do Troi. O Cressida, how often have I wisht me thus ! ABSENT, . Fr. Absent, Absenter; It. been all hole absolute, and discendeth so down into the Absent, adj. Assente; Sp. Ausente ; Lat. vttrest thynges, and into thynges empty and without fruit. Chaucer. Boecius, b. iii. fol. 220. the fountaine of our louel-Shakes. Tr. & Cr. Act lli. sc. 2. Albsence. from. But father nowe ye haue all herde, In this maner howe I haue ferde (ir if thou hast not broke from companie ABSENTE'E. To be or go, or send away Of cheste, and of dissencion, Abruptly, as my passion pow makes me, ABSENTE'ISM. from; to retreat, to withdraw. Yeue me your absolucion.---Gower. Con. A. b. iii. Thou hast not lou'd.---Id. As You Like It, Act il. sc. 4. ABSENTER. Absentee and Absenteism But let the sonne of perdicion perisshe, and absolue wo Pardon, if my abruptnesse breed disease; ABSENTMENT. are now common words. the chapter, the aungel yet speking with Daniel. "He merits not t' offend, that hastes to please." Joy. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 8. Furthermore, if I myghte be bold with Rastel, I wolde aske him this question, whether God haue not an absoluís friend as soon as the tables are removed, and an act of to the feith of the gospel. - Wiclif. Filipensis, c. 1. iustice as wel as an absolute power? If God have also an irreligion to rise from our common meals without prayer absolute iustice, then can not his absolute power preuayle and thanksgiving. How much more absurd and impious, Lo badde is nothing els, but absence or negatiue of good, yntyll his absolute iustice be fullie countrepyased. shen, were it for us to depart abruptly from the Lord's table! as darkness is absence or negatiue of light. d Boke made by Johan Fruth, printed 1548. Comber. Companion to the Temple, pt. iii. s. 19. Chaucer. Test. of Love, b. iii. fol. 309. We are bounde to heare the Pope, and his Cardinalles, and other like Scribes, and Phariseis, not absolutely, ol without exception, what so ever they liste to saie: but only Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. i. saied these or like wordes to hym.--Hall. Introd. fol. 10. so long, as they teache the lawe of God. At last the rous'd up river pours along : Jewel. Defence of the Apologie, p. 430. He (Wiclise) denyed ye Bishop to have authoritie to ex- kyng douted hym, bycause he was so couytous; but thoughe communicate any person; and that any priest might absolve Tumbling through rocks abrupt, and sounding far. the kynge dyde absent hym at the houre of his dethe, and such a one as well as the pope.---Slow. Chronicle, an. 1376. Thomson. Winter. putte hym farre of fro the busynesses of the realme of Fraunce, yet the duke of Aniowe thought to medyll neuer the lesse Pray speake in English; heere are some will thanke you, Abrupt and horrid as the tempest roars, for all his absence.-Berners. Froissart. Cron. c. 366. If you speake truth, for their poore Mistris sake; Beleeue me, she has had much wrong. Lord Cardinall, The willing'st sinne I euer yet committed, May be absolu'd in English. Shakespeare. Henry VIII. Aet i. sc. I. Surrey. Virgile, b. iv. Duke. Be absolute for death: either death or life Abscesso; Lat. Abscessus : from Abscedere, to go Duke. Not see him since? Sir, sir, that cannot be: Shall thereby be the sweeter. Ib. Meas. for Meas. Act iii. se. 1 Now if to salve this anomaly, we say the heat of the sun one mass. Shakespea As You Like It, Act iii. sc. 2. is more powerful in the Soutliern Tropick, because in the sign of Capricorn falls out the perigeum, or lowest place of The signs may be taken from their causes; and the man - Night with her will bring the sun in his eccentrick, whereby he becomes nearer unto ner of the abscess may demonstrate its malign nature, and Silence; and sleep, listening to thee, will watch, them than unto the other in Cancer, we shall not absolve eril quality.--Wiseman. Chirurgical Treatises, b. i. c. 5. Or we can bid his absence, till thy song the doubt.---Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vi. c. 10. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vii. They that take upon them to be the only absolvers of sin, ABSCI'ssion. are themselves held fast in the snares of eternal death. More. Against Idolatry, Pref. We must know what is to be meant by absolute, or abso- luteness; whereof I finde two main significations. First, Dryden. Duke of Guise, Act iii. sc. 1. absolute signifieth perfect, and absolutenesse, perfection : • We are perishing people, or, if not, yet at the least not to It is observed, that in the sun's total eclipses, when there hence we have in Latin this expression, Perfectum est om be cured without the abscission of a member, without the is no part of his body discernible, yet there does not always nibus numeris absolutum. And in our vulgar language we cutting off a hand or leg, or the putting out of an eye. follow so great a darkness as might be expected from his say, a thing is absolutely good, when it is perfectly good. Bp. Taylor. Serm, vol. ii. s. 13. total absence.---Wilkins. Discovery of a New World. Next, absolute signifieth free from tye or bond. Knox. History oj the Reformation, Pref. To this commandment fastings, and severe abstinencies, Whether if there was no silver or gold in the kingdom, are apt to be reduced, as being the proper abscission of the It is fatal goodness left to fitter times, our trade might not nevertheless supply bills of exchange, instruinents and temptations of lust, to which Christ invites Not to increase, but to absolre, our crimes. Dryden. To the Lord Chancellor Hyde. The proper object of love, is not so much that which is Other phrases and circumlocutions by which humane absolutely good in itself, as that which is relatively so to us. cases where meekness of instruction is the remedy: or if death is expressed are either expressly applyed or by con Bp. Wilkins. Sermon on the Hope of Rewarde. the case be irremediable, abscission, by censures, is the pe- l instance as these: a going or abode abroad, a peregrination, sequence applicable to the death of our Saviour; such for As the priests of the law were to pronounce a blessing nalty.-Id. Liberty of Prophesying, sec. 13. or absentment from the body. upon the offerers, so those of the gospel are to dispense the When a single syllable is cut off from the rest, it must Barrow. Sermons, vol. ii. s. 27. blessing of absolution unto the penitent. either be united to the line with which the sense connects Comber. Companion to the Temple, pt. i. s. 4. it, or be sounded alone When two syl What is commonly called an absent man, is commonly lables likewise are abscinded from the rest, they evidently either a very weak, or a very affected man. Though an absolutory sentence should be pronounced ir want some associate sounds to make them harmonious. Chesterfield. Let. 12. favour of the persons-yet if adultery shall afterwards bar truly proved, he may again be proceeded against as an Rambler. No. 90. Your absentation from the House is a measure which adulterer.--Ayliffe. Parergon. The abscission of a vowel is undoubtedly vicious when it always had my most entire concurrence. is strongly sounded, and makes, with its associate conso Wakefield, Letter to C. J. Fox, March 13, 1800. Renson pursued is faith; and unpursued nant, a full and audible syllable.--Id. No. 88. Where proof invites, 'tis reason, then, no more: It might perhaps be a little difficult to ascertain either And such our proof, That, or our faith is right, ABSCOND, v. Fr. Absconser; It. Ascon- what sort or what degree of absence, would subject a man Or Reason lies, and Heaven designed it wrong: dere; Sp. Esconderse ; Lat. Abscondere, (Ab- should either begin or end. to be taxed as an absentee, or at what precise time the tax Absolve we this ? --Young. Complaint, Night 4. condere,) to hide from (Condo est a cum et do, Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. v. c. 2. Rocking sets children to sleep better than absolute rest; quasi simul in interiorem locum do ; ut Festus there is indeed scarce any thing at that age, which gives ait. ABSOLVE, v. more pleasure than to be gently lifted up and down. Vossius). Fr. Absouldre, Absoudre; It. Burke. On the Sublime and Beautiful. To hide from; to conceal; to secrete ; to de ABSOʻLVER. Assolvere; Sp. Absolver; Lat. A'BSOLUTE, Absolvere, part or go away for the purpose of concealment. A'BSONANT.) Lat. Absonus, (Ab-sono,) A'BSONOUS. sounding in disunion. Discordant; disagreeing. See ConSONANT. ABSOLUTION. free or clear--from difficulty; For Stoicism to rejoice at funerals, and lament at births A'BSOLUTORY. from guilt; or the conse of men, is more absonant to nature than reason. The Mourner. Quarles. Judgment and Mercy. . which To suppose an uniter of a middle constitution, that should themselves into hot countries.-Ray. Wisdom of God. any of our absonous to . fection : unbounded, unrestricted, unlimited, un Glancille. Scep. Scientifica, c. 4. Nothing discoverable in the lunar surface is ever covered and absconded from us by the interposition of any from the English Preface to Knox. conditional : clear, certain. See the quotation ABSORB, v. Fr. Absorber; lt. Assorbere ; clouds or mists, but such as rise from our own globe. ABSORBENT. Sp. Absorver ; Lat. Absorbere, Avso'rPTION. S Ab-sorbere,) to sup or suck up. Calle ageyn thin oth, drede thou no manace, sermon, which he was permitted to do by an old Roman To swallow, imbibe. Nouther of lefe ne loth, thi lordschip to purchace priest that then lived abscondedly in Oxon. To be wholly occupied by, or engaged in, de- Wood. Athene Oxon. For it was a gilery, thou knew not ther tresoun. voted to, immersed, plunged, or lost in the con- R. Brunne, p. 215. templation of. an outlawry, then a greater exactness is necessary. For the nature ne tooke not her begynning, of thynges For no thyng as Luther sayeth can damne a Christen times these birds. (swallowed cofreither caboscond, of betake is free from bound, restriction, uncertainty, imper- partake of some of the qualities of boths is our personed by bellese and faith städ faste) be quite absorpt and supped up tinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the Abstersive and mundifying clysters also are good to conhe sayth in that fayth.-Sir T. More. Works, p. 267. true way-faring Christian. clude with, to draw away the reliques of the humours, that Milton. Liberty of Unlicensed Printing. may have descended to the lower region of the body. Beholde, a bryght cloude ouershadowed thapostles, lest Bacon. Naturall History, . 65 they should be absorpte and ouercummed with the highnesse A Christian playing at dice or tables is not to be admitted of the sigthte.- Udal. Matthew, c. 17. to the holy communion, but after a year's penance and This I admire how possibly it should inhabit thus long in abstention, and his total amendment. the sense of so many disputing theologians, unless it be the The evils that come of exercise, are: first, that it maketh Bp. Taylor. Rule of Consc. b. iv. c. 1. lowest lees of a canonical infection liver-grown to their the spirits more hot and predatory ; secondly, that it doth Pac. Be abstinent, shew not the corruption of thy gene sides; which perhaps will never uncling, without the strong absorbe likewise, and attenuate too much the moisture of ration: he that feeds shall die, therefore he that feeds not abstersire of some heroic magistrate, whose mind, equal to the body.-Bacon. Naturall History, $ 299. shall live. his high office, dares lead Irim both to know and do without Where to place that concurrence of water (the river Jor- Beaumont and Fletcher Love's Cure, Act. ii. sc. I. their frivolous case-putting.-Milton. Tetrackordon. dan) or place of its absorbition, there is no authentick If thou hadst ever re-admitted Adam into Paradise, how Nor will we affirm that iron indigested, receiveth in the decision. -Sir T. Brown. Tracts, p. 165. abstinently would he have walked by that tree! stomach of the Oestridge no alteration at all; but if any The aversion of God's face is confusion; the least bend Donne, Devotions, p. 623. such there be, we suspect this effect rather from some way of corrosion, than any of digestion • •; but rather ing of his brow is perdition; but his “totus æstus," his I haue deliuerd to Lord Angelo, whole fury is the utter ubsorption of the creature. (A man of stricture and firme abstinence), some attrition from an acide and vitriolous humidity in the Bp. Hall. Remains, p. 24. My absolute power, and place here in Vienna. stomach, which may absterse and shave the scorious parts This abolition of their name happened about the end of Shakespeare. Meas. for Mfcas. Act i. sc. 2. thereof.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 22. the first century after Christ; for after that we hear no Can you fast? your stomacks are too young, And contemplating the calicular shafts, and uncous dismore mentioned of the name of the Edomites or Idumeans, And abstinence ingenders maladies. posure of their extremities, so accommodable unto the office it being by that time wholly absorbed in the name of Jews. Id. Love's L. Lost, Act iv. sc. 3. of abstersion, not condemn as wholly improbable the conceit Prideaux. Connection, pt. ii. b. v. an. 129. of those who accept it, for the herb Borith. After some time of separation from the other pure Chris Id. The Gurden of Cyrus, c. 3 Circe in vain invites the feast to share ; tians in worship, and an abstention from the sacrament, Absent I ponder, and absorpt in care: they (the penitents) were admitted again to their share of A tablet stood of that abstersive tree, While scenes of woe rose anxious in my breast, all the privileges that were given in common to Christians. Where Æthiop's swarthy bird did build her nest, The queen beheld me and these words addrest. Burnet. Hist. Ref. Inlaid it was with Lybian ivory, Drawn from the jaws of Afric's prudent beast. Denham. On Chess. Coagulators of the humours (are) those things which expel dence and sobriety of a Christian, determine the measures the most fuid parts, as in the case of incrassating, or and degrees of that abstinence, which the law of God has Indeed simple wounds have been soundly and suddenly thickening; and those things which suck up some of the not determined, and the laws or customs of men have in cured therewith, which is imputed to the abstersireness of fluid parts, as absorbents.--Arbuthnot. On Diet, $ 10. reason no power to determine.-Clarke, vol. ii. Ser. 173. this water (Epsom), keeping a wound clean, till the balsome Those twinkling tiny lustres of the land, As for fasting and abstinence, which is many times very of nature doth recover it.- Fuller. Worthies. Surrey. Drop one by one from Fame's neglecting hand; helpful and subservient to the ends of religion, there is no The seats with purple clothe in order due; Lethean gulphs receive them as they fall, such extraordinary trouble in it, if it be discreetly managed, And let th' abstersive sponge the board renew: Let some refresh the vase's sullied mould, Some bid the goblets boast their native gold. Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. xx. He that abstains, and he alone, does right. act of a man's raising his hand to his head, must be added If a wish wander that way, call it home; Yet many simples have other qualities, which seem chiefly likewise, all that is necessary, and all that contributes, to He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam. to reside, though not in an elementary salt or sulphur: such the growth, nourishment, and sustentation of the limb, the Cowper. Truth. as sourness, saltness, a caustick or a healing faculty, absterrepair of its waste, the preservation of its health : such as The temperance which adorned the severe manners of the siveness, and the like.-Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 117. the circulation of the blood through every part of it; its soldier and the philosopher, was connected with some strict lymphatics, exhalants, absorbents; its excretions and inte ABSTRACT, v. Fr. Abstraire, abstraict , and frivolous rules of religious abstinence; and it was in guments.-Paley. Natural Theology, c. 10. honour of Pan or Mercury, of Hecate or Iris, that Julian, A'BSTRACT, adj. It. Astrarre, astratto; Sp. This necessarily engages us in the history of the rise, on particular days, denied himsell the use of some parti- A'BSTRACT, n. Abstraher, abstracto; Lat. progress, and decay of the ancient Greek philosophy: in cular food.-Gibbon. Roman Empire, c. 23. Abstra'CTED. Abstrahere,abstractum, (Abwhich is shewn its original, like that of legislation, from ABSTEMIOUS, a. It. Astemio ; Lat. Ab ABSTRACTEDLY. trahere,) to draw away from. stemius, (Ab- temetum, ABSTRACTEDNISS. To draw away, or separevolutions of civil power; its gradual decay and total ABSTEMIOUSNESS. Abstra'CTER. rate some part from other; absorption in the schools. from wine. An abstemious man refrains from ABSTRACTION, and thus, to refine, to purify. ABSTRACTLY. And then- ABSTRA'CTNESS. That which is general in fined to, particular qualities or circumstances A'BSTINENT. from. A man so much divine, Looke heere vpon thy brother Geffreyes face, These eyes, these browes, were moulded out of his ; This little abstract doth containe that large, Which died in Geffreye; and the hand of time, Shall draw this breefe into as huge a volume. Shakespeare. John, Act ii. sc. 1. of errour and to techingis of deuelis that speken leesyng in Pal. But man, the abstract Of all perfection, which the workmanship Of Heaven hath modelld, in himself contains Promis'd by heavenly message twice descending. Passions of several qualities. Ford. Lover's Melancholy, Act iv. &c. 3. Milton. Samson Agonistes, v. 634. If it were not in a sacred subject it were excellent sport absteine you fro fleischli desires that figten agens the soule. to observe how the same place in Scripture serves several Id. 1 Peter, c. 2. The Bannyans, though healthy through their abstemious turns upon occasion, and they at that time believe the words ness, are but of weak bodies and small courage. Darly beloued, I beseche you as straungers and pylgremes, Sir T. Herbert. Travels, p. 115. sound nothing else, whereas in the liberty of their judgment, and abstracting from that occasion, these commentaries abstayne from fleshly lustes, whiche fyght against the soule. If yet Achilles have a friend whose care understand them wholly in a different sense. Taylor. Liberty of Prophesying, s. 3. Till yonder sun descend, oh let me pay If we consider a spiritual life abstractedly, and in itselfe, abstynence, in abstynence pacience, in pacience pitee, in Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. xx. piety produces our life, not by a natural efficiency, but by divine benediction.-ld. Great Exemplar, pt. iii. s. 17. pitee loue of britherhood, and in loue of britherhood charite. The tone of his stomach never recovered its natural Wiclif. 2 Peter, c. I. temper, even when he lived very abstemiously afterwards. In this science or mystery of words, a very judicious Whiston. Nemoirs, p. 273. abstracter would find it a hard task to be any thing copious, Ayenst glotonie the remedie is abstinence, as sayth Galien: without falling upon an infinite collection, &c. but that I holde not meritorie, if he do it only for the hele of ABSTERGE, v. Fr. Abstersif; It. Abster Mannyngham. Disc. his body. Seint Augustine wol that abstinence be don for ABSTERGENT. vertue, and with patience. Abstinence (sayth he) is litel gere; Sp. Abstersivo; Lat. worth, but if a man have good will therto, and but Abste'RSE. Abstergere, (Ab-tergo,) to {Christ annexes rewards to) the bare practice of those things, which are at the very present, though they were not enforced by patience and charitee, and that men don it for ABSTE'RSION. commanded, and if they should not be rewarded in another Goddes sake, and in hope to have the blisse in heven. ABSTE'RSIVE. To wipe off; to cleanse life (I mean abstractively from these enhaunsments of them), Chaucer. The Personnes Tale. ABSTE'RSIVENESS. by wiping or scouring. infinitely esteemable and preferrable before the contraries, Abslinence is wherby a man refraineth from any thyng, which must farther cost us so extreamly dear, if we will which he may lawfully take. Gillius reckons up 155 publicke baths in Constantinople, choose and pitch our design upon them, and resolve to go Elyot. Governour, b. iii. c. 16. of faire building; they are still frequented in that citie by through with that unthrifty purpose. the Turkes of all sorts, men and women, and all over Greece Hammond. Works, vol. 1. p. 465. After this dangerous businesse finished, and for a time and those hot countries; to absterge, belike, that fulsome The mind makes the particular Ideas, received from par. ended, by meane of frendes, and desire of princies, a truce ness of sweat to which they are then subject. or abstinence of warre for a certaine tyme, was moued Burton. Anat. Melancholy, p. 238. ticular objects, to become general; which is done by con sidering them as they are in the mind, such appearances, betwene the kyng (Henry the Sixth) of Englande, and the duke of Burgoyne. -- Hall. Hen. VI. an. 15. Abstersion is plainly a scouring off, or incision of the separate from all other existencies, and the circumstances of more viscous humours, and making the humours more real existence, as time, place, or any other concomitant ideas. This is called abstraction, whereby ideas, taken from He that can apprehend and consider vice, with all her | Auide; and cutting between them and the part. baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet dis Bacon. Naturall History, f. 12. particular beings, become general representatives of all of VOL. I. 9 с scour from. the same kind; and their names general names, applicable Deaf to reason; and, consequently, without Cor. O you kind gods! Cure this great breach in his abused nature, Th' vntun'd and iarring senses, winde vp, I own myself able to abstract, in one sense, as when I ye prophete discribeth the foly of such as worshippeth Of this childe-changed father.-Id. Ib. consider some particular parts or qualities separated from those images that hath eares & can not hyre, handes and others, with which, though they are united in some object, can not feele, feete and can not goe, mouth and cānot speake. And now (forsooth) takes on him to reforme yet it is possible they may really exist without them. But All whiche absurdities & unreasonable folyes appeareth as Some certaine edicts, and some strait decrees, I deny that I can abstract one from another, or conceive well in the worshippe of our ymages, as in the Painims That lay too heauie on the common-wealth; separately, those qualities which it is impossible should ydolles.-Sir. T. More. Works, p. 138. Cryes out vpon abuses, seemes to weepe Ouer his countries wrongs: and by this face, exist so separated; or that I can frame a general notion by abstracting from particulars in the manner aforesaid: which Cleo. Why that's the way to foole their preparation, This seeming brow of justice, did he winne two last are the proper acceptations of abstraction. And to conquer their most absurd intents. The hearts of all that hee did angle for. Berkeley. Principles of Hum. Knowledge, Introd. $10. Shakespeare. Ant. f Cleo. Act v. sc. 2. Id. 1 Part Hen. IV. Act iv. sc. 3 Or whether more abstractedly we look, As a fat body is more subject to diseases, so are rich men I should tell ye what I learnt of chastity and love, I mean Or on the writers or the written book, to absurdities and fooleries, to many casualties and cross that which is truly so, whose charming cup is only virtue, Whence, but from Heaven, could men unskill'd in arts, inconveniences.-Burton. Democritus to the Reader. which she bears in her hand to those who are worthy; the In several ages born, in several parts, rest are cheated with a thick into ricating potion which a Weave such agreeing truths?-Dryden. Religio Laici. The capital things of nature generally lie out of the beaten certain sorceress, the abuser of love's name, carries about. Milton. Apol. for Smectymnuu. As the abstractedness of these speculations fconcerning paths, so that even the absurdness of a thing sometimes proves useful human nature) is no recommendation, we have attempted Shaw. W. of Bacon. Distribution of Sciences, s. 13. For by those ugly formes weren portray'd, to throw some light upon subjects, from which uncertainty Foolish delights, and fond abusions, has hitherto deterred the wise, and obscurity the ignorant. That we may procede yet further with the atheist, and Which doe that sense besiege with light Ilusions. Hume. On Human Understanding, s. 1. convince him, that not only his principle is absurd, but his Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 11, Here then is another source of what has lieen called consequences also as absurdly deduced from it: we will In describing these battels, I am, for distinction sake, abstract terms; or, rather, as you say, another method of allow him an uncertain extravagant chance against the shortening communication by artificial substantives: for in natural laws of motion. necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, accord. this case, one single word stands for a whole sentence. Bentley. Confutation of Atheism, Ser. 5. ing to the abusive acception thereof for these latter years. Fuller. Worthies of England, vol. i. c. 18. Unless he does in our affections reign: Words being carelessly and abusivcly admitted, and as inconstantly retained: it must needs come to pass, that they ABSTRU'SELY. Sp. Abstruso; Lat. Ab- And not obedience to his sceptre bring. will be diversly apprehended by contenders, and so made tho ABSTRU'seness strusus; part. past of ab Waller. Reflections upon the Lord's Prayer. subject of controversies. strudere, (Ab-trudere,) to thrust from. Applied Glanville. The Vanity of Dogmatizing, c. 17. It was formerly the custom for every great house in to that, which is England to keep a tame fool dressed in petticoats, that the He falls now to rave in his barbarous abusiveness, and Thrust, or moved away, so as to require keen- heir of the family might have an opportunity of joking upon why! A reason befitting such an artificer, because , he saith, ness of mind to discover it :-to that which is him, and diverting himself with his absurdities. the book is contrary to all human learning. Spectator, No. 47. Milton. Colasterion. concealed, obscure, diffieult of apprehension, or detection. Well may they venture on the mimic's art, abused Who play from morn to night a borrow'd part; The gravest and wisest person in the world may Let the Scriptures be hard; are they more hard, more With every wild absurdity comply: by being put into a fool's coat; and the most noble and exzabbed, more abstruse than the Fathers? And view each object with another's eye. cellent poem may be debased and made vile by being turned Milton. Reformation in England. Johnson. London. into burlesque.--Tillotson, vol. i. Ser. 1. Meanwhile the Eternal eye, whose sight discerns ABU'NDANT. See ABOUND. Alith. Insomuch, that I can no longer suffer his scurrilous Abstrusest thoughts, from forth his holy mount, abusiveness to you, no more than his love to me. Wycherly. Country Wife, Act iii. sc. 1. Rebellion rising.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. v. ABU'SE, n. Abusar ; Lat. Ab-usus ; past Wretch! that from slander's filth art ever gleaning, Who (Aristotle) in matters of difficulty, and such which ABU'SER. part. of Abuti, (Ab-uti,) to use Spite without spite, malice without meaning: were not without abstrusities, conceived it sufficient to ABU'SION. from, away from, viz. all bene. The same abusive, base, abandon'd thing, When pilloried, or pension'd by a king. Jeliver conjecturalities. ABU'STVE. ficial purposes. Sir T. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vii. c. 13. Mason. Epistle to Dr. Shebbeare. ABU'SIVELY. To ill use, by deception, guile, And therefore old adstrusities have caused new inventions ; ABU'SIVENESS. imposition, reproach, violence: ABU'T, v. Fr. Abouter, Abutter ; Low and some from the hypothesis of Copernicus, or the diurnal and annual motion of the earth, endeavour to salve the ABU'SAGE and, con que to deceive, ABU'TMENT. Lat. Abuttare. (See Spelman, flowes and motions of these seas, illustrating the same by ABU'SEFUL. to impose upon, to vilify, to ABU'TTAL. and the quotation from him.) water in a boal.-Id. Ib. reproach, to violate, defile. Tooke derives from the A. S. Boda; the first outThen, from whate'er we can to sense produce, Abusion, though now obsolete, is not uncommon ward extremity or boundary of any thing. Common and plain, or wondrous and abstruse, in the elder writers. From nature's constant or eccentric laws, To be upon the outward extremity: to border The thoughtful soul this general inference draws, upon the surface of: to touch upon the edge, o. And certes that were an abusion confine. More than we men, yt haue doutous Wening Suppose within the girdle of these walls since it is the abstruseness of what is taught in them that Were false and foule, and wicked cursednesse. Are now confin'd two mightie monarchies makes them almost inevitably so; it is little less saucy, Chaucer. Troilus, b. iv. Whose high, up-reared and abulling fronts, upon such a score, to find fault with the style of the Scrip The perrilous narrow ocean part asunder; ture, than to do so with the author for making us but men. He shall not be innocēt whoso abuseth my name, for I will Peece out our imperfections with your thoughts. Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 267. viset the wykednes of soche fathers in theyr chyldren into Shakespeare. Prol. to Hen. 7. the thyrde & fourth generacion. Yet it must be still confessed that there are some mysteries Joy. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 3. The name and place of the thing granted were ordinarily In religion, both natural and revealed, as well as some ab expressed, as well before as after the conquest; but the parstruse points in pliilosophy, wherein the wise as well as the Who though he lye in a continuall await upõ euery ticular manner of abutlalling, with the term itself, arose from unwise must be content with obscure ideas. preacher to catche hym in to pride if he can : yet his hyest the Normans, as appeareth in the Customary of Normandy: Watts. Logic, pt. iii. c. 4. enterprise and proudest triumph standeth in the bringing of cap. 556, where it is said, that the declaration must be made a man to the most abuse of that thing, yt is of his own nature ABSU'ME, v. ? par bouts & costes destités terres saisies, of the abuttals and Lat. Absumere (see infra, the best. And therfore great labour maketh he & gret bost, sides of the said lands seised. Bout signifieth the end of a ABSU'MPTION. Assume, ('onsume). To take it he bring it about that a good wit maye abuse his labour, thing, abbouter to thrust forth the end. away wholly, to devour, to destroy. bestowed upon the study of holy Scripture. Spelman. Antient Deeds and Charters, c. 5. Šir T. More. Works, p. 151. That there is a motion or agitation of the parts of the egg by the external heat whereby it is hatched, is evident of ye north partes, not willing any bastard blood to haue ye rule Yo nobles & commös also of this realm, & specially of the hills through which it passed, i. e. a canal to the Red The abutments of the floodgates are still existing between itself, and not (as far as I know) denied by any; and also of the land, nor ye abusions before in yo same vsed any loger Sea from the upper point of Delta. the white substance is absumed, and contexed or contrived into the body of the chick and its several parts, is manifest huble petició vnto ye most puisât prince, ye lord protector, to continue, haue cõdiscēded & fullye determined to make Bryant. Anal. of Anc. Myth. vol. iii. p. 524. to sense. Boyle. Works, vol. iii. p. 69. Sir T. More Works, p. 63. A'BYSM, n. 3 Fr. Abome; It. Abisso; Sp. Christians abhorred this way of obsequies, and though ABY'ss. God of , sent vs a newe Josias, by they stick not to give their bodies to be burnt in their lives, whose rightaong administracion and hodiy policive, the lights aßuoros, (negative, ás and Bvoros,) without bot Ainsmo; Lat. Abyssus ; Gr. detested that mode atver death; affecting rather a depositure of God's word that so many yeares before was here extinct tom. than absumption, did properly submitted unto the sentence of God, to return pot unto ashes but unto dust again. began to shine againe: to the vtter extirpatio of false doc- That which is without bottom; and, therefore, Sir T. Brown. Urne Burial, c. 1. trine, the roote and chiefe cause of all abusions. Udal. Pref. to St. Mark. unfathomable, endless, unbounded, unlimited. ABSU'RD, adj. Fr. Absurde; It. Assurdo; Legh said, that there was honest devotion in those parts, And him beside sits ugly Barbarisme, ApsU'RDITY. Sp. Absurdo; Lat. Absurdus, and not used with abusion. Pole asked, what he called And brutish Ignorance, ycrept of late ABSU'RPLY. (Ab-surdus,) deaf. It is abusion. Legh answered, all that which was demanded in Out of dredd darkness of the deepe abysme, ABSU'RDNESS. an absurd reply, i. e, a reply God's pretence, and afterwards to man's folly. Where being bredd, he light and heaven does hate. ab surdo, from one deaf, and therefore ignorant of Strype. Memorials, b. i. c. 40. Spenser. Teares of the Muses. Melpomene. that to which he replies. Vossius thinks Absur- Lear. Where haue I bin? Pros. But how is it, dum is that which should be heard (surdis auri. Where am I? Faire daylight! That this lines in thy minde? What scest thou als I am mightily abus'd; I should eu'n dye with pitty In the dark-backward and abisme of time ! pos) with deaf ears. To see another thus.--Shakespeare. Lear, Act iv. sc. 7. Shakespeare. Tempest, Act i. 6. 1. 10 n. Feepe as ACA АСС ACCE'DE, v. Fr. Accéder; It. Ac- ACCELERATE, v. Fr. Accélérer ; It. Ac- Acce'ss. cedere ; Lat. Accedere, ACCELERATION. celerare; Sp. Accelerar ; A'ccESSARINESS. (Ad-cedere,) to go to. ACCE'LERATIVE. Lat. Accelerare, (Ad- To go, or come to; to celer,) to hasten. See CELERITY, Accessory. -approach, with assent To basten, to quicken;to add to, or increase, AccessARY, or or favour, assistance, the speed of. Inhabitants of the wilderness, puritie thy eye; before thou adj. ACCESSORY. addition, or increase. attemptest to speak, or to aim at the discovery of these ACCESSIBLE. The inhabitaūtes of Burdeaux sent to him (Talbot) mes. And consequentlyabisming depths. -Sir K. Digby. On the Soul. Conclusion. sengers in the darke night, requiryng him to accelerale, and To assent to, or fa- spede his iorney towarde their citie, enformyng him, that now the time was propice for his purpose : and tyme not taken, was labor mispent.-Hall. Hen. VI. an. 3i. Beside all this he was ful greuously, Often times I haue seene in other, & haue proued hy experience, that the small consideration passed, and the Chaucer. The Blacke Knight. great acceleration in businesse nowe present, maketh great inconueniences in time to come. - Golden Buoke, c. 12. And for I fele, it commeth alone of thee, Down falling greatness, urged on apace, Was followed hard by all disgraceful ways, Now in th' point t'accelerate an end, The Lorde hath hearde the voyce of my complaynte. Whilst misery had no means to defend. Sir T. Wyat. Ps. 6. Daniel. Civil Wars, o. 3. Acceleration of time in works of Nature, may well be Somethenes, From Academus, an Newgate, in London: where it was alleged, that they ought esteemed inter Magnalia Naturæ : and even divine miracles, Bacon. Nai. Hist. $ 301 Lo! from the dread immensity of space, Returning with accelerated course, The rushing comct to the sun descends. Thomson. Autumn. They anon, may be in an endless variety of directions. It may be quick With hundreds and with thousands, trooping came, or slow, rectilineal or curvilineal; it may be equable, or accelerated, or retarded.-Reid. Ess. 4. c. 4. The second sort of centripetal force is the accelerating force, which is measured by the velocity generated by it in a given time.-Maclaurin. Newton's Discoveries, b. ii. c. 1. How safe, how easy, how happy a thing it is, to have to He (Newton) explains very distinctly what he understands Reid. Inquiry, c. 2. 3.9. Away, I prythee, ACCEND, v.) Lat. Accendere, (Ad-cenere,) ACCE'NSION. to kindle (qv.) Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act iii. 8c. 2. To set fire to; to inflame, to enlighten. I yet through-swomme the waues, that your shore binds Our devotions, if sufficiently accended, would, as theirs, burn up innumerable books of this sort.-Decay of Piety. When coming forth, a ruthlesse billow smit But this proceedeth from the sulphur of antimony, not enduring the society of salt-peter; for after three or four My mangi'd body.-Chapman. Homer. Odyss. b. vil. accensions, through a fresh addition of peter, the powder He (Hotham) had taken upon him the government of will flush no more; for the sulphur of the antimony is quite exhaled.-T. Brown. Vulg. Errours, b. ii. c. 5. There are some opake bodies, as for instance the comets, which, besides the light that they may have from the These accessive commands have a use in them, even to sun, seem to shine with a light that is nothing else but an [Essex) had taken such a taste of the rural as I have heard accension, which they receive from the sun, in their near raise up our endeavours to a higher pitch and strain, than Locke. Elements of Nat. Philosophy. Hopkins. Works. Ser. 26. ACCENT, n. Fr. Accent ; It. Accente ; Acce'nt, v. the treaty of Hanover, in 1725, between France and England, ACCE'NTUAL. tum,) to sing. to which the Dutch afterwards acceded. ACCENTUA'TION. To sing or sound, or spcak Chesterfield. Letters. Let. 160. to, or in unison with :-generally with a reference Which we can good, which we can virtuous call. And vain were reason, courage, learning; all, to certain rules of pronunciation. Till power accede; till Tudor's wild caprice Accentuation is applied to the mechanical mark- An accessory is said to be that which does accede unto ing of the accents in printed books. some principal fact or thing in law.-Ayliffe. Par. Jur. Case. Harry, whose tuneful and well-measur'd song First taught our English music how to span Words with just note and accent, not to scan With Midas' ears, committing short and long. Millon, Sonnet to Mr. H. Lates. The bishoppe being thus determinately purposed touching To him Masistius: I have mark'd a post the death of Edwarde the 2d, and warily providing for hiinthis creature's (the sea-tortoise) body, but to a wonderful Accessible and feeble in their line. selfe, if by any chance hee should bee accused thereof, craftily bagacity and caution of this animal. To me thy choicest cavalry commit. worketh that the authoritie which hee gave by writing, might Ray. On the Creation. Glover. Athenaid, b. xxiii. seeme to bee taken expressely contrary to his meaning, by reason of accenting and pointing of the same. slow. Chronicle, Edw. II. an. 1326. exhibit the titles of plays, which are not to be met with in the completest collections. It is almost unnecessary to Let us prevent his anger by sentencing ourselves: or if muscle.-Id. Ib. mention any other than Mr. Garrick's, which, curious and we do not, let us follow the sad accents of the angry voice of extensive as it is, derives its greatest value from its acces-God, and imitate his justice, by condemning that which God condemns.--Bp. Taylor of Repentance, c. 10. s. 9. Veronese, who, though a painter of great consideration, had, With longing eyes, and agony of mind, You are to know, that as the ill pronunciation or ill contrary to the strict rules of art, in his picture of Perseus The sailors view this refuge left behind; accenting of words in a sermon spoils it, so the ill carriage and Andromeda, represented the principal figure in shade. Happy to bribe with India's richest ore of your line, or not fishing even to a foot in a right place, Sir Joshua Reynolds. Discourse 4. A safe accession to that barren shore. makes you lose your labour.- Valton. Angler. Falconer. Shipwreck, c. 3. Ab. Mark'd you his hollow accents at the parting! Qu. Moth. Graves in his smiles. Xing. Death in his bloodless hands. Dryden. D. of Guise, Act ii. sc. 2. immortal rivulets, the Simois and Scamander. The only perceptible difference among our syllables, arises Gibbon. Roman Empire, c. 17. ment, of danger in hasty determinations, of confining to from some of them being uttered with that stronger per- cussion of voice, which we call accent.--Blair. Lect. 38. remarkable peculiarity of English pronunciation, the throw. Blackstonc. Commentarics, b. iv. c. 3. ing the accent farther back, that is, nearer the beginning of Sp word, than is done by any other nation. In Greek and from above; or else they say no more than a woman, when What the light is, whether a substance or an accident, Latin, no word is accented farther back than the third she says a thing is so, because it is 80; that is, her reason whether of a corporall or incorporall nature, it is not easy syllable from the end, or what is called the antepenult. persuades her 'tis so. The other acception has sense in it. to determine.-Hakcwill. Apologie, p. 93. Blai. Lect. 9. Selden. Table Talk. Those atomes, or indivisible bodies, having an accidenIn order to form any judgment of the versification of The design of the revelation of the gospel, is to destroy tary and inconsiderate motion, stirring continually, and Chaucer, it is necessary that we should know the syllabical superstition, and to restore the truth of religion, by correcting most strictly happen many of them to encounter one value of his words, and the accentual value of his syllables, men's opinions and reforming their manners, by introduc- another and meet together. as they were commonly pronounced in his time. ing to us repentance, and securing to us the acceptableness Holland. Plutarch. Morals, p. 662. Tyrwhiti. On the Language ge. of Chaucer, $ 10. of it through the merits of Christ. -Clarke. Sermons, vol. i. Which tardy proficience (in learning the Latin tongue) “ Friend," quoth the cur, “I meant no harm; The division, scansion, and accentuation of all the rest of may be attributed to several causes : in particular, tho Then why so captious--why so warm? making two labours of one, by learning first the accedence, the Psalms in the Bishop's edition, are left naked and desti My words in common acceptation, then the grammar in Latin, e'er the language of those rules tute of demonstration.- Lowth. Conf. of Bp. Hare, p. 18. Could never give this provocation." be understood.--Milton. Accedence commenced Grammar. ACCEPT, v. Fr. Accepter ; It. Ac Gay. Fables, pt. ii. fab 1. Other points no less concern the commonwealth, though ACCEPTABLE. cettare; Sp. Aceptar; Lat. Virtue is better accepted when it comes in a pleasing form. but accidentally depending upon the former. ACCEPTABLENESS, or Acceptum; part. past of Adventurer, No. 81. Spenser. State of Ireland. ACCEPTABILITY. Accip-ere, (Ad-capere,) If the mind is at any time vacant from every passion and If one of the legs of a man be found shorter than the Acceptably. to take to. desire, there are still some objects that are more acceptable other, the man is deformed; because there is something Acce'ptANCE. Generally applied, when to us than others.-- Reid. Ess. 4. C. 4, wanting to complete the whole idea we form of a man; and ACCEPTATION. the thing taken or re- II, when the bill becomes due, the accepter does not pay this has the same effect in natural faults, as maiming and mutilation produce from accidents. Burke. Sublime and Beautiful. Explore thro' earth and heaven, thro' sea and skies, Acce'ptive. agreeable, approved of. ACCEPTILA'TION, n. Fr. Acceptilation; Lat. The accidental graces as they rise; As dauith softh, the blessidnesse of a man whom God of the lower ages, Acceptilatio. “A payment or And while each present form the fancy warms, acceptith, he ghyueth to him rightwyssnesse withouten werkis an imaginary discharge of a debt.”—Cotgrave. Swift on thy tablets fix it's fleeting charms. Mason. Art of Painting. of the lawe, blessid ben thei, whose wickednessis ben for- Applied in the civil law, to a form of verbal ghouun and whos synnes ben hid.--Wiclif. Romayns, c. 4. acquittance. He will find he has no other idea of it (pure substance) at all, but only a supposition of he knows not what support of For he seith in tyme wel plesynge I haue herd thee, and I neither am, neither shall be able to requite this your such qualities, which are capable of producing simple ideas in the dai of heelthe I haue helpid thee, lo now a time lordship's most special kindnesse and bountifull goodnes at in us; which qualities are commonly called Accidents. acceptable, lo now a dai of heelthe.--Id. Corynth. c. 6. any time, vnlesse I shoulde vse that ciuill remedie called in Locke. On Human Understanding, b. ii. c. 23. law acceptilation, which great debters especially, are accusAnd petir openyde his mouth and seide, in treuthe I have tomed to procure at the handes of their creditours. Civil society was instituted either with the purpose of foandun that God is not acceptour of persones, but in ech Fox. Actes, 8c. Bonner to Cromwell. attaining all the good, of every kind, it was even accidenfolk he that dredith God and worchith rightwisnesse is tally capable of producing; or, only of some certain good, accept to bym.--Id. Dedis, c. 10. And then the antithesis must hold thus: by Christ comes which the institutors, unconcerned with, and unattentive to, any other, had in view.--Warburton. Alliance, b. i. c. 4. But glorie and honour and pees to ech man that worchith justification to life, as by Adam the curse or the sin to the good thing to the iew tirst and to the Greek, for accepcioun condemnation of death: but our justification which comes of persones is not anentis God.-Id. Romayns, c. 2. by Christ is by imputation and acceptilation, by grace and ACCI'PITRARY, n. A catcher of birds of prey: a faulconer. To heare an accipitrary relate againe, how he went forth in a cleere, calme, and sun-shine evening, about an houre Chaucer. The Remedie of Love. One of the many affected Latinisms of the before the sunne did usually maske himselfe, unto the river, Infernal furies, ye wreakers of wrong: chronicler Hall. where finding of a mallard, he whistled off his faulcon, &c. Drake. Shakesp. & his Times. From Nash. Qualernio. The Erle of Warwicke thought it moste necessary for him ACCITE, v. Lat. Acci-re, itum, (Ad-ciere,) See Cire. Hall. Edw. IV. an. 10. Mine old dere enemy, my froward maister, Fr. Accident ; It. Afore that quene I causde to be aciled, Accidente ; Sp. Acci Which holdeth the diuine part of our nature. ACCIDENTAL. dente; Lat. Accidens; Sir T. Wyat. Complaint to Reason. ACCIDENTALLY. pres. part. of Acci- When the place was redy, the Kyng and the Quene wer If common wryters in trifleyng profane matiers dooe with dere, (Ad-cadere,) to fall to. accited by Docter Sampson to appere before the Legates, at muche high suit make meanes to obteine and use ye fauourable acceptacion of princes: how muche are we all bound to That which falls, or happens, or occurs to : the forenamed place, the twentie and eight day of May. Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 21. your highnesse! Údal. Preface to the Kynges Maiestee. generally with a sub-audition, of something un A nobler man, a brauer warrior; foreseen, unexpected, unfortunate, unnecessary, Liues not this day within the city walles. He by the senate is accited home From wears warres against the barbarous Gothes. Shakespeare. Tit. And. Act i. sc. I. But in my deske, what was there to accite So ravenous and vast an appetite! B. Jonson. Execration upon Vulcan. humour of taking, (aside) if you knew all. wanteth in the substantiall body. B. Jonson. Poetaster, Act iii. sc. 1. Chaucer. The Test. of Love, b. ii. ACCLA'IM, v. Fr. Acclamation; It. Ac- Accla'im, n. clamare, Acclamazione ; Sp. ACCLAMATION. Aclamar, Aclamation ; Lat. Acclamare, (Ad-clamare,) to cry out, or shout to. Applied to noisy and tumultuous expressions and to consecrate and to make the body of cryste, to sende Justly did thy followers hold the best ornaments of the ably, with reverence and godly fear. earth worthy of no better, than thy treading upon.--How Paul. To the Hebrews, xii. 28. mayning.-Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 7. happily, did they think their backs disrobed for thy way! How gladly, did they spend their breath in acclaiming thee! Bp. Hall. Contemp. Procession to the Temple. with his lips only utters, not praying with his heart, and either greatly necessarie, or muche conuenient to be spoken -Gladly then he mix'd Among those friendly powers, who him receiv'd With joy and acclamations loud, that one, That of so many myriads fallen, yet one, Return'd, not lost.-Milton. Par. Lost, b. vi. If all the yeare were playing holidaies, The king (Lewis XIV.) himselfe, like a young Apollo, was in a sute so cover'd with rich embrodry, that one could Such with him And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. perceive nothing of the stuff under it; he went almost the Can hearts, not free, be tried whether they serve Shakespeare. 1 Part Hen. IV. Act i. sc. 2. whole way with his hat in hand, saluting the ladys and Willing or no, who will, but what they must And not a man for being simply man, acclamators who had fill'd the windows with their beauty, By destiny, and can no other choose! Hath any honour; but honour'd for those honours and the aire wth Vive le Roy.--Evelyn. Memoirs, an. 1651. The berald ends: the vaulted firmament, With loud acclaims and vast applause is rent. Id. Tro. and Cres. Act ii. sc. 3. Dryden. Palamon & Areite. With an unheedful eye, Angus. Thou shalt be crown'd:- An iron crown intensely hot shall gird Thy hoary temples; while the shouting crowd Acclaims thee king of traitors. Smollett. Regicide, Act v. sc. 8 12 |
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