952. Thomas Blount, Glossographia (1656) Title-page Glossographia: or a Dictionary, Interpreting all such Hard Words, Whether Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, Teutonick, Belgick, British or Saxon, as are now used in our refined English Tongue. Also the Terms of Divinity, Law, Physick, Mathematicall, Heraldry, Anatomy, War, Musick, Architecture; and of several other Arts and Sciences Explicated. With Etymologies, Definitions, and Historical Observations on the same. Very useful for all such as desire to understand what they read. Illustrative Entries Accent (accentus) tune, tenor, the rising and falling of the voice, the due sound over any word or letter, or the mark of any letter which directs the pronunciation. There are also Accents of sentences; As in the close of a Period we let fall the voice, in a demand raise it. Auricular (auricularis) belonging to, or spoken in the ear. As auricular Confession, is that which is made in private to the Ghostly Father, none hearing but himself, opposite unto publick Confession, which is made in the hearing of many. Autumnal (autumnalis) belonging to the harvest or Autumn, which is from the sixth of August to the sixth of November; and is one of the four Quarters of the year; Others reckon Autumne to begin at the Æquinoctium. i. about the twelfth of September, and to end at the Solstice or shortest day, about the eleventh of December. Axiome (axioma) a maxim or general ground in any Art: a Proposition or short Sentence generally allowed to be true, as in saying, the whole is greater then its part. Banditi (Ital.) Out-laws, Rebels, Fugitives condemned by Proclamation; bando in Ital. signifying a Proclamation. These in the Low-Countries are called Freebooters; in Germany, Nightingales; in the north of England, Moss-Troopers; in Ireland, Tories. 3. J.K. [John Kersey], A New English Dictionary (1702) Title-page A New English Dictionary: Or, a Compleat Collection of the Most Proper and Significant Words, Commonly used in the Language; With a Short and Clear Exposition of Difficult Words and Terms of Art. The whole digested into Alphabetical Order; and chiefly designed for the benefit of Young Scholars, Tradesmen, Artificers, and the Female Sex, who would learn to spell truely; being so fitted to every Capacity, that it may be a continual help to all that want an Instructer. Illustrative Entries Sharp, keen, rough, smart, sower, harsh, &~c. Shave-grass. A Sharp in musick. Shaven. To sharp upon one, or over-reach him. A Shaver. Sharp-set, or very hungry. The Shavings of planed boards, &c. Sharp-sighted. A Shaving-tub, to hold book-binders paper-shavings Sharp-witted. She, as she is a woman. To sharpen, make sharp, or whet. A She-cousin. A Sharper, a subtil fellow, that lives by his wits. A She-friend. To shatter, shake, or break to pieces. A Sheaf, a bundle of corn, or arrows. A Shatter-pate, or shatter-pated fellow. To sheaf corn, or bind it up into sheaves. To shave, shear, or cut off the hair with a rasor.96 4. Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (1755) Title-page 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. Illustrative Entries Cu´rious. adj. [curiosus, Latin.] 1. Inquisitive; desirous of information; addicted to enquiry. Be not curious in unnecessary matters; for more things are shewn unto thee than men understand. Ecclus. iii. 23. Even then to them the spirit of lyes suggests That they were blind, because they saw not ill; And breath’d into their uncorrupted breasts A curious wish, which did corrupt their will. Davies. 2. Attentive to; diligent about: sometimes with after. It is a pity a gentleman so very curious after things that were elegant and beautiful, should not have been as curious as to their origin, their uses, and their natural history. Woodward. 3. Sometimes with of. Then thus a senior of the place replies, Well read, and curious of antiquities. Dryden’s Fables. 4. Accurate; careful not to mistake. ’Till Arianism had made it a matter of great sharpness and subtlety of wit to be a sound believing Christian, men were not curious what syllables or particles of speech they used. Hook. 5. Difficult to please; solicitous of perfection; not negligent; full of care. A temperate person is not curious of fancies and deliciousness; he thinks not much, and speaks not often of meat and drink. Taylour. 6. Exact; nice; subtle. Both these senses embrace their objects at greater distance, with more variety, and with a more curious discrimination, than the other sense. Holder. 7. Artful; not neglectful; not fortuitous. A vaile obscur’d the sunshine of her eyes, The rose within herself her sweetness closed; Each ornament about her seemly lies, By curious chance, or careless art, composed. Fairfax, b. ii. 8. Elegant; neat; laboured; finished. Understanding to devise curious works, to work in gold. Ex. 9. Rigid; severe; rigorous. For curious I cannot be with you, Signior Baptista, of whom I hear so well. Shakespeare. Se´nsible. adj. [sensible, French; sensilis, Latin] 1. Having the power of perceiving by the senses. Would your cambrick were as sensible as your finger, that you might leave pricking it for pity. Shakespeare. These be those discourses of God, whose effects those that live witness in themselves; the sensible in their sensible natures, the reasonable in their reasonable souls. Raleigh. A blind man conceives not colours, but under the notion of some other sensible faculty. Glanv. Sceps. 2. Perceptible by the senses.97 By reason man attaineth unto the knowledge of things that are and are not sensible; it resteth, therefore, that we search how man attaineth unto the knowledge of such things in sensible as are to be known. Hooker. Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle tow’rd my hand? Come, let me clutch thee: I have thee not, and yet I see thee still: Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? Shakesp. Macbeth. The space left and acquired in every sensible moment in such slow progressions, is so inconsiderable, that it cannot possibly move the sense. Glanv. Sceps. It is manifest that the heavens are void of all sensible resistance, and by consequence of all sensible matter. Newton. The far greater part
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