made it.

Tillotson.

If it would purchase six shillings and three-pence weighty money, he had proved the matter in question. Locke.

Questionless duty moves not so much upon command as promise; now that which proposes the greatest and most suitable rewards to obedience, and the greatest punishments to disobedience, doubtless is the most likely to enforce the one and prevent the other. South.

Such a presumption is only sufficient to put the person to the rack or question, according to the civ. law, and not bring them to condemnation.

Ayliffe's Parergon. O impotent estate of human life! Where fleeting joy does lasting doubt inspire, And most we question what we most desire.

I grow laconick even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes or no to questionary epistles of half a yard long. Pope to Swift.

In point of honour to be tried, Suppose the question not your own. Swift. It is questionable, whether Galen ever saw the dissection of a human body.

Baker.

QUESTOR, or QUÆSTOR, in Roman antiquity, an officer who had the management of the public treasure. The questorship was the first office any person could bear in the commonwealth, and gave a right to sit in the senate. At first there were only two; but afterwards two others were created, to take care of the payment of the armies abroad, of the sale of the plunder, booty, &c., for which purpose they generally accompanied the consuls in their expeditions; on which account they were called peregrini, as the first and principal two were called urbani. The number of

questors was afterwards greatly increased. They had the care of the decrees of the senate; and hence came the two officers of questor principis, or augusti, sometimes called candidatus principis, whose office resembled in most respects that of our secretaries of state; and the questor palatii.

QUE'STUARY, adj. Lat. quæstus. Studious of profit.

Although lapidaries and questuary enquirers affirm it, yet the writers of minerals conceive the stone of this name to be a mineral concretion, not to be found in animals. Browne.

brated Spanish poet, born at Madrid in 1570. QUEVEDO DE VILLEGAS (Francis), a celeHe was descended from a noble family, and was made a knight of St. James; but was thrown into prison by order of count Olivarez, whose administration he satirized in his verses, and was grace. Quevedo wrote some heroic, lyric, and not set at liberty till after that minister's disfacetious poems: he also composed several treatises on religious subjects, and translated some most celebrated works are, 1. The Spanish Parauthors into Spanish. He died in 1645. His nassus. 2. The Adventurer Buseon. 3. Visions of Hell Reformed, &c. His youth was spent in the service of his country in Italy, where he distinguished himself by his sagacity and prudence.

QUIB'BLE, n. s. & v. n. Į QUIBBLER. pun; to play on the sound of

Lat. quidlibet. A cavil; pun: to

words.

The first service was neat's tongues sliced, which the philosophers took occasion to discourse and quibble upon in a grave formal way. L'Estrange. This may be of great use to immortalize puns and quibbles, and to let posterity see their forefathers were blockheads. Addison.

Having once fully answered your quibble, you will not, I hope, expect that I should do it again and again. Waterland. Quirks or quibbles have no place in the search after Watts.

truth.

QUIBERON, a town of France, on a long and narrow peninsula of the same name, which, with some islands, forms a noble bay, having two harbours defended by batteries. A British force landed here in 1746, but was repulsed. In June and July, 1795, a number of the French emigrants in England prevailed on the British government to land them in this bay; but they were soon overpowered by the republican troops, suffered great loss in their flight, and those of their associates who were made prisoners underwent the sentence of the law against emigrants Isle, twenty-three south-west of Vannes, and of being shot. Twelve miles north of Belletwenty-four S. S. E. of L'Orient.

QUICK, adj. & n. s. Sax. cpic; Swed. QUICKEN, v. a. quick; Dan. and Belg. QUICKENER, n. s. quik; Goth. kuik. Alive; living; a living animal or plant; living or peculiarly sensible parts: to quicken is to make alive; become living: quickener one who makes alive; the adjective is almost obsolete.

If there be quick raw flesh in the risings, it is an old leprosy. Leviticus xiii. 10.

Psalm xxii. 30.

All they that go down into the dust shall kneel oefore him; and no man hath quickened his own soul. Who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing. St. Paul. They rub out of it a red dust, that converteth after a while into worms, which they kill with wine when they begin to quicken. Sandys's Journey. Peeping close into the thick, Might see the moving of some quick,

Whose shape appeared not;

But were it fairy, fiend, or snake,
My courage earned it to wake,

And manful thereat shot.

Spenser.

These hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin Will quicken and accuse thee; I'm your host; With robbers hands, my hospitable favour You should not ruffle thus. Shakspeare. King Lear. This my mean task would be

As heavy to me, as 'tis odious; but The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead, And makes my labours pleasures. Id. Tempest. If Stanley held that a son of king Edward had still the better right, it was to teach all England to say as much; and therefore that speech toucheth the quick.

Bacon.

For inclosing of land, the most usual way is with a ditch and bank set with quick. Mortimer. The thought of this disgraceful composition so touches me to the quick that I cannot sleep.

Arbuthnot's John Bull. Scarifying gangrenes, by several incisions down to the quick, is almost universal, and with reason, since it not only discharges a pernicious ichor, but makes way for topical applications. Sharp.

QUICK, adj. & adv. From quick, QUICK EN, v. a. alive. Vivacious; QUICK ENER, n. s. active; nimble; QUICKLY, adv. swift; sprightly; QUICK NESS, n. s. ready as an adQUICKSIGHT ED, adj. verb, nimbly; speeQUICKSIGHT EDNESS, n. s. J dily: to quicken is to hasten; accelerate; sharpen; excite : quickener, the thing or person that quickens or actuates: quickly and quickness correspond with quick: and quicksighted means sharp of sight; of acute perception.

Though my senses were astonished, my mind forced them to quicken themselves; because I had learnt of him how little favour he is wont to shew in any matter of advantage. Sidney.

Prayers whereunto devout minds have added a piercing kind of brevity, thereby the better to express that quick and speedy expedition, wherewith ardent affections, the wings of prayer, are delighted to present our suits in heaven.

Hocker.

The best choice is of an old physician and a young lawyer; because, where errors are fatal, ability of judgment and moderation are required; but, where advantages may be wrought upon, diligence and quickness of wit. Wotton.

If passion work like a hot-reined horse,
Twill quickly tire itself.

Massinger.

What any invention hath in the strength of its motion is abated in the slowness of it; and, what it hath in the extraordinary quickness of its motion, must be allowed for in the great strength that is required unto it. Wilkins.

A man of great sagacity in business, and he preserved so great a vigour of mind, even to his death, when near eighty, that some, who had known him in his younger years, did believe him to have much quicker parts in his age than before.

Clarendon.

Oft he to her his charge of quick return Repeated. Milton's Paradise Lost. Love and enmity, aversation and fear, are not able whetters and quickeners of the spirit of life in all animals. More.

Thy generous fruits, though gathered ere their prime,

Still shewed a quickness; and maturing time
But mellows what we write to the dull sweets of
rhime.
Dryden.

They gave those complex ideas, that the things they were continually to give and receive information about, might be the easier and quicker understood.

Locke.

No body will deem the quicksighted amongst them Id. to have very enlarged views in ethicks.

The ignorance that is in us no more hinders the knowledge that is in others, than the blindness of a mole is an argument against the quicksightedness of an eagle.

Id.

Ginger renders it brisk, and corrects its wildness, and juice of corinths, whereof a few drops tinge and add a pleasant quickness. Mortimer.

The animal, which is first produced of an egg, is a blind and dull worm: but that which hath its resurrection thence, is a quick-eyed, volatile, and sprightly fly. Grew's Cosmologia. They endeavour by brandy to quicken their taste already extinguished. Tatler.

A man must have passed his noviciate in sinning before he comes to this, be he never so quick a proSouth.

ficient.

Joy, like a ray of the sun, reflects with a greater

ardour and quickness, when it rebounds upon a man from the breast of his friend. Id.

An argument of great force to quicken them in the improvement of those advantages to which the mercy of God had called them by the gospel. Rogers. No article of religion hath credibility enough for them; and yet these same cautious and quicksighted gentlemen can swallow down this sottish opinion about percipient atoms. Bentley.

Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes. Pope. The desire of fame hath been no inconsiderable motive to quicken you in the pursuit of those actions which will best deserve it. Swift. QUICK LIME, n.s. Lat. calx viva, quick and lime. Lime unquenched.

After burning the stone, when lime is in its perfect and unaltered state, it is called quicklime. Hill. QUICKLIME. See LIME and CHEMISTRY. QUICK'SAND, n. s. Quick and sand. Moving sand; unsolid ground.

Undergirding the ship, and fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, they strake sail, and so were driven. Acts xxvii.

What is Edward, but a ruthless sea? What Clarence, but a quicksand of deceit?

Shakspeare. But when the vessel is on quicksands cast, The flowing tide does more the sinking haste. Dryden. I have marked out several of the shoals and quicksands of life, in order to keep the unwary from running upon them. Addison.

When ministry rests upon public opinion, it is not, indeed, built upon a rock of adamant; it has however some stability. But, when it stands upon private humour, its structure is of stubble, and its foundation is on quicksand.

Burke. QUICK'SET, v. a. Quick and set. To plant with living plants.

In making or mending, as needeth thy ditch, Get set to quickset it, learn cunningly which.

Tusser. The batful pastures fenced, and most with quickset mound. Drayton.

A man may ditch and quickset three poles a day. where the ditch is three foot wide and two foot deep.

Mortimer.

Plant quicksets and transplant fruit-trees towards the decrease.

want of skill.

Evelyn's Kalendar. Nine in ten of the quickset hedges are ruined for Swift's Miscellanies. QUICK SILVER, n. s. Į Quick and silver. QUICK'SILVERED, adj. Mercury: overlaid with mercury.

Cinnabar maketh a beautiful purple like unto a red rose; the best was wont to be made in Libya, of brimstone and quicksilver burnt.

Peacham.

Metal is more difficult to polish than glass, and is afterwards very apt to be spoiled by tarnishing, and reflects not so much light as glass quicksilvered over does; I would propound to use instead of the metal a glass ground concave on the foreside, and as much convex on the backside, and quicksilvered over on the convex side. Newton's Opticks.

Pleasures are few; and fewer we enjoy ;
Pleasure, like quicksilver, is bright and coy;
We strive to grasp it with our utmost skill,
Still it eludes us, and it glitters still :
If seized at last, compute your mighty gains,
What is it, but rank poison in your veins?

Young. QUICKSILVER, or mercury. See MERCURY.

QUID PRO QUO, in law, what for what, denotes the giving one thing of value for another; or the mutual consideration and performance of both parties to a contract.

used in physic to express a mistake in the phyQUID PRO QUO, or QUI PRO QUO, is also sician's bill, where quid is written for quo, i. e. one thing for another; or of the apothecary in reading quid for quo, and giving the patient the wrong medicine. Hence the term is in general extended to all blunders or mistakes committed in medicine, either in the prescription, the preparation, or application of remedies.

QUI'DAM, n. s. Lat. quidam. Somebody. Not used.

For envy of so many worthy quidams, which catch at the. garland which to you alone is due, you will be persuaded to pluck out of the hateful darkness those so many excellent poems of yours which lie hid, and bring them forth to eternal light. Spenser. QUID'DIT, n. s. Fr. que dit, corrupted QUID'DITY. from quidlibet; low Lat. quidditas. A subtilty; an equivocation: quiddity, essence; that which is a proper answer to the question, quid est?

Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? where be his quiddits now? his quillets? his cases? and his tricks? Shakspeare. Misnomer in our laws, and other quiddities, I leave to the professors of law. Camden's Remains.

He could reduce all things to acts,
And knew their natures and abstracts,
Where entity and quiddity
The ghosts of defunct bodies fly.
QUIESCENCE, n. s.
QUIESCENT, adj.

the adjective corresponding.

Hudibras.

Lat. quiesco. Rest; repose; state of quiet:

Whether the earth move or rest, I undertake not to determine my work is to prove that the common inducement to the belief of its quiescence, the testimony of sense, is weak and frivolous. Glanville. Though the earth move, its motion must needs be as insensible as if it were quiescent.

Id.

beginneth, is the active or moving side; but the The right side, from whence the motion of the body sinister is the weaker or more quiescent side.

Browne's Vulgar Errours. Sight takes in at a greater distance and more variety at once, comprehending also quiescent objects, which hearing does not.

Holder.

QUIET, adj., n. s., &`
QUIETER, n. s. [v. a.
QUI'ETISM,
QUIETLY, adv.
QUIETNESS, n. s.
QUIETSOME, adj.
QUI'ETUDE, n. s.

Newton's Opticks.

If quiet life is best; sweeter to you,
That have a sharper known.

Shakspeare. Cymbeline.
Stop effusion of our christian blood,
And 'stablish quietness on every side.

Shakspeare. Although the rebels had behaved themselves quietly and modestly by the way as they went; yet they doubted that would but make them more Bacon. hungry to fall upon the spoil in the end. What miseries have both nations avoided, and what quietness and security attained by their peaceable union! Hayward.

The lowest degree of faith, that can quiet the soul of man, is a firm conviction that God is placable. Forbes. From the equal distribution of the phlegmatick humour, the proper allay of fervent blood, will flow a future quietude and serenitude in the affections.

Wotton on Education.

QUIETISTS, a religious sect, famous towards the close of the seventeenth century. They were so called from a kind of absolute rest and inaction, which they supposed the soul to be in, when arrived at that state of perrection, which they called the unitive life; in which state they imagined the soul wholly employed in contemplating its God, to whose influence it was entirely submissive. In this state the soul no longer needs prayers, hymns, &c., being entirely Occupied with the contemplation of the Deity. Molinos, a Spanish priest, is the reputed author

of Quietism; though the Illuminati in Spain had certainly taught something like it before. The most celebrated patroness of Quietism was madam De la Mothe Guyon, a lady of excellent character; whose sentiments were refuted in 1697 by Bossuet. She was defended by the celebrated archbishop Fenelon, whose book, however, was condemned by Innocent XII. and the archbishop himself obliged to read the sentence, though he retained his opinions to the last. The Quietists spread through Italy, France, and the Netherlands. A sect similar to this had appeared at Mount Athos in Thessaly, near the end of the fourteenth century, called Hesychasts. They were a branch of the mystics, or those more perfect monks, who, by long and intense contemplation, endeavoured to arrive at a tranquillity of mind free from every degree of tumult and perturbation.

QUILL, n. s. Goth. koyle, a writing reed, or Lat. calamus? The hard strong feather of which pens are made; dart of a porcupine; a reed of weavers and musicians.

The presumptuous damsel rashly dared
The goddess' self to challenge to the field,
And to compare with her in curious skill,
Of works with loom, with needle, and with quilt.

Spenser.

Birds have three other hard substances proper to them; the bill, which is of a like matter with the teeth, the shell of the egg, and their quills. Bacon's Natural History.

With her nimble quills his soul doth seem to hover,

And eye the very pitch that lusty bird did cover. Drayton.

I will only touch the duke's own department in that island, the proper subject of my quill. Wotton. His flying fingers and harmonious quill Strike seven distinguished notes, and seven at once they fill. Dryden. Being rooted so little way in the skin, nothing near so deeply as the quills of fowls, they are the more easily ejaculated. Grew's Museum.

Those lives they failed to rescue by their skill, Their muse would make immortal with her quill.

Garth.

Near these was the black prince of Monomotapa, by whose side was seen the quill-darting porcupine. Arbuthnot and Pope.

From him whose quills stand quivered at his ear, To him that notches sticks at Westminster. Pope.

QUILLS are denominated from the order in which they are fixed in the wing; the second and third quills being the best for writing, as they have the largest and roundest barrels. Crow-quills are chiefly used for drawing. To harden a quill that is soft, thrust the barrel into hot ashes, stirring it till it is soft, then, taking it out, press it almost flat upon your knee with the back of a penknife, and afterwards reduce it to a roundness with your fingers. If you have a number to harden, set water and alum over the fire, and while it is boiling dip the barrels of the quills for a minute, and then lay them by.

QUIL'LET, n. s. Lat. quidlibet. Subtilty; nicety; fraudulent distinction; petty cant. Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? where be his quiddits now? his quillets? his cases? and his tricks? Shakspeare.

A great soul weighs in the scale of reason, what