Volume 1

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 / by Samuel Johnson.

  • Samuel Johnson
Date:
1755
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    6; Afticn in fpeaking, correfpondent to the words; Titusy 1 am come to talk with thee.— —No, not a word : how can I grace my talk. Wanting a hand to give it that accord ? Sbakefp. Titus And. Accordance. n.J'. [from accord.] j. Agreement with a perfon; with the particle with. And prays he may in long accordance bide, With that great worth which hath fuch wonders wrought. Fairfax, h. ii. Jianza 63. 2. Conformity to fomething. The only way of defining of fin, is, by the contrariety to the will of God ; as of good, by the accordance with that will. Hammond's Fundamentals. AccoRdant. adj. [accordant, Fr.J Willing; in a good hu¬ mour. The prince difcovered to Claudio, that he loved your niece my daughter, and meant to acknowledge it this night in a dance ; and, if he found her accordant, he meant to take the prefent time by the top, and inftantly break with you of it. Shakefpeare s Much ado about Nothing. AccoRding. prep, [from accord.J 1. In a manner fuitable to, agreeably to, in proportion. Our churches are places provided, that the people might there affemble themfelves in due and decent manner, according to their feveral degrees and orders. Hooker, b. v. § 1 3. Our zeal, then, fhould be according to knowledge. And what kind of knowledge ? Without all queftion, firft, according to the true, faving, evangelical knowledge. It Ihould be accord¬ ing to the gofpel, the whole gofpel: not only according to its truths, but precepts: not only according to its free grace, but neceflary duties : not only according to its myfteries, but alfo its commandments. Sprat's Sermons. How much more noble is the fame that is built on candour and ingenuity, according to thofe beautiful lines of Sir John Denham, in his Poem on Fletcher’s works. Addif Spelt. A man may, with prudence and a good confcience, approve of the profeffed principles of one party more than the other, according as he thinks they beft promote the good of church and ftate. Swift on the Sentiments of a Church of Engl. man. 2. With regard to. God made all things in number, weight, and meafure, and gave them to be confidered by us according to thefe properties, which are inherent in created beings. Holder on Time. Accordingly, adv. [from accord.] Agreeably, fuitably, con¬ formably. Sirrah, thou’rt faid to have a flubborn foul. That apprehends no further than this world; And fquar’ft thy life accordingly. Shakefp. Meafure for Meaf. As the actions of men are of fundry diftinft kinds, fo the laws thereof muft accordingly be diftinguifhed. Hooker, b. i. Whoever is fo allured of the authority and fenfe of ferip- ture, as to believe the doftrine of it, and to live accordingly, fhall be faved. Tillotfon’s Preface. Mealy fubftances, fermented, turn four. Accordingly, given to a weak child, they ftill retain their nature; for bread will give them the cholic. Arbuthnot on Aliments. To A CCO'ST. v. a. [accofer, Fr. J To fpeak to firft; to ad- drefs; to falute. You miftake, knight: accof her, front her, board her, woo her, affail her. Shakefpeares Twelfth Night. At length, collefting all his ferpent wiles, With Toothing words renew’d, him thus accof s. Parad. Peg. I firft accof ed him : I fu’d, I fought. And, with a loving force, to Pheneus brought. Dryd./Eneid. Acco'stable. adj. [from accof.^ Eafy of accefs ; familiar. They were both indubitable, ftrong, and high-minded men, yet of fweet and accof able nature, almoft equally delighting in the prefs and affluence of dependents and fuitors. Wotton. ACCO'UNT. n. f. [from the old French accompt, from com- patfus, Lat. originally written accompt, which fee; but, by gra¬ dually foftening the pronunciation, in time the orthography changed to account. J j. A computation of debts or expences; a regifter of fails re¬ lating to money. At many times I brought in my accounts, Laid them before you ; you would throw them off. And fay you found them in minehonefty. Sbakefp. Timon. When my young mafter has once got the skill of keeping accounts (which is a bufinefs of reafon more than arithmetic) perhaps it will not be amifs, that his father from thenceforth require him to do it in all his concernments. Locke on Education. 2. The ftate or refult of a computation ; as, the account ftands thus between us. Behold this have I found, faith the Preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account. Ecclefaficus, vii. 27. 3. Such a ftate of perfons or things, as may make them more or lefs worthy of being confidered in the reckoning. Value, or eftimaticn. I or the care that they took for their wives and their chil¬ dren, their brethren and kinsfolks, was in leaft account with them : but the grcatefl and principal fear was for the holy temple. 2 Maccab. xv. 18. ACC That good affeftion, which things of fmaller account have Once fet on work, is by fo much the more eafily raifed higher. Hooker, b.v. § 35. I fhould make more account of their judgment, who are men of fenfe, and yet have never touched a pencil, than of the opi¬ nion given by the greateft part of painters. Drydens Dufrefm We would eftablifh our fouls in fuch a folid and fubftantial virtue, as will turn to account in that great day, when it muft ftand the teft of infinite wifdom and juftice. Add. Spelt.^399; 4. Diftinftion, dignity, rank. There is fuch a peculiarity in Homer’s manner of apoftro- phizing Eumaeus, and fpeaking of him in the fecond perfon : it is generally applied, by that poet, only to men of account and diftinftion. Pope s Odyjfey, notes» 5. A reckoning verified by finding the value of a thing equal to what it was accounted. Confidering the ufual motives of human ddtionS, which are pleafure, profit, and ambition, I cannot yet comprehend how thofe perfons find their account in any of the three. Swift's Addrefs to Parliament. 6. A reckoning referred to, or fum charged upon any particular perfon; and thence, figuratively, regard, confideration, fake. If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that orl my account. Philemon, i. S. This muft be always remembered, that nothing can come into the account of recreation, that is not done with delight. # D Locke on Educationy §197. In matters where his judgment led him to oppofe men on a public account, he would do it vigoroufly and heartily. Atterburys Sermons. The affertion is our Saviour’s, though uttered by him in the perfon of Abraham, the father of the faithful; who, on the ac¬ count of that character, is very fitly introduced. Idem. Thefe tribunes, a year or two after their inftitution, kindled great diffenfions between the nobles and the commons, on the account of Coriolanus, a nobleman, whom the latter had im¬ peached. Swift's Contefs in Athens and Rome. Nothing can recommend itfielf to our love, on any other account, but either as it promotes our prefent, or is a means to allure to us a future happinefs. Rogers’s Sermon v. Sempronius gives no thanks on this account. Addifons Cato. 7. A narrative, relation; in this ufe it may feem to be derived from conte, Fr. a tale, a narration. 8. The review or examination of an affair taken by authority ; as, the magiftrate took an account of the tumult. Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his fervants; and when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thoufand talents. Matt. xix. 23,24. q. The relation and reafons of a tranfaftion given to a perfon in authority. Fie, my lord, fie ! a foldier, and afraid ! What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account ? Shakefpeare s Macbeth. The true ground of morality can only be the will and law of a God, who fees men in the dark, has in his hands rewards and punifhments, and power enough to call to account the proudeft offender. Locke. 10. Explanation; alignment of caufes. It is eafy to give account, how it comes to pafs, that though all men defire happinefs, yet their wills carry them fo contra¬ ry- _ _ ^ Locke; It being, in our author’s account, a right acquired by beget- ting, to rule over thofe he had begotten, it was not a power poffible to be inherited, becaufe the right, being confequent to, and built on, an aft perfeftly perfonal, made that power fo too, and impoffible to be inherited. , Locke. 11. An opinion concerning things prevloufly eftablifhed. 1 hefe were defigned to join with the forces at fea, there be* ing prepared a number of flat-bottomed boats to tranfport the land-foices, under the wing of the great navy : for they made no account, but that the navy fhould be abfolutely mafter of the feas* _ Bacon s Canfiderations on War with Spain. A prodigal young fellow, that had fold his clothes, upon the fight of a fwallow, made account that fummer was at hand, and away went his fhirt too. L'Ef range. Fable cxxvii. 12. The reafons of any thing collefted. Being convinced, upon all accounts, that they had the fame reafon to believe the hiftory of our Saviour, as that of any other perfon to which they themfelves were not aftually eye- witneffes, they were bound, by all the rules of hiftorical faith* and of right reafon, to give credit to this hiftory. Addifon on the Chrifian Religion. 13. Inlaw. Account is, in the common law, taken for a writ or aftion brought againft a man, that, by means of office or bufinefs un¬ dertaken, is to render an account unto another; as, a bailiff to¬ ward his mafter, a guardian to his ward. Co-well. To Accc/iwt. i'. a. [See ACCOUNT.] 1. To efteem, to think, to hold in opinion. That alfo was accounted a land of giants. Dent. 2. To