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ADAYS. On days.

With a meeke visage, sweete wordes in the toung, deliberation in the person, temperaunce in the worke, euerie one may begude another now a daies, & by shrewdnes and mace, is beguiled himselfe.-Golden Boke, c. 13.

For, alas! at home I have a syre,

A stepdame eke, as hote as fyre,
That dewly adages counts mine.

Spenser. Shep. Calend. March.

Distillations of celestial days are conveyed in channels not pervious to an eye of sense, and now adays we seldom look with other, be the object never so beauteous or alluring.

Bp. Taylor. Episcopacy Asserted, Epist. Ded. "Nothing," continued the parson, "is commoner than for men wow-a-days to pretend to have read Greek authors, who have met with them only in translations, and cannot conjurate a verò in sui.” Fielding. Journey to the Next World, Introd. ADCORPORATE, v. Į Lat. of the lower or ACCORPORATE. Accorporare, (Ad-corpus, to a body,) to join to a body. To join to, unite or mix with; to embody. We now use incorporate.

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Then they yt gladly receaued his preachinge, were baptend; and the same daye, ther were added vnto them aboute the thousande soules.-Bible, 1539. Actes, c. 2.

This man was so myghty and marcial in his feates and at has dedys, that for his more honour he had an addycyon put to his ham, and was called for his great myght and power, Canstate the Great-Fabyan, c. 69.

And besides this, giving all diligence, adde to your faith, verte; and to vertue, knowledge; and to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, plines; and to godlinesse, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindaese, charity.-2 Peter, i. 5-7.

-"Back to thy punishment,

False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings,
Lest with a whip of sourpions I pursue
Thy lingering, or with the stroke of this dart
Strange horrour seize thee, and pangs unfelt before."
Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ii.

Man. This man, lady, hath robbed many beasts of their particular additions; he is as valiant as the lyon, churlish the beare, show as the elephant.

Shakespeare. Troil. & Cress. Act i. sc. 2.

Char. Though land and monies be no happiness, Yet they are counted good additions. Beaum. & Fletch. Elder Brother, Act iii. sc. 5. The senate with applause and thankes approued and confirmed his Probus's election, with additions to his title, Augustus, the Father of his Countrey, and the highest Exp Far in those times, euen amongst heathens, the samed title of a bishop was accounted an additament of creen to an emperour.

Speed. History of Great Britain, c. 42.

Having breath'd air, and slept in her [London's] bosom, how hear upon forty years, it is no wonder if I be habitually cave with her; nor have I bin wanting to express it tay times by dedicating unto her the great French dicSary rein'd, and enriched with divers additionals.

Howell. Londinopolis. Pref.
This besty he compasseth by one distinction, and that is,
what is necessary, and what is additionary.
Herbert. Country Parson, c. 31.

well Thomas can I find at this time in this

Cand can hardly suspect him to be the Cromwell of

That age because only additioned Armiger.

Some are additioned with the title of Laureat, though I must confess I could never find the root whence their bays did grow in England, as to any solemn institution thereof in our nation.-Fuller. Worthies, Cambridgeshire.

Every man of common sense can demonstrate in speculation, and may be fully convinced, that all the praises and commendations of the whole world, can add no more to the real and intrinsic value of a man, than they can add to his stature.-Swift. The Difficulty of Knowing One's-seif.

When it [the mind] has added together as many millions, &c. as it pleases, of known lengths of space or duration, the clearest idea it can get of infinity, is the confused incomprehensible remainder of endless addible numbers which affords no prospect of stop or boundary.

Locke. Essay on Hum. Underst. b. ii. c. 17. Endless divisibility giving us no more a clear and distinct idea of actually infinite parts, than endless addibility (if I may so speak), gives us a clear and distinct idea of an actually infinite number.-Id. Ib.

And this endless addition or addibility (if any one like the word better) of numbers, so apparent to the mind, is that, I think, which gives us the clearest and most distinct idea of infinity. Id. Ib. b. ii. c. 16.

When men are actually born to titles, it is almost impossible that they should fail of receiving an additional greatness, if they take care to accomplish themselves for it. Guardian, No. 111.

Nor can any representation of God's proceedings, be more harsh and incredible, than to suppose him by his omnipotent will and power, eternally and miraculously preserving such creatures unto endless punishment, who never had in them either originally or additionally, any principle of immortality at all.-Clarke. Let. to Dodwell.

The additory fiction gives to a great man a larger share of reputation than belongs to him, to enable him to serve some good end or purpose.-Arbuthnot.

The proprietor of the land, and the merchant who brought riches home by the returns of foreign trade, had during two wars bore the whole immense load of the national expenses; while the lender of money, who added nothing to the common stock, throve by the public calamity, and contributed not a mite to the public charge.

Bolingbroke. Let. to Sir W. Wyndham.

Had I with cruel and oppressive rhymes
Pursu'd, and turn'd misfortunes into crimes;
Had I, when virtue gasping lay and low,
Join'd tyrant vice, and added woe to woe.

Churchill. Ep. to William Hogarth.
See DEEM and Dooм. A. S.
Deman.

ADDE/EM,
or ADO'ом.
To think, to judge, to determine.

For loe, the winged God, that woundeth harts,
Caus'd me be called to account therefore;
And for reuengement of those wrongfull smarts,
Which I to others did inflict afore,
Addeem'd me to endure this penaunce sore.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 8.

No judge then (0 thou greatest goddess trew!)
According as thy selfe doest see and heare,
And vnto me addoom that is my dew;
That is the rule of all, all being rul'd by you.

Id. Ib. b. vii. c. 8.
A'DDER, Goth. Nadar; A. S. Nadre,
or E'DDER. (which in English is neath, nether,
low, lower,) applied to the whole serpentine class.
See NETHER.

Bute hyt tho more wonder be

Selde me schal in the lond eny foule wormes se.
For nedres ny other wormes ne mow ther be nogt.
And gef he beth thider bi cas from other londes y brogt,
Heo dyeth thorg smel of the lond, other thorg towchyng
y wys.-R. Gloucester, p. 43.

Ye generacioun of eddris: hou moun ye speke gode thingis
whanne ye ben yvele? for the mouth spekith of plentee of
the herte.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 12.

Here mow ye seen, that dedly sinne hath first suggestion
of the fende, as sheweth here by the adder; and afterward
the delit of the flesh, as sheweth here by Eve; and after
that the consenting of reason, as sheweth by Adam.
Chaucer. Persones Tale.

From Tenedon behold in circles great
By the calm sea come fletyng adders twaine,
Which plied towardes the shore.-Surrey. Virgile, b. ii.
Dan shall be a serpent in the waye, an edder in the path,
bytinge the horse heles, and hys rider fell bacwarde.
Bible, 1539. Gen. c. 49.
Memory confus'd, and interrupted thought,
Death's harbingers, lie latent in the draught;
And, in the flowers that wreath the sparkling bowl,
Fell adders hiss, and poisonous serpents roll.
Prior. Solomon. Pleasure.

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Fuller. Worthies, Cambridgeshire. to break, whose future is ağw. See HATCHET.

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And now an axe is sett to the roote of the tre, and therfore every tre that makith not good fruyt, schal be kitt doun, and schal be cast into the fier.-Wiclif. Luke, c. 3.

Now also is ye axe leyde vnto the rote of the trees; and euery tree therfore which bryngeth not forth good frute, is hewen doune and cast into the fyre.-Bible, 1539.

Like as the elm, forgrown in mountains hye,
Round hewen with axe, that husbandmen
With thick assaultes striue to teere up, doth threat.

ADDICT, v.
ADDICTEDNESS.
ADDICTION.

Surrey. Virgile, b. ii.

Lat. Addicere, (Ad-dicere.) Idem est ac attribuere, ac præcipuè consecrare (VosQui dicat aliquid, id ei addicit (Festus). To declare for, to give up to, to devote or attach to.

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Mir.

Thou hast miss'd a man,

(But that he is addicted to his study,
And knows no other mistress than his mind)
Wou'd weigh down bundles of these empty kexes.

Beaum. & Fletch. Elder Brother, Act iii. sc. 5.

Aso. Yours entirely addicted, Madame.
Arg. I require no more, dearest Asotus; henceforth let
me call you mine.-B. Jonson. Cynthia's Revels, Act iv. sc. 3.
With the same affections therefore, and the same addicted
fidelity, Parlament of England, I here again have brought
to your perusal on the same argument these following Expo-
sitions of Scripture.-Milton, Tetrachordon.

Which is a wonder how his grace should gleane it,
Since his addiction was to courses vaine,
His companies vnlettered, rude, and shallow,
His houres fill'd up with ryots, banquets, sports.
Shakespeare. Henry V. Act i. sc. i.

For mine owne interest for once let this be printed, that of men of my owne addiction, I love most, pittie some, hate none.-Marston. To the Reader. Parasitaster.

When once I shall see such monarchies and commonwealths no rarities, and see the addictedness of princes to the study of Scripture further the ulterior accomplishment of that part of it, which once promised God's people that kings should be its nursing fathers, and their queens its nursing mothers;" I shall expect to see the golden age elsewhere than in poets' dreams.

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Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 311.

We constantly oppose the generation of souls, that is, the production of life, cogitation and understanding, out of dead and senseless matter, and assert all souls to be as substantiall as matter it self; this is not done by us, out of any fond addictedness to pythagorick whimseys, nor indeed out of a meer partial regard to that cause of theism neither, which we were engaged in, but because we were enforced thereunto, by dry mathematicall reason. Cudworth. Intel. Syst. Pref. p. xv.

There has always prevailed among that part of mankind that addict their minds to speculation, a propensity to talk much of the delights of retirement.-Adventurer, No. 126.

To the incapacity, which an addiction to certain sciences induceth, may be added the prejudices which certain circumstances in the state of the two religious parties, that divide the western world, were apt to occasion.

Warburton, Ser. 13.

A/DDLE, v. A. S. Aidlian, to be sick or
A'DDLE, adj. weak. See IDLE.
To be of no use; to corrupt; to do in vain, to
frustrate, to make void or of none effect.

Pan. Troylus? Why he esteemes her no more than I esteeme an addle egge.

Bre. If you loue an addle egge as well as you loue an idle head, you would eate chickens i' th' shell.

Shakespeare. Troil. & Cress. Act i. sc. 2.
For. Could your mouldy brain be so addle, to imagine I
would marry a stale widow at six-and-forty?
Ford. Love's Sacrifice, Act iii. sc. 1.
Bare trees and shrubs but ill you know,
Could shelter them [the birds] from rain or snow;
Stepping into their nests, they paddled,
Themselves were chill'd, their eggs were addled.
Couper. Pairing Time Anticipated.

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After that the Kinges highnes [Henry VIII.] addressed his gracious letters to the maior and cominaltie of the citie, signifying to them that his pleasure was to solempnise and celebrate the coronacion of his mostes deare and welbeloued wife Quene Anne at Westminster the Whitsonday nexte ensuinge.-Hall. Hen. VIII, an. 25.

Other writers and recorders of fables, coulde have tolde you that Tecla sommetime addressed herselfe in mannes apparel.-Jewel. Defence of the Apologie, p. 375.

Therefore, good youth, addresse thy gate vnto her,
Be not denide accesse, stand at her doores,
And tell them, there thy fixed foot shall grow,
Till thou haue audience.

Shakespeare. Twelfth Night, Act i. sc. 4. They ended parle, and both address'd for fight.

Millon. Paradise Lost, b. vi.

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The Earl of Shaftsbury having addressed in vain for his Majesties favour, resorted by habeas corpus to the King's Bench, the constant residence of his justice.

Marvell. On the Growth of Popery.

Giue thou then vent
To doubts thus bound in me, (ye gods know all)
Which of the godheads, doth so fowly fall
On my addression home, to stay me here?

Chapman. Homer. Odys. b. iv.

The shortest and best prayer which we can address to him, who knows our wants, and our ignorance in asking, is this: "Thy will be done."

Bolingbroke. Reflections upon Exile.

Whatever good from clear understanding, deliberate advice, sagacious foresight, stable resolution, dexterous address, right intention, and orderly proceeding doth naturally result, wisdom confers.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 1.

Mar. They both behold thee with their sister's eyes; And often have reveal'd their passion to me. But tell me, whose address thou favour'st most?

Addison. Cato, Act i. sc. 4. Orgar. See, they approach: This grove shall shroud me till they cease their strain; Then I'll address them with some feigned tale. Mason. Elfrida. There are many circumstances in the zeal shewn for civil war, which seem to discover but little of real magnanimity. The addressers offer their own persons, and they are satisfied with hiring Germans.

ADDUCE, v. ADDUCTION.

Burke

ADDUCTIVE. draw, or bring to.

Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol.

Old Fr. Adduire; It. Addurre; Sp. Aducir; Lat. Adducere, (Ad-ducere,) to lead,

To bring forward, to press forward or urgea reason, an opinion.

It [the body of Christ] is as it were a production, as it were a creation, as a conservation, as an adduction: that is, it is as it were just nothing; for it is not a creation, not a generation, not an adduction, not a conservation.

Bp. Taylor. Of the Real Presence, § 11.

If we ask what conversion it is? after a great many fancies and devices, contradicting to each other, at last it is found to be adductive, and yet that adductive does not change the place, but signifies a substantial change; and yet addretion is no substantial change, but accidental; and yet this change is not accidental, but adductive and substantial. Id. Ib.

The price had, it seems, before the tax, been a monopoly price; and the argument adduced to show that sugar was an improper subject of taxation, demonstrated, perhaps, that it was a proper one. Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. v. c. 2. ADDULCE, v. Fr. Adoulcir, Adoucir, (Addulcis, sweet to.)

To sweeten, or make sweet, palatable or agreeable; to assuage.

Thus did the French ambassadors, with great shew of their king's affection, and many sugared words, seek to addulce all matters between the two kings Bacon. Hen. VII. p. 90.

ADEPT. See ADAPT.

ADE/PTION. Lat. Adeptio; from Adeptus; part. past. of Adipisci, (Ad-apisci.) See APT. To acquire; to obtain.

In the wyt and pollecie of the Capitayne, consisteth the chiefe adeption of the victorie and ouerthrowe of the enemies wherfore aduaunce forth your standards, and euery one geue but one sure stroke, and surely the iourney is oures.-Grafton. Rich. III. an. 3.

A'DEQUATE, v. A'DEQUATE, adj. A'DEQUATELY.

ADEQUATION.

It. Adequato; Sp. Adequar, Lat, a quare, (dd

æquus,) equal to. To be, or make, even or equal; sufficient, proportionate, commensurate.

"To fear God; that is wisdom;" that is, is the proper and adequate wisdom suitable to human nature, and to the condition of mankind. Hale. Contem. Of Wisdom, &c.

The making of broad-cloth in England could not be so ancient, and it was the arme (not of king Henry) but king Edward the first, which is notoriously known to have been the adequation of a yard.-Fuller. Worthies. Bark-Shire.

Ideas can be no further the ideas of any mind, than that mind has (or may have) a perception of them: and therefore that mind must perceive the whole of them; which is to know them adequately. Woollaston. Religion of Nature, sec. 3.

The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears; and to all these, the consideration of mortality is a certain and adequate remedy. Rambler, No. 17. Though it be an impossibility for any creature to adequate God in his eternity, yet he hath ordained all his sons in Christ to partake of it by living with him eternally. Shelford. Discourses, p. 227. The relation between Christ and his church, it is evident, must be of a nature not to be adequately typified by any thing in the material world.-Horsley, vol. i. Ser. 8.

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Nowe as touching the cause why he [Tyndal] chaunged the name of priest into seniour, ye must vnderstand that Luther and his adherentes holde this heresy, that all holy order is nothing.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 222.

And after this he [Edward IV.] caused open proclamacion to be diuulged, that all persones which were adherent to his aduersaries part, and would leave their armure, and submit themselfes wholy to his grace and mercy, should bee clerely remitted, pardoned, and relessed.-Hall. Edw. IV. an. 3.

Nor time, nor place

Did then adhere, and yet you would make both;
They haue made themselues, and that their fitnesse now
Do's vnmake you.-Shakespeare. Macbeth, Acti. sc. 7.

[We] planted in those parts our brave courageous brood:
Whose natures so adher'd unto their ancient blood,
As from them sprang those priests, whose praise so far
did sound,

Through whom that spacious Gaul was after so renown'd. Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 6. Author of evil, unknown till thy revolt, Unnam'd in heaven, now plenteous, as thou seest These acts of hateful strife, hateful to all, Though heaviest by just measure on thyself And thy adherents.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vi. How are they swayed, even in their loves and hatreds, their persuasions and pieties, their esteem or disesteem, most what by custom, and prepossession, or by adherencys and admiration of men's persons.

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Yet devious oft, and swelling from the part,
The flowing robe with ease should seem to start;
Not on the form in stiff adhesion laid,
But well relieved by gentle light and shade.

Mason. Fresnoy. Art of Painti ADHIBIT, v. Lat. Adhibere, (Ad-habere,) have, hold or keep, or put to.

To admit, to attain or obtain; to apply. To which counsel there were adhibit very few, and th very secret.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 52.

This worshipfull Perkyn, arriuyng in Ireland, so seriou perswaded and allured them to his purpose that the great lordes and princes of the coûtry, adhibited such faith a credite to his wordes, as that thing had bene true in de whiche he vntruly with false demonstracions set forth a diuulged.-Hall. Hen. VII. an. 7.

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close upon, approximating to.

so is his horse constrained
Day by day till he hath attained
Unto a castle, pilotes ycalled,
Rich and strong, and wele aboue ywalled,
Adjacent by site of the country
And apertinent to Thebes the city.

Lidgate. The Story of Thebes, pt Punt. I am a poore knight errant (lady) that hunting the adjacent forrest, was by adventure in the pursuit of hart, brought to this place.

B. Jonson. Every Man out of his Humour, Act. ii. sc. Now touching that proportion of ground that the Chr tians have on the habitable earth, I find that all Euro that ruthful country of Lapland, where idolaters yet inhal with her adjacent isles, is peopled with Christians, exce

Howell. Letters, ii.

Because the Cape de las Agullas hath sea on both sid near it, and other land remote, and as it were æquidista from it, therefore at that point the needle conforms unto t true meridian, and is not distracted by the vicinity of ad cencies.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 2.

The adjacent street of Essex, from Morris's coffee-hou and the turning towards the Grecian, you cannot meet o who is not an esquire, until you take water. Tatler, No. But where the sense of the author goes visibly in its o train, and the words, receiving a determined sense fr their companions and adjacents, will not consent to g countenance and colour to what is agreed to be right. must be supported at any rate, there men of establis orthodoxie do not so well find their satisfaction. Locke. On St. Paul's Epistles.

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The gall-bladder is a very remarkable contrivance. is the reservoir of a canal. It does not form the chan itself, but it lies adjacent to this channel, joining it b duct of its own, the ductus cysticus.

Paley. Nat. Theology, ch. ADIA'PHOROUS. Gr. Adiacopos, indiffere Why does the church of Rome charge upon others shame of novelty, for leaving of some rites and ceremo which by her own practice we are taught to have no obl tion in them, but to be adiaphorous?

Bp. Taylor. On the Liberty of Prophesying, ADJE/CT, v. Fr. Adjection; It. Aggetti ADJECTION. Sp. Adjetivo; Lat. Adject ADJECTITIOUS. past part. of Adjicere, jacere,) to cast or throw to To cast, or place near,

A'DJECTIVE.
A'DJECTIVELY.

add to.

See the quotations from Wilk:

Adjective.
Taylor. Artif. Hand. p. 172.
Port Royal, and Tooke.

To each person sincerely embracing the gospel and continuing in steadfast adherence thereto, God doth afford his Holy Spirit, as a principle productive of all inward sanctity and virtuous dispositions.

Barrow. On the Creed, Ser. 5.

She hath been a religions frequenter of its worship, and a steady adherer to its interests, and was prepared, in the late times of distress and danger, to suffer with it, and for it. Atterbury, vol. i. Ser. 8.

But this condicion ne draweth not with her thilke cessite simple, for certes this necessite condicioneil, propre nature of it ne maketh it nat, but the adiectio the condicion maketh it.-Chaucer. Boec. De Consol, b

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I am not ignoraunt of the force of bothe the mand speaches, and that this word [church] signifieth not congregaució (but wyth an adiection, as I hate the naunt church) but it sygnifieth that onli multitud

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people, which being vnited in the profession of Christe, is grown into one bodie.

Bp. Wynchestre. Of True Obedience, p. 19.

I have more faulted in keeping the olde English wordes auis jam obsoleta) than in borowing of other languages epithetes and adiectiues as smell of the inkhorne.

Gascoigne. To the Reuerende Diuines, &c.

Lanstufan Castel and Lordship, by the new acte, is remed from Cairmærdinshire, and adjected to Pembrokesire.-Leland. Inn. vol. iii. p. 26.

far. But now, see what your proper Genius can performe acne, without adjection of any other Minerva.

B. Jeases. Cynthia's Revells, Act iii. sc. 4. Kile. New, trust me, brother, you were mvch to blame, Tincense his anger, and disturbe the peace

Of my poore house, where there are sentinells,
That every minute watch, to give alarmes,

Of civil warre, without adjection

Of your assistance, or occasion.

Id. Every Man in his Humour, Activ. sc. 8.

It is probable that they made the child's name, by adjectseg the syllable son to the appellation of the father.

Fuller. General Worthies, c. 24. But Lamprias, my grandfather, said, that this adjection, e preposition, prep. signifieth not only much and greatly, but also, above, or with-out-forth.

Holland. Plutarch. Morals, p. 596.

From this ruin you come to a large firm pile of building, wich, though very lefty, and composed of huge square es, yet I take to be part of the adjectitious rock, for one in the inside some fragments of images in the walls adstones, with Roman letters upon them, set the wrong way.—Moandreil. Journey, p. 136.

The true genuine sense of a noun adjective will be fixed to consist in this, that it imports this general notion of pertaining to, or being affected with.

Wilkins. Real Character, pt. iii. c. 1.

The name of adjectives has been applied even to those wind, which signify substances, when by their manner of sfying, they are to be joined to other nouns in discourse. Port Royal General Grammar, p. 26. There is a gross mistake made between an adjected and sa avetine word; that is, between a word laid close to atter word, and a word which may lye close to another -Take. Die. of Purley, vol. ii. p. 456. ADIEU. Fr. à Dieu, Adieu; It. Addio; Sp. & Dios, to God I commend you, or, commit you to d. The English equivalent expression is farewell.

Ade my lord, my lone for faire of face
Ar my turtle done so fresh of hue,
4she my minth, adue all my solace,
Adar alas, my sainour Lord Jesu.

Chaucer. L. Marie Mag. "Therefore (saith be), the case so standing, as now it het me use these words of the Apostle unto you, 'I red you unto God, and the word of his grace;" and so he, bad them heartily adieu.

Hooker. Ecclesiastical Politie. Pref. § 2. Adieu, old fellow, and let me give thee this advice at ting; em get thyself case-hardened; for though the very best steel may snap, yet old iron you know will rust. Guardian, No. 95.

Thus, while the pangs of thought severer grew,
The western breezes inauspicious blew,
Histening the moment of our last adieu.

ADJOIN, v. ADJOINEDLY. ADIOVINANT, M. ADX/INANT, G. ADJUNCT, R. A'DUCT, adj. ALTINCTION. Mirhoouring to.

Falconer. Shipwreck.

Fr. Adjoindre; It. Aggiungere ; Sp. Ayuntar; Lat. Adjungere, Adjunctum, (Adjungere,) to join to. See JOIN.

To be, put, or place, near to; to unite, to fasten, or conneet; to neighbour, or be

To the gamereatuce and ordering of this yong prince Te there appointed Sir Antony Woduile, Lord Riuers, and

vate the quene; a right honourable man, as valiTute of hande as politeke in counsayle. Adioyned were evato him other of the same partie. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 40. Lar I bequeth unto as many godchildern as I have lyving mountie of Essex, and specially in the parisshes to my Mama asignant, to every one of them vilid. Fabian. His Will.

sere alliance, he [James K. of Scottes] sought and ted waies and meanes, how to iogne hymself with praces, to greue and hurt his neighbors and sis, of the realme of England.

Hall. Hen. VI. an. 15. Here, with these grave adjoints The red masters) they were taught to see Thesives, to read the world, and keep their points. Daniel. The Civ. Wars, b. iv.

As one, who long in populous city pent,
Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air,
Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe
Among the pleasant villages and farms
Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight;
The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine,
Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ix.

The bodie of King Edmund rested for the space of three yeares in the parish church of S. Gregory, adioyning unto the cathedrall church of S. Paul, from whence it was conveyed backe agayne to Stapleford.-Stow. Chronicle, For where is any author in the world, Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye; Learning is but an adiunct to ourselfe, And where we are our learning likewise is. Then when ourselues we see in ladies eyes, Do we not likewise see our learning there?

Shakespeare. Love's Lab. Lost, Act iv. sc. 3. Hub. So well, that what you bid me vndertake, Though that my death were adiunct to my act, By heauen I would doe it.-Id. K. John, Act iii. sc. 3. Cam. Then, if I mistake not, He scorns to have his worth so underprised, That it should need an adjunct in exchange Of any equal fortune.

B. Jonson. Case is Altered, Act. iii. sc. 3. St. Paul enjoins us to "redeem the time, because the days are evil;" that is, since we can enjoy no true quiet or comfort here, we should improve our time to the best advantage for the future: he might have also adjoined, the paucity of the days to their badness.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 15.

So noun adjectives are the names which are given to the adjunct natures of things, the notion of them consisting in this, that they signifie the subject or thing to which they are ascribed, to have in it something belonging to the nature or quality of those adjectives, which are predicated of it or limited by it.-Wilkins. Real Character, pt. iii. c. 1.

To examine another opinion, which makes the bread and wine indeed, as to their entire and true natures, to be retained in the sacrament; and so to be retained, that they have adjoinedly, naturally, corporally, and really, the true body and blood of Christ.

Strype. Memorials of the Reformation, b. i. c. 24. This Psalm [119] containeth manifold reflexions upon the nature, the properties, the adjuncts, and effects of God's law. Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 16.

Every man's land is, in the eye of the law, enclosed and set apart from his neighbour's; and that either by a visible

to another's in the same field.

and material fence, as one field is divided from another by a hedge; or by an ideal invisible boundary, existing only in the contemplation of law, as when one man's land adjoins Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iii. c. 12. ADJOURN, v. Į Fr. (Ad-jour,) Adjourner; ADJOURNMENT. It. (Giorno,) Aggiornare; Lat. Dies, Diurnum. The book into which the proceedings of each day in the R. Senate were entered, was called Diurnum. In the English Parliament the Journal, (qv.)

To adjourn, is to go on, to continue from day to day; and then-to any future day: and now, consequentially, to put off to a future time; to postpone, to delay, to defer, to discontinue. He aiorned tham to relie in the North at Carlele.

R. Brunne, p. 309. And vpon ye VIII day of July, Kynge [Henry the VI.] this it tyll Lammas, and then it was ajourned vnto Seynt Edyere began his parlyament at Westmynster, and so contynued wardes daye.-Fabyan, an. 1433.

Or how the sun shall, in mid heaven, stand still
A day entire, and night's due course adjourn,
Man's voice commanding.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. xii.
Pleased Palamon the tardy omen took:

For, since the flames pursu'd the trailing smoke, He knew his boon was granted; but the day To distance driven, and joy adjourn'd with long delay. Dryden. Palamon and Arcite, b. iii. During the adjournments of that awful court, a neighbour of mine was telling me, that it gave him a notion of the ancient grandeur of the English hospitality, to see Westminster-hall a dining-room.-Tatler, No. 142.

session from one day to another, as the word itself signifies. An adjournment is no more than a continuance of the Blackstone. Commentaries, b. i. c. 2. A'DITS. Lat. Aditus, from Adire, to go to, (Ad-ire).

A passage, an entrance.

Since they have gone a more compendious way by adyts, making their entrance (some five foot and a half high, and perchance as broad) into the mountain, at the lowest levell thereof, so that all the water they meet with conveyeth itself away, as in a channel, by the declivity of the place. Fuller. General Worthies of Wales

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For that with puissant stroke she downe did beare
The salvage knight, that victour was whileare,
And all the rest, which had the best afore,
And to the last vnconquer'd did appear;
For, last is deemed best. To her therefore
The fayrest lady was adjudg'd for paramore

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 5.
The women, who would rather wrest the laws,
Than let a sister-plaintiff lose the cause,
(As judges on the bench more gracious are,
And more attent, to brothers of the bar),
Cry'd, one and all, the suppliant should have right,
And to the grandame hag adjudg'd the knight.

Dryden. Wife of Bath's Tale.

In process of time, and multiplicity of business, the matter of fact continued to be tried by twelve men; but the adjudgment or the punishment, and the sentence thereupon, came to be given by one or two, or more persons.

Sir W. Temple. Intro. to the Hist. of England. The Roman law adjudged, that if one man wrote any thing on the paper or parchment of another, the writing should belong to the owner of the blank materials. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. c. 26.

A common recovery is so far like a fine, that it is a suit or action, either actual or fictitious: and in it the lands are recovered against the tenant of the freehold; which recovery, being a supposed adjudication of the right, binds all persons, and vests a free and absolute fee-simple in the recoverer. Id. Ib. b. ii. c. 21.

Nor was your House of Lords and the prerogatives of the rights, for they could never be so partitioned. crown settled on any adjudication in favour of natural

ADJU'RE, v. ADJURA'TION.

Burke. Reform of Representation. Fr. Adjurer; It. (obsol.) Aggiurare; Lat. Adjurare,

(Ad-jurare,) to swear to.

To put to upon oath; to charge or bind upon oath, or with the solemnity of an oath. In the first of Samuel (c. xiv.), where the Bible (1539) has "charged the people with an oath." (v. 28.) uses the word "adjured," King James's version And in v. 24, King James's version has "adjured;" and in the Bible (1539) "charged the people with an oath." The Geneva Bible (1561) in v. 28, has, "made the people to sweare."

But let us go now to that horrible swering of adjuration and conjuration, as don thise false enchauntours and nigromancers in basins ful of water, or in a bright swerd, in a cercle, or in a fire, or in a sholder bone of a shepe: I cannot sayn, but that they do cursedly and damnably ayenst Crist, and all the feith of holy chirche.

Chaucer. Persones Tale. Then answered one of the people äd sayde; thy father adiured the people saying, Cursed be the ma that eateth any sustinaunce this daye, & the people were fayntye. 1 Sam. c. 14.

Bible, 1539.

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Caiaphas was not more malicious than crafty: what was in vain attempted by witnesses, shall be drawn out of Christ's own mouth; what an accusation could not effect, an adjuration shall; "I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God."

Bp. Hall. Contemp. Christ before Caiaphas. Our Saviour when the high-priest adjured him by the living God, made no scruple of replying upon that adjuration. Clarke. Works, vol. ii. Ser. 125. By each, and all of these supernal signs, We do adjure thee with this trusty blade, To guard yon central oak.

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ADJUST, v.
ADJU'STER.

ADJUSTMENT.

ADM

Fr. Adjuster; It. Aggiustare;

ADM

While I administred the office of common doing, as in

Sp. Ajustar, (Lat. Ad-justum, ruling of the stablishmentes emongs the people, I defouled
ordered to.)

To fix or set, or put in, or according, or conformable to, method or order.

To order, to rule, to regulate; to accommodate, to arrange, to adapt.

For these ne been yet no remedies of the malady, but they ben a manner norishing of thy sorrows, that rebell ayenst thy curacion. For whan time is I shal moue and ainst soch things, that percen hem ful depe.-Chaucer. Boecius, b. ii. He hangs his mantle loose, and sets to show The golden edging on the seam below; Adjusts his flowing curls, and in his hand Waves with an air the sleep-procuring wand.

Addison. Ovid. The Story of Aglauros.

Virtue and wisdom are continually employed in clearing the ruins, removing these disorderly heaps, recovering the noble pieces that lie buried under them, and adjusting them as well as possible according to their ancient symmetry and beauty.-Tatler, No. 87.

Let the most stedfast unbeliever open his eyes, and take a survey of the sensible world, and then say if there be not a connexion, and adjustment, and exact and constant order discoverable in all the parts of it.-Guardian, No. 27.

Promises of friendship are, like all others, useless and vain, unless they are made in some known sense, adjusted and acknowledged by both parties.-Rambler, No. 13.

The progressive action depends for its success upon the nicest and minutest adjustment of the parts concerned. Yet these parts [are] so in fact adjusted as to produce, not by a simple action or effect, but by a combination of actions and effects, the result which is alternately wanted.

Paley. Natural Theology, c. 8. It is very easy, but very ungrateful, to laugh at collectors of various readings, and adjusters of texts.

ADJUTE, v.
A'DJUTANCY.
A'DJUTANT.
A'DJUVANT, n.
A'DJUVANT, adj.
A'DJUMENT.

A'DJUTORS.

Warton. Essay on Pope, ii. 198.
It. Adjutore; Sp. Ayudar,
Ayudador; Lat. Adjutare, (Ad-
jutare, jutum,) to help to.

To aid, to assist, to be useful,
to contribute to the advan-
tage of.

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Sixe batchelers, as bold as he,
Adjuting to his companee,
And each one hath his liverie.

Drayton. Baron's Wars.

B. Jonson. King's Entertainment at Welbeck.

I have only been a careful adjuvant, and was sorry I could not be the efficient.-Sir. H. Yelverton. Narr. 1609.

He had a due regard to his person; for in great battles he would sit in his pavilion, and manage all by adjutants. Shaw. Tr. of Bacon. Of Julius Cæsar.

Having treated of the generation of minerals, he finds

that they have their seminaries in the womb of the earth, replenished with active spirits; which meeting with apt matter and adjuvant causes, do proceed to the generation of several species, according to the nature of the efficient, and fitness of the matter.-Howell, b. i. s. 6. Let. 35.

As nerves are adjuments to corporal activity, so are laws the hinges on which politique bodies act and move. Waterhouse. Fortescue, p. 197.

It was no doubt disposed with all the adjutancy of definition and division, in which the old marshals were as able as the modern Martinets.-Burke. Appeal to the Old Whigs. ADMEASURE. See MEASURE. ADMEASUREMENT, n. Admeasurement and Admeasure are words of common use in the old law writers.

The antient and most effectual method of proceeding is by writ of admeasurement of pasture. This lies either where a common appurtenant or in gross is certain as to number, or where a man has common appendant or appurtenant to his land, the quantity of which common has never yet been ascertained. ・・・・ And upon this suit all the com

moners shall be admeasured.

ADMINISTER, v.
ADMINISTRATE, v.

neuer my conscience for no maner deede, but euer by wit
and by counsaile of the wisest, the matters were drawen fo
their right ends.-Chaucer. Test. of Loue, b. i.

Power me thought yt I had to keep from mine enemies,
and mee seemed to shine in glory of renoume, as manhood
asketh in mean, for no wight in mine administracion, coud
none yuels ne trechery by soth cause on me putte.
Id. Ib. b. ii.

King Henry [the iv.] perfightly remembring that there
could be no more praise geuen to a prince than to execute
his office in administryng justice, whiche aboue all thyng is
the very necessary minister to all people,-called a great
cousail of the thre estates of his realme.
Hall. Hen. IV. an. 14.
And I [Richard the ii.] renounce also the rule and gouer-
naunce of the same kyngedome & lordeshyppes, with all
admynystracions of the same.-Fabyan, an. 1380.

There are dyuersities of gyftes, yet but one sprete. And
ther are differences of admynystracyons, and yet but one
Lorde.-Bible, 1539. 1 Cor. c. 12.

About thys season, the cardinall of Yorke beyng legate, proued testaments, and did call before him all the executors & administrators of euery dioces within the realme, so that the bishops and ordinaries, did prooue no great willes in their dioces, except he were compounded with, not to their little disauauntage.-Grafton. Hen. VIII. an. 15.

Per.

Thou scurvy thing! hast ne'er a knife
Nor ever a string to lead thee to Elysium?
Be there no pitifull 'Pothecarus in this town,
That have compassion upon wretched women,
And due administer a dream of rat's bane?

Beaum. & Fletch. Rule a Wife, &c. Act v. sc. 1.

It is decreed and ordained in this present parliament, [An.
1560] that no manner of person or persons, in any time com-
ing, administrate any of the sacraments secretly, in any
manner of way, but they that are admitted, and having
power to that effect.—Knox. History of the Ref. Lond, ed.
For forms of government let fools contest
Whate'er is best administer'd is best.

Pope. Essay on Man. Epistle 3.

He [the Earl of Clarendon] was a good chancellor, only a little too rough, but very impartial in the administration of justice.-Burnet. Own Times, an. 1660.

He [the king] is ours,

T'administer, to guard, t'adorn the state,
But not to warp or change it. -Cowper. Task, b. v.
The latter [method of acquiring personal property] which
is also according to the will of the deceased, not expressed
indeed but presumed by the law, we call an administration.
Blackstone. Com. b. ii. c. 32.

A'DMIRAL. Fr. Admiral, Amiral. See Spel-
man, who writes elaborately and learnedly on the
origin of this word. He considers it to have been
introduced into our language about the beginning
of Edward I.

Amiralls, or Admiralls, much difference there is about the
original of this word, whilst most probable their opinion

who make it of eastern extraction, borrowed by the Christians
from the Saracens. These derive it from Amir, in Arabick
a Prince, and 'Aλtos, belonging to the sea, in the Greek
language; such mixture being precedented in other words.
Fuller. General Worthies of England, c. 6.

His spear, to equal which the tallest pine
Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast
Of some great Ammiral, were but a wand,
He walkt with to support uneasie steps.

ADMIRE, v.
A'DMIRABLE.
A'DMIRABLENESS.
A'DMIRABLY.
ADMI'RANCE.
ADMIRATION.
ADMIRER.
ADMIRINGLY.
sirable, lovely,
verse of these.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. i. Fr. Admirer; It. Ammirare; Sp. Admirar; Lat. Admirari, (Ad-mirari,) to wonder at.

To think, deem, or con-
sider as extraordinary; as
more than usually good or
bad; and therefore as de-
demanding reverence; or the re-
See the quotation from Cogan.

Ye haue in his exauple [Hen. VIII.] suche a marke set vp
vnto you, as without the sweat and laboures of Hercules, ye
shall not bee hable to clyme vnto. Ye must not surmount &
passe a kyng whiche was in his tyme pierelesse, and a matier
of publique admiracion to the vniuersalle woride.
Udal. Pref. to the Kynges Maiestee.
"Ut a

Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iii. c. 16. Fr. Administrer; It. Amministrare; Sp. Administrar; Lat. Administrare, (Administrare,) to. to serve magis est magister (says Junius, after Vossius ;) ita a minus vel minor est minister."

ADMINISTRATION.
ADMINISTRATOR.
ADMINISTRATRIX.

To serve, to contribute, to supply, to dispense, to manage.

For this cause god warneth vs before, lest we, taken with the admiracion of powr and good successe, or els broken wth trouble and persecucion, fall from the gospell vnto these prosperosly puft vp princes and prelatis.

Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 7.

ADM

It [moral and private virtue] taketh away vain admiration of any thing, which is the root of all weakness: for all things are admired, either because they are new, or because they are great.-Bacon. Of Learning, b. i.

La. You haue displac'd the mirth,
Broke the good meeting with most admir'd disorder.
Shakespeare. Macbeth, Act iii. sc. 4.

The undaunted fiend what this might be admir'd;
Admir'd, not fear'd; God and his Son except,
Created thing naught valued he, nor shunn'd.
Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ii

-Let none admire
That Riches grow in Hell.-Id. Ib. b. i.
Who with right humble thanks him goodly greeting,
For so great prowesse, as he there had proued,
Much greater then was euer in her weeting,
With great admirance inwardly was moved,
And honour'd him, with all that her behoued.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 10

Gui. Do not play in wench-like words with that
Which is so serious. Let vs bury him,
And not protract with admiration, what
Is now due debt. To th' graue.

Shakespeare. Cymbeline, Act iv. sc. 2
Admiration seiz'd
All Heaven, what this might mean, and whither tend,
Wondering; but soon the Almighty thus replied.
Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ii

Laf. He was excellent indeed, madam, the king
Very latelie spoke of him admiringly, and mourningly;
Hee was skilfull enough to haue liv'd stil, if
Knowledge could be set vp against mortallitie.

Shakespeare. All's Well, Act i. sc.
Then on th' unwholesome earth he gasping lies,
Till death shuts up those self-admiring eyes.

Addison. Story of Narcissi

How could we go about the least business, correspo with one another, or be of any use in the world, or a creatures be the same to us, without light, and those ad rable organs of the body, which the great Creator ha adapted to the perception of that great benefit? Derham. Physico-Theology, b. i. c.

Bavius and Mavius had many admirers while they liv
or else they had been below the notice of Virgil and Hora
Bentley. On the Epistles of Phala
Rumour spreads

Its praises far, and many a stranger stops
With curious eye to censure or admire.

Mason. English Garden, b. It has been the peculiar lot of our admirable system of 1 to be neglected, and even unknown, by all but one pract profession.-Blackstone. Commen. Introd. § 1.

The obligation of all religion, call it natural, moral of vealed, must be deduced from the existence of God; the admirableness of its precepts, from the divine na and perfections.-Ellis. Knowledge of Divine Things,

Balbus the stoic, in Cicero's second book concerning nature of the gods, discourses admirably on the order harmony of the universe, and the use and beauty of parts that compose it.—Farmer. On Miracles.

We shall find that admiration is as superior to sur and wonder, simply considered, as knowledge is superi ignorance; for its appropriate signification is that act o mind, by which we discover, approve, and enjoy som usual species of excellence.

Cogan. On the Passions, pt. i

The admirers of this great poet have most reason to plain when he approaches nearest to his highest excel and seems fully resolved to sink them in dejection mollify them with tender emotions by the fall of grea the danger of innocence, or the crosses of love. Johnson. Preface to Shakes

ADMIT, v.
ADMISSIBLE.
ADMISSION.
ADMITTABLE.

Fr. Admettre; It. Amme Sp. Admitir; Lat. Adm (Ad-mittere,) to let into. COMMIT, EMIT, &c.

ADMITTANCE. ADMITTER. brought in or forward. argument, is To allow, concede, grant the force of assent to it.

To give leave to ente grant, allow, or suffer To admit an opini

In this xlv yere [Hen. III.] shortly after Alhalowy the baronys admytted and made sheryfys of dyuerse of Englade, and dyschargyd suche as the kynge be admytted, and named them gardeyns and kepers counties and shyres; and ouer that, the barony's w suffre ye iustice, yt the kynge had admytted to kepe and the lawys called Itinerarii, but suche as were admyssyon; wherewt the kinge was greuouslye tentyd.-Fabyan. Hen. III. an. 1261.

I admit the case as possible, but yet as such a case, as I rat in God this good man shall see the skye fall firste, and the larkes ere it happe.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 22.

Our bishoppes are made in fourme and order, as they haue been cuer, by free election of the chapter: by consecration of the archebishop, and other three bishoppes: and by the edminion of the prince.

Jewel. Defence of the Apologie, p. 130.

And, if I give thee honour due,

Mirth, admit me of thy crew,

To live with her, and live with thee,

In unreproved pleasures free.-Milton. L'Allegro.

For. Now Sir John here is the heart of my purpose; you are a gentleman of excellent breeding, admirable discourse, of great edastiance.

Shakespeare. Merry Wives of Windsor, Act ii. sc. 2. Suppose that this supposition were admissible, this would not any way be inconsistent with the eternity of the divine nature and essence-Hale. Origination of Mankind, p. 126. I have not wittingly, willingly, or wilfully, shut the dore rant any worthy person which offered to enter into my knowledge: nor was my prejudice the porter in this kind, to erinde any of what perswasion soever) out of my book who brought merit for their admission. Fuller. General Worthies, c. 25. Bindness being a privative term unto sight, this appellafin is net admittable in propriety of speech, and will overthrow the doctrine of privations. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 18. So much as here is neither a direct exhibition of the body to this purpose in the offerer, nor a direct consecration to this end in the semitter, both which make up the solemnity of the row-by. Hall. Married Clergy, b.i. § 3.

Cromwell assured the presbyterians, he would maintain a pale ministry, with all due encouragement; and he jefned them in a commission with some independants, to be the triers of all those who were to be admitted to bene-Burad. Own Times, b. i.

We may observe, that the admission of learning was long before the admission of the civil power; because the former having less force and influence than the latter towards proaning the establishment of the gospel, was consequently less able to be suspected as the cause of it. Atterbury, vol. i. Ser. 4.

Of the foolish virgins, who watched not, neither had med their lamps, but went too late to buy oyl, when the bridegroom came, tis observed that they found no more place of admittance, than if they had been slothful still. Clarke, vol. ii. Ser. 149. There are some ideas which have admittance only through These which is peculiarly adapted to receive them. The light and colours.

Locke. On the Hum. Unders. b. ii. c. 3.
Even a real miracle cannot be admitted as such, or carry
conviction to those who are not assured that the event
15 contradictory to the course of nature.
Farmer. On Miracles.

How groaning hospitals eject their dead!
Wat mumbers groan for sad admission there!
What numbers, once in fortune's lap high-fed,
Sourit the cold hand of charity!

Young. Complaint, Night 1.

ADMIXTION. Lat. Admiscere, (Ad-miscere,) ADMIXTURE (from the A. S. Miscan. To misc, to mics, i. e. to mir, (qv.)

To mingle, to blend together.

Though many waies may be found to light this powder, yes is there none I know to make a strong and vigorous powder of saltpetre; without the admixtion of sulphur.

ADMONISH,.

ADMO'SISHER.

Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 5.

Freshly all metals may be of one species, and the divermay proceed from the admixture of different bodies the principles of the metal.-Ray. On the Creation. Fr. Admonester; It. Ammonire ; Sp. Amonestar ; Lat. Admonere, (Ad-monere.) See MONISH; Common in all its parts with the elder writers,

ADMONISHMENT.

ADMONT TION.

ADMONITIONER.

ADMONITIVE.

AMOʻSITOR

A: MONITORY.

To advise; to call or bring to mind; to warn, to

prize, to exhort, to reprove :-to remind.

God sayth: Love thy neighbour as thyself; that is to say, to salvation both of lif and soule. And moreover thou shalt love him in word, and in benigne amonesting and chastising, and comfort him in his anoyes, and praye for him with all thy herte.-Chaucer. Persones Tale.

Frit bihoueth a bisschop to be without cryme, takyage that trewe word that is aftir doctryne, that bebe might to amoneste in hoolsum techyng, and to repreue that agtenscien-Wiclif. Tyte, c. l.

Poale sayth, ne yelde not harme for harme, ne peche for wicked speche, but do wel to him that Cu to hee barme, and blesse him that saith to thee harme. And many other places he amonesteth pees and accord.

FOLL

Chaucer. Tale of Melibeus.

And nedeth it (qd. I) of rehearsing, or of amonicion, & sheweth it not inough by himself, the sharpness yt wexeth wood against mee.-Id. Boecius, b. i.

If these noblemen, admonished by their frendes, had not sodaynly departed, their lifes threde had bene broken, and their mortall fate had then ensued, but by secrete admonicion of their good willers (to whom no earthely treasure is comparable) they auoyded this net and narrowly escaped the snare.-Hall. Hen. VI. an. 35.

So that if they wil not at ye wholsome admonishments of his word repent and amend their olde conuersation, that than they should be condemned by the same for their wilful contempt.-Bale. Image of Bothe Churches, pt. iii..

Yet take heed, worthy Maximus, all ears
Hear not with that distinction mine do; few
You'll find admonishers, but urgers of your actions.
Beaum. & Fletch. Valentinian, Act i. sc. 3.

For which to the infinitely good we owe
Immortal thanks, and his admonishment
Receive with solemn purpose to observe
Immutably his sovran will, the end

Of what we are.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vii.
Rich. And thou a lunaticke leane-witted foole,
Presuming on an agues priuiledge,
Dar'st with thy frozen admonition
Make pale our cheeke, chasing the royall blood
With fury, from his natiue residence?

Shakespeare. Rich. II. Act ii. sc. 1.

Which may serve when they look into themselves to abate all overweening conceit of their own righteousness, and when they shall look into the errours of others, may be secret admonitioners unto them, not rashly to condemn them, considering their own weakness.

Hales. Remains. Matt. xxvi. 15.

Ambition of great and famous auditories, I leave to those whose better gifts and inward endowments are admonitioners unto them, of the great good they can do, or otherwise thirst after popular applause.-Id. Ib. Rom. xiv. 1.

That saying, that old age is a return to childhood, meant onely of the weakness of body, was wrested to the weakness of minde, by froward children, weary of the controulment of their parents, masters and other admonitors. Hobbes. To Davenant.

The sentence of reason is either mandatorie, shewing what must bee done; or else permissiue, declaring onely what may be done; or thirdly admonitorie, opening what is the most convenient for us to doe. Hooker. Ecclesiastical Politie, b. i. § 8.

Friendly admonition is very laudable, and of rare use; but being upon all occasions immoderately used, or in publick society so as to encroach upon modesty, or endamage reputation; or when the person admonished is otherwise employed, and attent upon his business; or being delivered in an imperiously insulting way, or in harsh opprobrious language; it becomes unsavoury and odious, and both in shew and effect resembles a froward malicious exceptiousness.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. I.

This kind of suffering to the devout fathers did seem

emblemes, being a rich and large field, for a devout fancy many ways significant, or full of instructive and admonitive to range with affectionate meditation.-Id. vol. ii. Ser. 26. Me fruitful scenes and prospects waste Alike admonish not to roam;

These tell me of enjoyments past,

And those of sorrows yet to come.-Cowper. Shrubbery. It has long been charged by one part of mankind upon the other, that they will not take advice; that counsel and instruction are generally thrown away; and that in defiance both of admonition and example, all claim the right to choose their own measures, and to regulate their own lives. Adventurer, No. 74.

ADMOVE, v. Lat. Admovere, (Ad-movere,) to move to. See MOVE.

Yea we muste geue dilygence, that through discrete sobrenes we maye be admoued vnto the light that shall dispatche awaye all darknes.-Udal. S. John, c. 1.

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Why make ye this ado, and wepe? The maiden is not dead but slepeth.-Bible, 1551. Mark, c. 5.

Fac. The Doctor is within, a moving for you; (I have had the most adoe to winne him to it.) B. Jonson, Alchemist, Act iii. sc. 4.

But huswifing the little Heaven had lent,
She duly paid a groat for quarter rent;
And pinch'd her belly, with her daughters too,
To bring the year about with much ado.

Dryden. Cock and the Fox. ADOLESCENCE, n. Fr. Adolescence; It. ADOLESCENCY. Adolescenza; Sp.

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Adolescencia; Lat. Adolescentia, from Adolescens, pres. part. of Adolescere, (Ad-olcscere,) to grow up to.

If unto the powder of loadstone or iron we admove the north pole of the loadstone, the powders or small divisions will erect and conform themselves thereto : but if the south pole approach, they will subside, and inverting their bodies, respect the loadstone with the other extream. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 3. Lat. Adnascens; Sp. Adnata; pres. part. of

ADNA'SCENT,
ADN'ATE.
Ad-nasci, (Ad-nasci,) to grow to.
Growing to or upon.

Moss, which is an adnascent plant, is to be rubbed and scraped off with some instrument of wood. Evelyn. Sylva. ii. 7. § 8.

The growing up to manhood, or maturity. Those times which we term vulgarly the old world, were indeed the youth or adolescence of it.

Howell, b. iii. Let. 9.

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teares to lament.

Holinshed. Chron. The Hist. of Scotland, an. 1439. ADONATION. Taylor writes Adunation, and Co-adunation, (qqv.)

When, by glaciation, wood, straw, dust, water, &c. are supposed to be united into one lump of ice, the cold does not cause any real union or adonation (if I may so speak) of these bodies, but only hardening the aqueous parts of the liquor into ice, the other bodies, being accidentally present in that liquor, are frozen up in it, but not really united. Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 490.

ADO'ORS, adv. At doors, or, at the door.
Sil. But what, sir, I beseech ye, was that paper,
Your lordship was so studiously imployed in,
When ye came out a-doors?

Beaum. & Fletch. Woman Pleased, Act iv. sc. 1. Wild. If I get in a-doors, not the power o th country, Nor all my aunt's curses shall disembogue me.

ADOPT, v. ADOPTEDLY. ADOPTION. ADOPTIVE.

Id. Night Walker, Act iv. sc. 1. Fr. Adopter; Sp. Adoptar; Lat. Adoptare, (Ad-optare, to choose). See OPTION.

To take by choice; particularly applied to the taking the child of another, and treating as our own; to select (for use).

And we wite, that ech creature sorowith and traueilith with peyne til ghit, and not oonli it, but also we ussilf that han the firste fruytis of the spyryt. and we ussilf sorowen withynne us for the adopcioun of goddis sones abidinge the aghen biyng of oure bodi.-Wiclif. Romayns, c. 8.

For we knowe that euery creature groneth with vs also, and trauayleth in payne euen vnto thys tyme. Not onely it, but we also which haue ye fyrst frutes of the spryte, morne in oure selues also, and wayte for the adopcyon (of the chyldren of God) euen the delyuerauce of oure bodyes. Bible, 1539. Ib.

For when Réne, duke of Angeou, last kyng of Scicile, departed without any heire male of hys wyfe lawfully begotten, he did adopt to his heyre of all his realmes and dominios, Lewes the XI: father of ye III kyng Charles.

Hall. Hen. VII. an. 7.

There are some opinions, which, when they began to be publicly received, began to be accounted prime traditions, and so became such, not by a native title, but by adoption. Bp. Taylor. Liberty of Prophesying. Tythe is not simply a Levitical duty, but respectively; not the natural child of Moses's law, but the adoptive. Spelman. Larger Work of Tythes, c. 28.

Or they [Adam and Eve] led the vine
To wed her elm; she, spous'd, about him twines
Her marriageable arms, and with her brings
Her dower, the adopted clusters, to adorn
His barren leaves.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. v.
Lucio. Is she your cosen?

Isabell. Adoptedly, as schoole-maids change their names By vaine, though apt affection.

Shakespeare. Meas. for Meas. Act. i. sc. 5.

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