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.
See GAPE.

AGA'PE. On the gape.

More solemn than the tedious pomp that waits
On princes, when their rich retinue long

Of horses led, and grooms besmear'd with gold,
Dazzles the croud, and sets them all agape.

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.
The maryner was ogast, that schip that wild not go.
Lotes did thei kast, for whom thei had that wo.
R. Brunne, p. 124.
And he that eete of that seed, sholde be evene trywe
With God and nat a gast bote of gyle one [only].
Piers Plouhman, p. 381.
And at the brondes ende outran anon
As it were blody dropes many on:
For which so sore agast was Emilie,
That she was wel neigh mad.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2343.

Now dere suster mine, what may it be
That me agasteth in my dreame (qd she)
This ilke newe Troian is so in my thought.

Id. The Legend of Dido, p. 203.

But him (according as they had decreed)
With a deeres-skin they couered, and then chast
With all their hounds, that after him did speed;
But he more speedy, from them fled more fast
Than any deere, so sore him dread aghast.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vii. c. 6.
Then when the second watch was almost past,
That brasen dore flew open, and in went
Boid Britomart, as she had late forecast,
Neither of idle shewes, nor of false charmes aghast.

The French exclaym'd the deuill was in armes,
All the whole army stood agaz'd on him.

Shakespeare. Hen. VI. Act i. sc. 2.
Thus roving on

In confus'd march forlorn, the adventurous bands
With shuddering horrour pale, and eyes aghast,
View'd first their lamentable lot, and found
No rest.

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'GE, v.
A/GED.

A'GEDNESS.

Of uncertain etymology.

Per

Shall it be,

That you a world of curses undergoe,
Being the agents, or base second meanes,
The cords, the ladder, or the hangmen rather?

Shakespeare. Hen. IV. Acti. sc. 3.
All's not a man's that is from others rackt,
And other agents other ways do act.

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,
Sene ages ther habbeth y be, as sene tyme y wys.
R. Gloucester, p. 9.
But how he seeth now, we witen nere; or who opened
his yghen, we witen nere; axe ye him, he hath age, speke
he of himsilf.-Wiclif. John, c. 9.

With him ther was his sone a yonge squier
A lover, and a lusty bacheler
With lockes crull as they were laid in presse
Of twenty yere of age he was I gesse.

Chaucer. Prologue. The Squier.
Wilt thou not first go see where thou hast left
Anchises thy father fordone with age?-Surrey. Virgile,b.ii.
Tetchy and wayward was thy infancie,
Thy school-daies frightfull, desp'rate, wilde and furious,
Thy prime of manhood, daring, bold, and venturous:
Thy age confirm'd, proud, subtle, slye, and bioody.
Shakespeare. Rich. III. Act iv. sc. 3

Wilt thou be angry without end,
For ever angry thus?

Wilt thou thy frowning ire extend
From age to age on us?-Milton. Psalm 85.

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.
The errours of young men are the ruine of business; but
the errours of aged men amount but to this, that more might
have beene done, or sooner.-Bacon. Ess. On Youth and Age.
Custom without truth is but agedness of error.
Milton. Of Reformation, b. i.
They make Apollo always with a young face and never
aging.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 1104.

Near this my muse, what most delights her, sees
A living gallery of aged trees;

Bold sons of earth, that thrust their arms so high,
As if once more they would invade the sky.

Waller. St. James's Park.
Ancient learning may be distinguished into three periods.
Its commencement, or the age of poets; its maturity, or the
age of philosophers; and its decline, or the age of critics.
Goldsmith. On Polite Learning.
His house was known to all the vagrant train,
He chid their wand'rings, but relieved their pain;
The long-remember'd beggar was his guest,
Whose beard descending swept his aged breast.
Id. Deserted Village.
See APPANAGE.

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
Of the undeviating and punctual sun,
How would the world admire! but speaks it less
An agency divine, to make him know
His moment when to sink and when to rise?
Cowper. Task, b.
AGGELATION, n. Lat. Gelu, ice.

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
Besides, the hard agglomerating salts,

The spoil of ages, would impervious choke
Their secret channels; or, by slow degrees,
High as the hills protrude the swelling vales.

Thomson. Auti

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.
-As when a wandering fire,
Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night
Condenses, and the cold environs round,

Kindled through agitation to a flame,
Which oft, they say, some evil spirit attends,
Hovering and blazing with delusive light,
Misleads the amaz'd night-wanderer from his way.
Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ix.

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.
AGNATE, adj.
AGNA'TICK.
AGNA'TION.

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,
His glorious truth, such He will crown with praise,
And glad agnize before his Father's throne.

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
Which, in memorial of victory,
Shall be agnominated by our name.-Locrine III. 2.

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
Whan that hir housbonds ben fro hem ago.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 282

This was the old opinion as I rede
I speke of many hundred yeres ago.

Id. The Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 644

For right anon on of the fires queinte
And quiked again, and after that anon
That other fire was queinte, and all agon.

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.
To present this, writ many years agone,
And in that age thought second unto none;
We humbly crave your pardon.

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,
In jewels drest, and in each ear a bob,
Goes flanting out, and in her trim of pride,
Thinks all she says or does is justify'd.

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
Hir faire face and all disteineth
With wofull teares hir eie,

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,
Which I do owe unto all woman kind,
Feel my heart peare't with so great agony,
When such I see, that all for pitie I could die.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 2.

Thee have I miss'd, and thought it long depriv'd
Thy presence; gang of love till now

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;
The below tower with clamours rings around:

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
From whece cometh my wailing & my pleint
If harme agree me, wherto plaine I thenne

I not, ne why, vnwery that I feint.-Chaucer. Troil. b. i.
Whom I ne founde froward ne fell

But toke agree all whole my plaie.-Id. Rom. of Rose.
Kepeth this child, al be it foule or faire,
And eke my wif, unto min home coming:
Crist whan him list may senden me an heire,
More agreable than this to my liking.

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
Ari ml make purgatioun
Twa o the officers be agramed
A. wine him fro toun to toun
She ate pay raunsome
Tht be be clene as is christall
Ate an absolution

But al such false shuli foule fall.-Chaucer. Plowm.Tale.

AGRE STICK

AGRARIAN, adj. Lat. Agrarius, Agrestis;
from Ager, a field.
Ararian is applied to the distribution of fields
Agrestick, to that which is rustic, rude,

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,
Some flocks of sheepe and shepheards to espy;
To whom they both agreed to take their way,
In hope there newes to learne, how they mote best assay.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 9.

Thus one by one, kindling each other's fire
Till all inflamed, they all at once agree;
All resolute to prosecute their ire,
Seeking their own, and country's cause to free.

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,
We wish'd him full ten times a day at old Nick;
But missing his mirth and agreeable vein,
As often we wish to have Dick back again.

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-
A'GRICULTURE, n.
coltura; Sp. Agricultura;
AGRICULTURAL.

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,
First let the young agricolist be taught:
Then how to sow, and raise the embrio seeds
Of every different species.-Dodsley. Agriculture, c. 2.

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,
Of that seas nature did him not avise.
The waues thereof so slowe and sluggish were,
Engrost with mud, which did them foule ayrise,
That every weightie thing they did vpbeare,
Ne ought mote euer sink downe to the bottome there.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 6.

For near'st to mortals, though my state I keep,
Yet not the colour of the troubled deep,
These spots supposed, nor the fogs that rise
From the dull earth, me any whit agrise.

Drayton. Man in the Moon.

Of whose sight he full sore was agrysed,
He thought, "All this well deserved I have,
What ayled me to be so evil avised,
That to my counsell could I nat keep and save?'
Browne. The Shepheard's Pipe, Egl. 1.

This honorable quene Philis doth him chere,
Her liketh wel his sport and his manere;

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;
Nor is your course upon our coasts unknown:
Say what you seek, and whither are you bound?
Were you by stress of weather cast aground?

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 chase the natiue beauty from his cheeke,
And he will look as hollow as a ghost,
As dim and meager as an ague's fit,
And so he'll dye.-Shakespeare. K. John, Act iii. sc. 3.

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,
And bitter blasting winds, and poison'd air.

AGUISE, v.

See GUISE.

To prepare a mode of fashion, of dress; a dress.

And other whiles vaine toyes she would devise
As her fantastick wit did most delight:
Sometimes her head she fondly would aguize
With gaudie girlonds, or fresh flowrets dight
About her neck, or rings of rushes plight.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 4.
Then gan this crafty couple to devise,
How for the court they might themselves aguise.
Id. Mother Hubbard's Tale.
The glory of the court, their fashions,
And brave agguize with all their princely state,
Which poets or historians relate
This farre excels. More. Song of the Soul, b. i. st. 23.
AHEAD. On head; head-long; foremost;

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
With equal oars, advancing in a line:
And now the mighty centaur seems to lead,
And now the speedy dolphin gets a-head.

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;
One heau'd ahigh, to be hurl'd downe below.
Shakespeare. Rich. III. Act iv. sc. 4.
From the dread somnet (summit) of this chalkie bourne
Looke vp aheight, the shrill-gorg'd larke so farre
Cannot be seene, or heard: Do but looke vp.

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.
Sl. I am not a-hungry, I thank you, forsooth.
Shakespeare. Merry Wives, Act i. sc. 1.
AJAR. On jar; i. e. on char, on the turn, or
return; neither quite open nor shut: from the
A. S. Cyr-an, Acyr-an, to turn. Douglas writes-
On char. See CHAIR.

So rumour says, who will believe,
But that they left the door ajar,
Where safe, and laughing in his sleeve,
He heard the distant din of war.

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,
If she be right invok'd in warbled song;

For maidenhood she loves, and will be swift
To aid a virgin, such as was herself.-Milton. Comus.

Oft have I seene a timely-parted ghost,

Of ashy semblance, meager, pale, and bloodlesse,
Being all descended to the labouring heart,
Who, in the conflict that it holds with death,
Attracts the same for aydance 'gainst the enemy.

Shakespeare. 2 Part Hen. VI. Act iii. sc. 1
Cor. All you vnpublish'd vertues of the earth,
Spring with my teares; be aydant, and remediate
In the goodman's desires.-Id. Lear, Act iv. sc. 4.
I found the place,

Where that damn'd wisard, hid in sly disguise,
(For so by certain signs I knew) had met
Already, ere my best speed could prevent,
The aidless innocent lady, his wish'd prey.-Milton. Co

Well hath the powerfull hand of majesty,
Thy worthiness, and England's hap beside,
Set thee in th' aidfull'st room of dignity;
As the Isthmus these two oceans to divide,
Of rigour, and confus'd uncertainty.
Daniel. To Sir T. Egert

A golden coffer in her hand she bore,
The present treacherous, but the bearer more;
'Twas fraught with pangs; for Jove ordain'd above,
That gold should aid, and pangs attend on love.

Parnell. Hesi

As Theodore was born of noble kind,
The brutal action rous'd his manly mind;
Mov'd with unworthy usage of the maid,
He, though unarm'd, resolv'd to give her aid.

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,
Benevolence, and peace, and mutual aid,
Between the nations in the world, that seems
To toll the death-bell of its own decease.

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,
Purfled vpon with many a folded plight,
Which all aboue besprinkled was throughout,
With golden aygulets, that glistred bright,
Like twinkling starres, and all the skirt about
Was hemd with golden fringe.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii
And yonder pale faced Hecate there, the moon,
Doth give consent to that is done in darkness:
And all those stars that gaze upon her face,
Are aglets on her sleeve, pins on her train.
Spanish Tragedy,

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.