'Tis he that takes away, who can repay you: This grief to other rods doth open lay you:

He binds your grief to patience, not dejection,

Who bears the first not well, provokes a new correction.
P. Fletcher. Eliza.

Shall a few loose troops, untrain'd,
But in a customary ostentation,
Presented as a sacrifice to your valours,
Cause a dejection in you?

Massinger. The Maid of Honour, Act ii. sc. 3. When our souls are dejected, distressed, tormented with .he remembrance of our former sins, he saith to us, as he did to the man in the Gospel, be of good chear, my son, thy ins are all pardoned.-Bp. Beveridge, vol. i. Ser. 70.

The one he emboldens with a manly assurance to look, speak. act, or plead before the faces of a numerous assembly; the other he dazzles out of countenance into a sheepish dejectedness.-Spectator, No. 250.

In which words we have represented to us, the unparallel'd example of courage and patience under sufferings, in our Lord and Saviour; and the great influence that it ought to have on all those who are called by his name, that they would not dishonour so excellent a pattern of enduring sufferings, by weakness or dejection of mind.-Stillingfleet, vol. i. Ser. 6. I have had no dignities; thou hast withheld them, and I have not thought them even worthy of a wish. Didst thou see me sad and dejected on these accounts?

Jortin. Remarks on Ecclesiastical History, Pref. The symptoms of which are excess of animal secretions, as of perspiration, sweat, liquid dejectures, &c. Arbuthnot. On Aliments, c. 6. DEJERATION. Lat. Dejerare, (de, and jurare, to swear.)

A solemn swearing.

Doubtless with many tears and dejerations, he labours to clear his intentions to her person.

DE'IFY. DEIFICAL. DEIFICATE. DEIFICATION. DE'IFIER.

DE/IFORM.

DEIFO'RMITY.

DE'IFYING, n.

DE'ISM.

DE'IST.

DEI'STICAL.

DE'ITY.

Bp. Hall. Cont. Haman Hanged. Lat. Deus, God, and fieri to be made or become. Fr. Déifier; Sp. Deificar; It. Deificare; Low Lat. Deificare-in numerum deorum ascribere, (Minshew.) In Deos referre, consecrare, (Vossius, de Vitiis.)

To rank or class among the gods; to treat as if a god.

Deist, (or theist, qv.) one who believes that there is a God. Deity-the God-head; also, applied to the person-God. See the quotation from Clarke.

And that was Juno, saith the boke Of his deificacion.

Id. Ib.

Nubbes. Hanniball & Scipio, H. 2. One would have hoped, that the memory of so signal an Interposition of heaven [the Flood] against the first deifiers of men, should have given an effectual check to the practice for some considerable time in the succeeding yorld.

Coventry. Phil. to Hyd. Conv. 3.

Onely souls deiform Thtellective
Unto that height of happinesse can get;
Yet immortalitie with other souls may sit.

More, On the Soul, pt. ii. b. i. c. 2. s. 47.

If we see him as he is, all this glory must descend to us and become ours for we can no other wayes see God (as I said before) but by becoming deiform, by being changed into the same glory.-Rust. Fun. Ser. on Bp. Taylor.

Thus the soul's numerous plurality

I have prov'd, and show'd she is not very God;
But yet a decent deiformity

Hath given her. More. On the Soul, pt. iii. 8.27.

A country maiden, then amongst the swains,
A shepherdess, she kept upon the plains;
Yet no disguise her deity could smother,
So far in beauty she excelled other.

Drayton. The Man in the Moon. Is it not strange, that a rational man should adore leeks and garlick, and shed penitential tears at the smell of a deified onion? Yet so did the Egyptians, once the famed masters of all arts and learning.-South, vol. i. Ser. 2.

An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter-apotheosis, or a deification inverted. When a man becomes familiar with his Goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman. Spectator, No. 73. What a pure imitation of God its life is, and how exactly deiform all its motions and actions are. Scott. Christian Life, pt. i. c. 3. Yet is their personation and deification meer fiction and phancy; however the first occasion thereof sprung from this theological opinion or persuasion, that God who is in all things, and is the cause of all things, ought to be worshipped in all things, especially he being himself invisible. Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 531.

Which opinion is really nothing else but the deifying of the Devil, or Prince of evil spirits, making him a corrival with God, and entitling him to a right of receiving divine honour and worship.-Id. Ib.

If my supposition be true, then the consequence which I have assumed in my poem may be also true; namely, that deism, or the principle of natural worship, are only the faint remnants or dying flames of revealed religion in the posterity of Noah.-Dryden. Religio Laici, Pref.

Out of this impious school [of Epicurus] have sprung the Saduces of the Jews, the Zendichees of the Arabs, and the Deists of the present age.

Prideaux. Connection, pt. i. b. viii. an. 310.

Almost all the things that are said wisely and truly by modern deists, are plainly borrowed from that revelation, which they refuse to embrace; and without which, they could never have been able to have said the same things.

Clarke. On Natural and Revealed Religion, Prop. 7. This great poet and philosopher, [Simonides] the more he contemplated the nature of the Deity, found that he waded but the more out of his depth; and that he lost himself in the thought, instead of finding an end to it.

Spectator, No. 531. They worshipped God in his works, in all things, and deified the several parts of nature; they worshipped him under emblems, symbols, sensible representations, and images.-Jortin. On the Christian Religion, Disc. 7.

It was an article of the common creed amongst the Pagans, that the souls of deified men were taken up into heaven, advanced to a state of divine dominion there, and ranked with the immortal Gods. Herein their deification did properly consist.-Farmer. On Miracles.

These are some of the doctrines which have unhappily helped to propagate atheism or deism, and have made many a man say to himself, "if this be Christianity, let my soul be with the philosophers."

Jortin. Remarks on Ecclesiastical History.

But you are the first who ever swore that he was an infidel, concluding your deistical creed with-so help me God! I pray that God may help you: that he may, through the influence of his Holy Spirit, bring you to a right mind; convert you to the religion of his Son, whom, out of his abundant love to mankind, he sent into the world, that all who believe in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Watson. Apology for the Bible.

I seem, for my own part, to see the benevolence of the Deity more clearly in the pleasures of very young children, than in any thing in the world.

Vor so muche he tolde of himself & of is grete mizte,
That him ne deinede nozt to ligge in the castel by nizte.
R. Gloucester, p. 557.

Boste & deignouse pride & ille avisement
Mishapnes oftentide, & does many be schent.

R. Brunne, p. 289.
Rygt so sothly sciences dwelleth in a mannes soule
And doth hym to be deynous. and deem that beth nat
lerede.
Piers Plouhman, p. 276.
What man (qd he) was euer thus at ease
As I on which the fairest, and the best
That euer I seie, deinethe her to rest.

Ye ben of port so daungerous Unto this louer, and dainous

Id. The Reves Tale, v. 3939.

To graunt him nothing but a kisse.-Id. Rom. of the Rose.
And with that worde on me she gaue a glome
With browes bente, and gan on me to stare
Ful daynously, and fro me she dyd fare,
Leuynge me stondynge as a mased man.

Skellon. Prologue to the Bouge of Court.
She deignes not my good will, but doth reproue,
And of my rural musick holdeth scorne.

Spenser. Shepheard's Calendar. Januarie. But when againe thou dost extend thy rigour, And wilt not daigne to grace me with thy sight, Thou kil'st my comfort, and so spoil'st my might That scarce my corps retaines the vitall vigour.

Stirling. Avrora, Son. 35.

Yet tempred so her deignfull lookes alway,
That outward scorne shewd store of grace within.
Fairefax Godfrey of Bovlogne, b. iv. s. 89
Moth. Harlot; so
Called from one Harlotha, concubine
To deignous Wilhelme, hight the conqueror.

Cartwright. The Ordinary, Act iii. sc. 1. But if a prince shall deign to be familiar, and to converse with those upon whom he might trample, shall his condescension therefore unking him? And his familiarity rob him of his royalty. The case is the same with Christ. South, vol. iii. Ser. 8. Yet the governor was so imprudent and arrogant, that he despised all these reiterated overtures, and did not deign even to return the least answer to them.

Anson. Voyage round the World, b. ii. c. 6. DE-KING, to cause to be no longer king; to deprive of a kingdom. South uses unking; see under the verb DEIGN.

Edward being thus dekinged, the embassie rode ioyfully backe to London to the parliament, with the resigned ensigns, and despatch of their employment. Speed. Edw. III. b. ix. c. 12. s. 75. DELAPSED. Į Lat. Delabi, delapsus; (de, DELA'PSION. J and labi, to fall.) See LAPSE. Fallen away from.

Which Anne deriv'd alone, the right before all other,
Of the delapsed crown, from Philip her fair mother.

Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 29.

If we should grant and suppose these reflections of beams upon the superficies of the moon, to be made by way of equal angles, there is no impossibility in the matter, but that the same rays being carried so great a way, should have their frictions, fluxions, and delapsions; that thereby the light should be confused and shine the more. Holland. Plutarch, p. 954.

DELA'TION.

DELA'TOR.

DELATE, v. Lat. Deferre, delatum; (de, and ferre, to bear or carry.) To bear, carry or bring; (lit. as in Lord Bacon,) and (met.) with a subaudition, of information, accusation; and thus, consequentially, to inform, to accuse. To bear, to convey, to conduct. Delacyon, in Lord Berners, is delay; deferring or delaying. (See To DEFER.) In Sir Thomas More, delating seems equivalent to collating; conferring or bringing together.

Dilate was written not uncommonly delate, by older writers, as in the quotations from Goodwin and Mountague. "To delate, or speak at large of any thing; see To DILATE," (Minshew.)

Dilation, on the other hand, in Shakespeare, (first folio,) appears to be of the same import as delation in Wotton and Spotiswood; in them, it is information, accusation: in Shakespeare, close delation,-is secret information, intimation; and

Christ shal at the last restrayn & destroy his ydolle Antechrist with the spirit of his holy mouth, repayring and delating his church again & gathering thereinto as wel the remenat of the Jewes, as all other sectes. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 288. And after this iudgement there was no delacyon of sufferaunce nor mercy, but incötynent he was drawen throughout London, and then set on a scaffolde.

Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 23.

To try exactly the time wherein sound is delated, let a man stand in a steeple, and have with him a taper; and let some veil be put before the taper; and let another man stand in a field a mile off. Then let him in the steeple strike the bell, and in the same instant withdraw the veile; and so let him in the field tell by his pulse what distance of time there is between the light seene, and the sound heard: for it is certain that the delation of light is in an instant.

Bacon. Naturall History, § 209.

Delating in a male's attyre

The empire new begonne.

Warner. Albion's England, b. i. c. 1.

For the abscission of the church is not to be us'd but after all other remedies: when the crime is delated or notorious, and the person called, when he hath been admonish'd and reprov'd, and called to repentance, if after all he refuses and rebels, then he is to be cut off, else not.

Bp. Taylor. Rule of Conscience, b. iii. c. 4.

By which way of discourse and disquisition of all Christian verities, the schools both delight and delate human reason, without any intrusion into the forbidden inclosures of faith.-Mountague. Devoute Essayes, pt. ii. Treat. I.

By which he both illustrates and expounds his meaning it. ver. 5. (Ps. xlix.) to be to utter his own blessed condition at his death, v. 15, and to that purpose it is, he further delates upon the death of wicked men in the rest of the psalm: and which is indeed a kind of summary of what in the former meditation I have prest.

Goodwin. An Unregenerate Man's Guiltiness, b. xiii. c. 9.

The gentlemen's case was much pitied, Maius his case especially. Hamilton, who made the delation, lived after this in a continual fear, and abhorred of all men.

Spotswood. Church of Scotland, b. vi. an. 1684. Therefore these stops of thine, fright me the more: For such things in a false disloyall knaue Are tricks of custome: but in a man that's iust, They're close dilations, working from the heart, That passion cannot rule.

Shakespeare. Othello, Act iii. sc. 3. There is among the partitions of this government, a very awful magistracy under title of Inquisitori di Stato; to which are commonly deputed three gentlemen of the gravest and severest natures, who receive all secret delations in matter of practice against the republick.

Reliquiae Wottonianæ, p. 307.

What I will own is mine, what is cast upon me is my adversaries; And if I be by deductions fetch't into such error, the fault is not in my faith, but in my logick; my brain may erre, my heart doth not. Away then ye cruel tortors of opinions, dilaters of errors, delaters of your bretheren, incendiaries of the church, haters of peace.

Bp. Hall. Christian Moderation, b. ii. § 11. Whosoever was found pendulous and brangling in his religion, was brought by a sergeant, call'd familiar, before the said council of inquisition; his accuser or delator stands behind a piece of tapestry, to see whether he be the party, and if he be, then they put divers subtle and entrapping interrogatorics to him; and whether he confess any thing or no, he is sent to prison.-Howell, b. i. s. 5. Let. 42.

Inquiries were not so much as made: but as men were delaled, they were marked down for such a fine: and all was transacted in a secret committee.

protract; to stop, detain or retard; to pause, to linger.

Delatory, in Warner, now Dilatory, (qv.) As the Fr. Délayer, so the Eng. to delay, is (by some old writers) used as to allay (qv.) or soften, or alleviate. See the examples from Fox, Spenser, and Holland. Therfore y ne rede in no maner this nede lengor delaye. R. Gloucester, p. 156. Somme feynede a delay & somme al out wyth seyde. Id. p. 421. Sotheli Felix dilaiede hem, and knew moost certeynli of the weie, & seide, whanne Lisias the tribune schal come doun I schal heere ghou.-Wiclif. Dedis, c. 24.

Therefore whanne thei camen togidre hider, withouten ony delai in the daie suynge I sat for domesman and com. maundide the man to be brouhte.-Id. Ib. c. 25.

Anon without more delaie
Withouten daunger or affraie

I become his man anone.-Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose.
And when the time is so befall,

That Troie was destroid, and brent,
He made no delayement,

But goeth hym home in all hie.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv.
Wherfore couertly he delayed his busines, to the entente
to see the ende of yt matter; howbeit, by letters and mes-
sagers he reteyned styll the duke in loue and fauoure.
Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. ii. c. 52.
So this proude Pharisie had an answere to delaie his pride.
Fox. Martyrs, p. 1574. Maister Latimer's Reply.
I can no mo delayes deuise,
But welcome payne, let pleasure passe.

Gascoigne. The Lullabie of a Louer. Among the Romayns Quintus Fabius for this qualitie is soueraignely extolled amonge historiens; and for that cause he is often times called of them Fabius jectator, that is to say, the tarrier or delayer.-Sir T. Elyot. Gouernovr, b.i. c.23.

For he wil vndoubtedli heare the praiers of his seruantes, when opportunitee of time shal bee, and the delaiyng thereof shall turne to the benefite of the Godly.-Udal. Luke, c. 18.

How be it that is of moche gretter resorte of people, and therewith veray delayous; in soo moche, that as I have herde credyble persones say, some one mater hath hangyd there, in dispucion, ouer xx. yeres.-Fabyan, vol. i. c. 153.

But belike he was disposed to declare, if need were, what he was able to do in the law, in shifting off ye matter by subtil delatories & friuolous cauilling about the law.

Fox. Martyrs, p. 1194. Bonar's Friuolous Shifts.

As for the leafe of the hearb, [amethyst] it hath no fresh and lively hew, but resembleth a wineless weak wine, as one may say, that either drinketh flat and hath lost the colour, or else is much delayed with water.

Holland. Plutarch, p. 560

So you, great Lord, that with your counsell sway
The burden of this kingdome mightily,
With like delights sometimes may eke delay
The rugged brow of carefull policie.

Spenser. To Sir Christopher Hatton. Calme was the day, and through the trembling ayre, Sweet-breathing Zephyrus did softly play,

A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan's beames, which then did glyster faire. Id. Prothalamion. Then come thou man of earth, and see the way That neuer yet was seene of Faeries sonne, That neuer leads the trauailer astray; But, after labours long, and sad delay, Brings them to ioyous rest and endlesse bliss. Spenser. Faerie Queene. b. i. c. 10. Which impli'd Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd, Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet reluctant amorous delay.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. iv. God comanded them the [Israelites] at his bringing them out of Egypt to invade the Canaanites, and promised them strength to overcome them, and to possess the land, but they refused to go up; afterwards, when he bid them not, they would needs go up, and then they miscarried in the attempt: the application is easie, and terrible to the delayer or refuser.-Hammond. Works, vol. i. p. 283.

Wherevpon Reimond on the next morrow, setting apart souldiers, and without anie delaienges marcheth towards the and giuing ouer all wedding pastimes, mustereth all his enemies.-Holinshed. Conquest of Ireland, b. ii. c. 3.

For his shippe-works faine delatory wants, and by winter be past, he partly comming, will (feare not) bee perfectly reclaymed. Warner. Albion's England. Add. to B. II.

Notwithstanding sinful men break his laws, and trample on them before his face; they "resist, and grieve, and quench his spirit;" yet he delays the execution of his judgment, that his "long-suffering may lead them to repentance."-Bates. On the Forgiveness of Sins, Ser. 1.

[The rabble] growing impatient of any farther delay, immediately broke open the doors of the prison, and divers of them rushed into the chamber where the two brothers [De Wit] were.-Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 204.

The wise man alarms the sluggard with approaching poverty, and his expressions are very applicable to the deLayers of repentance: death comes like a traveller, gradually, by silent steps; and, as an armed man, will irresistibly arrest them.-Bates. Miscellaneous, Ser. 9.

These are they who keep no appointments, who are seldom true to their hour, who make their friends wait for them on all occasions, who often create uneasiness to all the company, and put a whole family out of order. What an unbecoming behaviour is this! What an ill aspect it bears! especially if these delayers are in any degree inferior, or the younger parts of a house.-Watts, vol. i. Ser. 9.

DE LEBLE. DELETE, v. DELETION. DELE'TIVE.

Lat. Delere; delebilis, quod deleri potest; which may be erased, rubbed out. Tooke considers the A S. Dilg-ian, (of the same meaning,) to be the root of the Latin. See INDELEBle. That may be rased or rubbed out; eradicated, obliterated, avoided or annulled.

DELE TORY.

Bp. Taylor more frequently writes deletery than deletory. (See Great Exemplar, pp. 140, 162.)

Various is the use thereof [black lead.]

1. For painters (besides some mixture thereof in making lead colours,) to draw the pictures of their pictures; viz. those shadowy lines made only to be unmade again.

2. For pens, so usefull for scholars to note the remarkables they read, with an impression easily deleble without prejudice to the book.-Fuller. Worthies. Cumberland.

We owe our lives, limbs, fortunes, all we have to our dear country; delete this principle out of men's hearts, and you dissolve, yea ruin all civil society. State Trials, an. 1643. Col. Fiennes. I stand ready with a pencil in one hand, and a sponge in the other, to add, alter, insert, expunge, enlarge, and delete, according to better information.

Fuller. General Worthies, c. 25.

The obtuser end [of the stylus] was made more delitive, apt to put out and obliterate.-Evelyn. Sculptura, c. 1.

The Scriptures, therefore, are the great repository and the great security of faith. They are also the great and only deletery of heresies.-Bp. Taylor. Rule of Consc. b. ii. c. 3.

Yet, unless this proceed so far as to a total deletion of the sin, to the extirpation of euery vicious habit, God is not glorified by our repentance, or we secure in our eternal interest. Id. vol. ii. Ser. 5.

When the great extermination of the Jewish nation and their total deletion from being God's people, was foretold by Christ, and decreed by God; yet they had the Avoxn of forty years, in which they were perpetually called to repentance. Id. vol. ii. Ser. 12.

As it [confession] was most certainly intended as a deletory of sin, and might do its first intention, if it were equally manag'd; so now certainly it gives confidence to many men to sin, and to most men to neglect the greater and more effective parts of essential repentance.

Id. A Dissuasive from Popery, pt. i. s. 2.

And at the last day, "as many as have sinned without the law, as delivered to the Jews, shall be judged and perish, not according to the law of Moses," Rom. ii. but the law of nature that obliged them to do good, and restrain themselves from evil; of which the counterpart was not totally deleted in their hearts.-Bates. Eternal Judgment, c. 2.

DELECTABLE. DELECTABLY.

DELECTATION.

And [Henry] therefore calling his lords vnto London in an assembly tickled their eares with these delectable and smooth words. Speed. Hen. I. b. ix. c. 4. s. 19.

And therefore, if any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies; and in the way to their end (which is principally their own conservation, and sometimes their delectation only) endeavour to destroy or subdue one another.

Hobbs. Of Man, c. 13. Sin is founded in bono jucundo, something that is delectable to the carnal nature: it is the universal character of carnal men, "they are lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God."-Bates. Miscellaneous, Ser. 2.

May we not delectably consider him as there stretching forth his arms of kindness, with them to embrace the world, and to receive all mankind under the wings of his protection.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 32.

Would we discharge all our duties without any reluctancy or regret, with much satisfaction and pleasure? love will certainly dispose us thereto; for it always acteth freely and cheerfully, without any compulsion or straining; it is ever accompanied with delectation.-Id. vol. i. Ser. 28.

Call, too, Demodocus, the bard divine,

To share my banquet, whom the Gods have blest
With pow'rs of song delectable, what theme
Soe'er his animated fancy choose.

DELEGATE, v. DELEGATE, n. DELEGATE, adj. DELEGATION.

Cowper. Homer. Odyssey, b. viii.

Fr. Déléguer; Sp. Delegar; It. and Lat. Delegare, (de, and legare, from lege, when it denotes to send any one, under a certain law or rule of action, certâ lege,) Vossius. "Fr. Déléguer,-to assign, commit or appoint into an office, charge or commission," (Cotgrave.)

DE LEGACY.

This government was by immediate substitution delegated to the Apostles by Christ himself, in traditione clavium, &c.-Bp. Taylor. Episcopacy Asserted.

I know the king expecteth we should say no more, than I do like this sentence, or, I do not like it. And that you know, Sir Daniel Dun, is the manner of the delegates, and not to go farther.-State Trials, an. 1613. Countess of Essex.

That no jurisdiction was in the Ephesine presbyters, except a delegate, and subordinate, appears beyond all exception, by Saint Paul's first Epistle to Timothy.

Bp. Taylor. Episcopacy Asserted.

He [Flaminius] was the first or one of the first, that understanding the majesty of Rome to be indeed wholly in the people and no otherwise in the senate than by way of lelegacy or grand commission, did not stand highly upon his birth and degree, but courted the multitude, and taught them to know and use their power over himself, and his fellow senators, in reforming their disorders.

Ralegh. History of the World, b. v. c. 2.

They are great judges, a court of the last resort, they are

great counsellers of state, and not only for the present, but

as law-makers, counsellors for the time to come; and this not by delegacy and commission, but by birth and inheritance.-State Trials, an. 1626. Duke of Buckingham, &c.

Or else before any suit begin, the plaintiffe shall have his complaint approved by a set delegacy to that purpose; if it be of moment he shall be suffered, as before, to proceed, if otherwise they shall determine.

Burton. Democritus to the Reader.

He presently makes delegation to William Bishop of London, Eustace of Ely, and Malgere of Worcester, that they should, with monitory advice, offer persuasion to the king of conformity to the Romish behest; if he persisted in constaucy, they should denounce England under an interdict.-Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 17. Selden's Illustrations.

The bishops being generally addicted to the former superstition, it was thought necessary to keep them under so arbitrary a power as that subjected them to; for they hereby held their bishopricks only during the king's pleasure, and were to exercise them as his delegates in his name, and by his authority.-Burnet History of Reformation, an. 1547.

Then Dr. Lewin spake, and said, that he would be glad that Mr. Cartwright should understand, that he was greatly deceived in that he called this oath, the oath ex officio; whereas it is by express words derived from the authority of the prince, by a delegate power unto them.

Strype. Lift of Whitgift, an. 1591. Every one is at the disposure of his own will, when those o had by the delegation of the society, the declaring of

the publick will, are excluded from it, and others usurp the place, who have no such authority or delegation. Locke. On Civil Government, b. ii. c. 19. For although God allowed capital punishment to be inflicted for the crime of lese majesty, on the person of the offender, by the delegated administration of the law; yet concerning his family or posterity, he reserved the inquisition of the crime to himself, and expressly forbid the magistrate to meddle with it, in the common course of justice. Warburton. Divine Legation, b. iv. s. 5.

This change from an immediate state of procuration and delegation to a course of acting as from original power, is the way in which all the popular magistracies in the world have been perverted from their purposes. Burke. Cause of the present Discontents. DELETE. See DELEBLE. DELETE/RIAL. DELETERIOUS. DELETERY.

Gr. Anλ-ew, to hurt or injure.

Hurtful, injurious, mischievous; and thus, extended toPoisonous, deadly.

Piso (who learned divers of their detestable secrets from the Brasilians) relates that some of them are so skilful in the cursed art of tempering and allaying their poisons that they will often hinder them from disclosing their deleterial nature for so long a time, that the subtile murderers do as

unexpectedly as fatally execute their malice or revenge. Boyle. Works, vol. i. p 84.

And as for ranunculus, that plant being reckoned among poisonous ones, and among those that raise blisters, it will be easily granted that it hath, as other poisons, an occult. deleterial faculty.-Id. Ib. vol. iii. p. 71.

Now that deleterious it [the Basilisk] may be at some distance, and destructive without corporal contraction, what uncertainty soever there be in the effect, there is no high improbability in the relation.-Brown. Vul. Err. b. iii. c. 7. Disease, nor doctor epidemick

Though stor'd with deletery medicines, (Which whosoever took is dead since,) E'er sent so vast a colony

To both the under worlds as he.-Hudibras, pt. i. c. 2.

In some places, those plants which are entirely poisonous at home, lose their deleterious quality by being carried abroad; there are serpents in Macedonia so harmless as to be used as playthings for children.

DELF.

Goldsmith. The Citizen of the World, Let. 90. Goth. Dalf, fovea, a pit. A. S. Delf-an; Dut. Delv-en, to dig or delve. The verb is also written Delf or dalf. See DELVE. A ditch, a quarry, a mine; any thing delved or dug out.

The rock also and quarry in Carystia, it is not long since it gave over to bring forth certain bals or bottoms of soft stone, which they use to spin and draw into thread, in manner of flax; but now all this is quite gone, and hardly within the said delf shall a man meet with some few hairy threads of that matter, running here and there among the hard stones digged out from thence.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 1093. Brim full of all those precious and exquisite commodities Which any land or sea doth breed,

or out of rivers spring:
Which in deep mines by delfe are found,
or havens by vessels bring.
Id. Ib. p. 517.

But if there be, yet could not such mines, without great pains and charges, if at all, be wrought; the delfs would be so flown with waters, (it being impossible to make any addits or soughs to drain them,) that no gins or machines could suffice to lay and keep them dry.-Ray. On Creation, pt. ii. DELIBATE. Lat. Deli are, delibatum, (de, DELIBA'TION. and libare;) Gr. Aeiß-ew, stillare, fundere, to pour.

The first wine poured, and then tasted; the first pouring, or effusion, or tasting, was called a libation.

It is used (met.) for-a taste, an effusion. When he has travelled, and delibated the French and the Spanish. Marmion. Antiquary.

The same must he likewise affirm concerning all other souls, as those of men, and demons, that they are either all of them the substance of God himself, together with that of the evil demon, or else certain delibations from both (if any one could understand it,) blended and confounded together.

Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 216.

Of these Zeßouevo there is elsewhere mention in the Acts of the Apostles more than once; but what they were our commentators do not so fully inform us; nor can it be understood without some delibation of Jewish antiquity. Mede. Works, b. i. Dis. 3.

The principles of motion and vegetation in living bodies seem to be delibations from the invisible fire or spirit of the universe.-Berkley. Siris, § 214.

DELIBER, v. DELIBERATE, v. DELIBERATE, adj. DELIBERATELY. DELIBERATENESS. DELIBERATION. DELIBERATIVE, adj. DELIBERATIVE, n. DELIBERATIVELY. DELIBERATORS.

Fr. Délibérer; Sp. Deliberar; It. and Lat. Deliberare, liberè de aliquâ re cogitare, (Minshew.) Deliberat, cui libertas eligendi est aliquid ex duobus. He deliberates, who has the liberty of choosing one from several; where that liberty is not, there is no deliberation, (Vossius.) And Cicero, incidi tur enim omnis deliberatio, si intelligitur nor posse fieri, aut si necessitas affertur. (De Orat. lib. ii. p. 336.)

To choose, to select, to elect; to advise, to think, to consider; to reflect with a view to choice or selection; to examine which is best, which to be preferred; to examine with caution, discretion, hesitation, wariness; with temper, calmness, coolness, slowness.

Than Dame Prudence, when she sey the good will of hire hosbond, delibered unto hire, and toke avis in hire seif, thinking how she might bring this nede into goode ende. Chaucer. The Tale of Melibeus.

And let him eftsones examine and rollen his thoughts, by good deliberation, or that he deme.-Id. Boecius, b. iii. When I this supplicacion, With good deliberacion,

In suche a wise as ye nowe witte,

Had after myn entente writte.-Gower. Con. A. b. viii.

delybred, in thinges decreed spedely to be finished, in espyIn counsell geuinge, in delibering, in decerning thinges inge an apte occasion, who were more ingeniouse and clearer Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 8.

witted then Philip and Alexander?

For thys cause they deliberated to constrayne theym to fighte by sea ymmediatly as they shulde see their aduauntage, and so embarqued there men and causedde theym to tarye there certene dayes.-Nicoll. Thucidides, fol. 187.

For I am sure whan he had preached so in so many places, he had not done it of a sodayne adueture, but of a deliberate purpose. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 214.

My Lord Steward answered, that there was no other meaning nor intent, and that he should be heard deliberately. State Trials, an. 1589. Earl of Arundel.

An oration deliberatiue, is a meane, whereby we doe perswade, entreate, or rebuke, exhorte, or dehorte, commende, or comforte any man.-Wilson. Arte of Rhetorique, p. 29.

Wherof when the king of England was aduertised, he delibered to goe vnto them in his owne person to remooue them from this siege.-Stow. Hen. V. an. 1417.

Every spontaneous action is not therefore voluntary, for voluntary presupposes some precedent deliberation, that is to say, some consideration and meditation of what is likely to follow, both upon the doing, and abstaining from the action deliberated of.-Hobbs. Of Liberty & Necessity.

At whose deliberate and unusual birth,
The heavens were said to council to retire,
And, in aspects of happiness and mirth,
Breath'd him a spirit insatiably t' aspire.

Drayton. The Barons' Wars, b. i. She gave no other answer, but that she must deliberately determine of so great a matter, and that she neither could nor would confirm it, but by the advice of the nobility of Scotland.-Camden. Elizabeth, an. 1561.

It [Mount Edgecombe] was built by Sir Richard Edgecombe, Knight; take his character from one [Carew] who very well knew him, "Mildness. stoutness, diffidence and wisdom, deliberateness of undertakings, and sufficiency of effecting, made in him a more blazing mixture of virtue." Fuller. Worthies. Cornwall.

For the feet of those that evangelize peace, are never so beautiful as when they come softly, choosing the fairest way with a calm deliberation.

Mountague. Devoute Essayes, pt. ii. Treat. 8. s. 3. In deliberatives the point is, what is good, and what is evill, and of good what is greater, and of evil what is lesse. Bacon. Of the Colours of Good and Evil.

And all deliberatives of state seem to depend much upon the event of Brisach, which I use to call the German Helena, long woed, but for ought I hear, yet an imperial virgin. Reliquia Woltonianæ, p. 480.

As to time and deliberation about the act of sin. If there be a real surprize, i. e. that the person is not aware, or hath not time to consider what he is to do, he that hath a mind well resolved, may be betrayed into what he would never have done, if he had time to deliberate about it.

Stillingfleet, vol. ii. Ser. 11. Though, when men discard the Gospel out of a zeal to preserve the moral law of reason and nature, they may seem to act with great regard to virtue and holiness, yet they do

DELICACY. DELICATE, adj. DELICATE, n. DELICATELY, DELICATENESS. De'LICES. DELICIATE. DELICIOUS. DELICIOUSLY.

V. Knox, Essay 133. Fr. Délicatesse; Sp. Delicadeza; It. Delicatezza; Eng. Delicacy. Fr. Délicat; Sp. Delicado; It. Delicato; Eng. Delicate; Lat. Delicatus, from Delicia, (de, and lacere, to draw, to attract.) See DELECTABLE. Delicate is Attractive, alluring, enDELICIOUSNESS. ticing, tempting, holding out pleasing inducements, allurements or temptations; pleasing, gratifying.

Opposed to plain, common, coarse, vulgar, robust.—Carried to excess,-nice, dainty, tender, soft, effeminate, luxurious, feeble.

Delicious,-Fr. Délicieux; Low Lat. Deliciosus; full of, abounding in delicacies or delights; highly pleasing or gratifying to the mind or senses. See DELIGHT.

Hyt ys ney vyf ger, that we abbyth ylyued in such vyce,
Vor we nadde nogt to done, and in suche delyce.
R. Gloucester, p. 195.
Thenk that Dives for hus delicat lyf to the Devel went.
Piers Plouhman, p. 142.
And drynke nat over delicatliche, ne to dupe neither.

Id. p. 96. Wiclif. 1 Tymo. c. 5.

For sche that is lyuynge in delices is deed.

He Rome brente for his delicacie.

Chaucer. The Monkes Tale, v. 14,397.

And adde this also, that euery weleful man, hath a full delicate feling: so that but if all thyngs befallen at his own wil, he is impacient, or is not vsed to haue anone aduersity, anon he is throwen adoune for euery little thyng. Id. Boecius, b. ii. But certes he, that haunteth swiche delices, Is ded, while that he liveth in tho vices.

Id. The Pardoneres Tale, v. 12,481. Certainly (qd I) than, these ben faire thyngs, and anointed with honey swetnesse of rhetorike and musike, and onely while they ben herd and sowne in eeres, they ben delicious. Id. Boecius, b. ii.

Som clerkes holden that felicitee
Stant in delit, and therefore certain be
This noble January, with all his might
In honest wise as longeth to a knight,
Shope him to liven ful deliciously.

Id. The Marchantes Tale, v. 9899. Many men there ben, that with eeres openly sprad so nuch swalowen yt deliciousnesse of iestes and of rine, by ucint knitting coloures, that of ye goodnesse or of the badesse of the sentence, take they little heede or else none. Id. Testament of Loue, Prol.

I am not now in Fraunce, to iudge the wine,
With sauery sauce those delicates to fele,
Nor yet in Spain, where one must him incline,
Rather than to be, outwardly to seme.

Udal. Luke, c. 16.

Our delicacies are growne capitall,
And even our sports are dangers! what we call
Friendship is now mask'd hatred! justice fled,
And shamefastnesse together.

B. Jonson. An Epistle to a Friend.

The most judicial and worthy spirits of this land are not the outside of words, and be entertained with sound. so delicate, or will owe so much to their ear, as to rest upon Daniel. Defence of Rhyme.

and live, if Lucullus were not a waster and a delicate given And what needs that (quoth he), cannot Pompey recover to belly-cheare ?-Holland. Plutarch, p. 361.

Guz. Yes, we will feast ;-my queen, my empress, saint, Shalt taste no delicates, but what are drest With costlier spices than the Arabian bird Sweetens her funeral bed with.

Ford. The Lady's Trial, Act ii. sc. 1. He was of full stature, tall and personable, in countenance amiable, a white face, and withal somewhat ruddie, delicatelie in each limb featured. Holinshed. Ireland, an. 1535. When Flora is disposed to deliciase with her minions, the rose is her Adonis.-Partheneia Sacra, (1683,) p. 18.

The third sort is reddish blacke of colour, in quantitie comparable to the phesant and no lesse delicious in taste and sauor at the table, our countrie men call them wild cocks, and their cheafe sustenance is by wheat. Holinshed. Scotland, c. 8. They are like Dives, whose portion was in this life, who went in fine linnen and fared deliciously every day. Bp. Taylor, vol. ii. Ser. 9.

Tell me therefore, O soul! didst thou ever see the glory and riches that there is in a promise? wert thou ever ravished with the infinite sweetness and deliciousness that thou suckest from them?-Hopkins, Ser. 18.

Their wanton appetites not only feed With delicates of leaves and marshy weed, But with thy sickle reap the rankest land, And minister the blade, with bounteous hand. Dryden. Virgil. Geor. b. iii. What a pleasant thing it is to account that fasting, which the unmortified epicures of old accounted their most delicious feasting, viz. fish and wine.-Stillingfleet, vol. ii. Ser.2.

An air of robustness and strength is very prejudicial to beauty. An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to it.-Burke. Sublime and Beautiful, s. 16.

The just balance between the republican and monarchical part of our constitution is really, in itself, so extremely delicate and uncertain, that, when joined to men's passions and prejudices it is impossible but different opinions must arise concerning it, even among persons of the best understanding.-Hume. Ess. Parties of Great Britain.

Why mourns Apicius thus? Why runs his eye,
Heedless, o'er delicates, which from the sky
Might call down Jove?

Churchill. The Times.

By his own dauntless heart and matchiess strength,
Makes inroad on the flocks, that he may fare
Deliciously at cost of mortal man.

So Peleus' son all pity from his breast

Hath driv'n, and shame, man's blessing or his curse. Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. xxiv.

A wrong doer, an offender. See DELINQUENT. And according to the merit thereof, either deliver him by a degradation to the secular justice, or banish him the kingdom, according to the quality of the delict. Howell, b. i. s. 3. Let. 13. DELIGATION. Lat. Deligare, to bind. See

LIGATURE.

With hem was so gret delyt, that bitwene hem there
Bi gete was the beste body, that euer was in this londe,
Kyng Arthure the noble mon. R. Gloucester, p. 159.

For thy dred delitable drynke.-Piers Plouhman, p. 14.

In many places were nightingales,
Alpes, finches, and wodwales,

That in her swete song deliten,

In thilke places as they habiten.-Chaucer. Rom. of the R.
We live in poverte, and in abstinence,

And borel folk in richesse and dispence
Of mete and drinke, and in her foule delit.
Id. The Sompnoures Tale, v. 7457.
The small birds singen clere
Her blisfull swete song pitous

And in this seson delitous.-Id. Rom. of the Rose.
And many a spice delitable

To eaten whan men rise fro table.-Id. Ib.

A still water for the nones

Renned vpon the small stones,

Whiche hight of Lethes the riuer,
Under that hille in suche maner

There is, whiche yeueth great appetite

To slepe, and thus full of delite

Slepe hath his hous.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv.

Thus in the deede deliteth God as farforth as we do it, either to serue our neighbour with all, as I haue sayd, or to tame the flesh that we may fulfill the commaundement from the bottom of the heart.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 154. The stately pompe of princes and their peires, Did seeme to swimme in flouddes of beaten golde, The wonton world of yong delightful yeeres Was not vnlyke a heauen for to behoulde.

Gascoigne. Flowers. Memories.

No more all that our eyes can see of her (though when we have seen her, what else they shall ever see is but dry stubble after clover grass) is to be matched with the flock of unspeakable virtues, held up delightfully in that best builded fold.-Sidney. Arcadia, b. i.

This countrey seemed very goodly and delightsome to all of vs, in regard of the greennesse and beautie thereof, and we iudged it to be very populous within the land.

Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 399.
From whence he tooke his well deserued name:
He had in armes abroad wonne muchell fame
And fil'd farre lands with glory of his might,

Plaine, faithfull, true, and enemy of shame,
And euer lov'd to fight for ladies right,
But in vaine glorious fraies he little did delight.

Spenser. Facrie Queene, b. i. s. 6

O dear and dainty nymph, most gorgeously array'd
Of all the Driades known, the most delicious maid,
With all delights adorn'd, that any way beseem
A sylvan.
Draylon. Poly-Olbie 7, s. 23.
High lifted vp were many lofty towres,
And goodly galleries faire over-laid,
Full of faire windowes and delightful bowers.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 4
Flo. The queen is all for revels: her high heart,
Unladen from the heaviness of state,
Bestows itself upon delightfulness.

Machin. The Dumb Knight, Act iv. sc. 1. To this the answer is easie, that Mangone is not innocent; and though he did not consent clearly and delightingly to Seguiri's death, yet rather than die himself he was willing the other should.-Bp. Taylor. Rule of Cons, b iv. c. 1

Most pleasant it is at first, to such as are melancholy given, to lie in bed whole days, and keep their chambers, to walk alone in some solitary grove, betwixt wood and water, by a rooke side to meditate upon some delightsome and pleasant subject, which shall affect them most.

Burton. Anat. of Melancholy, p. 88. With the sweet sound of this harmonious lay, About the keel delighted dolphins play; Too sure a sign of sea's ensuing rage, Which must anon this royal troop engage.

Waller. On His Majesty's Escape. We should concerning our author consider, whether he be not a particular enemy, or disaffected to him; whether he be not ill-humoured, or a delighter in telling bad stories. Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 17.

Because it [deportment] is a nurse of peace, and greatly contributes to the delightfulness of society, [it] hath been always much commended, and hath obtained a conspicuous place in the honourable rank of vertues, under the titles of courtesie, comity, and affability.-Id. vol. i. Ser. 29.

And winter oft at eve resumes the breeze,
Chills the pale moon, and bids his driving sleets,
Deform the day delightless. Thomson. Spring.

The wise man here asserts the ways of wisdom to be not only the ways of pleasantness, but likewise the paths of peace; that is, they are quiet and peaceable, as well as pleasant and delightsome to the soul."

Bp. Beveridge, vol. ii. Ser. 100.

He might as well preach this lesson [that all mirth and pleasure should be banished out of the world] to the winds as to men, who can see in all around them evident marks of God's having bountifully furnished them with various delights to refresh and divert their weary and fatigued minds.-Pearce, vol. iii. Ser. 7.

The situation was delightful. In front was the sea, and the ships at anchor; behind, and on each side, were plantations, in which were some of the richest productions of Nature. Cook. Second Voyage, b. ii. c. 1.

How can you more profitably, or more delightfully employ your Sunday leisure, than in the performance of such duties as these in demonstrating your piety and gratitude to God, by diffusing joy and comfort to every part you can reach of that creation, which was the work of his hands, and from which he rested on the seventh day ?-Porteus, vol. i. Ser. 9.

Lat. Delineare, atum; (de, and lineare ;) lineam ducere, to draw a line.

DELINEATE, v. DELINEATE, adj. DELINEATION. DELINEATING, n. DELINEATOR. DELINEAMENT. sketch a picture, a profile.

To draw a line or outline; to pourtray, to describe, to depicture; to

If we do but consider this fabrick with minds unpossest of an affected madness, we will easily grant, that it was some skilful Archeus who delineated those comely proportions, and hath exprest such exactly geometrical elegancies in its compositions.-Glanvill. Vanity of Dogmatizing, c. 5.

Wherefore it is of great import to behold the fates and affaires destinate to one age or time drawne, as it were, and delineate in one table.

Bacon. On Learning, by G. Wats, b. ii. c. 8.

The principall amongst these three, is the wisdome and soundnesse of direction, that is, a delineation and demonstration of a right and easy way to accomplish any enterprize.-Id. Ib. b. ii. The Proheme.

Show how that bird, how well that flow'r was done;
How this part shadow'd, and how that did rise,
This top was clouded, how that trail was spun,
The landscape, mixture, and delineatings,
And in that art a thousand curious things.
Drayton. The Barons' Wars, b. vi.

Then by all the wide world's acknowledgment,
The sunne's a type of that eternall light
Which we call God, a fair delineament
Of that which good in Plato's school is hight.
More. On the Soul, pt. ii. b. iii. c. 3. s. 11.

Inferior art the landscape may design,
And paint the purple evening in the line:
Her (Satire's] daring thought essays a higher plan;
Her hand delineates passion, pictures man.

Brown. Ess. On Satire, pt. ii. Dugdale from some of these illuminations has given cuts of two remarkable combats or tournaments performed in the 15th year of King Henry VI. in which the designs are far from unworthy of a better age; and the customs and habits delineated with great accuracy.

Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. c. 2.

We, in the writings of the Evangelists, have a complete summary of his triennial preaching; we have, joined with the detail of many of his miracles, the delineation of his character, and the history of his wonderful life of piety and love.-Horsley, vol. ii. Ser. 26.

When we compare this great man's [Bacon's] writings with some of the weaknesses of his life, we are tempted to exclaim, with a modern delineator of characters, "Alas, pour human nature."-. Knox, Ess. 52.

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DELINQUENT, adj.

DELINQUENT, n.
DELINQUENCY.

Whether a man will be so delirous as to phancy it [the

as it pleases.-H. More. Antidote against Atheism, b. ii. c. 2.
Cor. Delirium this is call'd, which is mere dotage,
Sprung from ambition first, and singularity,
Self-love and blind opinion of true merit.

be done.

Doing wrong, offending;-and the noun--a wrong doer, an offender; a trespasser or transgressor.

He that politicly intendeth good to a common weal, may be called a just man, but he that practiseth either for termed a delinquent person. his own profit, or any other sinister ends, may be well State Trials, an. 1640. Earl Strafford.

But on those judges lies a heavy curse,
That measure crimes by the delinquent's purse.
Brome. Satire. On the Rebellion.

It [the doctrine of præexistence] supposeth the descent into these bodies to be a culpable lapse from an higher and better state of life, and this to be a state of incarceration for former delinquencies. Glanvill. Pre-existence of Souls, c. 4.

Col. Gell informed Maj. Gen. Harrison, that the Lord Edward Howard, being a member of Parliament, and one of the committee at Haberdashers' Hall, had taken divers bribes for the excusing delinquents from sequestration, and easing them in their compositions.

Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. i. p. 289. Lat. De, and liquere.

DE'LIQUATE. To melt, to dissolve. ferment lodg'd especially in the left ventricle of the heart, Whether this ebullition be caused by a nitro-sulphureous which, mingling with the blood, excites such an ebullition, viz. oil of vitriol, and deliquated salt of tartar; or by the as we see made by the mixture of some chymical liquors, vital flame warming and boiling the blood. Ray. On the Creation, pt. i.

I caused an unusual brine to be made, by suffering seasalt to deliquate in the moist air. Boyle. Works, vol. iii. p. 202. From the same source as

DELIQUIUM.
Delict and Delinquent, (qv.)
A defect, or deficiency, a failing, a fainting.
Deliquium is used by chemists as if from Deli-
See DELIQUATE.
quere, to melt.

All idolizing worms, that thus could crowd
And urge their sun into thy cloud;
Forcing his sometimes eclips'd face to be
A long deliquium to the light of thee.

Crashaw. Glorious Epiphany of our Lord God.

If he be locked in a close roome, he is afraid of being stifled for want of aire, and still carries bisket, aqua vitæ, or some strong waters about him, for fear of deliquiums, or being sick.-Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 181.

In short, their conscience was not stark dead, but under a kind of spiritual apoplexy, or deliquium.

DELIRATION. DELIRIOUS. DELIROUS.

South, vol. ii. Ser. 12. Lat. Delirare. Vossius decides for the etymology given in the quotation from Pliny: that lira, originally signified, sulcus, a furrow; and that hence, (met.) he is said, delirare, who wanders from the right line of reason; quasi sulco et lira rationis evagatur.

DELIRIOUSNESS.

DELIRIUM.

505

Ford. The Lover's Melancholy, Act iii. sc. 3. But if on bed Delirious flung, sleep from his pillow flies, All night he tosses, nor the balmy power In any posture finds.

Thomson. Spring.

Cowper. Homer. Odyssey, b. xx.

Fr. Délivrer; It. Delivrare; Sp. Delivrar, delibrar, Lat. Liberare; liberum facere, in libertatem reducere ; -to free or make free; to restore to freedom or liberty. See DELIBER.

DELIVERNESS. DELIVERANCE. DELIVERER. DELIVERING, N. DELIVERY. To free from :-(sc.) from confinement or custody or slavery; and thus, to rescue; to release from the power or possession of an enemy; to release or surrender from our own and thus, to give up or resign; to give up thus, simply,-to give up, throw up, cast away. from one holder or possessor to another : To deliver from the mouth; i. e. to utter, to speak.

Chaucer. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8010.

Of his stature he was of even lengthe,
And wonderly deliver and grete of strengthe.

Id. The Prologue, v. 84. Lo when thou wer imprisoned how fast they hied in help of thy deliuerece.-Id. The Testament of Loue, b. i.

The fox answered, in faith it shal he don:
And as he spake the word, al sodenly
The cok brake from his mouth deliverly
And high upon a tree he flew anon.

Id. The Nonnes Preestes Tale, v. 15,422. deliver nesse, beautee, gentrie, franchise.—Id. Persones Tale. Certes, the goodes of the body ben hele of body, strength,

The tyme sette of kinde is come,
This lady hath hir chambre nome,
And of a sonne borne full;
Wherof that she was ioyfull.

She was deliuered saufe and soone.-Gower. Con. A. b. ii,
And cried was, that thei shulde come
Unto the game all and some

Of hem that ben deliuer and wight,
To do suche maistrie as thei might.
The nere this hil was vpon chance
To take his deliverance,
The more vnboxomly he cride.