Obrázky na stránke
PDF
ePub

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.

[blocks in formation]

Wic. 1 Mac. v. 16.

CLANK.
Lo! the spell now works around thee,
And the clankless chain hath bound thee.
Byron. Manfred, i. 1.
CLAP.

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.
V. erthetilthe, rusticationem) foormed of the heizest.
Id. Ecc. vii. 16.

Quod Pandarus; Thou hast a ful grete care,
Lest that the chorle may fal out of the mone.

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.

[blocks in formation]
[blocks in formation]
[blocks in formation]

CLIMB.

COB

And shortly up they clomben alle three.
Chaucer. The Milleres Tale, v. 3636.

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.
Now is it (Love) faire and now obscure,
Now bright, now clipsy of manere,
And whilom dimme, and whilom clere.

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!
As Eve's first star through fleecy cloudlet peeping.
Coleridge. First Advent of Love.

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,
She bringeth me the grete clobbed staves
And cryeth-Slee the dogges evich on.

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.

[blocks in formation]

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.
Tell us a fable anon (for cockes bones).
Chaucer. Per. Prol. v. 17340.
I make a vow by Goddes digue bones.
Id. Pard. Tale, v. 12629.
COCKATRICE.
Upon the eddre and the kokatrice thou schalt go, and
thou schalt totrede the leoun, and the dragoun.
Wic. Ps. xc. 13.

COCKER. COKER. A short stocking or glove.
Wright. Evidently used for warmth.

(I) caste on my clothes

Yclouted and hole,

My cokeres and my coffes

For cold of my nailes.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 3915.

[blocks in formation]

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),
Fulfilled of dong and of corruption.

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.

[blocks in formation]

Concupescentia carnis

[blocks in formation]

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,
and as with a coler (capitio) of a cote thei girten me.
Wic. Job xxx. 18.
COLLATE.
And collacioun (collatione), or spekynge togidre maad,
he sente twelue thousand dregmes of syluer to Jerusalem.
Wic. 2 Mac. xii. 43.

COLLATERAL.

Thus saying, from his radiant seat he rose
Of high collateral glory.-Milton. Pur. L. x. 86.

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.
Her speech is nothing,

Yet the unshaped use of it doth move
The hearers to collection; they aim at it, &c.
Shakespeare. Hamlet, act iv. sc. 5.
That is, to make collection of her meaning, to gather, to
infer it.

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
with that party, either by word, writing, or deed.
Strype. Records, Henry VIII. No. 84.
COMMISSION. See COMMIT.

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.
thou se.- Wic. Apoc. iii. 18.

COLLOP. See Piers Plouhman in v. Cockney.
COLLOQUY. See COLLOGUE.

[blocks in formation]

A gradual rise the shelving combe
Displayed.-Southey, v. 252. Madoc, ii. 8,

COMB. A cell. See HONEY.

COME. Richard of Gloucester and Robert of
Brunne write the past Com. Piers Plouhman, Cam.
So that he was al to raced pecemel in a stonde,
Eche lym from other among the roches, er he com to
gronde.-R. Gloucester, p. 22.
Wilaf Kyng of Merce, he com to that stoure.
Robert of Brunne, p. 17.

That is the castel of Care;
Who so comth therinne

May banne that he was born.-Piers Plouhman, v. 382.
A lovely Lady of leere,
In lynnen y-clothed,
Cam doun from a castel

And called me faire.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, 1. 466.
Lo! Astronomyens camen fro the eest to Jerusalem.
Wic. Matt. c. 2.
Forsothe myndeful thei weren set of tho thingus that
were don, in the comeling woning of hem. (L. V. dwellyng
of hem among Egipcians, in incolatu.)-Id. Wis. xix. 10.

I shal lede out hem fro the loond her cumlyngnes (L. V.
dwelling, incolatûs), and thei shulen not entre in to the
loond of Egipte.-Id. Ez. xx. 39.

It

cumys the better, i. e. becomes.

COMELY.

Skelton, i. 129. (Dyce.)

[blocks in formation]

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.
COMMON, v.

Al the puple aarmed wente before, the left comouns (L.
V. comyn puple, vulgus) folowid the Arke.
Wic. Josh. vi. 9.
And Moyses seide to the Lord, The comounte (L.V. comyn
puple, vulgus) may not steye up into the hil of Synay.
Id. Ex. xix. 23.
Yeman on fote, and communes many on
With shorte staves, thicke as they may gon.
Chaucer. Knightes Tale, v. 2511.
Thus in delit he liveth (and hath don, yore)
Beloued and drad, thurgh favour of Fortune,
Bothe of his lordes and his commune.

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.

[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small]

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.

[blocks in formation]

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,
And every houre more competitors
Flocke to the rebels, and their power growes strong.

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. He did complie with his dugge before he suckt it.
Shakespeare. Hamlet, act v. sc. 2.

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,
Which shames composure, and its art excells.
Dryden. Ep. to Sir R. Howard.
COMPOST.

By which doongyng and compostyng the feldes gladeth,
the grounde wexith more fructuous and plenteouse.
The Boke of Tulle of Old Age, f. 1.

COMPROMISE.

Me semeth by feiture of womanly property
Ye should be trusty and trew of comprimis.
Chaucer. The Craft of Lovers.

[blocks in formation]

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
The trouthe of thynges clerely can conserne.
Lyfe of our Ladye, e. 3, c. 2.

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.

[blocks in formation]

CONCUBINE.

See CONCRETE.

Astrilde hire bedsuster (hire lorde's concubine)
And hire dofter Auerne heo let nime atte fine.
Robert of Gloucester, v. 27.
And the King (Dauid) lefte ten wymmen concubyns
(concubinas), that is, secundarie wyues, to kepe the hous.
Wic. 2 Kings xv. 16.
Thou schalt not take the sister of thi wijf into concu-
binage of her. (L. V. liggyn bi hir, pellicatum.)
Id. Lev. xviii. 18.

CONDIGN. See CONGRUE.
According to the perverted theology of their (i. e. the

reformers') opponents, by whom the oracles of truth were
little studied, and less regarded, the corruption of our
nature, as far as it relates to the mental faculties, was
deemed wholly ideal; by congruous merit we were thought
competent to obtain God's favour here, and by condign, the
fruition of his glorious Godhead hereafter; while it was
conceived, that on account of both we were predestined to
salvation.

Abp. Lawrence. Bampton Lectures. On Eph. i. 5.
They (the Scholastics) believed predestination to be
God's everlasting purpose to confer grace and glory upon
individuals who deserve the first congruously, and not the
latter condignly; conceiving us competent, by our own
virtues, to extricate ourselves from crime and its alarming

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.
See Quotation from Caxton in v. Illume, infra.
But I ne can the nombre tel

Of stremis smal that by devise
Mirth Lad done come thorough condise.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 1414.
Our people were neuir more wretchidly and perylously
conduyted.

Oracion of Cayus Flammeus. Wurcestre, Erle of, e. 6.
But ouer that (he made hymself) the guyde and con-
duytour of the same.

Tullius de Amicitia. Wurcestre, Erle of, b. 3.
CONDUPLICATION. So Wats renders the Lat.
Conduplicatio of Bacon.

Men have not with sufficient enquiry searcht or found
out of what nature the action of sense is; and what kind
of body; what delay; what conduplication of impression
are required to this, that pain or pleasure should follow ?-
Bacon. The Advancement of Learning (Wats), h. iv. c. 3.
CONFEDER.

A tyraunt wened to constraine him (a free man of cou-
rage) by tourments to maken him discoueren and accusen
folke, that wisten of a conjuration (conjurationis conscios)
which I cleape a confederacy, that was cast ayenst this
pr. 6.
tyraunt.-Chaucer. Boecius, b. ii.

[blocks in formation]
[blocks in formation]

Nature in you stands on the very verge
Of her confine: you should be rul'd, and led
By some discretion, that discerns your state
Better than you yourself.

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.
CONGE.
Clergie

[ocr errors]

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.

[blocks in formation]

Conscious of both, their glittering arms he stript,
For he had seen them when from Ida's height
Achilles led them to the Græcian fleet.

CONSENT.

Cowper. Iliad, xi. 135.

The remenant were anhanged, more or lesse,
That were consentant of this cursednesse.
Chaucer. Doctoures Tale, v. 12210.

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,
There as Fame doth yliste to dwell,
Is sette amiddes of these thre,
Heven, and erthe, and eke the se,
As most conservatife of soun.

Chaucer. House of Fame, ii. 339.
For it (Truth) in sothe of kingdomes and of realmes
Is bearer up and conservatrice

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.

[blocks in formation]

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;
But he ne knewe not Constreinaunce.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 7440.
Alas the wo, the constraint, and the mone,
That Progne upon hire dombe suster maketh.
Id. Philomela, v. 2380.
CONSUBSTANTIATE. See TRANSUBSTANTI-

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

[blocks in formation]

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
If man be y-liche contrit.

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.

[blocks in formation]

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.

[blocks in formation]

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.
The nyght auoyded with his copes donne
Afore the upperyst of the bryght sonne.

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.

[blocks in formation]

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.

[blocks in formation]

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.
Words common in familiar
COSILY. speech, denoting a great degree of
COSINESS. Scordial, social comfort.

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.

[blocks in formation]

COV

And didden all hir might sens thei were one,
For to recoveren blisse and ben at ese,
And paised wo with joyes counterpaise.

Id. Troylus and Cressida, iii. 1407.
COUNTERTAIL, 8. Fr. Contre-taille. (See in
Cotgrave.) To tally in return; to cor-respond.
Folweth Ecco, that holdeth no silence
But ever answereth at the countertaille.

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).
The Chrysten Rule of the whole World, A. 4.
Whiche were the chief helpers and courageours of them

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,
Apparailed hem therafter,

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,
And to our herte as moche availe
To counterpeise ese, and travaille,
As we had wonnen with labour.

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
And a knyf by his syde.
Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 2633.
Ful thredbare was his overest courtepy.
Chaucer. Prol. v. 291.

[blocks in formation]
« PredošláPokračovať »