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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![2. By way of contempt, wc say of a stupid man, that he is a stupid animal. A'nimal, an'e-mal. adj. [animalis, Lat ] 1. That which belongs or relates to ani- mals. There are things in the world of spirits, wherein our ideas are very dark and confused; such as their union with animal nature, the way of their acting on material beings, and their converse with each other. Watts's Logick. 2. Animal functions, distinguished from natural and vital, are the lower powers of the mind; as the will, memory, and imagination. 3. Animal life is opposed, on one side, to intellectual; and, on the other, to vegeta- ble. 4. Animal is used in opposition to spiritual or rational; as, the animal nature. ANiMA'LouLEjan-e-mal'kule. n. s. [animal- culum, Lat.] A small animal; paticular- ly those, which are in their first and smallest state. We are to know, that they all come of the seed of animalcules of their own kind, that were before laid there. Ray. Anima'lity, an-e-mal'e-te. n. s. [from animal.'] The state of animal existence. The word animal, in the first proposition, only signifies human animality. In the minor proposition, the word animal, for the same reason, signifies the animality of a goose: thereby it becomes an ambi- guous term, and unfit to build the conclusion upon. Watts. To A'NIMATE, an'e-mate. v. a. [animo, Lat.] 1. To quicken; to make alive; to give life to: as, the soul animates the body; man must have been animated by a higher power. v 2. To give powers to; to heighten the powers or effect of any thing. But none, ah! none can animate the lyre, And the mute strings with vocal souls inspire: Whether the learn'd Minerva be her theme, Or chaste Diana bathing in the stream; None can record their heav'nly praise so well As Helen, in whose eyes ten thousand Cupids dwell. Dryden. 3. To encourage; to incite. The more to animate the people, he stood on high, from whence he might be best heard, and cried un- to them with a loud voice. Knolles. He was animated to expect the papacy; by the prediction of a soothsayer, that, one should succeed Pope Leo, whose name should be Adrian. Bacon. A'nimate, an'e-mate. adj. [from To ani- mate.] Alive; possessing animal life. All bodies have spirits and pneumatical parts . within them; but the main differences between ani- mate and inanimate, are two: the first is, that the spirits of things animate are all contained within themselves, and are branched in veins and secret canals, as blood is; and, in living creatures, the spirits have not only branches, but certain cells or seats, where the principal spirits do reside, and whereunto the rest do resort: but the spirits in things .inanimate are shut in, and cut off by the tangible parts, and are not pervious one to another, as air is in snow. Bacon. Nobler birth Of creatures animate with gradual life, Of growth, sense, reason, all sunnn'd up in man. Milton. There are several topicks used against atheism and idolatry; such as the visible marks of divine wis- dom and goodness in the works of the creation, the vital union of souls with matter, and the admirable structure of animate bodies. Bentley. A'nimated, dn'e-ma-ted, participial adj. [from animate.] Lively; vigorous. Warriours she fires with animated sounds; Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds. Pope. Vnimateness, an'e-mate-nes. n. s. [from animate.] The state of being animated. J Diet. ANiMA'noN,an-e-ma'shAn.n. *.[from ani- mate.] 1. The act of animating or enlivening. Plants or vegetables are the principal part of the third day's work. They are the first effects of the commmdprodncat, which is the word of animation. Bacon. 2. The state of being enlivened. Two general motions in all animation are its be- ginning and encrease; and two more, to run through its state and declination. Brown. A'nimative, an'e-ma-tive.167 adj. [from animate.] That which has the power of giving life, or animating. Anima'tor, an'e-ma-tur.521 n. s. [from ani- mate.] That which gives life; or any thing analagous to lite, as motion. Those bodies being of a congenerous nature, do, readily receive the impressions of their motor; and, if not fettered by their gravity, conform themselves to situations, wherein they best unite to their anima- tor. Broivn. Animo'se, an-e-mose'.427 adj. [animositas, Lat.] Full of spirit; hot; vehement. Diet. Animo'seness, an-e-mose'ness. n. s. [from animose.] Spirit; heat; vehemence of temper. Diet. Animo'sity, an-e-mos'se-te. n. s. [animo- sitas, Lat.] Vehemence of hatred; pas- sionate malignity. It implies rather a disposition to break out into outrages, than the outrage itself. They were sure to bring passion, animosity, and malice enough of their own, what evidence soever they had from others. Clarendon. If there is not some method found out for allay- ing these heats and animosities among the fair sex, one does not know to what outrages they may proceed. Addison. No religious sect ever carried their aversions for each other to greater heights, than our state parties have done; who, the more to inflame their passions, have mixed religious and civil animosities together; borrowing one of their appellations from the church. Swift. A'nise, an'nis.140 n.s. [anisum, Lat.] A spe- cies of apium or parsley, with large sweet-scented seeds. This plant is not worth propagating in England for use, because the seeds can be had much bet- ter and cheaper from Italy. Miller. Ye pay the tythe of mint, and anise, and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Matt. A'nkek, ank'ur.98 409 n. s. [ancker, Dutch.] A liquid measure chiefly used at Am- sterdam. It is the fourth part of the awm, and contains two stekans: each stekan consists of sixteen mengles; the mengle being equal to two of our wine quarts. Cha?nbers. .Vnkle, ank'kl.406 n. s. [ancleop, Sax. anckel, Dutch.] The joint which joins the foot to the leg. l2 ANN One of his ankles was much swelled and ulcerat- ed on the inside, in several places. Wiseman My simple system shall suppose, That Alma enters at the toes; That then she mounts by just degrees Up to the ankles, legs, and knees. Prior A'nkle-bone, ank'kl-bone, n. s. [fromara- kle and bone.] The bone of the ankle. The shin-bone, from the knee to the instep, is made by shadowing one half of the leg with a single shadow; the ankle-bone will shew itself by a shadow given underneath, as the knee. Peacham. A'nnalist, an'na-list. n. s. [from annals.^ A writer of annals. Their own annalist has given the same title to that of Syrmium. Atterbury. A'NNALS, an'nalz. n. s. without singular number, [annates, Lat.] Histories di- gested in the exact order of time; nar- ratives in which every event is record- ed under its proper year. Could you with patience hear, or I relate, 0 nymph! the tedious annals of our fate; Through such a train of woes if I should run, The day would sooner than the tale be done! Dryd. We are assured, by many glorious examples in the annals of our religion, that every one, in the like circumstances of distress, will not act and ar- gue thus; but thus will every one be tempted to act. Rogers. A'nnats, an'nats. n. s. without singular, [annates, Lat.] 1. First fruits; because the rate of first fruits paid of spiritual livings, is after one year's profit. Coivell. 2. Masses said in the Romish church for the space of a year, or for any other time, either for the soul of a person de- ceased, or for the benefit of a person living. Ayliffe's Par ergon. To A'nneal, &n-nele'. v. a. [aelan, to heat, Saxon.] 1. To heat glass, that the colours laid on it may be fixed. But when thou dost anneal in glass thy story, ■' ■ then the light and glory More rev'rend grows, and more doth win, Which else shews wat'rish, bleak, and thin. Herbert. When you purpose to anneal, take a plate of iron made fit for the oven, or take a blue stone, which being made fit for the oven, lay it upon the cross bars of iron. Peacham. Which her own inward symmetry reveal'd, And like a picture shone, in glass anneaVd. Dryden. 2. To heat glass after it is blown, that it may not break. 3. To heat any thing in such a manner as to give it the true temper. To ANNE'X, an-neks'. v. a. [annecto,an- nexum, Lat. annexer, Fr] l.To unite to at the end; as, he annexed a codicil to his will. 2 To unite, as a smaller thing to a greater; as, he annexed a province to his king- dom. 3. To unite a posteriori; annexion always presupposing something: thus we may say, punishment is annexed to guilt, but not guilt to punishment. Concerning fate or destiny, the opinions of those learned men, that have written thereof, may be safely received, had they not thereunto annexed and fastened an inevitable necessity, and made it more general and universally powerful than it is. Raleigh. Nations will decline so low From virtue, which is reasou; that no wrong,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21133803_0213.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
