I am right glad with you to dwellen here I said but agame I would go, I wis graunt mercy nece (qd. he) tho Were it agame or no, soth to tell Now am I glad, sens that you list to dwell.-Id. Ib. A'GAMIST. Gr. Ayauos, not married (a, priv. αγαμ-ειν, to marry.) And furthermore to exhort in like maner these agamistes, and wilfull rejecters of matrimony, to take themselues to lawfull wiues, and not to resist God's holy ordinance. Fox. Actes. Q. Marie, p. 1768. AGA'PE. On the gape. More solemn than the tedious pomp that waits Of horses led, and grooms besmear'd with gold, Milton. Paradise Lost, b. v. The whole crowd stood agape, and ready to take the doctor at his word-Spectator, No. 572. AGA'ST, adj. A. S. Gesean, to see, to look AGA'ZE. at. Tooke inclines to the AGA'ZED. Gothic Agyan, timere; past part. Agids, territus, terrified; which might become Agidst or Agisd, Agist, Agast. But the constant application of the word to that, which is gazed, agazed, agaz'd, (agast) upon with terror or consternation, seems sufficiently to account for the restriction of it to denote a degree of terror. See the quotations from Shakespeare, Milton, and Fuller. Astonished, amazed, terrified (sc. in a speechless gaze.) So com a tempest wilde, his schip had alle ouer ronnen. Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2343. Now dere suster mine, what may it be Id. The Legend of Dido, p. 203. But him (according as they had decreed) The French exclaym'd the deuill was in armes, Shakespeare. Hen. VI. Act i. sc. 2. In confus'd march forlorn, the adventurous bands Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ii. In the first week of the reign of King Edward the Sixth, whilst most men's minds stood at a gaze, Master Harley, in the parish church of St. Peter's, in Oxford, in a solemn Lent sermon, publiquely preached antipapal doctrine, and powerfully pressed justification by faith alone. Fuller. Worthies. Bucks. Loud was the noise, aghast was every guest, The women shriek'd, the men forsook the feast. Dryden. Theodore & Honoria. Stout Glo'ster stood aghast in speechless trance: To arms! cried Mortimer, and couch'd his quivering lance. Gray. Bard. A'GATE. Fr. Agathe, Agate; It. Agata; Lat. Achates. So called from Achates, a river in Sicily, where it was first found. See the quotation. The agate (or agath) was in old time of great estimation, but now it is in more request. Found it was first in Sicilie neare unto a river called likewise Achates, but afterwards in many other places.-Holland. Plinie, b. xxxvii. c. 10. By the rushy fringed bank Where grows the willow and the osier dank, My sliding chariot stays Thick set with agat.-Milton. Comus, v. 893. A'GE, n. A'GEDNESS. Of uncertain etymology. Per Shall it be, That you a world of curses undergoe, Shakespeare. Hen. IV. Acti. sc. 3. Drayton. Barons' Wars. King. So goodie Agent? and you think there is no punishment due for your agentship? Beaum. & Fletch. Lover's Progress, Act v. sc. 1. The cause of this successe is oft truely ascribed unto the force of affection and imagination upon the body agent and then, by a secondary means, it may upon a divers body Bacon. Natural History, §902 Nor can I think, that any body has such an idea o chance, as to make it an agent, or really existing and actin cause of any thing, and much less sure of all things. Wollaston. Religion of Nature, s. 5 That act, which may be denominated morally good o distinguishing haps originally applied to time, evil, must be the act of a being capable of disday, of an in past, gone, agone. A. S. Agan, preteritus, exactus. And then generally to all time: or rather, as the A. S. Ece, from Ec-an, Eac-an, to eke, to prolong, to augment, (See ACHE,) is applied to a lasting, an everlasting continuance of time; ece, may have become age or eage by the mere change of c hard into g hard, and in course of time softened:-and mean, A prolonged or lengthened course of time; a long period of time; an advanced progress, of time, of man's life, of years; and thence generally, time, course of years. Fro the by gynnyng of the world, to the tyme that now is, With him ther was his sone a yonge squier Chaucer. Prologue. The Squier. Wilt thou be angry without end, Wilt thou thy frowning ire extend Happy and innocent were the ages of our forefathers, who ate herbs and parched corn, and drank the pure stream, and broke their fast with nuts and roots. Bp. Taylor. Holy Living and Dying. Near this my muse, what most delights her, sees Bold sons of earth, that thrust their arms so high, Waller. St. James's Park. Id. b. iii. c. 12. A'GE. Termination. telligent or free agent. Id. Ib. s. 1. that A moral agent is a being that is capable of those action have a moral quality, and which can properly be de nominated good or evil, in a moral sense, virtuous or viciou commendable or faulty.-Edwards. On the Will, pt. i. s. 5 The moral agency of the Supreme Being, who acts only i the capacity of a ruler, towards his creatures, and never as subject, differs in that respect from the moral agency created intelligent beings.-Id. Ib. Should God again, As once in Gibeon, interrupt the race GELID. Ice is plain upon the surface of water, but round in ha and figured in its guttulous descent from the ayr, and growing greater or lesser according unto the accretion pluvious aggelation about the mother and fundamen atomes thereof.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 1. AGGENERATION, n. Ad-generare, geni ywedai, to be. See GENERATE. To make a perfect nutrition into the body nourished, th is required a transmutation of the nutriment; now wh this conversion or aggeneration is made, there is also quired in the aliment a familiarity of matter. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. AGGLOMERATE, v. Į Lat. Agglomera AGGLOMERA'TION. (Ad-glomerare.) To roll up into balls. See CONGLOMERATE The spoil of ages, would impervious choke Thomson. Auti 1: (crystal) hath been found in the veins of minerals, sometimes agglutinated unto lead, sometimes in rocks, pavus stones, and the marble face of Octavius, Duke of Pama-Brown. Veigar Errours, b. ii. c. 1. To the nutrition of the body, there are two essential conEnions required, assumption and retention; then there ows two more, revis and pooтavis, concoction and patination, or adhesion.-Howell, b. i. Let. 9. They are called Plagula and Splenia, from their figure, Rawl up the member with the agglutinative rowler.-Id. Ib. AGGRA'TE. tiness. To treat with favour or Sure, that I have done my due in place. So goodly purpose they together fond, Of Kindness and of curteous aggrace; The whites faise Archimage and Atin fled apace. Faire Vans gan Fidelia faire request To base her knight into her schoole-house plac't, See granted, and that knight so much agrac't, And opened his dull eyes, that light mote in them shine. But now in stedfast love and happy state Id. Ib. b. iii. c. 6. For whatsoever might aggrate the sense, Fletcher. Christ's Triumph on Earth. Mos. O, but before, sir; had you heard him, first, Then use his vehement figures.-B. Jonson, Act ii. sc. 2. To lessen or extenuate my offence, Milton. Samson Agonistes. Enlarging, deepening, mingling.-Thomson. Summer. How is it that the most powerful argument to all manner of good practice, and the mightiest aggravation of sin, if well known and pondered, hath so little force and efficacy upon us?-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 36. Outrageous penalties, being seldom or never inflicted, are hardly known to be law by the public: but that rather aggravates the mischief, by laying a snare for the unwary. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iv. c. 1. Corellius Rufus is dead! and, dead, too, by his own act! a circumstance of great aggravation to my affliction. Melmoth. Pliny, b. i. Let. 12. As by olde autors a mã may aggregate a definition. that which is called in Greke and Latyne Musa, is that parte of the sowle, that induceth and moueth a man to serche for AGGRANDIZE, v. Fr. Aggrandir; It. Ag- knowlege.-Elyot. Governour, b. iii. c. 22. AGGRANDIZEMENT. grandire; Sp. Agrandar, bm Lat. Ad-grandis. Vossius thinks from Grom, a grain; which etymon he illustrates the application of Grandis, to fruges, frumenta; Le to the whole product or accumulation of Tacumalate into large heaps; to enlarge, to , to augment. are not always certain, who are good, who wicked. If Fto fame and reports, these may proceed, on the one partial friendship, or flattery; on the other, from Bond series and constructions of things, envy, or and on either, from small matters aggrandized. Wollaston. Religion of Nature, § 5. Tabs treaties with Holland, Sweden, and the princes and min of the empire, he [Richelieu] projected the agpriment of France.-Bolingbroke. On History, Let, 7. Let the mall uraze boast his silver fur; Hoyal robe orrow'd, and unbought, Ilyen descending fairly from his sires. Shall man be pro wear his livery, And seals in emin stora a soul without? Can place or lessen us, or aggrandize?-Young. Night 6. We may date from the treaty of Munster, the decline of the wal of Austria, the great power of the house of Bourbon, But a day? audit of that of Brandenburgh. Chesterfield, Let. 159. AGGRAVATE, v. ACGRE'GE. The aggregated soil, Death with his mace petrific, cold and dry, As Delos, floating once.-Millon. Paradise Lost, b. x. Chillingworth. Relig. of Protestants, pt. i. c. 2. § 34. To save the credit of the author, [the word now] must be favourably understood to be meant of such customs, as were in use either before the Conquest or at the Conquest, or at any time since, in the disjunctive, not in the aggregative.-Spelman. On Feuds, c. 14. Jacobus de Dondis, the aggregator, repeats ambergreese, nutmegs, and all-spice amongst the rest. Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 365. Some are modest, and hide their virtues; others hypocri- Wollaston. Religion of Nature, s. 5. Fr. Aggraver; It. Ag-liberty, or honour,] and you must reduce it from one set of , beavy: Aree, or Aggrege, are used by Chaucer at therfore a vengeance is not warished by another e be a wrong by another wrong, but everich of vi tracta and aggreggeth other. Chaucer. Tale of Melibeus. Corporations aggregate consist of many persons united together into one society, and are kept up by a perpetual succession of members, so as to continue for ever. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. i. c. 18. Many little things, though separately they seem too insignificant to mention, yet aggregately are too material for me to omit.-Chesterfield. Letters. Because a nation is not an idea only of local extent and The rage dispers'd, the glorious pair advance, To turn the war, and tell aggressing France, They are, by your own confession, but aggressions; and As the public crime is not otherwise avenged than by forfeiture of life and property, it is impossible afterwards to make any reparation for the private wrong: which can only be had from the body or goods of the aggressor. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iv. c. 1. Grete was that linage and many to them cheued, For John, ther is a lawe that saieth thus, Chaucer. The Reves Tale, v. 4179. What aileth you to grone in this manere? I Id. The Nonnes Preestes Tale, v. 14,899. The dredful figures gan appere to me Surrey. Virgile, b. ii. Yet was I neuer of your loue agreued, Nor neuer shall, while that my life doth last. Sir T. Wyat. The Louer waxeth, &c. And thys pacyfyer aggrieueth the cleargye of England, for vse of the lawes not made by themself, but be common lawes of al chrystendome.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1015. Duke. Now briefly [lady] without circumstance Beaum. & Fletch. Fair Maid of the Inn, Act iii. sc. 1. The aggrieved person shall do more manly, to be extraordinary and singular in claiming the due right whereof he is frustrated, than to piece up his lost contentment by visiting the stews, or stepping to his neighbour's bed. Milton. On the Doct. and Discip. of Divorce, b. i. c. 2. Those pains that afflict the body, are afflictive just so long as they actually possess the part which they aggrieve; but their influence lasts no longer than their presence. South, vol. viii. Ser. 1. AGGROUP, or GROUP. See GROUP. To hold, or place in bands, or companies, or assemblages. We must have the same regard for the members; they aggrouppe, and contrast each other in the same manner as figures do.-Dryden. Obser, on the Art of Painting, § 132. Bodies of divers natures, which are aggroupp'd (or com bined) together, are agreeable and pleasant to the sight. Id. Dufresnoy, § 60. AGILE, Lat. Agilis; from Agere, to act. Fr. Agile; It. Agile; Sp. Agil; AGILITY. Able to act-with readiness, to move with individual momentary aggregation, but it is an idea of con- quickness, nimbleness; nimble, quick in action, tinuity, which extends in time as well as in numbers, and AGGRESSOR. ; active. Fr. Aggresser; Sp. Agressor, n. Lat. Aggressum; syftes of nature styll, as wyfte, bewtye, strength, a past part. of Aggredi, (Adgredi,) to step to. Yet God hathe suffered theym [the fiendes] to keepe their agylytie, To march or advance against; as foe against Leagues, offensive and defensive, which oblige the princes AGILT, v. A verb formed upon the past part. gu'iled, guil'd, guilt. See BEGUILe. To practise any cheat, imposture, or injustice; any sin or wickedness; to cheat; to defraud. Awey! Awey! we synuol men, alas! oure wrecchede, That we abbyth thus God agult myd mony synuol dede We and oure elderne ek.-R. Gloucester, p. 252. Thus moche wol I say, that when thou prayest, that God shuld foryeve thee thy giltes as thou foryevest hem that have agilted thee, be well ware that thou be not out of charitee.-Chaucer. The Persones Tale. AGI'ST, v. AGISTER. AGI'STMENT. From Fr. Giste, a lying place, from the verb Gésir, to lye. Skinner. Applied to The lying, and consequentially pasturing, of one man's cattle in another's ground, on payment of a certain sum of money, or other good consideration. A forest hath laws of her own, to take cognizance of all trespasses; she hath also her peculiar officers, as foresters, verderers, regarders, agisters, &c. whereas a chase or park hath only keepers and woodwards.-Howell, Let. 4. p. 16. Manie other ordinances were decreed touching the preseruation of forrests, and the king's prerogatiue, aduantages and profits rising and growing by the same, as well for sauing of his woods and wasts, as in pannage and agistements.-Holinshed. Chron. Rich. I. an. 1198. The taylor, the carrier, the inn-keeper, the agisting farmer, the pawnbroker, the distreinor, and the general bailee, may all of them vindicate in their own right. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. c. 30. If a man takes in a horse, or other cattle, to graze and depasture in his grounds, which the law calls agistment, he takes them upon an implied contract, to return them on demand to the owner.-Id. Ib. AGITATE, v. Fr. Agiter; It. Agitare; AGITA'TION. Lat. Ågitare, Sp. Agitar; AGITA'TOR. freq. of Agere, to act. To act with frequent and repeated motion; shake. Metaphorically, to discuss. To keep the mind in constant action; to disturb, to distract. to Those whom Clarendon and Whitelock call Agitators, Ludlow and Wood denominate Adjutators. Whitelock Agents or Agitators for each regiment; Ludlow at their first appointment Agitators, afterwards Adjutators. Suche is the mutacion of the cōmon people like a rede with euery wind is agitable and flexible. Hall. Edw. IV. an. 9. Putrefaction asketh rest; for the subtill motion, which putrefaction requireth, is disturbed by an agitation. Bacon. Natural History, § 344. -I was alwaies plaine with you, and so now I speake my agitation of the matter. Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice, Act iii. sc. 5. Kindled through agitation to a flame, The common soldiers made choice of three or four of each regiment, most corporals or sergeants, few or none above the degree of an ensign, who were called agitators, and were to be as a house of commons to the council of officers. Clarendon. History of the Rebellion, b. x. A'GLET. See AIGLET. Fr. Agnation; It. Agnato; Sp. Agnado; Lat. Agnatus, part. of Ad, or, Ag-nasci, borne to, of kin, allied to. Legally applied by Blackstone, to issue derived from the male ancestors. By an attentive examination of the peculiarities in enunciation which each people have, in the one way or the other, by a fair reciprocal analysis of the agnate words they reciprocally use, I think a much greater agnation may be found amongst all the languages in the northern hemisphere of our globe. Pownall. On the Study of Antiquities. ference of the agnatic succession, or issue derived from the This I take to be the true reason of the constant premale ancestors, through all the stages of collateral in heritance.-Blackstone. Com. b. ii. c. 14. Iesus of Nazareth was borne in Bethlem, a city of Iuda: where incontinent by the glorification of the angels, the agnition of the shepherds, the veneration of the wise men, the prophecy of holy Simeon, and the admiration or the doctours he was had in honour. Grafton. The Seventh Age, vol. i. The tirant custome, most graue senators, Hath made the flinty and steele coach of warre My thrice-driuen bed of downe. I do agnize A naturall and prompt alacritie, I find in hardnesse.-Shakespeare. Othello, Act i. sc. 3. Man blesseth God when he confesseth how good, how gracious, how glorious he is; so as the blessing is wholly taken up in agnition, in celebration. Bp. Hall. Ser. of Thanksgiving. It was desired, that since it appeared the present power had no legal foundation, and that it would be most sale for the protector, to derive his authority from a right source, the words in the declaration of recognizing him might be altered for agnizing him; that so his right might appear to be founded upon the consent of the people represented in this assembly.-Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. i. p. 163. Such who own In evil times, undaunted, though alone, AGNOMINATE, v. AGNOMINATION. Edwards, Son. 11. Lat. Agnominatio, (Ad-nomen.) Lat. Agnomen is a name to; i. e. in addition to. To name, or call by name. Agnomination is applied to the repetition of words of similar sound: or to allusions founded upon some other fancied resemblance. Notwithstanding in this Isle the British ouergrew the Latine, and continueth yet in Wales, and some villages of Cornwall intermingled with prouinciall Latine, being verie significatiue, copious, and pleasantly running vpon agnominations, although harsh in aspirations. Camden. Remains. Of Languages. The silver stream White is there usurpt for her brow; her forehead and then sleek, as the parallel to smooth, that went before. A kind of paranomasic, or agnomination: doe you conceive, sir.-B. Jonson. Poetaster, Act iii. Among other resemblances, one was in their prosody, an vein of versifying or rhyming, which is like our bards, wh hold agnominations, and enforcing of consonant words o syllables one upon the other, to be the greatest elegance. Howell. b. i. s. 1. Let. 4 AGO', ad. AGO'N, AGO'NE, YGO'N, AGO ING. Ago, Agon, Agone, Ygo, were a used as the past part. of the ver to go: Gone, past; agoing, in going. For in swiche cas wimmen have swiche sorwe Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 282 This was the old opinion as I rede Id. The Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 644 For right anon on of the fires queinte Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 23 A clerk ther was of Oxenforde also, That unto logike hadde long ygo.-Id. The Prologue. Hast thou not heard, how I haue ordeyned soch a thy a great whyle a goo, and haue prepared it from the be nynge.-Bible, 1539. 4 Kings, c. 19. 4 Sat. Is he such a princely one, As you spake him long agon ?-B. Jonson. Oberon. Marlow. Jew of Malta. Court F They [eclipses] may on divers occasions help to s chronology, and rectify the mistakes of historians that many ages ago.-Ray. On the Creation. Let his clack be set a-going, and he shall tongue i impetuously, and as loudly as the arrantest hero of the Dryden. Pref. to Troil. & C Dear Joseph-five and twenty years agoAlas how time escapes!-'tis even soWith frequent intercourse, and always sweet, And always friendly, we were wont to cheat A tedious hour.-Cowper. To Joseph Hill, Esq. A'GOG, ad. From the Gothic, Gaggan, Gangan, to go, to gang. Agog is applied The alert, eager, emotions of hope, expecta anticipation. See GIG, and JIG. Neither am I come to please thee, or to set the agog a vain salutacion, but I am come vnto thee as a mes of a matier bothe passyng ioyful, & also verai great. Udal. Luk The gaudy gossip when she's set agog, Dryden. Juven. They [the gipsies] generally straggle into these parts this time of the year, and set the heads of our se maids so agog for husbands, that we do not expect t any business done as it should be whilst they are country.-Spectator, No. 130. A'GON, n. AGONISTICAL. AGONISTICK. A'GONIZE. A'GONY. Fr. Agoniser; It. A zare; Sp. Agonizar ; Agon; Gr. Aywv; cert conflictus; a contest, a flict, a struggle. Ago Agonistical are particularly applied to the co of prize fighters: Agonize and Agony, to Those bodily or mental struggles and co which are accompanied by excessive pai any violent struggle or conflict. And he was maad in agonye, and preiede the len his swoot was maad as dropis of blood rennynge do the erthe. Wiclif. Luke, c. 22. And he was in an agonye, and prayed the longe hys sweate was lyke droppes of bloud, trycklyng to ye groude.-Bible, 1539. Ib. And thus wepende she complaineth So that vpon this agonie Her husbonde is in come And sawe how she was ouercome With sorrow, and asketh hir what hir eileth. Gower. Co 2 Tim. c. 4. vv. 7. 8. These two verses are wh nistical.-Hammond. Annot. The prophetick writings were not, saith St. Pete ceive it in an agonistick sense,) of their own S incitation.-Id. Works, vol. iv. p. 589. I whether lately through her brightness blind, Or through allengeance and fast fealtie, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 2. Thee have I miss'd, and thought it long depriv'd Not fat, nor shall be twice. Milton. Par. Lost, b. ix. He is an object of much pity that over-affects any temAra things whatsoever. For, beyond what is spoken ready, it crenses his mind perpetually, and throws him on adable mischief-Feltham. Sermon, Luke xiv. 20. They must do their exercises too, be anointed to the agon, and to the combat, as the champions of old. Sancroft. Sermons, p. 106. He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground; We bring tears he bath'd his fetter'd feet, And drept all o'er with agony of sweat. Dryden. Palamon & Arcite. Were finer optics given Tinspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven? Orth, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at every pore. Pope. On Man, Ep. 1. Orang, therefore, doth require great industry; and eliness of it consequently is well represented by those perances, which demand the greatest intention, and activity it is stiled exercise, agonistick and ascetick Elise-Barro, vol. iii. Ser. 20. As are all the expressions in the foregoing verse, so is rently egoistical, and alludes to the prize set bene proposted, and offered to them that run in a race, It ber encouragement.-Bp. Bull, vol. i. Ser. 14. An author) though possessed of fortitude to stand unamed the expected bursts of an earthquake, yet of feelings, Nexustively poignant as to agonize under the slightest fox pisment-Goldsmith. Pres. State of Polite Learning. The vine and good intentions of Cato and Brutus are My laudable; but to what purpose did their zeal serve? Chasten the fatal period of the Roman government, render its convulsions and dying agonies more violent Sujata - Hume, Ess. 3. AGORE-BLOOD. Wood See GoRE. And if that at mine owne lust I brenne I not, ne why, vnwery that I feint.-Chaucer. Troil. b. i. But toke agree all whole my plaie.-Id. Rom. of Rose. Id. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 5187. The sterres shinen more agreably whan the wind Nothus letteth his plungy blasts.-Id. Boecius, b. iii. All fortune is blisful to a man, by the agreability or by the egality of hym that suffereth it.-Id. Ib. b. ii. Then it is well seen, how wretched is the blisfulnesse of mortall things that neither it dureth perpetuell with hem, that euery fortune receiuen agreeably or egally, ne it deliteth not in all to hem that ben anguishous.-Id. Ib. This house [Symon's in Bethany] preseteth vnto vs, the agreyng, and frendely felowshyp of the church; the which beyng vncleane, he washed and purified with his precious bloude.-Udal. Mark, c. 14. For my spirite agreeth not with the spirite of this worlde, and my doctrine is wholly agaynste the affections of them, Foul, corrupt, polluted which loue the thynges that be of this worlde. The mods filed with scattered men, the people overcome, and rivers running all agore-blood (by reason of Kaschter, and the stream carrying down the dead ards to the main sea-North. Plutarch, p. 163. Cheer Acrotatus had done this exploit, he reFamel sain tireugh the city unto the place from whence be case, all en a gar-bload -Id. p. 345. But when he saw Brutus with his sword drawn in his land, then he paled his gown over his head, and made no mine resistance, and was driven either casually or purpounds, be the transell of the conspirators, against the Ime. whereas Peaper's image stood, which ran all of a guar-duced till he was shain.-Id. p. 615. AGRAMED. A S. Grymman, sævire, freTo rage, to roar, to provoke, to anger. See GRAME. Lardynzes," he saide, "Y am aschamed, And are anoyed, and agramed, The Alsvandre, with myghty hond, ist me dryven of my lond. Weber. Met. Rom. K. Alisaunder, v. 3309. And a man be falsely famed But al such false shuli foule fall.-Chaucer. Plowm.Tale. AGRE STICK AGRARIAN, adj. Lat. Agrarius, Agrestis; Id. Matth. c. 28. And thus the couenaunt that ye made wt death, shall be disannulled and your agrement that ye made with hell, shall not stande. Bible, 1539. Isa. c. 28. They chanc't upon an hill not farne away, Thus one by one, kindling each other's fire Daniel. Civil Wars, b. iii. At last he met two knights to him vnknowne, The which were armed both agreeably, And both combin'd, what euer chaunce were blowne Betwixt them to diuide, and each to make his owne. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi c. 7. To speake agreeable to him with whom we deale, is more tha to speak in good words, or in good order. Bacon. Ess. Of Discourse. Agreeingly to which, St. Austin, disputing against the Donatists, contendeth most earnestly. Sheldon. On the Miracles of Antichrist. When we possess ourselves with the utmost security of the demonstration, that the three angles of a triangle are equal to two right ones, what do we more but perceive, that equality to two right ones does necessarily agree, and is inseparable from the three triangles. Locke. On Hum. Underst. b. vi. c. 1. As nothing that is agreeable to us can be painful at the same time, and as such; nor any thing disagreeable pleasant, by the terms; so neither can any thing agreeable be for that reason (because it is agreeable) not pleasant, nor any thing disagreeable not painful, in some measure or other. Wollaston. Religion of Nature, s. 2. The agreablenesse of dissimulation doth almost every day grarian is a perpetual law establishing and surmount the homely simplicitie of truth; nay, and some ng the balance of dominion by such a distribution, would have it passe for a rule of court to confesse that he de man or number of men within the compass of perceived the stars, if another would maintaine it to be antocracy, ean com to overpower the whole peo-night at high noone.-Evelyn. Of Liberty & Servitude, c. 5. Per possessions in lands.-Harrington. Oceana, p.54. Tewaris laws were such, whereby their lands ought ed among the people, either without menbed 1 many, in which case they were not oblig'd to Knowledge then seems to me to be nothing but the perception of the connexion and agreement, or disagreement and repugnance of any of our ideas. Locke. On Hum. Underst. b. iv. c. 1. In short, so provoking a devil was Dick, Goldsmith. Retaliation. The motives which the heathens had to the practice of their duty, were generally drawn by their best authors on this subject, from the agreeableness of virtuous actions to human nature, and from the advantage and necessity of them to society.-Pearce, vol. i. Ser. 5. What would I not give, to have you read Demosthenes critically in the morning, and understand him better than any body; at noon, behave yourself better than any person at court; and, in the evenings, trifle more agreeably than any body in mixed companies!-Chesterfield, Let. 177. This general agreement of the senses is yet more evident on minutely considering those of taste and smell. Burke. On the Sublime and Beautiful. AGRICOLIST. Fr. Agriculture; It. Agri- AGRICULTURIST. I Lat. Agricola, Agricultura, tum.) John Scott has an eclogue entitled The Agriculturists. Dodsley uses Agricolist. The former is now in common use. The culture or tillage of land; labour for the improvement, for the fertility of land. Those geoponical rules and precepts of agriculture which are delivered by divers authors, are not to be generally received but respectively understood unto climes, whereto they are determined.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vi. c. 3. Trade wields the sword, and agriculture leaves Her half-turn'd furrow: other harvest fire A nobler avarice, avarice of renown. Young. On the Situation of the Kingdom. providing a constant subsistence; and this necessity proIt became necessary to pursue some regular method of duced, or at least promoted and encouraged, the art of agriculture.-Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. c. 1. By giving a sort of monopoly of the home market to its own merchants, artificers, and manufacturers, it raises the rate of mercantile and manufacturing profit, in proportion to that of agricultural profit; and, consequently, draws from agriculture a part of the capital which had before been employed in it.-Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. iv. c. 9. The pasture, and the food of plants, AGRISE, v. A. S. Agris-an, horrere, to or A'GGRISE. S dread and fear greatly. Somner; probably formed upon the verb Hrys-an, Ge-hrysan, A-ge-hrys-an, to agrise, i. e. to beat, bruise, or dash against; to shake, to shatter, and, consequentially To shudder, or cause to shudder; to confound, to terrify. See CRUSH. Tho were the porters agrise sore of thulke sizte & caste hom the keyen vawe that hii mizte.-R. Gloucester, p. 539. Tho kinges herte of pitee gan agrise Whan he saw so benigne a creature Falle in desese and in misaventure. Chaucer. The Man of Lawes Tales, v. 5035. And as she slept, anon right tho her met How that an egle fethered white as bone Under her brest his long clawes set And out her harte he rent, and that anon And did his harte into her brest to gon Of which she nougt agrose. ne nothing smart And forthe he flieth, with hart left for hart.-Id. Troil. b.ii. And where they fynde in the thynkyng thereon, their heartes agryce & shrynke in the remembraunce of the payne, that their imaginacion representeth too the minde. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1215. -But more happy he, than wise, For near'st to mortals, though my state I keep, Drayton. Man in the Moon. Of whose sight he full sore was agrysed, This honorable quene Philis doth him chere, But I am agroted here beforne To write of hem that in loue been forsworne. Chaucer. The Legend of Philis. AGROUND, ad. On the ground: consequentially Not afloat; stopped in the course or current. And headlong downe the master falles, and thrice the keele aground. The water whirld, and at the last the wilde sea swallowd round.-Phacr. Virgil. Eneidos, b. i. But Alcibiades followed them so lustily, that he ran divers of them aground, and brake their ships and slew a great number of men that leapt into the sea, in hopes to save themselves by swimming aland.-North. Plutarch, p. 178. Tell me, ye Trojans, for that name ye own; A/GUE, v. A'GUE, n. A'GUED. Dryden. Eneid, b. vii. Skinner says, perhaps from the Fr. Aigu, acutus, sharp, because, in the paroxysm at least, it is an acute disease. Serenius and Tooke, from Goth. Agis, trembling. R. Brunne writes Hage. A'GUISH. A disease; the distinguishing mark of which is, trembling, shivering, shuddering. Tooke quotes with approbation the remark of Johnson, that "the cold fit is, in popular language, more particularly called the ague; and the hot, the fever." By Tindale, More, North, &c. this distinction is disregarded. But Ihesu thorgh his myght, blissed mot he be, Reised him vp right, & passed that hage.-R.Brunne,p.333. For I will bring vpon you fearfulnesse, swellyng of body, and the burnynge agew, to consume youre eyes and gendre sorow of hert.-Bible, 1539. Leuit. c. 26. If he [the cunnyng phisicion] haue his pacient in an ague, to the cure wherof he nedeth his medicines in their woorking cold; yet if he hap ere that feuer be full cured, to fall into some such other disease, as except it were holpen with hoate medicines, wer likely to kill the bodye before the feuer coulde be cured, he would for the whyle have hys most care to ye cure of that thyng, wherin wer most present perill. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1195. But now will canker-sorrow eat my bud, And this is the cause why the cholerick man is so altered and mad in his actions, as a man set on fire with a burning ague for when a man's heart is troubled within, his pulse will beat marvellous strongly.-North. Plutarch, p. 193. Aristotle saith of it [faith] that it differs from knowledge, as a sickly man from a strong, 'tis very weak and aguish, subject to sweats, and colds, and hourly distempers. Hammond. Works, vol. iv. p. 627. Ser. 10. Mar. All hurt behinde, backes red, and faces pale With flight and agued feare, mend and charge home, Or by the fires of heauen, Ile leaue the foe, And make my warres on you.-Shakes. Cor. Act i. sc. 4. If we be not blind at home, we may as well perceive that this worthy motto, No bishop, no king, is of the same batch, and infanted out of the same fears, a meer ague-cake coagulated of a certain fever they have, presaging their time to be but short.-Milton. Of Reform. in Eng. Cold shivering agues, melancholy care, AGUISE, v. See GUISE. To prepare a mode of fashion, of dress; a dress. And other whiles vaine toyes she would devise or head-foremost. How among the drove of custom and prejudice this will be relisht by such whose capacity, since their youth, runs ahead into the easy creek of a system. Milton. On the Doct. and Discip. of Divorce. The centaur and the dolphin brush the brine Dryden. Eneas, b. v. This gale continued till towards noon, when the east end of the island bore but a little a-head of us. AHIGH. AHE'IGHT. Fielding. Voyage to Lisbon. On high; above; aloft. And so, some mounted vpon the walles, and threwe themselfe from ahyghe, downe to the grounde, the more parte of whome dyed.-Nicoll. Thucydides, fo. 47. The flattering index of a direfull pageant; Id. Lear, Act iv. sc. 6. AHOLD. To lay a ship a-hold; or to stay her or place her so that she may hold or keep to the wind. Botes. Lay her a-hold, a-hold-set her two courses Off to sea again, lay her off. Shakes. Temp. Act i. sc. 1. See HUNGRY. AHUNGRY, To hunger; to desire or HUNGRY. An-hungred; to desire to eat. eagerly. And hys dysciples were an hongered, and began to plucke the eares of corne and to eate.-Bible, 1551. Matt. xii. 1. When any of the gheastes would have touched any thinge, it vanished suddainely awaie, and was turned to nothinge. And so, when their eies were ful, they put vp theire kniues and rose ahungred.-Jewel. Defence of the Apologie. An. The dinner attends you, Sir. So rumour says, who will believe, AID, v. AID, n. AIDANCE. AIDANT. AIDER. ArDFUL. AI'DLESS. Gray. Long Story. Fr. Aider; It. Aiutare, Aitare; Sp. Ayudar; Lat. Adjuvare, (Ad-juvare, to help.) To assist; to come to the support or relief of; to support, to relieve, to succour. The Thebanes therfore, hauinge gotten the vpper hande led theyr whole host to the city of Lacedemon, thinckin easly to haue won it, because they were abondoned of a their aiders and comforters.-Id. b. vi. p. 36. She can unlock The clasping charm, and thaw the mumming spell, For maidenhood she loves, and will be swift Oft have I seene a timely-parted ghost, Of ashy semblance, meager, pale, and bloodlesse, Shakespeare. 2 Part Hen. VI. Act iii. sc. 1 Where that damn'd wisard, hid in sly disguise, Well hath the powerfull hand of majesty, A golden coffer in her hand she bore, Parnell. Hesi As Theodore was born of noble kind, Dryden. Theodore & Hono Neither the towers, nor any other part, nor the w together, unless well aided by perspective, and the in duction of trees to hide disgusting parts, can furnish a picture.-Gilpin. Tour to the Lakes. Sure there is need of social intercourse, Cowper. Task, And the party suffering shall also have his private a against the person committing, and all his aiders, advi and abettors, and shall recover treble costs, &c. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. i. He gyueth alwaye hys old point at one end or other new aglet. But when al his cost is don theron, it is worth an aglet of a good blewe poynte. Sir T. More. Workes, P All in a silken camus, lilly white, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii Why giue him gold enough, and marrie him to a or an Aglet-babie, or an old trot with ne're a tooth head, though she have as manie diseases as two and horses.-Shakespeare. Taming of the Shrew, Act i. s AIL, v. Junius inclines to the A. S AIL, n. an, to feel pain or grief, t A'ILMENT. (Somner); and Egl-an, he d from the Gr. aλy-ew. Tooke thinks Ail past part. of the A. S. Aidlian; to be sick, e useless, spoilt. To disease, to disorder, to cause or feel p uneasing; to deprive of soundness, heal See IDLE. Also thou shalt not swere for envie, neyther for favour, ne for mede, but only for rightwisenesse and for declaring of trouthe to the honour and worship of God, and to the strength; to make useless. Dryden. Palamon & Arcite. aiding and helping of thin even Cristen. |