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Show Co Moft fhallowly did you thefe arms commence able, Shakefpeare Of preacher th knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourfelves Hale's Origin of Mankind Vain-glory is a principleI commend to no man I)eag 2. To deliver up with confidence t.‘f Pic‘z_‘y To thee I-do commend my watchful foul Ere 1 let fall the windows of mine eyes Sleeping and waking, O defend me ftill Shakefpeare's Richard 111 Father, into thy hands I commend my {pirit. Luke .3- To praife ; to mentio tion with approba Who is Silvia? What is fhe That all our fwains commend her Holy, fair, and wife is fhe. Shakefpeare Old men do moft exceed in this point of folly commending the days of their youth they fcarce remembered at leaft well underftood not Brown's Vulgar Errours Helov'd my worth'efs thymes ; and, like a friend Would find out fomethiing to commend Cowwley Hiftorians commend Alexander for weeping whe he read the actions of Achilles Dryden's Virgil's Aneid, Dedication Each finding, like a friend Something to blame, and fomething to commend Pope 4. To mention by way of keeping in me" mory; to recommend to.remembrance Signior Anthoni . Commends him to yO --Er I pray you tell me how my good friend doth Shake[peare's Merchant of Penice 5. To produce to favourable notice The chorus was only to give the young ladies a occafion of entertaining the French king with vocal mufick 6. To fend and of commending their own voices Dryden's Dufrefnsy Thefe draw the chariot which Latinus fends And the rich prefent to the prince commends Dryden's Ancid ComME'~ND. #. /. [from the verb. Not now in ufe mendation Com Tell her I fend to her my kind commend Take fpecial care my greetings be deliver'd Shakefpeare's Richard I1 CoMME'NDABLE. adj. [from commend. Laudable ; worthy of praife. Anciently accented on the firft fyllable And power, unto itlelf moft commendable Hath not a tomb fo evident, as a chai T' extol what it hath done Shakefp. Coriolanus Order and decent ceremonies in the church, ar not only comely, but commendable Bacon's Adwvice to Villiers Many heroes, and moft worthy perfons, bein fufficiently commendable from true and unqueftionable merit, have received advancement from falfe Brown's Vulgar Ervours hood Britannia is not drawn, like other countries, i a foft peaceful pofture; but is adorned .with emblems that mark out the military genius of her in‘This is, I think, the only commendabl habitants quality that the old poets have touched upon in th Addifon on Medals defcription of our country meafured by an inch al CoMME'NSURABLENESS. 7./, [from com men {traé/e. Conwel | -1t had bee mentione onc to him that-hi peace fhould be made, if he would refign his bithoprick, and deanry of Weftminfter; for he ha Clarendon that in commendam CoMmME 'NDATARY. 7. /o [from commendam.] One who holds a living in commendam CommeNnDA TION. 7. [. [from commend. 1. Recommendation ; favourable' reprefentation This jewel and my gold are yours, provided have your commendation for my more free entertainShakefpeare's Cymbeline ment The choice of them fhould be by the commendation of the great officers of the kingdom Bacon 2, Praife ; declaration of efteem His fame would not get fo {eet and noble an ai to fly in asin your breath, fo could not you find fitcer fubjeét of commendation Sidney 5. Ground of praife Good-nature is the moft godlike. commendation o a man Diryden's' Fuvenal, Dedication 4. Meflage of love Mrs. Page has her hearty commendations to yo too Shakefpeare Hark you, Margaret No princely commendations to my king!- --Suc commendations as becom a maid A virgin, and his fervant, fay to him Shakefpeare's Henry V1 CoMME'NDATORY. adj. [from commend. Favourably reprefentative; containin praife like perpetual letters commendatory, to have goo forms; to attain them, it almoft fufficeth not t defpife them Bacon's EfJays We beftow the flourifh of poetry on thofe commendatory conceits, which popularly fet forth th eminency of this creature Brown's Pulgar Err I 1 can think that neither he nor you defpife me itis a greater honour to me, by far, than if all th houfe of lords writ commendatory verfes upon me Pope CoMME'NDER Praifer 7 / [ fro commend. Such a concurrence of two extremes, by moft o the fame commenders and difprovers Wotton ComMENSA"LITY. 7./ [from commenfalis, Lat.] Fellowfhip of table; the cuf tom of eating together They being enjoined and prohibited certain foods thereby to avoid community with the Gentiles, upo promifcuous commenfality Brown's Vulgar Err COMMENSURABILITY. # /. [from comCapacity of being commenfurable. pared with another as to the meafure or of being meafured by another. Thu an inch and a yard are' commenfurable a yard containing a certain number o Commenfurability portion. cient clerk, to be fupplied until it be conveniently It doth much add to a man's reputation, and i I ope his letter mon meafure; as a yard-and a foot gr to the charge and care of fome fuffi commende ,J COMME'NSURA _ LE, a{/. conand pyp Jura, Latin.] Reducxble[to fome c'gf,'g' [commenda, low Latin. provided of a paftor ly commend themfelves to our contemplation Commendam is a benefice, which, being void, i re After Barbaroflfa was arrived, it was known ho effe€tually the chief bafla had commended him t Solyman Knolles's Hiftory Among the obje&ts of knowledge, two efpecial a number Carew's Survey of Cornft'uall COMME'NDAM w. a. [commendo, Lat. gard, or kindnefs ; to recommend the fhire holdet commendably Jabouring in their vocation The waters were gathered together into one place the third day from the commencement of the creation Woodward's Natural Hiftory as ‘worthy of notice Laudably'; in a manner worth of commendation Comme'NcEMENT. 2./ [from commence Beginning ; date 1. To reprefen [from commend adv CommE'NDARLY Fondly brought here, and foolifhly fent hence To COMME''ND coM cCo PW There is no commenfurablenfs between this op je€t and a created underflanding, yet there js congruity and connaturality Liale's Origin of Mankind 7o COMME'NSURATE. «. 4. [con au menfura, Lat. mon meafure To reduce to fome com. That divifion is not natural, but artificial, an by agreement, as the apteft terms to commenfurat the longitude of places Browon's Vulgar Erroure ComMENSURATE, adj. [from the verb, 1. Reducible to {ome cormmon meafure They permitted no intelligence between,then;, other than by the mediation of fome organ equall commenfurate to foul and body . Gouvernment of the Tungue 2. Equal proportionable to each other Is our knowledg adequately commenfurate wit the nature of things Glanville's Scepfis "Thofe who are perfuaded that they fhall conti- nue for ever, cannot chufe but afpire aftera hap pine(s commenfurate to their duration. . Tillitfon Nothing commenfurate to the defires of huma clean.sh data import.tsv out README "nature, on whic it could-fix as its ultimate end without being carried on with any farther defire. Rogers's Sermons Matter and: gravity are always commenfurate " Bentley CoMME'NSURATELY. adv. [from commenJurate. -Wit the capacity of meafur ing, or being meafured by fome othe thing. are conftraine W meafur the yea to mak the day ferve t as well as we can, though no commenfurately to each year; but by collecting th fraltion of days in feveral years, till they amoun "Holderon Tinne to an éven day CoMMENSURA'TION. 7. /. [from commen Jurate.] Proportion ; reduion of fom things to fome common meafure b A body over great, or over fmall, will no thrown fo far as a body of a middle fize; fo that it feemeth, there muft be a commenfuration or pro t portion between the body moved and the force Bacon's Natural Hiftory make it move well All fitnefs lies in a particular commenfuration o proportion, of one thing to another 7o COMMENT 1. To annotate author' Sut «. u. [commentor, _La\t. to write notes upoR a to expound ; to explain: wit upon before the thing explained Such are thy fecrets, which my life malces good And comments on thees for in ev'ry thin Thy words do find me out, and parallels bring Herbert And in another make me underftand Criticks having firft taken a liking to one thefe poets, proceed to comment on him, and 1ll_ufDryden's Fuvenaly Dedicationi trate him They. have contented themfelves only to-commer upon thofe texts, and make the beft copies the - Temple could after thofe originals Indeed I hate that any man fhould beidle; whil I muft tranflate and cominest 2. T tions mak remarks Pope to make obferva inches ; the diameter and circumferenc of a circle are incommenfurable, no Enter his chamber; view his lifelefs corps And comment then upon his fudden death Seme place the effence thereof in the proportio of parts, conceiving it to confift'in a comely conz Co'MMENT. 7./, [from the verb. 1. Annotations on an author ;\n;tes planation; expofition; remarks being reduceable to any common meafure. Proportion menfurability of the whole unto the parts, and th Browin parts between themfelves Shakfpeare's Henry V Adam came intq the world aphllt)fopl_leb whic appeared by his writing the natute of things \:& |