"THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE." No remark would have have been made on this previous differtation, had it not contained one egregious blunder in point of chronology. ALEXANDER BARCLAY is faid to have flourished in 1550; and the quotation from him is placed after those from SURRY, WYAT, and their contemporaries. BARCLAY'S Ship of Fools (the very work which Johnson's extract is taken from) was printed by Pynfon in 1508; and the fame date of its first appearance is rightly recorded in a modern collection of old poetry (far from uncommon) called COOPER's Mufe's Library. Such is the veracity, with regard to statement of facts, a reader may expect to meet with in THE LIVES OF THE POETS. ADVERTISEMENT. THESE marks " include a quotation from JOHNSON's Dictionary, and are never omitted, except an additional fenfe of a word is quite remote from any he gives of it; or when his article is fo infignificant (as AURORA BOREALIS) that it may be deemed next to none. The abbreviations used here are in general the fame as JOHNSON's, except that n. (without s.) ftands for a noun, as in Tyrwhitt's gloffary to Chaucer. The quarto JOHNSON of 1785, containing the laft corrections of its author, is the only one here, referred to. But it is much to be lamented, that thefe pofthumous additions had not been put into fomebody's hands, who at leaft poffeffed fufficient judgment not to misplace them. The edition of 1799 has undergone fome trifling corrections; but the moft glaring errata remain. Thus unfold (inftead of infold) still stands for a sense of IMPLY; and in GROUND, fense 6, where rains were changed into fea, and Prior's Dutch Proverb afcribed to Milton, neither error is remedied. The laft corrector has alfo (filently) expunged some supernumerary senses of fome words. Hence will arife (in a very few inftances) a difagreement between the references of this Supplement and the edition of 1799. AFTER LIFE for lives read wives. BE FORN put the accent on -FO'RN. ERRATA. DE SERVING put the accent on -SE'R- GIN-DRINKING laft line, for Spenfer's read Spence's. JUJUBE laft line, for awafte read awake. PIE-POWDER after the firft example add Blackstone. All the examples from SPENSER'S Fairy Queen, except the few following, being minutely pointed out; these few are bere fupplied with additional marks: AFFRET ft.40.-ALONE adj. -AFFRIENDED ... B.III. C.IX. tt.16.ft.50.-ALBE B V. C.II. At.6.—B.VI. C.XII. B.IV. C.V. ft.28.-To AREAD. fenfe 2. B.V. C.XII. ft.9. - fenfe 3. F.Q. B.IV. C.V. A.15.- ARIGHTS B.V. C.X. ft.4.- -ASSAY. F.Q. B.III. C.IV. ft.18.————To ASSOIL fenfe 2. - B.III. C.VIII. ft.32.- -To ASTONY B.VIL. C.VI. ft.28.-B.I. C.II. ft. 31.-B.III. C.IV. ft.17. ATTENDEMENT -- B.V. C.VI. ft.18.-—ATTONE - sense 2. B.III. C.IX. ft.2.-B.IV. C.IV. ft. 14. -METHOUGHT ... To BAND - · B.I. C.IV. ft.36. —— BORD - - - C.IV. ft.13.—BOWER - - - C.X. A.17.- Why this fame method has not been taken with regard to all the examples from authors in general, reasons have been already given in the Poftfcript to the Preface. How far thefe reafons are fatisfactory, the judicious must determine. The Compiler's chief inducement for declining fuch a task in his own work, was his utter inability to perform it in Johnfon's. He thought it immaterial to be fo extraordinarily full (unless where there was fome particular occation for it) in only fo fmall a portion of the united vocabularies. The forcible abduction, or stealing away of man, woman, or child from their own country, and felling them into another, was capital by the Jewish law. Blackflone. To ABE'AR. v. a. [from abæɲan, Sax. pati.] To deport; to demean. ABL Sometimes the fee may be in abeyance, that is, (as the word fignifies) in expectation, remembrance, and contemplation of law; there being no perfon in effe, in whom it can reft and abide; though the law confiders it as always potentially exifting, and ready to veft, whenever a proper owner appears. Blackftone. "To ABJECT. v. a. To throw away." Of this interpretation no inftance is adduced: in Spenfer the word fignifies, To throw down. Upon the foyle, Having herselfe in wretched wife abjected. F. Q. B.V. C.IX. ft. 9. With great indignaunce he that fight forfooke, And downe againe himselfe difdainfully Abjecting, th' earth with his faire forehead ftrooke. Ib. B.III. C.XI. ft.13. A'BIGAIL. n. [a woman's name, Heb.] A lady's waiting maid. Thou art fome forfaken Abigail we have dallied with before. Congreve. Prier. Shall I thumb holy books, confin'd "To ABJU'RE. v. a. So did the Faery knight himfelfe abeare. Thus did the gentle knight himself abeare Ib. B.VI. C. IX. ft. 45. ABEA'RANCE. n. [from abear. Behaviour. The other fpecies of recognifance with fureties is for Blackfione. the good abearance, or good behaviour. ABET. ». [from the verb.] Enforcement. The meede of thy mifchalenge and abet. Sp. F.Q. B.IV. C.UI. ft.11. "ABEYANCE. n." This old French word feems fo infufficiently explained in Johnfon, (even with Cowel's help) that the following authority is added. Shak. Macbeth. "A'BLATIVE. n. a." a is evidently a printer's blunder for s. But the word is properly an adjective and fo ufed in grammars; and where it feems a fubftantive, cafe is understood after it. Accufative, dative, genitive are all adjectives in Johnson; but nominative and vocative, fubftantives: fuch was his confiftency. "To B ABO'RD. n. [Fr.] Address; manner of accofting. Your abord, I must tell you, was too cold and uniform; I hope, it is now mended. Chesterfield. "ABORIGINES. n. pl. [Latin.] The carlieft in"habitants of a country; thofe of whom no origin "is to be traced." A grafshopper perhaps is the beft figure for coatarmour of those who would be thought aborigines. "ABOVE. adv. 4. Upon it. To Shenfione. 2. But to his bed was brought and laid above. Sp. F.Q. B. IV. C. XII. ft. 20. A'BRAHAM-MAN. n. [formerly] A ragged beggar pretending to be mad. Of all the mad rafcals the Abraham-man is the moft That the brave mayd would not for courtesy Sp. F.Q. B.III. C. XI. ft. 8. Shakfp. Midf. Night's Dream. Who dyes, the utmost dolor doth abye. Sp. F. 2. B.III. C. IV. ft. 38. ABY'. v. n. [from abiban, Sax. manere.] To continue. But nought, that wanteth reft, can long aby. Sp. F. 2. B.III. C.VII. ft. 3. "ACADEMICK. adj. Denoting one philofophy in particular. Plato's philofophy took its name of academic from the academy. Harris's Philological Inquiries. ACADEMIC. n. [from the adjective.] An academic philofopher. The Academics and Sceptics anxioufly fought for arguments to prove the fallaciousness of our fenfes. Reid. Mellifluous ftreams, that water'd all the schools Of Academics old and new. "ACADEMICIAN. n. "academy." Milton's Par. Reg. The member of an ACC 2. To come over; to affent, Laftly, that thofe nations, under equal prejudices, devoted to the religion of their fathers, and averse, as far as they were known, to the Jews, fhould accede to the truth, recommended by people, whom they held in no eftimation. Bryant. We must therefore only thus far accede to the account of the people of Smyrna. Bryant on Troy. ACCELERATIVE. adj. [ufed by Sir Ifaac Newton to exprefs one kind of quantity of a centripetal force.] Increafing the velocity of progreffion. Sir Ifaac Newton explains very diftin&tly, what he understands by the abfolute quantity, what by the accelerative quantity, and what by the motive quantity of a centripetal force. ACCENTUAL. adj. [from accentuer, Fr.] Relating to accents. Reid. 1. To adjoin. For all the fhores, which to the fea accost, He day and night doth ward. Sp. F. 2. B.V. C. XI. ft. 42. 2. [In falconry.] To fly near the ground. Whether high tow'ring, or accoafting low., Sp. F.Q. B.VI. C. II. ft. 31. ACCOMPANIMENT. n. [from accompany.]What accompanies fome other thing as its principal, and makes an addition to it. [A mufical term, occafionally extended to other things.] The harp fhould every where prevail, and form the continued running accompaniment. Gray. I have feen bolder places of this nature, attended with the ftriking accompaniment of high rocks and impetuous. Skrine's Tour of South Wales. never used but with torrents. "ACCORDING. prep. · "to." Spenfer omits to. But if the had her leaft helpe to thee lent T'adorne thy forme according thy defart, Their blazing pride thou wouldeft foone have blent. Sp. F. 2. B. II. C. IV. ft. 26. ACCOUNTABLENESS. n. The state of being ac countable. Duncan's Logic. Reafon and liberty imply accountableness. To ACCO'Y, v. a. [from accoifer, old Fr.] 1. To make much of. I received was, 2. To quiet. Sp. F. 2. B. IV. C.VIII. ft. 59. Then is your careless courage accoyed. Spenfer's February. ACCREDITED. particip. adj. [from accredo, Lat.] 1. Of allowed reputation. "To ACCROA'CH. v. a. 2. Sp. F.2. B. IV. C.VI. ft. 18. To endeavour at exercising. The accroaching or attempting to exercife royal power (a very uncertain charge) was in 21 Edw. III. held to be treafon in a knight of Hertfordshire, who forcibly affaulted and detained one of the king's fubjects, till he paid him ninety pounds. Blackfione. ACCU'SE. n. [from the verb.] Accufation. And dogged York, that reaches at the moon, Whofe over-weening arm I have pluck'd back, By falfe accufe doth level at my life. Shak. Hen. VI. P.II. ACCU'SEMENT. n. [old Fr.] Accufation. He gan t'efforce the evidence anew, And new accufements to produce in place. Sp. F. 2. B.V. C. IX. ft. 47. ACE'LDAMA. n. [Heb.] A field of blood. What an aceldama, what a field of blood Sicily has been in antient times! Vindication of Natural Society. To ACE'RBATE. v. a. [from acerb.] To make four. Af's Dict. from Scott. A'CID. n. [from the adjective.] An acid fubftance. 1 Kyd's Cornelia. A'COLITE, ACO'LUTHITE. [from axons, Gr.] Shakip. Othello. Acolites, or acoluthites were to follow and ferve the bifhop or chief prieft, to provide and kindle the lights and lamps of the church, and to regifter the names of fuch as were catechized. Wecver. ACONITUM. n. Lat.] Poisonous aconite, That the united veffel of their blood, Shall never leak, though it doth work as ftrong |