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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... body . Though our ligaments betimes grow weak , We must not force them till themselves they Denbam . break . 3. Bond ; chain ; entanglement . Men sometimes , upon the hour of departure , do speak and reason above themselves ; for then ...
... body . Though our ligaments betimes grow weak , We must not force them till themselves they Denbam . break . 3. Bond ; chain ; entanglement . Men sometimes , upon the hour of departure , do speak and reason above themselves ; for then ...
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... body most enlightened , by whom the neighbouring region , which the Greeks call æther , the place of the supposed element of fire , is affected and qualified . Raleigh . White walls make rooms more lightsome than Bacon . black . Equal ...
... body most enlightened , by whom the neighbouring region , which the Greeks call æther , the place of the supposed element of fire , is affected and qualified . Raleigh . White walls make rooms more lightsome than Bacon . black . Equal ...
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... body to body ; such are pestilences and lippitudes . LIPWISDOM . n . s . [ lip and wisdom . ] Wisdom in talk without practice . Bacon . I find that all is but lipwisdom , which wants experience ; I now , woe is me , do try what love can ...
... body to body ; such are pestilences and lippitudes . LIPWISDOM . n . s . [ lip and wisdom . ] Wisdom in talk without practice . Bacon . I find that all is but lipwisdom , which wants experience ; I now , woe is me , do try what love can ...
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... body moved ? Digby . LOCALITY . n . s . [ from local . ] Existence in place ; relation of place , or distance . That the soul and angels are devoid of quan- tity and dimension , and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality ...
... body moved ? Digby . LOCALITY . n . s . [ from local . ] Existence in place ; relation of place , or distance . That the soul and angels are devoid of quan- tity and dimension , and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality ...
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... body bare Of her two branches , those sweet ornaments ! Shakspeare . Like to pillars , Or hollow'd bodies , made of oak or fir , With branches lopp'd in wood , or mountain Milton . fell'd . The plants , whose luxury was lopp'd , Or age ...
... body bare Of her two branches , those sweet ornaments ! Shakspeare . Like to pillars , Or hollow'd bodies , made of oak or fir , With branches lopp'd in wood , or mountain Milton . fell'd . The plants , whose luxury was lopp'd , Or age ...
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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