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Show Norris ly, 3.-The thing fuppofed; a poftulate o Rl ,1;‘:""4) Hold, fays the Stoick, your affumption's wrong I grant, true faeedom you have well defin'd, Dryd For the affumption, that Chrift did fuch miraculous and fupernatural works to confirm what h faid, we need only repeat the meffage fent by hi to John the Baptift South 4 4. Thetaking up any perfon into heaven which is fuppofed by the Romifh churc of the Blefled Virgin » Upon the fealt of the affumption of the Blefle Virgin, the pope and cardinals keep the vefpers Stilling fleet Adam, after a certain period of years, woul have been rewarded with an affumption to eterna felicity Wake o AssU'MPTIVE. adj. [afumptivus That is afflumed % Assu'RANCE. z. /. [affurance, Fr. clean.sh data import.tsv out README 1. Certain expeétation Lat. 2 Tillotfon Secure confidence ; truft ‘What man is he that boafts of flefhly might And vain gffurance of mortality ‘Which all {o foon as it doth come to figh Againft {piritual foes, yieldsby and by Fairy 2 . 3. Freedo fro ledge doubt certai know Proof from the authority of man's judgment, i not able to work that affurance, which doth gro by a ftronger proof Hooker *Tis far off And rather like a dream, than an gffuranc Thatmy remembrance warrants Shak. Tempeft The obedient, and the man of practice, fhal 3 ( outgrow all their doubts and ignorances, till perfuafion pafs into knowledge, and knowledge advance into affiurance South Hath he found, in an evil courfe, that comfortable affurance of God's favour, and good hopes o clean.sh data import.tsv out README his futare condition, which a religious life woul have given him Tillotfon I 4. Firmnefs; undoubting fteadinefs Men whofe confideration will relieve our modefty, and give us courage and a/firance in the duties of our profeffion Rogers 5. Confidence; want of modefty ; exemption from awe or fear My behaviour, ill governed, gave you the firf comfort; my affefion, ill hid, hath given yo . this laft a/ffarance Sidney i/ 6. Freedom from vitious thame Converfation, when they come into the world will add to their knowledge and affirance Lacke 7- Ground of confidence; fecurity; fufficient reafon for truft or belief The nature of defire itfeif is no eafier to receiv belief, than it is hard to ground belief'; for as defire is glad to embrace the firft thew of comfort 1o is defire defirous of perfet a/furance Sidney As the conqueft was but flight and fuperficial {o the pope's donation to the Irifh fubmifiions wer but weak and fickle affurances. Dawies on Ireland - A None of woman bor Shall harm Macbethi- =-Then live, Macduff, what need I fear of thee But yet I'll make affurance double fure An take a bond of fate : thou fhalt not live Shakefpeare 1 muft confefs your offer is the beft And, let your father make her the affurance She is your own, elfe you muit pardon me They like refolut men ftood in the face o the breach with more affirance than the wall itfelf Knolles With all th' affirance innocence can bring Fearlefs without, becaufe fecure within Arm'd with my courage, unconcern'd I fe "This pomp, a fhame to you, a pride to me. Dryd 9. Sanguinenefs ; readinefs to hope This is not the grace of hope, but a good natural gffurance or confidence, which Ariftotle obferve young men to be full of, and old men not fo in clined to Hammond 10. Teftimony of credit I am a gentleman of blood and breeding And, from fome knowledge and ajfurance of you Offer this office Shakefpeare's King Lear We have as great affurance that there is a God as we could expect to have, fuppofingthat he were ‘11 Though hope be, indeed, a lower and leffe thing than affiurance, yet, as to all the purpofes of life, it may prove more ufeful South ‘What encouragement can be given to goodnefs beyond the hopes of heaven; and the affurance of a iy - endlefs felicity 8. Spirit; intrepidity. Tillotfon Conviétion Such an affurance of things as will make me careful to avoid a lefler danger, ought to awake men to avoid a greater Tillotfon 12. [In theology.] Security with refpe to a future flate; certainty of acceptance with God 13. The fame with zzfurance. See InsuRANCE To Assu'RE. w. a. [affeurer, Fr. from a/Jecurare, low Latin. 1. Togive confidence by a firm promife So when he had affired them with many word that he would reftore them withou hurt accord him his worfhip South Assu'REDNESs. 7 /. [from affured.] Th ftate of being affured ; certainty Assu'RER, #./. [from affure. 1. He that gives aflurance z. He that gives fecurity to make goo any lofs 7o ASSWA'GE See ASSUAGE A'STER1SK. 7. /. [aregion®-.] A mark i printing or writing, in form of a littl ftar as clean.sh data import.tsv out README He alfo publifhed the tranflation of the Septuagint by itfelf, having firk compared it with th Hebrew, and noted by afferifks what was defeétive and by obelitks what was redundant Grew. A'STERISM. n. /. [afterifmus, Lat. 1. .A conftellation Poetry had filled the fkies with afferifins, an hiftories belonging to them; and then aftrolog devifes the feigned virtues and influences of each 2. A Bentley's Sermons afterifk or mark. improper ufe 'This is a ver Diwell particularly on paffages with an afferifm clean.sh data import.tsv out README for the obfervations which follow fuch a nete, wil give you a clear light Dryden's Dufrefnoy AsTE'RN. adv. [from & and fern.] 'I the hinder part of the fhip ; behind th thip The galley gives her fide, and turns her prow While thofe affern, defcending down the fteep Thro' gaping waves behold the boiling deep. Dryd Zo Aste'rRT. @. a. [aword ufed by Spen ing to the agreement, they let him go for the faving of their brethren 2. Mac. xii Jer, as it {feems, for fart, or ffartle.] T terrify; to ftartle ; to fright So irrefiftible an authority cannot be reflete on, without the moft awful reverence, even b We deem of death, as doom of ill defert But knew we fools what it us brings until Die would we daily, once it to expert No danger there the thepherd can affert Spenfe 2. To fecure to another; to make firm thofe whofe pietyaffures its favour to them Rogers 3. To make confident ; to exemp doubt or fear; to confer fecurity fro And hereby we know, that we are of the truth and fhall gffure our heartsbefore him, 1 Fobn, iii.1g I reviv At this laft fight; a/ffir'd that man fhall liv With all the creatures, and their feed preferve Milton ' 4. To make fecure : with of But what on earth can long abide in ftate Or who can him 4/fire of happy day Spenfer . And, for that dow'ry, I'll affure her o Her widowhood, be it that the furvives me In all my lands and leafes whatfoever Shakefp 5. To affiance ; to betroth This diviner laid claim to me mio, fwore I was affured to her called m Dro Shakefpeare Assu'RED. participial adj. [from affure. 1. Certain ; indubitable ; not doubted It is an agffured experience, that flint laid abou the bottom of a tree makes it profper Bacon's Natural Hiffory 2. Certain; not doubting Young princes, clofe your hands ---And your lips too; for, I am well affured That I did fo, when I was firft affur'd Shatkefpeare's King Fobn As when by night the glaf Of Galilzo, lefs affir'd, obferve Imagin'd lands and regions in the moon Milton A3. Immodeft; vitioufly confident AssuREDLY. adv. [from affured.] Certainly; indubitably They promis'd me eternal happinefs And brought me garlands, Griffith, which I fee I am not westhy yet to wears: I thall affiuredly Skake[peare A'staMa difficalt n fi [4oSpa. an fhor frequert, refpiration joine with a hifling found and a cough, efpecially in the night-time, and when th body is in a prone pofture ; becauf then the contents of the lower bell bear fo againft the diaphragm, as t leffen the capacity of the breaft, whereby the lungs have lefs room to move Quincy. An afthma is the inflation of the membranes o the lungs, and of the membranes covering th mufcles of the thorax Floyer on the Humours Astuama'ticaL. } adj. [from' afthma. AsTHMA TICK % Troubled' with a afthma In affbmatica perfons thoug 5. good or bad Y Affuredly he will fop our liberty, tiil we reftor meral propofitions, are intrinfically and naturall e o U Thefe by way of affumption, under the two ge caufe of all that is good; but of any thing that i evil he is no caufe at all. Raleigh's Hift. of Wirld th lung b very much ftuffed with tough phlegm, yet the patient may live fome months, if not fome years Boyle After drinking, our horfes are moft affbmatick and, for avoiding the watering of them, we we their hay God Is abfolutely good, and fo, affiredly, th ‘rf'bm | If you fhould die before him, where's her dower Shakefpeare An affurance being paffed through for a competent fine, hath come back again by reafon of fom overfight Bacon 2. The fuppofition, or a& of fuppofing, o any thing without further proof &S o AS AS Floyer AsTO'N1ED. part. adj. A word ufed i the verfion of the Bible for affoni/bed Many were affonied at thee Ifaiab,y liie 14 Unmanly dread invade The French affony'd 5+ Philips 7o ASTO'NISH attonitus, Lat. w. a. [effonner, Fr. fro To confound with fom fudden paflion, as with fear or wonde to amaze ; to furprife ; to ftun It is the part of men to fear and tremble ‘When the moft mighty gods, by tokens, fen Such dreadful heralds to affonifh us. - Shakefpeare Aftenifh' [ |