mistaken. SU'PINE. n. s. [supin, Fr. supinum, Lat.]]4. The sense in this passage seems to be For such doctrines as depend merely upon in- SUPPLA'NTER. n. s. [from supplant.] No women are apter to spin linen well than the other women of the poorer condition in England. SUPINENESS. n.s. [from supine.] ness. [from supine.] The fourth cause of errour is a supinity or neglect of enquiry, even in matters wherein we doubt, rather believing than going to see. Brown's lul. Er. SUPPEDA NEOUS. adj. [sub and pes, Lat.] Placed under the feet. Brown. 4. hen we 've stuff'd If punishment reaches not the mind, and makes There is something so supple and insinuating Each part depriv'd of supple government, Shakesp. He had slender legs, but encreased by riding To SU'PPLE. v. a. [from the adjective.] after meals; that is, the humour descended upon their pendulosity, they having no support or sub-1. To make pliant ; to make soft; to make pedaneous stability. flexible. SUPPER. n. s. [souper, Fr. See SUP.] The last meal of the day; the evening repast. To-night we hold a solemn supper. I'll to my book: For yet, ere supper-time must I perform Shak. Shakesp. Tempest. Th' hour of supper comes unearn'd. His physicians, after his great fever that he had in Oxford, required him to eat suppers. Fell. SUPPERLESS. adj. [from supper.] Wanting supper; fasting at night. Suppose a man's going supperless to bed, should introduce him to the table of some great prince. Spectator. She eyed the bard, where supperless he sat, And pin'd, unconscious of his rising fate. Pope. To SUPPLANT. v. a. [supplanter, Fr. sub and planta, Lat.] 1. To trip up the heels. His legs entwining Each other, till supplanted down he fell 2. Poultices allaying pain, drew down the hu- Knaves having, by their own importunate suit, A mother persisting till she had bent her daugh To SUPPLE. v. n. To grow soft; to grow The stones Did first the rigour of their kind expel, 1. Addition to any thing by which its de- Unto the word of God, being in respect of not reap by the scriptures perfection that fruit will subscribe, and say, I wrong'd the duke. Shak. Suspecting that the courtier had supplanted the friend. onal; such as may supply the place et what is lost or wanting. Supplemental acts of state were made to supply defects of laws; and so tonnage and poundage were collected. Clarendon Divinity would not then pass the yard and loom, nor preaching be taken in as an easier ap plementary trade, by those that disliked the pains of their own. Decay of Piety Provide is brood, next Smithfield fair, With supplemental hobby horses; And happy be their infant courses. Priar. SUPPLENESS. n. s. [souplesse, Fr. from supple.] 1. Pliantness; flexibility; readiness to take any form. The fruit is of a pleasant taste, caused by the suppleness and gentleness of the juice, being that which maketh the boughs also so flexible. Bacon's Natural History. 2. Readiness of compliance; facility. Study gives strength to the mind, conversation grace; the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness. Tempia A compliance and suppleness of their wills, being by a steady hand introduced by parents, wi seem natural to them, preventing all occasions of struggling. Locke SU PPLETORY. adj. [from suppleo, Lat.] That suppletory of an implicit belief is by R»- Prior. To bow the haughty neck, and raise the suppliant knee. SUPPLIANT. n. s. [from the adjective.] An humble petitioner; one who begs submissively. A petition from a Florentine I undertook, Hourly suitors come : The wise supplicant, though he prayed for the condition he thought most desirable, yet left the event to God, Rogers Abraham, instead of indulging the supplicant in his desire of new evidence, refers him to what his brethren had. Atterbury. To SUPPLICATE. v. n. [(supplier, Fr. supplico, Lat. from supplex.] To implore; to entreat; to petition submissively and humbly. Many things a man cannot with any comeliness say or do; a man cannot brook to "supplicate of beg. Bacon. Thither the kingdoms and the nations come, In supplicating crowds, to learn their doom. Ass SUPPLICATION. n.s. [supplication, Fr. from supplicate.] ment.] Additi-1. Petition humbly delivered; entreaty. As if Olympus to a mole-hill should Shakesp Coriolanus. 2. Petitionary worship; the adoration of. Berd thine ear These prove the common practice of the worship of images in the Roman church, as to the rites of supplication and adoration, to be as extravagant as among the heathens. Stillingfleet. We should testify our dependence upon God, and our confidence of his goodness, by constant prayers and supplications for mercy. Tillotson TO SUPPLY. v. a. [suppleo, Lat. sup pléer, Fr.] 1. To fill up as any deficiencies happen. Out of the fry of these rakehell horseboys are! their kearn supplied and maintained. Spenser. 2. To give something wanted; to yield; to afford. They were princes that had wives, sons, aud nephews and yet all these could not supply the comfort of friendship. Bacon I wanted nothing fortune could supply, Although I neither lend nor borrow, Burning ships the banish'd sun supply, Sighs to my breast, and sorrow to my eyes. Prior. 6. To fill any room made vacant. Upstart creatures to supply our vacant room. The sun was set; and Vesper, to supply Your honour, name, My lover, turning away several old servants, supplied me with others from his own house. Swift. SUPPLY'. n. s. [from the verb.] Relief of want; cure of deficiences. I mean that now your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want. 2 Cor. viii. 14. Art from that fund each just supply provides, Works without show, and without pomp presides. Pope. To SUPPORT. v. a. [supporter, Fr. supportare, Ital.] 1. To sustain; to prop; to bear up. Stooping to support each flow'r of tender stalk. Milton. To sustain; to keep from fainting. 1. 2. Act or power of sustaining. Though the idea we have of a horse or stone be but the collection of those several sensible qualities which we find united in them; yet, because we cannot conceive how they should subsist alone, we suppose them existing in and supported by some common subject, which support we denote by the name substance, though it be certain we have no clear idea of that support. Locke. Prop; sustaining power. 3. Necessaries of life. As great to me, as late; and, supportable I wish that whatever part of misfortunes they SUPPO'RTABLENESS. n. s. [from sup- } Shakesp 2. 3. The palace built by Picus, vast and proud, Strongly to suffer and support our pains. Milton. Bacon. You must walk by us upon either hand, Love was no more, when loyalty was gone, The great supporters of his awful throne. Dryden. 5. Supporters. n. s. pl. [In heraldry.] Beasts that support the arms. SUPPO'SABLE. adj [from suppose.] That may be supposed. Invincible ignorance is, in the far greatest number of men, ready to be confronted against the necessity of their believing all the severals of any supposable catalogue. Hammond. SUPPO'SAL. n. s. [from suppose.] Position without proof; imagination; belief. Young Fortinbras, Holding a weak supposal of our worth, Shakesp. Little can be looked for towards the advancement of natural theory, but from those that are likely to mend our prospect: the defect of events, and sensible appearances, suffer us to proceed no further towards science, than to imperfect guesses and timorous supposals. Glanville's Scepsis, Preface. When this comes, our former supposal of sufficient grace, as of the preaching of the word, and God's calls, are utterly at an end. Hammond. Interest, with a Jew, never proceeds but upon supposal at least of a firm and sufficient bottom. South. port, is not represented to the mind by any dis-4. tinct idea. Prop; that by which any thing is borne up from falling. More might be added of helms, crests, mantles. and supporters. Camden. 5. I suppose we should compel them to a quick result. Milton. To require as previous. This supposeth something, without evident ground. Hale. To make reasonably supposed. One falsehood always supposes another, and renders all you can say suspected. Female Quizotte. To put one thing by fraud in the place of another. you, The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured. 6. Bacon. We shall be discharged of our load; but The saints have a companion and supporter in Maintainer; defender. SUPPO'SE. n. s. [from the verb.] Sup- We come short of our suppose so far, stand. Shak. Dryden's Cleomenes. The beginning of the earl of Essex I must attribute in great part to my I rd of Leicester; but SUPPO'SER. n. s. [from suppose.] One yet as an introducer or supporter, not as a teacher. Wetton. that counterfeits. Thou hast by marriage made thy daughter mine While counterfeit supposers bleer'd thine eyne. Shakerp SUPPOSITION. n. s. [supposition, Fr. from suppose.] Position laid down, hypothesis; imagination yet unproved. In saying he is a good man, understand me that SUPPRESSOR. he is sufficient; yet his means are in supposition Shakesp. Sing, syren, for thyself, and I will dote; Spread o'er the silver waves thy golden hairs, And as a bed I'll take thee, and there lye; And in that glorious supposition think He gains by death, that hath such means to die. Shakesp. This is only an infallibility upon supposition, that if a thing be true, it is impossible to be false Tillot. Such an original irresistible notion is neither requisite upon supposition of a Deity, nor is pretended to by religion. Bentley. SUPPOSITITIOUS. adj. [from suppositus, supposititius, Lat.] 1. Not genuine; put by a trick into the place or character belonging to another. The destruction of Mustapha was so fatal to Solyman's line, as the succession of the Turks from Solyman is suspected to be of strange blood; for that Selymus II. was thought to be supposititiBacon ous. It is their opinion, that no man ever killed his father; but that, if it should ever happen, the reputed son must have been illegitimate, supposititions, or begotten in adultery. Addison. There is a Latin treatise among the supposititi. ous pieces, ascribed to Athanasius. Waterland. 2. Supposed; imaginary; not real. Some alterations in the globe tend rather to the benefit of the earth, and its productions, than their destruction, as all these supposititions ones manifestly would do. Woodward. SUPPOSITITIOUSNESS. n. s. [from supposititious.] State of being counterfeit. SUPPO'SITIVELY. adv. [from suppose.] Upon supposition. The unreformed sinner may have some hope suppositively, if he do change and repent: the honest penitent may hope positively. Hammond. SUPPOSITORY. n. s. [suppositoire, Fr. suppositorium, Lat.] A kind of solid clyster. Nothing relieves the head more than the piles; therefore suppositories of honey, aloes, and rocksalt ought to be tried. Arbuthnot. To SUPPRESS. v. a. [supprimo, suppressus, Lat. supprimer, Fr.] when to subdue, poduce to over whelm; n.s. [from suppress.] One that suppresses, crushes, or conceals. To SUPPURATE. v. a. [from pus puris, Lat. suppurer, Fr.] To generate pus or matter. This disease is generally fatal: if it suppurates the pus, it is evacuated into the lower belly, where it produceth putrefaction. Arbuthnot on Diet. To SUPPURATE. v. n. To grow to pus. SUPPURATION. n. s. [suppuration, Fr. from suppurate.] 1. The ripening or change of the matter of a tumour into pus. 2. If the inflammation be gone too far towards a suppuration, then it must be promoted with suppuWiseman. ratives, and opened by incision. This great attrition must produce a great propensity to the putrescent alkaline condition of the Huids, and consequently to suppurations Arbuthnot on Aliments The matter suppurated. The great physician of souls sometimes cannot cure without cutting us: sin has festered inwardly, and he must lance the imposthume, to let out death with the suppuration. South. SUPPURATIVE adj. [suppuratif, Fr. from suppurate.] Digestive; generating matter. SUPPUTATION. n. s. [supputation, Fr. supputo, Lat.] Reckoning; account; calculation; computation. Henry VIII. had no intention to change re gion: he continued to burn protestants after t had cast off the pope's supremacy. Swift You're formed by nature for this supremari, which is granted from the distinguishing chanc ter of your writing. Dridia From some wild curs that from their masten ran, Abhorring the supremacy of man, In woods and caves the rebel race began Drea Supremacy of nature, or supremacy of perfectis, is to be possessed of all perfection, and the highest excellency possible. Waterland To deny him this supremacy is to dethrone the Deity, and give his kingdom to another. Regen. SUPREME. adj. [supremus, Lat.] 1. Highest in dignity; highest in authority. It may be observed that superiour is used often of local elevation, but preme only of intellectual or political. From these differing properties of day and year arise difficulties in carrying on and reconciling the supputation of time in long measures. HolderonTime. The Jews saw every day their Messiah still far-2. ther removed from them; that the promises of their doctors, about his speedy manifestations, were false; that the predictions of the prophets, whom they could now no longer understand, were covered with obscurity; that all the supputations of time either terminated in Jesus Christ, or were without a period. West. To SUPPUTE. v. a. [from supputo, Lat.] SUPRALAPSARIAN. adip supra and to from any PSARY. state of activity or commotion. tecedent to the fall of man. The supratapsarians, with whom the object of the decree is homo conditus, man created, not yet fallen; and the sublapsarians, with whom it is man fallen, or the corrupt mass. Hammond. As no man serveth God, and loveth him no?; so neither can any man sincerely love God, and not extremely abhor that sin which is the highest degree of treason against the supreme Guide Ni Monarch of the whole world, with whose divine authority and power it investeth others. Hair The god of soldiers, With the consent of supreme Jove, inform Thy thoughts with nobleness! Shak, Coriolanus. My soul akes To know, when two authorities are up, Neither supreme, how soon confusion May enter 'twixt the gap of both. Shak, Corith This strength, the seat of Deity supreme. Mu. The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees; Three centuries he grows, and three he stays Supreme in state, and in three more decays. Drud. Highest; most excellent. No single virtue we could most commend, Whether the wife, the mother, or the friend; For she was all in that supreme degree, That, as no one prevail'd, so all was she. Dryden. To him both heav'n The right had giv'n, And his own love bequeath'd supreme command, Drydea SUPREMELY. adv. [from the adjective.] In the highest degree. The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest, the poet in his muse. SUR. [sur, Fr.) Peps In composition, means upon, or over and above. SURADDITION. n. s. [sur and addition. Something added to the name. He serv'd with glory and admir'd success, So gain'd the suraddition, Leonatus. Shak. Cymbel, SUPRAVULGAR. adj. [supra and vul- SU'RAL. adj. Davies on Ireland. [from sura, Lat.] Being gar.] Above the vulgar. in the calf of the leg. Glo'ster would have armour out of the Tower, To crown himself king, and suppress the prince. Shakesp. Henry VI. Every rebellion, when it is suppressed, doth make the subject weaker, and the prince stronger. Sir William Herbert, with a well armed and ordered company, set sharply upon them; and, oppressing some of the forwardest of them by death, suppressed the residue by fear. Hayward. 2. To conceal; not to tell; not to reveal. Things not reveal'd, which th' invisible King, Only omniscient, hath suppress'd in night. Milton. Still she suppresses the name, and this keeps him in a pleasing suspense; and, in the very close of her speech, she indirectly mentions it. Broome on the Odyssey. 3. To keep in; not to let out. Well did'st thou, Richard, to suppress thy voice; For, had the passions of thy heart burst out, I fear we should have seen decypher'd there More ranc'rous spight, more furious raging broils. Shakesp. n.s. [suppression, Fr. suppressio, Lat. from suppress.] SUPPRESSION. 1. The act of suppressing. 2. Not publication. You may depend upon a suppression of these verses. Pope, No appeal may be made unto any one of higher power, in as much as the order of your discipline admitteth no standing inequality of courts, no spiritual judge to have any ordinary superior on earth, but as many supremacies as there are parishes and several congregations. Hooker. As we under heav'n are supreme head, So, under him, that great supremacy, Where we do reign, we will alone uphold. Shakesp. King John. I am asham'd that women Should seek for rule, supremacy, and sway, When they are bound to serve, love, and obey. Shakesp. Put to proof his high supremacy, Whether upheld by strength, or chance, or fate. Milton. He was wounded in the inside of the calf of his leg, into the sural artery. Wiseman's SurgerySU'RANCE. n. s. [from sure.] Warrant; security; assurance. Give some surance that thou art revenge; Stab them, or tear them on thy chariot wheels. Shakesp To SURBATE. v. a. [solbatir, Fr.] To bruise and batter the feet with travel; to harass; to fatigue. Their march they continued all that night, the horsemen often alighting, that the foot might ride, and others taking many of them behind them; however they could not but be extremely weary and surbated,' Clarenden Chalky land surbates and spoils oxen's feet. Mortimer. SURBET. The participle passive of surbeat, which Spenser seems to have used for surbate, A bear and tiger being met In cruel fight on Lybick ocean wide, Whom they in equal prey hope to divide.Spens. To SURCEA'SE. v. n. [sur and cesser, Fr. cesso, Lat.] 1. To be at an end; to stop; to cease; to be no longer in use or being. Small favours will my prayers increase: Granting my suit you give me all; And then my prayers must needs surcease; For I have made your godhead fall. Donne. 2. To leave off; to practise no longer; to refrain finally. To fly together from God, to despair that creatures unworthy shall be able to obtain any thing at his hands, and under that pretence to surcease from prayers, as bootless or fruitless offices, were to him no less injurious than pernicious to our Hooker. own souls. Nor did the British squadrons now surcease All pain hath end, and every war hath peace; It might very well agree with your principles, if your discipline were fully planted, even to send out your writs of surcease unto all courts of En gland for the most things handled in them. Hooker. SURCHARGE. n. s. [surcharge, Fr. from the verb.] Burthen added to burthen ; overburthen: more than can be well borne. The air, after receiving a charge, doth not receive a surcharge, or greater charge, with like appetite as it doth the first. Bacon's Nat. Hist. An object of surcharge or excess destroyeth the sense as the light of the sun the eye; a violent sound near the ear, the hearing. Bacon's Nat. Hist. The moralists make this raging of a lion to be a surcharge of one madness upon another. L'Estr. To SURCHARGE. v. a. [surcharger, Fr.] To overload; to overburthen. SURD. adj. [surdus, Lat.] I. Deaf; wanting the sense of hearing. SURE. adj. [sur, Fr.] 1. Certain; unfailing; infallible. Doubting thus of innate principles, men will call pulling up the old foundations of knowledge and certainty: 1 persuade myself that the way I have pursued, being conformable to truth, lays Locke those foundations surer. To prove a genuine birth, On female truth assenting faith relies: Thus, manifest of right, I build my claim, Sure founded, on a fair maternal fame. Pope's Odys. 6. To be sure. Certainly. This is a vicious expression; more properly be sure. Objects of sense would then determine the views of all such, to be sure, who conversed perpetually with them. Atterbury. Though the chymist could not calcine the caput mortuum, to obtain its fixed salt, to be sure, it must have some. Arbuthnot. The testimony of the Lord is sure, and giveth SURE. adv. [surement, Fr.] Certainly; wisdom unto the simple. Who knows, Psalm xix. 7. Let this be good, whether our angry foe 2. Certainly doomed. Our coin beyond sea is valued according to the 3. Confident; undoubting; certainly know- They put upon every portion of land a reasonable rent, which they called Romescot, the which might not surcharge the tenant or free-14. Spenser on Ireland. holder. Knolles's History of the Turks. Let heav'n surcharg'awith potent multitude, When graceful sorrow in her pomp appears, SURCHARGER. n. s. [from surcharge.] SURCINGLE. n. s. [sur and cingulum, Lat.] 2. The girdle of a cassock. Justly he chose the surcingle and gown. Marvel. SU ́RCLE. n. s. [surculus, Lat.] A shoot; a twig; a sucker. Not in general use. It is an arboreous excresence, or superplant, which the tree cannot assimulate, and therefore sprouteth not forth in boughs and surcles of the same shape unto the tree. Brown. The basilica dividing into two branches below the cubit, the outward sendeth two surcles unto the thumb. Brown. VOL. II. 5. Friar Lawrence made them both; Him he knew well, and guess'd that it was she: Milton. The youngest in the morning are not sure Be silent always, when you doubt your sense; ger. Safe; firm; certain; past doubt or danTo make sure is to secure, so as that nothing shall put out of one's possession or power. without doubt; doubtless. It is gene rally without emphasis; and notwith- Something, sure, of state Shakesp Thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that Thou the garland wear'st successively; In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Genesis. Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive. Milton. He that created something out of nothing, surely can raise great things out of small. South. The curious have thought the most minute affairs of Rome worth notice; and surely the consideration of their wealth is at least of as great imArbuthnot. portance as grammatical criticisms. Surely we may presume, without affecting to sit in the seat of God, to think some very fallible men liable to errors. Waterland. Firmly; without hazard. He that walketh righteously, walketh surely. SU'RENESS. n. s. [from sure.] Certainty. SU'RETISHIP. n. s. [from surety.] The Idly, like prisoners, which whole moths will Hath not the greatest slaughter of armies been | effected by stratagem? And have not the fairest estates been destroyed by suretiship? SURETY n. s. [sureté, Fr.] 1. Certainty; indubitableness. South. Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger. 2. Security; safety. Gen. xv. There the princesses determining to bathe, thought it was so privileged a place as no body durst presume to come thither; yet, for the more surety, they looked round about. Sidney. 3. Foundation of stability; support. We our state Hold, as you yours, while our obedience holds; Milton 4. Evidence; ratification; confirmation. She call'd the saints to surety, That she would never put it from her finger, Unless she gave it to yourself. Shakesp. 5. Security against loss or damage; security for payment. There remains unpaid A hundred thousand more, in surety of the which One part of Aquitain is bound to us. Shakesp. 6. Hostage; bondsman; one that gives security for another; one that is bound for another That you may well perceive I have not wrong'd you, One of the greatest in the Christian world All, in infancy, are by others presented with the desires of the parents, and intercession of sureties, that they may be early admitted by baptism into the school of Christ. Hammond SURFACE. n. s. [sur and face, Fr.] Su- All their surfaces shall be truly plain, or truly spherical, and look all the same way, so as togegether to compose one even surface. Newton's Opticks. To SURFEIT. v. a. [from sur and faire, Fr. to do more than enough, to overdo.] To feed with meat or drink to satiety and sickness; to cram overmuch. The surfeited grooms Do mock their charge with snores. Shakesp. To SURFEIT. v. n. To be fed to satiety and sickness. They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. Shakesp Merchant of Venice. Take heed lest your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness. Luke, xxi. 34. Though some had so surfeited in the vineyards, and with the wines, that they had been left behind, the generosity of the Spaniards sent them all home. Clarendon. They must be let loose to the childish play they fancy, which they should be weaned from, by being made to surfeit of it. Locke. SURFEIT. n. s. [from the verb.] Sickness or satiety caused by overfulness. When we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and stars. Shakesp. King Lear. Shakesp. Henry IV. Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made;| Ben Jonson. Surfeits many times turn to purges, both up- Crisni w. Has ta en himself a surfeit of the world, Otway. I did not think This am'rous surfeiter would have donu'd his helm A little cold-distill'd poppy water, which is the Whose enmity he flung aside, and breasted The sulph'rous hail From midst of all the main The surging waters like a mountain rise. Spenser. The serpent mov'd, not with intended wave, The wound was past the cure of a better surgeon I meddle with no woman's It would seem very evil surgery to cut off every unsound part of the body, which, being by ofe due means recovered, might afterwards do guid service. Spenser Strangely visited people, The mere despair of surgery, he cures. Shakesp. Macbeth. They are often tarred over with the surgeri our sheep, and would you have us kiss tar? Shak SURGY. adj. [from surge.] Rising in billows. Do publick or domestick cares constrain manner. SU'RLINESS. n. s. [from surly.] Gloomy moroseness; sour anger. Dryden. Thus pale they meet; their eyes with fury burn; These sour surlings are to be commended to sieur Gaulard. Camden SU'RLY. adj. [from run sour, Sax.] Gloomily morose; rough; uncivil; sour; silently angry. 'Tis like you'll prove a jolly surly groom, Had bak'd thy blood, and made it heavy thick, Shakesp. King John. Against the capitol I met a lion, What it among the courtly tribe Man coveteth what exceedeth the reach of sene, |