Volume 1

A glossary, or, Collection of words, phrases, names, and allusions to customs, proverbs, etc., which have been thought to require illustration, in the works of English authors, particularly Shakespeare, and his contemporaries / [Robert Nares].

  • Robert Nares
Date:
1882
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    for endow, is properly noticed by Mr. Todd. flNDUEMENTS. Endowments. They gathered what a one he was like to prove, as if they had throughly perused the old bookes, the read- ing whereof declareth by bodily signes the physiog- nomic or inward induements of the mind. Holland’s Ammianus Marcellinus, 1609. ■fINDURATE. Obstinate; hardened. And if he persever with indurate minde the space of twoo yeares. Holinshed’s Chron., 1577. To INFAME. To defame, or report evil of. Yet bicause he was cruell by nature—he was infamed by writers. Holinsh., vol. i, f 8. Straungers knowen to be infamed fox usurie, simonie, and other heinous vices. Ibid., vol. ii, T 5. Milton has used it. See Johnson. To INFAMONIZE. A mock word, de- duced from the former, and given to the pedantical character Armado. Dost thou infamonize me among potentates? thou shalt die. Love’s L. L., v, 2. flNFAMOUS. Ignoble. Is it not pity, I should lose my life By such a bloody and infamous stroake ? Byron’s Tragedy. INFANT. Used sometimes, as child, for a knight. See Child. To whom the infant thus: Faire sir, &c. Spens. F. Q., II, viii, 56. The infant in question was prince Arthur, who had just been fighting a most desperate battle. So also Ri- naldo: This said, the noble infant stood a space Confused, speechlesse. Fairf. Tasso, xvi, 34. Mr. Todd says it is put in the Spanish sense, for prince; but I prefer War- burton’s explanation. See on F. Q,., VI, viii, 56. Knight itself is from the Saxon cniht, which is defined a boy, a scholar, a soldier. See Benson’s Glossary. Dr. Percy further observes, that “ his folio MS. affords several other ballads wherein the word child occurs as a title, but in none of these it signifies prince.” Arg. to Child Waters, ReL, vol. iii, p. 54. Infant was the same, as well as varlet, damoiseau, and bachelier ; as Warburton rightly said. INFANTRY. Jocularly used for chil- dren ; a collection of infants. Hangs all his school with his sharp sentences, And o’er the execution place hath painted Time Avliipt, as terror to the infantry. Ben Jons. Masque of Time Vindicated, vol. vi, p. 142. To INFARCE. To stuff or crowd in. See to Farce. My facts infarst my life with many a flaw. Mirror for Mag., Caligula, p. 145. tWhiche [£. e. the tale ensuing] some what abridging the same wre have here infarsed. Holinshed, 1577. INFATIGABLE. Indefatigable, un- wearied. The old dictionaries have it. There makes his sword his way, there laboreth Th’ infatigable hand that never ceas’d. Daniel, Works, p. 167 ; Civil Wars of Engl, INFECT, part, adj., for infected. And in the imitation of these twain, (Whom, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns With an imperial voice) many are infect. Tro. and Cress., i, 3, The states did thinke, that with some filthie gaiue The Spanish peeres us captains had infect. Gascoigne’s Works, k 5. To INFERRE. To bring in, to cause. lnfero, Latin. One day infer res that foile Whereof so many yeares of yore were free. Arthur, a Trag., F 4, b. Determined by common acorde, to inferre warre upon the Romaines. Palace of Pleasure, B 2, b. INFEST, adj. Annoying, troublesome. But with fierce fury, and with force infest, Upon him ran. Spens. F. Q., VI, iv, 5. For they are infest enemies unto the noble facultie of flattery. TJlpian Fidwel’s Art of Flattery, M 1, b. tThat whereas toward others he wras so infest and cruell. Holland’s Ammianus Marcellinus, 1609. flNFESTIVE. Is not uncommonly used in the same sense. INFORM, adj. Without regular form, shapeless. Bleak craggs, and naked hills, And the whole prospect so inform and rude. Cotton, cited by Todd, f To INFORM. Is frequently used by old writers in the sense of to make, form, or embody. Who first of petrifaction wast informed. Chapman’s Horn. Hymn to Apollo. INFORTUNATE. This word was used sometimes for unfortunate. It occurs twice in Shakespeare; viz., K. John, ii, 1, and 2 Hen. VI, iv, 9. Dr. John- son has given an example from lord Bacon’s works. INFRACT, adj. Unbroken, or unbreak- able. One sense of the Latin infractus. O how straight and infract is this line of life ! Gascoigne’s Supposes, C 1. Had I a brazen throat, a voice infract, A thousand tongues, and rarest words refin’d. Engl. Eliza, Mirr. Mag., p. 785, f To INGALLY. To condemn to the galleys. Two fellows were adjudg’d to die, and yet at last through much entreaty it pleas’d the judge in favour of life to ingally them for seaven yeares; the hang- man seeing that, stept in and besought the judge to rid him of his office and appoint some other in his place. Being ask’d wherefore, he answered, because you barre me of my right. Copley’s Wits, Fits, and Fancies, 1614. INGATE. Entrance, beginning ; from in and gate. Therein resembling Janus auncient. Which hath in charge the ingate of the yeare. Spens, F. Q, IV, x, 12.