SUPPLEMENT.

A.

ABATE. From the Fr. Abattre, has been re ABLE for: a Scotticism. cently introduced the s. Abattoir, a slaughter-house. His (Charles V.) soldiers worn out with fatigue, were

hardly able for such a mareh, even in a friendly country. A, prefixed, as in a hunting, &c. is corrupted from ABATIS. Trees felled and thrown in the way,

Robertson, Charles V. b. 6. An. 1541. in.

is an old word. Sence that tyme hath it bene in buyldinge, and yet is

ABNEGATE, v. not fynyshed.--Bib. 1549. 1 Esd. v. 16. ABBACY. ABBOT is a word of oriental extrac- incense to Jupiter, without adding any thing of a verbal

Let us suppose some tyrant command a Christian to burn ABACK. Fr. Abaque ; Lat. Abacus ; Gr. Aßa£,

tion, from the Syriac Abba, father; as that from the abnegation of Christ; if the Christian should do this, would

Hebrew Ab, of the same signification ; and, if we may it not be manifest to all, that by that very act he denied - not or without, Bagus, a base or basis.

A square, or square table or trencher,—not origi- ascend still higher, that word itself (as many others him. nally standing on feet, — but hung against a wall, Voice of Nature, being one of the most obvious which occur in that language) proceedeth from the

Woollaston. Rel. of Nature Delineated, sec. 1. prop. 3. and on which diagrams or arithmetical tables, &c. sounds to express one of the most obvious ideas. and Norma, a Rule.

ABNORMAL. adj. From Lat. prep. Ab- from, were traced or written. In the centre, or midst of the pegme, there was an aback Burn. Eccl. Law, in v. Abbot.

Irregular; or, not according to rule, order, sysor square, wherein this elogy was written.

ABDICATE.

tem (sc, in construction, or formation ;-number of B. Jonson. Part of the King's Entertainment. Take off their vizards, and underneath appears wicked

constituent parts). ABANDON, 1. Read-Fr. Abandonner, It. Aban- Jews, monks abdicant of their orders, &c.

A word of recent introduction, now common. donare, Sp. Abandonar. Etymologies various. See

Whitlock. Manners of the English, p. 93 (in Todd).

ABODE, o. See ABIDE. in Menage, Wachter, Du Cange, &c. And also Ban, ABDUCE. Bannum, in Spelman, who connects these words with The exquisite equilibration of all these opposite and an

ABODE, v. ABODANCE. the English Band, Bond, Bound. See also Ban, tagonistic muscles (is) effected partly by the equality of It had been an ill abodance, if the first of the five EgypBANISH, infra.-From A. S. Bann-an, Abannan, to

their strength, which is the case of the Adducent and Ab tian cities, which were to speak the language of Canaan, ducent Muscles (of the Eye).

should be called the City of Destruction. ban, to proclaim, denounce, curse. From à ban don

Derham. Physico. Theo. b. iv. c. 2.

Dr. Jackson's Works, ii. 635. ner, to give up to a (ban, or) proclamation. Dare

ABOLISH. seu ponere in abandonum, i.e. in bannum, vel bandum;

ABERRANCE. ABERRANT.

To practyse such abolete sciens. and any thing so placed—being a thing proscribed, These aberrant lines are much more common in the dra

Skelton. Why come ye, &c. v. 700. and consequently, derelict, to abandon, is derelin- matic blank verse of the 17th century,

Hallam. Lit. Hist. of Europe, i. 595.

ABORI'GINAL; Ab-origine ; Equivalent to, and quere, to leave, (sc.) for any one to seize or possess at his pleasure-to relinquish, to resign, &c. Or ABEYANCE. An inheritance hoped for or ex- perhaps intended to be more forceful than

Original, primitive. from the same A. S. Ban, in It. and Sp. Bando, Fr. pected; or rather expecting a new master. (Skin.

Their (the Biscayner's) language is accounted aboriginal, Bandon; an Edict or command; and, to abandon, ner.)

and unmixed with either Latin, French, or Spanish. to bring under command further, to confer the Probably from the Fr. Abbayer, to hold or keep

Swinburne. Travels in Spain, Let. 44. command, to give or yield up-and thus to resign, at bay, or in expectation. Law Lat. Abeyantia. See

ABORTIVE, adj. That can or may produce &c. (And this last is the view of Mr. Wedgewood. Spelman. See Proceedings of the Philological Society, vol. ii. Sometimes the fee may be in abeyance, that is (as the abortions, or immature births: bence (Milt.)

prop. 2.) But to this may be added -- the low Lat. plation in law.-Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. c. 7. word signifies), in expectation, remembrance and contem- ducing nothing: fruitless.

He is but abortüf.-Piers Plouhman's Crede, v. 485. Abandum or Abandonum (says the Editor of Du Cange), was understood de bonis mobilibus vel im ABIDE.

Or as abortif (abortivus) hid I shulde not abide, or that

conceyued sezen not list. Wic. Job, iii. 16. mobilibus in pignus seu cautionem assignatis pro (He was) bold and abidynge

The void profound pecunia debita.-Gal. Garantie. And he concludes

Bismaies (evil speaking) to suffre.

Of unessential night

receives him next

Pers Plouhman's Vision, v. 13544. Wide gaping, and with loss of being that dare in abandonum, ponere in abandonum, are ex

He fleth as Shadewe, and never in the same state abit Threatens him, plung'd in that abortive gulf. pressions equivalent to oppignerare, obligare, i. e. to stille. (L. V. dwelleth.)— Wic. Job, xiv. 2.

Milton. Par. L. ii. 441. put in pawn, or pledge, or under Bond. Again,

(Troilus) hath abidden

In her womb (the mines of the earth) those deserted Abandonum is—Sponsio seu Obligatio. See Bandon

Til two or thre of his messangers yeden

mineral riches inust ever lie buried as lost abortments, unin v. BAND. And thus to Abandon is, &c.

For Pandarus.-Chaucer. Troylus and Cressida, ii. 935. less those (criminals employed as labourers) be made the With worthie knightes enuironed

He is here and ther

active midwives to deliver them. The kynge hymself hath abandoned He is so variaunt he abit no wher.

Bacon. Speech touching drowned mineral works. To the temple in good entente.

Chaucer. Chan. Yem. Tale, v. 16643.

ABOUND.
Gower. Conf. Am. 1. 8, fo. 183.

Without abode
Fortune to her lawys can not abandune me.
The troup went forth.

Before the execution of this judgment (the flood) and
Skelton. Magnificence, v. 1477.

Fairefar, Godfrey of Bulloigne, vi. 22. amidst those aboundings of sin and wickedness, yet God And yf ye wyll do this ye haue promised, in all courtesy prestolantis).- Wic. Prov. xvii. 8. Most kind iemme is the abiding of the abidere (expectatio left not himself without a witness in the hearts of men.

South. Ser. v. ii. p. 220. and honoure, I ( Queen Isabell") and my Sonne, shall be to you (“Syr John of Heynault") for eter bounde, and

And he shal be the abidynge of folke of kynde.-Wic. ABRAIDE, i. e. started out of sleep.
will put all the realme of Ingläd in your abandon ; for it
Gen. xlix. 10. (expectatio.)

Now herken, as I have you saied,
is right that it should be so.
Berners' Froissart, v. i. p. 8. c. ix. He shal abie (luet) alle thingus; the latter has, He
ABIE. In Wic. Job, xx. 18, the early version.

What that I mette or (ere) I abraied.

Chaucer. House of Fame, b. i. 110. ABASH. See ABAW.

ABRASE. See ABRADE.
shall suffre peyne for al thingis.
This soden cas this man astoned so,
That red he wext, abaist.
ABIT. Wic. See HABIT.

ABROAD. At large, away; from home, from

the country.
Chaucer. Clerkes Tale, v. 8193.
or whiche glad sight, God it wot,
ABLATION.

Sithen they blosmed abrood
She was abashed and abote.-Chaucer. Dreame, v. 1992.
His subiects and marchants hade susstained sundry da-

In boure to here shriftes.
mages and ablations of their goods, by diners subiects and

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 2751. Abasshe you not, but hardely be bold. (Be not ashamed.) | inbabitants of your realme of England.

ABRUPT, c.
Skelton. Bouge of Court, v. 87.

Hacluyt, v. i. Prussian Ambas. to Ric. Il Our contentments stand upon the tops of pyramids, ready SUP. L.

1

ACC

ACI

ACR
to fall off, and the insecurity of their enjoyments abrupteth tædium cordis (Gr. 'Arnoia). Anxiety or sickness ACKNOW.
our tranquillities.-Browne. Christian Morals, Pt. 3, xi. I of hea

18, PL. 8, 31. of heart. It seems to have been a constant affliction (This) I mean to perform, thongh I dare not be acknoror
ABSENT. (ABSENTNESS. Coleridge. Biog. Lit. in monasteries. See Du Cange, where it is de- | thereof to any creature.
scribed as—Inertness, languor of spirits, uneasiness

Raleigh to Sir R. Cecil, 10th March, 1591.
ii. 315.)
In his moder absence
of heart, and loathing of self.

ACLUMSID. Wic. See CLUMSID.
He made lame to leap.

And after al this excesse
Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 13200. He had an accidie,

A'CME. Gr. Axun, from arn, acies, cuspis.
ABSOLVE.
That he sleep Saterday and Sonday.

A point, an extreme point; a summit.
What cause

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 3206.

In that its (France) acmé of human prosperity and great-
Moy'd the Creator in his holy Rest

Now wol I speke of the sinne of accidie or slouth: ....

ness, in the high and palmy state of the monarchy of France,
Through all Eternitie so late to build
Accidie maketh him (& man) hevy, thoughtful and wrawe.

it fell to the ground without a struggle.

In Chaos, and the work begun, how soon

Chaucer. The Persone's Tale.

Burke. On a Regicide Peace, Let. 1.

Absolv'd.-Milton. Par. L. viii. 94.

ACCOIL.

Yet when I approach

Yet he fear'd to have it (a dear hope) dull'd in cold accoil.

ACOLYTHE. Fr. Acolyte; Low. Lat. Acoly-

Her loveliness, so absolute she seems

Southey. Don Roderick, xviii. ACO'LYTHIST. Stus; Gr. Axolovos, from aro-

And in hersell compleat, so well to know

Her own, that what she wills to do, or say,

ACCORD, v. After heart, 1. 3, read—Varro and

Lovdarv, to follow.

Seems wisest, vertuousest, discreetest, best.

after him Junius and others. Thus also Cicero —

An attendant (in the Romish church), who car-

Milton. Par. L. viii. 547.

Aliis cor ipsum animus videtur, ex quo ex-cord-es,

ried the tapers, &c. before the superior ministers.

ABSOLUTION is applied by B. J. to the freedom ve-cord-es, con-cord-es, dicuntur.-Tus. 1. 9. (Ju-

At the end of every station, an acolythe (an inferior kind

of officer) dips this pittiful patch into the oil of a burning
with which words fall or are delivered in speech. lius Scaliger and Skinner, from ad and chorda, a lamp: and having wiped it as clean as he can, comes to the
string-Vox ab arte musica-deprompta.)

pope for a blessing, Jabe, domine, benedicere.
ABSTEMIOUS.
Chaucer uses the verb Cord, qv.

Brevint. Saul & Samuel, p. 321.
Clytorean streams the love of wine expel,
Ac adjectif and substantyf unite asken

[It is his duty) to ordain the acolythist to keep the sacred
Such is the virtue of the abstemious well.

Acordaunce in kynde, in cas and in nombre

vessels.-Ayliffe. Parergon.

Dryden. Ovid. Met. b. xv.

And syther is otheres help.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, p. 55, 4to.

ACOʻMBER.

ABSTINENT. See ABSTAIN.

If eden song and morwe accord.—Chaucer. Prol. v. 832. Acumbred.--Wic. is & ver. r. of agen-frussheden-or-
ABSTRACT. See the quotations from Locke,

weren starke. Ex. xv. 15. (obrigruerunt.)

Berkeley, and Tooke.

ACCOUCHEU'R. A French noun, common in They ben acombred with coveteise.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 852.

English usage, from Fr. Ac-coucher; couche,-a couch.

An abstract or abstracted idea is now considered

Endenizened, as the title of

Methinketh the palse inel (palsy disease) hath acomered

to be an idea of a sensible quality, withdrawn from

thy wits.-Chaucer. Testament of Love, b. 3.

others in the same compound object, and separately

The medical attendant upon women in child-bed.

attended to; as that of form, separately from scent

ACOOLING. See COOL.

ACCOUTRE, n. Fr. Accoutrer or Accoustrer.

and colour (in the rose).

The French Coustre or Coultre, was the sexton of ACOUPER. Fr. Acoulper, to Accuse, to deelare

ABUSE. In Skelton, to vitiate, to deprave. —

the church, and he was the Custos of the sacred vests culpable. Lacombe. Supp. See INCULP.

-he officiated at putting on and taking off the vests;

Dyce.

Conscience acouped hym thereof

In a curteis manere.- Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 8896.

and hence Accoustrer, to dress, from Accustodire, to
That speken afen the riftwis wickidness ;-in pride, and
in abusion. (L. V. Misusyng, in abusione.)
take care of (sc. the sacred vests). See Custos

ACOʻUSTIC.)

Wic. Ps. xxx. 19.

Fr. Acoustique ; Gr. Akovoti-

(No. 1) in Du Cange.

(They) be so far abused,

Aco'USTICs. Skoç, that can or may hear (from

They cannot be excused.

ACCREASE, v. To increase.

arovelv, to hear).

Skelton. Ware the Hawk, v. 5. | The sone acresynge, Joseph the sone acresynge (accres That can or may hear; pertaining to hearing or
He scurrilously reviles the king and parliament by the cens) and semly in sigt.-Wic. Gen. xlix. 22.

the sensation of sound.
alruseful names of hereticks and schismaticks.

Bp. Barlow, p. 397.
ACCUMBLID. See Cumblid.-Wic.

ACQUA'INT.
ABYSM.

ACCUSE. Used by Chaucer as the Fr. Accuser | By the time that an author hath written out a bock, he
He, tho' from heav'n remote, to hear'n could move - to discover, to disclose.

and his readers are become old acquirintants, and become
With strength of mind, and tread the abyss above.

Right so the christall stone shining

very loth to part.-Swift. Tale of a Tub, Conclusion.
Dryden. Ovid. Met. b. xv.
Withouten any deceiving

ACQUENSH.)
ACALE. See KELE. Cold.
The entrees of the yerd accuseth

See QUENCH.
To him that in the water museth.

AQUENT.

For blood may suffre blood

Chaucer. Rom. of Rose, v. 1591.

Both hungry and àcale.

ACQUEST. See ACQUIRE.

The second accusement is oure owne trespas.--The Golden

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 12873.

Legend. Caxton, Westminstre, 1483, fo. 4. c. 1.

(They) semen caitiffes sore acale.

ACQUIT.

Chaucer. Plowman's Tale, v. 2011. ACCUSTOM.

Or if his coinning be so lite,

Her herte is hote as any fyre

That his labour will not agrite

Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart.

And other while it is acale.-Gower, b. 8. fo. 178.

Pierce. Ser. p. 230.

Sufficiauntly al his living.

Chaucer. Rom. of Rose, v. 6744.

ACATALEPSY. Gr. Acara.npia. Incompre-
ACESCENT. See ACID.

Your service right well shall I acquite.

hensibility (Amfis, captio).

ACHE.

Skelton. Magnyfycence, v. 1817.

The word imports properly an accruitment or discharge of

It appears there were many scatter'd in both Academies, Alle my fyngres ake.

the Old and New (much more among the Sceptiques) that

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 11756.

& man upon some precedent accusation, and a full trial and

cognizance of his cause had thereupon.-South. Serm.
held this Acatalepsie in simplicitie and integritie.

He seith to his fadir, my hened 'I aake, my heued 'I
Wats. Bacon. de Aug. I. v. c. 2. aake. (L. V. akith, doleo.)— Wic. 4 K. iv. 19.

ACRO'NYCAL / Gr. Akpovve, the first part of
ACCEDE. ACCESS. In Wiclif, 'Access of soule'
Olde age wille not suffre the akyng of the bely, as is the

ACRO'NYCALLY. S the night; arpovvxos, even-
colyk or of the stone, or costyfnes.
is a various reading, or equivalent to Excess, ex-

The Boke of Tulle of old Age. Carton, 1481, 1. 3. ing; arpos, beginning; vue, night.
cessus mentis (see Ercess). In the margin Exces Or Gellia wore a velvet mastick patch

Evening, time of sunset; (applied to stars, &c.
of soule is said to be Arauisching of uttermore Upon her temples when no tooth did ache.

rising or setting at sunset.)

wittis. In Chaucer it is applied not only to the ap-

Bp. Hall. Sat. B. 6. 8. 1.

The achronical rising (of a constellation) is when it ap-

When old age comes to wait upon a great and worshipful

proach of fever, but to fever itself.

pears at the close of day and in opposition to the sun's diur.

sinner, it comes attended with many sinful girds and ach-

nal course.-Dryden. "Virgil. Æneis, Ded.

ACCEPT. After l. 5, add-

ings, called the gout.-South. Serm.

He [Orion) is tempestuous in the summer when he rises

Old sinners

To take to; to take or undertake, the perform-

heliacally, and rainy in the winter, when he rises achroni-

Can by their pangs and aches find

cally.-Id. Ib.

ance of a requisition or demand : in mercantile con All turns and changes of the wind.

cerns—to undertake (in writing or otherwise) to

Butler. Hudibras, p. 3, c. 2. ACRO'STIC, adj. 2 Fr. Acrostiche; It Acròs-

pay or satisfy.

ACHROMATIC.) Gr. Axowpatikos, expers

ACRO'STIC, n. I tico; Gr. Axpo-otixos, the

Acceptation of words ;-the signification in which ACHROMATICITY. >coloris (from a, neg. and yow- / first part of a verse (akpos, first part, and orixos,

they are taken or received.

ACHROMATISM.) ua, colour).

verse). Applied to

Why comes not Death,

Free from, without, colour. Dr. Brewster de Verses, in which the first letters of each line,
Said be, with one thrice acceptable stroke
To end me?-Milton. Par. L. x. 855. Also 139.

cides that telescopes not affected with the pris- | taken successively, form a word.
Promises are not binding before acceptance; that is, be-

Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command,
matic colours were first invented and constructed
fore notice is given to the promisee; for where the promise

Some peaceful province in acrostic land.
by Mr. John Dollond, about the year 1758; - and

Dryden. Mac Flecnoe.
is beneficial, if notice be given, acceptance may be pre that the Name Achromatic was proposed by Dr.

The acrostic was probably invented about the same time
sumed.-Paley, b. iii. p. 1. 5.
Bevis.

with the anagram, though it is impossible to decide whether
ACCESS. See ACCEDE.

the inventor of the one or the other were the greater block-
ACID.

head. The simple acrostic is nothing but the name or title
ACCIDIE, s. Low Lat. Accidia, frequently used | Lated, farinaceous, emollient substances, &c.,

ADO
ADV

AFF
АСТ.

ADONIZE. Fr. Adonizer, to adonize, &c. See An advocate was also (consequentially) a patron,
He (the heir) is undir tutouris and actouris (actoribus, Cot.

and the Low Lat. adrocatio, patronage; whence Fr. Mod. Version, governors) tel to the tyme determyned of the fadir.- Wic. Gal. iv. 2.

I employed three good hours at least in adjusting and Advouaison, Eng. Advowson (Skinner); but CotThe Apostle declared at the latter end of the foregoing adonizing mysell.--Smollett. Gå Blas, vi, and ch. the last. grave interprets the Fr. an advowing or avouching chap. (10 Heb.) that faith is the great principle whereby

for; a taking into protection. men are acted.- Tillotson. Serm. XIV. v. ii.

ADORE. Fr. Ad-or-er; Sp. ar; It. and Lat.
Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul.
Ad-ora-re. See the Quotation from Gibbon.

ADVOCAS, pl.
Pope. Essay on Man, ii. 59. Adoratio-manu admota labris facta fuit. See

As shameful deth as herte can divise
Martinius.

Come to thise juges and bir aduocas.

Chaucer. Par. Prol. v. 12225.
ACUATE, . f adj.). Lat. Acuere, to sharpen ;
ACUITY,
Fr. Acuité, Acuity, sharp- his throne, he cast his handes abrode, as he adoured and
Sir John Bushe, as oft as he spake unto the King in Advowson is the right of presentation to a church, or

ecclesiastical benefice. Advowson, advocatio, signifies in ness, keenness. Harvey says, that certain djets in- worshipped God, besechinge his excelse, high, and adourant clientelam recipere, the taking into protection : and thereflame and acuate the blood. Ashmole speaks of maiestie, that he would witsafe to graunt this or that. fore is synonymous with patronage, patronatus: and he who acuate iron or steele; and Perkins of the acuity or

Grafton. Chron. R. E. An. 21. has the

right of advowson is called the patron of the church. bluntness of a pin.-Todd. The respectful salutation of carrying the hand to the

Blackstone. Commentary, b. ii. e. 3. mouth, ad os, is the root of the Latin word ad-ora, adorare

ÆSTHETIC, adj. Gr. αισθητικος, that can ADAGE. Festas, Ad-agio , ad agendum apta; (to adore).–Gibbon, c. liii. 1. 49.

ÆSTHETICAL. or may feel (αισθαν-εσθαι) and thus applicable to proverbs directing the actions ADORN. Adore is written by Spenser for Adorn. ÆSTHETICALLY. :—which is contradistinguishof men, the conduct of life.

On her head

AESTHETICS, s. ed byGreek philosophers from Aristotle goes further than the old Adagial saying, The A chapelet of sundry flowers she wore,

Nontikos, that can or may understand; as the ra beginning is half the work. His words are: The beginning From vnder which the deawy humour, shed,

vonta-things perceptible to the understandingis more than half the whole business.

Did trickle down her haire, like to the hore
Woollaston. Rel. of Nature Delineated, sec. iv. n. U. Congealed little drops, which doe the morne adore.

are by Mathematicians from τα αισθητα-sensible

Spenser. F. Q. iv. 246. things. And thus the usage of this Neoteric by ADDICE. Dutch, Ackse, Axe, Aeckse; Ger. ADREAD.

Alex. Baumgarten, who gave the title of ÆstheAste; Sw. Yrte; Dan. Ore, from Ger. Hacken, to

Alle derke develes

tica to a work published by him at Frankfort in hack (qv. and Hatchet); or from Ecke, an edge, Arn a-drad to heren it.-Piers Plouhman, v. 13001. 1750-58, is, etymologically, of doubtful propriety; qv.; Fr. Hache (ant. aisceau); It. Acca, Acetta; Be not adrad, thou goode child maide (puella), to gon into yet it is established in this and other countries as Sp. Hacha. See Quot. from Defoe in v. Dub. infra. my Lorde. (L. V. aschamyd.)-Wic. Judith, xii. 12. well as in Germany. Its opposite An-ÆSTHETIC: ADDICT.

ADSIGNIFY, . }. See Sign. To add a signi- surgical operations)--is of very recent introduction.

that can or may destroy sensibility--(sc. during Neither should we at this day be so addict to superstition, ADSIGNIFICATION. Šfication or meaning, by prewere it not that we so much esteemed the filling of our bel- fix, affix, &c.

That can or may feel.—The word seems to be aplies.-Homilyes, ii. 97.

plied to If he be addict to vice

And if it were so (i. e. if the signification of the pre Those feelings or sentiments, which arise from the Quickly him they (flatterers) will entice.

sent time were conjoined with the Indicative mood, then Shakespeare. Passionate Pilgrim, $ 18. indeed, the word we are now considering the verb adjec-perception or contemplation of objects possessing the (His) holy mind so much addicted is

tive') besides the signification of the verb, must likewise quality of beauty; and affects a standard of taste

adsignify some manner and the Present time; for it would founded on nature and right reason, by which works On th' world to come, that he neglecteth this. Daniel. Civil Wars, vi. 5. tive mood adjective. then be the Present tense adjective, as well as the Indica

in all the arts are to be judged. ADDUCENT. See ABDUCENT.

Tooke. Diversions of Purley, Pt. ii. ch. 7. ÆTHER. See ETHER.

In this opinion (that there is no adsignification of manner
ADEW, v. i. e. to dew, or bedew.
or time in that which is called the Present participle,) I am

AFERE. See AFFEAR.
Foyson that floweth into sondry royames,
neither new nor singular.-Id. Ib.

It (the cross) afereth the fende.
The soyle to adeve with her swete stremes.

Piers Plouhman, v. 12956.
Life of our Ladye, i. IIII.
ADVANCE.

AFFECTION.
ADHERE. ADHERAND.
He that cuauntith (E. V. bostish-jactat se) him sylf

Men seruynge greetli ethir to afectioun (affectui), ethir and alargith (dilatat) reisith striues.

to kingus puttiden to stoonys and trees the name that mai Wherefore the woordes of trouth accorden, that my ser

Wic. Prov. xxviii. 25. not be comynyd (E. V. uncommunicable, gv.). nanntes shoulden forsake both father and mother, and bee

Wic. Wis. xiv. 21. adherand to his spouse, and they twaine in unitie of one

ADVENTURE. flesh shoulden accorde.-Chaucer. Test. of Loue, b. i.

AFFEER, v. Fr. Affeurer, Afforer ; (qv.) Lat.
God auntrede hyrself,
And took Adames kind.-Piers Plouhman, v. 12520.

Af-forari, from ad and forum. Sk. and Du Cange:
ADJECTIVE, v.
As dooth an heraud of armes

the latter says--Forum was used for the Price of Language has as much occasion to adjective the distinct When aventrous cometh to justes.-K. ib. 12103. things to be sold. And Lacombe and Roquefort, signification of the verb, and to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. And it has therefore adjectived all

His sister stondynge afer and beholdyng the auenture

that old Fr. Fuer, had the same usage. three-the distinct signification of the simple verb, and the of the thing. (L. V. bifalling. Eventus.)

To set or fix a forum or market price, to rate, to verb with its moods, and the verb with its tenses.

Wic. Ex. ii. 4.

set or fix a rate, fine, or amerciament: gen. To fix, Tooke. Diversions of Purley, v. ii. e. vii. p. 468. ture.-Berners Froissart, ii. 177, and ii. 190. The Royalme of England is in peryll and grete adven

affix, affirm, or assure. See To AFFORD, infra. ADJUNCT. See ADJOIN.

He was in great adventure of his life.-Id. ib. ii. 306. AFFEIGN.
ADJURE.

And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his (Paul's) Can they affain to the Son of God & body that is onper-
The adjurere (adjurantem, L. V.aman chargynge greethi) venture himself into the theatre.-Acts, xix. 31.

friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not ad fect.-Hat. Christ Mystical, 68. he herith and not shewith.- Wie. Prov. xxix. 24.

AFFI'LIATE, o. Fr. Affilier, affiliation, to And certis thou seest hon Raguel hath coniurid me, whos ADVISE, written Avise, qv.

AFFI'LIATION. S adopt a son (filius); generally, adiurement I mai not dispisen.- Wic. Tob. ix. 5 (adjuravit-adjuramentum).

And whanne Jacob hadde arise auysele (maturë) he toke a child. his twey wives, &c.- Wic. Gen. xxxii. 22.

The verb is of modern introduction, but in com
ADJUTE, v.

If any man shal of avisement (L. V. be forecasting-per mon use, as, To father, in bastardy.
The second combination of causal prepositions doth con-

industriam) slee his neizbour, and by aespies, fro myn
tain such as do relate to the notion of adjuvant and agree-
auteer thou shal pul hym, that he be slayn.

Affiliated, (generally,)-allied, associated.

Wic. Ex. xxi. 14. ment with, or opposing and enmity against.

AFFINITY.
Wilkins. Real Character, p. 3, c. iii.

And if you thinketh this is wel ysaid,
Saith your avis, and holdeth you spaid.

Rest this nygt, and morwetide doon, if he wole take thee
ADMEASURE, o.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 1870. by rynt of affynytye, the thyng is wel doo. (L. V. nys kyn,

propinquitatis.)-Wic. Ruth, iii. 13.
Ne lete ns amesure it after the magnyficence of wordes.

And in hire hand
Tullius de Amicitia. Worcestre, Erle of, a. 7. The herbe she toke, well avisand

AFFIX, o.
The lefe, the sede, the stalke, the floure.

In that tyme Ezekiel brake the doris of the Temple of the
ADMISSIBLE. See ADMIT.

Chaucer's Dreme, v. 1884. Lord, and the platis of gold the whiche he hadde affitchede, ADMIT.

ADULTER, 0. AVOWTRESSE.

and he gaue hem to the Kynge of Assiries.

Wic. 4 Kings, xviii. 16. Take heed least Passion sway

But an other an other

bi enuye sleth, or quowtrende AFFLICT.
Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will (adulterans) sorewith.-Wic. Wisd. xiv. 24.
Would not admit.-Milton. Par. L. viii. 637.

And if a wicke man, I shal be, wo is to me; and if
He forsook auoutrie. He refuside the hordom (stuprum). rižtivis, I shal not reren up the hed, fa]Alld with

affliccioun ADO.

Id. Gen. xxxix. 10. (L. V. turment; afflictione) and wrecchidness.
Therfore lyaynge the man (L. V. hosebande) she shal

Wic. Job x. 15.
Yet had Trespace nere adoe
be clepid auoutresse, if she be with another man.

The Life of Man upon earth is nothing else than " & warWith Reson. --Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 3037.

Id. Rom. vii. 3. fare" and continual " afflict" with his ghostly

enemies. ADOLESCENCE. When any particular class of artificers or traders thought

Becon. On Fasting. proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were (Let us) re-assembling our afflicted Powers, Wantonnesse is not onely the vice of adolescente men, but called adulterine guilds.

Consult how we may henceforth most offend
it is the vice of enyll disposed adolescent persons.

Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. i. c. 10. Our enemy.-Milton. Par. L. i. 186.
The Boke of Tulle of Old Age, d. 5. Carton, 1481.
Whan I was an adolescent--yong of age-moch loayd I

ADVOCATE. After Advocation (line 6), insert AFFORD, v. Formed upon Affeered, the p. p. of
that olde man, Quintas Ffabius.--Id. ib. b. v.
Advowson; and in the <planation add-

Affeer. (qv.) To fix or set a forum or market price;

1

AGO
ALD

ALL to appraise, to value. And hence Afford is, gene AGRISE.

ALDER. See ELDE. rally-To prize, to value, &c.

The heyest foormed of the erthe medycyne, and the pro ALEFT. On the left. (Piers) yaf hem mete as he myght aforthe

dent man shal not agrisen it. (L V. rclate, i. e. loatheAnd mesurable hyre.

abhorrebit. Mod. V. abhor.)
- Wic. Ecclus. xxxviii. 4.

The mighty snake
Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 4194.

Darting aright, aleft, his sinuons neck.
AGUE. A. S. Ege, timor. Egesian, terrere (gy:

Southey. Mados, vii. 5, 245. AFFRAY. tremere).

AʼLEGER.
But yet I am in grete affraie
Lest thou sholdest not doe as I saie.

AGULT. To be guilty of wrong; to sin against aleagar set at liberty:

They that have weak stomachs, shall have vinegar and Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 4397. And thanne wolde lordes and ladies

Cecil's Speech in Tytler's Raleigh, p. 213. Be looth to agulte, AFFRAYNE. See FRAYNE. And to taken of hír tenaunts

ALEGGE, u. Moore than trouthe wolde. - Piers Plouhman, v. 10230. The firste tyme is aleggid or maad lizt (alleviata est) the AFFRONT. See Quot. from Shaks. in v. Uplift.

And now am I sory that I so

lond of Zebulon, and the lond of Neptalym; and the last I walkd about, admired of all, and dreaded

The Seint Spirit agulte.-Ibid. . 11958.

tyme aggreggid (aggravata est) is the weie of the se beOn hostile ground, none daring my affront.

funde Jordan.- Wic. Isaiah, ix. 1. Milton. Sam. Agon. AIE. See EGG.

How be it that the Age past had be lenger, yet it may AFIRE.

neither comfort ne alegge, ne satisfye the foole olde Man. Mine hert for ire goeth afere.

AIGLET. Add, Fr. Aiguiller-- A case for The Boke of Tulle of Old Age, b. iii. Caxton, 1481. Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 4073. AIGUILER. needles.

ALEMBICK. See LIMBECK.
AFOUNDER, i. e. Founder, qv.

A silver needle forth I drew,
Out of a Aguiler quaint enow,

ALERES. See ALLEY.
For after his hete he caught a cold thro' the nyghtes eyre,

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 98.
That he was ner afoundrit.

ALGIF. See IF.
Chaucer. Pard. and Tap. 631. AIL, 0. Is common in speech - as I told

ALGORITHM, corrupted by Chaucer into AuAFT. After comers. (Wic. Gen, xxi. 23. poste

AILING, s. S him all my ailings. ris meis) After-coming. (Id. Ecclus. iii. 32, xi. 17, 1 And here since your departing.

This shall be to advertise you of the great qilingness that grim. An Arabian term for Numeration. Augrim

stones were the pebbles or counters used for that pursuccessus.) See Welsome, infra.

Henry VIII. to Anne Boleyne. Tytler, p. 205. pose. Tyrw.
And after that his dice turned on chances
So was he either glad, or saide Alas.
AIM. But see Esteem, infra, and Quotations

His Augrim stones layen faire apart

On shelves couched at his beddes hed.
Chaucer. Troylus and Cressida, b. ii. v. 1347. from Wiclif.

Chaucer. The Milleres Tale, v. 3210.

ALIEN.
AGAIN. Again is used by Wiclif in the force of AIR, s.
the Latin prefix Re-, as Agen ask, re-petere, agen
Tho' gan I to loke vnder me

Resceyue to the an alien wooman (alienigenam) and she clepe re-vocare ;-lede, re-ducere; shine, re-splen

And beheld the eyrish beests,

shal twine thee vp(80)doun in a whirlewynde, and alienen Clouds, mists, and tempests,

thee fro thi propre weies.- Wic. Ecclus. xi. 36. dere; telle, renuntiare; wynse, recalcitrare. See Snowes, &c. ---Chaucer. House of Fame, b. 2, v. 457. Whethir not perdicioun is to the wicke, and alienyng Glos. to Wic, Bible.

(L. V. alienacioun) to men werkende wickenesse,

Id. Job xxxi, 3. For Agenbyar. See Caxton in v. Illumine. AITIOʻLOGY. Fr. Aitiologie, a yielding or shew

ALIGHT.
AGAIN for against is common in old writers and in ing of a reason or cause. (Cotgrave.) Gr. Altlo-
vulgar speech.
Loyra (airla, a cause, and dey-elv, to discourse). Listne, iluminabit.)-Wic. 1 Cor. iv. 5.

(He) schal aliztne the hid thingis of dercknesse. (L. V. Whos azenbixgynge (redemptio) shal be after o montb. Boyle explains

Wic. Num. X. 16. The theory which explains the causes of things. A’LIQUOT. (Lat.) Applied to a quotient or O thou souerayn syre and prince of the hous of Ysrahel

Bp. Hall uses the word. See the quotation from divisor without a remainder. come and agenbye us with thy puyssauce.

him in v. Chronology. "The Golden Legend. Westm. 1483, fo. 1, c. iii.

ALKALI. Glasswort (a plant used in the maAGASP. To gar for agaspe. - Skelton.

AJUST. See ADJUST.

nufacture of glass) is called by the Arabs El Kali,

whence the name of the salt, Al Kali.-Volney. To cause to gaspe (sc. for breath, for life). AKELE.

Alcaly is enumerated by the Canones Yeoman as AGAST. But verray love is vertue, as I fele,

one of the articles used in alchemy, v. 16278.

For verray love may freile desire akele. Forthermore-he fol ont sounned, that he agaste hem,

Many subderivatives from this substantive are

Chaucer. Court of Love, v. 1076. (L. V. make aferd; terreret) and take the cite.

common in works of Science.
Wic. 2 Par. xxxii. 18.

AKNEE. On the knee.
AGAZE. See AGAST.
Aknee they fell before the Prince.

ALL. See to-Al to breke, &c.

Southey. Madoc, vii. 5. 250. In the phrases-al alone, al only, al hol, al holey, AGENCY, s.

AKNOW. See ACKNOW.

al newe, (see in Mr. Tyrwhitt's Glos.) the al is merely Aristotle never dreamed of any such a chimerical agent

emphatical. So is at all-or in the whole-in “None intelligence.--Oud. Mor. 147.

ALARGED.

at all.” “ Over all;" All over. Al and somis AGGLOMERATE.

And he was ful fair in his greetness and in alargyng all and every, the common law phrase. Al in one, Taylor is eminently discursive, accumulative, and (to (E. V. spredyng-dilatatione) of hise trees.

Wic. Ez. xxxi. 7.

is all in one, or the same moment or time; and all use one of his own words) agglomerative.

ALAY. See ALLAY.

is sometimes used alone, as equivalent for all be itColeridge. Poetical Works, i. 286.

although. (qv.) AGGRAVATE. Lat. Ag-gravare. Wic. also uses,

ALB. The Alb and white surplice differed in Au or al is much used to give emphasis or angTo Engredge, ingravare.-Ex. viii. 15. 32.

make, and were used in distinct offices of the Church, ment the signification. In Wiclif it is so used, giving Whi agreggen (make heavy) ye youre hertis as Egipt e.g. the surplice at Matin, or Evensong; the Alb at the force of the Lat. pr. Cum-as al breke, confrinagreggide, and Pharao his herte. (M. V. harden.) the Communion : but the customs varied at different gere; al conere, contegere; al take, comprehendere

Wic. 1 Kings, vi. 6. periods. Camisiam induimus, quam Albam voca The Highe God, whan he had Adam maked,
AGREGGE, v. See AGGRAVATE.
mus. See Du Cange.

And sawe him al'alone.
At the tyme appoincted for the ministracion of the holy

Chaucer. Marchantes Tale, v. 9200. AGRIEF, in grief. See AGGRIEVE. communion, the priest that shal execute the holy ministery,

For not al only thy lande precious I pray you that you take it not agrefe.

shall put upon hym the vesture appoincted for that minis Parfourmed is by men of dignitee. Chaucer. Nonnes Preestes Tale, v. 14899. tracion, that is to saye, & white Albe, plain, with a veste

Id. Prioresses Tale, v. 13385. ment or cope.-The Booke of the Common Praier, &c. Betwixen you ther mot somtime be pees: AGGRIEVE. Whitechurch, 1549.

All be ye not of o complexion.--Id. Knightes Tale, 2477. The herte of Pharao was inwardly agreued. (L. V.maad ALBATROSS. Called, by Dampier, Algatross.

But

all in one--for every wight greuous, ingravatum est.) - Wic. Ex. ix. 7.

ALM
AME

ANA
ALLEGE.
ALONE.

He was oftentimes sad of his being in pryson, but he

coulde not amende it.-Berners' Froissart, li. 211. How darest thou, losel,

And al in one God-hed
Alligate the Gospel
Endles dwelleth-Piers Plouhman's Creed, v. 7.

The Frenshe kynge and his counsayle were soore disAgainst vs of the counsel. - Skelton. Colin Clout, v. 1164. Save love one (i. e. al one).-Id. Vision, v. 8288.

pleased, but they could not amende it (i. e. remedy).

Id. 16. ii. 246. ALLEGIANCE is the tie or ligamen which binds And Jhesus answeride to him, It is writun, For a man

AMERCE. the subject to the king, in return for that protection lyveth not in breed aloone, but in enery word of God.

Wic. Luke iv. 4. Millions of spirits for his fault amerc't which the king affords the subject. — Black. Com.

Of Heav'n.--Milton. Par. L. i. 609.

And he thougte these thingis, that whanne thei weren b. i. c. 10. slayn, he schulde sette tresoun to our aloonenesse. (E.V.

Amerciament in Latin is called misericordia, for that it ALLEY, n. onlihede, solitudini.)-Id. Esth. xvi. 14.

ought to be assessed mercifully. And here I gan my wo complaine

Sir Ed. Coke, b. i. c. X. s. xciv. p. 126. And Ocozie felde thoron the aleris of his soler, whiche he hadde in Samarie, and was sijk (per cancellos cænaculi, Wishing and wepyng all mine one.

AMEVE. See AMOVE.

Gower. Conf. Am. b. i. fo. 82. LV.).-Wic. 4 Kings, i. 2.

AMIABLE. And he bildide foure aleis betwixe the pilers of syluer

(He) stoode, as who saith, all hym one

Without wyfe.-Id. b. vii. fo. 176. (deambulacra). (E. V. aluris.)-11. 3 Kings, vii. 2.

A man amyable (L. V. freendli; amabilis) to felashipe Then let us not that honour him deny

mor a frend shal be than a brother.- Wic. Prov. xviii. 29. The sides of every street were covered with fresh alures

Which after death alonely doth remain. of marble, or cloisters, crowned with rich and lofty pinna

Fairefat. Godfrey of Bulloigne, xix. 117. AMICABLE. See AMLABLE. cles. (See Deambulation.) Warton. History of English Poetry, v. ii. p. 93.

God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live AMICE, and move and have our being.-Bentley (in Johnson).

Lo! the Lord shal make thee to ben born awei, and as ALLICIENT. See ALLECT.

ALOOTHING. See LOATHE.

an amyse (amictum) so be shal under reren thee. A’LLIGATOR. A large species of lizard: Sp. ALOW.

Wic. Is. xxii, 17. (E. V.) Lagarto ; Lat. Lacerta.

Alle schulen wexe olde as & cloth, and thou schalt Why some be a-lough, and some aloft. And in his needie shop a tortoys hung,

chaunge hem as an amyte (amictum) or girdynge about. Piers Plouhman, v. 7872.

Id. Heb. i. 12. An allegater stuft, and other skins Creep alow the ground.

AMISS.
Or ill-shap'd fishes.

Tindale to Frith Southey, B. of the Church, 112.
Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet, Act v. sc. 1.

For the same mesures that ye mete
Toss'd, and retoss'd, aloft, and then alow,
Alligators are also in great numbers in all the creeks,

Amys outher ellis,
Nor port they seek, nor certain course they know.

Ye shulle ben weyen therwith rivers, and lagunes in the bay of Campeachy. [The alli

Dryden. Cym. and Iph. gator) is shaped like a lizard.

Whan ye wenden hennes.-Piers Plouhman, v. 812. Dampier. Voyages, an. 1676. ALOWT, v. To alow, or lout, qv.

And a man foond hym (Joseph) goynge amys (var. readALLODIAL. Blackstone suggests All, whole,

But he (Statue of Romulus) alowted vpon the same nyghting of errynge, errantem) in the feeld. and Odh, property. Whan Cryst was bore of a pure virgyne.

Wic. Gen. xxxvii, 15. Lyfe of our Ladye, h 1. col. 2. W. Cazton. AMIT, 0. AMISSIBILITY. When any thing is said to be his, it is not said, that part of it only is his. *P. has therefore the all or all-hood (free- oblation to or at the Altar.

Notions of popular rights and the amissibility of soveALTAR. ALTARAGE. L. Lat. Altaragium. An

reign power for misconduct were alternately broached by hold) of it, and consequently all the use of it.

the

two great religious parties of Europe. Woollaston. Rel. of Nat. Delineated, sec. vi. $ 12. The fires which that on min auter brenne,