But shall I say, to giue tnee graue aduise, (Which in my head is (God he knowes full) geazon ?) Then marke me well, and though I be not wise, Yet in my rime, thou maist perhaps find reason. Gascoigne. Councell geuen to Master Bartholomew Withipall. The maners of the men I purpose to declare, And other priuate points besides which strange and geazon are.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 387. The lady, hearkning of his sensefull speech, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 4. Of her, not now as earst, And scorn'd her mind, that scorned his loue To her so firmly geason. For why shee off"red double wrong, Warner. Albion's England, b. vii. c. 36. GECK. Ger. Geck, gauch; Dut. Gheck; Sw. Geck; Dut. Ghecken; Sw. Geckas, ludificare, deridere; to make sport of, to deride. Any one derided or mocked; and thus, a fool; a jest, mockery or derision. Why haue you suffer'd me to be imprison'd, Shakespeare. Twelfth Night, Act v. sc. 1. To taint his nobler heart and braine with needlesse jelousy, And to become the geeke and scorne o' th' other's vilany. Id. Cymbeline, Act v. sc. 4. See the quotation from Hake GEHENNA. will. Thus Ahas made molten images for Baalim, and burnt his children for sacrifice before the idoll Moloch, or Saturne, which was represented by a man like a brasen body bearing the head of a calfe, set vp not far from Hierusalem, in a valley shadowed with wood, called Gehinnon, or Tophet, from whence is the word Gehenna vsed for hell. Hakewill. Apologie, b. iv. c. 1. s. 6. The wisest heart Of Solomon, he [Moloch] led by fraud to build His temple right against the temple of God, On that opprobrious hill, and made his grove The pleasant vally of Hinnon, Tophet thence And black Gehenna call'd, the type of Hell. GELA'TINOUS. GELD, v. } Milton. Paradise Lost, b. i. See GELLY. Dut. Ghelt-en; Ger. Gelden; Sw. Galla; A. S. Gylte, castratus, not improbably from the verb Gild-an, to yield or give up. To yield or cause to yield or give up; and thus, to deprive, (sc. of an essential part or portion,) to mutilate. For the met. usage, see the quotation from Wilson. Holland (Ammianus, p. 429.) renders incisis by guelding or cutting. For ther ben geldyngis whiche ben thus born of the modirs wombe, and ther ben geldyngis that ben maad of men, and ther ben geldyngis that han geldid himself for the rewme of hevenes. Wiclif. Matthew, c. 19. And the gelding seide, lo watir, who forbedith me to be baptised.-Id. Dedis, c. 8. A voice he hadde, as smale as hath a gote, Chaucer. The Prologue, v. 693. This yere [the 11th of Wyllyam the Red] also the ii. Erles of Shrewesbury and of Chester, eyther named Hugh, by the King's comaudement, entred with theyr knyghtes ye İle of Man or Anglesaye, & slewe therein many Welshmen, and gelded many moo.-Fabyan, vol. i. c. 225. Now geld with the gelder the ram and the bull. Tusser. September's Husbandry. A duke well accompanied, sent from the emperor, presented him from the emperor a coach and ten geldings for the more easy conueying of him to Mosco, from whence this citie [Yeraslave] was distant five hundred miles. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 459. Vnto whō Orfines sayde: I haue hearde that women in times past haue reigned, and born great rule in Asia, but it is now a more straunge thyng that a geldyng should haue the empire in his handes.-Brende. Quint. Curtius, fol. 289. Gelding, signifieth a subduing of our affections, and taming the foul lust of pleasure, vnto the will of reason. Wilson. The Arte of Rhetorique, p. 97. With like aduantage on the other side, Id. 1 Pt. Hen. IV. Act ii. sc. 1. Panionius, of the Isle of Chios, was by his trade, a dealer in buying and selling of slaves, and by whom himself had formerly been gelt, and made an eunuch. Usher. Annals, an. 3524. A guelding never casts his teeth, no not his sucking teeth, in case he were guelded before.-Holland. Plinie, b. xi. c.37. Shortly after Cyrus being come to himself again, some of his eunuchs (which were men gelt, and grooms of his Chamber) that were about him, did lift him up, thinking to set him upon another horse, and to get him out of the preass: but he was not able to sit on his horse. North. Plutarch, p. 791. He [Sir Roger De Coverley] has bequeathed the fine white gelding, that he used to ride a hunting upon, to his chaplain, because he thought he would be kind to him, and has left you all his books.-Spectator, No. 517. Riding a showy horse, whipping a pair of geldings, or four in hand, through the fashionable streets, and sauntering in a stable, are, indeed, in the present Age, some of the most glorious methods of spending the sprightly days of youth, when privileged by the early possession of a fortune. V. Knox, Ess. 35. Gemma. Martinius,—Id quod in arboribus tu mescit, cum parere incipiunt, a geno, id est, gigne; hence, he adds, pearls and stones of that form cr shape, on account of their roundness (instar ocula) are called gems. To gem, To bud forth; to put forth, to cover with buds; to stud, to decorate or adorn, as with gems. But nathles this Markis hath do make Chaucer. The Clerkes Tale, v.8131. This gemme of chastitee, this emeraude, Id. The Prioresses Tale, v. 15,509. Thy brothyr Troylus eke, that gemme of gentle deedes, To thinke howe he abused was, alas my heart it bleede Gascoigne. Dan Bartholomew of Ban Wherefore I hold not with it, that the Virgin Mary shr be painted so in silkes and golden garments, and derse with gemmes and pearles, as though she had any dengan such a thinge, when she was on earth here. Vives. Instruction of a Christian Woman, b.i.e.! Rose, as in dance, the stately trees, and spred And on her head she wore a tyre of gold, I will not conceale from you that which poets de fo of this matter, who would beare us in hand, that all b GEL). Lat. Gelidus, from Gel-are, to keel at the rocke Caucasus, whereunto Prometheus was b or cool. See To CONGEAL. Cool or cold; cold to excess. To what cool cave shall I descend, Or to what geled fountain bend? Marvel. Works, vol. iii. p. 273. A various spirit, fresh, delicious, keen, Dwells in their gelid pores; and, active, points The piercing cyder for the thirsty tongue. Thomson. Autumn. Here too infix some moss grown trunks of oak Romantic, turn'd by gelid lakes to stone, Yet so dispos'd as if they ow'd their change To what they now control. GE'LLY. GE'LATINE. GELA'TINOUS. Mason. The English Garden, b. iii. See JELLY. Fr. Gelée, Cotgrave says, is frozen, congealed, thickened or stiffened with extreme cold. Gelée, a frost, also gelly. And Skinner, Gelly, a gelando; succus frigore concretus;That which thickens or stiffens, concretes or coagulates in cooling; and gelatinous-consequentially is, Sticky, adhesive; viscous. And, spreading on the grownd From th' orifice; which hauing well vpbownd, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 4. You shall always see their [insects] eggs laid carefully and commodiously up, if in the waters, in neat and beautiful rows oftentimes in that spermatick gelatine matter in which they are reposited.-Derham. Physico-Theology, b. vi. c. 6. I offered to rise at my usual time, but was desired to sit still, with this kind expression, Come, Doctor, a gelly or a conserve will do you no harm; don't be afraid of the dessert.-Tatler, No. 258. One of them [crabs] of a thick, tough, gelatinous consistence, and the other a sort of membranaceous tube or pipe, both which are probably taken from the rocks. Cook. Third Voyage, b. iv. c. 1. The gelatinous substance, known by the name of star shot, or star gelly, owes its origin to this bird [the common gull] or some of the kind; being nothing but the half digested remains of earth-worms, on which these birds feed, and often discharge from their stomachs. Pennant. British Zoology. Common Gull. GELT, i. e. the gilt or gold. Lineage and virtue at this push, Without the gelt's not worth a rush. GEM, v. GEM, n. GEMMARY. GEMMEOUS. GE'MMY. King. Ulysses & Tiresias. A. S. Gym, gym-stan; which Junius thinks is from Gym-an, to watch or guard carefully; as gems usually are so preserved. Fr. Gemme; It. Gemma; Lat. fast, who was the first that set a little fragment of this ra within a peece of yron; which being done about his fing was the ring, and the foresaid stone the gem. Holland. Plinie, b. xxxvii. c. 1. The Prom The principle and most gemmary affection is its tralucens Brown. Vulgar Erreurs, bic The shining circlets of his golden hair, Which ev'n the Graces might be proud to wear, Instarr'd with gems and gold, bestrow the shore, With dust dishonour'd, and deform'd with gore. Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. 1 Not venal, you request no eastern stores, In the vase mysterious fling Pinks and roses gemm'd with dew, Daughters fair of early Spring.-Jones. The Muse R I, like an idle truant, fond of play, Doting on toys, and throwing gems away, Churchill. Dedication to his Serr If every polish'd gem we find Provoke to imitation; No wonder Friendship does the same, Or rather constellation.-Cowper. Friendship. The blue is of an inexpressible splendor, the richest cu lian glowing with a gemmeous brilliancy. Pennant. British Zoology. Gemmeous Drazi But hast thou seen their king in rich array, Fam'd Oberon, with damask'd robe so gay, And gemmy crown, by moonshine sparkling far. And azure sceptre, pointed with a star.-Philips, Past By magic sleight A Sura's lovely form he wore, Rob'd in light, with lotos crown'd, What time th' immortals peerless treasures found On the churn'd ocean's gem-bespangled shore GE/MEL. GI'MAL. GIMBAL. Jones. Hyma to Su Skinner says, Gemelles, a w of heraldry, manifestly from. I Gemellis, barrs gemelles, i. e. I seu par barrarum seu vectium, two or a pa bars. In Brewer's Lingua, Act ii. sc. 4, a chara is described, in a grave satin suit, purple busk a garland of bays and rosemary, a gimmel i with one link hanging of which kind of r Skinner says, Annulus Gemellus, because it < sists of two or more circles. It is also wr Gemmow. The quadrin doth never double; or, to use a heraldry, never bringeth forth gemels: the quinzaine Drayton. The Barons' Wars, b. i For under it a cave, whose entrance streight Clos'd with a stone-wrought doore of no meane weigh Yet from itselfe the gemels beaten so That little strength could thrust it to and fro. Browne. Britannia's Pastorais, bi Whence 'tis manifest, that his answers do not proceed pon set gimals or strings, whereof one being struck moves he rest in a set order, (which we have shew'd is the course 1 all actions done by beasts :) but, out of a principle within im, which of itself is indifferent to all things. Digby. Of Man's Soul, c. 8. Truly this argument hangeth togither by verie strange mbols-Holinshed. Description of Ireland, vol. vi. c. 2. Two gemells unde, silver, between two griffins passant. Strype. Life of Smith, c. 1. Note a. } GE/MINATE, v. Fr. Géminer; It. GemiGEMINATION. nare; Sp. Geminar; Lat. GE'MINOUS. Geminare, to double; from eminus, quasi genimus, from the ancient Geno, 3 the Gr. Tovuos, from Tev-ev,) to bring forth produce. Applied emphatically, when two are ught forth at the same parturition; and thus, geminate is, consequentially To double; to repeat a second time, to replicate. 1.) Is but the v. geminated in the full sound, and though ave the seate of a consonant with us, the power is always ellish, even where it leads the vowell in any syllable. B. Jonson. The English Grammar. Thereunto while men assent, and can believe a bicipitous formation in any continued species, they admit a gemion of principal parts, not naturally discovered in any nal.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 15. or if he will be in the sense, and in the conscience both, e is a gemination of it. Bacon. A Table of Colours of Good and Evill, s. 8. nd this the practice of Christians hath acknowledged, have baptized these geminous births, and double connacies with several names; as conceiving in them a nction of souls, upon the divided execution of their tions.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 15. here also consider, that in all languages there are some omary geminations and expressions, which though to gers they appear superfluous, if not absurd, to the res, and in the propriety of that speech, are not only ent, but oftentimes emphatical. Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 280. EMONIES. Lat. Gemonia, (sub. scalæ,) ain stairs at Rome so called, à gemitu, upon ch the bodies of criminals were exposed, and 1 which they were afterwards thrown. As, to-day, e fate of some of your servants! who declining B. Jonson. Sejanus, Act v. sc. 1. ENDA'RMES. Skinner says,-Gendarme, ENDA'RMORY. Ja word which I have met only in the English Dictionary, à Gens mes, men of arms or armed men. And CotA man of arms; an horseman armed at all ts, one that serves in compleat armour, and great horse." e, ben the Peers withdrew, it seems the proofs about his n of raising the North, or the city, or of the killing the irmes, did not satisfy them: for all these had been Jut question treasonable. Burnet. Hist. of the Reform. an. 1551. Imer, being a second time examined, said, that Sir b Vane was to have brought two thousand men, who, the Duke of Somerset's one hundred horse, were on a ter day to have set on the gendarmourie.-Id. Ib. there were ten letters written in October, and directed rtain of the chief officers of the army, to have the armory and bands of horsemen which were appointed e, in a readiness to be seen by his majesty the Sunday wing Hallon-tide next, being the 8th of November. Strype. Memorials, an. 1551. GENDER, v. Fr. Gendre, from the ablative n Shakespeare, the noun is applied to--kind people, sort of people. Suilk on wild he take" His euenhed in mariage, gentille gendrure to make. Reson ich sauh sotthliche suwen alle beastes And thus ful oft gendred is enuie In folkes hearts.-Lidgate. The Story of Thebes, pt. 1. To busie my witte for to swinke Of the tymes of hem.-Chaucer. House of Fame, b. i. Vncertaine Auctors. The Death of Zoroas. Their bullocke gendreth, and that not oute of tyme: their cowe calueth, and is not unfruitfull.-Bible, 1551. Matter can gender nothing of itself. H. More. Def. of Philosophic Cabbala, App. c. 3. Why to a publike count I might not go, Is the great loue the generall gender beare him, Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act iv. sc. 7. All pretty fellows are also excluded to a man, as well as all inamoratoes, or persons of the epicene gender, who gaze at one another in the presence of ladies.-Tatler, No. 27. Pards gender pards; from tigers tigers spring; No doves are hatch'd beneath a vulture's wing. Wilkie. The Epigoniad, b. i. Gender being founded on the distinction of the two sexes, it is plain, that in a proper sense, it can only find place in the names of living creatures, which admit the distinction of male and female; and, therefore, can be ranged under the masculine or feminine genders.—Blair, vol. i. Lect. 8. GENEALOGY. GENEALOGICAL. GENEALOGICK. GENEALOGIST. Fr. Généalogie; It. and Sp. Genealogia; Lat. Genealogia ; Gr. Γενεαλογία, from yevea, genus, kind, and eyew, to speak, to say. A discourse on kinds or families, of their descent or succession; a pedigree. This is the genelogie frō S. Margarete the quene R. Brunne, p. 111. Firste he is seid kyng of righteousnesse, and afterward kyng of Salem, that is to sei king of pees, withoute fadir, withoute modir, withoute genealogie.-Wiclif. Hebrewis, c.7. But the trouth if ye list verifie Rede of goddes the genealogie. Lidgate. The Story of Thebes, pt. iii. This therefore is the only and very Messias whose genea logie & petigre shall forthwith be showed, touchyng the body which he toke for our cause.-Udal. Matthew, c. 1. For, if the Spirit of God did not our faith assure The scriptures be from heaven, like heaven divinity pure, Of Moses' mighty works, I reverently may say, (I speak with goodly fear) tradition put away, In power of human wit it easily doth not lie To prove before the flood the genealogy. Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 10. Which genealogicall recapitulation in their nationall families and tribes, other people also haue observed; as the Spaniards, who reckon their descent from Hesperus, before the Gothes and Moors ouerran their land. Holinshed. England, b. vi. c. 10. They [heathen philosophers] do indeed describe the genea logies of their Heroes and subordinate Gods, but for the supreme Deity he is constantly acknowledged to be without beginning of time, or end of days. Wilkins. Natural Religion, b. i. c. 8. There are many incidental verities, historical, geographical, genealogical, chronological, &c. which common Christians are obliged rather implicitly to admit, or not to deny, than explicitly to know, or treasure up in their minds. Waterland. Works, vol. viii. p. 106. The Apostle in the preceding verse [1 Tim. i. 5.] had warned Timothy against giving heed to fables and endless genealogies; by genealogies, meaning the derivation of angelic and spiritual ratures, according to a fantastic system, invented by the Oriental philosophers, and thence adopted by some of the Grecian Sects.-Hurd. Works, vol. vi. Ser. 8. An old Roman grafted on a modern Englishman, produced [Lord Chatham] the golden fruit of true patriotism, real, personal greatness, and nobility unindebted to a genealogical table.-V. Knox. Letters to a Young Nobleman, Let. 55. He [Hondius] also engraved a genealogic chart of the Houses of York and Lancaster, with the arms of the Knights of the Garter to the year 1589, drawn by Thomas Talbot. Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iii. c. 1. With whatever delight, however, the Cambrian genealogist might pursue the line of his ancestry, a barren catalogue of uncouth names would furnish no entertainment for the reader.-Lord Teignmouth. Life of Sir W. Jones. I leave the rest to the genealogist; and go no farther back in his pedigree than to his grandfather, of the same name, who distinguished himself in the civil wars of the last century.-Hurd. Life of Warburton. GENERAL, n. GENERAL, adj. GENERALI'SSIMO. GENERALITY. GENERALIZE. GENERALIZA'TION. GENERALLY. GENERALNESS. GENERALSHIP. GENERALTY. Fr. Général; It. Generale; Sp. General; Lat. Generalis, (see GENERATE,) of or pertaining to the kind. Of or belonging, or pertaining to all of the kind, race or family: comprising or relating to all or the greater number, part or portion: opposed to special, as genus to species; common to particular :—and thus, not restricted, or confined, or limited, to special or particular; common, customary, usual. A general, (sc.) of an army, of an order of friars. Fr. Général d'une armée, des frères. It. Generale; Sp. Genéral, one who has the general authority, conduct, or command. I bidde thee teache hem, wost thou how? In what place thou shalt founden be. Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose. She sobre was eke, simple, and wise withall, The best ynorished eke that might be, And goodly for her spech in generall.—Id. Troilus, b. v. My sone, ful often for to mochel speche Hath many a man ben split, as clerkes teche; But for a litel speche avisedly Is no man shent, to speken generally. Ye shall note the order) of the four monarchies) which order is here expressed) that the veray time wherin God wold haue Cryste borne shuld be knowne) and the time of the general resurreccion of the dead) and the iugement shulde be signifyed and foresene. Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, Argument. Pericles was a famous man of warre, Gascoigne. The Steele Glas. And it hath no appearaunce of lernyng in Scriptures, to conclude vnder one cōsideratio a specialte, & a generalitie. Bp. Gardner. Of the Presence in the Sacrament, fol. 58. Her grace likewise on her side, in al her graces passage, shewed herselfe generallye an image of a worthy lady and gouernour.-Fabyan, vol. ii. Queen Elizabeth, an. 1559. They had, with a general consent, rather springing by the generalness of the cause than of any artificial practice, set themselves in arms.-Sidney. But breath his faults so quaintly Of generall assault.-Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act ii. sc. 1. Amongst which ships (being all of small burthen) there was one so well liked, which also had no man in her, as being brought unto the generall, [Sir F. Drake] he thought good to make stay of her for the service, meaning to pay for her, as also accordingly performed at our return; which bark was called the Drake. Sir F. Drake. West India Voyage, p. 5. Whence is it else that the generality of the world live in the commission of those that they call little sins, but because their hearts are hardned and their consciences seared, that those sins that are great enough to damn them, yet are not great enough to trouble them?-Hopkins, Ser. 7. The legat perceiuing such disorder, accursed generallie all such as thus troubled the king's peace, shewing themselues enimies to the realm.-Holinshed. Hen. III. an. 1267. The municipal laws of this kingdom are of a vast extent, and enclude in their generalty all those several lawes which are allowed as the rule of justice and judicial proceedings. Hale. History of the Common Law. No general characters of parties (call them either sects or churches) can be so fully and exactly drawn, as to comprehend all the several members of them; at least all such as are received under that denomination. Dryden. The Hind & Panther, Pref. But see the haughty household troops advance! Addison. The Campaign. But prudently confin'd, and mingled wise A writer of Tragedy must certainly adapt himself more to the general taste; because the Dramatic of all kinds of Poetry, ought to be most universally relished and understood.-Mason. Elfrida. Introductory Letters. The cloth, in general, will resist water for some time; but that which has the strongest glaze will resist longest. Cook. Third Voyage, b. ii. c. 11. Considering how strange a set of beings the generality of seamen are, when on shore, instead of being surprised that these two men should lose their way, it is rather to be wondered at that no more of the party were missing. Id. Ib. b. iii. c. 10. The mind, therefore, makes its utmost endeavours to generalize its ideas, begins early with such as are most familiar, comes in time to those that are less so; and is never at rest till it has found means of conceiving, as well as it can, its ideas collectively, and of signifying them in that manner to others. Bolingbroke. Essay on Human Knowledge, s. 5. This has led some philosophers to suppose, that another faculty besides abstraction, to which they have given the name of generalisation, is necessary to account for the formation of genera and species; and they have endeavoured to shew that although generalisation without abstraction is impossible; yet that we might have been so formed, as to be able to abstract, without being capable of generalising. Stewart. On the Human Mind, c. 4. s. 1. Look, when you will, into sessions-papers, and other accounts of bad people, who have suffered for their crimes, and you will generally find they began by neglecting the sabbath.-Gilpin, vol. ii. Ser. 30. Your generalship puts me in mind of Prince Eugene when he fought the Turks at the battle of Belgrade. Goldsmith. She Stoops to Conquer, Act ii, GENERATE, v. GENERANT. GENITAL. GE'NITALS. GENITIVE. GE'NITOR. GE'NITURE. gate. Fr. Générer; It. Generare; Sp. Generar; Lat. Generare; Gr. Teve, to beget. See GENDER. "To beget or ingende., as the male; to breed or bring forth, as the female," (Cotgrave.) To beget, to procreate, to breed, to produce, bear or bring forth, to propa A generation is (also) applied to a race or family; those living in one age or period of time. And he sorowynge wythynne in spirit seyde, what seeketh this generacioun, a tokene? truli I seye to you, a tokene schal not be govun to this generacioun.-Wiclif. Mark, c. 8. And he syghthed in his sprete & said: why doth this generacio seke a sygne? Verely I saye unto you, there shal no signe be geuen vnto this generacyon.-Bible, 1551. Ib. S. Cubba whiche was in those daies the mother of al Nonnes, was generate of an whore, as wer all her father's children besides her, ii. of the only excepted. Bale. English Votaries, pt. i. Forsouthe this generacioun is lyke vnto chyldren syttyng in the market place, which with a common song cry thus to theyr felowes afarre off: we have played you pleasaunt thynges vpon our pypes, and ye haue not daunced: and we haue played you sorow full thynges and ye haue not wayled. Udal. Matthew, c. 11. Whan this priest should dye, he slytte off his genitallis, and threwe them to the Deuyll. Bale. English Voturies, pt. ii. They, I say, that were the wise fathers and genitors of this purgatory, were, in my minde, the wisest of all their generation, and so farre passe the children of light, and also the rest of their company, that they both are fooles, if ye compare them with these. Latimer. A Sermon before the Convocation of the Clergy. Wherein sponges or linen clothes beinge dept, shulde be layd on ye hed, & the genitores or legges therewith washed. Sir T. Elyot. The Castel of Helth, b. iv. c. 2. But we speak here of the original life of the soul itself, that this is substantial, neither generable nor corruptible, but only createable and annihilable by the Deity. Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 862. Pythagoras must also have held, if Democritus had all his philosophy from his writings or traditions, that there are infinite worlds, and that they are generable and corruptible, but that the matter is unperishable. H. More. Defence of Philosophic Cabbala, App. Some believe the soul made by God, some by Angels, and some by the generant: whether it be immediately created or traduced hath been the great ball of contention. Glanvill. Scepsis, c. 3. And now we think it seasonable here to observe, how vast a difference there was betwixt those old materialists in Aristotle, and those other philosophers mentioned before in the first chapter, who determined, ουδεν ουδε γιγνεσθαι ουδε φθείρεσθαι των αυτών. That no real entity at all was generated or corrupted, for this reason, because nothing could be made out of nothing.-Cudworth. Intellectual System, p.114. The children of this world, that are in the estate which Adam left them in, shall marry, and be given in marriage; that is, corrupt and generate successively; which is an immortality of the kind, but not of the persons of men. Hobbs. Of the Kingdom of Darkness. For much more eath to tell the starres on hy, Albe they endlesse seeme in estimation, Then to recount the sea's posterity: So fertile be the flouds in generation, So huge their numbers, and so numberless their nation. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 12. Others say, that the forms of particular worlds are generable and corruptible; so that our present system cant have sustain'd an infinite duration already gone and expired.-Bentley. Confutation of Atheism, Ser.6. For in such pretended generations the Generant, or active principle, is supposed to be the sun, which being an inan mate body cannot act otherwise than by his heat; which heat can only put the particles of passive principle int motion.-Ray. On the Creation, pt. ii. To these might be added some other uses and conveni ences; as that the hills serve to the generation of mineral and metals, and that in them principally are the most use fossils found; or if not found and generated only in them yet at least all these subterraneous treasures are most east come at in them.-Derham. Physico-Theology, b. iii. c. 4. One thing relating to generation I cannot omit; that the construction of a set of temporary parts, (like sc in a building) to serve a present end, which are after laid aside, afford a strong argument of counsel and design Ray. On the Creation, p. 2 I am apt to allow it, in reference to some bodies, certa other faculties and powers, among which some may b called generative and maturative, and others corruptive. Boyle. Works, vol v. p. 71 This work, by merit first of fame secure, Dryden. Epistle to Sir Robert Her Notwithstanding these and many other circumstance sufficient, one might at first view have imagined, to bay generated courage, and secured attachment in all ba lowers, yet they all abandoned him in his distress-fr him and fled"-" the shepherd was smitten, and the s were scattered."-Bp. Watson. Ser. 2 Peter, i. 16. A point, concerning property, which ought, for the rese I just mentioned, to be most speedily decided, frequent exercises the wit of successions of lawyers, for many gent tions.-Burke. Vindication of Natural Society. Its varied power to various uses tends, Brooke. Universal Beauty, To say, therefore, that a body is there after the man a substance, is to say, that by being specificated. and determined, it becomes not a species but a genast is more unlimited by limitations, more generical specification, more universal by being made more part Bp. Taylor. Of the Real Presence, p Again, the word Homoousios, as was before intimat Petavius, was never used by Greek writers otherwise L to signifie the agreement of things numerically dif from one another, in some common nature or essence; or their having a generical vnity or identity, which sundry instances might be given. Cudworth. Intellectual System, As many therefore as are apparently to our judgment borne of God, they haue the seed of regeneration by the ministerie of the church, which vseth to that end and purpose not onely the word, but the sacraments, both hauing generatiue force and vertue. Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. v. § 50. Thus from the fact of Lot, we derive the generation of You say, If powers of the same kind be understood Ruth, and blessed Nativity of our Saviour; which notwith-rically, then you do agree that the known powers of standing did not extenuate the incestuous ebriety of the are nothing else but the sums of powers of the same k Clarke. Third D generator.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. v. c. 21. These tenuous vapours, at length descending in a chrystalline liquor, and mingling with the finest parts of the newly modified earth, will doubtless compose as genital a matter as any can be prepared in the bodys of animals. Glanvill. Pre-existence of Souls, c. 14. And Minutius Felix further relates, That it was reported, and believed among the heathen, That the Christians, in their private meetings, were given to incest, and all manner of uncleanness. That they worshipped the head of an ass, and even the genitals of their high priest. Grew. Cosmo-Sacra, b. v. c. 6. The Hebrews express this union, or comprising of two different apprehensions under one notion, by putting in the genitive case the word which expresses one of them. Digby. Of Man's Soul, c. 2. To which may be added this other sufficient natural reason, That if a son marries his mother, she who is in authority greater by right of geniture, becomes minor in matrimonio, less upon the same material account upon which she became greater. Bp. Taylor. Rule of Conscience, b. ii. c. 2. Rule 3. The question in dispute has no relation to the ge ness of the objects on which we think, but to the ness of thinking itself.-Answer to Clarke's Third De The dispute was not whether faith in Moses, er fath Jesus made men acceptable to God; but whether works the act of believing; consequently, where the Ap shews it was faith, or the act of believing, he must faith in the generic sense, not in the specific, i.e. be d mean faith in Jesus: for the Jews, even that part of th which embraced Jesus as the Messiah, denied it to be kind of faith whatsoever. Warburton. The Divine Legation, b. vi s Well-being, in its more permanent state, is distingu by the appellation of happiness. This is a gr applicable to every sort of mental enjoyment indiscr nately.-Cogan. On the Passions, vol. ii. Dis. 3. c. 1. We continue it in the same class, under the gen name of corvorants, as more familiar to the English than that of pelecan. Pennant. British Zorlogy. Gannet Corvera GENEROUSLY. Fr. Généreux; It. and Sp. Generoso; Lat. Generosus; GENEROUSNESS. from genus, kind. Generous, GENEROSITY. says Vossius, is opposed to legenerate, (a genere recedere,) to depart from the ind or nature; emphatically, the noble or illusrious kind or race. And thus, generous, is,— Noble or illustrious, (by birth or descent;) obly minded; liberal or munificent; magnanilous, courageous. The generous, and grauest citizens Haue hent the gates, and very neare vpon Shakespeare. Meas. for Meas. Act iv. sc. 6. But if your charges see you bear your sickness patiently, d your cross nobly, and despise money generously, and giue your enemy bravely, and relieve the poor charitably; en he sees your doctrine is tangible and material, it is ore than word, and he loves you, and considers what you -Bp. Taylor, vol. iii. Ser. 10. They little think their heirs in time to come Will scorn this sneaking copy, and find reason With lusty generousness to make their sum Suit with the brave magnificence of treason; When for a king (how much less precious?) they With these shreds And make bold power looke pale, they threw their caps there be one whose riches cost him care, Worth let him bring them for the troops to share ; Tis better generously bestow'd on those, han left the plunder of our country's foes. Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. xviii. should not have presumed to this dedication, had I not a encouraged by that generousness and sweetness of disition, which does so eminently adorn your lordship's e and abilities.-Wilkins. Mercury, Ded ndeed, the hopes of the Republic are greatly turned ards Octavius; as there is nothing which his generous st of glory, 'tis believed, will not animate him to perform. Melmoth. Cicero, b. xii. Let. 27. n chastising his enemies, he [Henry IV. of France] could but remember they were his people, and knowing they e reduced to the extremity of famine, he generously cond at the methods practised to supply them with provi-Goldsmith, Ess. 13. We have not (as I conceive) lost the generosity and dignity binking of the fourteenth century; nor as yet have we tilized ourselves into savages. Burke. On the French Revolution. GENET. Junius says,-Fr. Genét d'Espagne ; Ginetto di Spagna. A horseman, equipped h armour of a peculiar description, was first ed in Sp. Ginete, and afterwards the word was sferred to the horses themselves. Minshew ives the word (genet, a kind of horse) from the in; optimæ generationis caballus; a horse of best breed or blood. See JENNET. nd also we haue xx. thousande of other moûted on ties cap a pee.-Berners. Froissart. Cron. vol. i. c. 236. t our comming to the governor's house, we found the it doore (where the moyles do usually unlade) even then ned; a candle lighted upon the top of the stayers; and a e gennet ready sadled, either for the governour himself ome other of his household to carry it after him. Sir Francis Drake Revived, p. 13. t seems to me no more likely that frogs should be endred in the clouds, than Spanish gennets begotten by wind; for that hath great authors too. Ray. On the Creation, pt. ii. The delicacy of a gennet, a barb, or an Arabian horse, is ch more amiable than the strength and stability of some rses of war or carriage. Burke. On the Sublime and Beautiful, pt. iii. s. 16. GENET, or "Fr. Genêt,- —a kind of weesel, JE'NNET. black spotted, and bred in paine," (Cotgrave.) Skinner thinks it may be called from Guinea, because first noticed there 7 Europeans. VOL I. A warrant to Sir Andrew Dudley, to deliver to Robert Robotham, yeoman of the robes, to keep for the king one fur of black jennets, taken out of a gown of purple cloth of silver tissue.-Strype. Memorials. Edw. VI. an. 1552. GENETHLIACAL. Fr. Généthliaque; Lat. GENETHLIA'TIC. Genethliacus; Gr. FeVelλiakos, from yevelλn, and this from yeve, gignere, to bear or bring forth. One who forms predictions from the natal day, or day of birth. The night immediately before he was slighting the art of those foolish astrologers, and genethliacal ephemerists, that use to pry into the horoscope of nativities. Howell. Vocal Forest. The truth of astrological predictions is not to be referred to the constellations: the genethliaticks conjecture by the disposition, temper, and complexion of the person. Drummond. Genius is applied to A supposed tutelary god, whose province it was to take care of every one from the time of his birth; whence the more modern genii; to The nature, the natural powers or faculties of a man; the powers or faculties with which he is born. The natural bent, disposition or inclination of the mind; and, peculiarly, to The power or faculty which bears or brings forth, or produces; which finds out, discovers, invents. Also, to a man endowed or distinguished by this power or faculty. Genial, belonging or pertaining to the nature; natural; agreeable to nature; kind, lively. They in that place him Genius did call : Not that celestiall powre, to whom the care That liues, pertains, in charge particular, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 12. Whether the soul receives intelligence And though some constitutions are genially disposed to this mentall seriousness; yet they can scarce say, Nos numeri sumus.-Glanvill. The Vanity of Dogmatizing, c. 12. Thus some men are genially disposited to some opinions, and naturally as averse to others.-Id. Ib. c. 13. Astonish'd at the sight, the hero paid New rites, new honours, to his father's shade, Doubts if the demon of his sire rever'd, Or the kind Genius of the place appear'd. Pitt. Virgil. Æneid, b. v. Homer was the greater genius, Virgil the better artist. Pope. Preface to the Iliad. Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use ? Pride answers, "Tis for mine: For me kind Nature wakes her genial power; Suckles each herb and spreads out every flower." Id. Essay on Man, Ep. 1. But whence these various inclinations rose, The God of Human Nature only knows! That mystic genius, which our actions guides, Attends our stars, and o'er our lives presides; Whose power appears propitious, or malign, Stamp'd on each face, and varied through each line. Francis. Horace, b. ii. Epis. 2. 889 By genius I would understand that power, or rather those powers of the mind, which are capable of penetrating into all things within our reach and knowledge, and of distinguishing their essential differences. Fielding. History of a Foundling, b. ix. c. 1. Genius always imports something inventive or creative; which does not rest in mere sensibility to beauty where it is perceived, but which can, moreover, produce new beauties, and exhibit them in such a manner as strongly to impress the minds of others.-Blair, vol. i. Lect. 3. So that, of course, the grand genial power of the system, that visible God the Sun, would be soon regarded by them as a most beneficent Deity; and thunder and lightnings, storms and tempests, which his qualities produced, would be considered as the effects of his anger. Warburton. The Divine Legation, b. iii. s. 6. Or whether clearer skies and softer air, Beyond the vast Atlantic deep Cowper. Progress of Error. A dome by viewless genii shall be raised, The walls of adamant compact and steep, The portals with sky-tinctur'd gems emblazed. Jones. The Muse Recalled. An Ode. GENT. GENTE'EL. GENTE ELY. GENTE ELNESS. GENTILITY. GENTLE, v. GENTLE, adj. GENTILESS. GENTLENESS. GENTLESHIP. GENTLY. GENTRY. GENTLE-MAN. Fr. Gent, gentil; It. Gentile; Sp. Gentel, from the Lat. Gens, and this from genus. Cicero, in his Topica, (c. 6,) enumerates as partitions or divisions necessary for the complete definition of gentilis; 1. Qui inter se eodem nomine sunt. 2. Qui ab ingenuis oriundi sunt. 3. Quorum majorum nemo servitutem servivit. 4. Qui capite non GENTLE-WOMAN. sunt deminuti. And it is from a just pride in the rank, the honour, the nobility of family, that our modern applications of gentle, genteel, &c. derive their origin. Genteel is applied to the manners, address or dress, of persons of rank; and, therefore, of fashion; and thus, is equivalent to—, Polished or polite, elegant, graceful. Gentle is,-born of or descended from a good family; and thus, inheriting or possessing the virtues or generous qualities of such family; and, therefore, applied to such qualities, namely, to— Courteousness or urbanity of manners or disposition; affability, mildness; freedom from roughness or rudeness, coarseness, grossness or vulgarity; thus, is equivalent to Courteous, affable, mild, meek. Gent is a common word in our old writers, generally expressing the softer qualities of the female sex, Meek, kind, tender; and, as opposed to gross, vulgar, in Chaucer, (Tyrwhitt,) neat and pretty. See the quotations from Sir Thomas Smith and Gibbon. The words in our old writers are very variously written. So that the kynge's neuew, and the erle's neuew of Kent, R. Gloucester, p. 53. So large he was & so hende, & al so de bonere ; Id. p. 167. Gengyl men that he vond in prison ek ydo The erle this lady gent gaf Henry his sonne, In England is sche corouned that lady gent, 5 X Id. Ib Gentille of nurture, & noble of lynage, Was non that bare armure, that did suilk vassalage. Gentelich wt joye. And though to me ye be right lefe and dere Id. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8356. And Emelie him loveth so tenderly, Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 3106. For som folk wol be wonnen for richesse, Id. The Milleres Tale, v. 3357. And therefore who so list it not to here, For hart fulfilled of gentilness Can euill demeane his distresse.-Id. Rom. of the Rose. Id. The Second Nonnes Tale, v. 15,833. Also to have pride of gentrie is right gret folie: for oft time the gentrie of the bodie benimeth the gentrie of the soule and also we ben al of o fader and of o moder: and all we ben of o nature rotten and corrupt, both riche and poure.-Id. The Persones Tale. What say we eke of hem that deliten hem in swearing, and hold it a genterie or manly dede to swere gret othes. Id. Ib. Eyther the communers onlye must be welthy, and the gentyl and noble men needy and miserable: or elles excludyng gentylitie, al men must be of one degre and sort, and a new name prouided.-Sir T. Elyot. Governor, b. i. p. 2. I might perceaue a wolf as white as whales bon, A fairer beaste, of fresher hue, beheld I neuer none, Saue that her lokes were coy and forward eke her grace, Unto the which this gentle beast gan him advance apace. Surrey. Song of a Lady who refus'd to Daunce with him. Thus they that were desolate were recoforted by the lordes that they resorted vnto, who had pyte on them, as it was reason, for noblenesse of gentylnesse ought to be aided by nobles and gentyls. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 401. But Cæsar sommoning before him the noble men of euery citie, partlie by putting them in feare in declaryng that he knewe of their doings, & partlie by entreating them gentlye, kept the greater part of Gallia in dew obedience & quietness. Goldinge. Cæsar, fol. 140. I stirred him still toward gentlenesse; Wyat. Complaint vpon Loue, &c. But, madam, moneye can do much, Drant. Horace. Epistle to Numitius. No, nor those same handy craft men of yours in cities, nor yet the rude and uplandish ploughman of the country, are not supposed to be greatly afraid of your gentleman's idle serving-men, unless it be such as be of body or stature correspondent to their strength and courage; or else whose bold stomachs be discouraged through poverty. Sir T. More. Utopia, by Robinson, b. i. Some in France, which will needs be jentlemen, whether men will or no, and have more jentleshippe in their hat than in their head, be at deadlie feude, with both learning and honestie.-Ascham. Schole Master, b. i. The quene herself shall be led away captive, and her gentilwomen shal mourne as the doues, and grone within theyr heartes.-Bible, 1551. Of Nahum, c. 2. He lov'd, as was his lot, a lady gent, That him again lov'd in the least degree; Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 9. What should tempt the cheap swearer to open his black throat as wide as hell, and to belch out his blasphemies against Heaven, and the God of Heaven, but only that he fancies that a well-mouthed oath will make his speech the more stately and genteel. Hopkins. Ser. On First Commandment. I will not be drunk in the streets, but I may sleep till I be recovered, and then come forth sober; or if I be overtaken it shall be in civile and gentile company. Bp. Taylor, vol. ii. Ser. 7. The surname is the name of the gentilitie and stocke, which the sonne doth take of the father alwaies, as the old Romans did.-Sir T. Smith. Commonwealth, b. iii. c. 8. Gens in Latine betokeneth the race and sirname, so the Romanes had Cornelios, Sergios, Appios, Fabios, Æmilios, Pisones, Julios, Brutos, Valerios, of which who were agnate, and therefore kept the name, were also gentiles, and remaining the memorie of the glory of their progenitor's fame, were gentlemen of that or that race.-Id. Ib. b. i. c. 20. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers: Shakespeare. Henry V. Act iv. sc. 3. And straight deliuer'd to a fairy knight To be vp brought in gentle thewes and martiall might. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 9. But the fair virgin was so meak and milde, That she to them vouchsafed to embase Her goodly port, and to their senses vild Her gentle speech applide, that in short space She grew familiar in that desert place. Id. Ib. b. iii. c. 7. Ford. I thinke I shall drinke in pipe-wine first with him, I'l make him dance. Will you go, Gentles? Shakespeare. Merry Wiues of Windsor, Act iii. sc. 3. When to the place they came where Artegall But fare you well: perforce I must confesse, 1 thought you Lord of more true gentleness. Shakespeare. Midsummer Night's Dream, Act ii. sc. He [Artaxerxes] was a prince of much humanity, and noted for many examples of gentleness. Ralegh. History of the World, b. iii. c. 7. Gentlemen be those whom their race and bloud, or at t least their vertues do make noble and knowne. The Late call them nobiles and generosos, as the French do nobles u gentlehommes.-Holinshed. Description of England, c. 5. Nay, looke you, Carlo: this is my humour now! I hav land and money, my friends left me well, and I will be gentleman whatsoeuer it cost me. Car. A most gentleman-like resolution. B. Jonson. Every Man out of his Humour, Act i. se 3 If he can derive himselfe from the head of any sept. most of them can, they are so expert by their bardes,) the hee holdeth himselfe a gentleman, and thereupon secret to worke, or use any hard labour, which, he saith, is the i of a peasant or churle, but thenceforth becometh either horse boy, or a stocah to some kerne, inuring himselfe his weapon, and to the gentlemanly trade of stealing they count it.)-Spenser. View of the State of Ireland After that the king put away Edith the Queen onely displeasure conceyued agaynst her father, and appre that she should be kept in safe custody in the alty Rodwell by the Abbess there, without any honourable tertaynement, havyng one gentle-woman only to wait VE her.-Grafton. Edward the Confessor, an. 1045. If it will please you To shew vs so much gentrie, and good will, Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act is But the idle and slouthfull, and such chieflie as she auoide labour, liue in great pouertie, and yet will s to boast of their nobilitie and gentrie, as though t more seemely for the honest to lacke, then comely the e cise of some honest arte) to get their living. Stow. A Description of England, i [Such] is the unhappy consequence of too easie yie first, till at last the greatest slavery to sin be accounted good humour, and a gentile compliance with the fashi the world. Stillingfleet, vol. i. Ser. 2. A set of genteel good-natured youths fallen inte manner of life, would form almost a little acade doubtless prove no such contemptible companions, as not often tempt a wiser man to mingle himself in diversions, and draw them into such serious sports as prove nothing less instructing than the gravest less Spectator, N I have long neglected him as being a profligate or Browne more genteely calls him) a privileged writ takes the liberty to say any thing, and whose reproach scandal.-Waterland. Works, vol. x. p. 414. He [Parmeggiano] excell'd also both in inventiva design, with a genius full of gentileness and spirit nothing that was ungracefull in his choice of attitudes in the dresses of his figures.-Dryden. Du Fresno. The bride That with her wedding-clothes undresses For what, I pray, is a gentleman, what properties hat what qualities are characteristical or peculiar to him w he is distinguished from others and raised above the va are they not especially two, courage and courtesie! he that wanteth is not otherwise than equivocally a g man, as an image or a carkase is a man; with ty gentility in a conspicuous degree is no more than shew, or an empty name.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 21. If it comes to a justle and competition, geetility before Christianity, and fashion take the wall of reg South, vol. Upon the Duke of Monmouth's landing, many country-people came in to join him, but very few gentry.-Burnet. Own Time, an. 1685. Full little thought of him the gentle knight, He [the upright man] hath little of the serpent ( its lurking insidiousness, of its surprising violence. rancorous venom, of its keen mordacity but much dove (all its simplicity, its gentleness, its fidelity, its cence) in his conversation and commerce. Barrow, vol. 1. Se |