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.
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1819
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    ..Widely different; much altered. When the -soul is beaten from its station, and the mounds of virtue are broken down; it becomes quite another thing, from what it was before. South. Ano'thergaines, an-tiTn'ur-ganes. adj. fSee Axotherguess.] OF another kind. This word I have found only in Sidney. If my father had not plaid the hasty fool, I might have had anothergaincs husband than Dametas. Sidney. Ano'therguess, an-UTH'ar-ges. adj. [This word,which though rarely used in writing, is somewhat frequent in collo- quial language, I conceive to be cor- rupted from another guise; that is, of a different guise, or manner, or form.] Of a different kind. Oh Hocus! where art thou? It used to go in another guess manner in thy time. Arbuthnot. A'nsated, an'sa-ted. adj. [ensatus, Lat.] Having handles; or something in the form of handles. To ANSWER, an'sur. «*98 v. n. [The etymology is uncertain; the Saxons had anbf papian, but in another sense; the Dutch have antwoorden.] 1. To speak in return to a question. Are we succour'd? are the Moors removed? Answer these questions first, and then a thousand more. Answer them all together. > Dryden. 2. To speak in opposition. No man was able to answer him a word. Matthew, xxii. 46. If it be said, we may discover the elementary in- gredients of things; I answer, that it is not necessa- ry that such a discovery should be practicable. J Boyle. 3. To be accountable for: with for. Those many had not dared to do evil, If the fust man, that did th' edict infringe, Had answered for his deed. Shakspeare. Some men have sinned in the principles of hu- manity, and must answer for not being men. Brown's Vulgar Errours. If there be any ahsurdity in this, our author must answer for it. Locke. 4. To vindicate; to give a justificatory ac- count of: with for. The night, so impudently fixed for my last, made little impression on myself; but I cannot answer for my family. Sw^A- 5. To give an account. How they have been since received, and so well improved, let those answer either to God or man, who have been the authors and promoters of such wise council. Temple. He wants a father, to protect his youth, And reai- him up to virtue. You must bear The future blame, and answer to the world, When you refuse the easy honest means Of taking care of him. Southern. 6. To correspond to; to suit with. As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man. Prov. xxvii. 19. 7. To be equivalent to; to stand for some- thing else. A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry; but money answereth all things. Eccl. x. 19. 8. To satisfy any claim or petition of right or justice. Zelmane with rageful eyes bade him defend him- self; for no less than his life would answer it. Sidney. Revenge the jeering and disdain'd contempt Of this proud king, who studies day and night To answer all the debt he owes unto you, Ev'n with the bloody payments of your deaths. Shaks. Let his neck answer for it, if there is any martial !aw in the world. Shakspeare. Men no sooner find their appetites unanswered, than they complain the times are injurious. Raleigh. That yearly rent is still paid, even as the former casualty itself was wont to be, in parcel meal paid in and answered. Bacon. 9. To act reciprocally. Say, do'stthou yet the Roman harp command? Do the strings ansxeer to thy noble hand? Dryd. 10. To stand as opposite or correlative to something else. There can but two things create love, perfection and usefulness; to which answer, on our part, 1. Admiration; and, 2. Desire: and both these are cen- tered in love. Taylor. 11. To bear proportion to. Weapons must needs be dangerous things, if they answered the bulk of so prodigious a person. Sicift. 12. To perform what is endeavoured or in- tended by the agent. Our part is, to choose out the most deserving ob- jects, and the most likely to answer the ends of our charity; and, when this is done, all is done, that lies in our power: the rest must be left to providence. Jltterbury. 13. To comply with. He dies, that touches of this fruit, Till I and my affairs are answered. Shakspeare. 14. To succeed; to produce the wished event. Jason followed her counsel; whereto when the event had ansicered, he again demanded the fleece. Raleigh. In operations upon bodies for their version or al- teration, the trial in great quantities doth not answer the trial in small: and so deceiveth many. Bacon. 15. To appear to any call, or authoritative summons; in which sense, though figu- ratively, the following passage may be, perhaps, taken. Thou wert better in thy grave, than to answer with thy uncovered body, this extremity of the skies. Shaks]>eare. 16. To be over-against any thing. Fire answers fire; and, by their paly beams, Each battle sees the other's umber'd face. Shaksp. A'NSWER,an's\lr.476tt. s. [from To answer.] 1. That which is said, whether in speech or writing, in return to a question, or position. It was a right answer of the physician to his pa- tient, that had sore eyes: If you have more pleasure in wine than in your sight, wine is good. Locke. How can we think of appearing at that tribunal, without being able to give a ready answer to the questions, which he shall then put to us, about the poor and the afflicted, the hungry and the naked, the sick and imprisoned? JiUerbury. 2. An account to be given to the demand of justice. He'll call you to so hot an answer for it, That you shall chide your trespass. Shakspeare. 3. In law, a confutation of a charge ex- hibited against a person. A personal answer ought to have three qualities; it ought to be pertinent to the matter in hand; it ought to be absolute and unconditional; it ought to be clear and certain. Jlyliffe. A'nswer-jobber, an'sur-job-btlr. n. s. [from answer and jobber.] Hethatmakes a trade of writing answers. What disgusts me from having any thing to do with answer-jobbers, is that they have no conscience. Swifi. A'nswerable, an'sur-a-bl.475 adj. [from answer.] 1. That to which a reply may be made; that which may be answered; as, the ar- gument, though subtle, is yet am vjera ble. Obliged to give an account; obliged to answer any demand of justice; or stand the trial of an accusation. Every chief of every kindred or family should be answerable, and bound to bring forth every one of that kindred, at all times, to be justified, when he should be required, or charged with any treason or felony. Spenser's State of Ireland Will any man argue, that if a physician should manifestly prescribe poison to all his patients, he cannot be justly punished, but is answerable only to God? Swift. He cannot think ambition more justly laid to their charge, than to other men; because that would be. to make church government answerable for the er- rours of human nature. Swift 3. Correspondent. It was but such a likeness, as an imperfect glass doth give; answerable enough in some features and colours, but erring in others. Sidneu. The daughters of Atlas were ladies who, accom- panying such as came to be registered among the worthies, brought forth children answerable in quali- ty to those that begot them. Raleigh, . Proportionate; suitable. Only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable; add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love By name to come call'd charity, the soul Of all the rest. Milton. , Suitable; suited. The following, by certain estates of men, answera- ble to that, which a great person himself professetn (as of soldiers to him, that hath been employed in the wars) hath been a thing well taken even in mon- archies. Bacon. If ansicerable style I can obtain Of my celestial patroness. Milton. 6. Equal; equivalent. There be no kings, whose means are ansioerabk unto other men's desires. Raleigh. 7. Relative; correlative. That, to every petition for things needful, there should be some ansicerable sentence of thanks pro- vided particularly to follow, is not requisite. Hooker. A'nswerably, an'svAr-a-bI£. adv. [from answerable.'] In due proportion; with proper correspondence; suitably. The broader seas are, if they be entire, and free from islands, they are answerably deeper. Brerewood on Languages. It bears light sorts, into the atmosphere, to a greater or lesser height, answerably to the greater or lesser intenseness of the heat. Woodward. A'nswerableness, an'sfir-a-bl-ness. n. s. [from answer able.] The quality of being answerable. Did. A'nswerer, an's&r-uT.554 n. s. [from an- swer.] He that answers; he that speaks in re- turn to what another has spoken. I know your mind, and I will satisfy it; neither will I do it like a niggardly answerer, going no fur- ther than the bounds of the question Sidney. 2. He that manages the controversy against one that has written first. It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together; because it gives his answerer double work. Swift. Ant, am. n. s. [aemect, Sax. which Ju- nius imagines, not without probability, to have been first contracted to aemtj and then softened to ant.] An emmet; a pismire. A small insect that lives in great numbers together in hillocks. We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee there is no lab ring in the winter. Shakspeart Methinks, all cities now but ant-hills are, Where when the several labourers I see,