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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![AGE Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men; Nor men, the weak anxieties of age. Roscommon. And on this forehead (where your verse has said, The loves delighted, and the graces play'd) Insultiug age will trace his cruel way, And leave sad marks of his destructive sway. Prior. 6. Maturity; ripeness; years of discretion; full strength of life. A solemn admission of proselytes; all, that either, being of age, desire that admission for themselves; or that, in infancy, are by others presented to that charity of the church. Hammond. We thought our sires, not with their own consent, Had (ere wc came to age) our portion spent. Dryd. 7. In law. In a man, the age of fourteen years is the age of discretion; and twenty-one years is the full age. In a woman, at seven years of age, the lord her father may distrain his tenants for aid to marry her; at the age ot nine years, she is dowable; at twelve years, she is able finally to ratify and confirm her former consent given to matrimony; at fourteen, she is ena- bled to receive her land into her own hands; and shall be out of ward, at the death of her ancestor: at sixteen, she shall be out of ward, though at the death of her ancestor, she was within the age of fourteen years: at twenty-one, she is able to alien- ate her lands and tenements. At the age of four- teen, a stripling is enabled to choose his own guar- dian; at the age of fourteen, a man may consent to marriage. Cowell. A'oed, a/jed.363 adj. [from age. It makes two syllables in poetry.] 1. Old; stricken in years: applied gene- rally, to animate beings. If the comparison do stand between man and man, tlie aged (for the most part) are best experienced, least subject to rash and unadvised passions. Hooker. Novelty is only in request: and it is as dangerous, to be aged in any kind of course; as it is virtuous, to be constant in any undertaking. Shaksp. Kindness itself too weak a charm will prove, To raise the feeble fires of aged love. Prior. 2. Old; applied to inanimate things. This use is rare, and commonly with some tendency to the /irosofio/iceia. The people did not more worship the images of gold and ivory, than they did the groves: and the same, Quintilian saith, of the aged oaks. Stillingfleel's Defence of Disc, on Rom. Idol. .Vgedly, a/jed-le. adv. [from aged.] Af- ter the manner of an aged person. Age'n, a-gen'.206 adv. [agen,Sax.] Again; in return. See Again. This word is now only written in this manner (though it be in reality the true- orthography) for the sake of rhyme. Thus Venus: Thus her son reply'd agm; None of your sisters have we heard or seen. Dryd. A'gency, a'je-n-se. n. s. [from agent.] 1. The quality of acting; the state of being in action; action. A few advances there are in the following papers, tending to assert the superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. Woodicard. 2. The office of an agent or factor for ano- ther; business performed by an agent. Some of the purchasers themselves may be con- tent to live cheap in a worse country, rather than be at the charge of exchange and agencies. Swift. A'GKNT, a'jent. adj. [agens, Lat.] That, which acts; opposed to patient, or that which is acted upon. This success is oft' truly ascribed, unto the force of imagination upon the body agent; and then, by a secondary means, it may upon a diverse body: as, for example; if a man cany a ring, or some part of a beast, believing strongly that it will help him to obtain his love; it may make him more industrious, AGG and again more confident and persisting, than other- wise he would be. Bacon's Jn'at. Hist. A'gent, a'jent. n. s. 1. An actor; he, that acts; he, that posses- ses the faculty of action. Where there is no doubt, deliberation is not ex- cluded, as impertinent unto the thing; but as need- less in regard of the agent, which seeth already what to resolve upon. Hooker. To whom, nor agent, from the instrument; Nor pow'r of working, from the work is known. Davies. Heav'n made us agents, free to good or ill; And fore'd it not though he foresaw the will: Freedom was first bestow'd on human race, And prescience only held the second place. Dryden. A miracle is a work, exceeding the power of any created agent, consequently being an effect of the di- vine omnipotence. South's Sermons. 2. A substitute; a deputy; a factor; a per- son, employed to transact the business of another. —All hearts in love, use your own tongues; Let every eye negociate for itself, And trust no agent. Shaksp. They had not the wit, to send to them, (in any orderly fashion) agents or chosen men, to tempt them, and to treat with them. Bacon's Henry VII. Remember, Sir, your fury of a wife; Who, not content to be reveng'd on you, The agents of your passion will pursue. Dryden's Jlureng. 3. That, which has the power of operating, or producing effects, upon another thing. They produced wonderful effects, by the proper application of agents to patients. Temple. Aggela'tion, aj-je-la'shun. n. s. [Lat. gelu.] Concretion of ice. It is round in hail, and figured in its guttulous de- scent from the air; growing greater or lesser, accord- ing to the accretion or pluvious aggelation about the fundamental atoms thereof. Brown's V. Errours. Aggenkra'tion, ad-j£n-nui-a/sbun. n. s. [from ad and gmeratio, Lat.] The state of growing or uniting to another body. To make a perfect nutrition, there is required a transmutation of nutriment: now, where .this con- version or agge aeration is made, there is also requir- ed, in the aliment, a similarity of matter. Brown's Vulgar Errours. To A'ggkrate, ad'jur-ate. v a. [from agger, Lat.] To heap up. Diet. Aggero'se, ad-jur-6se'. adj. [from agger, Lat.] Full of heaps. Diet. To AGGLO'MERATE, ag-glom'mur- ate. v. a. [agglomero, Lat.] 1 To gather up in a ball, as thread. 2 To gather together. To AGGLo'MKRArE,ag-gl6m'mur kte.v.n. Besides the hard agglomerating salts, The spoil of ages, would impervious choke Their secret channels. Tliomson's Autumn. Agglu'tinants, ag-glu'te-nanls. n s. [from agglutinate.] Those medicines or applications, which have the power of uniting parts together. To AGGLU'TINATE,ag-glu'te-nate. v. n. [from ad and gluten, glue, Lat.] To unite one part to another; to join to- gether, so as not to fall asunder. It is a word, almost appropriated to medicine. The body has got room enough, to grow into its full dimensions; which is performed, by the daily ingestion of food, that is digested into blood; which, being diffused through the body, is agglutinated to those parts, that were immediately agglutinated to the foundation parts of the womb. Harvey on Consumptions. AGG Agglutina'tion, ag-glu-te-na'shtin. n. »., [from agglutinate!] Union; cohesion; the act of agglutinating; the state of being agglutinated. The occasion of its not healing by agglutination, as the other did, was from the alteration the ichor had begun to make in the bottom of the wound. Wiseman's Surgery. Agglu'tinative, ag-glu'te-na-tiv.612 adj. [from agglutinate.] That, which has the power of procuring agglutination. Rowl up the member, with the agglutinative rowler. Wiseman. To AGGKANDI'ZE, 3g'gran-dize.» v. a. [aggrandiser, Fr.] To make great; to enlarge; to exalt; to improve in power, honour, or rank. It is applied to persons generally, sometimes to things. If the king should use it no better, than the pope did, only to aggrandize covetous churchmen; it can- not be called a jewel in his crown. Jiyliffe's Parergon. These furnish us, with glorious springs and me- diums; to raise and aggrandize our conceptions, to warm our souls, to awaken the better passions; and to elevate them, even to a divine pitch, and that for devotional purposes. Watts's hnpr. of the Mini. A'ggrandizement, ag'gran-dize-ment. n. s. [aggrandissement, Fr.] The state of being aggrandized; the act of aggran- dizing. A'ggrandizer, ag'gran-dize-Ur. n. s, [from aggrandize.] The person, that ag- grandizes or makes great another. To Aggra'te, ag-grate'. v. a. [aggratare, Ital.] To please; to treat with civilities: a word not now in use. And in the midst thereof, upon the floor, A lovely bevy of fair ladies sate, Courted of many a jolly paramour; The which them did in modest wise amate, And each one sought his lady to aggrate. Fairy Queen, To A'GGRAVATE, ag'gra-vate.1 v. a. [aggravo, Lat.] 1. To make heavy: used, only in a meta- phorical sense; as, to aggravate an accu- sation, or a punishment. A grove hard by sprung up with this their change, (His will, who reigns above!) to aggravate Their penance; laden with fruit, like that Which grew in Paradise, the bait of Eve, Us'd by the tempter. Milton's Par. Lost. Ambitious Turnus in the press appears, And aggravating crimes augments their fears. Dryden's JEneii. 2. To make any thing worse, by the addi- tion of some particular circumstance, not essential. This offence, in itself so heinous, was yet in him aggravated by the motive thereof; which was not malice or discontent, but an aspiring mind to Hie papacy. Bacon's Henry VII. AGGRAVA'TioNjag-gra-va'shun.n.s^from aggravate.] 1. The act of aggravating, or making heavy, 2. The act of enlarging to enormity. A painter added a pair of whiskers to the face; and, by a little aggravation of the features, changed it into the Saracen's head. Addison. 3. The extrinsical circumstances or acci- dents, which increase the guilt of a crime, or the misery of a calamity He, to the sins which he commits, hath the ag- gravation superadded, of committing them against knowledge, against conscience, against sight of the contrary law. Hummnd](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21133803_0178.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
