POISE, v. Poisy matter; weighty, important. There been certes some that speken their poisye mater in French, of which speeche the Frenche men haue as good fantasye as wee have in hearynge Frenche mens English.-Chaucer. Test. of Loue. Prologue.

No man that I am allied to in my living, but makes it equal, whether his own use, or my necessity pull first:nor is this forc'd, but the mere quality and poisure of goodness. And do you think I venture nothing? Beaumont and Fletcher. Wit without Money, act i. sc. 1.

POISON.

Poison on a poole (pole)

Thei putte up to hise lippes,
And beden hym drynke his deeth.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 12177. The common opinion is that the thorne whereupon they (certain ravenous birds) thus fasten them (their prey) and eate them, is afterward poysonsome.-Speght. Annot.

POLICE, s. Policy of Assurance. Not (says Skinner) from our word Policy, prudence, but from the It. Poliza, a schedule: and the It.-Menage deduces from the Lat. Polyptychum, (Gr. πo\νπтνxov, multiplex) variously written, Polyticum, politicum, poleticum;-whence he also derives Fr. Pouille, a catalogue of benefices, and Poulets, amatory letters-Polyticum, was, multiplex tabella (see Diptych), and Poliza or Polisa is explained by Florio " A schedule, a bill, a note, a writing, remembrance, a bond, an inventorie, an obligation." See Menage It. and Fr. Dictionaries, and Du Cange, for the different kinds of books or registers to which the word was applied.

POMP.

POS

The worth of the physician is to be estimated by his scorn of petty intrigue, puffing, and pomposity. Aikin's Letters, ii. 41.

PONDER.

O my liege Lord, the God of my life,
Pleaseth you pond your suppliants plaint.

Spenser. Shep. Cal. Feb. The ponderer and shaper of his discourses. Whitlock. Manners of the English, p. 149. The thriving of that stratagem of Jacob's, the invention of the peeled rods, whereby he was grown so rich, in despite of Laban's malice, God will have ponderingly considered, and imputed as an act of his special interposition or providence.-Hammond. Works, v. iv. p. 497.

POSSESS, v.

POW

A-lady myn how god hath made the riche,
Thy self allone al richesse to possede.

Lyfe of our Ladye. Carton, i. 11. The circumstances, which originate the sense of property, serve to explain this one fact, the existence of a possessory feeling, in the heart of every individual who is actuated thereby.-Chalmers. On the Constitution of Man, pt. i. c. vi. et aliter.

POST.

infra.

In povernesse of spyrit

Is spedfullest hele.-Piers Plouhman's Crede, v. 525. Loo! I in my lytyl porenesse (L. V. pouert, in paupertate) haue maad redy before-the expenses of the hous of the Lord.-Wic. 1 Par. xxii. 14.

And he smoot of the puple senenti men, and fifty thowId. 1 Kings vi. 19. To whom forsothe shal I beholde, but to my porelet (pauperculum) and contrit in spirit, and tremblende my

synde of the porail. (E. V. raskeyl, plebis.)

wrdis.-Id. Is. lxvi. 2.

POPELOT. Chaucer, Milleres Tale, v. 3254. Either a dim. of Poupee, a puppet; or a corruption of Papilot, a butterfly. Tyrwhitt.

POPERE. A bodkin. See Skinner.
A joly popere bare he in his pouche.
POPLAR.

Chaucer. The Reves Tale, v. 3929.

POSTHUME. Much has been written on the etymology of the Lat. Posthumus. See Voss. It is clear that the adjective, Postumus, last, from posterus, was very early distinguished from Posthumus. And the latter has been ultimately adopted in law to distinguish the child born after the death of the father (qui post humatum patrem natus est) from one last born in the father's lifetime. Our statute and common law take especial cognizance of the former-as in Ventre se mere, at the father's death. We have nothing from the Classic Lat. Postumus. See the Quotation from Fuller, in Dictionary.

POSTHUME, i. e. Imposthume, qv.

He cleped him-A congregation of vices in his brest, as a postume is full of corruption. Chaucer. Boecius, 1. 3, pr. 4. POSTLE. Postle and Postlehed are var. readings of Apostle, Apostilhed in Wiclif, Mark vi. 30, 2 Cor.

xii. 12.

POLICE, s.

Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iv. c. 30.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 8519. Anoon at the comaundement of the Kyng, they polliden Joseph (E. V. doddiden, totonderunt), led out of prisoun. Wic. Gen. xli. 14. And the Angel of the Lord toke hym in the poll of hym (L. V. top, in vertice), and bare hym in an her of his hed, and pulle hym in to Babylone, on the lake, in bir of his spirit (in impetu).-Id. Dan. xiv. 35.

POLLUTE.

Holi thei shulen be to her God, and thei shulen not polute his name. (L. V. defoule, polluent.) Wic. Lev. xxi. 6.

POMEGRANATE.

In the middyl litel belles menged, so that the litel belle be gold and a powm garnet; and eft sones another litel belle and a poum garnet. (L. V. pyn apple, malum punicum.)- Wic. Ex. xxviii. 33.

POME. POMEL. Pomelee Gris; Dappled, grey. Fr. Pomèle; pied with spots round as an apple. A goldun pomel (aurea mala) in heddis of siluer is he that spekith a word in his time.- Wic. Prov. xiv. 35. His hakeney, which that was al pomelee gris, So swatte that it wonder was to see.

Chaucer. The Chanones Yemannes Prol. v. 10627. POMMEL, 8.

And he pist into his wombe so strongly that the pomel (L. V. pomel, ether hilte, capulas) folowid the yren in the wound.-Id. Judg. iii. 22,

SUP. VOL. II.

PORE. Gower writes pire. See PEER.
POREBLIND.

If eny man smyte the eye of his seruaunt or of hond mayden, and make hem pure blynde (L. V. oon ized, luscos), he shall leave hem fre for the eye that he hath drawun out.- Wic. Ex. xxi. 26.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 771. And these ben the prouostis, after their cuntrees and porcionel princehedis (E. V. porcionelis, porcionales principatus) of hem, that wilt me stieden up fro Babiloyne, in the rewme of Artaxerxes.- Wic. 3 Esd. viii. 31.

Forsothe he (Dauid) made the sones of Idithum to be portours, ether bereris (portarios).—Id. 1 Pur. xxvi. 42. Wherefore is yet my full beleve

That some gode spirit, that ilke eve,
By mene of some airious port,
Bare me where I saw payne and sport.

Chaucer. Dreame, v. 29. Jabal improved the pastoral art, by leading his flocks from place to place for the benefit of new pasture; and by inventing portative houses, or tents, for his own convenience while he attended them.-Geddes. Note on Gen. iv. 20.

PORTRAY. See RETREAT, infra.
He kan portreye wel the pater-noster,
And peynte it with aves.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 9983.
Why shulde I not as wel eke tell you all
The purtreiture that was upon the wall.

Quotation from Wiclif.

Under a pot he shall be put
In a pryvye chaumbre.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 1249.

It contayned two thousand mesuris of thre quartis, thre thousand mesuris neez of a potel.- Wic. 3 Kings, vii. 26. A man would have bin affeard to haue imitated thunder and lightning, if the potlid of that chymique monke had not, by being tost into the ayre, instructed him.

Wats. Bacon. Advancement of Learning, b. v. c. 2. POTECARY. See APOTHECARY.

Forsothe in the fourthe peer al the fruytis of the trees schal be halewid preiseful. (E. V. preysable, laudabilis.) Wic. Lev. xix. 24.

In all this mene while, she (Grisildis) ne stent
This maide and eke hire brother to commend
With all hire herte in ful benigne entent,
So wel that no man coud hire preise amend.

Chaucer. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8902.

Then at laste hem axeth this
Emonge the folke touchinge his name,
Or it be price or it be blame.

Gower. Conf. Am. b. vii. fo. 165.

For they wyll haue no losse Of theyr predyall landes.

Spenser. Colyn Cloute, v. 932.

PREDOOMED, i. e. Foredoomed, qv.

Her ways Were ways of darkness, and her death predoom'd To the black hour of midnight. Southey. Curse of Kehama, b. vi. § 4; b. xi. § 5.

PREEN, v. Sc. Prein, prene, prin, v. a. To pin. Jamieson. Suio. Goth. Cœlum vel instrumentum quoddam acutum. Prenta, imprimere. Ger. Pfierm. See lHRE.

Forsothe Dauid harpide with his hond, as bi all daies: and Saul helde a spere, and caste, and gesside that he myste prene (E. V. pitche to gidre, configere) Dauid with the wal; that is, perse with the spere, so that it schulde passe til to the wal.- Wic. 1 Kings xviii. 11.

And Saul enforside to prene (E. V. fitche to gidre, configere) with the spere Dauid in the wal.

PREFACE.

Id. lb. xix. 10. Second Version.

Fro hennus therfore we shuln bygynne the tellyng, be it ynews for to haue said so myche of prefacion, or byfore spekyug (de prefatione).-- Wic. 2 Mac. li. 33

PREFE. See PROVE.

PREFER, v.

What preferment then hathe the Jewe.

PRELATE.

Bible, 1549. Rom. iii. 1.

Now certainly he (the monk) was a fayre prelat. Chaucer. Canterbury Tales. Prol. v. 204. PRELIMIT, v. To limit beforehand. The lords were highly incensed by this letter (of King Charles), considering it "a prelimiting of their judgment." -Four State Trials. Life of Lord Keeper Herbert, quoted by Campbell, v. ii. p. 101.

PRELUDE, v.

So fares the bull in his lov'd female's sight;
Proudly he bellows and preludes the fight.

Dryden. Virgil. Eneid, b. xii. v. 160. PREMISE. Dele from Fr. Prémices, line 2, to Dryden, line 4, inclusive. And see Additions to Prime. Also dele the Quotations from Holland and Dryden.

PRENOSTICK.

The dayes called dies cretici and dies of prenostikes of good determynations of the passions of a mans sikenesse or the contrarye. The Boke of Tulle of Old Age. Caxton, e. 6.

PRENTICE. Som he yaf wit With wordes to shewe, (As) prentices of lawe.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 13418.

I have y-maad many a knyght,
Bothe mercer and draper,

That payed nevere for his prentishode
Noght a peire gloves.-Id. Ib. v. 2983.
PREPOST, i. e. Provost, qv.

And he ordeynede hym prepost or souereyn (præpositum) on Egipt, and on al his hous.

PRE-SCIENT.

Wic. Deeds vii. 10, and Heb. xiii. 24.

Petre, apostle of Jhesu Crist, to the chosen gestis or comelingis of dispersioun or scatteringe abrood, of, etc. up the prescience (secundum præscientiam) or bifore knowinge of God the fadir.- Wic. 1 Pet. i. 2.

That terrible term predestination, which hath troubled so many weak heads to conceive, and the wisest to explain, is in respect to God no prescious determination of our states to come, but a definitive blast of his will already fulfilled, and at the instant he first decreed it. Browne. Religio Medici, pt. i. § xi.

PRE-SENSATION.

The ravenous fowls of heaven Flock there, presentient of their food obscene. Southey. Don Roderick, § xvii.

PRESS.

Broche hem with a pak-nedle,
And playte hem togideres,
And putte hem in a presse,
And pyne hem thereinne.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 2897. He (Pictagoras) that in Athenys was a maister, and mişti wolde be maad a pilgrym and a discyple, more wilnyng other mennus thingis shamfastli to lernen, than his owne unshamfastli to prece forth. Wic. Bible. Pref. Ep. p. 61. And Y hopide in the blessyng of God: and as he that gaderith grapis, Y fillide the pressour. (E.V. presse, torcular.)-Id. Ecclus. xxxiii. 17.

With commission-so many as they thought able men of body to beare armes, although they were not come to the lawful age for service, to prest them soldiours. Holland. Liry, p. 548. An excellent critic of our own commends Boileau's closeness, or, as he calls it, pressness, particularly; whereas it appears to me, that repetition is his fault, if any fault should be imputed to him.

PREST.

Young. Love of Fame. Preface.

I paide it (tithe) ful prestly, For peril of my soule.

PRESTIGE, s.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 3982. Prest is the Book of Levy (L. V. Opun), in the whiche alle sacryfices. . . enspiren heuenli sacramentis. Wic. Bible. Pref. Ep. p. 57. Now in common use. Prest ges was formerly used in French as explained above (in Dictionary). See Cotgrave. Later Dictionaries, Chambaud to Boiste, say Illusion par fascination; (Boiste continues), par art, fascination. Prestige is applied by us-" To that moral influence (per

haps illusive) which past successes, as the pledge of future ones, breed."-Trench. English Past and Present, Lec. ii.

They (Christians) were stigmatized by the opprobrious appellation of Magic. And Augustus had published very rigorous edicts against the whole race of Præstigiators. White. Bampton Lectures. Ser. iii. p. 149. PRESUME. In Wiclif, Wisdom xvii. 10, mar. note, Presume is explained to forgesse (sc. grete yuels to comyng on it silf); and Presumption, gessing (of peyne neizhinge).

And pullen forth a presumpcion

To prove the sothe.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 5711.
PRETEND.

Nothing wants, but that thy (Eve's) shape,
Like his, and colour serpentine may shew
Thy inward fraud, to warn all creatures from thee
Henceforth; least that too heav'nly form, pretended
To hellish falshood, snare them.

Milton. Par. L. b. x. v. 872.

PRETER-GENERATION. Wats. Bacon. Advancement of Learning, b. iii. c. 4, from the Lat. Prætergeneratio.

PRETERMIT, v.

But the pledeing of it (method) as a part of the traine of other arts, hath bin the cause that many things which referre unto it, and are usefull to be knowne, are prætermiss'd (prætermissa sunt).

Wats. Bacon. Advancement of Learning, b. vi. c. 2. PRÆTER-VECTION. Lat. Præter-vectio. A carrying past or beyond. See VEHICLE.

The place he (Kirchman) produces out of Eunapius to that purpose, seems rather to denote the prater-vection of the body to some place, than its elation from the house, wherein it was prepar'd for burial.

PRETOR.

Potter. Antiquities of Greece, b. iv. c. 4.

And he comaundide him for to be kept in the pretorie (in prætorio) or moot hall of Heroude.

PREVARICATE.

Wic. Deeds xxii. 35.

And Adam was not disceyued in feith, forsooth the Womman was disceyued in feith, in preuaricatioun or brekyng of the lawe (prevaricatione. M.V. transgression). Wic. 1 Tim. ii. 14.

The whiche by manere was semblable to the prevarication (by lyk and contrarye). The Golden Legend. Carton, fo. 16, c. 3. PREVE, i. e. Prove, qv.

PREVENT.

She preventeth them that desire her in making herself first known unto them.- Wisdom of Solomon, vi. 13. Thus they in lowliest plight repentant stood

Praying,-for from the mercy-seat above,

Prevenient grace descending had remov'd

The stony from their hearts, and made new flesh
Regenerate grow instead.-Milton. Par. L. b. xi. v. 3.
Half way he met

His daring foe, at this prevention more
Incen'st.-Id. Ib. b. vi. v. 129.

The Queen a legion to King Turnus sent,
But the swift horse the slower foot prevent.
Dryden. Eneid, b. ix. v. 504.
He charged the soldiers with preventive care.
Id. Ib. b. x. v. 361.

PREY.

And he toke prayes of the citee (L.V. preies, spolia) and brente it with fijr, and distriyede housis therof, and wallis therof in cumpas.- Wic. 1 Mac. i. 33.

PRICK.

I may no lenger lette, quod he, And lyard he prikede.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 12068.

(Oon) Bare-foot on an asse bak

Boot-les cam prikye.-Id. lb. v. 12093.

(He is) a prikere on a palfrey.-Id. Ib. v. 6220. The she calf fair and shapli (is) Egipt; the prickere fro the North (stimulator) shal come to hir.

Wie. Jer. xlvi. 20. Upon the deed ze shulen not kitte 3oure flesh, ne eny pryckyngis te shulen not make to tow. (L.V. ether markis in zoure fleisch, stigmata.)—Id. Lev. xix. 28.

Thou art he that hast ouercome the pryck of deth-that is the deuyll.-The Golden Legend. Carton, fo. 26, c. 2. As when, to warn proud cities, war appears Wag'd in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the airy knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close.-Milton. Par. L. b. ii. v. 536.

PRIDE.

To ton it is thouen for to knowe the mysterie or priuyte

There I shal seche your prymysies or first fruytis, and the bigynnynge of your tithis in alle your halewingis. Wic. Ez. xx. 4.

We owen for to do thankingis euer more to God for tou, şe bretheren loued of God, that God cheer vs primyssis or firste fruytes into heelthe, in halowyng of spirit, and feith of treuthe.-Id. 2 Thess. ii. 12.

The swetnesse and softnes of pryme temps called veer, and spryngyn tyme be passed.

The Boke of Tulle of Old Age. Carton, g. 5. The courtier needes must recompensed bee With a benevolence, or have in gage The primitias of your parsonage.

Spenser. Mother Hubbard's Tale, v. 518. (The Pythagoreans) when they sacrificed unto the gods would especially taste of the primices or parcels of flesh which they had killed.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 638.

This lanx, in English a charger, or large platter, was yearly filled with all sorts of fruit, which were offered to the gods at their festivals, as the premices or first gatherings.-Dryden. On the Origin and Progress of Satire.

PRINCIPAL.

And he af reste to alle prouyncis, and grantide large iftis aftir principal gret doing. (L.V. worschipful doyng of a prince, magnificentiam principalem.) Wic. Esth. ii. 18. selde to me the gladnesse of thin nelthe ziuere; and with the spirit principal (spiritu principali) conferme thou me.-Id. Ps. 1. 14.

PRINCIPLE.

Siluer hath the principlis of his veynes. (L.V. beginRings, principia.)-Wic. Job xxviii. 1.

Evil examples; . . . natural inclination and other prinapiant causes, proceeding from the natural weakness of humane constitution, are the fountain and proper causes of many consequent evils.

Bp. Taylor. On Repentance, sec. iv. c. 6, § 70. In which posture of blind credulity, they might be more easily governed by, and made useful to, some sort of men, who had the skill and office to principle and guide them. Locke. On Human Understanding, b. i. c. 4, § 24.

PRINT.

And Y suffre the for to make smytyng or printe of thin own money in thi regioun. (L. V. prynte, percussuram numismatis.)- Wic. I Mac. xv. 6.

Ypocritis, what tempten zee me? Shewe zee to me the pryate of the moneye (numisma census). Id. Matt. xxii. 19. PRISON, s. Is used by Piers Plouhman in the sense of-Prisoner.

(Charité) many a prison fram purgatorie Thorugh hise preieres he delivereth.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 10316. Lo! Y shal bringe in on thee yuel, and Y shal sle of Achah prisoned (E. V. the closid, clausum), and the laste in Israel.-Wic. 3 Kings xxi. 21.

PRIVILEGE. The Lat. Privilegium, was applied, 1st, to a Law, in privatos homines, against private or single persons; and as such is severely denounced by Cicero. 2ndly, and subsequently, to a Law, granting to a single person, or to a body of persons, some power or immunity for their own exclusive use or enjoyment. Such exclusive powers or immunities are also assumed and exercised by lawfully constituted authorities, for the better enforcement of the powers committed to them, and for the regulation of their proceedings: as by courts of justice, the houses of parliament. Privilege is in common speech applied in contradistinction to Prerogative, qv. As the Privileges of the Commons, the Prerogative of the Crown.

PRIVY.

Ne is it priue fro thee (L. V. hid, clam), that withouten bodies and loond, we han not (nought). Wic. Gen. xlvii. 18.

Loke who that is most vertuous alway,
Prive and apert; and most entendeth, ay,
To do the gentil dedes that he can,
And take him for the gretest gentilman.

Chaucer. Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 6696. PRIZE, or PRISE, s. v. The Ger. Preis; D. Pris; Sw. Pris: are the price or value of a thing. From the A. S. Hent-an, to take (as the Hand), is the Lat. Hend-ere, used only in composition, as prehendere (to pre-hend, qv.), contracted into prendere, past. part. prensum; and hence, the It. prendere ; Sp. prender; Fr. prendre; It. and Sp. preso; Fr. prins (see in Cot.) pris; and on this past part. is founded the verb, priser. Both Latin verb and Fr. supply many compounds. And see PRAISE, PRECIOUS, PRENTICE, PRISON, CULPRIT, REPRIEVE, HAND, HINT.

(These were) the pris neet of Piers plow, Passynge alle othere.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 13487. Opposite to this (the arch of Constantine) is the arch of Titus Vespasian, erected to him for his prize of Jerusalem. Raymond. A Voyage through Italy in 1646 and 1647. The stat. in his (Edward I.) 28th year had a sting in the tail that was as ill as his saving of ancient aids and prisals which was in the stat. of confirmation of charters.

N. Bacon. Historical Discourse, c. lxiv. p. 217. PROACH, v.

But when the infernal troupe he proched neere,
That still the pagan's ire and rage prouoke,
The angell on his wings himselfe did beare,
And shooke his lance.

Fairefar. Godfrey of Bulloigne, b. ix. st. 63.

PROBLEM.

And thei seiden to the wijf of Sampson, Glose thin hosebonde, and counseile hym, that he schewe to thee what the probleme signyfieth.- Wic. Judges xiv. 15.

PROCEED, v. PROCESS. Statement of the case proceeding, (account, story). Dyce.

To procede thys history.-Berners' Froissart, v. ii. p. 327. A proces I could tell.-Skelton. Philip Sparrow, v. 735. PRO-CUMBENT. Lat. Procumbens (procumbere). To lean forwards; leaning forwards. Procumbent each obey'd, and when the flood Cleaving, we twice that distance had obtain'd, Again I hail'd the Cyclops.

Cowper. Odyssey, b. ix. v. 580. PROCURE. In Wiclif, Luke iii. 1, Procurante Pontio Pilato Judæam, Pilat of Pounce kepinge Judee, is in var. r. procurynge or kepyng-also procurende.

For I make Piers the Plowman
My procuratour and my reve.
PROEM.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 13472.

Hidur to is the Prohemy; tho thingis, that suen weren set in that place; where it was writun in the book. Wic. Esth. xii. 6.

PROFESS.

Many tongues of great false teachings... lones seruants, that professe in his religion of true rule, pursewen to confounden and to distroyen.-Chaucer. Test. of Loue, b. ii. PROFFER.

The pawme is purely the hand,
And profreth forth the fyngres.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 11651. The profre of hem (L. V. profryng, oblatio) pleside to Emor and to Sichem, his sone.-Wic. Gen. xxxiv. 18. PROFIT.

I fond there freres, Prechyng the peple For profit of hemselue.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 118. And Jhesus profitide (proficiebat) in wysdom, age, and grace arremptis God and men.- Wic. Luke ii. 52. PROFOUND.

Vice and the Devil put a fallacy upon our reason, and provoking us too hastily to run from it, entangle and profound us deeper in it. Browne. Religio Medici, pt. i. § 55. PROFUNDITY. See PROFOUND. PROGENY.

The man asked us by ordre oure progenye (L. V. generacioun, progeniem), if the fadir lyuede, if we hadden a brother.- Wic. Gen. xliii. 7.

To procure a ready provision for discourse, arguments may be before hand framed, and stored up, about such things as are frequently incident, and come into disceptation; and this we call promptuarie art, or preparation.

Wats. Bacon. Advancement of Learning, b. v. c. 3. PRONE. In Wiclif, Gen. viii. 21, the Lat. Pronus is rendered Redi (in to yuel), and in var. r. redi ether proone.

In the most part therof I durst not turn my horse trauerse for all the worldly riches, nor in manner look on my left hand for the pronite and deepness to the valley (from the Alps).-Strype, v. i. pt. ii. p. 27.

PRONOUNCE.

And Helyu pronounside; and spac also these thingis. (E. V. tellende forth, pronuntians.)-Wic. Job xxxiv. 1. But this kind of writing, which seems to be reformed. which is, that the writing should be consonant to speaking, is a branch of unprofitable subtleties; for pronunciation itselfe every day encreases and alters the fashion: and the derivations of words especially from forrain languages are utterly confounded and lost.

Wats. Bacon. Advancement of Learning, b. vi. c. 1. PROPEND, v.

Thou, from the regions of eternal day,
View'st all thy works at one immense survey;
Pleas'd, thou behold'st the whole propensely tend
To perfect happiness, its glorious end.

The meaning of the proponent, spread out at breadth, was to joyn the Presbytery with the Bishop in all acts of ordination and jurisdiction-to give them the first room and first voice and no more.

Hackett. Life of Archbp. Williams, pt. ii. p. 144. PROPOSE. See PROPONE. PROSELYTE.

Wo to 3ou scribis and phariseis-ipocrites that goen aboute the see and the lond; to make o prosilite (proselytum), that is, conuertid to 3oure ordre. Wic. Mat. xxiii. 15.

QUA

do synne; nether sei thou bifor an aungel, No purueiaunce is. (E. V. purueying, providentia.)- Wic. Eccles. v. 5.

PUSH.

For a cat.

Pleide with hem perillousle

And possed about.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 302. All the lockes, alle the barres and shittynges (i. e. shuttings), ben broken and to pusshed.

The Golden Legend. Caxton, fo. 21, c. 1.

PUSIL, adj. Little. See PUSILLANIMOUS. But now it (Spiritus) is knowne to be a corporall and materiate substance, it is necessarie to be enquired, by what efforts such a pusill (pusilla) and thin soft aire should put in motion such solid and hard bodies.

Wats. Bacon. Advancement of Learning, b. iv. c. 3. PUT, s. A game at cards. A country Put. See Tatler, No. 230; where this word, with banter, bamboozle, kidney, are mentioned as refinements struggling into notice.

Peter (quod a plowman) And putte forth his hedde.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 3578. (These) peculiarities would have denominated me a Green Horn, or in other words, a country put very green. Adventurer, No. 100. PUT. In Wiclif, Ex. xxi. 29, The Lat. Cornupeta, is rendered horn-pultere; pultere with horn. Sothli of the cumpanye thei withdrowen sum Alisaundre, Jewis puttinge or fer schowfynge. (L. V. puttiden, var. r. pultyng or pultiden, propellentibus.) Wic. Deeds xix. 33.

man,

supra.

QUAVE.

And derk bicam the sonne; And al the world quaved. Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 12196. And Saule saw the tentis of Philisteis, and dradde and his herte quauyde (var. r. quakide, expavit) ful myche. Wic. 1 Kings xxviii. 5. Also after the wynde, quauynge; not in the quauynge of the Lord. (L. V. stiring, commotio.) Id. 3 Kings xix. 11. QUEACH. A queach of bushes, in Julia Barnes, Skinner thinks, is a quick or quickset of bushes.

QUEDE. Lat. Ni fallor; Dut. Quaede; Ger. Quad. Bad, wicked. Skinner. And see Quad in Wachter. Quaed in Kilian. Also Tyrwhitt. A Quede, An evil, a harm.

God give the monke a thousand last quad yere (i. e. a thousand last (ever so great a weight) of bad yeres).

Chaucer. Prioresses Prol. v. 13368.

My fader it (Daunger) is such a quede,
That where I come, he is tofore,
And doth so, that my cause is lore.

Gower. Conf. Am. b. iii. fo. 554.
There maie none quad that man arest,
Where so he be on sea or londe,
That hath this rynge upon his honde.

Though these knanes be deade,

Full of myschefe and queed,

Yet where so euer they ly

Therto he song somtime a loud quinible.

QUIRE.

Chaucer, The Mulleres Tale, v. 3332.

Whether thei sungen not to hym by queeris (var. r. carouls, per choros), and seiden, Saul smoot a thousynde, and Dauid smoot ten thousynde.- Wic. 1 Kings xxi. 11.

QUIT. See Piers Plouhman in v. Quench, supra. To quite vows (vota solvere).- Wic. Num. xv. 3.

Y schal zelde vengeance to myn enemyes, and Y schal quyte (retribuam) to hem that haten.-Id. Deut. xxxii. 41. Every Christen wight shal han penance, But if that he his Christendome withseye; And gon al quite, if he wol it reneye.

Chaucer. Seconde Nonnes Tale, v. 15916. That all arrestments, reprisals, and impignorations of whatsoever goods and merchandizes, &c. made, &c. are from henceforth quiet, free, and released.

Hackluyt, v. i. Richard II. and Pruss. Ambass.

Theyr names shall neuer dye.-Skelton. Epitaphe.

QUELET, or A gathering; a collection. QUYLET.

(Glos. to Wiclif.)

QUEMEFUL.

QUENCH.

QUERNE.

QUERULOUS.

Cotidien, ne the quarteine, Is not half so full of peine.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 240L.

QUYTER, v. QUYTURE, s. Ne with the quyterende enuye wei I shal han. (L. V. with enuye wexynge rotun, invidia tabescente.) Wic. Wis. vi. 15.

Perhaps from A. S. Scyt-an, to shoot.

The which (Job) with a scherd scrapide awei the quyture (saniem), sittende in the dunghil.-Id. Job ii. 8.

Thou forsothe art cast aferr fro thi sepulcre, as a stoc unprofitable, as with quyture defyled. (L. V. defoulid with rot, pollutus.)-Id. Is. xiv. 19.

R.

RA, RAE. See ROE. RABBET, v.

Two rabitynges (L. V. dentynges, incastratura) weren by eche tables, that the tone to that other myst be ioyned. Wic. Ex. xxxvi. 22; also 24.

RABBLE, v. In the North still in common use. To speak in a confused manner.-Brocket; and in the Exmouth Dialect-A rabble-rote is a repetition of a long, round-about story. Grose. Fox (see in Dictionary) writes, "to rabble out the scriptures without purpose, rime, or reason."

To rabble was the common word used in Scotland at the time of the Revolution to denote the outrages of "a noisy, tumultuous medley" of Covenanters towards the Church clergymen. For the extent to