c. 7. LEECH, v. A. S. Lace, from Lacn-ian, læcn- No ladie (quoth the earle with a loud voice, and the tears To cure, to heal; to practise the art of healing, places there are no other thing bred or growing but brown the medicinal art. Hys leches loked hys stat, as her rygt was to done. He lechede hem of here langour.-Piers Plouhman, p.311. And purpose you to heare his speech Well wist that lord that I was seke The clotered blood, for any leche-craft, Id. Ib. Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 2747. All other leches he forsoke, And put him out of auenture Alonly to God's cure. Home is he brought; and laid in sumptuous bed Gower. Con. 4. b. ii. To salve his hurts, that yet still freshly bled. The hors-leeches which we call in Latine sanguisugus, blood-suckers) are used for to draw blood. Holland. Plinie, b. xxiii. c. 10. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 5. because being inwardly taken they fasten upon the veins, Kached-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 5. Yet he [M. Cato] omitted not the leech-craft belonging Mare neede of leach-craft hath yon damozell Then of my skill.-Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 3. But like a leech well fix't, he'll suck what's good, King. Art Cookery. Leches are good barometers when preserved in glasses, and predict bad weather by their great restlessness and change of place.-Pennant. Zoology, vol. iv. The Leech. LEEK, n. A. S. Lec, leac; Dut. Look; Ger. Leach; Sw. Loek. A.S." Leac. Allium porrum, leak, a general name of a certain kind of hearbs," Somner.) The etymology is unknown. Ter yt wolde fynde hem lek worten y now by the gere. The fishes not worth a leke, rise & go thi ways. As lynne seed and lik seed.—Piers Plouhman, p. 211. I hold a mouse's wit not worth a leke. Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Prologue, v. 6154. She giues the leere of inuitation. Beaum. Fletch. Monsieur Thomas, Act iv. sc. 2. Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iv. c. 4. Brooke. Constantia. LEER. A. S. Ge-lær; Ger. Lær, vacans, iners, A leer drunkard, will be a loose drunkard, a disso- Love. Laugh on, sir, I'll to bed and sleep. B. Jonson. The New Inn, Act iv. sc. 3. Harrington. Orlando Furioso, b. xvi. s. 64. LEES. Fr. Lie, from the A. S. Lic-gan, to lay Verely the lees of wine are so strong, that oftentimes it See LOSE. Lath-ian, ge-lathian, congregare, q.d. the assembly or assize, because equally applicable to any other LEET, n. Spelman rejects the A. S. Lath, from priority of appropriation might decide the distinclæt, censura, arbitrium. court, which seems scarcely a sufficient reason; tion. He further suggests let, pars, parvus, or See his Gloss. in v. Leta. For whether in letes they may or not. yt he saith he douteth. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1012. M. Lambert seemeth to be of the opinion, that the leets of our time doo yeeld some shadow of the politike institution of Alfred.-Holinshed. Description of England, b. ii. c. 4. The jurisdiction of these leets is either remaining in the king, and in that case exercised by the sheriff in his turn, which is the grand leet, or granted over to subjects, but yet it is still the king's court.-Bacon. The Office of Constable. The other general business of the leet and tourn was to present by jury all crimes whatsoever that happened within their jurisdiction; and not only to present, but also to punish, all trivial misdemesnors. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iv. c. 19. LEFE. See LIEF. LEFT, adj. Dut. Lufte hand, luchte hand, sinistra. The left hand is that which is leaved, leav'd, left; or which we are taught to leave out of use when one hand only is employed, (Tooke, vol. ii. p. 10.) In the rigt syd two, and in the lift syde on. Octa. Vpon the right hand I, keepe thou the left. upon. ing-to bow with the leg drawn or thrown back- The legges bare bynethe the kne, that me mygte eche alreadye they breake not his legges.-Bible, 1551. John, c.19. But the sea keeping hir course, rose still higher and Holinshed. History of England, b. vii. c. 13. He knew how many leggs a knight letts fall Corbet. To the Lord Mordant. How the pale primrose and blue violet spring, Dryden. The Cock and the Fox. As they design'd to mock me, at my side LEG LEGACY. Fr. Legz; It. Legato; Sp. LeLEGATE E. gacia; Lat. Legatum, from Legare, i.e. quasi lege quadam in testamento statuendo ac decernendo, (Vossius.) LEG Tweye men, Legates of Rome, For legacy by Will or Testament, see the quo- and comyng, & in his necessities I shall helpe him. tation from Blackstone. Stow uses it as a derivative from Legate, (qv.) Whan he had heard her great infirmite Chaucer. The Complaint of Creseide. Now haue ye yt summe of this my doctrine eue my very gospel yt whole tale of all my legacy and message wherfore I am sent into the world.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 459. Yea, begge a haire of him for memory Vnto their issue.-Shakespeare. Julius Cæsar, Act iii. sc.2. A legacy is a bequest, or gift of goods and chattels by testament; and the person to whom it was given is stiled the legatee.-Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. c. 32. "Yes, marry "Sir;" quoth I, "I know not the law." do you," quoth he, and laughed. "Nay in good faith," quoth I, "I am no legist." Wyatt to Cromwell, 12 April, (1540.) He was a good clerke and connynge in bothe lawes, he was a great iuryst and legyst. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. ii. c. 210. Who made our laws to bind us, not himself Whom so it pleases him by choice From national obstruction, without taint Milton. Samson Agonistes. The presbytery of Glascow, and many other places protested against the legality thereof, because of the admission of lay-elders, a thing scarce before heard of in that Church. Baker. Charles I. an. 1638. I know, Mr. Speaker, there is in Parliament a double power of life and deatif by bill, a judicial power, and a legislative; the measure of the one is what's legally just, and the other what is prudentially and politickly fit for the good and preservation of the whole. Id. Ib. an. 1641. Speech of Lord Digby. Though there should be emulation between them, yet as Iegists, they will agree in magnifying that wherein they are best.-Bacon. Works, vol. iii. Let. 127. To the King. R. Gloucester, p. 499. Shakespeare. Hen. VIII. Act iii. sc. 2. Upon pretence of his Legantine power, he [Wolsey] assumed the managery of all ecclesiastical matters whatsoever.-Strype. Memorials. Hen. VIII. an. 1530. The Legates a latere, as they were called, were a kind of Hume. History of England, vol. i. Note N. And so he hath begon LEGEND, n. Chaucer. The Court of Loue. Fr. Légend; It. and Sp. Legenda, from legendum, to be read; from legere, to read. For the literal meaning, and frequent application of the word, see the quotation from Tooke. Applied to A narrative or relation, a record or register, any thing told; from the abuse in the lives of saints, any fictitious or incredible story. Also specially used in Numismatics for the inscription placed on the edge of a coin or medal; it differs from an In which you do but that over again, that you have from the inscription, which occupies the place of a head or very beginning of your discourse, and which some silly legu-device on the face of the coin. leians now and then do, to argue unawares, against their own clients.-Milton. A Defence of the People of England. But if you lessen the rate of use, the lender, whose interest it is to keep up the rate of money, will rather lend it to the banker, at the legal interest, than to the tradesman or gentleman, who when the law is broken, shall be sure to pay the full natural interest, or more. Locke. Of Lowering of Interest. Nor would the banker venture to borrow, where his gains would be but one per cent. nor the money'd man lend him, what he could make better profit of legally at home.-Id. Ib. That is by signifying their approbation, or satisfaction concerning the orthodoxy of their faith, the attestation of their manners, the legality of their ordination, &c. Barrow. Of the Pope's Supremacy. An officer, though he had passed his life in the field, was able to determine all legal controversies which could occur within the district committed to his charge. Hume. Hist. of England, vol. ii. App. 2. What do you think were the feelings of every man, who looks upon Parliament in an higher light, than that of a market-overt for legalizing a base traffick of votes and pensions, when he saw you employ such means of coercion to the Crown, in order to coerce our Parliament through that medium?-Burke. Letter to Thomas Burgh, Esq. LEGATE. Fr. Légat; It. Legato; Sp. Legado; Lat. Legatus, from leg-are, i. e. lege mittere, to send by law. See DELEGATE. Legible,-Fr. and Sp. Legible; It. Leggibile, My name yenterede Piers Plovhman, p. 194. Of good women, and maidens, and wiues, Chaucer. The Legend of Good Women, Prol. Bp. Hall, b. i. Sat. 1. Brome. Upon the King's Imprisonment. those book-men know whom they have heard of, he knows It was pleasant to see, how divers of the letters of several Legend, which means-That which ought to be read-is from the early misapplication of the term by impostors, now used by us as if it meant-That which ought to be laughed at: and so it is explained in our dictionaries. Tooke. Diversions of Purley, vol. ii. c. 8. Warton. On Sir J. Reynolds's Painted Window at Oxford. LEGER. Dut. Legger; A. S. Lec-gan, jacere, to lie, to stay, or remain. A leger ambassador,-one sent to remain, or continue. A leger-book, a book that lies; for immediate entries. Chaucer renders the Lat. Sedes,-liege. Is this the librarie that thou haddest chosen for a right certain liege to thee in mine hous, [certissimam tibi sedem nostris in laribus.]-Chaucer. Boecius, b. i. All which particulars dee most evidently appeare out of certaine auncient ligier books of the R. W. Sir William Locke, mercer of London, &c. and others. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. p. 96. This ledger-book lies in the brain behind, Davies. The Immortality of the Soul, s. 21. For Gundamore, the Spanish leiger, did so aggravate this fact of his to the king against him, that it seemed nothing would give satisfaction but Raleigh's head.-Baker, an. 1617. 7. Lieger ambassadors or agents were sent to remain in or near the courts of those princes or states, to observe their motions, and to hold correspondence with them. Bacon. Advice to Sir George Villiers. It happened that a stage-player borrowed a rusty musket, which had lien long leger in his shop. Fuller. Worthies. London. And you are to note, that I call that a ledger-bait which is fixed, or made to rest in one certain place when you shall be absent from it.-Walton. Angler, pt. i. c. 8. Francis Little, in the year 1627, wrote a leiger-book con- H. Warton. On Burnet's Hist. of the Reformation, p. 42, Thomson. Castle of Indolence, c. 1. LEGER-DE-MA'IN, Fr.-Light of hand. Applied to the tricks of, or tricks resembling those of, jugglers; who perform them by lightness or quickness of hand. Perceiue theyr leygier demaine, wyth which they would iugle forth thir falshood and shift the trouth asyde. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 813. And when the mind is quickened, out of doubt LEGGE, or Shakespeare. Hen. V. Act iv. sc. 1. i. e. to lay. A. S. Lec-gan. Legginge the foundament of penaunce fro deede werkis. Wiclif. Hebruis, c. 6 Ther dorste no wight hond upon him legge. Chaucer. The Reves Tale, v. 3935. LEGGEN, i. e. to lay or allay, (qv.) To ease. That but aforne her she may se To leggen her of her dolour To graunt her time of repentaunce. LEGGIADROUS. Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose. It. Leggiadro, leggiardo; LE GATINE, or Any one sent, (sc.) to act LEGANTINE. for or according to the direc- tance of the phial would be made plainly legible. tions of another; one deputed, appointed, authoBoyle. Works, vol. iii. p. 705. rized, or empowered, to act for another; a deputy, The first fault therefore which I shall find with a modern an ambassador, and, as in the quotation from legend is its diffusiveness: you have sometimes the whole Holinshed, a lieutenant. Addison. Dialogues on Ancient Medals, Dial. 3. of these papers, being placed within some convenient dis- from It. Leggiero; Fr. Légier, light, graceful. ght to be read-s by imposters, new ight to be L LEGIBLE. See LEGEND. LEGION. Fr. Légion; It. Legione; Sp. LEGIONARY.Legion; Lat. Legio, quod leguntur milites in delectu, (Var. lib. iv.) The Roman legion is fully described by Polybius, and from his description the passage translated by Hampton is quoted. And see also the quotation from Melmoth. That Saynt Morice in battaile, befor the legioun. R. Brunne, p. 30. Wher gessist thou that I may not preie to my Fadir, and be schal give to me mo than twelve legiouns of aungels. Wiclif. Matthew, c. 26. Either thynkest thou that I cannot nowe praye to my Father, and he shall geue me moo than xii legions of angels. Bible, 1551. Ib. It happened that two souldiers, one of the fift legion, anther a French auxiliary, vpo a iolity challenged one mother to wrestle: and when as the legionary was throwen, the French man insulting ouer him, and they which lookt diuiding themselues into sides, the legionary souldiers aking themselves to their weapons made hauocke of the xharies, and slew two cohorts of them. Savile. Tacitus. Historie, p. 84. When the enrolments are in this manner finished, the bes, having assembled together in separate bodies the ders of their respective legions, choose out a man that seems most proper for the purpose, and making him swear in the following words: "that he will be obedient to his commanders, and execute all the orders that he shall receive them, to the utmost of his power." The rest of the fiers of the legion, advancing one by one, swear also, that they will perform what the first has sworn. Hampton. Polybius, vol. iii. b. vi. Ex. 2. 9. The number of horse and foot in a Roman legion varied different periods of the republic. In its lowest computait appears to have amounted to 3000 foot and 200 horse; in its highest, to have risen to 6000 of the former, and of the latter.-Melmoth. Cicero, b. x. Let. 15. Note 9. LEGISLATE, v. LEGISLATION. LEGISLATIVE, adj. LEGISLATOR. LEGISLATURE, N. Fr. Législateur; LEGISLATORSHIP. Fis awes (who so markes them well) are deepe, and not arrot made vpon the spurre of a particular occasion present, but out of prouidence of the future, to make estate of his people still more & more happie; after Sanner of the legislators in ancient and heroicall times. Bacon. Hen. VII. p. 72. And therefore the bounds, limits, and extent of the peo Fr. Légitime; It. Lawful, according On the two and twentieth of Januarie a parlement begun This doubt was kept long open, in respect to the two The act that legitimated the Queen, making her [Eliza- By degrees he rose to Jove's imperial seat, Dryden. Before this opposition of Flavianus, the Fathers of Conhighly asserting the legitimateness of his ordination. stantinople had in their letter to Pope Damasus and the Occidental Bishops approved, and commended him to them; Barrow. Of the Pope's Supremacy. By the canon law they [who were born before wedlock] were legitimate; and when any dispute of inheritance arose, to the spiritual, directing them to enquire into the legitiit had formerly been usual for the civil courts to issue writs macy of the person. Hume. History of England. Hen. III. an. 1272. separately and distinctly, in a light as clear and strong as Every such process of reasoning, it is well known, may be resolved into a series of legitimate syllogisms, exhibiting language can afford, each successive link of the demonstration.-Stewart. Human Mind, vol. ii. c. 3. s. 1. ; LEGUME. ent should be drawn up into a formal contract. My of the legislators themselves had taken an oath of Baker. Charles I. an. 1648. Aation of his Majesty's person and family. The first and fundamental positive law of all commonId. E. Philips, To the Reader. Pas is the establishing of the legislative power; as the dundamental natural law, which is to govern even fire itself, is the preservation of the society, and a as it will consist with the public good) of every person -Locke. Of Civil Government, c. 11. 1 power of the legislative being derived from the people 4tive voluntary grant and institution, can be no than what that positive grant conveyed, which being make laws and not to make legislators, the legislaare no power to transfer their authority of making and place it in other hands.-Id. Ib. See what that country of the mind will produce, when by Desome laws of this legislatress it has obtained its aftesbury. Moral. pt. iv. s. 2. There is nevertheless a science of legislation, which als of office, and the intrigues of popular assemblies, ever communicate; a science, of which the principles bewerbt for in the constitution of human nature, and An instance of this may be afforded us by some legumens, as peas, or beans; which if they be newly gathered and distilled in a retort, it will, I presume, be easily granted, that they will, like many other green vegetables, afford, besides a great deal of phlegm, an acid spirit. Legumes or Legumens, are a species of plants which are Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 613. call'd pulse, such as pease, beans, &c., and are so call'd because they may be gather'd by the hand without cutting. Miller. Gardener's Dictionary. Leguminous plants, are such as bear pulse, with a papi -Stewart. Of the Human Mind, Introd. pt. ii. s. 2. Theme legislative power of England was lodged in And Leisure is and great council, or what was afterwards called ment; liberty or freedom from business; and, pament-Hame. History of England, vol. ii. App. 2. consequentially, to use or abuse time as we please. Looseness, or relaxation from labour or employ islature, the people are a check on the nobility, Leisurely, chaty a check upon the people; by mutual priviing what the other had resolved, while the King apon both, which preserves the executive power tachments.-Blackstone. Commentaries, b. i. c. 2. LEM Egistus drough his Quene nere, And with the leisere which he had, This ladie at his wille he ladde.-Gower. Con. A. b. iif. But what shall bee their glory and reward thou shalt sec, if thou wilt leasurably lysten and beholde to the ende of the tragedye.-Barnes. Workes, p. 358. Sometime he sheweth it leysourly, suffering hys flocke to And as our bodies waxe and gather strength by leysure, Spenser. Virgil. Gnat. perish in a moment; so good wits and good learning are sooner cut downe then raised againe. Savile. Tacitus. Agricola, p. 184. And because the nearer wee draw unto God, the more we are oftentimes inlightned with the shining beames of his glorious presence as being then euen almost in sight, a leisurable departure may in that case bring forth for the good of such as are present, that which shall cause them for euer after from the bottom of their hearts to pray, O let vs dye the death of the righteous, and let our last end be like theirs. Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. v. § 46. Let vs beg of God that when the houre of our rest is come the patternes of our dissolution may be Jacob, Moses, Josua, Dauid, who leisureably ending their liues in peace, prayed for the mercies of God to come vpon their posteritie.-Id. Ib. With leisurely delight she by degrees Lifts ev'ry till, does ev'ry drawer draw. his affrighted companions, promising to make Antigonus But Eumenes, meeting with the news, oegan to hearten march leisurely.-Ralegh. Hist. of the World, b. iv. c. 4. s. 4. Full leisurely he rose, but conscious shame Of honour lost his failing strength renew'd. Somervile. Hobbinol, c. 2. Cicero knew not which of the two he preferred, but complained that the crowd of visitors that interrupted his leisure in these retreats contributed not a little to counterbalance their attractions.-Eustace. Italy, vol. ii. c. 11. Davenant. Gondibert, b. iii. c. 1. Beneath whose shade the lusty steers repose Jago. Edge-Hill, b. iv. A. S. Leom-an, liom-an; to shine. See GLEAM. To shine, to lighten, to flame. And clere leme of the sterre, that ouer France drou. Chaucer. The Nonnes Preestes Tale, v. 14,836. LEMMAN, or Sir T. Elyot. The Governour, b. i. c. 1. Any one loved; it is frequently applied to one Thys mayde hymn payde suythe wel, myd God wille be hyr LE'MON. unknown. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 5. |