CIV place which it occupies, and of the high purpose which it undoubtedly serves-if it were called the basis of Christianization-Chalmers. On the Constitution of Man, pt. 2, ch. 4. CHRONOLOGY. (I haue) by the helpe of geographie and chronologie, which I may call the sunne and the moone, the right eye and the left of all historie, referred each particular relation to the due time and place. Hackluyt. Voyages. Preface. CHUM, s. Contubernalis (says Lye), and he derives it from the Armoric Chom, to dwell together. Qy. from the v. To chime. A common name at colleges, in prisons, &c. for those who share the same room. Tell the Welshman and his chum, that if they do not behave themselves well, I will lash them soundly. Cowper. To the Rev. W. Bull, Aug. 1783. CHUNK, i. e. JUNK, qv. CHURCH. A grete chirche (ecclesia) came to gidre for to thinke what they shuldren do to her bretheren, that weren in tribulacioun, and weren ouereummen of hem. CHURL. Cherlich as a cheveteyn His chaumbre to holden. Wic. 1 Mac. v. 16. CLANK. Piers Plouhman's Crede, v. 1159. Holi cherthed (L. V. homelynesse in byleeve) to hym self alone profiteth.-Wic. Pref. Ep. of St. Jerome, p. 64. Hate thou not tranailons werkes, and cherlish doing (L. Quod Pandarus; Thou hast a ful grete care, Chaucer. Troylus and Cressida, i. 1024. CICLATON. Fr. Ciglaton. A kind of garment of precious stuff. Lacombe, Suppl. And see Tyrwhitt's note. His robe was of ciclaton. Chaucer. Rime of Sire Thopas, v. 13664. He wore no armour, ne for none did careAs no whit dreading any liuing wight; But in a jacket, quilted richly rare, Vpon checklaton, he was strangely dight. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. vii. § 43. CIPHER. Ar. Tsaphara, quod vacuum aut inane est. Arithmetic in Encyc. Met. p. 470. Although a sipher in augrim have no might in signification of it selve, yet he yeueth power to other in signification to other.-Chaucer. Test. of Loue, b. ii. CLIMB. COB And shortly up they clomben alle three. CLIP. That tyme Laban was goon to the sheep that shulden be clippid. (L. V. to schere sheepe, ad tondendas oves.) Wic. Gen. xxxi. 19. And (Joseph) seynge hym, felle upon the nek of hym, and bitwix the clippyngis wept. (L.V. collyngis, amplexus.) Id. lb. xlvi. 29. CLIPS. See ECLIPSE, and the Quotation from Piers Plouhman's Vision, where Wright's edition reads clips. And this is cause of this clips That closeth now the sonne.-V. 12346. CLOSE. Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 5352. He (Sampson) roos and toke bothe the closyngis ethir the leeues of the tate (fores porte) with his postis and lok.-Wic. Judges xvi. 3. It is the Romaunt of the Rose, In which all the' Arte of Love I close. CLOT. Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 40. A nettle shal enherite the desirable siluer of hem, a clote (E. V. cloote, lappa, a bur) schal be in the tabernaclis of hem.- Wic. Hos. ix. 6. The place of saphir ben stoonys therof, and the clottis (E. V. gluggis, gleba) therof ben gold.-Id. Job xxviii. 6. CLOUD. On nightes that bee cloudlesse it seemeth that the heauen were paynted wyth dyuers ymages of sterres. Chaucer. Boec. b. iv. m. 1. O fair is Love's first hope to gentle mind! CLOUT. Let us observe Spenser with all his rusty, obsolete words: with all his rough-hewn, clowterly verses: yet take him throughout, and we shall find in him a graceful and poetick majesty.-Phillips. Theatrum. Poet. 1675, Pref. CLOVE. And many a cloue gilofre. CLUB. Chaucer. Rime of Sir Thopas, v. 13693. By Goddes bones, whan I bete my knaves, Chauc. Monkes Prol. v. 13904. CLUMSY. Loose, relaxed, feeble. Fadris bihelden not sones with clumsid hondis (L. V. losid atwynne, manibus dissolutis) fro the comyng of the dai in which alle Filistees shulen be distried. Wic. Jer. xlvii. 3. And ech hert shal faile, alle hondis schulen be aclumsid (E. V. undon, dissolventur) and ech sperit schal be sike. Id. Ez. xxi. 7. Comblid, Comelid, Cumblid, are given as various readings of Clumsid. COL COCK. By Cock, a mincing pronunciation of By God. The Welsh say, Py Cot. See Pie-and Nares. Cam nevere in my tyme Man to me. . . . . That acountede conscience At a cokkes fethere or an hennes. Piers Plouhman, v. 13788. COCKER. COKER. A short stocking or glove. (I) caste on my clothes Yclouted and hole, My cokeres and my coffes For cold of my nailes.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 3915. The barlich was grene, and the flax now buriownde eoddis. (L. V. knoppis, folliculos.)- Wic. Er. ix. 31. And he coueitide to fille his wombe of the coddis (de siliquis) whiche the hoggis eten.-ld. Luke xv. 16. O wombe, o belley, stinking is thy cod (bag), Chaucer. Pardoneres Tale, v. 12468. CENE. Lat. Cana. Wiclif uses this word, var. r. soper. Jon, the Apostil and Euangelist of oure Lord Jhesu Crist, chosen and loued, in so gret loue of dileccion is had, that in the cene on his brest he shulde lyn. COETANEAN. Wic. Apoc. Pref. p. 638. And as sedulous Prudentius, so prudent Sedulius was famous in this poetical divinity, the coetan of Bernard, who sung the History of Christ with as much devotion in himself, as admiration of others. COG. G. Fletcher. Christ's Victory. To the Reader. Concupescentia carnis The love that lith in his herte Is compaignable and confortatif.-Id. v. 10060. Colled me aboute the nekke.-Piers Plouhman, v. 6605. Ech to his nephebore shal helpen, and to his brother And so Esau ran agens his brothir, and collide (E. V. seyn, tak comfort (confortare). Comforten shal the metal clippede, amplexatus est) hym, and Esau helde his necke, smyth smytende-hym with an hamer that forgede that and kissede and wepte.- Wic. Gen. xxxiii. 4. tyme, seiende to glu it is good-and he comfortid (L. V. A col fox, full of sleighe iniquity. Chaucer. Nonnes Preestes Tale, v. 15221. fastenede, confortavit) hym with nailes that it shulde not be moued.- Wic. Is. xli. 6, 7. Bible, 1549, reads Be strong. He nolde coumfortyng take (L. V. counfort, consolationem), but seith, shal descende to my sone weylynge into helle.-Id. Gen. xxxvii: 35. COLLAR. In the multitude of hem (sorewis) my clothing is wastid, COLLATERAL. Thus saying, from his radiant seat he rose COLLECT. And the ey the day, he maad a collect. (L. V. gaderyng of money, collectam.) Wic. 2 Pur. vii. 9; and 1 Cor. xvi. 1. Yet the unshaped use of it doth move COLLIRIUM. They sawe that there was no comfort coming to him (i. e. force in aid, reinforcement), Berners' Froissart, i. 447. COMIC. See COMEDY. COMMENCE. Piers Plouhman writes Comse, Comsede, Comsen, Comsynge. Curteisly the Kyng thanne Comsede to tell.-Piers Plouhman, v. 1566. COMMERCE. On my part I should abstaine from all commercement COMMIT. A person is said to commit himself, when by word or deed he subjects himself to sus Anoynte thin işen with a collerie (M. V. eyesalve) that picion, and consequent inquiry. COLLOP. See Piers Plouhman in v. Cockney. A gradual rise the shelving combe COMB. A cell. See HONEY. COME. Richard of Gloucester and Robert of That is the castel of Care; May banne that he was born.-Piers Plouhman, v. 382. And called me faire.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, 1. 466. I shal lede out hem fro the loond her cumlyngnes (L. V. It cumys the better, i. e. becomes. COMELY. Skelton, i. 129. (Dyce.) COMMIX. The natural substaunce of the Soule is symple, and is not composed nor commixted of partyes of dyuers natures. The Boke of Tulle of Old Age, h. 5. COMMODIOUS. The commodement of the publike in the appendages of an holy peace, as it is, the axun and just carac of heroick enterprizeings, so harentes capite multa cum laude corona, the crown and apex of their glories, whom God shall honour to contribute thereunto, though but a grain or atome. The Art of Logick, or, &c. By Zachery Coke, 1654. Al the puple aarmed wente before, the left comouns (L. Id. Clerkes Tale, v. 7946. In these two Colledges or Innes Serjeants doe common, lodge, converse, conferre and consult, the cheefe justices of either bench.-Stowe. Chron. Univ. c. 12. For the mysterye of the comparacion for to gyve to understonde, that the consolacyons dyuyne ben compared to tribulations.-The Golden Legend, fo. 23, c. 4. COMPASS. Blackstone thus explains the legal acceptation. Let us next see what is compassing or imagining the death of the King, &c. These are synonymous terms; the word compass signifying the purpose or design of the mind or will, and not, as in common speech, the carrying such a design to effect. But, as this compassing or imagining is an act of the mind, it cannot come under judicial coguizance, unless it be demonstrated by some open or overt act. Commentaries, v. iv. c. 6, § 1. COMPASSION. Forsothe in feith alle of o understondinge, or wille, in prezen be ye compacient (compatientes) or ech suffring with other.-Wic. 1 Pet. iii. 8. COMPEL. COMPELLATORY. Which was the strangest and newest sight, and device, that was ever heard or read in any history or chronicle in any region, that a king and queen should be convented and constrained by process compellatory to appear in any court as common persons; within their own realm or dominion to abide the judgment and decrees of their own subjects, having the royal diadem and the prerogatives thereof. Cavendish. Life of Wolsey. COMPETE. Chaucer, Boecius, b. v. pr. 6, renders Lat. Compos sui, Competent to himself. Mess. In Kent, my liege, the Guildfords are in armes, Shakespeare. King Richard III. act iv. sc. 4. Agrippina stormed, that a manumised slaue was become her competitress.-Gordon. Tac. Ann. b. xiii. COMPLEXION. For as the celestyal bodyes abone complecte all and at euery tyme the vniuersal worlde, the creatures therin côteyned, and all their dedes, semblably so dothe history. Berners' Froissart. Cronycle, v. i. Pref. Heads that are disposed unto schism, and complexionably propense to innovation, are naturally indisposed for a community.-Browne. Religio Medici, pt. i. § viii. COMPLY. See COMPLIMENT. Ham. Let me comply with you in the garbe, lest my extent to the Players (which I tell you must shew fairely outward) should more appeare like entertainment than yours.-ld. lb. act ii. sc. 2. He is a good time-server, that complyes his manners to the several ages of this life; pleasant in youth, without wantonness; grave in old age, without frowardnesse. Fuller. Holy State, b. iii. c. 19. COMPOSE. So in your verse a native sweetness dwells, By which doongyng and compostyng the feldes gladeth, COMPROMISE. Me semeth by feiture of womanly property CONCAVE. Fro the centre of therthe vnto the concauite of the heuen of Saturne.-The Golden Legend, fo. 24, c. 2. CONCEIT, i. e. Conception. Chaucer, infra, and others. I have no kynde knowyng, quod I, To conceyven all youre wordes.-Piers Plouhman, v. 5013. To the womman forsothe God seide, I shul multiply thy myseses, and thy concyuynges (conceptus). Wic. Gen. iii. 16. The commune accord, and conceit of the corage of men (humanorum conceptio animorum) proveth and graunteth that God, Prince of all thynges, is good. Chaucer. Boecius, b. iv. pr. 10. CONCERN. God that is eterne CON There are few professed Christians, even amongst the wickedest of them, who have not, one time or other, had some just and concerning thoughts about that course of sin, and those wilful vices, in which they have indulged themselves.-Bp. Hoadley. Ser. ii. Luke xxiii. 42, 43. CONCERT. (Our soul) which hath been admitted into the nearest consortship, into the strictest union with the eternal world. Barrow, v. iii. Ser. xliii. p. 504. CONCUBINE. See CONCRETE. Astrilde hire bedsuster (hire lorde's concubine) CONDIGN. See CONGRUE. reformers') opponents, by whom the oracles of truth were Abp. Lawrence. Bampton Lectures. On Eph. i. 5. consequences-Id. Ib. They considered the dignity of the individual as the meritorious basis of predestination; merit of congruity as the basis of a preordination to grace; and merit of condignity as that of a preordination to glory.-Id. 16. CONDITE. See CONDIMENT. CONDUCE. Condise, Chaucer, i. e. Conduits. Of stremis smal that by devise Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 1414. Oracion of Cayus Flammeus. Wurcestre, Erle of, e. 6. Tullius de Amicitia. Wurcestre, Erle of, b. 3. Men have not with sufficient enquiry searcht or found A tyraunt wened to constraine him (a free man of cou- Nature in you stands on the very verge Shakespeare. King Lear, act ii. sc. 4. CONFITENT. See CONFESS. CONFLAGRANT. So intense-Rag'd the conflagrant mass. CONFLICT. Cary. Dante, Purgatory, xvii. 51. Our bodies, being made of such contrary principles and qualities as by their perpetual confliction do conspire the ruin and dissolution of it. Tillotson. Sermon 130, v. iii. p. 180. CONFOUNDED. Cudworth calls HeraclitusNo clear but (a cloudy and) confounded philosopher."-P. 398. CONFUSE. He bicom so confus He couthe noght toke.-Piers Plouhman, v. 5881. No congie wolde take.-Piers Plouhman, v. 8430. CONGREGATION. Congregationalists, a sect of Protestant Dissenters, who from the time of Elizabeth have maintained that every society of Christians meeting in one place for religious worship under its own laws and ministers forms a legitimate or independent Church. Since called Independents. CONGRUITY. Works done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration of his Spirit, are not pleasant to God, forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Jesu Christ, neither do they make men meet to receive grace, or (as the Schoolmen say) deserve of congruity.-Articles of Religion. Art. xiii. grace CONJECT. And thou, sone of man, sette to thee twei weies, that the swerde of the King of Babiloyne come; both (weies) schulen go out of o lond, and by the ho.d he schal take coniecting (E. V. conjecting or suspicion); he schal coniect in the heed of the weie of the citee (E. V. gesse or thenke, capiet conjecturam, conjiciet).—Wic. Ez. xxi. 19. CONJOIN, s. Belisarius, with whom Heaven's right hand Was link'd in such conjointment, 'twas a sign That I should rest.-Cary. Dante, Purgatory, vi. 26. The gramCONJUNCTION. See CONJOIN. matical distinction of words into conjunction and preposition, as parts of speech, depends on their usage, as connecting sentences or words; when connecting sentences, they are called conjunctions; when words, prepositions. So that the same word may be used for either purpose, as But, And, &c. CONJURE. Conscious of both, their glittering arms he stript, CONSENT. Cowper. Iliad, xi. 135. The remenant were anhanged, more or lesse, CONSERVE. Add CONSERVATISM. S Conservative is a name adopted by the Tories, about the time of passing the CON Reform Bill (1832), expressive of their principle to preserve or conserve our institutions unchanged --and, consequently, of their systematic opposition to reform. And this place of whiche I the tel, Chaucer. House of Fame, ii. 339. From all mischief, and sothfast mediatrice To God above.-Lidgate. Thebes, pt. ii. In all places, where the King is subservient to the Kingdom, or the Commonwealth, the Lord Warden in his absence is conservient unto him, being in his stead, and not under him.-N. Bacon. Hist. Disc. pt. ii. c. 15, p. 136. I think that there runs through your letter, perhaps unconsciously, a constant assumption that the Conservative party is the orthodox one; a very natural assumption in the friends of an existing system, or, as I think, in any one who has not satisfied himself, as I have, that Conservatism is wrong. Arnold. Life. To Mr. Justice Coleridge, Dec. 16, 1835. But not the strongest Tory or Conservative values our Church or Law more than I do. Id. lb. App. C. Boulogne, July 23, 1840. The principle of Conservatism has always appeared to me, not only foolish, but to be actually felo de se. It destroys what it loves, because it will not mend it. Id. Ib. Marshall, Jan. 23, 1840. CONSPERSION. See ASPERSE. By the counsell of Arles it was decreed, that if any church were consecrated, the churchyard of it should require no other hallowing than by simple conspersion. Bp. Hall, iii. 99. Sermon at Excester. CONSPIRE. For alle ze han swore, ethir conspirid (conjurastis) togidere azens me, and noon is that tellith me. Wic. 1 Kings xxii. 8. And whanne his seruauntis hadden swore to gyder azens hym (var. r. bi conspiracioun had sworyn). Id. 2 Par. xxxiii. 24. CONSTRAIN. He commaundid thanne that day to the maystris of werkis, and to the constreyneris of the puple. (L. V. rente gadereris, exactores.)- Wic. Er. v. 6. Feed ze the flok of God, that is in you, purueiynge, not constreynyngli (coacte) but wilfulli (spontanée) up God (secundum Deum).-Id. 1 Pet. v. 2. For well he knewe Dame Abstinaunce; Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 7440. ATE. Consubstantialls are willingly intertained with a kindly embrace, and properly intenerate and supple. Bacon. The Advancement of Learning (Wats), b. iv. c. 2. The question is driven to a narrow issue-Whether when the Sacrament is administered, Christ be whole within man only, or else his body and blood be also externally seated in the very consecrated elements themselves. Which opinion they that defend, are driven either to consubstantiate and incorporate Christ with elements sacramental, or to transubstantiate and change their substance into his: and so the one to hold him really, but invisibly moulded up with the substance of those elements-the other to hide him under the only visible shew of bread and wine, the substance whereof, as they imagine, is abolished, and his succeeded in the same room. CONSUETUDE. Hooker. Ecc. Pol. b. 5, § 67. And whanne the Kynge hadde sitten upon his charger after the consuetude (L. V. by custom, secundum consuetudinem) that was beside the wal, Jonathas roos. Wic. 1 Kings xx. 25 (also in Esth. x. 3.) CONSULT. He that made all the rest made man, but not without a consultory preface.-Bp. Hall, iii. 97. Ser. at Excester. He (the Priest of the Clarian Apollo) utters his answers in verse, which has for its subject the corruptions and wishes of each Consultant.-Gordon. Tac. Ann. b. ii. 8. 54 Men were wont to be contented with a voier dire, or the oath of the party suspected, and the concurrent testimony of other men: the first attesting his own innocency; the other contesting their consciences of the truth of the former testimony; and therefore were and still are called Compurgators.-N. Bacon. Hist. Dis. c. xxxvii. p. 89. CONTINENT. See CONTAIN. CONTINUE. Chaucer, for sake of rhyme, licentiously writes in Rom. of the Rose, contune. Tyrw. It (prayer) must eke be continued Charitee.-Chaucer. Persones Tale. with workes of CONTRARY. And hence, further, To speak (as well as act) against; to gainsay, or contradict. See Chaucer, in the Dictionary. Differing then so widely and almost contrariantly, wherein did these great men (Milton and J. Taylor) agree. Coleridge, Poet. Works, i. 286. Apol. Preface. CONTRIBUTE. To give or pay, or cause to give or pay tribute. Skelton. Graunted not she (Fortune) me to hane victory, In England to rayne (reign) and to contribute Fraunce. Skelton. Death of Edward IV. CONTRITE. Jer. Taylor, the contrition of the serpent's head, and Sir T. Brown, the contrition of crystal to powder. Ac shrift of mouth moore worthi is Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 9093. And Mathatias saide, Woo to me! Wherto am I born for to se contricioun, or distruying of my peple, and contricioun (contritionem) of the holy citee.- Wic. 1 Mac. i. 51. Pride goth before contricioun (L. V. sorewe, contritionem), and befor falling the spirit shal ben enhauncid. ld. Prov. xvi. 18. Now forsothe he shal not stonde in contricioun of sones. (L. V. defoulyng, in contritione; M. V. breakyng forth.) Id. Hos. xiii. 13. COP CONVAILE. See CONVALESCE. To recover. Whereby reviled Causélesse he is, never to convaile. CONVENT. Al the covent forth cam Chaucer. Rem. of L. v. 410. To welcome that tyraunt.-Piers Plouhman, v. 14044. Forsothe if ther shal entre in to youre couent, or gedering to gydere (L. V. cumpany, conventum) a man hauynge a golden ryng, in whijt or fayr cloth.-Wic. Jam. ii. 2. CONVERSE. In Galatians (quoted in Dictionary), Conversation is in the early version lyuynge, from Conversatio. The common usage of the present day, talk, is comparatively very modern. But thei gessiden fleischli delityng to be oure lijf, and the conversatioun (conversationem) of lijf to be made to wynnyng, and that it behoueth to gete on ech side, the of yuel (er malo acquirere).- Wic. Wis. xv. 12. I observe in it (Minshen's Dictionary) the word concersation had not acquired the modern sense of talking; it is explained as "great acquaintance or familiarity," as we now say conversant with public business. Sir J. Mackintosh. Life, i. 106 (1810). CONVERT. And Y schal conuerte the conuersioun of Juda, and I schal conuert the conversioun (L. V. turn the turnyng, convertam conversionem) of Jerusalem, and I schal bilde hem as at the bigynnyng.- Wic. Jer. xxxiii. 7. Sothli Jhesu conuertid (L. V. turnede, conuersus) and seynge hem suwynge him, seith to hem, What seken ze. Id. John i. 38. Moises bad them rede this lawe bifore al Israel in the heeringe of alle men, and wymmen, litel children, and comelingis, either conuersis to the feithe of Jewis, that thei heere and lerne and dreede oure Lord God and kepe and fille alle the wordis of his lawe. Wic. v. i. Jer. Prol. p. 8. And aie gan loue her Lasse for to agast, Than it did erste, and sinken in her herte, That she gan somewhat able to convarte. Chaucer. Troylus and Cressida, b. ii. v. 903. There, the public hope And eye to thee converting, bid the Muse Record what envy dares not flattery call. Thomson. Winter, 1. 39. And so Tholome went to the Kyng, sett in sum porche as for grace of refreytyng or coling. (L. V. coolding, refrigerandi causa.)-Wic. 2 Mac. iv. 46. COP, s. COPE. Low Lat. Capa or Cappa. A kind of loose garment, reaching to the ancles, which was superadded to the other vests. (Pallii instar. Du Cange.) (Heremytes) clothed hem in copes To ben knowen from otheres.-Piers Plouhman, v. 111. Lyfe of our Ladye. W. Carton, a. iii. c. 1. Alas! why werest thou so wide a cope. COPE, v. Chaucer. Monkes Prol. v. 13955. (They) in such wise encountred and coped the one with the othir that both two wer woūded. The Boke of Tulle of Old Age. Carton, 1481, g. 8. COPIE. And loo! a copyous oost (came) in to metyng to hem, of fotemen and horsmen.- Wic. 1 Mac. xvi. 5. COPPLE. See COP. COPULA (in Logic). The word or words by which the subject and predicate are copulated or connected, or by which the predicate is affirmed or denied of the subject. See Quotation from Hobbes in v. Couple. He (Locke) evidently leaned towards the opinion of Aristotle, Scaliger, and Messrs. de Port Royal, and therefore, without having sufficiently examined their position, he too hastily adopted their notion concerning the pretended copula (" as representing an operation of the mind ") Is, and is not.-Tooke. Diversions of Purley, v. 1. c. ii. The whiles I quikne the cors, Called am I Anima.-Piers Plouhman, v. 9631. And whanne he was rysun fro the office of the deed corse (funeris) he (Abraham) spak to the sons of Heth, seiynge. Wic. Gen. xxiii. 3. CORSEINT. Fr. Le Cors seint, the holy body. Hearne. Also, A saint. Tyrwhitt. The corsaynt and the kirke he thrette for to brennynge. Robert of Brunne, p. 44. Knowestow aught a corsaint, That men call Truthe ?-Piers Plouhman, v. 3567. (He) saied, He trowed hire compleint Should, after, cause hire be corseint. Chaucer's Dreme, v. 942. COST. COU costed me nevere This coler. And though it hadde costned me catel, &c. Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 405, 406. And coste in hem (impende) that thei schaue her heedis. Wic. Deedes xxi. 24. Do coste on them that they maye shaue theyr heades. (M. V. be at charges with.)-Bib. 1549. Actes xxi. 24. Also theij weren ful bisy to make a costlewe tabernacle to the onour of God, by his bidding, and techyng, that figuride holi chirche and vertues in mennes soulis. Wic. v. i. Jer. Prol. p. 4. COSTIVE. See Ache, Quotation from Caxton, supra. COSY, adj. COTERIE, s. or It seems merely to be-An QUOTERIE. Sassembly of persons, where each contributes his Quota, to the conference or conversation; now usually applied to select assemblies in fashionable life. Lat. Quot, how many. COTHURNALS. Lat. Cothurnus. The (tragic actors) boot, or shoe, reaching up above the calf. The tragick stage on high cothurnals climes. Sandys. Ovid. Life of. COTIDIAN. See QUOTIDIAN. COUGH. (He) cogheth, and curseth.-Piers Plouhman, v. 12018. COULTER. COV And didden all hir might sens thei were one, Id. Troylus and Cressida, iii. 1407. Chaucer. March. Tale, v. 9066. COUNTOUR. Used as early as Robert of Gloucester. Computator, Accounter, Hearne. Countour, in Chaucer's Duchesse,-Perhaps, treasurer, steward. Adam of Arderne was his chief countour. Robert of Gloucester, p. 538. COUP. See COPE. COUPLE. Wo! that ioynen hous to hous, and feeld to feeld coupleth, yn to the terme of a place.- Wic. Is. v. 8. The trees (tigna) of oure houses cedre; our couplis (laquearia) cipresse.-Id. Song of Solomon, i. 16. And thei auen that monei to the crafti men and masouns for to bie. . . trees (ligna) to the joynyngis of the bildyng, and to the coupling of housis (contignationem). Id. 2 Par. xxxiv. 11. COUR. See COWER. The Lat. Animus is translated COURAGE. CORAIOUSTE. Corage by Chaucer. See in v. Conceive, supra. I abod hym that made me saf, fro to litil coriaouste of spirit. (L. V. lítilnesse, pusilanimitate.) Wic. Psalm liv. 9. I saw the sone of Ysaye Bethlamyte, kunning to harpe, misti by strength, a man euraious in batyl. (L. V. able to batel, bellicosissimum.)-Id. 1 Kings xvi. 18. His men (David's) couraged hym to sle hym (Saul). COUNCIL. Vossius rejects the following ety- in theyr warres. mology-asserted by Hobbes. This word counsel, consilium, corrupted from considium, comprehendeth all assemblies of men that sit together, not only to deliberate what is to be done hereafter, but also to judge of facts past, and of law for the present. Hobbes. Commonwealth, pt. ii. c. xxx. COUNT. See COMPT.-Also COUNTOUR, next column. COUNTENANCE. And somme putten hem to pride, In contenaunce of clothynge comen degised. Piers Plouhman, v. 47. And this Chanon, right in the mene while, Al redy was this preest eft to begile; And for a countenance, in his honde bare An holowe stikke. Chaucer. Chan. Yem. Tale, v. 16732. COUNTER.1 To sing an extemporaneous COUNTRYNG. part upon the plain chant. Not uncommon in Skelton. Dyce. COUNTERACT. Indeed its (Conscience) restorative efficacy, though far more striking, is not so habitual, nor in the whole amount so salutary as its counteractive efficacy. Chalmers. On the Constitution of Man, pt. i. c. 4. COUNTER-BUFFED. See COUNTER. The giddy ship, betwixt the winds and tides Fore'd back and forwards, in a circle rides, Stunn'd with the diff'rent blows; then shoots amain, Till counter-buff'd, she stops and sleeps again. Dryden. Cym. and Iphig. COUNTERFEIT. Counterfeitures of the King's privy signet and sign manual were made treason by Henry VII. Nat. Bacon. Historical Discourse, pt. ii. c. 33, p. 256. Money imbased by counter-facture, clipping, &c. Id. Ib. c. xvi. p. 143. COUNTER-PLEAD. See COUNTER. Ne countreplede clerkes I counseille thee for evere.-Piers Plouhman, v. 7641. For love ne wol not counterpleted be In right ne wrong. Chaucer. Legend of Good Women, Prol. v. 476. COUNTERPOISE. See COUNTER. It shall do us as mochel gode, Chaucer. House of Fame, iii. 660. 25 Óracyon of Cayus Flammeus, e. 8. Wurcestre, Erle of. COURIER. My datis swiftere weren than a corour (cursore); thei floun, and thei sezen no good.- Wic. Job ix. 25. O many thousand times twelue Saw I eke of these pardoneres, Currours and eke messaungeres, With boxes crommed full of lies. Chaucer. House of Fame, b. iii. 1. 1038. COURT-CARDS. See Coat. COURTEOUSLY. Curteisly the kyng thanne Com ayeins Reson And bitwene hymself and his sone Sette hym on bench.-Piers Plouhman, v. 2169. COURTEPY, s. Court pie, or pied-Piers Plouhman and Chaucer. A tunic-too short to reach the feet. Skinner. A short coat of coarse cloth-from the Teut. Kort, curt, and pije, shaggy, coarse wool. -Tyrwhitt. (He was clothed) in kirtle and courtepy |