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Show FA FA 61. ToFALL under, Toberanged with ; t A fever or fa/l may take away my reafon, Locke Some were hurt by the fa/ls they got by leapin upon the ground Gulliver's Travels be reckoned with N rules that relate to paftoral can affect th Georgicks which fall unde that clafs of poetr which confifts in giving plain inftructions to the rea der Addifon on the Georgicks 62. To FavLyL upon to affault 'To attack; to invade Auria falling upon thefe gallies, had with them cruel and deadly fight Knolles Aninfection in a town firlt fa//s zpor children wealk conftitutions, or thofe that are fubject to othe difeafes; but, f{preading further, feizes upon th moft healthy Temple Man fulls upon every thing that comes in hi way ; not a berry or mufhroom can efcape him Addifon's Speéiator To get rid of fools and fcoundrels was one par of my defign in falling upon thefe authors Pope 63. 7o FaLL wpon 'To attempt I do not intend to fa// wpon nice philofophica difquifitions about the nature of time 64, To ¥aLL zpon Holder 'To rufh againtt At the fame time that the ftorm bears upon th whole fpecies, we are falling foul upon one another Addifon 65. FaLL is one of thofe general word of which it is very difficult to afcertai or detail the full fignification. It retain in moft of its fenfes fome part of its primitive meaning, and implies either literally or figuratively defcent, violence, o fuddennefs. In many of its fenfes it i oppofed to #i/; but in others has n Counterpar o correlative 9o FarL., «. a 1. To drop; to let fall FA Death; overthrow Wail his fall deftruéion incurred Whom I myfelf feruck down. Shakefpeare's Macb Our fathers were given to the fword, and for fpoil, and had a great fu// before our enemies Fudith, viii. g I will begin to pray for myfelf and for them; fo 1 fee the falls of us that dwell in the land 5« Ruin 2 Efdr.viii Diflolution 17 Paul's, the late theme of fuch a mufe, whofe fligh Denbam 6. Downfall; lofs of greatnefs; declenfion from eminence; degradation; ftate of be ing depofed from a high ftation ; plung from happinefs or greatnefs into mifer or meannefs, or from virtue to corruption In a fenfe like this we fay the fa// o man and the fa// of angels Her memory ferved as an accufer of her change and her own handwriting was there to bear teftimon againft her fa/l Sidney Perhaps thou tall't of me, and do'ft enquir Of my reftraint why here I live alone And pitieft this my miferable fz//. Daniel's Civ, War He, carelefs now of int'reft, fame, or fate Perhaps forgets that Oxford e'er was great Or deeming meaneft what we greateft call Beholds theeglorious only in thy fa/l. Pope to Parnel 7. Declenfion of greatnefs, power, or domi Till the empire came to be fettled in Charles th Great, the fa/l of the Romans huge dominion con the world I a ever Shakefpeare's Tempeft willing to fa// this argument ma to write or not to writ 'tis free fo in verfe as h thinks it is or is not his talent, or as he imagine the audience will receive it Dryden 2. T fink; to deprefs: the contrar t raife If 2 man would endeavour to raife or fz// hi voice ftill by half notes, like the ftops of a lute, o by whole notes alone without halfs, as far asa eight, he will not be able to frame his voice unto it Bacon's Natural Hiflory 3. To diminifh ; to let fink oppofed t raife Upon leflening intereft to four per cent. you fal the price of your native commodities, or leffen you trade, or elfe prevent not the high ufe Locke 4. To yean to bring forth Fallparty-co]our'd lambs, and thofe were Jacob's Shake[peare Favrr. z /. [from the verb. High o'er their heads 2 mould'ring rock is plac'd -That promifes a fa//, and fhakes at every blaft. Dryd 2. 'The aét of tumbling from an ereét pofture I faw him run after a gilded butterfly; and whe he caught it, he Iét it go again, and after it again ove an ove h comes and up again an caught it again; or whether his fa// enraged him or how it was, he did fo fet his teeth, and did tear it Shakefpeare 3. The violence fuffered in dropping fro on high My fon coming into his marriage-chamber, happened to have a fz//, and dicd 2 Efdr.x. 48 ~ Spirit of wine, mingled with common water, i the firft f2// be brcken, by meansofa fop, or gtherwife, ftayeth above; and once if mingled, it fe- vereth not again, as oil doth 8. Diminution; decreafe of value Hooker That the improvement of Ireland is the principa caufe why our lands in purchafe rife not, as naturally they fhould, with the fa//of our intereft, appearsevidently from the effect the fa// of intereft hat had upon houfes in London Child 9. Declination or diminution of found; cadence; clofe of mufick That ftrain again; it had a dying fu// Bacon's PLyf. Rem 14. Any thing that comes down in grea quantities Upon a great fa// of rain the current carried awa a huge heap of apples L'E frange 15. The a&t of felling or cutting down as, zbe fall of timber it came o'er my ear, like the fweet Sout ‘That breathes upon a ban of violets Stealing and giving odours. Shake/p. Twelfth Night - How fweetly did they float upon the wing Of filence, through the empty-vaulted night At ev'ry fa/l fmoothing the raven dow Of darknefs *till it fmil'd Milton 1o. Declivity ; fteep defcent Waters when beat upon the fhore, or firaitned as the falls of bridges, or dafhed againft themfelve by winds, give a roaring noife. Bacon's Nat. Hift cafcade ruth of water dow a fteep place "There will we fit upon the rocks And fee the fhepherds feed their flock The {wain, in barren deferts, with furpriz Sees lilies fpring, and fudden verdure rife Pope He makes his moan And calls her ghoft For ever, ever, ever loft Pope's St. Cecilia 12. 'The outlet of a current into any othe water miftake fophiftical It i never ufed of men, but of writings, propofitions, or things The Jews believed and affented to things neithe evident no certain nor yet fo muc as probable but atually falle and fa/lucious; fuch as the abfur doctrines and ftories of their rabbies. Soxth's Sermons 2. Deceitful; mocking expe@ation The force of that fallucious truit That with exhilerating vapour blan About their {pirits had play'd, and in inmoft pow'r Made err, was now exhal'd Falfe philofophy infpire Milton's Paradife Lo/ Fallacious hope Favvra'ciouvsrLy. Miltox adv [fro Sallacions. Sophiftically; with purpofe to deceive with unfound reafoning We thall {o far encourage contradiGtion, as to promife not to oppofe' any pen that fhall fallacioufl refute us Brown We have feen how fa/lacion/ly the author ha ftated the caufe, by fuppofing that nothing but unlimited mercy, ot unlimited punifhment, are the methods that can be made ufe of Addifon Favvra'crouswess. # [ [from fallacious. Tendency to deceive; inconclufivenefs Fa'vvacy a f [ fallacia Latin Sfallace French. Sophifm ; logical artifice; deceit; deceitful argument; delufory mod of ratiocination Moft princes make themfelves another thing fro the people by a fa//acy of argument, thinking themfelves moft kings when the {ubject is moft bafely fubje&ed Sidncy I'll entertain the favour'd fa/llacy Shak It were a mere fa/lacy, and miftaking to aftiib ‘that to the force of imagination upon another body which is but the force of imagination upon the proper body Bacor All men, who can fee an inch before them, ma eafily detet grofs fallacics Dryden Farvisi'eiry. z /. [from fallible)] Liablenefs to be deceived; uncertainty'; poffibility of errour There is a greatdeal of fullibility in the teftimon of men; yet fome things we may be almoft as certai of, as that the fun thines, or that five twenties mak an hundred Watts FA'LLIBLE Melodious birds fing madrigals Shakefpeare A whiftling wind, or a melodious noife of bird among the fpreading branches, or a pleafing fa// o water running violently, thefe things made them t fwoon for fear Wifd Down through the crannies of the living wall Thecryftal ftreams defcend in murm'ring fa//s, Dryd And ftarts, amidft the thirfty wilds, to hea New falls of water murm'ring in his ear ‘Now under hangihg mountains Befide the fa//s of fountains cienx, French. Until I know this f{ure uncertainty By {hallow rivers, to whofe fa// 1, The at of dropping from on high an to be days of much affli¢tion and trouble throughou 11. Catara@ They then conceiving, did in yeaning tim Or how laft f2// he rais'd the weekly bills, Drydex 1. Producin If that the earth could teem with woman's tears Each drop, {he fa/ls, would prove a crocodile. Shak To fall it on Gonzalo What crouds of patients the town door kills Or zeal more fierce than they, thy fa// confpire Now fhalt thou ftand, though fword, or time, or fire curring with other univerfal evils, caufed thofe time do you the like 13. Autumn ; the fall of the leaf; the tim when the leaves drop from the trees FALLA'CIOUS. adj. [ fallax, Latin ; falla To-morrow in the battle think on me And fall thy edgelefs {fword, defpair and die. Shakef And when I rear my hand into its channel confiderable rivers. Addifon on Ttaly Has bravely reach'd and foar'd above thy height nion Draw together Before the fal of the Po into the gulph, it teceive adj [ fallo, Latin. to errour; fuch as may be deceived Liabl Do not falfify your refolution with hopes tht ar fallible : to morrow you muft die Shakefp He that creates to himfelf thoufands of little hojes uncertain in the promife, fz//ible in the event, an depending upon a thoufand circumfances, often fai his expeétations Tayler Our intelleCtual or rational powers need fom affiftance, becaufe they ar the prefent ftate Fatrine Fa'Lring 7 fo frail and Saliible i Watte 7. /. [from fall.] Indenting oppofed to prominence It fhows_ the nofe and eyebrows, wit th fevera prominences and fallings in of the features, muc more diftin&tly than any other kind of figure. Addi Fa'tLiNesickNess. v f [ fa¥l and Jick nefs.] The epilepfy; a difeafe in whic sA th |