The new world of words: or, universal English dictionary ... / [Edward Phillips].

  • Edward Phillips
Date:
1706
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    3btract, a Copy, or Ihorc Draught of ^an Original Writing, an Abridgment of a Record, Deed or Book. In Logick^ any Quality, as it is confidered a-part, without regard to its Concrete or Sijhieft : lee Cyncrcte. ^unillCllS, fin Ariibm,)' thofe that are confidered as pure Mumbtrs, without being apply’d to any fubiedt. And fo Abjhacted Aintht- ^tncitich is us’d in Oppofition to Mix'd Mathrmt- ticks \ the former fignifying pure Arithmetitk, Geometry, or Algebra, cbc. Hbibratfion, a Faculty or Power peculiar to the Mind of Man, in Contradilfincbion to the natural Capacity of Brutes \ whereby he can make his Idea's^ or Conceptions relating to particular Things become general, fo as to reprelent all of the lame Kind. Thus if my Eye reprefent to me Whitenefs in a Wall, I can abftradbedly confider that Quality of Whitenefs, and find it may be at¬ tributed to many other things befides; as to Chalk, Milk, Snow, &c. lying Ihd, fecret, obfcure, dark, hard to be underllood. tlut is not agreeable to Reafon or common Seiife, fooliih, filly, impertinent. ^liUnDaitt, abounding with. Plentiful. ;^ljutttant (in Aritkmetlck) are thofe, whofe Aliquot Parts added together, make more than the whole Number which they are Parts of-, as i2, whofe Parts being 1,2,3,4, and 6, if added all together make 16; So likewile the Aliquot Parts of 20, make 22. ;31jU|S, fee Abfis, 0httte, ill Ufe, Affront. To j^hufe, to make a bad life of, to mifufe, afiront, or do one an Injury, ;ai)UU0, (lat.) the abuling, or mifufing of a thing alfo a Figure in Rhetorick^ the fame as Ca- tachrejisy which lee. injurious, ofpenfive, affrontive. (Cr.) a bottomlefs Gulph or Pit, a pro¬ digious deep Place that has no Bottom difcernible, or at leaft is fuppofed to have none-, a vail unfa¬ thomable Mafs of Waters, fuch as is thought to be inclofed in the Bowels of the Earth. a People of Ethiopia^ that are Chri- llians of the Greek Church, and whole Emperour, ftyled the Grand NegnSj is by fome falfely taken for Prefier John. .S^cacia, the Gum of the Thorn Acacia^ or binding Bean-tree, very hard to be got 3 fo that inftead of it, Conferves of Sloes are fometiraes us’d, under the Name of , Scabemickg, (6’r.') the Followers of Plato.^ anciently lb call’d becaufe they ftudied in the pub- lick School call’d Academia. Afterwards the Name vvas given to a Sedb of Sceptical Philofophers, who held, That all things were uncertain, that Men ought to doubt of all Things, and believe no¬ thing, &c. Slcascm}’, an Univerfity, a Place where Youth are taught the liberal Arts and Sciences^ or other Exercifes. Alfo a particular Society ot in¬ genious Perfons, eftablilhed for the Improvement of Learning, eh*-. The Word is deriv’d from ^- cademia., a famous School near Athens^ built and planted with Trees, fome fay by Cadmus the Phe- nician^ others byone Acade??mSy whence it had its Name. ^Caua, a Rod or Perch ten Foot long, anci¬ ently us’d to meafure Land with. iCaiO, a Word us’d by fome Chymills for Vi- ir. ca’anthi^, (Gr.) a Bird feeding and fit¬ ting on Thillles; fee Acanthis. locale, a Word in Changer fignifying Cold. I £lcaltul)r, (6>.) the great fringing Nestle, or' the Sea-nettle, a fenfible Plant. Hcain.3, a Shrub, or Herb, w-ith Prickles. i^raiitaiiolns, a Surgeon’s Inirrnme;;t, like a Pair ol Pincers, to take out any thing that mav happen to Ititk in the Ocjuphagic;^ or Gullet. >dcaiU|);t, a Ihoru, Brier, or Bramble:, a Prickle; In Anatomy., the mofr backward Pro¬ tuberance or Knob of the k’^ertehra’s., or Turning- Joy nts of'the Back, otherwife call’d Sprna DoJi. the Oat-Thiftle, whofe Seeds, are like Oats;, or the Cotton-thiille with Leaves, having a Mois like Cotton upon them. Hcanthis! , the ThilUe-Finch, or Siskin, a Bird.:, allbthe herb Groundfel. 51c<incbu0, a pleafant <iyEgyptian Plant with a yellow Flow'er, the Figure of w'hich uied to be, engrav’d on Cups, or embroider’d on Garments-, alio the Herb Brank-Urfin, Bears-breech, or Beai s- foot, ■ certain Turkifn light Horfemen, who are as it were the Avant-Couriers of the Grand Seignior’s Array. ^capiTon, (jCreeli) a kind of Honey, taken out ot the. Hive w'lthout fmoaking the Bees. Jicarntir, tire fame with Ackerner ; which fee. Ucarnc, a certain Sea-filh, the Fini-thillle, or Sea-roach. iSCtlCon, wild Myrtle, or Gow alfo But- rhers broom, an Herb whole Root is one of the five opening ones.. .HCrtiUg, the Hand-worm, a little Worm that breeds in Wax, a Mite^ alfo a Mulhroom or Toad- hool, . . • UcatalcdOiS, or Sraralfdiiii Elcrfc, f in Greek and Latin Poetry) a N’erie exadlly perfect, in which not fo much as one Syllable is over and above, or wanting. . , the great Juniper Tree, a Shrub. ^ICCffiaB ao Curiani, is a Writ returnable in the (^eens-hench, or Common Picas., and direilted to the Sheriff, requiring him to go to the Court of fome Lord, or Franchife wliere any falfe Judg¬ ment is fuppos’d to be made in any Suit, in fuch a Court that is not a Court of Record, in order to make a Record of the laid Suit there, and to cer¬ tify it into the Queen’s Court, at a Day appointed in the Wfit. , , . ^cccua0 alj cilicf^comitem, a Writ direAed. to the Coroner, commanding him to deliver a Writ to the Sheriff, who haviug a Po?ic delivered him, fuppreffes. it. To ^cccletat^, (in Pkilof.) to haflen, to put on, or quicken. Acceleration, the A£l of Accelerating, ha- .Ilening,- &c. as The Acceleration oj the Dejeent of heavy Bcdics. AccclcratO?C0 HJrince, c in Anat. ) a pair of Mulcles belonging to the Pew'j, whofe Ule is to promote the Paffage ot the Urine d.x\d..Ge'ni.tura. .They arife from the upper Part of the Urethra., as it paffes under the Os Pubis., and are inferted on eacli fide the Corpora Cavernofa Penis. Xin Philojophy'). the Inkindling, ' or letting any naturalBody on fire. Accent, Tuns, Tone, or Tenour 3 theRifing or Falling of the Voice.: lo Grammar, a Mark lec over a particular Syllable of any Word, fo as it may be pronounc’d with a llronger or weaker Voice. Tilde Accents are uiually counted three iu-Number, Az.. Acute, Crave., and Ctrcumjiex, and thus exprefled [ J [' ] and [''] but the Cix- cumflex.in Greek is diftinguiihed by this Mark [~] j^CCllC, in Mufick, is a Modulation, or war¬ bling of the Voice, to exprefe the PalUonj;, either iiaturally or artificially. AfCentP?, Imentor, To
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