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Show QU o them-neceffary qualifications for preferment Savifr 2. Accomplifhment Good gualifications of mind enable a magiftrat to perform his duty, and'tend to create a public «i efteem of him. = . 3. Abatement N Atterbary diminution Neither had the waters of the flood infufed fuc an impurity, as thereb the natural and powerfu operation of all plants, herbs and fruits upo th earth reccived a gualification and harmful change Raleigh's Hiftory of the Warld To QUA'LIFY. . a. [qualificr, French. 1. To fit for any thing Place over them fuch governors, as may be quali¢d in fuch manner as may govern the place. Bacon I bequeat to Mr Joh Whitewa th fu of one hundred pounds, in oxder to gxalify him fo . a furgeon Swift''s Will 2. To furnith with qualificatians That which ordinary men are fit for, I am quali . fiedin 5 and the beft of me is diligence. Shakefpeare She is of good efteem Her dowry wealthy, and of worthy birth Befide fo gualified, as may befee The {poule of any noble gentleman 3. To make capabl i |, or privilege Wi as Shakefpeare of any employmen h game is gualified to kil Your grace hath ta'en great pains to gualif s« *His rig'rous courfe. Shakefpeare's Merch. of Penice I do not feck to quench your love's hot fire Butgualify the fire's extreme rage Left it fhould burn above the bounds of reafon. Sh I have drunk but one cup to-night, and tha was craftily gualified too ; and behold what innova tion it makes here Shake[peare They would report that they had records fo twenty theufand years, which muft nceds be very great untruth, unlefs we will gualify it, expounding their years not of the revolution of th ‘fun, but of the moon Abbot It hath fo pleafed God to provide for all livin <reatures, wherewith he hath filled the world, tha s fuch inconveniences, as we ‘contemplate afar off are found, by trial and the witnefs of men's travels to be fo gualified, as there is no portion of th carth made in vain. Raleigh's Hiffory of the World So happy 'tis you move in fuch a fphere As your high majefty with awful fea In human breafts might gualify that fire Which kindled by thofe eyes had flamed higher Waller Children fhould be early inftruded in the tru eftimate of things, by oppofing the good to the evil and compenfating or qualifying one thing with another L'Eftrange My propofition 1 have gualificd with the word often'; thereby making allowance for thofe cafes whetein"men of excellent minds may, by a lon pratice of virtue, have rendered even the height and tigours of it delightful Atterbury. 5. To eafe to affuage He balms and herbs thereto apply'd J‘:nd evermore with mighty fpells them charm'd That in thort fpace he has them gualjfied And him reftor'd to health that would have dy'd Spenfer 6. To modify; to regulate It hath no Jarinx or throttle to qualify the found Brown QaLrry # J itz French. [gualitas Latin gua Thefe, being of a far other nature and quality a*‘e' not fo ftrictly or everlaftingly commanded i Hooker e Other creature have not judgment to examin e guality of that which is done by them, an refore in that they do, they neither can accuf ROt approve themiclyes In the divifion of the kingdom, it appears no which of the dukes he values moft 5 for gualities ar fo weighed, that curiofity in neither can mak choice of either's moicty Shakefpeare No fenfible gualitics, as light ‘and colour, hea and found, can be fubfiffent in the bodies themfelves abfolutely confidered, without a relation t our eyes and ears, and other organs of fenfe : thel qualitic ar onl th effet o ou fenfation which arife from the different motions upon ou nerves from objects without, according to thei various modification and pofition Bentley 3. Particular eflicacy O, mickle is the powerful grace, that lie In plants, herbs, ftones, and their true qualiticss Sh 4. Difpofition ; temper To-nigh we'll wander through the fireets, an not The gualities of people Shkak. Antony and Clespat One doubt remains faid I, the dames in green 6. Accomplifhment qualification 5 ahbr Dryden He had thofe gualitics of horfemanthip, dancing and fencing, which accompany a good breeding Clarendon 7. Chara&ter The attorney of the dutchy of Lancafter partake of both gualities, partly of a judge in that court and partly of an attorney general Bacon We, who are hearers, may be allowed fome op portunities in the guality of franders-by Swift 8. Comparative or relative rank It is with the clergy, if their perfons be refpe&‘ed, even as it is with other menj their gualit many times far beneath that which the dignity o their pluce requireth Hooker We lJived moft joyful, obtaining acquaintanc with many of the city, not of the meaneft quality Bacon The mafters of thefe horfes may be admitte to dine with the lord lieutenant: this is to b done, avhat guality foever the perfons are of. Temple 9. Rank; fuperiority of birth or ftation Let him be fo entertained, as fuits with gentlemen of your knowing to a {tranger of his guality Shakefpeare's Cymbeline 1o. Perfons of high rank Collectively I fhall appear at the mafquerade dreffed up i my feathers, that the guality may fee how prett they will look in their travelling habits Of all the fervile herd, the worlt is he 4ddifon That in proud dulnefs joins with guality A conftant critick at the great man's board To fetch and carry nonfenfe for my loid To guality belongs the higheft place #. / [cpealm Saxon P«,l‘)g‘ a fud guor Some fudden gualm hath ftruck me to the heart And dimm'd mine eyes, that I can read no further «\'/.m/lt_/p:'dru death is but a gua/m Hell fomewhat lightfome, the Bermudas calm Donne I fin a cold gualm come over my heart, that faint, I can fpeak no longer Howel All maladie Of ghaftly fpafm, or racking torture gualm Of heart-fick agony travail to requite Drydin's V;'rg,"/' When he hath ftretched his veflels with win to their utmoft capacity, and is grown weary an fick, and feels thofe gualms and difurbances tha ufually dttend fuch exceflfes, he refolves, that h will hereafter contain himfelf within the bound of fobriety Calamy The gualms or ruptures of your bloo Rife in proportion to your food Prior Qua'LMmisH. adj. [from gualm. with fickly languor Seize I am gualmifb at the {mell of leek. Shakefpeare You drop into the place Carelefs and gual/mifb with a yawning face. Dryden Quanpa'ry n. / [g4en dirai je, Fr Skinner. A doubr; a difficulty uncertainty A low word a QUA'NTITIVE. adj. [guantitivas, Latin. Eftimable according to quantity This_explicdtion of rarity and denfity, by th compofition of fubfance with quantity, may giv little fatisfaction to fuch who are apt to conceiv therein no other cempofition or refolution, but fuc as our fenfes thew ws, in compounding and dividin bodies accordingto guantitive parts Digby Qua'NTITY n. / [quantité Fr quan titas, Latin. 1. That property of any thing which ma be increafed or diminifhed RKuantity is what may be increafed or diminifthed Cheyne 2. Any indeterminate weight or meafure as, the metals were in different guantities 3. Bulk or weight Unlkill'd in hellebore, if thou fhou'dft tr To mix it, and miftake the quantity The rules of phyfick wou'd againft thee cry 4. A portion Dryder a part IfI were faw'd into guantities, T fhould make four dozen of fuch bearded hermites ftaves as mafte Shallow Shakefpeare 5. A large portion This is not regular The warm antifcerbutical plants, taken in quan- tities, will occafion ftinking breath, and corrup the blood Arbuthnot 6. The meafure of time in pronouncing fyllable So varying ftill their moods, obferving yet in al Their guantities, their refts, their cenfures metrical Drayton pofition den ftroke of death. A fudden fit o fickrefs ; a fudden feizure of fickly lan Compar'd to thefe ftorms quatm to another, hankering after noveities. L'Eff Thy mother well deferves that fhort delight The naufeous gualms of ten long months an The eafy pronunciation ofa mute before a liqui does not neceflarily make the preceding vowel, b My lord comes forward; forward let him come Ye vulgar! at your peril give him room Youxg QUALM For who, without a.gualm, hath ever lsok' On holy garbage, though by Homer cook'd ? Rofe They have a fickly uneafinefs upon them, thifting and changing from one error, and from on Locke z. Property; accidental adjund 1 Natre relatively confidered :':.'9 nature or gualiry of it, and the guality follows th rule direing it, it concerns a man, in the framing of his actions, not to be deceived in the rule South The power to produce any idea in our mind, call guality of the fubjeé, wherein that power is What were their gualities, and who their queen I have heard Since the event of an a@fon nfaally follows th 5. Virtue or vice to {often ; to diminith t 4. To abate QU QU Milton's Paradife Loft long in guantity ; as patrem RQUA'NTUM. ». /. [Latin. tity; the amount The guantu of pretbyteria reign of that ill-advife prince Holder The quanmerit during th will eafily be com puted Sawift Qua'RANTAIN. } n.). [gquarantain, Fr. QUA'RANTINE The {pace of fort days, being the time which a fhip, fuf pe@ed of infeftion, is oblige bear intercourfe or commerce to for Pafs your guarantine among fome of the churche round this town, where you may learn to {peak before you venture to expofe your paits in a cit Cougresdnun QuaRrRE 7 / k\"?"f/‘? A quarry Not in ufe Behold our diamonds here, as in the quarre the ftand Drayton QUA'RREL aki . f. [querclle, French.'] 1. |