God sayth: Love thy neighbour as thyself; that is to say, to salvation both of lif and soule. And moreover thou shalt love him in word, and in benigne amonesting and chastising, and comfort him in his anoyes, and praye for him with all thy herte.-Chaucer. Persones Tale. Locke. On the Hum. Unders. b. ii. c. 3. Even a real miracle cannot be admitted as such, or carry any conviction to those who are not assured that the event is contradictory to the course of nature. Farmer. On Miracles. How groaning hospitals eject their dead! And nedeth it (qd. I) of rehearsing, or of amonicion, & sheweth it not inough by himself, the sharpness yt wexeth wood against mee.-Id. Boecius, b. i. If these noblemen, admonished by their frendes, had not sodaynly departed, their lifes threde had bene broken, and their mortall fate had then ensued, but by secrete admonicion of their good willers (to whom no earthely treasure is comparable) they auoyded this net and narrowly escaped the snare.-Hall. Hen. VI. an. 35. Young. Complaint, Night 1. ADMIXTION. Lat. Admiscere,(Ad-miscere,) ADMIXTURE. from the A. S. Miscan. To mise, to mics, i. e. to mir, (qv.) To mingle, to blend together. Though many waies may be found to light this powder, yet is there none I know to make a strong and vigorous powder of saltpetre; without the admixtion of sulphur. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 5. So that if they wil not at ye wholsome admonishments of his word repent and amend their olde conuersation, that than they should be condemned by the same for their wilful contempt.-Bale. Image of Bothe Churches, pt. iii.. Possibly all metals may be of one species, and the diversity may proceed from the admixture of different bodies with the principles of the metal.-Ray. On the Creation. Fr. Admonester; It. Ammonire; Sp. Amonestar; Lat. Admonere, (Ad-monere.) See MONISH; Common in all its parts with the elder writers. ADMONISH, v. ADMONITOR. To advise; to call or ADMONITORY. bring to mind; to warn, to apprize, to exhort, to reprove:-to remind. For it biboueth a bisschop to be without cryme, takynge that trewe word that is aftir doctryne, that he be mighti to amoneste in hoolsum techyng, and to repreue be that aghenseien.-Wiclif. Tyte, c. 1. Yet take heed, worthy Maximus, all ears Of what we are.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vii. Shakespeare. Rich. II. Act ii. sc. 1. Which may serve when they look into themselves to abate all overweening conceit of their own righteousness, and when they shall look into the errours of others, may be secret admonitioners unto them, not rashly to condemn them, considering their own weakness. Hales. Remains. Matt. xxvi. 15. Seint Poule sayth, ne yelde not harme for harme, ne vicked speche for wicked speche, but do wel to him that doth to thee harme, and blesse him that saith to thee harme. And in many other places he amonesteth pees and accord. Chaucer. Tale of Melibeus. VOL. L Ambition of great and famous auditories, I leave to those whose better gifts and inward endowments are admonitinners unto them, of the great good they can do, or otherwise thirst after popular applause.-Id. Ib. Rom. xiv. 1. The parts appertaining to the bones, which stand out at a distance from their bodies, are either the adnate or the enate parts. Smith. Old Age, p. 167. ADO', n. See Do. That saying, that old age is a return to childhood, meant Hooker. Ecclesiastical Politie, b. i. § 8. Why make ye this ado, and wepe? The maiden is not dead but slepeth.-Bible, 1551. Mark, c. 5. This kind of suffering to the devout fathers did seem emblemes, being a rich and large field, for a devout fancy many ways or full of instructive and to range with affectionate meditation.-Id. vol. ii. Ser. 26. ADOLESCENCE, n. Į Fr. Adolescence; It. ADOLESCENCY. Adolescenza ; Sp. Adolescencia; Lat. Adolescentia, from Adolescens, pres. part. of Adolescere, (Ad-olcscere,) to grow up to. The growing up to manhood, or maturity. Me fruitful scenes and prospects waste And those of sorrows yet to come.-Cowper, Shrubbery. Those times which we term vulgarly the old world, were indeed the youth or adolescence of it. 25 Howell, b. iii. Let. 9. Such persons, from theyr adolescency (adolescencye is the age next to the state of man) ought to be perswaded and taught the true knowlege of very nobylytie. Sir T. Elyot. The Governour, b. ii. c. 4. It has long been charged by one part of mankind upon the other, that they will not take advice; that counsel and instruction are generally thrown away; and that in defiance both of admonition and example, all claim the right to choose their own measures, and to regulate their own lives. Adventurer, No. 74. Fac. The Doctor is within, a moving for you; At this present I will in few words shew what may be observed most memorable, in the adolescency of the one and of the other, of their exploits of war, of their vices and vertues, of their death, and what followed after. North. Plutarch, p. 617. Whose death, the king now entring into his adolescencie or yeers (as we tearme it) of discretion, is said heauelie with teares to lament. Holinshed. Chron. The Hist. of Scotland, an. 1439. ADONA'TION. Taylor writes Adunation, and Co-adunation, (qqv.) When, by glaciation, wood, straw, dust, water, &c. are supposed to be united into one lump of ice, the cold does not cause any real union or adonation (if I may so speak) of these bodies, but only hardening the aqueous parts of the liquor into ice, the other bodies, being accidentally present in that liquor, are frozen up in it, but not really united. Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 490. ADO ORS, adv. At doors, or, at the door. For we knowe that euery creature groneth with vs also, and trauayleth in payne euen vnto thys tyme. Not onely it, but we also which haue ye fyrst frutes of the spryte, morne in oure selues also, and wayte for the adopcyon (of the chyldren of God) euen the delyueraŭce of oure bodyes. Bible, 1539. Ib. For when Réne, duke of Angeou, last kyng of Scicile, ADMOVE, v. Lat. Admovere, (Ad-movere,) | departed without any heire male of hys wyfe lawfully be to move to. See MOVE. gotten, he did adopt to his heyre of all his realmes and dominios, Lewes the XI: father of ye III kyng Charles. Hall. Hen. VII. an. 7. There are some opinions, which, when they began to be publicly received, began to be accounted prime traditions, and so became such, not by a native title, but by adoption. Bp. Taylor. Liberty of Prophesying. Tythe is not simply a Levitical duty, but respectively; not the natural child of Moses's law, but the adoptive. Spelman. Larger Work of Tythes, c. 28. } ADNA'SCENT. Lat. Adnascens; Sp. Moss, which is an adnascent plant, is to be rubbed and Evelyn. Sylva. ii. 7. § 8. time, of youth, of maturity, of beauty; and, To deck, dress, apparel, gaily, handsomely; so as to display to the best advantage:-to decorate, to embellish. At his firste settyng foote on land, the garter of thorder set & made faste aboute his [Philip of Spain] legge, whiche was sent vnto hym by the quene, richly adorned with precious iewelles.-Fabian. Q. Marye, an. 1. Ther n'as baillif, ne herde, ne other hine, Chaucer. The Prologue. The Reve. Id. The Milleres Tale, v. 3425. of quarele, nor of none engyne.-Gower. Con. A. b. v. And to the troubled chamber all in armes did throng. See DRIFT. The holie senate was adorned with olde prudent persons: And not without teares I saie at this houre it is ful of iaglers & liers.-The Golden Boke, c. 7. By the most wise and unchanged order, which God ob- Of that skill the more thou know'st, The whole end of internal religion can be served by giving Bp. Taylor. Rule of Conscience, b. iii. c. 2. Addison. English Poets. What they can spare, besides the necessary expence of Sir Wm. Temple. On the United Provinces, c. 4. ADO'TED. See DOTE. It falleth that the most wise } The kyng the while London by segede faste, Of rasour ne of shere, I wol thee yeve, Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2417. The kyng askede, wad heo were? Thei were a drad ful sore. His dreadful hideous hed The maister fel a doun on kne, and criede mercy & ore. Unty'd, and ignorant of artful aid, Adrigh, in Gower, is considered by Skinner to have originated in the same A. S. verb. The Kynges doughter, whiche this sigh, For pure abashe drewe hir adrigh.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv. Of Paradise by might of waves be mov'd [She shall] be put alone into a boat, Dryden. Marriage à la Mode, Act iii. Having fallen in with a reef of rocks in their return to the ship, they had been obliged to cut Mr. Banks's little boat adrift.-Cook. Voyages, b. i. c. 1. ADROIT, adj. Fr. Droit; It. Dritto; Lat. ADRO'ITLY. - Directus, from Dirigere, to ADRO ITNESS. direct, (qv.) An adroit man aims direct at his mark, hits it; attains his purpose with ease, skill, address, dexterity-and hence Adroit, is Dexterous, prompt to see and seize advantages; expert, ready. To this heroique life of the field they [the French 'nobles] are generally addicted, as being thereto excellently disciplined from their very cradles; by which means, certainly they become the best esteemed, and most adroit cavalry in Europe. Evelyn. The State of France. ADRY'. See DRY. Doth a man, that is adry, desire to drink in gold? Burton. Anal. of Melancholy, p. 329. ADSCITITIOUS. Ad- sciscere, scitus, to seek or inquire after, adjungere, assumere, (ut exponit Festus.) To adjoin, to assume. And the Gower. Con. A. b. i. word (when used) is applied to that which is ad junct, or assumed. He [Hobbes] would that he did not care to give, neither was he adroit at, a present answer to a serious quære. Aubrey. Life of Hobbes, vol. ii. p. 611. May there not be a great deal in the "ingenium versatile," in the skill and adroitness of the artist, acquired as yours has been, by repeated acts and continual practice. Bp. Horne. To Priestley, p. 5. All which are additional labour, and take up much room in discourses and books, and are performed by different authors, upon different subjects, and in different kinds of writing, with an infinite variety of methods and forms, according to men's different views and capacities; and many times not without a necessity of some condescensions, adscititious advantages, and even applications to the passions. Wollaston. Religion of Nature, s. 3. You apply to your hypothesis of an adscititious spirit what he [Philo] says concerning this vevua Belov, divine spirit or soul, infused into man by God's breathing. Clarke. Letter to Dodwell. ADVANCE, v. ADVANCE, R. ADVANCEMENT. ADVANCEE. AVANCE. AVAUNTOUR. ADV Anciently written avance: in French avancer, avance. To bring into the van (qv.) In Robert of Gloucester, the van guard is called the vaunt wardes, and in more modern authors, the vaunt gard. To forward, or bring, to put forward, into the front or fore-ground, the van or vantage ground. To propose, or offer to notice or attention; to promote, to prefer, to profit. Chaucer uses the adverb avaunt, forward; and also the noun avant, and the verb avante, which, Mr. Tyrwhitt says, are French, and mean boast, to bocst. But this is a consequential application. An evaunter or advaunter, or, he who avaunteth, raunteth, cometh avaunt, puts himself or his deeds forward, obtrudes them, is a boaster. And this application is common in the elder writers. See VAUNT. Another application of avaunt is, to go forward, to pass on, to go on, to begone. And thus of o thing I may avaunten me, Id. The Wif of Bathes Prologue, v. 5985. Id. The Prologue. The Frere. Avantour, is he that bosteth of the harme or of the buntee that he hath don.-Id. The Persones Tale. Ascuntour and a lyer, al is one As thes. I pose a woman graunt me Her lone, and sayth that other wol she none And I am sworne to holden it secre Ther is another yet of pride, Whiche neuer coude his wordes hide, ADV The auncient men kept silence, tyll such tyme as hee began to deface the doinges of Philip hys father, aduaunting the notable victorye at Cheronese to be his deede. Id. Ib. fol. 209. And after I tel it two or thre I wys I am auduntour at the leest And lyer eke, for I breke my beheest.-Id. Troylus, b. iii. That he ne wolde hym selfe auaunt, There maie nothinge his tonge daunt, That he ne clappeth as a belle.-Gower. Con. A. b. i. And thus for that there is no dele, Of love make quauntrie.-Id. Ib. And of none other auantaunce: Tha nedeth me no repentaunce.-Id. Ib. The kyng that purposed to set forwarde his journey the nexte daye, made that night a solemne banquet: wherein (being ouer greate an aduaunter of him selfe) when he was chafed with drinking; began to set forth the actes that he hadde done, in such sort that his wordes offended ye eares of such as knew them to be true.-Id. Ib. True religion is the best support of every government, which, being founded on just principles, proposes for its end And with that word came Drede auaunt, the joint advancement of the virtue and the happiness of the Which was abashed, and in great fere, Whan he wist Jelousie was there.-Id. Rom. of the Rose. people.-Horsley, vol. i. Ser. 10. The French soldiers, which from their youth have been practised and inured in feats of arms, do not crack or adpasce themselves to have very often got the upper hand and mastery of your new made and unpractised soldiers. More. Ulopia by Robinson, Introd. A cherub tall; To give her the avaunt, it is a pity, Our advanced beliefs are not to be built upon dictates, but having received the probable inducements of truth, we become emancipated from testimonial engagements, and are to erect upon the surer base of reason. In heauê how highly so euer any man is aduaunced, therwith is none offended, but rather euerye one (so well they loce ethe other) reioyseth and hath his part in eche others odugancement-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1369. Shakespeare. Henry VIII. Act ii. sc. 3. Avaunt! begone! thou'st set me on the rack: I swear 'tis better to be much abus'd, Than but to know a little.-Id. Othello, Act iii. And though he aduaunted that he ware the spoyles of his enemyes: yet wyth those spoiles he put vppon him their etyl maners: and the insolency of the mynde, folowed the pryde of the aparayle. Brende. Quintius Curtius, fol. 150. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. i. c. 7. More advantageous had it been unto truth to have fallen into the endeavours of some co-operating advancers, that might have performed it to the life, and added authority thereto; which the privacie of our condition, and unequal abilities cannot expect.-Id. Ib. Pref. Th' advance of kindness which I made, was feign'd, To call back fleeting love by jealousie. Dryden. All for Love, Act iv. Mr. Newton, in his never enough to be admired book, has demonstrated several propositions, which are so many new truths, before unknown to the world; and are farther advances in mathematical knowledge. - Locke. On Hum. Underst. b. iv. c. 7. If the perfection of a rational creature consists in acting according to reason; and if his merit rises in proportion as he advances in perfection: How can that state, which best secures him from acting irrationally, lessen or take away his merit?-Warburton. Divine Legation, b. v. Fr. Advantage, Avantage; It. Avvantagio. Anciently written Avantage, as in the French; and may be referred to ADVANTAGEable. the same origin with Avancer. Both n. and v. are applied, consequentially ADVANTAGE, v. To forward, to prefer, to promote the interests of; to favour, to benefit, to profit. K. John. Within this wall of flesh There is a soul counts thee her creditor, And with advantage means to pay thy love. Shakespeare. K. John. Act iii. sc. 2. The auantage set so hie, That thou may gyue with right, whan thou wille & how. R. Brunne, p. 314. As sooth is sayd, elde hath gret avantage, In elde is bothe wisdom and usage: Men may the old out-renne, but not out-rede. Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2449. That I haue fought with beastes at Ephesus after ye maner of me, what auauntageth it me, yf ye deed ryse not agayne. Bible, 1539. 1 Cor. c. 15. For what auauntageth it a ma to wynne the whole worlde yf he loose him selfe, or runne in domage of hymselfe? Bible, 1551. Luke c. 9. Without Christ, it would be far from advantaging us toward our salvation: for alas! though we should turn never so holy, never so virtuous and reformed: what satisfaction or recompence could we make for our former sins and iniquities.-Chillingworth, Ser. 5. Count all th' advantage prosperous vice attains, 'Tis but what virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want, which is, to pass for good. Pope. Essay on Man, Epist. 4. Whatever advantages I obtain by my own free endeavours, and right use of those faculties and powers I have, I look upon them to be as much the effects of God's providence and government, as if they were given me immediately by Him, without my acting. Wollaston. Religion of Nature, s. 5. Some advantageous act may be achiev'd The last property which qualifies God for the fittest object of our love, is the advantageousness of his to us. Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 279. Danger, then, Urges the prince's death; .. better He dies this minute, that the next may Advantage our escapes.-Southerne. Loyal Brother, Act i. Therfore attemper thy courage: By olde ensamples, as thou shalt here You see by this one instance, and in the course of your life you will see by a million of instances, of what use a good reputation is, and how swift and advantageous a harbinger it is, wherever one goes.-Chesterfield, Let. 172. Some abruptly speak advantageously of themselves, without either pretence or provocation. They are impudent. Id. Let. 166. For as the darke is in thys matter all hys auauntage: euē so is verely the light in like wise myne. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 931. Unto the first of these (that inquireth of the substance or nature of the soul or mind), the considerations of the original of the soul, whether it be native or adventive, and how far it is exempted from laws of matter, and of the immortality thereof, and many other points, do appertain. Bacon. Advancement of Learning, b. ii. The choice of place requireth that the natives be not so many, but that there may be elbow-room enough for them, and for the adventives also.-Id. Advice to Villiers. I do also daily use one other collect; as, namely, the collects adventual, quadragesimal, paschal, or pentecostal, for their proper seasons.-Bp. Sanderson. And the Plateens and aduenturers which were wyth Demosthenes, were the furst that came to sease and possesse the poorte, and entred into it by the quartier, where as presently is sene a trophee or victorie addressed & set vp. Nicolls. Thucydides, fo. 111. And sure this murth'red prince, though weak he was, He was not ill; nor yet so weak, but that He show'd much martial valour in his place, Advent'ring oft his person for the state. Daniel. Civil Wars, b. iii. It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof below. Bacon. Ess. On Truth. Then let the former age with this content her, She brought the poets forth, but our's th' adventer. B. Jonson. Epigr. 133. Great club-fist [Alcides] though thy back and bones be sore Still, with thy former labours, add one more, Act a brave work, call it thy last adventry. Id. Voyage itself. So these, the late Heaven-banished host, left desart utmost hell Many a dark league, reduc'd in careful watch Round their metropolis; and now expecting Each hour their great adventurer, from the search Of foreign worlds.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. x. The Destiny (I mean that brave ship which he [Raleigh] built himself of that name, that carry'd him thither) is like to prove a fatal destiny to him, and to some of the rest of those gallant adventurers.-Howell, b. i. s. 1. Let. 4. Fast by the oracle of God; I thence Boy. Bardolfe and Nym had tenne times more valour, ...and they are both hang'd, and so would this be, if hee durst steale any thing aduenturously. • Shakespeare. Hen. V. Áct iii. Would it not raise and inflame any couragee to see his commander to adventure so boldly upon all hazards, to endure so willingly all hardships?-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 42. O Palamon, my kinsman and my friend, How much more happy fates thy love attend! Thine is th' adventure; thine the victory: Well has thy fortune turn'd the dice for thee. Dryden. Palamon and Arcite, b. i. Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry. Gray. Ode. Eton Col. He [the cunning man] gives half-looks and shrugs in his general behaviour, to give you to understand that you do not know what he means. He is also wonderfully adverbial in his expressions, and breaks off with a "perhaps" and a nod of the head upon matters of the most indifferent nature. Tatler, No. 191. ADVERSE, v. Fr. Adversité; It. Avverso; ADVERSE, adj. Sp. Adverso; Lat. Advertere, A'DVERSARY. Adversum, (Ad-vertere,) to ADVERSATIVE. turn to or against. The A'DVERSELY. verb is obsolete. (See To ADVERSENESS. ADVERT.) The adj. is apADVERSITY. plied toThat which turns to or is turned against, with a design to oppose, resist, contend against: to that which is hostile or destructive to; which causes calamity, misfortune, distress: and hence Opposing or opposite, resisting, contending, acting against: hostile, inimical, injurious, cala mitous. At Wynchestre he held his parlement ilk gere, & ther men him teld, who was his aduersere. R. Brunne, p. 82. Be ye sobre and wake ye, for your aduersarie the deuel, as a rorynge lioun, goith about sechinge whom he schal deuoure.-Wiclif. 1 Petir, c. 5. Be sobre and watch, for youre aduersary ye deuyll, as a roaring lyon, walketh about sekyng whom he may deuoure. Bible, 1539. Ib. Than said he thus, fulfilde of high disdaine, For who so maketh God his adversary, Id. The Chanones Yemannes Tale, v. 16,944. Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 1314. Then, as a cunning prince that useth spies, Davies. Immortality of the Soul, s. 32. It was not easy to persuade those who had trusted Willis so much, and who thought him faithful in all respects, to believe that he could be guilty of so black a treachery: so Morland's advertisement was looked on as an artifice to create jealousy.-Burnet. Own Time, b. i. The great skill in an advertiser is chiefly seen in the style which he makes use of. He is to mention "the universal esteem, or general reputation," of things that were never beard of-Tatier, No. 224. Estates are landscapes, gaz'd upon a while, ADVISE, v. ADVICE, n. Fr. Adviser, Aviser; It. Avvisare; Sp. Avisar. To advise ADVISABLE. is usually derived from the ADVISEDLY. Bar. Latin Advisare, (q. d.), ADVISEDNESS." to see to, to look to. Junius ADVISEFUL. suspects (and is confirmed ADVISEMENT. by Wachter) that Advisare ADVISER. is from the Ger. Wisen, to ADVISING. show, instruct, direct; and the ADVISO. ancient mode of writing the word viz, auys, confirms this etymology. It is the A. S. and English Wis-an, wise; to wisse, to wist. Our application of the word is this To look, listen, or attend to, with care, caution, prudence; to consult, to deliberate, to counsel, to inform, to warn, to admonish. See AVIZE. He avisede the ost suithe wel, & thoru Gode's grace, Of werre & of bataile he was fulle auise. Senek among his other wordes wise Chaucer. The Marchantes Tale, v. 9398. And also that he be right ware, In what maner he ledeth his chare, That he mistake not his gate, But vpon auisement algate He shuld beare a siker eie.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv. The mayre than abasshed with that questyon, besoughte the kynge that he myght comōn with his bretherne the aldermen, and he shulde shewe vnto hym his and theyr oppynyons, but ye kynge sayd he wold here his aduyce without more counsayl.-Fabyan. Hen. III. an. 46. Whan there cometh somtyme a mostruouse best to the town, we renne, and are glad to paie some money to haue a sight thereof: but I feare, if me would loke vpo them self aduisedly; thei shoulde see a more monstrouse best nerer home.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 11. Who so gladly halseth the golden meane, Voide of daungers advis'dly hath his home Not with lothsome muck, as a den uncleane, Nor palace like, whereat disdain may glome. Surrey. Praise of Meane Estate. Amonge the proude there is euer stryfe, but amonge those that do all thynges with aduysement, there is wysdome. Bible, 1539. Prouerbes, c. 13. Rigour is now gone to bed, Of wounds and scars and that his forward spirit Id. Mer. of Venice, Act v. sc. 1. Whether to confess to a priest be an adviseable discipline, and a good instance, instrument, and ministery of repentance, and may serve many good ends in the church, and to the souls of needing persons, it is no part of the question. Bp. Taylor. Dissuasive from Popery, b. i. pt. ii. s. 16. In the meane time the Britaines, that after flight had again recouered head, and in their assemblies aduisedly considered their imminent dangers, concluded their submission for the safest remedy. Speed. Hist. of Gt. Britain, b.vi. c.1. And herewithal turning about, he wakes, Lab'ring in spirit, troubl'd with this strange sight, And mus'd awhile, waking advisement takes, Of what had pass'd in sleep, in silent night. Daniel. Civil Wars, b. i. The person who pretends to advise, does, in that particular, exercise a superiority over us, and can have no other reason for it, but that, in comparing us with himself, he thinks us defective either in our conduct or our understanding. For these reasons, there is nothing so difficult as the art of making advice agreeable.-Spectator, No. 512. While things are in agitation, private men may modestly tender their thoughts to the consideration of those that are in authority; to whose care it belongeth, in prescribing concerning Indifferent things, to proceed with all just advisedness. Sanderson. Judgment in one View. Here, free from court-compliances he [K. Charles] walks, The end of pleasant or unpleasant advice, is full of delight; but wherever a speaker, and a hearer of it is, there dangers abide.-Sir W. Jones. Hitópadésa. May breach of friendship be in the mansion of the enemies; and may every wicked adviser, detected in time, be dragged continually to perdition; but may every man of virtue enjoy all prosperity; and may every boy delight in pleasing and useful instruction !-Sir W. Jones. Hitópadésa. ADULATION, n. Į Fr. Adulation, AdulaA'DULATORY. toire; It. Adulare; Sp. Adular; Lat. Adulatio, from Adulari. Vossius has a variety of conjectures: it is perhaps from aduλAiw, Dorice pro novλicw, from nous, suavis, sweet; Houλw (says Vossius) valet idem ac ndoλoyw, sive, byssinis ac suavibus verbis utor. "To use well placed words of glozing courtesy." To gloze, to flatter, to give unmerited or excessive respect, approbation, or applause. ADULTER, v. ADULTERATE, v. ADULTERATE, adj. ADULTERATION. ADULTERER. ADULTERESS. ADULTERINE. ADULTEROUS. ADULTEROUSLY. Fr. Adultérer; It. Adulterare; Sp. Adulterar; Lat. Adulterare. Adulterer and Adulteress are so called, because the former betakes himself to another woman (ad alteram), and the latter to another man (ad alterum.) Festus. ADULTERY. In our elder writers, the words are written ad- or a-voutrie, -voutrer, -voutresse. The old English words are, spousebreach, spousebreaker, wedlock-breaking. The examples furnish the explanation. Adulterate, adulteration and adulterine, are applied, consequentially, to— That which changes to another, but a worse state or condition; which destroys the integrity, which sullies the purity. And I seye to you that every man that leveth his wyf, out teke cause of fornicacioun, makith hir to do leecherie, and he that weddith the forsaken wyf doth avowtrie. Wiclif. Matt. c. 5. |