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Show TAR AR 2. The caufe of fear; a terrible object dreadful appearance You've doneenough; foryou défipn'd'imychains' The grace is vanifh'd, but'th' affront remains Dryden's Aurengzebe He that is found reafonable in one thing, is concluded to'be fo'in all'5. and to think or fay otherwife is thought (o ‘unjuft an ‘affront, and o fenfelefs 1 fee the god clean.sh data import.tsv out README . Upbraid our fuff'rings, and would humble them By fending thefe affrights, while we are here That we might laugh at their ridiculous fear B. Fonf. Catiline The war at hand appears with more affright, Andrifes ev'ry moment to the fight..Diyd. Eneid adj. [fro AFFRI'GHTRUL Full of affright or terrour - dreadful affright. terrible There is an abfence of all that is deftru&ive o affrightful to human nature Decay of Piety FFRI'GHTMENT. z /. [from affright. 1. The impreflion of fear ; terrour cenfure . ing Focke andtreating us like children or ideots Addifon Spectator No 512 3. Outrage'; af of contempt, in a mor general fenfe Oft have they violate The temple, oft the law with foul affionts Abominations rather Milton's Paradife Regained She awaked with the affrightment of a dream Wotton 4. Difgrace ; thame. This{enfe is rathe peculiar to the Scottifh dialett Paflionate words or blows from the tutor, fil the child's mind with terrour and affrightment - ‘Antonius attacked the pirates of Crete, and, b his too great prefumption, was defeated 5 upon th which immediately takes it wholly up, and leave 10 room for other impreffion Locke ‘2, The ftate of fearfulnefs Whethe mind thof that unde an anguit return to affrightments or doubtings not been hypocrites 92 AFFRO'NT o hav Hanmond fenfe of which affiont he died with grief Arbuthnot onp Coins ArFrO'NTER. 7 /. [from afront. perfon that affronts AFFRO'NTING @. a. [affronter, Fr. tha mee fac to face t We have clofely fent for Hamlet hither That he, as "twere by accident Affron may her Shakelpeare's Hamlet Ophelia The feditious, the nextday, affronted theking' forces at the entrance of a highway ; whom when they found both ready and refolute to fight, the defired enterparlance Sir Fobn Hayward 2. To meet in an hoftile manner, fron to front His holy rites and folemn feafts profan'd And with their darknefs durft affrons his light Paradife Loft 3. To offer an open infult; to offen avowedly With refpeét to this fenfe it is obferved by Cervantes, that, if man {trikes another on the back, an then runs away, the perfon fo firuck i w injured, but not afronted 5 an affiont al ways implying a juftification of the act Did not this fatal war affront thy coaft Yet fatteft thou an idle looker-on Fairfax,i. 51 But harm precedes not fin, only our foe Tempting affronts us with his foul eftee Of our integrity Milton's Paradife Lof, b. ix T would learn the caufe, why Torcifmond Within my palace walls, within my hearing Almoft within my fight, affronts a prince Wh fhortly fhall comman fome ‘are kind, others are affronting and reproachfal, becaufe of the fecondary idea which cufto encounter This feems the genuine and origina fenfe of the word, which was formerly indifferent to good or ill him Dryden's Spanifb Friar This brings to mind Fauftina's fondnefs for th gladiator, and is interpreted as fatire. But ho can oneimagine, that the Fathers would have dare to affront the wife of Aurelius Addifon A¥FRO'NT. 2./ [from the verb affiont. 1. Open oppofition ; encounter: a fenf not frequent, though regularly deducible from the derivation Fearlefs of danger, likea petty go T walk'd about admir' of all, " and dreade + On hoftile ground, ‘none daring my affront Samfon Agoniftes 2. Infult offered to the face ;. contemptuous or rude treatment ; contumely He would often maintain‘Plantianus,, in doin © uffronts to hisfon Bagon's Effays. [from:af Among words which fignify the fame principa ideas, fome are clean and decent, others unclean face. 1. T participial adj Th JSromt. 'That which has the quality o aftronting; contumelious is, ad frontem flare; -ad fromtem contumeliam allidere, to infult a man to hi that nobody ventures to do it There'is nothing which we receive with fo muc reluétance as'advice : 'we look upon the man wh _givesit us, asoffering an affeont to our underftand s A F has-affixed to them 7 AFFUSE Lat. Watts's Logick . a Laffundo affufum To pour one thing upon another I:poure acid liquors any volatil fal to try if they containe or fpirit, whic have difcovered itfelf with the affufed liquor b woul makin probabl an ebullitio Boyle Arvru'sion. n /. [affufie, Lat. Thea "of pouring one thing upon another Upon the affitfion of a tinture of galls, it immediately became as black asink. Grewo's Mufzun To AFFY". w. a. [affer, Fr. affidare mulerem, Braton. To betroth in orde to marriage Wedded be thou to the hags of hell For daring to affy a mighty Tor Unto the daughter of a worthlefs king Shakefpeare's Henry V1 7o Arry'. @w. n. To put confidence in to put truft in; toconfide. Notinufe Marcus Andronicus foI doaff In thy uprightnefs and integrity That I will heredifmifs my loving friends Shakefp. Titus Andr A¥1'ELD Fienp. adv [fro o and fie/d Se To the field IMifton Afield T went, amid the morning dew To milk my kine, for fo fhould houfewives do Frar. adv. [fro a and faz Gay Sc Level with the ground ‘When you would have many new roots of fruittrees, take a low tree, and bow it, and lay all hi branches affat upon the ground, and caft eart upon them ; and every twig will take root Bacon's Natural Hiflory AFLO'AT adv [fro a dand float Se Floating ;. born up in th Froat. water; -not finking: in a. figurativ fenfe, within view ; in motion There is a tide in the affalrs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune Omitted, all the voyage of their lif 1s bound in thallows and in miferies ~ On fuch-a full fea are'we now affia Or lofe our ventures, Skakefpeare's Fulius Cofar Talce any paffion of the foul of man, while it is predominant and afloat, and, juft in the critica height of it, sick'it with fome lucky or unluck word an yo may.a certainl over-rule it t your own purpofe, as a fpark of fire, falling upo gunpowder, will infallibly blow it up South There are generally feveyal hundred loadsof tim "ber affoat, for they cut above twenty-five league up the river ; and other rivers bring in their contributions Addifor's Italy Aro'ot. adv [from aand foor. 1. On foot ; not on horfeback He thought it beft to return, for that day; to village not far off; and difpatching his horfe i fom ther. fort, the next day early, to come afaof thi Shakefpeare 2. In altion5 as, a defignis afoot I prythee, when thou feeft that ack afuot Ev'n with the very comment of thy fou Obferve mine uncle Shakefpeare 3. In motion Of Albany's and Cornwall' 10 tr *Tis faid they are afoot pow'rs you hear Shakefpeare's King Lear Aro'rE. prep. [from a and fore FORE. 1. Not behind 5 as afore : notin ufe h See Be held th fhiel 2. Before ; nearer in ‘place to any thing as, he ftood afore him 3. Sooner in time If your diligence be not fpeedy, I fhall be ther afore you Shake[peare's King Lear AFo'RE adv A i. In time foregone or paft Whofoever thould make light of any thing afir fpoke or written out of his ow houf a tre fhould be taken, and he thereon be hanged Efdras, vi. 22 If he never drank wine afore, it will go neat t remove his fit Shake[peare's Tempeft 2. Firftin the way A milia run you to the citadel And tell my lord-and lady what hath hap' Will you go on afore Shakefpeare's Othello 3. In front ; in the fore-part Approaching nigh Iis body monftrous he reared high afor horrible; and vaft. Fuiry 9 Aro'rEcOING. participial adj. [from afor and going] Going before A¥o'rREHAND. adv. [from afore and band. 1. By a previous provifion Many of the particular fubje&s of difcourfg ar occafional, and fuch as cannot aforeband be reduced to any certain account Government of the Tongue We drove afield; and both together hear What time the grey fly winds her fultry horn Batt'ning our flocks with the frefh dews of night Arra'r And we muft take the cutrent when it ferves, z. Provided ; prepared ; previoufly fitted Fo that in the former times, it will be faid whereof we have {poken, Spain was not fo might as now it is; and England, on the other fide, wa more afvreband in all matters of power Bacon's Confiderations on War wwith Spain adj AFO'REMENTIONED [fro afor ~Mentioned before and mentioned. Among the nine other parts, five are not in condition to give alms or relief to thofe\aforementioned; being very near reduced themfelves to th Addifon fame miferable condition adj. [fro Aro'rrnaMED named.] Named before eofore an Imitate fomething of circular form, in which as in-all other aforemamed proportions, you fhal help yousfelf by the diameter 8 Peacham on Drawing AFo'RESAID. adj Said before It nee not go' for repetition again that whic ment G [from afere and faid: w fai i if we refum the a_/'ort_,fa::{ experi Bacen's' Natural Hifforys N"}?? 1 AFO'RE |