assist their parents, or encourage them with new hopes of posterity. Bentley. To ADOPT. v. a. [adopto, Lat.] Whether, adopted to some neighb'ring star, Thou tread'st with seraphims the vast abyss. We are seldom at ease, from the solicitation of our natural or adopted desires; but a constant succession of uneasinesses (out of that stock, which natural wants or acquired habits have heaped-up) take the will in their turns. Locke. ADOPTEDLY. adv. [from adopted.] Af ter the manner of something adopted. Adoptedly, as school-maids change their names, By vain (though apt) affection. Shakespeare. ADOPTER. n. s. [from adopt.] He, that gives some one by choice the rights of a son. ADOPTION. n. s. [adoptio, Lat.] 1. The act of adopting, or taking to one's self what is not native. 2. The state of being adopted. My bed shall be abused, my reputation gnawn at; and I shall not only receive this villainous wrong, but stand under the adoption of abominable teams; and by him, that does me the wrong. Shakespeare. She purpos'd, When she had fitted you with her craft, to work Her son into th' adoption of the crown. Shakesp. In every act of our Christian worship, we are taught to call upon him under the endearing character of our Father; to remind us of our adoption; that we are made heirs of God, and joint heirs of Christ. Rogers's Sermons. ADOPTIVE, adj. [adoptivus, Lat.] 1. He that is adopted by another, and made his son. It is impossible, an elective monarch should be so free and absolute, as an hereditary; no more than it is possible for a father, to have so full power and interest in an adoptive son, as in a natural. Bacon. 2. He that adopts another, and makes him his son. An adopted son cannot cite his adoptive father into court, without his leave. Ayliffe's Parergon. ADORABLE. adj. [adorable, Fr.] That, which ought to be adored; that, which is worthy of divine honours. 'On these two, the love of God and our neigh bour, hang both the law and the prophets,' says the adorable Author of Christianity; and the Apostle says, the end of the law is charity. 'Cheyne. ADO'RABLENESS. n. s. [from adorable.] The quality of being adorable; worthiness of divine honours. ADORABLY. adv. [from adorable.] In a manner worthy of adoration. ADORATION. n. s. [adoratio, Lat.] 1. The external homage paid to the Divinity, distinct from mental reverence. Solemn and serviceable worship we name, for distinction sake, whatsoever belongeth to the church (or publick society) of God, by way of external adoration. Hooker. It is possible to suppose, that those, who believe or esteem. O ceremony! shew me but thy worth! What is thy toll, O adoration! Art thou nought else, but place, degree, and form, Wherein thou art less happy, being fear'd, What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poison'd flattery? Shakesp. Henry V. To ADORE. v. a. [adoro, Lat.] 1. To worship with external homage; to pay divine honours. The mountain nymphs and Themis they adore, And from her oracles relief implore. Dryden. 2. It is used popularly, to denote a high degree of reverence or regard; to reverence; to honour; to love. The people appear adoring their prince, and their prince adoring God. Tatler, No. 57. Make future times thy equal act adore; And be, what brave Orestes was before. Pope's Ody. ADO'REMENT. n. s. [from adore.] Adoration; worship: a word scarcely used. The priests of elder times deluded their apprehensions, with sooth-saying, and such oblique idolatries; and won their credulities to the literal and downright adorement, of cats, lizards, and beetles. Brown's Vulgar Errours. ADO'RER. n. s. [from adore.] 1. He, that adores; a worshipper; a term, generally used in a low sense; as, by lovers, or admirers. 2. Being so far provoked (as I was) in France, I would abate her nothing; though I profess myself her adorer, not her friend. Shakesp. Cymbeline. Whilst as th' approaching pageant does appear, And echoing crowds speak mighty Venus near; I, her adorer, too devoutly stand, Fast on the utmost margin of the land. Prior. A worshipper; in a serious sense. He was so severe an adorer of truth, as not to dissemble; or to suffer any man to think, that he would do any thing, which he resolved not to do. To ADORN v. a. [udorno, Lat.] 1. To dress; to deck the person 2. 3. naments. Clarendon. with or He hath clothed me, with the garments of salvation; he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness; as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. Isa. Ixi. 10. Yet 'tis not to adorn and gild each part, That shews more cost than art; Jewels, at nose and lips, but ill appear. Cowley. To set out any place or thing, with de corations. A gallery, adorned with the pictures or statues of the invention of things useful to human life. Cowley. To embellish with oratory, or elegance of language. This will supply men's tongues, with many new things; to be named, adorned, and described, in their discourse, Sprat. Thousands there are, in darker fame that dwell, Whose names some nobler poem shall adorn; For, tho' unknown to me, they sure fought well. Dryden. ADO'RN. adj. [from the verb.] Adorned; decorated: a word, peculiar to Milton. She'll to realities yield all her shows; Made so adorn, for thy delight the more. Milton. AD'ORNMENT. n. s. [from adorn.] Ornament; embellishment; elegance not now in use. This attribute was not given to the earth, while it was confused: nor to the heavens, before they had motion and adornment. Raleigh's History of the World. She held the very garment of Posthamuos, in more respect, than my noble and natural person, together with the adornment of my qualities. Shakesp. Cymbeline. ADO'WN. adv. [from a and down.] Down; on the ground. Thrice did she sink adown, in deadly sound; And thrice he her reviv'd, with busy pain. Fairy Queen. ADO'WN. prep. Down; towards the ground; from a higher situation, towards a lower. In this remembrance, Emily, ere day Arose, and dress'd herself in rich array; Fresh as the month, and as the morning fair: Adown her shoulders fell her length of hair. Dryd. ADRE"AD. adv. [from a and dread; as, aside, athirst, asleep.] In a state of fear; frighted; terrified: now obsolete. And thinking, to make all men adread to such a one; an enemy, who would not spare nor fear, to kill so great a prince. Sidney. ADRIFT. adv. [from a and drift, from drive.] Floating at random; as any impulse may drive. It seem'd a corps adrift, to distant sight; But, at a distance, who could judge aright? Dryd. The custom of frequent reflection will keep their minds, from running adrift; and call their thoughts home, from useless unattentive roving. Locke on Education. ADROIT. adj. [French.] Dextrous; active; skilful. An adroit stout fellow would sometimes destroy a whole family, with justice apparently against him the whole time. Jervas's Don Quixote. ADRO'ITNESS. n. s. [from adroit.] Dexterity; readiness; activity. Neither this word, nor adriot, seem yet completely naturalized. ADRY'. adv. [from a and dry.] Athirst; thirsty; in want of drink. He never told any of them, that he was his humble servant, but his well-wisher; and would rather be thought a malecontent, than drink the Spectator. king's health when he was not adry. ADSCITI'TIOUS. adj. [adscititius, Lat.] That, which is taken in, to complete something else, though originally extrinsick; supplemental, additional. ADSTRICTION. n. s. [adstrictio, Lat.] The act of binding together; and applied generally, to medicaments and applications, which have the power of making the part contract. To ADVANCE. v. a. [avancer, Fr.] 1. 2. 3. To bring forward, in the local sense. Now morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl. Milt. To raise to preferment; to aggrandize. He hath been ever constant, in his course of advancing me; from a private gentlewoman, he made me a marchioness; and from a marchioness, a queen; and now he intends to crown my innocency, with the glory of martyrdom. Bacon. The declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him. Esther, x. 2. To improve. What laws can be advised more proper and effectual, to advance the nature of man to its highest perfection, than these precepts of Christianity? F Tillotson 4. To heighten; to grace; to give lustre Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own, But catch the spreading notion of the town. Pope. To ADVANCE. v. n. 1. To come forward. At this the youth, whose vent'rous soul No fears of magic art controul, Advanc'd in opeu sight. 2. To make improvement. Parnel. They, who would adrance in knowledge, and not deceive and swell themselves with a little articulated air, should not take words for real entities in nature, till they can frame clear and distinct ideas of those entities. Locke. ADVANCE. n. s. [from To advance.] 1. The act of coming forward. All the foot were put into Abington, with a resolution to quit or defend the town, according to the manner of the enemy's advance towards it. Clarendon. So, like the sun's advance, your titles shew; Which, as he rises, does the warmer grow. Waller. 2. A tendency, to come forward to meet a lover; an act of invitation. In vain are all the practis'd wiles, Can move one unrelenting heart. His genius was below The skill of ev'ry common beau ; Walsh. Swift. He has described the unworthy passion of the goddess Calypso, and the indecent advances she made to detain him from his own country. Pope. That prince applied himself, first to the Church of England and, upon their refusal to fall in with his measures, made the like advances to the DisSwift. senters. : 3. Gradual progression; rise, from point to another. one Our Saviour raised the ruler's daughter, the widow's son, and Lazarus: the first of these, when she had just expired; the second, as he was carried to the grave on his bier; and the third, after he had been some time buried. And, having (by these gradual advances) manifested his divine power, he at last exerted the highest and most glo rious degree of it; and raised himself also, by his own all-quickening virtue, and according to his own express prediction. Atterbury. This refinement makes daily advancements; and, 7. Overplus; something more, than the I hope, in time will raise our language to the Swift. The Percies of the North, Finding his usurpation most unjust, Endeavour'd my advancement to the throne. The act of advancing another. In his own grace he doth exalt himself More, than in your advancement. Shakesp. Nor can we conceive it unwelcome unto those mere lawful gain. We owe thee much: within this wall of flesh, 'There is a soul, counts thee her creditor; And, with advantage, means to pay thy love. You said, you neither lend nor borrow Upon advantage. Shakesp. Shakesp. Merch. of Venice. 8. Preponderation, on one side of the comparison. Much more should the consideration of this Shakesp. King Lear. pattern arm us with patience, against ordinary 4. Improvement; promotion to a higher calamities; especially, if we consider his example with this advantage; that though his sufferings state of excellence. were wholly undeserved, and not for himself but for us, yet he bore them patiently. Tillotson. worthies, who endeavour the advancement of learn- To ADVANTAGE. v. a. [from the noun.] ing. Brown's Vulgar Errours. 5. Settlement on a wife. This sense is 1. To benefit. now disused. 1. Superiority: often with of or over, ben. s. [avantage, Fr.] fore a person. In the practical prudence of managing such gifts, the laiety may have some advantage over the clergy; whose experience is, and ought to be, less of this world than the other. Sprat. All other sorts and sects of men would evidently have the advantage of us, and a much surer title to happiness than we. Atterbury 2. Superiority, gained by stratagem or unlawful means. The common law hath left them this benefit, whereof they make advantage, and wrest it to their bad purposes. Spenser's State of Ireland. But specially he took advantage of the night, for such privy attempts; insomuch that the bruit of his manliness was spread every where. 2 Macc. viii. 7. Great malice, backed with a great interest, yet can have no advantage of a man; but from his own expectations of something, that is without him. South's Sermons. Men of study and thought, that reason right, and are lovers of truth, do make no great advances in their discoveries of it. Locke. 5. 4. Improvement; progress towards perfection. The principle and object, of the greatest impor-6. tance (in the world) to the good of mankind, and for the advance and perfecting of human nature. Hale. ADVANCEMENT. n. s. [advancement,Fr.] 1. The act of coming forward. Give me advantage, of some brief discourse With Desdemona alone. Shakesp. Favourable circumstances. Like jewe.s to advantage set, Her beauty by the shade does get. Waller. A face, which is over-flushed, appears to advantage in the deepest scarlet; and the darkest complexion is not a little alleviated, by a black hood. Addison True wit is nature, to advantage dress'd; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. Superior excellence. The stoic (that opinioned, the souls of wise men dwelt about the moon, and those of fools wandered about the earth) advantaged the conceit of this effect. Brown's Vulgar Errours. To ennoble it with the spirit, that inspires the Royal Society, were to advantage it in one of the best capacities, in which it is improveable. Glanville's Scepsis Scientifica: ADVANTAGEABLE. adj. [from advantage.] Profitable; convenient; gainful. As it is advantageable to a physician, to be called to the cure of a declining disease; so it is for a commander, to suppress a sedition which has passed the height. Sir J. Hayward ADVANTAGED. adj. [from To advantage.] Possessed of advantages; commodiously situated or disposed. In the most advantaged tempers, this disposition is but comparative; whereas, the most of men labour under disadvantages, which nothing can rid them of. Glanville. Ground, ADVANTAGE GROUND. n.s. This excellent man, who stood not upon the advantage-ground before; from the time of his promotion to the archbishoprick, provoked or underwent the envy, and reproach, and malice, of men of all qualities and conditions; who agreed in nothing else. Clarendon. ADVANTAGEOUS. adj. [avantageux, Pope. 1. Of advantage; profitable; useful; op- A man, born with such advantage of constitution, that it adulterates not the images of his mind. Glanville. Gain; profit. For thou saidst, What advantage will it be 'unto thee, and what profit shall I have, if I be 'cleansed from my sin?' Job. Certain it is, that advantage now sits in the room of conscience; and steers all. South's Sermons. The time of sickness or affliction is, like the cool of the day to Adam, a season of peculiar propriety for the voice of God to be heard; and may be improved into a very advantageous opportunity of begetting or increasing spiritual life. Hammona Here perhaps Some advantageous act may be achiev'd, Milton 2. It is used, with relation to persons; and followed, by to. Since every painter paints himself in his own works, 'tis advantageous to him to know himself; to the end, that he may cultivate those talents, Dryden. which make his genius. ADVANTAGEOUSLY. adv. [from advantageous] Conveniently; opportunely; profitably. It was advantageously situated; there being an easy passage from it to India, by sea. Arbuthnot. ADVANTAGEOUSNESS. 2. S. [from advantageous.] Quality of being advantageous; profitableness; usefulness; convenience. The last property which qualifies God for the fittest object of our love, is the advantageousness of his to us, both in the present and the future life. Boyle's Seraphic Love. To ADVENE. v. n. [advenio, Lat.] To accede to something; to become part of something else, without being essential; to be superadded. A cause, considered in judicature, is stiled an accidental cause; and the accidental of any act is said to be, whatever advenes to the act itself already substantiated. Ayliffe's Parergon. ADVENIENT. adj. [adveniens, Lat.] Advening; coming from outward causes; superadded. Being thus divided from truth in themselves, they are yet farther removed by advenient deception; for they are daily mocked into errour, by subtler devisers. Prown's Vulgar Errours. If, to suppose the soul a distinct substance from the body, and extrinsically advenient, be a great error in philosophy; almost all the world hath been mistaken. Glanville's Vanity of Dogmatism. A'DVENT. n. s. [from adventus; that is, adventus Redemptoris.] The name of one of the holy seasons, signifying the coming; that is, the coming of our Saviour: which is made the subject of our devotion, during the four weeks before Christmas. Common Prayer. ADVENTINE. adj. [from advenio, adventum.] Adventitious; that, which is extrinsically added; that, which comes from outward causes: a word scarcely in use. As for the peregrine heat, it is thus far true; that, if the proportion of the adventine heat be greatly predominant to the natural heat and spirits of the body, it tendeth to dissolution or notaBacon ble alteration. ADVENTITIOUS. adj. [adventitius, Lat.] That, which advenes; accidental; supervenient; extrinsically added, not essentially inherent. Diseases of continuance get an adventitious strength from custom, besides their material cause from the humours. Bacon. Though we may call the obvious colours natural, and the others adventitious; yet such changes of colours, from whatsoever cause they proceed, may be properly taken in. Boyle. If his blood boil, and the adventitious fire (Rais'd by high meats, and higher wines) require To temper and allay the burning heat; Waters are brought, which by decoction get Dryden. New coolness. In the gem kind, of all the many sorts reckonedup by lapidaries, there are not above three or four that are original; their diversities, as to lustre, colour, and hardness, arising from the different admixture of other adventitious mineral matter. Woodward. That the natives be not so many, but that there may be elbow-room enough for them, and for the Bacon. adventives also. ADVENTUAL adj. [from advent.] Relating to the season of advent. I do also daily use one other collect; as, namely, the collects adventual, quadragesimal, paschal, or pentecostal, for their proper seasons. Bishop Saunderson. ADVENTURE. n. s. [Fr.] 1. An accident; a chance; a hazard; an event, of which we have no direction. The general summoned three castles: one, desperate of succour, and not desirous to dispute the defence, presently yielded; but two stood upon Hayward. their adventure. 2. In this sense is used the phrase, at al! adventures; [à l'aventure, Fr.] By chance; without any rational scheme. Blows flew at all adventures; wounds and deaths, given and taken unexpected; many scarce knowing their enemies, from their friends." Hayward. Where the mind does not perceive probable connection, there men's opinions are the effects of chance and hazard; of a mind, floating at all adventures, without choice and without direction. Locke. 3. The occasion of casual events; an en terprise, in which something must be left to hazard. 4. For I must love, and am resolv'd to try My fate; or, failing in th' adventure, die. Dryden. This noun, with all its derivatives, is frequently written without ad; as, venture, venturous. To ADVENTURE. v. n. [ aventure. Fr.] To try the chance; to dare. Be not angry, Most mighty princess, that I have adventur'd To try your taking of a false report. Shakespeare. The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her the ground, for delicateness and tenderDeut. xxviii. 26. foot upon ness. To ADVENTURE. v. a. To put into the power of chance. For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far; and delivered you, out of the hand of Midian. Judges, ix. 17. It is often used with the reciprocal pronoun; as, he adventured himself. ADVENTURER. n. s. [ aventurier, Fr.] He, that seeks occasions of hazard; he, that puts himself in the hands of chance. He is a great adventurer, said he, That hath his sword through hard assay foregone. Spenser. The kings of England did not make the conquest of Ireland: it was begun, by particular adventurers, and other voluntaries, who came to seek Sir J. Davies. their fortunes. He intended, to hazard his own action; that so the more easily he might win adventurers, who else were like to be less forward. Raleigh. Had it not been for the British, which the late wars drew over; and adventurers or soldiers, seated here; Ireland had, by the last war and plague, Temple. been left destitute. Their wealthy trade from pirate's rapine free, Our merchants shall no more advent rers be. Dryden. ADVENTUROUS. adj. [ aventureux, Fr.] 1. He, that is inclined to adventures; and, consequently, bold, daring, courageous. At land and sea, in many a doubtful fight, Was never known a more advent'rous knight; Who oftner drew his sword, and always for the right. Dryden. ADVENTIVE. n. s. [from advenio, Lat.] The thing or person, that comes from 2. Applied to things; that, which is full without a word not now in use. of hazard; which requires courage; dangerous. But I've already troubled you too long; Nor dare attempt a more advent'rous song: My humble verse demands a softer theme; A painted meadow, or a purling stream. Addison. ADVENTUROUSLY. adv. [from adventurous.] After an adventurous manner; boldly; daringly. They are both hanged; and so would this be, if he durst steal any thing adventurously. Shakespeare's Henry V ADVENTURESOME. adv. [from adventure.] The same, with adventurous; a low word, scarcely used in writing. ADVENTURESOMENESS. n. s. [from adventuresome.] The quality of being adDict. ADVERB. n. s. [adverbium, Lat.] A word, joined to a verb or adjective; and solely applied, to the use of qualifying and restraining the latitude of their signification, by the intimation of some circumstance thereof; as, of quality, manner, degree. venturesome. Clarke's Latin Grammar. Thus we say, he runs swiftly; the bird flies aloft; he lives virtuously. ADVERBIAL. adv. [adverbialis, Lat.] That, which has the quality or structure of an adverb. ADVERBIALLY adv. [adverbialiter, Lat.] Like an adverb; in the manner of an adverb. I should think, alta was joined adverbially with tremit; did Virgil make use of so equivocal a synAddison. tax. ADVERSABLE. adj. [from adverse.] Dict. Contrary to; opposite to. ADVERSARIA. n. s. [Lat. A book, as it should seem, in which Debtor and Creditor were set in opposition.] A common-place; a book to note in. These parchments are supposed to have been St. Paul's adversaria. Bull's Sermons. A'DVERSARY. n. s. [adversaire, Fr. adversarius, Lat.] An opponent; antagonist; enemy; generally applied to those, that have verbal or judicial quarrels; as controvertists or litigants: sometimes, to an opponent in single combat. It may sometimes imply an open profession of enmity; as we say, a secret enemy is worse than an open adversary. Yet am I noble, as the adversary 1 come to cope. Shakesp. King Lear Those rites and ceremonies of the church therefore (which are the self-same now, that they were, when holy and virtuous men maintained them, against profane and deriding adversaries) her own Hooker. children have in derision. Mean while th' adversary of God and man, Satan, with thoughts inflam'd of highest design, Milton. Puts on swift wings. An adversary makes a stricter search into us, and discovers every flaw and imperfection in our tempers: a friend exaggerates a man's virtues; Addison. an enemy inflames his crimes. ADVERSATIVE. adj. [adversativus, Lat.] A term of grammar, applied to a word, which makes some opposition or variety; as, in this sentence; This diamond is orient, but it is rough: But is an adversative conjunction. 35 ADVERSE. adj. [adversus, Lat.] In prose, it has now the accent on the first syllable; in verse, it is accented on the first by Shakespeare; on either, indifferently, by Milton; on the last, by Dryden; on the first, by Roscommon. 1. Acting with contrary directions; as, two bodies in collision. Was I, for this, nigh wreckt upon the sea; Milton. With adverse blast upturns them from the south, A cloud of smoke envelopes either host; 2. Figuratively; contrary to the wish or and violence? snares, Milton. Some, the prevailing malice of the great (Unhappy men!) or adverse fate Sunk deep, into the gulfs of an afflicted state. 3. Personally opponent; the person, that Well she saw her father was grown her adverse party; and yet her fortune such, as she must favour her rivals. Sidney. ADVERSITY. n. s. [adversité, Fr.] Af fliction; calamity; that is, opposition to our wishes. 1. The cause of our sorrow; affliction; misfortune. In this sense, it have may a plural. Let me embrace these sour adversities; For wise men say, it is the wisest course. Shakesp. Henry VI. 2. The state of unhappiness; misery. Concerning deliverance itself from all adversity, we use not to say, Men are in adversity,' whensoever they feel any small hindrance of their welfare in this world; but, when some notable affliction or cross, some great calamity or trouble, befalleth them. Sweet are the uses of adversity; In which wide frame, more noble worlds abound;| We sometimes say, To advert the Christianity may make Archimedes his chal- Too much advertency is not your talent; or else you had fled from that text, as from a rock. Swift. ADVERTENT. adj. [from advert.] Attentive; vigilant; heedful. This requires choice parts, great attention of Hale's Origin of Mankind. 2. The bishop did require a respite, As I by friends am well advertised; I hope, ye will advertise me fairly, of what they Ferhates, understanding that Soly man expected sence. 3. To give notice of any thing, by means Hooker. ADVERTISEMENT,orADVERTISEMENT, Shakespeare. A remembrance of the great use he had made of prosperity, contributed to support his mind under the heavy weight of adversity, which then lay upon him. Atterbury. ADVERSELY. adv. [from adverse.] In an adverse manner; oppositely; unfortunately. What I think, I utter, and spend my malice in my breath if the drink you give me, touch my palate adversely; I make a crooked face at it. Shakesp. To ADVERT. n. v. [adverto, Lat.] To attend to; to regard; to observe: with the particle to, before the object of regard. The mind of man being not capable, at once to advert to more than one thing; a particular view and examination of such an innumerable number of vast bodies, will afford matter of admiration. Ray on the Creation. Now to the universal whole advert: 2. -Tis all men's office, to speak patience Then, as a cunning prince, that useth spies, Sir John Davies. Clarendon. The drum and trumpet, by their several sounds, serve for many kinds of advertisements, in military affairs; the bells serve, to proclaim a scare-fire; and, in some places, water-breaches; the depar As I was then To ADVE'SPERATE. v. n. [advespero, Lat.] 1. Counsel; instruction: except that, instruction implies superiority, and advice may be given by equals or inferiors. Break we our watch up; and, by my advice, Let us impart, what we have seen to-night, Unto young Hamlet. Shakesp. Hamlet. O troubled, weak and coward as thou art! Without thy poor advice, the lab'ring heart To worse extremes with swifter steps would run ; Not sav'd by virtue, yet by vice undone. Prior. 2. Reflection; prudent consideration: as, he always acts with good advice. What he hath won, that he hath fortified : So hot a speed, with such advice dispos'd; Such temperate order, in so fierce a course; Doth want example. Shakesp. King John. 3. Consultation; deliberation: with the particle with. Great princes, taking advice with workmen, 4. Intelligence: as, the merchants receiv- Some judge it advisable for a man, to account It is not advisable to reward, where men have the tenderness not to punish. L'Estrange's Fables. ADVISABLENESS. n. s. [from advisable.] The quality of being advisable, or fit; fitness; propriety. To ADVI'SE. v. a. [adviser, Fr.] If you do stir abroad, go arm'd.- -Brother, I advise you to the best. Shakesp. King Lear. I would advise all gentlemen, to learn merchants accounts; and not to think it a skill, that belongs not to them. Locke. When I consider the scruples and cautions, I here lay in your way; methinks it looks, as if I advised you to something which I would have offered at, but in effect not done. Locke. 2. To give information; to inform; to make acquainted with any thing: often with the particle of, before the thing told, 1. To consult: with the particle with, before the person consulted; as, he advised with his companions. 2. To consider; to deliberate. Advise, if this be worth Attempting; or to sit in darkness here, Hatching vain empires. Milton's Par. Lost, b. ii. ADVISED. participial adj. [from advise.] 1. Acting with deliberation and design; prudent; wise. Let his travel appear, rather in his discourse, than in his apparel or gesture; and, in his discourse, let him be rather adrised in his answers, than forward to tell stories. Bacon's Essays. Th' Almighty Father, where he sits Shrin'd in his sanctuary of heav'n secure, Consulting on the sum of things foreseen, This tumult (and permitted all) advis'd. Paradise Lost, b. vi. 2. Performed with deliberation; done on purpose; acted with design. By that, which we work naturally (as, when we breathe, sleep, and move) we set forth the glory of God, as natural agents do; albeit we have no express purpose, to make that our end; nor any advised determination, therein to follow a law. Hooker, b. i. p. 49. In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft, I shot his fellow of the self-same flight, The self-same way, with more advised watch, To find the other forth; by vent'ring both, I oft found both. Shakesp. Mercht. of Venice. ADVISEDLY. adv. [from advised.] Soberly; heedfully; deliberately; purposely; by design; prudently. This book, advisedly read and diligently followed but one year at home, would do more good, than three years travel abroad. Ascham Surprise may be made by moving things, when the party is haste; and cannot stay, to consider advisedly of that which is moved. Here, free from court compliances, he walks; And with himself, his best adviser, talks. Waller. They never fail of their most artful and indefatigable address, to silence this impertinent adviser, whose severity awes their excesses. Rogers's Sermons. 2. ADULATION. n. s. [adulation, Fr. adulatio, Lat] Flattery; high compliment. O be sick, great Greatness! And bid thy ceremony give thee cure. Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out With titles blown from adulatiom? Shakesp. Hen.V. They, who flattered him most before; mention ed him now with the greates bitterness; without imputing the least crime to him, committed since the time of that exalted adulation; or that was not then as much known to them, as it could be now. Clarendon. My blood is mingled, with the grime of lust; Being strumpeted by thy contagion. Shakespeare's Comedy of Errours, -That incestuous, that adulterate beast. Shakesp. Corrupted, with some foreign mixture. It does indeed differ no more, than the maker of adulterate wares does from the vender of them. Government of the Tongue. They will have all their gold and silver; and may keep their adulterate copper at home. Swift's Miscellanies. ADULTERATENESS. n. s. [from adulterate.] The quality or state, of being adulterate or counterfeit. ADULTERATION. ADULATOR. n. s. [adulator, Lat.] A1. flatterer. Dict. They would appear less able to approve themselves, not only to the confessor, but even to the catechist, in their adult age; than they were, in their minority; as having scarce ever thought of the principles of their religion, since they conned Decay of Piety. them to avoid correction. The earth (by these applauded schools 'tis said) This single crop of men and women bred; Who grown adult, so chance (it seems) enjoin'd, Did, male and female, propagate their kind. Blackmore. a ADULT. n. s. A person above the age of infancy, or grown to some degree of strength; sometimes, full grown: word used chiefly by medicinal writers. The depression of the cranium, without a fracture, can but seldom occur; and then it happens to children, whose bones are more pliable and soft, than those of adults. Sharpe's Surgery. ADULTNESS. n. s. [from adult.] The state of being adult. See ADOLESDict. CENCE. To ADULTER. v.a. [adulterer, Fr. adultero, Lat.] To commit adultery with another; a word not classical. His chaste wife He adulters still: his thoughts lie with a whore. Ben Jonson. ADULTERANT. n. s. [adulterans, Lat.] The person or thing, which adulterates. To ADULTERATE. v. a. [adulterer, Fr. adultero, Lat.] Bacon, Essay xxiii. Thou stilest second thoughts (by all allowed the best) a relapse; and accusest constancy of mischief, in what is natural, and advisedly undertaken. Sir John Suckling. ADVISEDNESS. n. s. [from advised.] Deliberation; cool and prudent procedure. While things are in agitation, private men may modestly tender their thoughts to the considera-1. tion of those, that are in authority; to whose care it belongeth, in prescribing concerning indifferent things, to proceed with all just advisedness and moderation. Saunderson's Judgment in one View. ADVISEMENT. n. s. [advisement, Fr.] 1. Counsel; information. To commit adultery. But fortune (oh!) Adulterates hourly with thine uncle John. Shakesp. 2. To corrupt by some foreign admixture; to contaminate. Common pot-ashes, bought of them, that sell it in shops; who are not so foolishly knavish, as to adulterate them with salt-petre, which is much dearer than pot-ashes. Boyle. Could a man be composed to such an advantage of constitution, that it should not at all adulterate the images of his mind; yet this second nature would alter the crasis of his understanding. Glanville's Scepsis Scientifica, c. xvi. The present war has so adulterated our tongue, with strange words; that it would be impossible for one of our great-grandfathers, to know what his posterity has been doing. Spectator. ADULTERATE. adj. [from To adulterate.] 1. Tainted with the guilt of adultery. I am possess'd with an adulterate blot; rate.] n. s. [from adulte The act of adulterating or corrupting, by foreign mixture; contamination. To make the compound pass for the rich metal simple, is an adulteration or counterfeiting: but if it be done avowedly, and without disguising, it may be a great saving of the richer metal. Bacon's Natural History, No. 798. 2. The state, of being adulterated or contaminated. Such translations are like the adulteration of the noblest wines; where something of the colour, spirit,and flavour, will remain. Felton on the Classics. ADULTERER. n. s. [adulter, Lat.] The person guilty of adultery. With what impatience must the muse behold The wife, by her procuring husband sold; For, tho' the law makes null th' auulterer's deed Of lands to her, the cuckold may succeed. Dryden's Juvenal. ADULTERESS. n. s. [from adulterer.] A woman that commits adultery. The Spartan lady replied, when she was asked, What was the punishment for adultresses? There are no such things here. Govern, of the Tongue, § 3. Helen's rich attire, From Argos by the fam'd adult'ress brought, With golden flow 'rs and winding foliage wrought. ADULTERINE. n. s. [adulterine, Fr. adulDryden's Virgil. terinus, Lat] A child born of an adulteress: a term of canon law. ADULTEROUS. adj. [adulter, Lat.] Guilty of adultery. The adulterous Antony, most large In his abominations, turns you off; And gives his potent regiment to a trull, That noses it against us. Shakesp. Ant. and Cleop. An adulterous person is tied to restitution of the injury, so far as it is reparable; and to make provision for the children, that they may not injure the legitimate. Taylor. Think on whose faith th' adult'rous youth rely'd; Who promis'd, who procur'd the Spartan bride. Dryden's Æneid. ADULTERY. n. s. [adulterium, Lat.] The act, of violating the bed of a married person. All thy domestic griefs at home be left, The wife's adult'ry, with the servant's theft; And(the most racking thought which can intrude) Forget false friends, and their ingratitude. Dryden's Juvenal. ADU'MBRANT. adj. [from adumbrate.] That, which gives a slight resemblance. To ADUMBRATE. v. a. [from adumbro, Lat.] To shadow out; to give a slight likeness; to exhibit a faint resemblance, like that, which shadows afford of the bodies which they represent. Heaven is designed for our reward, as well as rescue; and therefore is adumbrated by all those positive excellencies, which can endear or recommend. Decay of Piety. |