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Show }flyl . | a‘"k By 'mm‘}',‘ 1&11% Seeming wife men may make fhift to get opinion ; but let no man chufe them for employment for certainly you had better take for bufinefs a ma Bacon than over formal fomewhat abfurd A man, who cannot write with wit on a prope is dull and fiugid fubjed but one, who fhews i in an improper place, 1s as impertinent and abAddifon, Spectator, No 291 Surd 2. Inconfiftent, contrary to reafon, ufed o - fentiments or pratices The thing itfelf appeared defirable to him, an sordingly he could not but like and defire it hen, it was after a very irrational abfurd way ontrary to all the methods and principles o al agent; which never wills a thing reall perly, but it applies to the means, by whic South's Serwmons be acquired ¥t But grant that thofe can conquer, thefe can cheat *Tis phrafe abfurd to call a villain great ‘Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave Is but the more a fool, the more a knave Pope's Effay on Man Assu'rpiTY. 2. [0 [from abfurd. 1. The quality of being abfurd; want o judgment, applied to men; want o propriety, applied to things Ho clear foeve numbe be, ther this idea of the infinity o is nothin the abfurdity of th a&ua more evident tha ide of an infinit number 2. Tha Locke whic is abfurd were full of abfurdities as, his travel In which fenf it has a plural That fatisfa&ion we receive from the opinion o fome pre-eminence in ourfelves, when we fee th abfurditics of another, or when we refle&t on an paft abfurdities of our own Addifon ABsU'RDLY. adv. [from abfurd Afte an abfurd manner; improperly ; unrea{onably But man we find the only creature Who, led by folly, combats nature ‘Who when fhe loudly cries Forbear ‘With obftinacy fixes there And where his genius leaft inclines Abfurdly bends his whole defigns Swifi's Mifcel We may proceed yet further with the atheift and convince him, that not only his principle i abfurd, but his confequences alfo as abfurdly deduced from it Bentley's Sermons ABsu'RDNEss. . f. [from abfurd.] 'Th quality of being abfurd; injudicioufnefs ; impropriety See ABSURDITY which is more frequently ufed ABU'NDANCE. #. /. [abondance, Fr. 1.. Plenty; a fenfe chiefly poetical At the whifper of thy word Crown'd abundance fpreads my board. - Crafbazw The doubled charge his fubjects' love fupplies Who, in that bounty, to themfelves are kind So glad Egyptians fee their Nilus rife And, in his plenty, their abundance find 2. Great numbers Dryd. Anne Mir The river Inn is fhut up between mountains covered with woods of ‘fir-trees. Abundance o peafants are employed in hewing down the largef of thefe trees, that, after they are barked and cu into fhape, are tumbled down. - Addifon on Italy 3. A great quantity Their chief enterprize was the recovery of th Holy Land; in which worthy, but extremély difficult, aftion, it is lamentable to remember wha abundance of noble blood hath been fhed, with ver {mall benefit unto the Chriftian ftate 4. Exuberance For well I wot Sir Walter Raleigh's Effays more than enough moft mighty fovereign, 3 That all this famous antique hiftory Of fome, th' abundance of an idle brain Will judged be, and painted forgery Aru'NDaNT. adj. [abundans, Lat. 1. Plentiful Some prail'e.at morning what 'they.blame atnight But always think the laft opinion right. A mufe by thefe is like a miftrefs us'd Good, the mor "Communicated, more abundant grows The author not impair'd, but honour'd more Paradife Lo 2. Exuberant This hour fhe's idoliz'd, the next abus'd Pope's Effay on Criticifu The next criticifm fecmg to b-cfli{xtmduced/f"o no other reafon, but to mention Mr. Bickerftaff whom the auther every where endeavours to imi 4. v If the vefiels are in a flate of too great rigidity fo as not to yield a frong projeile motion occa tate and abufe fions their rupture, and hemorrhages; efpeciall in the lungs, where the blood is abundant Arbutbnot on Aliments 1. 'Bhe ill ufe of any thing The cafting away things profitable for the fufte nance of man's life, is an unthankful abufs of th fruits of God's good providence towards mankind Hookery b ve § g Little know Any, but God alone, to value righ The good before him, but perverts beft thing To worft abufe, or to their meaneft ufe The world began but fome ages before thefe wer found out, and was abundant with all things a firft 5 and men not very numerous; and therefor were not put fo much to the ufe of their wits, t find out ways for living commodioufly Burzet 4 Itis applied generally to things, fometimes to perfons 2. A corrupt pra&ice The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious long-fuffering and abundant in goodnefs and truth Exod. xxxiv. 6 Was it not enough for him to have deceived me and, through the deceit abufed me, and, after th Genefis, 1. 20 abufe, forfaken me the company, an Abundantly his gifts hath alfo pour'd 4. Unjuf the exampl of our equals wants of au thority, is abundantly fupplied in the imagination of friendfhip, and the repeated influences of conftant converfation Rogers's Serm Zo ABU'SE. @. a. [abutor, abufus, Lat. Inabufe the verb, / has the found o % in the noun | Denbam's Sophy 3. He that reproaches with rudenefs 4. A ravifher, a violater ABU's1VE. adj. [from abufe. 1. Practifing abufe The tongue mov'd gently firft,and fpeech waslow Till wrangling fcience taught it noife and fhow And wicked wit arofe, thy moft sbufive foe They that ufe this world, as not abujing it; fo the fathion of this world paficth away Pope''s Mifcellaniess Dame Nature, as the learned fhow Provides each animal its foe 1 Cor. vil. 31 Hounds hunt the hare, the wily fo He has fixed and determined the time for ou repentance, beyond which he will no longer awai the perverfenefs of men, no longer fuffer his compaffion to be abufed Rogers's Serimons Devours your geefe, the wolf your flocks Thus envy pleads a natural claim To perfecute the mufe's fame On poets in all times abufive From Homer down to Pope inclufive. Saifi's szre?. to defile Avachne figured how Jove did abuf Spenfer 2. Containing abufe poon 3.. To deceive ; toimpofe upon He perhaps Out of my weaknefs and my melancholy As he is very potent with fuch fpirits Abufes me to damn me Shakcfpeare's Hamlet ‘The world hath been much abufed by the opinio of making gold: the work itfelf I judge to b poffible 5 but the means hitherto propounded Waken' 4. To treat with rudenefs ; to reproach but of life as honef Bu he mocke them coercive power improper Rofcont yet no It is verified by a number of examples, tha whatfoever is gained by an adufive treaty, ough to be reftored in integrum Bacow's Confiderations on War with Spais ABU's1VELY. adv. [from abufe. 1. Improperly, by a wrong ufe The oil, abufively called fpirit, of rofes fwims a the top of the water, in the form of a white butter which I remembernot to have obferved inany othe oil drawn in anylimbeck. Boyle's Sceptical Chymiff 2. Reproachfully ABU's1VENESs. n /. [from abufe.] 'Th quality of being abufive; foulnefs o language Pick out of mirth, like ftones out of thy ground Profanenefs, filthinefs, abufivencfs. Thefe are the fcum, with which coarfe wits abound Shakelp. Othello and laughed at them and abulid them fhamefvlly, and fpake proudly 3 Mage viie 3 the magifirate 3. Deceitful ; a fenfe little ufed are full of error Bacon's Natural Hiffory, No 126 It imports the mifreprefentation of the qualitie of things and aétions, to the common apprehenfions of men, abufing their minds with falfe notions; and fo, by this artifice, making evil paf for good, and good for evil, in all the great concern South's Sermons of life Nor be with all thefe tempting words abus'd Thefe tempting words were all to Sappho us'd Pape as, an abufive lam Next, Comedy appear'd with great applaufe Till her licentious and abufive tongu in the praltice 1 am no firumpet con Next thou, the abufer of thy prince's ear the common found Europa like a bull, and on his bac Her through the fea did bear reproach ArU'sER. 7 /. [from the verb abufe. 1. He that makes an ill ufe 2. He that deceives 1. Tomake an ill ule of 2. To violate rud Sidney, b ii I dark in light, expos' To daily fraud, contempt, abufz, and wrong Samfon Agoniftes Ye faw the French tongue abundantly purified Wha cenfure tumely 2. Amply, liberally, more than fufliciently Dryden's State of Innocence, Pref but that he muft now, of al before all the company, la want of beauty to my charge Inward and outward both, his image fair Paradife Lof, b. viii teftimony b.iv 3. Seducement Let the waters bring forth abundantly the movin Sprat Heroic poetry has ever been efteemed the greatef woik of human nature. In thatrank has Ariftotl placed it; and Longinus is fo full of the like expreflions, that he abundantly confirms the other' Paradife Lo bad cuftom The nature'of things is fuch, that, if abufes b not remedied, they will certainly encreafe Saift for Advancement of Religior ABU'NDANTLY. adv. [from abundant. 1. In plenty creature that hath life ,God on the Addiforr ABU'sE. #. /. [from the verb abufe. 3. Fully flored. 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