OCR Text |
Show BACR G pacty more than the other, according 28 he think the bef k promote the good of church and ftate tion Shakefp. Meafure for Meaf Whoever is fo affured of the authority and fenf fcripture, as to believe the doétrine of it, an ive accordingly, fhall be faved Tillotfon's Preface Mealy fubftances, fermented, turn four. Accerdingly, given to a weak child, they fill retai their nature; for bread will give them the cholic Arbutbnot on Aliments g9 ACCO'ST. . a. [accofter, Fr.] T fpeak to firft; to addrefs ; to falute Yo miftake knight: ‘accoft her, front her board her, woo her, affail her Shakefpeare's Tawelfth Night At length, colle&ing all his ferpent wiles With foothing words renew'd, him thus accoffs Parad, Reg I firft accoffed him @ I fu'd, I fought And, with a loving force, to Pheneus brought Dryd. Aneid Acco'sTABLE. adj. [from accoft.] Eafy o accefs ; familiar., Not in ufe They were both indubitable, ftrong, and high :r[o;;; There is fuch a peculiarity in Homer's manne of apoftrophizing Eumzeus : it is generally applied by that poet, only to men of account and diftinc A As the acions of men are of fundry diftin kinds, fo the laws thereof muft accordingly be difHookery b. i tinguifhed Sirrah, thou'rt faid to have a ftubborn foul That apprehends no further than this world And fquarft thy life accordingly 5. Diftin&ion, dignity, rank Swift's Church of England Man r c a r [ v a Acco greeably, fuitably, conformably minded men, yet of fweet and accoffable nature almoft equally delighting in the prefs and affluenc of dependents and fuitors Wotton ACCOUNT, 2. /. [from the old Frenc ® accompt, from computus, Lat. it was originally written accompt, which fee ; but by gradually foftening the pronunciation, in time the orthography change to account. 1. A computation of debts or expences ; regifter of faéts relating to money At many times I brought in my accounts Laid them before you; you would throw them off And fay you found them in mine honefty Shakefps Timon When my young mafter has once got the fkil of keeping accounts (which is a bufinefs of reafo more than arithmetic) perhaps it will not be amifs that his father from thenceforth require him to d Locke on Educ it in all his concernments 6 lue of a thing equal to what it was accounted Confidering the ufual motives of human aéions which are pleafure, profit, and ambition, I canno yet comprehend how thofe perfons find their accoun in any of the three Savift 7 A reckoning referred to, or fum charg ed upo an thence, figuratively, regard; confideration ; fake If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee aught put that on my account Philemon, vs 8 This muft be always remembered, that nothin can come into the account of recreation, that is no done with delight Locke on Education, § 197 In matters where his judgment led him to oppofe men on a public account, he would do it vigoroufly and heartily Atterbury's Sermons The afiertion is our Saviour's, though uttere by him in the perfon of Abraham the father of th faithful; who, on the account of that charaer, i very fitly introduced Atterbury Thefe tribunes kindled great diffenfions betwee the nobles and the commons, on the account of Coriolanus, a nobleman, whom the latter had im ‘peached Savift's Contefts in Athens and Rome Nothing can recommend itfelf to our love, o any other account, but either as it promotes ou prefent, or is a means to affure to us a future happinefs Rogers's Sermon v Sempronius gives no thanks on this account 8. narrative Addifon's Cato relation in this ufe i may feem to be derived from conze, Fr a tale, a narration 9. The review or examination of an affai taken by authority ; as, the magiftrat took an account of the tumult Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likene unto a certain king, which would take account o his fervants; and when he had begun to reckon one was brought unto him, which owed him te thoufand talents Mart. xix. 23, 24 10. The relation and reafons of a tranfac tion given to a perfon in authority. ‘What need we fear who know can call our power to account The true groun it, whe non Shakefpeare's Macbheth of morality can only be th has in his hands rewards and punithments, an power enough to call to account the proudeft offen 2 Maccab. xv. 18 That good affe&ion, which things of fmaller account have once fet on work, is by fo much th more eafily raifed higher Hookery b ve § 35 I fhould make more account of their judgment i i' perfon Behold this have I found, faith the Preacher counting one by one, to find out the account Ecclefiafticusy viie 27 their children, their brethren and kinsfolks, wa in leaft account with them: but the greateft an principal fear was for the holy temple particula will and law of a God wh For the care that they took for their wives an ufifl JHUF an as, the account ftands thus between us 3. Such a ftate of perfons or things, as'ma make them more or lefs worthy of bein confidered in the reckoning Value, o eftimation f??"i," Pope's Odyffey 5 notes A reCkOlfil‘lg verified by finding the va 2. The fate or refult of 2 computation who are men of fenfe, and yet have never touche a pencil, than of the opinion given by the greatef part of painters Dryden's Dufiefn 4. Profit; advantage ; to turn to accoun 1s to produce advantage We would eftablith our fouls in fuch a folid an fubftantial virtue, as will turn to account in tha great day, when it muft ffand the teft of infinit wifdom and juftic . Add. Spect, No 399 fees men in the dark der Locke 11. Explanation; aflignment of caufes It is eafy to give account, how it comes to pafs that though all men defire happinefs, yet their will carry them fo contrarily Locke It being, in our author's account, a right acquire by begetting, to rule over thofe he had begotten, i was no a power pofiible to be inherited becauf the right, being confequent to, and built on, an a perfeétly perfonal mad that powe fo too an Locke impoffible to be inherited 12. An opinion previoufly eftablifhed Thefe were defigned to join with the forces a of flat-bottome fea, there being prepared a numbe boats to tranfport the land forces under the win of the great navy: for they made no account, bu that the navy fhould be abfolutely mafter of th feas Bacon's Confiderations on War wvith Spain A prodigal young fellow, that had fold hi clothes, upon the fight of a {wallow, made accoun that fummer was at hand, and away went his thir t00 L'Eflrange, Fab. cxxvii 13. The reafons of any thing colle¢ted Being copvinced upon all accounts that the had the fame reafon to believe the hiftory of sa Saviour, as that of any other perfon to which the themfelves were not actually eye-witnefles, the were bound, by all the rules of hiftorical faith, an of right reafon, to give credit to this hiftory Addifon. 14. In law Account 1s, in the commo law, taken for a wri or action brought againft a man, that, by means o office or bufinefs undertaken, is to render an ar court unto another 5 as a bailiff toward his mafter 2 guardian to his ward Coqwell To Acco'unT. v. a. [See ACCOUNT. 1. To eftecem, to think, to hold in opinion ‘That alfowas accounteda land of giants Dent 2. To reckon, to compute Neithe th motio o th moon whereb months are computed, nor the fun, whereby year are accounted, confifteth of whole nv mbers Brown's Vulgor Errours 3. Toaflign to, as a debt ; with the particle z0 For fome years really accrued the yearly fum o two hundred thoufand pounds to the king's coffer and it was, in truth, the only projeét that was accounted to his own fervice Clarendon 4. To hold in efteem ; with of Silver was nothing accointed of in the days o Solomox Chrett o Acco'UNT I Toirecko Th an v. st calenda month fettle uncquall b are lilzewife arbitraril th b power fam which months we, to this day, gccount and the meafure and make up, that which we call the Julian year Holder on Time 2. Togivea account, to aflign the caufes in which fenfe it is followed by the particle for If any one fhould afk, why our general continued {o ealy to the laft ? I know no othe account for it, but by that unmeafurabl wealth, which his beft friends allow to b dominant paffion way t love o his pre Sevift 3. To make up the reckoning ; to anfwer with for Then thou fhalt fee him plung'd, when leaft h fears At once accounting for his deep arrears Dryd. Fuv. Sat. xiif They have no uneafy prefages ofa future reclon ing, wherein the pleafures they now tafte muft b accounted for; and may, perhaps, be outweighe by the paing which fhall then lay hold of them Atterbuiy's Sermons 4. To appear as the medium any thing may be explained by whic Such as have a faulty circulation through th lungs, ought to eat very little at a-time; becauf the increafe of the quantity of frefh chyle muf make that circulation ftill more uneafy; which indeed, is the cafe'of confumptive and fome afth matic perfons, and accounts for the {fymptoms the are troubled with after eating Arbuthnot on Aliments Acco'uNTABLE. adj. [from account.] O whom an account may be required ; wh muft anfwer for : followed by the particle z0 before the perfon, and for before the thing, Accountable to none But to my confcience and my God alone Qldhamn Thinking themfelves excufed from ftandin upon their own legs, or being accountabl for thei own condué, they very feldom trouble themfelve Locke on Education with enquiries The good magiftrate will make no diftinétion for the judgment is God's ; and he will look upo himfelf as accauntable at his bar for the equity o Arterbury's Sermons it Acgou'NTANT. adj, [from account. Ac countabl |