Abound

In the division of each several crime,

Acting it many ways. Shakspeare's Macbeth. DIVISOR. n. s. [divisor, Latin.] The number given, by which the dividend is divided; the number which shows how many parts the dividend is to be divided into.

DIVORCE. n. s. [divorce, Fr. from divortium, Latin.]

1. The legal separation of husband and wife.

Divorce is a lawful separation of husband and wife, made before a competent judge, on due cognizance had of the cause, and sufficient proof made thereof. Ayliffe's Parergon.

To restore the king,

He counsels a divorce, a loss of her,
That Eke a jewel has hung twenty years
About his neck, yet never lost her lustre.
He had in his eye the divorce which had passed
Shakspeare's Henry VIII.
betwixt the emperor and Scribonia.

2. Separation; disunion.

Dryden.

Such motions may occasion a farther alienation of mind, and divorce of affections, in her, from my religion. These things, to be a bastard, and to be born King Charles. cut of lawful wedlock, are convertible the one with the other; and 'tis hard to make divorce between those things that are so near in nature to each other, as being convertible terms.

3. The sentence by which a marriage is Ayliffe. dissolved.

4. The cause of any penal separation.

Go with me, like good angels, to my end; And, as the long divorce of steel falls on me, Make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice, And lift my soul to heav'n.

Shaksp. To DIVORCE. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To separate a husband or wife from the other.

1. To force asunder; to separate by violence.

DIVOʻRCEMENT. n. s. [from divorce.]
Divorce; separation of marriage.

Write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. Deut. DIVORCER. n. s. [from divorce.] The person or cause which produces divorce or separation.

Were it consonant unto reason to divorce these two sentences, the former of which doth shew how the latter is restrained, and, not marking the former, to conclude by the latter of them? The continent and the island were continued Hooker. together, within men's remembrance, by a drawbridge; but are now divorced by the downfallen cliffs. So seem'd her youthful soul not eas'ly forc'd, Carew's Survey of Cornwall. Or from so fair, so sweet a seat divore'd.

3. To separate from another.

If thou wert not glad,

Waller.

I would divorce me from thy mother's tomb,

Sepulch'ring on

adultress.

If so be it were

Shaksp.

Death is the violent estranger of acquaintance, the eternal divorcer of marriage. Drummond. DIURETICK. adj. [diuphix] Having the power to provoke urine.

ments of mind might be had in their full perpossible, that all other ornafection, nevertheless the mind that should possess them, divorced from piety, could be but a spectacle of commiseration.

4. To take away; to put away. I dare not make myself so guilty,

Hooker.

To give up willingly that noble title
Your master wed me to: nothing but death
Shall e'er divorce my dignities.

Shaksp

Aerial pasture the lungs with gentle force Constant embrace by turns, by turns divorce.

Blackmore.

Diureticks are decoctions, emulsions, and oils of emollient vegetables, that relax the urinary passages; such as relax ought to be tried before such as force and stimulate. Those emollients ought to be taken in open air, to hinder them from perspiring, and on empty stomachs.

Arbuthnot.

Graceful as John, she moderates the reins,
And whistles sweet her diuretick strains. Young.
DIU'RNAL. adj. [diurnus, Latin.]
1.. Relating to the day.

We observe in a day, which is a short year,
the greatest heat about two in the afternoon,
when the sun is past the meridian, which the
diurnal solstice, and the same is evident from the
thermometer.
Brown's Vulgar Errours.
Think, ere this diurnal star
Leave cold the night, how we his gather'd beams
Reflected, may with matter sere foment.

2. Constituting the day.

The diurnal and annual revolution of the sun have been, from the beginning of nature, constant, regular, and universally observable by all mankind. Locke. DIURNAL. n. s. [diurnal, Fr.] ́A journal; a day-book. DIURNALLY. adv. [from diurnal.] Daily; every day.

As we make the enquiries, we shall diurnally communicate them to the publick. Tatler DIUTU ́RNITY. n. s. [diuturnitas, Lat.} Length of duration.

Such a coming, as it might be said that that generation should not pass till it was fulfilled, they needed not suppose of such diuturnity. Brown's Vulgar Errours. To DIVU ́LGE.`v. a. [divulgo, Latin.] 1. To publish; to make publick; to reveal to the world.

Men are better contented to have their commendations suppressed, than the contrary much divulged. Hooker.

I will pluck the veil of modesty from the so seeming inistress Page, and divulge Page himself for a secure and wilful Acteon. Shaksp These answers, in the silent night receiv'd The king himself divulg'd, the land believ'd.

Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me. 2 Timothy. 10. To manage by way of intercourse or dealing; to have business; to deal.

I have bean deterred by an indisposition from having much to do with steams of so dangerous a Boyle. What had I to do with kings and courts? My humble lot had cast me far beneath them.

1. To act or behave in any manner well

or ill.

Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the Lord, neither do they after the law and commandment which the Lord commanded the children of Jacob. 2 Kings.

As every prince should govern as he would desire to be governed, so every subject ought to obey as he would desire to be obeyed, according to the maxim of doing as we would be done by.

2. To make an end; to conclude; only Temple. in the compound preterit.

You may ramble a whole day, and every moment discover something new; but when you have done, you will have but a confused notion of the place. 3. To cease to be concerned with; to Spectator. cease to care about; to desist from notice or practice: only in the compound preterit.

No men would make use of disunited parties to destroy one body, unless they were sure to master them when they had done with them.

I have done with Chaucer, when I have anStilling fleet. swered some objections. We have not yet done with assenting to propoDryden. sitions at first hearing, and understanding their Having done with such amusements, we give Locke. up what we cannot disown.

terms.

Pope.

4. To fare; to be with regard to sickness or health.

-Good woman, how dest thou?

If any thing in the world deserve our serious study and consideration, those principles of religion do. Tillotson. Take all things which relax the veins; for what does so, prevents too vigorous a motion through the arteries. Arbuthnot. 8. Do is a word of vehement command, or earnest request: as, help me, do; make haste, do.

The better that it pleases your good wor
Shaksp.

ship to ask.

5. To succeed; to fulfil a purpose.
Come, 'tis no matter; we shall do without

him.

Addison.

You would do well to prefer a bill against all kings and parliaments since the conquest; and, if that won't do, challenge the crown. 6. To deal with. Collier.

No man, who hath to do with the king, will

If thou hast lost thy land, do not also loose thy constancy; and if thou must die a little sooner. yet do not die impatiently.

Loose me.-I will free thee.

-Do, and I'll be thy slave.

Taylor.

Dryden.

9. To Do is put before verbs sometimes expletively: as, I do love, or I love ; I did love, or I loved.

The Turks do acknowledge God the Father, creator of heaven and earth, being the first Per son in the Trinity, though they deny the rest. Bacon's Holy War.

This just reproach their virtue does excite.

Expletives their feeble aid do join.

Dryden. Pope

10. Sometimes emphatically: as, I do bute bim, but will not wrong him.

Perdition catch my soul

But I do love thee; and when I love thee not,
11. Sometimes by way of opposition: as,
Chaos is come again.
Shaksp.
I did love him, but scorn him now.
DO'CIBLE. adj. [docilis, Lat.] Tracta-
To Doat. v.n. See To DOTE.
ble; docile; easy to be taught.

The asinine feast of sow-thistles and brambles is commonly set before them, as all the food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible Milton.

age. Do CIBLENESS. n. s. [from docible.] Teachableness; docility; readiness to learn.

I might enlarge in commendation of the noble hound, as also of the docibleness of dogs in general. Walton's Angler. DO'CILE. adj. [docilis, Latin.] 1. Teachable; easily instructed; tractable.

Dogs soon grow accustomed to whatever they are taught, and, being docile and tractable, are very useful. Ellis' Voyage. 2. With to before the thing taught. Soon docile to the secret acts of ill, With smiles I could betray, with temper kill. Prior. DOCILITY. n. s. [docilité, Fr. from docilitas, Latin.] Aptness to be taught; readiness to learn.

All the perfection they allowed his understanding was aptness and docility, and all that they attributed to his will was a possibility to be

virtuous.

South.

What is more admirable than the fitness of every creature for use? the docility of an ele phant, and the insitiency of a camel for travelling in desarts? Grew.

think himself safe, unless you be his good angel, Dock. n.s. [bocca, Saxon.] A plant; a

and guide him.

Bacon.

7.To Do is used for any verb, to save the repetition of the word: as, I shall come, but if I do not go away; that is, if I

come not.

Thus painters Cupids paint, thus poets do
A naked god, blind, young, with arrows two.
Sidney.

My love for gentle Dermot faster grows
Than you tall dock that rises to thy nose:
Cut down the dock, 'twill sprout again; but、
know,

Love rooted out, again will never grow. Swift.
DOCK. n. 5.

3. The stump of the tail, which remains after docking.

2. The solid part of the tail.

The tail of a great rhinoceros is not well described by Bontius. The dock is about half an inch thick, and two inches broad, like an apothecary's spatula. Grew's Museum. DOCK. n.s. [as some imagine, of doxor.] A place where water is let in or out at pleasure, where ships are built or laid

up.

The boatswain and mariner may bring religion to what dock they please. Howel.

There are docks for their gallies and men of war, as well as work-houses for all land and naval preparations.

Addison.

To Dock. v. a. [from dock, a tail.] 1. To cut off a tail.

2. To cut any thing short.

One or two stood constant centry, who docked all favours handed down; and spread a huge invisible net between the prince and subject, through which nothing of value could pass.

Swift. 3. To cut off a reckoning; to cut off an entail.

4. To lay the ship in a dock.
Do'CKET. n. s. A direction tied
upon
goods; a summary of a larger writing.

Dict.

DOCTOR. n.'s. [dactor, Latin.]
1. One that has taken the highest degree
in the faculties of divinity, law, or phy-
sick. In some universities they have
doctors of musick. In its original im-
port, it means a man so well versed in
his faculty, as to be qualified to teach
it.

No woman had it, but a civil doctor,
Who did refuse three thousand ducats of me,
And begg'd the ring.
Shaksp.
Then stood there up one in the council, a
Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of laws.

2. A man skilled in any profession.

Acts.

Then subtle doctors scriptures made their pride, Casuists, like cocks, struck out each other's eyes. Denham.

Each proselyte would vote his doctor best, With absolute exclusion to the rest. Dryden. 3. A physician; one who undertakes the cure of diseases.

By med'cine life may be prolong'd, yet death
Will seize the doctor too.

How does your patient, doctor?-
Not so sick, my lord,

Shaksp.

As she is troubled with thick coming fancies.

Shaksp.

Children will not take those medicines from the doctor's hand, which they will from a nurse or mother.

pleasure the vehicle of health, is a doctor at it in good earnest. Collier.

In truth, nine parts in ten of those who recovered, owed their lives to the strength of nature and a good constitution, while such a one happened to be the doctor. Swift.

4. Any able or learned man.

The simplest person, that can but apprehend and speak sense, is as much judge of it as the greatest doctor in the school. Digby of Bodies. To Do'CTOR. v. a. [from the noun.] To physick; to cure; to treat with medicines. A low word.

DOCTORAL. adj. [doctoralis, Lat.] Re-
lating to the degree of a doctor.
Do'CTORALLY. adv. [from doctoral.]
In manner of a doctor.

The physicians resorted to him to touch his pulse, and consider of his disease doctorally at their departure. Hakervill DOCTORSHIP. n. s. [from doctor.] The rank of a doctor.

From a scholar he became a fellow, and then the president of the college, after he had received all the graces and degrees, the proctorship and the doctorship. Clarenden. DOCTRINAL. adj. [doctrina, Latin.] 1. Containing doctrine, or something formally taught.

The verse naturally affords us the doctrinal proposition, which shall be our subject, South. 2. Pertaining to the act or means of teaching.

To this end the word of God no otherwise serveth, than only in the nature of a doctrinal instrument. Hooker.

What special property or quality is that, which, being no where found but in sermons, maketh them effectual to save souls, and leaveth all other doctrinal means besides destitute of vital efficacy? Hooker. DOCTRINAL. n. s. Something that is part of doctrine.

Not such as assent to every word in scripture, can be said in doctrinals to deny Christ. South. DOCTRINALLY. adv. [from doctrine] In the form of doctrine; positively, as, necessary to be held.

Scripture accommodates itself to common opinions, and employs the usual forms of speech, without delivering any thing doctrinally concern ing these points. Ray, DOCTRINE. n. s. [doctrina, Latin.] 1. The principles or positions of any sect or master; that which is taught.

To make new articles of faith and doctrine, no man thinketh it lawful: new laws of govern ment, what church or commonwealth is there which maketh not, either at one time or other

freedom to examine them.

Hooker.

Ye are the sons of clergy, who bring all their doctrines fairly to the light, and invite men with Atterbury That great principle in natural philosophy is the doctrine of gravitation, or mutual tendency of all bodies toward each other. 2. The act of teaching.

He said unto them in his doctrine.

Watts.

Mark.

Gov. of Tongue. Do'CUMENT. n. 5. [documentum, Latin.]

To 'pothecaries let the learn'd prescribe, That men may die without a double bribe; Let them, but under their superiors, kill, When doctors first have sign'd the bloody bill.

Dryden.

He that can cure by recreation, and make

1. Precept; instruction; direction.

It is a most necessary instruction and document for them, that as her majesty made them dispensators of her favour, so it behoveth them to shew themselves equal distributors.

Bacon.

Learners should not be too much crowded with a heap or multitude of documents or ideas at one time. Watts. 2. Precept, in an ill sense; a precept insolently authoritative, magisterially dogmatical, solemnly trifling.

Gentle insinuations pierce, as oil is the most penetrating of all liquors; but in magisterial do cuments men think themselves attacked, and stand upon their guard. Government of the Tongue. It is not unnecessary to digest the documents of cracking authors into several classes. Harvey. DO'DDER. n. s. [touteren, to shoot up, Dutch. Skinner.]

Dedder is a singular plant: when it first
shoots from the seed it has little roots, which
pierce the earth near the roots of other plants;
but the capillaments of which it is formed soon
after clinging about these plants, the roots wi-
ther away. From this time it propagates itself
along the stalks of the plant, entangling itself
about them. It has no leaves, but consists of
capillaments or stalks, brownish with a cast of
red, which run to great lengths. They have
tubercles, which fix them fast down to the plant,
and by means of which they absorb the juices
destined for its nourishment.
DO'DDERED. adj. [from dodder.] Over-
Hill.
grown with dodder; covered with su-
percrescent plants.

Near the earth a laurel grew,
Dodder'd with age, whose boughs encompass

round

The household gods, and shade the holy ground.
Dryden's Eneid.

The peasants were enjoin'd
Sere-wood, and firs, and dodder'd oaks to find.
Dryden's Fables.

DODECAGON. n. 5. [dwdexa and yasia.]
A figure of twelve sides.
DODECATE MORION.N. S. [δωδεκατημόριον.]
The twelfth part.

which no more than one can get in at a time. Do'DKIN. n. s. [duytken, Dutch.] A doitSwift. kin, or little doit; a contemptuous name for a low coin.

"Tis dodecatemorion thus describ'd:
Thrice ten degrees, which every sign contains,
Let twelve exhaust, that not one part remains;
It follows streight, that every twelfth confines
Two whole and one half portion of the signs.
Creech.

To DODGE. v. n.
from dog; to shift, and play sly tricks,
[probably corrupted
like a dog.] The word in all its senses

is low and vulgar.

I would not buy them for a dodkin.

Do'DMAN. z. s. The name of a fish.
Lily's Grammar construed.

Fish that cast their shell are the lobster, the crab, the craw-fish, the hodmandod or dodman, DOE. n. s. [da, Saxon; daa, Danish; and the tortoise. Bacon. dama, Latin.] A she deer; the female of a buck.

1. To use craft; to deal with tergiversation; to play mean tricks; to use low shifts.

Then but forbear your food a little while,
While, like a doe, I go to find my fawn,
And give it food." Shakspeare's As you like it.
Bucks have horns, does none. Bacon's N. Hist.
The fearful doe

And flying stag amidst they greyhounds go.
Doɛ. n. s. [from To do.] A feat; what
Dryden's Virgil.
one has to do; what one can perform.
No sooner he does peep into
The world, but he has done his doc. Hudibras.
Do'ER. n. s. [from To do.]
1. One that does any thing good or bad.
So foul a thing, O! thou injustice art,
That tort'rest both the doer and distrest. Daniel.
It may be indeed a publick crime, or a na-
tional mischief; yet it is but a private act, and
the doer of it may chance to pay his head for
his presumption.

If in good offices and due retributions we may not be pinching and niggardly, it argues an earthly and ignoble mind, where we have apparently wronged, to higgle and dedge in the Hale's Contemplation.

amends.

2. Actor; agent.

South.

Sith thus far we open the things that have been done, let not the principal doers themselves be forgotten.

3.

Performer.

Hooker.

One judgeth the prize to the best doer, of which they are no less glad than great princes are of triumphs. Sidney. 4. An active, or busy, or valiant person. Fear not my lord, we will not stand to prate; Talkers are no good doers: be assur'd, We go to use our hands, and not our tongues. Shakspeare.

5.

They are great speakers but small doers; greaOne that habitually performs or practer in shew than in deed. Knolles' History.

tises.

Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Common Prayer. › In this we shew ourselves weak, and unapt to be doers of his will, in that we take upon us to be controllers of his wisdom. Hooker. DOES. The third person from do, for dotb. Though lending to foreigners, upon use, not at all alter the balance of trade between those countries, yet it does alter the exchange between those countries. Locke.

doth

The consideration should make men grow To DOFF. v. a. [from do off.] The word

weary of dodging and shewing tricks with God.

South.

2. To shift place as another approaches.
For he had, any time this ten years full,
Dedg'd with him betwixt Cambridge and the
Bull.
Milton.

3. To play fast and loose; to raise expec-
tations and disappoint them.
You know my passion for Martha, and what
a dance she has led me; she dodged with me
above thirty years.
Addison.

The chaffering with dissenters, and dodging about this or t'other ceremony, is but like opening a few wickets, and leaving them a-jar, by

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