SUPPLEMENT. In the centre, or midst of the pegme, there was an aback or square, wherein this elogy was written. ABATE. From the Fr. Abattre, has been recently introduced the s. Abattoir, a slaughter-house. ABATIS. Trees felled and thrown in the way, is an old word. . ABBACY. ABBOT is a word of oriental extrac tion, from the Syriac Abba, father; as that from the ABDICATE. B. Jonson. Part of the King's Entertainment. Take off their vizards, and underneath appears wicked Whitlock. Manners of the English, p. 93 (in Todd). The exquisite equilibration of all these opposite and an- Derham. Physico. Theo. b. iv. c. 2. ABERRANCE. With worthie knightes enuironed Gower. Conf. Am. 1. 8, fo. 183. Berners Froissart, v. i. p. 8. c. ix. Probably from the Fr. Abbayer, to hold or keep at bay, or in expectation. Law Lat. Abeyantia. See Spelman. Sometimes the fee may be in abeyance, that is (as the plation in law.-Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. c. 7. word signifies), in expectation, remembrance and contem ABIDE. (He was) bold and abidynge Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 13544. Til two or thre of his messangers yeden Chaucer. Chan. Yem. Tale, v. 16643. The troup went forth. Fairefax. Godfrey of Bulloigne, vi. 22. And he shal be the abidynge of folke of kynde.-Wic. ABIE. In Wic. Job, xx. 18, the early version. ABIT. Wic. See HABIT. His subiects and marchants haue susstained sundry da- Hacluyt, v. i. Prussian Ambas. to Ric. Il 1 ABLE for a Scotticism. His (Charles V.) soldiers worn out with fatigue, were hardly able for such a march, even in a friendly country. Robertson. Charles V. b. 6. An. 1541. ABNEGATE, v. Let us suppose some tyrant command a Christian to burn abnegation of Christ; if the Christian should do this, would incense to Jupiter, without adding any thing of a verbal it not be manifest to all, that by that very act he denied him. Woollaston. Rel. of Nature Delineated, sec. 1. prop. 3. and Norma, a Rule. ABNORMAL. adj. From Lat. prep. Ab- from, Irregular; or, not according to rule, order, system (sc. in construction, or formation;-number of constituent parts). A word of recent introduction,-now common. To practyse such abolete sciens. Skelton. Why come ye, &c. v. 700. ABORIGINAL; Ab-origine; Equivalent to, and perhaps intended to be more forceful thanOriginal, primitive. Their (the Biscayner's) language is accounted aboriginal, and unmixed with either Latin, French, or Spanish. Swinburne. Travels in Spain, Let. 44. ABORTIVE, adj. That can or may produce abortions, or immature births: hence (Milt.) producing nothing: fruitless. He is but abortif.-Piers Plouhman's Crede, v. 485. Of unessential night receives him next Milton. Par. L. ii. 441. In her womb (the mines of the earth) those deserted mineral riches must ever lie buried as lost abortments, unless those (criminals employed as labourers) be made the active midwives to deliver them. Bacon. Speech touching drowned mineral works. ABOUND. Before the execution of this judgment (the flood) and amidst those aboundings of sin and wickedness, yet God left not himself without a witness in the hearts of men. South. Ser. v. ii. p. 220. ABRAIDE, i. e. started out of sleep. Chaucer. House of Fame, b. i. 110. 302. w. 15, Aliis cor ipsum animus videtur, ex quo ex-cord-es, lius Scaliger and Skinner, from ad and chorda, a string-Vox ab arte musica-deprompta.) Chaucer uses the verb Cord, qv. Ac adjectif and substantyf unite asken Acordaunce in kynde, in cas and in nombre Piers Plouhman's Vision, p. 55, 4to. If euen song and morwe accord.-Chaucer. Prol. v. 832. ACCOUCHEU'R. A French noun, common in The medical attendant upon women in child-bed. ACCOUTRE, n. Fr. Accoutrer or Accoustrer. The French Coustre or Coultre, was the sexton of the church, and he was the Custos of the sacred vests ABUSE. In Skelton, to vitiate, to deprave.--he officiated at putting on and taking off the vests; That speken aten the ristwis wickidness;-in pride, and in abusion. (L. V. Misusyng, in abusione.) He scurrilously reviles the king and parliament by the ABYSM. He, tho' from heav'n remote, to heav'n could move Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 12873. (They) semen caitiffes sore acale. Chaucer. Plowman's Tale, v. 2011. Her herte is hote as any fyre ACATALEPSY. Gr. Akaraλna. Incompre- It appears there were many scatter'd in both Academies, the Old and New (much more among the Sceptiques) that held this Acatalepsie in simplicitie and integritie. Wats. Bacon. de Aug. 1. v. c. 2. ACCEDE. ACCESS. In Wiclif, 'Access of soule' ACCEPT. After 1. 5, add- To take to; to take or undertake, the perform- Acceptation of words;-the signification in which Why comes not Death, Said he, with one thrice acceptable stroke ACCESS. See ACCEDE. ACCIDIE, s. Low Lat. Accidia, frequently used and hence Accoustrer, to dress, from Accustodire, to take care of (sc. the sacred vests). See Custos The sone acresynge, Joseph the sone acresynge (accres- cens) and semly in sigt.- Wic. Gen. xlix. 22. ACCUSE. Used by Chaucer as the Fr. Accuser Right so the christall stone shining The entrees of the yerd accuseth To him that in the water museth. Chaucer. Rom. of Rose, v. 1591. The second accusement is oure owne trespas.-The Golden ACCUSTOM. ACKNOW. ACR (This) I mean to perform, though I dare not be acknown Raleigh to Sir R. Cecil, 10th March, 1591. ACLUMSID. Wic. See CLUMSID. A'CME. Gr. Axμŋ, from aкŋ, acies, cuspis. An attendant (in the Romish church), who car- [It is his duty] to ordain the acolythist to keep the sacred Acumbred.- Wic. is a var. r. of azen-frussheden—or— weren starke. Ex. xv. 15. (obriguerunt.) They ben acombred with coveteise. Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 852. Methinketh the palse inel (palsy disease) hath acomered ACOUPER. Fr. Acoulper, to Accuse, to declare In a curteis manere.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 8896. That can or may hear; pertaining to hearing or Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 11756. He seith to his fadir, my hened 'I aake, my heued 'I colyk or of the stone, or costyfnes. The Boke of Tulle of old Age. Caxton, 1481, 1. 3. Or Gellia wore a velvet mastick patch Old sinners Can by their pangs and aches find All turns and changes of the wind. ACHROMATIC. Gr. Axowμatikos, expers Free from, without, colour. Dr. Brewster de- Your service right well shall I acquite. The word imports properly an acquitment or discharge of a man upon some precedent accusation, and a full trial and cognizance of his cause had thereupon.-South. ACRO'NYCAL. Gr. Aкpovvč, the first part of ACRO'NYCALLY. the night; aкpovvxos, even- ing; arpoç, beginning; vuk, night. Evening, time of sunset; (applied to stars, &c. The achronical rising [of a constellation] is when it ap- pears at the close of day and in opposition to the sun's diur- nal course.-Dryden. Virgil. Eneis, Ded. He [Orion] is tempestuous in the summer when he rises heliacally, and rainy in the winter, when he rises achroni- ACRO'STIC, adj. Fr. Acrostiche; It. Acròs- ACRO'STIC, n. , tico; Gr. Ακρο-στιχος, the first part of a verse (arpoç, first part, and orixos, Verses, in which the first letters of each line, taken successively, form a word. 2 Pope. Essay on Man, ii. 59. Lat. Acuere, to sharpen; Martinius. ACUATE, v. & adj. Fr. Acuité, Acuity, sharp- his throne, he cast his handes abrode, as he adoured and ACUITY. ness, keenness. Harvey says, that certain diets inflame and acuate the blood. Ashmole speaks of acuate iron or steele; and Perkins of the acuity or bluntness of a pin.-Todd. ADAGE. Festus, Ad-agia, ad agendum apta; and thus applicable to proverbs directing the actions of men, the conduct of life. Aristotle goes further than the old Adagial saying, The beginning is half the work. His words are: The beginning is more than half the whole business. Woollaston. Rel. of Nature Delineated, sec. iv. n. U. ADDICE. Dutch, Ackse, Axe, Aeckse; Ger. Arte; Sw. Yrte; Dan. Ore, from Ger. Hacken, to hack (qv. and Hatchet); or from Ecke, an edge, qv.; Fr. Hache (ant. aisceau); It. Acca, Acetta; Sp. Hacha. See Quot. from Defoe in v. Dub. infra ADDICT. Neither should we at this day be so addict to superstition, were it not that we so much esteemed the filling of our bellies.-Homilyes, ii. 97. If he be addict to vice Shakespeare. Passionate Pilgrim, § 18. ADDUCENT. See ABDUCENT. Life of our Ladye, i. III. Sir John Bushe, as oft as he spake unto the King in worshipped God, besechinge his excelse, high, and adourant maiestie, that he would witsafe to graunt this or that. Grafton. Chron. R. E. An. 21. The respectful salutation of carrying the hand to the mouth, ad os, is the root of the Latin word ad-ora, adorare (to adore).-Gibbon, c. liii. n. 49. ADORN. Adore is written by Spenser for Adorn. On her head A chapelet of sundry flowers she wore, ADREAD. Alle derke develes AFF An advocate was also (consequentially) a patron, As shameful deth as herte can divise Chaucer. Par. Prol. v. 12225. Advowson is the right of presentation to a church, or ecclesiastical benefice. Advowson, advocatio, signifies in clientelam recipere, the taking into protection: and therefore is synonymous with patronage, patronatus: and he who has the right of advowson is called the patron of the church. Blackstone. Commentary, b. ii. c. 3. ESTHETIC, adj. Gr. αισθητικός, that can or may feel (αισθαν-εσθαι) -which is contradistinguished by Greek philosophers from NoηTikog, that can or may understand; as the ra vonra-things perceptible to the understandingare by Mathematicians from ra aιo@nra-sensible Spenser. F. Q. iv. 246. things. And thus the usage of this Neoteric by Alex. Baumgarten, who gave the title of Esthetica to a work published by him at Frankfort in 1750-58, is, etymologically, of doubtful propriety; yet it is established in this and other countries as well as in Germany. Its opposite AN-ÆSTHETIC : that can or may destroy sensibility-(sc. during surgical operations)—is of very recent introduction. That can or may feel.-The word seems to be applied to Arn a-drad to heren it.-Piers Plouhman, v. 13001. And if it were so- (i. e. if the signification of the pre- ADVANCE. He that quantith (E. V. bostish-jactat se) him sylf ADVENTURE. When aventrous cometh to justes.-Id. ib. 12103. He was in great adventure of his life.-Id. ib. ii. 306. ADVISE, written Avise, qv. And whanne Jacob hadde arise auysele (mature) he toke his twey wives, &c.- Wic. Gen. xxxii. 22. If any man shal of avisement (L. V. be forecasting-per industriam) slee his neizbour, and by aespies, fro myn auteer thou shal pul hym, that he be slayn. Wic. Er. xxi. 14. And if you thinketh this is wel ysaid, Men seruynge greetli ethir to afectioun (affectui), ethir to kingus puttiden to stoonys and trees the name that mai not be comynyd (E. V. uncommunicable, qv. ). Wic. Wis. xiv. 21. AFFEER, v. Fr. Affeurer, Afforer; (qv.) Lat. Af-forari, from ad and forum. Sk. and Du Cange: the latter says-Forum was used for the Price of things to be sold. And Lacombe and Roquefort, that old Fr. Fuer, had the same usage. To set or fix a forum or market price, to rate, to set or fix a rate, fine, or amerciament: gen. To fix, affix, affirm, or assure. See To AFFORD, infra. Rest this nygt, and morwetide doon, if he wole take thee Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 1870. by ryst of affynytye, the thyng is wel doo. (L. V. nyt kyn, propinquitatis.)-Wic. Ruth, iii. 13. And in hire hand Chaucer's Dreme, v. 1884. ADULTER, v. AVOWTRESSE. He forsook auoutrie. He refuside the hordom (stuprum). AFFIX, v. And if a wicke man, I shal be, wo is to me; and if rittivis, I shal not reren up the hed, fulfilld with affliccioun (L. V. turment; afflictione) and wrecchidness. Wic. Job x. 15. (Let us) re-assembling our afflicted Powers, AGULT. To be guilty of wrong; to sin against. aleagar set at liberty. And thanne wolde lordes and ladies And to taken of hir tenaunts Moore than trouthe wolde.-Piers Plouhman, v. 10230. The Seint Spirit agulte.-Ibid. v. 11958. Add, Fr. Aiguiller - A case for A silver needle forth I drew, AIL, v. AFT. After comers. (Wic. Gen. xxi. 23. posteris meis) After-coming. (Id. Ecclus. iii. 32, xi. 17, successus.) See Welsome, infra. And after that his dice turned on chances Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 98. I find here since your departing. from Wiclif. Chaucer. Troylus and Cressida, b. ii. v. 1347. AGAIN. Again is used by Wiclif in the force of the Latin prefix Re-, as Agen ask, re-petere, agen clepe re-vocare;-lede, re-ducere; shine, re-splendere; telle, renuntiare; wynse, recalcitrare. Glos. to Wic. Bible. See AIR, s. Tho' gan Snowes, &c.-Chaucer. House of Fame, b. 2, v. 457. For Agenbyar. See Caxton in v. Illumine. Whos arenbirgynge (redemptio) shal be after o month. Wic. Num. x. 16. O thou souerayn syre and prince of the hous of Ysrahel come and agenbye us with thy puyssauce. The Golden Legend. Westm. 1483, fo. 1, c. iii. AGASP. To gar for agaspe.-Skelton. Forthermore-he ful ont sounned, that he agaste hem, AGAZE. See AGAST. The theory which explains the causes of things. Bp. Hall uses the word. See the quotation from him in v. Chronology. AJUST. See ADJUST. But verray love is vertue, as I fele, Chaucer. Court of Love, v. 1076. Southey. Madoc, vii. 5. 250. AKNOW. See ACKNOW. And he was ful fair in his greetness and in alargyng Wic. Ez. xxxi. 7. Taylor is eminently discursive, accumulative, and (to (E. V. spredyng-dilatatione) of hise trees. use one of his own words) agglomerative. Coleridge. Poetical Works, i. 286. AGGRAVATE. Lat. Ag-gravare. Wic. also uses, ALAY. See ALLAY. At the tyme appoincted for the ministracion of the holy communion, the priest that shal execute the holy ministery, shall put upon hym the vesture appoincted for that ministracion, that is to saye, a white Albe, plain, with a vestement or cope.-The Booke of the Common Praier, &c. Whitechurch, 1549. ALBATROSS. Called, by Dampier, Algatross. A large bird, of the gull kind, inhabiting the tropics, and more southerly. They [English seamen] have several other signs,whereby to know when they are near it, as by the sea-fowl they meet at sea, especially the algatrosses, a very large winged fowl.-Dampier. Voyages, an. 1691. Mr. Foster shot an albatross, whose plumage was of a colour between brown and dark grey, the head and upper side of the wings rather inclining to black, and it had white eye-brows.-Cook. Second Voyage, b. i. c. 3. ALBLASTER. See ARBALIST. ALEGGE, v. The firste tyme is aleggid or maad list (alleviata est) the lond of Zebulon, and the lond of Neptalym; and the last tyme aggreggid (aggravata est) is the weie of the se bejunde Jordan.-Wic. Isaiah, ix. 1. How be it that the Age past had be lenger, yet it may Resceyue to the an alien wooman (alienigenam) and she shal twine thee vp(so)doun in a whirlewynde, and alienen thee fro thi propre weies.- Wic. Ecclus. xi. 36. Whethir not perdicioun is to the wicke, and alienyng (L. V. alienacioun) to men werkende wickenesse. Id. Job xxxi. 3. ALIGHT. (He) schal alistne the hid thingis of dercknesse. (L. V. Listne, illuminabit.)- Wic. 1 Cor. iv. 5. A'LIQUOT. (Lat.) Applied to a quotient or divisor without a remainder. ALKALI. Glasswort (a plant used in the manufacture of glass) is called by the Arabs El Kali, whence the name of the salt, Al Kali.- Volney. Alcaly is enumerated by the Canones Yeoman as one of the articles used in alchemy, v. 16278. Many subderivatives from this substantive are common in works of Science. ALL. See to-Al to breke, &c. In the phrases-al alone, al only, al hol, al holey, al newe, (see in Mr. Tyrwhitt's Glos.) the al is merely emphatical. So is at all-or in the whole-in "None at all." "Over all;" All over. Al and som-is all and every, the common law phrase. Al in one, is all in one, or the same moment or time; and all is sometimes used alone, as equivalent for all be it— although, (qv.) All or al is much used to give emphasis or aug- Chaucer. Marchantes Tale, v. 9200. Id. Prioresses Tale, v. 13385. Chaucer's Dreame, v. 673. Id. Marchantes Tale, v. 9098. And Ocozie felde thorou the aleris of his soler, whiche he hadde in Samarie, and was sijk (per cancellos cœnaculi, L. V.).- Wic. 4 Kings, i. 2. And he bildide foure aleis betwixe the pilers of syluer (deambulacra). (E. V. aluris.)-Id. 3 Kings, vii. 2. The sides of every street were covered with fresh alures of marble, or cloisters, crowned with rich and lofty pinnacles. (See Deambulation.) Warton. History of English Poetry, v. ii. p. 93. ALLICIENT. See ALLECT. AʼLLIGATOR. A large species of lizard: Sp. Lagarto; Lat. Lacerta. And in his needie shop a tortoys hung, Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet, Act v. sc. 1. Alligators are also in great numbers in all the creeks, rivers, and lagunes in the bay of Campeachy. [The alligator] is shaped like a lizard. Dampier. Voyages, an. 1676. ALLODIAL. Blackstone suggests All, whole, and Odh, property. When any thing is said to be his, it is not said, that part of it only is his. P. has therefore the all or all-hood (freehold) of it, and consequently all the use of it. Woollaston, Rel. of Nat. Delineated, sec. vi. § 12. ALLOW, v. Some lakkede my lif, Allowed it fewe.-Piers Plouhman, v. 9595. Piers Plouhman's Vision, p. 141, 4to. ed. Abram louede to God, and it was alowid to hym for rigtwisnes. (L. V. arrettid. Lat. reputatum est.) Wic. Gen. xv. 6. To alowen (L. V. to take, accipere) the persone of the unpitouse in dom, is not good, that thou bowe awei fro the sothfastnesse of dom.-Id. Prov. xviii. 5. As gold in furneis he prouede hem, and as brent sacrifyse of Ost he loouwede (v. r. alouwid, L. V. took, accepit) them, and in time shal ben the biholdyng of hem. Id. Wis. iii. 6. And yron bound coffres.-Piers Plouhman, v. 9394. Why is Poul seid the vessel of eleccoun? forsothe for the vessel of the lawe, and of holi scripture he was the almery. Wic. Bib. Pref. Ep. p. 64, col. 1. These same thingis weren born in discriptions, and the Almeries of Neemye. (L. V. Exposiciouns, Commentarii.) Wic. 2 Mac. ii. 13. Than of his aumener he drough A little keie.-Chaucer. Romant of the Rose, v. 2087. Blessed shall thyne Aulmery be and thy store. (Mod. Vers. Basket.)-Bible, 1549. Deut. xxviii. ALONE. And al in one God-hed AME Endles dwelleth.-Piers Plouhman's Creed, v. 7. lyveth not in breed aloone, but in euery word of God. And he thougte these thingis, that whanne thei weren slayn, he schulde sette tresoun to our aloonenesse. (E. V. onlihede, solitudini.)-Id. Esth. xvi. 14. And here I gan my wo complaine Wishing and wepyng all mine one. Gower. Conf. Am. b. i. fo. 82. (He) stoode, as who saith, all hym one Then let us not that honour him deny Fairefax. Godfrey of Bulloigne, xix. 117. God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live and move and have our being.-Bentley (in Johnson). ALOOTHING. See LOATHE. ALOW. Lo! the Lord shal make thee to ben born awei, and as an amyse (amictum) so he shal under reren thee. Wic. Is. xxii. 17. (E. V.) Alle schulen wexe olde as a cloth, and thou schalt chaunge hem as an amyte (amictum) or girdynge about. Id. Heb. i. 12. AMISS. For the same mesures that ye mete Why some be a-lough, and some aloft. Lyfe of our Ladye, h I. col. 2. W. Carton. ALTAR. ALTARAGE. L. Lat. Altaragium. An oblation to or at the Altar. The fires which that on min auter brenne, ALVEARY, 8. Lat. Alvear (from Alvus), applied to a beehive; any hive or store; a cell in a beehive. Thus within a yeere, or two, they (my pupils) had gathered together a great volume, which (for the apt similitude between the good Scholers, and diligent bees gathering their waxe and honie into their hive) I called then their alvearie.-Baret. Alvearie. To the Reader. ALURIS. See ALLEY. AMAIE. Fr. Esmayer; Sp. Esmayer. To be sad, pensive, carefully to take thought.-Cot. See ESMAY and DISMAY. This kynge with noble purueiance Out of the citee for to plaie.-Gower. Con. Am. b. i. Id. Ib. 1. 7, fo. 176, col. 2. Milton. History of England, b. ii. AMBIDEXTER, s. p. 72. He is charged to have been long a notorious and common ambederter. Ellesmere. Memorial to Queen Elizabeth. Campbell, ii. 207. AMBIENT. Air being a perpetual ambient and ingredient, and the defects thereof incorrigible in single habitations, doth in these respects require the more exquisite caution. Reliquia Wottoniana, p. 7. AMBITION. I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds. The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer. Milton. Samson Agonistes, 247. Pausanias ambitioning (affectans) the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage. Turnbull. Justin, b. ii. c. 15. AMEND, v. With no wil to amende.-Piers Plouhman, v. 1082. Lyfe of our Ladye, b. vii. c. 1. W. Carton. Chaucer. Knightes Tale, v. 3076. ANA-MORPHOSIS. A deformation of an object or objects, which viewed in a certain position shall appear regular and well defined. See Locke on the Understanding, b. ii. c. xxix. § 8, and Metamorphosis. ANASA'RCOUS. Gr. Ava, and σap, the flesh. Above the flesh, and beneath the skin; i. e. between the two. I found his body much extenuated, his legs anasarcous, and his back and hips excoriated with lying in bed. Wiseman. Surgery, b. i. c. 23. |