Would not printing, in all probability, have preserved unto us that universal history of vegetables, from the cedar of Lebanus unto the moss that groweth upon the wall, written by that wise and learned king, and the loss of which we now in vain lament.-Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 3. The print of a foot in the sand can only prove, when considered alone, that there was some figure adapted to it, by which it was produced. But the print of a human foot proves likewise, from our other experience, that there was probably another foot which also left its impression, though effaced by time or other accidents. Hume. On the Understanding, s. 11. William Faithorne was born in London, in what year is uncertain, and bred under Peake, painter and printseller. Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. v. Engravers. Fr. Prieur, n. priorité; It. Priore, priorità; Sp. Prior, n. prioridad; Lat. Prior, former; from the ancient pri, pris; Gr. PRIOR, adj. PRIORATE. PRIORESS. PRIORY. PRIORITY. PRIORLY. Πριν. or Fore or former, in time or space; anterior, senior elder, precedent or antecedent. A prior, the foreman; one who has the fore PRIORSHIP. of anterior place in rank or authority. Vnnethe was ther eny hous in all Normandye That kyng Wyllam ne fefede here in Engelond Ther was also a nonne, a prioresse, Chaucer. Prol. v. 118. The eternall presence, as I saied, hath inclose togider in one, all tymes, in whiche close and one all thinges, that been In diuers times, and in diuers places temporel, without posteriorite or priorite, been closed therein perpetuall nowe, and make to dwell in present sight.-Id. Test. of Loue, b. iii. But after his decease, [Austin] there should be equalitie of honour betwixt London and Yorke, without all distinction of prioritie.-Fox. Martyrs, p. 156. an. 1070. The archbishop prouoked the more by that, deposed him from the priorship.-Id. Ib. p. 214. an. 1190. Vpou the payment of the sayd ransome, we left the said towne [Cartagena,] and drewe some part of our souldiers into the priory or abbey-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 545. The prioresse of the same place caused him [Robert Hood] to be buried by the high way side, where he had used to rob and spoyle those that passed that way. Grafton. Rich. I. an. 2. K. John. Let them approach: An eulogy on Walkelin bishop of Winchester, and a Norman, who built great part of his stately cathedral, as it now stands, and was bishop there during Godfrey's priorate. Warton. History of English Poetry, Dis. 2. In payment of debts he must observe the rules of priority; otherwise, on deficiency of assets, if he pays those of a lower degree first, he must answer those of a higher out of his own estate.-Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. c. 32. Whether priorly to that æra it had ever been inhabited, or lain till then in its chaotic state, is a question which it would be rash to decide. Geddes. Translation of the Bible, vol. i. Pref. PRISM. πρι-ειν, From the bare giving to a piece of ordinary glass a prismatical shape, that diaphanous and colourless body may be made to exhibit in a moment all those delightful and vivid colours for which we admire the rainbow. Boyle. Works, vol. iii. p. 487. I might demand what addition or decrement of either Certain French philosophers, when they quarrelled with We founden the prisoun schitt with al diligence and the The prison foude we shut as sure as was possyble, and the Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 1065. Right reverend fathers, we perceive the godly forwardness in your good lordships, in the restitution of this noble church of England to the pristine state and unity of Christ's church.-Burnet. Low. House of Convo. to Upper. Hen. VIII But as it [health] hath recovered the pristinate strength, which thing only in all the fight it coveted, shall it inconti nent be astonished?-More. Utopia, b. ii. c. 7. But bycause there appered to be in hym the prystinate auctorytie and maiestie of a kynge, they wolde no longer suffre hym to continue in that dignitie, than by the space of vi. monethes.-Sir T. Elyot. The Governour, b. i. c. 2. Parliaments never recover their pristine dignity, honour, power, priviledges, if this should miscarry. Prynne. Treachery & Disloyalty, pt. ii. p. 29. He [Becket] procured two legates to be sent from the pope to the king to cursse him and all the whole realme, if the king would not restore him againe to his pristinate state and dignitie.-Grafton. Hen. II. an. 13. PRITTLE-PRATTLE, i. e. prattle-prattle; the reduplication for the sake of emphasis. There arose a new stir in Rome immediately, and every man's mouth was full of prittle-prattle and seditious words. North. Plutarch, p. 546. To make our own peculiar property; to appropriate to ourselves; and, thus, to take away, withFox. Martyrs, p. 1789. an. 1557. draw, or withhold from another; to take away, bereave, or despoil. Private or privy,— Appropriated, withdrawn, secreted to ourselves, or our own use; secret, sequestered, retreated, reinmost or intimate, familiar or acquainted with, tired, solitary; clandestine, hidden, concealed; admitted to, the inmost thoughts, feelings, actions, daunger of prisonement.—Fabyan, vol. i. c. 145. chaunce and necessitie hath gotten vnto us here for the Or shall our children or our brethren acknowledge vs During which time of imprisonment there, I found amongst those my prison-fellowes some that had knowen me before in Mexico.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 485. now, Then did the king enlarge The spleene he prisoned, uttering this: Antilochus? till But let me waste in woe my wretched yeares, Id. Ib. b. iv. c. 12. At barley-break and prison-base, Drayton. The Muses' Elysium, Nymphal 1. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iv. c. 22. Thei senten us men of Rome into prisoun that weren betun openli and undampned, and now priueili thei bryngen us out. Wiclif. Dedis, c. 16. They haue beaten vs opely vncondepned, for al yt we are Romayns, and haue cast vs into pryson: and nowe would they sende vs away priuely.-Bible, 1551. Ib. And aftir that hise britheren weren gon up, thanne he Chaucer. The Marchantes Tale, v. 9829. Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 1445. Ful oft he said "Alas, and wala wa," Tha he pryued Geffrey, yt was chosen to ye see of Yorke, of his mouables.-Fabyan, vol. ii. an. 1194. And sayde to hym, Go thou the moost preuyest wayes thou canste (thou knowest all the preuy wayes of the countrey) and gette the to the garyson of Chaluset. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. ii. c. 133. The cytezens glad of hys commynge, made not the French capitaines, which had the gouernaunce of the towne, either parties or priuies of their entent.-Hall. Hen. VI. an. 13. That they woulde not onely lese their worldely substance, but also be priuated of their lyues and worldely felicitee, rather then to suffre kynge Rycharde that tyraunt lenger to rule and reigne ouer them.-Id. Rich. III. an. 3. He had priuatelye had testimonie geuen him of aungels, of Elizabeth, of Simeon, of Anna, of the Magians. Udal. Luke, c. 3. No doubt but kyng Richard had bene in greate ieopardie either of priuacion of his realme or losse of his life, or both. Hall. Rich. III. an. 3. Which fair and happy blessing thou might'st well Have far more rais'd, had not thine enemy (Retired privacy) made thee to sell Thy greatness for thy quiet. Daniel. On the Death of the Earl of Devonshire. The same princes of the cities that had ben with him before, returned vnto Cæsar, and desired they myght haue leaue to common with him priuely and in secret, of matters concerning the welfare and well doyng both of him and of them al.-Goldinge. Cæsar, fol. 23. [Candaules] praysed her to euery body and bewrayed the priuities of wedlock, as though that silece had bene an hinderance to her beautie.-Goldyng. Justine, fol. 5. Wherefore Sylla immediately, without making any of the magistrates privy, caused forescore men's names to be set up upon posts, whom he would put to death. North. Plutarch, p. 403. Faustulus, chief neat-herd to Amulius, took up the two children, and nobody knew it, as some say; or as others report (the likest to be true) with the privity and knowledge of Numitor, Amulius' brother.-Id. Ib. p. 17. Sal. The Count Melvone, a noble lord of France, Shakespeare. King John, Act iv. sc. 3. Nor must I be unmindful of my private; B. Jonson. Catiline, Act iii. And we have seen more princes ruined For best he's liked, that is alike to all! Daniel. Civil Wars, b. v. Always certain it is, that he drew him first into the fatal circle from a kind of resolved privateness at his house at Lampsie, in South Wales.-Reliquiæ Wottonianæ, p. 162. Or at least that it [learning] doth divert men's travels from action and business, and bringeth them to a love of leisure and privateness. Bacon. The Advancement of Learning, b. i. If you had been a privado, and of the cabinet council with your angel guardian, from him you might have known how many dangers you have escaped, how often you have been near a ruin, so near, that if you had seen your danger with a sober spirit, the fear of it would have half killed you. Bp. Taylor, vol. ii. Ser. 12. Private wrongs are an infringement or privation of the private or civic rights belonging to individuals, considered as individuals, and are thereupon frequently termed civil injuries.-Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iii. c. 1. PRIVILEGE, n. Fr. Privilège; It. PriviPRIVILEGE. legio; Sp. Privilegio, privilegiar; Lat. Privilegium, i.e. priva lex, privata lex; a privy or private law. A law for private or separate persons; separated from, or exclusive of, others; an appropriate or peculiar law or rule or right; a peculiar immunity, liberty, or franchise. To privilege,-to have or give a privilege or peculiar immunity, liberty, or franchise; an immunity or exemption from general law or rule. Certes it [the paternoster] is privileged of three thinges in his dignitee, for whiche it is more digne than any other prayer.-Chaucer. The Persones Tale. Though they be by the laws exempt and priviledged from labour, yet they exempt not themselves. More. Utopia, b. ii. c. 4. Albe it that seynt Gregory hadde graûted vnto London the pryuelage of ye archebisshoppes see. Fabyan, vol. i. c. 59. Look how the day-hater, Minerva's bird, Daniel. Civil Wars, b. iii. King Athelstane is taken here for the chiefe priuileger of the towne.-Harrison. Description of Britaine, c. 12. To turn him [a child] loose to an unrestrained liberty, before he has reason to guide him, is not the allowing him the privilege of his nature to be free; but to thrust him out amongst brutes, and abandon him to a state as wretched, and as much beneath that of a man as theirs. Locke. On Government, b. ii. c. 6. s. 63. As this liberty is not indulged in any other government, either republican or monarchical; in Holland and Venice, more than in France or Spain; it may very naturally give occasion to the question, how it happens that Great Britain alone enjoys this peculiar privilege?-Hume, pt. i. Ess. 2. Privilege, in Roman jurisprudence, means the exemption of one individual from the operation of a law. Mackintosh. Study of the Law of Nature, p. 50. Note. PRICE, n. PRICELESS. Fr. Pris, taken; past part. of the verb prendre, to take; and upon which past part. the verb prizer is formed. (See HAND.) Price, That which is taken, (sc.) in purchase or payment, as an equivalent; and, consequentially, the sum at which a thing is rated Prize,or valued; value, esteem. That which is taken, undertaken; an undertaking or enterprize; that which is taken, captured, gained, acquired, won; and, consequentially, reward or remuneration; booty. And to prize, consequentially, To set a price (a high price) upon any thing; Distance is nothing else but the privation of tactual union, to reckon or account at a (great) price; to value, and the greater distance the greater privation, and the greater privation the more to doe to regain the former positive condition.-More. Antidote to Atheism, App. pt. i. c. 8. No one of them had voices enough to exclude the other three from making a duke: for to this privative power are required seventeen balls at least. Reliquia Wottonianæ, p. 261. This indifferency of matter to motion or rest may be understood two wayes; either privatively, that is to say, that it has not any real or active propension to rest more then to motion, or vice versa. More. The Immortality of the Soul, pt. iii. c. 11. Tis true, indeed, the immediate product of this sort of virtue, is only, at least chiefly, privative happiness, or, the happiness of rest and indolence, which consists in not being miserable, or, in a perfect cessation from all such acts and motions as are hurtful and injurious to a rational spirit. Scott. Christian Life, pt. i. c. 3. The devils are not determined to one in individuo but in kind only, as being determined to do evil in the general, and that only privatively for want of motive or inducement to do otherwise.-Whitby. On the Five Points, Dis. iv. c. 1. s. 5. It is seen among privateers that nothing sooner emboldens them sooner to mutiny than want. Dampier. Voyage, an. 1684. But a privation is the absence of what does naturally belong to the thing we are speaking of, or which ought to be present with it; as when a man or a horse is deaf, or blind, or dead, or if a physician or a divine be unlearned, these are called privations.-Watts. Logick, pt. i. c. 2. to estimate, to esteem, Hys fader adde of him eke gret joye & prys, That so gode sygne adde so gong, to be stalwarde & wys. R. Gloucester, p. 346. A hardy knyght was he, ouer all bare the pris, At Jerusalem cite, opon Gode's enmys.-R. Brunne, p.103. Was neuer at Saynt Denys feste holden more hy, Ne was of more pris, ne serued so redy.-Id. p. 235. Whi hath Sathanas temptid thin herte that thou lie to the Hooli Goost and to defraude of the prys of the feeld? Wiclif. Dedis, c. 5. Ananias, how is it yt Sathan hath fylled thyne heart, that thou shouldest lye vnto the Holy Goost, and kepe away parte of the pryce of the lyuelod.-Bible, 1551. Ib. The fend sayth, I wol chace and pursue man by wicked suggestion, and I wol hint him by meving and stirring of sinne, and I wol depart my pris, or my prey, by deliberation, and my lust shal be accomplised in delit. Chaucer. The Persones Tale. Great loos hath largesse, and great prise, For both wise folke and unwise Were wholly to her bandon brought, So well with yefts hath she wrought.-Id. Rom. of the R. It is a singular benefite and suche a special prerogatyue as cannot for ye great dignitie therof sufficiently be pryced to remaine and lyue in the churche, that he may be partaker of all those thigs wherby God doth vouchsafe to allure and to ioyngne his children vnto hym. Calvin. Foure Godlye Sermons, Ser. 3. 1512 Wherefore he now begunne To challenge her anew, as his owne prize, Whom formerly he had in battell wonne, And proffer made by force her to reprize. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 4. Thou damned wight, The author of this fact we here behold, Though vertue then were held in highest price, Id. Ib. b. v. c. 1. And (greeting Hector) askt him this: Wilt thou be once advis'de ? I am thy brother, and thy life with mine is evenly prisde. Chapman. Homer. Hiad, b. vii. Atrides? give not streame To all thy power, nor force his prize; but yeeld her still his owne, As all men else do.-Id. Ib. b. i. I'll instruct you further As I wait on your worship: If I play not my prize Massinger. New Way to pay Old Debts, Act iv. sc. 2. Gave thee th' eversion of our Troy; and to thy fleete a freight Of Troian ladies, their free lives, put all in bands by thee; Thomson. Liberty, pt. ii. No: dear as freedom is, and in my heart's I had much rather be myself the slave, Cowper. Task, b. L. PROACH, i. e. approached. Therle of Derby, thought none yuell, but thought those wordes hadde ben spoken, to the entent to haue proched nerer to the poynt.-Berners. Froissart. Cron. vol. ii. c. 236. PROBABLE. quotation from Locke. Fr. Probable; It. Probabile; Sp. Probable; Lat. Probabilis; that may be proved, from prob-are, to prove, (qv.); A.S. Pruf ian. Probable and prorable are the same word, and mean That can or may be proved; demonstrable; but probable, by usage, is now distinguished from demonstrable. See the That may be reasonably expected to be or happen to be; having a likelihood, or resemblance, or similarity to truth or reality: a verisimilitude. The lawes of the cete stont in probacy; They usen non enquestis the wrongis for to try. Chaucer. The Marchantes Second Tale. Yet there was onely probabilitie, not a certaine and deter minate place of habitation selected, neither any demonstration of commoditie there in esse, to induce his followers. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii, p. 160. Thei saied, that the cardinall by visitacions, makyng of abbottes, probates of testaments, grauntyng of faculties, licēses, and other pollynges in his courtes legantines, had made his threasore egall with the kynges. Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 17. If ye thynke them now chaunged, bryng fourth your honest probacyons, and ye shall be heard. Bale. Apologie, fol. 92. For the more euident probation wherof (although the thing of itselfe is so euident, that it needeth no proofe) what can be more plaine, than the wordes themselues of Pelagius and Gregorie.-Fox. Martyrs, p. 12. No man in religion is properly a heretic at this day, but he who maintains traditions or opinions not probable by scripture.-Milton. Of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes. He who holds in religion that belief, or those opinions which to his conscience and utmost understanding appear with most evidence or probability in the scripture, though to others he seems erroneous, can no more be justly censur'd for a heretic than his censurers; who do but the same thing themselves while they censure him for so doing.—Id. Id. I bere mean by conscience or religion, that full persuasion whereby we are assur'd that our belief and practice, as far as we are able to apprehend, and probably make appear, is according to the will of God and his holy scripture within us-Milton. Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes. Poor plodding school-men they are far too low, Drayton. Edw. IV. to Mrs. Shore. That were miserable indeed to be a courtier of Maronilla, and withal of such a hapless invention, as that no way should be left me to present my meaning, but to make my self a canting probationer of orisons. Mition. An Apology of Smectymnuus, s. 8. As demonstration is the shewing the agreement or disagreement of two ideas, by the intervention of one or more proofs, which have a constant, immutable, and visible connection one with another; so probability is nothing but the appearance of such an agreement or disagreement, by the intervention of proofs, whose connection is not constant and immutable, or at least is not perceived to be so but is, or appears for the most part to be so, and is enough to induce the mind to judge the proposition to be true or false, rather than the contrary-Locke. Hum. Underst. b. iv. c. 15. s. 1. If you like not my poem, the fault may possibly be in my writing; though it is hard for an author to judge against himself. But more probably it is in your morals, which cannot bear the truth of it. Dryden. Absalom & Achitophel, Pref. A state of purgation, they imagined to consist of a probational fire.-Wheatley. On the Common Prayer, c. 6. He undertakes to prove, that the grace of God is so far "efficacious" as to produce in the minds of ail who hear the gospel, during their probationary state, moral power to comply with its requirements. Whitby. On the Five Points, Advert. This was his condition, and thus he was bred and train'd up, as the son of Pharaoh's daughter, a candidate for hell, and a probationer for damnation.-South, vol. vi. Ser. 4. John Reinolds, the most noted epigrammatist next to Job. Owen and Sir Jo. Harrington of his time, received his first being in this world at Tuddington in Bedfordshire, was elected probationer of New Coll. from Wykeham's school near to Winchester, in 1600.-Wood. Athene Oxon. vol. i. He has afforded us the twilight of probability suitable to that state of mediocrity and probationership.—Locke. Some are only probative, and designed to try and stir up those virtues which before lay dormant in the soul. South, vol. iv. Ser. 9. Some nommated and appointed for probators. Maydman, Naval Speculations, p. 182. The period of the duration of this present probatory state of the system of Saturn, seems confin'd and limited in revelation to the number of the elect's being accomplished. Cheyne. On Regimen, Dis. 5. The planets and other celestial orbs revolving about him [the Sun] at their respective distances, and performing their revolutions in different periods of time, will represent the several orders of lapsed intelligences, the different degrees of their lapse, and the duration and continuance of their probalory state.-Id. Ib. In our anticipations of astronomical phenomena, as well as in those which we form concerning the result of any familiar experiment in physics, philosophers are accustomed to speak of the event as only probable; although our confidence in its happening is not less complete, than if it rested on the basis of mathematical demonstration. Stewart. Of the Human Mind, vol. ii. c. 4. s. 4. The existence of the city of Pekin, and the reality of Cæsar's assassination, which the philosopher classes with probabilities, because they rest solely upon the evidence of testimony, are universally classed with certainties by the rest of mankind.-Id. Ib. Probably the heretical opinions, which had subjected both Abelard and Roscelinus to the censure of the church, might create a prejudice also against their philosophical principles. Id. Ib. vol. i. c. 4. s. 3. When the will is so proved, the original must be deposited in the registry of the ordinary; and a copy thereof in parchment is made out under the seal of the ordinary, and delivered to the executor or administrator, together with a certificate of its having been proved before him: all which together is usually styled the probate. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. c. 32. Of the various views under which human life has been considered, no one seems so reasonable as that which regards it as a state of probation; meaning, by a state of probation, a state calculated for trying us, and calculated for improving us-Paley, Ser. 33. It is our duty to consider this life throughout as a probationary state. Id. Ser. 30. Within the ureter four fingers' breadth a round white stone was lodged, which was so fastned in the part, that the physician with his probe could not stir it, and was fain at last to cut it out. Hammond. Works, voi. i. The Life by Fell, p. xxxii. Yet durst she not too deeply probe the wound, Dryden. The Hind and the Panther, pt. lii. Falconer. The Demagogue. PROBITY. Fr. Probité; It. Probità; Sp. Probidad; Lat. Probitas, probus; Gr. Пpeπov, decorum, conveniens. That which ought to be or be done; rectitude, honour, or honesty, integrity. If we could once get ourselves possessed of this probity, this purity of mind and heart, it would better instruct us in the use of our liberty, and teach us to distinguish between good and evil.-Sharp, vol. i. Ser. 7. This is enough among men of sense and probity. Waterland. Works, vol. ii. p. 367. י How had this cherl imaginatioun To shewen swiche a probleme to the frere. Chaucer. The Clerkes Tale, v. 780. Many truths are but embrios or problems; nay, some of them seem to be mere paradoxes at first. Howell, b. iii. Let. 9. Yet if they had onely doubtfully and problematically commended their purgatory to the church, we might easily have favoured them with a connivence. Bp. Hall. No Peace with Rome, s. 11. Besides this, you have some expressions of Origen, chiefly from those pieces which are either not certainly genuine, or not free from interpolation, or wrote in a problematical way, or not containing Origen's mature and riper thoughts. Waterland. Works, vol. ii. p. 277. And, therefore, I conceive [præexistence] is left as a matter of school speculation, which without danger may be problematically argued on either hand. Glanvill. Pre-existence of Souls, Pref. commanded by a Christian to speak, shall as truly there confess himself to be a devil, as otherwhere a God. If he do not so confess, not daring to lie, even there spill the bloud of that procacious christian.—Barrow, vol. ii. Ser. 20. PROCATA'RCTICK. Gr. Προ-καταρκτικός, from #po-kara-apxeola, to begin, to precede. That can or may precede, forego, or forerun. 'Tis true that his [Harrington's] close restraint, which did not agree with his high spirit, and hot and rambling head, was the procalarctic cause of his deliration or madness. Wood. Athene Oxon. vol. ii. God often useth even the guilt of that very sinne to terrifie thee; to cast a man into distresse and to keep him in it, it is both the procatarcticall cause and the executioner of it. Goodwin. Childe of Light, p. 168. Wherof deuided anon right Was the language in suche entent So that thei might nought procede.-Gower. Con. A. Prol. Phaer. Virgill. Eneidos, b. 1. As the Macedons were busye to bring their woorke forwardes, so the Tirians were as diligent to inuent al such things as might geue impediment to their proceding. Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 58, But immediatlye hereupon Alexander receiued news yt much appaired the continual felicitie hee was wont to haue in al his proceedings.-Id. Ib. fol. 196. For the maner wherof, syn it soundyd to honoure of the prynce, myne auctor therefore lyste not in his boke to make any longe processe of the mater.-Fabyan, vol. ii. an. 1395. And when theyr feastfull dayes come, they are yet in the The Marquis Beccaria, (c. 16.) in an exquisite piece of papisticke churches of England, with no small solemnitye, raillery, has proposed this problem, with a gravity and pre-mattensed, massed, candeled, lyghted, processioned, censed, cision that are truly mathematical; the force of the muscles, &c.-Bale. English Votaries, pt. i. and the sensibility of the nerves of an innocent person being given, it is required to find the degrees of pain necessary to make him confess himself guilty of a given crime. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iv. c. 25. Note, PROBO'SCIS. Lat. Proboscis; Gr. Пpoßoσkis, προ, and βοσκ-ειν, to feed. Holland does not attempt to naturalize the word. Their long snout or trunke, which the Latins call proboscis, may be easily cut off; as it appeared by experience in the wars against king Pyrrhus. Holland. Plinie, b. viii. c. 7. Like an unbent bow carelessly His sinewy proboscis did remissly lie. Donne. The Progress of the Soul. Th' unwieldy elephant To make them mirth us'd all his might, and wreath'd His lithe proboscis. Millon. Paradise Lost, b. iv. PROCA'CIOUS. PROCA CITY. petendo, Lat. Procar, a poscendo; impudens in poscendo vel Impudent in demanding or asking; bold, daring, forward in asking and thus it appears to be used in the passage quoted by Barrow from Tertullian. In vaine are all your flatteries, In vaine are all your knaveries, Delights, deceipts, procacities, Sighs, kisses, and conspiracies, And what e're is done by Art, To bewitch a lover's heart. Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 541. Let, saith he, [Tertullian,] any person, manifestly possessed with the devil, or one who is deemed to be rapt with a divine fury, be set before your tribunals; that spirit being 1513 The churchwardens of euerie parish within their diocesse, to bring in and deliuer vp all antiphoners, missales, grailes, processionals, manuals, &c. after the vse of Sarum. Fox. Marlyrs, p. 1211. an. 1549. Then he forth on his journey did proceede, To seeke adventures which mote him befall. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b ¡¡¡, c. 4. The only procede (that I may use the mercantil term) you can expect is thanks, and this way shall not be wanting to make you rich returns.-Howell, b. i. s. 1. Let. 29. He that seeketh victory over his nature, let him not set himself too great, nor too small tasks; for the first wil make him dejected by often faylings; and the second wil make him a small proceeder, though by often prevailings. Bacon. Ess. Of Nature in Men. He overcame the difficulty in defiance of all such pretences as were made even from religion itself to obstruct the better procedure of real and material religion. Bp. Taylor, vol. iii. Ser. 7. She therefore assembled her forces, and marched towards them to prevent their further proceedings, defeated them two several times, and gained their island. North. Plutarch, p. 49: Isab. In briefe, to set the needlesse processe by ; How I perswaded, how I praid, and kneel'd, How he refeld me, and how I replide. Shakespeare. Measure for Measure, Act v. sc. 1 And processe of this time, you can report, Id. Hen. VIII. Act ii. sc. 4. Id. 1 Pt. Hen. VI. Activ. sc. -8. 9G In the yeere fiue hundred and six it was by the councill of Aurelia decreed, that the whole church should bestow geerely at the feast of Pentecost three dayes in that kind of processionarie seruice.-Hooker. Eccles. Politie, b. v. § 41. If the external procedures of God's providence be the rule to measure his love or hatred by, then it cannot be avoided, but that the rich and powerful have the fairest plea for heaven, and the martyrs the shrewdest marks of reprobation.-South, vol. viii. Ser. 11. Rank'd in procession walk the pious train, Dryden. Ovid. Metam. b. x. It is very manifest that Novatian supposes the son to have existed before that procession, coming forth, or nativity, which he speaks of in that chapter. Waterland. Works, vol. i. p. 97. The act of the will, in each step of the forementioned procedure, does not come to pass without a particular cause, every act is owing to a prevailing inducement. Edwards. On the Will, pt. ii. s. 6. The next step for carrying on the suit, after suing out the original, is called the process; being the means of compelling the defendant to appear in court. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iii. c. 19. Is it unreasonable to suppose that, if the meaning of this word from, and of its correspondent prepositions in other languages, had been clearly understood, the Greek and Latin churches would never have differed concerning the eternal procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father, or from the Father and the Son? And that, if they had been determined to separate, they would at least have chosen some safer cause of schism? Tooke. Diversions of Purley, vol. i. c. 9. Note. PROCE'RE. Į Fr. Procérité; Sp. Proceridad, elevated, high. As the-- Such lignous and woody plants as are hard of substance, procere of stature.-Evelyn, Introd. s. 3. Experiments in consort touching the procerity, and lowness, and artificiall dwarfing of trees. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 532. Note. We shall make attempts to lengthen out the human figure, and restore it to its ancient procerity.-Addison. PROCLIVE. Fr. Proclif; It. Proclive; CLIVE. Bending forward to, bending towards; inclined or disposed, prone or apt to. Whiche nacions surely, be euer procliue and ready, to And it is a great thing for a man to rule one wife rightly And thus the very supposition of difficulty in the way of He was reteynyng to Sergius Paulus, which was proconsul, that is to saie lieftenaunt, or the lorde deputie of that islande, and was a wyse man and of good experience. Udal. The Actes of the Apostles, c. 13. She was busie about her fish pooles of Baiæ, when by my She was now occupied in trimming the canals of her villa Gordon. Id. Ib. Fr. Procrastiner ; It. Procrastinàre; Lat. Procrastinare, (pro, and crastinare, crastinus, cras,) to put forward till to-morrow; to put PROCRASTINE, v. PROCIDENCE. As the Lat. Procidentia; (pro, and cadere, to fall;) Fr. Procidence, a falling down of a thing out of its right place, (Cot-off from day to day. grave;) as the procidence of the matrix. Used by Ferrand on Melancholy, (1640,) p. 15. PROCINCT. gere, to gird. Lat. Procinctus, pro, and cin Girt, (sc.) for battle; prepared, ready. PROCLAIM, v. Millon. Paradise Lost, b. vi. Fr. Proclamer ; It. Proclamare; Sp. Proclamer ; Lat. Proclamare,— PROCLAIMING, n. To call or cry out, before or in presence of, openly, publicly; to tell, declare, or pronounce, openly or publicly. The hygh God hath hym proclamed Full of knyghthode and all grace.-Gower. Con. A. Prol. The kingdome of heauen and a newe priesthood sprang vp, wherof John the son of Zacharie was chosen and specially appoynted to be an open preacher and proclaymer. Udal. Luke, c. 3. Moreouer sending heraulies about, they made proclamation that if there were anye Gall, or any Romane, that would turne to them betweene that and three of the clock, he should be taken to mercy.-Goldinge. Cæsar, fol. 139. Now had the great proclaimer with a voice Milton. Paradise Regained, b. i. For there is a certain majesty in plainness; as the proclamation of a prince never frisks it in tropes, or fine conceits, in numerous and well-turned periods, but commands in sober, natural expression.-South, vol. v. Ser. 11. Is not the piety and obedience of our lives a proclaiming of God to be our king, and a recognizing of him for our great master.-Id. vol. vi. Ser. 11. These proclamations have then a binding force, when (as Sir Edward Coke observes) they are grounded upon and enforce the laws of the realm. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. i. c. 7. ̧ To postpone; to delay, to retard, to protract, Thinkyng that if that pardō were any lenger space pro- How can the pope's holiness of conscience, honour, or But all's become lost labour, and my cause The enemy of mankind hath furnished thee with an eva- Junius. Sin stigmatized, (1639,) p. 543. Procrastination is the thief of time, Young. Complaint, Night 2. Burke. To Sir H. Langrishe. Fr. Procréer; It. Procreâre ; Sp. Procrear; Lat. Procreare, (pro, and creare, to create, qv.) PRO'CREATE, v. To bring forth into being, life, or existence; to produce, generate, or God hath ingraffed this mutuall honeste loue in ether of the sexes to enioye a perpetuall societie in lawfull procreacion wherby he wolde haue an euerlasting chirche. Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 12. He is vnkynd and vnnaturall that wil not cherishe hys Milton. Animad. on the Remonstrants' Defence. Id. Paradise Lost, b. viii. That procreative light of heaven [the Holy Ghost.] darting its beams, and those attended with some conceptions of holiness in a carnal breast, O how uneasie we are, how incumbred!-Hammond. Works, vol. iv. p. 515. These have the accurst privilege of propagating and not expiring, and have reconciled the procreativeness of corporeal, with the duration of incorporeal substances. Decay of Christian Piety. But the loss of liberty is not the whole of what the procreant bird suffers.-Paley. Natural Theology, c. 18. PROCTOR. In old writers,-Procurator. (See PROCURER.) Fr. Procureur; It. Procuratore; Sp. Procurador; Lat. Procurator, from procurare, (pro, and cura,) to procure. One who takes care of any thing for another; a manager, conductor, (for another.) See PROXY. Where the sayde mariage was by writinges and instru mentes couenauted, codiscended, and agreed, and affiances made and taken by procters and deputies on bothe parties. Hall. Rich. III. an. 3. As for the fogging proctorage of money, with such an eye as strook Gehazi with leprosy, and Simon Magus with a curse: so does she look. Milton. Of Reformation in England, b. ii. Every tutor, for the better discharging of his duty, shall have proctorical authority over his pupils. Prideaux. Life, p. 231. This Mr. Savile died in his proctorship of this University much lamented, (to which he was admitted 5 Apr. 1592.) PROCURE, v. PROCURATOR. Wood. Athena Ozon. Fr. Procurer; It. Procurare; Sp. Procurar; Lat. Procurare, to take care for, (pro, and curare.) Procuracy has been contracted into proxy, and procurator into proctor. To take care for; to take care or heed, (sc.) that any thing be done; to urge or endeavour, to manage or contrive that it be done; to acquire, to obtain. PROCU'RESS. Now is Antoyn gon to procure the partys. R. Brunne, p. 257. May I not axe a libel, sire sompnour, My sonne thou shalt vnderstonde, In speciall two counsailours, Gower. Con, A. b. ▼ He sayde he would sende thither a sufficient procuracie and conuenient proctors and desired to see the orator's commission.-Hall. Henry VIII. an. 35. The said Richard being commended to the pope by the letters procuratorie of the king and of the bishops, had the consent of the pope and of the cardinals. Fox. Martyrs, p. 248. an. 1228. The blood royal, and olde gentylmen of the Sabynes, by the procurement of the wiues of the Romains, beig their doughters, inhabited the citie of Rome. Sir T. Elyot. The Governorr, b. ii. 2. 4. For if Cesar should chaunce to deale any thinge roughely with him, (hee standing so highely in his fauour as he dyd.) euery man woulde thinke it were done by his consent & procurement.-Goldinge. Cæsar, fol. 16. He was the chief procurer & trauelour (at that time) about the king's said diuorce and seconde mariage. Bp. Gardner. Of True Obedience, Pref. Then she began a treaty to procure, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 3. The legat assembled a syned of the clergie at London, vpon the last of Julie, in the which he demanded procuracies. Holinshed. Henry III, an. 1239. Protesting these objections to make good Daniel. Civil Wars, b. iv. St. Edward [was] murdered in Corfe Castle, through procurement of the bloody hate of his step mother Alfrith. Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 2. Selden. Illustrations. That, as in courts of justice, none can carry The office which Pilate bore was the procuratorship of Jada-Pearson. On the Creed, Art. 4. It [syrup of violets] is a far more common and procurable liquor.-Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 744. After all parties were satisfied, it was reputed unlawful for the masters to nominate any to the procuratorial office, bat the aforesaid candidates Williamson and Lloyd. Wood. Fasti Oxon. an. 1628. He also looks upon it as a refined subtle piece of policy, to chuse such a repentance as has a longer consistency with sinful pleasure, and yet no less efficacy as to the procurement of salvation, than such an one as is present and immediate. South, vol. ix. Ser. 8. It were well to be wished, that persons of eminence would cease to make themselves representatives of the people of England, without a letter of attorney, or any other act of procuration.-Burke. On a Regicide Peace, Let. 3. The first point to be taken for granted is, that the miracle of the three hours' darkness upon the passion of Christ must necessarily have been reported to Rome: this report was either to come in the state dispatches of the procurator Pilate to the court of Tiberius, or from private communications. Observer, No. 11. He married two wives, Mary Van Gamaren, daughter of & procurer of Utrecht, and Elizabeth Van Heymenbergh. Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iii. c. 1. I think it will also bear a doubt, whether a voluptuary could find in his heart to vent such irony as the following, against the great supporters of his system, harlots and procaresses.-Observer, No. 142 One who drives from him, expels, casts, or throws away; and hence Excessive in expenditure, wasteful, lavish, profuse. But the souldiers thinking it had been but a deuise, te trie out the prodigal fro the rest, delayed ye time, and brought not in theire declaracions. Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 293. Some by auarice leese their good fame, and some prodigallie spend and waste all their gooddes.-Golden Boke, c.45. And the losse of thys ointment grieued them so much, yt they made a great murmuring agaynst the godly prodigalitie of the womaUdal. Mark, c. 14. When prodigal of thanks, in passing by, Daniel. Civil Wars, b. ii. How like a yonger or a prodigall With ouer-wither'd ribs and ragged sailes, Drayton. The Legend of Pierce Gaveston. Halfe a kingdome for a dance? Herod, this pastime is overpayd for; there is no proportion in this remuneration; this is not bountie, it is proligence. Bp. Hall. Cont. John Baptist beheaded. Ye Trojan flames, your testimony bear Prodigality is the devil's steward and purse-bearer, ministring to all sorts of vice; and it is hard, if not impossible, for a prodigal person to be guilty of no other vice but prodigality. South, vol. iv. Ser. 10. The next in place, and punishment, are they Who prodigally throw their souls away Fools, who repining at their wretched state, And loathing anxious life, suborn'd their fate. Dryden. Virgil. Eneis, b. vi. So may we see worthless prodigals, having consumed their fortune in wild debauches, thrusting themselves into every table, and every party of pleasure, hated even by the vicious, and despised even by fools.-Hume. Ess. On Morals, s. 6. If a man by notorious prodigality was in danger of wasting his estate, he was looked upon as non compos, and committed to the care of curators or tutors by the prætor. And by the laws of Solon such prodigals were branded with perpetual infamy.-Blackstone. Commentaries, b. i. c. 8. But not to one in this benighted age Is that diviner inspiration giv'n, That burns in Shakespeare's or in Milton's page, The pomp and prodigality of heav'n. PRODIGY. PRODIGIOUSNESS. Gray. Stanza to Mr. Bentley. Fr. Prodige; It. and Sp. Prodigio; Lat. Prodigium, quia porro agatur, hoc est, averruncetur; because it should be driven out, expelled, eradicated, rooted out, (Vossius.) Others, quia prædicunt futura, because they foretell what is to come. Applied to Any thing extraordinary, astonishing, wonderful, or marvellous; any thing unnatural or preternatural. For though his time wer suwhat corrupted wt superstycyōs, yet he neuer toke vowes as they haue bene prodigiously take of hypocrytes in our age. Bale. Apologie, fol. 43. And yesterday, the bird of night did sit, Shakespeare. Julius Cæsar, Act i. sc. 3. It will be no wonder if men's hearts shall fail them for fear, and their wits be lost with guilt, and their fond hopes destroyed by prodigy and amazement. Bp. Taylor, vol. i. Ser. 1. What time the dayes with scorching heat abound, Is creasted all with lines of firie light, That it prodigious seemes in common people's sight. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 1. Amphictyon gave the interpretation of strange and prodigious sights, as also of dreames. Holland. Plinie, b. vii. c. 56. Twice every month, th' eclipses of our light Poor mortals should prodigiously affright. Drayton. The Man in the Moon. A further prodigiousness and horrour. Hales. Remains, p. 289. Neuer mole, harelip, nor searre, or treachery. A discovering or disclosing, a tetraying, treason Certes, it had bene better for thee not to haue accused the king of this prodition.-Grafton. Henry II. an. 18. But the Christian blood shed by his instigation and command (saith he) cries yet louder to God; yea, the blood of the church, which the sword of his tongue in a miserable prodition hath shed, cries out against him. Bp. Hall. Honour of the Maried Clergie, b. iii. s. 8. Winch. I doe, thou most usurping proditor, And not protector of the king or realme. Shakespeare. 1 Pt. Henry VI. Act i. sc. 3. That touch of conscience he [Charles] bore with greater regret than for any other sin committed in his life, whether it were that proditory aid sent to Rochel, and religion abroad, or that prodigality of shedding blood at home. Milton. An Answer to Eikon Basilike. I will hasten to those more solid and conclusive characters, which, as I have said, are emergent from the mind; and which oftentimes do start out of children when themselves least think of it; for let me tell you, nature is proditorious.-Wotton. Remains, p. 82. PRODUCE, v. PRODUCIBLE. PRODUCTIVE. Fr. Produire, produict, It. Produrre, prodotto; (producimento,whence, probably, Milton's produce ment;) Sp. Producir; Lat. Producere, to lead forth, (pro and ducere.) To lead or bring forward or forth; to draw forward or forth; to protract, to prolong; to bear or bring forth, to yield, to breed, to generate, to procreate. They haue deposed of malice, more then the articles whereupon they were producted doe conteine. Fox. Martyrs, p. 1408. an. 1555. At length beeing producted to his last examination before the said bish. ye xv day of January, there to beare sentence definitiue against him, first he [Browne] was required, &c. Id. Ib. p. 1685. an. 1555. In these Iles also is great plentie of fine amber to be had (as Hector saith) which is producted by the working of the sea upon those coasts.-Holinshed. Desc. of Britaine, c. 10. He, sir, was lapt In a most curious mantle, wrought by th' hand Of his queene mother, which for more probation I can with ease produce.-Shakes. Cymbeline, Act v. sc. 5. Which repulse only given to the prelates (that we may imagine how happy their removal would be) was the producement of glorious effects and consequences in the church. Milton. An Apology of Smectymnuus. It was a corrupt mass, all mankind had corrupted themselues; but yet were capable of divine influences, and of a nobler form, producible in the new birth. Bp. Taylor, vol. iii. Ser. 10. But whether these qualities are formally, or only eminently in their producent; is beyond the knowledge of the sensitive.-Glanvill. Vanity of Dogmatizing, c. 10. The scope, which his lordship intendeth, is to write such a natural history, as may be fundamental to the erecting and Shakespeare. Midsummer Night's Dreame, Act v. sc. 2. building of a true philosophy, for the illumination of the understanding, the extracting of axioms, and the producing of many noble works and effects. Ev'n yet an ancient Tyanæan shows A spreading oak, that near a linden grows, Id. Annus Mirabilis. We may justly (I say) stand amazed that men should be so prodigiously supine and negligent in an affair of this nature and importance, as we see they generally are. Sharp, vol. i. Ser. 2. The arithmetical prodigy, alluded to in the text, is an American boy, (still, I believe, in London,) of whose astonishing powers in performing, by a mental process, hitherto unexplained, the most difficult numerical operations, some accounts have lately appeared in various literary journals. Stewart. Of the Mind, vol. ii. Note E. We suddenly found ourselves in an immense hall, lighted up with a prodigious number of candles. PRODITION. PRO'DITOR. PRO'DITORY. PRODITO'RIOUS. Eustace. Italy, vol. i. c. 1. Fr. Prodition; Lat. Proditio, from prodere; pro, or porro dare; to give, bring, or put forth; to disclose or Dryden. Virgil. Eneis, b. ii. discover; and, consequentially, to betray. Bacon. Works, vol. i. Rawley, To the Reader. He [man] is the flower and chief of all the products of nature upon this globe of the earth. More. Antidote against Atheism, pt. i. b. ii. c. 3. Thus the rich orange trees produce At once both ornament and use: Here opening blossoms we behold, There fragrant orbs of ripen'd gold.. Broome. To a Lady of thirty. The divine will is absolute; it is its own reason: it is both the producer and the ground of all its acts. South, vol. viii. Ser. 10. According to the genuine hypothesis of the atomick atheism, all imaginable forms of inanimate bodies, plants, and animals, as centaurs, scyllas, and chimeras, are producible by the fortuitous motions of matter. Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 673. inconsistent with such a producibility, or with novity of There being nothing contained in the notion of substance existence, no more than there is in the notion of figure, or of motion, which things no man hardly denies to receive a new existence.-Barrow, vol. ii. Ser. 12. That alone will suffice to destroy the universality and intireness of their hypothesis, and besides give cause to suspect, that by further industry, the producibleness of other principles also may be discovered. Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 681. |