1. To FULFIL,

2. ACCOMPLISH,

3. REALIZE.

1. Erfüllen, voll füllen; 2. erfüllen, ausführen; 3. ausführen,

verwirklichen.

Das erste Seitwort wird von Wünschen, Erwartungen, Absichten and Versprechungen eines Individuums gebraucht; das zweite, ohne Bezug auf Wünsche, von öffentlichen Plänen, Unternehmungen, Prophezeiungen und was sonst von allgemeinem Interesse ist; das dritte von dem Glücke oder den Aussichten eines Einzelnen, und dem glücklichen Erfolge spezifischer Bemühungen.

The palsied dotard looks round him, perceives himself to be alone; he has survived his friends, and he wishes to follow them: his wish is fulfilled; he drops torpid and insensible into that gulf which is deeper than the grave. (Hawkesworth.)

I am here in Paris, and fulfil the promise, which your friendship required of me, to write to you immediately on my arrival.

O Lord, my best desire fulfil,

And help me to resign

(Mackenzie's Julia.)

God bless you, sweet boy! and accomplish the joyful hope I have conceived of you. (Sydney.)

Some parts of Luther's behaviour, which to us appear most culpable, gave no disgust to his contemporaries. It was even by some of those qualities, which we are now apt to blame, that he was fitted for accomplishing the great work which he undertook.

(Robertson's Hist. of Charles V.) But the wreath of Goldsmith is unsullied; he wrote to exalt virtue and expose vice; and he accomplished his task in a manner which raises him to the highest rank among British authors.

(W. Scott's Lives.) After my fancy had been busied in attempting to realize the scenes that Shakspeare drew, I regretted that the labour was ineffectual.

(Hawkesworth.)

All that you read of wealth and grandeur in the Arabian night's entertainment and the Persian Tales, concerning Bagdad and Samarkand, is here realized. (Smollet's Clinker.)

1. FULNESS,

2. PLENITUDE.

1. Vollheit, Fülle; 2. Fülle, Menge, Ueberfluß.

Das erste wird entweder in eigentlicher oder uneigentlicher Bedeutung das zweite nur in höherer Schreibart und im uneigentlichen Sinne gebraucht.

The fulness of one's heart; in the fulness of my joy; the fulness of the Godhead bodily. The plenitude of glory and of power. All mankind

Must have been lost, adjudg'd to death and hell,

By doom severe, had not the Son of God,
In whom the fulness dwells of love divine,
His dearest meditation thus renew'd.

(Milton.)

The most beneficent Being is he who has an absolute fulness of perfection in himself, who gave existence to the universe, and so cannot be supposed to want that which he communicated without diminishing from the plenitude of his own power and happiness. (Grove.)

The oil gushed forth in a plenitude of streams; and the regresses, who supplied it without intermission, united their cries with those of the princess. (Beckford's Vathek.)

1. FUNERAL, 2. OBSEQUIES.

1. Leichenbegängniß; 2. Leichenbegängniß, Leichenfeier.

Das erste Hauptwort bedeutet die gewöhnliche Feierlichkeit bei Begråbnissen; das zweite die mehr als gewöhnliche, welche bei Personen von hös herem Stande, und solchen, die sich öffentlicher Achtung erfreuen, Statt findet.

The funeral banquet; the funeral dirge; the funeral train; the funeral pomp.

While Arbaces had been thus employed, Sorrow and Death were in the house of Jone. It was the night preceeding the morn in which the solemn funeral rites were to be decreed to the remains of the murdered Apaecides. But the players, the buffoons, the archimimus (whose duty it was to personate the dead) these, the customary attendants at ordinary funerals, were banished from a funeral attended with so many terrible associations. (Bulwer's Last days of Pompeii.) That pluck'd my nerves, those tender strings of life, Which, pluck'd a little more, will toll the bell That calls my few friends to my funeral.

(Young.)

While I was meditating on the distinctions of worldly rank, which extend thus down into the very dust, the toll of the bell announced the approach of the funeral. They were the obsequies of poverty, with which pride has nothing to do. (W. Irving's Sketch Book.)

His obsequies (Lorenzo de' Medici) were without ostentation, he having a short time before his death given express directions to that (Roscoe's Life of Lorenzo de' Medici.) Some in the flower-strewn grave the corpse have laid, And annual obsequies around it paid.

effect.

(Jenyns.)

1. To GAPE, 2. STARE, 3. GAZE.

1. Angaffen; 2. stieren, anstarren; 3. anftarren, anstaunen.

Das erste und zweite Zeitwort im nachtheiligen Sinne; das erste das Erstaunen grober Unwissenheit, das zweite grober Unwissenheit und Ungeschliffenheit; das dritte anhaltend ansehen, jederzeit in vortheilhaftem Sinne, ein lobenswerthes Gefühl des Erstaunens, Vergnügens oder der Neugierde anzeigend.

A clown gapes at the pictures of wild beasts which he sees at a fair. An impertinent fellow stares at every woman he looks at, and stares a modest woman out of countenance. When a person is stupified by affright, he gives a vacant stare. A lover of the fine arts will gaze with admiration and delight at the productions of Raphael or Titian; those who are filled with transport gaze on the object of their ecstacy.

It was now a miserable spectacle to see us nodding and gaping at one another, every man talking and no man heard. (Mandeville.)

A great many broad English faces burst forth from amongst the crowd of profane vulgar at the portal of the church, and all their eyes were directed to their enthusiastic country man, but he was not to be stared out of a decent countenance. (Beckford's Italy.)

The gaze of the crowd had been long riveted on Arbaces.

(Bulwer's Pompeii.)

From the heights of Bruges, a mortal and his betrothed gazed upon (Bulwer's Pilgrims.)

the scene below.

For, while expecting there the queen, he rais'd
His wond'ring eyes, and round the temple gaz'd,
Admir'd the fortune of the rising town,
The striving artists, and their art's renown.

1. To GATHER, 2. To COLLECT.

1. Sammeln, einsammeln; 2. zusammenbringen, sammeln.

Das erste Zeitwort bedeutet, nur das Zerstreute sammeln, es auf eine Stelle bringen, es ist eine bloße Handlung der Nothwendigkeit und der Paßlichkeit; das zweite hat noch den Nebenbegriff, in ein Ganzes bilden, es ist eine Handlung der Wahl.

Stones are gathered into a heap; we gather apples from a tree, a servant gathers books from off a table. Vessels are collected so as to form a fleet. The antiquarian collects coins, and the bibliomaniac collects rare books.

I have set out a table under a beautiful tree behind the cottage; and I've been gathering some of the most delicious strawberries, for I know you are fond of them and we have such excellent cream and every thing is so sweet and still here. (W. Irving's Sketch Book.) Such are the particulars which I gathered of this village story. (Sk. Book.)

As the small ant (for she instructs the man,
And preaches labour) gathers all she can.

(Creech.)

From the gamekeepers of these gentlemen, an office the most apt of any other to become hereditary in such families, I have also contrived to collect much valuable information. (W. Scott's Old Mortality.)

I had rather take the Darius whom Alexander conquered for the son of Hystaspes, and make as many anachronisms as a Jewish chronologer, than sacrifice half my life to collect all the learned lumber that fills the head of an antiquary (Bolingbroke's Lett.)

The royal bee, queen of the rosy bower,
Collects her precious sweets from every flower.

(C. Johnson.)

1. GENERAL, 2. UNIVERSAL.

1. und 2. Allgemein.

Das erste Adjectiv verhält sich zum zweiten, wie ein Theil zum Ganzen; general umfaßt den größern Theil, universal jeden Theil; general ist im Gegensas von particular und universal von individual.

The general rule admits of many exceptions; the universal rule admits of none. Human government has the general good for its object; the government of Providence is directed to universal good. A scientific writer will not content himself with general remarks, when he has it in his power to enter into particulars; the universal complaint which we hear against men for their pride, shows that in every individual it exists to a greater or less degree. General grammar embraces in it all principles that are supposed to be applicable to all languages: universal grammar is a thing scarcely attainable by any stretch of human power; for what man can become so thorougly acquainted with all existing languages, as to reduce all their particular idioms to any system?

To conclude from particulars to generals is a false way of arguing.

Nor fail'd they to express how much they prais'd,
That for the general safety he despis'd

His own.

(Broome.)

(Milton.)

What, cried I, is my young landlord then the nephew of a man whose virtues, generosity, and singularities, are so universally known? (Goldsmith's Vicar.)

1. GENTEEL, 2. POLITE.

1. Fein, artig, wohlgesittet, anständig, schön; 2. fein, artig, höflich. Das erste betrifft Rang; das zweite die Veredlung des Geistes und das äußere Betragen; man kann die erste Eigenschaft ohne die legte, und umgekehrt, besigen.

A genteel education is suited to the station of a gentleman; a polite education fits for polished society and conversation, and raises the individual among his equals. A person may have genteel manners, a genteel carriage, a genteel mode of living as far as respects his general relation with society; but a polite behaviour and a polite address, which qualify him for every relation in society, and enable him to shine in connexion with all orders of men, are independent of eiter birth or wealth; they are in part gifts of nature, although to be acquired by art. His equipage, servants, house and furniture, may be such as to entitle a man to the name of genteel, although he is wanting in all the forms of real good-breeding; while fortune may sometimes frown upon the polished gentleman, whose politeness is a recommendation to him wherever he goes.

A lady of genius will give a genteel air to her whole dress by a well-fancied suit of knots, as a judicious writer gives a spirit to a whole sentence by a single expression. (Gay.)

At last, a young gentleman of a more genteel appearance than the rest, came forward, and for a while regarding us, instead of pursuing the chase, stopt short, and giving his horse to a servant who attended, approached us with a careless superior air. (Goldsmith's Vicar.)

Hence their palaces became a kind of polite academy, in which the nobility of both sexes found a constant exercise for their intellectual talents; and courage, rank and beauty, did not hesitate to associate with taste, with learning, and with wit. (Roscoe's Leo the tenth.)

In this isle remote,

Our painted ancestors were slow to learn,
To arms devote, in the polites arts,

Nor skill'd nor studious.

(Somerville.)

1. GENTILE, 2. HEATHEN, 3 PAGAN.

1. Der Heide; 2. der Heide; 3. der Heide.

Das erste Hauptwort bezeichnet einen Heiden, der zwar nicht ausdrücklich an eine göttliche Offenbarung glaubt, aber sie theilweise einräumt. Die Juden nannten alle Fremde Goim, oder Gentiles. (Confuzius, Socrates und die Mahomedaner sind im eigentlichen Sinne gentiles.) Das zweite bezeich= net einen, der ein dem wahren Glauben entgegengeseztes falsches System annimmt (die Anbeter des Jupiter, der Juno, Minerva und aller Götter der Alten); das dritte, eine Art von Heathen, der hartnäckig auf einem Gottesdienst besteht, welcher eine Geburt seiner Einbildung ist: Gößendiener (die Anbeter des Fo, Brama, Xaca und aller Götter der wilden Völker).

The Gentiles were called to the true faith, and obeyed the call: many of the illustrious Heathens would have doubtless done the same, had they enjoyed the same privilege: there are to this day many Pagans who reject this advantage, to pursue their own blind imaginations. There might be several among the Gentiles in the same condition that Cornelius was before he became a Christian. (Tillotson.)

The fount for holy water stands by the principal entrance, fronting this curious recess, and seems to have belonged to some place of Gentile worship. (Beckford's Italy.)

And therefore shall not Moses, though of God
Highly belov'd, being but the minister

Of law, his people into Canaan lead;
But Joshua, whom the Gentiles Jesus call.

(Par. Lost.)

Not that 1 believe that all virtues of the Heathens were counterfeit, and destitute of an inward principle of goodness, God forbid we should pass so hard a judgment upon those excellent men, Socrates, and Epictetus, and Antoninus. (Tillotson.)

It was the honour of the Christian faith that the Christian boldly forced his tenets upon the scepticism of some, the repugnance of others, the sage contempt of the philosopher, the pious shudder of the people; his very intolerance supplied him with his fittest instruments of success; and the soft Heathen began at last to imagine there must indeed be something holy in a zeal wholly foreign to his experience, which stopped at no obstacle, dreaded no danger, and even at the torture, or on the scaffold, referred a dispute, far other than the calm differences of speculative philosophy, to the tribunal of an Eternal Judge.

(Bulwer's Last days of Pompeii.)