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Milk appears to be a proper diet for human bodies, where acrimony is to be purged or avoid

ed; but not where the canals are obstructed, it Arbuthnot. 1. Food regulated by the rules of medicine, for the prevention or cure of any disease.

being void of all saline quality.

I commend rather some diet for certain sea-
sons, than frequent use of physick; for those diets
alter the body more, and trouble it less. Bacon.
I restrained myself to so regular a diet, as to
eat flesh but once a-day, and a little at a time,
without salt or vinegar.

3. Allowance of provision.
Temple.
For his diet, there was a continual diet given
him by the king.
Jeremiah.

To DIET. v. a. [from the noun.]
1. To feed by the rules of medicine.
She diets him with fasting every day,
The swelling of his wounds to mitigate,
And made him pray both early and eke late.
Shew a while like fearful war,
Fairy Queen.

To diet rank minds sick of happiness,
And purge th' obstructions which begin to stop
Our very veins of life. Shakspeare's Henry iv.
He was not taken well; he had not din'd:
The veins unfill'd, our blood is cold; and then
We powt upon the morning, are unapt
To give or to forgive; but when we've stuff'd
These pipes, and these conveyances of blood,
With wine and feeding, we have suppler souls
Than in our priestlike fasts; therefore I'll watch

him

Till he be dieled to my request.

Shakspeare.

I will attend my husband, be his nurse,
Diet his sickness; for it is my office.

Shaksp.

Henceforth my early care
Shall tend thee, and the fertile burden ease;
Till, dieted by thee, I grow mature
In knowledge as the gods, who all things know.
Milton.

We have lived upon expedients, of which no
country had less occasion: we have dieted a heal-
thy body into a consumption, by plying it with
physick instead of food.
Swift.

2. To give food to.

I'm partly led to diet my revenge,
suspect the lusty Moor

For that I do

Hath leapt into my seat.

He sauc'd our broth as Juno had been sick,.

DIETETICAL
DIETETICK.

And he her dieter.

Shaksp. Othello.

3. To board; to supply with diet.

To DIET. V. n.

1. To eat by rules of physick.

2. To eat; to feed.

lating to diet; belongShaksp Cymbine only. [diatThread.] Re

ing to the medicinal cautions about the use of food.

He received no other counsel than to refrain from cold drink, which was but a dietethal caution, and such as culinary prescription might Brown's Vul. Erg.

have afforded.

This book of Cheyne's became the subject of conversation, and produced even sects in the dietetick philosophy. Arluth. on Aliments. 1. To be distinguished from; to have To DIFFER. v. n. [differo, Latin.] properties and qualities not the same with those of another person or thing. If the pipe be a little wet on the inside, it will make a differing sound from the same pipe dry. Bacon.

Ijoin with thee calm peace and quiet;
Spare fast, that oft with gods doth diet. Milton.
DIET-DRINK. 7. S. [diet and drink.]
Medicated liquors; drink brewed with
medicinal ingredients.

The observation will do that batter than the
lady's dict-drinks, or apothecary's medicines.
Locke.

Thy prejudices, Syphax, won't discern What virtues grow from ignorance and choice, Nor how the hero differs from the brute.

Addison's Cato. The several parts of the same animal differ in their qualities. Arbuthnot.

2. To contend; to be at variance.

DIET. .s. [from dies, an appointed day, Skinner; from diet, an old German word signifying a multitude, Junius.] An assembly of princes or

estates.

3.

A man of judgment shall sometimes hear ignorant men differ, and know well within him self that those which so differ mean one thing, and yet they themselves never agree. Bacon. Here uncontroll'd you may in judgment sit; We'll never differ with a crowded pit.

To be of a contrary opinion.

Roroes

In things purely speculative, as these are; and no ingredients of our faith, it is free to differ from one another in our opinions and senti Burnet's Theory.

ments.

ments.

There are certain measures to be kept, which may leave a tendency rather to gain than to irritate those who differ with you in their sentiAddison's Freeholder. Others differ with me about the truth and reality of these speculations. DIFFERENCE. n. s. [differentia, Latin.] Cheyne. 1. State of being distinct from something; contrariety to identity.

2.

An emperour in title without territory, who can ordain nothing of importance but by a diet, or assembly of the estates of many free princes, ecclesiastical and temporal. DIETARY adj. [from diet.] Pertaining to the rules of diet. Raleigh. DIETER. . s. [from diet.] One who prescribes rules for eating; one who prepares food by medicinal rules.

Dict.

Where the faith of the holy church is one, a difference between customs of the church doth no harm. Hooker The quality by which one differs from another.

This nobility, or difference from the vulgar, was not in the beginning given to the succession of blood, but to the succession of virtue.

Raleigh.

Thus, born alike, from virtue first began The diff'rence that distinguish'd man from man: He claim'd no title from descent of blood; But that, which made him noble, made him good. Dryden.. Though it be useful to discern every variety that is to be found in nature, yet it is not convenient to consider every difference that is in things, and divide them into distinct classes under every such difference. Locke.

3. The disproportion between one thing and another, caused by the qualities of each.

You shall see great difference betwixt our Bohemia and your Sicilia. Shaksp. Winter's Tale. Oh the strange difference of man and man! To thee a woman's services are due; My fool usurps my body. Shaksp. King Lear. Here might be seen a great difference between men practised to fight, and men accustomed only to spoil. Hayward

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Dispute; debate; quarrel; controversy. What was the difference?- - It was a contention in publick. Shakspeare's Cymbeline. He is weary of his life, that hath a difference with any of them, and will walk abroad after daylight. Sandys. Nothing could have fallen out more unluckily than that there should be such differences among them about that which they pretend to be the only means of ending differences. Tillotson. 5. Distinction.

Our constitution does not only make a differense between the guilty and the innocent, but, even among the guilty, between such as are more or less criminal. Addison's Freeholder.

6. Point in question; ground of controversy.

Are you acquainted with the difference That holds this present question in the court? Shakspeare.

7. A logical distinction.

Some are never without a difference; and commonly, by amusing men with a subtilty, blanch

the matter.

Bacon. 3. Evidences of distinction; differential marks.

Henry had the title of sovereign, yet did not put those things in execution which are the true marks and differences of sovereignty.

9. Distinct kind.

Davies.

This is notoriously known in some differences of break or fern. Brown's Vulgar Errours. To DIFFERENCE. v. a. [from the noun.] To cause a difference; to make one thing not the same as another.

Most are apt to seek all the differences of letters in those articulating motions; whereas several combinations of letters are framed by the very same motions of those organs which are commonly observed, and are differenced by other Holder. Grass differenceth a civil and well cultivated region from a barren and desolate wilderness. Ray.

concurrent causes.

We see nothing that differences the courage of Mnestheus from that of Sergesthus. Pope. DIFFERENT. adj. [from differ.] 1. Distinct; not the same.

There are covered galleries that lead from the palace to five different churches.

2. Of contrary qualities.

The Britons change

Add:.on.

Sweet native home for unaccustom'd air,
And other climes, where diff'rent food and soil
Portend distempers.
Philips.

3. Unlike; dissimilar.

Neither the shape of faces, nor the age, nor the colour, ought to be alike in all figures, any more than the hair; because men are as different from each other, as the regions in which they are born are different. Dryden's Dufresnoy.

Happiness consists in things which produce pleasure, and in the absence of those which cause any pain: now these, to different men, are very different things. Locke. DIFFERENTIAL Method, is applied to the doctrine of infinitesimals, or infinitely small quantities, called the arithmetick of fluxions. It consists in descending from whole quantities to their infinitely small differences, and comparing together these infinitely small differences, of what kind soever they be: and from thence it takes the name of the differential calculus, or analysis of infinitesimals. Harris.

DIFFERENTLY. adv. [from different.] In a different manner.

He may consider how differently he is affected by the same thought, which presents itself in a great writer, from what he is when he finds it delivered by an ordinary genius. Addison. DIFFERINGLY. adv. [from differing.} In a different manner.

Such protuberant and concave parts of a surface may remit the light so differingly, as to vary a colour. Boyle

DIFFICIL. adj. [difficilis, Latin.] 1. Difficult; hard; not easy; not obvious. Little used.

That that should give motion to an unwieldy bulk, which itself hath neither bulk nor motion, is of as difficil apprehension as any mystery in Glanville's Scepsis.

nature.

Latin was not more difficil, Than to a blackbird 'tis to whistle.

Hudibras.

2. Scrupulous; hard to be persuaded. The cardinal finding the pope difficil in granting the dispensation, doth use it as a principal argument, concerning the king's merit, that he had touched none of those deniers which had been levied by popes in England. Bacon. DIFFICILNESS. n. s. [from dificil.] Difficulty to be persuaded; incompliance; impracticability. A word not in use, but proper.

There be that in their nature do not affect the good of others: the lighter sort of malignity turneth but to a crossness, or frowardness, or aptness to oppose, or difficilness, or the like; but the deeper sort to envy and mere mischief. DIFFICULT. adj. [difficilis, Latin.] 1. Hard; not easy; not facil.

Bacon.

It is difficult in the eyes of this people. Zachar. 2. Troublesome; vexatious. 3. Hard to please; peevish; norose. DIFFICULTLY. adv. [from difficult.] Hardly; with difficulty; not easily.

A man, who has always indulged himself in the full enjoyment of his station, will difficultly be persuaded to think any methods unjust that offer to continue it. Rogers' Sermons.

DIFFICULTY. n. s. [from difficult; difficulté, French.]

1. Hardness; contrariety to easiness or facility.

2.

The religion which, by this covenant, we engage ourselves to observe, is a work of labour and difficulty; a service that requires our greatest care and attention. Rogers. That which is hard to accomplish; that which is not easy.

They mistake difficulties for impossibilities: a pernicious mistake certainly; and the more pernicious, for that men are seldom convinced of it, till their convictions do them no good. South. 3. Distress; opposition.

Thus, by degrees, he rose to Jove's imperial

seat:

Thus difficulties prove a soul legitimately great. Dryden. 4. Perplexity in affairs; uneasiness of cir

5.

cumstances.

They lie under some difficulties by reason of the emperor's displeasure, who has forbidden their manufactures. Addison on Italy.

Objection; cavil.

Men should consider, that raising difficult'es concerning the mysteries in religion, cannot make them more wise, learned, or virtuous.

To DIFFI'DE. v. n. [diffido, Latin.]
To distrust; to have no confidence in.
With hope and fear

Dryden.

The woman did the new solution hear: The man diffides in his own augury, And doubts the gods. DIFFIDENCE. n. s. [from diffide.[ 1. Distrust; want of confidence in others. No man almost thought himself secure, and men durst scarce commune or talk one with another; but there was a general diffidence every where. Bacon's Hen. VII. You have brought scandal To Israel, diffidence of God, and doubt In feeble hearts, propense enough before To waver. Milton's Agonistes. 2. Doubt; want of confidence in ourselves.

If the evidence of its being, or that this is its true sense, he only on probable proofs, our assent can reach no higher than an assurance or diffidence arising from the more or less apparent probability of the proofs. Locke.

Be silent always when you doubt your sense; And speak, though sure, with seeming diffidence. Whatsoever atheists think on, or whatsoever Pope. they look on, all do administer some reasons for suspicion and diffidence, lest possibly they may be in the wrong; and then it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. DIFFIDENT. adj. [from diffide.] 1. Distrustful; doubting others. Be not diffident

Bentley.

Of wisdom; she deserts thee not, if thou
Dismiss not her, when most thou need'st her
nigh.
Pliny speaks of the Seres, the same people
Milton.
with the Chinese, as being very shy and diffident
in their manner of dealing.

Arbuthnot.

2. Doubtful of an event, used of things; uncertain.

irregular: as, a difform flower, one of which the leaves are unlike each other.

The unequal refractions of diform rays proceed not from any contingent irregularities; such as are veins, an uneven polish, or fortuitous DIFFORMITY. n. s. [from difform.] Diposition of the pores of glass. Newton. versity of form; irregularity; dissimilitude.

I was really so difident of it, as to let it lie
by me these two years, just as you now see it.
3. Doubtful of himself; not confident.
Pope.
I am not so confident of my own sufficiency,
as not willingly to admit the counsel of others;
but yet I am not so diffident of myself, as bru-
tishly to submit to any man's dictates.
Distress makes the humble heart diffident.
King Charles.
Clarissa.

To DIFFI'ND. v. a. [diffindo, Latin.]
To cleave in two; to split.
DIFFI'SSION. n. s. [diffissio, Lat.] The
Dict.
act of cleaving or splitting.
Dict.

DIFFLATION. . s.
act of scattering with a blast of wind.
[diflare, Lat.] The

Dict.

DIFFLUENCE. n. s. [from diffluo, Lat.]

While they murmur against the present disposure of things, they desire in them a difformity from the primitive rule, and the idea of that mind that formed all things best. Brown. DIFFRANCHISEMENT. n. s. [franchise, French.] The act of taking away the privileges of a city.

To DIFFUSE. v. a. [diffusus, Latin.]
1. To pour out upon a plane, so that the
liquor may run every way; to pour
without particular direction.

When these waters began to rise at first, long before they could swell to the height of the mountains, they would diffuse themselves every Burnet's Theory. 2. To spread; to scatter; to disperse.

way.

Wisdom had ordain'd

Good out of evil to create; instead
Of spirits malign, a better race to bring
Into their vacant room, and thence diffuse
His good to worlds, and ages, infinite. Milton.
No sect wants its apostles to propagate and
Decay of Piety.
A chief renown'd in war,

diffuse it.

Whose race shall bear aloft the Latian name,
And through the conquer'd world diffuse our

fame.

His eyes diffus'd a venerable grace,
And charity itself was in his face.

Dryden.

Dryden.

DIFFU ́SE. adj. [diffusus, Latin.]
1. Scattered; widely spread.
2. Copious; not concise.
DIFFUSED. participial adj. [from diffuse.]
This word seems to have signified, in
Shakspeare's time, the same as wild,
uncouth, irregular.

Let them from forth a sawpit rush at once,
With some diffused song.
Shaksp

He grows like savages,
To swearing and stern looks, diffus'd attire,
And every thing that seems unnatural. Shaksp.
DIFFUSEDLY. adv. [from diffused.]
Widely dispersedly; in manner of
that which is spread every way.
DIFFUSEDNESS. n. s. [from diffused.]
The state of being diffused; disper-

sion.

DIFFLUENCY. The quality of falling DIFFUSELY. adv. [from diffuse.]

away on all sides; the effect of fluidity; the contrary to consistency.

Ice is water congealed by the frigidity of the air, whereby it acquireth no new form, but rather a consistence or determination of its diffluency; and admitteth not its essence, but condition of fluidity. DIFFLUENT. adj. [diffluens, Lat.] FlowBrown's Vul. Err. ing every way; not consistent; not

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DIFFORM. adj. [from forma, Latin.] Contrary to uniform; having parts of different structure; dissimilar; unlike;

[blocks in formation]

its beams, unstained and bright, to this and that part of the wall. Boyle on Colours. 2. Copiousness; exuberance of style. DIFFUSIVE. adj. [from diffuse.] 1. Having the quality of scattering any thing every way.

Diffusive of themselves, where'er they pass They make that warmth in others they expect: Their valour works like bodies on a glass, And does its image on their men project. Dryd. 2. Scattered; dispersed; having the quality of suffering diffusion.

All liquid bodies are diffusive; for their parts, being in motion, have no connexion, but glide and fall off any way. Burnet.

No man is of so general and diffusive a lust, as to prosecute his amours all the world over.

South. The stars, no longer overlaid with weight, Exert their heads from underneath the mass, And upward shoot, and kindle as they pass, And with diffusive light adorn their heav'nly place. Dryden. Cherish'd with hope, and fed with joy it grows; Its cheerful buds their opening bloom disclose, And round the happy soil diffusive odour flows. Prior. 3. Extended.

They are not agreed among themselves where infallibility is seated; whether in the pope alone, or a council alone, or in both together, or in the diffusive body of christians. Tillotson DIFFUSIVELY. adv. [from diffusive.] Widely; extensively; every way. DIFFUSIVENESS. n. s. [from diffusive.] 1. Extension; dispersion; the power of diffusing; the state of being diffused. 2. Want of conciseness; large compass of expression.

The fault that I find with a modern legend, is its diffusiveness; you have sometimes the whole side of a medal over-run with it. Addis. on Med. To DIG. v. a. pret. dug, or digged; part. pass. dug, or digged. [oic, Saxon, a ditch; dyger, Danish, to dig.]

1. To pierce with a spade.

Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall. and when I had digged in the wall, I beheld a door. Ezekiel.

2. To form by digging.

Seek with heart and mouth to build up the walls of Jerusalem which you have broken down; and to fill up the mines that you have digged, by craft and subtlety, to overthrow the

same.

Whitgift.

He built towers in the desert, and dirged many wells; for he had much cattle. 2 Chronicles. 3. To cultivate the ground by turning it with a spade.

The walls of your garden, without their furniture, look as ill as those of your house; so that you cannot dig up your garden too often.

Temple. Be first to dig the ground, be first to burn The branches lopt. Dryden's Virgil.

4. To pierce with a sharp point.

A rav'nous vulture in his open'd side
Her crooked beak and cruel talons tried;
Still for the growing liver digg'd his breast,
The growing liver still supplied the feast. Dryd.
5. To gain by digging.

It is digged out of even the highest mountains, and all parts of the earth contingently; as the pyrites. Woodward.

Nor was the ground alone requir'd to bear Her annual income to the crooked share;

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But greedy mortals, rummaging her store, Digg'd from her entrails first the precious are. Dryden's Ovid. To DIG. v. n. To work with a spade; to work in making holes, or turning the ground.

They long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures. Job. The Italians have often dug into lands, described in old authors as the places where statues or obelisks stood, and seldom failed of success. Addison's Travels.

To DIG up. v. a. To throw up that
which is covered with earth.

If i digg'd up thy forefathers graves,
And hung their rotten coffins up in chains,
It would not slake mine ire.

Shaksp. DIGAMY. n. s. [diyaμía.] Second marriage; marriage to a second wife after the death of the first: as bigamy, having two wives at once.

Dr. Champny only proves, that archbishop Cranmer was twice married; which is not denied: but brings nothing to prove that such bigamy, or digamy rather, deprives a bishop of the lawful use of his power of ordaining.

Bishop Ferne DIGERENT. adj. [digerens, Lat.] That has the power of digesting, or causing digestion. Dict. DIGEST. n. s. [digesta, Latin.] The pandect of the civil law, containing the opinions of the ancient lawyers.

I had a purpose to make a particular dest, or recompilement to the laws of mine own nation. Bacon. Laws in the digest shew that the Romans applied themselves to trade. Arbuthnot on Coins. To DIGEST. v. a. [digero, digestum, Latin.]

1. To distribute into various classes or repositories; to range or dispose methodically.

2. To concoct in the stomach, so as that the various particles of food may be applied to their proper use.

If little faults, proceeding on distemper, Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our eye,

When capital crimes chew'd, swallow'd, and digested,

Appear?

Each then has organs to digest his food; Shalsp. Henry v. One to beget, and one receive, the brood. Prior. 3. To soften by heat, as in a boiler, or in a dunghil; a chymical term.

4. To range methodically in the mind;
to apply knowledge by meditation to
its proper use.

Chosen friends with sense refin'd,
Learning digested well.

Thomson.

5. To reduce to any plan, scheme, or method.

Our play

Leaps o'er the vaunt and firstlings of those broils, 'Ginning 'i th' middle: starting thence away To what may be digested in a play. Shaksp. 6. To receive without loathing or repugnance; not to reject.

First, let us go to dinner.
-Nay, let me praise you while I have a stomach.
-No, pray thee, let it serve for table-talk;
Then howsoe'er thou speak'st, 'mongst other

things

I shall digest it. Shakspeare's Mer. of Ven

The pleasance of numbers is, that rudeness and barbarism might the better taste and digest the lessons of civility. Peacham.

7. To receive and enjoy.

Cornwal and Albany,

With my two daughters dowers, digest the third. Shakspeare. 3. [In chirurgery.] To dispose a wound to generate pus in order to a cure. T DIGEST. V. n. To generate matter, as a wound, and tend to a cure. DIGE STER. n. s. [from digest.] 1. He that digests or disposes. 2. He that digests or concocts his food. People that are bilious and fat, rather than

lean, are great eaters and ill digesters. Arbuth. 3. A strong vessel or engine, contrived by M. Papin, wherein to boil, with a very strong heat, any bony substances, so as to reduce them into a fluid state.

4. That which causes or strengthens the Quincy. concoctive power.

Rice is of excellent use for all illnesses of the stomach, a great restorer of health, and a great digester. Temple. DIGESTIBLE. adj. [from digest.] Capable of being digested or concocted.

Those medicines that purge by stool are, at the first, not digestible by the stomach, and therefore move iminediately downwards to the guts. DIGESTION. n. s. [from digest.] Bacon's Natural History. 1. The act of digesting or concocting food in the stomach.

Now good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both.

Digestion is a fermentation begun, because Shaksp. Macbeth. there are all the requisites of such a fermentation; heat, air, and motion: but it is not a complete fermentation, because that requires a greater time than the continuance of the aliment in the stomach: vegetable putrefaction resembles very much animal digestion.

DIGESTIVE. adj. [from digest.]
1. Having the power to cause digestion,
or to strengthen the stomach.

Arbuthnot on Aliments. Quantity of food cannot be determined by measures and weights, or any general Lessian rules; but must vary with the vigour or decays

of

A chilifactory menstruum, or a digestive proparation, drawn from species or individuals, whose stomachs peculiarly dissolve lapideous bodies. Brown's Vul. Err. 2. Capable by heat to soften and subdue. The earth and sun were in that very state; the one active, piercing, and digestive, by its heat; the other passive, receptive, and stored with materials for such a production. Hale

age or of health, and the use or disuse of air or of exercise, with the changes of appetite; and then, by what every man may find or suspect of the present strength or weakness of digestion.

Temple.

Every morsel to a satisfied hunger, is only a new labour to a tired digestion. 2. The preparation of matter by a chymiSouth. cal heat.

3. Methodising; adjusting.

To business, ripen'd by digestive thought, This future rule is into method brought. Dryd

DIGESTIVE. n. s. [from digest.] An application which disposes a wound to generate matter.

We conceive, indeed, that a perfect good concoction, or digestion, or maturation of some metals, will produce gold. Did chymick chance the furnaces prepare, Bacon. Raise all the labour-houses of the air, And lay crude vapours in digestion there?

Blackmore.

Wiseman. Concoction. Not

I dressed it with digestives.
DIGESTURE. n. s.
used.

Neither tie yourself always to eat meats of easy digesture; such as veal, sweetbreads. Harvey. DIGGER. n. s. [from dig.] One that opens the ground with a spade.

When we visited mines, we have been told by diggers, that even when the sky seemed clear, there would suddenly arise a steam so thick, that it would put out their candles. Boyle. To DIGHT. v. a. [diliran, to prepare, to regulate, Saxon.]

3. Reduction to a plan; the act of methodising; the maturation of a design. The digestion of the counsels in Sweden is who are generally the greatest men. made in senate, consisting of forty counsellers, 4. The act of disposing a wound to gene-' Temple.

rate matter.

5. The disposition of a wound or sore to generate matter.

The first stage of healing, or the discharge of matter, is by surgeons called digestion. Sharp.

1. To dress; to deck; to bedeck; to
embellish; to adorn. It seems always
to signify the past: the particle passive
is dight, as dighted in Hudibras is per-
haps improper.

Let my due feet never fail
To walk the studious cloisters pale;
And love the high embowed roof,
With antick pillar, massy proof;
And storied windows richly dight,
Casting a dim religious light.
Just so the proud insulting lass
Array'd and dighted Hudibras.
2. To put on.

Milton

Hudibras.

On his head his dreadful hat he dight,
DrGHT. n. s. [digitus, Latin.]
Which maketh him invisible to sight. Hubb.Tale.

1. The measure of length containing three
fourths of an inch.

If the inverted tube of mercury be but twentyfive digits high, or somewhat more, the quick silver will not fall, but remain suspended in the tube, because it cannot press the subjacent mercury with so great a force as doth the incumbent cylinder of the air, reaching thence to the top of the atmosphere. Boyle's Spring of the Air. 2. The twelfth part of the diameter of

the sun or moon.

3. Any of the numbers expressed by single figures; any number to ten: so called from counting upon the fingers. Not only the numbers seven and nine, from considerations abstruse, have been extolled by most, but all or most of other digits have been DIGITATED, adj. [from digitus, Latin.] as mystically applauded. Brown's Vulg.Errours. Branched out into divisions like fin gers: as a digitated leaf is a leaf composed of many small leaves.

For animals multifidous, or such as are digi tated, or have several divisions in their feet, there are but two that are uniparous; that is, men and elephants. Brown's Vulgar Errours.

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