RA VEL, v. Ravelen, (Hol.); intricare, (Kilian.) To ravel appears to be a dim. of reave, and to mean, to tear or pull asunder, (sc) any thing complex or complicate, and, thus, to unfold, to disclose it has also acquired an opposite usage, from the same meaning: (to tear or pull asunder; (sc.) any thing whole or entire; into shreds, into ragged particles; and, hence,) to pull or put into disorder or confusion; to confuse, to perplex, to entangle.

See UNRAVEL.

Another part became the well of sense,

The tender well-arm'd feeling brain, from whence
Those sinew strings, which do our bodies tie,
Are ravell'd out.

Donne. Progress of the Soul.

Cun. Shelter, shelter :-if you be seen, All's ravell'd out again.

Beaum. & Fletch. Wit at several Weapons, Act v. sc. 1. Rich. Must I doe soe? and must I rauell out My weaued vp follies.-Shakespeare. Rich. II. Activ. sc. 1. Let him make you to rauell all this matter out, That I essentially am not in madnesse, But made in craft.

Id. Hamlet, Act iii. sc. 4.

Till by their own perplexities involv'd, They ravel more still less resolved.

And clepen hym in to this daie
A rauen, by whom yet men maie
Take evidence, whan he crieth,
That some mishap it signifieth.

Id. Ib. b. iii.
So yt his mouable goodys were spoyled and rauenyd
amonge ye kynges offycers.-Fabyan, vol. i. c. 237.
Exhorte all the cytiezens to ioyne in one agaynst these
straungers, raueners, and destroyers of your countrey.
Hall. Henry VIII. an. 8.
Now do ye Pharisees, make clean the outside of the cup
and of the platter: but your inwarde partes are full of
rauenynge and wyckednes.-Bible, 1551. Luke, c. 11.
Ligurire somtymes is auidè and helluosè, that is, griedily
and raueninglye, or gluttonously to devour very much.
Udal. Flowres, fol. 98.
And for he wolde haue the rauenous bestes destroyed
through his lande, he caused Ludwallis, prynce or kynge of
Walys, to yelde to hym yerely, by waye of trybute, ccc.
woluys.-Fabyan, vol. i. c. 193.

So greate a hatred toward the Romayns hadde the greadie rauenousnesse of their proconsultes, the pollyng and shauing Milton. Samson Agonistes. of their tolle gatherers, the wrongfull delyng in sutes, and

If then such praise the Macedonian got,
For having rudely cut the Gordian knot;
What glory's due to him who could divide
Such ravell'd interests? has the knot unty'd?

Waller. To the King.
The fiction pleas'd! their loves I long elude:
The night still ravell'd what the day renew'd.

Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. xix.

Now, to perplex the ravell'd noose,
As each a different way pursues,
While sullen or loquacious strife
Promis'd to hold them on for life,
That dire disease, &c.

Goldsmith. The Double Transformation.

RAVELINE. Fr. Ravelin; It. Rivellino; Sp.

Rebellin.

This book will live, it hath a genius; this
Above his reader or his praiser is.-

Hence, then, profane; here needs no words' expence

In bulwarks, rav'lins, ramparts for defence.

B. Jonson. On the Poems of Sir John Beaumont.

- One tombe for all, for ever let us reare, Circling the pile without the field; at which we will erect Wals, and a raveling, that may safe our fleet and us protect.

RAVEN, v. RAVEN, n. RA'VENER. RA'VENING, n. RA'VENINGLY.

RAVENOUS.

RAVENOUSLY. RAVENOUSNESS. RA'VIN.

Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. vii.

Fr. Ravineux. See RAVAGE, and the words there referred to.

To reave or tear away; to seize by violence, to destroy or devour; to prey upon. Ravenous, eager for prey or plunder; voraciously hungry.

Raven, (the bird,)—A. S. Hrafn; so called from its ravenous disposition.

Ravine, Fr. Ravine, i.e. riven, or reaven, a rift, a hollow formed by riving or tearing, (sc.) a course, a passage.

Be ye war of false prophetis, that comen to you in clothingis of sheep, but withynne forth thei ben as wolves of raveynge.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 7.

Beware of false prophetes, whiche come to you in shepes clothynge, but inwardlye they are rauenynge wolues. Bible, 1551. Ib. And feele ghe this thing in ghou which also in Crist

Of the rauin'd salt-sea shark.-Id. Macbeth, Act iv. sc.1.
Better t'were

I met the rauine lyon when he roar'd
With sharpe constraint of hunger.

Id. All's Well that Ends Well, Act iii. sc. 2.
That he, his fellowes, nor their dogs could keepe
The rav'ner from their flockes.

Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. ii. s. 3.

And as keene dogs keepe sheep in cotes, or folds of hurdles bound:

And grin at every breach of ayre, envious of all that

moves:

Still listning when the ravenous beast stalks through the
hilly groves. Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. x.
Whence timorous beasts, through hills and lawns pursued,
By artful shifts the ravening foe elude.
Blackmore. The Creation, b. vii.
For with hot ravine fir'd, ensanguin'd man
Is now become the lion of the plain.
And worse.

This January is ravished in a trance,

At every time he loketh in hire face.

Chaucer. The Marchantes Tale, v. 9624.

Thou governour with drawe and restreine the rauishing flodes.-Id. Boecius, b. i.

The generall being rauished with the suddaine joy of this report as a man that hath escaped a great danger of the ene mie, doth breake out into an insolent kinde of bragging of his valour at sea.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 593.

Sore were all their mindes rauished wyth feare, that in maner half beside themselves, they said, &c.

Guldinge. Cæsar, fol. 173. Brutus, Colatinus, Lucretius, and other nobles of the citie, at the last braste out, and takynge occasion of the rauisshement, all thoughe the king were therto not partie, they vtterly expulsed him for ever out of the citie. Sir T. Elyot. The Governour, b. ii. c. 5.

At last, quite ravisht with delight to heare
The royall ofspring of his natiue land,
Cryde out; Deare countrey! O how dearely deare
Ought thy remembraunce and perpetuall band
Be to thy foster childe.-Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 11.
Is justice fled from heaven? Can that permit
A foul deformed ravisher to sit
Upon her virgin cheek, and pull from thence
The rose-buds in their maiden excellence ?

Carew. Upon the Sickness of E. S.

A man that hath not experienced the contentments of innocentive piety, the sweetnesses that dew the soul by the influencies of the spirit, and the ravishings that sometimes from aboue do shoot abroad in the inward man, will hardly believe there are such obiectations that can be hid in godliness.-Feltham, pt. ii. Res. 66.

And heard within, the goddesse eleuate
A voice diuine, as at her web she wrought.
Subtle, and glorious, and past earthly thought;
As all the houswiferies of Deities are.
To heare a voice, so rauishingly rare.

Chapman. Homer. Odyssey, b. x.
But the faire lady, overcommon quight
Of huge affection, did in pleasure melt,
And in sweet ravishment pour'd out her spright.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 12.
Who now but Palamon exults with joy,
And ravished Arcite seems to touch the sky.

Dryden, Palamon & Arcite.

He lov'd the knight,
But sovereign monarchs are the source of right,
Mov'd by the damsel's tears and common cry,
He doomed the brutal ravisher to dye.

RAW, adj. RA'WISH. RA'WLY. RA'WNESS.

And the hoarse raven on the blasted bough, By croaking from the left presag'd the coming blow. Dryden. Virgil, Past. I. The curiosity of the one, like the hunger of the other, devours ravenously and without distinction whatever falls in its way, but neither of them digests.

Bolingbroke. Of studying History, Let. 4. His plumes were inky black, of vast extent: His hooky claws on spoil and ravine bent.

Hoole. Orlando Furioso, b. xxxiii. RA/VISH, v. Fr. Ravir, to reave or tear RA'VISHER. away. See RAP or RAPE, RA'VISHING, n. RAVEN, &c. and ENRAVISH. RA'VISHINGLY. To reave or tear away; to RA'VISHMENT. bear or carry or hurry away, Iesus, that whanne he was in the fourme of God demyde (to ravage ;) to transport, to entrance; to affect or move, with ecstasy, with excess of delight or pleasure; to bear or carry off forcibly, violently; to force, to violate.

not raueyne that hymself were euene to God.

Wiclif. Filipensis, c. 2. And the farisee stood and preiede by himsilf these thingis: and seyde, God I do thankingis to thee, for y am not as othir men, raueynouris, unjuste, auoutreris; as also this pupplican.-Id. Luke, c. 17.

That is to say, the foules of rauine

Were highest set, and than the foules smale.
Chaucer. The Assembly of Fowis.
We scorne soche raueners, and henters of foulest thynges.
Id. Boecius, b. i.
Id. A Ballad Pleasant.

And rauinish yelow is her sounitresse.

The faucon whiche fleeth ramage,
And suffreth no thynge in the waie,
Wherof that he maie take his praie:
Is not more set vpon rauyne
Than thilke man

And the nunns then ravished from hence were dryven.
R. Gloucester, p. 579.
Hure araye wit hure rychesse, raveshede myn herte.
Piers Plouhman, p. 24.
And fro the daies of Ion baptist til now the kyngdom of
hevenes suffrith violence, and violent men ravyschen it.
Wiclif. Mall. c. 11.

And I woot such a man whethir in bodi or out of bodi I noot, God woot, that he was rauysschid into paradise, and herde priuy wordis which it is not lefful to a man to speke. Id. 2 Cor. c. 12. And it was don to me as I turnyde aghen into Ierusalem and preiede in the temple that I was maad in rauysching of Gower. Con. 4. b. iii. soule.-Id. Dedis, c. 22.

Contrarywise in a colde stomake, the litell heate is suffocate with grosse meate, and the fine meate left raw, for lacke of concoction.-Sir T. Elyot. Castel of Helth, b. ii. c. 29.

No newelie practised worshippinges alloweth he for hys, but vtterlye abhorreth them all as thinges rawe and unsauerye.-Bale. Image, pt. ii.

Thus muche did the Lorde Jesus speake vnder a figure qualifying and tempering his woordes to the rawnesse of his disciples, whiche rawenes he suffred for these causes to remaine a long season in them.-Udal. Luke, c. 22.

Ham. Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you;though, I know, to divide him inventorially, would dizzy the arithmetick of memory; and yet but rate neither, in respect of his quick sail.-Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act v. sc. 2. Some [crying] vpon their children rawly left.

Id. Hen. V. Activ. sc. 1. Why in that rawnesse left you wife and childe? Those precious motiues, those strong knots of loue, Without leaue-taking. Id. Macbeth, Act iv. sc. 3. Who was to weet a wretched wearish elfe. With hollow eyes and rawbone cheekes forspent, As if he had in prison long bene pent.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. e. 5. Anam. Alas! how should I do otherwise, that lie all night with such a raw-boned skeleton as memory, and run all day on his errands ?—Brewer. Lingua, Act iii. sc. 2.

And what does it signify for the observator to set his raw conceptions and fond reasonings upon the meaning of a word, against such valuable authorities.

Waterland. Works, vol. iv. p. 27

RAY, n. RAY, V. RA'YLESS.

The rayes or beames issuynge from the eyen of her, whom ye have chosen, with the remebraunce of her incomparable vertues, hath thrilled through out the middes of my hart.

Sir T. Elyot. Governour, b. ii. c. 12.

And now, though on the sunne I drive,
Whose fervent flame all thinges decaies,
His beames in brightnesse may not strive,
With light of your swete golden raies.

Surrey. The Constante Louer lamentelh.

And now (with care) I can record those dayes,
And call to mind the quiet lyfe I led,

Before I first beheld thy golden rayes
When thine vntrueth yet troubled not my hed.
Gascoigne. Dan Bartholmew of Bathe.
For when she spied my ladies golden rayes

Into the clouds,

Her head she shroudes,

And shamed to shine where she her beames displaies.
Id. A Mooneshyne.

There did this lucklesse mayd seven months abide,
Ne ever evening saw, ne morning's ray,
Ne ever from the day the night descride,
But thought it all one night, that did no houre divide.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 11

Nor brick nor marble was the wall in view;
But shining christall, which from top to base
Out of her womb a thousand rayons threw.

Id. Vision of Bellay.

Methinks I see his mountain spirit, freed
From tangling earth, regain the realms of day,
Its native country, whence, to bless mankind,
Eternal Goodness, on this darksome spot,
Had ray'd it down a while.

Thomson. To the Memory of Lord Talbot. You object "that he describes this very doctrine in a way directly condemned by Justin Martyr, and even by Athanasius himself, for Gnostic or Sabellian; making the Holy Ghost an emanation like a ray shot forth from the sun, flowing from it and returning to it.

Waterland. Works, vol. iii. p. 73. Bodies, in respect of light, may be divided into three sorts: first those that emit rays of light, as the sun and fixt stais; secondly, those that transmit the rays of light, as the air; thirdly, those that reflect the rays of light, as iron, earth. &c. The first are called luminous, the second pellucid, and the third opake.

Locke. Elements of Natural Philosophy, c. 11. Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.

RAY, n. RAY, U. RAIMENT.

Young. Night Thoughts, Night 1. A. S. Wrig-an; to wrie, to cover, to cloak; ray or array is applied both to the dressing of the body of an individual, and to the dressing of a body of armed men, (Tooke.)

To wrie, ray, or array is,-to cover, to cloak, to dress, to set in order.

To ray or beray,-to cover, (sc.) with dirt, with filth; and thus, consequentially,

To dirty, to befoul; to bespatter with dirt.

Now ben the priestis pokes so wide

Men must enlarge the vestiment,

The holy gospell they doen hide For the contrarien in raiment.

Chaucer. The Plowmannes Tale, pt. iii.

I shal leaue him [Tindall] for hys part a whyle in the myre in whiche hymselfe hath overthrowen hys matter, and shall shew you shortly how angrely he ryseth vp and royally rayed in dirt.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 614.

Cesar placed his footemen in battell ray before his camp. Goldinge. Casar, fol, 223,

Pitifull spectacle of deadly smart,

Beside a bubling fountain low she lay, Which shee increased with her bleeding hart, And the cleane waves with purple gore did ray. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 1. From his soft eyes the tears he wypt away, And from his face the filth that did it ray.

Id. Ib. b. vi. c. 5. Gru. Fie, fie on all tired jades, on all mad masters, and all foule waies: was euer man so beaten? was euer man so raide? was euer man so weary?

Shakespeare. The Taming of the Shrew, Act iv. sc. 1. The wyld wood gods, arrived in the place, There find the virgin, doolfull, desolate, With ruffled rayments, and fayre blubbred face, As her outrageous foe had left her late.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. 1. c. 6. Isab. Too good for you: do you think to famish me, Or keep me like an alms- woman in such rayment, Such poor unhandsome weeds?

For he [Agis] seemed to be a man of great reach, and is renowned in the histories for a most wise and sage prince. Holland. Plutarch, p. 330. The ashes of the said barke given in wine hote is greatly commended for the reaching and spitting of blood. Id. Plinie, b. xxiv. c. 4.

Maybe she might in stately stanzas frame
Stories of ladies, and advent'rode knights,
To raise her silent and inglorious name
Unto a reachlesse pitch of praises hight.

Hall. A Defence to Envy.

Reaching above our nature does no good.
We must fall back to our old flesh and blood.

Dryden. Essay on Satire.

The silver Phea's glittering rills they lost, And skimm'd along by Els' sacred coast, Then cautious through the rocky reaches wind, And turning sudden, shun the death designed. Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. xv. Being at liberty to indulge himself in all the immunities Beaum. & Fletch. Women Pleased, Act i. sc. 1. of invisibility; out of the reach of danger, he [Junius] has Living, both food and raiment she supplies, been bold; out of the reach of shame, he has been confident. And is of least advantage when she dies. Johnson. Falkland Islands.

Dryden. Ovid. Melam. b. xv. RE, in composition, means ere, before; as to re-act, (sc.) any thing acted before; and consequentially, to act again.-It may be prefixed to verbs or nouns, as need may require.

RE-ACCE'SS. Ad, and ced-ere, cessum, to go. Access,-motion to or towards, again; return. For to let passe the quailing and withering of all things by the recesse, and their reviving and resurrection (as it were) by the reaccesse of the sunne; I am of opinion that the sap in trees so precisely followes the motion of the sun, that it never rests, but is in continuall agitation as the sun it selfe.-Hakewell. Apologie, b. ii. c. 1. RE-ACCU'SE, v.

REACH, v. REACH, n. REACHING, n. RE'ACHER. REACHLESS.

Daniel. Civil Wars, b. i. Dut. Reycken, recken; Ger. Reichen; Sw. Rac-a; A. S. Rac-an; Goth. Rakyan, tendere, extendere, porrigere; and, consequentially, attingere,To extend, to stretch out, to hold forth, to produce, to prolong; to stretch out to, and, consequentially, to touch, to take; to attain, to arrive Also, to stretch or strain, as in sickness. To reach, v. (met.) is sometimes used as equivalent to overreach or outreach; and reach, the noun, in a similar manner.

at.

In armes is ther none that to thie renoun reches.

R. Brunne, p. 195.

For if this were true, then would every thing that suffered and re-acted motion, especially polite bodies, as lookingglasses, have something both of sense and of understanding in them.-Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 731.

lision precedes perception, and that every perception is a

Whence it is plain that alwaies corporeal re-action or colkind of feeling, which lets so long as this resistance or impress of motion lasts.-More. Immortality of the Soul, Pref.

For sense being nothing else, as some conceit, but motion, or rather re-action of a body pressed upon by another body, it will follow that all the matter in the world has in some manner or other the power of sensation.-Id. Ib. b. i. c. 12. But, if the son re-acts the father's crimes And shares the lineal guilt of former times, How curst am I, on whose unhappy race The feast of Tantalus entailed disgrace.

Lewis. Statius. Thebaid, b. 1.

Ye fish, assume a voice, with praises fill The hollow rock and loud reactive hill.

:

Blackmore. Creation, b. vij.

Forth steps the spruce philosopher, and tells
Of homogeneal and discordant springs
And principles of causes how they work
By necessary laws their sure effect;
Of action and reaction.
READ, v.
READ, n.
REA'DER.
REA'DING, n.
REA'DABLE.

Cowper. Task, b. il. Dut. and Ger. Reden; A. S Aradan, ared-ian, arad- ian rædian, ge-rad-ian. See Wachter and Lye.

A word of very various and extensive application, deduced from the radical meaning,-to put or place before.

To place, to lay before, to be, have, or make A trestille Edward raught, that heuy was of pais. [poise.] ready, (qv.) to prepare, to put or set in a state for use, to set in order, to dispose.

Id. p. 229. By hym that raughte on rode. quath Reson to the kynge. To place, have or hold before, (sc.) the mind; Piers Plouhman, p. 73. to suppose, to imagine, to conjecture; to foresee, Her tresses yellow, and long straughten, to provide, to consider, to consult, to advise. Unto her heeles downe they raughten. Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose. minds of others; to declare, to tell, to speak. To put or place before, (sc.) others, or the Wherein alas, from me was raught Myne owne free choyce and quiet minde. And hence, generally,

Vncertaine Auctors. The Losse of Liberty by Loue. After thys when he cryed agayn, I am a thyrst; there ranne one vnto him, and raughte hym a spounge ful of vinegar, fastened to a rede.-Udal. Mark, c. 15.

If chaunce ill lucke me hyther brought,
Ill fortune me that day befell,
When first my bowe from the pynne I raughte,
For Hector's sake, the Greekes to quell.

Ascham. Schole for Shootinge, b. i.

I would not have it thought hereby,
The dolphin swimme I meane to teache,
Nor yet to learne the faulcon fly:

I row not so farre past my reache.
Vncertaine Auctors. They of the meane Estate are happiest.
They pluckyng swift their dres, that night and day do tyre
their lims,

To perceive or conceive the mind or meaning; to see, inspect, or peruse it; to apprehend, to comprehend, to understand, to discern; to detect or discover, to expose or expound, to explain. To learn, to teach, to advise, to give or take counsel or advice; to tell or declare the mind or meaning, (sc.) of any thing written; to speak it aloud; from the writing, as there written.

Tho this lordes of Rome al here will hadde,

Heo nomen here conseil, & the folk of this lond radde,
That heo bi twene this lond & Scotland schulde a wai
rere,
Strong and heyg on each syde.

R. Gloucester, p. 98.

Vor gyf we to gadere beth, and al clene of one rede, France & ech other lond, & ech prince vs wole drede. Id. p. 309. Whenne he may rest fram worlde's busynesse, priueliche he occupieth him a boute lernyng in redyng, and among his clerkes axeth questiones.-Id. p. 482.

Haue not ye rad, for he that made men at the bigynnyng made hem male and female?- Wiclif. Matthew, c. 19 Haue ye not red, howe that he whiche made man at the Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. II. c. 11, begyunynge, mad the man and woman?-Bible, 1551. Ib.

And he selede to hem, redden ye nevere what Davith dide whanne he hadde nede?-Wiclif. Mark, c. 2.

And he sayde to them: haue ye neuer read what Dauid dyd, when he had nede?-Bible, 1551. Ib.

For into this dai the same veil in redyng of the Oolde Testament dwellith not schewid, for it is auoided in Crist. Wiclif. 2 Cor. c 3. For vntyll thys daye remayneth the same coveringe vntaken away in the Olde Testamente when they reade it, which in Christ is put awaye.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

And he seide to him what is wrytun in the lawe? how redist thou?-Wielif Luk, c. 10.

He sayd unto him: what is wrytten in the lawe? how redest thou?-Bible, 1551. Ib.

1

And whan I saw he n'olde never fine
To reden on this cursed book all night,
A sodenly three leves have I plight

Out of his book, right as he redde.

Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Prologue, v. 6371.

So that no devotion

Ne had I in the sermon

Of dane Reason, ne of her rede

I tooke no soiour in mine hede.-Id. Rom. of the Rose.

Why yes, for God, quod hendy Nicholas;

If thou wolt werken after lore and rede;

Thou maist not werken after thin owen hede.

Id. The Milleres Tale, v. 3523. Now to Goddes laude and reuerence, profite of the reders, amendement of maners of the herers, &c. I am stered in this making, and for nothing els.

Id. The Testament of Loue, b. iii.
And therefore I rede

My sonne that thou flee and drede
This vice and what that other seyn
Let thy semblant be trewe and plein.-Gower. Con. A. b. ii.

The man is blest that hath not bent

to wicked reade his ear:

Nor led his life as sinners do,

nor sat in scorners' chair.

Sternhold, Ps. 1.

The learned brayne, Which joyneth reading with experience. Gascoigne. The Steele Glas. We may lerne not onely by the readinge of the prophetis to aske consolacion, but also by the example of the prophetis to aske to be delyuered from the curse of the lawe.

Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 9.

"I read in Livy," says Montaigne, "what another man does not, and Plutarch read there what I do not." Just so the same man may read at fifty what he did not read in the same book at five and twenty; at least, I have found it so, by my own experience, on many occasions.

Bolingbroke. On the Study of History, Let. 5. There are in this manuscript some readings different from the common copies.-Waterland. Works, vol. iv. p. 188.

To his incessant importunities for information on casual topics of conversation, which she watchfully stimulated, she constantly replied, read, and you will know; a maxim to the observance of which he always acknowledged himself indebted for his future attainments.

Lord Teignmouth. Life of Sir W. Jones. Bred at St. Omer's to the shuffling trade, The hopeful youth a Jesuit might have made, With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.

Churchill. The Rosciad.

Mr. Hume's work, in the main, is agreeably written, and is indeed the most readable general account of the English affairs that has yet been given to the public.-Hurd, Dial. 6. RE-ADDRESS, v. Fr. Addresser, dresser; It. Drizzàre; Lat. Dirigere; to direct. To direct again to or towards, (sc.) the dis&c.

course,

To forward, to move, to put or bring forward again; to move, to bring again into the front

Dut. Reed, reed-en, parare,

præparare, promptum habere; Ger. Reit. reiten; Sw. Reda: A. S. Hrade, prepared, held in hand; (sc. for immediate use;) from hrad-ian, to prepare, to hasten. See RATHE, and READ.

Prepared or made fit for use beforehand; fit or adapted for use, for any purpose: prompt. quick, expedite, or expeditious; free from difficulty or hinderance; easy, near.

To gain or get back or again; to regain.

Kyng Henry the VI. thus re-adepted (by the meanes onely of ye earle of Warwicke) hys crowne and dignitie royall, in the yere of our Lorde 1471.-Hall. Edw. IV. an. 9.

In whose begynnyng of raedepcion, [re-a.] the erle of Worcester, whiche for his cruelnesse was called the bochier of Englade, was taken and put in streyght pryson. Fabyan, vol. ii. p. 659. an. 1570. RE-ADJOURN, v. Fr. Re-adjourner, _adjourner, ad, and jour; It. Giòrno; Lat. Dies, diurnum, adj.

To continue again from day to day; to a future

Therefore he toke the drinke that the phisition had made day; to postpone again.

him, and delivered him the letter, and as he drank, he beheld his face stedfastly to se what countenance he wold make at the reding of it-Goldyng. Justine, fol. 55.

It resteth now (gentle reader) that thou thinke it not euyll done, to publishe to the honor of the Englishe tong, and for the profit of the studious of Englishe eloquence, those workes which the ungentle horders up of such treasure have heretofore enuied thee.-Surrey. To the Reader. Wherfore this, beynge reedlesse [in other editions remedylesse.]-Fabyan, vol. i. c. 128.

Where at his feet, with sorrowfull demayne
And deadly hew, an armed corse did lye,
In whose dead face he redd great magnanimity.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 8.
But since thy faithfull zele lets me no hyde
My crime, (if crime it be,) I will it reed.

Id. Ib. b. iii. c. 3.

Therefore above my years, The law of God I read, and found it sweet, Made it my whole delight.-Milton. Par. Regained, b. i.

To ask or search I blame thee not, for heav'n

Is as the book of God before thee set,

Wherein to read his wondrous works and learne
His seasons, hours, or days, or months, or years.
Id. Paradise Lost, b. viii.
For proof look up,
And read thy lot in yon celestial sign,
Where thou art weigh'd, and shown how light, how weak,
If thou resist.
Id. Ib. b. iv.

Then, preacing to the pillour, I repeated
The read thereof for guerdon of my paine.
And, taking downe the shield, with me did it retaine.
Spenset. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 10.

In vaine therefore it were with medicine To goe about to salve such kind of sore, That rather needes wise read and discipline Then outward salves that may augment it more. Id. Ib. b. vi. c. 6. The suet that commeth from the kell of a mutton, staieth any flux of bloud, if it be conveied into the place from whence it issueth. So is their rede,-especially if it be the rennet of a yong lambe tempered with water, either drawne up into the nosthrils or poured into them: this is thought to bee such a soveraigne remedie, that when all others have failed, it hath done the deede.

Holland. Plinie, b. xxx. c. 13, A perfect judge will read each work of wit, With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find, Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.

You seem to have left the town somewhat prophetically, not to be near the noise of a very unhappy morning on Monday last; at which time the Parliament assembling again (which you know had been silenced till that day) was then re-adjourned by the king's special command till Tuesday next.-Reliquia Wollonianæ, p. 443.

RE-ADMIT, v. READMITTANCE. READMISSION.

Lat. Admittere, to let to or into.

} or

To give leave again to enter; to grant, allow, or suffer to be again brought in or forward; to assent again.

These evils I deserve and more, Acknowledge them from God inflicted on me Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon Whose ear is ever open; and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.

Milton. Samson Agonistes. To shun them, in their holy meetings especially, till many and great evidences, both of their sorrow for what they had done, and of their amendment for the time to come, had procured them re-admittance.

Brevint. Saul & Samuel, c. 10.

Fran. That, whilst your pride of heart Prolongs his re-admission, his despair Urge him not to some precipitate attempt.

Digby. Elvira, Act iii.

That leads to Nature's great metropolis,
And readmits us, through the guardian hand
Of elder brothers, to our Father's throne.
Young. Complaint, Night 9.
RE-ADOPT, v. Fr. Re-adopter; Lat. Adop-
tare; to choose.

To choose again, or take again by choice.
When shall my soul her incarnation quit
And, re-adopted to thy blest embrace,
Obtain her apotheosis in thee?

Young. Complaint, Night 9. RE-ADO'RN, v. See ORN, and ADORN. Lat.

Ad, orn-are; to deck or decorate.

To deck or decorate, or embellish.
Behold, the streams now change their languid blue,
Regain their glory, and their flame renew;
With scarlet honours readorned, the tide
Leaps on.

Ony, he sede, redi folk and wel iwar this is,
& more conne of bataile, than hii couthe biuore.
R. Gloucester, p. 558.
If any man wille witen, & se of hir storie,
At Westmynster written er thei redilie.—R. Brunne, p.105.

Cites, burghes and tounes ageyn kyng Henry
A burgh in Schrobschire to werre mad him redy.-Id. p.97.
For thy reson redelych, thou shalt nat ryden hennes.
Piers Ploukman, p. 73.
To sitte at my right half or lift half, is not myn to gyve to
you, but to which it is maad redy of my fadir.

Wiclif. Matthew, c. 20. This is he of whom it is wrytun. lo y sende myn aungel bifore thi face, which schal make redy thy weye bifore thee. Id. Luk, c. 7.

For if we did it openly,

We might have blame readily-Chaucer. Rom. of the R.
Unto Syluestre he than answerde
With all his holle herte, and seith:
That he is redy to the feith.

And whan he sawe, and redie fonde
This coffre made, and well englued,
The dead bodie was besewed
In cloth of golde, and leide therin.
Wherof the worldes redinesse,
In body both, and in courage,
Stant ever vpon his auantage.

Gower. Con. A. b ii.

Id. Ib. b. viii.

Id. Ib. b. iv.

Then he counteth of medows, which our auncestors called parata, as a man would say, readie and provided.

Holland. Plinie, b. xviii. c. 5. Let's e'en compound, and for the present live, 'Tis all the ready-money fate can give.

Cowley. To Dr. Scarborough, That Deos in the Septuagint is frequently the rendering of Jehovah, as you may readily see by turning to Trom mius's Concordance.-Waterland. Works, vol. i. p. 48

What, therefore, has every one to do, but to prepare himself for them [difficult trials], to put his affairs in such a posture as that he may be in a readiness to encounter them. Skarp, vol. vi. Ser. 4.

Yet feeling present evils, while the past
Faintly impress the mind, or not at all.
How readily we wish time spent revok'd.
That we might try the ground again.-Cowper. Task, b.vi.
RE-AGRE'E, v. Fr. Agréer, gré.

To accord, consent, or concur again.

And fain to see that glorious holiday of union which this discord re-agreed.

Of or pertaining to things, as opposed to persons; to facts as opposed to fiction; in law, opposed to personal: see the quotation from Blackstone.

Realists.-a sect of philosophers, (opposed to Nominalists,) qui in rebus, non in vocibus, veram positam esse Philosophiam asserebant, (Du Cange.)

It is ful fayre to ben yeleped madame,
And for to gon to vigiles all before,
And have a mantel reallish ybore.

Chaucer. Prol. to the Canterbury Tales, v. 380.

But telleth me what mistere men ye ben,
That hen so hardy for to fighten here
Withouten any juge, other officere,
As though it were in listes really.

Hee exhorted him to beleeue the reality of the sacrament after the consecration.-Foz. Martyrs, p. 1159. an. 1543.

While that by fate his state in stay did stand,
And when his realm did florish by advise,
Of glorie then we bare some fame and brute.

Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. li.

The whiles his life ran foorth in bloudie streame,
His soule descended downe into the Stygian reame.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 9.

O heav'n! that such resemblance of the Highest
Should yet remain, where faith and reallie
Remain not.
Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vi.
This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, young,
Was call'd to empire, and had govern'd long;
In prose and verse was own'd, without dispute,
Through all the realms of nonsense, absolute.

Dryden. Mac-Flecknoe.

We clearly see

(As well as that pendent subordinance) The nearly couching of each realtie, And the Creatour's close propinquitie

To ev'ry creature.-More. Song of the Soul, pt. i. b. ii. s.12. Our simple ideas are all reql, all agree to the reality of things-Locke. Hum. Underst. b. ii. c. 29.

Such for instance was the dispute between the Thomists and the Scotists about the immaculate conception of the Virgin, and that between the Nominalists and the Realists

about the nature of universals.

Bolingbruke. Authority in Matters of Religion, Ess. 4. There is no arguing from ideal to real existence, unless it could first be shown, that such ideas must have their obJective realifies, and cannot be accounted for. as they pass within, except it be by supposing such and such real existence, ad extra, to answer them.

Waterland. Works, vol. iv. p. 435.

Things real are such as are permanent, fixed, and immoveable, which cannot be carried out of their place; as lands and tenements-Blackstone. Commentaries, b. xi. c. 2.

Our Lord himself called not this general principle in question, any more than the writers of the Old Testament call in question the reality of the miracles of the Egyptian magicians.-Horsley, vol. i. Ser. 11.

'Tis grave philosophy's absurdest dream

That heaven's intentions are not what they seem;
That only shadows are dispersed below,

And earth has no reality but woe.

Cowper. Hope.

Death that absolves my birth, a curse without it:
Rich death, that realizes all my cares,
Toils, virtues, hopes, without it a chimera!

Young. Complaint, Night 3.

After the death of Abelard, through whose abilities and eloquence the sect of Nominalists had enjoyed for a few years a very splendid triumph, the system of the Realists began to revive, and it was soon so completely re-established in the schools as to prevail with little or no opposition till the fourteenth century.-Stewart. Human Mind, c. 4. s. 3.

REALM. Fr. Royaume It. Reame; Sp. REAL. Realme: Lat. Regn-um, from rer, REALTY. qui regit, (regens, regs, rex :) he who rules, a king.

Realm, the land, territory, or country ruled or governed; a kingdom; the dominion or government of a king.

Real is (Chaucer) royal; realty,-royalty, (Milton.)

He is brother eldest, the reame forto were.

R. Brunne, p. 85.
For thy ich counsayle no kyng, eny consayle aske
A conscience yf he coveteth, to conquery a reome.
Piers Plouhman, p. 51.

Of his linage am I, and his ofspring
By veray line, as of the stok real.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 1554.

Ther may men fest and realtee beholde,
And deintees mo than I can you devise,
But all to dere they bought it or they rise.

Id. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 4840.

So rich a yere was neuer none
Of birdes song, and braunches grene,
Therein were birdes mo I wene,

Than been in all the realme of Fraunce.

VOL. IL

Turn with me to my twentieth year, for then
The lover's frenzy ruled the poet's pen;
When virgin reams were soild with lays of love,
The flinty hearts of fancied nymphs to move.
Crabbe. Tales of the Hall, b. vii.

RE-ANIMATE, v. Lat. Animus; Gr. Aveμos, breath, spirit.

To give breath, spirit, life-again; to relive or revive; to inspirit, to enliven again.

The sages of old live again in us; and in opinions there is a metempsychosis. We are our re-animated ancestours and antedate their resurrection. Glanvill. Vanity of Dogmatizing, c. 15. Variety re-animates the attention, which is apt to languish under a continual sameness.-Reynolds, Dis. 8. RE-ANNE'X, v. Į Lat. Annect-ere, to bind REANNE XING, n. (or knit (nect-ere) to. To bind, fasten, or unite again.

King Charles was not a little inflamed with an ambition to re-purchace and re-annex that duchie. Bacon. Hen. VII. p. 40. The French ambassadors were dismissed; the king auoiding to vnderstand any thing touching the re-annexing of Britaine, as the ambassadors had auoided to mention it. Id. Ib. p. 45. RE-ANOINT, v. Fr. Oindre; Lat. Inungere. To rub again with ointment, with oil or oily substance.

And Edward now to see his crown sat right,
Proud in his spoils, to London doth repair,
And re-anointed mounts th' imperial chair.

REAP, v. REA'PER. REA'PING, n. Raupyan.

Drayton. The Miseries of Q. Margaret.

Dut. Roop-en, reupen; Ger. Ropfen, rupfen; A.S. Rippan,

Ropfen, rupfen; Rippan,

To rip or reave, to cut; applied, met. (from reaping and gathering the harvest,) to collect, to gather, to gain.

A rybibour and a ratoner, a raker and hus knave A repé and, &c. Piers Plouhman, p. 106. of rype corn I schal sey to the repers, first gadere ye togidere Suffre ye hem bothe wexe into repyng tyme: and in tyme the taris and bynde hem togidere in knycches to be brent; but gedre ye whete into my berne.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 13.

Let both grow together tyll haruest come, and in tyme of haruest, I wyll saye to the reapers, gather ye first the tares, and bind them in sheues to be brente; but gather the wheate into my barne.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

These noble repers, as good workmen and worthy their hier, han al draw and bounde vpp in the sheues, and made many shockes.-Chaucer. The Testament of Loue, b. i.

And springyng herbes reapt up with brasen sithes Were sought after the right course of the moone. Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. iv. In all other quarters ye corn was reaped down, and none städing any where saue in thys one place.

Goldinge. Cæsar, p. 104.

-when perils all I weened past, And I hop'd to reape the crop of all my care, Into new woes unweeting I was cast.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. 1. c. 4. The corn the greedy reapers cut not down Before the fields with golden ears it crown; Nor doth the verdant fruits the gardener pull; But thou art cropt before thy ears were full.

Drummond. On the Death of Sir W. Alexander. He. then his fancy with autumnal scenes Amusing, chanc'd beside his reaper train To walk.

Thomson. Autumn.

The difficulties they must encounter are nine times more and greater than ever; and the prospects of interest, after the reapings and gleanings of so many years, nine times less-Swift. The Examiner, No. 18.

The morning workman always best succeeds,
The morn the reaper and the trav'ler speeds.
Cooke. Hesiod. Works & Days, b. il.
RE-APPEAR, v. To appear again.

To mute and to material things
New life revolving summer brings;
The genial call dead nature hears,

And in her glory re-appears.-Scott, Marmion, c.1. Introd. RE-APPROACH, v. To come very near to (ad proximum).

To come again towards; used by Bacon. See RECOMPOSE.

REAR, v. A. S. Rær-an, araran; to raise. REA'RER. Junius thinks rear and raise are REA'RING, n. the same word; and he adduces instances of the interchange of the letters r and s. See To RAISE.

In Chaucer, "rerid up al the town," is-raised or roused, &c. "To rere war" (in Goldinge)— raise or levy war; and in all the other examples rear is equivalent to raise, rouse. In the second from Spenser, rear or raise is (consequentially) lift, (qv.)—to take up or off; and, hence, to carry away.

And Tours the gode knygt, that so muche fole er slowg,
Brut lette brynge on erthe with honoure y nowg,
And lette a fair tabernacle in honour of hym rere,
And fair hous al abouten hym, and bi gan the cite there.
R. Gloucester, p. 20.

Y buryed he was at London, that he lette first rere.

Id. p. 23. And he hath rered to us an horn of helthe in the hous of Dauith his child.-Wiclif. Luk, c. 1.

And ran into the town, and made an hideouse cry,
And chargit all the cetezins to armys for to hy
From o strete tyl anothir, and rerid up al the town,
And made the trompis blowe up and the bellis soun.
Chaucer. The Marchantes Second Tale,
Which masse he willed to be reared hye
Toward the skies, and ribbed all with oke.

Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. ii. That erst we rered vpp we undermyne againe.

Id. Ecclesiastes, c. 2. p. 355. They were not in any hope that the citye wold hastelys consent to rere war.-Goldinge. Cæsar, fol. 201.

Cesar put them in remembrace, that about the same time the last yere before, the Bellouacanes and thother cities of

Gallia rered war.-Id. Ib. fol. 254.

For not one puffe of winde there did appeare;
That all the three thereat woxe much afrayd,
Unweeting what such horrour straunge did reare.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 13,

He, in an open turney lately held,
Fro me the honour of that game did reare;
And having me, all wearie earst, downe feld,
The fayrest ladie reft, and ever since withheld.

Id. Ib. b. iv. c. 6.

Swift as the word the parting arrow sings,
And bears thy death, Antinous, on its wings;
Wretch that he was, of unprophetic soul,
High in his hands he reared the golden bowl;
Ev'n then to drain it lengthen'd out his breath,
Changed to the deep, the bitter, draught of death.
Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. 23.
He's a young plant, in his first year of bearing,
But his friend swears he will be worth the rearing.
Dryden, Prol. 38.

On Pholoë thus the rearer of the steed,
When the kind Spring renews his gen'rous breed,
With joy views these strain up the mountain steep,
Those with their dams contend, or dare the deep.
Lewis. Statius. The Thebaid, b.z.
REAR, adj. A. S. Hreah, hrere, raw; geno-
rally applied to things insufficiently cooked or

dressed.

Undone; not done enough. 90

In Kent, rathe, raid, and rear, pronounced rare, are early, soon, (Grose ;) and thus rear (in Gay) may be a corruption of rather, raer, rare.

If they [eggs] be rere, they do clense the throte and brest. Sir T. Elyot. The Castel of Helth, b. ii. c. 13. Appius Aufeius being come out of the baine, after he had drunke a draught of honied wine, as he was supping of a rere egge died.-Holland. Plinie, b. vii. c. 54.

No chirping lark the welkin sheen invokes,
No damsel yet the swelling udder strokes,
O'er yonder hill does scant the dawn appear,
Then why does Cuddy leave his cot so rear!

REAR.

REA'RWARD, or REA'RGUARD.

Gay. The Shepheard's Week, Past. 1.

}:

See ARREAR. Fr. Rière, arrière; lt. Retro-guardia; Sp. Retagardia. Menage derives from retro, (re-itero,-Vossius,) backward. The back, hinder, or latter part; opposed to front or van.

The rouht of thare rascaile he did it rere and rime, Normanz and Flemmyng taile he kutted many tyine. R. Brunne, p. 71. Or els salle we die, that ere in this rereward.-Id. p. 190. I wyll go to Gaunt, to fetche ye rerehande, and so shall come agayne and fight with the freche kyng.

Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 416.

We can nat se aboute vs, nor haue knoledge of your reregarde nor vowarde.-Id. Ib. vol. ii. c. 113.

And than they issued out and wēt into a lytele wode, there besyde, bycause they wolde not be sene: and they on the rerewage drue agayne to the the barke.-Id. Ib. c. 413. His foote (of which he chusde

Many, the best and ablest men, and which he ever usde,
As rampire to his generall powre) he in the rere dispos'd.
Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. iv.
Meriones [his charioteere] the rereguard bringing on.
Id. Ib.

But ere we joined, and came to push of pike,
1 brought a squadron of our readiest shot,
From out our rearward, to begin the fight.

For while one party he opposed, His rear was suddenly enclosed, And no room left him for retreat,

Spanish Tragedy, Act i.

Or fight against a foe so great.-Hudibras, pt. i. c. 3.

The rest pursue their course before the wind,
These of the rear-most only left behind.

RE-ASCEND, v. Į REASCENT, n.

Rowe. Lucan. Pharsalia, b. iii.

Lat. Ascendere; (ad, and scandere,) to go up to.

To go, to come, to move upwards,-again; to climb, to mount again.

And, when as night hath us of light forlorne,

I wish that day would shortly re-ascend.-Spenser, son. 86.

Thus pour'd the goddesse sleepe into his eyes,
And re-ascended the Olympian skies.

Chapman. Homer. Odyssey, b. xx.
From where the bright Athenian turrets rise,
He mounts aloft and re-ascends the skies.

Addison. Ovid. Metam. b. iii.

Fatigued with traversing the mazy grove,
Here, ere she re-ascends the courts of Jove,
The chaste Diana, huntress of the wood,
Bathes her fair limbs, and gambols in the flood.

Fawkes. Apollonius Rhodius. Argonautics, b. ii.
Hence the declivity is sharp and short,
And such the re-ascent; between them weeps
A little Naiad her impoverished urn
All summer long, which winter fills again,

REA'SON, n. REA'SON, V.

REA'SONABLE.

REA'SONABLY.

REASONABLENESS. REA'SONER. REA'SONING, n. REA'SONIST.

REA'SONLESS.

REA'SONFULLY.

Cowper. Task, b. i.

Fr. Raison, raisonner; It. Ragione, raginare; Sp. Razon, razonar; Lat. Ratio, from rat-us, past part. of re-ri, to think. Reason, n.

The power or faculty of thinking; the art of thinking; the cause for which, the principle upon which, any thing is, or is to be done; also, that which we think is or ought to be, or be done. And see the quotations from Locke and Stewart.

To reason, -to use the power or faculty of thinking, applied to the use or employment of general terms; to infer or deduce one general

And thyng that ys myd strengthe ynom, hou mygte yt be
myd rygt?

Vor he nath reson uon, bote robberye and mygt.
R. Gloucester, p. 196.
Men mad tille him grete mone, it was without reson.
R. Brunne, p. 150.
Then ich a resonede reson. and right til hym ich seide.
Piers Plouhman, p. 224.
For richtfulliche reson. sholde ruele gow all.-Id. p. 15.
Tho saide a raton of renōn, mest resonable of tonge.

Id. p. 9.
Where poverty and pacience. plese more God Almighty,
Than do ryghtful richesse, and resonably to spende.
Id. p. 237.

And I seye to you that of every ydel word that men speken: thei schul yelde resoun thereof in the day of doom. Wielif. Matthew, c. 12. Britheren and fadris, heere ghe what resoun I ghelde now to ghou.-Id. Dedis, c. 22.

And whanne he bigan for to putte resoun oon was offride to him that oughte to him ten thousynd talentis, and whanne he had wot wherof to yelde, his lorde comaundide him to be sold, and his wyf and children, and alle thingis that he hadde, and to be paid.-Id. Matthew, c. 18.

Me thinketh it accordant to reson,
To tellen you alle the condition

Of ech of hem, so as it semed me,

And whiche they weren, and of what degre.

Chaucer. Prol. to the Canterbury Tales, v. 37. On of us two moste bowen doutelees: And, sith a man is more resonable Than woman is, ye mosten ben suffrable.

Id. The Wif of Bathes Prologue, v. 6023. And eke take they of hir bondmen amercementes, which might more resonably be called extortions than amercementes.-Id. The Persones Tale.

The fend answered, Nay:
Somtime we feine, and somtime we arise
With dede bodies, in ful sondry wise,
And speke as renably, and faire, and wel,
As to the phitonesse did Samuel.

Id. The Freres Tale, v. 7092. So then reasonfulli maye be sey, that mercy both right and lawe passeth.-Id. The Testament of Loue, b. iii.

For this is one of the ancientest laws among them; that no man shall be blamed for reasoning in the maintenance of his own religion.-Sir T. More. Utopia, b. ii. c. 11.

Let youre goodnesse or reasonablenesse bee from refuge or succour vnto my foolishnesse.-Udal. Flowres, fol. 163.

Therefore I wish of God, that all our reasoning might be fastened upon such matters as are necessarie, both for the hearer to learne, and also good for the goodly reasoner to teach.-Wilson. Logike, fol. 89.

I reason'd with a Frenchman yesterday,
Who told me, in the narrow seas that part
The French and English, there miscaried
A vessell of our countrey richly fraught.

Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice, Act ii. sc. 8.
When she rates things, and moves from ground to ground,
The name of Reason she obtains by this:
But when by reason she the truth hath found,
And standeth fix'd, she Understanding is.

Davies. The Immortality of the Soul.

Amint. I dare not stay thy language;
In midst of all my anger and my grief,
Thou dost awake something that troubles me
And saye I lov'd thee once; I dare not stay:
There is no end of women's reasoning.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Maid's Tragedy, Act v.
The little fishes (dreading the deceit)
With fearful nibbling fly th' enticing gin,
By nature taught what danger lies therein.
Things reasonless thus warn'd by nature be,
Yet I devour'd the bait was laid for me.

Drayton. Rosamond to King Henry. And to say truth, it were too rigid and reasonless to proclaim such an enmity between man and man, were it not the type of a greater enmity between law and sin.

Milton. Doctrine & Discipline of Divorce, b. ii. c. 3. Since thou [Death] art absolute, and canst controule All things beneath a reasonable soule.

Beaumont. On the Death of Lady Penelope Clifton. Porphiry, Plutarch, Sextus Empiricus, Patricius, and some others, have been bold to make reasonableness not the specifical difference of the humane nature.

Reason, which in base bonds my folly hath enthrail'd
I straight in council call'd,

Like some old faithful friend whom long ago
I had cashier'd to please my flattering fair.

Otway. The Poet's Complaint of his Muse,

The word reason, in the English language, has different significations: sometimes it is taken for true and clear principles; and sometimes for the cause, and particularly the final cause: but the consideration I shall have of it here is in a signification different from all these, and that is, as it stands for a faculty in man, that faculty whereby man is supposed to be distinguished from beasts, and wherein it is evident he much surpasses them.

Locke. Hum. Underst. b. iv. c. 17,

A poem with so bold a title, and a name prefixed from which the handling of so serious a subject would not be expected, may reasonably oblige the author to say somewhat in defence both of himself and of his undertaking.

Dryden. Religio Laici, Pref. Being to defend the reasonableness of our constancy, by the greatness of the rewards we expect for it, it was very proper to represent those cælestial recompenses, under the notion of such goods as those we argued with, acknowledged to be the most noble and desirable. Boyle. Works, vol. v. p. 302. But lest we should not here due reverence pay To learned Epicurus, see the way By which this reasoner, of such high renown, Moves through th' ecliptic road the rolling sun.

Blackmore. Creation, b. il

Can those then be enthusiasts who profess to follow reason? Yes, undoubtedly, if by reason they mean only con ceits. Therefore such persons are now commonly called reasonists and rationalists, to distinguish them from true reasoners and rational inquirers. Waterland. Works, vol. viii. p. 67.

The word reason itself is far from being precise in its meaning. In common and popular discourse it denotes that power by which we distinguish truth from falsehood, and right from wrong, and by which we are enabled to combine means for the attainment of particular ends. Stewart. Of the Human Mind.

The adjective reasonable, as employed in our language, is not liable to the same ambiguity as the substantive from which it is derived. It denotes a character in which reason (taking it in its largest acceptation) possesses a decided ascendant over the temper and passions; and implies no particular propensity to a display of the discursive power, if indeed it does not exclude the idea of such a propensity. Id. Ib

To come again to the same (place);—to meet, to collect again together.

Rollo then hauynge great disdayne and displeasure of this ouerthrowe and scumfyture of his Danys, re-assembled them that were abrode scatered.-Fabyan, vol. i. c. 181.

Their assembly is grounded upon his majesty's royal warrant, given at the dissolution of the last assembly at Lodun, where he solemnly gave his word to permit them to re-assemble when they would six months after, if the breaches of their liberty and grievances which they then propounded were not redress'd.-Howell, b. i. s. 2. Let. 19.

New beings arise from the re-assemblage of the scattered parts. Harris. Three Treatises, Note 7.

RE-ASSERT, v. Lat. Asser-tum, (ad, serere,) to knit or join together; to affirm. To affirm again, maintain again. With equal fury, and with equal fame, Shall great Ulysses re-assert his claim.

Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. xvil RE-ASSOCIATE, v. Lat. Associare; (ad,