Once more, harmonious, strike the sounding string, Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. viii. She found the polish'd glass whose small convex The mite, invisible else, of Nature's hand J. Philips. Cider, b. i. As he was not vain enough to think, that any Bill he coald fabricate would be perfect, or that a Bill containing so large a number of various regulations would not call for much discussion, and even some alteration, he certainly would give due time for gentlemen to consider the subject. Fox. Speech on the East India Bills, (Nov. 27, 1783.) The very idea of the fabrication of a new government, is enough to fill us with disgust and horrour. Burke. On the French Revolution. The Revolution Society, the fabricators of governments, the heroick band of cashierers of monarchs, electors of sovereigns, and leaders of kings in triumph, strutting with a proud consciousness of the diffusion of knowledge, of which every member had obtained so large a share in the donative, were in haste to make a generous diffusion of the knowledge they had thus gratuitously received.-Id. Ib. The distracted inhabitants of the world will fly to us for sanctuary, driven out of their countries from the dreadful consequence of not attending to seasonable reforms in government; victims to the folly of suffering corruptions to continue, till the whole fabric of society is dissolved and tumbles into ruin.-Erskine. Trial of Thomas Hardy. FA BURDEN. Fr. Faux-bourdon, which Cotgrave calls, the drone of a bag-pipe. Nor the great belles he ronge after that, nor yet the freshe liscante, prycksonge, counter point, and faburden be called for; in the whiche are the verye synagoge of Sathan. Bale. Image, pt. iii. What is the cause that it was a custom among the maidens of the Botticans in their dancing, to sing, as it sere, the faburden of a song: Go we to Athens. Holland. Plutarch, p. 735. FACE, v. Fr. Face It. Faccia; Sp. FACE, n. Haz; Lat. Facies, from facere, to FA'CING, n. do, to make. Facies proprie idem FACADE. sit, quod factura, say Vossius and Nonius. Facies est forma omnis et modus, et actura quædam corporis totius; a faciendo dicta, Aul. Gellius, xxiii. 29.) The whole form and nanner, and the make or composition of the whole rame or body; so called from facere, to form or rame. Face, the noun, is The general form or appearance. Then applied to, the exterior or superficial apearance; the front view, the countenance; the ront or forepart of the head; and also, emphatially, to a good, confident, or bold face, with a ubaudition of the adjectives. But since she did neglect her looking-glasse, Shakespeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act iv. sc. 4. Or do you think Your tawny coats, with greasy facings here Webster. The Dutchesse of Malfy, Act iii. sc. 2. On the 26th of this, [October,] was this murderer hanged, for more terror, at Charing Cross, in the very face of the court, though five hundred crowns had been offered by the strangers, his country men, to save his life. Strype. Memorials. Queen Mary, an. 1554. The times were no more, when a Dryden or a Swift, in support of ministers and courts, alone faced legions, and fought them with advantage. Maty. Memoirs of Lord Chesterfield, s. 4. While the men wore shoes so long and picked, that they were forced to support the points by chains from their middle; the ladies erected such pyramids on their heads, that the face became the center of the body. Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. c. 2. FACET. Fr. Facette, diminutive of face; a small face or surface. Honour, that is gained and broken upon another, hath the quickest reflection; like diamonds cut with fascets. Bacon. Ess. Of Honour & Reputation. FACE/TE, adj. FACE'TELY. FACE TENESS. FACE TIOUS. FACE TIOUSLY. Fr. Facétieux; It. Facetioso, faceto; Lat. Facetus, which Donatus thinks is from Facere; facetus est, qui facit verbis, quod vult. Aliis facetus, quia imitando se alium facit. But Perottus, inasmuch as facetic has respect to words and not to deeds, derives from fari, to speak. FACE TIOUSNESS. Facetiousness implies, good humour or cheerfulness combined with wit. Barrow (see the quotation from him) gives an elaborate and copious description of it. (Sermon against Foolish Talking or Jesting.) Lodovicus Suessanus, a facete companion, disswaded him to the contrary.-Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 149. They are the chiefe seats of love, and as James Lernutius hath facetely expressed in an elegant ode of his, &c. Id. Ib. p. 461. Parables do not only by their plainness open the understanding, but they work upon the affections, and breed delight of hearing by the reason of that faceteness and wittiness which is many times found in them, by reason of which they insinuate themselves, and creep into us, and ere we are aware work that end for which they were delivered. Hale. Rem. Ser. Luke, xviii. 1. Next, the word politician is not used to his maw, and Façade,-It. Facciata; Fr. Façade, facies do- thereupon he plays the most notorious hobby horse, jesting us, the front or frontispiece of a house;-a comon term in architecture. That blod adoun wende So vaste in eye, and in face, that hym ney ablende. Solinus speketh of a wonder kinde, Gower, Con. A. b. iii. I have here in thys fyrst part alreadye broughte you for e trewe fayth of the Catholike churche, agaynst your false resy, wherewith you would face our Sauiour out of the essed sacrament: I haue brought agaynst you to your ice, Saint Bede, and Theophylacius. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1132. For there thou needs must learne to laugh, to lie, Spenser. Mother Hubberd's Tale. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkess, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowedge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Bible. 2 Cor. iv. 6. His [Thomas Bastard's] discourses were always pleasant and facete, which made his company desired by all ingenious men.-Wood. Athena Oxon. In deliberations and debates about affairs of great importance, the simple manner of speaking to the point is the proper, easie, clear, and compendious way: facetious speech there serves onely to obstruct and entangle business, to lose time, and to protract the result.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 14. B. answers very facetiously: I must own that a command to lend, hoping for nothing again, and a command to borrow, without returning any thing again, seem very different commands.-Waterland. Works, vol. vi. p. 86. But first it may be demanded, What the thing we speak of is, or what this facetiousness doth import? To which question I might reply, as Democritus did to him that asked the definition of a man, 'Tis that which we all see and know any one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, than I can inform him by description. Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 14. On the reputation, however, of that education, by his singing, excellent mimickry, and facetious spirit, he [Worsdale] gained many patrons and business, and was appointed master-painter to the Board of Ordnance. Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iv. c. 3. Magnificent in his living, reserved in his conversation, grave in his common deportment, but relaxing with a wise facetiousness, he [William I.] knew how to relieve his mind and preserve his dignity. Burke. Abridgement of English History, an. 1087. FACILE. FACILENESS. FA'CILY. FACILITATE, V. FACILITATION. FACILITY. Fr. Facile; It. Facile; Sp. Facil; Lat. Facilis, contracted from facibilis, that can or may be done; and thus, easy to be done, easily done. Easy to be done or made, performed or accomplished; and applied to persons who have no hard or harsh, austere or repulsive qualities; who are affable, easy of access; easily persuaded or prevailed upon. The principal cause of this my lyttell enterpryse, is to declare an induction or meane, howe children of gentyll nature or disposition may be trayned into the way of vertue with a pleasant facilite.-Sir T. Elyot. Governor, c. 22 And let ourselues againe but vnderstand, If from this houre Milton. Paradise Lost, b. iv. His royall person, that he shooke shoutes from the Greekes, with thirst, That he should conquer though hee flew. Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. xxiii. They persuade themselves that your majesty [K. of Denmark] for this reason, will take those counsels in reference to this republic, which may facilitate the good success of those things propounded by your majesty to ourselves so desirous of your amity.-Milton. Let. of State, April, 1652. A generall habit of sincerity, when it is referred to religious uses, proves a facilitation towards fidelity and perseverence in them. Mountague. Devoute Essayes, pt. i. Treat. 10. s. 6. P. Broth. Yes, yes, yes, she'll take still; she has a kind of facility in taking. How comes your hand bloody, sir? Middleton. A Mad World, my Masters, Act iii. And when once a man hath attained to such a sense of God as this is, all other acts of piety will be facile and easy to him for indeed he cannot but exert them. Beveridge, vol. ii. Ser. 91. Upon occasion of this communication, the ambassadors mixt such discourse as might serve to facilitate somewhat more to be attained of that court for the said college [Oxon.] Strype. Memorials. Hen. VIII. an. 1528. Which, though of divers kinds, may (to add towards the facilitations of trials) be made of a very conspicuous colour, by the self-same metal, copper.-Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 497. It breeds up a nursery of watermen, which upon occasion will prove good seamen ; and with much facility maintaine intercourse and communion between cities and countries. Parl. Hist. Chas. II. an. 1664. The Speaker's Speech. Obedience becomes facile, and facility communicates the pleasures of habit.-Cogan. Ethical Treat. pt. ii. Dis. 2. c. 3. If terms were offered to the Americans before it was too late, they might perhaps accept them: at least it would be doing no more than justice required at our hands; it would detach many of them from the congress, and by dividing them, facilitate a conquest. Fox. Speech. On the King's Speech, 18th Nov. 1777. It is evident that the earliest searchers after knowledge must have proposed knowledge only as their reward; and that science, though perhaps the nurseling of interest, was the daughter of curiosity: for who can believe that they who first watched the course of the stars, foresaw the use of their discoveries to the facilitation of commerce, or the mensura tion of time?-Rambler, No. 103. Some gentlemen are not terrified by the facility with which government has been overturned in France. Burke. Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs. FACINOROUS. Lat. Facinorosus, formed from facinus, oris; and this, from fac-ere, to do ;any act or deed; subsequently applied, to a wicked act or deed. Wicked, to an excess. See an example from Feltham in v. Epidemick. And although in ye adepcion and obteining of ye garlāde I being seduced and prouoked by sinister cousail and diabolical temptació did commyt a facynerous and detestable acte.-Hall. Rich. III. an. 3. FACT. FACTION. FACTIONARY. FACTIONER. FACTIONIST. FACTIOUS. FACTIOUSLY. FACTIOUSNESS. FACTITIOUS. FACTIVE. FACTOR. FACTORESS. FACTORY. FACTURE. FACULTY. Fr. Faict or Fait; It. Fatto; Sp. Hecho; Lat. Factum, from Facere, to do; any thing done. (The Lat. Ag-ere, aug-ere; Gr. Ay-ew, appear to be the Goth. Auc-an; A. S. Eac-an; and the Lat. Facere (c, hard; -fag-ere, g, hard) to be the A. S. Feg-an,itself formed of the A. S. Eacan, to eke, and the prefix, Be, successively corrupted into pe, p, ph, (,) ƒ¡-thus, f-eac-an, f-eg-an. See F, and FAG.) Fact, any thing do-ed or done; a deed, an act. Faction, applied to those who would do one thing in opposition to those who would do another. A party. Facultas (from the obsolete facul) and facilitas (from facilis,) (see FACILE,) were originally the same, and only distinguished by usage. Facultates, sunt aut quibus facilius fit, aut sine quibus omnino confici non potest. (Cic. de Inven. lib. ii. 40.) Faculty, is that by which any thing may be done more easily, or without which it cannot be done at all; power, ability, capability. It is applied to the professors or practitioners of a science to the science; as the faculty of medicine. For unto swiche a worthy man as he Accordeth nought, as by faculte, To haven with sike lazars acquaintance. Chaucer. The Prologue, v. 244. For it is no godly poyncte for to cast a man headlong into the ryuer, yt by deliueryng of him thou mayest seme to be a man of great feacts: but it is a godly thing to plucke out him yt chaunce is fallen in.-Udal. Matthew, c. 4. In Gallea, not onely in all cityes, and in al villages, and al quarters, but also almost in euerye house are factions. And the heades of theis factions are they, whom they esteme worthyest to have it.-Goldyng. Cæsar, fol. 153. But because he liued not longe, he coulde not proceede farre in his factious doinges, which tainted the Romaine prelates shamefully at this time especiallye. Bale. The Pageant of Popes, fol. 60. Therfor muste they be more cleane than the other, for they are the factours, or bayliffes of God.-Id. Apol. fol. 74. First it is to be vnderstood, that the ships for the voyage to St. Nicholas, in Russia, in which the factors and merchandize for the Persian voiage were transported, departed from Grauesend the 19th of June, 1579, which arrived at S. Nicholas in Russia, the 22d of July, where the factors and merchants landed, and merchandize were discharged. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 419. He was one of them that had the charge of the kinge's person, a valyant man of warre, and yet more famous in the faculties of peace.-Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 277. When he who most excells in fact of arms, In what he counsels and in what excels Mistrustful, grounds his courage on despair And utter dissolution, as the scope Of all his aim, after some dire revenge. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ii. I sing the civil wars, tumultuous broils, Upon themselves turn back their conq'ring hand. I see zealous professors transformed to key-cold worldlings; reformed Catholicks turned to Romish factionists. Bp. Hall. The Estate of a Christian. A Sermon. This speech of his, the lesse that it favoured of factious partialitie and affection, the more auctoritie and sway it carried with it.-Holland. Livivs, p. 528. Glasses are sometime made hereof, and it becomes the chiefest ground for artificial and factitious gemms. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. i. c. 1. Your majesty is a king whose heart is as unscrutable for secret motions of goodness, as for depth of wisdom. You ere creator-like, factive, and not destructive. Bacon. To the King, (James I.) Let. 276. My factor sends me word a merchant's fled Heere [Sofala] the Portugals haue on a little island I scent your cruel mercies, Ford. The Fancies, Chaste & Noble, Act iii. sc. 2. And as to the diversity of parts, there is no doubt but the facture or framing of the inward parts is as full of difference as the outward.-Bacon. On Learning, b. ii. Her soul is so immense, And her strong faculties so apprehensive, Massinger. The Emperor of the East, Acti. sc. 1. Id. The Bashful Lover, Act iv. sc. 1. In a body, when the blood is fresh, the spirits pure and vigorous, not only to vital, but to rational faculties, and those in the acutest, and the pertest operations of wit and suttlety, it argues in what good plight and constitution the body is.-Milton. Of Unlicensed Printing. This Duncane Hath borne his faculties so meeke. Shakespeare. Macbeth, Acti. sc. 7. It would have been absurd to allege, in preaching to unbelievers, a fact which itself presupposed the truth of Christ's mission; and which could not have been proved without first taking for granted the truth of that very doctrine, in proof of which this fact was to have been alleged. Clarke, vol. ii. Ser. 69. Not that Paul, and Apollos, and Cephas, were themselves the persons, about whom the factions were really raised: but, (as may well be gathered from what he adds at the conclusion,) he puts the case of other teachers in his own, and Peter's, and Apollo's name; that under that representation, he might reprove the unreasonableness of the Corinthian factions, the more inoffensively and the more effectually. Id. Ser. 139. All the factioners had entered into a seditious conspiracy. Bp. Bancroft. Dangerous Positions. He [Dr. Stile] was a man of courage and spirit, and kept a strict hand over the growing factionists. Strype. Life of Abp. Whilgift, an. 1576. Christianity is an humble, quiet, peaceable, and orderly religion; not noisy or ostentatious, not assuming or censorious, not factious or tumultuous; they who think other wise of it, are altogether strangers to it. Waterland. Works, vol. vi. p. 376. Lord Hyde. You of the jury, you see the indictment is for causing a libellous and seditious book to be printed, under such a title, that is, "The Speeches and Prayers, &c. :" it is for causing this, seditiously, factiously, and wickedly, to be printed; and for selling and publishing it abroad to the king's people.-State Trials. Sim. Dover & others, an. 1663. If our work and office be attended with this difficulty, sure it is your duty to pity us, to pray for us, to encourage us by all possible ways and means, to the vigorous performance of it; at least not to add to our load, or discourage us, either by your wayward factiousness, or stubborn profaneness, or sacrilegious injustice.-Bp. Bull, vol. i. Ser. 6. The king, about a year after, seemed to make him his merchant, and granted him a licence, under the name of Sir Anthony Guidot, his factors and attorneys, to transport and carry over beyond seas woollen cloths, and kersies, &c. Strype. Mem. Edw. VI. an. 1549. For gain has wonderful effects, T'improve the factory of sects.-Hudibras, pt. iii. c. 2. For man's natural powers and faculties, even as they were before the fall, entire, were not sufficient or able of themselves to reach such a supernatural end, but needed the power of the divine Spirit to strengthen, elevate, and raise them thereunto.-Bp. Bull, vol. ii. Disc. 5. It is true, that one man is charmed with Don Bellianis, and reads Virgil coldly: whilst another is transported with the Eneid, and leaves Don Bellianis to children. These two men seem to have a taste very different from each other; but in fact they differ very little.-Burke. On Taste, Introd. The members of the court faction are fully indemnified for not holding places on the slippery heights of the kingdem, not only by the lead in all affairs, but also by the perfect security in which they enjoy less conspicuous, but very advantageous situations.-Id. On the Present Discontents. Another thing will be of use to the administration, which is, that factious and seditious spirit that has appeared of late, in petitions, associations, &c. which shocks all sober thinking people, and will hinder them from going so far as otherwise they would have gone. Chesterfield. Miscell. Works, vol. iv. Let. 91. The opposition, whether patriotically or factiously, contending that the ministers had been oblivious of the national glory, and had made improper sacrifices of that publick interest, which they were bound not only to preserve, but by all fair methods to augment.-Burke. Reg. Peace, Let. 3. I have added sweets, from which our factitious wines are made.-Id. Ib. The house in Leadenhall-street is nothing more than a change for their agents, factors, and deputies to meet in, to take care of their affairs, and support their interests. Id. On Mr. Fox's East India Bill. Instead of this, he totally sequestered himself from his country; and, abandoning all appearance of state, he took up his residence in an ordinary house, which he purchased in the suburbs of the Company's factory at Madras. Id. Speech on the Nabob of Arcot's Debts, Adv. With boundless will Let Self maintain her state and empire still, But let her, with more worthy objects caught, Strain all the faculties and force of thought To things of higher daring.-Churchill. The Conference. The obstinacy of Lord Chesterfield's deafness, which increased every day, and disqualified him more and more for society, had induced him to yield to the repeated advice of the faculty, to try whether any benefit could be obtained from a journey to Spa.-Maty. Mem. of L. Chesterfield, s. 6. FACUND. From Lat. Fari, to speak. Fa. FACUNDOUS.cundus, so said, quia facile ornateque fatur, (Vossius.) And thus equivalent toEloquent, (qv.) Discrete she was in answering alway, To semen wise.-Chaucer. The Doctoures Tale, v. 11,954. Id. Dreame This Richard was a man of meruelous qualities, and f cundious facions.-Hall. Hen. VI. an. 33. FA'DING, n. FA'DELESS. Kilian says Vadden, deflorere, deflorescere, flacces cere; Eng. to fade. Vaddig, flaccidus; Fr. Fade; Eng. Faded. Junius derives from the Fr. Fade, insipidus; ar this he and Menage from the Lat. Fatuus. our older writers the word is also written with r,Vade. See the quotation from the Mirror for Magistrates, and the last from Udal. To decay, to decrease, to languish; to wither, to expire; to wither away, to vanish, to disappear. So feble and eke so olde was she, That faded was all her beautie.-Chaucer. Rom. of the B And saw comyng ageine his chare, Gower. Con. 4. b. iv. Id. Ib. b. i. My writhled cheekes bewraye that pride of heate is past. My stag'ring steppes eke tell the trueth, that nature jade Gascoigne. The Divorce of a Loser But it [your minde] shall despise these vile and fading thinges.-Udal. Matthew, c. 6. fast. It is a naughty chaunge or alteracion of thinges, whe s man falleth again from the loue of the goodes of the soule, to the desyre of the goodes of the body: from true riches to vayne and deceyuable riches: from euerlastyng commed ties, to fading and transitory.-Id. Marke, c. 10. That if God dooe with so great prouydence clothe a blade euen commōly growing euerie where, and anon after tr and perishe awaie, and such a blade as this daie is freas and greene in the field, and the next morow whan it is drie vp, is cast into ye fournace mouth to be burned: how much more wil he not suffer you to be vnclothed, O ye of litel fa Id. Luke, c. 1 Beauties freshest greene When spring of youth is spent, will rade, as it had nenes been; The barren fields, which whilom flower'd as they would neuer fade, Inricht with Summer's golden gifts, which now been a decay'd, Did shew in state there was no trust, in wealth no cer taine stay, One stormie blast of frowning chance could blow them Mirrour for Magistrates, p away. With greedy eye He sought, all round about, his thirsty blade What stony hart, that hears thy haplesse fate, Mountague. Devoute Essayes, pt. ii. Treat. ii. s. 3. Jove, with his faded thunder I despise, And only fear the lightning of your eyes. Dryden. Ovid. Metam. b. xiii. My glory [Virgil] by thy skill shall brighter shine With native charmes and energy divine! Britain with just applause the work shall read, And crown with fadeless bays thy sacred head. Needler. To the Earl of Roscommon. Tar-water being made in an earthen vessel unglazed, or that hath lost part of its glazing, may extract, (as it is a strong menstruum) from the clay, a fade sweetishness, offensive to the palate. Bp. Berkeley. Farther Thoughts on Tar-water. Know, first, that light displays and shade destroys Refulgent nature's variegated dyes. Any coarser or inferior material or workmanship; any thing coarser or inferior. Fag, the verb and noun, though common in speech, (especially at our public schools,) are not so in writing. Fag-end, the end finished or worked off with inferior materials or workmanship, or both; and thus, (met. and lit.) the part or portion less valued or esteemed; of less value or estimation, consideration or consequence. Spun. Who should think that we, coming forth of the fagend of the world, should yet see the golden age, when so little silver is stirring. Massinger. The Virgin-Martyr, Act ii. sc. 3. The dry fag-ends of ev'ry obvious doubt, FA'GOT, v. Fr. Fagoter, fagot; It. Fagotto. FA'GOT, n. Skinner, from the Lat. Fascis, (sc.) ligni; Menage, from Pakeλos, i. e. PopтLOV Evλwv; Caseneuve, from the Lat. Fagus, a beech tree, fagots (he imagines) being first made of that wood. The It. Faggetto is a plantation of beech Mason. Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting. trees. Perhaps from A. S. Feg-an, to put together. (See FADGE.) It is (like the Lat. Fascis) applied Thus bodies near the light distinctly shine With rays direct, and as it fades decline. Survey those walls, in fady texture clad, Shenstone. Economy, pt. iii. FADGE. Ger. Fugen; Dut. Voeghen, focken; A. S. Feg-an, "gefeg-an, componere, jungere, to compound or compose, to set, put or joyn togeher; it. quadrare, to agree, to serve aptly in a lace. Hence, happily, our Fadge; as when we ay, things will not fadge, i. they will not be rought together, they will not so suit, correspond or agree, as to serve to that end whereto they are designed," (Somner.) See FAG. "It hath beene when as heartie loue Warner. Albion's England, b. iv. c. 29. Drayton. Pastorals, Ecl. 3. If this Scotch garboils do not fadge to our minds, we will ell-mell run amongst the Cornish choughs presently, and I a trice.-Ford. Perkin Warbeck, Act iv. sc. 2. Yet they shall be made, spite of antipathy, to fadge togeer, and combine as they may to their unspeakable wearimeness, and dispair of all sociable delight in the ordinance hich God establish'd to that very end. Millon. Doctrine, &c. of Divorce, b. i. Pref. For when they came the shape to model, Proceed to tragics: first, Euripides FAG, . Perhaps a consequential usage of FAG, 7- Fegan, ge-fegan, to order rightly, to bour or strive to make things fit or suit, or anwer their purposes; and thus to A bundle of sticks. To fagot,-to bind or tie up in fagots or bundles; also, to burn with fagots. Defending by their seculare armes idolatry, fighting, burning, and fageting for their idols. Joye. The Exposicion of Daniel, c. 11. Casting before them the earth by little and little, they made one trauerse euen vnto the wall on two sides in all their batteries the which they made thick and strong with woolpacks, and other fagots, to assure themselues the better of our flanckers.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. pt. i. p. 123. But here I must give warning, that it be done distinctly and severally, the philosophies of every one throughout by themselves, and not by titles packed and fagotted up together, as hath been done by Plutarch. Bacon. Advancement of Learning, D. ii. Did they not bind your worship's knighthood by the thumbs? then fagotted you, and the fool, your man, back to back-Wilkins. Miseries of Inforced Marriage, Act v. Ent'ring into their inner lodgings, they found faggots of bones of men's armes and legges, which they reserue to make heads for their arrows. Purchas. Pilgrimage, b. ix. c. 13. s. 2. He was too warm on picking work to dwell, But fagotted his notions, as they fell, And if they rhym'd and rattled, all was well. Dryden. On Elkanah Settle. The said reverend father enjoyned him by his oath, and under pain of relapse, that on the Lord's-day next, he should go before the cross bare-headed, in procession, in his Church of Saint Leonard at Hith, near Colchester, where he was a parishioner, carrying a faggot on his shoulder. Strype. Memorials. Hen. VIII. an. 1527. She, wretched matron, forc'd in age, for bread, FAIL, v. FAIL, n. FA'ILANCE. FAILING, n. Goldsmith. Deserted Village. Fr. Faillir; It. Fallire; Sp. Fallar; Dut. Faelen, from the Lat. Fallere, which Vossius thinks is from Φαλ-ειν, Dorice pro φηλEw, decipere. As the Fr. Faillir, To deceive, to disappoint; and thus, to desert, to forsake, to quit, relinquish or abandon; and also, to wane, to decay, to decease, to perish; to be wanting or deficient; to miss, to err. To labour hard, to labour assiduously, to work r labour till wearied. FAILURE. To be fagged; to be overboured, to be wearied with labour. A fag, a hard Forker; a laborious drudge. By Act of Parliament (4 Edw. IV.) cloths are equired be perfected according to one order of workmanship, without difference in the weaving, c. And in case (it is added) any such difference r raw or kaw cocle or fagge, happen to be in any art of the said clothes, &c., then a seal of lead hall be set, &c. for perfect knowledge to be had er thereof. (See Rastall, fol. 123.) Thus, to have been applied to— inferior material or workmanship joined or superior. And then, generally, to o the buy ag appear The itted to the VOL. I. Frut and corn ther faylede, tempestes ther come, 753 I hold a mouse's wit not worth a leke Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Prologue, v. 6156. [He] thinketh, here cometh my mortal enemy, Withouten faille, he must be ded or I. Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 1646. Of silver in thy purse shalt thou not faille. There is no thinge, which shall you faste, Albeit that the season of the yeare mete for the warrefare fayled, yet he thought it might be greatly for hys behoof, to go vnto the iland and see what manner of men they were. Goldyng. Cæsar, fol. 97. Than they sayd, sirs, without fayle there is no body within the castell: howe know you that? quod Sir Gualtier: Sir, quod they, we know it, for there is none appereth at their defence at all our shot. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. ii. c. 38. Till that the rest him seeing lye on ground, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 1. K. Hen. Ford. Perkin Warbeck, Act iii. sc. 1. Wilt lay the leanen on all proper men; How grounded hee his title to the crowne His sicknesses in the later years of his life gave him but short and seldom truce, and always made it necessary for him not to stir from his chair, or so much as read a letter for two hours after every meal, failance wherein being certainly reveng'd by a fit of the gout. Fell. Life of Hammond. And tell you calmly, and with unconcern'dness, Of man alone, that particle divine, Somervile. The Chase, b. iv. The Fathers of the first three centuries, (that golden age of Christianity, tried and purified in the fire of persecution,) though not exempt from failings, not infallible, were yet men of higher character than those of the tenth or eleventh. Waterland. Works, vol. v. p. 304. If you do not succeed, you are without resource; for, conciliation failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left. Burke. On Conciliation with America. He insinuates that I was incited by avarice, or ambition, or party spirit. I have failings in common with every human being, besides my own peculiar faults: but of avarice I have generally held myself guiltless. Fox. Speech. East India Bills. [His enemies accused] him of having incited Creech to translate Horace, that by his failure in that work he might lose the reputation which he had gained by his poetical version of Lucretius.-Malone. Life of Dryden. Our business is to shew, that objects of great dimensions are incompatible with beauty, the more incompatible as they are greater, whereas the small, if ever they fail of beauty, this failure is not to be attributed to their size. Burke. On the Sublime and Beautiful, pt. iv. § 24. FAIN, v. FAIN, adj. FAIN, adv. FA'INNESS. A. S. Fægnian, gaudere, lætari, to be glad, to rejoice, to fain, (Somner.) Fain, the adverb, is still in common use, Gladly, willingly, joyfully. Tho this strong mon was slawe, that so strong was in fygt, "Eilred," said Dunstan, "thi brother Edward was slayn Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2709. The countreymen burye theyre corne after that manner, for want wherof the souldiours were fayne to lyue with herbes, and suche fishe as they caught in the ryuers. Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 183. As touching heretikes, I hate that vice of theirs and not their persons, and very faine would I that the tone were destroied, and the tother saned.-Sir T.More. Workes, p. 925. But the vnrewly multitude flocking about him, were euermore at the veray heeles of him with importune throng. and pressed stil vpon him, for fainnesse to heare the word of God out of his mouth.-Udal. Luke, c. 5. His hart's enshrined saint, his heaven's queene, Spenser. Hymne. In Honour of Loue. Whose steadie hand was faine his steed to guyde, And, maiden, here in the sight London Prodigal, Act ii. Anon. That puffed up with smoke of vanity, This cooled them a little that would fain have been doing, because they supposed that all the army of the Athenians had been already in the city: the other, on the contrary side, were very glad to talk of peace, without any further danger.-North. Plutarch, p. 179. My comfort is, that by this opinion my enemies are but sucking criticks, who would fain be nibbling ere their teeth are come.-Dryden. Pref. to All for Love. The poem also, or the pilgrim, or both, have accompanied me from first to last; and perhaps it may be a pardonable vanity which induces me to reflect with complacency on a composition which in some degree connects me with the spot where it was produced, and the objects it would fain describe.-Byron. Ded. to Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. FAINT, v. FAINT, adj. FAINTING, n. FAINTISH. FAINTISHNESS. FAINTLESS. FAINTLY. FAINTLING, adj. FAINTNESS. To decay, to pass away, FAINTY. to wane, to deprive of all strength or power; to waste away, to be or become weak or feeble, to be or cause to be enfeebled, to sink, deject or depress. Past part. Faned, fan'd, fant or fened, fend, fent; of the A. S. verb Fynig-ean, to corrupt, to decay, to wither, to fade, to pass away, to spoil in any manner, (Tooke, ii.61.) And on this past part. the verb is formed. & tho it com to the strengthe, hii fouzte feinteliche. O foule lust of luxurie, lo thin ende, Chaucer. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 5347. What shall she sain, her witte is all ago, And all so feble, and in such wise I was, that vnneth might I rise So far trauailed, and so faint That neither knew I kirke ne saint Id. Legend of Lucrece. Ne what was what, ne who was who.-Id. Dreame. And though he differ thee, thinke it not long, nor faint not in thy fayth, or be slacke in thy prayer. Tyndall. An Exposition vpon Matthew, c. 7. Like as the feeble moone doth give sometime a fainting light To men that walke in woodes, whã clouds do kepe the skies from sight, And al things altřed ben, and couloures cleere are hyd by night. Phaer. Virgill. Eneidos, b. vi. And as I sat to write my plaint, Meaning to show my great vnrest, With quaking hand, and hart ful faint, Amid my playntes among the rest. &c. Vncertaine Auctors. The Louer telleth his Divers Joies, &c. That it woulde please hym to graunt vnto vs, the grace of perseueraunce, to continue in the exercise and obseruation of his wyll and pleasure, least that by the fayntyng and faylyng therin, we myght after fall from that our former happy state of his grace and fauour. Fisher. On Prayer, Last Reason. Nimirum hi homines frigent, in faieth these men are colde and faintly.-Udal. Flowers of Latine Speaking, p. 48. Whan they came to the barryers they began to skrymisshe but faintly, and lyke suche persones as could but lytell skyll of feates of armes. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. ii. c. 170. And vpon them that are lette a lyue of you I wyll sende a fayntnesse into theyr hartes in the lande of theyr enemies : so that the sounde of a leafe that falleth, shall chase them, and they shall flee as though they fled a swerde, and shal fall no man folowinge them.-Bible, 1551. Leuiticus, c. 26. Jacob sod potage, and Esau came fro the felde and was fayntye, and sayde to Jacob: let me suppe of yt redde potage, for I am fainty.-Id. Genesis, c. 25. The houses spoyld (that mischeif yet remaynd, and great anoy) Shall I abide to see? and Drances woordes not prooue vntrue? And shall this ground faint-harted dastard Turnus flying viewe? He blest himselfe, as one sore terrifide; Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 6. Methought I saw my late espoused saint, Sleep hath forsook and giv'n me o're And sense of heav'n's desertion.-Id. Samson Agonistes. And I assure you this root [elecampane] thus confected is singular good for faintings; and especially quickneth the dulnesse and defect of the stomacke. Holland. Plinie, b. xix. c. 5. The temper of my loue, whose flame I find His bootelesse bow in feeble hand upcaught, And will when worn by the neglected wife, Davenant. Gondibert, b. iii. c. 4. Yea, such a fear and faintness is grown in court, that they wish rather to hear the blowing of a horn to hunt, than the sound of a trumpet to fight. Lyly. Alexander & Campaspe, Act iv. sc. 3. His name was Daunger, dreaded over all; Who day and night did watch and duely ward, From fearefull cowards entrance to forstall And faint-heart fooles, whom shew of perile hard Could terrifie from fortune's faire award. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 10. Though great the pain and anguish that he bore, His friends' and subjects' grief afflict him more, Yet even that, and coming fate, he bears; But sinks and faints to see a brother's tears. Duke. On the Death of Charles II. Thus every plant has its atmosphere, which have very various effects on those who stay near them, some producing head-achs, sleep, fainting, vapours; and others, a great refreshment of the spirits.-Arbuthnot. On Aliments, c.3. s.3. A certain degree of heat lengthens and relaxes the fibres ; whence proceeds the sensation of faintishness and debility in a hot day. Id. On Air. Hab. There's no having patience, thou art such a faintling, silly creature.-Id. Hist. of John Bull, pt. ii. c. 13. The story of Saint Peter delivered out of prison; the drawing and execution good, but the colouring in som parts faint.-Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. ii. c. I. Faintings, giddiness, pains in my stomach, vapours, al take it by turns, and sometimes attack me in a body, and almost overpower me. Chesterfield. Miscell. Works, vol. iii. Let 7 If on coming home from a journey in hot weather you fin yourself faintish and drouthy, and call for a glass of win and water, have you not a pleasure in seeing the wine p from the bottle or sparcle in the glass, even before yo bring it to your mouth. Search. Light of Nature, vol. i. pt.i. c. Oh! many a night on this lone couch reclined, FAIR, adj. FAIR, ad. Byron. The Corsair, c. A. S. Fag-er; which Skinn derives from fag-en, (see FAIN FAIR, n. gaudium, joy or gladness, (q. d FAIR, V. aspectu jucundus; for all thin FAIRLY. fair or beautiful, gaudium ex FAIRNESS. tant. In Goth. Fairgus is man See Junius, Goth. Gloss. dus. Free from speck, spot or blemish; spotles pure; and thus, pleasing, pleasing to the sigh beautiful; and, (met.) candid, equitable, impa tial, just, honourable; also pleasing, gratifying favourable, conferring success; gentle, peaceful That maide was to lond y brogt of so noble gentrise, Fairor womman nas tho non, y hote heo was Gewise. R. Gloucester, p. E Malde hight that mayden, a fayrer mot non lyue. R. Brunne, p. 10 Thanne was ich al so fayn. as foul of fair morwenynge Piers Ploshmas, p.is Ich ros up and reverencede God. and ryght faure by greete. And ferliche hadd of hus fairnesse. Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 23 But what she was, she wold ne man seye For foule ne faire, though that she shulde dere. Id. The Man of Lawes Tale, v.44 They were ful glade whan I spake hem fayre, For God it wot, I chidde hem spitously. Id. The Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 560 But soch a fairnesse of a necke Had that swete, that bone nor brecke Nas there non seen. Id. Dreame To draw folk to heven, with fairnesse, Gower. Con. A. b. i. Tedet harum quotidianarum formarum, I am wery these, that amonge vs are called and taken for faire wee or I haue dooen with those faire women, that we haue Cay here among vs.-Udal. Flowers of Latine Speaking, fol. 5 And yet all the season ye Duke of Berry was beby and came but fayre and easely, for he had no grete appet to go into Englande.-Berners. Frois. Cron, vol. ii, e 55. The whitenesse thereof [ivory] was so much esteeme that it was thought to represent the natural faireesus man's skinne.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 19. They of the castell sawe how they were assailed on sydes, and coude parceyue no consort, and sawe we the duke nor the costable wolde not departe thens tyl, the had ye castell at their wyll, outher wyth fagrness or nesse.-Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 321. Lyke as a fayre-playstred wall in a wynter house, and hye buyldynge, may not abyde the wynde and storme e so is a fooles hearte afrayde in hys ymaginacyon. Bible, 1551. The Boke of Jesus Syrach, c. 2 Which faire-told tale, allured to him muche people, as well of the chiualry as of the meane sort. Hall. Hen. VI. an. 30. Shakespeare, son. 127. For sure the fayrest Florimel him seemed He [Cæsar] made suite unto the consuls for a licence, to Qu. Sweethearts, we shall be rich ere we depart, Faitard, ignavus. Minshew thinks from the Fr. Faiseurs; that is, factores, doers; or, he adds, it may not improbably be interpreted idle livers, taken from Faitardise,-a kind of numnesse or Shakespeare. Love's Labour Lost, Act v. sc. 2. sleepie disease, proceeded of too much sluggish With a further grant, that there shall be for ever one market and two fairs at Ringwood.-Strype. Mem. an. 1553. If I am entitled to hold a fair or market, and another person sets up a fair or market so near mine that he does me a Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 2. prejudice; it is a nuisance to the freehold which I have in my market or fair.-Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iii. c. 13. Yet, to die innocent, and have the glory Refused an empress, to preserve my faith Massinger. The Roman Actor, Activ. sc. 2. If his will was they should march on a pace, they would for the nonce go faire and softlie. If he encouraged them in propre person to plie their busines, they would all of them slacke their former service, whereunto they were entred of themselves.-Holland. Livivs, p. 83. The louely lillie, that faire flower for beautie past compare, greene, When spring of youth is spent, will vade, as it had neuer Your eyes are loadstarres, and your tongues sweet ayre nesse. Mr. Tyrwhitt, Faitour, a lazy, idle feilow. That faiteth for hus lyflode.-Piers Plouhman, p. 152. And nethles she wiste wele FAIRY, n. Skinner derives from the A. S. My worde stode on an other whele, They are likewise called Fays, (qv.); in Fr. Fayrest of faire, that fairenesse doest excell, Id. Ib. b. iv. c. 2. Zeal and charity; the which may be said to make a good complexion in the face of religion, the first relating to the colour of the blood, and the last to the fairnesse of the skin, through which the good tincture of zeale is transparent in the works of charity. Mountague. Devoute Essayes, pt. i. Treat. 3. s. 2. In the year of his majesty's happy restoration, the first play I undertook was the Duke of Guise, as the fairest way which the act of indemnity had then left us of setting forth the rise of the late rebellion; and by exploding the villainies of it upon the stage to precaution posterity against the like errours.-Dryden. Vindication of the Duke of Guise. Talk'd I of love? yon swain, with amorous air Savage. The Wanderer, c. 4. Waterland. Works, vol. i. p. 314. The colours of beautiful bodies must not be dusky or muddy, but clean and fuir. Burke. On the Sublime, pt. iii. s. 17. The print gives a very inadequate idea of it; and none of her Flemish fairness, [Anne of Cleve.] Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. c. 4. A place to which things, (sc.) goods, wares, Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Prologue, v. 5802. For tho' [the senses] be properly the gates Gower. Con. A. b. i. In olde dayes of the King Artour, Of which that Bretons speken gret honour, Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 6439. But evermore hir most wonder was, Chaucer. The Squieres Tale, v. 10,515. But listen, and I shall you tell In love and arms delighting.-Drayton. Nymphidia. In the deserts of Affricke yee shall meet sometimes with fairies [hominum species] appearing in the shape of men and women, but they vanish soon away like fantastical illusions.-Holland. Plinie, b. vii. c. 2. Shep. This is faiery gold, boy, and 'twill proue so; vp Shakespeare. Winter Night's Tale, Act iii. sc. 3. Butler. Miscellaneous Thoughts. Tne parts of the airy and earthy spirits, and that fairy kind of writing which depends only upon the force of ima gination, were the grounds of her liking the poem, and afterwards of her recommending it to the queen. Dryden. Dedication to King Arthur. And see the fairy valleys fade, Collins. Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson. To require tasks not faisible, is tyrannicall, and doth Bp. Hall. Cont. The Affliction of Israel. Wherupon thei sent the Lorde Ambrose de Lore with vii. c. horsemen, to robbe and spoyle the poore people, commynge to the faier, on the daye of Sainct Michaell the Archangell, kepte in the suberbes of the toune of Caen. And whan my lord [Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester] saw yt he bad him walke faytoure, and made him be set openlye in the stockes.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 134. I let passe ouer the faitry and falsehed that is therin vsed amōg, sometyme by the priestes, sometime by beggers in Which whenas Blandamour beheld, he sayd; that this was a fraudulent and faiterous Carthaginian trick, FAITH. FAITHLESSLY. Holland. Livivs, p. 755. Skinner says, it seems to be from the It. Fede, (cum crassiori accentu et spiritu.) Tooke, that it is the A. S. Fægth, that which one covenanteth or engageth, the third person singular of the indicative of Fæg-an, (which is also written Feg-an, see FACT,) pangere, pag-ere, to engage, to covenant, to contract. It was, as he observes, anciently written faieth. It was also variously written feyth, feith, fayeth and also Fay, (qv.) FAITHLESSNESS. That which any one covenanteth, pledgeth, or promiseth, (sc.) to believe or live, by or according to; a covenant, pledge, or promise; credit staked or pledged; credit given; and is thus used as equivalent to,-belief, trust or confidence, truth, fidelity. Thorgh that Christendom, tho, that were so wrothe, R. Brunne, p. 24. Holy wryt telleth That Fals ys faithles. the fend ys hus syre. Id. Vision, p. 31. Faithly for to speke. hus furste name wus Jhesus Euen so fayeth, if it have no dedes, is dead in itselfe. Yea, and a ma might saye: thou hast fayeth, and I haue deeds; shew me thy fayth by thy deedes: and I wyll shewe thee my fayth by my deedes - Bible, 1551. Ib. |