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Show GR Shakefpear ‘GREAT. adj. [gneaz, Saxon; groot, Dutch. 1. Large in bulk or number Judas one of the twelve came, and with hi veat multitude with {words and ftaves. Mar, xxvi The works of God, thereby to glorif The great work-mafter, tends to no excef That reaches blame Great are thy works Jehovah, infinit All thefe cities were fenced with high walls, gate and bars, befides unwalled towns a great many Milton Milton And éod created the great whales - A dungeon horrible, on all fides round Milton As one great furnace flam'd The talleft pin Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the maf Of fome great admiral Milton 2. Having any quality in a high degree P/ xiv. 5 There were they in great fear Milton Their pow'r was great Great triumph and rejoicing was in heav'n. Milt inimitably grea Broome 3. Having number or bulk, relative or comparative The idea of fo muc is pofitive and clear: idea of greater is alfo clear, bu it is but a com Locke parative idea , Confiderable in extent or duration th Thou haft fpoken of thy fervants houfe for a grea 2 Sa. vil. 19 o while to come , Important; weighty That from his lordly eye keep diftance due Milton Difpenfes light from far Here Cefar grac'd with both Mineryas fhone Cefar, thcsworld's great mafter, and his own. Pope cipio Great in his friumphs, in retivement grear Pope 12, Grand of afpect ; of elevated mien Such Dide was ; with fuch becoming ftate Amidgt the crowd, fhe walks ferepely great. Dryden 13 Magnanimous That had not half a week to go, like tam In the old time of war, would fhake the prefs, Shak A grml!}e/fim' woman, walking through the cit in the day-time, had her child ftruck out of he and carried half a fulong from her, Wilkin 70 GRE'ATEN. «. a. [from great.] 'T aggrandize; to enlarge; to magnify. - word little ufed in Ital of thei After they fought to greaten themfelve itfelf, ufing ftrangers for the commander Turk th armies bea by degree them out of al Raleigh their goodly countrics A favourite's bufinefs is to pleafe his king, a miKen nifter's to greaten and exalt him GREATHEA'RTED. adj. [great and heart. High {pirited ; undejected Th generous; high minded teeming as greathearte earl as he, declare tha he neither care8 for his friendfbip, nor feared hi Clarendon hatred In her every thing was goodly and ftately; yet fo that it might feem that grear mindednefs was but | GRE/ATLY. adv. [fi-om grmt. the ancient-bearer to the humblenefs Sidney 1. In a great degree 14. Opulent; fumptuous ; magnificent Milton Thy forrow 1 will greatly multiply Not Babylon 2. Nobly ; illuftrioufly Nor great Alcairo, fuch magnificenc Equall'd in all their glories Milton He difdained not to appear at great tables an fefival entertainments Arterbury Yet London emprefs of the northern clime Dryden By an high fate thou greatly didft expire 3. Magnanimoully ; generouily ; bravely Where are thefe bold intrepid fons of war Man Have broke their backs with laying manors on them For this great journey. Shakefpeare's Henry VIII What is low raife and fupport That to the height of this greas argumen 1 may affert eternal Providence And vindicate the ways of God to men Milton 1. Largenefs of quantity or number Solyman perceived that Vienna was not to b won with words, nor the defendants to be difcouraged | 2. Comparative quantity We can have no pofitive idea of any fpace or duwith great looks; wherefore he began to batter th ration, which is not made up of and commeniurat Knolles walls to repeated numbers of feet or yards, or days o A lo 17. Familiar; much acquainted years, and whereby we judge of the greatnefs o word Locke fort of quantities thef Thofe that would not cenfure, or fpeak ill of All abfent good does not, according to the greatman immediately, will talk more boldly of thof nefs it has, or is acknowledged to have, caule pai that are grear with them, and thereby wound thei equal to that greatnefs, as all pain caufes defire equa Bacon honour to itfelf; becaufe the abfence of good is not always 18. Pregnant; teeming Locke pain, as the prefence of pain is His eyes fometimes even grear with tears. Sidney 3. High degree of any quality Their bellies grea Zeal, in duties, fhould be proportioned to th By experience of this great event ‘In arms not wotfe Milton Milton "After filence then ‘And fummons read And though thi partially confidered "men of corrupt mind the great confult began. Milton be a greas truth, if it be imyet itisalfo a great paradox t and vitious practices. Zillotfun ‘6. Chicf; ‘principal Hear the king's pleafure, cardinal, who command o To rendyer up the great feal prefently. Sh. Hen, VIII 7. Venerable ; adorable; awful o The great luminary Aloof the vulgar conftellations thick belly. Greatbellied women womb Milton [great an 15. Intelletually great; fublime On fome great charge employ' He {eem'd, or fix'd in cogitation deep Thou firft art wont God's greas authentick will Interpreter, through higheft heav'n to bring. Mi/ton 8. Wonderful ; marvellous Great things and full of wonder Milton 9. Of high rank; of large power Whilft they behold a greater than themfelves, Shak Worthieft by being good Far more than greaz or high Of all the great, how fe Are jutt to heav'n, and to their promife true Milton Pope Misfortune made the throne her feat And none could be unhappy but the great Rowe Defpife the farce of ftate "The fober follies of the wife and great The marble tombs that rife on high Whofe dead in vaulted arches lie hefe, -all the poor remains of ftate Adorn the rich, or praife the great 10. General influence Pope Parnel extenfive in confequenc Prolifick humour foftning all her globe Fermented the grear mother to conceive o Milton 1. Nlluftrious ; eminent ; noble; excellent O Lord, thou art great, and thy name is great i ‘might -« The great Creator thus reply'd VoL, I This new created world, how good Anfwering his great idea That great{y turn their backs upon the foe how fair Milton And to their general fend a brave defiance 2 Addifor GREATNESS 16. Swelling; proud Sandys With {welling vanity, bring forth deceit. This fly, for moft he ftings in heat of day ¥rom cattle greas with young keep thou away. May Th So man As will to greatnefs dedicate themfelves. Sbake/peare ers s D Milton A proverbia 41 It is no great matter to live lovingly with go Taylor's Devation natured and meek perfons #. /. [from the adjetive. whole; the grofs Th the whole in a lump To let out thy harveft by great or by day J.et.this by experience lead thee the way By great will deceive thee with ling'ring it out Tuffer's Hufbandry By day will difpatch It were behoveful, for the ftrength of the navy fo that no fhips fhould be builded by the great; an by daily experience they are found to be wea Raleigh's Eflays imperfect He did at length fo many flain forget And loft the tale, and took them by the greaz. Dryd Carpenter's build an houfe by the great, and ar agreed for she fum of money moft fervile flattery is lodged moft eafily i Farewel, a long farewel to all my greatuefs. Shak feldom worn out till the fecond or third generation fo that 'tis common enough to fee a countryman i the doublet and breeches of his great grandfather Addifon GreaT influence power the grofle@t capacity; for their ordinary concei draweth a yielding to greatnefs, and then have the not wit to difcern the right degrees of duty. Sidney Camden's Remains expreflion Rogers empire 1 dare not yet affirm for the antiquity of ou language, that our great-grear-great grandfires tongu Camden came out of Perfia What we call great great grandfather they calle 20. Hard; difficult; grievous and the ccrmint‘y 4. High place; dignity 19. It is added in every ftep of afcendin or defcending confanguinity : as grea grandfon is the fon of my grandfon forthafader 7. /. [from great. greatnefs of the reward Their holyday-cloaths go from father to fon, and ar Such men as he be never at heart's eafe Is grearer than created to deftroy Pregnant adj Make fué Her fayours to thee, and the great oath tak With which the blefled gods aflurance make Chapman Milton pow'r! what thought can medfure thee, o tongu Relate thee! greater now in thy return Than from the giant angels: thee that da Thy thunders magnified, but to creat terpret by the grear for any gentlewoman who i Addifor turned of fixty GRE'ATBELLIED Th Deut. iils § 1n circuit to the uttermoft conve - Of this great round Milton Fair angel, thy defire that tends to kno Elemental air diffus' 1 fet afide one day in a week for lovers, and in The grear Son return' Vi&orjous with his faints ~ Let's confult together againtt this grea/y knight Charms fuch as thine He only could exprefs G+R- G R Moxon's Mech, Exer 1 beg your greatnefs not to give the la In other realms; but beaten, to withdraw Drydesn Approaching greatzefs met him with her charm Of pow'r and tfuture ftate Dryder He {hook her from his arms Themiftocles raifed the Athenians to their greaz#efs at fea, which he thought to be the true and conSawift ftant intereft of that commonwealth Swelling pride affetted ftate My lord would have you know, that it is not o pride or greatne/s that he cometh not aboard you thips Bacon 6. Merit; magnanimity; noblenefs of mind Greatnefs of mind and noblenefs their fea Build in her lovelieft Miltorn. 7. Grandeur ftate; magnificence Greatpefs with Timon dwells in fuch a draught As brings all Brobdignag before your thought Pope | GREAVE #./. [gnzp, Saxon. A grove Spenfer Yet when there haps a honey-fall We'll lick the firupt leaves And tell the bees that theirs is gal To that upon the greaves M. Draytosn Grrangs |