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Show - ACH AC To ABU'T. w. n. obfolete. [aboutir, to touc at the end, Fr.] To end at, to borde upon; to meet, or approach to, with th particle upon Two mighty monarchies Whofe high upreared and abutting front Th narrow perilou ocean parts afunder Shake[peare's Henry V The Looes are two feveral corporations diftin guithed by the addition of eaft and weft, abuttin ypon a nayvigable creek, and joined by a fair bridg of many arches Carew Apu'rravr o /. [from abut. The but ting or boundaries of any land. A writing declaring on what lands, highways or other places A it does abut Dié TMENT. 7 /. [from abur.] That whic abuts or borders upon another Arx'sm. .z fo [abyfime, old Fr. now writen contraltedly abime.] A gulf; th fame with adyf My good frars, that were my former guides Have empty left their orbs, and fhot their fire Into the abyfm of hell Shakefpeare's Anthony and Cleopatra ABY'ss. n. [. [abyfus, Lat tomlefs #8ves®- bot Gr. DMilton's Pm'n({iffi LO/?', [ 405 O teach me to believe thee thus conceal'd And fearch no farther than thyfelf reveal'd Dryden Jove was not more pleas' With infant nature, when his fpacious han Had rounded this huge ball of earth and fea To give it the firft puth, and fee it rol Addifon, Guard. Ne 110 The yawning earth difclos'd th" abyfs of hell Dryden's Virg. Georg. i 3 In a figurative fenfe, that in' which an thing is loft For fepulchres themfelves muft crumbling fall In time's abyfs, the common grave of all Dryden's Fuwenal Sat x If, difcovering how far we have clear and diftin ideas, we confine our thoughts within the contemplation of thofe things that are within the reach o our underftandings, and launch not out into tha abyfs of darknefs, out of a prefumption that nothing is beyond our comprehenfion Locke of water centre of the earth fuppofe a th We are here to confider what is generally underftood by the greatabyfs, in the common explicatio of the deluge; and 'tis commonly interpreted eithe to be the fea, or fubterraneous waters hid in th bowels of the earth Burnet's Theory 5. In the language of divines, hell From that infatiable zbyfs Where flames devour, and ferpents hifs Promote me to thy feat of blifs Ac, Ak, or AxE: Being initials in the names of places Rofcommon as Aon fignify an oak, from the Saxon ac, an oak Gibfon's Camden ACACIA. n./f. [Lat. I. A drag brought from Egypt, which being fuppofed the infpifiated juice of tree, is imitated by the juice of floes boiled to the fame confiftence Di&ionaire de Comm. Savary. Trevoux 2. A tree commonly fo called here, thoug different from that which produces th hi i o # t f e i u a o e m m Athene Oxonienfes, mentions a grea feaft made for the acadenrians Acapr'MicK, 7 /. [from academy.] A ftu dent of an univerfity A young academic fhall dwell upon a Joprna‘xfitha treats of trade, and be lavifh in the praife of th author; while perfons fkilled in thofe fubjeits hear the tattle with contempt Watts's Improvement of the Mind Re AcapE'MICK. adj. [academicus, Lat. lating to an univerfity While through poetic fcenes the genius roves Or wanders wild in academic groves Dunciad adj Acape'micar Lat. Belonging to an univerfity He drew him firft into the fatal circle, from kind of refolved privatenefs; where, after the aca n f [academicien Fr. The member of an academy It is generally ufed in {peaking of the profeflor in the academies of France Aca'pemist. # /. [from academy.] Th member of an academy This is no often ufed It is obferved by the Parifian academiffs, tha fome amphibious quadrupeds, particularly the feacalfor feal, hath his epiglottis extraordinarily large A'CADEMY. . /. [anciently, and properly, with the accent on the firft {yllable, now frequently on the fecond Academia, Lat. from Academus of Athens whofe houfe was turned into a fchool from whom the Growes of Academe i Milton. 1. An aflembly or fociety of men, unitin for the promotion of fome art Our court fhall be a little acadeny Still and contemplative in living arts Shakelpeare's Love's Labour Loft 2. The place where {ciences are taught Amongft the academics, which were compofed b the rare genius of thofe great men, thefe four ar reckoned as the principal; namely, the Athenia {chool, that of Sicyon, that of Rhodes, and tha of Corinth Dryden's Dufrefnsy 3. An univerfity 4. A place of education, in contradiftinction to the univerfities or public fchools 'The thing modern ACA'NTHUS the her and therefor the name 75 ACCE'LERATE. @ a. [acceler 1. To make quick, to haften, to quic motion; to give a continual impulf motion, {o as perpetually to inc Tak ne beer, an put in fome quanti ftale beer into it ; and fee whether it will n levate the clarification, by opening the hody beer, whereby the groffer parts may fall lees Bacon's Natural H_zflo;:y By a fkilful application of thofe noti gained the accelerating and bettering of fr the emptying of mines, at much more than by the common methods Glanville, If the ray? endeavour to recede from the depfe part of the vibration, they may be alternately lerated and retarded by the vibrations overtak them Newton's Opti tion of the blood b. ive L 481 [academicus has acceded to the treaty ; t become a party Spices quicken the pulfe, and accelerate the m Ray on the Creation z. A great depth, a gulf; hyperbolically bod 7. /. [from academy. academy or univerfity ; AcapeMmi'ciaN Thy throne is darknefs in th' abyfs of light A blaze of glory that forbids the fight 4. Th adj. [from academy.] Reacademy, belonging to a AcaDE'MIAL lating to a academy AcapE MIAN fcholar of a as I have heard him fay, that he could well hav bent his mind to a retired courfe Wotton ‘Who thall tempt with wand'ring fee The dark, unbottom'd, infinite abyfs And, through the palpable obfcure, find ou "L-his uncouth way the vaft abyfs Miller docacia, or Virginian acacia demical lite, he had taken fuch a tafte of the rural 1. A depth without bottom Alon w/ ; e r t o e e t a i a a tru i and diffipate the fluids ; fro whence leannefs, pains in the ftomach, l and fevers Arbuthnot on Aj Lo! from the dread immenfity of fpac Returning, with accelerated courfe "The rufhing comet to the fun defcends . Thomf. Sum. I 1690 2. It is generally applied to matter, an ufed chiefly in philofophical language but itisfometimes ufed on otheroccafion In which council the king himfelf, whofe cop tinual vigilancy did fuck in fometimes caufelef fufpicions, which few elfe knew, inclined to t accelerating a battle Bacon's Henry VI Perhaps it may point out to a ftudent now an then, what may employ the moft-ufeful labours o his thoughts, and accelerate his diligence in the moft momentous enquiries Accrrera'TION Watts, 7. /. [acceleratio, Lat 1. The a& of quickening motion The law of the acceleration of falling bodies, covered firft by Galileo, is, that the velacities acquired by falling, being as the time in which th body falls, the fpaces through which it paffes be as the fquares of the velocities, and the velocit and time taken together, as in a quadruplicat of the fpaces bears-breech The name o remarkabl fo being the model of the foliage on th Corinthian chapiter On either fid and each od'rous buthy fhrub Acantbus Fenc'd up the verdant wall Milt. Parad. Loft, b. iv. 1.696. Acaravrs'cric. s /; [araranilin®,Gr. A verfe which has the complete numbe of fyllables, without defe or fi uperfluity 70 ACCE'DE. . n. [accedo, Lat.] Tob added toy to come to; generally ufe rati z. The ftate of the body accelerated, o quickened in its motion g The degrees of acceleration of motion, the gravi tation of the air, the exiftence o non-exiftence o empty fpaces, either coacervate or interfperfed, and many the like, have taken up the thoughts an times of men in difputes concerning them ficwgy Hale's Origin of Mankimf- 3. The a& of haftening T Confidering the languor enfuing that attioni fome, and the vifible acceleration it maketh of.ag in moft, we cannot but think venery much abridgeth our days Brown Zo ACCE'ND. . a. [accendo, Lat.] T kindle, to fet on fire; a word ver rarely ufed Our devotion, if fufficiently accended, would, theirs bur up innumerable books of this fort »./. [Lat. D!Cd_}' ofP?@‘ Acce''NstoN. n /i [accenfio, Lat.] T a&t of kindling, or the ftate of bein kindled The fulminating damp will take fire at a candle or other flame and upon its accenfion, gives crack or report, like the difcharge of a gun, a makes an explofion {o forcible as fometimes o the mipers fhake the earth and force bodleSa_ 9 great weight and bulk, from the bottom of the pit or mine Woodward's Natural H‘!fl"fi? A'CCENT. a./. [accentus, Lat. 1. 'The manner of fpeaking or pronoufi cing, with regard either to force or € gance |