When Arcite was to Thebes return'd again Born far asunder by the tides of men, Pope. Ess. on Man, Ep. 1. Is yonder wave the sun's eternal bed? Beattie. Minstrel, b. i. The wisest way that can be taken in the nature of things for defending some opinions, is to stop one's ears against whatever can be said in opposition to them. Search. Light of Nature. AGA'ME. In Game. See GAME. For by my trouth, I say it not in game To wend as now, it were to me a shame. Chaucer. Troilus, b. iii. I am right glad with you to dwellen here I said but agame I would go, I wis graunt mercy nece (qd. he) tho Were it agame or no, soth to tell Now am I glad, sens that you list to dwell.-Id. Ib. A'GAMIST. Gr. Ayauos, not married (a, priv. αγαμειν, to marry.) And furthermore to exhort in like maner these agamistes, and wilfull rejecters of matrimony, to take themselues to lawfull wiues, and not to resist God's holy ordinance. Fox. Acles. Q. Marie, p. 1768. AGAPE. On the gape. See GAPE. More solemn than the tedious pomp that waits Of horses led, and grooms besmear'd with gold, Millon. Paradise Lost, b. v. The whole crowd stood agape, and ready to take the doctor at his word-Spectator, No. 572. AGA'ST, adj. AGA'ZE. } A. S. Gesean, to see, to look at. Tooke inclines to the AGA'ZED. Gothic Ayyan, timere; past part. Agids, territus, terrified; which might become Agidst or Agisd, Agist, Agast. But the constant application of the word to that, which is gazed, agazed, agaz'd, (agast) upon with terror or consternation, seems sufficiently to account for the restriction of it to denote a degree of terror. See the quotations from Shakespeare, Milton, and Fuller. Astonished, amazed, terrified (sc. in a speechless gaze.) So com a tempest wilde, his schip had alle ouer ronnen. And at the brondes ende outran anon Chaucer. The Knightes Taie, v. 2343. Now dere suster mine, what may it be Id. The Legend of Dido, p. 203. But him (according as they had decreed) The French exclaym'd the deuill was in armes, Shakespeare. Hen. VI. Act i. sc. 2. In confus'd march forlorn, the adventurous bands Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ii. The agate (or agath) was in old time of great estimation, but now it is in more request. Found it was first in Sicilie neare unto a river called likewise Achates, but afterwards in many other places.-Holland. Plinie, b. xxxvii. c. 10. By the rushy fringed bank Where grows the willow and the osier dank, My sliding chariot stays Of Thick set with agat.-Milton. Comus, v. 893. A'GEDNESS. That you a world of curses undergoe, Drayton. Barons' Wars. King. So goodie Agent? and you think there is no punishment due for your agentship? Beaum. & Fletch. Loper's Progress, Act v. sc. 1. The cause of this successe is oft truely ascribed unto the force of affection and imagination upon the body agent; and then, by a secondary means, it may upon a divers body. Bacon. Natural History, § 902. Nor can I think, that any body has such an idea of chance, as to make it an agent, or really existing and acting cause of any thing, and much less sure of all things. Wollaston. Religion of Nature, s. 5. That act, choosing, and acting for himself: or, more briefly, of an intelligent or free agent.-Id. Ib. s. 1. haps urgentally etymology. Per evil, must be the act of a b denominated morally good or past, gone, agone. A. S. Agan, preteritus, exactus. And then generally to all time: or rather, as the A. S. Ece, from Ec-an, Eac-an, to eke, to prolong, to augment, (See ACHE,) is applied to a lasting, an everlasting continuance of time; ece, may have become age or eage by the mere change of c hard into hard, and in course of time softened:-and mean, A prolonged or lengthened course of time; a long period of time; an advanced progress, of time, of man's life, of years; and thence generally, time, course of years. Pro the by gynnyng of the world, to the tyme that now is, Sene ages ther habbeth y be, as sene tyme y wys. R. Gloucester, p. 9. But how he seeth now, we witen nere; or who opened his yghen, we witen nere; axe ye him, he hath age, speke he of himsilf.-Wiclif. John, c. 9. With him ther was his sone a yonge squier Chaucer. Prologue. The Squier. Wilt thou be angry without end, Wilt thou thy frowning ire extend From age to age on us?-Milton. Psalm 85. Happy and innocent were the ages of our forefathers, who ate herbs and parched corn, and drank the pure stream, and broke their fast with nuts and roots. Bp. Taylor. Holy Living and Dying. The errours of young men are the ruine of business; but the errours of aged men amount but to this, that more might have beene done, or sooner.-Bacon. Ess. On Youth and Age. Custom without truth is but agedness of error. Milton. Of Reformation, b. i. They make Apollo always with a young face and never aging.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 1104. Near this my muse, what most delights her, sees Bold sons of earth, that thrust their arms so high, Waller. St. James's Park. Id. b. iii. c. 12. A'GE. Termination. A moral agent is a being that is capable of those actions that have a moral quality, and which can properly be denominated good or evil, in a moral sense, virtuous or vicious, commendable or faulty.-Edwards. On the Will, pt. i. s. 5. The moral agency of the Supreme Being, who acts only in the capacity of a ruler, towards his creatures, and never as a subject, differs in that respect from the moral agency of created intelligent beings.-Id. Ib. Ice is plain upon the surface of water, but round in hay! and figured in its guttulous descent from the ayr, and so growing greater or lesser according unto the accretion or pluvious aggelation about the mother and fundamental atomes thereof.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 1. AGGENERATION, n. Ad-generare, genus; Yiveobal, to be. See GENERATE. To make a perfect nutrition into the body nourished, there is required a transmutation of the nutriment; now where this conversion or aggeneration is made, there is also required in the aliment a familiarity of matter. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 21. AGGLOMERATE, v. Lat. Agglomerare, AGGLOMERA'TION. (Ad-glomerare.) To roll up into balls. See CONGLOMERATE. Besides, the hard agglomerating salts, Thomson. Autumn Young, Night 9. He seeks a favour'd spot; that where he builds Th' agglomerated pile, his frame may front The sun's meridian disk, and at the back Enjoy close shelter, wall, or reeds, or hedge Impervious to the wind.-Cowper. Task, b. iii. Our author here paints from the life. An excessive agglomeration of turrets, with their fans, is one of the characteristic marks of the florid mode of architecture, which was now almost at its height. Warton. Hist. of Eng. Poetry, vol. ii. p. 223. note o. AGGLUTINATE, v. AGGLUTINATION. AGGLUTINATIVE. glue.) Fr. Agglutiner; It. Agglutinare; Lat. Ag glutinare, (Ad-gluten To stick, or adhere together; to cohere. It [crystal] hath been found in the veins of minerals, sometimes agglutinated unto lead, sometimes in rocks, opacous stones, and the marble face of Octavius, Duke of Parma.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 1. To the nutrition of the body, there are two essential conditions required, assumption and retention; then there follows two more, πεψις and προσταψις, concoction and agglutination, or adhæsion.-Howell, b. i. Let. 9. They are called Plagula and Splenia, from their figure, and do supply the defect of agglutinative medicaments, and lessen the pain, by hindering the compression of the bandage. Wiseman. Chirurgical Treatises, b. vii. c. 1. Rowl up the member with the agglutinative rowler.-Id. Ib. kindness. } To treat with favour or Suffice, that I have done my due in place. So, goodly purpose they together fond, Of kindnesse and of curteous aggrace; Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. il. c. 8. Faire Vana gan Fidelia faire request Shee granted, and that knight so much agrac't, That she him taught celestiall discipline, And opened his dull eyes, that light mote in them shine. Id. Ib. b. i. c. 10. For whatsoever might aggrate the sense, Fletcher. Christ's Triumph on Earth. Mos. O, but before, sir; had you heard him, first, Then use his vehement figures.-B. Jonson, Act ii. sc. 2. To lessen or extenuate my offence, Milton. Samson Agonistes. How is it that the most powerful argument to all manner Outrageous penalties, being seldom or never inflicted, are hardly known to be law by the public: but that rather aggravates the mischief, by laying a snare for the unwary. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iv. c. 1. Corellius Rufus is dead! and, dead, too, by his own act! a circumstance of great aggravation to my affliction. Melmoth. Pliny, b. i. Let. 12. As by olde autors a ma may aggregate a definition. that which is called in Greke and Latyne Musa, is that parte of the sowle, that induceth and moueth a man to serche for The aggregated soil, Death with his mace petrific, cold and dry, AGGRANDIZE, v. Fr. Aggrandir; It. Ag- knowlege.-Elyot. Governour, b. iii. c. 22. AGGRANDIZEMENT. grandire; Sp. Agrandar, from Lat. Ad-grandis. Vossius thinks from Granum, a grain; which etymon he illustrates by the application of Grandis, to fruges, frumenta; i. e. to the whole product or accumulation of grain. To accumulate into large heaps; to enlarge, to magnify, to augment. We are not always certain, who are good, who wicked. If we trust to fame and reports, these may proceed, on the one hand, from partial friendship, or flattery; on the other, from ill-natured surmises and constructions of things, envy, or malice; and on either, from small matters aggrandized. Wollaston. Religion of Nature, § 5. In all his treaties with Holland, Sweden, and the princes Can place or lessen us, or aggrandize?-Young. Night 6. We may date from the treaty of Munster, the decline of the house of Austria, the great power of the house of Bourbon, and the aggrandisement of that of Brandenburgh. Chesterfield, Let. 159. A'GGRAVATE, v. } As Delos, floating once.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. x. For, seeing the church is a society of men, whereof every one (according to the doctrine of the Romish church) hath free-will in believing, it follows, that the whole aggregate hath free-will in believing. Chillingworth. Relig. of Protestants, pt. i. c. 2. § 34. Empedocles and Epicurus, and all those that compound the world of small atoms, introduce concretions and secretions, but no generations or corruptions properly so called; neither would they have these to be made according to quality by alteration, but only according to quantity by aggregation.-Cudworth. Intell. System. p. 15. To save the credit of the author, [the word now] must be favourably understood to be meant of such customs, as were in use either before the Conquest or at the Conquest, or at any time since, in the disjunctive, not in the aggregative.-Spelman. On Feuds, c. 14. Jacobus de Dondis, the aggregator, repeats ambergreese, nutmegs, and all-spice amongst the rest. Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 365. Some are modest, and hide their virtues; others hypocritical, and conceal their vices under shews of sanctity, good nature, or something that is specious. So that it is many times hard to discern, to which of the two sorts, the good or the bad, a man ought to be aggregated. Wollaston. Religion of Nature, s. 5. Fr. Aggraver; It. Ag-liberty, or honour,] and you must reduce it from one set of Put yourself upon analysing one of these words [virtue, gravare; Sp. Agravar; general words to another, and then into the simple abstracts AGGRE GE. Lat. Aggravare, (Ad- and aggregates.-Burke. On the Sublime and Beautiful. gravis, heavy : perhaps (says Vossius) geravis from gerendo.) To make heavy; to add to the weight or burthen. Aggredge, or Aggrege, are used by Chaucer and G. Douglas, which Tyrwhitt and Ruddiman refer to the French Aggreger (See AGGREGATE), and interpret, to aggravate.-Ingravat and Aggerat, are both rendered Aggrege by Douglas. Ard therfore a vengeaunce is not warished by another vengeaunce, ne a wrong by another wrong, but everich of hem encreseth and aggreggelh other. Chaucer. Tale of Melibeus. Some tyme a thynge righte well entended and mis-construed hath been turned to the worse, or a small displeasure doen to you, either by youre owne affection, either by instigacion of euill tongues hath been sore aggrauate.-Hall. Ed. V. I doubte not that here be many presente that either in theimselues or their nigh frendes, as well their goodes as their persones were greately endangered either by fained querels or small matters aggrauated with he.nous names. Id. Ib. Corporations aggregate consist of many persons united together into one society, and are kept up by a perpetual succession of members, so as to continue for ever. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. i. c. 18. Many little things, though separately they seem too insignificant to mention, yet aggregately are too material for me to omit. Chesterfield. Letters. Because a nation is not an idea only of local extent and individual momentary aggregation, but it is an idea of con- The rage dispers'd, the glorious pair advance, To turn the war, and tell aggressing France, As the public crime is not otherwise avenged than by forfeiture of life and property, it is impossible afterwards to make any reparation for the private wrong: which can only be had from the body or goods of the aggressor. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iv. c. 1. Grete was that linage and many to them cheued, For John, ther is a lawe that saieth thus, Chaucer. The Reves Tale v. 4179. What aileth you to grone in this manere? Id. The Nonnes Preestes Tale, v. 14,899. Surrey. Virgile, b. ii. Yet was I neuer of your loue agreued, Duke. Beaum. & Fletch. Fair Maid of the Inn, Act iii. sc. 1. The aggrieved person shall do more manly, to be extraordinary and singular in claiming the due right whereof he is frustrated, than to piece up his lost contentment by visiting the stews, or stepping to his neighbour's bed. Milton. On the Doct, and Discip. of Divorce, b. i. c. 2. Those pains that afflict the body, are afflictive just so long as they actually possess the part which they aggrieve; but their influence lasts no longer than their presence. South, vol. viii. Ser. 1. AGGROUP, or GROUP. See GROUP. To hold, or place in bands, or companies, or assemblages. We must have the same regard for the members; they aggrouppe, and contrast each other in the same manner as figures do.-Dryden. Obser. on the Art of Painting, § 132. Bodies of divers natures, which are aggroupp'd (or com. bined) together, are agreeable and pleasant to the sight. Id. Dufresnoy, § 60. A'GILE, adj. Fr. Agile; It. Agile; Sp. Agil; AGILITY. Lat. Agilis; from Agere, to act. Able to act with readiness, to move with quickness, nimbleness; nimble, quick in action, active. Yet God hathe suffered theym [the fiendes] to keepe their gyftes of nature styll, as wytte, bewtye, strengthe, agylytie, and suche other lyke.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 863. For the sauegarde and preseruacion of his awne body, archers as of diuerse other persons being hardy, strong he costituted & ordeyned a certayne nombre as well of good and of agilitie to geue dailye attendaunce on his person, whome he named yomen of his garde. Hall. Hen. VII. an. 1. And swifter then his tongue. His agile arme, beats downe their fatall points, And 'twixt them rushes.--Shakes. Rom. & Jul. Act i. sc. 2 Once more, I said, once more I will inquire, Prior. Solomon, b. iii. He that before wholly attended upon his body to make it exce in strength or agility, that he might contend victoriously in the Olympic games, then made it his business to improve and advance his soul in knowledge and virtue. Bates. Immortality of the Soul. First he bids spread Cowper. Task, b. iii. AGILT, v. A verb formed upon the past part. gu'iled, guil'd, guilt. See BEGUILE. To practise any cheat, imposture, or injustice; any sin or wickedness; to cheat; to defraud. Awey! Awey! we synnol men, alas! oure wrecchede, That we abbyth thus (iod agult myd mony synuol dede We and oure elderne ek.-R. Gloucester, p. 252. Thus moche wol I say, that when thou prayest, that God shuld foryeve thee thy gilles as thou foryevest hem that have agilfed thee, be well ware that thou be not out of charitee.-Chaucer. The Persones Tale. AGI'ST, v. AGISTER. AGI'STMENT. } From Fr. Giste, a lying place, from the verb Gésir, to lye. Skinner. Applied to The lying, and consequentially pasturing, of one man's cattle in another's ground, on payment of a certain sum of money, or other good consideration. A forest hath laws of her own, to take cognizance of all trespasses; she hath also her peculiar officers, as foresters, verderers, regarders, agisters, &c. whereas a chase or park hath only keepers and woodwards.-Howell, Let. 4. p. 16. Manie other ordinances were decreed touching the preseruation of forrests, and the king's prerogatiue, aduantages and profits rising and growing by the same, as well for Bauing of his woods and wasts, as in pannage and agistements.-Holinshed. Chron. Rich. I. an. 1198. The taylor, the carrier, the inn-keeper, the agisting farmer, the pawnbroker, the distreinor, and the general bailee, may all of them vindicate in their own right. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. c. 30. If a man takes in a horse, or other cattle, to graze and depasture in his grounds, which the law calls agistment, he takes them upon an implied contract, to return them on demand to the owner.-Id. Ib. AGITATE, v. AGITATION. AGITATOR. Fr. Agiter; It. Agitare; Sp. Agitar; Lat. Agitare, freq. of Agere, to act. To act with frequent and repeated motion; to shake. Metaphorically, to discuss. To keep the mind in constant action; to disturb, to distract. Those whom Clarendon and Whitelock call Agitators, Ludlow and Wood denominate Adjutators. Whitelock Agents or Agitators for each regiment; Ludlow at their first appointment Agitators, afterwards Adjutators. Suche is the mutacion of the comon people like a rede with euery wind is agitable and flexible. The adjutators began to change their discourse, and to complain openly in council, both of the king, and the malignants about him.-Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. i. p. 84. He [Thomas Harrison] was the person appointed by The future pleases: Why? The present pains- Cowper. Task, b. i. In every district in the kingdom, there is some leading man, some agitator, some wealthy merchant, or considerable manufacturer, some active attorney, some popular preacher, some money-lender, &c. who is foilowed by the whole flock. Burke. On the Duration of Parliaments. A'GLET. See AIGLET. AGNATE, adj. AGNA'TICK. AGNA'TION. Fr. Agnation; It. Agnato; Sp. Agnado; Lat. Agnatus, borne to, of kin, allied to. Legally applied by Blackstone, to issue derived from the male ancestors. By an attentive examination of the peculiarities in enunciation which each people have, in the one way or the other, by a fair reciprocal analysis of the agnate words they reciprocally use, I think a much greater agnation may be found amongst all the languages in the northern hemisphere of our globe.-Pownall. On the Study of Antiquities. This I take to be the true reason of the constant preference of the agnatic succession, or issue derived from the male ancestors, through all the stages of collateral inheritance.-Blackstone. Com. b. ii. c. 14. AGNIZE, v. Lat. Agnoscere, Agnitum, AGNITION. See RECOGNIZE. }(Ad-noscere,) to acknowledge. That he may deliuer vp vnto Messias at his comyng, a people not vtterly vntraded or vnentered i his discipline, but somwhat prepaired already & instructed therunto with yo agnisyng & knowlageyng of theyr owne synfulnesse. Udal. Luke, c. 1. p. 7. Iesus of Nazareth was borne in Bethlem, a city of Iuda: where incontinent by the glorification of the angels, the agnition of the shepherds, the veneration of the wise men, the prophecy of holy Simeon, and the admiration of the doctours he was had in honour. Grafton. The Seventh Age, vol. i. The tirant custome, most graue senators, Hath made the flinty and steele coach of warre My thrice-driuen bed of downe. I do agnize A naturall and prompt alacritic, I find in hardnesse.--Shakespeare. Othello, Act i. sc. 3. Man blesseth God when he confesseth how good, how gracious, how glorious he is; so as the blessing is wholly taken up in agnition, in celebration. Bp. Hall. Ser. of Thanksgiving. It was desired, that since it appeared the present power had no legal foundation, and that it would be most sate for the protector, to derive his authority from a right source, the words in the declaration of recognizing him might be altered for agnizing him; that so his right might appear to be founded upon the consent of the people represented in this assembly.-Ludlow, Memoirs, vol. i. p. 163. Such who own AGNOMINATE, v. Į Hall. Edw. IV. an. 9. Putrefaction asketh rest; for the subtill motion, which putrefaction requireth, is disturbed by an agitation. Bacon. Natural History, § 344. -I was alwaies plaine with you, and so now I speake my agitation of the matter. Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice, Act iii. sc. 5. As when a wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night Kindled through agitation to a flame, The common soldiers made choice of three or four of each regiment, most corporals or sergeants, few or none above the degree of an ensign, who were called agitators, and were to be as a house of cominons to the council of officers. Clarendon. History of the Rebellion, b. x. AGNOMINATION. In evil times, undaunted, though alone, His glorious truth, such He will crown with praise, And glad agnize before his Father's throne. Edwards, Son. 11. Lat. Agnominatio, (Ad-nomen.) Lat. Agnomen is a name to; i. e. in addition to. To name, or call by name. Agnomination is applied to the repetition of words of similar sound: or to allusions founded upon some other fancied resemblance. Notwithstanding in this Isle the British ouergrew the Latine, and continueth yet in Wales, and some villages of Cornwall intermingled with prouinciall Latine, being verie significatiue, copious, and pleasantly running vpon agnominations, although harsh in aspirations. Camden. Remains. Of Languages. The silver stream White is there usurpt for her brow; her forehead and then sleek, as the parallel to smooth, that went before. A kind of paranomasic, or agnomination: doe you conceive, sir.-B. Jonson. Poelaster, Act iii. 4 Sat. Is he such a princely one, As you spake him long agon ?-B. Jonson. Oberon. Marlow. Jew of Malta. Court Prol. They [eclipses] may on divers occasions help to settle chronology, and rectify the mistakes of historians that writ many ages ago.-Ray. On the Creation. Let his clack be set a-going, and he shall tongue it as impetuously, and as loudly as the arrantest hero of the play. Dryden. Pref. to Troil. & Cress Dear Joseph-five and twenty years ago— Alas how time escapes!-'tis even soWith frequent intercourse, and always sweet, And always friendly, we were wont to cheat A tedious hour.-Cowper. To Joseph Hill, Esq. A'GOG, ad. From the Gothic, Gaggan, A. S. Gangan, to go, to gang. Agog is applied toThe alert, eager, emotions of hope, expectation, anticipation. See GIG, and JIG. Neither am I come to please thee, or to set the agog with a vain salutacion, but I am come vnto thee as a messagier of a matier bothe passyng ioyful, & also verai great. Udal. Luke, c. i. The gaudy gossip when she's set agog, Dryden. Juven. Sat. 6. They [the gipsies] generally straggle into these parts abous this time of the year, and set the heads of our servantmaids so agog for husbands, that we do not expect to have any business done as it should be whilst they are in the country.-Spectator, No. 130. A'GON, n. A'GONIZE. zare; Fr. Agoniser; It. AgonizSp. Agonizar; Lat. Agon; Gr. Ayw; certamen, conflictus; a contest, a conflict, a struggle. Agon and Agonistical are particularly applied to the contests of prize fighters: Agonize and Agony, to Those bodily or mental struggles and conflicts which are accompanied by excessive pain; to any violent struggle or conflict. And he was maad in agonge, and preiede the lenger, and his swoot was maad as dropis of blood rennynge doun into the erthe.-Wiclif. Luke, c. 22. hys sweate was lyke droppes of bloud, trycklynge downe And he was in an agonye, and prayed the longer. And to ye groude.-Bible, 1539. Ib. And thus wepende she complaineth So that vpon this agonie Her husbonde is in come And sawe how she was ouercome With sorrow, and asketh hir what hir eileth. Gower. Con. A. b. i. 2 Tim. c. 4. vv. 7. 8. These two verses are wholly ago nistical.-Hammond. Annot. The prophetick writings were not, saith St. Peter, (I conceive it in an agonistick sense,) of their own starting or incitation.-Id. Works, vol. iv. p. 589. Our calling, therefore, doth require great industry; and the business of it consequently is well represented by those performances, which demand the greatest intention, and laborious activity; it is stiled exercise, agonistick and ascetick exercise.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 20. As are all the expressions in the foregoing verse, so is this apparently agonistical, and alludes to the prize set before, propounded, and offered to them that run in a race, for their encouragement.-Bp. Bull, vol. i. Ser. 14. [An author] though possessed of fortitude to stand unmoved the expected bursts of an earthquake, yet of feelings, BO exquisitively poignant as to agonize under the slightest disappointment.-Goldsmith, Pres. State of Polite Learning. The virtue and good intentions of Cato and Brutus are highly laudable; but to what purpose did their zeal serve? Only to hasten the fatal period of the Roman government, and render its convulsions and dying agonies more violent and painful.-Hume, Ess. 3. AGORE-BLOOD. blood. See GORE. And if that at mine owne lust I brenne I not, ne why, vnwery that I feint.-Chaucer. Troil. b. i. But toke agree all whole my plaie.-Id. Rom. of Rose. Kepeth this child, al be it foule or faire, Id. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 5187. The sterres shinen more agreably whan the wind Nothus letteth his plungy blasts.-Id. Boecius, b. iii. All fortune is blisful to a man, by the agreability or by the egality of hym that suffereth it.-Id. Ib. b. ii. Then it is well seen, how wretched is the blisfulnesse of mortall things that neither it dureth perpetuell with hem, that euery fortune receiuen agreeably or egally, ne it deliteth not in all to hem that ben anguishous.-Id. Ib. This house [Symon's in Bethany] preseteth vnto vs, the agreyng, and frendely felowshyp of the church; the which beyng vncleane, he washed and purified with his precious bloude.-Udal. Mark, c. 14. For my spirite agreeth not with the spirite of this worlde, and my doctrine is wholly agaynste the affections of them, Foul, corrupt, polluted which loue the thynges that be of this worlde. The woods filled with scattered men, the people overcome, the flouds and rivers running all agore-blood (by reason of the great slaughter), and the stream carrying down the dead bodies to the main sea.-North. Plutarch, p. 163. Wherefore after Acrotatus had done this exploit, he returned again through the city unto the place from whence he came, all on a goar-bloud—Id. p. 345. But when he saw Brutus with his sword drawn in his hand, then he pulled his gown over his head, and made no more resistance, and was driven either casually or purposedly, by the counsell of the conspirators, against the base, whereupon Pompey's image stood, which ran all of a goar-bloud till he was slain.-Id. p. 615. AGRA MED. A. S. Grymman, sævire, freTo rage, to roar, to provoke, to anger. See GRAME. mere. "Lordynges," he saide, "Y am asenamed, That Alisaundre, with myghty hond, Weber. Met. Rom. K. Alisaunder, v. 3309. And if a man be falsely famed But all such false shull foule fall.-Chaucer. Plowm.Tale. Id. Matth. c. 28. And thus the couenaunt that ye made wt death, shall be disannulled and your agrement that ye made with hell, shall not stande. Bible, 1539. Isa. c. 28. They chanc't upon an hill not farne away, To whom they both agreed to take their way, In short, so provoking a devil was Dick, Goldsmith. Retaliation. The motives which the heathens had to the practice of their duty, were generally drawn by their best authors on this subject, from the agreeableness of virtuous actions to human nature, and from the advantage and necessity of them to society.-Pearce, vol. i. Ser. 5. What would I not give, to have you read Demosthenes critically in the morning, and understand him better than any body; at noon, behave yourself better than any person at court; and, in the evenings, trifle more agreeably than any body in mixed companies-Chesterfield, Let. 177. This general agreement of the senses is yet more evident on minutely considering those of taste and smell. Burke. On the Sublime and Beautiful. The culture or tillage of land; labour for the improvement, for the fertility of land. Those geoponical rules and precepts of agriculture which are delivered by divers authors, are not to be generally received: but respectively understood unto climes, whereto they are determined.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vi. c. 3. Trade wields the sword, and agriculture leaves Young. On the Situation of the Kingdom. providing a constant subsistence; and this necessity proIt became necessary to pursue some regular method of duced, or at least promoted and encouraged, the art of agriculture. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. c. 1. By giving a sort of monopoly of the home market to its own merchants, artificers, and manufacturers, it raises the rate of mercantile and manufacturing profit, in proportion to that of agricultural profit; and, consequently, draws from agriculture a part of the capital which had before been employed in it.-Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. iv. c. 9. The pasture, and the food of plants, Of every different species.-Dodsley. Agriculture, c. 2. ̧ AGRISE, v. I A. S. Agris-an, horrere, to or A'GGRISE.dread and fear greatly. Somner; In hope there newes to learne, how they mote best assay. probably formed upon the verb Hrys-an, Ge-hrys Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 9. Thus one by one, kindling each other's fire Daniel. Civil Wars, b. iii. At last he met two knights to him vnknowne, The which were armed both agreeably, And both combin'd, what euer chaunce were blowne Betwixt them to diuide, and each to make his owne. Spenser. Faerie Queene. b. vi c. 7 To speake agreeable to him with whom we deale, is more tha to speak in good words, or in good order. Bacon. Ess. Of Discourse. Agreeingly to which, St. Austin, disputing against the Donatists, contendeth most earnestly. Sheldon. On the Miracles of Antichrist. When we possess ourselves with the utmost security of the demonstration, that the three angles of a triangle are equal to two right ones, what do we more but perceive, that equality to two right ones does necessarily agree, and is inseparable from the three triangles. Locke. On Hum. Underst. b. vi. c. 1. As nothing that is agreeable to us can be painful at the same time, and as such; nor any thing disagreeable pleasant, by the terms; so neither can any thing agreeable be for that reason (because it is agreeable) not pleasant, nor any Wollaston. Religion of Nature, s. 2. AGRARIAN, adj. Lat. Agrarius, Agrestis; AGRE'STICK. from Ager, a field. Agrarian is applied to the distribution of fields or lands. Agrestick, to that which is rustic, rude, thing disagreeable not painful, in some measure or other. unpolished. An equal agrarian is a perpetual law establishing and preserving the balance of dominion by such a distribution, that no one man or number of men within the compass of the few or aristocracy, can com to overpower the whole people by their possessions in lands.-Harrington. Oceana, p.54. Their agrarian laws were such, whereby their lands ought to nave in divided among the people, either without mentio, cf colony, in which case they were not oblig'd to The agreablenesse of dissimulation doth almost every day surmount the homely simplicitie of truth; nay, and some would have it passe for a rule of court to confesse that he perceived the stars, if another would maintaine it to be night at high noone.-Evelyn. Of Liberty & Servitude, c. 5. Knowledge then seems to me to be nothing but the perception of the connexion and agreement, or disagreement and repugnance of any of our ideas. Locke. On Hum Underst. b. iv. c. 1. an, A-ge-hrys-an, to agrise, i. e. to beat, bruise, or dash against; to shake, to shatter, and, consequentially To shudder, or cause to shudder; to confound, to terrify. See CRUSH. Tho were the porters agrise sore of thulke sizte & caste hom the keyen vawe that hii mizte.-R. Gloucester, p. 539. Tho kinges herte of pitee gan agrise Whan he saw so benigne a creature Falle in desese and in misaventure. Chaucer. The Man of Lawes Tales, v. 5035. And as she slept, anon right tho her met How that an egle fethered white as bone Under her brest his long clawes set And out her harte he rent, and that anon And did his harte into her brest to gon Of which she nougt agrose. ne nothing smart And forthe he flieth, with hart left for hart.-Id. Troil. b.ii And where they fynde in the thynkyng thereon, their heartes agryce & shrynke in the remembraunce of the payne, that their imaginacion representeth too the minde. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1215. -But more happy he, than wise, For near'st to mortals, though my state I keep, Drayton. Man in the Moon. Of whose sight he full sore was agrysed, AGRO'PE, v. See GROPE. To try to find, to explore, to examine. For who so will it wel agrope, To hem belongeth all Europe, Of all the worlde vnder the heuen.-Gower. Con. A. b. v. AGRO'TED. Tyrwhitt explains, cloyed, surfeited. Skinner;-ingurgitated, saturated; from gross. This honorable quene Philis doth him chere, But I am agroted here beforne To write of hem that in loue been forsworne. Chaucer. The Legend of Philis. AGROUND, ad. On the ground: consequentially Not afloat; stopped in the course or current. And headlong downe the master falles, and thrice the keele aground. The water whirld, and at the last the wilde sea swallowd round.-Phaer. Virgil. Æneidos, b. i. But Alcibiades followed them so lustily, that he ran divers of them aground, and brake their ships and slew a great number of men that leapt into the sea, in hopes to save themselves by swimming aland.-North. Plutarch, p. 178. Tell me, ye Trojans, for that name ye own; A'GUE, v. Dryden. Eneid, b. vii. Skinner says, perhaps from the Fr. Aigu, acutus, sharp, because, in the paroxysm at least, it is an acute disease. Serenius and Tooke, from Goth. Agis, trembling. R. Brunne writes Hage. A'GUISH. A disease; the distinguishing mark of which is, trembling, shivering, shuddering. AGUISE, v. See GUISE. To prepare a mode of fashion, of dress; a dress. And other whiles vaine toyes she would devise Then gan this crafty couple to devise, How among the drove of custom and prejudice this will The centaur and the dolphin brush the brine Dryden. Eneas, b. v. AHIGH. Fielding. Voyage to Lisbon. On high; above; aloft. And so, some mounted vpon the walles, and threwe them- The flattering index of a direfull pageant; Tooke quotes with approbation the remark of Johnson, that "the cold fit is, in popular language, more particularly called the ague; and the hot, the fever." AHOLD. By Tindale, More, North, &c. this distinction is disregarded. But Ihesu thorgh his myght, blissed mot he be, Reised him vp right, & passed that hage.-R. Brunne,p.333. For I will bring vpon you fearfulnesse, swellyng of body, and the burnynge agew, to consume youre eyes and gendre sorow of hert.-Bible, 1539. Leuit. c. 26. If he [the cunnyng phisicion] haue his pacient in an ague, to the cure wherof he nedeth his medicines in their But now will canker-sorrow eat my bud, And so he'll dye.-Shakespeare. K. John, Act iii. sc. 3. And this is the cause why the cholerick man is so altered and mad in his actions, as a man set on fire with a burning ague: for when a man's heart is troubled within, his pulse will beat marvellous strongly.-North. Plutarch, p. 193. Aristotle saith of it [faith] that it differs from knowledge, as a sickly man from a strong, 'tis very weak and aguish, subject to sweats, and colds, and hourly distempers. Hammond. Works, vol. iv. p. 627. Ser. 10. Mar. All hurt behinde, backes red, and faces pale If we be not blind at home, we may as well perceive that this worthy motto, No bishop, no king, is of the same batch, and infanted out of the same fears, a meer ague-cake coagulated of a certain fever they have, presaging their time to be but short.-Milton. Of Reform. in Eng. Cold shivering agues, melancholy care, So calm, and so serene, but now, Lansdowne. To Myra. It may enjoy th' advantage of the north, Id. Lear, Act iv. sc. 6. Botes. Lay her a-hold, a-hold-set her two courses And hvs dysciples were an hongered, and began to plucke When any of the gheastes would have touched any thinge, An. The dinner attends you, Sir. So rumour says, who will believe, AID, v. Gray. Long Story Fr. Aider; It. Aiutare, Aitare; Sp. Ayudar; Lat. Adjuvare, (Ad-juvare, to help.) To assist; to come to the support or relief of; to support, to relieve, to succour. Also thou shalt not swere for envie, neyther for favour, ne for mede, but only for rightwisenesse and for declaring of trouthe to the honour and worship of God, and to the aiding and helping of thin even Cristen. Chaucer. The Persones Tale. He that spendeth his liuelode to helpe the poore at theyr nede, semeth mad vnto hym who hath reposed the ayde of this presente lyfe in worldly riches.--Udal. Mark, c. 2. Brenne had three skore and fiue thousande chosen footemen of the best in all his hoste, wheras the Delphians and their aiders were in all but foure thousande fighting men. Goldyng. Justine, b. xxiv. p. 111. The Thebanes therfore, hauinge gotten the vpper harde, led theyr whole host to the city of Lacedemon, thincking easly to haue won it, because they were abondoned of al their aiders and comforters.-Id. b. vi. p. 36. She can unlock The clasping charm, and thaw the mumming spell, For maidenhood she loves, and will be swift Oft have I seene a timely-parted ghost, Of ashy semblance, meager, pale, and bloodlesse, Shakespeare. 2 Part Hen. VI. Act iii e. 2. Where that damn'd wisard, hid in sly disguise, A golden coffer in her hand she bore, Parnell. H&A:& As Theodore was born of noble kind, Dryden. Theodore & Heno la Neither the towers, nor any other part, nor the whol together, unless well aided by perspective, and the introduction of trees to hide disgusting parts, can furnish a god picture.-Gilpin. Tour to the Lakes. Sure there is need of social intercourse, To toll the death-bell of its own decease. Cowper. Task. And the party suffering shall also have his private action against the person committing, and all his aiders, advisers, and abettors, and shall recover treble costs, &c. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. i. c. 1. AIGLET, dim. of Acus, a point. or A'GLET. He gyueth alwaye hys old point at one end or other s me All in a silken camus, lilly white, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. il. 8. Spanish Tragedy, A v Why giue him gold enough, and marrie him to a puppet or an Aglet-babie, or an old trot with ne're a tooth in het head, though she have as manie diseases as two and fiftie horses.-Shakespeare. Taming of the Shrew, Act i. sc. 2. AIL, v. Junius inclines to the A. S. Egl an, to feel pain or grief, to ayle (Somner); and Egl-an, he derives from the Gr. axy-ew. Tooke thinks Ail is the past part. of the A. S. Aidlian; to be sick, empty useless, spoilt. To disease, to disorder, to cause or feel pain or uneasing; to deprive of soundness, health, or strength; to make useless. See IDLE. Ich wot wel quath Hunger, what syknesse gow aileth Ther I was bred, (alas that ilke day!) Chaucer. The Squieres Tale, 7. 10 S:3. |