n the a 10. To languish with pleasure or tender. in all ness. spest. To sounds of heav'nly harps she dies away, And melts in visions of eternal day. Papa into 11. To vanish. This battle fares like to the morning's Far, end it When dying clouds contend with growing lights nou Skakspears treg. The smaller stains and blemishes may e -ive, away and disappear, amidst the brightness the "dison. surrounds them; but a blot of a deeper nature casts a shade on all the other beauties, and darke bam. ens the whole character, Addison's Specials 12. [In the style of lovers.) To languish n his with affection. The young men acknowledged, in love-letter, -yder. that they died for Rebecca. 13. To wither, as a vegetable. Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone; but if it dic, it bring eth forth much fruit. -lore? 14. To grow vapid, as liquor. ! Die. n. š. pl. dice. [dé, Fr. dis, Welsh] Pipe 1. A small cube, marked on its faces with cath. numbers from one to six, which game *heir sters throw in play. Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good student from his book, and it is wonderful , and -hich, I have set my life upon a cast, sease, And I will stand the hazard of the dice. Shelt He knows which way the lot and the dice stal fall, as "erfectly as if they were already sent and 2. Hazard; chance. Eftsoons his cruel hand sir Guyon staid, stin Temp'ring the passion with advisement slow, And must'ring might on enemy dismay'd; az'd; , zid, cie. rem. Sbakipesc . him pre Milk appears to be a proper diet for human He sauc'd our broth as Juno had been sick, bodies, where acrimony is to be purged or avoid- And he her dieter. Sbaksp. Cymboineed; but not where the canals are obstructed, it Diete'TICAL. c.lj. (daithsexo.) Rebeing void of all saline quality. Arbutbact. DIETE'TICK. 'S tating to diet; belong.. Food regulated by the rules of medi ing to the medicinal cautions about the cine, for the prevention or cure of any use of food. disease. He received no other counsel than to refrain I commend rather some diet for certain sea- from cold drink, which was but a dietettral causons, than frequent use of physick; for those diets tion, and such as culinary prescription might alter the body more, and trouble it less. Bacon. have afforded. Brosun's Vul. Ers: I restrained myself to so regular a diet, as to This book of Cheyne's became the subject of eat flesh but once a-day, and a little at a time, conversation, and produced even sects in the without salt or vinegar. Temple. dietetick philosophy Arluth. on Alinaris. 3. Allowance of provision. To DIFFER. vin. [différo, Latin,} Jeremiaba properties and qualities not the same with those of another person or thing. 1. To feed by the rules of medicine. She diets him with fasting every day, If the pipe be a little wet on the inside, it will The swelling of his wounds to mitigate, make a.digering sound from the same pipe dry. Bacon. And made him pray both early and eke late. Thy prejudices, Syphax, won't discern Fairy Queen. Wliat virtues grow from ignorance and choice, Nor how the hero differs from the brute. Addison's Cato. The several parts of the same animal differ in their qualities. Arbuthnot. The veins unfill'd, our blood is cold; and then 2. To contend; to be at variance. We post upon the morning, are unapt A man of judgment shall sometimes hear To give or to forgive; but when we've stuf'd ignorant men differ, and know well within him. These pipes, and these conveyances of blood, self that those which so differ mean one thing, With wine and feeding, we have suppler souls and yet they themselves never agree. Bacon, Than in our priestlike fasts; therefore I'll watch Here uncontroll'd you may in judgment sit; We'll never differ with a crowded pir. Roroe. I will attend my husband, be his nurse, Shakspeare. 3. To be of a contrary opinion. In things purely speculative, as these are; and Diet his sickness; for it is my office. Sbaksp. no ingredients of our faith, it is free to differ Henceforth my early care from one another in our opinions and senti. Shall tend thee, and the fertile burden ease; Burnet's Theory. Till , dieted by thee, I grow mature There are certain measures to be kept, which In knowledge as the gods, who all things know. may leave a tendency rather to gain than to irri. Milton. tate those who differ with you in their sentia We have lived upon expedients, of which no ments. Addison's Freebolder. country had less occasion : we have dieted a heal Others differ with me about the cruth and thy body into a consumption, by plying it with reality of these speculations. Cheyne. Swift. DIFFERENCE. n. s. [differentia, Latin.) 1. State of being distinct from somethingi contrariety to identity. Where the faith of the holy church is one, a Sbaksp. Othello. difference between customs of the church doch no harm. Hooker. 2. The quality by which one differs froin another This nobility, or difference from the vulgar, was not in the beginning given to the succession of blood, but to the succession of virtue. n. s. [diet and drink.] Raleigh, Thus, born alike, from virtue first began The dif'rence that distinguish'd man froin mans He claim'd no title from descent of blood; or apothecary's medicines. But that, which made him noble, made him good. Dryden, Locke. Though it be useful to discern every variety that to be found in nature, yet it is not convenient to consider every difference that is in things, and divide them into distinct classes under every such difference. Locke. 3. The disproportion between one thing and another, caused by the qualities of Bohemia and your Sicilia. Sbaksp. Winter's Tale. Oh the strange difference of man and man! To thee a woman's services are due; Here might be seen a great difference between men practised to fight, and men accustomed only to spoil. Hayward ments. Fairy Out To Diet, V. n. the akspo e for DIET-DRINK. For th' equal die of war he well did know, Fairy Druction Under my spear: such is the die of war. Druis Young creatures have learned spelling af words dies. coinage. zond. Such variety of dies made use of hy Woodin - to stamping his money, makes the discovery of counterfeits more difficult. lows the trade of dying; The fleece, that has been by the dier stain? Never again its native whiteness gain'd. Was ruth There were some of very low rank and person fessions who acquired great estates: coktu in. diers, and shoemakers gave public shows to lo people. e in DÍ'ET. 2. s. [dieta, low Latin ; diants aris 1. Food; provisions for the mouth i They cared for no other delicacy of fare, curiosity of diet, than to maintain life. Rele el. Time may come, when men one who dis have physick instead of food. I'm partly led to diet my revenge, Ijoin with thee calm peace and quict; The observation will do that batter than the day, Skinner; from diet, an old Ger- An emperour in title without territory, who Raleigh. to the rules of diet. prescribes rules for eating ; one who pro Arbutbngt ck Carte con No inconvenient diet, nor too light fare. No part of diet, in any season, is so health so natural, and so agreeable to the stomach, * good and well-ripened fruits. the term. 1. a DIGLADIA’TION. 1. s. [digladiatio, Lat.) ture of prevalent humours, may be collected from spots in our nails, we are not averse to Brown's Vulg. Errours, contest. Aristotle seems purposely to intend the che- To DIGRE'SS. vi n. [digressus, Latin), rishing of controversial digladiations, by his own 1. To turn aside out of the road.. atfection of an intricate obscurity. Glanville. 2. To depart from the main design of a Di'GNIFIED. adj. (from dignify.) In- discourse, or chief tenour of an argu. vested with some dignity: it is used ment. chiefly of the clergy. In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly Abbots are stiled dignified clerks, as having room to digress into a particular definition, as some dignity in the church. Ayliffe's Parergon. often as a man varies the signification of any DIGNIFICA’tion. B. s. (from dignity. ] Locke. Exaltation. 3. To wander ; to expatiate. I grant that where a noble and ancient de- It seemeth (to digress no farther) that the scent and merit meet in any man, it is a double Tartarians, spreading so far, cannot be the Isdignification of that person. Walton's Angler: raelites. Brereworden To DIGNIFY. v.a. (from dignus and 4. To go out of the right way, or comfacio, Latin.] mon track; to transgresa; to deviate. 1. To advance ; to prefer; to exalt. Not in use. Used chiefly of the clergy: I am come to keep my word, 2. To honour; to adorn; to give lustre Though in some part I am forced to digress, Which at more leisure I will so excuse As you shall well be satisfied. Sbaksp. Thy noble shape is but a form of wax, Digressing from the valour of a man. Shaksp. Came not till now to dignify the times DIGRE'SSION. n. s. [digressio, Latin.) Since Cæsar's fortunes! Sbaksp. Henry iv. A passage deviating from the main te. Not that we think us worthy such a guest, nour or design of a discourse. But that your worth will dignify our feast. The good man thought so much of his late Ben Jonson. conceived commonwealth, that all other matters were but digressions to him. Sidney. But gudgeons, founders, what my Thames af. He, she knew, would intermix fords. Pope. Grateful digressions, and solve high dispute Di'GNITARY. n. s. [from dignus, Latin.] With conjugal caresses. Milton A clergyman advanced to some dignity, Here some digression I must make, t'accuse to some rank above that of a parochial Thee, my forgetful and ungrateful muse. Denhamn priest. If there be any dignitaries, whose preferments To content and fill the eye of the understandare perhaps not liable to the accusation of super ing, the best authors sprinkle their works with fluity, they may be persons of superior merit. pleasing digressions, with which they recreate the Dryden. 2. Deviation, 3. Rank of elevation. The digression of the sun is not equal; but, near the equinoctial intersections, it is right and Angels are not any where spoken so highly of as our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and are greater; near the solstices more oblique and lesser. not in dignity equal to him. Hooker. DIJUDICATION. n. s. (dijudicatio, Lat.) Brown's Vulg. Errours: 2. Grandeur of mien; elevation of aspect. Judicial distinction. Some men have a native dignity, which will procure them more regard by a look, than others Dike. ^.s. (dic, Saxon ; dyk, Erse.] can obtain by the most imperious commands I. A channel to receive water. Clarissa. The dykes are fill’d, and with a roaring sound 3. Advancement; preferment; high place. The rising rivers float the nether ground. Dryd. Faster than spring-time show'rs comes thought, The king of dykes! than whom no sluice of With deeper sable blots the silver flood. Pope. 2. A mound to hinder inundations. a deluge, and all the art and industry of man is we understand that promotion or pre not sufficient to raise up dykes and ramparts ferment to which any jurisdiction is To DILA'CERATE. against it. Cowley. annexed. Myliffe's Parergon. v. a. [dilacero, s. Maxims ; general principles : xugal Latin.) To tear ; to rend; to force acai, The infant, at the accomplished period, struge The sciences concluding from dignities, and gling to come farth, dilacerates and breaks chose principles known by themselves, receive not sa parts which restrained him before. Brown, Esfaction from probable reasons, much less from DILACERA’TION. 1. s. [from dilaceratio, bare asseverations. Brown. Latin.]. The act of rending in two. 6. (In astrology.) The planet is in dig The greatest sensation of pain is by the obnity when it is in any sign. struction of the small vessels, and dilaceration of Digno’TION, n. s. [from dignosco, Lat.] the nervous fibres. Arbutbrios Distinction ; distinguishing mark. To DILA'NIATE. V. a. [dilanio, Latin.] That temperamental digmotions, and conjec- To tear; to rend in pieces. 1 mud in two. t.) term. firtle finger. ture of prevalent humours, may be collected or from spots in our nails, we are not averse to Browa's Vulg. Errexts, 1. To turn aside out of the road. dle. 2. To depart from the main design of a discourse, or chief tenour of an argu. ed ment. In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition, as often as a man varies the signification of any -] Lala 3. To wander ; to expatiate. It seemeth (to digress no farther) that the le Tartarians, spreading so far, cannot be the ks» raelites. Brerum d 4. To go out of the right way, or com mon track; to transgresa; to deviate. t. Not in use. I am come to keep my word, re Though in some part I am forced to digress, Thy noble shape is but a form of was, The good man thought so much of his late conceived commonwealth, that all other matters were but digressions to him. Siduey. He, she knew, would intermix Grateful digressions, and solve high dispute With conjugal caresses. Miltos. Here some digression I must make, t'accuse Thee, my forgetful and ungrateful muse . Derben To content and fill the eye of the understand. ing, the best authors sprinkle their works with pleasing digressions, with which they recreate the minds of their readers. Dryden . 2. Deviation, The digression of the sun is not equal; but, near the equinoctial intersections, it is right agd greater; near the solstices more oblique and lesser. Brown's Pulg. Erreari DIJUDICATION. 5. s. (dijudicalio , Lat.} Judicial distinction. Dike. 1. so [dic, Saxon ; dyk, Erse.) 1. A channel to receive water. The dykes are fill'd, and with a roaring sound The rising rivers float the nether ground. Dry The king of dykes! than whom no sluice of With deeper sable blots the silver flood. Pepe. . A mound to hinder inundations. God, that breaks up the flood-gates of so great a deluge, and all the art and industry of man is not sufficient to raise up dykes and ramparts Coachay. 7 DILA'CERATE. v. a. [dilacere, Rather than they would dilaniate the entralls Dilus'd, it rises in a higher spliore; Howel's England's Tears. These neither seasons guide, for order binds: To DILA'PIDATE. vin. (dilapido, La- . They now dilate and now contract their force; tin.) To go to ruin; to fall by decay, Various their speed, but endless is their course. Prior. DILAPIDA'TION. n. s. [dilapidatio, Lat.) The second refraction would spread the rays The incumbent's suffering the chancel, one way as much as the first doth another, and io or any other edifices of his ecclesiastical dilate the image in breadth as much as the first living, to go to ruin or decay, by neg- doth in length. Nrutora lecting to repair the same : and it like 2. To relate at large; to tell diffusely wise extends to his committing, or and copiously. suffering to be committed, any wilful But he would not endure that woful thoan For to dilate at large; but urged sore, waste in or upon the glebe-woods, or With piercing words, and pitiful implore, any other inheritance of the church. Him hasty to arise. Fairy Queen. Ayliffe's Parergon. I observing, 'Tis the duty of all church-wardens to prevent Took once a pliant hour, and found good means the dilapidations of the chancel and mansion To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart house belonging to the rector or vicar. Ayliffe, That I would all my pilgrimage dilate, DILATABI’LITY. n. s. [from dilatable.] Whereof by parcels she had something heard, The quality of admitting extension. But not distinctively. Sbaksp. Oikelio We take notice of the wonderful diletability To DILA'te. vin. er extensiveness of the gullets of serpents: I 1. To widen ; to grow wide. have taken two adult mice out of the stomach His heart dilates and glories in his strength. of an adder, whose neck was not bigger than my Addison, 2. To speak largely and copiously. It may be behoveful for princes, in matters in a constant motion. of grace, to transact the same publickly, and by Arbuthnot. themselves; or their ministers to dilate upon it, ble of extension. and improve their lustre, by any addition or eloquence of speech. Clarendon. The windpipe divides itself into a great num- DILATOR. n. s. [from dilate.) That ber of branches, called bronchia: these end in mall air bladders, dilatable and contractible, ca which widens or extends. pable to be inflated by the admission of air, and The buccinatores, or blowers up of the cheeks, to subside at the expulsion of it. and the dilators of the nose, are too strong in Arbuthnot. cholerick people. Arbutbnet. 1. The act of extending into greater space : opposed to contraction, The quality of being dilatory; slow. The motions of the tongue, by contraction DILATORY. adj. [dilatiore, Fr. dila ness; sluggishness. torius, Lat.) Tardy; slow ; given to addicted to delay i 2. The state of being extended; the state in which the parts are at more distance sluggish; loitering. An inferior council, after former tedious suits in a higher court, would be but dilatory, and so Joy causeth a cheerfulness and vigour in the to little purpose. Hayward eyes; singing, leaping, dancing, and sometimes What wound did ever heal but by degrees? tears: all these are the effects of the dilatation, Thou know'st we work by wit, and not by and coming forth of the spirits into the outward witchcraft? Shakse. These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor into an oblong form, either by a dilatation of This dilatory sloth, and tricks of Rome. Sbaksa every ray, or by any other casual inequality of Dilatory fortune plays the jilt With the brave, noble, honest, gallant man, Otway. A dilatory temper commits innumerable crucks ties without design. Addison's Spectator. Dile'ction. n. s. [dilectio, Latin.] The act of loving; kindness. So froe is Christ's dilection, that the grand DILEMMA. η. 5. [διλημμα.] 1. An argument equally conclusive by contrary suppositions. A young rhetorician applied to an old sophist to be taught the art of pleading, and barMilton. gained for a certain reward to be paid, when he should gain a cause. The master sued for his reward, and the Waler. scholar endeavoured to elude his claim ܪ from each other. parts. mud against it. Latin.] To tear; to rend; to force in two. The infant, at the accomplished period, struga gling to come forth, dilacerates and breaks chose parts which restrained him before. Broren. LACERAʼtion. 1. s. [from dilaceratie , Latin.]. The act of rending in two. The greatest sensation of pain is by the ob truction of the small vessels, and dilaceratien of he nervous fibres. Arbutbrea DILA'NIATE. 7. a. [dilanio, Latin.] Jo tear; to rend in pieces. the refractions. For now your light doth more itself dilate, Satan alarmid, Opener of mine eyes, Through all the air his sounding strings dilate late, a I by a dilemma: If I gain my cause, I DILUCIDATION. 1.s. (from dilucidatid, shall withhold your pay, because the Latin.] The act of making clear ; judge's award will be against you; if I explanation ; exposition. lose it, I may withhold it, because I DILJENT. adj. (diluens, Latin.] Hav. shall not yet have gained a cause. On ing the power to thin and attenuate the contrary, says the master, if you other matter. gain your cause, you must pay me, be- DI'L VENT. 1. s. [from the adjective.} cause you are to pay me when you gain That which thins other matter. a cause ; if you lose it, you must pay There is no real diluent but water: every fluid me, because the judges will award it. is diluent, as it contains vater in it. Arbuibnot, A dilemma, that Morton used to raise bene- To DILU'TE. v.a. [diluo, Latin.] volence, some called his fork, and soinc his 1. To make thin; to attenuate by the crotch. Bacon's Henry vii. admixture of other parts. Hope, whose weak being ruin’d is Drinking a large dose of diluted tea, as she Alike if it succeed, and if it miss ; was ordered by a physician, she got to bed. Whom good or ill does equally confound, Locke. And both the horns of fate's dilemma wound. "The aliment ought to be thin to ditute, de Cowley. mulcent to temper, or acid to subdue. Arbutb. 2. A difficult or doubtful choice; a vex- 2. To make weak. atious alternative. The chamber was dark, lest these colours A strong dilemma in a desp'rate case ! should be diluted and weakened by the mixture To act with infamy, or quit the place. . Swift. Dilu’TE. adj. Thin; attenuated. of any adventitious light. Newton. A dire dilemma, either way I'm sped; I foes they write, if friends they read, me dead. If the red and blue colours were more dilute Pope. and weak, the distance of the images would be Di'LIGENCE. 11. s. [diligentia, Latin.) less than an inch; and if they were more in tense and full, that distance would be greater. Industry; assiduity; constancy in bu Newton. siness; continuance of endeavour; un- DILU’TER. 1. s. [from dilute.] That intermitted application ; the contrary which makes any thing else thin. to idleness. Water is the only diluter, and the best dissolDo thy diligence to come shortly unto me. vent of most of the ingredients of our aliment. 2 Timothy. Arbuthnot on Aliments. Brethren, give diligence to make your calling DILU'TION. n. s. [dilutio, Latin.] The and election sure. 2 Petor. act of making any thing thin or weak. DI'LIGENT. adj. [diligens, Latin.] Opposite to dilution is coagulation or thicken1. Constant in application; persevering ing, which is performed by dissipating the most in endeavour ; assiduous ; not idle; liquid parts by heat, or by insinuating some sub stances, which make the parts of the fluid conot negligent; not lazy. here more strongly. Arbuthnot on Aliments, Seest thou a man diligent in his business, he DILU'VIAN. adj. [from diluvium, Latin.) shall stand before kings. Proverbs. Relating to the deluge. 2. Constantly applied ; prosecuted with Suppose that this diluvian lake should rise to activity and perseverance; assiduous. the mountain tops in one place, and not diffuse And thie judges shall make diligent inquisition. itself equally into all countries about. Burnet Deuteronomy. DIM. adj. [dimme, Saxon; dy, Welsh; DILIGENTLY.adv. (from diligent.] With dow, Erse.) assiduity; with heed and perseverance; 1. Not having a quick sight; not seeing not carelessly; not idly; not negli- clearly. gently. For her true form how can my spark discern, If you inquire not attentively and diligently, Which, dim by nature, art did never clear? you shall never be able to discern a number of Davieso mechanical motions. Bacon. 2. Dull of apprehension. The ancients have diligently examined in what The understanding is dim, and cannot by its consists the beauty of good postures. Dryden. natural light discover spiritual truths. Rogers. Dill. n. s. [Dile, Saxon.] An herb, 3. Not clearly seen ; obscure ; imper which hath a slender, fibrose, annual fectly discovered. root; the leaves are like those of fen- We might be able to aim at some dim and nel ; the seeds are oval, plain, streaked, seeming conception, how matter might begin to exist by the power of that eternal first Being., and bordered. Locke. Dill is raised of seed, which is ripe in August. Something, as dim to our internal view, Mortimer. Is thus perhaps the cause of all we do. Pope. DILU'CID. adj. [dilucidus, Latin.] 4. Obstructing the act of vision; nat lu. 1. Clear; not opaque. minous; somewhat dark. 2. Clear; plain; not obscure. Her face right wondrous fair did seem to be, To Dilu'cIDATE. v. a. (from dilucidare, That her broad beauty's beam great brightness Latin.) To make clear or plain ; to threw explain; to free from obscurity. Through the dim shade, that all men might it see. - I shall not extenuate, but explain and diluci Spenser. date, according to the custom of the ancients: To Dim. v. a. (from the adjective.] Brown's Vulg. Errours, 1. To cloud; to darken; to hinder from On gain Thrice chang’d. Popes se, I DILUCIDA’TION. ... (from délucidati: - the Latin.) The act of making clear; if I explanation ; exposition. Ese I DILUENT. adj. (diluens, Latin.) Har. ing the power to thin and attenuate you other matter. - be- Di’LUENT. 2. s. [from the adjective.] That which thins other matter. - рау There is no real diluent but water: every fuit at. is diluent, as it contains rater in it. Arbúibats bene- To DILU’TE. v.a. (diluo, Latin.] e his 1. To make thin ; to attenuate by the y VII. admixture of other parts. Drinking a large dose of diluted tea, as she was ordered by a physician, she got to bed . Lacko nd. The aliment ought to be thin to dilute , der wlsy. mulcent to temper, or acid to subdue. Arbuto vex, 2. To make weak. The chamber was dark, lest these colours should ise diluted and weakened by the mixture wift. of any adventitious light. Nratu, DILU'TE. adj. Thin; attenuated. lead. If the red and blue colours were more bilate and weak, the distance of the images would be less than an inch; and if they were more in in.) tense and full, that distance would be greater. bu Neatients un. Dil U'TER. 1. s. [from dilute.] That ary which makes any thing else thin. Water is the only diluter, and the best dissala vent of most of the ingredients of our aliment. Arbutbrot en Aliauto ling DILU’TION. n. s. [dilutis, Latin.) The act of making any thing thin or weak. Opposite to dilution is coagulation or thickering, which is performed by dissipating the most liquid parts by heat, or by insinuating some sebe stances, which make the parts of the fiuid cohere more strongly. Årbutbngt en Alsace he Dilu’vian. adj. [from diluvium, Latin.) rbs. Relating to the deluge. ith Suppose that this diluvian lake should rise t the mountain tops in one place, and not difere itself equally into all countries about. Buret 9. DIM. adj. [dimme, Saxon ; dy, Welsb; th dow, Erse.] 1. Not having a quick sight; i. clearly. For her true form how can my spark dişcerta Which, dim by nature, art did never clear? 2. Dull of apprehension. The understanding is dim, and cannot by its natural light discover spiritual truths. Regeri 3. a full perception of light, and free ex. What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come ercise of vision. crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difAs where the Almighty's lightning brand does ficulty is to chuse or to reject. Dryden. light, Crete's ample fields diminish to our eye; k dias the dazed eyen, and daunts the senses Before the Boreal blasts the vessels fly. Pope quite. Spenser's Fairy Queen. k hath been observed by the ancients, that DIMI'NISHINGLY. adv. (from diminish.] much use of Venus doth dion the sight; and yet In a manner tending to vilify, or leseunuchs, which are unable to generate, are ne- sen. vertheless also dim sighted. Bacon. I never heard him censure, or so much as Every one declares against blindness, and yet speak dirinishingly of any one that was absent. who almost is not fond of that which dims his Locke. sight? Locke. DIMINUTION. n. 5. (diminutio, Latin.] 1. The act of making less : opposed to 2. To make less bright; to obscure. augmentation. A ship that through the ocean wide, The one is not capable of any diminution or By conduct of some star, doth make her way, augmentation at all by men; the other apt to admit both. Hooker. When as a storm hath dim'd her trusty guide, 2. The state of growing less : opposed to Out of her course doth wander iar astray. Spenser. increase. All of us have cause The gravitating power of the sun is transTo wail the dimming of our shining star. Sbaksp. mitted through the vast bodies of the planets Thus while he spake, each passion dimm'd his without any diminution, so as to act upon all face, their parts, to their very centres, with the same Miltor. force, and according to the same laws, as if the The principal figure in a picture is like a king part upon which it acts were not surrounded among his courtiers, who dims all his attendants. with the body of the planet. Newton. Dryden. Finite and infinite seem to be looked upon DIMENSION. n. s. [dimensio, Latin.] as the modes of quantity, and to be attributed Space contained in any thing ; bulk; primarily to those things which are capable of extent ; capacity. It is seldom used increase or diminution. Locke. but in the plural. The three dimen 3. Discredit ; loss of dignity; degradasions are length, breadth, and depth. tion. Gladly to the Heroick laureld Eugene yields the prime; wide. Nor thinks it diminution to be rank'd Dryden. In military honour next. Pbilips taking the dimensions of the room. Swift. putation. Make me wise by thy truth, for my own soul's salvation, and I shall not regard the world's Dimensionless through heav'nly doors. Milton. opinion or diminution of me. King Charles, Diue'nsive, adj. (dimensus. Lat.] That They might raise the reputation of another, marks the boundaries or outlines. though they are a diminution to his. Addisoz. All bodies have their measure, and their space; 5. [In architecture.) The contraction But who can draw the soul's dimensive lines? of the diameter of a column, as it ascends. Davies. battle ; the act of fighting; contest, Small; little; narrow; contracted, The poor wren, The most diminutive of birds, will fight, Sbaksp. Macbeth. advance of knowledge, to be sensible they have 1. To make less by abscission or destruc yet attained it but in poor and diminutive mea. tion of any part; the opposite to ir Glanville's Scepsis. The light of man's understanding is but a short, diminutive, contracted light, and looks not beyond the present. South. Locke, If the ladies should once take a liking to such a diminutive race of lovers, we should, in a little time, see mankind epitomized, and the whole species in miniature. Addison. 3. To take any thing from that to which Milton. They know how weak and aukward many of those little diminutive discourses are. Watts. DIMI'NUTIVE. n. s. [from the adjective.) 1. A word formed to express littleness : as lapillus, in Latin, a little stone ; mai. sonette, in French, a little house; -maniken, in English, a little man. He afterwards proving a dainty and effeminate youth, was commonly called, by the diminutive of his name, Peterkin or Perkin. Bacon. ing Je; In they passid on. DecatION. 9. , [dimicatio, Lat.) Dimi'N UTIVE. adj. (diminutivus, Latin.] not seeing DIMIDIA'TION. n. s. y, equal parts. of crease. sure. Lacke Not clearly seen; obscure ; imperfectly discovered. We might be able to aim at some dis and seeming conception, how matter might begin sa exist by the power of that eternal first Being. Something, as dim to our internal view, Iš thus perhaps the cause of all we do. Potem 4. Obstructing the act of vision; not luminous; somewbat dark. Her face right wondrous fair did seem to beg That her broad beauty's beam great brightness threw Through the dim shade, that all men might it see Spencer To Dim. v. a. (from the adjective.] 1. To cloud; to darken; to hinder from That we call good which is apt to cause or in crease pleasure, or diminisb pain in us. Impiously they thought aught from Deuteronomy. |
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