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Show AS AS After fome days fiege, he refolved to try th fortune of an affau/t: he fucceeded therein fo far that he had taken the principal tower and fort Bacon 3. Hotftile violence ‘With horrible affau/t and fury fell Fairy Queen 4. Invafion; hoftility ; attack After fome unhappy affauits upon the prerogativ by the parliament, which produced its diffolution there followed a compofure Clarendon ‘Theories, built upon narrow foundations, are very-hard' to be fupported againft the affau/ts of oppofition Locke 5. Inlaw A violent kind of injury offered to a man's perfon. It may b committed by offering of a blow, or b a fearful fpeech Cowell 6. It has upon before the thing affaulted o Assa'uLT. v, . [from the noun.] T violence to fall upo wit ‘The king granted the Jews to gather themfelve together, and to ftand: for their life, to deftroy al the power that would gffan/t them. Ejth. viil. 11 Before the gates the cries of babes new-born Whom fate had. from their tender mothers torn Dryden Affault his ears New curfed {teel, and more accurfed gold Whom thus affli¢ted when fad Eve beheld Defolate where fhe fat, approaching nigh 3. To try; to endeavour Andicruel combat join'd in middle fpace to invade ing metals Soft words to his fierce pafiion the affay'ds Milton Themfelves at difcord fell attack i t 2. 'To apply to, a Cave mifchief birth, and'made that mifchief bold And double death did wretched man invade By fteel affauited, and by gold betray'd Dryden Assa'UnTER. #. [ [from afault. who violently affaults another On David girded his fword upon his armour, an he affaged to go, for he had not proved it 1 Sams xvil. 39 An office Assa"YER. 7. /. [from afzy. of the mint, for the due trial of filver appointed between the mafter of th mint and the merchants that brin Coavell filver thither for exchange The fmelters come up to the affayers within on Woodwward on Foffils in twenty AssecTa'TioN., n. [. [affeiatio, Lat. Di& Attendance, or waiting upon Assecu'TioN. . /. [from affequor, affecutum, to obtain. Acquirement; th a& of obtaining By the canon law, a perfon, after he has bee in full poflefiton of a fecond benefice, cannot re turn again to his firft; becaufe it is immediatel void by his affécution of a fecond. Ayliffe's Parer ASsSE'MBLAGE. n. /. [affemblage, Fr. 1. A colle®ion; a number of individual ing to the found, and the latter ¢fzy according to the writing ; but the {enfe now differing, they may be confidere as two words. 1. Examination ; trial This cannot b By no afl;‘zy of reafon °Tis a pageant To keep us in falfe gaze Shakefpeare. 2: In law. 'The examination of meafure and weights ufed by the clerk of th market Coavell 3. The firft entrance upon any thing; tafte for trig For well he weened, that fo glorious bai Would tempt his gueft to take thereof affzy Fairy Queen 4. 'Trial by danger or diftrefs ; difficulty hardfhip She heard with patience all unto the end And ftrove to mafter forrowful affay Fairy Qqem The men he preft but late To hard affays unfit, unfure at need Yet arm'd to point in well attempted plate. Fairf Be f{ure to fin "What I foretel thee, many a hard affa ©Of dangers, and adverfities, and pains To Assa'Y. v. a. [effayer, Fr. 1. To make trial of; to make experimen of One that to bounty never caft his mind Ne thought of honour ever did afla His bafer breaft Spenfer Gray and Bryan obtained leave of the general little to affay them; and fo with fome horfeme charged them home Hayward. ‘What unweighed behaviour hath this drunkar picked o 't of my converfation, that he dares i this man :» affay me O Hartford, fitted or to fhine in court With unaffected grace, or walk the plain Thorfon To ASSE'MBLE. w. a. [afembler, Fr. To bring together into one place. It i ufed both of perfons and things And he thall fet up an enfign for the nations and fhall affimble the outcafts of Ifracl, and gather together the difperfed of Judah. Ifaiab, xi. 12 He wonders for what end you have affimble Such troops of citizens to come to him Shake/p 7o AssE'MBLE. w.n 'To meet together Thefe men affémbled, and found Daniel praying Daniel A com Asse"MBLY. 7. [. [afemblée, Fr. pany met together ‘They had heard, by fame Of this fo noble and fo fair affimbly This night to meet here Asse'NT. n. f. [affenfus, Lat. Shakefpeare 1. The a& of agreeing to any thing Without the king's a/fént or knowledge You wrought to be a legate. Shakefp. Hen, VIII Faith is the affent to any propofition, not thu made out by the dedution of reafon, but upo the credit of the propofer Locke All the arguments on both fides muft be lai in balance, and, upon the whole, the underftand 2. Confent Milton Shakefpeare Compliance with the opinion of anothe out of flattery or diffimulation Di Asst'NTMENT. 7. /. [fom afeus] Con fent Their arguments are but precarjous, upon the charity of our ag'ntmems' A rown's Vulga;g To ASSERT. . a. [afers, Lar 1. T maintain words or actions You t defen either forefathers have afferted th Logke agreement To urge any thing upon the church, requirin thereunto that religious affent of chriftian belief wherewith the words of the holy prophets are received, and not to fhew it in fcripture the Fathers evermore thin this di unlawful, impious and execrable Hooker The evidence of God's own teffimony, adde unto the natural affint of reafon concerning th certainty of them, doth not a- little comfort an confirm the fame To ASSE'NT. v, n. [affentire, Lat. concede ; to yield to, or agree to Haoker T And the Jews alfp affintedy faying, that thef things weag Q par they chofe till death, and died for its.gcf:x}x,cfih Dryd 2. To affirm ; to declare pofitively. 3. To claim; to vindicate a title to Nor can the groveling. mind In the dark dungeon of the limbs confin'd Affert the native fkies, or own its heav'nly kind AsSE'RTION. z. /. [from affirt. 1. The a& of afferting 2. Pofition advanced no Drydu e If any affirm the earth doth move, and yj hat believe wit probabl us it ftandeth ftill, becaufh reafons for ity and I no infallibl fenfe or reafo againft it, I will not quarre] wit his affertion Brown's Pulgar Erray He was not {o fond of the principles he under too to illuftrate Asse'RTOR as to boaf their Certainty z. /. [from afrt. Main tainer; vindicator ; fupporter; affirmer ing determine its affenz Ere thou of Ifrael's fceptre get fatk hold propofing them not in a confident and affertiv form, but as probabilities and hypothefes. Glanv ‘With innocence and meditation join' In foft a/femblage, liften to my fong accord All that we amafs together in our thoughts i pofitive, and the affemblage of a great number o pofitive ideas of fpace or duration Locke n. /. [¢faye, Fr. from which th writers borrowed affzy /. [aflontatiy, Lat Asse'RTIVE, adj. [from affert.] Pofitive dogmatical ; peremptory 2. The ftate of being affembled ancien brought together. It differs from a/Jembly, by being applied only, or chiefly to things; afembly being ufed only, o generally, of perfons Neither liking their eloquence, nor fearing thei might, we efteemed few fwords, in a juft defence - able to refift many unjuft affaulters Sidney ASSA'Y AsSENTA'TION. n Aéts, xxive 9 Among th' gffertors of free reafon's claim Qur nation's not the leaft in wor or fa he, Dryd Faithful affertor of thy country's caufe Britain with tears fhall bathe thy glorious wound Priore It is an ufual piece of art to undermine th authority of fundamental truths, by pretending t fhew how weak the proofs are, which their affirtor employ in defence of them 7o Asse''RVE Atterbuirys w. a. [afervio, Lat], T ferve, help, or fecond i Zo ASSE'SS. @. a. [from affeffare; I to make an equilibrium, or balance.] To charge with any certain fum Before the receipt of them in this. officey they were affeffed by the affidavit from the time of the inquifition found Bagors Assg'ss1on. n. /. [affeffio, Lat.] A fitting do. wn by one, to give affiftance or ad< vice - "Did AsSE'SSMENT. m /. [from To affefs. 1. The fum levied on certain propertys 2. 'The act of aflefling Wha greate immunit and happinefs" can there be to a people, than to be liable to no faws but what they make themfelves to n contribution gfféffinent To be fubjeft or any pecuniary levy whatfoever, but what they vote, and voluntaz rily ,yield unto themfelves ? Howdr Asse'ssor. n. /. [affeffor, Lat. 1. The perfon that fits by another; gé nerally ufed of thofe who aff the ju f ges Minos, the ftri¢t inquifitor, appears And lives and crimes, with his gffiffars, hears Roun in his urn the blended. balls he rowls Abfclves the juft, and dooms the guilty fouls Drydetin z. He that fits by another as next in dig mty. To his Son, Th' affefor of his throne, he thus began Mikone Twice ftronger than his fire, who fataboves Affeffer to the throne of thund'ring Jove: f'ifié |
