But now the gravest and worthiest minister, a true bishop of his fold, shall be reviled and ruffled by an insulting and any cenon-wise prelate, as if he were some slight paltry companion-Milton. Of Reformation in England, b. i. Add to this the canons of the Apostles, in the 68th of which we read the institution of the same; which canons, though they were not writ by the Apostles themselves, yet they are of great undoubted antiquity, and consequently of 23 less authority in the several ages of the church. South, vol. ix. Ser. 5 There are in popish countries, women they call secular consseases, living after the example of secular canons. Ayliffe. As for the books of the New Testament, we are sufficiently assured, that these and no other are the books which the atient church received for canonical and of divine authority, and though some of them were for a time controverted, y upon farther enquiry and examination they were reatved-Tillotson, Ser. 168. So Whiston's affair sleeps, though he has published a barge work in four volumes in octavo, justifying his docwine, and maintaining the canonicalness of the Apostolical crestitutions, preferring their authority not only to the epaties, but even to the gospels. Burnet. Own Time, an. 1711. To the making of a thing or place sacred, this surrender efit by its right owner is so necessary, that all the rites of consecration used upon a place against the owner's will, and without his giving up his property, make not that place mated, for as much as the property of it is not hereby altered: and therefore, says the canonist, Qui sine voluntale Domini consecrat, reverà desecrat. South. A Consecration Sermon, vol. i. But he dying, the chancellor in September, being then at Ey, wrote a letter to Secretary Cecyl, that he would procure that canonry for Immanuel of the King. Strype. Memoirs, an. 1552. He [W. Piers] had settled on him the rich rectory of Christian Malford, in Wilts, and a resid. canonship in the said ch. of Wells.—Id. Fasti Oxon. The Canon Law is a body of Roman ecclesiastical law, relative to such matters as that church either has or pretends to have, the proper jurisdiction over. Blackstone. Commentaries, Introd. § 3. By the Stat. 2 Hen. 4. c. 3. All persons who accept any prevision from the Pope, to be exempt from canonical obe hence, to their proper ordinary, are subjected to the penalties Talk not to me of Popery and Rome, For canonize reforming saints of old, Byrom. A Soliloquy. A covering extended over a throne or chair of state; over the head; to any shade or covering. Yea and euen Luther's image to burned they at Paulis eroase, with many Englishe testamente; Thomas Wolsey the Cardinall present, solemply sitting vnder the goldin canopye. Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 12. And alwaies, when he rides, there is a canopie or small tent carried ouer his head vpon the point of a iaueline. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 65. Then take she hold of the heery lockes of his heade, and we: strengthen me O Lord God in this houre; and with , she gave him two strokes vpon the necke, and smote of s heade. Then toke she the canopye awaye, and rollid the dead body asyde.-Bible, 1551. Judith, c. 13. The birch, the myrtle, and the bay, Like friends did all embrace; And their large branches did display To canopy the place.-Drayton. The Quest of Cynthia. Shakespeare. Rape of Lucrece. Nor yet by all meanes knew Fide-throated Mars, his sonne was falne; but in Olympus top. Set canapied with golden clouds. Joue's counsell had shut up Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. xiii. | This evening late, by then the chewing flocks With flaunting honey-suckle.-Millon. Comus. How well or ill they did.-Warner. Albion's England,c. 9. Round he surveys, and well might, where he stood Of night's extended shade.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. iii. Beside some water's rushy brink How indigent the great.-Gray. Ode on the Spring. Sounding, (sc. musically, tunefully,) musical, But birds that are canorous, and whose notes we most commend, are of little throats and short necks, as nightingales, finches, linnets, canary birds and larks. CANT. v. CA'NZONET. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vii. c. 14. Dr. T. H. (in Skinner) derives Cant, a cantando, because vagrants seek their gains from the common people, cantillando, by chanting. Lye is of the same opinion. See CHANT. It seems to have been applied to the Chant; i. e. the whining tone The language of any cajoler, or hypocritical Canticle, a little song, a sonnet; Cantion, Canzon; It. Canzone. See CHANT, The busy, subtle, serpents of the law, I chang'd true freedom for the name of free, Roscommon. Ghost of the old House of Commons. Others, I am afraid, may study the Scriptures, merely for the sake of the phrase and language they there meet with; which, when they are well acquainted with, they do so wretchedly misapply in their religious talk, that, in truth, what is admirable sense and reason in the holy books, is little better than jargon and cant when it comes out of their mouths.-Sharp, vol. vi. Ser. 17. Cant is by some people derived from one Andrew Cant, who, they say, was a Presbyterian minister in some illiterate part of Scotland, who by exercise and use had obtained the faculty, alias gift, of talking, in the pulpit in such a dialect, that 'tis said he was understood by none but his own congregation, and not by all of them. Since Mas. Cant's time, it has been understood in a larger sense, and signifies all sudden exclamations, whinings, unusual tones, and in fine all praying and preaching like the unlearned of the Presbyterians. Spectator, No. 147. He rais'd his spouse ere matin-bell was rung, Pope. January & May. I dread nothing more than the false zeal of my friends, in a suffering hour, as he [Whitfield] cantingly expresses it. Trial of Mr. Whitfield's Spirit, p. 40. (1740.) CANT. It. Incantare; Fr. Encant or incant. An outrope or outcry of goods, (Cotgrave.) From Cantare To proclaim (a public sale, to sell.) Is it not the general method of landlord, to wait the expiration of a lease, and then cant their lands to the highest bidder.-Swift. Argument against the Power of Bishops. When two Monks were outvying each other in canting the price of an abbey, he observed a third at some distance, who never said a word; the King demanded why he would not offer: the Monk said he was poor, and besides, would give nothing if he were ever so rich; the King replyed, then you are the fittest person to have it, and immediately gave it to him.-Id. History of William Rufus. Numbers of these tenants or their descendants, are now for lives.-Id. Ib. offering to sell their leases by cant, even those which were The verb and noun, Canter, CANTER, v. CA'NTER, n. though common in speech, CANTERBURY. have not been found, in any author, except in those on horsemanship. Canterbury, applied to a slow gallop, (from which Ray. Folly, sir? of what quality. Fal. Quality? any quality in fashion; drinking, lying, canter appears to have been corrupted,) occurs in Will you have any more. an old book called Clitus's Whimsies, and is likecogging, canting, et cætera. Ford. The Sun's Darling, Act i. sc. 1. wise used so lately as by Dennis, On the Prelim, to To say the truth, he [Wm. Erbury] had language at comthe Dunciad; both produced by Mr. Nares.mand, and could dissemble for matter of profit, or to avoid Berenger, (a better horseman probably than etydanger, and it was very well known he was only a meer canter.-Wood. Athene Oxon. Who, whatsoeuer perill was prepared, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 5. Vio. Make me a willow cabine at your gate, mologist,) is inclined to a doubt on the common Cantillum velut Quantillum ; id quod supra mensuram additum est, (Spelman.) Fr. Eschanteler, eschantillon. From the Fr. Canton; It. Cantone, angulus; Gr. Kavowv, the corner of the eye. Applied generally to The corner or edge, piece or portion, fragment or division. Cantel, in Vives, seems to signify, (met.) to edge in; canteled, in Hall, edged, bordered; in Dryden, divided, apportioned. See CANTON. To cant, among mechanics, is to raise on the edge or corner. A cantel of kynde witt. here kynde to save. Piers Plouhman, p. 238. For nature hath not taken his beginning Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2985. Euery body taketh the matter with mirth and sport, who so cantel a thing most shamefull. Vives. Instruction of a Christian Woman, b. i. c. 12. His grace was apparelled in a garment of clothe of siluer of damaske, ribbed with clothe of golde, so thicke as mighte bee, the garment was large, and plited with verie thick and canteled of very good intaile.-Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 12. Lend in no wise, for fear that thou do want Unlesse it be, as to a calfe a chese; But if thou can be sure to win a cant Of half at least. Wyat. How to use the Court, &c. And some other haue thoughte it better to diuide & cant it among good poor husbandme, that shuld til the groud with theyr handes, and take the land for their labour, with diuers other diuises mo, euery ma after his own minde. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 943. And yet she broughte her fees A cantel of Essex chese, Was well a fote thicke Full of maggottes quicke.-Skelton. Elinour Rumming. I then well perceiued thabiliment royall of the French kyng, his garment was a chemew, of clothe of siluer, culpond with clothe of golde, of damaske cantell wise, and garded on the bordours with the Burgon bendes, and ouer that a cloke of broched sattin.-Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 12. Whereas the English, without all remorse, Drayton. Battle of Agincourt. Thus betaking your Lordship to God, I eraue your attentiveness, in perusing a cantell or parcel of the Irish historie that heere issueth. Stanihurst. Continuation of Chron. of Ireland, Ep. Ded. Fairefax. Godfrey of Bovlogne, b. vi. s. 48. Raging with high disdain, repeats his blows; Dryden. Ovid. Metam. b. xii. Ask, for what price thy venial tongue was sold; corner. Id. Juvenal, Sat. 7. CANTON, v. Ger. Kant; Fr. & Sp. CanCANTON, n. ton; It. Cantone. (See CANCANTONIZE. An angle or TLE.) CANTONMENT. The Swiss, says Skinner, so call their provinces or federate republic, (q.d.) Regionis Anguli. Ihre thinks the etymology of Wachter more probable; viz. that Canton, (as applied to a district) is used, pro pago ex centum villis composito; since we know, he adds, that Helvetia or Swisserland was divided into 100 villages. From Tacitus we also learn, (de Mor. Ger. c. 6,) that, in levying soldiers, 100 (centeni) were sent from every village, and (c. 12,) that 100 companions from the commonalty were assigned to each chief. Cotgrave says, "Se Cantonner. To canton, or cantonize it; to sever themselves from the rest of their fellows, and from the body of the State; and fortifie, quarter, or erect a new State apart." To canton is now more commonly, To quarter soldiers for a time in different parts or divisions; to canton a town or district,-to proportion such parts or divisions; to part, to apportion, to allow. The poor world seemeth like a ball, that lights Sherburne. To the Eternal Wisdom. The princes of the bloud, the great officers of the realm, the prelates, and a great number of the gentry, plotted with the governours of the provinces and cities to abandon me as a professed heretick, and to cantonize the provinces amongst them.-Camden. Elizabeth, an. 1593. They converse but with one sort of men, they read but one sort of books, they will not come in the hearing of but one sort of notions; the truth is, they canton out to themselves a little Goshen in the intellectual world, where light shines, and, as they conclude, day blesses them; but the rest of that vast expansum they give up to night and darkness, and so avoid coming near it. Locke. Conduct of the Underst. s. i. The king of France, making great preparations for war, obtained a new levy of Switzers from the cantons, and procured 6000 to be raised in England to be employed in his service.-Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 194. There were no cities, no towns, no places of cantonment for soldiers: so that the Roman forces were obliged to come into the field late, and to leave it early in the season. Burke. An Abridgment of English History, b. i. c. 3. CANVASS. Lat. Cannabis; Fr. Canevas; It. Canevaccio; Sp. Canevaxo; Dut. Kanefas; Sw. Kanfasse. All from the Gr. Kavvaßis, flax, (Junius.) A strong, coarse, kind of linen, or flaxen manufacture. The mullok on an hepe ysweped was, And all this mullok in a sive ythrowe, Chaucer. The Chanones Tale, v. 16,409. His bounty ample as the wind that blew, And, clasping to the mast, endur'd a sea Shakespeare. Pericles, Act iv. sc. 3. Other say, that those tumblers and common players, which shewed sundry games and pastimes to win the fauour of the people, were wont to cover that passage over with canvas clothes and vails.-North. Plutarch, p. 17. Should he draw his hand over a picture, where all is smooth and uniform, he would never be able to imagine how the several prominences and depressions of the human body could be shown on a plain piece of canvas, that his in it no unevenness or irregularity.-Spectator, No. 416. True poetry the painter's power displays, may thank his stars for it. Hammond. Works, vol. iv. p. 510. Glost. Stand back thou manifest conspirator, Shakespeare. 1 Part Hen. VI. Act i. sc. 3. There be that can pack the cards, and yet cannot play well: so there are some that are good in canvasses and factions, that are otherwise weak men. Bacon. Essays. Of Cunning. A hidden point, were worth the canvassing. Beaum. & Fletch. The Spanish Curate, Act ii. sc. 1. When knowledge, instead of being bound up in books, and kept in libraries and retirements, is thus obtruded upon the publick; when it is canvassed in every assembly, and exposed upon every table; I cannot forbear reflecting upon that passage in the Proverbs, "Wisdom cryeth without." Spectator, No. 124. The elections were canvassing for a new parliament, and I ordered my pretensions so as they came to fail. Sir W. Temple. Memoirs, pt. iii. I was brought here under the disadvantage of being unknown, even by sight, to any of you. No previous canvas was made for me.-Burke. Speech at Bristol, 3d Nov. 1774. To enable them to perform the most arduous and mos painful duty in the world with spirit, with efficiency, wit independency, and with experience, as real publick coun sellors, not as canvassers at a perpetual election. Burke. On shortening the Duration of Parliaments Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition is not to b worshipped so: who seeks alone for living homage, stand a mean canvasser in her temple's porch, wooing promiscu ously from the fickle breath of every wretch that passes, th brittle tribute of his praise.-Sheridan. Pizarro, Aet iii. sc. CAP, v. CAP, n. CAPE. CA'PPER. CAP-A-PIE. A. S. Cappe; Dut. and Ger Kappe; Fr. Cappe; It. Cappa Sp. Capa. A cap, cape, or cope (qv.) From the Lat. Caput, in the opinion of Skinner; Caput from the Gr.Kepaλn, (Vossius,) which Lennep thinks i from the obsolete Kenew, whence ZKеnew, to cover Cap is a covering for the head; cape is head or top of a garment; also a head-land cap-à-pié, from head to foot. To cap is to cover; to top, to over-top. AlsoTo touch the cap, to move or remove it, (mor properly to uncap ;) to lift up, to raise it. A vernicle hadde he sewed upon his cappe, Chaucer. The Prologue, v. 266 When a ma at the receite of his princes letter putteth his cappe and kisseth it, doth he this reuerence to the pape or to the prince.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 117. Like an Egyptian Capped about, Whan she goeth oute, Her selfe for to shewe.-Skelton. Elinour Rumming. And we met not with them againe, vntill the seuenth da when we fell in with a cape or headland called Siveting which is the entring into the bay of S. Nicholas. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 31 Orleance. I will-neuer sayd well. Const. I will cap the prourbe with, there is flatterie friendship.-Shakespeare. Hen. V. Act iii. sc. 7. A figure like your father, Arm'd in all points exactly cap-a-pe, Appears before them, and with solemne march Goes slow and stately.-Shakes. Hamlet, Act i. sc. 2. The best caps were formerly made at Monmouth, wh and gilded than any other part of the church. the Cappers Chappel doth still remain, being better car Fuller. Worthies. Monmouthsh It is worth our pains to observe the tenderness of kings to preserve the trade of cap-making, and what and strong strugling our state had to keep up the us thereof; so many thousands of people being maintai thereby in the land. Capping anciently set fifteen disti callings on work.-Id. Ib. When I was in Savoy, and the neighbouring countr which have mountains almost perpetually capped with sn I heard them often talk of a certain white kind of pheas to be met with in the upper parts of the mountains, wh for the excellency of their taste were accounted very g delicacies.-Boyle. Experimental History of Cold, Tit. i The same gold will also by common aqua regis, and speak knowingly,) by divers other menstruums be redu into a seeming liquor, insomuch that the corpuscles of will, with those of the menstruum, pass through cap-pa and with them also coagulate into a crystalline salt. Id. The Sceptical Chymist, I The mountain flower there shakes its milk white hea Two stones, memorials of departed worth, Uplift their moss-cap'd heads half-sunk in earth. Jenyns. Passage in Ossian Versi Philander's temper's violent, not fits The wond'rous waggishness of modern wits, His cap's awry, all ragged is his gown, And (wicked rogue !) he wears his stockings down. Smart. The Horatian Canons of Friends Fr. Capable, capac It. Capáce, capacità; Capáz, capacidad; Capax, from Capere, to ta to hold. In our old wri Capable is used to sig Capacious, i. e. Able to take, to hold, to receive, to contain, to Now more emphaticomprise, to comprehend. callySufficiently able, able enough; able, (sc.) to perform or execute; to receive into the mind, to comprehend, to understand. To capacitate or capacify is to enable or cause to be able; to enable to take, hold, receive, contain, comprise or comprehend. Holye Serypture, so deuysed and endyted by the hyghe sedome of God, that it farre excedeth in many places the capacitie and perceiuing of ma.-SirT. More. Workes, p. 242. In the foure first chapters he reherseth the benefits of God done vnto them, to prouoke them to loue, & his mighty dedes done aboue all natural capacitie of faith, that they might belene God, and trust in him, and in his strength. Tyndall. Workes, p. 21. Having now finished the treatise of principles, elements, and such other matters, linked and concurring with them; i wil turne my pen unto the discourse as touching their fects, and works composed of them, beginning first at that which is most spacious and capable of all things. Holland. Plutarch, p. 670. The convex or outbowed side of a vessel will hold nothing; must be the hollow and depressed part, that is capable of any liquer.-Bp. Hall. Ser. 6. A Holy Panegyric. Capable we are of God both by vnderstanding and will; by vnderstanding, as he is that soueraigne truth, which comrebendeth the rich treasures of all wisdome: by will, as he a the sea of goodnesse, whereof whoso tasteth shall thurst De mare-Hooker, Eccl. Politie, b. i. § 11. Hem. On him, on him: look you how pale he glares, His ferme and cause conioyn'd, preaching to stones, Would make them capeable. Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act iii. sc. 4. Arhil. Come, thou shall beare a letter to him straight. Ther, Let me carry another to his horse; for that's the more capable creature.-Id. Troil. & Cress. Act iii. sc. 3. Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace Shall nea'r looke backe, neu'r ebbe to humble loue, Till that a capeable, and wide reuenge Swallow them vp. Id. Othello, Act iii. sc. 3. His violence thou fearst not, being such As wee, not capable of death or pain, Can either not receave, or can repell. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. xi. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, To rest in us unus'd.-Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act iv. sc. 4. Afterward discoursing of the arke and the capability thereof out of Buteo, (though indeed he name him not,) he makes Moses his cubit to be the same with ours. Hakewill. Apologie, p. 223. Therefore taking the kinds precisely of all creatures as they were by God created, or out of the earth by his ordinance produced; the ark after the measure of the common cubit, was sufficiently capacious to contain of all, according to the number of God appointed. Ralegh. History of the World, b. i. c. 6. If heaven to men such mighty thoughts would give, Cowley. The Davideis, b. iv. Is it for that such outward ornament Or value what is best Is choice, but oftest to affect the wrong? Milton. Samson Agonistes. God sets no other price upon heaven, glory, and immoray, nay, and upon himself too, but our love; there being witting truly great and glorious, which a creature is capable joying, but God is ready to give it a man in exchange for his heart-South, vol. iv. Ser. 12. We naturally are void of those good dispositions in undertanding, will, and affection, which are needful to render us able to God, fit to serve and please him, capable of any favour from him, of any true happiness in ourselves. Barrow, vol. ii. Ser. 34. On the Creed. No figure is so capacious as this, [a sphere,] and conse- In the deanery succeeded Richard Layton, or Leighton, Is it not better to praise God in the land of the living, than to be in a state, wherein we can have no knowledge of God at all, nor be in any capacity of praising him? Bp. Bull, vol. i. Ser. 3. Wisdom begets a sound, healthful, and harmonious complexion of the soul; thereby capacifying us to enjoy pleasantly and innocently all those good things, the divine Goodness hath provided for, and consigned to us. Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 1. When a young Arabian has composed a good poem, all the neighbours pay their compliments to his family, and congratulate them upon having a relation capable of recording their actions, and of recommending their virtues to posterity.-Jones. On Eastern Poetry, Ess. 1. [He,] leaving meaner joys to kings, CAPARISON, v. CAPA'RISON, n. plied to Cotton. Pleasure, Vision 2. Fr. Caparaçon; from Cappa. (See CAP.) Ap The covering of a horse, or of a man; the trappings, decorations, with which he is covered. Caparassoner,-to furnish with, provide with, dress, or attire in, or put on a caparison, (Cotgrave.) Also they brought many horses and mules vnto him furnished with trappers and caparisons, some being made of leather and some of iron.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 69. Good, my complection, dost thou think though I am caparison'd like a man, I haue a doublet and hose in my disposition?-Shakespeare. As You Like It, Act iii. sc. 2. What reeketh he his rider's angry stir, His flattering hollo, or his stand-I-say? What cares he now for curb, or pricking spur, For rich caparisons, or trappings gay. Id. Venus & Adonis. After the same manner, they have taken up of late another custome, to silver the trappings especially and caparisons of their horses of service, yea and the harnesse of coach horses and draught-jades.-Holland. Plinie, p. 517. What boots it, that my fortune decks me thus With unsubstantial plumes, when my heart groanes Beneath the gay caparison, and love With unrequited passion wounds my soul! Smollet. The Regicide, Act iii. sc. 4. CAPER, v. Fr. Capriole; It. Capriola; CA'PER, n. Sp. Cabriola, Capri saltus; the CA'PERER. goat's leap; a leap in which CAPREOL, V. the feet are moved or shaken CAPRIOLE, n. in the air,-so called from its imitating or resembling the leap of a goat, (Skinner.) To leap, jump, skip, or dance; to move nimbly, wantonly, frolicksomely, capriciously. (See CAPRICE. Also the quotation below from Fuller.) Hillocks, why capreold ye, as wanton by their dammes We capreoll see the lusty lambs.-Sir P. Sidney, Ps. 114. He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber, To the laciuious pleasing of a lute. Shakespeare. Rich. III. Act i. sc. 1. But first she found how that the damsell faire, Harrington. Orlando, b. xxxiii. s. 60. Shakespeare. Twelfth Night, Acı i. sc. 3. Goats, in Lat. Capri, a carpendo from cropping (therefore forbidden to be kept in some places, because destructive to young woods) are when young most nimble and frisking, (whence our English word to caper) but afterwards put on great gravity.-Fuller. Worthics. Wales General. Leo. Gentle sir. Alph. I am not gentle sir, nor gentle will be, Beaum. & Fletch. Love's Pilgrimage, Act ii sc. 1. Oft doth she make her body upward fine; With lofty turns and caprioles in the air, Which with the lusty tunes accordeth fair. Davies. On Dancing. A man may appear learned, without talking sentences; as in his ordinary gesture he discovers he can dance, tho' he does not cut capers.-Spectator, No. 4. The tumbler's gambols some delight afford: Dryden. (J. Junr.) Juvenal, Sat. 14. The capriole is the most violent of the high airs. To make it perfect the horse should raise his fore-parts and his hinder to an equal height: and when he strikes out behind, his croupe should be on a level with his withers. Berenger. On Horsemanship, vol. i. c. 20. Proud of thy spoils, O Italy and France! P. Whitehead. Honour. A Salire. Careless he seems, yet vigilantly sly, CAPILLARY, adj. CAPILLARY, n. CAPILLAMENT. Sheridan. Prol. to Pizarro. Lat. Capillus, quasi capitis pilus, (Vossius, after Isidorus.) Hairy, resembling hair; having the fineness, smallness, delicacy of hair;-fine, small, delicate. The vanes, the lightest part of the feathers, how curiously are they wrought with capillary filaments, neatly interwoven together, whereby they are not only light, but also sufficiently close and strong, to keep the body warm, and guard it against the injuries of weather. Derham. Physico-Theology, b. iv. c. 12. It should be considered that mere water only distends the vessels and thereby weakens their tone; and that mercury by its great momentum may justly be suspected of hurting the fine capillaries.-Berkley. Siris, s. 56. Animal motion and sensation are also accounted for by the vibrating motions of this ætherial medium, propagated through the solid capillaments of the nerves-Id. Ib. s. 224. CAPITAL, n. CAPITAL, adj. CAPITALIST. CAPITALLY. CAPITATION. Lat. Capitalis, from Caput, the head. (See CAPE.) Dut. Kapitael; Fr. Cavedal; the capital or principal sum er stock. Fr. Chapiteau; It. Capitello; the capital, head or top of a pillar. Of or belonging or pertaining to, the head; the chief, the principal, the uppermost ;-in size or situation, in rank, in degree, in importance, in consequence. As a capital city, a capital crime. For vndoubtedly, both repletion and superfluous slepe be of body and soule.-Sir T. Elyot Gouernovr, b. i. c. 11. capitall enemies to studye as they be semblably to health Wherefore let them that bee cappitall enemies vnto his grace, both in heart and in deede, susspect that of his grace and moue him vnto it, for doubtless I will neuer doe it. Barnes. Workes, p. 294. Meanwhile the winged heralds by command At Pandæmonium, the high capital Milton. Paradise Lost, b. i. Needs must the serpent now his capital bruise Id. Ib. b. xii. Thus we have finished the head of our column, which being taken in general for all these members together, is commonly distinguished by the name of capital. Evelyn. On Architecture. Whether David were punished only for pride of heart in numbering the people, as most do hold, or whether as Josephus and many maintain he suffered also for not performing the commandment of God concerning capitation; that when the people were numbered, for every head they should pay unto God a shekel, we shall not here contend. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vii. c. 11. Who, that hears these words, would not wish to have been present at this astonishing scene; which represents the apostle of the Gentiles giving an account of his faith to Felix the Roman governor, in so moving and convincing a manner, with such a force and eloquence and strength of argument, that even he, before whom he stands capitally accused, is struck, awed, confounded by his discourse, and the judge himself quakes at the voice of the prisoner. South, vol. iv. Ser. 5. I take the expenditure of the capitalist, not the value of the capital, as my standard, because it is the standard upon which amongst us, property as an object of taxation, is rated. Burke. On a Regicide Peace, Let. 3. Capitation taxes, if it is attempted to proportion them to the fortune or revenue of each contributor, become altogether arbitrary. If they are proportioned not to the supposed fortune, but to the rank of each contributor, become altogether unequal.-Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. v. c. 2. CAPITULATE, v. CAPITULAR, n. CAPITULARLY. CAPITULARY. CAPITULATION. CA'PITILE, n. Lat. Caput, the head. (See CAP.) Fr. Capituler; It. Capitolare; Sp. Capitular. To settle or arrange the heads, (sc.) of an agreement; to propose, to enter into articles of agreement; to agree, to accede, to concede, to terms or conditions, (of submission, surrender.) Steevens interprets capitulate in Henry IV.-to make head; the common usage seems to express the speaker's intention. Capitular, (person or thing,) of or belonging to the head, (sc.) of an ecclesiastical body. See CHAPTER. The Lat. Capitulum; Gr. Kepaλalov, Wiclif renders capitile; Tyndall, pyth; Geneva and Modern Version, sum. But a capitile on the thingis that ben seid. Wiclif. Hebrewis, c. 8. Of the thynges whiche we haue spoken, this is the pyth. Bible, 1551. Ib. Now of the things which we have spoken, (this is) the summe.-Geneva Bible. Ib. Rather than to fall into the handes of the people, they determyned to lett the enemyes into Pyreus, but so that they shulde not haue nother shypps nor the fortresses in their handes, and to capitulate and conferre wyth them touchynge the estate of the cytie, the beste that they could, so that their parsones might be saued.-Nicolls. Thucydides, p. 219. Sayinge, that in this confusion thingis shal procede, unles your gr. after your accustomed dexteritie, enterprise the direction thereof with the Fr. k. and his counsail: appoynting by capitulation what the Pope's ho. shal do, and what the same shal trust unto therfore. Strype. Records, No. 25. Gardner to Wolsey. With special capitulation, that neither the Scots nor the French shall re-fortify, nor cause to be re-fortified, in neither of those two places; with the like covenant for our part, if the French deputies do require it. Burnet. Records, No. 50. b. i. pt. ii. Many ways of composition between Duke William and King Harold were propounded, yet Harold would harken to none, as nothing doubting of success, and perhaps thinking it a disgrace to capitulate for that which was now his own. Baker. Wm. I. an. 1066. Percy, Northumberland, The Archbishops Grace of Yorke, Douglas, Mortimer, Capitulate against vs and are vp. Shakespeare. 1 Part Hen. IV. Act iii. sc. 2. Do not bid me Dismisse my soldiers, or capitulate Againe, with Rome's mechannicks. Id. Coriolanus, Act v. sc. 3. And verely in those capitulations of peace, which after the expulsion of the kings, Porsena, King of the Tuscans ten dered unto the people of Rome, I find this express article and imposition, that they should not use yron, but onlye about tillage of the ground.-Holland. Plinie, b. xxxiv. c. 14. But the capitular of Charles the Great joyns dicing and drunkenness together, as being usual companions, and forbids them both alike to bishops, priests, and deacons. Bp. Taylor. Rule of Conscience, b. iv. c. 1. Cromewell advanced to Edinburgh where he was received without any opposition: and the castle that made a long resistance did capitulate.-Burnet. Own Time, b. i. The keeper alledged you could do nothing but when all three are capitularly met, as if you could never open but like a parish-chest, with the three keys together. Swift. To St. John, May 11, 1711. The dean of Strasburg, the prebendaries, the capitulars, and domiciliars, (capitularly assembled in the morning to consider the case of buttered buns) all wished they had followed the nuns of Saint Ursula's example. Sterne. Tristram Shandy, vol. iv. But in the register of the capitulary acts of York cathedral, it is ordered as an indispensable qualification, that the chorister, who is annually to be elected the boy-bishop should be competenter corpore formosus. Warton. History of English Poetry, vol. iii. s. 35. No joys to him pacific sceptres yield, Johnson. Vanity of Human Wishes, CAPON, n. Fr. Chapon; Lat. Capo; Sw. CA'PONISE, V. Kapun; Dut. Kap-hoen; Ger. Kapp-han; A. S. Capun, gallus castratus. From the Dut. and Ger. Kappen; to chop or cut,Wachter; who remarks that Martial (he believes) is the first author, who uses the word capo, and that Pliny apparently avoids it as barbarous. Capus, however, is mentioned by Varro, de re Rustica. See Gessner and Vossius. And eke ther was a polkat in his hawe Chaucer. The Pardoneres Tale, v. 12,791. Edward Plantagenet erle of Warwike, of whome ye haue heard before, beynge kept in the Towre almost fro his tender age, out of all copany of me and sight of beastes, i so much that he coulde not decerne a goose from a capon. Hall. Hen. VII. an. 15. Yet must he haunt his greedy landlords hall With often presents at each festivall: With crammed capons every new yeares morne. Bp. Hall, b. v. Sat. 1. And no one empty-handed to salute B. Jonson. To Penshurst. I tried once an experiment, which might indeed have possibly made some alteration in the tone of a bird, from what it might have been when the animal was at its full growth, by procuring an operator who caponised a young black-bird of about six weeks old. Barrington. On the Singing of Birds. CAPO UCH, n. Į Fr. Capuchon, (from caCAPUCHED. adj. S put)— A monk's cowle or hood; also the hood of a cloak. He [the youth, Dorothea] wore a little brown capouch, girt very near to his body with a white towel. Shelton. Don Quixote, b. iv. c. 1. Between the cicada and that we call a grasshopper, the differences are very many: for first, they are differently cucullated or capouched upon the head and back, and in the cicada the eyes are more prominent. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. v. c. 3. Capoch'd your rabbins of the synod, CAPRICE, n. CAPRI CHIO. CAPRICIOUS, adj. CAPRICIOUSLY. CAPRICIOUSNESS. Hudibras, pt. ii. c. 2. Fr. Caprice; It. Capriccio; Sp. Capricho; from the Lat. Caper, a goat; (q.d.) the wantonness, the whimsicalness of a goat. Skinner had seen the word only in the English Dictionary. It is in Sherwood, though capriciousness is not. He explains caprichio, (so he writes it,) a fantastical humour. See CAPER. Fr. Caprice is thus explained by Cotgrave; "A humour, giddy thought, fantastical conceit, a sudden will, desire, or purpose to do a thing for which one hath no (apparent) reason." But we are not to be guided in the sence we have of that book, either by the misreports of some antients, or the capriccio's of one or two neotericks. Grew. Cosmologia, b. iv. c. 1. And [I, Williams, the Lord Keeper] gaue (in three days conference) such reasons to the 2 embassadors, that (although it is no easie matter to satisfie the caprichiousnesse of the latter of them,) yet they were both content it should rest. Cabbala. To the Duke, Aug. 30, 1623. Upon his right hand was industry, with a lamp burning before her; and, on his left, caprice, with a monkey, sitting on her shoulder.-Spectator, No. 63. These, long time ripening, oft as Titan's ray Should fortune capriciously cease to be coy, I doubtless, like others, should clasp her with joy, Whitehead. To the Rev. Mr. Wright, 175 Ausonius, who first mentions it, (the tench,) treats it wit such disrespect, as evinces the great capriciousness of taste for that fish, which at present is held in such good reput was in his days the repast only of the Canaille. Pennant. British Zoology, Class CAPRICORN, n. Lat. Capricornus; cap cornu, the Goat's horn. So the sun in his elevation when hee enters the tropick cancer is in heate more recollected and vigorous; but whe he falls off from the meridian, as in Capricorne, hee is mo faint, yet more dispersed in his influence. Bacon. On Learning, (by Wats,) b. iii. c.CAPRIFICATION. Lat. Caprificus, (per CAPRIFICAL. Jhaps caper and ficus. the wild fig, which, Pliny says, never bringeth an fruit to maturity, but breedeth certain flies gnats, which, having nothing to feed upon in th wild fig, fly unto the other kind, upon which the greedily nibble, and thereby let in the breath the warm sun, and the air besides, which helps ripen the fruit. Hence the device of bringin swarms of these gnats from the wild to the oth sort of fig tree. See the quotations from Pliny The nature of dust is to drie and soke up the superfluo moisture of the milke within figges. And therefore wh they are first dried, whether it be by the meanes of dust. of the said flies feeding, which is called caprification, th fall not from the tree so easily.-Holland. Plinie, b. xv. c. The Athenians goe by this rule, and do observe duly t caprificiall day, which is kept holye unto Vulcan: then they ever begin to drive their hives for this kind honey.-Id. Ib. b. xi. c. 16. Lat. Capsula, dimi tive of Capsa, a capien (Vossius,) i. e. from h ing or containing. Suidas, Καψα; κίστη Onn, i. e. cista et arca, which Schneidius thi may have its name, a cavitate, from the hollow which any thing may be held. in A little case (in plants--which contain the se Capsulate pods are the little short seed-ves of plants. Capsulated, inclosed in any thing a walnut is in its green husk. (Miller, Garde Dictionary.) The little cases or capsules which contain the seed in species [the fern] of plants are less than half the size very small grane of dust; nay in certain kinds they de exceed the third or fourth part of such a grain, and re ble little bladders bound about with spiral twisting rin fillets.-Derham. Physico-Theology, b. x. Note I. In man, and most other animals, the heart hath the g of bones; but in the lamprey, which hath no bones, (r so much as a back bone) the heart is very strangely sec and lies immured, or capsulated in a cartilage, or g substance, which includes the heart, and its auricle, a skull doth the brain in other animals.-Id. Ib. c. 7. No When it [the wind pipe] ariseth from the lungs, it as eth out directly into the throat, but descending first capsulary reception of the breast bone. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. This is also a way to separate seeds, whereof such corrupted and steril, swim; and this agreeth not onely the seed of plants lockt up and capsulated in their n but also, &c.-Id. Ib. b. iv. c. 6. Upon the Lord Conier's resignation, the captainship of the castle of Carlisle was appointed to Sir Gray, and the wardenship of the west Marshes to Sir Richard Musgrave-Burnett. Records. K. Edward's Journal, pt. ii. A wayuer or fuller, shuld be an vnmete capitaine of an armey, or in any office of a gouernour. Sir T. Elyot. Gouernovr, b. i. c. 1. Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, Or captain jewels in the Carcanet.-Shakespeare, Son. 52. Confusedly they deale, And give a wretched instant of An headles common-weale. Warner. Albion's England, b. iii. c. 19. Sir Edmund Buller, in all things which tended to the queene's majestie's profit of commonwealth, was a principal against it, fearing that their capteinries should be taken away & linery abolished. Holinshed. Chron. of Ireland, an. 1568. This will prove more beneficial to you, if you be thrifty, than your captainship, and more natural. Beaum. & Fletch. A King & No King, Act v. Every boy is bound to have as good a memory as the capfais of the form.-Spectator, No. 307. He (the Earl of Marlborough] was declared captaingeneral, and the prince had the title of generalissimo of all the queen's forces by sea and land. CAPTIOUS. Burnet. Own Time, an. 1702. Lat. Captiosus; Fr. Cap capere, to take. The Scotch Ready, prompt, quick, eager, to take offence, to take objection, to cavil, to quibble: and thus (according to the usage of the noun, Caption, by Chillingworth) To outwit, to deceive. Wherefore they went vnto Jesus, and moued vnto him this captious question: why (quoth they) do John's diseipes and the Phariseis ofttimes fast, and thy disciples not fast at alle-Udal. Mark, c. 2. They enquired divers questions of mee, whether my Lord Cardinall were myne ordinarye iudge or not, wyth other lyke captious interrogations?-Barnes. Workes, p. 223. Then turning to the Archbishop and the Prelates sayde; that he was not well content with that clause of theirs, saluo ordine sus, which he sayde was captious and deceytfull, haring some maner of venym lurcking vnder it. Grafton. Hen. II. an. 9. I know I love in vaine, striue against hope: Yet in this captious and intenible siue, I still pour in the waters of my loue And lacke not to loose still. Shakespeare. All's well that Ends well, Act i. sc. 3. How captiously he derogates Frem me and mine estate? And arrogates vnto himselfe To bring me so in hate. Warner. Albion's England, b. lii. c. 16. I beseech you, sir, to consider seriously, with what strange raptions you have gone about to delude your king and your try, and if you be convinced they are so, give glory to God, and let the world know it by your deserting that religion, which stands upon such deceitful foundations. Chillingworth, pt. i. c. 2. What design can the wit of man pitch upon in a captious and sospitious age that will not meet with objections from se that have a mind to cavil-Stillingfleet, vol. ii. Ser. 8. Captiousness is another fault opposite to civility, not only because it often produces misbecoming and provoking exs and carriage, but because it is a tacit accusation and reproach of some incivility, taken notice of in those Who we are angry with.-Locke. Of Education, s. 143—4. Yet he, prime pattern of the captious art, VOL. I. Mallet. Verbal Criticism. CAPTIVE, n. CA'PTIVE, v. Lat. Captivus, from Capere, captum, to take. To captive, appears to have been used, formerly, as to captivate (met.) is now; i. e. To take, (sc.) as a pri- tion, first, of gentle, attractive, persuasive means Captation, in Skelton, is used with the first The verb, to capture, now of so common use in public despatches, and in our Courts of law, appears to be quite of modern origin. To take, (sc.) as a prize, as a prisoner. Rather die I would, and determine As thinketh me now, stocked in prison Chaucer. Troilus, b. iv. And if our English papists doe but looke into Portugall, Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 174. Surrey. The Complaint of a Louer Rebuked. Strype. Records, No. 3. Hen. VIII. to Sir. Ed. Ponyngs. Bible, 1551. Judith, c. 16. Let vs Christian men graunt nothing contrary to the Scrip- I beheld a face, a face more bright How ill-beseeming is it in thy sex, To triumph like an Amazonian trull Shakespeare. 3 Part Hen. VI. Act i. sc. 4. Id. Ib. 1 Part, Act ii. sc. 3. No small part of our servitude lyes in the captivation of our understanding; such as, that we cannot see ourselves captive.-Bp. Hall. Remains. Aloud the fairest of the sex complain Of captives lost, and loves invok'd in vain; Lansdowne. Beauty & Law. The lengthen'd night gave length of misery Dryden. Palamon & Arcite. Here are princesses more illustrious for the blood, that lightens in their cheeks, than for that, which runs in their veins, and who like victorious monarchs, can conquer at a distance, and captivate by proxy. Boyle. Occasional Reflections, s. 6. Ref. 10. I no sooner met it, [the widow's eye,] but I bowed like a great surprised booby, and knowing her cause to be the first which came on, I cry'd like a captivated calf as I was,Make way for the defendant's witnesses.-Spectator, No. 113. This was very happy for him, for in a very few years, being concerned in several captures, he brought home with him an estate of about twelve thousand pounds. Yet, on a time, when vig'rous thoughts demand, Harte. An Essay on Painting. Which is agreeable to the law of nations, as understood in the time of Grotius, even with regard to captures made at sea; which were held to be the property of the captors after the possession of twenty-four hours; though the modern authorities require, that before the property can be changed, the goods must have been brought into port, and have continued a night intra præsidia, in a place of safe custody, so that all hope of recovering them was lost. Blackstone. Commentaries, vol. ii. p. 401. CAPUCHIN. Capouch, (qv.) CAR, n. Ger. Karr; Sw. Karra; Fr. Char. "Car, cart, chariot, and the Lat. Carrus, are the participle of the A. S. Cyran, acyran, to turn, to turn about, to turn backwards and forwards. This word was first introduced into the Roman Stirling. Aurora, s. 2. language by Cæsar, who learned it in his wars with the Germans. Vossius mistakingly supposes it derived from Currus." (See Tooke.) A vehicle that turns, or that moves by turning (sc.) on wheels. O thou strong builder of the firmament, Who placed'st Phoebus in his fiery car, And for the planets wisely didst invent Their sundry mansions, that they should not jar. Drayton. Pastorals, Eclogue 1. He came ever in the rear-ward of the fashion, and sung those tunes to the over-scutched huswives that he heard the carman whistle, and sware they were his fancies, or his good-nights.-Shakespeare.-2 Part Hen. IV. Act iii. sc. 1. O bear me to the paths of fair Pall-mall! Gay. Trivia, b. ii. Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Two coursers of ethereal race CARABINE, or 2 Fr. Carabin; It. Carabina; ner. |