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Men, knowing ye worde of God, thinke also that their costly gray amices of calaber, are very superfluous and vayn. Bale. Image of both Churches, pt. iii. [In the ceremonies of the masse.] The amice on the head is the kercheue that Christ was blyndfolded with, when the souldiours buffeted him and mocked hym saying: prophecie vnto vs who smote thee?-Tyndall. Workes, p. 277.

Thus passed the night so foul, till morning fair Came forth, with pilgrim steps, in amice gray; Who with her radiant finger still'd the roar Of thunder, chas'd the clouds, and laid the winds. Milton. Paradise Regained, b. iv. We have heard of Aaron and his linen amice, but those days are past; and for your priest under the gospel, that thinks himself the purer, or the cleanlier in his office for his new-wash'd surplice, we esteem him for sanctity little better than Apollonius Thyanæus in his white frock. Id. Animad, on Rem. Defence.

How quick ambition hastes to ridicule!
The sire is made a peer, the son a fool.
On some, a priest, succinct in amice white,
Attends; all flesh is nothing in his sight!-Pope. Dunciad.

AMID. AMIDST.

A. S. On-middan, On-middes (in Chaucer, Amiddes), in medio, in the

mid or middle. See MIDDLE.

A temple heo fonde fair y now, & a mawmed a midde,
That ofte tolde wonder gret, & wat thing mon be tidde.
R. Gloucester, p. 14.

The riche Cresus, whilom king of Lide,
Of whiche Cresus, Cirus sore him dradde,
Yet was he caught amiddes all his pride,
And to be brent men to the fire him ladde.

Chaucer. The Monkes Tale, v. 14,647.

Out of the fertile ground he caus'd to grow
All trees of noblest kind for sight, smell, taste;
And all amid them stood the tree of life,
High eminent, blooming ambrosial fruit
Of vegetable gold.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. iv.
How oft amidst

Thick clouds and dark doth heav'n's all-ruling sire
Choose to reside.
Id. Ib. b. ii.

Amid that scene, if some relenting eye
Glance on the stone where our cold relics lie,
Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven,
One human tear shall drop, and be forgiven.

Pope. Eloisa to Abelard.

Lo! where the stripling, wrapt in wonder, roves
Beneath the precipice o'erhung with pine;
And sees, on high, amidst th' encircling groves,
From cliff to cliff the foaming torrents shine.

Beattie. Minstrel.

AMI'SS, n. A. S. Missian, to err; D. MisAMI'ss, ad. sen, to err, to be deceived; Ger. Missen, to want. Chaucer uses Mis as well as Amis, adverbially: he also uses Amis adjectively. Errour, fault, deceitfulness, deficiency, loss, calamity. See Miss.

Aftur fyftene dawes, that he hadde y ordeyned this
To London he wende, for to amende that ther was amys.
R. Gloucester, p. 144.
Thei red him alle a mysse, that conseil gaf therto.

R. Brunne, p. 164.

For in this world certain no wight ther is
That he ne doth or sayth somtime amis.

Chaucer. The Frankeleines Tale, v. 11,092.

O rakel hond, to do so foule a mis.
Id. The Manciple's Tale, v. 17,228.
[Thou] haste confessed thyne amysse going.
Id. Test. of Love, b. ii.
We haue synned wyth oure fathers, we haue done amysse,

and dealt wyckedly.-Bible, 1539. Psalm 106.

Love is too young to know what conscience is;
Yet who knows not, conscience is born of love?
Then, gentle cheater, urge not my amiss,
Lest guilty of my faults thy sweet self prove.
Shakespeare. Son. 151.

Now, by my head, saide Gugon, much I muse,
How that same knight should doe so fowle amis.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 1.

Floure of goodnes, root of lasting blisse,
Thou well of life, whose streames were purple blood,
That flowed here, to cleanse the foule amisse
Of sinfull man, behold this brinish flood,
That from my melting heart distilled is.

Fairefax. Tasso, b. iii. s. 8.

So doth the canker of a poet's name
Let slip such lines as might inherit fame,
And from a volume culs some small amisse,
To fire such dogged spleenes as mate with his.

Browne. Britannia's Past. b. ii. s. 2.

Though his wisdom and virtue can not always rectify that which is amiss in himself or his circumstances, they will find means to alleviate his pressures and disadvantages. Wollaston. Religion of Nature, s. 9.

The summit gain'd, behold the proud alcove
That crowns it! yet not all its pride secures
The proud retreat from injuries impress'd
By rural carvers, who with knives deface
The pannels, leaving an obscure rude name,
In characters uncouth, and spelt amiss.-Cowp. Task, b. i.
AMIT, v. Fr. Amission; Lat. A-mittere,
AMI'SSION, n. to let out; to let go. See EMIT.
To send away; to lose.

But ice is water congealed by frigidity of the air; whereby it acquireth no new form, but rather a consistence or determination of its diffluency, and amitteth not its essence, but condition of fluidity.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 1.

If any shall further queery why magneticall philosophy excludeth decussations, and needles transversely placed do naturally distract their verticities? Why geomancers do imitate the quintuple figure, in their mother's characters of acquisition and amission, &c. He shall not fall on trite or trivial disquisitions.-Id. Garden of Cyrus.

A'MITY. Fr. Amitié; It. Amicizia; Sp. Amistad; Lat. Amicitia. (See AMIABLE.) Loveliness, kindness, friendliness, affectionate attachment.

For excellent and wonderfull art thou (O Lord) and thy face is full of amyte.—Bible, 1539. Ester, c. 15.

And god sende grace that the spirite of the ghospell maye lykewyse ioyne the heartes of you in mutuall amitie and concorde, as youre names are in thys ghospell booke aptely conioyned.-Udal. Preface to St. Marke.

Debateful strife, and cruell enmity,

The famous name of knighthood fowly shend;
But lovely peace, and gentle amity,

And in amours the passing howres to spend,
The mightie martiall handes doe most commend.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 6.
We bade him speak from whence, and what he was,
And how by stress of fortune sunk thus low;
Anchises too with friendly aspect mild
Gave him his hand, sure pledge of amity.

Addison. Eneid, b. iii. Mankind had forfeited the amity of God, the chief of all good and fountain of all happiness.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 32.

In every canoe there were young plantains, and branches of a tree, which the Indians call E'Midho: these, as we afterwards learnt, were brought as tokens of peace and amity. Cook. Voyages, b. i. c. 8.

AMMUNITION. Lat. Munire; to look after, to defend. See MUNITION.

Stores prepared for defence; for any means of hostility, or security from it.

They must have the assistance of some able military man, and convenient arms and ammunition for their defence. Bacon. Advice to Sir G. Villiers.

All the rich mines of learning ransack'd are,
To furnish ammunition for this war;
Uncharitable zeal our reason whets,
And double edges on our passions sets.

Denham. Progress of Learning.

My uncle Toby was sadly put to it for proper ammunition ; I say proper ammunition,-because his great artillery would not bear powder; and 'twas well for the Shandy family they would not.-Sterne. Tristram Shandy.

Com

A/MNESTY. Fr. Amnestie; Gr. AuvnoтIA, from a, not, and μvacola, to remember. monly applied to a public declaration that all acts against the established authority shall be forgotten and pardoned. See the quotation from Hume.

It is used in the Latin form by Howell, to denote-forgetfulness.

I pray tell him that I did not think Suffolk waters had such a lethæan quality in them as to cause such an amnestia in him of his friends here.-Howell, b. iii. Let. 6.

Suppose a great kingdom, consisting of several provinces, should have revolted from their sovereign, disclaiming his authority, neglecting and disobeying his laws; that the good prince, out of his goodness and pity toward them (and upon other good considerations moving him thereto, suppose the mediation of his own son), instead of prosecuting them with deserved vengeance, should grant a general pardon and amnesty.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 41.

We learn from ancient history, that Thrasybulus passed a general amnesty for all past offences; and first introduced that word, as well as practice, into Greece. Hume. Essays, pt. ii. Ess. 11. AMONESTE. See ADMONISH. AMO'NG, ad. Junius says, manifestly from AMO'NGST, prep. ( the A. S. verb Mang-an. It is variously written Emonge, Amonge, Amonges,

Amongest, Amongst; and is the preter-perf. Amang. Among, Amung, of the A. S. verb Mang-an, Mengan, and means mixed, mingled.-Tooke, 1. 417.

Mixed, intermixed; so as to form an ingredient a part, a partaker, an individual.

This lond was deled a thre among thre sones y wys.
R. Gloucester, p. 23

He tok his suerd in hand, the croyce let he falle,
& medeled him in the pres, among the barons alle.

R. Brunne, p. 18

But it is not so among you but whoever wole be maad grettere schal be youre mynystre: And who ever wole be the firste among you schal be servaunt of alle. Wiclif. Mark, e. 10.

Amonges other of his honest thinges
He had a gardin walled all with ston,
So fayre a gardin wote I no wher non.

Chaucer. The Marchantes Tale, v. 9902.

The kynge with all hole entent
Then at laste hem axeth this,
What kynge men tellen that he is
Emonge the folke touchinge his name,

Or it be price, or it be blame.-Gower. Con. A. b. vii.
And tho she toke hir childe in honde
And yafe it souke; and euer amonge,
She wepte, and otherwhile songe

To rocke with her childe aslepe.-Id. Ib. b. ii.

But first er that I thider fare,

For that I wolde that my lawe

Amonges you ne be withdrawe.-Id. Ib. b. vii.

I stonde as one amongest all

Whiche am oute of hir grace fall.-Id. Ib. b. viii.

You are chosen to relate the tyranny

Of our proud masters; and what you subscribe to,
They gladly will allow of, or hold out
To the last man.

Mar. I'll instantly among them.

Massinger. Bondman, Act iv. sc. Bil. Marry, my good lord, quoth he, your lordship sha ever find amongst an hundred Frenchmen forty hot shots amongst an hundred Spaniards, threescore braggarts amongst an hundred Dutchmen, fourscore drunkards amongst an hundred Englishmen, fourscore and ten mad men; and amongst an hundred WelchmenBian. What, my lord?

Bil. Fourscore and nineteen gentlemen.

Marston. Malcontent, Act iii. sc.

At every turn she made a little stand,
And thrust among the thorns her lily hand,
To draw the rose, and every rose she drew,
She shook the stalk, and brushed away the dew.

Dryden. Palamon & Arcit We had been travelling, all the morning, among mountai perfectly smooth, and covered with herbage; and now four ourselves suddenly among craggs and rocks, and precipice as wild, and hideous, as any we had seen. Gilpin. Tour to the Lak

Bred up a Jew, under a religion extremely technical, an age and amongst a people more tenacious of the ce monies than of any other part of that religion, he deliver an institution, containing less of ritual, and that more simp than is to be found in any religion which ever prevail amongst mankind.-Paley. Ev. of Christianity, pt. ii. c 2

A'MORETTE. A'MORIST. A'MOROUS.

A'MOROUSLY. A'MOROUSNESS. AMOUR.

Fr. Amoureux, Amoureti
It. Amoroso, Amoretto;
Amoroso. Amare, to lov
Amor, love; Amorette, pa
Amores, little loves,
(sa
Skinner.)
An amorous v

man, (Tyrwhitt.)
See AMATORY.
Amorous is loving, fond; easily inspired w
the passion of love; relating to the passion of lo
Amour, now applied to the gallantries or
trigues of love, is commonly used by the
Scotch poets for love, amor.

Also applied to Love-toke

For also well woll loue be sette
Under ragges as riche rotchette
And eke as well by amorettes
In mourning black, as bright burnettes.

Chaucer. Rom. of the E

For no man may be amorous
Ne in his louing vertuous
But he loue more in mood
Men for hem selfe, than for her good,
For loue that profite doth abide

Is false, and bideth not in no tide.-Id. Ib.
So that ye use, as skill is and reson,
The lustes of your wif attemprely,
And that ye plese hire nat to amorously;
And that ye kepe you eke from other sinne.

Id. The Marchantes Tale, v. §

Of armes he was desyrous,

Churras, and derout,

A. for the fate of worldes speche

Page azentures wolde he seche.-Gower. Con. A. b. i.

any by your leauel, in twenty of his youthful yeres, was ess adicted to delight in amorous verse, then he was his age paineful to write good precepts of moral phie-Gascoigne. The Steele Glas.

V And will she not return? then may the sun as horses ever, and no day

tas dack air with light! If in mine eye 240 not placed, what object can delight it? Ta

Excellent cmorist ! Here's to thee, melancholy. Nabbes. Microcosmus, Act iii. insteter esteemeth too much of amorous affection, th riches and wisdom.-Bacon. Ess. On Love. tz. It will handsomely become you to restore the box trenman, and the magnitude of your desires, upon unty, that is so amorously taken with your ditties. Rowley. Match at Midnight, Act v.

Jste moral man, great Jove (grown fond of change)
I was wout this nether world to range,
yesom.urs; the vice the monarch lov'd,
through the wide ethereal court improv'd.

Clot. I would this musicke would come: I am aduised to giue her musicke a mornings, they say it will penetrate. Shakespeare. Cymbeline, Act ii.

Gent. On with it Jacques, thou and I Will live so finely in the countrey, Jacques, And have such pleasant walks into the woods A mornings, and then bring home riding-rods, And walking staves.-Beaum. & Fletch. Noble Gent. Actii.

AMO VE, v. AMO'VAL.

AMO'TION.

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It. Amovere, Amovibile; Sp.
Amover; Lat. Amovere, (a-mo-
vere,) to move from. It is used by
Fabyan and others for the uncompounded, move.
We now more commonly use, to remove.

Whan she had herd all this, she not amered
Neyther in word, in chere, ne countenance,
(For as it semed, she was not agreved)
She sayde.

Chaucer. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8374.

Whan Theoderic he was warned of the conspiracy of thyse .iiii. kynges, that entendyd to warre ioyntly vpon hym, he was therewith greatlye amoued, & prouyded for his defence i his best maner.-Fabyan, c. 125.

The amoval of these insufferable nuisances would infiGay. Trivia, b. ii.nitely clarify the air.-Evelyn, 2. 4. 15.

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But fir as moche as the good werkes that men don while an in mod lif, ben all amortised by sinne folowing, se sith ad the good werkes that men don while they Or detly sinne, ben utterly ded, as for to have the lif Puente -Chaucer. The Persones Tale.

For valgar and received opinions, nothing is more usual, mare usually complained of, than that it is imposed for Tozanty and presumption, for men to authorize themtres against antiquity and authors, towards whom envy crased, and reversace by time amortised.

Bacon. Filum Labyrinthi.

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At What's the reason of this melancholy?

ate. By heaven I know not!

Barry. Ram-Alley, Act ii. AMORWE. On morrow; on the morrow. AUFRNINGS. On mornings; on or in the PIIN. See MoRN and MORROW. The kynge's men nuste amorte, wer he was bi come, de, ferde as wodernen, and wende he were ynome.

R. Gloucester, p. 159. And snorme it was don that the pryncis of hem and the dete men and scribis waren gaderid in ierusalim. Wiclif. Dedis, c. 4. And i ekransed on the morowe, that their rulers and Kolpa pathered at Jerusalem. Bible, 1539. Ib.

Alan the day began to spring,

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Therewith amoved from his sober mood, "And lives he yet," said he, " that wrought this act? And doen the heavens afford him vital food?" Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 1. The king of Connaught, and his Irish, had inuaded the king's people, with a purpose and hope, vtterly to expell and amoue our nation from among them. Speed. Hist. of Great Britain, an. 1230.

The rights of personal property in possession are liable to two species of injuries: the amotion, or deprivation of that possession; and the abuse or damage of the chattels, while the possession continues in the legal owner.

Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iii. c. 9.

AMOUNT, v. Fr. Amont; It. Ammontare, AMOUNT, n. Montare; Sp. Amontar. From Ad-montem (Menage), to a mount. See MOUNT. To go or come up; to rise, to ascend :To come to, in the whole or total.

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doubtful:-to animals, whose peculiar element of life is doubtful; abiding at one time on land, and at another in water: to that which is of a mixed or doubtful nature.

A part provided them [frogs] a while to swim and move in the water, that is, until such time as nature excluded legs, whereby they might be provided not onely to swim in the water, but move upon the land; according to the amphibious and mixt intention of nature, that is, to live in both. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 13.

Would you preserve a numerous finny race;
Let your fierce dogs the ravenous otter chase.
(Th' amphibious monster ranges all the shores,
Darts through the waves, and every haunt explores.)
Gay. Rural Sports, c. 1.

No lands are ancient demesne, but lands holden in socage : that is, not in free and common socage, but in this amphibious subordinate class of villein socage.

Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. c. 6.

AMPHIBO'LOGY. AMPHIBOLOGICAL. AMPHIBOLY.

AMPHIBOLOus.

Fr. Amphibologie, It. Anfibologia; Sp. Amphi

Ibologia; Lat. Amphi

bolia. Αμφιβολοι λόγοι:

from auoi, about, each way; Baλλew, to cast; and Xoyos, speech.

Speech that may bear each way; that has opposite tendency; and, therefore, ambiguous, doubtful.

He hath nat wel the goddes vnderstonde
For goddes speke in amphibologies
And for o sothe, they tellen twentie lies.

Chaucer. Troil. & Cress. b. iv. Of the Verball [fallacies.] and such as conclude from mistakes of the word, although there be no less than six, yet are there but two thereof worthy our notation; and unto which the rest may be referred; that is the fallacy of equivocation and amphibologie; which conclude from the ambiguity of some one word, or the ambiguous syntaxis of many put together.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. i. c. 4.

For although the Scots came out of Ireland, and the Irish were called Scots, it is no reason to call a Scot borne in Ireland, by the name of a Scot borne in Scotland, as some writers doo vnder the amphibologicall name of Scot

Holinshed. Chron. Scotland. Catalogue of Wruers. And this rule is of great use in all doubtful and amphibological expressions.-Taylor. Rule of Conscience, b. iii. c. 6. The danger of the punishment, if no less than capital, may, say they, give just ground to the accused party, either to conceal the truth, or to answer with such amphibolies and equivocations as may serve to his own preservation. Bp. Hall. Cases of Conscience, Dec. 2. c. 8. Never was there such an amphibolous quarrel, both parties declaring themselves for the king, and making use of his name in all their remonstrances to justify their actions. Howell. (Dr. Johnson's Dict.) AMPHITHEATRE.) Fr. Amphithéâtre; It. AMPHITHEATRICAL. Anfiteatro; Sp. Amphiteatro, Lat. Amphitheatrum; Gr. Aμpileaтpov, from quot, about, around, and beareal, to see, to See the quotation from Kennett.

They feeding there a while, amounted forth, and went in look.

skie

So far as eyes of man could them pursue, or marke could
make.
Phaer. Eneidos, b. vi.

So up he rose, and thence amounted streight.
Which when the carle beheld, and saw his guest
Would safe depart, for all his subtile sleight;
He chose an halter from among the rest,
And with it hung himselfe, unbid, unblest.

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

Thy substance, valued at the highest rate,
Cannot amount vnto a hundred markes,
Therefore by law thou art condemn'd to die.

Shakespeare. Com. of Errors, Act i. sc. 1.

I thought, I'll swear, I could have lov'd no more
Than I had done before;

But you as easily might account,
Till to the top of numbers you amount
As cast up my love's score.

Cowley. Increase.

I have heard it affirmed, that what is paid of all kinds to public uses of the states-general, the province, and the city, in Amsterdam, amounts to above sixteen hundred thousand pounds sterling a year.-Temple. On the United Provinces.

We shall not much repine at a loss, of which we cannot estimate the value, but of which, though we are not able to tell the least amount, we know with sufficient certainty the greatest, and are convinced that the greatest is not much to be regretted.-Rambler, No. 17.

AMPHIBIOUS. Fr. Amphibie; It. Anfibio; Sp. Amphibio, from the Gr. Áupi, about, on each side, and Bios, life. Aupt, from its application to that which is unfixed, undefined in space or time, Chaucer. The Prologue, v. 824. is further applied to that which is uncertain,

me or hoste, and was our aller cok, Anded us togeder in a flok.

The amphitheatre begun by Vespasian, but finished and dedicated by Titus, was one of the most famous, the height whereof was such, that the eye of man could hardly reach it. Hakeweil. Apologie, p. 394.

The form was circular; and all without

A trench was sunk, to moat the place about.
Within, an amphitheatre appear'd ;
Rais'd in degrees, to sixty paces rear'd;
That when a man was plac'd in one degree,
Height was allow'd for him above to see.

Dryden. Palamon and Arcite. That the theatre and amphitheatre were two different sorts of edifices, was never questioned, the former being built in the shape of a semicircle, the other generally oval, so as to make the same figure as if two theatres should be joined together.-Kennett. Antiquities of Rome, b. i. c. 4.

The inhuman sports exhibited at Rome, may justly be considered as an effect of the people's contempt for slaves, and was also a great cause of the general inhumanity of their princes and rulers. Who can read the accounts of the amphitheatrical entertainments without horror? Or who is surprised, that the emperors should treat that people in the same way the people treated their inferiors?

A'MPLE.
A'MPLENESS.
A'MPLIATE.
AMPLIA'TION.
A'MPLITUDE.
A'MPLY.

A'MPLIFY.
AMPLIFICATION.
A'MPLIFIER.

Hume, pt. ii. Essay 11. Note.

Fr. Ample; It. Ampio ; Sp. Amplio; Lat. Amplus; which Vossius is inclined to derive from the Gr. AvaTλews, Attice: filled up.

Full, large, wide, in quantity or extent; spread, or diffused in a great degree; extended, expanded.

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He [Daniel] expresseth the frute of ye kyngs repentance, that is to wete, God to geue miche more ample giftis to the repentät then he toke from them, as ye see him to haue done to Job.-Joy. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 4.

Neither shoulde we haue any more wherewith to vexe them with confessions, cases reserued, restricted or ampliated for our game.-Fox. Actes & Mon. Hen. VIII. p. 1173.

To convert and employ all your suit, to that thing which may be to the most convalidation and surety of the process, and things to be done here, as well by attaining as ample, large, and sufficient words, clauses and sentences as ye can get, for ampliation of the new commission.

Burnel. Reform. Records, pt. i. b. ii. No. 23.

And lyke as ye would employe all possible industrie, and diligece to mainteine and ampliate the externall possessions of your empier, euen so to augmente the vertues of the mynde, beeyng the more precious possession of the twain.

Udal. Preface unto the Kynges Maiestee.

The same lord well prosper your endeuors in that behalfe, to the ende that the most noble empier, whiche ye haue hitherto had without bloudshed of man, ye maye semblably as well enlarge and amplify as also defende and mayntaine.

Id. Ib.

After the myndes of Uirgil, Ouide, and such other fabulouse Poetes, these .ii. cruell captaynes Romulus and Remus, receyued their first nurryshment of a she wolffe whom they sucked, in sygnyfycacyon of the wonderfull tyranny whych shuld folowe in yt great cytie Rome, wherof they were the fyrst amplyfyers.-Bale. Eng. Votaries, pt. ii. Pref.

By sutche amplifications, and outrage in speache, it would appeare, Christe were Peters vicare: and not Peter Vicare vnto Christ.-Jewel. Defence of the Apologie, p. 104.

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To whom thus Belial, in like gamesome mood.
Leader! the terms we sent were terms of weight,
Of hard contents, and full of force urg'd home;
Such as we might perceive amus'd them all,
And stumbled inany.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vi.

Reason would contrive such a religion as should afford both sad and solemn objects to amuse and affect the pensive part of the soul.-South, vol. vii. Ser. 1.

Men are generally pleased with the pomp and splendor o a government, not only as it is an amusement for idle people but as it is a mark of the greatness, honour, and riches o their country.-Sir W. Temple. On the United Provinces, Lofty elms and venerable oaks

Invite the rook, who high amid the boughs
In early spring his airy city builds,

And ceaseless caws amusive.--Thomson. Spring.
Wide o'er the thistly lawn, as swells the breeze,
A whitening shower of vegetable down
Amusive floats.

Id. Summer.

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Al be it these my bare and sclender comentaries be not putation of their right breasts, whereby they had the freer able to satisfie the amplitude of ye mater.

Joye. Exposicion of Daniel. The Pistle Dedicatorye.

And underneath his feet was written thus,
"Unto the victor of the gods this bee:"
And all the people in that ample hous
Did to that image bowe their humble knee,
And oft committed fowle idolatrie.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 11.

How may I

use of their bow.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iv. c. 5. The gospel does most certainly require us to renounce some things, which the man of the world may not be very willing to part with. But to accuse the gospel of severity on this account, would be just as rational and as equitable, as to charge the surgeon with cruelty for amputating a gangrened limb.-Porteus, vol. ii. Ser. 1.

Admitting the same doctrine of an original body, we must, however, observe, that living men may lose several of their limbs by amputation.-Beattie. El. of Moral Sciences, App. A'MULET. Fr. Amulette; Sp. Amuleto; Lat. Amuletum, from Amoliri, Amolitus, (from a and Thou hast provided all things.-Milton. Par. Lost, b. viii. moles, a heap or mass,) to heave away, to drive

Adore thee, Author of this universe,

And all this good to man? for whose well being

So amply, and with hands so liberal,

Gods, where e'er they go,

Bring their heaven with them, their great footsteps place
An everlasting smile upon the face

Of the glad earth they tread on, while with thee
Those beams that ampliate mortality,

And teach it to expatiate, and swell

To majesty and fullness, deign to dwell.

Crashaw. On the Duke of York's Birth.

As for the delights, commodities, mysteries, with other concernments of this order [of plants], we are unwilling to fly them over, in the short deliveries of Virgil, Varro, or others, and shall therefore enlarge with additional ampliations.-Brown. Garden of Cyrus, c. 4.

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Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author; but much amplified by our English translator, as well as beautified; the genius of our countrymen being rather to improve an invention than to invent themselves. Dryden. Pref. to Fables.

Where the author is obscure, enlighten: where he is imperfect, supply his deficiencies: where he is too brief and concise, amplify a little, and set his notions in a fairer view.

Watts. On the Improvement of the Mind, pt. i. c. 4. Nay, who knows but that there may be even of these many orders rising in dignity of nature, and amplitude of power, one above another.-Wollaston. Relig, of Nat. s. 5.

Always proportion the amplitude of your matter and the fulness of your discourse to your great design, to the length of your time, to the convenience, delight, and profit of your hearers. Watts. Logick, pt. iv. c. 2.

If your scene be ample, the part you introduce must be ample also. A paltry ruin is of no value. A grand one is a work of magnificence.-Gilpin. Tour to the Lakes.

away, to repel.

That which throws off, expels, repels, wards off, any evil or mischance; and, further, that

confers some charm.

If amulets do work from their bodies, upon those parts whereunto they are appended, and are not yet observed to abate their weight; if they produce visible and real effects by imponderous and invisible emissions, it may be unjust to deny the possible efficacy of gold in the non-emission of weight, or deperdition of any ponderous particles.

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

In that day will the Lord take from them the ornaments,
Of the feet-rings, and the net-works, and the crescents;
The pendents, and the bracelets, and the thin vails;
The tires, and the fetters, and the zones,
And the perfume-boxes, and the amulets.-Lowth. Isaiah.

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Chandler. Travels into Greece, p. 1

High above our heads, at the summit of the cliff, sat group of mountaineer children, amusing themselves wi pushing stones from the top; and watching, as they plung into the lake.-Gilpin. Tour to the Lakes.

Forbear, my muse. Let love attune thy line.
Revoke thy spell. Thine Edwin frets not so.
For how should he at wicked chance repine,
Who feels from every change amusement flow?

Beattie. Minstr

To me 'tis given, whom fortune loves to lead
Through humbler toils to life's sequester'd bowers,
To me 'tis given to wake th' amusive reed,
And sooth with song the solitary hours.

AN.

Whitehead, Elegy

Goth. An; A. S. Ane; D. Een; Ge Eine, (the article,) means One. See ARTICLE. Robert verst Courtehese hys gode suerd adrou, And smot anne vp the helm, & such a stroke hym gef. That the scolle, & teth, & the necke, & the ssoldren he clef.. R. Gloucester, p. 401. An hey mon ther was by fore, that me clepude Dardan Of hym com the gode Bruyt, that was the firste man That lord was in Engelond, as y gou telle can.-Id. p. An ay [egg] bi it selue for fiue schillynges was bouht, A pere for penyes tuelue, or thei had it nought. R. Brunne, p. 1

And eftsoone he denyede with an ooth for I knowe the man.-Wiclif. Matt. c. 26.

If this individual be unknown, or perceived now for first time, or if we choose to speak of it as unknown,

prefix what is called the indefinite article, and say, h

comes a man, I see an ox: and this article coincides nea in signification with the word one. Beattie. Elements of Moral Science, pt. i. c AN. The imperative An of the verb Anan, grant, (Tooke.)

An if, An if it were, are vulgar improprieti An is equivalent to If.

Is not this An the A. S. termination of infinitive (i. e. the verb); afterwards changed i en e. g. A. S. Luf-an; Eng. Lov-en: and is this en the termination, adjected, and constitut the participle or verb adjective, the noun adjecti the plural of nouns; and always denoting ad tion, adjection, adjunction? And further, may this An be the preceding An, one, applied firs the addition of one, to one, to union, adunion, adunation; to addition, &c. generally?

Whereat she wondred much, but would not stay
For gold, or perles, or pretious stones, an howre,
But them despised all; for all was in her powre.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii,

2 Pyr. Nay, an thou dalliest, then I am thy foe, And fear shall force what friendship cannot win. B. Jonson. Poeta

Rhe. I'll sup thee up.
Pel.
Thou'st straight to execution.
Gril. Fool, fool, fool! catch me an thou canst.
Phi. Expel him the house, 'tis a dunce.
Ford. Lover's Mel. Act iii.

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That schism [the rending of the pontifical sleeves] would be the sorest schism to you; that would be Brownism and Anabaptism indeed.-Milton. Of Church Govern. b. i. c.6.

The Anabaptist re-baptizeth, because in his estimation the time of the church is frustrate, for that we give it vnto ants which haue not faith, whereas, according vnto Christ's institution, as they conceive it, true baptisme should Laayes presuppose actuall belief in receiuers, and is otherwise no baptisme.-Hooker. Eccles. Politie, b. v. § 62. The excellent Bucer takes occasion severely to reprovе the super hypocrites of the Anabaptistick sect in his time. Bp. Bull. Works, vol. ii. p. 657. Away with those dotages of Platonical or Anabaptistical carnitas.—Bp. Hall. Christ Mystical.

He (Anthony Palmer] was afterwards an assistant to the carumissi ters of the county, for the ejecting of such whom the bearen called scandalous, ignorant, and insufficient risters and selcolmasters, that is, loyal and orthodox mercynier —being about that time (1654) anabaptistically 14, and a great favourer of those of that persuasion and

The teacts.— ifood. Athena Oxon.

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Chaucer. The Rom. of the Rose.

Of this Dambert is reportyd, that an holy ancre or hereByte of Frubre, beinge in his medytacions, shulde see a company of fees les which beynge in the see shuld have ast them in a bote the soule of Dagobert, and were Lage it towards peyne.-Fabyan, c. 132.

Last of al be [Will. I.] fiered the citty of Mewre, and burat in was tur lady church, & two anchors that were incions there, who perswaded themselues they ought not forsake their house and caue in such extremitie. Stowe. Chronicles, an. 1087.

And it followed saith Maurdine) as the virgine had goden, which virgin vowed to liue a religious life, and

in Lallie als eciate at Crowland.-Id. East Angles.

(not these wrinkles graves; if graves they were,
They were love's Taves; or else he is nowhere.
Yet les not love dead here, but here doth sit,
Yewd to this trench, like an anachorit.

Donne. The Autumnal.

Bagi is the admission of us to the covenant of faith and rene stance, or as Mark, the anchoret, called it, the inBlows to repentance, or that state of life that is full of A and care, and amendment of our faults.

Bp. Taylor. On Repentance, c. 9. s. 2.

The anchorites in our dayes, closed up, and immured, eter witlun walls, or pillars, are often found to be long -Bocin. Hist. of Life and Death.

No man needs to flatter, if he can live as nature did in** • * • * And this is true. not only in those severe and anchoretical and philosophical persons, who lived tanya a sheep, and without variety as the Baptist, but the same proportion it is also true in every man that can otected with that which is honestly sufficient. Bp. Taylor, vol. i. Ser. 15. Our Savcar himself, the great author of our faith, and e of ar piety, did not chuse an anchorite's or a ife. but a social and affable way of conversing 20 100 Taka. — Bogie. Occasional Reflections, s. 4. Dis. 9. Before Ripley] turned Carmelite at Saint Botolph's, în Livinatire, and died an anachorite in that fraternity in the year 1490.—Warton. Hist. of Eng. Poetry, vol. i. p.

137.

ANA'CHRONISM. Fr. Anachronisme; It. ANACHRONI'STICK. Anacronismo; Sp. Anachronismo. From Ava, and χρονος, time.

Deviation from the order of time.

There are in Scripture of things that are seemingly confus'd, carrying semblance of contrariety, anachronisms, metachronisms, and the like, which bring infinite obscurity to the text.-Hale. Golden Remains, Ser. 1.

The dresses and buildings of the time, are preserved, though by frequent anachronisms applied to the ages of Scripture; and the gold and colours are of the greatest brightness and beauty. Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. c. 2.

Among the anachronistic improprieties which this poem contains, the most conspicuous is the fiction of Hector's sepulchre, or tomb.-Warton. English Poetry, vol. ii. p. 97. ANACREONTIC. A name given to poems imitating the manner of Anacreon.

A few Anacreontics surprize us by their ease and gaiety.
Hume. Hist. vol. vii. Character of Cowley.
A'NADEME. Gr. Αναδημα, from ανάδειν, to
bind round. See DIADEM.
A garland.

The virgin-huntress sworn to Dian's bow,
Here in this shade her quarries did bestow,
And for their nymphals, building amorous bowers,
Oft drest this tree with anadems of flowers.-Drayton. Owl.
Walla is now no more. Nor from the hill
Will she more plucke for thee the daffodill,
Nor make sweet anadems to gird thy brow:
Yet in the grove she runs; a river now.

Browne. Brit. Pastorals, b. ii. s. 3.

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They deuide the Scripture into foure senses, the litterall, tropological, allegoricall and anagogicall. Tyndall. Workes, p. 166. The allegory is appropriate to fayth, and the anagogicall to hope and thinges aboue.-Id. Ib.

Three points being well examined and marked, the Prophecie may easily be vnderstood directly to be ment of the Turke; albeit anagogically some part thereof may also be referred not vnproperly unto the pope, as is aboue notified. Fox. Acies & Monum. Hen. VII. p. 704.

But for all other passages, which by some kind of accommodation, or anagogy, or figure, or moral or spiritual sense, were capable of being thus applied either to Christ or his church, I have not frequently chosen to be thus adventurous.-Hammond. Pref. to Parap. of Psalms.

The notes say, that the Misna Torah was composed out of the cabalisticks or anagogicks of the Jews.

Addison. State of the Jews, p. 248.

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The transposition of the letters of words so as to form other words of a different signification. See the quotation from Camden.

Rea. And see where Juno, whose great name
Is Unio, in the anagram,
Displays her glittering state and chair,

As she enlightened all the air !-B.Jonson. Mas. of Hymen. The only quintessence that hitherto the alchymy of wit could draw out of names, is Anagrammatisme, or Metagrammatisme, which is a dissolution of a name, truly written, into its letters as its elements, and a new connexion of it by artificial transposition, without addition, subtraction, or change of any letter into different words, making some perfect sense applyable to the person named. Camden. Remains. Anagrammes.

The whole system of the created universe, consisting of body, and particular incorporeal substances or souls, in the successive generations and corruptions or deaths, of men and other animals, was, according to them [the ancient atomists], really nothing else but one and the same thing perpetually anagrammatized, or but like many different syllables and words variously and successively composed out of the same pre-existent elements or letters. Cudworth. Intel. System, p. 40.

All the changes that are in nature, are either accidental transformations and different modifications of the same substance, or else they are conjunctions and separations, or anagrammatical transpositions of things in the universe; the substance of the whole remaining alwaies entirely the same.-Cudworth. Intel. System, p. 37.

Yet these [conceits] are exceeded by others, whereof some have contrived anagrammatical appellations from half their own and their wives' names joined together.

Swift. On Barbarous Denominations in Ireland. [Robert Fludd hath] published [a book], under the name of Rudolfi Otreb, that is, anagrammatically, Roberti Flud. Wood. Athene Oxon.

When the anagrammatist, takes a name to work upon, he considers it at first as a mine not broken up, which will not shew the treasure it contains, until he shall have spent many hours in the search of it; for it is his business to find out one word that conceals itself in another, and to examine the letters in all the variety of stations in which they can possibly be ranged.-Spectator, No. 60.

ANALOGIZE. ANA'LOGY. ANALOGICAL. ANALOGICALLY. ANA'LOGOUS. ANA'LOGAL.

ANA'LOGOUSLY.

Fr. Analogie; It. Analogia; Sp. Analogia; Lat. Analogia; Gr. Avaλoyia, from ava, and Aoyos. Latine, says Cicero, Comparatio, proportiove dici potest.

Our application of these words must be collected from the examples subjoined. See the quotation from Berkeley.

He calleth still the Lordes body the congregation redemed with Christes body as he dyd before, and also in the chapter folowyng fetching his analogie and similitude at the naturall body.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 473.

First, Albion is no latin word, nor hath the analogie, that is to say, the proportion or similitude of latine, for who hath found this sillable on, at the ende of a latin word? Grafton, pt. iv.

Analogal to the imperate acts of the soul upon the body are the imperate acts of divine Providence whereby with greatest wisdom and irresistible power He doth mediately or immediately order some things out of the tract of ordinary Providence. Hale. Origination of Mankind, p. 36.

Now the Manichees allowed marriage to their auditors, that is, analogically, their laity, forbad it to their electe, that is, their clergy.-Hall. Hon. of the Married Clergy, s. 4. Quadrupeds oviparous, as frogs, lizards, crocodiles, have their joynts and motive flexures more analogously framed unto ours.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 1.

Every one knows that analogy is a Greek word, used by mathematicians to signify a similitude of proportions. For instance, when we observe that two is to six, as three is to nine, this similitude or equality of proportion is termed analogy.-Bp. Berkeley. Minute Philo. Dis. 4. § 21.

The schoolmen tell us there is analogy between intellect and sight; forasmuch as, intellect is to the mind, what sight is to the body. And that he who governs the state is ana logous to him who steers a ship. Hence a prince is analogically stiled a pilot, being to the state as a pilot is to the

vessel.-Id. Ib.

It is not impossible, but extremely probable, and according to the universal analogy of nature, that our planets and their satellites should be the more tolerable jails, prisons, and dungeons, of the several orders and degrees of lapsed, probationary, sentient, and intelligent beings.

Cheyne. On Regimen. Natural Analogy, § 8. Systems of material bodies, diversly figured and situated, if separately considered, represent the object of the desire, which is analogized by attraction or gravitation.-Id.

We have words which are proper, and not analogical, to express the various ways in which we perceive external objects by the senses; such as feeling, sight, taste: but we are often obliged to use these words analogically, to express other powers of the mind which are of a very different nature.-Reid. Inquiry into the Human Mind, c. 7.

The unction of our Lord was the descent of the Holy Ghost upon him at his baptism. This was analogous to the ceremony of anointing.-Horsley, vol. i. Ser. 10.

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I cannot edify how, or by what rule of proportion, that man's virtue calculates, what his elements are, nor what his analyticks-Milton. Tetrachordon.

That which I do in that chapter may analytically be divided into two parts; 1. the grounds upon which I conceive the apostles thus modell'd the church; and, secondly, the proofs or testimonies by which I manifest they did so. Hammond. Works, vol. ii. p. 65.

I need no better analyser than yourself; save that you do not only resolve my parts, but add more.

Bp. Hall. Against Brownists, § 51.

As Hellus, late dictator of the feast,
The nose of haut-gout and the tip of taste,
Critiqu'd your wine, and analyz'd your meat,
Yet on plain pudding deign'd at home to eat.

Pope. Moral Essays, Ep. 2. The one sort of method to discover truth is called analysis, or the method of unfolding; and which may be also called the method of invention.

Ozell. Port Royal Logick, pt. iv. c. 2.

I beg leave to repeat, and insist, that I consider the geometrical analyst as a logician, i. e. so far forth as he reasons and argues.-Berkeley. The Analyst, § 20.

Modern mathematicians scruple not to say, that by the help of these new analytics, they can penetrate into infinity itself; that they can even extend their views beyond infinity.-Id. Ib. § 8.

If this were analytically and carefully done, I little doubt, but that men's knowledge of the nature and causes of diseases, and the ways of curing them, would be less circumscribed, and more effectual than now it is wont to be. Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 185.

By high-colouring is not meant a string of rapturous epithets, but an attempt to analize the views of nature-to open their several parts, in order to shew the effect of a whole.-Gilpin. Tour to the Lakes, Pref.

It may be proper, before we examine the scenes themselves, to take a sort of analytical view of the materials, which compose them-mountains-lakes-broken grounds -wood-rocks-cascades-vallies-and rivers.-Id. Ib.

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They which find themselves grieved under a democracy, call it anarchy, which signifies want of government. Hobbes. Leviathan, pt. ii. c. 19.

I do look upon this bill as upon the gaping period of all good order: it will prove the mother of absolute anarchism. Sir E. Dering. Speeches, p. 153.

Yours be the advantage all, mine the revenge!
Thus Satan; and him thus the anarch old,
With flattering speech and visage incompos'd,
Answered.
Milton. Paradise Lost, b. fi.

There is no pretence at all to suspect, that the Egyptians were universally atheists and anarchists, such as supposed no living understanding deity, but resolved all into senseless matter as the first and highest principle.

Cudworth. Intellectual System, b. i. c. 4.

But is not freedom-at least is not ours
Too apt to play the wanton with her pow'rs,
Grow freakish, and o'erleaping ev'ry mound,
Spread anarchy and terrour all around?

Cowper. Table Talk.

To hear some men speak of the late monarchy of France, you would imagine they were talking of Persia bleeding under the sword of Kouli Khan, or at least describing the barbarous anarchic despotism of Turkey.

Burke. On the French Revolution.

As in the most absolute governments, there is a regular progression of slavery downwards, from the top to the bottom; so in the most dissolute and anarchical states, there is as regular an ascent of what is called rank or condition, which is always laying hold of the head of him, who is advanced but one step higher on the ladder.

ANA'THEMA, n. ANA'THEMATISM.

ANATHEMATIZE.

ANA'THEMATIZER.

Fielding. Voyage to Lisbon.

Gr. Ava@nua, and AvaBeua, from Ava, (q. d.) avw, up, upwards; and T10Eσbai, to put, or place. Anathema was any thing placed up, hung up, suspended: then any thing so placed, as an ornament; or dedicated, devoted, consecrated; and, consequentially

ANATHEMATIZATION.

Any person or thing consecrated, execrated, accursed. See the quotation from Locke.

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Cardinal Perron perceiving much detriment likely to come to their doctrine by these apologies of the primitive Christians upon the 11. anathematism of S. Cyril, says, that they deny anthropophagy, but did not deny theanthropophagy. Bp. Taylor. On the Real Pres. s. 12.

The princes are to tell what religions are to be permitted and what not and we find a law of Justinian forbidding anathematisms to be pronounced against the Jewish Hellenists. Id. Rule of Conscience, b. iii. c. 3.

The Apostles, when they cursed and anathematized a delinquent, he dyed suddenly.-Id. Episcopacy Asserted.

How many famous churches have been most unjustly thunderstruck with direful censures of excommunication, down to the pit of hell, upon pretence of this crime [heresy] which have been less guilty than their anathematizērs! Bp. Hall. Cases of Conscience, Dec. 3. c. 5. Anathema signifies persons or things devoted to destruction and extermination. The Jewish nation were an anathema destined to destruction. St. Paul, to express his affection to them, says, he could wish, to save them from it, to become an anathema, and be destroyed himself.

Locke. Paraphrase. Romans, c. 9. n. 3.

In the fifth general synod pope Vigilius did make a constitution, in most express terms prohibiting the condemnation of the three chapters (as they are called) and the anathematization of persons deceased in peace of the church. Barrow. On the Pope's Supremacy. ANATIFEROUS. Lat. Anas, a duck; and Ferre, to bear.

Bearing, bringing or producing ducks.

If there be anatiferous trees, whose corruption breaks forth into bernacles, yet if they corrupt, they degenerate into maggots, which produce not them again. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 12.

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Yet euery part shall playe his part, to paint the panges of
loue.
Gascoigne. The Anatomye of a Lover.
Every guilty breast

Stood fearful of dissection, as afraid
To be anatomiz'd by that skilful hand,
And have each artery, nerve, and vein of sin,
By it laid open to the public scorn.

Randolph. Muse's Look. Glass, Act i. sc. 4.

O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth,
Then with a passion would I shake the world,
And rouze from sleepe that fell anatomy
Which cannot hear a ladies feeble voyce.

Shakespeare. K. John, Act iii. sc. 3.

Had anatomy bin in vse among the Grecians, meethinks physitians and anatomists should somewhere discover it in the works of Hippocrates yet extant, which I presume can. not be showne.-Hakewill. Apologie, p. 240.

To the perfiting of the anatomical and reviuing of the botanicall art in this latter age, may be added a new kinde of physicke professed by a new sect of physitians.-Id. Ib.

While some affirmed it [the dove] had no gall, intending onely thereby no evidence of anger or fury; others have construed it anatomically, and denied that part at all.

Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 3.

At the great day of trial, he will thoroughly anatomize us, and lay our very inside perfectly open and naked to the view of the whole world, to the sight of men and angels. Bp. Bull, vol. ii. Ser. 15.

The learned, who with anatomic art
Dissect the mind, and thinking substance part,
And various powers and faculties assert,
Perhaps by such abstraction of the mind,
Divide the things that are in nature join'd.
Blackmore. Creation, b. vii.

If we anatomize all other reasonings of this nature, we shall find that they are founded on the relation of cause and

effect, and that this relation is either near or remote, direct or collateral.-Hume. On Hum. Underst. s. 4.

The anatomist presents to the eye the most hideous and disagreeable objects, but his science is useful to the painter in delineating even a Venus or a Helen.- Id. Ib. s. i.

The anatomical observations formed upon one animal are, by this species of reasoning, [analogy,] extended to al animals.-Hume. On Hum. Underst. s. 9.

ANCESTOR. A'NCESTRY. A'NCESTRAL, or A'NCESTREL.

Fr. Ancestres ; It. Antecessore; Sp. Antecessor; Lat. Antecessus, past part. of Antecedere, (Ante, before; and

cedere, to go.) See ANTECEDE.
One who goes or comes before; in order of
time; in order of birth or lineage:-one from
whom any one descends.

Jhesu was born here, and alle our first lynage,
We ere his childre dere, we clayme this our heritage,
That thise paen hondes our ancestre haf reft.
R. Brunne, p. 185

Loke thou lese no thing for thi fole erroure,
Ne the lond be not lorn, that thin ancessoure
So wele kept biforn, als noble gouernoure.-Id. p. 166.
His purpos was for to bestowe hire hie
Into som worthy blood of ancestrie.

Chaucer. The Reve's Tale, v. 3950
That Lords do lacke, their auncestors good wil,
That knights consume their patrimonie still.

Gascoigne. The Steele Glas The blood weepes from my heart, when I doe shape (In formes imaginarie) th' vnguided dayes, And rotten times, that you shall looke vpon, When I am sleeping with my ancestors.

Shakespeare. 2 Part Hen. IV. Act iv. sc.

In thy great volume of eternitye;
Begin, O Clio, and recount from hence
My glorious Soveraines goodly auncestrye
Till that by dew degrees, and long protense,
Thou have it lastly brought unto her Excellence.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c.
When we have done our ancestors no shame,
But serv'd our friends, and well secur'd our fame;
Then should we wish our happy life to close,
And leave no more for Fortune to dispose.

Dryden. Palamon & Arcite, b. History is the great looking-glass thro' which we m behold with ancestral eyes, not only the various actions ages past, and the odd accidents that attend time, but a discern the different humours of men, and feel the pulse former times.-Howell, b. iv. Let. 11.

Our ancestry, a gallant, Christian race,
Patterns of ev'ry virtue, ev'ry grace,
Confess'd a God; they kneel'd before they fought,
And prais'd him in the victories he wrought.

Cowper. Table To

There is also another ancestrel writ, denominated a nu obiit, to establish an equal division of the land in quest where on the death of an ancestor, who has several he one enters, and holds the others out of possession.

Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iii. c.

He soon afterwards solicited the office of sheriff, f which all his neighbours were glad to be reprieved, which he regarded as a resumption of ancestral claims, a kind of restoration to blood after the attainder of a tra Rambler, No.

ANCHOR, v. A'NCHOR, n. A'NCHORABLE. A'NCHORAGE. A'NCHORED.

Fr. Ancre; It. Ancora; Ancora; Lat. Ancora ; Αγκυρα, which Vossius thi is from Oуên, a crook, or ho To hook, or hold fast hook; to keep or hold fast, fixed, firm, stea safe, secure.

And fro the laste parti of the schip thei senten i ancris, and desiriden that the dai hadde become. Wiclif. Dedis of Apostlis,

Then fearinge lest they should haue fallen on some r they caste iiii ancres out of the sterne & wished for ye Bible, 1551

And that litterall sense is the roote and grounde o and the ancre that neuer fayleth wherunto if thou c thou canst neuer erre or go out of the way. Tyndal. Workes, P

You eyes that woonted were light louing lookes to cast,

I giue commaundment on hir hue that yee be ankred fast.

Turberville. To a late acquainted_F

Right so fareth Loue, that seld in one
Holdeth his ancre, for right anone
Whan they in ease wene best to liue

They ben with tempest all fordriue.-Chaucer. R. of

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