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Show s i e otkb DI DI DIL No turbots dignify my board j But gudgeons, flounders, what my. Thames affords in which the parts are at more diftanc : 2. Deviation ope The digreffion of the fun is not equal; but, nea the equinoétial interfeétions, it is right and greater near the folftices, more oblique and leffer Di'onirary. n./. [from dignus, Latin. Brown's Vulgar Errours A clergyman advanced to fome dignity to fome rank above that of a parochial | Dijunica'rron . 4 [dijudicatio, Latin. Judicial diftinétion prieft If there be any dignitaries, whofe prefcrments.ar " perhaps not liable to the accufation of fuperfluity they may be perfons of {uperior merit Swift Dieniry, # f [dignitas, Latin. 1. Rank of elevation Angels are not arfy where fpoken fo highly of a our Lord an Saviour Jefus Chrift and are not i dignity equal to him Hooker 2. Grandeur of mien ; elevation of afpect Some men have a native dignity, which will procure them more regard by a look, than others ca obtain by the moft imperious commands. = Clariffa 3. Advancement; preferment; high place Fafter than fpring-time fhow'rs comes though on thought clean.sh data import.tsv out README And not a thought but thinks on dignity Shak For thofe of old And thefe late dignities heap'd up to them Shak 4. [Among ecclefiafticks.] By a dignit " we underftand that promotion or preferment 'to which any jurifdition is annexed 5. Maxims dofal Ayliffe's Parergon genera principles xupi The fciences concluding from dignities, and principles known by themfelves, receive not fatisfac tion from probable reafons, much lefs from bare af{everations Brozun 6. [In aftrology.] The planet is in dignity when it is in any fign Dicno'rion. # /. [from dignofco, Latin. Diftinétion ; diftinguithing mark T'hat temperamental dignotions, and conjecture o prevalent humours, may be colle¢ted from fpots i our nails, we are not averfe to concede Brown's Vulgar Errours 1. A channel to receive water The dykes are fill'd, and with a roaring foun The rifing rivers float the nether ground Dryden's Virgil The king of dykes! than whom no fluice o mu With deeper fable blots the filver flood Pope's Dunciad 2. A mound to hinder inundations God, that breaks up the flood-gates of fo grea a deluge, and all the art and induftry of man is no fufficient to raife up dykes and ramparts againft it Cowley 70 DILA'CERATE. wv. a. [dilacero, La- tin,] To tear; to rend' to force i two The infant, at the accomplithed period, ftruggling to come forth, dilacerates and breaks thof parts which reftrained him before Brown's Vulgar Errours Diracera'rioN Latin. 7. /. [fro dilaceratio The aét of rending in two The greateft {enfation of pain is by the obftruction of the fmall veflels, and dilaccration of the ner vous fibres o DiLa'NIATE To tear Arbuthnot w. a. [dilanio, Latin. to rend in pieces Rather than they would dilaniate the entrails o their own mother, and expofe her thereby to b ravithed, they met half way in a gallant kind Howel's Eng. Tears 70 DILA'PIDATE. @. ». [dilapide, Latin.] To go to ruin; to fall by decay Divaripa'rron.n [ [dilapidatio, Latin. The incumbent' {ufferin the chancel In the purfuit of an argument there is hardl room to digrefs into a particular definition, a often as a man varies the fignification of any term Locke or any other edifices of his ecclefiaitica living, to go to ruin or decay, by negleéting to repair the fame : and it likewife extends to his committing, or fuffering to be committed, any wilful waft in or upon the glebe-woods, or an other inheritance of the church Ayliffe's Parergon 1t feemeth (to dig7efs no farther) that the Tar dilapidations of the chancel and manfion-houfe belonging to the re€tor or vicar Ay/iffe's Parergon To DIGRE'SS. w. n. [digreffus, Latin. 1. To turn afide out of the road 2. To depart from the main defign of difcourfe, or chief tenour of an argu ment Dike. ». /. [bic, Saxon ; dyt, Erfe. 3. To wander ; to expatiate tariansy {preading fo far, cannot be the Ifraelites Brereawood 4. T go out of the right way, or comme track to tranfgrefs to deviate: no T am come to keep my word _ Though in fome part am forced to digrefs Which at more leifure I will fo excuf As you fhall well be fatisfied Sbakefpeare . Thy noble fhape is but a form of wax Digreffing from the valour of a man Shakefpeare DicrE‘ss1oN. #. /. [digreffio, Latin. 1. A pafifage deviating from the main tenour or defign of a difcourfe The good man thought fo much of his late conceived commonwealth but digreffions to him that all other matters wer Sidney He, the knew, would intermi Grateful digreffions, and folve high difput ‘With conjugal carefles Milton Bere fome digreffion I muft make, t* accuf Thee, my forgetful and ungrateful mufe, Denbam Lo content and fill the eye of the underftanding the beft authors fprinkle their works with pleafin digreffions, with which they recreate the minds o their readers Voi. *T'is the duty of all church-wardens to prevent th Divarasi'viry. z £ [from dilatable. ‘The quality of admitting extenfion We take notice of the wonderful dilatability o extenfivenefs of the gullets of ferpents: I hav taken two adult mice out of the ftomach of an adder, whofe neck was not bigger than my little fin ger Ray By this continual contraétibility and dilatability by different degrees of heat, the air is kept in a conftant motion Arbuthnot | D1y a"r ABLE. adj. [from dilate.] Capabl of extenfion The windpipe divides itfelf into a great numbe of branches called bronchia bladders thefe end in fmall air dilatable and contraétible inflated by the admiffio the expulfion of it capable to b of 2ir, and to fubfide a Arbuthnot on Aliments Divarta'rion. #. /. [from dilatatis, Latin. 1. The a& of extending into greate fpace : oppofed to contraction Th motions of the tongue dilatation, are fo eafy an by contraction an fo fubtle tha you ca hardly conceive or diftinguith them aright Ho/der Dryden. | 2. The ftate of being extended; the ftat from each other a cheerfulnefs and vigour in th Joy caufet leaping eyes; finging fometime an dancing tears & all thele are the effets of the dilatati n, an coming forth of the fpirits into the outward parts Bacon's Natural Hifbory The image of the fun fhould be drawn out int an oblong form, either by a dilatation of every ray or by any other cafual inequality of the refrattions Neauvton . a. [dilato, Latin. To DILATE 1. To extend; to{pread out ; to enlarge oppofed to contralt But ye thereby much greater glory gate Than had ye forted with a prince's peer For now your light doth more itfelf di/ate And in my darknefs greater doth appear. Sperfer Satan alarm'd Colle&ing all his might, dilated ftocd RMilton Like Teneriff, or Atlas, unremov'd Opener of mine eyes Dim erft; dilated {pirits, ampler heart And growing up to godhead: which for the Chiefly I fought; without thee can defpife. Milt Through all the air his founding ftrings dilat Sorrow, like that which touch'd our hearts of late Waller Diffus'd, it rifes in a higher fphere Prior Dilates its drops, and foftens into air I mark the various fury of the winds Thefe neither {eafons guide, nor order binds They now dilate and now contract their force Various their fpeed, but endlefs is their courfe Prior The fecond refradtion would fpread the rays on as muc wa and {o dilat as the firft doth another the image in breadth as muc length as the firft doth i Nerwton 2. To relate at large ; to tell diffulely an copiouily But he would not endure that woful thea For to dilate at large ; but urged fore With piercing words, and pitiful implore Fairy Queen Him hafty to arife I obferving Took once a pliant hour, and found good mean To draw from her a prayer of earneft heart That I would all my pilgrimage dilate ‘Whereof by parcels fhe had fomething heard But not ditintively Shake[peare's Oth:llo 7o DiLa'TE.w. 7 1. 'To widen ; to grow wide His heart dilates and glories in his ftrength fld'd';':i.‘ 2. To fpeak largely and copioudly It may be behoveful for princes, in matters o grace, to tranfac the fame publickly, and by themto dilate upon it, and imfelves; or their minifter o prove their lufire, by any addition or eloquenc 671 fpeech 'Tha Divra'tor. 7 f. [ from dilate. which widens or extends The buccinatores, or blowers up of the cheeks and the dilaters of the nofe, are too firong in choArbuthanot lerick people Th qualit of bcir'l nefs; fluggifhnefs DI'LATORY rius, Latin. dilarery. z. fi [fro Di'LaTORINESS adj dilatory ; flow [dilatoire Tardy Fr. dilato flow give t procraftination ; addicted to delay ; {luggifh; loitering A inferior council after forme tedieu fuit in a higher court, would be but dilatory, and {o t little purpofe Hayward ‘What wound did ever heal but by degrees Thou know'& we work by wit, and not by witchcraft And wit depends on dilatory time Thefe cardinals trifle with me; I ab This dilatory floth, and tricks of Rome Skakefpeare's Henry VIIL D;"a.r;r |
