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ANTIQUATE, ANTIQUARIAN, n. ANTIQUARIAN, adj. ANTIQUARY, 2. ANTIQUARY, adj. ANTIQUARIANISM.

ANTIQUARISM.

ANTIQUATENESS.
ANTIQUA'TION.
ANTIQUE, A.
ANTIQUE, adj.
ANTIQUENESS.

ANTIQUITY.

Fr. Antique'; It. Antico; Sp. Antiquo; Lat. Antiquus, or Anticus, from Ante, before. Fr. Antiquaire; It. Antiquario; Sp. Antiquario.

To antiquate is to treat as too old, too antient for use; to annul or put out of use; to render obsolete, on account of age. An Antiquary

One who studies, is

learned in times past; remote.

In what estimació the woord of God was had in old tyme, may euidently appere by those rites and ceremonies as yet be vsed in ye church, left vnto vs of old antiquitie. Udal. Preface to John.

If mine owne remembraunce begile me not, among mine quites I haue brought a stone out of Greece, the which Falagoras the philosopher helde at the gates of his schoole. Golden Book, c. 9. Who so just to know more touching the certeyntie and truth of these matters maye reade the booke of the excelet catiquary John Leyland, intituled the Assertion of Arthur, where euerie thing is more at large discoursed. Grafton, vol. i. pt. vii.

Looke backe, who list, vnto the former ages,
Ant call to count, what is of them become:
Where be those learned wits and antique sages,
Which of all wisedome knew the perfect somme?
Spenser. Ruines of Times.
First Player.
Anon he finds him
Striking too short at Greekes. His anticke sword
Tabelacas to his arme lyes where it falles,
Repugnant to command.—Shakes. Hamlet, Act ii. sc. 2.
Orl. O good old man, how well in the appeares
Thernstant seruice of the antique world,
When scruce sweate for dutie, not for meede.

Id. As You Like It, Act ii. sc. 3.

An Egyptian priest having conference with Solon, said to You Grecians are ever children; you have no knowage of antiquity, nor antiquity of knowledge.

Bacon. Apophthegms.

deducing the history of English painting from a very early that age, began to refuse those words, lest the sacrament be
period.-Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, c. 1.
thought to be nothing of reality, nothing but an image.
Bp. Taylor. Of the Real Presence, s. 12, § 28.

This is the species of cascade, which was the great object of imitation in all the antiquated water-works of the last age.-Gilpin. Tour to the Lakes.

The long detail of where we'd been,

And what we'd heard, and what we'd seen;
And what the poet's tuneful skill,
And what the painter's graphic art,
Or antiquarian's searches keen,

Of calm amusement could impart.-Scott. Ode to a Friend.
He [Sir Tho. Stradling] was father of Sir John Stradling,

remarkable in the reign of Elizabeth, for his critical skill in the British language, and his patronage of the Welsh anti

quarian literature.-Warton. Life of Sir T. Pope.

The sun was hot, but the spirit of antiquarianism gave us strength and courage to climb up to the platform of Saint John de Alfarache.-Swinburne. Trav. through Spain, Let.31. I used to despise him [Dr. Middleton] for his antiquarianism; but of late, since I grew old and dull myself, I cultivated an acquaintance with him for the sake of what formerly kept us asunder.-Warburton, Let. 221.

He [Tullus] had such an abundant collection of ancient statues, that he actually filled an extensive garden with them the very day he purchased it; not to mention numberless other antiques, which stood neglected in a lumberroom.-Melmoth. Pliny, b. viii. Ep. 18.

Of all the precious remains of antiquity, perhaps Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry is come down to us as much injured by time as any.-Lowth. Isaiah. Preliminary Dis.

It is a radical error of such poor antiquists as Scotland, where antiquities are an unknown land in science, has hitherto produced, to compare its ancient history with that of England.-Pinkerton. On Medals, vol. ii. s. 19.

No gold at all, nor any other silver [than the silver penny] was ever struck in England till long after the Heptarchic period; and those theoretic antiquists, who assert the contrary, only betray their gross ignorance of coins.-Id. Ib. ANTI'STROPHE. Gr. AVTOTρоon, from AvTOTрED-Ew, to turn again. See the quotation.

It was customary, on some occasions, to dance round the altars, whilst they sang the sacred hymns, which consisted of three stanzas or parts; the first of which, called strophe, was sung in turning from east to west; the other named antistrophe, in returning from west to east: then they stood before the altar, and sung the epode, which was the last part of the song.-Potter. Antiq. of Greece, b. ii. c. 4.

Testowne Renchester] is farre more ancient than
Hereford; it standeth on the same side of the river Wie,
5 three miles or more above Hereford; and was in the
ANTITHESIS. Fr. Antithese; It. Antitesi;
as time, as appeareth by many things, especially by
ety may of the Caesars, very often found within the
ANTITHETICAL. Sp. Antithesis; Lat. Anti-
, and in plowing thereabout, the which, the people thesis; Gr. AvTi0eσis, opposition, (avT, against,
There calleth dwarf money.-Stow. Chronicle. East Angles. opposed to, and beais, place or position.) Tin-
And if we do chance to think upon the serious resolutions dale has, what he calls, "A pretye Antithesis
we then entertained, we look upon them as the weak results between the Pope's Churche and Christe's little
of our infirmity, useful indeed for that time, but now anti-Flock," (Workes, p. 292. Margin.) We should
paused and grown unseasonable.
See the quotation from Blair.
Hale. Contem. A Preparative. say, Contrast.

If thou live to old age (a thing that naturally all men des.res that will state. if not antiquate, thy wit, learning, and parts.-Id. It. Of Humility.

What time the persons ossuaries entered the famous Es of the dead, and slept with princes and counsellors, richt afmit a wide solution. But who were the proprietamus of these botes, or what bodies these ashes made up, Were a question above antiquarism.-Brown. Hydriotaphia.

Instructed by the antiquary times:
He must, he is, he cannot but be wise.

Shakespeare. Troil. & Cress. Act ii. sc. 3.
You bring forth now, great queen, as you foresaw
An antiquation of the salique law.

Cartwright. Poem to the Queen.

Cannot I admire the height of his [Milton's] invention, and strength of his expression, without defending his antiwords, and the perpetual harshness of their sound? Dryden. Translations. Pref.

⚫ in

God began to punish it [sacrilege] very early
A in the Old Testament, in Ananias and Sapphira in
Testament-Life of Mede. Ap.
New; that no one may pretend antiquateness of the Old

With sharpen'd sight pale antiquaries pore,
Tinscription value, but the rust adore.
Tthe blue varnish, that the green endears,
The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.
Pope. Ep. To Addison.

may discover something venerable in the antiqueness fework, but we would see the design enlarged.-Addison. The Dutch, whom we are apt to despise for want of

thew an infinitely greater taste of antiquity and penes in their buildings and works of this nature, than meet with in those of our own country.-Spectator, No. 26. Isha faithfully lay before the reader such materials as that laborious antiquary [Mr. Vertue] had amassed for

This epithet of the Church to be the pillar and ground of religions that were not Christian; the implied antithesis is truth is to be understood, to signifie in opposition to all

not of the whole to its parts, but of kind to kind.

Bp. Taylor. Dissuasive from Popery, b. i. pt. ii. s. 1. His wit all see-saw, between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself, one vile antithesis.

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We conceive that the first heads of being ought rather to life (i. e. internal energy and self-activity); and then again, be expressed thus: Resisting or antitypous extension, and that life or internal self-activity, is to be subdivided into such as either acts with express consciousness, or synæsthesis, or such as is without it.

Cudworth. Intell. System, p. 159.

A'NTLER. Fr. Andoillier, Antoillier, Enfirst branch of a deer's head, (Cotgrave.) AnA'NTLERED. douiller. toillier, the French etymologists seem willing to derive from the Latin Ante, before. May it not be compounded of En and Douille, which, Cotgrave says, is a socket, (it is perhaps a diminutive of Tuyau, see TUEILL.) Our own word, Antler, for which no very old authorities have been found, may be a corruption of Ankler, and this be from Hank. See ANKLE.

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When they grow old, they grow less branched, and first do lose their brow antlers or lowest furcations next the head. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 9.

Haste, like the nimblest harts, that lightly bound
Before the stretches of the swiftest hound;
With reaching feet devour a level way,
Across their backs their branching antlers lay,
In the cool dews their bending body ply,
And brush the spicy mountains as they fly.

Parnell. Gift of Poetry.

A fowl with spangled plumes, a brinded steer,
Sometimes a crested mare, or antler'd deer:
Sold for a price, she parted, to maintain
Her starving parent with dishonest gain.

Vernon. Ovid, b. viii.

A stag sprang from the pasture to his call,
And kneeling, lick'd the wither'd hand that tied
A wreath of woodbine round his antlers tall,
And hung his lofty neck with many a flow'ret small.
Beattie. Minstrel, b. xi.

They found

Ulysses dear to Jove hemm'd all about By Trojans, as the lynxes in the hills, Adust for blood, swarm round the antler'd stag Pierc'd by the archer.-Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. xi. A/NTRE. Fr. Antre; It. Antro; Lat. Antrum; a cave or den.

Of my redemption thence, And portance in my trauellours historie, Wherein of antars vast, and desarts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, hills, whose head touch heaven, It was my hint to speake.-Shakes. Othello, Act i. sc. 3. Ger. Anbold; D. En-beld,

A/NVIL. A'NVILLED.

that on which any thing is formed (beaten into form); in A. S. Anfilt, the Pope. Prol. to the Satires.b changed into f; but Skinner derives from En, on, and feallan, to fall, because the hammer frequently falls upon the anvil, and the anvil is exposed to the frequent blows of the hammer. Wachter, Ger. Fillen, cædere, to strike. An anvil is

As comparison is founded on the resemblance, so antithesis on the contrast or opposition of two objects. Comparisons and antitheses are figures of a cool nature; the productions of imagination, not of passion.-Blair, Lec. 17. Parallel antithetical expressions are, in like manner, substituted for rhythm and cadence.

A/NTITYPE. ANTITY'PICAL.

Mason. On Church Musick, p. 179.

Fr. Antitype; Sp. Antitypo; Gr. AVTITUTOV, from avτi, deANTITY POUS. noting correspondency, and TUTOS, a form, or figure. ( (See Parkhurst, also TYPE.) Our version of Heb. ix. is, Patterns, and in 1 Pet. iii. Figure. The latter, Parkhurst explains, Antitypical, or an Antitype

"Somewhat answering to, and represented by, a type, or emblem." And Delpino

"That which is resembled or shadowed out by the type."

Christ said not, this is the type of my body, but it is it. But, however, this new question began to branle the words of type and antitype, and the manner of speaking began to be changed, yet the article as yet was not changed. For the Fathers used the words of type and antitype, and image, &c. to exclude the natural sence of the sacramental body and Damascene, and Anastasius Sinaita, and some others of

:

A solid mass upon which metals are beaten or prepared for use, are formed or fashioned for

use:

To be on the anvil is, met.

To be in a state of preparation, planning, forming or fashioning for use, action or practice.

Although I could not make so wele
Songs ne knew the art all

As coud Lamekes son Tuball
That found out first the art of song
For as his brothers hammers rong
Upon his anuelt vp and downe

Therof he toke the first sowne.-Chaucer. Dreame.

Some thrusting forth frō bellows blasting winds Incessant yéeld and draw, some dips in lakes and troughes of stones

Hot hissing gleads: all Ætna vaults with anuilds mourning grones. Phaer. Eneidos, b. viii.

One stirs the fire, and one the bellows blows.
The hissing steel is in the smithy drown'd;
The grot with beaten anvils groans around.-Dryden. Ib.

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Anxiety, anguish, and anger, appear to have the same ultimate origin. See ANGUISH and ANGER. Anxiety is always used, where some degree of uncertainty exists; and is applied to

The painfulness arising from doubt, uncertainty, perplexity; to an eager desire, or solicitude, where the result is not certain.

And albeit that god comaunded yt we should chiefly seke for heuen, and promiseth that if we do so, all other thiges that we nede shal be cast vnto vs, and would that we should in no wise liue in anayete, and trouble of minde for any fere of lack.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 197.

But what do our weasy bisshops and prelats which shuld in this anat playe Daniels parte withe prayers.

Joye. The Exposicion of Daniel, c. 9. p. 151. The sweet of life, from which

God hath bid dwell far off all anxious cares, And not molest us; unless we ourselves Seek them with wandering thoughts, and notions vain. Millon. Paradise Lost, b. viii. The life of the desperate equals the anxieties of death; who in uncessant inquietudes but act the life of the damned, and anticipate the desolations of hell.

Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. i. c. 2.

I know a lady so given up to this sort of devotion, that though she employs six or eight hours of the twenty-four at cards, she never misses one constant hour of prayer, for which time another holds her cards, to which she returns with no little anxiousness till two or three in the morning. Spectator, No. 79.

God hath not thought fit to throw so much light upon it, [the after state] as to satisfy the anxious and inquisitive desires the soul hath to know it.-Mason. On Self Knowl.

We have gone through the whole circle of civil injuries, and the redress which the laws of England have anxiously provided for each.-Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ix. c. 17. A'NY. ? Ane, or one, generally, unANYWHERE. limitedly; who, or what ever it may be. See ANE.

He beod for to geue hym ys dogter in spousyng,
The nobleste damesel that was in eny londe.

R. Gloucester, p. 65. After mete in the haule the kyng [Hardeknoute] mad alle blithe.

In alle his joye makying, among tham ilkone,

He felle dede doun colde as any stone.-R. Brunne, p. 56. And if ony of you nedeth wisdom axe he of God, which giueth to alle men largeli, and upbreideth not, and it schal be giuen to hym.-Wiclif. James, c. 1.

If any of you lacke wysedome, let him aske of God whyche, &c.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

Take thou thy part, what that man wot thee yeve,
And I shal min, thus may we both leve.

And if that any of us haue more than other,
Let him be trewe, and part it with his brother.

Chaucer. The Freres Tale, v. 7115.

It was, ne neuer shall be founde
Betweene foryettilnes and drede,
That man shulde any cause spede.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv.

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G. Fletcher. Christ's Victory. Neither can a man be a true friend, or a good neighbour, or anywise a good relative, without industry. Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 19. And taking the whole of the collection together, it is an unquestionable truth that there is no one book extant, in any language, or in any country, which can in any degree be compared with it for antiquity, for authority, for the importance, the dignity, the variety, and the curiosity of the matter it contains.-Porteus, Lect. 1.

A/ORIST. Gr. Aoptoros, (a, not, without; and opos, a bound or limit,) unbounded, undefined, indefinite. Applied to a grammatical distribution of tenses. See the quotation.

The tenses are used to mark present, past, and future time, either indefinitely without reference to any beginning, middle, or end; or else definitely in reference to such distinctions. If indefinitely, then we have three tenses, an aorist of the present, an aorist of the past, and an aorist of the future.-Harris. Hermes, b. i. c. 7.

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To Bialacoil she went a paas
And to him shortely in a clause
She said.
Id. Rom. of the Rose.
Gallop a pace bright Phoebus through the sky,
And dusky night, in rusty iron car,
Between you both, shorten the time, I pray,
That I may see that most desired day,
When we may meet these traitors in the field.
Marlow. Edw. II.

The good or bad repute of men depends in great measure upon mean people, who carry their stories from family to family, and propagate them very fast, like little insects, which lay apace, and the less the faster.

Wollaston. Religion of Nature, s. 5.

I feel this beginning of the autumn, which is already very cold: the leaves are withered, fall apace, and seem to intimate that I must follow them.-Chesterfield, Let. 390.

APAGOGICAL. Gr. Anаywyn, from ano, and ayew, to draw, or lead away.

The application of this word in dialectics may be seen in the citation from Beattie.

If this be not admitted, I demand a reason why any other apagogical demonstration, or demonstration ad absurdum, should be admitted in geometry rather than this.

Berkeley. Analyst, § 25.

I never sawe my lady laye apart
Her cornet blacke, in colde nor yet in heate,
Sith fyrst she knew my grief was growen so greate.
Surrey. Complaint, &c.

For servants thine keep tauntings tart;
Admonish gently me apart;

And, when in sport some time I spend,
Do thou not sharply reprehend.

Kendall. Precepts of Wedlock.
-Where is he gone!

Qu. To draw apart the body he hath kild,

Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act iv. sc. 1.

A private gallery 'twixt the apartments led,
Not to the foe yet known, or not observ'd,
Through this we pass.

Denham. Virgil, b. ii.

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His ornaments with nicest art display'd,
He seeks th' apartment of the royal maid.
Three rooms contiguous in a range were plac'd;
The midmost by the beauteous Herse grac'd.

Addison. Ovid. Metamorphoses, b. ii.

There is a mathematical whole which is better called integral, when the several parts, which go to make up the whole are really distinct from one another, and each of them may subsist apart.-Watts. Logick, pt. i. c. 6. s. 7.

A massy portcullis gate leads to the ruins of what was once the habitable part of the castle, in which a large vaulted hall is the most remarkable apartment.

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Gilpin. Tour to the Lakes. Sp. Apatia; Lat. Apathia; Gr. Anabela, from a, not, without; and wavos, feeling;

APATHY.
APATHETICK.
APATHI'STICAL.
without passion or feeling.

Unfeelingness, dispassion, insensibility.

And yet verily they themselves againe do terme those joyes, those promptitudes of the will, and wary circumspections by the name of Eupathies, i. e. good affections and not of Apathies, that is to say of impassibilities: wherein they use the words aright and as they ought. Holland. Plutarch, p. 62.

Of good and evil much they argued then,
Of happiness and final misery,
Passion and apathy, and glory and shame,
Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. i.

What is called by the stoics apathy, or dispassion; by the sceptics indisturbance; by the Molinists quietism; by common men peace of conscience: seems all to mean but great tranquillity of mind.-Sir W. Temple. Of Gardening.

I am not to be apathetick like a statue.

Harris. On Happiness.

Does he [the sage] constantly indulge this severe wisdom, which, by pretending to elevate him above human accidents. does in reality harden his heart, and render him careless of the interests of mankind, and of society? No; he knows that in this sullen apathy, neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.-Hume. Essays. The Stoick. Fontenelle was of a good-humoured and apathistical disposition.-Seward. Anecdotes, vol. v. p. 252.

A'PE, n. A'PE, v.

A'PERY.

Skinner suspects the name of this animal to be of African or Indian origin. Wachter suggests A'PISH. the Ger. Aben, imitari, to imiA'PISHLY. tate. As in the Latin, Simile, A'PISHNESS. from similis, like. Apish-imitative, mimicking, mocking; re

manners of others); wanton, full of tricks, mischievous.

There are two sorts of mathematical demonstration. The one is called direct, and takes place when a conclusion is inferred from principles which render it necessarily true: and this, though a more perfect or more simple sort of proof,sembling the tricks of an ape, affecting (sc. the is not more convincing than the other; which is called indirect, apagogical, reducens ad absurdum, and which takes place, when by supposing a given proposition false, we are necessarily led into absurdity. Beattie. Moral Science, pt. iv. c. 2. Fr. A part; It. Da parte, ApAPARTMENT. Spartamento; Sp. Aparte. In part; partly; separated into parts; separately, aside, away, out of the way. Apartment is applied to

APART.

Any part or portion (of a building or dwelling,) parted, or separated into different parts.

For aparti we knowen, and aparti we profecien, but whanne that schal come that is parfyt, that thing that is of parti schal be auoided.-Wiclif. 1 Corynth. c. 13.

Ye han in your bodie diuers mēbers, and fiue sundrie wittes, euerich aparte to his owne doing, which thinges as instrumentes ye vsen, as your hands apart to handle, feete to goe, tongue to speake, eye to see. Chaucer. Test of Love, b. iii.

So loveth she this hardy Nicholas,
That Absolon may blow the buckes horn;
He ne had for his labour but a scorne.
And thus she maketh Absolon hire ape.

Chaucer. The Miller's Tale, v. 3390 Sith it is no new thinge, a fonde ape to make mockes and mowes, I wyl as I say leaue of thys felowes folishe apishe nesse, and I shall goe to the matter self. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 726

If a man aske you, what your maruelous fashioned play ing coates, and your other popatrye meane, and what you disfigured heades, and all your apish play meane, ye know not and yet are they but signes of thinges which ye hau professed.--Tindall. Workes, p. 341.

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Yet I think it is not fit, that every man should travail : makes a wise man better, and a fool worse: this gains nothing but the gay sights, vices, exotick gestures, and the pery of a countrey.-Feltham, pt. i. Resolve 87.

This epish and vnmannerly approach,

This harness'd maske, and vnaduised reuell,
This vnbeard saw ciness and boyish troopes,

The king doth smile at.-Shakes. K. John, Act v. sc. 2. Here in Bedlamn] he shall see one mopishly stupid, and so fted to his posture, as if he were a breathing statue; there, another spishly active and restless.-Bp. Hall, Solil. 29.

Look upon their Chemarim, the sacred actors in this religous scene: what shall you see, but idle apishness in their solemnest work, and either mockery or slumbering? Id. Censure of Travel, § 20.

All these are ours; and I with pleasure see
Man strutting on two legs, and aping me.
Dryden. Fables. Cock & Fox.

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.-Burke. On the French Revolution.

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El churche, quath Pandulf, so riztuol is and was, That he ne ssal no prelat sette adoun, withoute apert trespas-R. Gloucester, p. 501.

For me my te bere by hys daye and lede hardelyche Tresar abrute and other god oueral apertelyche Ia wodes and in other studes, so that non tyme nas That pes bet ysusteyned, that by hys tyme was.-Id. 375. Sthen he went to Durham, and gaf Saynt Cuthbert Lands and lithes, with chartir aperte.-R. Brunne, p. 29. Thus seest thou apertly thy sorrowe into wele mote ben hanged, wherefore in such case to better side euermore erine then shouldest.-Chaucer. Test. of Love, b. ii.

Which asketh not to ben apert,

But in silence, and in couert

Desyreth for to be beshaded.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv.

IR II shall neuer repugne to this resygnacyon, dymysayin or yeldynge vp, nor neuer inpugne them in any mater by worde or by dede, by my selfe nor by none other, arisha, not suffer it to be inpugnyd, in asmoche as in me 3. pryzely nor apperte.-Fabyan. Chron. Rich. II. an. 1399.

And I said. Syr, I preached neuer thus, nor thorow God's grace I will not any tyme consent to thinke nor to say thus nother pryuely nor apertly.-State Trials. Trial of W. Thorpe. There be divers sorts of bracelets fit to comfort the spirits; and they be of three intentions; refrigerant, corroborant, and aperient.—Bacon. Natural History, § 961.

The next now in order are the apertions; under which term. I do compreend doors, windows, stair-cases, chymnies, or other airuucts in short, all in-lets, or out-lets.

Wotton. Remains, p. 33.

It is clear, that S. Hierome does not mean it in respect of order, as if a bishop and a presbyter had both one office per ia, one power; for else he contradicts himself most apertly —Bp. Taylor. Episcopacy Asserted, s. 21.

They may make broth, with the addition of aperitive berus-Harreg.

In pronouncing [vowels] by the instruments of speech, the breath is freely emitted; and they are therefore stiled spert, or open letters. These may be distinguished either kai y, by their several apertions, &c.

Wilkins. Real Character, pt. iii. c. 11. The freedora or apertness and vigour of pronouncing, &c. render the sound of their speech different.

Holder. On Speech.

A person that is short-sighted, in looking at distant oben gets the habit of contracting the aperture of his eyes, by almost closing his eye-lids.-Reid. Inquiry, c. 6. s. 17. An aperture between the mountains brought us into other wud recess.-Gilpin. Tour to the Lakes. APHORISM.

Fr. Aphorisme; It. AfoA PHORISMER. rismo; Sp. Aphorismo; Gr. AFHORIST. Αφορισμός, Αφορίζειν, to separate, to distinguish, from arо and opiše, to and, to define, from ópos, bound or limit. That which bounds, defines, determines. so applied to

ing; a sagacious maxim.

And

Certainly of no less a mind, nor of less excellence in another way, were they who by writing laid the solid and true foundations of this science; which being of greatest importance to the life of man, yet there is no art that hath bin more canker'd in her principles, more soil'd and slubber'd with aphorisming pedantry, than the art of policy. Milton. Ref. in England, b. ii.

We may infallibly assure ourselves that church discipline will as well agree with monarchy, though all the tribe of aphorismers and politicasters would persuade us there be secret and mysterious reasons against it.-Id. Ib.

He took this occasion of farther clearing and justifying what he had written against the aphorist. Nelson. Life of Bp. Bull, p. 246.

Our appetites do prompt to industry, as inclining to things not obtainable without it; according to that aphorism of the wise man: The desire of the slothful killeth him, for his hands refuse to labour.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 18.

The word parable is sometimes used in Scripture in a large and general sense, and applied to short sententious sayings, maxims, or aphorisms, expressed in a figurative, proverbial, or even poetical manner.-Porteus, vol. i. Lect. 11. A/PIARY. A place where bees (apes) are

kept.

Those who are skilled in bees, when they see a foreign swarm approaching to plunder their hives, have a trick to divert them into some neighbouring apiary, there to make what havock they please.--Swift.

APIECES.
API'ECE.
On piece; in

Port.

We are but men; Not being torne a

In pieces; in separate parts or portions.

a separate part or share.

And't please your honour and what so many may doe pieces, we have done.

Shakespeare. Hen. VIII. Act v. sc. 3.

The people of Ægina, and the Athenians, had but small ones, and the most of them eonsisted but of fifty oars apiece. Hobbes. Thucydides, b. i.

They [Sir John Elliot, Hollis, and Valentine] were condemned to be imprisoned during the king's pleasure, to find sureties for their good behaviour, and to be fined, the two former a thousand pounds a-piece, the latter five hundred. Hume. History of England. an. 1629. APITPAT, a reduplication of Pat, to beat or strike. Applied to express the action of the heart in a moment of anxiety.

Sir J. Witt. O here a' comes. Ay, my Hector of Troy, welcome, my bully, my backe; egad my heart has gone apit-pat for thee.-Congreve. Old Bachelor.

APLACE. In place.

For there is but o god of all,

Whiche is the lorde of heuen and helle.
But if it like you to telle,

Howe suche goddes come aplace,

Ye might mochell thanke purchace.-Gower. Con. A. b. v. APLIGHT, perhaps In plight. In good plight or condition; in readiness, already prepared; completely equipped.

Anon, fire she a-light,
And warmed it well, aplight;
She gave it suck upon her barm,
And siththen, laid it to sleep warm.

Lay de Fraine. Ellis. Romances, vol. iii. Gif thou havest will to fight,

When ever thou wolt, let thee dight;
And thou shalt find me ready, aplight,

In the field to 'bide fight.-Sir Otuel. Id. Ib. vol. ii.
Nou is Edward of Carnarvan

King of Engelond al aplyht,
God lete him ner be worse man
Then his fader, ne lasse of myht.

Death of Edward I. Percy. Reliques, vol. ii. APOCALYPSE. Fr. Apocalypse; It. APOCALYPTICAL. Apocalisse,p. ApocaAPOCALYPTICK, adj. (lypsis; Lat. of lower APOCALYPTICK, n. ages, Apocalypsis; Gr. АTокаλUIS, ATо-каλUπт-EI, to uncover, to discover, (año, from; and кαλvπтew, to cover).

Disclosure, or discovery of things before close, or covered, hidden, or concealed;-revelation, manifestation.

zentences which limit and distinguish clearly God the fadir seynge the tribulaciouns whiche hooli and concisely ;—a precise, exact, sententious say-crist the stoon, disposide with the sone, and the hooli goost chirche was to suffre that was foundid of the apostlis on to schewe hem that me drede hem the lesse, and al the trynyte schewide it crist on his manheed, and crist to ioon bi an aungel, and ioon to hooli chirche, of which reuelacioun ioon made this book, wherfore this book is reid apocalips, that is to seie, reuelacioun.-Wiclif. Apocalips, Pref. p. 143.

Thaddeus Haggesius, in his Metoposcopia, hath certaine op derived from Saturne's lines in the forehead, by which he collects a melancholy disposition. Burton. Anat. of Melancholy, p. 59.

That false traitouresse vntrewe

Was like that salowe horse of hewe

That in the apocalips is shewed.-Chaucer. R. of the R.

O for that warning voice, which he, who saw
Th' Apocalypse, heard cry in heaven aloud,
Then when the Dragon, put to second rout,
Came furious down to be reveng'd on men,
Woe to the inhabitants on earth!-Milton. Par. Lost, b. iv.

A company of giddy heads will take upon them to define how many shall be saved, and who damned, in a parish; where they shall sit in heaven, interpret apocalypses, &c. Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 676.

It was concluded by some, that Providence designed him the apocalyptick angel, which should pour out one of the vials upon the beast.-Spenser. On Prodigies, p. 314.

The divine apocalyptick, writing after Jerusalem was ruined, might teach them what the second Jerusalem must be; not on earth, but from heaven.-Lightfoot. Misc. p. 107.

Besides these properties, they [the Jews] are light and giddy-headed, much symbolizing in spirit with our apocalyptical zealots, and fiery interpreters of Daniel and other prophets.-Howell, vol. i. Let. 6.

As if (forsooth) there could not be so much as a few houses fired, a few ships taken, or any other calamitous accident befall this little corner of the world, but that some apocalyptick ignoramus or other must presently find, and pick it out of some abused, martyred prophecy of Ezekiel, Daniel, or the Revelation.-South, vol. v. Ser. 2.

During the four months that he had spent at Clifton, he had employed himself in reading the Apocalypse with great attention; and from the impression made upon his own mind, by the grand, comprehensive views of that sublime and interesting book, he was anxious to stimulate others to acquaint themselves with its contents.

APOCRYPHA. APO'CRYPHAL. APOCRYPHICAL.

Hodgson. Life of Bishop Porteus.

Fr. Apocryphe; It. Apócrifo; Sp. Apocrifo; Lat. of lower ages, Apochryphus; Gr. ATокрUOп, ATо-крUTт-EIV, to hide from, (uno, from; and KрUTTEш, to hide).

Any thing hidden from; secreted. As the Apocrypha is not a canonical book, apocryphal is applied, consequentially

Not canonical, genuine, or authentic; spurious. (because they were wot to be reade, not openly and in comThe other [bookes] folowynge, which are called apocripha men, but as it were in secrete and aparte) are neyther founde in the Hebrue nor in the Chalde.

Bible, 1539. Apocrypha, Pref.

Now, besides the Scriptures, the bookes which they called ecclesiasticall, were thought not unworthy sometime to bee brought into publike audience; and with that name they entituled the bookes which we terme apocryphall.

Shat.

Hooker. Eccles. Politie, b. v. § 20.

This same duke is but
Apocryphal, there's no creation
That can stand where titles are not right.

Beaum. & Fletch. Noble Gentleman, Act iii.
"Tis mine to wash a few light stains; but theirs
To deluge sin, and drown a court in tears.
Howe'er, what's now apocrypha, my wit,
In time to come, may pass for holy writ.

Pope. Imit. of Donne, Sat. 4.

The bishops of this synod, destitute of scripture proof and authentic tradition for their image-worship, betook themselves to certain apocryphical and ridiculous stories, as Charles the Great observed.

Bp. Bull. Corrupt. of the Church of Rome.

A just interpretation of nature is the only sound and orthodox philosophy; whatever we add of our own, is apocryphal, and of no authority.-Reid. Inquiry, c. i. s. 1.

I do not determine whether this book [Ecclesiasticus] be canonical, as the Gallican church, till lately, has considered it, & apocryphal, as here it is taken. I am sure it contains a great deal of sense and truth.

Burke. On the French Revolution.

APODICTICAL. Gr. Amodeiĝis, from ɑжоAPODI'CTICK. SeikvVolai, to clear, or shew clear from, (año, and deiкvvoda, to shew.) That may be clearly shewn, made clear, plain, evident; and, consequentially

Clear, plain, evident, manifest.

This will no whit advantage him or prejudice me, unless he can bring out of the scripture some other places, which weekly Lord's day, than these are for the annual. are more apodictical evidences of apostolical law for the

Hammond. Works, vol. ii. p. 231. The argumentation is from a similitude, therefore not apodictick, or of evident demonstration. Robinson. Eudoxa, p. 23.

There is no apodictical argument to prove, that any par ticular man will die: but yet he must be more than mad, who can presume upon immortality here, when he finds so many generations all gone to a man.

APOLOGISE.
APOLOGISER.
APOLOGIST.

Wollaston. Religion of Nature, s. 3.

Fr. Apologie; It. Apologia; Sp. Apologia; Lat. of lower ages, Apologia; from Gr. Aroλoyiseσbai, from amo, and λέγειν, to

sav.

APO'LOGY. APOLOGETICK, adj. APOLOGETICAL. To speak in answer, to defend, to vindicate, to justify; now, more commonly, to excuse. See the quotation from Sir T. More.

For in ye booke that is called mine apology, it is not required by the nature of that name, that it be any aunswere or defence for mine own selfe at all: but it sufficeth that it be of mine owne making an aunswere or defence for some other.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 932.

Buck. Famous Plantagenet, most gracious prince, Lend favourable ear to our requests;

man.-I need say no more for the worth of a writing of that
nature. Certainly they are of excellent use. Cicero prettily
calleth them salinas, salt-pits, that you may extract salt out
of, and sprinkle it where you will. They serve to be inter-
laced in continued speech. They serve to be recited upon
occasion of themselves. They serve, if you take out the
kernel of them, and make them your own.
Bacon. Apophthegms.

And verily that apophthegmatical and powerfull speech of
theirs, [the Laconians] that grace which they had to answer
sententiously and with such gravity, together with a quick
and ready gift to meet at every turne with all objections,
they attained unto by nothing else but by their much
silence.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 167.

A poet or orator would have no more to do but to send to
the particular traders in each kind, to the ironist for his
sarcasms, and to the apothegmatist for his sentences, &c.
Pope. Art of Sinking in Poetry.

In a numerous collection of our Saviour's apophthegms,
many of them referring to sundry precepts of the Jewish
law, there is not to be found one example of sophistry, or of
false subtilty, or of any thing approaching thereunto.
Paley. Evidences, pt. ii. c. 2.
This sententious, apothegmatizing style, by crowding pro-
positions and paragraphs too fast upon the mind, and by
carrying the eye of the reader from subject to subject in too
Shakespeare. Rich. III. Act iii. sc. 7. quick a succession, gains not a sufficient hold upon the
attention, to leave either the memory furnished, or the un-
derstanding satisfied.-Id. Philosophy, vol. i. Pref.

And pardon vs the interruption

Of thy devotion, and right Christian zeale.
Glo. My lord, their needes no such apologie.

For now thou art enforc'd t' apologize
With foreign states, for two enormous things,
Wherein thou dost appear to scandalize
The public right, and common cause of kings.

Daniel, Civil War, b. iv.

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Apollonius himself was a clear and undoubted assertor of one Supreme Deity, as is evident from his apologetick oration in Philostratus, prepared for Domitian, in which he calls him, that God who is the maker of the whole universe, and of all things.-Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 269.

Soon after, a handsome apologetical letter was sent from the vice-chancellor to Sir W. Ralegh, setting forth, that the hard opinion he had conceived of them, made them doubt what manner of answer they might address to him without offence; and that their silence was so ill taken, they knew not how their endeavours to excuse it might give him satisfaction.-Oldys. Life of Sir W. Ralegh, p. 27.

The most ancient Apologist, of whose works we have the smallest knowledge, is Quadratus. Quadratus lived about 70 years after the Ascension, and presented his Apology to the Emperor Adrian.-Paley. Evidences, pt. iii. c. 5.

His apologisers labour to free him; laying the fault of the errors fathered upon him unto the charge of others.

Hanmer. l'iew of Antiquity.

My Lord Bacon, a much better apologist than I am, had obviated the objection made to Descartes long before this philosopher had writ.--Bolingbroke. Ess. on Human Know.

APOLOGUE. Į Of the same origin with A'POLOGUER. Apology; though differently applied. Apology being generally applied to that which is said in defence, and Apologue to that which is said, told, narrated against vice or error; and consequentially to explain or enforce moral principles.

They that intend charitably and conduct wisely, take occasions and proper seasons of reproof, they do it by way of question and similitude, by narrative and apologues, by commending something in him that is good, and discommending the same fault in other persons by way that may disgrace that vice, and preserve the reputation of the man. Bp. Taylor, vol. i. Ser. 25.

A mouse [saith an apologer] was brought up in a chest ; there fedde with fragments of bread and cheese, though there could bee no better meat, till comming forth at last, and feeding liberally of other variety of viands, loathed his former life.-Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 551.

In all ages of the world, there is nothing with which mankind hath been so much delighted as with those little fictitious stories, which go under the name of fables or apologues among the ancient heathens, and of parables in the sacred writings.-Porteus, vol. i. Lect. 11.

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A/POPLEX,
or A'POPLEXY.
APOPLE'CTICK, adj.
APOPLE'CTICK, n.
APOPLE CTICAL.

Fr. Apoplexie; It. Apo-
plessia Sp. Apoplexia;
Lat. Apoplexis; Gr. Aπo-
Angia, vehemens percus-
sio, a violent percussion,
blow or stroke, a deadly or mortal blow: from
АTоTANTт-Eш, percutere, to strike forcibly.
the quotation from Arbuthnot.

No apoplexie shent not hire hed.

Mar.

See

Chaucer. The Nonnes Preestes Tale, v. 14,847.
Meg. Has your Grace seen the Court Star, Galatea?
Pha. Out upon her she's as cold of her favours as an
apoplex-Beaum. & Fletch. Philaster, Act ii. sc. 1.
I am not well;
An apoplectick fit I use to have
After my heats in war carelessly coold.
Id. Four Plays. Honour.
Sense, sure, you have
Else, could you not have motion; but, sure that sense
Is apoplex'd.-Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act iii. sc. 4.

The nerves subside, and the faculty locomotive seems
abolished; as may be observed in the lifting or supporting
of persons inebriated, apoplectical, or in lypothimies and
soundings.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iv. c. 7.

Apoplexy is a sudden abolition of all voluntary motion, by the stoppage of the flux and reflux of the animal spirits, through the nerves destined for those motions.

APOSTASY, n.
APO'STATE, U.
APO'STATE, n.
APO'STATE, adj.
APO'STATIZE.
APOSTA'TICAL.

to stand.)

Arbuthnot. On Diet, c. 3. Fr. Apostasie; It. Apostasia; Sp. Apostasia; Lat. of lower ages, Apostasia, from the Gr. Αφιστασθαι, to stand away from, to depart; (aro, and iσTaσbai,

To stand away from; to depart, desert, or for-
sake; to revolt.

But Lucifer he put aweie,
With al the route apostasied
Of hem that ben to him alied,
Whiche out of heauen in to helle,

From angels in to fendes felle.-Gower. Con. A. b. viii.
The angels that by apostasie fell from God, when they
were in heauen wrought maistryes about it.

Bale. Image of both Churches.

Neither ought you, M. Hardinge, so deeply to be greeued and to call us apostates, and heretiques, for that wee haue reformed either our Churches to the paterne of that churche, or our selues to the example of those fathers.

Jewel. Defence of the Apologie, p. 32.

This province being visited with a great plague and mor

talitie, Sigher, with the people ouer whom he ruled, for-
himselfe, and many of his people, as well of the nobles as of
saking Christes religion, fell to apostasie, for both the king
the meaner sort, beganne to renue their temple, which had
stood desolate, they worshipped their idols, as though they
could by that meanes haue escaped the mortalitie.
Stow. Chronicles, East Saxons.

And, to add to affliction, the remembrance
Of the Elysian joys thon might'st have tasted,
Hadst thou not turn'd apostata to those gods
That so reward their servants.

Massinger. Virgin Martyr, Act iv. sc. 3.

High in the midst, exalted as a God,
The apostate in his sun-bright chariot sat,
Idol of majesty divine, enclos'd
With flaming cherubim, and golden shields.
Millon. Paradise Lost, b. vi.
Perhaps some of these apostating stars have thought
themselves true: let their miscarriage make me heedful.
Bp. Hall. Occ. Meditations.

That the church of Rome is itself; that is, a church, that it is visible, that it is truly existent, there can be no doubt : but is it still a part of the truly existent visible church of Christ? Surely, no otherwise than a heretical and apostatical church is and may be.-Id. Reconciler.

As force is inconsistent with the nature of religion in general, and still more opposite to the spirit of Christianity in particular, so it is in Scripture, still further, made the distinguishing character of the great apostacy foretold by Christ and his Apostles.-Clarke, vol. i. Ser. 114.

What a wretched and apostate state is this! to be offended with excellence, and to hate a man because we approve him. Spectator, No. 19. The idolatry of the Church in her Apostacies, is represented as the adultery of a married woman.

Horsley, vol. i. Ser. 5.

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In opening an apostem by incision, you ought to take care that the apertion be made in that place where the matter is most contained, the skin being for the most part thinnest there.-Wiseman. Chirurgical Treatises, b. i. c. 2.

I viewed her breast, and saw it very big and inflamed. and felt it all apostemated, and the matter perfectly weil suppurated.-Id. Ib. c. 4.

The medicaments generally prescribed in such cases, arc of a cooling humecting quality, not too much astringent. lest you dry the skin, and prohibit transpiration; and the humour included become sharp, corroding the parts, or stir up apostemation.-Id. Ib. b. i. c.6.

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For as Chryste lokyng vp into Heauen, declared that h taughte nothyng, but that came from the heauenly father so the Apostolycall men as often as they sawe the people t depend of their mouthe, with a plaine and a simple fayth they shuld purpose nothyng vnto them, whiche they ha not receiued of Christ -Udal. Math. c. 14.

That I so am, [a minister of Christ] I declared neithe with high loke, nor with taking of presentes, nor by brag ging of my kindred, but by suche meanes as euidetly proue mine apostolique spirit.-Id. 2 Cor. c. 11.

Although deacons and priests have part of these offices, a! therefore (though in a very limited sense) they may be called successores Apostolorum, to wit, in the power of baptiring, consecrating the Eucharist, and preaching, yet the Apostolate and Episcopacy, which did communicate in all the wer, and offices which are ordinary and perpetual, are in Scripture clearly all one in ordinary ministration.

Bp. Taylor. Episcopacy Asserted, s. 4.

"You know, brother, [says Mr. Calvin,] that the fashion is otherwise with us: I bear with it because it is not profitable to contend:" a charitable rule, and worthy to be universal; and indeed little other than apostolical.

Bp. Hall. Peace-Maker.

He that is rightly and apostolically sped with her [the churches) invisible arrow, if he can be at peace in his soul, and not smell within him the brimstone of hell, may have fair leave to tell all his bags over undiminished of the least farthing-Milton. Ref. in England.

He undertakes to conclude,-1. The right of the papacy to supreme universal monarchy. 2. The infallibility and apostolicalness of every article of the modern Roman faith, and both these with that irrefragable evidence of conviction, that belongs to grounds.-Hammond. Works, vol. ii. p. 190. Tis well worth remarking upon this place, that the promise, ye shall sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Irael, was made to the Apostles at that time when Judas was yet one of that number; and consequently, the promise was as much made to him as to any of the rest. From wance it follows undeniably, that he was not predestinated necesarily to be a traitor, but fell from his Apostleship, and from his right to this promise, by his after-voluntary transpression.-Clarke, vol. ii. Ser. 138.

Last, in the papal standard, they display

The triple crown, and apostolic key;

Sev a thousand valiant Romans march behind,
And great Camillo had the charge assign'd.

Brooke. Jerusalem Delivered, b. i.

Having no general apostolical mission, being a citizen of a particular state, and being bound up, in a considerable degree. by its public will, I should think it, at least, improper and irregular for me to open a formal public correspondence the actual government of a foreign nation.

Burke. On the French Revolution.

APOSTROPHE, Fr. Apostropher; It. APOSTROPHIZE. Apostrofo; Sp. Apostrofe; APOSTROPHICK. Lat. Apostrophe ; Gr. Aroorpoon, aversio, from aroσтpepe, to turn away; (amo, and σтpepew, to turn.) See the quotation from Beattie.

The construction of words; whereunto apostrophus, an affection of words coupled and joined together, doth belong.

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Of thought, whiche in mine herte falleth,
Whan it is night myn heade appalleth;
And that is for I see hir nought,
Whiche is the waker of my thought.-Gower. Con. A. b.iv.

The answere that ye made to me, my dere,
When I did sue for my poore hartes redresse,
Hath so appaide my countnance, and my chere,
That in this case, I am all comfortlesse.

Wyatt. To his Love on her Refusal.

& amonge other of his famous dedis, he [Ereōbertus] reuyued and quickened agayn the fayth of Crist, yt in some placis of his kyngedome was sore appallyd.-Fabyan, c. 133. A grieuous disease came upon Seuerus, being sore appalled with age, so that he was constrained to keepe his chamber, and send Antonius unto the warres. Slow. Chronicles. The Romaynes.

Dolp. Bastard of Orleans, thrice welcome to us. Bast. Me thinks your looks are sad, your cheere appal'd. Hath the late overthrow wrought this offence? Be not dismay'd, for succour is at hand.

Shakespeare. 1 Part Hen. VI. Act i. sc. 2. It was rather an execution, than a fight vpon them; insomuch as the furious slaughter of them was a great discouragement and appalement to the rest.

Bacon. Hen. VII. p. 35. Does neither rage inflame, nor fear appall? Not the black fear of death that saddens all? Pope. Horace, b. ii. Ep. 2. She came with speed in her steps, and eagerness in her eye, and said, "Give me here John the Baptist's head in a

4th is the rejecting of a vowel from the beginning charger." This savage request appalled even the unfeeling

er ending of a word.-B. Jonson. English Gram. b. ii. c. 1.

There is a peculiarity in Homer's manner of apostrophiting Eumæus, and speaking of him in the second person; it as generally applied only to men of account and distinction. Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. xiv. v. 41. Note. How absurd would it appear, in our temperate and calm speakers, to make use of an apostrophe, like that noble one of Demosthenes, so much celebrated by Quintillian and Longiata, when justifying the unsuccessful battle of Chæronea, he breaks out. No, my fellow-citizens, no; you have not erred. I swear by the manes of those heroes, who fought for the same cause in the plains of Marathon and Piatra-Home. Ess. On Eloquence.

Apostrophe is a sudden change in our discourse; when, without giving previous notice, we address ourselves to a person or thing different from that to which we were addressing ourselves before.

Beattie. Elements of Moral Science, pt. iv. c. 1. Sometimes when the singular terminates in ss, the apostrophica is not added: as for goodness' sake. Murray. Grammar, pt. ii. c. 3. Alas! Tem! thou smilest no more, cried the corporal, Poking on one side of him upon the ground, as if he apostrephazed him in his dungeon.-Sterne. Trist. Shandy. APPA'IR. The common word now is impair, 1qv.)

To make or become worse, or less; to lessen, to weaken, to injure.

As a nywe Herodes in such poer he com,
And yp ys poer destrude and apeyrede Cristendom.
R. Gloucester, p. 279.
For our state it apeires, without any reson,
& tille alle our heires grete disheriteson.

R. Brunne, p. 290. But whiche thingis weren to me wynnyngis, I haue med these apeyryngis for crist. nethelesse I gesse alle things to be pryrement for the cleer science of iesus crist ylord, for whom I made alle thingis peyrement, and I

as dryt, that I wynne erist.-Wiclif. Filipensis, c. 3. Witen ghe not that a litil sourdow apeyreth al the gobet. Id. 1 Corynth, c. 5.

It is a sinne, and eke a gret folic,
Te porn any man, or him defame,
And the to bringen wives to swiche a name.
Chaucer. The Miller's Prologue, v. 3149.

heart of Herod himself.-Porteus, vol. ii. Lect. 14.
Smiling ferocious, with impatient haste
Striding, and brandishing his massy spear.
Him [Ajax] view'd the Greeks exulting; with appal
The Trojans; and with palpitating heart
Ev'n Hector.
Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. vi.

A'PPANAGE. Fr. Apanage, Appannage, Appennage; Law Lat. Appenagium, Appanagium. Menage and Caseneuve have written fully upon the origin of this word. Spelman favours the opinion, that Pana-gium is from Panis; or, if the word is properly written, Appenagium, he is inclined to believe it formed Ab, appendendo, quasi Appendagium junioris filii.

Age, the termination (Lat. Agium), he suggests, may be from Ag-ere, signifying, in composition, Actus, exhibitio, vel ministerium rei; Aquagium, he adds, from Festus, quasi Aquæ agium, id est, Aquæ ductus. In like manner, Homagium, actus vel ministerium hominis. Terragium, tributum quod terræ agit, hoc est exhibet. The root is not improbably the same A. S. Ec, eac, uc, (see AGE), denoting something added, put to or upon, imposed; charged upon.

Our old law language abounds with words in this termination. Wallis thinks we have it imSee mediately from the Latin termination atio. AVERAGE, BEACONAGE, &c. &c.-Appanage is, The portion of a younger brother in France: lands, &c. assigned to younger sons, or brethren. See further in Cotgrave and Spelman. Lord Bacon calls the earldom of Chester a kind of appanage to Wales, which used to go to the king's son. Swift uses the word metaphorically.

With Pæan's purest fire his favourites glow,
The dregs will serve to ripen ore below;
His meanest work: for, had he thought it fit
That wealth should be the appannage of wit,
The God of light could ne'er have been so blind,
To deal it to the worst of human kind.

Swift. Ep. to Mr. Gay, 1731.

APPARATUS. Lat. Apparatus, a preparation. This Latin word is in common use, to denote

Things prepared or provided, collectively; preparation, provision, orderly disposition or arrange

ment.

This goodly apparatus of the universe thus objectively derived to his understanding, furnisheth it with an outward stock, upon which it may trade and exercise it self with great delight and advantage.-Halc. Orig. of Mankind, p.366.

The apprehension of but a vein to be opened is worse to some, than the apparatus to an execution is to others. Wollaston. Religion of Nature, s. 5.

APPAREL, v. APPAREL, n.

APPA'RAYLMENT.

Fr. Appareiller, from the Latin, Apparare, to prepare. See Junius.

To prepare, to provide, to furnish, to dress, to array, to clothe, to invest.

The erle was fulle quaynte, did mak a rich galeie,
With fourscore armed knyghtes, in suilk apperaille dight,
That so riche armes was neuer sene with sight.

R. Brunne, p. 54.
Ich shal aparaile me. quath Perkyn in pylgrymes wyse
And wende wit alle tho. that wolle lyve in Treuthe
He cast on hym hus clothes.-Piers Plouhman, p. 131.
And whanne sum men seiden of the temple that it was
aparelid with goode stoones, and giftis he seide, &c.
Wiclif. Luke, c. 21.

He said to his countrey mote him saile,
And there he would her wedding apparaile.

Chaucer. Legend of Phillis.

In vengeaunce taking, in werre, in bataille, and in warnestoring, er thou beginne, I rede that thou appareile thee therto, and do it with gret deliberation. For Tullius sayth, that longe appareilling tofore the bataille, maketh short victorie.--Chaucer. Tale of Melibeus.

They be sinnes sothely: eke, if he apparaille his mete more deliciously than nede is, or 'ete it to hastily by likerousnesse.-Id. The Persones Tale.

The maiden is ready for to ride,
In a full rich aparaylment,

Of samyte green, with mickle pride
That wrought was in the orient.

Morte Arthur. Ellis. Romances, vol. i.

York. Tut, tut, here is a mannerly forbearance.
The truth appeares so naked on my side,
That any purblind eye may find it out,

Som. And on my side it is so well apparrell'd,
So cleare, so shining, and so euident,

That it will glimmer through a blind man's eye.

Shakespeare. Henry VI. Act ii. sc. 4.

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy ;
But not exprest in fancie; rich, not gawdie:
For the apparell oft proclaimes the man.

Id. Hamlet, Act i. sc. 3.

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to be.

Apparent, adj. Seeming, seen, visible.

Another rowned to his felaw low,
And sayd, he lieth, for it is rather like
An apparence ymade by som magike,
As jogelours plaien at thise festes grete.

Chaucer. The Squiere's Tale, v. 10,582.

So that feignyng of light thei werke
The dedes, whiche are inwarde derke.
And thus this double hypocrisie,
With his deuoute apparancie
A vyser set vpon his face.

He made Edwyn his leutenant,
Whiche heire was apparant,
That he the londe in his absence
Shall rewle.

Gower. Con. A. b. i.

Id. Ib. b. ii.

But we preache of a heauenly wisdome, which hath not an outeward apparance of that, which is not within it: but is inwardlye mighty and effectuall.-Udal. 1 Corin. c. 2.

And yet yf the thyng yt thei require would content them: it hath not lacked. For there hath in euery country and in euery age apparisions bene had, & well knowen and testifyed, by whiche men haue had sufficient reuelacion and proofe of purgatorige.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 325.

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