Danger whose limbs of giant mould,
What mortal eye can fixt behold?
And with him thousand phantoms join'd
Who prompt, to deeds accurs'd, the mind.

ACCU'SE, v. ACCU'SABLE.

ACCU'SANT.

ACCUSATION.

ACCUSATIVE.

ACCU'SATORY. ACCU'SER.

Collins. Ode to Fear.

Fr. Accuser; It. Accusare; Sp. Acusar; Lat. Accusare, (Ad-causa, a cause.)

accusation" (in the common version) set above the head of Jesus Christ at his crucifixion, is called by Wiclif, "The

Cause." See CAUSE.

To bring a cause or case, or charge against;

Montesquieu. Spirit of Laws, b. xii. c. 20.

He who accuses another to the state, must not appear himself unmoved by the view of crimes with which he charges him, lest he should be suspected of fiction, or of precipitancy, or of a consciousness that after all he shall not be able to prove his allegations.-Cowper. Let. 267.

Ac Conscience to the kynge a cusede hem bothe."

Piers Plouhman, p. 36. Nyle ye gesse that I am to accuse you anentis the fadir; It is Moises that accusith you in whom ye hopen.

Wiclif. Jon. c. 5.

To which I answeride, that it is not custom to romayns to dampne ony man bifore that he that is accused haue his accuseris present, and take place of defending to putte awei the crymes that ben putt aghens him. Wiclif. Dedis, c. 25.

To whom I answered: It is not the manner of ye Romayns for fauoure to delyuer eny man that he shuld perishe, before that he whiche is accused, haue ye accusars before hym, and haue lycence to answer for him selfe concernynge the cryme layde agaynst him.-Bible, 1539.

Therfore Pilat wente out without forth to hem and seide, what accusyng bringen ghe aghens this man? thei answerden and seiden to him, if this were not a mysdoere we hadden not bitaken him to thee.-Wiclif. Jon. c. 18

O cruell day, accuser of the ioy

That night and loue haue stole and fast ywrien,
Accursed be thy comming into Troy.

Chaucer. Troilus, b. iii.

Than cometh accusing, as whan a man seketh occasion to annoyen his neighbour, which is like the craft of the divel, that waiteth both day and night, to accusen us all. Id. The Personnes Tale. And now they beyng bent of bothe sydes, with burnynge hartes they prepare theyr accusements, they runne to ye iudges.-Udal. Mat. c. 5.

It is not the offyce of a Kyng which is a Judge to be to lyghte of credence, nor I [Hen. VIII.] haue not, nor wyll not vse the same: for I wyll heare the partie that is accused speake or I geue any sentence.-Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 23.

Prepare you, lords,

Summon a session, that we may arraigne
Our most disloyall lady: for as she hath
Been publikely accus'd, so shall she haue
A iust and open triall.

Shakespeare. Wint. Tale, Act ii. sc. 3.

And dogged Yorke, that reaches at the moone,
Whose ouer-weening arme 1 haue pluckt back,
By false accuse doth leuell at my life.

Id. 2 Part Hen. VI. Act iii. sc. 1.

As we conceive the law hath ever been in parliamentary proceedings, that if a man were impeached, as of treason being the highest crime, the accusant must hold him to the proof of the charge, and may not fall to any meaner impeachment upon failing of the higher.

Bp. Hall. His Hard Measure.

I am sorry my integrity shoul breed

So deepe suspicion, where all faith was meant;
We come not by the way of accusation,
To taint that honour euery good tongue blesses.
Shakespeare. Hen. VIII. Act iv. sc. 1.

Thus they in mutual accusation spent
The fruitless hours, but neither self-condemning,
And of their vain contest appear'd no end.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ix. This hath been a very accusative age: yet I have not heard any superstition charged upon the several Bishops of London, &c.-Sir E. Dering. Speeches.

When this prevailed not it was contrived to draw petitions accusatory from many parts of the kingdom against episcopal government, and the promoters of the petitions were entertained with great respects.

Bp. Hall. His Hard Measure.

Wherein nevertheless there would be a main defect, and her [Nature's] improvision justly accusable if such a feeding animal, and so subject unto diseases from bilious causes, should want a proper conveyance for choler.

Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 2. Wherein [the answer of the Jews to Pilate] there was neither accusation of the person, nor satisfaction of the Judge; who well understood a bare accusation was no presumption of guilt, and the clamours of the people no accusation at all. Id. Ib. b. i. c. 4.

If virtue or gratitude should prove too strong for temptagated by his passions, what can secure him at last against false accusation ?—Adventurer, No. 62.

ACCU'STOM, v. ACCU'STOM, n. ACCU'STOMAble.

ACCU'STOMABLY.

ACCU'STOMANCE. ACCU'STOMARY.

Fr. Accoustumer, Accou'tumer; It. Accostumare; Sp. Acostumbrar; Lat. Consuetudo. See CUSTOM.

To go, or move by use, to pass usually; to be wont to do any thing constantly, habitually, usually. The verb remains in common use.

The queene herselfe accustomed aye

In the same barge to play.-Chaucer. Dreame.
For which cause, the more we doubt
To doe a fault, while she is out

Or suffer that may be noysaunce
Again our old accustomance.-Id. Ib.

And then as he [Hen. V.] was euer accustomed to do, he went, on foote to the chief churche in the toune and rendred to God his most heartie thankes for his prosperous successe and fortunate chaúce.-Hall, Hen. V. an. 5. And like as one doth the semblable thinges and accustomes that he is woont to doe, so the emperour set more his intention on wise men, then his eies on fooles. The Golden Booke, c. 7.

He also made ordenaŭces to auoydes strumpettes out of the cytie, and punysshemet for all accustomable great swerers, wt many other good ordenaŭces and lawes.

Fabyan. Ludovici Sanct.

It was shewed the howe he was about the marchesse of Wanes, wher as most accustomably he lay.

Ld. Berners. Froissart. Chron. vol. ii. c. 91.

But they of Love, and of his sacred lere,
(As it should be) all otherwise devise
Then we poore shepheards are accustom'd here
And him to rue and serve all otherwise.

Spenser. Astrophel. King William answered, [Philip of Spain,] that he was ready to do him the homage accustomed for Normandy; but would do him none for England, which he held only of God and his sword.

ACE/RBITY. Fr. Acerbité; It. Acerbita Sp. Acerbidad; Lat. Acerbitas, Acerbus; Gr. akLS; Acies, a point: acer, sharp.

Sharpness; generally applied to that sharpness which we call bitterness. See ASPERITY.

There are some penal laws fit to be retained, but their penalty too great; and it is ever a rule, that any over-great penalty, besides the acerbity of it, deadens the execution of the law.

Bacon. Works, vol. ii. p. 542. On Amending the Laws. It is true, that purgatory (at least as is believ'd) cannot last a hundred thousand years; but yet God may by the acerbitie of the flames in twenty years equal the canonical penances of twenty thousand years.

Taylor. Dissuasive from Popery.

We may easily imagine what acerbity of pain must be endured by our Lord, in his tender limbs being stretched forth, racked and tentered, and continuing a good time in such a posture.-Barrow. On the Creed, Ser. 26.

ACE/SCENT. See ACID.

ACHA'TE, n. Fr. Acheter, to buy or purchase; to purvey, to provide. See CATE.

Pompey taking his wife and friends with him, hoised sail, and landed no where, but compelled to take fresh

acates and water.-North. Plutarch, p. 554. Pompeirs.

A gentil manciple was ther of a temple
Of which achatours mighten take ensemple
For to ben wise in bying of vitaille.

For whether that he pajde, or toke by taille,
Algate he waited so in his achate,
That he was ay before in good estate.

Chaucer. Prologue, Manciple.

The master cooke was cold concoction,
A careful man, and full of comely guise;
The kitchen clerke, that hight digestion,
Did order all the achates in seemely wise,
And set them forth as well he could devise.

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

P. Sen. One that never made

A good meal in his sleep, but sells the acates are sent him.
B. Jonson. S'uple of News, Act ii. sc. 1.

Much. Ay, and all choice that plenty can send in,
Bread, wine, acates, fowl, feather, fish, or fin,
For which my father's nets have swept the Trent.

Mar.

And thank your son.

Id. Sad Shepherd, Act i. sc. 2. Thanks, good Maudlin,

Go bear them into Much, The acater, let him thank her.-Id. Ib. Act ii. sc. 1. ACHE, n. A. S. Ace, ace, ece; from the ACHE, v. verb eacan, ecan, to eche or eke; to ache; to lengthen out, to prolong.

Ache is applied to prolonged, continued pain; and to ache, to feel or cause the sensation or feeling of such pain.

But his notis wer somwhat low for aking of his hede. Chaucer. The Pardonere & Tapstere.

I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practise it in greater.-Adventurer, No. 119.

Christ, in the fifth of Matthew, forbiddeth not all kind of swearing, but the ordinary and accustomary swearing then in use among the Jews.-Featley. Dippers Dipt, p. 160.

Another thing, then, that qualifies an experimentarian for the reception of a revealed religion and so of Christi. anity, is that an accustomance of endeavouring to give clear explications of the phænomina of nature, and discover the weakness of those solutions that superficial wits are wont to make and acquiesce in, does insensibly work in him a great and ingenuous modesty of mind. Boyle. Works, vol. v. p. 536. A/CE, n. Fr. As; It. Asso; Sp. As; Lat. Assus; Gr. Eis. See Menaye.

A card marked only with one point. Hence used to express a single or a very small thing.

Dem. No die, but an ace for him; for he is but one. Li. Lesse than an ace, man. For he is dead, he is nothing. Shakespeare. Mid. Night's Dream, Act v. sc. 1. Get. Then will I,

(For wise men must be had to prop the republick) Not bate ye a single ace of a sound senator.

Beaum. & Fletch. Prophetess, Act. i. sc. 3. Thou son of chance! whose glorious soul On the four aces doomed to roll, Was never yet with honour caught, Nor on poor virtue lost one thought.

August, the emperour sayde, that he that liveth bein grievous aches, death of his children, and losse of his goods.-Golden Booke, c. 40.

I know in heate and cold, the louer how he shakes,
In singing how he doth complaine, in sleping how ha
wakes:

To languish without ache.-Surrey. Fickle Affections.
-But tasting it [griefe]
Their counsaile turnes to passion, which before
Would giue preceptiall medicine to rage,
Fetter strong madnesse in a silken thred,
Charme ache with ayre, and agony with words.
Shakespeare. Much Adoe ab. N. Act v. sc 1.
-Oh thou weed:
Who art so louely faire, and smell'st so sweete,
That the sense akes at thee,
Would thou had'st neuer bin borne.

Id. Othello, Act iv. sc. 2.

He that would his body keep
From diseases must not weep;
But whoever laughs and sings,
Never (he) his body brings
Into feavers, gouts or rhumès,
Or ling'ringly his lungs consumes,
Or meets with aches in the bone.

Beaum. & Fletch. K. of the Burn. Pest. Act il. sc. 1. By.

You have a certain fear to find him
Worse than a poor dry'd Jack, full of more aches
Than Autumn has.-Id. The Tamer Tamed, Act ii. sc. 2.
Must then old three-legg'd grey-beards with their gout,
Catarrhs, rheums, aches, live three long ages out?
Dryden. Death of Lord Hastings.

If you be wise, then go not far to dine;
You'll spend in coach-hire more than save in wine.
A coming shower your shooting corns presage,
Old aches will throb, your hollow tooth will rage.
Swift. City Shower

ACI

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight!
Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!

Gray. The Bard. Teeth are contrived to eat, not to ache; their aching now and then is incidental to the contrivance, perhaps insepaable from it: or even, if you will, let it be called a defect in he contrivance; but it is not the object of it.

Paley. Moral Philos. vol. i. b. ii. c. 5.
See CHOKE.

ACHECKED, v. i. e. CHOKED.
And whan they metten in that place,

They were achecked both two,

And neither of them might out go
For ech other they gon so croud

Tik ech of them gan crien loud,

Let me gone first.-Chaucer. B. of Fame, b. iii.

And if thou wolt achoken the fulfylling of nature with superfluities; certes, thilke thyngs that thou wolt thresten or pouren into nature, shullen been vnioyfull to thee, or els anoious.-Id. Boecivs. De Consol. b. ii.

ACHIEVE, v. ACHIEVABLE. ACHIEVANCE. ACHIE'VER.

ACHIEVEMENT.

Also written Atchieve. Fr. Achever, perducere ad caput (chef) vel finem, says Minshew; ad caput deducere, (Skinner.)

To bring to a head or to an end; to accomplish, to finish, and, consequentially, to acquire, to obSee to CHEVE, and HATCHMENT.

tain.

Chef, chefe, or chief, is still used in composition in Mischief: to which bon chefe was used in oppo

sition. See CHIEF.

And after that her thought gan for to clere, And saied, he which yt nothing vndertaketh Nothing acheueth, be him loth or dere.

Chaucer. Troilus, b. ii.

And for to speke in other waie,
Full ofte tyme I haue herde saie,
That he, which hath no loue acheaued,
Hym thinketh that he is not relieued.

Gower. Con. A. b. vi. Also of what prowes he [David] was in armes, and how valíaunt and good a capitayne in battayle it may sufficiently appere to them that will rede his noble actes and

achieuances.-Elyot. The Governour, b. iii. c. 22.

It [Magnanimitie] is an excellencie of mynde, concernynge thynges of great importaunce or estimation, doinge al thynge, that is vertuous, for the achieuing of honour.

Id. Ib. b. iii. c. 14.

The protectour sore thristed for the acheuynge of his pretensed enterpryse, and thought euery daye a yere tyll it were perfourmed.-Hall. Edw. V.

Mon. But good lieutenant, is your general wiu'd?
Cassio. Most fortunately: he hath atchieu'd a maid
That paragons description, and wilde fame.

Shakespeare. Othello, Act 11. s. 1.
And now great deeds
Had been achiev'd, whereof all Hell had rung,
Had not the snaky sorceress that sat
Fast by Hell's gate, and kept the fatal key,
Ris'n with hideous outcry, rush'd between.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ii. Leon A victorie is twice itselfe, when the atchicuer brings nome full numbers.

Shakespeare. Much Adoe about Nothing, Act i. sc. 1. No exploits so illustrious, as those which have been atchieved by the faith and patience, by the courage and prudence of the ancient saints; they do far surpass the. most famous atchievements of Pagan heroes.

Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 2. What sober man doth not in his thoughts afford a more high and hearty respect to those poor fishermen, who by their heroical activity and patience did honour God in the propagation of his heavenly truth, than to all those Hectors in chivalry, those conquerors and atchievers of mighty exploits, who have been renowned for doing things which seemed great, rather than for performing what was truly good?-Id. vol. i. Ser. 4.

The doing it [raising a dead man to life] doth not involve a contradiction, and is therefore an object of power, and at least is atchievable by Omnipotence.

Id. On the Creed, Ser. 29.

But living virtue, all achievements past, Meets envy still to grapple with at last.

ACE'SCENT.

A'CETOUS.
VOL 1

АСО

sourness.

Makes me acold. Bacon. Nat. Hist. § 644.

Beaumont & Fletcher. Faithful Shepherdess, Act i. sc. 1.
ACOMBER,
or ACCU'MBER.
ACCU'MBROUS.

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See CUMBER. Acomber was used as Encumber is now.

He sette not his benefice to hire,
And lette his shepe acombred in the mire,
And ran unto London, unto Seint Poules,
But dwelt at home, and kepte wel his folde.

Chaucer. Prologue, The Persone. Of accidie cometh first, that a man is annoied and accombred to do any goodnesse, and that maketh that God hath abhomination of swiche accidie, as sayth Seint John. Id. The Persones Tale.

A little time his yeft is agreeable
But ful accombrous is the vsing
For subtel ielousy the disceiuable
Ful often time causeth distourbing.

Id. The Complaint of Venus. Dovbtless, your honor and other maye maruayle, or peraduenture mislyke, that after so many books alreadie set forth, bearing the names and tytles of Chronicles of Englande, I should accomber the readers superfluouslye wyth one mo of the same matter.-Grafton. Dedication, p. I.

Yea, being accumbred with the cloaked hatred of Cain, with the long coloured malice of Esau, with the dissembled falshood of Joab; dare ye presume to come up to these sacred and fearefull mysteries ?-Homily. On the Sacrament.

A'CONITE, n. Aconitum (akovITOV.) See the quotation from Pliny. Used poetically for any poison.

Tib.
- I have heard that aconite
Being timely taken, hath a healing might
Against the scorpion's stroke; the proofe wee'll give;
That while two poisons wrastle, we may live.
B. Jonson. Sejanus, Act iii.

It groweth naturally upon bare and naked rocks, which the Greeks call Aconas: (a, priv. and Kovis, dust,) which is

So ech that denyeth the sone hath not the fadir, but he that knowlechith the sone hath the fadir also. Wiclif. 1 Jon. c. 2.

Eke shamefastness was there as I tooke hede
That blushed red and darst nat ben aknow
She lover was, for thereof had she drede,
She stood and hing her visage downe alow.
Chaucer. Court of Love.

The example of Darius first teacheth the office of a crystiane to repent to beleue and to aknowleg his synnes aftir the lawe and gospell.-Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 6.

For the text openly precheth, and prayseth the fayth of siche aknowlegers, for the promises require that we beleue that God both may and will helpe vs.-Id. Ib. c. 3.

Thus was Sir Robert of Arthoys at the Queenes commaundement, but he durst not speake nor be acknowen thereof.-Grafton. Edw. II. an. 18.

-Hang, beg, starue, die in the streets,
For by my soule, Ile nere acknowledge thee,
Nor what is mine shall neuer do thee good.

Shakespeare. Rom. & Jul. Act. iii. sc. 5.

That their hearts might be comforted being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ.-Paul. Col. ii. 2.

'Tis the first offspring of the Graces;
Bears different forms in different places;
Acknowledg'd fine where'er beheld,
Yet fancied finer when concealed.

Prior. Riddle on Beauty.
How shall acknowledgement enough reward
Thy worth unparalleled.-Smollett. Reg. Act. iv. sc. 3.

ACOLD, adj. See COLD, and AKELE.

or COLD.

And as it shulde so betide
A poure lazar upon a tide
Came to the gate and axed meate:
But there might he nothing geate.-
Thus laie this poure in great distresse,
A colde and hongred at the gate.

They weren wont lightly to slaken her hunger at euin with akehornes of okes.-Chaucer. Boecius, b. ii.

And from thence he [Osiris] passed trauoyling through the rude countryes and people who fed on acornes and fruite, and had nothing else to feede upon: those also he taught his inuention [the plough.]-Grafton, vol. i. pt. ii.

The oke, whose acornes were our foode, before That Ceres seede of mortall men were knowne, Which first Triptoleme taught how to be sowne. Spenser. Virgil's Gnat. ACOY, v. or Cor. In Troilus and Cressida, "He nist b. ii. v. 782. Speght, fo. 189. c. 1. now best her hart for to coie;" is in Junius written acoie, which he explains, To asswage, to appease. See Coy and DECOY For he hath had full hard penaunce Sith that ye reft him thaquaintance Of Bialacoil, his moste ioie Which all his paines might acoie.

Gower. Con. A. b. vi. stoden afar."

D

And he was a quoinle much to the quene of Fraunce,
And somdel to muche, as me wende, so that in som thing
The quene louede, as me wende, more him than the king.
R. Gloucester, p. 465.
This yonge monk, that was so faire of face,
Acquainted was so with this goode man,
Sithen that hir firste knowlege began,
That in his hous as familier was he,
As it possible is any frend to be.

Chaucer. Shipmannes Tale, v. 12959.

Thou maiest ensample take of Kaie.
Kaie was hated, for he was fell

Of worde dispitous and cruell;

Wherefore be wise and aquaintable

Goodly of worde, and reasonable.-Id. Rom. of the Rose.

Ful many a man hath he begiled er this,

And wol, if that he may live any while:
And yet men gon and riden many a mile
Him for to seke, and have his acquaintance,
Not knowing of his false governance.

Id. Chan. Yem. Tale, v. 16457.

And made suche an ordinance
For loue, ne for aqueintance,
That were it erely, were it late,
Thei shuld let in at yate

No maner man, what so betid,

But if so were hym selfe it bid.-Gower. Con. A. b. vi.

The which Sigebert was couertyd to Crystis feyth by ye doctryne of an holy man, named Felix, ye which he was firste acqueynted wt in Frauce or in Burgoyne; the which Felix came, soone after yt acqueyntaunce, into Eastanglia, or Norfolke, where ye kynge niade hym bysshop of Duwych, now called Thetford.-Fabyan, c. 133.

My louers ad frendes hast thou put awaye fro me, and hyd mine acquaintance out of my sight. Bible, 1539. Ps. lxxxviii.

And came to Cælia to declare her harte,
Who well acquainted with her commune plight,
Which sinfull horror workes in wounded part;
Her wisely comforted all that she might,
With goodly counsell & advisement right.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 10.

And for so much as the Brytains disdained to give to them [the Picts] their daughters in marriage, they acquainted them with the Irishmen, and married their daughters, and grew, in processe of time, to a great people.

Slow. Annals. The Romaynes.

I saw your brother

Most prouident in perill binde himselfe,
To a strong maste, that liu'd vpon the sea:
Where like Orion on the Dolphines backe,

I saw him hold acquaintance with the waues, So long as I could see.-Shakespeare, Twelfth N. Act i. sc.2. Divers that first believe the Scripture but upon the church's score, are afterwards by acquaintedness brought to believe the Scripture upon its own score; that is, upon the discovery of those intrinsick excellencies and prerogatives that manifest its heavenly origination. Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 320. Card. G. For souls just quitting earth, peep into heaven; Make swift acquaintance with their kindred forms, And partners of immortal secrets grow.

Dryden. Duke of Guise, Act v. sc. 1.

He takes away the word contemporary, and, in its room, puts in acquaintance: now that is a point I need not allow,that Phalaris and Pythagoras had any acquaintance together. I granted that they were contemporaries.

Bentley. The Epistles of Phalaris.

Contract no friendship, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man; he resembles a coal, which when hot burneth the hand, and when cold blacketh it. Sir Wm. Jones. Transl. of Hitópadésa. ACQUIESCE, v. Fr. Acquiescer; Lat. AcACQUIE'SCENCE, n. quiescere, (Ad-quiescere,) ACQUIESCENT. to rest, or be still. To rest, or be still-from satisfaction or contentedness without question or dispute; to withold or forbear opposition, or denial; to assent.

Lady F. In what calm he speaks
After his noise and tumult, so unmov'd,
With that serenity of countenance,
As if his thoughts did acquiesce in that
Which is the object of the second hour,

And nothing else.--Ben Jonson. New Inn, Act iv. sc. 3. "Delight in the law," in the unregenerate, is only in the understanding: the man considers what an excellent thing it is to be vertuous, the just proportions of duty, the fitness of being subordinate to God, the rectitude of the soul, the acquiescence and appendent peace.

Bp. Taylor. On Repentance, c. 8. s. 5.

He that goes into the Highlands with a mind naturally coquiescent, and a credulity eager for wonders, may come back with an opinion very different from mine.

S Johnson. Journey to Western Islands.

He [the upright walker] feeleth no check or strugg.e of mind, no regret or sting of heart, being thoroughly satisfied and pleased with what he is about, his judgment approving and his will acquiescing in his procedure. Barrow, vol. 1. Ser. 5. He knoweth that his pains employed on any honest purpose in a fair way are not lost, if they have the fruit of submission to God's will, and acquiescence in the event disposed by him.-Id. Ib.

He that never compares his notions with those of others, readily acquiesces in his first thoughts, and very seldom discovers the objections which may be raised against his opinions.-Adventurer, No. 126.

But ere he gain the comfortless repose
He seeks, and acquiescence of his soul
In heav'n-renouncing exile, he endures-
What does he not

ACQUIRE. v.
ACQUIRER.
ACQUIRABLE,
ACQUIREMENT.
ACQUIRY.
Ac'QUISITE.

ACQUISITION.
ACQUISITIVE.
ACQUISITOR.
ACQUE'ST.

-?-Cowper. Task, b. v.

Fr. Acquérir; It. Acquistare; Sp. Adquirir; Lat. Acquirere, (Ad-quærere,) to ask or seek for.

To seek for; to labour to obtain; and, consequentially, to obtain, to gain, to procure. See CONQUIRE.

See Burton in v. Adventitious, for Acquisite.

Of suche small qualities, as God hathe endued me withal, I [Henry VIII.] rendre to his goodnes my most humble thakes, entendyng with all my witte, and diligence to get and acquire to me suche notable vertues, and princely qualities, as you haue alleged to be incorporate in my persone.-Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 37.

The greatest goodnesse of all goodnes is when tirannies are put vnder by vertues acquired, or to find remedy against accustomed vices with good inclinations. Golden Boke, c. 15.

A lower place, note well, May make too great an act. For learne this, Sillius, Better to leaue vndone, than by our deed Acquire too high a fame, when him we serue's away. Shakespeare. Ant. & Cleo. Act iii. sc. 1.

Aubr. Oh honesty! thou elder child of virtue, Thou seed of heav'n, why to acquire thy goodness Should malice and distrust stick thorns before us, And make us swim unto thee, hung with hazards? But heav'n is got by suffering, not disputing. Beaumont and Fletcher. Bloody Brother, Act. v. sc. 1 By a content and acquiescence in every species of truth, we embrace the shadow thereof, or so much as may palliate its just and substantial acquirement.

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

reward the acquiry of it, there being so many difficulties, so No art indeed requireth more hard study and pain to many obstacles in the way thereto.-Barrow. vol. iii. Ser. 6.

Is there any supervenient or acquisite perfection, (as skill, knowledge, wisedom) it is from God, who gave us the means and opportunities of getting it, who guided our proceeding and blessed our industry.-Id. vol. iii. Ser. 31.

Man is not himself his own, he owes his being to God, and therefore without the help of divine indulgence his acquests are like the acquests of a servant, acquirit domine. Hale. Origination of Mankind, p. 354.

Many men have spent much time and written great vothe knowledge rests in itself, and is never applicable to any lumes touching those matters, which yet, were they attained, use answerable to the pains of their acquest.-Id. Ib. p. 5. As long as reason is reason, a just fear will be a just cause of preventive war: but especially if it be part of the case, that there be a nation that is manifestly detected to aspire to monarchy and new acquests. Bacon. Of a War with Spain.

His servants he with new acquist
Of true experience from this great event,
With peace and consolation hath dismist,
And calm of mind all passion spent.

Not only the donation, when by the necessity of the case they must be gifts, but even the acquirability of civil advantages, ought perhaps, in a considerable degree, to lie at the mercy of chance.-Paley. Nat. Theology, c. 26.

It [the Gospel] is not confined to persons whose intellectual excellencies are superior to their neighbours, or who exceed others in understanding, and the acquirements of the mind.-Watts. Ser. 19.

His cook, an acquisition made in France,

Might put a Chloe out of countenance.-Churchill Times. To make great acquisitions can happen to very few; and in the uncertainty of human affairs, to many it will be incident to labour without reward, and to lose what they already possess by endeavours to make it more.

ACQUIT, v. ACQUITMENT. ACQUITTAL. ACQUITTANCE, v. ACQUITTANCE, n.

Adventurer, No. 119 Law Lat. Acquietare; Acquietancia. Voces forenses, says Spelman; whose interpretation coincides with Skinner and Menage. Skinner; from the Fr. Acquitter, to absolve, to deliver from; q. d. adquietare, (i. e.) to give quiet to one accused or in debt, so that he may have no cause for future fear. (See QUIT.) Menage also derives the Fr. Acquitter, from the barbarous Latin adquietare; formed from quietus; and quotes from Vossius de Vitis, lib. v. c. 18. Quitare, a quietare;

to forgive a debt, or to confess it satisfied, and thus to render the debtor quiet. And our common usage is,

To clear, free or deliver from charge or suspicion, whether of debt, criminality, folly, weakness, &c.; to discharge, to release.

To free ourselves from the claims of duty; to perform or fulfil a part, or duty.

Sire man of lawe, quod he, so have ye blis,
Tell us a tale anon, as forword is.
Ye ben submitted thurgh your free assent
To stonde in this cas at my jugement.
Acquiteth you now, and holdeth your behest;
Then have ye don your devoir at the lest.

Chaucer. Man of Lawe, v. 1457.

He vouchedesafe, tell him, as was his will,
Become a man as for our alliaunce,
And with his blood he wrote that blissful bill
Upon the crosse as generall acquetaunce,

To euery penitent in full criaunce.-Id. ABC.

But I think verely for al this, ther was gret evidence geue against the chaüceler, for he was at legth indited a Hüne's death, and was a gret while in preson, & in cöclu sion, neuer durst abyde the tryal of xii men for his acqui tayle: but was fain by frendship to geat a pardon. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 238 The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked.--Nahum i. 3.

But if black scandall, or foule-fac'd reproach,
Attend the sequell of your imposition,
Your meere enforcement shall acquittance me
From all the impure blots and staynes thereof.

Shakespeare. Richard III. Act iii. sc. 7.
Now must your conscience my acquittance seal,
And you must put me in your heart for friend.

Id. Hamlet, Activ. sc. 7. But fall'n he is; and now What rests, but that the mortal sentence pass On his transgression-death denounced that dayWhich he presumes already vain and void, Because not yet inflicted, as he fear'd, By some immediate stroke; but soon shall find Forbearance no acquittance.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. x.

Great sir, all acquisition Of glory as of empire, here I lay before Your royal feet.-Denham. Sophy.

I come now to consider of those rational instincts, as I call them, the connate principles engraven in the humane soul, which though they are truths acquirable and deducible by rational consequence and argumentation, yet they seem to be inscribed in the very crasis and texture of the soul antecedent to any acquisition by industry, or the exercise of the discursive faculty in man.

Hale. Origination of Mankind, p. 60. He died not in his acquisitive, but in his native soil; nature herself, as it were, claiming a final interest in his body, when fortune had done with him.

Wotton. Reliquiæ, p. 106.

God's justifying solely or chiefly, doth import his acquitting us from guilt, condemnation, and punishment, by free pardon and remission of our sins.-Barrow, vol. ii. Ser. 5. The censure or acquittal of my act

With you shall rest.-Glover. Athen. b. xvii.

To deliver themselves [the Romans] from this subjection ing out, either for an entire abolition of debts, or for what to their creditors, the poorer citizens were continually callthey called new tables; that is, for a law which shouia entitle them to a complete acquittance, upon paying only a certain proportion of their accumulated debts.

Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. v. c. 3. ACRA/ZE, or CRAZE. See CRAZE. And albeit that the duke was somewhat acrased, yet he met him with a solempne procession of the colledge, and

This word is now applied to a particular admeasurement of land, though not formerly so restricted.

Pople with alle the rechesse and akres als thei wonnen,
Thurgh ther douhtinesse, the land thorgh thei ronnen.
R. Brunne, p. 115.
And ten akers of vynes shal geue but a quarte, and xxx
bushels of sede shall geue but an epha.
Bible, 1539. Esay, c. 5.

Haile, many-coloured messenger
Who, with each end of thy blewe bowe do'st crowne
My boskie acres, and my unshrub'd downe,
Rich scarph to my proud earth.

Shakespeare. Tempest, Act iv. sc. 1.
Do you within the bounds of nature live,
And to augment you need not strive;
One hundred acres will no less for you

ACROSS. On cross.

See CROSS.
When other louers in armes acrosse,
Reioice their chiefe delight;

Drowned in teares to mourne my losse.
I stand the bytter nyght

In my window-Surrey. Complaint of Absence.
Across his breast an azure ribban went,
At which a medal hung that did present,
In wondrous living figures to the sight,
The mystic champions & old dragons fight.

Cato said; the best way to keep good acts in memory. was to refresh them with new.-Lord Bacon. Apophthegms.

Therefore I pre' thee

Were I at prayers,

If Ptolemy should come across my thoughts
The curse would follow where I meant a blessing.
Dryden. Cleomenes. Act iii. sc. 1.
When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue,
Her bow across her shoulder flung,

Her buskins gemm'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung. Collins. Ode on the Passions. Fr. Acte, Actif, Actuel; It. Atto, Attivo, Attuale, Attuare; Sp. Acto, Activo, Actual, Actuare; from Lat. Actum, past. part. of agere, to do; Gr. ayew, to move; or cause to move. This Lennep considers to be the primary or radical meaning; and it is obvious that without motion there can be no action.

A/CT, v.
A'cr, n.
A'CTION.
A'CTIONABLE.
A'CTIVATE.
A'CTIVE.
A'CTIVELY.
A'CTIVENESS.
ACTIVITY.
A'CTLESS.
A'CTOR.
A'CTRESS.

A'CTUAL. ACTUALITY. A'CTUALLY. A'CTUARY, n. A'CTUATE, adj. A'CTUATE, v. ACTUATION.

Applied particularly to legislative or judicial proceedings; and to the performance of an assumed part.

bites, heats, corrodes.

Sharp, biting, corroding, harsh.

Those milks [in certain plants] have all an acrimony; though one would think they should be lenitive.

Bacon. Nat. Hist. § 639. The bile is so acrid, that of itself it could not be admitted into the lacteal vessels.—Arbuthnot. On Aliments.

Acrimony (sharpness) is not natural, but induced into the fluids of an animal body.-Id. 16.

Like a lawyer, I am ready to support the cause, in which, give me leave to suppose, that I shall be soon retained with ardour; and if occasion be, with subtility and acrimony.

Bolingbroke. Occasional Letter Writer.

The malignity of soldiers and sailors against each other has been often experienced at the cost of their country; and, perhaps, no order of men have an enmity of more acrimony, or longer continuance.-Rambler, No. 9.

Swift and Pope forbore to flatter him [Halifax] in his life, and after his death spoke of him, Swift with slight censure, and Pope in the character of Bufo with acrimonious contempt.-Johnson. Life of Halifax.

Most satyrists are indeed a public scourge,
Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge,
Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirred,
The milk of their good purpose all to curd.

Cowper. Charity. ACROAMATICAL. Gr. AxроаμатIкоя, from akpоaobai, audire, to hear.

Alexander unto Aristotle greeting. Thou hast not done well to put forth the acroamaticall sciences. For wherein shall we excell others, if those things which thou hast secretly taught us be made common to all?

North. Plutarch, p. 461. You did wrong in publishing the acroamatic parts of science.-Langhorne. Id. Ib.

Aristotle was wont to divide his lectures and readings into Acroamatical and Exoterical: some of them contained only choice matter, and they were read privately to a select auditory; others contained but ordinary stuff, and were promiscuously and in publick exposed to the hearing of all that would. Beloved, we read no Acroamatick lectures; the secrets of the Court of Heaven (as far as it hath pleased the King of Heaven to reveal them) lie open alike to all.

Hales. Golden Remains. On John xviii. 36.

ACROKE. On crook. See CROOK.
And give her fre the reine of her pleasance,
For libertie is thing that women looke,
And truly els the matter is a acrooke.

Actuate, is generally applied to that which acts-so as to guide or regulate; which urges, impels. Acts of the See AGENT. Actuary, n. is now a common name. For somtime we be Goddes instruments, And menes to don his commandements, Whan that him list, upon his creatures, In divers actes and in divers figures.

Chaucer. Freres Tale, v. 2068. And this way is cleped penance; of which man shuld gladly herken and enqueren with all his herte, to wete, what is penance, and whennes it is cleped penance, and how many maneres ben of actions or werkings of penance. Id. Persones Tale.

It is well knowe, both to reason and experience in dooing euery actiue woorcheth on his passiue.

Id. Test. of Love. b. ii. c. 13. Thus sayth the fend; for certes, than is a man al ded in soule; and thus is sinne accomplised, by temptation, by delit, and by consenting: and than is the sinne actuel.

Id. Persones Tale.

Entendyng in his mynd to do many noble and notable actes, and remembryng that all goodnes cometh of God, and that all worldly thynges and humain actes bee more weaker and poorer then the celestiall powers & heuenly rewardes, determined to begin with some thyng pleasaunt and acceptable to God.-Hall. Hen. V. an. 1.

Who can expresse ye noble actes of the Lorde, or shewe forth all'hys prayse?-Bible, 1539. Psalme 106.

And so Moses obeyed the voyce of hys father in lawe, & chose actyue men out of all Israel, and made them as heedes ouer the people.-Ib. Exodus, c. 18.

Moreouer thou shalt seke out amonge all the people, men of actiuite, and such as feare God.—Ib.

To make new articles of owr faith contrary to Gods worde, and to set them in their prophane seculare actes of politik parlements, armed withe swerde and fier is not els then to be exalted aboue God himself.

Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 12.

I shall destroye the wysdom of their wyse men, & the understandinge and forcasts of their men of moste actiuite & policie shall haue a fall.-Id. Ib.

Du. O then, vnfold the passion of my loue,
Surprize her with discourse of my deere faith;
It shall become thee well to act my woes :
She will attend it better in thy youth,
Than in a nuntio's of more graue aspect.

Chaucer. Court of Love.

Snow and ice, especially being holpen, and their cold activated by nitre, or salt, will turn water to ice, and that in a few houres.-Bacon. Naturall History, § 83.

Orl. He is simply the most actiue gentleman of France. Const. Doing is actiuitie, and he will still be doing. Shakespeare. Hen. V. Act iii. sc. 7. Man is by nature an active creature; he cannot be long idle; either for good or bad, he must take up his dixit and proceed to his custodiam. Hales. Sermon. Dixit Custodiam. In vain does that man thinke to keepe his honour and

chastity, that invites his lust to an activenesse by soft beds and high diet, and idlenesse and opportunity.

Bp. Taylor. Great Exemplar, pt. i. § 13. God caused the sun to move, and to visit every part of the inferior world; by his heat to stir up the fire of generation, and to give activity to the seeds of all natures.

Raleigh. Hist. of the World, b. i. 8. 7. Corio. Like a dull actor now, I haue forgot my part, And I am out, euen to a full disgrace.

Shakespeare. Coriolanus, Act v. sc. 3. Young men may be learners, while men in age are actors. Bacon. Essays. Youth and Age.

Mean while in Paradise the hellish pair
Too soon arriv'd; Sin, there in power before,
Once actual; now in body, and to dwell
Habitual habitant; behind her Death,
Close following pace for pace

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. x.

Of all your sex, yet never did I know,
Any that yet so actually did shew.
Such rules for patience, such an easy way,
That whoso sees it shall be forc'd to say,
Lo what before seem'd hard to be discern'd,

Is of this lady, in an instant learn'd.-Drayton. Elegies.

Nature and religion are the bands of friendships; excellency and usefulness are its great indearments, society and neighbourhood, that is, the possibilities and the circumstances of converse, are the determinations and actualitics of it.-Bp. Taylor. On Friendship.

The soul being an active nature, is always propending to the exercising of one faculty or other, and that to the utmost it is able, and yet being of a limited capacity, it can imploy and abates of it's strength and supreme vigour, some other, but one in height of exercise at once; which when it loseth whose improvement all this while hindred by this it's ingrossing rival, must by consequence begin now to display it self, and awaken into a more vigorous actuation: so that as the former loseth, the latter proportionably gaineth. Glanvil. Praexis. of Souls, c. 13. Hee disclaimeth the opinion of Caietan and Camaracensis, concerning the ability of the mind in such acts collaterally, as not to be activated unlesse it also were active.

Mountagu. Appeale to Cæsar, p. 85.

The fourth and fifth of Henries were
As actious as the rest:
Especially the latter was
The formost with the best.

Warner. Albion's England, b. ix. c. 43.

He has a power of judging before hand, concerning the consequences of his actions, concerning the reasonableness or unreasonableness of the end he aims at; and he has the power of recollecting, after the action done, whether he acted with a good or evil view.

Clarke. Works, vol. i. Ser. 39.

It is necessary to that perfection of which our present state is capable, that the mind and body should both be kept in action.-Rambler, No. 85.

If we duly and exactly consider the absoluteness and simplicity of the divine nature, nothing can be more agreeable to the conceptions which we form of it, and consequently more rational, than to state the first reason, or impulsive cause of all God's actings within himself South, vol. vi. Ser. 5.

-Lose him to her! to her!

A poor, young, actless, indigested thing, Whose utmost pride can only boast of youth And innocence.-Southerne. Loyal Brother, Act i. sc. 1. What am I, or any one else, the better, whether God foresees future contingents from the determination and decree of his will, or from the infinite actuality of his nature, by which his existence is before-hand with all future duration?-South, vol. ix. Ser. 9.

The active informations of the intellect filling the passive reception of the will, like form closing with matter, grew actuate into a third and distinct perfection of practice.- Id. Ib