OCR Text |
Show <3 AB AB has the quality of abfterging or clean{ing It is good, after purging, to ufe apozemes an broths, not fo much opening as thofe ufed befor purging 5 but abfferfive and mundifying clyfter a]f? are good to conclude with, to draw away th reliques of the humours Bacon's Natural Hiftory A tablet ftood of that abfterfive tree Where /Ethiops' fwarthy bird did build to neft Sir Fobn Denbam There, many a flow'r abfferfive grew Thy fav'rite flow'rs of yellow hue A'BSTINENCE Swift's Mifcel 7. /i [abfinentia, Lat. 1. Forbearance of an particle from thing ; wit th a prefent pleafure Becaufe the abfinence fro that offers itfelf, is a pain, nay oftentimes a ver great one : it is no wonder that that operates afte the fame manner pain does, and leflens, in ou thoughts, what is future; and fo forces us, as i were Locke blindfold into its embraces 2. Fafting o forbearanc neceflar o id di al uf i de it la it i s i a e t M into pure and mixed. And though the pure d handle only abftraf# quantity in general as geo metry, arithmetic ; yet that which is mixed, dot' confider the quantity of fome particular determinate fubjeét. So aftronomy handles the quantit of heavenly motions, mufic of founds, and mechanics of weights and powels Wilkins's Mathematical Magick Abfira? terms fignify the mode or quality o a being, without any regard to the fubject i length which it i5; as, whitenefs, roundnefs breadth, wifdom, mortality, life, death Watts's Logick 2. With the particle from Another fruit from the confidering things i themfelves, abfiract from our opinions and othe men' notion that each ma an difcourfe them o will purfue his thought will be in tha method, which will be moft agreeable to the na ture of the thing, and to his apprehenfion of wha Locke it foggefts to him A'ssTrACT 7 /. {from the verb. 1. A fmaller quantity, containing the vir tue or power of a greater food. It is generally diftinguifhed fro temperance, as the greater degree fro the lefs; {fometimes as fingle performances from habits; as, a day of adfi You fhall there find a man, who is the abftra Of all faults all men follow nence, and a life of temperance You're then the things, and abffraé of them all Dryd. Aur Say, can you faft ? your ftomachs are too young And abffixence ingenders maladies Shake[ps Love's Labour Loft And the faces of them, which have ufed 4b Jinence, fhall fhine above the ftars; whereas ou faces fhall be blacker than darknefs 2 Efdras, vil. 55 Religious men, who hither muft be fen As awful guides of heavenly government ‘To teach you penance, fafts, and abffinence clean.sh data import.tsv out README To punith bodies for the foul's offence Dryden's Indian Emp A'BsTINENCY. 7 /. The fame with AzSTINENCE ‘Were our rewards for th abffinencies or riots of this prefent life, under the prejudices of fhor or finite, the promifes and threats of Chrift woul jofe much of their virtue and energy Huammond's Fundam A'BSTINENT. adj. {abftinens, Lat.] Tha ufes abftinence, in oppofition to covet ous, rapacious, or Juxurious It is ufe chiefly of perfons ‘ABSTO'RTED. adj. [abftortus, Lat.] Force away, wrung from another by vioDia lence 9 AB ABSTRA'CT v. a. [abfirako, Lat. 1. To take one thing from another Could we abftrai? from thefe pernicious effets and fuppofe this were innocent, it would be to Decay of Picty light to be matter of praife Shakefp. Antony and Clespatra If you are falfe, thefe epithets are {mall z. An epitome made by taking out th principal parts When Mnemon came to the end of a chapter he recolleted the fentiments he had remarked fo that he could give a tolerable analyfis and ab Jfiract of every treatife he had read, juft after h Watts's Imp. of the Mind had' finifhed it 3. The ftate of being abftradted, or difjoined The hearts of great princes, if they be confidered, as it were in abffraf?, without the neceffity of ftates, and circumftances of time, ca take no full and proportional pleafure in the exercife of any narrow bounty Wotton ABsTRA'CTED. part. adj. [from abfras. 1. Separated ; disjoined That {pace the evil one abffratied froo From his own evil, and for the time remain' Stupidly good Milton 2. Refined, purified Abfiracied ipiritual love, they lik Their fouls exhal'd Donne 3. Abftrufe ; difficult 4. Abfent of mind inattentive to prefen obje&s ; as, an abfradied {cholar ApsTrA'CTEDLY. adv. With abftraction, fimply, feparately from all contingent circumftances Or whether more abffraéiedly we look O on the writers or the writte book ‘Whence 3. To feparate ideas In feveral ages born, in feveral parts Weave fuch agreeing truths ? or how, or wh Should all confpire to cheat us with a lie Unafk'd their pains, ungrateful their advice Starving their gain, and martyrdom their price Dryden's Religio Laici Thofe who cannot diftinguifh, compare, an abftraé?, would hardly be able to underftand an make ufe of language, or judge or reafon to an tolerable degrez 4. To reduce to an epitome Locke If we would fix in the memory the difcourfe we hear, or what we defign to fpeak, let us abfira& them into brief compends, and review the Watts's Imp. of the Mind often A'ssTrACT. adj. [abffrafus, Lat. -Se the verb 70 ABstraACT. 1. Separated from fomething elfe ; generally ufed with relation to mental per ceptions as, abffrad mathematics, a4 Jrad terms, in oppofition to concrgte arts but from heav'n, could men unfkill'd i AesTrRA'CTION. 7. [, [abfiraltio 1. The a& of abfiratting Lat. The word abfiraction fignifies a withdrawin fome part of an idea from other, parts of it; b which means fuch abftracted ideas are formed as neither reprefent any thing corporeal or fpi ritual5 «that ‘is, any thing peculiar or proper t mind ot body «Watts's Logick 2. 'The ftate of being abftraéted 3. Abfence of mind; inattention 4. Difregard of worldly objeéts A hermit withes to be praifed for his abftrattion ing the power or quality of abftra ABSTRA'CTLY. adv. [from abfira an abftraét manner, abfolutely, w reference to any thing elfe Matter abfiraétly and abfolutel not hav expired. born an infinit ApsTRA'CTNESS con§i durag,ion no;re& 7 Bentley's [fro abfrag Subtilty ; {eparation from all matte common notion T have taken fome pains to make plain an mll'xar to your thoughts truths, which efiah prejudice, or the abfiracngfs of the ideas them might render difficult ABSTRI'CTED. part. adj. Labftrictus, 1 Unbound 70 ABsTRI'NGE. v. a. To unbind, p 7o ABSTRUDE. @. a. [abfruds, I To thruft off, or pull away ApsTRU'SE. adj out of fight. [abftrufus, Lat. thro 1. Hidden Th' eternal eye whofe fight difcerns Abfirufeft thoughts, from forth his holy mount And from within the golden lamps that bur Nightly before him, faw, without their light Rebellion rifing Milter's Paradife Lof, b. v. 1. 7!2.' 2. Difficult remot apprehenfion and ezfj fro conception o It is'oppofed to sbwis So fpake our Sire, and by his countenance feem' Entring on ftudious thoughts abfirafe Paradife Lo, b. viii The motions and figures within the mouth ar abftrufe, and not eafy to be diftinguithed, efpeciall thofe of the tongue, which is moved through th hel of man mufcles fo eafily, and habitfially FES and varioufly, that we are fcarce able to give judgment of motions and figures thereby framed Ha/dm No man could give a rule of the greateft beauties, and the knowledge of them was fo abftrafe that there was no' manner of fpeaking which could exprefs them Dryd. Dufrefroy ABsTRU'SELY. adv ner; obfcurely s In an abftrufe man not plainly, or obvi oufly ABsTRU'SENESS. 7. /. [from abfrufe.] Th quality of being abftrufe; difficulty obfcurity 1t is not oftentimes fo much what the fcriptur fays, as what fome men perfuade others it fays that makes it feem obfcure, and that as to fom other paffages that are fo indeed, fince it is th abftrufenefs of what is taught in them, that make them almoft inevitably foj it is little lefs faucy upon fuch a fcore, to find fault with the ftyle o 2. To feparate by diftillation Having dephlegmed {pirit of falt, and gently a6 firaéted the whole fpirit, there remaineth in th Boyle retort a ftyptical {fubftance ABSTRA'CTIVE. adj. [from abfirals Pope's Letters the fcripture, than to do fo with the author fo making us but men Boyle on the Scriptuse AssTru'stTY. 2. /0 [from abffrufe. 1. Abftrufenefs 2. That which is abftrufe. A word feldo ufed Authors are alfo fufpicious, nor greedil to b fwallowed who pretend to write of fecrets, to d liver antipathies, fympathies, and the occult @b [rufities of things Brown's Vulg, Errours 70 ABsu'ME. v. a. [abfumo, Lat.] Tobrin to an end by a gradual wafte; to eatup An uncommon word That which had been burning an infinite tim could never be burnt, no not fo much as any par of it; for if it had burned part after part, th whole muft needs be abfurmed in a portion of time Hale's Origin of Mankind ABSU'RD. adj. [abfurdus, Lat. 1. Unre= afonable ; without judgment, a ufed 'of men Seemin |