It seemeth that the impression of colour is so weak, as it worketh not but by a cone of direct beames, or right lines; whereof the basis is in the object, and the verticall point in the eie; so as there is a corradiation and conjunction of beames.-Bacon. Natural History, s. 277.

My mother conjured me to make my escape at any rate, which, as I was young, I might easily effect; as for herself, she said, her age and corpulency rendered all attempts of that sort impossible. Melmoth. Pliny to Tacitus, b. vi. Let. 20. Lat. Radius; Gr. 'PaßSas, a rod; from Saoσ-e, amputare, abscindere, and that which is favourable is called res ampla, because as

If it [knowledge] be taken without the true corrective thereof, (it) hath in it some nature of malignity, or venome full of flatuous symptomes. This antidote, or corrective spice, the mixture whereof tempers knowledge and makes it so soveraigne, is charity. Bacon. On Learning, by G. Wats, b. i. c. 1. odious and are called stricte in the law, the matter of that is to be made as little as it may be, so the matter of this may be enlarged.

COR-RADIATION.

to cut off. See RADIANT.

A union, combination or convergence of rays.

Bp. Taylor. Rule of Conscience, b. iii. c. 6. But there are in nature some things which are the instruments of vertue and vice too: some things, which of themselves indeed are culpable, but yet such which do minister to glorious events, and such which as they are not easily corrigible, so they are not safe to be done away. Id. On Repentance, c. 8. s. 8.

Plato attributeth it to the corradiation or conjunction of light, for that the light of the eyes reacheth a good way within the aire of like nature, and the light likewise issuing

from the visible bodies, cutteth the aire between, which of itselfe is liquid and mutable, and so extendeth it together with that fiery power of the eye, and this is it which is called the conjunct light or corradiation of the Platonicks. Holland. Plutarch, p. 6.

Eschewe thou a man eretike after oon and the secounde correccion, witynge that he that is such a maner is subvertid and trespasith, and is dampned by his owne doom. Wiclif. 2 Tyte, c. 3. Any man myght thinke that the maners of shrewes ben eoriged and chastised by vengeaunce, and that they be brought to the right way by the drede of tourment. Chaucer. Boecius, b. iv. But all for nought, I sette not an hawe Of his proverbes, ne of his olde sawe; Ne I wold not of him corrected be.

Id. The Wif of Bathes Prologue, v. 6244. Then had he thurgh his jurisdiction Power to don on hem correction.

Id. The Freres Tale, v. 6904. Under what maner therefore should I now submit this booke to be corrected and amended of them, whiche can suffer nothyng to bee well.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 237.

And thus (vnder correction bee it tolde)
Hath Gascoigne gathered in his garden molde.
Gascoigne. Hearbes.

And of Aristotel it is named in Greke Diorthotice, which is in Englishe corectiue.-Sir T. Elyot. Governor, b. iii. c.1.

And when he once became the kinges corrector & master, ye rather hys king & empror (saith the text) by her meanes he was elected bishop of Winchestre after the decease of Elphegus. Bale. English Votaries, pt. i. c. 1.

Peter Chapot first was a corector to a printer in Paris, after he had been at Geneva, to doe good to the church of Christ like a good man, hee came with bookes of holie Scripture into France and dispersed the abroad vnto the faithfull. For. Table of French Martyrs, p. 822. Considering therefore, that he is not corrigible, we are driuen to the verie extremitie of the lawe, and with great heauinesse of heart wee now proceede to the publication of the sentence definitiue, against him.

Id. Martyrs. The Lord Cobham's Condemnation.

Some maintain, that the coldness and windinesse (easily correctable with spice) is recompensed by temperate looseness, caused by the moderate drinking thereof.

In answer St. Austin himself granted that those among them, who sought the truth, being ready, when they found it, to carreet their error, were not hereticks, and therefore notwithstanding their error, might be saved.

Chillingworth. Rel. of Prot. pt. i. c. 7.

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Fuller. Worthies. Gloucestershire.

Hee [Caligula] could not forbeare so much as in the public theaters and shew places, but that he would both fall a singing with the tragædian as he pronounced, and also counterfaite and openly imitate the gesture of the player, as it were by way of praise or correction. Holland. Suetonius, p. 148. You filthy famish'd correctioner, if you be not swing'd, I'le forsweare halfe Kirtles. Shakespeare. 2 Part Hen. IV. Act v. sc. 4.

"I here send you a few observations concerning some

plants, seldom used in medicine, being esteemed poisonous, which if truly corrected or exactly dosed, may perhaps prove the most powerful and effectual medicines yet known." Having then given an account of some of their correctives, he gives the following examples.

Derham. Physico-Theology, b. ii. c. 6.

As to the bishops, though some of them were learned and conscientious, yet the rest, and the greater part, were such that there could be no good discipline exercised, for the re

straint of sin, and for the due correction of swearing, rioting,
neglect of God's word, and other scandalous vices.
Strype. Memorials. Edw. VI. an. 1553.
But in such lays as neither ebb nor flow,
Correctly cold, and regularly low,
That, shunning faults, one quiet temper keep,
We cannot blame indeed, but we may sleep.
Pope. Essay on Criticism.

If it blows a happy gale, we must set up all our sails, though in so doing it sometimes happens that we follow those motions where our natural heat is more powerful than our care and correctness.-Dryden. On Dufresnoy, Note 60.

You see fire, life, and spirit run through the whole, and at the same time correctness, which shows he is used to writing. Tatler, No. 91.

Fifthly, nor can they (he says) be assured that the transcribers, and printers, and correctors of the press have carefully and faithfully done their part, in transcribing and printing the several copies and translations of Scripture aright. Tillotson. Rule of Faith, pt. ii. s. 3.

A satyr should expose nothing, but what is corrigible, and make a due discrimination between those who are, and those who are not, the proper objects of it.—Spectator, No.209.

It was his manner to intermix his literary pursuits in such sort as to make the lighter relieve the more serious; and those again, in their turn, temper and correct the other. Warburton. Life by Hurd.

Along with much evil, there is some good in monarchy itself; and some corrective to its evil from religion, from laws, from manners, from opinions, the French monarchy must have received.-Burke. On the French Revolution.

CO'R-RELATE, n.
CORRELATION.
CORRELATIVE, adj.
CORRELATIVe, n.
CORRELATIVELY.

Lat. Con, and past part. relatus; (re, and latus, raised.)

For the particular kind of relation, or mutual and reciprocal relation to which this word is applied, see especially the examples from Clarke and Hume.

This conclusion is corelative with the first article of our faith, I beleeue in God the Father Almighty, &c.

State Trials. Protestation of John Wiclif.

For the signe & the thinge signified bee correlatiues, one answering the tother or els must it be but a false and a dyssymbling signe which these papistis so stoughtly defende with fyre and fagots.-Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 3.

We confess the name [merit] might be admitted, if taken in the large and more general sense, for any work having relation to a reward to follow it; or whereby a reward is quocunque modo obtained; in a word, as the correlate indifferent either to merces gratiæ or justitiæ, the reward of grace or of justice.-Mede. Works, b. i. Dis. 27.

Spiritual things and spiritual men are correlatives, and cannot in reason be divorced.-Spelman. On Tythes, p. 141.

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Our Saviour is a king three manner of wayes, and so correlatively hath three distinct several kingdoms.

Hales. Rem. Ser. John, xviii. 36.

But, that any thing is, and that there is a real reason in nature why it is, rather than is not; these two are as necessaryly connected as any two correlates whatever, as hight and depth, &c.-Clarke. On the Evidences. Ans. to Sixth Let.

Concubine is, no doubt a relative name, as well as wife; but in languages where this, and the like words, have not a correlative term, these people are not so apt to take them to be so, as wanting that evident mark of relation, which is between correlatives, which seems to explain one another, and not to be able to exist, but together.

Locke. Hum. Underst. b. ii. c. 25.

For giving being a relative action, (and so requiring a correlative to answer it.) Giving on one part transfers no property unless there be an accepting on the other. South, vol. i. Ser. 7. It is an universal observation, which we may form upon language, that where two relative parts of a whole bear any proportion to each other, in numbers, rank, or consideration, there are always correlative terms invented, which answer to both the parts, and express their mutual relation. Thus man and woman, master and servant, father and son, prince and subject, stranger and citizen, are correlative terms.-Hume. Essay 11. Note 10.

Between two correlative terms, it is totally indifferent to the meaning which of the two correlations is expressed. Tooke. Div. of Purley, vol. i. c. 9. Note. CORREPTION. Lat. Corripere, reptum; (con, and rapere, to seize, apprehendere, and met. reprehendere.)

Reprehension, reproof, chiding, admonition.

Meaning that all contumacious sinners, that upon admonition and ecclesiastical correption, refuse to repent, are to be accounted enemies and strangers to the rights and promises of the Gospel, enemies to the religion, and separate from God, and given over to a reprobate sence.

Bp. Taylor. Rule of Conscience, b. iii. c. 4.

'Twill not be amiss to premise that there is a double correption or admonition; the former, paternal or authoritative; the latter, fraternal or charitative.

Hammond. Works, vol. i. p. 291.

Fr. Correspondre; Sp. Corresponder; It. Correspondere; Lat. Co, and respondere, to answer. See RESPOND and SPONSOR. To correspond, generally, is

To answer one to another; to have or hold an interchange, or intercourse, in answer one to another; to be or act in answer or return; to answer or be answerable to; suitable, or agreeable to, according with; and thus,-to suit, to fit, to be adapted or proportioned to.

COR-RESPOND, v. CORRESPONDENT, adj. CORRESPONDENT, n. CORRESPONDENCE. CORRESPONDENCY. CORRESPONDENTLY. CORRESPONDING.

CORRESPONSIVE.

Ye will now so acquit your self, as shall correspond to the perfect expectation, and firm opinion that we have of you.

Burnet. Records, No. 2. The King to his Ambassadors.

Not doubting but that ye will now above all other things, look vigilantly hereunto, and so acquit yourself in the same, as it may well appear that your acts shall be correspondent to our firm trust and expectation.-Id. Ib.

Whose maners also and conuersation being correspondent to the same, were such that all they which knewe him, reputed, and esteemed him to bee a man of most vertuous disposition, and of a life vnspotted.-Tyndall. Life by Fox.

Thirdly these kiges shuld geue vnto these chosen & lerned men their new names correspoding their vertews and offices.-Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. I. Self-knowing, and from thence Magnanimous to correspond with heav'n, But grateful to acknowledge whence his good Descends. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vii. There placed is Mischief's old Master! close about him clings A curl'd knot of embracing snakes, that kiss His correspondent cheeks.

Crashaw. Sospetto d'Herode, b. i. He holds That correspondence, there, with all that are Neere about Cæsar, as no thought can passe Without his knowledge.-B. Jonson. Sejanus, Act. iv. Vpon the tombe of D. John Beckingale sometime Bishop of Chichester this is engrauen, which I set here for rare correspondency of the rime.-Camden. Remains. Epitaphes.

And he was to sanctifie others of mankind, and this he had not so fitly and correspondently according to the law of nature done, had not both they and he been all of one. Goodwin. Works, vol. iii. pt. iii. p. 56.

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And rare devises to corrivate waters.

Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 276.

Admirable cost and charge is bestowed in the low coun tries on this behalfe, in the Dutchy of Milan, territory of Padua, in France, Italy, China, and so likewise about corrirations of waters to moisten and refresh barren grounds, to drean fennes, bogges, and moores.

Id. Ib. Democritus to the Reader, p. 57. COR-ROBORATE, v. Fr. Corroborer; CORROBORATE, adj. Sp. Corroborar; It. CORROBORANT, adj. Corroborare; Lat. CORROBORA'TION. Corroborare, (con, CORROBORATIVE, n. and robur, strength.) CORROBORATIVE, adj. To strengthen, to confirm, to establish; to make strong, firm, stable, or steadfast.

Then Barnes answered, I spake nothing but the truth out of the Scriptures, according to my cocience, and according to the olde doctours: and then he deliuered him vi. sheetes of paper written, to confirme and corroborate his sayinges. Barnes. Works. Life, p. 3.

This, with all other such matter as may serve to the purpose, ye shall extend as well as ye can, and by that meanes get and attain as much to your purpose for the corroboration and surety of all things to be done here as is possible.

Burnet. Rec. b. ii. No. 23. Dispatch to the Cardinal.

Our Saviour himself when in his agony was corroborated by an angel.-Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. v. c. 4.

There be divers sorts of bracelets fit to comfort the spirits; and they be of three intentions; refrigerant; corroborant; and aperient. For corroboration and comfortation, take such bodies as are of astringent quality, without manifest cold.-Bacon. Naturall History, § 961-2.

A decoction thereof doth corroborat any member or part of the bodie which groweth to bee sencelesse or benummed, if the same be fomented therewith.

Holland. Plinie, b. xxiv. c. 4.

And therefore as Machiavel well noteth (though in an illfavoured instance) there is no trusting to the force of nature, nor to the bravery of words, except it be corroborate by custom.-Bacon. Ess. Of Custom and Education.

Nay what shall the Scripture itselfe? Which is like an apothecaries shop, wherein are all remedies for all infirmities of minde, purgatives, cordialls, alteratives, corroboratives, lenitives, &c.-Burton. Anat, of Melancholy, p. 280.

Besides its medicinal virtues, it [silphium] was a wonderful corroborater of the stomach.-Evelyn. Acetaria.

I make bold to tell him, that a similitude and correspondency between the event and the transaction which prefigured it, is not enough to shew this dependency, to the satisfaction of unbelievers.

Warburton. The Divine Legation, b. vi. Note K. CORRIVAL. See CORIVAL.

CO'RRIVATE, v. Į Lat. Con, and rivus; with freatyng coroseis.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 10. }Gr. Pe-er, to flow.

CORRIVA'TION.

The law driueth out the disease, and maketh it appeare, To flow or cause to flow together; to conflow, and is a sharpe salue, and a freatyng corsey.-Id. Ib. p. 383. (qv.)

And this shall suffice for an example of the errors which are brought into the church, from the entities and essences of Aristotle which it may be he knew to be false philosophy; but writ it as a thing consonant to and corroborative to their religion; and fearing the fate of Socrates. Hobbs. Leviathan, pt. iv. c. 46. The absence of such assurances [of innocence] at a time when a person is laying his heart open to his friends, and professedly shewing them where the strength of his defence must lie, is undeniably a corroborating evidence, and a very strong one, of his own consciousness that the accusation against him is true.

Hoadly. Letters signed Britannicus, Let. 32. We shall endeavour to make appear: 1st, that wit and humour are corroborative of religion, and promotive to true faith.-Shaftesbury. Characteristics, vol. iii. Misc. 2. Joy amidst ills corroborates, exalts; 'Tis joy and conquest; joy and virtue too. Young. The Complaint, Night 9. Having considered the evidence given by the plays themselves, and found it in their favour, let us now enquire what corroboration can be gained from other testimony.

Johnson. Gen. Obs. on Shakspeare's Plays.

CORRODE, v. CORRO DENT, n. CORRO'DIATE, v. CORRO'DIBLE. CORRO'SIBLE. CORROSIBILITY. CORRO'SIBLENESS. CORRO'SIVE, v. CORROSIVE, adj. CORRO'SIVE, n. CORROSIVELY. CORRO'SIVENESS. CORROSION, n. sive, corrasive, corrosive.

Fr. Corroder; It. Corrodere; Sp. Corroer; Lat. Corrod-ere,(con, and rodere, to gnaw.)

To gnaw, or eat into; to prey upon, wear away, consume or waste away, by gnawing, fretting, or eating.

to

Corrosive appears have been strangely corrupted by our old writers: corsie, corosie, corsive, cora

Now he that goeth about to quiet his consciece, and to iustifie him selfe with the law: doth but heale hys woundes

For so he might procure wealepublick by his paine:

It was no corsie to this knight long trauaile to sustaine.

Turberville. Of the Death of Sir John Tregonwell. Wote you not why? corrosque style,

is corsey to the eye. Drant. Horace, b. i. Sat. 4. Statesmen purge vice with vice, and may corrode The bad with bad, a spider with a toad.

Donne. To the Countess of Bedford. Those evil lucks in numbers many are, That to thy footsteps do themselves apply; And still thy conscience corrosiv'd with grief, Thou but pursu'st thyself, both robb'd and thief. Drayton. The Barons' Wars. And more than all the rest, this griev'd him chief, And to his heart a corsive was eternall, To think that Avarice should her entice, Vpon her chastity to set a price.

Harrington. Orlando, b. xliii. s. 83. The soft delicious air

To heal the scarr of these corrosive fires Shall breathe her balme.-Millon. Paradise Lost, b. ii. The physick of the good Samaritan in the Gospel, wherein there was a corrodent and a lenient compunction, and consolation.-Bp. of London. Vine Palatine, (1614,) p. 17.

The second qualification of a corrodible body is, that is consistent corpuscles be of such a bulk and solidity, as does not render them incapable of being disjoined by the action of the insinuating corpuscles of the menstruum.

Boyle. Works, vol. iv. p. 324. Salad-oil is generally reputed to consist of fat and unctious particles, and therefore to be a greater resister of corrosion. Id. Ib. vol. ii. p. 188. Corrosibility being the quality, that answers corrosiveness, he that has taken notice of the advertisement I formerly gave about the use of the term corrosiveness, in these notes, may easily judge in what sense I employ the name of the other quality.-Id. Ib.

Though at first it tasted somewhat corrosively (perhaps because the proportion betwixt the nitrous spirit and the pot-ashes was not duly observed) yet after it had a while remained upon the tongue, the taste of it much emulated that of saltpetre.-Id. Ib. vol. i. p. 363.

I presume to employ corrosiveness in a greater latitude, so as to make it almost equivalent to the solutive power of liquors, referring other menstruums to those, that are corrosive or freting, (though not always as to the most proper, yet) as to the principal and best-known species. Id. Ib. vol. iv. 314. p. I have seen men between twenty and thirty, whose fore teeth have been consumed almost down to the gums, though no two of them were exactly of the same length and thickness, but irregularly corroded like iron by rust. Cook. Voyage, vol. ii. b. iii. c. 9. Though it [peevishness] breaks not out in paroxysms of outrage, nor bursts into clamour, turbulence, and bloodshed, it wears out happiness by slow corrosion, and small injuries incessantly repeated.-Rambler, No. 74.

And this rising of it is also further'd by the wrinkling up and shortning of the upper part of the stomach; which still returns into its natural corrugation, as the masse of liquid meat leavs soaking it.-Digby. Of Bodies, c. 34. Extended views a narrow mind extend; Push out its corrugate, expansive make, Which, ere long, more than planets shall embrace. Young. Complaint, Night 9. The full lips, the rough tongue, the corrugated cartilaginous palate, the broad cutting teeth of the ox, the deer, the horse, and the sheep, qualify this tribe for browsing upon their pasture.-Paley. Natural Theology, c. 12. COR-RUPT, v. CORRUPT, adj. CORRUPTER, or CORRUPTOR. CORRUPTFUL. CORRUPTIBLE. CORRUPTIBILITY. CORRUPTIBLY. CORRUPTING, n. CORRUPTION. CORRUPTIVE, adj. CORRUPTLESS. CORRUPTLY. CORRUPTRESS. CORRUPTRICE.

Fr. Corrompre; It. Corrompere; Sp. Corrompir; Lat. Old Eng. Corrump ; Corrumpere, ruptum, (con, and rump-ere, to break;) to break or destroy. Cor rupt, from the past part.

To destroy, (sc.) the soundness, the integrity, the purity; to deprave, to vitiate, to spoil, to putrify; be, or cause to be or become, putrid or rotten, to rot; (met.)

To destroy or deprave, or vitiate, (sc.) soundness of mind, purity of heart; to beguile, to be, or cause to be, beguiled, wicked or vicious.

The rough file grates; yet useful is its touch,
As sharp corrosives to the schirrous flesh,
Or to the stubborn temper, keen rebuke.
Jago. Edge-Hill, b. iii.
Fr. Corrugation; a
wrinkling or furrowing
of the skin, (Cotgrave.)

CORRUGATE, v.
CO'RRUGATE, adj.
CORRUGA'TION.
Lat. Corrugare, (con, and rugare, from ruga, a
wrinkle ;) which Vossius thinks is from 'Pu-ew,
epv-ew, trahere; for ruga is nothing more than
the skin contracted into wrinkles or furrows.

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To wrinkle or furrow; to draw or contract into wrinkles or furrows.

Wiclif and Chaucer write Corrump, immediately from the French.

Cockeram has," Corruge,-to frown, to wrinkle." The cramp (no doubt) commeth of the contraction of a sinews; which is manifest in that it commeth either by cold, or drinesse; as after consumptions, and long agues: for cold and drinesse do (both of them) contract and corrugate. Bacon. Natural History, s. 964.

Te distrie hem that corrumpiden the erthe. Wiclif. Apocalips, c. 11. But these men blasfemen whateuer thingis thei knowen not, for whateuer thingis thei knowe kyndeli as doumbe beestis in these thei ben corrupt.-Id. First Ep. Judas, c. 1.

But these speake euil of those thinges which they know not: and what thyng they know naturally: as beastes whyche are wythout reaso, in thō thinges thei corrupt the selues. Bible, 1551. Ib.

Alas! Master Pole, what lack of learning & prudence was this, so corruptly to judg the matter; without al respect of time & person, so foolishly it to handle? Strype. Rec. No. 8. Starky to Pole. Hight Lopez he, that was for physick's skill, Highly respected in the princes grace, Corrupted was her loued life to spill.

Mirrour for Magistrates, p. 858. No, doubtless: for the mind can backward cast Upon herself, her understanding's light; But she is so corrupt, and so defac'd

As her own image doth herself affright.

Davies. Immortality of the Soul, Introd.

They knew them to be the main corruptors at the king's elbow; they knew the king to have been always their most attentive scholar and imitator, and of a child to have suck'd from them and their closet-work all the impotent principles of tyranny and superstition.-Milton, Ans, to Eikon Basilike.

Yet can not my loue haue nathemore; For, she by force is still from me detayned, And with corruptfull bribes is to untruth mistrayned. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 11.

Ne dare looke up with corruptible eye,
On the dread face of that great DEITIE.
Spenser. Hymn of Heavenly Beautie.
Hen. It is too late, the life of all his blood
Is touch'd, corruptibly.-Shakes. King John, Act v. sc. 7.

But besides their innumerable corruptings of the fathers' writings; their thrusting in that which was spurious, and Hike Pharaoh, killing the legitimate sons of Israel, though in this, &c.-Bp. Taylor. A Dissuasive from Popery, c.1. s.l.

The enducing and accelerating of putrefaction, is a subject of a very universal enquiry: for corruption is a reciprocall to generation: and they two, are as natures two terms or boundaries; and the guides to life and death.

Bacon. Natural History, § 328." Whosoever is found variable, and changeth manifestly, without manifest cause, giveth suspicion of corruption. Id. Ess. Of Great Place.

Which is so far from being verefied of animals in their Corruplice mutations into plants, that they maintain not their similitude in their nearer translation into animals. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 6.

In good sooth, this is no true dealing. No maruell it is that you hane not sette downe my booke, seeing you deale thus corruptely with it.-Whitgift. Defence, p. 89.

He [Cato the Elder] procured in the senate, that Carneades the Academic, and Diogenes the Stoic, embassadors from Athens, should immediately be dismiss'd, that they

might not corrupt the youth.-Bentley. Free-thinking.

And considering thus with myselfe that the end of a lawfull and righteous government, is the profit and welfare of obedient subjects, I have beene evermore, as ye know, inclined to peece and quietnesse, banishing from mine acts and proceedings all licentious libertie, the corruptrice of states, and manners both.-Holland. Ammianus, p. 266.

Want of exercise is a great prejudice to their health, and a corrupter of their minds, by raising vapours and melancholy, that fills many with dark thoughts, rendering religion, which affords the truest joy, a burthen to them, and making them even a burthen to themselves.

Burnet. Own Time, vol. iv. Conclusion.

Or (darker prospect! scarce one gleam behind
Disclosing) should the broad corruptive plague
Breathe from the city to the furthest hut,
That sits serene within the forest shade.
Thomson. Liberty, pt. v.
Then with the spoil
Of cassia, cynamon, and stems of nard,
(For softness strew'd beneath) his funeral bed is rear'd:
The borders with corruptless myrrh are crown'd.
Dryden. Ovid. Metam. b. xv.

A reward, which nothing but that necessity which the consumption of my little estate in these wild pursuits had brought upon me, hindered me from throwing back in the face of my corruptor.-Rambler, No. 28.

That the frequency of elections proposed by this bill has a tendency to increase the power and consideration of the electors, not lessen corruptibility, I do most readily allow; so far it is desirable.-Id. Duration of Parliaments.

CORSAIR. "Fr. Corsaire or coursaire; a courser, a rover, a pyrate, a sea-thief," (Cotgrave.)

A course not without danger, as well in respect of the Turks' corsaires, as likewise smallness of the vessels prepar'd for transport of passengers.

Reliquie Wottonianæ, p. 652. Long mourn'd his band, whom none could mourn beside; And fair the monument they gave his bride: For him they raise not the recording stoneHis death yet dubious, deeds too widely known; He left a corsair's name to other times, Link'd with one virtue, and a thousand crimes. Ld. Byron. Corsair, c. 3. s. 24.

CORSE, n. Or CORPS, (qv.)
CO'RSELET, v. A body, a mere body; i. e.
Co'rselet, n. a lifeless, a dead body or car-

cass.

Corselet,-to cover the body.

For Corse-present, see the quotation from Black

stone.

That ye sayd ii. deed corses were drawe downe the steyers without pytie, and layed in ye court that all men myght beholde that myserable spectacle.-Fabyan. K. John, an. 8.

The 20. day we manned our fiue boats, and also a great boat of the Frenchmen's with our men and the admirals, 12 of them in their murrains and corslets, and the rest all well appoynted.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 39.

Soone as the royall virgin he did spy,
With gaping mouth at her ran greedily,
To haue attonce deuour' her tender corse.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 3.

1 Qu. The more proclaiming
Our suit shall be neglected, when her arms,
Able to knock Jove from a synod, shall
By warranting moon-light corslet thee.

Beaum. & Fletch. Two Nobie Kinsmen, Act i. sc. 1. Oh, it was a noble sight to behold the tent of Timoleon the general, how they environed it all about with heaps of spoiles of every sort: among which there were a thousand works, and they brought thither with them also ten thoubrave corcelets gilt and graven with marvellous curious sand targets.-North. Plutarch, p. 233.

From his void embrace, Mysterious heaven! that moment, to the ground, A blacken'd corse, was struck the beauteous maid. Thomson. Summer. He said, and pois'd in air the javelin sent, Through Paris' shield the forceful weapon went, His corselet pierces, and his garment rends, And, glancing downward, near his flank descends. Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. iii.

It was anciently usual in this kingdom to bring the mortuary to church along with the corpse, when it came to be buried; and hence it is sometimes called a corse-present; a term which bespeaks it to have been once a voluntary donation.-Blackstone. Commentaries, vol. ii. p. 425.

CORSNED. "A. S. Corsned; offa execrafa, alias, judicialis; from Cors, (curse,) execratio, maledictio, and sned vel snid, offa, bolus. A piece

of bread, first by the priest execrated, and then offered to the suspected, guilty person, to be swallowed in a way of purgation," (Somner.) But this bread was also called Ned-bread, i. e. needbread; the bread which it was needful for the suspected person to take, which he was compelled to take. The form of the Exorcismus may be seen in Spelman's Glossarium, p. 439.

Another species of purgation, somewhat similar to the former, but probably sprung from a presumptuous abuse of revelation in the ages of dark superstition, was the corsned or morsel of execration: being a piece of cheese or bread, of about an ounce in weight, which was consecrated with a form of exorcism; desiring of the Almighty that it might cause convulsions and paleness, and find no passage if the man was really guilty; but might turn to health and nourishment, if he was innocent.

Blackstone. Commentaries, vol. iv. p. 345.

CORTEX.
Lat. Cortex, ex corium et
CO'RTICAL. tego; quia quasi corium tegat;
CO'RTICATED. because it covers like a hide.

See Vossius.
The bark or rind, the outward covering, (the
cork, qv.)

It being necessary for them that they be furnished not only with what preparations were required in the other, but also with a special hardiness of enduring to see the cortex of the Mosaick letter, as it were to break in pieces, to render up this recondite kernal for them to feed upon. More. Philosophic Cabbala, App. c. 6. Much after the same manner, as they have been observed, in the cortical and medullary parts of the brain. Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. i. c. 5. Which [the salamander] is a kind of lizard, a quadruped corticated and depilous, that is, without wool, fur or hair. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 14.

This tree grows on the tops of hills, as well as in valleys; its hard cortical part makes very durable laths for houses. Granger. The Sugar Cane, b. iv. v. 523. Note.

CO'RVEN. See CARVE. CORVORANT. The Cormorant, (qv.) so called. Corvus marinus.

We know that the otter, the corvorant, and the grebes, soon perish, if caught under ice, or entangled in nets. Pennant. British Zoology. Swallows.

And the two last also frequent the sound. They are of the common sorts; the shags being our corvorant or watercrow.-Cooke. Voyage, vol. vi. b. iv. c. 2.

CORUSCATE, v. Lat. Coruscare, atum, to CORUSCANT, adj. CORUSCA'TION. helmet, quæ splendida erat.

glitter. Martinius thinks from Gr. Kopus, galea, a

To glitter, to flash, dart, throw forth or emit, rays or sparks of light.

His praises are like those coruscant beams Which Phoebus on high rocks of cristal streames. Howell, b. iv. Let. 49. That if burning-glasses could be brought to great strength, (as they talk generally of burning-glasses that are able to burn a navy,) the percussion of the air alone, by such a burning-glass, would make no noise; no more than is found in coruscations, and lightnings without thunders. Bacon. Naturall History, § 121.

As flaming fire was more coruscating and enlightening than any other matter, they invented lamps to hang in the sepulchres of the rich, which would burn perpetually. Greenhill. Art of Embalming, p. 331.

But if I did press hard upon it with my finger, at the very instant that I drew it briskly off, it would disclose a very vivid, but exceeding short livid splendor, not to call it a little coruscation.-Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 798.

Should any man pursue his acquaintances to their retreats, he would find few of them listening to Philomel, loitering in woods, or plucking daisies, catching the healthy gale of the morning, or watching the gentle coruscations of declining day.-Rambler, No. 135.

COSCINOMANCY.

Gr. Κοσκινο-μαντις ; "She who tells fortunes with the sieve and shears," Fawkes, (Theocritus, Id. iii.) from koσKIVOV, a sieve, and μavris, a diviner.

See the quotation.

And that ordinary way of divination, which they call coskinomancy, or finding who stole or spoiled this or that thing by the sieve and shears, Pictorius Vigillanus professeth he made use of thrice, and it was with success.

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More. Antidote against Atheism, b. il. c. 2.