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Show Dl cumftances They lic under fome difficulties by reafon of th :N i : X‘K}" emperor's difpleafure, who'has forbidden their ma Addifon on Italy nufactures 5. Objection ; cavil _ cerning the myfteries: in religion, cannot mak Savift them more wife, learned, or virtuous T ‘7o DIFFI'DE. . n. [diffido, Latin, diftruft ; to have no confidence in. With hope and fea ~ The woman did the new folution hear The man diffides in his own augury And doubts the gods Dryden To Ifrael, diffidence of God, and doub In feeble hearts, propenfe enough befor Milton's Agonifpss waver - 2. Doubt ; want of confidence in ourielves If the evidence of its.being, or that this is it true fenfe, be only on probable proofs, our aflen can reach no higher than an affurance or diffidenc arifing from: the more or lefs apparent probabilit Laocke of the proofs Be filent alvays when you doubt your fenfe And fpeak, though fure, with feeming diffidence Pope ‘Di'FFIDENT atheifts think on, o all do adminifter fom diffidence, left poflibl and then it is a fearfu of the living God whatfoeve reafons fo they may b thing to fal Bentley adj. [from diffide. Be not diffiden Of wifdom ; the deferts thee not, if tho Difmifs not her, when moft thou need'ft her nigh Milton Pliny fpeaks of the Seres, the fame people,wit the Chinefe, as being very fhy and diffident in thei manner of dealing Arbuthnot 2, Doubtful of an event uncertain. ufed of thing 1 was really {o difident of it, as to let it lie b me thefe two years, jult.as younow.feeit Pope 3.. Doubtful of himf{elf; not confident "I am not fo confident of my own fufficiency, a not willingly. to admit the counfel of others'; bu yet I am not o diffdent of myfelf, as brutifhly t fubmit to any man's dictates King Charles Diftrefs makes the humble heart diffident Clariffa 7o DIFFI'ND.. a. [diffisds, Latin.] T cleave in two to fplit Dirri‘ssion. . /0 [dififfis, Latin. r ~act of cleayi ing or fplitting. DrerLa'tion. 7./. [diflave, Latin. D4 Th Didl aét of fcattering with a blaft of wind Th D:i& DirrLuENCE. { 7./. [from difffuo, Lat. Dr'rrrvemcy.§ The quality of fallin away on all fides ; the effeé of fluidity the contrary to confiftency Tce is wuter congeale by the frigidity of th air, whereby it acquireth no sew form but rathe aconfiltence or determination of its diffuency ; an amitteth not its eflence, but condition of Auidity Their valour works like bodies on a a glafs And does its image on their men proje¢t Dryd 2. Scattered; difperfed ; havin lity of fuffering diffufion Neawton Dirro'rMITY. 7. [. [from Zifform.] Diverfity of form ; irregularity ; diffimiWhile they murmuragainf the prefent difpofur a dijformity frio Brown's Vulgar Errours Brown's Vulgar Errcurs Dr'rrrvenr. adj. [difffucns, Lat.] Flow ing every way ; not confiftent ; not fixed French.] The a& of taking away th privileges of a city 7o DIFFU'SE 1. To pour out upon a plane, fo that th liquor may run every way ; to pou without particular direion Whe Dryden Cherifh'd with hope, and fed with joy, it grows Its cheerful buds their opening bloom difclofe wv. a. [diffufus, Latin. thefe water began't And round the happy foil diffufive odour flows Prior 3. Extended They are not agreed among themfelves wher infallibility is feated 5 whether in the pope alone rife at frft, lon before they could fwell to the height of the mountains, they would diffufe themfelves every way Burnet's Theory 2. 'To {pread; to fcatter; to difperfe Wifdom had ordain' Good out of evil to create; inftea Of fpirits malign, a better race to brin Into their vacant room, and thence difuf "His good to worlds, and ages, infinite Milton No fect wants its apoftles to propagate and diffu/f it D(‘L‘.H or race fhall bear aloft the Latia 2 2. Copiou Shakefpeare' to hav time fignified the fame fide of a m 7 i thit A4ddifs on Med DIG. w. a. preter. dug, or digged part. pafl. dug, or digged. [bic, Saxon, Ezek 2. To form by digging Seele with heart and mouth to build up the wall as wild He grows like fayages To fwearing and ftern looks, diffus'd attire And every thing that feems unnatural Shakefpeare's Henry V of Jerufalem, which vou hav broke down an to fill up the mines thatyou have digged, by craf and fubtlety, to overcthrow the fame Whitgift He built towers in the defert,.and digged man wells; for he had much cattle. clean.sh data import.tsv out README 2 Chron. xxvi. 10 3. To cultivate the ground by turning i with a {pade The walls of your garden, without their furniture, look as ill as thofe of your houfe; fo tha you cannot dig up your garden too often. Temple Be firft to dig the ground, be firft to bur Dirru'sEpLy. adv. [from diffufed.] Widemanné fometime yo al over- beheld a door - Shak. M. W.of Wind/ i 1. To pierce with a {pade Let them from forth a fawpit rufh at once ly ;. difperfedly o ditch 5 dyger, Danifh, to dig. uncouth,. irregular With-fome diffufed fong powe The fault that T find with a- modern not concife feem .th Then faid he unto me, Son of man, dig now i the wall; and when I had ‘digged in the wall, Drrru sED particip adj a fro difufe L gk This,wor difperfion expreflion And charity itfelf was in his face Dirru'se. adj. [difufus, Latin. 1. Scattered; widely fpread Tillotfon Want of concifenefs ; ldarge compafs o name His eyes djffus'd a venerable grace or in th diffufing; the flate of being diffufed its diffufiwencf Dryden together Dirrvu'sivery. adv. [from diffufve. Widely ; extenfively; every way Dirru'siveness. #. /i [from diffufive. (:/" llilf}' And through the conquer'd world Jiffufe our fame or in bot diffufive body of Chriftians A chief renown'd in war Whof council alone 1. Extenfion of tha which is {pread every way The branches lopt Dryden's Virgil [from diffufed.] 4 To pierce with a fharp point ¥Z Dirru'sEDNESS The ftate of being diffufed ; difperfion A rav'nous vulture in his open'd fid Dirru'sELy. adv. [from difufe. Her crooked beak and cruel talons tried Still for tfi:e gr'owing. liver digg'd his breaft 1. Widely ;. extenfively The growing liver fill fupplied the feaft 2. Copioally; not concifel Dryden's Ancid Dirru'sion. z /. ['from_z, iffife. . To gain by digging 1. Difperfion; the ftate of being {cattere It is digged out of even the higheft mou ever \Vfly Whereas all bodies act-either by the communication of their natures, or by the impreflions an fignatures of their motions, the diffufisn of Ipecie vifibie feemeth to participate more of the forme operation, and the fpecies audible of the latter Bacon's Natural Hiftory A fheet of wery well fleeked marbled paper di not caft diftinét colours ‘upon the wall, nor thro its light with an equal diffufion; but threw' it beams, unftained and bright; to this and that par of the wall Boyle on Colayrs 2. Copioufnefs ; exuberance of ftyle DYFFORM. adj. [from forma, Latin.] Dirpu'sive. adj. [from diffufe. Contrary to uniform; havings parts of 1. Having the quality of {caitering an different ftructure 5 diffimilar 5 unlike And upward fhoot, and kindle as they pafs And with diffufivelight adorn their heav'nly place n. /[. [ franchife DirFRA'NCHISEMENT the qua All liquid bodies are diffufiwe; for their parts being in motion, have no connexion, but glide an fall off any way Burnet's Theory of the Earth No man is of {o general and diffufive a luft, a to profecute his amours all the world over South The ftars, no longer overlaid with weight Exert their heads from underneath the mafs litude Dryden's Good Parfon ‘1. Diftruftful ; doubting others or fortuitous pofition o polifh uneve formed all things beft durft: fcarce commune or talk one with another but there was a general diffidence every where Bacon's Henry V1L You have brought fcanda : a Diffufive of themfelves, where'er they paf They malke that warmth in others they expect the primitive rule, and the idea of that mind tha . No man almoft thought himfelf fecure, and me ‘Whatfoeve they look on fufpicion an in the wrong into the hand veins of things, they defire in the D1FFIDENCE. # /[ [from difide. 1. Diftruft ; want of confidence in others The unequal refraétions of difform rays procee not from any contingent irregularities; fuch as ar the pores of glafs Men fhould confider, that raifing difficu/ties con L irregular ¢ as, a difform- flower, one o which the leaves are unlike each other ‘thing every A " tains and all parts of the earth contingently ; as the pyrites Woeodward Nor was the ground alone requird to bea Her annual income to the crooked fhar But greedy mortals, rummaging her ftore Digg'd from her entrails firft the precious ore 70 D16, @. wor Towork with a {pade; t in makin ground Dryden's Quid holes, or turning th ‘They long for death, but it cometh not; and 4 for it more than £+ hid treafures 4. Perplexity in affairs ; uneafinefs of cir DE ", The Italians have often in old anthors as the place lifks Rtood, and feldom fails efcribe es or obeYGUE |