Taste, v.t. (Ps. xxxiv. 8; Matt. xvi. 28; John viii. 52; Heb. ii. 9, vi. 4, 5). Used metaphorically for 'experience, in a manner common to many languages.

Let parents and tutors do their duties to bring them up so, that as soon as their age serveth, they may taste and savour God. Latimer, Serm. p. 391.

In every where or sword or fyer they taste.

Sackville, Induction, 460.

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.

Shakespeare, Jul. Cæs. II. 2.

Besides, we'll cut the throats of those we have,
And not a man of them that we shall take
Shall taste our mercy.

Id. Hen. V. IV. 7.

See quotation from Hall under SUFFER HUNGER.

Taverns, sb. (Acts xxviii. 15). Shops; Lat. tabernæ. The "Three Taverns" was a station on the Appian road, ten miles nearer Rome than the Appian market.

Tell, v.t. (Gen. xv. 5; Ps. xxii. 17, xlviii. 12; Jer. xv. 2). To count; A.-S. tellan in the same sense.

Compter. To count, account, reckon, tell, number.

Cotgrave, Fr. Dict.

When usurers tell their gold i' the field.

Shakespeare, Lear, III. 2.

While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred.

And every shepherd tells his tale
Under the hawthorn in the dale.

Id. Haml. 1. 2.

Milton, L'Allegro, 67.

Temper, v.t. (Ex. xxix. 2, xxx. 35). To mix, com

pound; Lat. temperare.

The queen, sir, very oft importuned me

To temper poisons for her.

Shakespeare, Cym. v. 5.

This is altogether artificiall, and is made of Cyprian verdegris or rust of brasse, the vrin of a yong lad, and salnitre, tempered all together & incorporat in a brasen morter, stamped with a pestill of the same mettall. Holland's Pliny, XXXIII. 5.

Temperance, sb. (Acts xxiv. 25; Gal. v. 23; 2 Pet. i. 6). This word has lately assumed almost exclusively the meaning of moderation in the matter of drink its original sense was that of self-restraint (Lat. temperantia) or moderation generally.

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Doctor Barnes, I hear say, preached in London this day a very good sermon, with great moderation and temperance of him. self. Latimer, Rem. p. 378.

He ghest his nature by his countenance,
And calmd his wrath with goodly temperance.

Spenser, F. Q. I. 8, § 34.

Be by, good madam, when we do awake him;
I doubt not of his temperance.

Shakespeare, Lear, IV. 7. The vertue of prosperitie, is temperance; the vertue of adversity, is fortitude. Bacon, Ess. v. p. 17.

Chaucer (Parson's Tale) uses attemperance in the same

sense;

The felawes of abstinence ben attemperance, that holdith the mene in alle thinges.

'Temperate' in the sense of 'moderate' is found in Bacon (Ess. XXXIII. p. 142) in 'temperate number.'

Tempt, v. t. (Gen. xxii. 1; Ex. xvii. 7; &c.). To try, put to the test; Lat. tentare. vi. 6 Wiclif's earlier version has

Sotheli he seide this thing, temptinge him.

Who shall tempt with wandring feet

The dark unbottom'd infinite abyss.

Num. xiv. 22,
Thus in John

Milton, P. L. II. 404.

The compound 'attempt' has preserved more of the original meaning.

Tender, v.t. (2 Macc. iv. 2). ous for.

To care, be solicit

If it bee the persone that ye esteeme, then ought ye more to tendre the preseruyng of one soleman, then of a right great noubre of oxen or asses. Udal's Erasmus, Luke, fol. 115 a.

Tentation, sb. (Ex. xvii. 7 m). The old form of 'temptation' in the ed. of 1611.

Terribleness, sb. (Deut. xxvi. 8; 1 Chr. xvii. 21; Jer. xlix. 16). Terror, dread.

Tetrarch, sb. (Matt. xiv. 1; Luke iii. 1, 19; Acts xiii. 1). A ruler over a fourth part of the country; Gk. TerPάPXNS. The word has never become English, although 'heptarchy' has been naturalized.

Tetrarches, that is to saie in Englishe, the fower princes, or the fower head rewlers. For the name of a kyng was long afore abolished by a lawe of the Romaines, who would haue no kynges. Udal's Erasmus, Luke, fol. 29 a.

Than both they (Eccl. iv. 3). An unusual construction.

Coverdale has 'the they both,' and the Geneva version 'then the both.'

Thank, sb. (Luke vi. 32, 33, 34). Thanks.

He that thus should haue sayed like Tindall, shoulde haue gotten lyttle thanke. Sir T. More, Works, p. 496 d.

Compare 'pain' for 'pains.'

Ye see by daily experience, what pain fishers and hunters take. Latimer, Rem. p. 24.

Thankworthy, adj. (1 Pet. ii. 19). Deserving thanks. A.-S. pancweorlic, meritorious. We have still 'praiseworthy.'

That, pron. (Ruth ii. 17; Neh. v. 9). That which: it is either the A.-S. pat-te which is compounded of pot and the indeclinable pe used as a relative; or it is simply the demonstrative pot used as a relative. It is of frequent

For he wold have that is not in his might.

Chaucer, Wife of Bath's Tale, 6770.

No man when he hath rashely there spoke that commeth to his tonges ende, shall then afterwarde rather studye for reasons wherwith to defende and maintaine his first folissh sentence, than for the comoditie of y comonwealth. Sir T. More, Utopia, 55 b.

That you may do that God commandeth, and not that seemeth good in your own sight without the word of God. Latimer, Rem. p. 308.

If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge, of that you are thought to know; you shall be thought another time, to know that, you know not. Bacon, Ess. XXXII. p. 137.

The redundant.

The life life (Ps. lxiii. 4, Pr.-Bk.) Compare the phrase 'die the death.'

'It nere,' quod he, 'to the no gret honour,
For to be fals, ne for to be traytour
To me, that am thy cosyn and thy brother,
I-swore ful deepe, and ech of us to other,
That never for to deyen in the payne,
Til that deeth departe schal us twayne.'

Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1135.

The same redundancy occurs in the expressions at the least,' at the length' (see p. 44), 'in the which,' 'of the which,' 'at the least,' &c.

Now seeing the devil is both author and ruler of the darkness, in the which the children of this world walk, or to say better, wander; they mortally hate both the light, and also the children of light. Latimer, Serm. p. 41.

This alonely I can say grossly, and as in a sum, of the which all we (our hurt is the more) have experience, the devil to be a sentine of all vices. Ibid. p. 42.

Of the which two, if the one be not false, yet at the least it is ambiguous. Ibid. p. 37.

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Then than, in Ex. xxx. 15 and elsewhere in the ed. of 1611. See example from Herrick under SUPPLE.

Thereafter (Ps. xc. 11, cxi. 10, Pr.-Bk.). Accordingly; from A.-S. þær-after.

They may be good and fruitefull instruments to farther your service, (which if you finde) use them therafter.

Lord Grey of Wilton, p. 72.

The numerous combinations of there with a preposition are almost all antiquated; most of them however are to be found in our A. V. Thereabout' (Luke xxiv. 4), 'thereat' (Ex.xxx. 19; Matt. vii. 13), 'thereby' (Gen. xxiv. 14), 'therefrom' (Josh. xxiii. 6), 'thereinto' (Luke xxi. 21), 'thereout' (Lev. ii. 2; Judg. xv. 19), 'thereupon' (Ez. xvi. 16; Zeph. ii. 7; 1 Cor. iii. 10, 14), are instances, besides therefore,' 'therein,' 'thereof,' 'thereon,' 'thereto,' 'thereunto,' 'therewith,' which are of frequent occurrence.

Therefore (Rub. in Comm. of Sick). On that ac

count.

This John Grene dyd his errand to Brakenbury, knelyng before oure lady in the Towre, who plainly answered' that he woulde neuer put the to deathe to dye therefore. Hall, Rich. III. fol. 3 a.

I think not the contrary, but that many have these two ways slain their own children unto their damnation; unless the great mercy of God be ready to help them when they repent there for. Latimer, Serm. p. 15.