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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... peace . Prior . 2. Requiring labour ; tiresome ; not easy . Do'st thou love watchings , abstinence , and toil , Laborious virtues all ? learn them from Cato . Addison . LABORIOUSLY . adv . [ from laborious . ] With labour ; with toil ...
... peace . Prior . 2. Requiring labour ; tiresome ; not easy . Do'st thou love watchings , abstinence , and toil , Laborious virtues all ? learn them from Cato . Addison . LABORIOUSLY . adv . [ from laborious . ] With labour ; with toil ...
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... peace my soul shall part to heav'n , Since I have made my friends at peace on earth . Shakspeare . We come to be informed by yourselves , What the conditions of that league must be . Shakspeare . Thou shalt be in league with the stones ...
... peace my soul shall part to heav'n , Since I have made my friends at peace on earth . Shakspeare . We come to be informed by yourselves , What the conditions of that league must be . Shakspeare . Thou shalt be in league with the stones ...
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... peace thou leav'st to thy imperial line , That peace , Oh happy shade ! be ever thine . 11. To give up ; to resign . Dryden . Thou shalt not glean thy vineyard ; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger . Leviticus , If a wise ...
... peace thou leav'st to thy imperial line , That peace , Oh happy shade ! be ever thine . 11. To give up ; to resign . Dryden . Thou shalt not glean thy vineyard ; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger . Leviticus , If a wise ...
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... peace . Ben Jonson . How in the port our fleet dear time did leese , Withering like prisoners , which lie but for fees . Donne . LEET . n . 5 . Leete , or leta , is otherwise called a law - day . The word seemeth to have grown from the ...
... peace . Ben Jonson . How in the port our fleet dear time did leese , Withering like prisoners , which lie but for fees . Donne . LEET . n . 5 . Leete , or leta , is otherwise called a law - day . The word seemeth to have grown from the ...
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... peace , prayed for the mercies of God upon their posterity . Hooker . LEISURABLE . adj . [ from leisure . ] Done at leisure ; not hurried ; enjoying lei- sure . A relation inexcusable in his works of leisur- able hours , the examination ...
... peace , prayed for the mercies of God upon their posterity . Hooker . LEISURABLE . adj . [ from leisure . ] Done at leisure ; not hurried ; enjoying lei- sure . A relation inexcusable in his works of leisur- able hours , the examination ...
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Addison Æneid Ainsworth Arbuthnot Atterbury Bacon Ben Jonson Bentley bird blood body Boyle Brown called cause church chyle Clarendon colour death Dict doth Dryd Dryden Dutch earth Ecclesiasticus eyes fair Fairy Queen father fire French give Glanville hand hast hath heart heav'n honour Hooker Hudibras kind king L'Estrange labour laid land Latin leave light live Locke look loose lord low Latin Maccabees matter means Milt Milton mind Mortimer motion mouth nature ness never night noun o'er optick pain 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 Waller Watts word Wotton young