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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    And either purchase justice by intreats, Or tire them all with my revenging threats. Spanish Trag., 0. PL, iii, 179. But I, with all intreats, might not prevail. Robert E. of Huntington, 1601, D 4. Hath sent his commends to you, with a kind intreat that you would not be discontented for his long absence. Westward for Smelts, B 4. The late editor of Ford’s plays altered intreaties, which was in the copy, to intreats, in the following passage, for the sake of the verse; but he does not seem to have been aware that it was so common among Ford’s con- temporaries. A word from you May win her more than my intreats or frowns. Ford’s Love’s Sacrifice, i, 1. The alteration is doubtless right. tTo the scornefull, I owe you so much as an hypocri- tical! intreat, or a dissembled curtesie. Ileywood’s Great Britaines Troy, 1609. [Also, a treatment, medicinally.] tA good intreat for wounds.—Take betony, pimpernell, and vervaine, of each a handfull, boile them in a potted of very good white wine, &c. Pathway of Health, bl. 1. flNTREATATJNCE. Entreaty. For he made such meanes and sliyfte, what by in- treataunce and what by importune sute, that he gotte lycence. More’s Utopia, 1551. j-INTREATMENT. Treaty; negotiation. Declaring the cause of theyr cominyng, the whiche in effect was for intreatement of peace . . betwixte the two realmes. Holinshed, 1577. INTREATY, s. Treatment; as to in- ti'eat, above. Praying him not to take in ill part his intreaty and hard imprysonment, for that he durst none other. Palace of Pleas., vol. ii, 0 o 7. INTRENCHANT, adj. Not perma- nently divisible, not retaining any mark of division. It seems an in- correct usage, and we have no other example of it. As easy may’st thou the intrenchant air With thy keen sword impress. Macl., v, 7. Shakespeare has elsewhere called the air invulnerable, speaking of the ghost in Hamlet. See Johnson on this word. Trenchant means cutting; in- trenchant, therefore, ought to be not cutting. flNTRlNSECALL. Internal, How far God hath given Satan power to do good, for the blinding of evill men, or what intrinsecall opera- tions he found out, I cannot now dispute. A. Wilson’s Autobiography. Also used as a n. s. For myself, my dear Phil, because I love you so dearly well, I will display my very intrinsecalls to you in this point, when I examine the motions of my heart. Howell’s Familiar Letters, 1650. INTRINSICATE, or INTRINSECATE, adj. Intricate. Johnson thinks it formed corruptly between intricate and intrinsecal; Theobald from in- trinsecus, or the Italian intrinsecarsi. Come, thou morial wretch, With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate Of life at once untie. Ant. and Cleo., v, 2. Yet there are certain puntilios, or (as I may more nakedly insinuate them) certain intrinsecate strokes and wards, to which your activity is not yet amounted. B. Jons. Cyth. Rev., v, 2. Like rats oft bite the holy cords in twain, Too intrinsecate t’ unloose, sooth every passion. Lear, ii, 2. The folio here reads intrince; the quartos, still more corruptly, in- trench. INTUSE, s. A bruise or contusion; from intusus, Latin. Peculiar to Spenser. The flesh therewith she suppled and did steepe T’ abate all spasme, and soke the swelling bruze; And after having searcht the intuse deepe, She with her scarf did bind the wound from cold to keepe, ' Spens. F. Q., Ill, v. 33. To INYASSAL. To enslave; from in and vassal. Whilst I myself was free From that intolerable misery Whereto affection now invassels me. Daniel, Queen’s Arcadia, ii, 1, p. 339. INVECT, for inveigh. Fool that I am, thus to invect against her. B. and FI., Faithful Fr., iii, 3. INVECTIVELY, adv. Abusively; from invective used as an adjective. Thus most invectively he pierceth through The body of the country, city, court. As you like it, ii, 1. To INVENT. To meet with casually. Far off he wonders what them makes so glad; Or Bacchus’ merry fruit they did invent. Or Cybele’s frantic rites have made them mad. Spens. F. Q., I, vi. 15. And vowed never to returne againe, Till him alive or dead she did invent. Ibid., Ill, v. 10. INVESTMENT, s. Dress, habit, out- ward appearance. Whose white investments figure innocence. 2 Hen. IV, iv, 1. Do not believe his vows; for they are brokers, Not of that dye which their investments shew. Haml., i, 3. INVIERD, 'part. Apparently for en- vironed. Unnatural beseege, woe me unhappie. To have escapt the danger of my foes, And to be ten times worse invier’d by friends. Edward III, 1596, D 1 b. fINVIRTUED. Endowed with virtue. Apolloes sonne by certaine proofe now finds Th’ invertued hearbes have gainst such poyson power. Heywood, Troia Britanica, 1609. FINV1CTIVE. Incapable of being con- quered ; if not an error for vindictive. If thou wouldst kisse and kill, imbrace and stabbe, Then thou sliouldst live, for my invictive braine Hath cast a glorious prospect of revenge. Tragedy of Hoffman, 1631. To INVOCATE. To invoke. Henry the Fifth, thy ghost I invocate. 1 Hen. VI, i, 1. Be it lawful that I invocate thy ghost. Rich. Ill, i, 2.