But thou do'st breath;

to, gather.

Gilpin. Tour to the Lakes.

ALTOGETHER, ad. A. S. Eal-geador, All, See GATHER and TOGETHER. All gathered, collected, united, conjoined; and, consequentially—wholly, entirely, completely.

At once there the men might seen

A world of ladies fall on kneen
Before my lady, that thereabout
Was left none standing in the rout

But elegither they went at ones
To kneele.

Chaucer. Dreame.

And yet all such suspicyous babbeling not woorth a fether ogether when it were well considered.

Sir T. More. Workes, p. 914. Neither did all heretiques condemne marriage in one werte. For somme of them condemned it generally, and therowly, and altogeather.-Jewel. Def. of the Apol. p. 182.

Q. Of neyther, girle,

Far if of joy, being altogether wanting,

I: deth remember me the more of sorrow:

Or If of griefe, being altogether had,

It addes more sorrow to my want of joy.

Shakespeare. Rich. II. Act iii. sc. 4.

Can we without a trembling heart, and blushing forehead view the practices of the ancient saints, if ours be gether unlike them?-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 2. ALUM. Fr. Alun, Alumineux; It. AlALUMINOUS. lume; Sp. Alumbre; Lat. Alumen, which Vossius seems inclined to derive from the Greek Axes, salt. See the quotation from Pany.

As teaching alume, which we take to be a certain salt Fhstance, or liquor issuing out of the earth, there is no se use thereof than of bitumen.

Holland. Plinie, b. xxxv. c. 15.

Lame was first found out nigh Gesburgh in this county, seme sixty years since, by that worthy and learned knight, Sir Thomas Chaloner-Fuller. Worthies. Yorkshire.

So clom-which may be of so near a kin to vitriol that in places of England (as we are assured by good

But the same stone will afford both.

Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 783. [The water from these rocks] tastes so copperish, or alumi8 rather, and rough in the mouth, that it seems very unpleasant at first drinking.

Damper. Voyage Round the World, vol. i. p. 53.

ways.

ALWAYS, ad. A. S. Ealle-wage, all Through all ways; ie. through the whole course of life, (Skinner.) And thus

At all times; ever, evermore; under all circumstances or conditions. See the old word ALGATES.

Knowen may it wel ben now of these thynges toforne declared, that man hath not alway thilk rightfulnes, which by tudy of right evermore hauen hee should.

Chaucer. Test. of Love, b. iii.

Ity balye worde of eterne excellence,
Thy eyes promyse, that is all-waye iuste,
Har ben my staye, my piller, and defence.

Wyatt. Psalm 130.

A league from Epidamium had we saild,
Before the alwaies winde-obeying deepe
Esse any tragicke instance of our harme.

Shakespeare. Com. of Errors, Act i.

Er's in hear'n his looks and thoughts
Realesys downwards bent, admiring more
The riches of heaven's pavement, trod'n gold,
Than ought divine or holy-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. i.

Fr what is glory but the blaze of fame,
The people's praise, if always praise unmixt?
Id. Paradise Regained, b. iii.

Tuse reasons in Love's law have past for good,
Das fond and reasonless to some perhaps ;
And Love hath oft, well meaning, wrought much wo,
Yo soy pity or pardon hath obtained
Id. Samson Agonistes.

AM.

Goth. Im; A. S. Eom, probably the root of the Gr. Eu-; Lat. Sum :-the Gr. Eμ-i, besides its equivalent application with the Eng. Am, is also I go; and this latter may approach to the primitive meaning: viz. motion, action; that which causes in another, or in our self, a feeling, a sensation; that which feels, or has feelings or sensations:-I am, I cause, feelings or sensations; I feel, or have feelings or sensations.

Ther fore as Ich am thi knygt, and prest to thy nede also
Grante, me castel other cite thi nede in to do.
R. Gloucester, p. 115.

Praie him for God aboue, als I am his pilgrime,
Yeld it me with loue, that he holdes of myne.

R. Brunne, p. 158.
Holychurche I am, quoth she, thou oghtest me knawe.
Piers Plouhman, p. 16.
Whither I am not free? Am I not apostle ?-And though
to othire I am not apostle, but netheles to you I am.
Wiclif. 1 Cor. c. 9.
Am I not an apostle, am I not fre?-If I be not an
apostle unto other, yet am I unto you.-Bible, 1551. Ib.
What, who art thou? It am I Absolon.

Chaucer. The Milleres Tale, v. 3764.

Thus I, whiche am a borell clerke,
Purpose for to write a booke.-Gower. Con. A. Prol.
What? do I feare my selfe? There's none else by,
Richard loues Richard, that is, I am I,

Is there a murtherer heere? No; yes, I am.
Shakespeare. Rich. III. Act v.

Ses. Thou bor'st the face once of a noble gentleman,
Rankt in the first file of the virtuous,
By every hopeful spirit, •

Tell me, Virolet,

If shame have not forsook thee, with thy credit?
Vir. No more of these racks; what I am, I am.

Beaum. & Fletch. Double Marriage, Act ii.

"I am better than thou," raises the furious and bloody contestations for precedency: "I am holier than thou," causes a contemptuous separation from company, better perhaps than ourselves: "I am wiser than thou," is guilty of all the irregular opinions that the world is disquieted withal. Bp. Hall. Peace-Maker.

He doth not say "I am their light, their life, their guide, their strength, or tower," but only "I am." He sets as it were his hand to a blank, that his people may write under it what they please that is good for them. As if he should say, "Are they weak? I am strength. Are they poor? I am riches. Are they in trouble? I am comfort. Are they sick? I am health. Are they dying? I am life. Have they nothing? I am all things. I am wisdom and power, I am justice and mercy. I am grace and goodness, I am glory, beauty, holiness, eminency, supereminency, perfection, allsufficiency, eternity, Jehovah, I am. Whatsoever is suitable to their nature, or convenient for them in their several conditions, that I am. Whatsoever is amiable in itself, or desirable unto them, that I am. Whatsoever is pure and holy; whatsoever is great or pleasant; whatsoever is good or needful to make men happy; that I am." Beveridge, vol. i. Ser. 13. AMA'IN, ad. A. S. Magan, valere, posse, the past part. Magen; might. With all might, power, force, strength; without stop, or check.

When stars doe counsell rest
Incroching cares renue my griefe as faste,
And thus desired night in wo I waste:
And to expresse the harts excessiue paine,
Mine eies their deawie teares distill amaine.
Turberville. To his Absent Friend.
Strait outdrue
Against Eurialus his sword. Then verily indeede
dismayde
Did Nysus loudly shrinke, nor more to lurke in dark-
nesse stayde,

Such torments then him tooke, he cryed amain with
voyce afrayde.-Phaer. Eneidos, b. ix.
Great lords, from Ireland am I come amaine,
To signifie, that rebels there are vp,
And put the Englishmen vnto the sword.

Shakespeare. 2 Part Henry VI. Act iii. sc. 1. Ralph. Then Palmerin and Trineus snatching their lances from their dwarfs, and clasping their helmets, gallopt amain after the giant; and Palmerin having gotten a sight of him, came posting amain, saying, Stay traiterous thief, for thou maist not so carry away her, that is worth the greatest lord in the world.

Beaum. & Fletch. Knt. of the Burn. Pestle, Act i. sc. 1. She said her brim full eyes, that ready stood, And only wanted will to weep a flood, Releas'd their watry store, and pour'd amain, Like clouds, low hung, a sober show'r of rain. Dryden. Sigis. & Guis.

A mixture or incorporation of quicksilver with other metals.

And of the care and wo,
That we had in our materes subliming,
And in amalgaming, and calcening
Of quicksilver, ycleped mercurie crude?

Chaucer. The Chanones Yemannes Tale, v. 16,239. Amalgamation is the joining or mixing of mercury with any other of the metals.-Bacon. Physiological Remains.

Quicksilver easily amalgams with metals, because of its cognation with the mercurial parts these bodies abound with.-Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 638.

Without the help of heat there is no way vulgarly known to chymists to make an immediate amalgam between Mercury and Mars.-Id. Ib. p. 639.

By which [running mercury] I understand according to what I formerly noted, a mineral body, fluid, opacous, exceeding ponderous, amalgamable with gold.-Id. Ib. p. 632. Amalgamation is, in effect, but a kind of dissolution of metals in a menstruum or fluid body (for such mercury is, in reference to them.)-Id. Ib. p. 638.

Therefore, amalgamating mercury with a convenient proportion of pure tin, or, as the tradesmen call, block-tin, that the mixture might not be too thick to be readily poured out into a glass tube, and to subside in it, we filled with this amalgam, a cylindrical pipe, sealed at one end.

Boyle. New Exper. Physico-Mec

The metaphysical and alchemistical legislators, have attempted to confound all sorts of citizens, as well as they could, into one homogeneous mass; and then they divided this, their amalgama, into a number of incoherent republics. Burke. On the French Revolution. Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one.-Id. Ib.

AMANUENSIS, n. Lat. Amanuensis, from manus, the hand.

One whose hand only, and not his head, is used by another in writing.

I have no such authority, no such benefactors, as that noble Ambrosius was to Origen, allowing him six or seven amanuenses to write out his dictates; I must for that cause, do my business my self.

Burton. Anat. of Mel. Dem. to the Reader.

The mirth of the commons grew so very outrageous, that it found out work for our friend of the quorum, who, by the help of his amanuensis, took down all their names and their

crimes, with a design to produce his manuscript at the next quarter-sessions, &c.-Spectator, No. 617.

Pray let your amanuensis, whoever he may be, write an account regularly, once a week, either to Grevenkop or myself, for that is the same thing, of the state of your health.-Chesterfield, Letter 422.

It.

Id. Ib. b. xi.

The only amaranthine flower on earth
Is virtue; th' only lasting treasure, truth.

Cowper. Task, b. iii. AMA'RITUDE, n. Fr. Amaritude; Lat. Amaritudo, Amarus, bitter.

Bitterness, extreme harshness.

What amaritude or acrimony is deprehended in choler, it acquires from a commixture of melancholy, or external malign bodies.-Harvey. On Consumption.

AMA'SS, v. AMA'SS, n.

AMA'SSMENT.

Fr. Amasser; Sp. Amassar; Lat. Massa, from the Greek, μaže, to knead into a lump.

To form into one body, heap, or collection; to heap, collect, or accumulate.

For treasure spent in lyef, the bodye doth susteyne; The heire shall waste the whourded gold amassed with muche payne.-Surrey. Eccles. c. 3.

The last is the compounded order: his name being a brief of his nature. For this pillar is nothing in effect, but a medly, or an amasse of all the precedent ornaments. Reliquice Wottonianæ, p. 25. Various are the means whereby the sultan daily adds prodigious sums to his vast revenues, such as, for example, the obliging every one of the bashaws and governors of his dominions, every new year's day to send him presents, commonly in ready money, which does amount to a very large and almost incredible amassment.

Purbeck. Pr. State of the Turkish Empire. Though indeed, as 'tis now in the subject, 'tis but an amassment of imaginary conceptions, prejudices, ungrounded opinions, and infinite impostures. Glanvil. Of Dogmatizing, c. 11. Have you been more anxious to instruct them in the means of securing an inheritance there, than in the arts of amassing wealth, and acquiring distinction here?

Porteus. To the Inhab. of Manchester.

AMATE. Skinner thinks from the German Mat, wearied, weak and Mat, Wachter says, is perhaps from Missen, to want, to be deprived of. But the A. S. Metan, somniare, to mete, to dream, presents a more satisfactory etymology.

To amate, is to dream, to be a dreamer; to be or make stupid, as a dreamer; senseless, as a mad-man, (A. S. Mat.)

But thought and sicknesse were occasion
That he thus lay in lamentacion
Grouffe on the ground, in place desolate
Sole by himself, awhaped and amate.

Chaucer. The Blacke Knight, p. 271.
Thou wretched man, of death hast greatest need,
If in true ballaunce thou wilt weigh thy state;
For never knight, that dared warlike deed,
More luckless dissaventures did amate.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 9.

His [King John's] suddaine comming, with so vnexpected attendance, to the siege of Rochester castle, so amated both the captaine thereof, and all the barons (who had sworne to assist him against any siege), that the one not daring to approach to his rescue, the other was enforced to yeeld vp his charge.-Speed. History of Great Britain, an. 1715.

AMAZE, v. AMAZE, n.

AMA'ZEDLY.

AMAZED.

To be, or cause to be, to go, to put out of the right way; to bewilder, to confuse, to perplex, to astonish, to confound; to stupify.

I am right siker, that the pot was crased.
Be as be may, be ye no thing amased.

As usage is, let swepe the flore as swithe;
Plucke up your hertes and be glad and blithe.

Chaucer. The Chanones Yemannes Tale, v. 16,404.

For as a man that sodeinly

A goost beholdeth, so fare I:

So that for feare I can nought gette
My wit: but I myself foryette,
That I wote neuer, what I am,
Ne whither I shall, ne when I cam:

But muse, as he that were amased.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv. There was no man that would take charge of a gally, the weather was so rough, and there was such an amasedness amongst them.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. p. 134.

Heare O Israell, ye are come vnto battell, agenste yor enemyes let not your hartes faynte, nether feare, nor be amased nor adread of them.-Bible, 1539. Deuteron. c. 20. For, as within that temple wide on euery thing he gazed, And waited when the queene should come, and stood as one amazed

To see the worke.

Phaer. Eneidos, D. i.

So that it was a marvellous pleasure, and likewise a dreadfull sight, to see the whole battle march together in order, at the sound of the pipes, and never to break their pace, nor confound their ranks, nor to be dismayed or amazed themselves, but to go on quietly and joyfully at the sound of their pipes, to hazard themselves even to death. North. Plutarch, p. 45.

Ariovistus' courage was well cooled, when he saw Cæsar was come, and that the Romans came to seek out the Germans; where they thought, and made account, that they durst not have abidden them: and therefore nothing mistrusting it would have come so to pass, he wondered much at Cæsar's courage, and the more when he saw his own army in a maze withall.-Id. Ib. p. 598.

But if ye saw that which no eyes can see,
The inward beauty of her lively spright,
Garnisht with heavenly guifts of high degree,
Much more then would ye wonder at that sight,
And stand astonisht lyke to those which red
Medusaes a mazeful hed.—Spenser. Epithalamion.
-But why

Stands Macbeth thus amazedly?
Come sisters, cheere we vp his sprights,
And shew the best of our delights.

Shakespeare. Macbeth, Act iv. sc. 1.
Vpon a sodaine,
As Falstaffe, she, and I, are nevly met,
Let them from forth a saw-pit rush at once
With some diffused song: Vpon their sight
We two, in great amazednesse, will flye.

Shakespeare. Merry Wives, Act iv. sc. 4. Amazednesse may abate an error of speech: it cannot take it away.-Bp. Hall. Cont. Transfiguration.

See if thou canst, without wonder and a kind of ecstatical amazement, behold the infinite goodness of thy God, that hath exalted thy wretchedness to no less than a blessed and indivisible union with the Lord of Glory.-Id. Christ Mystic.

The religion of such men usually consists more in an useless amazement of mind than in any real practice of virtue.-Clarke, vol. i. Ser. 28.

If we arise to the world of spirits, our knowledge of them must be amazingly imperfect, when there is not the least grain of sand but has too many difficulties belonging to it, for the wisest philosopher to answer.-Watts. Log. pt. i. c. 3.

Spain has long fallen from amazing Europe with her wit, to amusing them with the greatness of her catholic credulity.-Goldsmith. On Polite Learning.

Do not the French etonnement, and the English astonishment and amazement, point out as clearly the kindred emotions which attend fear and wonder?

Burke. On the Sublime and Beautiful.

It [Gibbon's History] shews a large and comprehensive range of erudition, a range amazingly comprehensive and large. Whitaker. Review of Gibbon's History.

AMAZON, n. Į It. Amazzone; Sp. Amazona; AMAZONIAN. Lat. Amazon, a, without, uafos, the breast. Applied to

Women of masculine qualities; bold, daring, strong.

The Amazones aparell is such that it doth not cover all their bodyes; for their brestes be bare on the left syde, and their garmets whiche they use to knitt up with a knott, come not to their knees. One brest they always reserue untouched wherewith they nourished their woman children, but their right breastes, they use to seare, to make them more apt to drawe their bowes, and cast their dartes. Brende. Q. Curtius, fol. 149.

So round their queen, Hippolyte the fair,
Or bold Penthesile's refulgent car,

Move the triumphant Amazonian train,
In bright array, exulting, to the plain.-Pitt. Id. Ib.

AMBA'GES, n. Ambeages (says Vossius);
ambe, from uupi, around, and agere, to drive. (See
AMBIGUITY.) See the quotation from Chaucer.
Ambiguities of speech, subterfuges, evasions.
And but if Calcas lede us with ambages,
That is to saine, with double words slie
Such as men clepe a word with two visages
Ye shal wel knowen that I nat ne lie.

Chaucer. Troil. & Cress. b. v. Evident will those secrete mysteries be vnto him, whiche are priuely hidde vnto other under dark ambages and parables.-Bale. Image, Pref.

I may now freely proceed to treat of my intended object. to most men's capacity: and, after many ambages, perspi cuously define what this melancholy is, shew his name, and differences.-Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 31.

With Grekes, what fortune euer befall
And finally emong his lords all
There nas not one of high or low estate
That would gone on this ambassiat
Out of the towne, ne for bet ne worse.

Go

Lidgate. The Story of Thebes, pt.

o ye therfore as trustye ambassadoures, and sticky to me your authour; teache fyrst the Jewes, than the nyghboures vnto them, afterwardes all the natios of whole world.-Udal. Math. c. 28.

We therefore in Christes behalfe executing the ambas you by committed by him vnto vs, euen as God exhorted beseche you in Christes name, to leaue your olde vices, to be reconcyled to God.-Id. 2 Paule to the Corinth. c. Wherefore the king of England [Edwarde the Thirde] his ambassade to the kinge of Scottes, desyryng hir make deliuerance of the towne of Barwicke, for it perte to his heritage.-Grafton. Edw. III. an. 5.

The earl of Leicester is to go to the king of Denn and other princes of Germany; the main of the ambas to condole the late death of the lady Sophia, queen dow of Denmark, our king's grandmother.

Howell, b. i. s. 5. Le

But he that serves the Lord of Hoasts Most High,
And that in highest place t'approach him nigh,
And all the peoples prayers to present
Before his throne, as on ambassage sent
Both to and fro, should ne deserve to weare
A garment better, than of wooll or heare.
Spenser. Mother Hubbard's

To make the Babylonians put a greater value up

alliance, seems to be the reason, that Hezekiah s those ambassadors from them, all the riches of his his treasures, his armoury, and all his stores and st for war.-Prideaux. Connections, pt. i. b. i.

Loth. Well, my ambassadress, what must we trea Come you to menace war and brave defiance? Or does the peaceful olive grace your message? Rowe. Fair Penitent

The commerce of the Turkey company first occasio establishment of an ordinary ambassador at Constant The first English embassies to Russia arose altogeth commercial interests.-Smith. Wealth of Nations, b.

The tusk of a wild boar winds about almost into a perfect

ring, or hoop; only it is a little writhen. In measuring by the ambit, it is long or round about a foot and two inches; its basis an inch over.-Grew. Museum.

To come unto the properties that amber hath, if it bee wel rubbed and chaufed betweene the fingers, the potentiall facity that lieth within, is set on work and brought into actuali operation, whereby you shall see it to draw chaffe, strawes, drie leaves, yea, and thin rinds of the Linden or Tibet tree, after the same sort as the loadstone draweth yron. Holland. Plinie, b. xxxvii. c. 3.

Yet neuer eye to Cupid's seruice vow'd
Bebeld a face of such a louely pride,
A tinseil vaile her amber locks did shroud,
That strone to couer what it could not hide.

Beaum. & Fletch. Custom of the Country, Act iii.

It [ambergreese] is called ambra - gresia, that is, gray from the colour thereof; which modern name, wery unknown to the antients, doth speak it to be of ater invention—Fuller. Worthies of England. Cornwall. Pretty! in amber to observe the forms

Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms!
The things we know are neither rich nor rare,
But wonder how the devil they got there.

Pope. Prol. to Sat.

Should I that am a man of law, Make the of such a subtile claw,

In London in a Exter;

And be of both sides as you were,
People would count me then, I fear,

A knavish ambodexter-Brome. To. C. S. Esq. Coins Rodicious undertaking to give a reason of ambidir, and left-handed men, delivereth a third opinion: a saith be, are ambidexters, and use both hands alike, Worn the beat of the heart doth plentifully disperse into the 4ete, and that of the liver into the right, and the spleen ♬ am much distel-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iv. c. 5. Some are ambidexterous or right-handed on both sides; happenech onely unto strong and athletical bodies, Ve hot and spirits are able to afford an ability unto 4-14. [b.

Acia, some are Appapistepor, as Galen hath expressed; thalia, ombalerous, or left-handed on both sides: such as picy and vigour have not the use of either.-Id. Ib. Fr. Ambier; It. Ambère;

AMBIT.

AMBIENT, adj. Sp. Ambiente, Ambito; Lat. Audiens, pres. part. of Ambire, (from am, the laraq, around, and ire, to go,) Going round. surrounding or encircling.

Past, fruit, flower ambrosial, gems, and gold: they grow

under ground, materials dark and crude,
tous and fiery spume, till touch'd
tearen's ray, and temper'd they shoot forth
kaua, opening to the ambient light.
Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vi.

At the circles of their ambient skies
Sew mon may grow or wane, may set or rise.

Prior. Solomon, b. i.

Though the cohesion of the solid particles of the body be not sufficiently accounted for by the pressure of the air, or of any ambient fluid, yet we have a very clear idea of cohesion in its effects.-Bolingbroke. On Hum.Knowl.Ess.1.

AMBIGUITY, n. AMBIGUOUS.

AMBIGUOUSLY.

Fr. Ambigu; It. Ambiguo Sp. Ambiguo; Lat. Ambiguus, Ambigere, from am, Gr. auoi, around, and agere, to drive. Applied when the mind is driven or forced around or about from thought to thought, and left in suspense and uncertainty. See AMBAGES. Doubtfulness, indistinctness, uncertainty. They dronk, and then Geffrey seid, "Sir Beryne, Yee mut declare yeur maters to myne intelligence, That I may the bet preseyve all inconvenience, Dout, pro, contra, and ambiguilie, Thorough your declaratioune, and enformyd be.

Chaucer. The Merchant's Seconde Tale.

A man of a couetous or malicious mynde will digresse purposely from that symplicitie, takynge aduauntage of a sentence or worde, whiche mought be ambiguous or doubtful. Sir T. Elyot. The Governour, b. iii. c. 4. Thinking that in so trobelous a season, he [the duke of Burgoyn] had vnknit the knot of all ambiguities and doubtes. Hall. Hen. IV. an. 10.

Althoughe that manye woordes thereupon hadde bene spokene, like as yt is to be beleued to be, among people that be ambiguous or doubtefulle and that perceyue theymselfe assieged and oppressedde more and more. Nicols. Thucydides, fol. 175.

Prin. Seale vp the mouth of outrage for a while, Till we can clear these ambiguities, And know their spring, their head, their true descent. Shakespeare. Romeo & Juliet, Act v. sc. 3. He [the false archangel] Tells the suggested cause, and casts between Ambiguous words and jealousies, to sound Or taint integrity; but all obey'd

The wonted signal, and superior voice

Of their great potentate.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. v.

Thes. What can this mean? Declare, ambiguous Phædra; Say, whence these shifting gusts of clashing rage! Why are thy doubtful speeches dark and troubled, As Cretan seas when vext by warring winds?

Smith. Phædra & Hippolitus, Act v.

His [Spinoza's] true meaning, therefore, however dastardly and ambiguously he sometimes speaks, must be this. Clarke. On the Attributes.

Ambiguous, or equivocal words, are such as are sometimes taken in a large and general sense, and sometimes in a sense more strict and limited, and have different ideas affixed to them accordingly.-Watts. Logick, pt. i. c. 4.

I apprehend, that we [the teachers of the gospel] mistake our proper duty, when we avoid the public discussion of difficult or ambiguous texts.-Horsley, vol. i. Ser. 1.

And ground & cause, why that men so striue
Is couetise, and false ambicion

That euerich would haue dominacion
Ouer other, and tread him vnder foot
Which of all sorow, ginning is the root.

Lidgate. Story of Thebes, pt. iii.

It was nat without a high and prudente consideration, that certayne lawes were made by the Romaynes, whyche were named the lawes of ambition, whereby men were restrayned in the citie to obtayn offyces and dignities in the publyke wele, eyther by gyuynge rewardes, or by other synyster laboure or meanes.

Sir T. Elyot. The Governour, b. iii. c. 16. Whether shee thinke ought, or say, or doe, nothing shall be outrageous, neither in passions of mind, nor words, nor deedes, nor presumptions, nor uice, nor wanton, piert nor boasting, nor ambitious.

Vives. The Instruct. of a Christ. Woman, b. i. c. 11.

If the bishoppes of Rome in olde times refused this name [universal bishop], not for wante of righte, but onely, as M. Hardinge saithe, of humilitie, wherefore then did theire successours, that folowed afterwarde, so ambitiously laboure to geate the same?-Jewel. Defence of the Apologie, p. 118.

Why doest thou then permitte these proud homicides and spightfull murtherers to defyle them with their errours, and blaspheme them with their lyes: Kylling vp thy seruants without pittie, for holdynge with them, and reigning heere as gods vpon earth in ambiciousnesse, vayne glory, pompe, glotony, and lecherye, with other abhominable vices.

Bale. Image of both Churches, pt. i.

Ambition is like choler, which is an humour that maketh men active, earnest, full of alacritie and stirring, if it be not stopped. But if it be stopped, and cannot have way, it becometh adust, and thereby maligne and venomous. So ambitious men, if they finde the way open for their rising, and still get forward, they are rather busie than dangerous; but if they be checkt in their desires, they become secretly discontent, and looke upon men and matters with an evill eye, and are best pleased when things go backward: which is the worst property in a servant of a prince or state.

Bacon. Essay on Ambition.

If a man be ambitious, he will not approve that doctrine, which prohibiteth us to affect, to seek, to admit glory, or to doe any thing for its sake, but purely to seek God' honour, and in all our actions, to regard it as our princip aim.-Barrow, vol. ii. Ser. 1.

No, Freedom, no, I will not tell
How Rome, before thy face,

With heaviest sound, a giant-statue, fell.
Push'd by a wild and artless race,

From off its wide ambitious base.-Collins. Ode to Liberty. A/MBLE, v. Fr. Ambler; Sp. Amblar; A'MBLER. from the Lat. Ambulare, to walk. A'MBLING, n. Alterno crurum explicatu mollem gressum glomerare, (Du Cange.) See the quotation from Brown.

For thing y take is hard to put awey,
As hors that evir trottid, trewlich I yew telle,
It were hard to make hym aftir to ambill welle.
Chaucer. The Merchant's Second Tale.

This markis hath hire spoused with a ring
Brought for the same cause, and than hire sette
Upon an hors snow-white, and wel ambling.

Id. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8265.

And thus after hir lordes graunt,
Upon a mule white amblant

Foorth with a fewe rode this quene.-Gower. Con. A. b.ii.
And as she caste hir eie aboute
She sigh clad in one sute a route
Of ladies, where thei comen ride

A longe vnder the woodde side,
On fayre ambulende hors thei set,
That were all white, fayre and great,
And eurichone ride on side.-Id. Ib. b. iv.

But I, that am not shap'd for sportive trickes,
Nor made to court an amorous looking-glasse:
I, that am rudely stampt, and want loue's maiesty,
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph.

Shakespeare. Rich. III. Act i. sc. 1.

An ambler is proper for a lady's saddle, but not for a coach. If Tom undertakes this place, he will be as an

ambler in a coach, or a trotter under a lady's saddle.

Howell, b. i. s. 5. Let. 37.

And this is true whether they move per latera, that is, two legs of one side together, which is tollutation or ambling; behind, which is succussation or trotting. or per diametrum, lifting one foot before, and the cross foot

Sir T. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iv. c. 6.

Pious and pleasant Bishop Felton indevoured in vain in his sermon to assimilate his [Lancelot Andrews] style; and therefore said merrily of himself, "I had almost marr'd my own natural trot, by endeavouring to imitate his artificial amble."-Fuller. Worthies. London.

Frequent in park with lady at his side,
Ambling and prattling scandal as he goes;
But rare at home, and never at his books,
Or with his pen, save when he scrawls a card.

Cowper. Task, b. ii. A/MBO. Gr. Außwv, whatever rises up or projects (forma rotunda, Vossius); from Avußaively, Außaiew, to go up, to ascend, to mount.

An elevated place, formerly used in churches, for the purpose of saying or chanting some parts of the divine service, and also of preaching to the people (Menage and Du Cange.)

Fr. Ambroisie; It. Ambrosia; Sp. Ambrosia; Lat. Ambrosia; Gr. Αμβροσια, from a, not, and Bpurus, Applied by classic writers to The food of the immortals; and, consequentially, to

AMBRO'SIAN.

mortal.

Any thing exquisitely grateful to the senses of taste and smell.

Disguised in cloud obscure, this hearbe dame Venus thither brings,

And into water vessels bright it secretly she flings, And steeping large thereof she makes, the vertue forth to take

And of ambrosies wholesome iucie, thereto doth sprinkling shake,

Wherto she addes the fragrant sap that Panex soote doth
make.
Twyn. Virgile. Eneidos, b. xii.

This Venus brings, in clouds involv'd; and brews
Th' extracted liquor with ambrosian dews,

And od'rous Panacee: unseen she stands,
Temp'ring the mixture with her heavenly hands:
And pours it in a bowl, already crown'd

With juice of medc'nal herbs prepar'd to bathe the wound.
Dryden. Ib.

And, as I wondering look'd, beside it stood
One shap'd and wing'd like one of those from heaven,
By us oft seen; his dewy locks distill'd
Ambrosia; on that tree he also gaz'd.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. v.

Herm. Here is beauty for the eye;
Cris. For the ear sweet melody;
Herm. Ambrosiac odours for the smell;
Cris. Delicious nectar for the taste.

B. Jonson. Poetaster, Activ. sc. 3.
Thus while God spake, ambrosial fragance fill'd
All heaven, and in the blessed spirits elect
Sense of new joy ineffable diffus'd.-Milton. Par. Lost,b.iii.
Your looks, your smiles, and thoughts that meet
Ambrosian hands and silver feet,
Do promise you will do't.

A/MBRY.

B. Jonson. Masques. Chorus of Sea-gods.
See ALMONRY.

If thou wilt anatomize and open thy selfe, thou shalt find within, a save, an ambry, nay, a storehouse and treasurie (as Democritus saith) of many evils and maladies, and those of divers and sundry sorts.-Holland. Plutarch's Morals.

AMBULATION, n. Fr. Ambulatif, Am-
A'MBULATORY, n.
bulatoire; It. Ambu-
A'MBULATORY, adj.

lare; Sp. Ambular; Lat. Ambulare; to walk; to amble, (qv.) grave has Ambulative.

Cot

A walking, or moving about, from place to place.

From which occult action and invisible motion of the muscles in station (as Galen declareth) proceed more offensive lassitudes then from ambulation.

Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 1.

In new devotions and uncertain forms we may also have an ambulatory faith, and new articles may be offered before every sermon, and at every convention.

Bp. Taylor. On Set Forms of Liturgy. Multitudes hearing the report of his miraculous power to cure all diseases by the word of his mouth, or the touch of his hand, or the handling his garment, came with their ambulatory hospital of sick, and their possessed, and they pressed on him, but to touch him, and were all immediately cured.-Id. Great Exemplar, pt. iii. s. 13.

The ark, while it was ambulatory with the tabernacle, was carried by staves on the shoulders of the Levites. Prideaux. Connections, pt. i. b. iii.

They [the monarchs of Europe] appointed the royal courts, which originally were ambulatory and irregular with respect to their times of meeting, to be held in a fixed place, and at stated seasons.-Robertson. State of Europe, c. 5. The word Parvis is supposed to be contracted from Paradise. This perhaps signified an ambulatory. Many of our old religious houses had a place called Paradise. Warton. History of English Poetry, vol. i. p. 453, note. AMBUSCA'DE, n. Fr. Embuscher, EmAMBUSCA DO. buscade; It. Imboscare, AMBUSCA'DOED. Imboscata; Sp. Emboscarse, Emboscado, from the Fr. Bois; It. Bosco; Sp. Bosque; Eng. Bush.

A/MBUSH, V. A'MBUSH, n. A'MBUSHMENT.

To ambush, is to hide in a bush, or wood, (for the purpose of surprising an enemy;) and then applied, literally and metaphorically, to Any mode of concealment to effect a stratagem. In Robert of Brunne are found busse and enbusse, bussement and embussement. Chaucer writes Emboyssement. See EMBUSH.

Julius the emperour with strong power y nowg,
Two ger aftur the bataile, to Engelond ageyn drow,
And thougte sle al that folk, and wynne this kyndom,
Ac he caste ther of ambes, as tho he to londe com.
R. Gloucester, p. 51.

Saladyn priuely was bussed beside the flom.

R. Brunne. p. 187.

& alle that suerd mot bere, or other wapen weld, Were sette R. to dere, enbussed thorgh the feld.-Id. Leulyn in a wod a bussement he held.-Id. p. 242. Saladyn did stoppe the dikes kank & bro, That non suld ouer hoppe, ne man ne hors suld go Thorgh that enbussement, that was so priuely.-Id. p. 187. In secret ambush I, in yonder wood, in place not wide, That so both wayes I may besidge, my selfe entend to hide. Twyn. Virgile Eneidos, b. vii. Hugh earle of the marches of Poictou, comming by the French king's direction to remoue Earle Richard and the English from the siege of the Riol, was with all his forces intercepted by an ambuscado, and discomfited with no small losse of men, munition, and carriages.

Speed. Hist. of Great Britain, an. 1226.

By the way, at Radgee Mahal, he was with such fury assaulted by Ebrahimean (by this time re-encouraged and here ambuscado'd with six thousand horse) that little wanted of putting him to the rout.-Sir T. Herbert. Travels, p. 85. I haue on Angelo impos'd the office, Who may in th' ambush of my name, strike home. Shakespeare. Meas. for Meas. Act i. Againe great dole on either partie grewe, That him to death unfaithfull Paris sent; And also him that false Ulysses slewe, Drawne into danger through close ambushment. Spenser. Virgil's Gnat. She feign'd nocturnal orgies; left my bed, And, mix'd with Trojan dames, the dances led ; Then waving high her torch the signal made Which rous'd the Grecians from their ambuscade.

Id. Virgil. Eneis, b. vi.

The greatest and most cruel foes we have
Are these whom you would ignorantly save;
By ambush'd men, behind their temple laid,
We have the king of Mexico betray'd.

Dryden. Indian Emperour, Act i. sc. 2.

which is more willed, more wished for, more desired.

To make more desirable, to better, to mend, to improve.

This word, though frequent in speech, is not of common occurrence in good writers. See ME

LIORATE.

I never saw a scene more pleasing to the eye, or more satisfactory to the mind of every person that feels himsel interested in the welfare of his fellow-creatures; hi humanity must exult at the probability of their lot being s much ameliorated.-Swinburne. Tr. through Spain, Let. 36

The class of proprietors contributes to the annual pro duce, by the expense which they may occasionally lay ou upon the improvement of the land, upon the buildings drains, inclosures, and other ameliorations, which they ma either make or maintain upon it; and by means of whic the cultivators are enabled, with the same capital, to raise greater produce, and consequently to pay a greater rent. Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. iv. c.

A'MEN, interj. N, Heb. and thence th Greek Aun, used 'in Scripture, and still pr served in our different Christian churches the conclusion of prayer: it signifies assent ar desire, as, verily; so be it; or so it ought to be. this sense it exists, with little alteration as sound, in the languages of most countries whe Christianity has been known.

For if thou expresse and syng furth the prayses of G with a language, which no man knoweth, how shall t unlearned, which auns wereth in steade of the people, ma auns were with the vsed woorde, Amen, when thou ha ended thy prayer of thankes: for by puttying this woorde the ende, that is confirmed, whiche was spoken before prayers or hymnes.-Udal, 1 Epistle to the Corinth. c. 14

Mach. One cry'd God blesse vs, and amen the other,
As they had seene me with these hangman's hands:
Listning their feare, I could not say amen,
When they did say God blesse vs.

Lady. Consider it not so deepely.

Macb. But wherefore could not I pronounce, amen!
I had most need of blessing, and amen
Stuck in my throat.-Shakespeare. Macbeth, Act ii. s

Far be it from him to entertain so uncharitable thoug of us; as if we durst not trust God on his word, though once spoken. We know him to be amen; and that r titions add nothing to plain truths.

Bp. Hall. Censure of Tra AME/NABLE. The Italian Menare, and Mener, are derived, by Menage, from the L Minare; pellere, to drive. Vossius writes larg upon the etymology of Minare, but unsatisfactor Wachter, (in v. Mine) is persuaded that it is Celtic origin (sc.), from Menn, a place; and t Prideaux. Connections, pt. i. b. iv. Minare is nothing else than to move from p to place. Fr. Amener, is to bring or lead unte fetch in or to, (Cotgrave.)

In the 24th year of Darius, Daurises having fallen into the country of the Carians, overthrew them in two battles with a very great slaughter; but, in a third battle, being drawn into an ambush, he was slain, with several other eminent Persians, and his whole army cut off and destroyed.

Far from the town two shaded hills arise,
And lose their adverse summits in the skies:
One side is bounded by the grove's embrace;
A mountain's brow o'erhangs the middle space.
The nature of the place, and gloomy site,
Seem'd formed for ambuscade, and deeds of night.
Lewis. Statius, b. ii.
Amyled, I believe, for enamelled,
} (qv) yles Shinieve, enamelled,

A/MEL, n.
A'melled.
Schmelzen; Dutch, Smelten; from the more ancient
A. S. Myltan, Meltan, to melt. In English also we
have, to smelt; i. e. to melt. It is used met. by
Lupset, melted.

And with a bend of gold tassiled
And knoppes fine of gold amiled.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose.
Whosoever hath his mynd inwardly amiled, baken, and
through fired with the love of God.
Lupset. Workes. Of Charite, p. 4.
Below her ham her weed did somewhat trayne,
And her streight legs most bravely were embayld
In gilden buskins of costly cordwayne,
All bard with golden bendes, which were entayld
With curious antickes, and full fayre aumayld.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 3. Ye matchless stars (yet each the other's match) Heav'n's richest diamonds, set in amel white, From whose bright spheres all grace the graces catch, And will not move but by your loadstars bright. P. Fletcher. Purple Island, c. 11. Sweet are thy banks! Oh, when shall I once more, With ravish'd eyes, review thine amell'd shore! Philips, Past. 2. AMELIORATE, v. Į Fr. Améliorer; Low AMELIORA'TION. S Lat. Ameliorari, melius valere, says Du Cange. Lat. Melior, Melius, that

Amenable then may mean that may be mo brought sc. to answer inquiries, to account actions; or may it not rather be—subject to jurisdiction of a Mesne Lord: to be summ before him, adjudged by him: and then, g rally, subject to trial or examination.

And the first permission of this was, for that in times when that graunt was made, the Irish were amesnable to law, so as it was not safety for the townes to goe to him forth to demaund his debt, nor possi draw him into law.-Spenser. View of the State of Irel The sovereign of this country is not amenable to any of trial known to the laws.-Junius. Letters. Ded.

A/MENAGE, v. Į To menage, or man
A'MENANCE.
to handle; or use,

rule by the hand, (manus).
Amenance, management, conduct, carriage.
MANAGE and MENAGE.

With her, whoso will raging Furor tame,
Must first begin, and well her amenage:
First her restraine from her reprochfull blame
And evill meanes, with which she doth enrage.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b.

In whatso please employ his personage,
That may be matter meete to gaine him praise;
For he is fit to use in all assayes,
Whether for armes and warlike amenaunce,
Or else for wise and civill governaunce.

Id. Mother Hubbard
Soone after did the brethren three advance
In brave array, and goodly amenance,
With scutcheons gilt and banners broad display'd.
Id. Faerie Queene, b.

AMEND, v. ANE'NDER, R. AME NDFUL.

AMENDMENT. AME'NDS.

Fr. Amender; It. Emendare; Sp. Emendar; Lat. Emendare, e and menda, a fault, a deficiency, which Vossius thinks is from the Greek Mewvwv, minus. To free from deficiency, fault, or blemish; to repair, to correct, to improve, to reform, to recover; to correct, to chasten, or chastise.

Bate ya wille al clene was ys lond for to amende.
And after all this to Wynchestre from Londone he wende,
Fer to amende thilke syde, & so & so to Salusbury.
And so, for to amende more, to the towne of Ambresbury.
R. Gloucester, p. 144.

Sir ert than not ferd of wreche of Gode's ire,
That thou wilt werre bigynne, without amendment,
Agryn God don synne, ageyn holy kirke has went?
1 rede thou mak amendes of that grete misdede.

R. Brunne, p. 291.

Now hit a thynketh me in thouht. that evere ich so wroughte

Lard er ich lyf lete. for love of thy selve
Graunt me good lorde, grace of amendement.

Piers Ploukman, p. 92. Le I Plate] axynge bifore you fynde no cause in this man of these things, in whiche ye accusen him; neither Eroude, fe be hath sent him agen to us, and lo nothing worthi of dret is dom to him. And therfor I schal amende him and daysere him-Wiciif. Luke, e. 23.

And be axide of hem the our in which he was amendid : mi thei seiden to him, fro yistirday in the seventhe our the fecere lefte him —Id. Jeka, c. 4.

Peverte is hateful good; and, as I gesse,
A fagret bringer out of besinesse;

A rei amender eke of sapience
Tom, that taketh it in patience.

Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 6780. Certes, all thise thinges ben defended by God and holy chirche, for which they ben accursed, till they come to condement, that on swiche filth set hir beleve. Id. The Persones Tale.

O mighty lorde toward my vice
Thy mercy medle with iustice,
And we make a couenant,
That of my life the remenant

I sit by thy grace amende.-Gower. Con. A. b. i.

A hart well stay'd, in overthwartes deepe,
Hapeth amendes; in swete, doth feare the sowre.
Surrey. Prayse of Meane Estate.

Ede. Now brother Richard, Lord Hastings, and the rest,
Yet thus fare fortune maketh vs amends,
And saves, that crice more I shall enterchange
My wained state, for Henries regall crowne.

Shakespeare. 3 Part Henry VI. Act iv. sc. 7.

Away with him, hence, hail him straight to execution. 45 Far fye such rigour, your amendful hand. Bel. Ha perishes with him that speaks for him.

Beaum. & Fletch. Bloody Brother, Act iii.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. x.

The speetle here [Rom. vi. 3, 4.] supposes that the great

Another [humilitie of mouth] is, when he preiseth the Chaucer. The Persones Tale. The thridde [the spice of envy] is to amenuse the bountee of his neighbour.-Id. Ib.

bountee of another man and nothing thereof amenuseth.

AMERCE, v. AME'RCEMENT,

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Lat. Merces; A merendo, says Vossius, after Varro; or AME'RCIAMENT. and Merere, whence Merendo, from the Gr. Mepos, a part or share. See MERCE, and MERCY.

By the ancient law, punishments affecting life or limb, were remitted upon payment of a fine (merci). To be subject to fine was to be subject to merci, or to be amerced.

To take a portion, or share, of money, or goods; to impose a fine, or penalty; to exact a recompense; to punish.

They ben clerkes, her courts they overse
Her poore tenaunce fully they slite
The hier that a man amerced be

The gladlier they woll it write.-Chaucer. Plouhman's Tale. And thurgh this cursed sinne of avarice and coveitise cometh thise hard lordships, thurgh which men ben distreined by tallages, customes, and cariages, more than hir dutee or reason is: and eke take they of hir bondmen amercementes, which might more reasonably be called extortions than amercementes.-Id. The Persones Tale.

Then al the articles of euery hundred shal be deliuered to the xii jurors of the countie, and then time shall be appointed them to giue their verdictes, vpon paine of the kings mercie. And if they giue not their verdictes they shall bee amerced as to the justices shall seeme best.

Rastal. Statutes, fol. 246.

In all which [the sessions of peace] many kindes of malefactours are amerced yearely, and fynes set on their heades, and they copelled to pai them, to compel the therby to leaue their euyl doying, & yet wil ther many for al yt be starke nought stil. But yet are not ye amercementes made for licences, but deuised for punishmētes & for meanes of amedmēt.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 620.

I have an interest in your hearts proceeding:
My blood for your rude brawles doth lie a bleeding.
But ile amerce you with so strong a fine,
That you shall all repent the losse of mine.

Shakespeare. Romeo Juliet, Act iii. sc. 1.

At the same time all the sheriffes of England were amerced, because they had not distreined all those which had such estates in land, as the law limiteth, to take the order of knighthood, or pay their fines.

Speed. Hist. of Gt. Britain, Hen. III. an. 1255.

If the killing be out of any vill, the hundred is amerceable for the escape.-Hale. Pleas of the Crown, xi. 10.

They [the sheriffs] assumed such liberty to themselves, as to seise the issues and profits of their baylwick, and convert them to their own use, with all other debts, fines, and amercements, within the said county.

Fuller. Worthies. Northumberland.

The great charter also directs that the amercement, which is always inflicted in general terms (sit in misericordia) shall be set, or reduced to a certainty by the oath of good and lawful men of the neighbourhood. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iv. c. 29. A'METHYST. Fr. Améthyste; It. Amatista; AMETHY'STINE. Sp. Amathyste; Lat. Ame

Amicable is more immediately derived from Amicus, one who can love; a friend.

For, as sayth Salomon, the amiable tonge is the tree of lif; that is to say, of lif spirituel.-Chaucer. The Persones Tale.

And if a manne were in distresse,
And for her loue in heuinesse,

Her hert would haue full great pitie,

She was so amiable and free.-Id. Rom. of the Rose. The similitude of her face was chearfull & amiable; but her herte was soroufull for greate feare.

Bible, 1539. Esther, c. 15.

The shepeherdes, by reason of the vnwoont and sodain miracle, wer all at ons throughly taken with a verai great feare. But the aungell anon taketh awai this feare with speaking amiably vnto them.-Udal. Luke, c. 2.

The strength also of the spirite cötinually encreaced in him, daily more and more shewyng it self foorth in his countenaunce, in his passe, in his talk, and in his doynges: in all whiche there was not so muche as any one puincte, but it was euen full of the spirite of mildenesse and humilitie, of chastitee, of amiablenesse, and of godly zele.-Id. Ib. c.4.

He had a most amiable countenance, which carried in it something of magnanimity and maiesty mixt with sweetenesse, that at the same time bespoke love and awe in all that saw him.-Memoirs of Col. Hutchinson, vol. i. p. 34.

Amiablenesse is the obiect of love: the scope and end is to obtain it, for whose sake we loue, and which our minde couets to enioy.-Burton. Anat. of Melancholy, p. 408.

Now for whatsoever we can love any one, for that we can be his friend; and since every excellency is a degree of amiability, every such worthiness is a just and proper motive of friendship or loving conversation. Bp. Taylor. On Friendship.

As for those differences concerning predestination, which Arminius and his followers have borrowed from the Lutheran divines, the divines of both parts, in that amicable conference at Leipsic, professed their agreement in all the main and important parts.-Id. Peace-Maker.

Even those, that break the peace, cannot but praise it: how much more should they bid for it, that are true friends to it; and to that amicableness, that attends it!-Id. Ib.

There is nothing more amiable in nature, than the character of a truly good man: a man, whose principal business and pleasure it is to make all men easy with whom he has any concern, in the present life, and to promote as far as in him lies, their happiness likewise in that which is to come. Clarke, vol. i. Ser. 43.

Then drest by thee, more amiably fair,
Truth the soft robe of mild persuasion wears :
Thou to assenting reason giv'st again
Her own enlighten'd thoughts.-Thomson. Winter.
Xerxes was declared the successor, though not so much

meat and Dewness of life: even so we also should walk in

newness of life.—Clarke, vol. i. Ser. 54.

What worse to Cymon could his fortune deal,

Bad to the lowest spoke of all her wheel?

It rested to dismiss the downward weight,

Or mise him upward to his former height;
The latter pleas'd; and love (concern'd the most)
Papard the amends, for what by love he lost.
Dryden. Cym. & Iph.
The marts, where justice requires it, will allow of amend-
at any time while the suit is depending.
Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iii. c. 25.

AMENITY. Amanus, which Festus thinks so aed, because it allures to the love of itself (ad se acada.)

Peasantness, sweetness, agreeableness.

G. Douglas, and other Scotch writers, use the Kative Amene.

de etation of Babylon were such at first as it was in Seed Herodotus; it was rather a seat of amenity and en conducing unto this intention. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vii. c. 6.

AMENTSE, D. Lat. Minuere, Imminuere, to Fr. Amenuiser, to minish, to lessen, to make it, to diminish.

μeou, wine; restraining from wine.

Applied as the name of a certain jewel, according to Pliny, because it resists drunkenness; an opinion which Plutarch rejects. See the quotation from him.

As for the amethyst, as well the herb as the stone of that name, they who think that both the one and the other is so called, because they withstand drunkennesse, miscount themselves, and are deceived: for in truth, both are named so of the colour: and as for the leafe of the herb, it hath no fresh and lively hew, but resembleth a winelesse weak wine, as one may say, that either drinketh flat and hath lost the colour, or else is much delayed with water.

Holland. Plutarch's Morals, p. 560.

Pen. Alack, alack, his lips be wondrous cold;
Dear soul, he's lost his colour: have ye seen
A straying heart? all crannies, every drop
Of blood is turned to an amethyst,
Which married bachelors hang in their ears.

mother Atossa had over inclinations of Darius, who was absolutely governed in this matter by the authority she had with him. That which was most remarkable in this contest was the friendly and amicable manner in which it was managed.-Prideaux. Connections, pt. i. b. iv.

From side to side, with amicable aim,
Each to the other darts the nimble bolt,
While friendly converse, prompted by the work,
Kindles improvement in the opening mind.-Dyer. Fleece
O wond'rous pair!-Unpleasing, pleasing sight!
Where love and virtue amicably fight;
Where death alone is to the victor dear,
And safety's all the vanquish'd wretch can fear.

Brooke. Jerus. Deliv. b. ii.

Thomson. Summer.

When I caused it to be kept, I know not how long, in a glass-house fire, came out in the figure its lumps had, when put in, though altered to an almost amethystine colour. Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 513.

Meiden, to cover, appears to have been a different article of dress. See Menage, Du Cange, and Spelman.

Amice is particularly applied to the first of the six vestments common to the bishop and presbyters, which was fastened round the neck, and spread round the shoulders.