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Show D D ing at another time, and thereon form the ideas o identity and diverfity Locke For often have you writ to her deft idus, Latin. and ftill retained in the Romifh kalenda caufe in thefe four months it was fix day an Suppofing in the others fou A foothfayer bids you beware the ides of March o Shakefp 4 IDIC'CRASY. ». f. [idiocrafe, Fr, id&~ an culiar in conftitution Yprocy w. f. [Wiaic. Wan o I ftand not upon thei tha YDIOM. . /. [idiome, Fr. idwpe.] A mod of fpeaking peculiar to a language or dia let; the particular caft of a tongue; phrafe; phrafeclogy o an Quincy quails, from any idiofyncrafy or pecu you gave before Swift He withes to recal the precious hours he has fpen in trifles, and loitered away in d/e unprofitable diverfions Rogers ToIDLE. w. 7 [from the adjeftive. lofe time in lazinefs and inaitivity idiota, Latin Signifying nothing Shakefpeare's Mucketh. VWhat elfe doth he herein, than by a kind of cir cumlocution tell his humble fuppliants that he hold or bafe wretches, not able to get relief By idle boys and ideors vilify'd Who me and my calamities deride Raleigh's Effays Sandys Many ideats will believe that they fee what the only hear Dennis I'bioTism. n. /. [idiotifine, Fr. c'd\w'rm',whg. 1. Peculiarity of expreflion; mod preffion peculiar to a language of ex Scholars fometimes in commen {peech, or writing in their native language, give terminations and idiot ifms fuitable to their nativ newly invented 2. Folly languag unt natural imbecillity of mind A'DLE. adj. [ybel, Saxon. word Hale Sit idling in their high abodes IpLens'apep. adj. [idleand bead. 2. Delirious infatuated Prior 1. Lazinefs Carew n /. [from idl. from labour #loth fluggifhnefs averfio Nor is excefs the only thing by which fin break men in their health, and the comfortable enjoymen of themfelves; but many are alfo brought.to a very ii and languifhing habit of bod by mere 7d/ene/s, an idlenefs is both itfelf a great fin, and the caufe o many more South's Seymons { 2. Abfence of employment «All whic Inefficacy Shakefp ufelefnefs 6. Barrennefs ; worthleffnefs 7. Unreafonablenefs ; wan foolithnefs; madnefs of judgment There is no heat of affeion, but is joined wit fome idlenefs of brain Bacon's War with Spairn I'vLer. 7 /. [from idle. a {fluggard A lazy perfon Many of thefe poor fithermen and id/ers, that ar commonl prefente to his majeity' thips, are f ignorant in fea-fervice, as that they know not th name of a rope Raleigh Thou fluggith id/er, dilatory {lav Trene Unry. adwv. [from idk. 1. Lazily; without employment I will flay myfelf For living idly here in pomp and eafe Shakefp z. Foolithly ; in a trifling manner And modern Afgil, whofe capricious though Is yet with ftores of wilder notions fraught Too foon convine'd, fhall yield that fleeting breath Which play'd fo id/y with the darts of death Priors To drop ker idly on the road And leave our fubjec in the middle As Butler did his bear and fiddle Priar 4. Ineffettually; vainly Le thi and othe aliegations, fuitable unt it ceafe to bark any longer id/y againft the truth, th courfe and paffage whereof it is notin them to hinder Hooker I'DOL. n. /. [idole, Fr. 2.dwrer5 idolum, Lat. 1. An image worfhipped as God The did facrifice upon the ido/ altar, which wa upon the altar of God 1 Mac, i, §9 A nation from one faithful man to fpring Him on this fide Euphrates yet refiding Bred up in idol worfhip Milton's Paradife Lof? "The apoftle is there arguing againft the gnoftick who joined in the /dol feafts, and whom he therefor accufes of participating of the ido/ god Atrerbury 2. A counterfeit Woe to the id/e fhepherd that leaveth the flock Zech. ii 3. An image 1 Never did art fo well with nature ftrive Nor ever idg/ feem'd fo much aliv So like the man, fo golden to the fight Drydern Not in ufe Men beholding fo great excellence And rare perfetion in mortality Do her adore with facred reverence Upon this lofs fhe fell id/ebeaded, and to this ver day ftands near the place ftill L' Effrange I'pLeNEss 5 To the Englifh courtaffemble now From ev'ry region, apesof idlensfs 4. A reprefentation t. Foolith ; unreafonable ‘Thefe idlebeaded feckers refort thither 4. Unimportance; trivialnefs So bafe within, fo counterfeit and light That fhe, and all her fellow-gods Told by an ideot, full of found and fury ideots T Yet free from this poetick madnefs Next page he fays, in fober fadnefs Life is a tale the Dryden An id/e reafon leflens the weight of the good one iarm.] A fool; a natural; a changeling; one without the powers of reafon Hooker with proud con Reje&ls as idle what his fellow dreamt lebore, or rather fometimes but medicinally.ufe th fame Brown's Vulgar Eryours The underftanding alfo hath its idiofyncrafies, a well as other faculties Glanv. Scepf and tempt do innocuouily feed upon hel #. /. [idiote, French Shakefpeare's King Lear fmil'd fcornful Shak, Ant, and Cleopatra But fhall we take the mufe abroad and all the id/e weeds that gro knew His frien My idlenefs doth hatch 3. Carelelly ; without attention Suffice it then, thou money god, quoth he That all thine id/e offers I refufe All that I need I have : what needeth m To covet more than I have caufe to ufe ? Fairy Q This anfwer is both id/e in regard of us, an repugnant to themfelves Hooker They are not, in our eftimation, id/e reproofs when the authors of needlefs innovations are oppofe with fuch negatives, as that of Leo: how are thef new devices brought in, which our fathers neve Ivtosy/scrasy, n [ [idighnacrafe, ¥r i@, oy, and xgaes. | A peculiar tempe or difpofition of body not common t UDIOT produétive o ftory RQuincy Harity of conftitution §. Unfruitful ; barren ; no good 6. Trifling ; of no importance: as, an idl 7ad@-.] A primary difeafe that neithe depends on nor procgeds from another another Whethe Dryden In our fuftaining corn ) Spectator [idispathie, Fr. id@ 2ll refiftance loft When vengeance call'd 'em here Darnel Since phrafes ufed in converfation contra&t meannefs by pafling through the mouths of the vulgar, . Ufelefs ; vain ; ineffettual He was met even now Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow weeds Iptoma'rricar. | adj. [from idiom.] PecuIproma'rick liar to a tongue; phra{feological Ioro'ratny Add It was my hent to fpeak Shakefp. Othello The murmuring furge That on th' unnumber'd id/e pebbles chafes Cannotbe heard {o high. Shakefpeare's King Lear with the idiom of ours Dryden Some that with care true eloquence thall teach And to jult idioms fix our doubttul fpeech Prior fpeaking fink than do more than comes to their fhare Of antres vaft, and defarts id/e He did romanize our tongue, leaving the word tranflated as much Latin as he found them; wherein he followed their language, but did not compl way th Held id/e thunder in his lifted hand Diryden Where was the The power that guards the facred lives of kings Why flept the lightning and the thunderbolts Or bent their /d/e rage on fields and trees Bacan poet fhould guard himfelf againft idiomasic i And threat'ning France, plac'd like a painted Jove horfes did eat their bits embarke Milton of under idiocy in thinkin a multitud All courage ; down their /d/e weapons dropp'd Pe ftanding amon They aftonifh'd zecryg.| Peculiarity of conftitution Iptocra'ricaL. adj. [from idiocrafy. impofing no induftry or travel, idlenefs bringeth fort no other fruits than vain thoughtsand licentious plea fures Raleigh Ten thoufand harms, more than the ills T know fame veffel, there are feveral that, in a tempeft will rather perifh than work 5 would it not be madnefs in the reft to ftand id/e, and rather chufe t days No war ot battle's foun then is, that their bufy humour thould be conftantl employed in fomething of ufe to them Locke O&ober, in which it is the 15th day, bebefore the nones Nature being liberal to 2ll without labour, neceffi 3. Omiflion of bufinefs The id/e fpear and fhield were high up hung. Mils Children generally hate to be id/e; all the car May, July an in-the months of March Dryden Woas heard the world around 13th day of each month, excep It is th fh 3. Unalive; not employed Romans th anciently ufed amon ter an He, fearing idlenefs, the nurfe of ill In fculpture exercifed his happy fkill Or elfe x'or)\\;zmt of id/e time, could not again reply Shakefp Prio [[.(l'('f, French in mo 2. Not engaged; affording leifure is preduced too frequent an identity in found, an brings every couplet to the point of an epigram #. f Bull though it made us pinc away for fpite, to lofe an of our time in fo troublefoma e izi}ljemfr Sidney fo much to do, and yet idle For thame Iine, which muft always rhime to the next following Ipzs. averfe from labour 1. Lazy By cutting off the fenfe at the end of every firf ID yet could no§ make us accufe her As th' ido/ of her maker's great magnificence Fairy Queen 5. One loved or honoured to adoration He's honoured and lov'd by al A The foldier's god, and people's idol. Denham's Soph IDO'LATER . f [idolatre Fr. idlatra Lat.] One who pays divine honours t images ; one who worfhips for God tha which is not God The ftate of ido/aters is two ways miferable : firft in that which they worfhip they find no fuccour; an fecondly ther at his hands, who is no othe they ough thing to be looke to ferve for but th effects of moft juft difpleafure, the withdrawing o grace, derilection in this world, and in the world t come confufion Hogker A |