She faints, she falls, and, scarce recovering strength, Vain wretched creature, how art thou misled To think thy wit these god-like notions bred! These truths are not the product of thy mind, But dropt from heaven, and of a nobler kind. Canst thou by reason more of godhead know, A subscriber may justly say, If my subscription is to go Than Plutarch, Seneca, or Cicero. Id. Religio Laici. in charity, I myself have many objects as deserving, and more connected with me than any God-son of Mr. Cowper. Anecdotes of Bp. Watson, vol. ii. p. 270. GO'DWIT. Skinner,-from God, i. e. good, and wihta, an animal; q. d. avis bona, sapore grata. Serenius,-from the Isl. God, good, and veide, præda venatione capta; vel, si mavis, vist, victus. Id. Ib. About this time one John Huntingdon, a zealous priest and poet, compiled a poem, entitled, the genealogy of heretics mentioning only the names of such godly men as had been no friends to the pope; and no other heretics were once touched at as if there were no heretics but such as opposed the pope.-Strype. Mem. Hen. VIII. an. 1540. For Eneas was actually wounded, in the twelfth of the Eneis, though he had the same God-smith to forge his arms as had Achilles.-Dryden. Dedication to the Eneis. Happy the man, who sees a God employ'd In all the good and ill that checker life! Resolving all events with their effects And manifold results, into the will And arbitration wise of the Supreme.-Cowper. Task, b. ii. Thy form benign, oh Goddess, wear, Thy milder influence impart, Thy philosophic train be there To soften, not to wound my heart. Gray. Hymn to Adversity. Here then lies the difficulty: These sects removed all passions from the Godhead, especially anger: and, on that account, rejected a future state of rewards and punishments; while yet they believed a Providence, which was administered by the exercise of those very passions. Warburton. Divine Legation, b iii. s. 4. They now are deem'd the faithful, and are prais'd Who, constant only in rejecting thee, Deny thy Godhead with a martyr's zeal, And quit their office for their errour's sake. Cowper. Task, b. vi. It was easy to foresee what would follow from this vigilant and able divine, when his lordship's [Bolingbroke] godless volumes should come forth; and the dread of it seems to have kept them back for the remainder of his life. Hurd. Life of Warburton. Here the mind, Of Grecian sages.-Cooper. Power of Harmony, b. ii. Beattie. Battle of the Pygmies and Cranes. In the next place, his feet peruse, Wings grow again from both his shoes; Design'd no doubt, their part to bear, And waft his God-ship through the air. Goldsmith. A New Simile in the Manner of Swift. That colony has cost the nation very great sums of money; whereas the colonies which have had the fortune of not being God-fathered by the Board of Trade, have never cost the nation a shilling, except what has been so properly spent in losing them.-Burke. On the Economical Reform. The puet, godwit, stint, the palate that allure, B. Jonson. Praises of a Countrie Life. From Horace. GO FFISH. Fr. Goffe, dull, sottish, lumpish, doltish, blockish. Mr. Grose says, Goff, a foolish clown, (North.)-Oaf, a foolish fellow, (North and South).-Goff appears to be oaf, with the common A. S. prefix ge. See OAF. But nathelesse, yet gan she him besech For to beware of gofish peoples speech That dremen things, which that neuer were. Chaucer. Troilus, b. iii. GOG. From the A. S. Gan-gan, to go. AGOG, and GIG. See Luc. My ladies' cloak; nay, you have put me into such a goy of going, I would not stay for all the world. } Beaum. & Fletch. Wit without Money, Act iii. sc. 1. GOʻGGLE, v. Wiclif renders luscum, i. e. GO'GGLE, n. unoculum, goggle-eyed; but GO'GGLE-EYED. it seems very probable that goggle is the diminutive of Gog, agog, and means moving, a moving eye; applied to a prominent, restless eye; or it may be from ooghel-en, the dim. of Dut. Ooghen, with the prefix ghe. (See OGLE.) Junius thinks that the initial s being rejected, goggle-eyed may be the A. S. Scegl-egede; but scegl or sceol is the Eng. Scowl, and scowleyes are separated eyes, or eyes looking different ways. To goggle, is To move, to strain or stretch, the eye, (sc.) a prominent, restless eye, from one object to another. That if thin yghe sclaundrith thee caste it out, it is bettre for thee to enter gogil-yghed [luscum] into the rewme of God than haue tweyne yghen and be sent into helle of fier. Wiclif. Mark, c. 9. Let the gogle-eied Gardiner of Winchester gyrde at it till hys rybbes ake and an hondred digging deuyls vpon his side, yet shal not one iote of the Lord's promisse be vnfulfylled at the tyme appoynted for that blasphemous whore's ouerthrowe, his most holy mother.-Bale. English Votaries, pt. i. Such sight have they that see with goggling eyes. Sidney. Arcadia, b. ii. They gogle with their eyes hither and thither. Holinshed. Description of Ireland, c. 1. Give him warning, admonition, to forsake his sawey glavering grace; and his goggle-eye: it does not become him, sirrah; tell him so.-B. Jonson. Poetaster, Act iii. sc. 4. He was of personage tall and of body strong, broad chested, and vsed both his hands alike, faire complexion; but great and goggle-eied, whereby he saw so clearly, as is incredible to report. Speed. The Romans, b. vi. c. 4. s. 6. She [Pythias, or Priestess of Apollo] came out foaming at the mouth, her eyes goggling, her breast heaving, her voice undistinguishable and shrill, as if she had an earthquake within her labouring for vent.-Dryden. Life of Plutarch. Which made him hang his head and scowl, And wink and goggle like an owl.-Hudibras, pt. ii. c. 1. It [the sea-lion] has a great goggle-eye, the teeth 3 inches long, about the bigness of a man's thumb. * Dampier. Voyage, an. 1683. Palmated feet might have been joined with goggle-eyes; or small eyes might have been joined with feet of any other form.-Paley. Natural Theology, c. 15. But with in ye second vaile was ther a tabernacle, which is called holyest of al, which had the golden senser, & the arcke of the testamente ouerlayde rounde about with gold. Bible, 1551. Ib. This marchant which that was ful ware and wise, Creanced hath, and paid eke in Paris To certain Lumbardes redy in hir hond The sum of gold and gate of hem his bond. Chaucer. The Shipmannes Tale, v. 13,298. He rauished apples, fro the wakinge dragon: and his hande was the more heauie, for the golden metall. Id. Boecius, b. v. Where stoode a wonder strange image: When the King approched nere to the citie, Edmonde Shee gold-smithe then Mayre, with Willyam White and John Mathewe Sheriffis, and all the other Aldermenne in scarlette, with fiue hundred horse of the citizens in violette, receiued him reuerently at Harnesey.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 44. Oh that the use of gold were clean gone: would God it could possiblie be quite abolished among men, setting them as it doth into such a cursed and excessive thirst after it, if I may use the words of most renowned writers: a thing that the best men have always reproched and railed at, and the onely means found out for the ruine and overthrow of mankind.-Holland. Plinie, b. xxxiii. c. 1. I sawe Phoebus throst out his golden hede, But when he sawe, howe broade her beames did sprede My brother Jaques he keepes at schoole, and report speaks goldenly of his profit.-Shakes. As You Like It, Act i. sc. 1. GOLL. Skinner thinks from the A. S. Wealdan, (ge-wealdan,) to rule, to direct, (whence the Eng. wield;) because we rule and direct all things by our hands; and he thinks it a truly elegant word. The hands. GOME. A. S. Guma, one who has the care of, from gym-an, to take care of, guard, attend to. Applied generally to— A man: corrupted into groom, (qv.) The proportion between the quantities of gold and silver annually imported into Europe, according to Mr. Meggen's account, is as one to twenty-two nearly; that is, for one ounce of gold there are imported a little more than twentytwo ounces of silver.-Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. i. c. 12. Geff. The news hath reach'd Massinger. The City Madam, Act iv. sc. 1. Vber. Fy, Mr. Constable, what golls you have? is justice so blind Y' cannot see to wash your hands? I cry you mercy, sir; Your gloves are on.-Beaum. & Fletch. Coxcomb, Act i. sc.1. If then I say-a gold ring, a brass tube, a silk-string: here are the substantives adjectivè posita, yet names of things, and denoting substances. If again I say-a golden ring, a brazen tube, a silken string; do gold, and brass, and silk, cease to be the names of things, and cease to denote substances: because, instead of coupling them with ring, tube, and string, by a hyphen thus, I couple them to the same words by adding the termination en to each of them? Tooke. Diversions of Purley, pt. ii. c. 6. Still had she gaz'd; but midst the tide Two angel forms were seen to glide, The Genii of the stream; Their scaly armour's Tyrian hue, Through richest purple to the view, Betray'd a golden gleam. Gray. On the Death of a Favourite Cat. GONG. A. S. Gang, latrina, a privie, a jakes. Somner, from A. S. Gaggan, (pron. gan-gan,) to go; because (says Skinner) all go thither for themselves and not by deputy; more probably because all that entereth into the belly goeth thither. GONFANON. It. Gonfalon. Caseneuve says, "A word, the origin of which it is difficult to determine." Skinner,-from A. S. Gum-a, a man, and fana, a sign or ensign. And namely thise harlottes, that haunten bordelles of thise foule women, that may be likened to commune gong, whereas men purge hir ordure.-Chaucer. The Persones Tale. In this yere also, fell that happe of the Jewe of Tewkys bury, which fell into a gonge vpon the Satyrday, and wolde not for reuerence of his sabot day, be plucked out; whereof heryng the Erle of Gloucetyr that the Jew dyd so great reuerence to his sabbot daye thought he wolde doo as moche vnto his holy day, which was Sonday, and so kept him tyll Monday, at which season he was foundyn dede. Fabyan, vol. ii. Hen. III. an. 1259. GONG. See the quotation following. "A little square flag, or penon at the end of a launce; or (more particularly) an old fashioned banner, or square standard born on the top of a launce; such as, even at this day, is used in the wars made by the Pope," (Cotgrave.) It is applied generally to Id. Ib. Ten thousand thousand ensignes high advanc'd, There is one that strikes on a small gong, or a wooden instrument, before every stroke of the oar, then the rowers answer all at once with a sort of a hollow noise, through the throat, and a stamp on the deck with one foot, and immediately plunge their oars into the water. Thus the gong and the rowers alternately answer each other, making a sound that seems very pleasant and warlike to those who are at a small distance on the water or shoar. Dampier. Voyage. Tonquin, an. 1688. A standard, banner or ensign. Gouffaucon, in Chaucer, is (as Skinner believes) incorrectly written for gonfanon or gonfennon. Fro Charles kyng sanz faile thei brouht a gonfaynoun. His body thei hewe on foure quarters, Goth. Gods; A. S. God; Dut. Goed; Ger. Gutt; Sw. God. Junius remarks, that (in the Codex Argenteus) goth passim est bonum, whence he infers that goth is taken e medio Gr. Αγαθος. Skinner prefers the Lat. Gaudeo. It is from the A. S. God-ian, juvari, prodesse, meliorem facere,meliorescere,bene cedere, conducere, ditare; to serve or assist; to aid, to benefit, to profit, to prosper; to advance or confer an advantage; to promote, to forward the welfare or wellbeing. Tooke (see 8vo ed. vol. ii. p. 80, suggests: "Geowed; perhaps gowed, written and pronounced good, which the Scotch pronounce and write gude.' Good is very extensively and very variously applied. GOO'DYSHIP. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. v. For the Kyng of France herde telle of hire godenesse, For that is Godes owen good. Til Christe's moder (blessed be she ay) Hath shapen thurgh hire endeles goodnesse To make an end of all hire hevinesse. Id. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 5371. The God of Loue me folowed aye Right as an hunter can abide The beest, till he seeth his tide To shoten at goodnes to the deere Whan that him nedeth go no nere.-Id. Rom. of the Rose. Why hast thou drede of so good one Whom all vertue hath begone That in her is no violence, But goodlikede and innocence, Without spotte of any blame. But when he herde The high wisdome which he saide, With goodly wordes thus he praide, That he him wold tell his name. The high God of his goodnes. And for the goodship of this dede, Thei graunten hym a lustie mede, That euery yere, for his truage, To hym and to his heritage, Of maidens faire he shall haue three. When Platoes tale was done then Tullie prest in place: Whose filed tongue with sugred talke would good a simple case. Gower. Con. A. b. iii. Id. Ib. Id. Ib. b. iv. Turbervile. An Answere in Disprayse of Wit. And then shall hartie loue continue long togither goodly, in case both parties doe theyr duties accordingly. Udal. Ephes. c. 6. Aristotle the most wise philosopher, biddeth women vse less apparell than the law suffereth: & he biddeth them consider, that neither the goodlines of apparel, nor the excellencie of beautie, nor the aboundance of gold is of so great estimation in a woman as is measurablenes and diligence to liue wel and honestly in all things. Vives. Instruction of a Christian Woman, b. i. c. 9. If then his Providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good, Was I to have never parted from thy side, oing into such danger as thou saidst? Id. Ib. b. ix. At last the trumpets, triumph sound on hie, And to him brought the shield, the cause of enmitie. (Faire marching vnderneath a shady hill) A goodly knight, all arm'd in harness meet, That from his head no place appeared to his feet. Id. Ib. b. ii. While vnresolv'd he stood, the victor knight Fairefax. Godfrey of Bovlogne, b. xx. s. 107. The same one day, as me misfortune led, I in my father's wondrous mirrour saw, And pleased with that seeming goodly-hed, Vnwares the hidden hooke with baite I swallowed. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 2. But thou hast promis'd from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extoll Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake And when we seek, as now thy gift of sleep. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. v. Where they in ydle pomp, or wonton play Consumed had their goods and thriftlesse howres, And lastly thrown themselves into these heavy stowres. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 5. Soft gooddie Sheepe; then said the Foxe, not soe: Unto the King so rash ye may not goe. Id. Mother Hubberd's Tale. King. So, goodie agent? and you think there is no punishment due for your agentship? Beaum. & Fletch. The Lover's Progress, Act v. sc. 1. I see thee, lord and end of my desire, With power invested, and with pleasure cheer'd, Sought by the good, by the oppressor fear'd. Prior. Henry & Emma. The idea thus made, and laid up for a pattern, must necessarily be adequate, being refer'd to nothing else but itself, nor made by any other original, but the good liking and will of him that first made this combination. Locke. Of Hum. Underst. b. ii. c. 31. To match this monarch, with strong Arcite came Emetrius, King of Jude, a mighty name, On a bay courser, goodly to behold, The trappings of his horse adorn'd with barbarous gold. Dryden. Palamon & Arcite. The goodliness to the sight, the pleasantness to the taste, which is ever perceptible in those fruits which genuine piety beareth, the beauty men see in a calm mind and a sober conversation, the sweetness they taste from works of justice and charity, will certainly produce veneration to the doctrine which teacheth such things, and to the authority which enjoins them.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 4. Lucilius was the man who bravely bold So far as May doth other months exceed Above all other nymphs Ianthe bears the meed. Thomson. Hymn to May. But goodness is strictly, and eminently moral. It is in its nature of a boundless extent. If it be not universally operative it cannot exist as a perfection: it degenerates into partial attachments, and a partial fondness; and thus the idea of an exalted and amiable principle of action is destroyed. This attribute must be universally relative for good. It is, in the divinity, a pattern and prototype of the moral relation of man to man.-Cogan, Dis. 1. c. 1. But not to understand a treasure's worth, Till Time has stolen away the slighted good Is cause of half the poverty we feel And makes the world the wilderness it is. Cowper. Task, b. vi. But I am sure the natural effect of fidelity, clemency, kindness in governours, is peace, good-will, order, and esteem, on the part of the governed. Burke. On American Taxation. A person, called a gozzard, i. e. goose-herd, attends the flock, and twice a day drives the whole to water; then brings them back again to their habitations, helping those that live in the upper stories to their nests without ever misplacing a single bird. Pennant. British Zoology. The gray lag Goose. GOOSE-BERRY. Skinner thinks so called, because the juice of these berries, when half ripe, are the best sauce to a goose. Junius suspects that the name was originally groisberrie, corrupted from the Fr. Groiselle, and that by a further corruption, our gooseberry was formed. Our English gardeners say, so called from its gross or thick skin. The French, from the resemblance of the berries to those of the grossus or unripe fig.Perhaps it is gorse-berry. See GORSE. GO'RCROW. See GORE. Now, now, my clients Beginne their visitation! vulture, kite, It will also eat grain and insects, and like the raven will pick out the eyes of young lambs when just dropped, for which reason it was formerly distinguished from the rook, which feeds entirely on grain and insects, by the name of the gor or gorecrow. Pennant. British Zoology. The Carrion Crow. GO'RDIAN. Gordian knots, so called from Gordius, a ploughman, and afterwards king of Phrygia, who "folded and knitt a rope with many knots, one so wrethed within another, that no mā could perceive the manner of it, neyther where the knottes began, nor where they ended." And as there was a prophesy "that he should be lord of all Asia that could undo the endles knott," Alexander, fearful of the consequences of failing to undo it, "out of hande cutt with his sworde the cordes asunder, thereby either illuding or els fulfilling the effect of the prophecye," (Brende's Q. Curtius, fol. 20.) Whatsoever it was, I must be fain to leave it as a Gordian knot, which no writer helps me to untie. Baker. King Stephen, an. 1154. If once you let the Gordian knot be ty'd, And leads you in a labyrinth of woes, But never find the clue to let you out. Walsh. To a Lady who had resolved against Marriage. } GORE, v. Gore-bellied, (says Skinner,) GORE, n. either from gore, sanguis, taGORY. bum, or gor, cœnum;— -Gor and gore are the same word differently applied. Somner has ge-horwigend, sordidus, unclean, corrupt, vile, sordid, growing hoary or sinnewy: and this is from the A. S. verb Harian, (with the usual prefix ge,) ge-harian, by contraction gar, (pronounced broad gawr,) ian, canescere, mucescere; to wax gray or hoary, to grow musty, mouldy, or hoary. The adjective ge-hor (by contraction gore or gor) might be first extended in its application to the filth arising from mouldiness, and thence to any filth, corruption, or pollution, and more particularly to that occasioned by the slaughter of animals; as gory blood, gore-blood, a mixture of blood and filth. Hence gor, without the affix, blood, carnage; and gorebelly, a belly filled with or greedy of meat; gor-crow, a crow feeding on flesh or carrion, (Skinner.) (See GOR-BELLY, GORCROW.) To gore, Skinner thinks may be contracted from the A. S. Geborian, to bore, to perforate. Junius observes," Anglis quoque is dicitur gored, cujus ilia perforata graveolentem excrementorum spurcitiem egerunt.” And thus, to gore, To cause gore, to expel or emit, to discharge, to shed gore; and generally, to stick or stab, to pierce or penetrate. And hence probably a gour or gore, a slit. See GOAR. Sad Amaranthus, made a flowre but late, To whom sweet Poets verse hath given endlesse date. Will be aveng'd, and th' others faith approv'd And in dark nights, and in cold days, alone Marvell. Works, vol. iii. p. 503. Drayton. The Miseries of Queen Margarate. He gaz'd with wonder on their equal might, Id. Id. b. xiii. We ascribe vices to a horse, that will not obey the whip or the spur; or to an ox that attempts to gore the attendants, instead of yielding his neck to the yoke. Cogan. Ethical Treatise, Dis. 2. § 1. The hand [Cortez] that slew till he could slay no more, Was glued to the sword-hilt with Indian gore. Cowper. It was to stimulate their cannibal appetites (which one would think had been gorged sufficiently) by variety and seasoning; and to quicken them to an alertness in new murders and massacres, if it should suit the purpose of the Milton. Lycidas. Guises of the day.-Burke. On the French Revolution. Our ancestors Selected such, for hospitable beds To rest the stranger, or the gory chief, From battle or the chase of wolves return'd. Dyer. The Fleece, b. ii. GORGE, v. Fr. Gorger, engorger; It. InGorge, n. gorgiare, ingurgitare, from the Lat. Gurges; which, as Skinner observes, was used even in the purer ages of the Latin tongue for helluo, a glutton. The shrill-gorged lark in Shakespeare is "the shrill-throated.” To gorge— To swallow or pass down the throat, to feed gluttonously, to cram the stomach, to glut. The counseler heareth causes with lesse pain being emptie, then he shal be able after a full gorge. Wilson. The Arte of Rhetorique, p. 112. And being full paunched with gorge upon gorge, ye haue no minde to relieue your poore bretheren perishing for famine, as though ye wer born to feede none but your own selfes, and were not bounde to relieve the necessitie of your neighbour.-Udal. Luke, c. 6. Look at the full-fed hound or gorged hawk, Id. Lear, Act iv. sc. 6. And as those birds do much delight in blood, He with him clos'd, and, laying mighty hold Upon his throte did gripe his gorge so fast, That wanting breath him down to ground he cast. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 4. The first night (sayth he) ye might haue seene the Englishmen bathing themselues in wine, and casting their gorges: there was crying, showting, wassaling, and drinking, showting far aboue measure.-Stow. Edw. II. an. 1313. And all the way, most like a brutish beast, But fiends to scourge mankind, so fierce, so fell, Heav'n never summon'd from the depths of Hell; Bloated and gorg'd with prey, with wombs obscene, Foul paunches, and with ordure still unclean. Beaum. & Fletch. Four Plays in One. What difference betweene men enriched with all abundance of earthly and heauenly blessings, and idols gorgeously Charity.attyred, but this, the one takes pleasure in that which they haue, the other none.-Hooker. Ser. Of the Nature of Pride. It seem'd to outvye whatever had been seene before of gallantry and riches, and gorgeousness of apparel. Baker. Charles II. an. 1661. Pitt. Virgil. Eneid, b. iii. GORGEOUS. Fr. Gorgias. Probably GO'RGEOUSLY. from gorge, and transferred GO'RGEOUSNESS. from the palate to the eye; Luxuriously, richly, sumptuously, adorned; gay or showy; splendid or magnificent. With holinesse dooeth he reproue, when he speaketh of gorgeous aray of harlots decking, of game players disguising, of golden spurres, saddles, and brydles? Sir T. More. Workes, p. 808. How outragiously are their priestes and churches orned and gorgiously garnished in their popetry passetymes) and apes playe.-Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 7. For to the eyes of all the Utopians, except very few (which had been in other countries for some reasonable cause) all that gorgeousness of apparel seemed shamefull and reproachful.-More. Utopia, by Robinson, b. ii. c. 6. Some rip'ning, ready some to fall, Some blossom'd, some to bloom, Like gorgeous hangings on the wall Of some rich princely room. Drayton. The Description of Elysium. Son, take my keys, And let this preparation for this marriage, (This welcome marriage) long determined here, Be quick, and gorgeous. To prohibit gorgeous and costly apparel to be worn but by persons of good quality, shall save the gentry of the kingdom much more money than they shall be taxed to psy your majesty.-Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 272. As for the matter of cloathing, our Saviour goes on, who can be more gorgeously and splendidly apparalled, than the flowers of the field? and yet they toil not, neither do they spin.-Sharp, vol. iv. Ser. 1. And thence" the mighty visitant," that came To recommend this system to the people, a perspective view of the court gorgeously painted and finely illuminated from within, was exhibited to the gaping multitude. Burke. On the Present Discontents. His horse sore wounded; whilst he went aside To take another still that doth attend, A shaft which some too lucky hand doth guide, Piercing his gorget, brought him to his end. Drayton. The Battle of Agincourt. Which Clifford perceiuing, sought to auoide, and whether for haste, heate, or paine, put off the gorget he wore, when sodainely an arrow without an head, shot from the bow of some layde in ambush, pierc'd through his throat. Speed. Edw. IV. b. ix. c. 17. (6.) Three glittering dragons to the gorget rise, Whose imitated scales, against the skies Reflected various light. Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. xi. GO'RGON, n. Gr. Fopywv, Gorgo; from GOʻRGON, adj. Yopyos, vividus, acer, terriGORGO'NIAN. bilis, and hence applied to Id. Ib. b. i. c. 4. Medusa; and poetically extended to GORGET. Fr. Gorgerin; It. Gorgietta. A collar, (says Skinner,) so called because it covers the gorge, or gullet; the throat. Any thing terrible, dreadful, frightful. Gorgon, in the citation from Spenser, is DEMOGORGON, (qv.) A bold bad man, that dar'd to call by name Great Gorgon, Prince of darknesse and dead night, At which Cocytus quakes, and Styx is put to flight. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 1. GO'SPEL, n. A. S. God-spell, derived by Go'sPELLER. some from God, Deus, and GO'SPELLING, N. spell, sermo, historia; by GO'SPELLIZE, V. others from God, bonus, and Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ii. spell, nuntium, quasi bonum nuntium, good tidings, and thus agreeing with the Gr. Evayyeλiov, (of which it is probably a translation.) Somner knows not which to prefer. Junius adopts the latter. Camden says, "The gladsome tidings of our saluation, which the Greeks call euangelion, and other nations in the same word, they called God-spell, that is God's speech. Junius remarks that the English language retains this word, but in the German it has been suffered to perish. See the quotation from Horsley. Gospelled, in Shakespeare,-obedient to the precepts of the gospel. But fate withstands, and to oppose th' attempt ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ The rest his look Bound with gorgonian rigor not to move.-Id. Ib. b. x. But brave Aconteus, Perseus' friend, by chance He saw, already one in Heav'n was plac'd, Eusden. Ovid. Met. b. iv. But Pallas came in shape of rust, So I charm'd their eares That calf-like, they my lowing followed through Tooth'd briars,and sharpe firzes, pricking gosse and thornes, Which entred their frail skins. Shakespeare. Tempest, Activ. sc. 1. The common, overgrown with fern, and rough With prickly gorse, that, shapeless and deform'd, And dangerous to the touch, has yet its bloom, Aud decks itself with ornaments of gold, Yields no unpleasing ramble.-Cowper. The Task, b. i. GOS-HAWK. A hawk, so called because Own at geese, (Skinner.) Gross-hawk, or greatawk, (Minshew;) "but," adds Skinner, "I far efer the former." And see the example from ennant. Surpris'd at all they met, the gostling pair The goshawk was in high esteem among falconers, and GOSLING. f one of their goslings be stung never so little with a tle, it will die of it -Holland. Plinie, b. x. c. 59. Sente Peter Pope was at Rome first, Christendom to lere, The gospel that he hadde ymad, and Cristendom to teche. Jhesus answerde and seyde truelye I seye to you there is no man that leveth hows or bretheren or sistres or fadir or modir or children or feeldis for me and for the gospel, whiche schal not take an hundrid fold so myche now in this tyme housis and britheren and sistres, and modris, and children and feeldis with persecutiouns, and in the world to comynge everlastynge lyf.-Wiclif. Mark, c. 10. Jesus answered and sayde: verily I say vnto you, there is no mã that forsaketh house, or bretheren, or systers, or father, or mother, or wyfe, other children, or landes for my sake and the gospel's, which shal not receaue an hundred and mothers, and children, and landes with persecutions: folde now in this lyfe: houses and bretheren, and sisters, and in the world to come eternall lyfe.-Bible, 1551. Ib. He was also a lerned man, a clerk, I woul you saine withouten drede But for to flea, that here I nought.-Gower. Con. A. b. iii. In the whole multitude that professed the gospell, all be not good, all cannot away with the mortifying of their flesh; they will with good-will beare the name of Christians, of gospellers, but to doe the deedes they grudge, they repine, they cannot away with it. Latimer. Sermon preached at Stamford, Oct. 9, 1550. Then Jesus shewing his pietifull affeccion both in coutenaunce and iyes (with which affeccion euery gospeller ought to be sory for other mens harmes,) touched theyr iyes: and forthwith theyr iyes beyng opened, they sawe, and with others they folowed Jesus.-Udal. Matthew, c. 20. Hold thee contented, thou foolish fellow, (quoth the parson.) If I should tell mine hearers of so great a number, I should but discredit the gospeller, and they would not beleeve me.-Holinshed. Description of Ireland, vol. vi. c. 1. The fourth thing misliked is, that against the Apostle's prohibition to haue any familiaritie at all with notorious offenders, Papists being not of the church are admitted to our very communion, before they haue by their religious and gospel-like behauiour purged themselues of that suspition of Popery which their former life haue caused. Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. v. § 68. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, ceive ye. saith the Lord; touch not the unclean thing, and I will rethe same force with that whereon Ezra grounded the pious And this command thus gospelliz'd to us, hath necessity of divorcing. Milton. Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, b. i. c. 8. And therefore drawing to a close of his gospel, and shewing the end for which he writ it, he has these words: Many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples that ye may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the son of which are not written in this book; but these are written, God; and believing ye might have life. Locke. Reasonableness of Christianity. We study and search the Scriptures; O, alas! but we first seek not nor crave for God's Holy Spirit, &c. but read, learning thereout something, to show ourselves gospellers, or picking places every where to maintain argument, &c. Strype. Life of Abp. Whitgift, b. iii. c. 12. You know, I prophesied to you before the sweat came, what would come, if you repented not your carnall gospelling. Id. Mem. an. 1555. Bradford to the Univers. of Camb. In the mean time give me leave to put you in mind of what is done in the corporation (whereof you are a member) for gospellizing (as they phrase it) the natives of New England. Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 109. Life. The original word, which is expressed in our English Bibles by the word gospel, signifies good news, a joyful message, or glad tidings; and our English word gospel, traced to its original in the Teutonic language, is found to carry precisely the same import, being a compound of two words, an adjective signifying good, and a substantive which signifies a tale, message, or declaration.-Horsley, vol. i. Ser. 10. There stands the messenger of Truth: there stands The legate of the skies!-His theme divine, His office sacred, his credentials clear. By him the violated law speaks out Its thunders; and by him, in strains as sweet Cowper. The Task, b. ii. When the law of nature came to be shunned as a dangerous and fallacious guide; and faith, traditional, not scriptural, had usurped its province of interpreting gospelrighteousness: then it was, that these bright examples of a new kind of virtue appeared amongst them, in a barbarous rabble of saints; who under the common name of RELIGIOUS, and on a pretence of a more sublime and elevated virtue than natural religion taught, ran into the most horrid excesses of fanaticism and superstition. cotton. Warburton, vol. ix. Ser. 8. GO'SSAMER. The Author of the English Dictionary (says Skinner) so calls that morning dew (diurno sole exsiccatum) which, like a spider's web, covers whole fields, more especially after a length of fine weather. He derives it from the Fr. Gossampine; Lat. Gossipium, the plant that bears The Author of Hora Momenta Cravena tells us that the true etymon of this word is obvious to many illiterate peasants in Craven: this down or exhalation being well known by the name of summer goose or summer gauze, hence "Gauze o' th' summer,' gausamer, alias gossamer. But he should consider whether a word, thus so apparently indigenous, must not have been familiar in the language before the introduction of the word gauze, (qv.) In the King of Fairy (cited by Dr. Jamieson) it is written gar-summer. In Chaucer, gos-somer. The Germans (as Dr. J. also remarks) call it sommer-weber and weeber-sommer, i. e. the webs of summer; which may seem to countenance the presumed discovery of the Cravenist,-but it has already been shown that gar or gor, means hoar; and hence, probably, gar or gor-summer is summer's hoar, in opposition to winter's hoar, or hoar frost. It is not only applied to— The morning dew that like a spider's web co. vers whole fields; but to Webs or filmy substances floating in the air. Also met. יי As sore wondren som on cause of thonder, On ebbe and floud, on gossomer, and on mist, And on all thing, till that the cause is wist. Chaucer. The Squieres Tale, v. 10,578. |