Wherefore it otherwise be but that the itenes, scantness, and imperfection of our narrow understandings, must make them assymetral or incommensurate, to that which is absolutely and infinitely perfect. Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 640. ASYMMETRY. ASYMMETRAL. ASYMMETROUS. Quantities compared with respect to such a measure are by geometricians wont to be called symmetrous or assymetrous, i. e. commensurable or incommensurable. Barrow. Math. Lectures, Lec. 15. The shright this faucon yet more pitously ASYLUM. Chaucer. The Squiere's Tale, v. 10,788. Fr. Asyle; It. Asilo; Sp. Asylo; Lat. Asylum; Gr. Aovxov. Ab, a, priv. et ovan, dest spolium; quia, eo qui confugissent, hos spoliare non liceret, (Vossius.) Because those who fled to them were secure from harm. the quotations. See The first asylum, some say, was built at Athens by the Heraclidæ, and was a refuge for those that fled from the rsion of their fathers: others will have this to be a sanctuary for all sorts of suppliants. Potter. Antiquities, b. ii. c. 2. Romulus for to increase the number of inhabitants (according to the old practice of the founders of cities, who by athering about them the base multitude and obscure, figned that they were an offspring borne out of the earth,) set up a sanctuarie or lawlesse church, called asylum. Holland. Livius, p. 7. RETPOV, measure. the examples. Disproportion, irregularity. AT. This preposition is usually derived from the Latin Ad. Skinner says, At, ab; A. S. Et, ad, apud, utr. a Lat. Ad. In our old writers we find applications of the word differing from those in modern use. Thus, in Robert of Gloucester, At stonde, and at holde; now, with-stand, and with-hold. In Chaucer, to see at eye, i. e. with eye, &c. By Wilkins it is used to denote, touching by approach the surface; in opposition to from, touching on departure the opposite edge or surface. Here they [foxes] bred; from hence they infested the Country; and to this inaccessible asylum they retreated in the tour of alarm.-Gilpin. Tour to the Lakes. A'SYMPTOTE. Comp. of Gr. a, not, σuv, with, and TITTEL, to fall. That never falls in with, or upon applied to lines in Geometry. From a, priv. and ovμ- Is not the whole doctrine of asymptotical lines thus effectually overthrown;-a doctrine, indeed, wonderful, but no less certain than any other part of geometry. Barrow. Math. Lectures, Lect. 9. It plainly appears what is assymmetry, or incommensurability, viz. an enormous, disproportionate, disagreeable, or defective quantity of a thing. #LESSIVE, Barrow. Math. Lectures, Lec. 15. VOL. L At may thus be said to be used to denoteNear approach, nearness or proximity, adjunction or conjunction, association or consociation, connection, consequence. [They] fogte and slowe much folk, for no mon hem at stod. Erles, barons, inowe mad him ther feaute With oth he did tham bowe, at his wille to be. R. Brunne, p. 331. For he had mayntend the werre at his myght.-Id. p. 329. And thei helden the word at hemsilf seekinge what this schulde be, whanne he had risun agen fro deeth. Wiclif. Mark, c. 9. And Jhesus answerde and seyde to hem, a unfeithful generacioun and weyward: hou longe schal I be at you, and suffre you?-Id. Luke, c. 9. And dwelle ye in the same hous etinge and drynkynge tho thingis that been at hem, for a werkman is worthi his hire, nyle ye passe fro hous into hous.-Id. Ib. c. 10. I speke tho thingis that I saigh at my fadir; and ye doen tho thingis that ye saighen at youre fadir. Id. Ion. c. S. Therfore we justified of feith haue we pees at god bi oure lord ihesu crist.-Id. Romayns, c. 5. Neither is there any atazie to be feared in bringing in this distinction, betwixt pastors and the flock: it is an eutazie, rather; and such, as without which, nothing could ensue, but confusion. Bp. Hall. Epis. by Divine Right, pt. iii. § 1. It appeareth in nothing more, that atheisme is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man, than by this; that atheists will ever be talking of that their opinion, as if they fainted in it, within themselves, and would be glad to be strengthened by the consent of others: nay more, you shall have atheists strive to get disciples, as it fareth with other sects: and, which is most of all, you shall have of them that will suffer for atheisme, and not recant; whereas if they did truly thinke that there were no such thing as God, why should they trouble themselves?-Bacon. Essay. Of Atheisme. See DEITY, and the quotation from Bacon. Atheologian rests upon the authority of Hayward. They of your society [Jesuits,] as they took their original from a soldier, so they are the only atheologians, whose heads entertain no other object but the tumult of realms; whose doctrine is nothing but confusion and bloodshed. Hayward. Answ. to Doleman, c. 9. Speculative atheism is unreasonable, and that upon these five accounts: 1. Because it gives no tolerable account of the existence of the world. 2. Nor does it give any reasonable account of the universal consent of mankind in this 3. It requires more apprehension, that there is a God. 4. The Atheist evidence for things than they are capable of. pretends to know that which no man can know. 5. Atheism contradicts itself.-Tillotson, vol. i. Ser. 1. The epicureans did conceit and boast, that having, by their atheistical explications of natural effects and common events here, discarded the belief and dread of religion, they had laid a strong foundation for tranquillity of mind, had driven away all the causes of grief and fear, so that nothing then remained troublesome or terrible unto us. Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 3. After this manner, authority working in a circle, they endeavoured to atheize one another. Bp. Berkley. The Minute Philosopher, Dial. 2. Where England, stretch'd towards the setting sun, Narrow and long, o'erlooks the western wave, Dwelt young Mi agathus; a scorner he Of God and goodness, atheist in ostent, Vicious in act, in temper savage, fierce. Couper. Task, b. vi. P -God proclaims (Met.) Eager. Then shall they also answere him, saying, lorde, whe sawe we ye an hugred, or a thyrst, or herbourlesse, or naked, Of this King Henry [1st] it is said, that he did seldom eat but when he was a hungry, never did drink but when he was athirst.-Baker. Chronicle, an. 1135. And now the warlike Hector through the gate ATHLETE. Į Fr. Athlète; It. Atlèta; Sp. ATHLETICK. Athleta; Lat. Athleta; Gr. Alλnτns, from ac@λos, labour, struggle, contest. One able to labour, struggle, contend; strong, vigorous, robust. For athletic, I take the subject of it largely, that is to say, for any point of ability, whereunto the body of man may be brought, whether it be of activity, or of patience. Bacon. Of Learning, b. ii. And health itself, if it be athletic, may by its very excess become dangerous: but wisdom, and duty, and comeliness, and discipline, a good mind, and the fear of God, and doing honour to his holy name, can never exceed. Bp. Taylor, vol. i. Ser. 9. Was he [the wise man] in adversity; he equally returned thanks to the director of this spectacle of human life, for having opposed to him a vigorous athlete, over whom, tho' the contest was likely to be more violent, the victory was more glorious, and equally certain. Smith. Moral Sentiments, pt. vii. 8. 2. This lond was deled a thre among thre sones y wys. The to loue is al mi thought, Bothe bi night and day: West. My Liege; this haste was hot in question, We entered another valley, or rather a mountain-recess, called the valley of Gascodale. I call it a recess, because it is soon terminated by a mountain running athwart, which denies any farther passage.-Gilpin. Tour to the Lakes. ATILT. On, or in, tilt. See TILT. Raised, lifted-with arms or weapons raised; as at a tilt (qv.). Puc. What will you doe, good gray-beard? Beaum. & Fletch. Philaster, Act v. sc. 1. ATLANTE AN. Lat. Atlanteus, having the strength of Atlas. Princely counsel in his face yet shon Where are the pillars, that support the skies? Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ii. Young, Night 9. } Fr. Atmosphère; It. ATMOSPHERE. I shall but just mention the admirable use of our atmosphere in ministring to the enlightening of the world, by its reflecting the light of the heavenly bodies to us; and refracting the sun beams to our eye, before it ever surmounteth our horizon; by which means the day is protracted throughout the whole globe; and the long and dismal nights are shortened in the frigid zones, and day sooner approacheth them; yea the sun itself riseth in appearance (when really it is absent from them), to the great comfort of these forlorn places.-Derham. Physico-Theology, b. i. c. 1. I question whether we have any air here below, that is in other than a preternatural or violent state; the lower part of our atmospherical air being constantly compressed by the weight of the upper parts of the same air, that lean upon them.-Boyle. Works, vol. v. p. 207. How as a talisman of magic fame, That, bot thou wolt mi leman be, Amis & Amiloun. Weber. Rom. vol. ii. They suppose the matter of which the world is constituted, to be eternal and of itself, and then an infinite empty space for the infinite little parts of this matter (which they call atoms) to move and play in; and that these being always in motion, did after infinite trials and encounters, without any counsel or design, or without the disposal and contrivance ATHWA'RT, prep. Athweort, or Athweoried; of any wise and intelligent Being, at least by a lucky casualty, entangle and settle themselves in this beautiful Browne. Pastorals, b. ii. Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 26. These atomic theists utterly evacuate that grand argument for a God, taken from the phenomenon of the artificial frame of things, which has been so much insisted upon in all ages.-Id. Ib. A/TOM. Brook. Universal Beauty. ATOMICAL. Holland. Plutarch, p. 495. He that is wise, and marries, and leaves a child well educated, does make mankind his debtor, and departs a benefactor to the world: for when he is atom'd into flying dust, he has prepar'd his substitute to administer his part being gone.-Feltham. On Luke xiv. 20. Empedocles, who was a Pythagorean also, did physiologize atomically.-Id. Ib. p. 14. However this seems to have had its rise from nothing else but this Philosopher's not being able to understand the atomical hypothesis, which made him decline it, and substitute this spurious and counterfeit atomism of his own in the room of it.-Id. Ib. p. 16. In this first chapter we have quite disarmed atheism of atomicism.-Id. Ib. Pref. ATO'NE, ad. To be, or cause to be, at one. Heo maden certeyne couenaunt that heo were al at on. And that there is ut one mediatour Christ, as Paul. i. Tim. ii. And by that word vnderstand an attonemaker, a Fr. Atome; It. Atomo; Sp. peace maker and brynger into grace and fauour, hauyng full Atomo; Lat. Atomus; Gr. ATOμos, from a, priv. and Teμvew, power so to do.-Id. Ib. p. 158. The Testam. of M. W. Tracie. to cut. That which cannot be cut, divided, or separated into smaller particles. See the quotation from Tillotson. If gentilmen, or other of that contree Chaucer. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8313. But also [it is required] that thou be feruent & diligent to make peace and to go betwene, where thou knowest or hearest malice and enuie to be, or seest hate or strife to nothing vnsought, to set them at one. arise between person and person, and that thou leaue Tyndall. Workes, p. 193. And lyke as he made the Jewes and the Gentiles at one betwene themselues, euen so he made them both at one with god, that there should be nothing to breake the atonement, but that the thinges in heauen and the thynges in earth, shoulde be ioyned together as it were into one body. Udal. Ephesians, c. 2. Of which good prouision none of vs hath any thing the lesse nede, for the late made attonemente, in whyche the kinge's pleasure hadde more place then the parties willes. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 40. Paul sayth, i. Timo. ij. One God, one Mediatour (that is to say, aduocate, intercessor, or an atonemaker) betwene God & man: the man Christ Jesus which gaue him selfe a raunsom for all men.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 158. Lod. Is there deuision 'twixt my Lord, and Cassio? Tattone them, for the loue I bear to Cassio. Can never seek, once dead in sins and lost; Milton. Paradise Lost, b. iii. Now there we find, that ἱλασκεσθαι and εξιλάσασθαι all along answer to the D, which signifies to appease, to pacify, to reconcile a person offended, to atone or make him at one again with the offender.-Beveridge, vol. i. Ser. 69. ATT His helmet was of old rusty iron, but the vizor was brass, which, tainted by his breath, corrupted into copperas, nor wanted gall from the same fountain; so that whenever provoked by anger or labour, an atramentous quality of most malignant nature was seen to distil from his lips. Swift. The Battle of the Books. But, upon a strict scrutiny, I plainly could distinguish the vitreous and crystalline humours; yea, the ligamentram ciliare, and the atramentaceous mucus. Derham. Physico-Theology, b. iv. c. 2. Note. ATROCIOUS. Fr. Atroce; It. Atroce ; ATROCIOUSNESS. Sp. Atroz ; Lat. Atrox. ATROCIOUSLY. Præter ATROCEM animum ATROCITY. Vossius thinks, Atrocem here is plainly ATρwтov, that is, unconquered. The Scholiast interprets Atrocem by Constantem, which favours the derivation from the Gr. Ατρεχης (from a and τρεχειν) that cannot be turned; inflexible, immovable. Atrociously wicked, then, is inflexibly, immovably wicked; so wicked as not to be turned from wickedness; remorseless: and therefore applied to Excessive, enormous, outrageous wickedness, or criminality. The words are not common in our older writers. Al thys proces I say shal I nothyng nede to speake of, as things so comonly knowen, that for the atrocyte of the story, and the wonderfull woorke of God therein, almost enerye childe hathe heard.-Sir T. More. Workes, c. 2. I never recal it [the Duke of Buckingham's murder] to mind without a deep and double astonishment of my disCorse and reason. First, of the very horror and atrocity of the fact in a christian court, under so moderate a governRent-Wotton. Reliquiæ, p. 182. When Catiline was tried for some atrocious murders, many of the consulars appeared in his favour, and gave him an excellent character. Porteus. On the Beneficial Effects of Christianity, Ap. As to my publishing your letters, I hold myself fully justhed by the injury you had done me by abusing me infamously and atrociously-Lowth. To Warburton, Let. 2. Bad as Herod was, the petition of Salome at first shocked him, The King was sorry." He thought of John's character, the atrociousness of the murder, and the opinion which the world would entertain of the murderer. Horne. Life of St. John the Baptist. ATROPHY. Fr. Atrophie; It. Atrophia; Sp. Atrophia; Lat. Atrophia; Gr. Arpopia; from a priv. and rpepew, to nourish. See the quotation from Pliny. It reviveth those parts that mislike and feel no benefit of actriment of meat, which they call in Greek atropha. Holland. Pliny, b. ii. c. 25. These, and the like, are the greate desiderata (as well as the reformation of the coine,) which are plainely wanting to the consumate felicity of this nation; and divers of them of absolute necessitie to its recovery from the atrophy & consumption it labours under. Evelyn. Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 277. The shaking head, and the contracted limb; And ling ring atrophy and hoary age. Jago. Edge Hill, b. iv. ATTACH, v. Fr. Attacher; It. Attaccare; ATTACHMENT. Bar. Lat. Attachiare; A. S. Tacan, capere. (Hickes, Gram. Fr. Theo.) To take, or touch; to take, or tack; to apprehend, to seize, to hold fast, to annex, to fix, or fasten; both literally and metaphorically. Tuo busses wer forfaren, that in the tempest brak, This eare of Malchus hath the loudest tongue to blazon the praise of thy clemency and goodness to thy very enemies: wherefore came that man, but in a hostile manner to attach thee?-Bp. Hall. Cont. Peter and Malchus. ATT My father was attatched, not attainted, Condemn'd to dye for treason, but no traytor. The same daie also, Sir Richard Empson knight, and Edmonde Dudley Esquier, greate counsailers to the late kyug, were attached and brought to the Tower, not to the lite reloysyng of many persones, whiche, by them wer grened, whiche attachement was thought to bee procured by malice of theim, that with their authoritie in the late kynge's daies wer offended.-Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 1. Shakespeare. 1 Part Henry VI. Act ii. sc. 4. There is no man but is more attached to one particular set or scheme of opinions in philosophy, politics, and religion, than he is to another; I mean if he hath employed his thoughts at all about them. The question we should examine, then, is, how came we by those attachments? Mason. On Self Knowledge. ATTACK, v. I Fr. Attaquer; It. Attaccare; ATTACK N. Sp. Atácár; i. e. Attach, differently written and applied. Attack, so written, does not appear a very old word in the language; its place was supplied by Assault. The King was greatly mooued at her speech; Of his faire mistresse.-Shakesp. Love's L. L. Act iv. sc. 3. To touch, (sc. with force, violence,) to assault; to begin or commence hostilities. ATTA'INT, v. To stain, to infect, to pollute, to corrupt; to spoil; to accuse, to charge, to convict, of being (tainted) stained or corrupted, (sc. by crime, or guiltiness,) of felony, or treason. So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Our appetites do prompt to industry as inclining to things not attainable without it.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 18. It [industry] sweeteneth our enjoyments, and seasoneth our attainments with a delightful relish.-Id. vol. iii. Ser. 20. Fr. Attaindre, perhaps from Teindre; Lat. Tingere; to stain. Whence Fr. Teint, Lat. Tinctus, stained; as we say, he is attainted or tainted of treason, &c., that is, stained, The last three which were Powell, Fetherston, and Abell, were put to death for treason, and in their attainder, is speciall mencion made of their offences, which was for the deniyng of the king's supremacie, and affirming that his mariage with the Ladie Katheryn was good: These with other were the treasons, that they were allaynted of, and suffered death for.-Grafton. Hen. VIII. an. 33. While we are curious in tracing the progress of barbarism, we wonder more that any arts existed, than that they attained no degree of perfection. Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. c. 2. At his comyng he fond of clerkes & men of pleynt, For, Amoret right fearfull was and faint Lest she with blame her honour should attaint, That every word did tremble as she spake, And every looke was coy, and wondrous quaint. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 1. Beside this if the matter doo iustlie proceed against him, it is a world to see now and then how the honest yeomen that haue Bona fide discharged their consciences shall be sued of an atteinct, and bound to appeere at the Starre chamber.-Holinshed. Chron. b. ii. c. 4. The Descrip. of Eng. A straunge attemptate to the stage if that thou darst commit, ATTEND. ATTENTIVELY. Udal. Hebrues, c. 6. Heritiques dooe attempte and laboure to cutte in soondre the doctrine of the gospel: but Christe on euerye syde fensing those that are his, turneth the deuilishe attemptates of the others to the profiting and betteryng of the porcion that is vncorrupted.-Id. Luke, c. 5. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ix. I am afraid they haue awak'd And 'tis not done: th' attempt, and not the deed, Confounds vs: hearke: I lay'd their daggers ready. Shakespeare. Macbeth, Act ii. Still expressing The Son of God, with Godlike force indu'd Against th' attempter of thy Father's throne And thief of Paradise.-Milton. Paradise Regained, b. iv. This gentleman, at that time vouching (and upon warrant of bloody affirmation) his to be more faire, virtuous, wise, chaste, constant, qualified, and lesse attemptible than any, the rarest of our ladies in Fraunce. Shakespeare. Cymbeline, Act i. sc. 5. And king of this great nation, populous, Stout, valiant, pow'rful both by sea and land; Attemptive, able, worthy, generous, Which joyfully embraces thy command. Daniel. Panegyrick Congratulatory. New ways I must attempt, my groveling name To raise aloft, and wing my flight to fame. Dryden. Virgil, Geor. 3. Complaints of this most execrable attentate were made, and several oaths to confirm this were offer'd. Wood. Athen. Oxon. W. Prynne. This is that most illustrious House of Nassau and Orange, which God hath so highly honoured above all the families of the earth, to give a check to two great aspiring monarchies of the West, and bold attempters upon the liberties of Europe to the one in the last age; and to the other in the present. Tillotson, vol. i. Ser. 32. Fr. Attendre, Attentif; It. Attendere; Sp. Atentarse; Lat. Attendere, to stretch to or towards, (Ad-tendere, to stretch.) To stretch, reach, lean or bend to; to wait upon or accompany, to watch or observe, to follow or ensue : -to keep the mind to, to mind, to heed. A man shal winne us best with flatterie; Chaucer. The Wife of Bathes Tale, v. 6515. But of the nymphes as thei telle, In euery place where thei dwelle, Thei ben all redy obeisant As damoyselles attendant To the goddes, whose seruice Thei mote obeie in all wise.-Gower. Con. A. b. v. And at the threshold of her chamber dore, The Carthage lords did on the quene attend. Surrey. Virgile. Enæis, b. iv. They are not his lambes but vile gotes, that rather attendeth to the voice of straungers, than to the true shepheard Christ.-Bale. Image of both Churches, pt. ii. This xxv yere, was a parlyament holden at St. Edmodes Bury in Suffolke, to ye which towne, all the comons of that coûtree were warnyd to come in theyr moost defency ble aray, to gyue attendaunce vpon the kynge. Fabyan. an. 1447. Farewell deer loue whome I haue loued and shall, Both in this world, and in the world to come, For proofe whereof my sprite is Charon's thrall, And yet my corpse attendant on thy toome. Gascoigne. Dan Bartholomew. The disciples beyng more attent and diligent by this lytle chydyng, vnderstode that Jesus ment that they shuld take hede diligentlye, and beware of the doctrine of the Phariseis. Udal. Mathew, c. 16. But Gabriel exciteth Daniel to be attent that he might in very dede and in expresse wordes vnderstand the visoun. Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 9. My senses all take heede, And yee my wittes beware That you attentive be on hir And for none other care.-Turberville. To a late Friend. Thy words Attentive, and with more delightful eare, Divine instructor, I have heard, then when Cherubic songs by night from neighbouring hills Aereal music send. Id. Ib. b. v. One of the prettyest touches of all, and that which angl'd for mine eyes was, when at the relation of the Queen's death, (with the manner how she came to't brauely confes'd, and lamented by the King,) how attentiuenesse wounded his daughter-Shakespeare. Winter Tale, Act v. sc. 2. Ixion seems no more his pains to feel, But leans attentive on his standing wheel. Id. Virgil, Geor. 4. His leave obtain'd, our native soil we name, And tell th' important cause for which we came. Attentively he heard us, while we spoke.-Id. En. b. xi. Whereupon Eusebius begg'd Eugenius to tell us what it might be, which his attentiveness to the motions of the lark made us presume he was thinking on. Boyle. Occas. Ref. Dis. 2. 8. 4. That who doth attently regard a locust or a caterpillar, or any other viler animal, shall every where therein discover a wonderful art and diligence, is an aphorism dropt even from the gloomy pen of Cardan.-Barrow, vol. ii. Ser. 6. Due attention to the inside of books and due contempt for the outside, is the proper relation between a man of sense and his books.-Chesterfield, Let. 174. ATTENUATE, v. Fr. Atténuer; It. AtATTENUATE, adj. tenuare; Sp. Atenuár ATTENUATION. Lat. Attenuare, to thin, ATTENUANT, adj. (Ad, and tenuis, thin, from tendere, to stretch, because things which are stretched or extended, are thereby attenuated or thinned, Vossius.) To thin, to make thin or small; to lessen, weaken, or impair. Dry Agges and old, havinge power to attenuate or make humours currant, make the body soluble, and do clense the raynes.-Bigot. Castel of Health, b. ii. c. 14. The evils that come of exercise are, first, that it maketh the spirits more hot and predatory. Secondly, that it doth absar likewise, and attenuate too much the moisture of the body.-Bacon. Nat. Hist. § 299. By fire the spirit of the body is first refined, and then eated, wherefore the refining or attenuation causeth the Light.-12. Ib. § 683. Of such concernment too is drink and food, l'incrassate, or attenuate the blood. Dryden. Lucretius, b. iv. By the water-glasses the account was not regular from attenuation and condensation, whereby the element is atered, the hours were shorter in hot weather than in cold, and in summer than in winter. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. v. c. 18. They put into the stomach those things that be attenuant, incisive, and sharp, for to provoke and stir up the appetite. Holland. Plutarch, p. 642. ATTEST v. Fr. Attester; It. Attestare; ATTE'ST, n. Sp. Atestiguar ; Lat. AttesATTESTATION. tare, to witness to, (Ad-testare, ATTE'STER. to witness; which Vossius thinks from the Gr. Beobal, to put or place a person (sc.) to see, observe, notice, witness.) To witness, to call upon or invoke as witness, as one who sees, observes, knows; to witness or bear witness to, to avouch. Fathers, that like so many Alexanders, Hase in those parts from morne till euen fought, That those whom you call'd fathers, did beget you. Sith yet there is a credence in my heart: An esperance so obstinately strong, That doth inuert that test [th' attest] of eyes and eares; As if those organs had deceptious functions, If chance the radiant sun with farewell sweet Skinner thinks Attire may be from Ger. Zier-en, ornare, or from the Fr. Attour, head dress, from Attourner, to clothe, to adorn. Spelman;-that Attour is from Tourner, to turn, to change. Menage;-that the Fr. Tourner and the It. Tornare, are from the Lat. Tornus; and Vossius; that Tornus is that instrument with which any thing, Tepera, that is, teritur, cælatur, is rubbed, is smoothened. Teres atque rotundus. Perhaps all are from the A. S. Tyrnan, to turn, Shakespeare. Hen. V. Act iii. sc. 1. bend, wheel or whirle about; and by so turning, to smoothen, to polish. (See TIRE.) And then generally To dress or put on dress or clothing; to clothe, to invest, to adorn, to dress or prepare (for any thing.) So let Latona's double offspring hear, Prodigious actions may as well be done Id. Absolom & Achitophel. The congregation attested the completion of this prophecy ATTICISE. There is satisfactory evidence that many, pretending to be original witnesses of the Christian miracles, passed their lves in labours, dangers, and sufferings, voluntarily undertaken and undergone in attestation of the accounts which frey delivered, and solely in consequence of their belief of the truth of those accounts: and, that they also submitted, from the same motives, to new rules of conduct. Paley. Evidences, vol. i. Prop. 1. Gr. ATTIKICEI, to imitate the manner of speaking or writing of the Attici or Athenians; to follow or favour the Athenians. There while they acted and over acted, among other Tydeus and his accomplices had been put to death by Predaritus for atticism, and the rest of the city was kept in awe, but by force, and for a time.-Hobbes. Thucyd. b. viii. Now if this be not the common attical acception of it; yet it will seem agreeable to the penning of the New Testament, in which whosoever will observe, may find words and phrases which perhaps the attick purity, perhaps grammar, will not approve of.-Hammond. Works, vol. iv. p. 639. Tydeus, the Ionian, and his adherents, having been lately If any will still excuse the tyrant for atticising in those circumstances, it is hard to deny them the glory of being the faithfullest of his vassals.-Bentley. Dissert. on Phalaris. If you will needs be witty, take once more your example from the fine author of The Difficulties and Discouragements, and learn from him the difference between attic irony and elegance of wit, and your intemperate scurrility and illiberal banter. Warburton. Divine Legation of Moses, Ded. ATTIRE, v. Hii houede vnder boskes, & newe kniztes made, He atired him to bataile with folk that he had. Then we began to dresse vs in our gise By her atire so bright and shene Your frier is now your prince: as I was then Id. Measure for Measure, Act v. sc. 1. He [David Jenkyns] was a person of great abilities in his profession, and his counsel was often used by Sir Jo. Banks and Will. Noy in their attorneyships. Wood. Athenæ Oxonienses. He [Henry VII.] reigned as an attorney would have reigned, and would have preferred a conveyancer to Praxiteles.-Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. c. 3. This consent of the vassal was expressed by what was called attorning or professing to become the tenant of the new lord; which doctrine of attornment was afterwards extended to all lessees for life or years. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. c. 19. An attorney at law answers to the procurator, or proctor. of the civilians and canonists. And he is one who is put in the place, stead or turn of another to manage his matters of law. Id. Ib. b. iii. c. 3. |