I would fain have instanc'd any thing in our notion of spirit more perplexed, or nearer à contradiction, than the very notion of body includes in it; the divisibility in infinitum of any finite extension, involving us, whether we grant or deny it, in consequences impossible to be explicated or made in our apprehensions consistent. Locke. On Hum. Understanding, b. ii. c. 23. Do what they can; actual infinite extension every where, equality of all bodies, impossibility of motion, and a world more of the most palpable absurdities, will press the assertors of infinite divisibility. Glanvill. Vanity of Dogmatizing, c. 5. Besides body, which is impenetrably and divisibly extended, there is in nature another substance, that is both penetrable of body and indiscerpible; or which doth not consist of parts separable from one another. Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 834. For, first, with its [the mind] subtle divisive power, it will analyse and resolve this concrete phantasmatical whole, and take notice of several distinct intellectual objects in it. id. Morality, b. iv. c. 3. Some of whose fruits I can yet shew you, which were made upon the account of the divisibleness of nitre into fixed and volatile parts.-Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 376. The experience of all corrupt ages has abundantly shown, that men's presumptuous reproaching each other upon account of such things as these; has been the great cause of all the schisms and divisions, of all the contentions and animosities, which have overrun and in great measure destroyed the Christian world.-Clarke, vol. i. Ser. 47. Ulysses is no more; Dead lies the hero in some land unknown, Cowper. Homer. Odyssey, b. ii. That power, by which the several parts of matter, such as stone, wood, or the like, firmly hold together, so as to make them hard and not easily dividable, is certainly no necessary effect of matter, but depends on the mere arbitrary pleasure of God, who exerts every moment an immediate act of his power, in thus binding, and retaining its parts together. Pearce, vol. i. Ser. 2. A good deal more than double the whole dividend of the East India company, the nominal masters to the proprietors in these funds.-Burke. On the Nabob of Arcot's Debts. While through the pores nutritive portions tend, Brooke. Universal Beauty, b. iv. To this I answer, that as we must suppose matter to be Infinitely divisible, it is very unlikely, that any two, of all these particles, are exactly equal and alike. Edwards. On the Freedom of the Will, pt. iv. s. 8. No priestly dogmas, invented on purpose to tame and subdue the rebellious reason of mankind, ever shocked common sense more than the doctrine of the infinite divisibility of extension, with its consequences. Hume. On Hum. Underst. pt. ii. s. 12. From a principle of gratitude I adhered to the coalition; my vote was counted in the day of battle; but I was overlooked in the division of the spoil. DIVINE, v. DIVINE, n. DIVINE, adj. DIVINAL. DIVINATION. DIVINA'TOR. DIVINATORY. DIVINATING. DIVINELY. DIVINEMENT. DIVINENESS. DIVINER. DIVINERESS. DIVINIFY. DIVINITY. Gibbon. Memoirs of his own Life. Fr. Deviner; Sp. Divinar; It. Indovinare; Lat. Divinare; Fr. adj. Devin; It. and Sp. Divino; Lat. Divinus, from Divus; Gr. Aios. Godlike. Divinus was sometimes used (says Vossius) as a substantive pro vate, a prophet; because they were supposed to be able to understand and declare the will of the gods (divúm voluntatem) from certain signs or tokens. And hence, to Divine, is To foretell, to predict, to DIVINIZE. presage, to foreknow, to prognosticate; and also, to conjecture or surmise, to guess, to presume, to anticipate. Adj. Divine,-Godlike, having the powers or attributes of God; superhuman, supernatural; preeminent, supremely excellent; by Milton, divining, presaging. A Divine is applied in common to a professor of divinity or sacred theology; to one whose duty it is to study and expound the divine will as declared in Holy Writ; a clergyman. Divine, the verb, is used by Drayton and Spenser, and Ramsay, as, to cause to be divine, to consccrate, to sanctify. And Dauid the douhty that devynede how Urye Piers Plouhman, p. 179. And deleth in deuynyte, as dogges bones.-Id. Crede. And it was don whanne we gheden to preier, that a damysel that hadde a spirit of dyuynacioun mette us which ghaf greet wynnynge to hir lordes in dyuynyng. Wiclif. Dedis, c. 16. The paleis ful of peple up and doun, Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2517. A great diuine, that cleped was Calcas Id. Troilus, b. i. Then saied shee, this is (qd she) the olde question of the purueighaunce of God, and Marcus Tullius, when he deuided the deuinacions, that is to sayne, in his bookes that hee wrote of deuinacions, he mooued greatlie this question. Id. Boecius, b. v. What say we of hem that beleven on divinales, as by slight or by noise of briddes or of bestes, or by sorte of geomancie, by dreames, by chirking of dores, or cracking of houses, by gnawing of rattes, and swiche maner wretchednesse? Id. The Persones Tale. He [Sphinx] was ordained on the hill t'abide Lidgate. The Story of Thebes, pt. i. Thus was the halle full of divining Id. Troilus. Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 2523. Sometime in Paris the cite.-Id. Rom. of the Rose. Gower. Con. A. b. vii. Whervpon thei diuined that the mariage of the prince, should euer be a blot in the duke's iye, or mariage of the duke, a mote in the iye of the prince. Hall. Hen. VI. an. 9. Name you theim divinacions? nay name theim diabolicall denices, say you they be prognosticacions? nay they be pestiferous publy shinges.-Id. Hen. IV. an. 3. Syne all these were mynystris of God in mortall, But finally a woman diuineresse, or contrarie, a soothsayer, that was had in great reputation of hir craftes, made the very declaracion of the saide letters.-Golden Boke, c. 26. Lo where to commeth thy blandishyng promyse, Of Goddes secretes makyng thyselfe so wyse. Sir T. More. Workes. A Ruful Lamentacio. There is no creature but that it needeth other creatures, and thoughe thei bee of lesse perfection than itself, as phi losophers and diuines prouen.-Id. Ib. p. 18. He fled to his wyse men of the worlde, to his diuiners and charmers.-Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 5. He seconde person in diuinenesse is, Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 207. Thou hast here, good Christian reader, the paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Gospell, that is to say, a treasour, and in manier a full library of all good diuinity-books. Udal. Preface to the Reader. But leaving these divin'd, to Decuman we come You, lady Muse, whom Jove the counsellor Davies. On Dancing. So darke are earthly things compar'd to things divine. Id. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 10. Great joy he promis'd to his thoughts, and now Solace in her return, so long, delay'd; Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, Misgave him. Millon. Paradise Lost, b. ix. The world cries you up to be an excellent divine and philosopher; now is the time for you to make an advantage of both of the first, by calling to mind, that afflictions are the proportion of the best Theophiles: of the other, by a well weigh'd consideration, that crosses and troubles are entail'd upon mankind, as much as any other inheritance. Howell, b. ii. Let. 41. Notwithstanding in the end they agreed between themselves, this controversie should be decided by the flying of birds, which do give a happy divination to things to come. North. Plutarch, p. 19. Attributing so much to their dirinators, ut ipse metus fidem faciat, that fear it selfe and conceipt, cause it to fall out: If he fore-tell sicknesse such a day, that very time they will be sick.-Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 166. Cicero, Plautus, Pausanias, and others, have remembred divers sorts of lots, used by the Romans, Grecians, and other nations as in the division of grounds or honours; and in thing to be undertaken: the two first kinds were called diversory; the third divinctory; and unto one of these three all may be reduced.—Ralegh. Hist. World, b.ii. c.16. s.2. For, beeing as she is divinely wrought, And of the brood of Angels hean'nly borne: And with the crew of blessed saints vp brought, Each of which did her with their gifts adorne. Spenser. Son. 61. After that Alexander had left his trust and confidence in the Gods, his mind was so troubled and afraid, that no strange thing happened unto him (how little soever it was) but he took it straight for a sign and prediction from the Gods: so that his tent was always full of priests and soothsayers, that did nothing but sacrifice and purifie, and tend upon divinements.-North. Plutarch, p. 589. Touching diviners of things to come, which is held a species of witchcraft, we may read they were frequent among the Romans; they had colleges for their augurs, and arus pices.-Howell, b. iii. Let. 23. There is none of Hercules's followers in learning, I mean, the more industrious and severe enquirers into truth, but will despise those delicacies and affectations, as indeed capable of no divineness. Bacon. On Learning, by G. Wats, b. i. c. 4. In the Canticles the Virgin saith, "My beloved is white and red, and chosen of a thousand;" white, for his blessed and divinified soul; red, for his precious flesh embrued with his blood.-Parthenia Sacra, (1633,) p. 204. And turning him aside And gifts of heavenly grace) he by him spide Eager to read the rest, Achates came, And by his side the mad divining dame, The priestess of the God, Deiphobe her name. Dryden. Virgil. Æneid, b. vi. Therefore there was plainly wanting a divine revelation, to recover mankind out of their universally degenerated estate, into a state suitable to the original excellency of their nature which divine revelation, both the necessities of men and their natural notions of God, gave them reasonable ground to expect and hope for. Clarke. On the Evidences, Introd. § 7. Some of our most eminent divines have made use of this Platonick notion, so far as it regards the subsistence of our passions after death, with great beauty and strength of reason. Spectator, No. 90. Damon, behold yon breaking purple cloud; Hear'st thou not hymns and songs divinely loud? There mounts Amyntas.-Dryden. Death of Amyntas. When we had once look'd into our-selves, and distinguish'd well the nature of our own affections, we shou'd probably be fitter judges of the divineness of a character, and discern better what affections were suitable or unsuitable to a perfect being. Shaftesbury. A Letter concerning Enthusiasm, s. 5,. But besides this native institution, a foreign and exotic sect of diviners had gradually grown in fashion, the Ha ruspices of Tuscany; whose skill and province reached to three things, exta, fulgura, and ostenta, entrails of cattle, thunders, and monstrous births. Bentley. Of Free-Thinking, § 52. The mad divineress had plainly writ Dryden. The Hind & the Panther. It is a thing very destructive of religion, and the cause of almost all the divisions among Christians; when young persons at their first entring upon the study of divinity, look upon humane and perhaps modern forms of speaking, as the rule of their faith.-Clarke. On the Trinity. Introd. The grosser pagans contented themselves with divinizing lust, incest, and adultery; but the predestinarian doctors have divinized cruelty, wrath, fury, vengeance, and all the blackest vices. Ramsay. On Nat. and Rev. Religion, pt. ii. p. 401. Here [St. Paul] tells the Corinthians, that he determined not to know any thing among them, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. Whereby he hath certified all men, that in his divinely-inspired judgment, this kind of knowledge so far exceeds all other, that none else deserves to be named with it.-Bp. Beveridge, vol, i. Ser. 18. But not to one in this benighted age Is that diviner inspiration giv'n, That burns in Shakespeare's or in Milton's page, Gray. Stanzas to Mr. Bentley. Arrived, they found The wounded prince by ev'ry chief of note §2. What, then, is it that leads us so often to divination? Cowardice; the dread of events. Hence we flatter the diviners. "Pray, sir, shall I inherit my father's estate?""Let us see: let us sacrifice upon the occasion."-" Nay, sir, just as fortune pleases." Then, if he says, you shall inherit it, we give him thanks, as if we received the inheritance from him. The consequence of this is, that they play upon us.-Carter. Epictetus, b. ii. c. 7. To turn or put away or apart; to part, to separate, to sunder; particularly applied to the separation of the bonds of matrimony. The same law yt ioyneth by wedlocke without forsaking, the same law yeueth libell of departicion bicause of diuorce, both demed and declared. Chaucer. The Testament of Loue, b. iii. For whan they by such dyuorcementes attempte to driue the againe to the nunery, they make theyr poor husbandes, advowterers in dede, in takynge other women, their owne wyues beynge alyue.-Bale, Apology, fol. 84. Why did not time your joined worth divorce, T have made your several glories greater far? To spend in one age what would serve for two. Daniel. Civil Wars, b. i. So much reverence in him did I find both then, and divers times before, against this divorcement. State Trials. The Countess of Essex, an. 1613. -Patroclus (so enforc't When he had for't so much brave life) was from his own divorc't. And thus the great divorcer brav'd. Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. xvii. In the ordinary bills of the Jewish divorce, the repudiated wife had full scope given her of a second choice; as the words ran; she was to be free, and have power over her own soul to go away: and to be married to any man whom she would: they were not more liberal than our Romish divorces are niggardly. Bp. Hall. Cases of Conscience. Decad. 4. case 3. If therefore the mind cannot have that due society by marriage, that it may reasonably and humanly desire, it can be no human society, and so not without reason divorcible: here he falsifies.-Milton. Colasterion. This therefore may be enough to inform us, that divorcive adultery is not limited by our Saviour to the utmost act, and that to be attested always by eye-witness, but may be extended also to divers obvious actions, which either plainly lead to adultery, or give such presumption whereby sensible men may suspect the deed to be already done. Id. Doctrine of Divorce, b. ii. c. 18. What mighty and invisible Remora is this in Matrimony able to demur, and contemn all the divorcive engines in heaven and earth.-Milton. Doctrine of Divorce, b. i. c. 8. Thus our Eighth Henry's marriage they defame; They say the schism of beds began the game, Divorcing from the Church to wed the dame. Dryden. The Hind and the Panther. They urged the permission of Moses, who had allowed them to put away their wives, if they gave them a writing of divorcement.-Sharp, vol. iv. Ser. 12. Who would have imagined that the desire which Henry about the Reformation in England? VIII. had to be divorced from his wife, would have brought Priestley. On History, pt. i. Lect. 3. On the 2d of April, 1800, Lord Auckland, after expatiating very forcibly and eloquently upon the enormous increase of the vice of adultery, and the perversion as well as the abuse of many divorce-bills which had passed the legislature of this country, moved to bring in a bill to prevent any person divorced for adultery from intermarrying with the guilty person.-Horsley. Speech on the Adultery Bill. The more ancient laws of Rome, which prohibited divorces, are extremely praised by Dionysius Halycarnassæus. Wonderful was the harmony, says the Historian, which this inseparable union of interests produced between married persons; while each of them considered the inevitable necessity by which they were linked together, and abandoned all prospect of any other choice or establishment. Hume. Ess. Of Polygamy and Divorces. Among the Romans, more than four ages elapsed, from the foundation of their city, without any complaint or process on account of adultery; and it was not till the year 521, that they saw the first divorce; when, though the cause was specious, the indignation of all Rome pursued the divorcer to the end of his days. DIURETICK, adj. DIURE'TICK, n. DIURETICAL. Horne. Works, vol. vi. Disc. 8. Gr. Διουρητικος, from dia, and oupov, (for opov, from opeu, excitare, impellere,) quod impellitur, vel cum stimulo quodam expellitur, Urina, (Scheidius.) But he saith withall, that this medicine is nothing good for the dropsie, notwithstanding that it is diureticall. Holland. Plinie, b. xx. c. 10. For although inwardly received it may be very diuretick, and expulse the stone in the kidney; yet how it should dissolve or break that in the bladder, will require a further dispute. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 5. And in diureticks a very ingenious anatomist and physician told me, he tried it with good success. Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 89. My having found them in myself very diuretical and aperitive is not that, which chiefly recommends them to me. Id. Ib. p. 131. It [candle weed] is said to be diuretic, but this I do not know from experience.-Granger. Sugar Cane, b. iv. Note. n. Lat. Diurnus, from Dies, Tir'd of earth And this diurnal scene, she springs aloft Akenside. The Pleasures of Imagination, b. 1 DIUTURNAL. Lat. Diuturnus, from diu; DIUTU'RNITY. i. e. from day, (sc.) to day; for a succession of days, a continuance, a length of time. The authority wherein we have understood your nobleness to flourish in the British Court, is accounted not onely the reward of your merits, but also the patronage of virtue; certainly an excellent renown and every way so worthy, that the people desire a diuturnity to be annexed unto it. Cabbala. The Pope to the D. of Buckingham, an. 1623 rule, that there is no diuturnities in violence. The Pope begins to slack the bridle according to the old Reliquia Wottonianæ, p. 669. We thought it conducing to the common good of both Republics to send George Downing, a person of eminent quality, and long in our knowledge and esteem for his undoubted fidelity, probity, and diligence, in many and various negociations, dignified with the character of our agent, to reside with your lordships, and chiefly to take care of those things by which the peace between us may be preserv'd entire and diuturnal.-Milton. States of Holland, Dec. 1657. It is reported-Plato chose it [the Cypress wood] to write his laws in before brass itself, for the diuturnity of the matter.-Evelyn. Silva. DIVULGE, v. DIVULGER. DIVULGATE. DIVULGA'TION. DIVULGING, n. and thus Fr. Divulguer; It. Divolgare; Sp. Divulgar; Lat. Divulgare, spargere voces in vulgum, (Minshew.) To scatter words among the vulgar: To publish; to make publicly or commonly known; to disclose or discover; to make manifest; to declare. The councel of Fraunce, caused a common fame (although it were not trewe) to be diuulged abrode that there was a finall peace and a perfit amitie concluded betwene the French kynge & hys lordes whiche lately were to hym aduersaries.-Hall. Hen. IV. an. 13. It were very perillous, to dyuulgate that noble scyence, to commune people, not lerned in lyberall sciences and philosophy.-Sir T. Elyot. The Castel of Helth, b. iv And that was by pacience and sufferaunce, by which the fayth was dyuulgate and spred almost thorowe the worlde in litel while.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 110. And when this the prince's [Edward] escape was divulgated, much people came vnto him out of euerie quarter, with great joy thereof.-Fox. Mart. p. 306. P. Edward's Escape. After this deuulgalio yt Rychard sonne to Kyng Edward was yet liuyng, & had in great honour amongest the Flemminges, there began sedicion to springe on eury side. Hall. Hen. VII. an. 7. Divert thy course to Goshen then again, DIURNAL,day. P. Diurnel, Sp. Di. It is true that by confessions we find, that false priest DIURNALIST. DIURNALLY. urnal; It. Diurno. Of or pertaining to the day; daily. A diurnal, djurnal, journal, (qv.); a day-book, a daily paper. And for bicause that it drew to the night Chaucer. Of the Blacke Knight. There is an abstruse Astrologer that saith; If it were not, for two things, that are constant, (the one is, That the fixed starres ever stand at like distance, one from another, and never come nearer together, nor go further asunder; the other that the diurnall motion perpetually keepeth time;) no individiall would last one moment. Bacon. Ess. Of Vicissitude of Things. Upon my entrance on this day's defence, I found myself aggrieved at the Diurnal, and another pamphlet of the week, wherein they print whatsoever is charged against me, as if it were fully proved, never so much as mentioning what or how I answered.-State Trials.-Abp. Laud, an. 1640. Let me add hereunto the late experiments of some odiously incestuous marriages, which even (by the relation of our diurnalists) have by this means found a damnable passage. Bp. Hall. Cases of Conscience, Dec. 4. c. 9. As we make the enquiries we shall diurnally communicate them to the publick.-Tatler. Nay some are so studiously changeling in that particular, they esteem an opinion as a diurnal, after a day or two scarce worth keeping.-Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 35. Life. visers and divulgers of this scandalous report. State Trials. Conspirit. of the Gunpowder Plot, an. 1606 The excellency and purity of the doctrine in all other points tend wholly to the honour of God, and the common happiness of man, the sanctified life, constant sufferings, and wonderfull miracles of the divulgers of it. Hammond. Works, vol. ii. pt. i. p. 695. BISHOP OF LONDON. There is no such licencious divulging of these books, and none have liberty by authority, to buy them, except such as Dr. Reynolds, who was supposed would confute them. State Trials. Hampton Court Conference, an. 1604. There is a time when we must preach Christ on the house top, there is a time, when we must speake him in the eare, and (as it were) with our lips shut. Secrecy hath no lesse use then divulgation.-Bp. Hall. Cont. Lazarus Raised. But when Vlysses, with fallacious arts, Had made impression on the people's hearts; Noble Achilles! Would'st thou learn from me What cause hath mov'd Apollo to this wrath, The shaft-arm'd king? I shall divulge the cause. Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. i. Descamps says, that this mystery, as it was then held, was stolen from Vaillant by the son of an old man, who scraped the grounds of his plates for him. This might be one of the means of divulging the new art, (mezzotinto.) Walpole. Anecdotes, vol. w Here, then is an opportunity of exposing those secrets, which, perhaps, the confidence of a friend has made known to the treacherous divulger of them, and of gratifying the malice of a coward with safety, and by the infliction of the cruellest injury.-Knox, Ess. 6. DIVULSION. See DIVELL. DIZEN. To dize,-to put tow on a distaff, dress it. Dizen, to dress. Hence, bedizen'd out,-over, awkwardly or improperly dressed. See Grose, and Ray, Thom. Come quickly, quickly, paint me handsomely, the repetition of a word, (v. 269.) This latter Beaum. & Fletch. Monsieur Thomas, Act iv. sc. 6. it,) from any analogy to other languages, yet there Do you hear, master? is no caprice in these methods of employing to and do, (the same word, in his opinion) so difId. The Pilgrim, Act iv. sc. 3. ferently from the practice of other languages: but I put my clothes off, and I dizen'd him. The bashful Muse will never bear Swift. A beautiful Nymph going to Bed. DIZZARD, or DIZZINESS. Goldsmith. Retaliation. Dut. Duyselen. Sherwood says, to dizze, estourdir; and Cotgrave, estourdir, to astonish, dizze, amaze. Somner has, "Dysigan, ineptire, to be foolish. Dysignesse, aysinesse; stultitia, foolishness. Hence, happily, our dizzinesse; which proceeds from the weaknesse of the braine." The progress was probably quite the reverse. (See DAZE.) A dizzard is oneConfused, stupified; perplexed by confused variety or multiplicity. He [Solon] ran abrode in a fole's cote like a disard (more vecordium) and in great company of men that gathered Thou hast had so many noble ancestours, what is that to thee? Vix ea nostra voco, when thou art a disurd thyself. Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 313. Rather to me for to be thoughte a doulte, and dizzard vyle. If that my follye might please me, or seeme good for a whyle: Then to be wyse, and vexed ay. Drant. Horace. Epistle to Julius Florus. But who is that I praye you that will maruell at this, which as well maye be geue to fooles and dizzardes as to wise and well learned men.-Hall. Hen VII. an. 6. Wee accuse others of madnesse, of folly, and are the veriest dizards ourselves. Burton. Democritus to the Reader, p. 41. For as he thus was busy, A pain he in his head-piece feels Alas! his brain was dizzy.-Drayton. The Court of Fairy. For as we see children run round so long in sport, that they fall down at last, when they would stand; so there are many who playing in the mazes of little faults, bring their minds to such a diziness, as throws them down when they mean to stand and intermit that amusement. Moaniague. Devoute Essayes, pt. ii. Treat. 6. s. 2. A maid she calls, the partner of her cares, Pitt. Virgile. Eneid, b. xii. Push'd down the sides of Xanthus, had long plung'd Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. xxi. DO, v. Mr. Tyrwhitt remarks, that Do is used very rarely by Chaucer as an auxiliary, (v. 1472, 4;) that he more frequently uses it transitively, (v. 10,074, 5;) but still more frequently to save that they arise from the peculiar method which To (i. e. Act,) prefixed to a noun, invests such His yonge sone, that three yere was of age Chaucer. The Monkes Tale, v. 14,741 The fayrest children of the blood real And if I do that lakke, Do stripen me and put me in a sakke, Id. Ib. v. 14,139. Id. The Marchantes Tale, v. 10,074 And sometime at our praiere han we leve, Id. The Freres Tale, 7073. Id. The Prologue, v. 270 They shall her tell how they the fande Do, for the same reason, and with the same To or do is the Goth. substantive taui, or And see the quotations from Chaucer's Troilus, Do is used emphatically, with subauditions to be To act or transact, to cause or occasion, to effect or produce, to perform or execute, to make, to practise, to accomplish, to complete or fulfil, to finish, to bring to an end. Tho Claudius the emperour to ys ende was y do. Right so behinde his brother's backe Gower. Con. 4. b. ii. She [Laodomie] hath asked of the wise That he shall not the deth escape, In caas that he arriue at Troie.-Id. Ib. b. iv. They can also set them [false Goddes] vp alofte, salute them wyth lyes, perfume them with sensynges, and cause a greate nobre of people to worshipp the vpo ye earth. Soche mostruouse doers are they.-Bale. Apology, fol. 141. For though thou hast the godlye gyft of prophecie with the grace of vnderstandynge and iudgement, yet haue I founde thy workes vngodly, and thy doyages vyle and abominable before God my celestyall father.- Id. Image, pt. i. Cicero doth not plainlie expresse the last sentence, but doth invent it fitlie for his purpose, to taunt the follie and simplicitie in his adversarie, Actius, not weighing wiselie the sutle doynges of Chrysogonus and Stalenus. Ascham. The Schole-Master, b. ii. For wherein shall we excell others, if those things which thou hast secretly taught us, be made common to all? I do thee to understand, that I had rather excell others in excellency of knowledge than in greatness of power. Farewell. North. Plutarch, p. 561. Being therefore thus arraied and decked accordingly, and R. Gloucester, p. 67. doing the mariners to wit beforehand, that he had a wonderfull desire to chant a sonnet or hymn unto Apollo Pythius, for the safety of himselfe, the ship and all those fellowpassengers who were within it, he stood upright on his feet in the poop close to the ship side, and after he had sounded a certain invocation or praiers to the sea Gods, he chanted the canticle beforesaid.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 282. Hys poer he let sumny, that ysprad was wel wyde, Now gos Turbeuile, & serchis day bi day, R. Brunne, p. 268. & to that stede he toke his way, In the castel of Corf. ich shal do the close It is synne to him that can do good and doith not. Wiclif. James, c. 4. Therfore I seye to you, that the kyngdom of God schal be taken fro you, and schal be goven to a folk doynge fruytis of it. Id. Matthew, c. 21. But be ye doeris of the word, and not heerers oonli, dis- Therfore I biseche firste of alle thingis, that bisechingis, If he [the king! command to do a man wrong, the command is void, et actor fit author, and the actor becomes the wrong doer.-State Trials. Liberty of the Subject, an. 1628. By the power or omnipotence of God is meant, an ability of doing all such things, the doing of which may argue perfection, and which do not imply a contradiction, neither in the things themselves, or to the nature and perfection of the doer.-Wilkins. Of Natural Religion, b. i. c. 11. These were, indeed, works of excessive grandeur and difficulty, but he did others far more great and hard, and these were greater from the manner of performing them, than in their own nature; he did other acts so great, that they were onely to be done by an infinite power; and most of these he performed in a manner which argued omnipotency present with the doer.-Barrow, vol. ii. Ser. 20. It is needfull that he should have this power of discerning whatever moveth, or passeth within him; what he thinks upon, whither he inclines, how he judgeth, whence he is affected, wherefore he doth resolve; without this power he could not be a moral agent, nor able to perform any duty, not properly subiect to any law, not liable to render an accompt of his doings.—Id. Ib. vol. iii. Ser. 12. If you set yourself up as the doer of good works, you endeavour to get the praise from God, who professes himself to be the author of all good, and whom you ought always to Chaucer. Troilus, b. iii. ¦ glorify.-Gilpin. Works, vol. i. p. 137. Hints for Sermong Haue on him routh DOCIBLE. DOCTORSHIP. Do'CTRICE. DOCTRINE. DOCTRINAL, N. DOCTRINAL, adj. DOCTRINALLY. Do'CUMENT, v. Do'CUMENT, n. (Minshew.) Docible or Docile; It. Docibile; Sp. Docil; Fr. Docile; Lat. Docibilis, contracted into Docilis, from Doc ere, which Vossius thinks with Scaliger, is from the Gr. AOK-Ev, existimare, putare; Martinius (with more probability) from Acikev, to show, to point out; and thus A docile person takes, comprehends readily, easily, willingly, what is shown, pointed out or explained to him; and thus, is apt or quick to learn. Lat. Doctor; Fr. Docteur; It. Dottore; Sp. Doctor; Lat. Doctor, vel quod sit doctus, vel quod doceat, A teacher, one who teaches, one who shows, points out or explains, one skilled in teaching; a learned man. Doctrine; Fr. Doctrina; It. and Sp. Dottrina; Lat. Doctrina; That which any one teaches; the principles or opinions taught, held or maintained. Document; Fr. Document; It. and Sp. Documento; Lat. Documentum, quidquid nos aut doctiores reddit, aut certiores, aut prudentiores; Paula, the wife of Senec, informed with the doctrine of her husband, followed also her husband in conditions. Vives. Instruction of a Christian Woman, b. i. c. 4. And this is a good doctrine, which admonisheth us to give all praise unto God, and not to ascribe it to our own selves. Latimer. The third Sermon upon the Lord's Prayer. Fyrste comedies, whiche they suppose to be a doctrinall of rybaudry, they be vndoubtedly a picture, or as it were a mirrour of man's lyfe: wherin yuell is not taughte, but dyscouered. Sir T. Elyot. Governorr, b. i. c. 13. And among these sects there are three more famous then the rest the first is of them that professe the doctrine of one Confucius, a notable philosopher. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. p. 97. Men must be prudent in diuiding and receiuing the prophets documents. Thei must loke whiche parte containeth the lawes, whiche preche the promises & the Gospell. Joye. Exposicion of Daniel. Argument. in readynge of them, be full of teachynges and documentes, All the whiche, besydes the pleasure that maye be taken to hym that woll taste, dygeste and reduce them vnto a moral sense.-Nicolls. Thucidides. Prologue, fol. 7. This consideration of the humble, docible temper of our church (together with our professed appeal to those first and purest times, to stand or fall, as by those evidences we shall be adjudged) necessarily renders it our infelicity, not our crime, if in judging of Christ's truth, we should be deemed to err.-Hammond. Works, vol. i. p. 527. Add hereunto that the world stands in admiration of the capacity and docibleness of the English, that persons of ordinary breeding, extraction and callings should become statesmen and soldiers, commanders and counsellors, both in the art of war and mysteries of state, and know the use of the compass in so short a tract of time. Howell, b. v. Let. 47. Observe the patient service he [the horse] does us at the Any thing taught, shown, pointed out or explough, cart, or under the pack-saddle, his speed upon the plained, any principle or opinion held or main-high way in matters of importance, his docibleness and tained; it is also applied to a writing produced desire of glory and praise, and consequently his notable in evidence or as proof; (quod nos certiores More. Antidote against Atheism, b. if. c. 8. reddat.) For doctor he is yknowe And of Scripture the skylful.-Piers Plouhman, p. 188. Ho so doth by goure doctrine. doth wel ich leyve. Id. p. 159. And it bifel that aftir the thridde day: thei foundun him in the temple, sittynge in the inyddil of the doctouris, herynge hem, and axinge hem.-Wiclif. Luk, c. 2. Jhesus answeride to hem, and seide, myn doctryn is not myn, but his that sente me.-Id. Jon. c. 7. With us ther was doctour of phisike, In all this world ne was ther non him like Chaucer. The Prologue, v. 413. Yet also haue I leaue of the noble busbande Boece, although I be a straunger of connyng to come after his doctrine.-Id. The Testament of Loue, Prol. Thus ouers with their mortal documents Id. Craft of Louers. I will saie, that neither all doctours among Christen men, nor all the philosophers amonge the Gentiles were concurrent in one tyme, but after the death of one good, another came better-Golden Boke. Prologue. Ye coulde not therwyth be moche offended, wer ye not of a frowarde, croked, and quarrellynge nature for ye best of your doctours in expownynge the Scriptures, doth so, so wele as I.-Bale. Apology, fol. 50. Indeede St. Chrysostome, that noble and eloquent doctor, in a sermon, "contra fatum, and the curious serching of nativities," doth wiselie saie, that "ignorance therein, is better than knowledge."-Ascham. The Schole-master, b. ii. The golden laurell of teaching doctorall, is not from aboue indifferently euery man's gift. Fox. Mart. an. 1391. Let. Monitory of the Bp. of Hereford. This processe were a prety piece, and somewhat also to the purpose, if this pacifyer's doctoring wer a good profe, that the spirituall iudges knew not this tale before. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 915. After they had read, and well perused the same, the doctourly prelates were no more so often called to the house, neither had they the chere nor countenance when they came, as before they had.-The Life of Tyndall, by Fox. And thus hast thou (louing reader) the whole action and stage of this doctourlie disputation shewed forth vnto thee, against these three worthy confessors and martyrs of the Lord. Fox. Martyrs, p.1526. Disp. of M.Latimer at Oxf. an. 1554. Onles the Jewish tongue kepe silence, being both the doctrice and auauncer of carnall obseruaunces, and also an auoucher of mannes righteousnesse, the euangelicall tongue hath no power to speake.-Udal. Luke, c. 1. atchievements in war. I might enlarge myself in the commendation of hunting, and of the noble hound especially, as also of the docibleness of dogs in general.-Walton. Angler, pt. i. c. 1. Be briefe in what thou wouldst command, that so B. Jonson. Horace. The Art of Poetrie. Other men I am sure do make a wonder at that which the elephant learneth, and is taught, whose docility is exhibited unto us in the theaters, by his sundry sorts of gestures, and changes in dauncing.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 787. He hath in the last place his chair of ease and state, and here he sets up his rest, here he sins with as much majesty as delight. In cathedrá, as a seat of authority, sinning doctorally, and magisterially, by his practice defining the lawfulness of these scoffs, even setting up a school of Atheism. Hammond. Works, vol. iv. p. 671. He [John Dee] was bred (as I believe) in Oxford, and there doctorated, but in what faculty I cannot determine. Fuller. Worthies. Lancashire. His conversation (for ought I can learn to the contrary) very unblameable; and the poison of heretical doctrine is never more dangerous, than when served up in clean cups, and washed dishes.-State Trials. Legatt, &c. an. 1612. When the clergy submitted themselves in the time of Henry VIII. the submission was so made, that if any difference doctrinal, or other fell in the church, the king and the bishops were to be judges of it in the national synod or convocation.-Id. Richard Mountague, an. 1625. His teaching is not to teach you the doctrinals of salvation and of the Son, for he leaves that to ministers, and to the Bible, to teach you the doctrinals only in a doctrinal way. Goodwin. Works, vol. iv. pt. i. p. 126. Doctrinally then: What I shall now add, is in application by way of comfort.-Id. vol. ii. pt. iv. p. 365. All which [circumstances] and some other. not drawing with them any extraordinary sequel, not affording much matter for civil document, must not preponderate the handling of things more rare and considerable. Speed. Hen. II. b. ix. c. 6. § 10. Soon docile to the secret acts of ill To persons of docibility, the real character may be easily taught in a few days.-Boyle. Works, vol. vi. p. 416. Let these [apothecaries] obey, and let the learn'd subscribe; That men may die, without a double bribe: Let them, but under their superiors kill: When doctors first have sign'd the bloody bill. Dryden. To my Friend Mr. Molleux. The picture of this Doctor Wall drawn to the life, with his doctoral habit and square cap, hangs at this day in the council chamber belonging to the city of Oxon. Wood, Athenæ Oxon. He [W. Rainolds] soon after left the university, and whe ther he went beyond the seas, and was doctorated there I cannot tell.-Wood. Athena Ozon Afterwarde he [R. Burthogge] was doctorated in physick elsewhere (at Leyden I think.)-Id. Fasti Oxon. One that had spent his time abroad, between the schools and the camp (for he had been in or pass'd through armies) and had gotten a doctorship. Clarendon. Civil War, vol. i. p. 199. In one place of Cartwright's book he spake of Whitgift's "bearing out himself, by the credit of his doctorship and deanery.”—Strype. Life of Whitgift, an. 1573. A preacher's doctrine, and his proof, Butler. Miscellaneous Thoughts. We are not much degenerated from the purity of Christianity as to doctrinals.--Sharp, vol. ii. Ser. 1. O Alciphron, if I durst follow my own judgment, I should be apt to think there are noble beauties in the style of Holy Scripture in the narrative parts a strain so simple and unaffected in the devotional and prophetic, so animated and sublime: and in the doctrinal parts such an air of dignity and authority, as seems to speak their original divine. Berkeley. The Minute Philosopher, Dial. 6. Muf. I am finely documented by my own daughter. Dryden. Don Sebastian, Act iv. sc. 1. Your state doctors do not so much as pretend that any good whatsoever has hitherto been derived from their opperations, or that the publick has prospered in any one instance, under their management. Burke. To a Member of the National Assembly. An English or Irish doctorate cannot be obtained by a very young man, and it is reasonable to suppose, what is likewise by experience commonly found true, that he who is by age qualified to be a doctor, has in so much time gained learning sufficient not to disgrace the title, or wit sufficient not to desire it. Johnson. A Journey to the Western Islands. He [the chevalier] was induced to believe, that they would exact far less from him, than we knew they expected: and they were confirmed in an opinion of his docility, which we knew to be void of all foundation. Bolingbroke. A Letter to Sir Wm. Windham. The Psalmist, speaking of his exemption from haughtiness, compares himself to a young child; and the humble docility of little children is, in the New Testament, represented as a necessary preparative to the reception of the Christian faith.-Beattie. Moral Science, pt. i. c. 2. s. 5. It is by an evident abuse and perversion of Mr. Locke's doctrine, that Dr. Reid pretends that it is favourable to Bishop Berkeley's notion of there being no material world; when in reality our author's own principles are much more favourable to that notion than Mr. Locke's. Priestley. Remarks on Dr. Reid's Theory, s. 7. He hath therefore communicated to us a much greater number of doctrinal truths, all fitted to instruct our worship, and inflame our gratitude; but hath reduced our ritual performances to two.-Secker, vol. i. Ser. 21. Saint Luke professes not to write as an eye witness, but to have investigated the original of every account which he delivers; in other words, to have collected them from such documents and testimonies, as he, who had the best opportunities of making inquiries, judged to be authentic. Paley. Evidences, c. & DOCK, v. Skinner thinks, a dock for Dock, n. ships may be from the Dut. DuykDo'CKET, v. en, abscondere, latere, to hide, Do'CKET, n. to be hid; but the Dut. Duyken; Ger. Duken, is, premere, deprimere, to depress, to sink and thus applied to,— repairing ships, and for other purposes. A place sunk for the reception, for building or And see the usages of the verb by Shakespeare. Dut. Duyken, Ger. Duken, are also, to droop or drop down, to hang down; and may thus be applied to dock The fleshy part of the tail, which drops or hangs down from the extremity of the back (of a horse) as distinguished from the hair. And thus further (as to head or behead, is, to cut off the head) to may be to cut off the dock; and generally— To cut off, to lop off, to curtail or shorten. Docket, a briefe in writing, or some small piece of paper or parchment, containing the effect of a large writing, (Minshew,) i. e. a large writing curtailed, shortened. His here was by his eres round yshorne, The salde shippe called the Holy Crosse was so shaken in thla voyage, and so weakened, that she was layd vp in the docke, and Leuer made a voyage after. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. pt. i. p. 98. I should not see the sandie houre-glasse runne, Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice, Act i. sc. 1. We know they [bishops] hate to be dockt and clipt. Milton. Of Reformation in England b.. Thus having dispersed his power all abroad, he [Pompeius] brought all the pyrates' ships that were in a fleet together, within his danger; and when he had taken them, he brought them all into a dock.-North. Plutarch, p. 536. Asses have the said docke or rumpe longer than horses. B. Jonson. The Alchymist, Act v. sc. 5. Sterne Mimos and grimme Radimant Warner. Albion's England, b. iii. c. 18. And for Worcester, there is no proof but the docket-book; now my Lorde, it is well known in court, that the docket doth but signify the king's pleasure for such a bill to be drawn; it never mentions who procured the preferment. State Trials. Abp. Laud, an. 1640. For which the said Theodore and Jacob had undertaken, by their agreement with us, to buy in Holland, and to transport from thence hither, at their own charge and adventure, several proportions of arms mentioned in a docquet, then sent inclosed in our said letters. 426. Clarendon. Civil War, vol. ii. p. "The sea is yours, but mine the land," Lyttelton. Mount Edgecombe. The king's dock-yards at the Caraccas lie near the entrance; and farther down is the trocadero, or magazines and docks for merchant men.-Swinburn. Spain, Let. 30. DOCK. A. S. Docca. Perhaps it has the same origin as the former "Dock." See the quotation from Pliny. For if thon desire grapes, thou goest not vnto the hasell, ne fot to fechen roses, thou seekest not on okes: and if thou shalte haue honie soukles, thou leauest the fruite of the soure docke.-Chaucer. Testament of Loue, b. iii. And thus playe in and out, like, in docke out netle, that no man shoulde wytte whan they were in, and whan they Sir T. More. Workes, p. 809. were oute, nor know which were the church. But hold my torch, while I describe the entry B. Jonson. The Voyage itself. The greatest and largest of all others is the root of the hearb patience or garden docke, which is knowne to run downe in the ground three cubits deepe. Holland. Plinie, b. xix. c. 6. Yet, now approach'd the bough the huntress tore, Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. ii. s. 2. DODDER. Dodder, Minshew says, is a Your country friends were told another tale; Dryden. Virgil, Past. 9. DODGE. Skinner thinks from dog; i. e. to run about this way and that-like a dog catching To move quickly from place to place; to show And upon the king's answer to them, they sent commissioners to treat with him, at Newport in the Isle of Wight, where they so long dodged with him about trifles, that Cromwell was come to London, before they had done, to the king's destruction.-Hobbs. Behemoth. It follows undeniably that the king from that time was by them in fact absolutely depos'd, and they no longer in reality to be thought his subjects, notwithstanding their fine clause in the covenant to preserve his person, crown, and dignity, set there by some dodging casuist with more craft than sincerity, to mitigate the matter in case of ill success. Milton. Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. So partridges, before their young can fly, will drop fre quently down, first at lesser, and then at greater distances DO'DIPOLE, or Byrom. Careless Content. (qv.) and pole, the head. And what shall I do then in the mean time? First I will Fox. Martyrs, p. 1170. Ans. of M.Luther to the Pope's Bull. But some will say, our curate is naught, an asse-head, a dodipoll, a lack-latine, and can do nothing: shall I pay him Why then was it left so? and here, without staying for DODKIN. A little doit, (qv.) Thence he brought him to an oil cellar, and where they sold olives here you shall have (quoth he) a measure called Choenix, for two brazen dodkins (a good market beleeve me.)-Holland. Plutarch, p. 126. DOE. A. S. Da; D. Deyn; Fr. Daim, dain; It. Damma, daino; Lat. Dama; which Vossius thinks may be so called for its timidity or fearfulness, from the Gr. Aeua, fear. There might men does and roes ysee DOG, v. Ger. Docke; canis Molossus. Eng. Dog; Dut. Dogghe; Fr. Doque. Although the word in English is applied to every species, yet in the other dialects it is the large hunting dog; Canis grandis et venaticus, and perhaps so called from Tacken, capere, to take, to catch. (Wachter.) To dog or to dodge, (qv.) to follow about as a dog does, to pursue, or hunt like a hound: so as to find out and follow wherever we go. A dog-iron is so called, Minshew says, because it was made in the form of a dog. Dogged, the adj. applied to those, who have the ill-tempers or dispositions of dogs or curs; currish, snarling, morose, sullen, obstinate. Doggerel, Mr. Tyrwhitt says, derived I suppose from dog; so that Rime-doggerel may be Rime de chien. See the second quotation from Chaucer. Rhime, without harmony; noisy, harsh: consequentially, worthless. Me thinketh litel harm thei [though] yt hadde i be [been] a dogge.-R. Gloucester, p. 69. Thyn berkeres ben al blynde that bryngeth forth thy lambren Disp-gntur oves, thi dogge dar not berrke. Piers Ploukman, p. 160. And she was clad full poorely Id. Prologue to Melibeus, v. 13,853. Turbervile. Of Ladie Venus. And for I finde, that fault hath runne so fast, Bale. Apology, fol. 93. Of if we will be so vnordinate, and (with reuerence be it spoken, without offence to God or man) so doggish and And of squirels ful great plentie.-Chaucer. Rom. of the R. currish, one to another, the Lord lacketh not his dog-strikers to whip vs. She sighe the swete floures sprynge, She sigh beastes in her kynde, The bucke, the doo, the hert, the hynde. Gower. Con. A. b. iv. In this country of Nova Hispania there are many buckes and does, but they haue not so long hornes as they haue here in England.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 469. Thy Gascoigne doth send thee wine; bucke and doe are plentifull in thy forrests.--Camden. Remaines. Britain. If we can suppose any infants to have been fortunately nourished by the wolf, the goat, the bear, the doe, strangers to all the language of men, it will not be very difficult to account for the use of language among their posterity. DOFF. put off. Sharpe. Origin, &c. of Languages. To do off; put away, lay aside; Which Callidore perceyuing, thought it best Cotton. A Voyage to Ireland in burlesque, c. 2. Gay. The Shepherd's Week, Past. 4. Pox. Martyrs, p. 17. To Christian Protestants, &c. I sat all day in my observing place, Till about twilight I saw him and 's man Digby. Elvira, Act v. Massinger. The Fatai Dowry, Act iii. sc. 1. The silly hare doth cast aside her fear, Drayton. Noah's Flood. Whereat the souldiours on all hands set up a great cry, that it was an intollerable shame that the Phocæans (who were never true and loyall confederates, but alwayes dogged and malicious enemies) should goe away so scotfree, and not suffer for their sinnes.-Holland. Livivs, p. 963. But thou most griev'st him (dogged dame) whom he rebukes in time, Lest silence should pervert thy will, and pride too highly clime In thy bold bosome.-Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. ix. My lord is lusty and merry, and drinketh with his men ; and all the content he gives me, is to abuse me, and use me as doggedly as before. State Trials. The Murderers of Sir T. Overbury, an. 1615, |