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Show AM AM A ATOR CULIST, 7. /o [amatorcitlus, Liat. A little infignificant lover a pretende to affeCtion A vaTorY, adj. [anmaterius, Lat. ting to love ; caufing love Dia Rela It is the fame thing whether gne ravifh Lucreti by force, as Tarquin, or by, amatory potions no only allure her bu neceflitate her t fatisfy hi Inft, and incline her effettually, and draw her inevitably, to follow him fpontaneoutly Brambam agaipnft Hobbes, AMAUROSIS of fight n, /. [apavetw.] A dimnef not fro any vifible defe& i the eye, but from fome diftemperatur of the inner parts, occafioning the re prefentations of flies and duft floatin before the eyes: which appearances ar the parts of the retina hid and comprefled by the blood-veflels being to muc diftended; {fo that in man o its parts, all fenfe is loft, and therefor no images can be painted upon them whereby the eyes, continually rollin round, many parts of obje&s fallin fucceflively upon them, are obfcure. Th cure of this depends upon -a removal o the ftagnations in the extremities o thofe arteries which run over the botto of the eye Ruincy 7o AMA'ZE. @, 4. [from a and maze perplexity. i. To confule with terrour M Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee and their kings fhall be horribly afiaid for thee when I fhall brandith my {word before them, an they fhall tremble at every moment; every ma for his own life in the day of the fall Ewckic/ 2. To put into confufion with wonder Go heavinl virtues pair an wit you dagzlin Your courage, truth, your innocence and love Amaze and charm mankind . Swmith 3+ Lo put into perplexity That cannot choofe but amaze him If he b not amazed, he will be mocked ; if he be omazed he will every way be moclked Shake[peare Awma'ze. 2. /i [from the verb amaze.] Aftonithment confufion or wonder eithe of fea Fairfax, whofe name in arms thro> Europe rings Ané fills all mouths with envy or with praife And all her jealous monarchs with amaze. Milton Meantime the Trojan cuts his wat'ry way Fix'd on his voyage, through the curling fea ‘Then cafting back his eyes, with dire amaze Sees on the Punick fhore the mounting biaze Dryden AvAzEpLy. adv. [from amazed.] Confufedly; with amazement; with confu fion I fpeak amazedly, and it become ¥y marvel, and my meffage Stands Macbeth thus amazedly Come Shatke[pcare fifters, cheer we up his fprights AMA'ZEDNESS Shakefp 7. /. [from amazed. Th ftate of being amazed; aftonifhmeat wonder ; confufion I was by at the opening of the farthel, hear the old fhepherd deliver the manner how he foun " it; whereupon after a little amagednefs all commanded out of the chamber we wer Shake[p AMAZEMENT. 7 £ [from amaze. k. Such a confufed apprehenfion as doe not leave reafon its full force; extrem ‘fear ; horrour R He anfwer'd nought at all; but adding n2 Fear to his fir amazemert, ftaring wide ‘With ftony eyes, and heartlefs hollow hug 4 Aftonith'd food A M as one that had efpy' avalauww Infernal furies, with their chaing unty'd Fairy Quee and bayfus, low, as fuppofing the att o fending an ambaffadour But look! amamement on thy mother fit O ftep between her and her fighting foul Conceit in weakeft bodies ftrongeft -works Shakelpeare He ended, and s words imprefiion lef OFf much amazement to th> infernal crew Milton 3. Height of admiration Had you, fome ages pat, this race of glor Run, with amazement we fhould read your fory But living virtue, all atchievements patt Meets envy ftill to grapple with at laft Paller. 4. Aftonifhment; wonder at an unexpe&ed event They knew tha the Beautiful Gat filled with wonde had happened unt it was he which fat for alms a of the temple, and they wer and amaxcment at that whic him Abts the general name of a meffenger fro a {overeign power, and fometimes, dicroully, from common perfons. I the juridical and formal language, i fignifies particularly a minifter of th higheft rank refiding in another country and is diftinguithed from an exvoy, wh is of lefs dignity Give firfl admittance to th' ambaffadiurs AMA‘ZIN G, participial adj. [from amaze.) Wonderful; aftonitfhing It is an amazing thing to {ee the prefent defola tion of Italy, when one confiders what incredibl multitudes it abounded with during the reigns o the Roman emperours Addifon Ava'zinery. adv. [from amazing.] T a degree that may excite aftonithment wonderfully If we arife to the world of fpirits, our knowledge of them muft be amazingly imperfe, whe there is pot the lealt grain of fand but has too man difficulties belonging to it for the wifeft philofophe to anfwer Warts's Logick AMAZON. #. /i [« and péfe-] The Amazons wer a race of women famou to be in foni fort an a&t of fubmiflion All thefe derivations lead to write ambaffadonr, no embaffadour.] A perfon feat in a publi manner from one {overeign power to an- other, and fuppofed to reprefent th power from which he is fent. The peg fon of an ambafladour is inviolable Ambaffadour is, in popular language 2. Extreme dejeétion Diftracted and furpris'd with deep difma At thefe fad tidings and others from am for od CI Rais'd by thefe hopes, T fent no news be Nor afk'd your leave, nor did your faith implore; But come without a pledge, my own ambafladsti Dryden Oft have their black ambaffadours appeard" Loaden with gifts, and fillI'd the courts of Zama 441.'#[77! AmBA'ssaDRESS, 7.[ [ambafladrice, F1. 1. 'The lady of an ambaffadour 2. In ludicreus language, a woman fen on a meflage Well my ambaffadref Come you to menace war, and loud defiance Or docs the peaceful olive grace your brow Roap- A'MBASSAGE. z. [ [from ambaffadou® An embafly ; the bufinefs of an ambaf they are fo called from their cutting of {adour their breafts, to ufe their weapons better fo valour ,wh inhabite Caucafus A warlike woman ; a virago Stay ftay thy hands thou art an amazon And fighteft with the fivord Shakefpeare AMBAGES. n. f. [Lat.] A circuit o words ; a circumlocutory form of fpeech a multiplicity of words; an indire& manner of expreflion They gave thofe complex ideas names, that the might the more eafily record and difcourfe o things they were daily converfant in, without lon ambages and circumlacutions5 and that the thing they were continually to give and receive informa tion about, might be the eafier and quicker under Locke {ftood AMBA"G10US. adj. [from ambages. cumlocutory; perplexed; tedious Ameassa'DE. n. . [ambaffade, Fr. bafly; charafter or bufinefs of a baflador: a word not now ia ufe CirDicz Emam When you difgraced me in my ambaffade Then I degraded you from being king Shakefp n. /. [ambaffadenr, Fr AMBA'SSADOUR It is written diffeembaxador, Span rently, as it 1s fuppofed to come fro the French or Spanifh language; an the original derivation being uncertain it is not eafy to fettle its orthography Some derive it from the Hebrew =awa totell, and wan, a meflenger ; others fro ambaftus, which, in the old Gaulifh fignified a fervant; whence ambafeia in low Latin, is found to fignify fervice an ambafciator ferwvant 3 other de duce it from ambackt, in old Teatonick ‘zmd j'.'ilz."u fignifying a governmept mentions # pofiibility of its defcent fro Maximilian entertained them with dilatory an fiwers 5 fo as the formal partof their ambaffage migh well warrant their further ftay Bacorn A'MBER. #. /. [from ambar, Arab. whenc the lower writers formed ambarum. A yellow tranfparent fubftance of a gummou or bituminous confiftence, but a refinous tafte and a {mell like oil of turpentine; chiefly foun in the Baltick fea, along the coafts of Pruffia Some naturalifts refer it to the vegetable, other to the mineral, and fome even to the animal kingdom Pliny defcribes it as a refinous juice, oozin from aged pine and firs, and difcharged thenc into the fea He adds, that it was hence the ancients gave it the denomination of fuccinum, fro Juccus, juice. Some have imagined it a concrétio of the tears of birds; others, the urine ofa beaft others, the fcum of the lake Cephifis, near th Atlantick; others, a congeldtion formed in th Baltick, and in fome fountains, where it is foun fwimming like pitch. Others fuppofe it a bitume trickling into the fea from fubterraneous fources but this opinion is alfo difcarded, a3 good ambey having been found in digging at a confiderable dif tance from the fea, as that gathered on the coaft Bocrhaave ranks it with camphire, which is a concrete oil of aromatic plants, elaborated by heat int a cryftalline form Within fome pieces of ambe have been found leaves and infeéts include which feems to indicate, either that'the amber wa originally in a fluid ftate, or that, having been expofed to the fun, it was foftened, and rendere fulceptible of the leaves and infeds Amber, whe rubbed fri&tion draw is brough in the dark white o brown attralt boedie t it and b to yield light pretty Some diftinguiftn amber into yelo an black :+ bu the twa latter a fupnofed to be of a different nature and denomi Liguid amber 1s 2 kind of nat k ‘turpentine; clear, red {am or zefin rellowifh3 of pleafan |