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Show CA CA C'A]W".{ T4. n /. [Ital] Canra from its fize, and therefore ptoperly | CA°NOPY. #. /. [canopeun, low Lat.] . written cannoz covering of ftate over a throne or bed ; covering {pread over the head Ca'von BiT. 7. /. That part of the bi let into the horfe's mouth She is there brought unto a paled green And placed under a ftately carnopy The warlike feats of both thofe knights to fee Fairy Queen Now fpread the night her fpangled canspy And fummon'd every reftlefs eye to fleep, Fairfax Nor will the raging fevet's fire abat Dryden With golden canopies, and beds of ftate A goodly perfon, and could manage fai His ftubborn fteed with cano bit ‘Who under him did trample as the air Ca'NONESS Spenfer n. [. [canoniffa, low Lat. There are, in popifh countries, women they cal fecular canoneffes, living after the example of fecular canons Ayliffe ings, mot camonical are of book whereby th preach, or openly make known, the doétrine o wirtuous converfation Hooker No fuch book was found amongft thofe eanonica {criptures Raleigh 4, Spiritual ; ecclefiaftical ; relatin the church t York anciently had a metropolitan jurifdictio over all the bifhops of Scotland, from whom the had their confecration, and to whom they fwor canonical obedience Ayliffe Cano'NicaLLY. adv. [from canonical. In a manner agreeable to the canon It is a known ftory of the friar, who, on fafting day, bid his capon be carp, and then ver canonically eat it Government of the Tongue CaNO'NICALNESS. 7 /. [from canonical. _ The quality of being canonical Ca'Nonist. #. /. [from canon: A ma verfed in the ecclefiaftical laws ; a pro feflor of the canon law John Fifher, bifhop of Rochefter, when th king would have tranflated him from that poo bithoprick, he refufed, faying, he would not forfake his poor little old wife; thinking of the fifteenth canon of the Nicene council, and that of th canoniiftsy Matrimoniu inter epifcopu gffe contrattum, &c & ecclefa Camden's Remains Of ' whofe itrange crimes no canonif can tel In what commandment's large contents they dwell Pope CanoN1zA"TION. z. /. [from mm‘zfi The aét of declaring any man a faint It is very fufpicious, that the interefts. of parti cular families, or churches, have too great a fwa in canonizations T CA'NONIZE Addifon @w. a [fro canon t put into the canon, or rule for obferving feftivals.] To declare any man faint The king, defirous to bring into the houfe o Lancafter celeftial honour, became fuitor to pop Julius, to canonize king Henry VI, for a faint Bacon By thofe hymns all fhall approv Us canoniz'd for love Donne ‘They have a pope too, who hath the chief car of religion, and of canonizing whom he thinks fit and thence have the honour of faints." Stilling fleet Ca'NonRY n. /. [from canon. A Ca'vonsuir. § ecclefiaftical benefice i fome cathedral or collegiate church which has a prebend, or a ftated allow ance out of the revenues of fuch church commonly annexed to it Ayliffe Ca'NoPIED. adj. [from canopy.] Covere with a canopy I fat me down to watch upon a bank ‘With ivy canopy'd, and interwov With Aaunting honeyfuckle And their large branches did difpla To cangpy the place Dryden Ca'woRroUS. adj. [canorus, Lat. Moufi rbury on eafy ambling horfeg, CANTHARIDES. . /. [Latin,] S fl es, ufed to raife bliffers B heuflies, cantharides, are bred Of a wom, o caterpillar, but peculiar to certain frujt tre are thc} fig-tree, the pine-tree, and the wi} ;e:r;g: all which bear fweet fruit, .and-fr it that hath kind of fecret biting or fharpnefs: for t fi are of little throats, and fhort ath a mil Brown's Vulgar Errours the pin in it that is fweet and corrofive apple hath a kernel that is ftrong am erfive La tu ca Bacor's Natural Hy}or_,. b fr b r [ / # N C implying the odd tone of voice ufed by CANTHUS. n /. [Latin.] The come of the eye. The internal is called th vagrants ; but imagined by fome to b greater, the external the lefler canthy; corrupted from quaint. 1. A corrupt dialeét ufed by beggars an uiney A gentlewoman was feized with an.gix'xflag vagabonds -mation and tumour in the great canthus, or angl 2. A particular form of {peaking, peculia ~of her eye to {fome certain clafs or body of men ‘ a N I L / [ rom canto, Lat] I write not always in the proper terms of navifong: ufed generally fora fong in feripgation, land fervice, or in the cant of any profeflion Dryden ture If we would trace out the original of that flagrant and avowed impiety, which has prevailed among us for fome years, we fhould find, that i owes its rife to that cant and hypocrify, whic had taken pofieffion of the people's minds in: th times of the great rebellion. 4ddifon's Frecholder Aftrologers, with an old paltry cant, and a few pot-hooks for planetsy to amufe the vulgar, hav too long been fuffered to abufe the world Sawift's Predictions for the Year 1701 A few general rules, with a certain cant of words has fometimes {et up an illiterate heavy writer fo a moft judicious and formidable critick in fome nations, is ye more fignificantly expreffed by Mofes in his carificles, in the perfon of God.to the Jews Bacon's:Holy War CaANTI'LIVERS. #. £ Pieces of woo framed into the front or other fides o an houfe, to fuftain the moulding an eaves over it. Moxon's Mech. Exercifes 'Ca'NTION. 7.[ [cantio, Lat.] Song verfes. - Not now in ufe., CA'NTLE. #. /. [4ant, Dutch, acomer ¢fchantillon, Fr. a piece.] A piece wit Skinner corners Of promife prodigal, while pow'r you want And preaching in the felf-denying cant 4. Barbarous jargon right of eftate Spenf. Kal. G 3. A whining pretenfion to goodnefs, i formal and affetted terms Thi In the eighth eclogue the fame perfon wa brought in finging a cantion of Collin's making, Addifor's Spectator Dryden's Aurengzebe See how this river comes, me crankling in fran And cuts. me from the beft of all my lan A huge halfmoon, a monftrous cantle out The affeétation of fome late authors, to introduce and multiply cant words, is the moft ruinou Skakefpeare's Henry T Saift 7o CaA'NTLE. @. 4. [from the noun] T Numbers of thefe tenants, or their defcendants cut in pieces take; tho piec on i talking time fou Fo corruption in any language 5. Auction are now offering to fell their leafes by cant, eve Savift thofe which were for lives That muft be cantled, and the judge g0 fnack Dryder's j‘u-uma CA'NTLET. o /. [from cantle.] A prece a fragment ' 70 CaNT. @. n [from the noun.] T talk in the jargon of particular profeflions ; or in any kind of formal, affe¢ted language ; or with a peculiar an Nor fhield nor armour can their force 0ppoic Huge cantlets of his buckler ftrew the gro:ng) nd fo 1 m a ' bo hi i n f d And n ftudied tone of voice Why, what would you do ?- Glanville mouth of enquiry That uncouth affeGed garb of fpeech, or cantin language rather, if I may fo call it, which the -Mal e lo n e n c o to ea a lo Writ Shakefpeare' CA'NTON; The bufy, fubtile ferpents of the la And took for oracles that eanting tribe. Rofcommon Like ¢anting rafcals, how the wars will go. Dryden's Juvenal = / 1. A fmall pa:r land call th Eng Only that little muto: ;‘:fi; afin {h'iresq did maintai new language, they call the godly party. Sandeifon While I did.limits to the king prefcribe a willow cabbin at your gate hou th i t w u f m o u And cal have of late taken up, is the fignal diftinétion an chara@eriftical note of that, which, in that thei Did firf my mind from true obedience draw Dr n i é f o CA4'NTO. n. /. [It of a poem Men cant about materia and forma; hunt chimeras by rules of art, or drefs up ignorance i words of bulk or found, which may ftop up th Unfkill'd in fchemes by planets to forethaw Milton [In horfema:: to be derived from the monk to Cant Birds that are moft canorous, and whofe notes w GALLOP mmonly called a cantey. fai cal ; tuneful moft commend BELLS. See BELFLo%;L fhip.]. The hand gallop of a horfe, c Like friends did all embrace church doth alf Seven times in a day do I praife thee, faid David from this definite number fome ages of the churc took their pattern for their canonical hours. Taylor CANTERBUR The birch, the myrtle, and the bay and writ 3. Regular; ftated; fixed by ecclefiaftica laws CANTERBUR 7o Ca'nory. w. a. [from the noun.] T cover with a canopy Cano'Nicar. adj. [canonicus, low Lat. 1. According to the canon 2. Conftituting the canon Public readings ther rion. n /. [from canto The a& of finging Ca'NTER. 7. /. [from cant.] A ter reproach for . h ypocri tes, who talkRg mally of religion, withoyt obeying i { fo n n lifh pale, conta ; f fi l t r a h i I t t w w r a bosdex' of Englith government a O z. A fmall comm .. . o The fams i jbs safe 9f sovers by 1 |