standing, and render it as obnoxious to aber rances as now. Glanville's Scepsis Scientifica. ABERRANT. adj. [from aberrans, Lat.] Deviating wandering from the right or known way. Dict. ABERRATION. n. s. [from aberratio, Lat.] The act of deviating from the common or from the right track. If it be a mistake, there is no heresy in such an harmless aberration; the probability of it will render it a lapse of easy pardon. Glanville. ABE'RRING. part. [from the verb aberr, of aberro, Lat. Of this verb I have found no example.] Wandering; going astray. Divers were out in their account; aberring several ways from the true and just compute, and calling that one year which perhaps might be another. Brown's Vulgar Errors. To ABERU'NCATE. v. a.[averunco, Lat.] To pull up by the roots; to extirpate utterly. Dict. To ABE'T. v. a. [from bezan, Sax. signifying to enkindle or animate.] To push forward another; to support him in his designs by connivance, encouragement, or help. It was once indifferent, but is almost always taken by modern writers in an ill sense; as may be seen in ABETTER. To abet, signifieth, in our common law, as much as to encourage or set on. Corvell. Then shall I soon, quoth he, return again, Fairy Queen. A widow who by solemn vows Contracted to me, for my spouse, Combin'd with him to break her word, And has abetted all. Hudibras. Men lay so great weight upon right opinions, and eagerness of abetting them, that they account that the unum necessarium. Decay of Piety. They abetted both parties in the civil war; and always furnished supplies to the weaker side, lest there should be an end put to those fatal divisions. Addison's Freeholder. ABE'TMENT. n. s. The act of abetting. Dict. ABETTER, or ABE'TTOR. . s. He that abets; the supporter or encourager of another. Whilst calumny has two such potent abetters, we are not to wonder at its growth: as long as men are malicious and designing, they will be traducing. Government of the Tongue. You shall be still plain Torrismond with me, Th' abetter, partner (if you like the name), The husband, of a tyrant; but no king, Till you deserve that title by your justice. Dryden's Spanish Friar. These considerations, though they may have no influence on the multitude, ought to sink into the minds of those who are their abettors; and who, if they escape punishment here, must know that these several mischiefs will be one day laid to their charge. Addison's Freeholder. ABEYANCE. n. s. [from the French aboyer; allatrare, to bark at.] This word in Littleton, cap. Discontinuance, is thus used. The right of fee-simple lieth in abeyance, when it is all only in the remembrance, intendment, and consideration, of the law. The frank tenement of the glebe of the parsonage, is in no man during the time that the parsonage is void, but is in abeyance. Corvell. ABGREGA'TION. n. s. [abgregatio, Lát.} Dict: A separation from the flock. To ABHO'R. v. a. [abborreo, Lat.] To hate with acrimony; to detest to extremity; to loathe; to abominate. Whilst I was big in clamour, came a man Who, having seen me in my worser state, Shunn'd my abborr'd society. Shaks. K. Lear. Justly thou abhorr'st That son, who on the quiet state of men Such trouble brought, affecting to subdue Rational liberty. Milt. Par. Lost. The self-same thing they will abbor One way, and long another for. Hudibras. A church of England man abbors the humour of the age, in delighting to fling scandals upon the clergy in general; which, besides the disgrace to the reformation, and to religion itself, cast an ignominy upon the kingdom. Swift. ABHO'RRENCE.? ABHORRENCY.S n. s. [from abbor.] 1. The act of abhorring; detestation. 2. Even a just and necessary defence does, by giving men acquaintance with war, take off sumewhat from the abhorrence of it, and insensibly dispose them to hostilities. Decay of Piety. The first tendency to any injustice that ap pears, must be suppressed with a shew of wonder and abborrency in the parents and governours. Locke on Education. ABHORRENT. adj. [from abbor.] In worlds inclos'd could on his senses burst, This I conceive to be an hypothesis well worthy a rational belief; and yet it is so abborrent from the vulgar, that they would as soon believe Anaxagoras, that snow is black, as him that should affirm it is not white. Glan. Seep. Scient. Why then these foreign thoughts of state employments, Abborrent to your function and your breeding? The lower clergy were railed at for disputing the power of the bishops, by the known abborrers of episcopacy; and abused for doing nothing in the convocations, by these very men who want ed to bind up their hands. Swift's Examiner. ABHO'RRING. The object of abhorrence. This seems not to be the proper use of the participial noun. They shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched, and they shall be an abborring unto all flesh. Isaiah. To ABIDE. v. n. pret. I abode or abid. Thy servant became surety for the lad upto my father, saying, if I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever. Now therefore I pray thee, let thy servant abide ABI Genesis. instead of the lad, a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren. *. To dwell. The marquis Dorset, as I hear, is filed Those who apply themselves to learning, are forced to acknowledge one God, incorruptible and unbegotten; who is the only true being, and abides for ever above the highest heavens, from whence he beholds all the things that are done in heaven and earth. Stillingfl. Defence of Dis. on Rom. Idolatry. 3. To remain; not to cease or fail; to be immovable. They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for Psalms. ever. 4. To continue in the same state. The fear of the Lord tendeth to life; and he Proverbs. that hath it shall abide satisfied. There can be no study without time; and the mind must abide and dwell upon things, or be always a stranger to the inside of them. South. 5. To endure without offence, anger, or contradiction. Who can abide, that against their own doctors, six whole books should by their fatherhoods be imperiously obtruded upon God and his church? Hall. 6. It is used with the particle with before a person, and at or in before a place. It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: Abide with me. Genesis For thy servant vowed a vow, while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, if the Lord shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will serve 2 Samuel. the Lord. 7. It is used with by before a thing; as, to abide by his testimony; to abide by his own skill; that is, to rely upon them: to abide by an opinion, to maintain it; to abide by a man, is also, to defend or support bim. But these forms are something low. To ABIDE. V. a. 1. To wait for, expect, attend, wait upon, await: used of things prepared for persons, as well as of persons expecting things. Home is he brought, and laid in sumptuous Where many skilful leeches him abide, Fairy Queen. While lions war, and battle for their dens, Poor harmless lambs abide their enmity. Shakspeare's Hen. VI. Acts. Bonds and afflictions abide me. 2. To bear or support the consequences of a thing. Ah me! they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vain. Milton's Par. Lost. 3. To bear or support, without being conquered or destroyed. But the Lord he is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. Jeremiah. It must be allowed a fair presumption in favour of the truth of my doctrines, that they have abid a very rigorous test now for above thirty years, and the more strictly they are looked into, the more they are confirmed. "Woodward. Of the participle abid, I have found only the example in Woodward; and Could not abide to be with; therefore wast thou Deservedly confin'd unto this rock, Shaks. Temp. 5. To bear or suffer. Girt with circumfluous tides, He still calamitous constraint abides. 1 Pope's Odyss ABI'DER. n. s. [from abide.] The person that abides or dwells in a place; perhaps that lives or endures. A word little in use.. ABIDING. n. s. [from abide.] Continuance; stay; fixed state. We are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. 1 Chron. The air in that region is so violently removed, and carried about with such swiftness, as nothing in that place can consist or have abiding. Raleigh. A'BJECT. adj. [abjectus, Lat. thrown away, as of no value.] 1. Mean; worthless; base; groveling: spoken of persons, or their qualities. Rebellion Came, like itself, in base and abject routs, Shakspeare's Henry IV. I was at first, as other beasts that graze The trodden herb, of abject thoughts and low. Milton's Par. Lost. fall'n. Milton. We see man and woman in the highest innocence and perfection, and in the most abject Addison. state of guilt and infirmity. 3. Mean and despicable: used of actions. The rapine is so abject and profane, They not from trifies nor from gods refrain. Dryden's Juvenal. To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd thro' sacred lust of praise! Pope's Essay on Críticism. A man without hope; a A'BJECT. n. s. man whose miseries are irretrievable; -one of the lowest condition. Yea, the abjects gathered themselves together Psalms. against me. To ABJECT. v. a. [abjicio, Lat.] To throw away. A word rarely used. ABJECTEDNESS. n. s. [from abject.] The state of an abject. Our Saviour would love at no less rate than death; and, from the spereminent height of glory, stooped and abased himself to the suffer ance of the extremest of indignities, and sunk himself to the bottom of abjectedness, to exalt our condition to the contrary extreme. Boyle. ABJECTION. n. s. [from abject.] Meanness of mind; want of spirit; servility; baseness That this should be termed baseness, abjection of mind, or servility, is it credible? Hooker. The just medium lies betwixt pride and abjec L'Estrange. tion, the two extremes. A'BJECTLY. adv. [from abject.] In an abject manner; meanly; basely; servilely; contemptibly. A'BJECTNESS. H. s. [from abject.] Abjection; servility; meanness. Servility and abjectness of humour is implicitly involved in the charge of lying. Gov.of the Tongue. By humility I mean not the abjectness of a base mind; but a prudent care not to over-value ourselves upon any account. Grew's Cosmologia. ABILITY. n. s. [habilité, Fr.] 1. The power to do any thing, whether depending upon skill, or riches, or strength, or any other quality. sure. Of singing thou hast got the reputation, Good Thyrsis: mine I yield to thy ability; My heart doth seek another estimation. Sidney. If aught in my ability may serve To lighten what thou suffer'st, and appease Thy mind with what amends is in my pow'r. Milton. They gave after their ability unto the trea Ezra. If any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth; that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ. 1 Pet. Wherever we find our abilities too weak for the performance, he assures us of the assistance of his holy spirit. Rogers's Sermons. 2. Capacity of mind; force of understanding; mental power. Children in whom there was no blemish; but well-favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace. Den. 3. When it has the plural number, abilities, it frequently signifies the faculties or powers of the mind; and sometimes the force of understanding given by nature, as distinguished from acquired qualifications. Whether it may be thought necessary, that in certain tracts of country, like what we call parishes, there should be one man, at least, of abilities to read and write? Savift. ABINTE STATE. adj. [of ab, from, and intestatus, Lat.] A term of law, implying him that inherits from a man who, though he had the power to make a will, yet did not make it. To A'BJUGATE. v. a. [abjugo, Lat.] To Dict. unyoke; to uncouple. ABJURATION. n.s. [from abjure.] The act of abjuring; the oath taken for that end. Until Henry VIII. his time, if a man, having committed felony, could go into a church or church-yard before he were apprehended, he might not be taken from thence to the usual trial of law; but confessing his fault to the justices, or to the coroner, gave his oath to forsake the realm for ever, which was called abjuration. There are some abjurations still in force among us here in England; as, by the statute of the 25th of king Charles II. all persons that are admitted into any office, civil or military, must take the test; which is an abjuration of some doctrines of the church of Rome. There is likewise another oath of abjuration, which laymen and clergymen are both obliged to take; and that is, to abjure the Pretender. Ayliffe. To ABJURE, v. a. [abjuro, Lat.] 1. To cast off upon oath; to swear not to do or not to have something. Either to die the death, or to abjure For ever the society of man. Shakspeare. No man, therefore, that hath not abjured his reason, and sworn allegiance to a preconceived fantastical hypothesis, can undertake the defence of such a supposition. Hale. 2. To retract, recant, or abnegate, a position upon oath. "To ABLA'CTATE. v. a. [ablacto, Lat.] To wean from the breast. ABLACTATION. n, s. One of the methods of grafting; and, according to the signification of the word, as it were a weaning of a cyon by degrees from its mother stock, not cutting it off wholly from the stock till it is firmly united to that on which it is grafted. ABLAQUE A'TION. . s. [ablaqueatio, Lat.] The act or practice of opening the ground about the roots of trees, to let the air and water operate upon them. Trench the ground, and inake it ready for the spring: prepare also soil, and use it where you have occasion: dig borders. Uncover as yet roots of trees, where ablaqueation is requisite. Evelyn's Kalendar. The tenure in chief is the very root that doth maintain this silver stem, that by many rich and fruitful branches spreadeth itself: so if it be suffered to starve, by want of ablaqueation and other good husbandry, this yearly fruit will much decrease. Bacon. ABLATION. n. s. [ablatio, Lat.] The act of taking away. A'BLATIVE. adj. [ablativus, Lat.] 1. That takes away. 2. The sixth case of the Latin nouns; the case which, among other significations, includes the person from whom something is taken away. A term of grainmar. A'BLE. adj. [habile, Fr. Labilis, Lat. Skilful; ready.] 1. Having strong faculties, or great strength or knowledge, riches, or any other power of mind, body, or fortune. Henry VII. was not afraid of an able mar, as Lewis the Eleventh was. But, contrariwise, he was served by the ablest men that were to be found; without which his affairs could not have prospered as they did. Bacon's Henry VII. Such gambol faculties he hath, that shew a weak mind and an able body; for the which the prince admits him. Shakspeare's Henry W. 2. Having power sufficient; enabled. All mankind acknowledge themselves able and sufficient to do many things which actually they never do. "South's Sermons Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee. Deut. 3. Before a verb, with the particle to, it signifies generally having the power. Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy? Proverbs. 4. With for it is not often nor very properly used. There have been some inventions also, which have been able for the utterance of articulate sounds, as the speaking of certain words. Wilkins's Mathematical Magic. To A'BLE. v. a. To make able; to enable, which is the word commonly used. See ENABLE. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks: Arm it with rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it. None does offend, none, I say none; I'll able 'em Take that of me, my friend. Shaks. K. Lear. ABLE-BODIED. adj. Strong of body. It lies in the power of every fine, woman, to secure at least half a dozen able-bodied men to his majesty's service. Addison's Freeholder. To ABLEGATE. v. a. [ablego, Lat.] To send abroad upon some employment; to send out of the way." ABLEGA'TION. n. s. [from ablegate.] The act of sending abroad. Dict. ABLENESS. n. s. [from able.] Ability of body or mind, vigour, force. Dict That nation doth so excel, both for comeliness and ableness, that from neighbour countries they ordinarily come, some to strive, some to learn, some to behold. Sidney. A'BLEPSY. n. s. [åbsflu, Gr.] Want of sight; blindness; unadvisedness. Dict. To A'BLIGATE. v. a. [abligo, Lat.] To tie up from. Dict. ABLIGURI'TION. n. s. [abliguritio, Lat.] Prodigal expence on meat and drink. Dict. To A BLOCATE. v. a. [abloco, Lat.] To let out to hire. Perhaps properly by him who has hired it from another. Calvin. ABLOCATION. n. s. [from ablocate.] A letting out to hire. To ABLUDE. v. n. [abludo, Lat.] To be unlike. Dict. A'BLUENT. adj. [abluens, Lat. from abluo, to wash away.] 1. That washes clean. 2. That has the power of cleansing. Dict. ABLU'TION. n. 5. [ablutio, Lat.] 1. The act of cleansing, or washing clean. There is a natural analogy between the ablution of the body and the purification of the soul; between eating the holy bread and drinking the sacred chalice, and a participation of the body and blood of Christ. Taylor's Worthy Com 2. The water used in washing. Wash'd by the briny wave, the pious train Are cleans'd, and cast th' ablutions in the main. Pope's Iliad. 3. The rinsing of chymical preparations in water, to dissolve and wash away any, acrimonious particles. 4. The cup given, without consecration, to the laity in the popish churches. VOL. I. To A'BNEGATE. v. a. [from abnego, Lat.] To deny. ABNEGATION. n. s. [abnegatio, Lat. denial, from abnego, to deny.] Denial, renunciation. The abnegation or renouncing of all his own holds and interests, and trusts of all that man is most apt to depend upon, that he may the more expeditely follow Christ. Hammond. ABNODATION. n. s. [abrodatio, Lat.] The act of cutting away knots from trees a term of gardening. Dict. ABNO'RMOUS. adj. [abnormis, Lat. out Dict. of rule.] Irregular; mishapen. ABOARD. adv. [a sea term, but adopted into common language; derived immediately from the French à bord, as, aller à bord, envoyer à bord. Bord is itself a word of very doubtful original, and perhaps, in its different acceptations, deducible from different roots. Bond, in the ancient Saxon, signified a house; in which sense, to go aboard, is to take up residence in a ship.] 1. In a ship. He loudly call'd to such as were aboard, The little bark unto the shore to draw, And him to ferry over that deep ford. Fairy Queen. He might land them, if it pleased him, or other wise keep them aboard. Sir W. Raleigh's Essays. 2. Into a ship. When morning rose, I sent my mates to bring Supplies of water from a neighb'ring spring, Whilst I the motions of the winds explor'd; Then summon'd in my crew, and went aboard. Addison's Ovid's Metamorphoses. ABO'DE. H. s. [from abide.] 1. Habitation; dwelling; place of residence. But I know thy abode and thy going out, and thy coming in. 2 Kings, Others may use the ocean as their road, Waller. 3. To make abode. To dwell; to reside; to inhabit. Deep in a cave the Sibyl makes abode; Thence full of fate returns, and of the God. Dry. To ABODE. v. a. [Sce BODE.] To foretoken or foreshow; to be a prognostic; to be ominous. It is taken, with its derivatives, in a good sense. Every man, After the hideous storm that follow'd, was A thing inspir'd; and, not consulting, broke Into a general prophecy, that this tempest Dashing the garment of this peace, aboded The sudden breach of it. Shaks. Hen. VIII. ABO DEMENT. n. s. [from To abode.] A secret anticipation of something future; an impression upon the mind of some event to come; prognostication; omen. I like not this: For many men that stumble at the threshold, Are well foretold that danger lurks within.-----Tush! man, abodements must not now affright us. Shaks. Hen. VI. My lord bishop asked him, Whether he had never any secret abodement in his mind? No, replied the duke; but I think some adventure may kill me as well as another man. To ABO'LISH. v. a [aboleo, Lat.] 1. To annul; to make void. laws or institutions. Wotton. Applied to For us to abolish what he hath established, were presumption most intolerable. Hooker. On the parliament's part it was proposed, that all the bishops, deans, and chapters, might be immediately taken away, and abolished. Clarendon. 2. To put an end to, to destroy. since abolished. The long continued wars between the English Abolish thy creation, and unmake, Nor could Vulcanian flame Milton. abolishes. ABO'LISHMENT. n. s. [from abolish.] The act of abolishing. The plain and direct way had been to prove that all such ceremonies, as they require to be abolished, are retained by us with the hurt of the church, or with less benefit than the abolishment of them would bring. Hooker. He should think the abolishment of episcopacy among us, would prove a mighty scandal and corruption to our faith, and manifestly dangerous to our monarchy. Savift's Ch. of Eng. Man. ABOLITION. n. s. [from abolish.] The act of abolishing. This is now more frequently used than abolishment. From the total abolition of the popular power, may be dated the ruin of Rome: for had the reducing hereof to its ancient condition, proposed by Agrippa, been accepted instead of Mecenas's model, that state might have continued unto this day. Greto's Cosmologia Sacra. An apoplexy is a sudden abolition of all the senses, and of all voluntary motion, by the stoppage of the flux and reflux of the animal spirits Drough the nerves destined for those motions. Arbuthnot on Dict 2. Unclean. Leviticus. The soul that shall touch any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, even that soul shall be cut off from his people. 3. In low and ludicrous language, it is a word of loose and indeterminate censure. They say you are a melancholy fellow.---I am so; I do love it better than laughing.---Those that are in extrenity of either, are abominable fellows, and betray themselves to every modern censure, worse than drunkards. Shaks. As you like it. ABO'MINABLENESS. n. s. [from abominable.] The quality of being abominable; hatefulness; odiousness. Till we have proved, in its proper place, the eternal and essential difference between virtue and vice, we must forbear to urge atheists with the corruption and abominableness of their principles. Bentley's Serinans. ABOMINABLY. adv. [from abominable.] Excessively; extremely; exceedingly; in an ill sense. A word of low or familiar language, and is not often seriously used. I have observed great abuses and disorders in your family; your servants are mutinous and quarrelsome, and cheat you most abominably, Arbuthnot. To ABO'MINATE. v. a. [abominor, Lat.] To abhor; to detest; to hate utterly. Pride goes hated, cursed, and abominated by all. Hammond. We are not guilty of your injuries, No way consent to them; but do abhor, Abominate, and loath this cruelty. Southern's Ore. He professed both to abominate and despise all mystery, refinement, and intrigue, either in a prince or minister. Swift. ABOMINATION. n. s. 1. Hatred; detestation. To assist king Charles by English or Dutch forces, would render him odious to his new subjects, who have nothing in so great abomination, as those whom they hold for hereticks. Swift. 2. The object of hatred. 3. 4. 5. Every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyp Genesis. tians. Pollution; defilement. And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie. Ree. Wickedness; hateful or shameful vice. Th' adulterous Anthony, most large In his abominations, turns you off, And gives his potent regiment to a trull, The cause of pollution. Shakspeare. And the high places that were before Jerusa lem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile. 2 Kings. |