A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations, by Examples from the Best Writers, to which are Prefixed a History of the Language, and an English Grammar, Volume 3Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 - English language |
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... motion of the blood languid , disposeth to an acid acrimony ; what accelerates the motion of the blood , disposeth to an alkaline acrimony . Arbuthnot . No space can be assigned so vast , but still a larger may be imagined ; no motion ...
... motion of the blood languid , disposeth to an acid acrimony ; what accelerates the motion of the blood , disposeth to an alkaline acrimony . Arbuthnot . No space can be assigned so vast , but still a larger may be imagined ; no motion ...
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... motion , or motion of trepidation , which they pretend is from east to west , and from north to south , because that at full moon they sometimes discover parts of her disk which are not discovered at other times . These kinds are ...
... motion , or motion of trepidation , which they pretend is from east to west , and from north to south , because that at full moon they sometimes discover parts of her disk which are not discovered at other times . These kinds are ...
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... MOTION n.s. [ motion , Fr. motio , Lat . ] 1. The act of changing place : opposed to rest . Immediate are the acts of God , more swift Than time or motion . Milte The sedentary earth , Serv'd by more noble than herself , attains Her end ...
... MOTION n.s. [ motion , Fr. motio , Lat . ] 1. The act of changing place : opposed to rest . Immediate are the acts of God , more swift Than time or motion . Milte The sedentary earth , Serv'd by more noble than herself , attains Her end ...
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... motion felt , and rueful throes . Milt . Cease , cease thou foaming ocean , For what's thy troubled motion To that within my breast ? 8. Direction ; tendency . In our proper motion we ascend . 9. Impulse communicated . which draw most ...
... motion felt , and rueful throes . Milt . Cease , cease thou foaming ocean , For what's thy troubled motion To that within my breast ? 8. Direction ; tendency . In our proper motion we ascend . 9. Impulse communicated . which draw most ...
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... Motion . Swift . Could he whose laws the rolling planets bind , Describe or fix one movement of the mind . Pope . MOVENT . adj . [ movins , Lat . ] Moving . If it be in some part movent , and in some part quiescent , it must needs be a ...
... Motion . Swift . Could he whose laws the rolling planets bind , Describe or fix one movement of the mind . Pope . MOVENT . adj . [ movins , Lat . ] Moving . If it be in some part movent , and in some part quiescent , it must needs be a ...
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Addison Æneid Ainsworth Arbuthnot Atterbury Bacon Ben Jonson Bentley bird blood body Boyle Brorun Brown called cause church chyle Clarendon colour death Dict doth Dryd Dryden Dutch earth Ecclesiasticus eyes Fairy Queen father fire French give Glanville hand hast hath head heart heav'n honour Hooker Hudibras kind king L'Estrange labour laid land Latin leave light live Locke look lord low Latin Maccabees matter means Milt Milton mind Mortimer motion mouth musick nature ness never night noun o'er optick pass passion peace person plant Pope pow'r prince Prior publick Saxon sense Shaks Shaksp Shakspeare shew Sidney soul South Spenser spirit stone sweet Swift Tatler thee thing thou thought Tillotson tion tongue tree unto v. a. mis verb virtue Waller Watts word Wotton