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Show CI The cion over-ruleth the flock; dnd the ftock i but paflive, and giveth aliment, but no motion, t n c B ft gr th CI CI 5, An affembly furrounding the principa Then take repaft, till Hefperus difplay' His golden circlet in the weftern fhade. Pope's Odyff perfon Ci1'RCLING. participial adj. [from To circle.] Having the form of a circle; cir To have a box where eunuchs fing And, foremoft in the circle, eye a king CI'PHER. n. /. [chifre, Fr. =ifra, Ital Pope' Horace . o r a n i o a cifra, low Lat. fro 6 compan a aflembly i w b e a a c a i t. An arithme whole circ/ of beauth hi t ove cal wil fome number is noted; a figure Addifon ties that are difpofed among the boxes 2. An arithmetical mark, which, ftandin Ever fince that time, Lifander vifits in ever Tatler for nothing itfelf, increafes the value of circle 7. Any feries ending as it begins, an the other figures Mine were the very cipher of a funétion perpetually repeated To find the faults, whofe fine ftands in record Shakefpeare And let go by the actor Ther cannot make them nulls or ciphers in the privatio Bacon or tran{lation As, in accounts, cipbers and figures pafs for rea South 3. An intertexture of letters engraved ufually on boxes or plate 8 Troy flam'd in burnifh'd gold ; and o'er th throne ArmMs AND THE M in golden cipbers thone began to b ing the form of creatures Raleigh's Hiffory of the World In cipher writ, or new-made idioms Donne furnithed with mine feveral cipbers, in order to it Denban "7 Cy'pHER. @. #. [from the noun.] T pradtife arithmetick an Hooker circuit The lake of Bolfena is reckoned one-and-twent on Italy Addifi miles in circuit heavy bodie defcen by gravity The lords, that were appointed to circle th hill, had fome days before planted themfelves i places convenient Bacon Another Cynthia her new journey runs And other planets circle other funs. Pope's Dunciad 2. 2 T write in occul He frequented fermons, and penned notes : hi notes he cipbered with Greek charaéters. Hayward 2. To inclofe ; to furround What ftern ungentle hand Have lopp'd and hew'd, and made thy body bar 7o CYRCINATE. w. a. [¢ircino, Lat.] T a circle ; t compaf round turn round Of her two branches, thofe fweet ornaments o Whofe circling thadows kings have fought to flee in Shakefpeare While thefe fond arms, thus circ/ing you, ma prov More heavy chains than thofe of hopelefs love. Bailey CirciNa''TION. 7. /. [corcinatio, Lat.] A orbicular motion 3- a turning round ; meafuring with the compaffes Bailey Prior {[circulus, Latin. 1. A line continued. till it ends where i begun, having all its parts equidiftan from a common centre Any thing that moves round about in a circle our idea are won to fuccee one another in our minds, is not perceived t move; but feems to be a perfe€t intire circle o that matter, or colour, and not a part of a circle i motion Locke By a circleI underftand not here perfe& geometrical ¢ircle, but an orbicular figure, whofe lengt is equal to its breadth ; and which, as to fenfe, ma feem cirlular Newton's Opticks Then a deeper fill In circle following circle, gathers roun To clofe the face of things Thomfon's Summer 2. The fpace included in a circular line 3. Around body ; an orb It is he that fitteth upon the circ/e of the earth Tfaiab 4. Compafs; inclofure A great magician Obfcured in the circle of the foret Shakefpeare 3 Unfeen, he glided thro' the joyous crowd With darknefs circled and an ambient cloud. Poge Z CircL 7z 'To confine together to kee We term thofe things dry which have a confiftence within themfelves and which, to enjoy a de terminate figure, do not require the ftop or hindrance of another body to limit and circle them in Digby on Bodies 7o Ci'rRcLE. .z To move circularly to end where it begins The well fraught bow Circles inceflant 5 whilft the humble cell With quavering laugh and rural jefts refounds Now the circling years difclof Ppilips The day predeftin'd to reward his woes Pope's 0dy[fey Cr'RcLED. ad). [from circl.) Havinglfl{ for of a circle ; round Th' inconftant moon That monthly changes in her circled orb. . Shak Cr'rerer. n. [ [from circle.] A circle an orht properly a little circle round He attributeth unto it fmallnefs, in refpeét o heav 10. CirCLES of the German Empire. Suc provinces and principalities as have right to be prefent at diets. They ar in number ten Trevoux 7o Ci'rcLE. .4. [from the noun. 1. To move round any thing 1 wonder you never ufed your pen and ink Arbuthnot tha 3. Space ; extent ; meafured by travellin 4. A ring ; a diadem ; that by which an thing 1s incircled And this fell tempeft fhall not ceafe to rage Until the golden circuit on my hea Do calm the fury of this mad-brain'd flaw. Shak 5. The vifitations of the judges for holding affifes Has he given the ly In circle or oblique, or femicircle You have been bred to bufinefs § you can cipher in lefs tim which the foregoing propofition is prove by the following, and the following propofition inferred from the foregoing Fletcher's Queen of Corinth He was pleafed to command me to ftay at London, to fend and receive all his letters; and I wa . He led me u A woody mountain, whofe high top was plain Milton's Paradife Lofl A circuit wide inclos'd Or dire¢t parallel ? You muft challenge him This book, as long liv'd as the elements Watts on the Mind 2. The {pace inclofed in a circle 1 9. Circumlocution ; indireét form of words the key to it Fr. circuitus [circuit #. f Watts's Logick 5. A fecret or occult manner of writing, o Milton's Paradife Loft There are four moons alfo perpetually rollin round the planet Jupiter, and carried along wit him in his periodical circuit round the fun i of argument Latin. 1. The a& of moving round any thing and we intend to prove it by the conclufion written in cipbers and characters, and letters bear CI'RCLE CI'RCUIT eth nothing quf‘uille's Scepfis That fallacy called a circle, is when one of th premiffes in a fyllogifm is queftioned and oppofed 4. A charaer in general mak Of night's extended fhade body defcends, is an impertinent circ/e, and teach To ftamp the mafter's cipber ready ftand. Thomfon Yo Ci'prER charaers ftoo So high above the circling' canop whic in hot countries again, that gravity is a quality whereby a Some mingling ftir the melted tar, and fom Deep on the new-fhorn vagrant's heaving fid times this wifdo tree inconclufive for A Tha Pope In fucceedin frui he furveys, and well might, where h Roun have blofloms and young fruit, and young frui and ripe fruit, almoft all the year, {ucceed:ng on another; but this circ/e of ripening cannot be bu Bacon in fucculent plants, and hot countries Thus in a circle runs the peafant's pain And the year rolls within itfelf again. Dryd. Virg If the people be fomewhat in the election, yo fums, fo names pafs for things b cular; round | The circaits, in former times, went but roun about the pale ; as the circuit of the cynofura abou the pole 6. Th tra Dawies of country vifite by th judges 7. Long deduion of reafon Up into the watch tower get And fee all things defpoil'd of fallacies Thou fhalt not peep thro' lattices of eyes Nor hear thro' labyrinths of ears, nor lear By circuit or colleétions to difcern Donne CircuiT of alion. [In law.] Is a longe courfe of proceeding to recover th thing fued for than is needful Coawell 7o Cr'rcuiT @, n. [from the noun.] To move circularly Pining with equinoétial heat, unlef The cordial cup perpetual motion keep Quick circuiting. Philips CrrcuUITE'ER. 2 /. [from circuit. that travels a circuit Like your fellow circuiteer, th fun yo On trave the round of the earth, and behold all the iniquities under the heavens Crrcur'rion. z. i [circaitio, Lat. 1. The act of going round any thing Pope 2. Compafs ; maze of argument T apprehen b what degree the lean t things in fthow, though not in deed, repugnan one to another, requireth more fharpnefs of wity more intricate circuitions of difcourfe, and dept of judgment, than common ability doth yield Hocker Cr'rcwLAR. adj. [circularis, Latin. 1. Round, hike a circle ; circumferibed b a circle The frame thereof feem'd partly cireular And part triangular Fairy Quecn He firft inclos'd for lifts a level ground The form was circular Dryden's Fables Nero's port, compofed of huge moles runnin round it in a kind of circuler figure Addifon on Italy 2. Succeflive in order; always returning From whence th' innumerable race of thing By circular fucceflive order fprings Rofcomnon 3. Vulgar _‘ |