Aurel. -You form reasons, Just ones, for your abandoning the storms No shelter for her honour.-Ford. Lady's Trial, Acti. sc. 1. Beau. & Fletch. Two Noble Kinsmen, Act v. sc. 1. What is it that Sathan can despaire to perswade men unto, if he can draw them to an unnatural abandoning of life, and pursuit of death.-Hall. Occasionall Medit. 117. Then thought hee it also time to send an ambassage unto Archduke Philip, into Flanders, for the abandoning and dismissing of Perkin.-Bacon. Henry VII. p 126. Ror. I see no crime in her whom I adore, Or if I do, her beauty makes it none: Look on me as a man abandon'd o'er To an eternal lethargy of love. Dryden. Spanish Friar, Act iv. Nor let her tempt that deep, nor make the shore, Where our abandon'd youth she sees, Shipwreck'd in luxury, and lost in ease.-Prior. Ode (1692). He that abandons religion must act in such a contradiction to his own conscience and best judgment, that he abuses and spoils the faculty itself.-Watts. Sermons. Cities then Attract us, and neglected nature pines Abandon'd, as unworthy of our love.-Cowper. Task. b.ii. When thus the helm of justice is abandoned, an universal abandoning of all other posts will succeed. Burke. On Reg. Peace. Let. 4. They amount (says he) to the sacrifice of powers, that have been most nearly connected with us; the direct or indirect annexation to France of all the parts of the continent, from Dunkirk to Hamburgh; an immense accession of territory; and, in one word, the abandonment of the independence of Europe.-Id. ib. p. 81. ABA'SE. ? Fr. Abbaiser; It. Abbasare; ABA'SING, N. Sp. Abaxar. See BASE, and ABA'SEMENT. ABASH, infra. To put or bring low, to lower, to depress; to degrade, to humble, to disgrace. Our kynge hath do this thing amisse, So to abesse his roialtee; That euery man it might see, And humbled him in such a wise To them that were of none emprise.-Gower. Conf.Am, b.i. This example was shewed to teache vs, howe the teachers of Gods worde should not grutche to descend from their highnes or perfection, and abase themselues euen to the lowlines of the weake, thereby to wynne very many to theyr Lorde.-Udall. Erasmus, S. Marke, c. 2. At this tyme also, the kinges maiestie, with the aduice of his privy counsaile, did now purpose not onely the abacyng of the sayd copper moneys, but also ment wholly to reduce them to bollion, to the intent to deliuer fine and good monies for them. The peece of ix pence was abaced to sixpence.-Grafton. Chronicle. Ed. VI. an, 5. And will she yet abase her eyes on me, Shakespeare. Rich. III. Act i. sc. 2. If he that abases the prince's coin deserves to die, what is his desert, that instead of the tried silver of God's word, stamps the name and character of God upon base brazen stuff of his own?-Hales. Remains, Ser. 1. There is an abasement because of glory, and there is that lifteth up his head from a low estate.-Ecclus. XX. 2. It is a point of cunning to wait upon him with whom you speak with your eye; as the Jesuits give it in precept; for there may be many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances: yet this should be done with a demure abasing of your eye.-Bacon. Essay on Cunning. Let the example of our Lord's humility bring down the haughtiness of men; and when we consider how he abased himself, let us be vile in our own eyes, and abhor ourselves in dust and ashes.-Tillotson. Works, vol. iii. 217. Ser. 135. Absorb'd in that immensity I see, I shrink abas'd, & yet aspire to Thee.-Cowper. Retirement. Heaven was to be earned only by penance and mortification; by the austerities and abasement of a monk, not by the liberal, generous, and spirited conduct of a man. Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. v. c. 1. v. The past tense and past part. ABASHMENT.} of Abase was anciently written Abaisit, Abayschid; whence the word Abash appears to be formed and is applied to The feelings of those who are abased, depressed, disgraced, humbled. In Wicliff it is applied to The feelings which overpowered, subdued, the witnesses of the miraculous restoration of the damsel by Christ. Abasshe is found in Gower, used as a substantive. See BASH. And anoon the damysel roos and walkide: and sche was of twelve yeer, and thei weren abayschid with a great stoneying.-Wiclif. Mark, c. 5. And as the new abashed Nightingale, Chaucer. Troilus, b. iii. fol. 173. And let hem still ride enough.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv. of stature more than wont, stood fore mine eyen. Abashed then I waxe: therewith my heare Gan start right up: my voice stuck in my throte. Surrey. Virgile, b. ii. But the water kepte his course, and wette, at length the kynges [Canute] thyes; wherwith ye kynge abasshed, sterte backe and sayde, all erthly kynges may knowe that theyr powers be vayne, and that none is worthy to have the name of a kynge, but he that has all thynges subiecte to his hestes.-Fabyan, c. 206. I saie to the, thou hast put me in a more greatte abasshement, than the feare of myne enemies.-Golden Boke, Let. 15. Why, then, (you princés) Do you with cheekes abash'd behold our workes, Shakespeare. Tro. & Cres. Act i. sc. 8. Yet all that could not from affright her hold, For her faint heart was with the frozen cold Benumb'd so inly, that her wits nigh fail'd, And all her senses with abashment quite were quail'd. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 8. Basenesse of birth is a great disparagement to some men, especially if they be wealthy, bear office, and come to promotion in a common-wealth: then, if their birth be not answerable to their calling, and to their fellows, they are much abashed and ashamed of themselves. Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 310. But when he Venus view'd without disguise, Congreve. Homer. Hymn to Venus. And harsh austerity, from whose rebuke Young love and smiling wonder shrink away Abash'd and chill of heart, with sager frowns Condemns the fair enchantment. Akenside. Pleasures of Imagination, b. iii. ABA'TE, v. Fr. Abbatre; It. Abbatere; Sp. ABATE, n. Abatirate, Batan, tre beat. ABATEMENT. The word exists also without the ABA TER. prefix A; though more limited by modern usage in its application. See BATE. To beat or press down; to cast down; to lower, to depress; to lessen; to diminish; to reduce. The kyng did samen his men, to abate Gryffyn's pride. R. Brunne, p. 63. For that abatement he chalenges thorgh right.-Id. p. 278. As God saith, the horrible divels shul gon and comen upon the hedes of dampned folk: and this is, for as moche as the higher that they were in this present lif, the more shul they be abated and defouled in helle. Chaucer. Personnes Tales, vol. ii. p. 291. The kynge of Scottes wyth all hys hoste and power entered Norham, and sore abated the walles.-Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 5. into England:-and planted hys siege before the castell of He [the horsse] breaketh the groude wyth the hoffes of his fete chearfully in his strength, and runneth to mete the harnest men. He layeth asyde all feare, hys stomack is not abated, neither starteth he abacke for any swerde. Bible, London, 1539. Job, c. 39. Knight. My lord, I know not what the matter is, but to my judgement, your Highnesse is not entertained with that ceremonious affection as you were wont; there's a great dependants, as in the duke himselfe also, and your daughter. abatement of kindnesse appeares as well in the generall Shakespeare. Lear, Act i. sc. 4. A day Will come (hear this, and quake, ye potent great ones) Beaumont and Fletcher. Laws of Candy, Act. v Daniel. Complaint of Rosamond. If we could arrest time, and strike off the nimble wheels of his chariot, and like Joshua, bid the sun stand still, and make opportunity tarry as long as he had occasion for it; this were something to excuse our delay, or at least to mitigate or abate the folly and unreasonableness of it. Tillotson. Works, vol. i. Ser. 14. The triall hereof (whether men weigh heavier dead than alive) cannot so well be made on the body of a man, nor will the difference be sensible in the abate of scruples or dracms. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iv. c. 7. The greatest tyrants have been those, whose titles were the most unquestioned. Whenever the opinion of right becomes too predominant and superstitious, it is abated by breaking the custom: thus the revolution broke the custom of succession.-Paley. Moral Philosophy, b. vi. c. 2. ABA'WED, i. e. Abashed. Fr. Esbahi. Doztren he adde al so, Cecyly het that on And in this time was geuen vnto the kyng by the consent of the great and fatte abbottes, all religious houses that were of the value of three hundred marke and vnder, in hope, that their great monasteryes should haue continued still! but euen at that tyme one sayde in the parliament house, that these were as thornes, but the great abbottes were putrifyed old okes, and they must needes folowe. Grafton. Chron. Hen. VIII. an. 20. The abbot was elected by the monks of the monastery, at least in the greater part of abbacies. Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. v. c. 1. ABBREVIATE, v. ABBREVIATE, N.` ABBREVIATION. ABBREVIA TOr. ABBREVIATUre. It. Abbreviare; Sp. Abreviar: from Lat. Brevis ; the Gr. Bpaxus; A. S. Bræcan, to break. See ABRIDGE. To break or make short, concise; to shorten, to abridge; to bring or reduce to a smaller space or, compass by breaking off, or removing parts. In all theyr wrytynge, [the Frenshe] when they come to any mater that soundyth any thynge to theyr honour, it is wrytten in the longest and mooste shewynge manoure to theyr honour and worshyp. But if it sounde any thynge to theyr dishonoure, than shall it be abreuyatyd or hyd, that the trouthe shall not be knowen.-Fabyan. Hen. III. an. 26. The epistles do conteyne counsayles and aduertisementes in the fourme of orations, recytynge diuers places, as wel O happie Cato Censorine, who with suche as haue fo- out of the olde testament, as the gospels, as it were an lowed his waies, are now sure fro the abatementes of fortune. abbreuiate, called of the Grekes and Latines, Epitoma. The Golden Boke, ch. XXV. Elyot. The Governor, b. iii. c. 23. Hel. O weary night, O! long and tedious night, Of this Joseph, Trogus Pompeius, and also his abreuiator Abate thy houres, shine comforts from the East, Justine do write in this manner: Joseph was the yongest That I may backe to Athens by day-light, among the brethren, whose excellent wit they fearing, solde From these, that my poore companie detest. him vnto straynge marchauntes, by whome he was brought Shakespeare. Mid. Night's Dream, Act iii. sc. 2. into Egypt.-Grafton. Chron. The Third Age. Post. I know you are more clement than vilde men, Who of their broken debtors take a third, A sixt, a tenth, letting them thrive againe On their abatement. Id. Cymbeline, Act v. sc. 4. 2 The Egyptians indeed did teach religion by symbolical figures, and in the eastern empire their laws were written with characters and abbreviatures. Bp. Taylor. Rule of Conscience, b. iii. o. 4. but to that great nerall hter. 4. els ad At the creation the original of mankind was in two persons, Sir Wm. Temple. An Introduction to the Hist. of Eng. This [communication] is pretended from the sympathy of two needles touched with the same loadstone, and placed in the center of two abecedary circles or rings with letters described round about them, one friend keeping one and another the other, and agreeing upon the hour wherein they will communicate.-Brown. VulgarErrours, b. ii. c. 3. Moses received the first alphabetarie letters in the table of the Decalogue: and from the Hebrues the Phoenicians. Purchas. Pilgrimage, b. i. c. 17. When he [Thomas Farnabie] landed in Cornwall, his distresses made him stoop so low, as to be abcedarian, and several were taught their horn-books by him. Wood. Athena Oxonienses. ABDICATE, v. Fr. Abdiquer; It. Abdi- din, right,) to go from a right. To resign, to disclaim, to renounce, to dispossess. Bishop Hall. Contemp. Walke upon the Waters. 28th Jan. 1688-1689.-At length the house came to this grand resolution :--Resolved, That king James the second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits, and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby become vacant. Parliamentary History. An. 1688-9. Grotius himself, and all the authors that treat of this It may be farther observed, that parents were allowed to Addison. To Sir Godfrey Kneller. The mortification of unreasonable desires, the suppression of irregular passions, the loving and blessing our enemies, the renouncing worldly vanities and pleasures, the rejoicing in afflictions, the voluntary abdication of our estates in some cases, yea, exposing life itself to inevitable hazard and loss, are not chimerical propositions of impossible performances; but duties really practicable. Barrow. Ser. vol. iii. s. 2. What is all righteousness that men devise? Cowper. Truth. Lat. Abdomen: the part Cowper. Progress of Error. law, and is applied to the forcible taking away of If beholding a candle, we protrude either upward or Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 20. ABE'AR, v. See BEAR. Applied to- The noun Abearyng has been succeeded in mo- Vpon assurance takyn of the said Hunyldus, that there So did the Faery Knight himself abeare, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 12. But might I getten as ye tolde, And for the tyme well refresshed.--Gower. Con. A. b. v. Some radde, that hii ssoide wende in at on hepe, Hir kyrtell, and hir mantell eke, Abrode vpon his bedde he spredde; Drayton. Barons' Wars, b. iii. Delight is layd abedd; and pleasure, past; Spenser. Shepherd's Calendar. ABERRANCE. Lat. Ab-errare, to stray or For though there were a fatality in this year, ["the great And therefore they not only swarm with errors, but vices So, then we draw near to God, when, repenting us of our ABE'T, v. But in this kind, to come in brauing armes, Shakespeare. Rich. II. Act ii. sc. 3. I am not ignorant that Cicero, in defence of his own nation, tells vs, our people, by defending their associates, became masters of the world; but I would willingly be informed, whether or no, they did not often set their associates to complaine without a cause, or abet them in vnjust quarrels.-Hakewill. Apologie, p. 452. I would represent unto his Majesty, that when the principal reason of their excuse should cease, namely, these fresh stirrings so near them, which seemed to require their abctment, then they would give us more particular satisfaction:-Reliquia Wottoniane, p. 542. Yet Christian laws allow not such redress; Dryden. Hind and the Panther, pt. 3. Would you, when thieves are known abroad, ABHO'R, v. Gay. Fables, pt. ii. Fab. 12. Fr. Abhorrer; It. Abborrire; Sp. Abhorecer; Lat. Ab-horrere. See HORROUR. Met. To dislike or detest, to loath, to disdain, to abominate. For he that rayleth agaynste an other man's faultes appeareth fyrste of all to abhorre from those vices, whiche he misliketh in others.-Udall. Erasmus. St. James, c. 4. King. I may perceiue These cardinals trifle with me: I abhorre Shakespeare. Henry VIII. Act ii. Be gentle graue vnto me, rather on Nylus mudde Id. Ant. and Cleo. Act v. sc. 2. He who wilfully abstains from marriage, not being supernaturally gifted; and he who, by making the yoke of marriage unjust and intolerable, causes men to abhor it, are both in a diabolical sin, equal to that of Antichrist, who forbids to marry.-Milton. Tetrachordon. We see in many cases, that time and calmer consideratlons, together with different customs, which, (like the tide or flood) insensibly prevail over both manners and minds of men; do oft take off the edge and keenness of men's spirits against those things, whereof they sometimes were great abhorrers.-Bp. Taylor. Artif. Hands. p. 134. Then wanton fulness vain oblivion brought, Parnell. Gift of Poetry. That which constitutes an object of contempt to the malevolent, becomes the object of other passions to a worthy and good-natured man; for, in such a person, wickedness and vice must raise hatred and abhorrence. Fielding. Covent Garden Journal, No. 61. Yet from Leonidas, thou wretch, inur'd I spurn abhorrent. In a spotless heart I look for pleasure.-Glover. Leonidas, b. x. D. Boeten, betteren; Ger. Besseren; A. S. Betan, (meliorare, melius reddere, says Skinner.) tion, so abhorrent to our stricter principles, was received This legal, and, as it should seem, injudicious profana To better, to make better. Ap-with a very faint murmur, by the easy nature of polytheism. plied to the encouraging, inciting, assisting, supGibbon. Roman Empire, c. 3. porting, aiding, causing to beat, or become better. And thus Wherever the church and court party prevailed, addresses were framed, containing expressions of the highest regard to his Majesty, the most entire acquiescence in his wisdom, the most dutiful submission to his prerogative, and the deepest abhorrence of those who endeavoured to encroach upon it, by prescribing to him any time for assembling the parliament. Thus the nation came to be distinguished into Chaucer. Troilus, b. ii. fol. 159. petitioners and abhorrers.-Hume. England. "An. 1680 To better, to aid, assist, support the designs of. I am thine Eme, the shame were to me 3 ABI'DE. ABO'DE. A. S. Abidan, Bidan; D. Bey- To stay, or remain; to delay, to tarry, to dwell, to continue, to wait, port; to bear up against, or endure, with forti- tude, good temper, kindness, hope, or the reverse. He fley in to the yle of Tenet, he no dorste abide no ner. The other were of hem y war, and garkede hem in here And lette arme here ost wel, batail forto abyde. And the other day he entride into Cesarie, and Cornelio Lyue sobreli and iustli and piteuousli in this world, For men schulen wexe drie for drede, and abidynge that Do grete diligence (saith Salomon), in keping of thy frendes, and of thy good name, for it shal lenger abide with thee, than any tresor, be it never so precious. Chaucer. The Tale of Milebeus. He [Giovanni Pietro Pugliano] said, "Soldiers were the Sidney. Defence of Poesy, p. 1. The pacient abyding of the righteous shall be turned to Clo. His vices you would say: there's no vertue whipt Shakespeare. Winter's Tale, Act iv. sc. 2. Lor. Sweete friends; your patience for my long abode;- Not I, but my affaires haue made you wait. Id. Merchant of Venice, Act ii. sc. 6. When all the earth shall melt into nothing, and the seas Abating all the rueful consequences of abiding in sin, When he, whom e'en our joys provoke, And rush'd in wrath to make our isle his prey, And stopp'd his wheels, and look'd his rage away. ABI'E, is very variously written. By Chaucer, In all the examples following, "buy or pay for, dearly, cruelly, sorely," appears to be the meaning. Turne we thiderward, and delyuer our prisons, And so it may betide, thei salle dere abie My [mine] that thei hide, my men in prison lie. Ac for the lesynge that thow Lucifer, lowe til Eve Thow shalt abygge bitere quath God, and bond hym with cheynes.-Piers Plouhman, p. 363. Ther dorste no wight hond upon him legge, That he ne swore he shuld anon abegge. Chaucer. The Reves Tale, v. 3936. Ye fathers, and ye mothers eke also, Though ye han children, be it on or mo, Your is the charge of all hir surveance, While that they ben under your governance. Beth ware, that by ensample of your living, Or by your negligence in chastising, That they ne perish: for I dare wel saye, Quene of the regne of Pluto, derke and lowe, Goddesse of maydens, that min herte hast knowe Ful many a yere, and wost what I desire, So goth he forthe, and toke his leue, And thought anone, as it was eue, That many a man shuld it abedge.-Gower. Con. 4. b. v. Full ofte er this it hath be seine The comen people is ouerleyne, And hath the kynges synne abought, Allthough the people agilte nought.-Ib. b. vii. Which when his brother saw, fraught with great griefe And wrath, he to him leaped furiously, And fouly said, by Mahoune, cursed thiefe, That direfull stroake thou dearely shalt aby. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. viii. Bar. Fool-hardy knight, full soon thou shalt aby Lest to thy perill thou abide it deare. Shakespeare. Mid. Night's Dream, Act iii. sc. 2. jicere, (Ab-jacere,) to cast, or A'BJECTLY. Base, lowly, servile, worthless, despicable, mean, The duches desiring to knowe whiche waye lady Fortune turned her whele, herynge hym to be repudiate and abiected Saul, that he shulde no more reigne ouer Israel. Sir T. Elyot. The Governour, c. 1. John the apostle, was now of late in a certaine yle of Licia called Pathmos, exiled for the gospel-preaching, and made a vile abject for testifying the name and word of Jesus Christ The audacite and bolde speche of Daniel signifyeth the placio of his lowe state of abieccio in this world. Christ for the time of his pilgrimage here was a most the onely Saviour of the world. The damzell straght went, as she was directed Gan weepe and waile, as if great griefe had been affected. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 9. st. 9. Oh noble Lord, bethinke thee of thy birth; Shakespeare. Tam. of Sh. Act i. sc. 3. Or in this abject posture have ye sworn T'adore the conqueror? who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood With scatter'd arms and ensigns. But is it credible, that the very acknowledgment of our It abjected his [Wolsey's] spirit to that degree, that he fell Strype. Memorials, b. i. c. 15. To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd, through sacred lust of praise! Nor did he sooner see the hoy approaching the vessel than he ran down again into the cabin, and, his rage being per- To swear- To go away from, or leave: to disown, to dis- But now was he so obstinate, that he woulde not abiure of In this season were banished out of Southwarke XII Scottes, whiche had dwelt there a long season, and wer conueied frō parishe to parishe by the constable, like men yt had abiured the realme, and on their vttermost garment a white crosse before and another behynd them. Hall. Chron. Hen. VIII. an. 14. I put my selfe to thy direction, and Shakespeare. Mac. Act iv. sc. 3. him, than not be quit of thee? Did not another of them La. When a clerk heretofore was convicted of felony, he And thereupon [he] took the oath in that case provided, viz. that he abjured the realm, and would depart from thence forthwith, at the port that should be assigned him, and would never return without leave from the king. Blackstone. Com. b. iv. c. 26. A Jacobite, who is persuaded of the pretender's right to ABLACTATION. Lat. (of the lower age,) Ablactatus. (Ab-lacte, depulsus), driven from the milk: applied (formerly) met. to a mode of Grafting by approach or ablactation is to be performed when the stock you would graft on, and the tree from which Now is the time for ablaqueation, and laying bare the trees, purge the sickly, and apply fresh mould. ABLATION. Į Fr. Ablation; Lat. Ablatio; Ablative, that can or may take away. Prohibition extends to all injustice, whether done by force, or fraud; whether it be by ablation, or prevention, Bp. Taylor. Great Exemplar, p. 2, § 37. Bp. Hall. Sermon. The Deceit of Appearance. A'BLE, v. Goth. Abal, strength: and A'BLE, adj. hence the Lat. terminations in To give force, power, strength; to strengthen, to empower; and, as we now say, to enable. commonly found as able and ability. That if God willinge to schewe his wraththe, and to make wraththe 'able into deeth, to schewe the richessis of his glorie into vessels of merci whiche he made redi into glorie. For no doute to dreade to offende God, and to loue to wittes of Christes chosen people: and ableth them so to State Trials. 8 Hen. IV. 1407. William Thorpe. And ye my ladies that ben trew and stable, By way of kind ye ought to ben able, Id. The Complaint of Mars, fol. 326. State Trials. 6 Rich. II. 1383. John Wickliffe. Let no man blame our nature for being weake and faint, nor late against the goddes that they be cruell: for we haue A noble crew about them waited round Of sage and sober peeres, all gravely gownd; Whom farre before did march a goodly band I can produce a man, Of female seed, far abler to resist All his solicitations, and at length All his vast force, and drive him back to Hell; By fallacy surpris'd.-Milton. Paradise Regained, b. i. Whom shall we choose As the most apt and abled instrument B. Jonson. Sejanus, Act ii. sc. 1. Shakespeare, Troi, and Cres. Act iii. sc. 2. Never liv'd gentleman of greater merit, Ford. The Broken Heart, Act v. sc. 2. by study.-Bacon. Of Studies, Ess. 50. Certainly the force of imagination is wonderfull, either to beget in vs an ability for the doing of that which wee Bolingbroke. Remarks on the Hist. of England. And novels (witness every month's review), The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Dort, call the decree of God, whereby he hath appointed, in name, which in Latine is called Felix, and in our English What strange ominous abodings and fears do many times Sp. Ablucion; Lat. Ablutio: from abluere, (Ab-where-of at present there is no visible appearance. A washing off or away from; cleansing, purifying. There is a natural analogy between the ablution of the Perizonius, on Sanctius. Bp. Taylor. Worthy Communicant. So because the common way of making a people holy, was to adopt them into the protection of a tutelary God; and of rendering particulars clear, was by ablutions and other cathartic rites; the Almighty was pleased to assume the titles of their [the Jews] national God, and regal Go- Hearts may be found, that harbour at this hour That love of Christ, and all its quick'ning pow'r; And lips unstain'd by folly or by strife, Whose wisdom, drawn from the deep well of life, * With us, the man of no complaint demands A'BNEGATE, v. Armstrong. Art of Health, b. iii. by Dr. Johnson under the v. abjure, as synony- Let the princes be of what religion they please, that is all one to the most part of men; so that with abnegation of God, of his honour, and religion, they may retain the friend- Knox. Letter to the Queen Regent of Scotland. A serpentine generation wholly made of fraud, policies, Sir E. Sandys. State of Religion. ABOARD, n. And afterwards, a great wynde and tepest arisyng in ye sea, by meane wherof, thair shippes might no longar tary there, for that, that it was a place wt out porte; one part of the embarqued theself. And passing bifore a rokky place, called Ithis, they came to aborde in the porte of Philie. And whe we had gotte a shippe yt wolde sayle vnto Phe- Resolv'd he said: and rigg'd with speedy care, Dryden. Cymon and Iph. ABLEGATION, n. Lat. Ablegatio; from Able-ship.-Fielding. Voyage to Lisbon. I would at the same time penetrate into their thoughts, I appeal to any free judge, how likely these liquid parti- of the spirits into this or that determinate part of the body. ABO'DEMENT. Hen. More. An Antidote against Atheism, b. i. c. 11. s. 7. ABLUDE, v. Ab-ludere, to play from. Whereas we ought, according to the wise advise of our Seneca (not much abluding from the counsell of that blessed apostle, with whom he is said to have intercharged letters) so to possesse them, as those that make account to forego them; and so forego them as if we possessed them still. So Ambrose interprets that place of 1 Tim. ii. 4. would have all to be saved," saith he, if themselves will: Chesterfield. Let. 186. See to BODE, and to FORE- BODE. To see or discern; to show or Nay, such abodes ben nat worth an haw. Chaucer. Troilus, b. iii. fol. 171. The night-crow cryde aboding luckless time. Shakespeare. 3 Part Hen. VI. Act v. sc. 6. Edw. Tush, man, aboadments must not now affright vs. By faire and foule meanes we must enter in, For hither will our friends repaire to v8. For he [Bishop Felix] brought all the province unto the Thus, M. Hardinge, it is plaine by the judgment of your He hath given it them moreouer to doe these thinges Now to thentent that ye may yet farther percieue and se, that they by the distruccion of the clergy, meane the clere abolycion of Christes faith: it may like you to conferre, and compare together ii places of hys beggars bill. But my saluation shal be for euer, and my righteousnes But is nowe made manifest by the appearing of our Sauiour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortalitie vnto life through the gospel. With silly weake old woman thus to fight;--- Great glory and gay spoile sure hast thou got, And stoutly prov'd thy puissaunce here in sight; That shall Pyrrhocles well requite, I wot, And with thy bloud abolish so reproachefull blot. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c.6. Mol. That vow perform'd, fasting shall be abolish'd: Dryden. Don Sebastian, Acti. sc. 1. would shake the very foundation on which the establish- Warburton. Alliance between Church and State. Fr. Abominer; It. Abo- deprecari. Junius. Thei knowlochen that thei knowen god, but bi dedis thei And he seide to hem, ye it ben that justifyen you bifore Ib. Luke, c. 16. Al whom therfore by the whole thousande on an heape If the sins be not utterly detested and abomined, this is Hammond. Works, (Pract. Catechism,) vol. i. p. 118. them for three special faults, which they were little likely 10 be guilty of.---Id. Ib. vol. iv. fol. 643. Ser. 12. Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, That very action for which the swine is abominated, and Barrow. Ser. vol. i. s. 4. For it [Parliament] is aborted before it was born; and Pompey], a little before dying of an abort in childbed, toge ther with the infant she bare; it lay thenceforth open and clear in every man's eye, that * ensue but a dry and sandy friendship between them.- give any such expelling or destructive medicine, with a direct intention to work an aborsement, whether before or after animation, is utterly unlawful and highly sinful, The like may be said of the other law of Aristotle con- cerning abortion or the destruction of a childe in the mother's wombe, being a thing punished severely by all good lawes, as injurious not onely to nature, but also to the common-wealth, which thereby is deprived of a designed citizen. Hakewill. Apologie, p. 317. Thou eluish mark'd abortive rooting hogge, Thou that was seal'd in thy natiuitie The slaue of nature, and the sonne of hell. Shakespeare. Richard III. Act i. sc. 3. But power, your grace, can above nature give, of things our pardon stands here; and that it is not only conditional, but of itself a mutable effect, a disposition towards the great pardon, and therefore if it be not nurs'd and maintain'd by the proper instruments of its progres- sion, it dies like an abortive conception, and shall not have that immortality whither it was designed. Bp. Taylor. Of Repentance, c. 9. sec. 6. Round him [Bays] much embryo, much abortion lay, Much future ode, and abdicated play: Nonsense precipitate, like running lead, That slipp'd through crags and zig-zags of the head. Any enterprize undertaken without resolution, managed Barrow. Ser. vol. iii. s. 18. Or, if abortively poor man must die, Nor reach, what reach he might, why die in dread? Young. The Complaint, Night 7. ABOVE, prep. A. S. Bufan-Be-ufan._Bove, It is usual to consider above as a preposition It is much used in composition. has a metaphorical application to→ Above-board That which is uncovered, unconcealed, undis- Nye ger he was thus in thys lond in bataile & in wo, An ofte sythe aboue was, and bynethe oftan mo. & God sent him tokenyng on nyght als he slepe, Dat he suld fynd a palmere orly at morn, At the south gate, alone as he was born, & if he wild praie him, for Jhesu Criste's loue, He wild do the bataile, & thei suld be aboue. Wherfore, Malibeus, this is oure sentence; we conseille you, aboven alle thing, that right anon thou do thy diligence in keping of thy propre persone, in swiche a wise that thou ne want non espie ne watche, thy body for to save. On Lord, on faith, on God withouten mo, On Cristendom, and fadir of all also Aboven all, and over all every wher: Thise wordes all with gold ywriten were. Id. The second Nonnes Tale, v. 15678. And thus thou might wel vnderstonde Of that thou woldest wel acheue.-Gower. Con. A, b. iv. She [Fortune] eyther giues a stomack, and no foode Shakespeare. 2 Part Henry IV. Act iv. sc. 4 He goes lightly, that wants a load. If there be more pleasure in abundance, there is more security in a mean estate.-Bp. Hall. Cont. Herod and the Infants. The elements due order here maintain, And pay their tribute in of warmth and rain: Cool shades and streams, rich fertile lands abound, And Nature's bounty flows the seasons round. The Romans abounded with little honorary rewards, that without conferring wealth or riches gave only place and dis- tinction to the person who received them. A higher lustre and a clearer calm, Diffusive, tremble; while, as if in sign Of danger past, a glittering robe of joy, Set off abundant by the yellow ray, Aristotle, in his Politics, hath proved abundantly to my satisfaction, that no men are born to be slaves except bar- barians and these only to such as are not themselves bar- With all their comments can explain; And sure if aught below the seats divine Pope. Ep. to Earl Mortimer. The religion of the gospel is spiritual: the religion of the ABO'UNDING. ABU'NDANCE. Jortin. Discourses, Dis. 1. Fr. Abonder; It. Abondare; ABUNDANT. And god is myghti to make al grace abounden in ghou, that ghe in all thingis euermore han al sufficience and abounde into al good werk as it is writun, he delide abrood, he ghaf to pore men: his rightwysnesse dwellith withouten ende.-Wiclif. 2 Corynth. c. 9. And he seide to hem, se ye and be ye war of alle couertise, for the lyf of a man is not in the abundaunce of the thingis, And britheren, we preien ghou, that ghe knowe hem that traueilen among ghou, and ben souereyns to ghou in the charite, and for the werk of hem haue ghe pees with hem. lord, and techen ghou that ghe have hem aboundauntli in Ther as a wedded man in his estat," Liveth a lif blisful and ordinat Under the yoke of mariage ybound: Wel may his herte in joye and blisse abound, For who can be so buxom as a wif? Chaucer. The Marchantes Tale, v. 9163. Euery wight in soche yearthly weale habundaunt is holde noble, precious, benigne, and wise, to doe what he shall, in any degree that men him set, all be it that the sothe be in the contrary of all tho thinges; but he that can ne neuer so manners, and be not wealthed with soch yearthly goodes is well him behaue, and hath vertue haboundant, in manifolde holde for a foole, and saide his witte is but sotted. The bodily marchandize, that is leful and honest, is this, that ther as God hath ordeined, that a regne or a contree is suffisant to himself, than it is honest and leful, that of the haboundaunce of this contree men helpe another contree that is nedy; and therfore ther must be marchants to bring fro on contree to another hir marchandise. Sewerly the scripture aboundeth with examples, teching vs, all present and longe felicite to be grettly suspect. Joye. The Exposicion of Daniel, c. 2. There did I see our conquer'd fathers fall Before the English, on that fatal ground, When as to ours their number was but small, tremity or boundary of any thing. It is variously written-Abouten, Aboute, About. See ABUT. About is applied to:-the edge or border ap- proached, or first come to; the circuit, the circum- ference; time approaching, any act or event approaching or upon the point of being done or coming to pass; to nearness, proximity. It is classed by Wilkins among those local prepositions which respect space in general, and which relate both to motion and rest, with respect to the inter- mediate space betwixt those terms, either direct Engelond ys a wel god land, ich wene of eche lond best Yset in the ende of the world, as al in the West. De see goth hym al aboutc, he stont as an yle. Goggomagog was a geand swithe grete and strong, For, brother min, take of me this motif, I have now ben a court-man all my lif, And God it wot, though I unworthy be, I have stonden in ful gret degree, Abouten lordes of ful high estat: Yet had I never with non of hem debat, I never hem contraried trewely. Chaucer. The Marchantes Tale, v. 9370 Thou blinded God (quod I) forgeuc me this offence, Surrey. Complaint of a Louer, &c A scullion? Fye vpon't, foli.-About my braine. Jonson. Alchemist, Act ii. sc. 2. Or the unseen genius of the wood.-Millon. Il Penseroso. ABRA/DE. ABRA'SION. So in the great body of the earth such protuberances may |