the same kind; and their names general names, applicable to whatever exists conformable to such abstract ideas. Locke. Essay on the H. Underst. b. ii. c. 11, § 9. I own myself able to abstract, in one sense, as when I consider some particular parts or qualities separated from others, with which, though they are united in some object, But yet it is possible they may really exist without them. I deny that I can abstract one from another, or conceive separately, those qualities which it is impossible should exist so separated; or that I can frame a general notion by abstracting from particulars in the manner aforesaid: which two last are the proper acceptations of abstraction. Berkeley. Principles of Hum. Knowledge, Introd. § 10. Or whether more abstractedly we look, Or on the writers or the written book, As the abstractedness of these speculations [concerning human nature] is no recommendation, we have attempted to throw some light upon subjects, from which uncertainty has hitherto deterred the wise, and obscurity the ignorant. Hume. On Human Understanding, s. 1. Here then is another source of what has been called abstract terms; or, rather, as you say, another method of shortening communication by artificial substantives: for in this case, one single word stands for a whole sentence. Tooke. Div. Purley, vol. ii. As to some other passages, that are so [obscure] indeed, since it is the abstruseness of what is taught in them that makes them almost inevitably so; it is little less saucy, upon such a score, to find fault with the style of the Scripture, than to do so with the author for making us but men. Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 267. Yet it must be still confessed that there are some mysteries in religion, both natural and revealed, as well as some abstruse points in philosophy, wherein the wise as well as the unwise must be content with obscure ideas. Watts. Logic, pt. iii. c. 4. ABSU'ME, v. Lat. Absumere (see infra, ABSU'MPTION. ASSUME, CONSUME). To take away wholly, to devour, to destroy. That there is a motion or agitation of the parts of the egg by the external heat whereby it is hatched, is evident of itself, and not (as far as I know) denied by any; and also the white substance is absumed, and contexed or contrived into the body of the chick and its several parts, is manifest to sense. Boyle. Works, vol. iii. p. 69. Christians abhorred this way of obsequies, and though they stick not to give their bodies to be burnt in their lives, detested that mode after death; affecting rather a depositure than absumption, and properly submitted unto the sentence of God, to return not unto ashes but unto dust again. Sir T. Brown. Urne Burial, c. 1. Fr. Absurde; It. Assurdo; Sp. Absurdo; Lat. Absurdus, (Ab-surdus,) deaf. It is an absurd reply, i. e. a reply ab surdo, from one deaf, and therefore ignorant of that to which he replies. Vossius thinks Absurdum is that which should be heard (surdis auribus) with deaf ears. ABSURD, adj. ABSURDITY. ABSURDLY. ABSURDNESS. Deaf to reason: and, consequently, without reason, judgment, or propriety. ye prophete discribeth the foly of such as worshippeth those images that hath eares & can not hyre, handes and can not feele, feete and can not goe, mouth and canot speake. All whiche absurdities & unreasonable folyes appeareth as well in the worshippe of our ymages, as in the Painims ydolles.-Sir. T. More. Works, p. 138. Cleo. Why that's the way to foole their preparation, And to conquer their most absurd intents. Shakespeare. Ant. & Cleo. Act v. sc. 2. As a fat body is more subject to diseases, so are rich men to absurdities and fooleries, to many casualties and cross inconveniences.-Burton. Democritus to the Reader. The capital things of nature generally lie out of the beaten paths, so that even the absurdness of a thing sometimes proves useful. Shaw. W. of Bacon. Distribution of Sciences, s. 13. That we may procede yet further with the atheist, and convince him, that not only his principle is absurd, but his consequences also as absurdly deduced from it: we will allow him an uncertain extravagant chance against the natural laws of motion. Bentley. Confutation of Atheism, Ser. 5. His kingdom come. For this we pray in vain, Unless he does in our affections reign: Absurd it were to wish for such a thing, And not obedience to his sceptre bring. Waller. Reflections upon the Lord's Prayer. It was formerly the custom for every great house in England to keep a tame fool dressed in petticoats, that the heir of the family might have an opportunity of joking upon him, and diverting himself with his absurdities. Spectator, No. 47. ABU'SE, v. ABU'SE, n. ABU'SER. ABU'SION. ABU'SIVE. ABU'SIVELY. To ill use, by deception, guile, ABU'SIVENESS. imposition, reproach, violence: ABU'SAGE. and, consequently, to deceive, ABU'SEFUL. to impose upon, to vilify, to reproach, to violate, defile. Fr. Abuser; It. Abusare; Sp. Abusar; Lat. Ab-usus; past part. of Abuti, (Ab-uti,) to use from, away from, viz. all beneficial purposes. Abusion, though now obsolete, is not uncommon in the elder writers. And certes that were an abusion He shall not be innocet whoso abuseth my name, for I will viset the wykednes of soche fathers in theyr chyldren into the thyrde & fourth generacion. Joy. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 3. Who though he lye in a continuall await upo euery preacher to catche hym in to pride if he can: yet his hyest enterprise and proudest triumph standeth in the bringing of a man to the most abuse of that thing, yt is of his own nature And therfore great labour maketh he & gret bost, the best. if he bring it about that a good wit maye abuse his labour, bestowed upon the study of holy Scripture. Sir T. More. Works, p. 151. Ye nobles & commos also of this realm, & specially of ye north partes, not willing any bastard blood to haue ye rule of the land, nor ye abusions before in ye same vsed any loger to continue, haue codisceded & fullye determined to make huble peticio vnto ye most puisat prince, ye lord protector. Sir T. More. Works, p. 63. God of his infinite mercie, has sent vs a newe Josias, by whose rightuous administracion and godly policie, the lighte of God's word that so many yeares before was here extinct began to shine againe: to the vtter extirpatio of false doctrine, the roote and chiefe cause of all abusions. Udal. Pref. to St. Mark. Legh said, that there was honest devotion in those parts. and not used with abusion. Pole asked, what he called abusion. Legh answered, all that which was demanded in God's pretence, and afterwards to man's folly. Strype. Memorials, b. i. c. 40. Lear. Where haue I bin? Where am I? Faire daylight! I am mightily abus'd; I should eu'n dye with pitty To see another thus.-Shakespeare. Lear, Act iv. sc. 7. ? I should tell ye what I learnt of chastity and love, I mean that which is truly so, whose charming cup is only virtue, which she bears in her hand to those who are worthy; the rest are cheated with a thick intoxicating potion which a certain sorceress, the abuser of love's name, carries about. Milton. Apol. for Smectymnuus. z For by those ugly formes weren portray'd, Foolish delights, and fond abusions, Which doe that sense besiege with light illusions. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 11. In describing these battels, I am, for distinction sake, necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive acception thereof for these latter years. Fuller. Worthies of England, vol. i. c. 18. Words being carelessly and abusively admitted, and as inconstantly retained: it must needs come to pass, that they will be diversly apprehended by contenders, and so made the subject of controversies. Glanville. The Vanity of Dogmatizing, c. 17. ** He falls now to rave in his barbarous abusiveness, and why? A reason befitting such an artificer, because, he saith, the book is contrary to all human learning. Milton. Colasterion. The gravest and wisest person in the world may be abused by being put into a fool's coat; and the most noble and excellent poem may be debased and made vile by being turned into burlesque.-Tillotson, vol. i. Ser. 1. Alith. Insomuch, that I can no longer suffer his scurrilous abusiveness to you, no more than his love to me. Wycherly. Country Wife, Act iii. sc. 1. Wretch that from slander's filth art ever gleaning, Spite without spite, malice without meaning: The same abusive, base, abandon'd thing, When pilloried, or pension'd by a king. Mason. Epistle to Dr. Shebbeare. ABU'T, v. Fr. Abouter, Abutter; Low ABUTMENT. Lat. Abuttare. (See Spelman, ABUTTAL. and the quotation from him.) Tooke derives from the A. S. Boda; the first outward extremity or boundary of any thing. To be upon the outward extremity: to border upon the surface of: to touch upon the edge, or confine. Suppose within the girdle of these walls The name and place of the thing granted were ordinarily expressed, as well before as after the conquest; but the particular manner of abuttalling, with the term itself, arose from the Normans, as appeareth in the Customary of Normandy, cap. 556, where it is said, that the declaration must be made par bouts & costes destites terres saisies, of the abuttals and sides of the said lands seised. Bout signifieth the end of a thing, abbouter to thrust forth the end. Spelman. Antient Deeds and Charters, c. 5. ACADEME. ACADEMY. ACADEMIAN. ACADEMICAL. Fr. Academie; It. Accademia ; Sp. Academia ; Lat. Academia; Gr. Акαδημία. From Academus, an Athenian, in whose groves a ACADEMICIAN. sect of Grecian philosophers ACADEMICK, R. were accustomed to asACADEMICK, adj. semble. To them and their ACA'DEMIST. philosophy the words are still applied, and more generally to Any assembly or society of persons, where learning and philosophy are the proposed objects; to universities, and schools, public and private. But ye withdrowen fro me this man, that he hath been Bourished in my studies or scholes of Eleatices, and of Academicis in Greece.-Chaucer. Boecius, b.i. From women's eyes this doctrine I deriue, Shakespeare. Love's L. Lost, Act iv. sc. 3. Beaumont and Fletcher. Elder Brother, Act ii. sc. 1. Who, for he could ery Ergo in the school, He caused also the sayde goldsmyth to be attached as accessarye, and arreigned hym at the sessyons holden at Newgate, in London: where it was alleged, that they ought not by the lawe to enquyre of the accessarye before the principall.-Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 35. This liberty is all that I request, I may haue welcome 'mongst the rest that woo, Shakespeare. Tam. of the Shrew, Act ii. sc. 1. How safe, how easy, how happy a thing it is, to have to do with the King of Heaven; who is so pleased with our access, that he solicits suitors.-Hall. Contemplations. Away, I prythee, Shakespeare. Cymbeline, Act iii. sc. 2. He [Hotham] had taken upon him the government of Hull, without any apprehension, or imagination, that it would ever make accessary to rebellion. Clarendon. Rebellion, b. viii. These accessive commands have a use in them, even to raise up our endeavours to a higher pitch and strain, than if we were commanded only somewhat that were within our own power. Hopkins. Works. Ser. 26. This obvious reflection convinced me of the absurdity of the treaty of Hanover, in 1725, between France and England, to which the Dutch afterwards acceded. Chesterfield. Letters. Let. 160. And vain were reason, courage, learning; all, Till power accede; till Tudor's wild caprice Smile on their cause.-Shenstone. Ruined Abbey. An accessory is said to be that which does accede unto some principal fact or thing in law.-Ayliffe. Par. Jur. Case. Hiss for hiss return'd with forked tongue To forked tongue, for now were all transform'd Alike, to serpents all as accessories To his bold riot.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. x. To him Masistius: I have mark'd a post Glover. Athenaid, b. xxiii. Several of the most correct lists of our dramatick pieces exhibit the titles of plays, which are not to be met with in the completest collections. It is almost unnecessary to mention any other than Mr. Garrick's, which, curious and extensive as it is, derives its greatest value from its accessibility. Steevens. Advertis. to Shakespeare. With longing eyes, and agony of mind, The sailors view this refuge left behind; Happy to bribe with India's richest ore A safe accession to that barren shore. Falconer. Shipwreck, c. 3. Ancient Troy, seated on an eminence at the foot of Mount Ida, overlooked the mouth of the Hellespont, which scarcely received an accession of waters from the tribute of those immortal rivulets, the Simois and Scamander. Gibbon. Roman Empire, c. 17. An accessory is he who is not the chief actor in the offence, nor present at its performance, but is someway concerned therein, either before or after the fact committed. Blackstonc. Commentaries, b. iv. c. 3. ACC ACCELERATE, v. Fr. Accélérer; It. AcACCELERATION. celerare; Sp. Accelerar; ACCELERATIVE. Lat. Accelerare, (Adceler,) to hasten. See CELERITY. To hasten, to quicken; to add to, or increase, the speed of. The inhabitautes of Burdeaux sent to him [Talbot] messengers in the darke night, requiryng him to accelerate, and spede his iorney towarde their citie, enformyng him, that now the time was propice for his purpose: and tyme not taken, was labor mispent.-Hall. Hen. VI. an. 31. Often times I haue seene in other, & haue proued by experience, that the small consideration passed, and the great acceleration in businesse nowe present, maketh great inconueniences in time to come.-Golden Booke, c. 12. Down falling greatness, urged on apace, The second sort of centripetal force is the accelerating force, which is measured by the velocity generated by it in a given time.-Maclaurin. Newton's Discoveries, b. ii. c. 1. He [Newton] explains very distinctly what he understands by the accelerative quantity of a centripetal force. Reid. Inquiry, c. 2. s. 9. ACCE/ND, v. Lat. Accendere, (Ad-cenere,) ACCE'NSION. Što kindle (qv.) To set fire to; to inflame, to enlighten. Our devotions, if sufficiently accended, would, as theirs, burn up innumerable books of this sort.-Decay of Piety. But this proceedeth from the sulphur of antimony, not enduring the society of salt-peter; for after three or four accensions, through a fresh addition of peter, the powder will flush no more; for the sulphur of the antimony is quite exhaled.-T. Brown. Vulg. Errours, b. ii. c. 5. There are some opake bodies, as for instance the comets, which, besides the light that they may have from the sun, seem to shine with a light that is nothing else but an accension, which they receive from the sun, in their near approaches to it, in their respective revolutions. Locke. Elements of Nat. Philosophy. Fr. Accent; It. Accente; Sp. Accento, (Ad-canere, cantum,) to sing. A'CCENT, n. ACCENT, V. ACCENTUAL. ACCENTUATION. To sing or sound, or speak to, or in unison with:-generally with a reference to certain rules of pronunciation. Accentuation is applied to the mechanical marking of the accents in printed books. Harry, whose tuneful and well-measur'd song First taught our English music how to span Words with just note and accent, not to scan With Midas' cars, committing short and long. Milton. Sonnet to Mr. H. Lawes. The bishoppe being thus determinately purposed touching the death of Edwarde the 2d, and warily providing for himselfe, if by any chance hee should bee accused thereof, craftily worketh that the authoritie which hee gave by writing, might seeme to bee taken expressely contrary to his meaning, by reason of accenting and pointing of the same. Stow. Chronicle, Edw. II. an. 1326. And toward the education of your daughters, I heere bestow a simple instrument, And this small packet of Greeke and Latine bookes: Shakespeare. Tam. of the Shrew, Act ii. sc. 1. Cris. -Please you to be acceptive, young gentleman? 1 Pyr. Yes sir, fear not; I shall accept. I have a foolish humour of taking, (aside) if you knew all. B. Jonson. Poetaster, Act iii. sc. 1. Cyn. And if you judge it any recompense For your fair pains, t'have earned Diana's thanks, Diana thanks them, and bestows their crown To gratify your acceptable zeal. And sithen thou seest thine fleshly body in kindly power faile, how should than the accident of a thing ben in more surety of being than substantiall: wherefore thilke things that we cleape power, is but accident to the fleshlye body, and so they may not haue that surety in might, which wanteth in the substantiall body. Chaucer. The Test. of Love, b. ii. The fer cause is Almighty God, that is cause of alle thinges the ner cause is thin three enemies; the cause accidental was hate.-Id. The Tale of Melibeus. He bosteth himself to make lawes and articles of owr faithe and to adde mō sacraments to them then cryst made, and to consecrate and to make the body of cryste, to sende awaye the substance of the bread, the accidents as the whigtnes, rowndes, tast & other qualities & quãtities remayning.-Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 7. Wherfore sithe in all myne authors, I finde no matter, either greatly necessarie, or muche conuenient to be spoken of concernyng any high enterprise: I therfore, leauyng bothe the nacions, daily studiyng how to greue, and gain of the other, will turne againe to other thynges accidentall whiche chaunced in this XII yere.-Hall." Hen. VI. an. 12. If all the yeare were playing holidaies, To sport, would be as tedious as to worke; But when they seldome come, they wisht-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. Shakespeare. 1 Part Hen. IV. Act i. sc. 2. And not a man for being simply man, Hath any honour; but honour'd for those honours That are without him; as place, riches, and fauour, Prizes of accident, as oft as merit. Jul. Id. Tro. and Cres. Act ii. sc. 3. With an unheedful eye, An accidental view, as men see multitudes, That the next day dare not precisely say They saw that face, or that, amongst 'em all. Beaumont & Fletcher. Maid in the Mill, Act v. sc. 2. What the light is, whether a substance or an accider whether of a corporall or incorporall nature, it is not ea to determine.-Hakewill. Apologie, p. 93. Those atomes, or indivisible bodies, having an accide tary and inconsiderate motion, stirring continually, an most strictly happen many of them to encounter Or another and meet together. Holland. Plutarch. Morals, p. 66 Which tardy proficience [in learning the Latin tongu may be attributed to several causes in particular, th making two labours of one, by learning first the accedenc then the grammar in Latin, e'er the language of those rule be understood.-Milton. Accedence commenced Grammar Other points no less concern the commonwealth, thoug but accidentally depending upon the former. Spenser. State of Ireland If one of the legs of a man be found shorter than th other, the man is deformed; because there is somethin wanting to complete the whole idea we form of a man; and this has the same effect in natural faults, as maiming an mutilation produce from accidents. Burke. Sublime and Beautiful Explore thro' earth and heaven, thro' sea and skies, The accidental graces as they rise: And while each present form the fancy warms, Swift on thy tablets fix it's fleeting charms. Mason. Art of Painting He will find he has no other idea of it [pure substance] a all, but only a supposition of he knows not what support of such qualities, which are capable of producing simple ideas in us; which qualities are commonly called Accidents. Locke. On Human Understanding, b. ii. c. 23. Civil society was instituted either with the purpose of attaining all the good, of every kind, it was even acciden tally capable of producing; or, only of some certain good, which the institutors, unconcerned with, and unattentive to, any other, had in view.-Warburton. Alliance, b.i. c. 4. ACCIPITRARY, n. A catcher of birds of prey: a faulconer. To heare an accipitrary relate againe, how he went forth in a cleere, calme, and sun-shine evening, about an houre before the sunne did usually maske himselfe, unto the river, where finding of a mallard, he whistled off his faulcon, &c. Drake. Shakesp. & his Times. From Nash. Quaternio. ACCITE, v. Lat. Acci-re, itum, (Ad-ciere,) to go or send for; to summon. See CITE. Mine old dere enemy, my froward maister, Sir T. Wyat. Complaint to Reason. When the place was redy, the Kyng and the Quene wer accited by Docter Sampson to appere before the Legates, at the forenamed place, the twentie and eight day of May. Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 21. A nobler man, a brauer warrior; B. Jonson. Execration upon Vulcan. ACCLAIM, v. Fr. Acclamation; It. AcACCLAIM, n. clamare, Acclamazione; Sp. ACCLAMATION. Aclamar, Aclamation; Acclamare, (Ad-clamare,) to cry out, or shout to. Applied to noisy and tumultuous expressions of assent, choice, approbation. Lat. Justly did thy followers hold the best ornaments of the earth worthy of no better, than thy treading upon.-How happily, did they think their backs disrobed for thy way How gladly, tlid they spend their breath in acclaiming thee! Bp. Hail. Contemp. Procession to the Temple. -Gladly then he mix'd Among those friendly powers, who him receiv'd With joy and acclamations loud, that one, That of so many myriads fallen, yet one, Return'd, not lost.-Milton. Par. Lost, b. vi. The king [Lewis XIV.] himselfe, like a young Apollo, was in a sute so cover'd with rich embrodry, that one could perceive nothing of the stuff under it; he went almost the whole way with his hat in hand, saluting the ladys and acclamators who had fill'd the windows with their beauty, and the aire wth Vive le Roy.-Evelyn. Memoirs, an. 1651. The herald ends: the vaulted firmament, Smollett. Regicide, Act v. sc. 8. As then, no winde at all there blew, No swelling cloude aceloid the aire; The skie, like grasse [glasse] of watchet hew, Spenser. El. upon Astrophile. For they that escape best in the temperate zone, would be erleged with long nights very tedious, no less than forty ys and those that now never have their night above ty-four hours, as Friesland island, the furthest parts of Russia and Norway, would be deprived of the sun, above abnored and thirty days together. Ray. On the Creation. ACCOIL, or Co. See COIL. ACCOL, t. To embrace round the neck (collum). See COLL. ACCOMPANY, v. Į Fr. Accompagner; It. ACCOMPANIMENT. pañar. See COMPANY. To go or come together with; to follow or attend upon, to consort, to associate. Lo if thou loue her, loue eke thine honestie, So shall mine eyes in payne accompany my hart, That were the guides, that did it lead of loue to feel the smart.-Wyatt. Complaint of the Absence of his Loue. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray By our traffic into foreign countries, tho' we many times bring home light and frivolous toys, yet they are often accompanied with gold and silver, both in coin and bullion. Spelman. Dialogue concerning the Coin of the Kingdom. Well must she sing of whom I make my choice, And with her lute accompany her voice. Congreve. Ovid. Art of Love. In a mind truly virtuous, the scorn of vice is always accompanied with the pity of it.-Spectator, No. 79. The Persian dames (So were accustom'd all the eastern fair,) In sumptuous cars, accompany'd his march, A beauteous train, by Ariana grac'd. Glover. Leonidas, b. viii. We have the same representation of Hymen in an epithalamium, the usual indispensible accompaniment of a wedding, and often a part of the nuptial mask, in the Poetical Miscellanies of Phineas Fletcher. Warton. Note on L'Allegro. ACCORD, v. ACCORDANCE. ACCORDANCY. Fr. Accorder; It. Accordar; Sp. Acordar, (Ad-cor,) to In Wiclif, the heart. where the common version has "with one accord," we ACCO'RDANT. find "with oo will, with oo ACCO'RDING, adj. herte." 2 Philip. 4 Acts. ACCORDINGLY. To act with one heart or mind; to act suitably to, in harmony, unison, conformity, or agreement with; to agree, to conform, to comply, to consent, to concur, to grant. Hii caste awey sseld & suerd, & turnde al to loue, Thus is relacion rect. ryght as adjectif & substantif Acordeth in alle kyndes. Piers Plouhman, p. 56. For in the dai suynge he apperide to hem chidynge, and he accordide hem in pees and seide, men ghe ben britheren, whi noyen ghe ech othire?-Wiclif. Dedis, c. 7. Nyle ghe bere the ghok with unfeithful men, for what parting of rightwysnesse with wickidnesse? or what felouschipe of light with derknessis? and what according of crist to belial?-Id. 2 Corynth. c. 6. Of instruments, of strings in accord Chaucer. The Assemblie of Foules. Id. The Floure and the Leafe. Eng. If duke of Burgonie, you would the peace Whose want giues growth to th' imperfections Which you haue cited; you must buy that peace With full accord to all our iust demands, Whose tenures and particular effects You haue enschedul'd briefely in your hands. Shakespeare. Hen. V. Act v. sc. 2. Cleopatra, the daughter of Philip, and sister to Alexander the Great, being incensed against Antigonus, of her own accord, inclined to Ptolomei, and left Sardis, to go unto him.-Usher. Annals, A.M. 3696. They have busily noted the order and course of times, which even to this day, many have curiously sought to correct, and could yet never discuss it, nor accord all contrarieties and manifest repugnances in the same. North. Plutarch, p. 78. So can they both themselues full eath perswade And swearing faith to eyther on his blade, But wooe her, gentle Paris, get her heart; Lap. But I hope your Lordshippe thinkes not him a souldier. Ber. I do assure you my Lord he is very great in knowledge and accordinglie valiant. Shakespeare. All's Well, Act ii. sc. 5. Whither also came Hubert de Burgh, escaped out of prison, and joins them; [the confederate lords; the earls of Chester, Glocester, and others.] taking intermutual oaths, That no one without other should make their accord. Baker. Chronicle, an. 1235. Yes, magic lyre! now all complete It strikes me as a very observable instance of providentia! kindness to man, that such an exact accord has been contrived between his ear, and the sounds with which, at least in a rural situation, it is almost every moment visited. Cowper. Let. 172. Mason. Ode on Eolus' Ha Analogical reasoning is not, in all cases, to be rejecte It may afford a greater or a less degree of probability, e cording as the things compared are more or less similar their nature. Reid. On the Powers of the Mind, Ess. 1, c. ACCO'ST, or ACCO/AST, Acco'STABLE. } Fr. Accoster; It. Accostar Latus Sp. Acostar. late jungere, says Skinner, fro the Lat. Costa. And Cotgrave, to join side t side. See COST or COAST. Barrow uses Di cost, in opp. To go near to, to go or stay near or close to the coast or side of; to approach; and then, To speak to, to direct the discourse address. to, t Ne is there hauke which mantleth her on pearch, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 2 Lapland hath since been often surrounded (so much as accosts the sea) by the English. Fuller. Worthies, Derbyshire The French are a free, debonnair, accostable people; both men and women.-Howell, b. ii. Let. 12. He had no sooner perpetrated his crime, than a thousand horrors haunted him night and day. He thus accosts the devil: "Oh wretch!" says he, "it is thou which hast destroyed me!"-Guardian, No. 148. ACCOURAGE. Milton. Par. Lost, b. viii. Now off at sea, and from the shallows clear, If you would convince a person of his mistake, accost him not upon that subject when his spirit is ruffled or discomposed with any occurrences of life; and especially when he has heated his passions in the defence of a contrary opinion. Watts. Improvement of the Mind, pt. ii. c. 3. As thus I sing, a solemn sound Accosts mine ear; I look'd around, And lo! an ancient sage Hard by an ivy'd oak stood near, Had been his hermitage.-Mickle. Ode on Knowledge. ACCOUNT. See AccоMPT. See COUPLE. ACCOUPLE, or COUPLE. Fr. Accoupler. To join, unite, yoke together. The youg galantes of Frauce had coates garded with one colour, cut in x or xii partes very richely to beholde: and so al the Englishmē accoupled theselues with the French men louingly togather, and so roade to Lodon. Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 9. King Charles sent a solemne ambassage to treat a peace and league with the king, accoupling it with an article in the nature of a request.-Bacon. Hist. of Hen. VII. p. 81. See COURAGE. Fr. Accourager, to hearten, embolden: used as we now use Encourage. Aftir two yeres Philometer obtayned helpe of the Romās to recouer his lost cities, and thus accouraged of the Ro mans he expelled his auuncles syriake hoste and armye. Joye. The Exposicion of Daniel, c. 11. That forward pair she ever would asswage, When they would striue due reason to exceed; But the same froward twaine would accourage, And of her plenty adde unto their need. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 2. ACCOURTING, or COURTING. See COURT. Whilst she herselfe thus busily did frame Seemely to entertaine her new-come guest, Newes heereof to her other sisters came Who all this while were at their wanton rest Accourting each her friend with lavish feast. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 2. ACCOUTRE, v. Į Fr. Accoutrer. Sax. ACCOUTREMENT. Cuth, is the pp. of Cunnan, to know. Acunnan is, to try, to prove. To accoutre, then, may be, to provide with arms, tried, proved: but subsequently applied generally, To provide with dress, trappings, ornaments, equipments. |