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Show A AL t a i t g o b o w 8ir Ifaac N s u i n c i f i i w a the heigh Perhaps he will fivagger and hefor, and threate to beat and butcher an alewife, or take the good by force, and throw them down the bad halfpence Savift's Dyaper's Letters A'LEXANDERS 2. f [fmyrnium from the French, firft ufed i a poem called Alexander. 'T'hey confift among the French, of twelve and thirteen {yllables, in alternate couplets and, among us, of twelve Ou number fhould fo th .] fl: n o o p r v n i q r l r It would f n p n n o c e e f d t c d r t in afgebra Swift in thirty fhillings Lat. The name of a plant A'rexanper's-rooT. # /. The nam of an herb AvLexa'NDRINE. 7 /i A kind of verf borrowe Tyewoux. Chambers mof part adj. [from algebra. AI,GL;BRA'ICK ALGEBRA'ICAL c a b g a a a a b g a t n t l 1. R treatife a o n i a e o n n 2. Conta an algebraical computation a b g a r [ / 7 ALGEBRA t f t a p o n t r d u a t o per {cience of algebra b I whomfoever thefe things ate, the chg doth acknowledge them for her childrm', the only fhe holdeth for aliens and fivangers iywhor thefe things are not found If it be prov'd againft an aljen He feeks the life of any citizen ke "The party, *gainft the which h doth contrive Shall feize on half his goods Shakefpe Merch, o V The mere Irifh were not onzlsy accountég IZ}"Z;: but enemies, o as it was no capital offence to Ljj them Sir Fobn Dawies oy Trelard Thy place in council thou haft rudely log Which by thy younger brother is fupply'd And art almoft an alien to the heart Of all the court and princes of my blood Th Shakefp the perfons, ‘£01;: lawgiver condemne idle in divifions dangerous to the government, aliens to the community, and therefore to be ¢ For variety, or rather where the majeft lyrical of thought requires it, they may be ftretched t the Englifh heroic of five feet, and to the Frenc Alexandrine of fix Dryden Then, at the laft and only couplet, fraugh ‘With fome unmeaning thing they call a thought ‘When any dead body is found In England t u . r m uf c e e p c u o f no algebra fuppofitions, to find the demonftration or cipher than every unconcerned perfon doth to find i Graunt's Bills of Mortality A needlefls Alexandrine ends the fong That, like a wounded fnake, drags its flow lengt An alien is one born in a ftrange country, an never enfranchifed. A man born out of the land lytick methods of geometricians and algebraifts they have too much narrowed the rules o.f method as though every thing were to be treated in matl:xe fo it be within the limits beyond the feas, or o Englifh parents out of the king's obedience, the parents, at the time of the birth, be of th murderers Confining themfelves to the fynthetick and ana Pope's lz[]&y on Criticifm along Avexiraa'rmick, adj. [from areééw an Tha @coparov oppofe that whic poifon ; antidotal awa drive whic infection Some antidotal quality it may have, fince no only the bone in the heart, but the horn of deer is alexipharmick Brown's Vulgar Errours ALEXITE RICAL, Or ALEXITE RICK. adj [from aaeZéw.] That which drives awa poifon ; that which refifts fevers A'LcATES. adv. [from &/l and gate ner Gate is the fam as wiz Skin and ftil ufed for away in the Scottifh dialet.] O eny terms; every way: now obfolete Nor had the boafter ever rifen more But that Renaldo's horfe ev'n then down fell And with the fall his leg opprefs'd fo fore That, for a fpace, there muft he algates dwell Fairfax A'LGEBRA 7. [an Arabi word of uncertain etymology ; derived, by fome from Geber the philofopher; by fome from gefr, parchment ; by others, fro algehifta, a bonefetter ; by Menage, fro algiabarat, the reftitution of things broken.] A peculiar kind of arithmetick . which takes the quantity fought, whe ther it be a number or a line, or an other quantity, as if it were granted 2nd, by means of one or more quantitiss given, proceeds by confequence till the quantity at firft only fuppofed t be known, or at leaft fome power there of, is found to be equal to fome quantit or quantities which are known, and con{equently itfelf is known. This art wa in ufe among the Arabs, long befor A'LGID. adj. [algidus, Lat.] Cold; chill Avrci'ric. adj. [from algor, Lat. which produces cold A'LGOR. . /. [Lat.] Extrem 1494, Luca Burgos thirtee Pacciolus a cordelier books 1I or Luca de printe a treatif of algebra, in Italian, at Venice {ays, that algebr came originall H fro the Arabs. After feveral improvement by Vieta, Oughtrecl,6 Harriot, Defcartes 'Tha Dia cold Disg chilnefs Arabic n. J A'LGORISM words which are ufed to imA‘LGcoRITHM ply the fix operations of arithmetick, o the {cience of numbers Diza ALco'sE. adj. [from algor, Lat.] Extremely cold; chill Dig A'LIAS,* adv. A Latin word, fignifyin otherwife; often ufed in the trials o criminals, whofe danger has oblige them to change their names ; as, Sim fon, alias Smith, alias Baker; that is otheravife Smith, ptheravife Baker A'LiBLE. adj. [alibilis, Lat.] Nutritive nourithing ; or that which may be nourifhed A'LIEN Di& adj [alienus, Lat. 1. Foreign, or not of the fame family o land The mother plant admires the leaves unknow Of alien trees, and apples not her own Dryden From native foi Exil'd by fate, torn from the tender embrac Of his young guiltlefs progeny, he feek Inglorious fhelter in an a/icn land Philips 2. Eftranged from ; not allied to; adverfe to: with the particle fiom, an fometimes #o, but improperly To declare my.mind to the difciples of th fire, by a fimilitude not alien from their profeflion Th fentimen tha arifes Boyle is a conviGio o the deplorable ftate of nature, to which fin reduced us; a weak, ignorant creature, alien Sro God and goodnefs, and -a prey to the great deftroyer Rogers's Sermons They encouraged perfons and principles, alie J7om our religion and government, in order t ftrengthen their facion Sawift's Mifcellanjes the Indians. The firft Greek author o algebra was Diophantus, who, about th wrot Dié ChilDié nefs; cold A'LGIDNESS from the Perfians, and the Perfians fro 8oc Q7. f [from algid Avrci'piTy it came into this part of the world ; an they are fuppofed to have borrowed i yea Watts's Log.zck matical forms A'LIEN 1 7. f foreigner [alienus, Lat. no a denifon a ma of another country or family; ong no allicd; a franger off from it Addifon, Freeholdsy 2. In law king's obedience is not alien If one, born ou of the king's allegiance, come and dwell in Eng land, his children (if he beget any here) are no aliens, but denifons Cowell 7o A'L1EN, v. a. [aliener, Fr. alien, Lat 1. T'o make any thing the property of an other If the fon alien lands, and then repurchafe the again in fee, the rules of defcents are to be ob ferved, as if he were the original purchafer Hgle's Hiftory of Common Lauy 2. Toeftrange ; to turn the mind or affec tion ; to make averfe : with from The king wa difquicted whe he found tha the prince was totally aliened from all thoughts of or inclination to, the marriage Clarendon A'LIENABLE. adj. [from To glienats. That of which the property may b transferred Land is alienable, and treafure is tranfitory, an both muft pafs from him, by his own voluntar aét, or by the violence of others, or at leaft by fate To A'LIENATE Dennis's Letters @. a. [aliener, Fr. alien Lat. 1. To transfer the property of any thin to another The countries of the Turks were once Chriftiz and members of the church, and where the golde candlefticks did ftand, though now they he utterl alienated, and no Chriftians left Bago 2. To withdra the heart or affetions with the particle from, where the fir poileflor is mentioned The manner of men's writing muft not alienat our hearts from the truth Hookar Be it never {o true which we teach the world t believe, yet if once their affections begin fo b alienated, a fmall thing perfuadeth them to chang their opinions His eyes furvey'd the dark idolatrie Of alienated Judah Hooker' " Milton's Parad. Loff Any thing that is apt to difturb the world, an to alienate the affeciions of men fiom one another fuch as crofs and diftafteful humours, is either ex prefsly, or by clear confequence and deduction, for bidden in the New Teftament Tillotfon Her mind was quite alienated from the honef Caftilian, whom fhe was taught to look upon as formal old fellow Addifor ALIENATE, adj. [alienatus, Lat.] Wit drawn from ;" ftranger to: with the par ticle from The Whigs are damnably wicked; impatient fo the death of the gueen roady to gratify thiti ambitio |