Upon this foot it will be impossible for any church ever to secure the profession of any mysterious doctrine against secret meanings and subtile evasions; but men may subscribe to as many mysteries as they please, and still believe none of them.-Waterland. Works, vol. ii. p. 301 All hail, Patroclus! let thy honoured ghost As once she watch'd me from a rail, Poor soul; her footing chanc'd to fail, And down she fell, and broke her hip. Prior. Down Hall. One thing, indeed, we do affirm, because we can prove it fron Scripture, that whoever preaches and enforces moral duties, without justification and sanctification preceding, may as well declaim upon the advantages of walking, to a man that can neither stir hand nor foot. Horne. An Apology for Certain Clergymen. FOP. FO'PPERY. FO'PPISH. FO'PPISHLY. FO'PPISHNESS. The form of the feet fixes the character of the animal. They are so many shovels; they determine its action to that of rooting in the ground, and every thing about its body agrees with this destination. Paley. Natural Theology, c. 15. But laying another world out of the question, taking things on the footing of this life only, still it can be clearly shown, that the crooked wisdom of the world is no better than foolishness.-Blair, vol. v. Ser. 17. Skinner thinks a Teut. Fobis or Pofisz, a kind of fungus he should rather have said from Dut. Pof, fungosus, poffen, to puff, efflare inanes glorias. One puffed up with vainlory; ostentatiousness, (sc.) of his person or iress. Take from your true subiectes, the Pope's false Christ ith his bels and bablinges, with his miters and mastries, ith his fannoms and fopperies. Bayle. Preface to English Votaries. A fop! in this brave, licentious age, Tuke. The Adventures of Five Hours, Act v. Boldly I dare, I say, There has been more by us in some one Play, Laugh'd into wit and vertue, than hath been By twenty tedious Lectures drawn from sin And foppish humours. But I shall discover to ye, readers, that this his praising f them is as full of nonsense and scholastic foppery, as his meaning he himself discovers to be full of close malignity. Milton. An Apology for Smectymnuus. VOL. I Forthy, A. S. Forthi, quamobrem, wherefore Randolph. The Muses' Looking-glass, Act i. sc. 2. (says Somner,) i. e. this cause-or this being the cause. But this foppishness Calam. Why this, fop-doodle. Massinger. The Great Duke of Florence, Act ii. sc. 1. Farce scribblers make use of the same noble invention [laughter] to entertain citizens, country gentlemen, and Covent garden fops. Dryden. A Parallel of Poetry and Painting. FOR. Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. xxiii. always one and the same single signification, viz. Cause, and nothing else. Though Greenwood attributes to it eighteen, and S. Johnson forty-six different meanings; for which Greenwood cites above forty, and Johnson above two hundred instances. But with a little attention to their instances, you will easily perceive, that they usually attribute to the preposition the meaning of some other words in the sentence. Junius (changing pinto f, and by metathesis of the letter r) derives for from the Gr. Пpо. Skinner, from the Lat. Pro. But I believe it to be no other than the Gothic substantive, fairina,—Cause.” Upon the passages (from Chaucer and P. Plouhman) referred to by Mr. Tyrwhitt in his Glossary, and quoted below, Tooke observes, that though their construction is awkward and faulty, yet is the meaning of For equally conspicuous. The cause of putting on the habergeon, of the advice not to open the gate, of sowing the sack, being respectively-that the heart might not be pierced, that the rose might not be stolen, that the wheat might not be shed. Id. Ib. Act ii. sc. 4. In their present state I cannot recommend, [Lord Chesterfield's Letters,] being of Dr. Johnson's opinion, that they teach the manners of a fop, and the morals of a harlot. Beattie. Moral Science, pt. iv. c. 1. s. 4. No truth, no sincerity: without which, conversation is but words; and the polish of manners the idlest foppery. Hurd. On Retirement, Dial. 2. the widow's cast, being that others cast part of their " plentee," but that she of "her povertec keste alle thingis that sche hadde." A fair place heo cheson hem, & there heo gonne arere & led hii vnto France, spoused for to be. Whilom he serued in his panterie, & was outlawed for a felone. R. Brunne, p. 30 Eft God thei bisouht, to saue tham in that cas, & God for tham gan wirke, how a voice cam.-Id. p. 148. Treuly I seye to you that this pore widow keste more than alle that kesten into the tresorye, for alle kesten of that thing that thei hadden plentee of, but this of hir poverte keste all thingis that sche hadde al her lyf lode. Wiclif. Mark, c. 12. Id. p. 33. But at the laste whanne the ellevene disciplis saten at the hem and the hardnesse of herte, for thei beleviden not to mete, Jhesus apperide to hem and reprevede the vnbelive of hem that hadden seyen that he was risun fro deith. Id. Ib. c. 16. And whanne every temptacioun was ended the fend wente awaye fro him for a tyme.-Id. Luk, c. 4. But what wenten ye out for to se? a profete? yhe Y seye to you and more than a profete.-Id. Ib. c. 6. I seye to you, though he schal not rise and gyue to him, for that, that he is his frend, netheles for his contynuel axing he schal rise and gyue to him as many as he hath nede to.-Id. Ib. c. 11. For he was late ycome fro his viage, A semely man our hoste was with alle A breche and eke a sherte, Id. The Rime of Sire Thopas, v. 13,791. Therefore for stealing of the rose I rede her nat the yate vnclose.-Id. The Rom. of the R. Wel ofter of the well than of the tonne She dranke, and for she wolde vertue plese, She knew wel labour, but non idel ese. Id. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8092. Lo, sayth the kynge, nowe maie ye see, That there is no defaut in mee Forthy my selfe I woll acquite, And heareth your owne wite Of that fortune hath you refused.-Gower. Con. A. b. v. Item, it is lawfull for the clergie, by their power to take away the sacraments of the church from the laietie customably offending, forsomuch as it doeth pertaine to the office of the Christian ministers by their power to minister the same vnto the lay people. Fox. Martyrs, p. 423. The Clergy subject to Civil Power. Vas. And had not your sudden coming prevented us, I had let my gentleman blood under the gills; I should have worm'd you, sir, for running mad. Ford. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Act i. sc. 2. B. Jonson. The Alchymist, Act v. sc. 3. Massinger. Virgin Martyr, Act v. sc. 1. Thomalin, have no care forthy, Spenser. Shepherd's Calendar. March. That in atchieuement of her heigh behest, FOR, in composition, as the Dut. and Ger. Ver, and A. S. For, says Skinner, negat et aufert, denies or takes away; perhaps from the Lat. Foras. And see Wachter, Prol. Ser. 5, in Ver. Tooke accounts for it in the following manner,"From the Lat. Fores, foris, the French had Fors; and of the Fr. Fors, our ancestors (by their favourite pronunciation of th) made forth. Fors, in the prepositive and conjunctive use of it, the French have latterly changed to hors, but they have not so changed it when in composition. From the French we have many English words preceded by for, with this meaning; as forfeit, foreclose, &c. and we had anciently many more. (Tooke, i. 496, 332, 333.) See FORTH. Hence for, prefixed to such words, is equivalent to out, through-out, thoroughly, utterly, extremely or to out, out of, off, away. FO'RAGE, v. Fr. Fourrager; It. Fora- FoᎡᎪᏀᎬᎡ. To fodder,-to supply, provide, procure or purvey fodder; to go forth in quest of fodder; and thus, to pillage, to plunder, to ravage; to make an incursion (sc.) for fodder, spoil or pillage: and in Shakespeare, (as the commentators say,) to range abroad. These foragers of kynde Piers Plouhman, p. 396. I wol no woman thirty yere of age, Chaucer. The Marchantes Tale, v. 9296. Whych victorie letted them, that thei went not to pillage and fourrage all your townes and cyties of Peloponese. Nicoll. Thucidides, fol. 30. That company of horsmen of the Usepits and Teucthers were gone a forragyng and to fetch booties on the other side of the Maze, and were not at the battel. Goldinge. Cæsar, fol. 92. Thus iii. dayes and iii. nightes, they were in maner withowte brede, wyne, candel or light, foder, or forage, or any maner of purueyance, other for horse or mă. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 18. But about midday, when Cæsar had sent forth a lieutenant of his called Caius Trebonius with three legions, and all his men of armes for forrage, sodely they came flying vpon the forragers on all sides.-Goldinge. Caesar, fol. 118. What, shall they seeke the lion in his denne, There was no question what perill there would be in the Yalden. The Fox & Weasel. Dryden. Virgil. Georgics, b. iv. Rowe. Lucan. Pharsalia, b. iv. A good plain mouse, our host, who liv'd to spare Mason. The English Garden, b. ii. Having holes through, bored, pierced, penetrated, perforated. Soft and foraminous bodies, in the first creation of the And Priam eke with iron murdred thus, FOR-BEAR, v. To hold or keep off or away from; to abstain, A. S. Forbæran, abstinere, and thus, parcere. Com For thei shoulde nate faste. ne forbere sherte So that thou might the better lere But nowe to these excuses, some other menne answere agayne, that the leauing oute of felonye, sacrilege, and murder, is rather a token of wylynesse, than any forbearing or fauoure.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 871. Almost every plant breeds its peculiar insect, most a butterfly, moth or fly, wherein the oak seems to contain the largest seminality, while the julus, oak, apple, dill, woolly tuft, foraminous roundles upon the leaf, and grapes under ground, make a fly with some difference. In the xxxiii. yere Baldewine, Erchebishop of CannterBrown. Cyrus' Garden, c. 3. bury, was forbede by the Pope's letters to cesse of the buyidFOR-BA/THED. For, i. e. forth, and bathe, yng of a newe chaunterye atte Lambehithe, bygonne by him. (qv.); i. e. Utterly bathed, steeped, soaked. R. Gloucester, p. 484. Gower. Con. d. b. iii. Tusser. The Properties of the Winds. Thus apereth vnto you the begynnyng of the right of supe rioritte, with a perpetuall continuance, without intermission within memorie, certayne omission and forbearyng vpon the groundes and occasions before specified we deny not. Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 34. Such and such evil God on Guyon reare, And worse and worse, young orphane, be thy payne, If I, or thou, dew vengeaunce doe forbeare, Til guiltie blood her guerdon doe obtayne. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 1. And now they have stript him naked; and haling him by both armes, as it were, cast him alive into his grave. So in pretence of forbearance, they resolve to torment him with a lingering death: the savagest robbers could not have beene more mercilesse.-Bp. Hall. Cont. Of Joseph. Phidias, when he had made the statue of Minerva, could Mylo forbear, to call him blest That only boasts a large estate, FOR-BID, v. A. S. Forbeodan; Dut. FORBIDDANCE. Verbieden; Ger. Verbieten; FORBIDDENLY. Sw. Foerbjuda, to bid forth, FORBIDDENNESS. or away from, (sc.) any FORBIDDER. thing to be done; to proFORBIDDING, n. hibit. The Goth. Faurbiudan, as Ihre has noticed, is used-sensu generali imperandi; in the general sense of bidding or commanding and so forbede appears to be used in R. Gloucester, for augmenting the force of bid. To bid forth or away from, (sc.) any thing doing or to be done; to command not to do; to hinder from being or doing; to prohibit, to interdict; and in Shakespeare, to be under the consequences of interdiction. If we have given ourselves up to be taught by the pure, and living precept of God's word only; which without more additions, nay with a forbidding of them, hath within itself the promise of eternall life, the end of all our wearisome labours, and all our sustaining hopes. 14 Milton. Of Prelatical Episcopacy. FORCE, v. FORCE, n. Chaucer. The Monkes Tale, v. 14,532. FOR-CARVE, v. Į A. S. For-ceorfan; for, Chaucer. The Manciples Tale, v. 17,389. FOR-BREAK. For, i. e. forth. Fr. Forcer; It. Forzare; Sp. Forzar; Low Lat. Fortiare; from fortis, strong, say all the etymologists. "Force or Forse, a cascade or waterfall. Su. Goth. Fors, a cataract. The High Force in Teesdale is an object of great sublimity," (Brocket.) Fors, (in Scotch,) a stream or current, (Jamieson.) See Fors in Jamieson, and Ihre. And heo a forcede hom the more, the hethene a wey to dryue. R. Gloucester, p. 121. FOR-BRUISED. For, i. e. forth. By reason wherof the pore paysautes & rustical people The Latin phrase, parvi, nihili pendo, I value little, nothing, is of equivalent meaning, i. e. "I weigh, give or allow (little, no) weight. I do no force, I give or allow no force, no strength, no weight to your divinity." To force, in modern usage, is,-to have or give strength or power; to strengthen, to fortify; to use, exert or employ strength or power; to compel, to overpower, to subdue; to effect or accomplish, to acquire, by strength or power, by violence;-to violate. FORCEDLY. FO'RCELET. FORCER. FORCIBLE. The usage by Chaucer and Camden appears to us extraordinary. Tyrwhitt explains the word in the passages from the former, thus, "No force, no matter. I do no force, I care not. I do no force of your divinitee. I care not for your divinity. No force of death.-No matter of death." Jamieson (in v. Fors) says, "This verb (i. e. the especial usage of the verb in such instances as those explained by Tyrwhitt, and by himself in his Dictionary,) is formed from the French phrase (in Cotgrave) Je ne fait point force de cela: I care not for, I force not of, I am not moved by, that thing." But trewely, min owen maister dere, Id. The Pardoneres Prologue, v. 12,237. It little forceth how long a man liue, but how wel and For either they must of force go on the Christian coast, and so fall into their hands, or els on this coast, and fall into the kings of this towne, or Tripolis, their hands, which if they should, will neuer be recouered. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. pt. i. p. 174. Ye peinful climing of mountaines did nothing discourage them, nor the shame of forceable breaking into this or that man's house, could not kepe them from him, in case he had any where by occasio kept himself secret within doores. Udal. Luke, c. 5. For it is not enough, at all aduentures (not regardyng what waie) to haue entred forceably within the limites, enclosure, and shepefolde of the churche. It is not sufficiente to haue atteigned the name and dignitie of a shepherde, not forcing how.-Id. John, c. 10. My lady, and my love, and wif so dere, Id. The Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 6816. From a desire of forcing mutually our own opinions upon Id. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8968. Dryden. Palamon & Arcite. Id. The Chanones Yemannes Prologue, v. 16,120. aptly agree to that structure of the abyss and antediluvian earth; but very improperly and forcedly to the present form of the earth and the waters.-Burnet. Theory. But this I thought to commit to historie to the intent men Christian Bishops, who inflamed with glorious ambition so Fox. Martyrs, p. 157. Contention between Cant. & York. Ach. A short deliberation in this May serve to give you counsel: to be honest, Chapman. Hymn to Hermes, pt. iii. Beaum. & Fletch. The False One, Act i. sc. 2. Yet was the stroke so forcibly applide, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 11. Let other rapes of virgines, forcings of honourable dames be forgotten: let us imagine that we have nothing to doe, nor to meddle with Philip, for fear of whose crueltie ye were all so mute, and could not open your mouth. Holland. Livivs, p. 822. Cur. No doubt ye may compel her, But what a mischievous unhappy fortune May wait upon this will of yours, as commonly Such forcings ever end in hates and ruines. Beaum. & Fletch. The Pilgrim, Act i. sc. 1. Against the forcedness and incongruity of this sense much might be said.-Worthington. On the Millennium, p. 2. On his broad shoulders fell the forcefull brand, Then glancing downward lopp'd his holy hand, Which stain'd with sacred blood the blushing sand. Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. v. Now the usual means for the ascent of water, is either by suckers or forcers, or something equivalent thereunto. Wilkins. Daedalus, vol. ii. c. 15. The desire of knowing more is itself natural, and so lawful; and there is no desire more strong and forcible in man fallen, who is in any degree exalted above sense. Bp. Bull, vol. ii. Disc. 5. For the Holy Spirit moves and inclines only, and does not compel; he leads and conducts as many as will be led and conducted by him, but does not so forcibly attract them, as to overrule all stubborn resistance or reluctant perverseness. Waterland. Works, vol. ix. p. 330. Warin was exceedingly fond of money, and having forced his daughter, who was beautiful, to marry a rich and deformed officer of the revenue, she poisoned herself a few days after the wedding, saying, "I must perish since my father's avarice would have it so." Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. ii. c. 3. To gain something like a satisfactory conclusion in this point, it were well to examine, what proportion is; since several who make use of that word, do not always seem to understand very clearly the force of the term, nor to have very distinct ideas concerning the thing itself. Burke. On the Sublime and Beautiful, pt. iii. s. 2. And call down pity from the golden sky? He is at once elegant and sublime, forcible and ornamented, he unites energy with copiousness, and dignity witn variety.-Louth, vol. ii. Lect. 21. By Gregory. When I consider this, I seem more inclined than the generality even of sober critics to excuse the false accounts of the Pagan writers concerning the Exodus; who concur in representing the Jews as expelled or forcibly driven out of Egypt.-Warburton. The Divine Legation, b. iv. s. 6. FORCEMEAT, i.e. farced meat, stuffed meat. See FARCE. FORCEPS. FO'RCIPAL. FO'RCIPATED. FORCIPATION. Forceps (says Vossius) dicitur quasi ferricapis, hoc est, (ferrum, quo quid capimus sive prehendimus; the iron or steel with which we take or hold any thing. 1 Mechanicks made use hereof in forcipal organs, and instruments of incision.-Brown. Cyrus' Garden, c. 2. The locusts have antennæ or long horns before, with a long falcation or forcipated tail behind. Id. Vulgar Errours, b. v. c. 3 And a punishment (bowelings and consuming inen's entrails by fire) surely it is, though of great terror, yet by reason of the quick dispatching, of less torment far than either the wheel or forcipation, yea than simple burning. Bacon. Observations on a Libel. At which time all her motions, some of which were judged convulsive, and others, that had been excited by our rousing her with a forceps, appeared to cease, and her head to hang carelessly down as if she was quite dead. Boyle. Works, vol. iii. p. 369. In many insects the mouth is converted into a pump or sucker, fitted at the end sometimes with a wimble, sometimes with a forceps; by which double provision, viz. of the tube and the penetrating form of the point, the insect first bores through the integuments of its prey, and then extracts the juices.-Paley. Natural Theology, c. 12. FOR-CLOSE, v. Usually written fore-close. FORCLO'SURE. Fr. Forclorre; for, Fr. Fors or hors, out; and close, Lat. Clausum, from claudere; Fr. Clorre. Forclose To shut out or exclude, to block out, close up, to debar. For the legal application of the word, see the quotation from Blackstone. There could come no succour unto the, no nor any victuals be conueyed in for theyr reliefe, the waies being foreclosed by the enemy.-Goldinge. Cæsar, p. 66. Now it fell out so that the continuall rains which overflowed all the fields, had foreclosed and stopped the passages three wayes betwene his armies, so as they could not help one another.-Holland. Livivs, p. 298. You resolve notwithstanding, to proceed in your own way, and to make a show of saying something, though you find yourself already foreclosed, and every objection obviated. Waterland. Works, vol. ii. p. 265. Our question is barely upon the pleading before us, whether we have a sufficient pleading of such an impeachment as can foreclose the hands of the court? State Trials. Charles II. Edward Fitzharris. The mortgagee may either compel the sale of the estate, in order to get the whole of his money immediately; or else call upon the mortgagor to redeem his estate presently, or in default thereof, to be for ever foreclosed from redeeming the same, that is, to lose his equity of redemption without possibility of recall.-Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. c. 10. FORD, v. :} Junius and Skinner agree, that Ford is from Far-an, ire, transire, to go, to go over. And Tooke that it is the past part. of that verb; and always, without exception, means gone, i. e. a place gone over or through, (Div. of Purley, ii. 179.) Upon this past part. the verb, to ford, has been formed. To go or pass through or over; generally applied, when shallow water is to be passed; or met. Thus in devotion having eas'd their grief, From sacred oracles they seek relief; And to Cephisus' brook their way pursue; The stream was troubled, but the ford they knew. Dryden. Ovid. Metam. The Iron Age. FOR-DO, v. In Chaucer, (Frankeleynes Tale,) "I am fordo," says Tooke, "is I am forth-done, i. e. done to go forth, caused to go forth, i. e. out of doors. In modern language, turned out of doors. "" Somner; Fordoen, fordon, perdere, pessundare, to destroy, to undoe." Dut. Ver-doen. But this is merely a consequential signification; he that is forth-done, turned out of, deprived of, house and home, "who may there no longer dwell," is consequently, undone. To do, or put or turn forth or out, (sc.) out of doors; and thus, to undo. Also, utterly done, (in Shakespeare,) overdone, (sc.) with labour; and thus, tired, wearied. The bode was sent to rathe. the messenger com ouersone Thus than was the sawe whilom in that cite Piers Plouhman, p. 334. Alas (quod he) alas, that euer I beheyght This monk began upon this wif to stare, Id. The Shipmannes Tale, v. 1357. Wilt thou not first go see where thou hast left Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. ii. Le Bone Florence of Rome. Ritson, vol. iii. Thus Lord, is thy mercy and justice fordone by him that sayth he is thy vicar on earth; for he neither keepeth it himself nor will, nor suffer other to do it. Fox. Martyrs, p. 370. The Complaint of the Ploughman. Right so fareth loue that seld in one Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose. FOR-DRUNKEN. A. S. For-drenkan; for, i. e. forth. Utterly drunk, extremely drunk. Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 3122. He was parde an old felaw of youres, Id. The Pardoneres Tale, v. 1268. A. S. For-drigan; for, i.e. forth, FOR-DRY. and dry, (qv.) Utterly dry, quite dry. Fore is very commonly written-prefixed; aud some few words so formed will require a separate explanation. Many such compounds have descended from the A. S.; Foran- or fore-scearian, to foreshew, præostendere. Fore-gan, to forego, præire. Fore-sæcgan, to foresay, præ-dicere. Forethencean, to forethink, præ-meditari. For-scip, foreship. Of these some quotations to illustrate the usage are subjoined. Amidde a tree fordry, as white as chalk, Chaucer. The Squires Tale, v. 10,723. To consume, to waste, to vanish, utterly away. Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose. FORE. A. S. Foran, fore; Dut. Veur, voor; Ger. Fur, vor, prior or anterior in space or time. In the diagram by Wilkins, for the clearer explication of the local prepositions, it is placed at the front of the figure of the man, and described as referring either to motion or rest. Nowe dooeth God with his Chrysten folkes ordinarily take that way in the getting them theyr belief and fayth that though they dooe not merite with anye for-goynge good dedes, nor deserue the gyfte of belieuyng, yet maye they with good endeuoure and obediente conformitie deserue and merite in the belieuing.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 582. Wherefore not allonly of this man we shall say that he shall dwell in wysdome, but as a perfyght man and not a chylde, he shall thynke and deme, and haue suche a cyrcumspecte wyth hym, that he shall dylygentlye fore-loke and see that Goddys wylle be done and not his. Fabyan, an. 1399. Two young men of the parish are yerely chosen by their last foregoers.-Carew. Survey of Cornwall, p. 68. And so it was that where Jacob the Patriarke a litle before he shoulde dye, being endowed with the spirite of prophecye, dyd fore-saye veray thynges which shoulde afterwarde come to passe.-Udal. Luke, c. 1. But the Phariseis were neuer the better, neyther for that they vnderstoode the prophecies & for-sayingis of the prophetes, nether because they had so ofte tymes hearde Jesus preache vnto them the heauenlye doctrine. Udal. Marke, c. 7. He was not the Sonne of God, but a voyce fore-shewing the Sonne of God, who anon after should be disclosed to the world.-Id. Ib. c. 1. Now is Daniel called to be the fore-shewer of the iugement of God) neither saluting the king) nor praysyng his giftis. Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 5. Their for-ships al to landward then to turne, and inward bend He bids his mates, and to the deepe floud glad he doth descend. Phaer. Virgil. Eneidos, b. vii. I trust it shall so come to pass that neither I shall repent me, for that I haue giuen you counsaill, nor yet you shail fore-thinke yourselfe, that you haue obeyed and followed my aduice.-Wilson. Arte of Rhetorique, p. 40. For mine owne part I saw them not, but I am resolued that so many people did not all combine, or fore-thinke to make the report.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 653. And finallie, [how contrarious] to the ancient lawes, customes, and examples of our fore-elders during the daies of a thousand yeares after Christ, they were.-Fox. Martyrs, p. 1073. Notes for Legitimation of Priest's Children. Like as a feareful dove, which through the rain Which after her his nimble winges doth straine, Which while he sees and naught obtains. his hunger but Fairfax. Godfrey of Boulogne, b. iii. s. 34. The fertile Nilus never rashly mov'd, Which (ag'd in trauell) many countreys knows, Whose inundation by the labourer lov'd, As barrennesse or plenty it fore-shows. Stirling. Doomes-day. Third Houre. He thought rue she should, and fore-thinke That she her had unto him misbore. Browne. The Shepherd's Pipe, Ecl. i. I then express'd my zeale Unto the glory, now the need inflames me: When I fore-think the hard conditions, Our states must undergo, except, in time, We do redeeme ourselves to liberty And breake the iron yoke forg'd for our necks. B. Jonson. Catiline, Acti FORE-BODE, v. A. S. Fore-bodian, bodian; Ger. Bieten. FOREBO DING, n. To see or discern; to shew or exhibit, before, or prior: to prognosticate. And in thy lower rooms the wolves shall howl, There is upon many fore-bodes, and seeming more than probabilites, out of the Revelation, one great fate to come upon the Churches of Christ; the last killing of the witnesses, that hath been so long fore-warned of by many witnesses.-Goodwin. Works, vol. ii. pt. iv. p. 72. He cautious backward drew The floundering coursers rolling on the plain, Cicero called upon him [Matius] on his way from Rome into the country, and found him sullen, desponding, and fore-boding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Cæsar's death. Middleton. Life of Cicero, vol. iii. s.9. The Earl, who watched perpetually over him as his guardian angel, and forgot his own infirmities to provide against those of his son, expresses great anxiety on these occasions, and seems with difficulty to conceal some fore-bodings of the event.-Chesterfield. Misc. Works vol. i. Mem. by Maty. FORE-BY, i. e. Forth-by, out by. Not farre away [quoth he] he hence doth wonne Foreby a fountaine, where I late him left, Washing his body wounds that through the steele were cleft.-Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 6 FORE-CAST, v. As when a falcon hath with nimble flight Flowne at a flush of ducks, foreby the brooke, The trembling foule dismayd with dreadfull sight Of death, the which them almost overtook, Doe hide themselues from her astonyng looke. Id. Ib. b. v. c. 3. To cast in one's mind FORECAST, n. before hand, (Minshew.) FORECASTING, n. To cast or throw (met.) the mind or thoughts forward: to think, to meditate, on what is future, on what is to be or come to pass; to foresee or provide, to anticipate. } If I haue knowne hir, Shakespeare. Much Adoe about Nothing, Act iv. sc. 1. Wid. Go, thou art a pretty fore-handed fellow, would thou wert wiser.-Beaum. & Fletch. Scornful Lady, Act ii. sc. 1. He told me I must go then to have my trial at the King's Bench bar. Lord, says I, I wonder I had no fore-hand notice of it. I have no witnesses ready; he answered, he could not help it, but go I must. State Trials, an. 1678. Introd. to Trials for Pop. Plot. FORE-HEAD. A. S. Fore-heafod; Dut. Veur-hoofd; frons, anterior pars capitis, i. e. The front, or anterior part of the head; above the eyes. And I saigh, and lo a lomb stood on the Mount of Syon, and with him an hundride thousynde and four and fourti thousynde hauynge his name and the name of his fadir writun in her forheedis.-Wiclif. Apocalips, c. 14. And I loked, and lo, a lamb stode on the Mount Sion, & wyth hym an c. and xliiii. m. hauynge hys father's name writte in their foreheades.—Bible, 1551. Reuelacion, c. 14. Her flesh so tender That with a brere small and tender Men might it cleue, I dare well saie Her forhedde frounceles all plaie. Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose. He commaunded, but if they auoided the citie of Rauenne, by certayne day assigned, that menne marken hem on the forhedde with an hotte yron, and chasen hem out of the toune. Id. Boecius, b. i. And with a stroke (as he was wondrous strong,) He cleft his crown that on his helm he wore, And tore his plume, that to his heels it hung; Then with a second bruis'd his helm before, That it his forehead pitifully wrung. Drayton. The Battle of Agincourt. It was the question of the rich and precious jewell of England, to which his hardie adversarie had never the face to reply. My refuter's forehead is stronger with a weaker wit; let him trie here the power of audacitie. Bp. Hall. Honour of the Married Clergie, b. i. s. 3. A savory dish, a homely treat Where all is plain, where all is neat, Without the stately spacious room, The Persian carpet, or the Tyrian loom, Clear up the cloudy foreheads of the great. Dryden. Horace, b. iii. Ode 29. For if that name of gentillesse be referred to renoune and clerenesse of linage, than is gentil name but a forain thing, that is to say, to hem that glorifien hem of her linage. Id. Ib. b. iii. Foraine gentilnesse ne maketh thee nat gentill.-Id. Ib. Yea prosperous pastimes these may bee iustly counted, by which he [King Edgar] also made euident to the whole world, that as he wisely knew the ancient bounds and limits of this British empire, so that he could and would royally, iustly, and triumphantly enioy the same, spite of the Deuil, and maugre the force of any foraine potentate. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 8. The Jews did in manier interprete the name of neighbour, to extende no ferther but to menne of their owne nacion, supposing that it was lawfull for them to hate alienes and foreinours, and to leat them alone without dooyng them any benefite or good at all.-Udal. Luke, c. 10. Which that those knights likewise mote understand, And witnesse forth aright in forrain land, Taking them up unto her stately throne, Where they mote heare the matter throughly scand On either part, she placed th' one on the one, Th' other on th' other side, and neare them none. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 9. He who is not trusted with his own actions, his drift not being known to be evil, and standing to the hazard of law and penalty, has no great argument to think himself reputed in the commonwealth wherein he was born, for other than a fool or a foreigner.-Milton. Of Unlicensed Printing. So Dryden, not contented with the fame Rebels were sainted, foreigners did reign, Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavouring to set me right.-Locke. He [the Catholic] was rendered a foreigner in his native land only because he retained the religion along with the property handed down to him from those, who had been the old inhabitants of that land before him. Burke. Speech at Bristol, previous to the Election. FORE-JUDGE, v. To pre-judge or prejuFOREJUDGMENT. before; (sc.) trial, examination, proof. They were takyn as prysoners in the Towre of London, and soone after for-iugyd, haged, and hedyd, and their heddys also sette vpon London brydge. Fabyan, vol. ii. an. 1400. It is not my part to make any ones title either better or worse with my fore-iudgment.-Udal. Marke, Pref. That all the Gods which saw his wondrous might, Did surely deeme the victorie his due: But seldome seene, fore-iudgement proveth true. Spenser. Muiopotmos. Now if we should acquit this man (we have no assurance we shall acquit him, only suppose it) then there is nothing against him but what lies in a parliamentary way, and we shall fore-judge their cause. State Trials, an. 1681. Edward Fitzharris. FORE-KNOW. Dut. Veur-kennen; Ger. Vorkennen. Fore, and know; A. S. Cnawan. FOREKNO'WING, n. To know before; to have FOREKNO'WLedge. a prescience of, a foresight or providence; to foresee, to foreweet, (qv.) |