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Show RE AC AcQui'siTIve. adj. [acquifitivus, Lat. That which is acquired or gained He died not in his acquifitive but in his nativ foil; nature herfelf, as it were, claiming a fina intereft in his body, when fortune had done wit Wotton _ him Acqur'st Ac #. [. [Sée Acquest. quirement; attainment; gain ufe Noti His fervant he with new acguif Of true experience from this great event With peace and confolation hath difmift 7o ACQUI'T LC Milton Se w. a. [acquiter, Fr Quir. 1. To fet free Ne do I wifh (for withing were but vain ‘To be acquit from my continual fmart; But joy her thrall for ever to remain And yield for pledge my poor captived heart Spenfer e t a b d e t p k i q The e n D a a p b Take no acquittance i p f e m h f l f a The fame man bough o b t b ' . e n t i q a t v the money, and g A'crE n [ [KEcpe, Sax. A quantity o s h r p r f t n l i land contai or four thonfan and four in breadth s } r y r u { r f a cight hundre Search every acre in the high-grown field a . . n p ke Sh ey ou t hi And brin n t b ho O t L er [a A'crip. adj f i p v le t a f te bi tafte te ta o n g o th o u hea cl zt pa r fh th b on fe di i ac an Bitte o t nt qu at gr i e ol in n be of the fir ts me Al o no ut Ar t la th fe th th oi Aboundin Acrimo'nious. adj acrimony ; fharp; corrofive wit te bi an ns ni im ac e de re b no ca ga I A'crOSPIRED. part. adj. Havingfproy ) or having fhot out For want of turning, when the malt is gy on the floor, it come which is called acrofpired, and is fit only for fw?n: D AWine orti [from a for at, o ':'f{ adv Acro'ss French 2, as itis ufed in & 1ravers, g erofs. Athwart fo as to crofs it laid over fomethiy The harp hath the concave not along th He that judges, without informing himfelf t the utmoft that he is capable cannot acguit him- Locke clean.sh data import.tsv out README felf of judging amifs Neither do I refle& upon the memory of hi majefty, whom I entirely acquit of any imputation Swift 3. To clear from any obligation Steady to my principles, and not difpirited wit my afflitions, I have, by the blefling of God o my endeavours, overcome all difficulties ; and, i fome meafure, acquitted myfelf of the debt whic Towed the publick, when I undertook this work Dryden 4. In a fimilar fenfe, it is {aid, The ma hath acquitted himjelf «well 5 that is, h hath difcharged his duty Acqui'TMENT. z. /. [from acquit.] Th ftate of being acquitted; or aét of acquitting The word imports properly an acguifment or difcharge of a2 man upon fome precedent accufation and a full trial and cognizance of his caufe had South thereupon Acqur'tTaL # /. Inlaw is a deliver ance and fetting free from the fufpicio Cowell or guiltinefs of an offence The conftant defign of bot thefe orators, wa to drive fome one particular point, either the condemnation or acguittal of an accufed perfon Swift o Acqui'tTaNcE. @. a. Toprocurea acquittance ; toacquit; a word not i prefent ufe But if black fcandal and foul-fac'd reproach Attend the fequel of your impofition Your mere enforcement fhall acqguittance m From all the impure blots and ftains thereof Shakefpeare Acqui'rrance. #. /. [from acquir. 1. The aét of difcharging from a debt But foon fhall fin Forbearance, no acguittance, ere day en Juftice fhall not return, as beauty, {corn'd Milton There be plants that have a milk in them whe they are cut; as, figs, old lettuce, {ow-thiftles The caufe may be an inception of putre fpurge faltion: for thofemilks have allan acrimony, thoug one would think they fhould be lenitive This view'd, but nof ‘joy'd, with ar He ftood, refleéting on his country's lofs, Dr There is a fet of artifans, who, by the hely feveral poles, which they lay acrofs each otli fhoulders, build themfelves up intoa kind of Py mid; fo that you fee a pile of menin theair,offou ©f Charles his father Shakefpeard's Love's Labour Lofft Addiy or five rows rifing one above another and siye firft lette makes thing g 2. That which contains acrofticks Leave writing plays, and choofe for thycomman A'CROTERS, or ACROTERIA. 3.[ [from axgov, Gr. the extremity of an 2. Sharpnefs of temper, feverity, bitternefs of thought or language tremes of pediments, fometimes fervin John the Baptift fet himfelf, with much acrimony and indignation, to baffle this fenfelefs arro gant conceit of theirs, which made them huff a the do¢trine of repentance, as a thing below them South and not at all belonging to them A'CRITUDE. /. [from acrid.] An acri tafte; a biting heat on the palate In green vitriol, wit its aftringent and fweet ith taftes, is joined fome acritude Greaw's Mufeum Acroama'ricaL. adj. [dngodopas, Gr. hear.] Of or pertaining to deep learning ; the oppofite of exoterical Acroa'Ticks. . /. [Axgodline, Gr.] Arifotle' leGure o the mor nice an principal parts of philofophy, to whic none but friends and {cholars were admitted by him Acro'NycaL. adj. [from &xe®:, fummus and yué, nox 3 importing the beginnin of night.] A term of aftronomy, applie to the ftars, of which the rifing or fettin is called acronycal, when they either ap pear above or fink below the horizon a the time of funfet It is oppofe t cofmical Acro'NYCALLY adv. [from acronycal. At the acronycal time He js tempeftuous in the fummer, when n rifes heliacally, and rainy in the winter, when h ‘rifes acronycally Dryden feeds before they are put in the ground . Many corns will fmilt, or have their puip turne into a lubftance like thick cream; and will fen forth their fubftance'in an acrgfpire MMortimer AcRrO'sTICK. adj 1. That which relates to an acroftick Bacon's Natural Hiftory The chymifts define falt, from fome of its properties, to bea body fufible in the fire, congealabl again by cold into brittle glebes or cryftals, folub' in water, {o as to difappear, not malleable, and having fomething in it which aftects the organs o tafte with a fenfation of acrimony or tharpnefs Arbuthnot z. A writing teftifying the receipt of a A'CROSPIRE. 7. /. [from &xs®- and omeipe Gr.] A fhoot or {fprout from the end o debt You can produce acquittance For fuch a fum, from fpecial officer fir but acrofs the ftrings; and o harp hath th fo melting and prolonged as the Irifh harp 2. To clear from a charge of guilt; to abAcro'sTiCK 7 / [fro dxe ud ri am o n im ac e te wh th itfelf o folve; oppofed to condemn, either fimpl Gr. A poem in which th redounds in it, muft be from the admixture o with an accufative, as, the jury acquitted melancholy Harwey on Confumptions of every line being taken bim, or with the particles from or of, A'crimony. 7. [o [acrimonia, Lat. the name of the perfon o which is more common, before the crime. 1. Sharpnefs, corrofivenefs which the poem is written If I fin, then thou markeft me, and thou wil Foby x. 14 not acquit me from mine iniquity By the {uffrage of the moft and beft he is alread acguitted, and, by the fentence of fome, condemnéd Dryden and fprouts ‘at botho Some peaceful province in acroffick land There thou may'ft wings difplay, and altars raife An torture one poor. word ten thoufand ways body.] Little pedeftals without bafes placed at the middle and the twoexto fupport ftatues Zo ACT. @w.n. [ago, aftum, Lat. 1. To be in a&ion, not to reft He hangs between in doubt to af or reft. Popy z. To perform the proper functions Albeit the will is not capable of being compelle to any of its atings, yet it is capable of bein made to & with more or lefs difficulty, accordin to the different impreffions it receives from motive South or objeéts 3. To pradife arts or duties; to condsl one's {elf >Tis plain that the, who for a kingdom now Would facrifice her love, and break her vow, Not out of love, but intereft, aés alone And would, ev'n in my arms, lie thinking of , Dryden's Conqueft of Gmgmdz{ throne The defire of happinefs, and the conftraint i puts upon us to a& for it, no body accountsa abridgment of liberty Lo The fplendor of his office, is the token of thit facred charaéter which he inwardly bears: afl one of thefe ought conftantly to put him in m of the other, and excite him to a& up to it throug the whole courfe of his adminiftration Atterbury's Sermont It is our part and duty to co-operate with thi grace, vigoroufly to exert thofe powers, and 68 to thofe advantages to which it reftores us has given eyes to the biind, and feet to the lamé Rogers's Sermor 4. T'o produce effes in fome pafiive fubjef 5 Hence 'tis we wait the wond'rous caufe t ow bod affs upon impaffive mind The flomach, the inteftines, the mufcleso lower belly all a& upon the alimen befides chyle is not fucked, but fqueezed into the.-mout of the laCteals, by the aétion of the fibres t‘if' D Arbuthrot on Alimer guts To Act an a I T? i |
