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 1).

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.

Date:: 1819

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$J. Notice of any thing, published in a paper of intelligence. ADvEitTi'sERjad-ver-ti'zur.98 n.s. [adver- tiseur, Fr.] 1. He,that gives intelligence or information. 2. The paper, in which advertisements are published. A.DVE'RTisiNG,or Advertising, ad-ver- ti'zing. part. adj. [from advertised] Ac- tive, in giving intelligence; monitory: a word, not now in use. As I was then Advertising, and holy to your business, Not changing heart with habit; I am still Attornied at your service. Shaksp. Meas.for Meas. To Adve'sperate, ad-veVpe-rate.91 v. n. [advesfiero, Lat.] To draw towards eve- ning. Diet. Advi'ce, ad-vise'.499 n. s. [avis, advis, Fr. from adviso, low Lat.] 1. Counsel; instruction: except that, in- struction implies superiority, and advice may be given by equals or inferiours. Break we our watch up; and, by my advice, Let us impart, what we have seen to-night, Unto young Hamlet. Shaksp. Hamlet. 0 troubled, weak and coward as thou art! Without thy poor advice, the lab'ring heart To worse extremes with swifter steps would run; Not sav'd by virtue, yet hy vice undone. Prior. 2. Reflection; prudent consideration: as, he always acts, with good advice. What he hath won, that he hath fortified: So hot a speed, with such advice dispos'd; Such temperate order, in so fierce a course; Doth want example. Shaksp. King John. 3. Consultation; deliberation: with the par- ticle with. Great princes, taking advice with workmen, with no less cost, set their things together. Bacon's Essays 4. Intelligence: as, the merchants received advice of their loss. This sense is some- what low, and chiefly commercial. ADVi'cE-Bo'ATjad-vise'-bote. n.s. A vessel, employed to bring intelligence. Advi'sable, ad-vi'za-bl.408 adj. [from ad- vise.] Prudent; fit to be advised. Some judge it advisable for a man, to account with his heart eveiy day; and this, no doubt, is the best and surest course: for still, the oftner, the better. Souths Sermons. It is not advisable to reward, where men have the tenderness not to punish. L'Estrange's Fables. Advi'sableness, ad-vi'za-bl-ness. n. s. [from advisable.] The quality of being advisable, or fit; fitness; propriety. To ADVI'SE, ad-vize'.43'' v. a. [adviser, Fr] 1. To counsel: with the particle to, before the thing advised. If you do stir abroad, go arm'd. Arm'd, brother! Brother, I advise you to the best. Shakspeare's King Lear. 1 would advise all gentlemen, to learn merchants' accounts; and not to think it a skill, that belongs not to them. Locke. When I consider the seiiiples and cautions, I here lay in your way; methinks it looks, as if I advisedyou to something, which I would have offered at, but in effect not done. Locke. 2. To give information; to inform; to make acquainted with any thing: often with the particle of, before the thing told. You were advis'd, his flesh was capable Of wounds and scars; and that his forward spirit Would lift him, where most trade of danger rang'd. J Shakspeare. Such discourse bring on, As may advise him o/his happy state; Happiness in his power, left free to will. Par. Lost. A posting messenger, dispatch'd, from hence, 0/this fair troop advised their aged prince. Dryden. To Advi'se, ad-vize'.499 v. n. 1. To consult: with the particle with, be- fore the person consulted; as, he advis- ed with his companions. 2. To consider; to deliberate. Advise, if this be worth Attempting; or to sit in darkness here, Hatching vain empires. Milt. Par. Lost, b. ii. ADvi'sED,ad-vi/zed.362/2ar. adj. [from ad- vise.] 1. Acting with deliberation and design; prudent; wise. Let his travel appear, rather in his discourse, than in his apparel or gesture; and, in his discourse, let him be rather advised in his answers, than forward to tell stories. Bacon's Essays. Th' Almighty Father, where he sits Shrin'd in his sanctuary of heav'n secure, Consulting on the sum of things foreseen, This tumult (and permitted all) advised. Paradise Lost, b. vi. 2. Performed with deliberation; done on purpose; acted with design. By that, which we work naturally, (as, when we breathe, sleep, and move) we set forth the glory of God, as natural agents do; albeit we have no ex- press purpose, to make that our end; nor any advised determination therein to follow a law. Hooker, b. i. p. 49. In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft, I shot his fellow of the self-same flight, The self-same way, with more advised watch, To find the other forth; by vent'ring both, I oft found both. Shaksp. Merchant of Venice. Advi'sedly, ad-vi'zed-le.364 adv. [from advised.] Soberly; heedfully; delibe- rately; purposely; by design; prude: tly. This book advisedly read, and diligently followed but one year at home, would do more good than three years travel abroad. Ascham. Surprise maybe made by moving things, when the party is in haste; and cannot stay, to consider advised- ly of that which is moved. Bacon, Essay xxiii. Thou stilest second thoughts, (by all allowed the best,) a relapse; and accusest constancy of mischief, in what is natural, and advisedly undertaken. Sir John Suckling. Advi'sedness, ad-vi'zed-ness.365 n. s. [from advised.] Deliberation; cool and prudent procedure. While things are in agitation, private men may modestly tender their thoughts to the consideration of those, that are in authority; to whose care it be- longeth, in prescribing concerning indifferent things, to proceed with all just advisedness and mo- deration. Saundcrson's Judgment in one Vieiv. Advi'sement, ad-vize'ment. n. s. [advise- ment, Fr.] 1. Counsel; information. Mote I wote, What strange adventure do ye now pursue? Perhaps my succour, or advisement meet, Mote stead you much. Fairy Queen. I will, according to your advisement, declare the evils, which seem most hurtful. Spenser's State of Ireland. 2. It is taken likewise, in old writers, for prudence and circumspection. It is now, in both senses, antiquated. Anvi'sER, ad-vi'zur.98 n. s. [from advise.-] The person, that advises, or gives coun- sel; a counsellor. Here, free from court compliances, he walks; And with himself, his best adviser, talks. Waller. They never fail of their most artful and indefati- gable address, to silence this impertinent adviser, whose severity awes their excesses. Rogers's Serrn. Adula'tion, ad-ju-la'shftn.394 n. s. [adula- tion, Fr. adulatio, Lat.] Flattery; high compliment. 0 be sick, great Greatness! And bid thy ceremony give thee cure. Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out With titles blown from adulation? Shaksp. Henry V. They, who flattered him most before, mentioned him now with the greatest bitterness; without imput- ing the least crime to him, committed since the time of that exalted adulation; or that was not then as much known to them, as it could be now. Clarendon Adula'tor, ad-ju-la'tur.s21 n. s. [adulator, Lat.] A flatterer. Diet. A'dulatory, ad'ju-la-tur're. adj, [adula- torius, Lat.] Flattering; full of compli- ments. ADU'LT, a-dult'. adj. [adultus, Lat.] Grown up; past the age of infancy and weakness. They would appeal- less able to approve them- selves, not only to the confessor, but even to the ca- techist, in their adult age; than they were in their minority; as having scarce ever thought of the prin- ciples of their religion, since they conned them to avoid correction. Decay of Piety. The earth, by these applauded schools, 'tis said, This single crop of men and women bred; Who grown adult, so chance (it seems) enjoin'd, Did, male and female, propagate their kind. Blackmore. Adu'lt, a-dult'. n. s. A person above the age of infancy, or grown to some degree of strength; sometimes, full grown: a word used chiefly by medicinal writers. The depression of the cranium, without a fracture, can but seldom occur; and then it happens to chil- dren, whose bones are more pliable and soft, than those of adults. Sharp's Swgery. Adu'ltness, a-di\lt'ness. n. s. [from adult.] The state of being adult. See Adolescence. Diet. To Adu'lter, a-diil'tijr.98 esev. a. [adulter- er, Fr. adultero, Lat.] To commit adul- tery with another: a word not classical. His chaste wife He adulters still: his thoughts lie with a whore. Ben Jonsmx Adu'lterant, a-dfil'tur-ant. n. .?. [adul- terans, Lat.] The person or thing which adulterates. To Adu'lterate, a-dul'tur-ate.91 v. a. [adulterer, Fr. adultero, Lat.] 1. To commit adultery. But fortune, (oh!) Adulterates hourly with thine uncle John. Shaksp. 2. To corrupt by some foreign admixture; to contaminate. Common pot-ashes, bought of them, that sell it in shops; who are not so foolishly knavish, as to adulterate them with salt-petre, which is much dearer than pot-ashes. Boyle. Could a man be composed to such an advantage of constitution, that it should not at all adulterate the images of his mind; yet this second nature would alter the crasis of his understanding. Glanville's Scepsis Scientifica, c. xvi. The present war has so adulterated our tongue, with strange words; that it would be impossible for one of our great grandfathers, to know what his pos- terity has been doing. Spectator. Adu'lterate, a-dul'tur-ate.91 adj. [from To adulterate.]$