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Show LA Then future ages with delight fhall fe How Plato's, Bacon's, Newton's, looks agree A Virgil there, and here an Addifon . / [laga Saxon poets, what an extent of power you have, and ho /i, French La'wrurwess, #. /. [from lawful. That which doth affign unto each thing the kind that which doth moderate the force and power, tha which doth appoint the form and meafure of working; the fame we term a /azv Hooker Unhappy man ! to break the pious /azv Of nature, pleading in his children's caufe. Dryden 2. A decree, edi&t, ftatute, or cuftom, publickly eftablithed as a rule of juftice Ordain them /azws, part fuch as appertai Milton "To civil juftice, part religious rites Our nation would not give /avs to the Irifh therefore now the Irith gave lawws to them. Dawies 3. A decree authoritatively annexing rewards or punithments to certain ations Milton Lazws politique among men prefuming man to b giflator; one that makes laws Solomon we cfteem as the /awgiver of our naBacon tion A law may be very reafonable in itfelf, althoug one does not know the reafon of the lawgivers La'WGIVING Legiflative One /aw is fplit into two. ~ Baker on Learning 6. Conformity to law ; any thing lawful rule 7. Th o or axiom 2. Contrary to law difcourfe betwee reverend fpeculative an th of philofophers an the writing o lavyers Bacon's Holy War The nymphs with fcorn beheld their foes When the defendant's council rofe And what no /awyer ever lack'd With impudence own'd all the fact Swift Lax. adj. [laxus, Latin. 1. Loofe ; not confined Inhabit /ax, ye pow'rs of heav'n HMilton 2. Difunited; not ftrongly combined In mines, thofe parts of the earth which aboun with ftrata of ftone, fuffer much more than thof which confift of gravel, and the like /axer matter which more eafily give way 3. Vague Woodward not rigidly exact Dialogues were only /ax and moral difcourfts Baker 4. Loofe in body, fo as to go frequentl to ftool Zaxatiw medicine as promote that difpofition Slack are {uc RQuincy not tenfe We cite our faults That they may hold excus'd our /awv/efs lives Shake[peare felves, though their outward ea be ftopt by the Ja membrane to all founds that come that way Holder's Elements of Speech 1o. The books in which the Jewifh religion is delivered: diftinguifhed fro the prophets 11. A particular form or mode of tryin Shakefpeare La'wMmAKER. 2. f. [law and maker.] Legiflator ; one who makes laws ; a lawiver Browne and judging: as, /aw martial, Ja mercantile, the ecclefiaftical /aaw where Hooker Laww can difcover fin, but not remove Save by thefe thadowy expiations Milton by we are governed 12. Jurifprudence; the ftudy of law a doéor of Jzw middle term Lax. n./. A loofenefs; a diarrhcea Laxa'rion. #./. [laxatio, Latin. 1. The aét of loofening or {lackening 2. Theftateof being loofened or flackened.La'xaT1vE. adj. [laxatif, French; laxo Latin.] Having the power to eaf coftivenefs 9. The Mofaical inftitution : diftinguifhe from the go/pel it flu It islike the breath of an unfee'd /awyer, yo gave me nothing for it Shake[pcare's King LearIs the law evil, becaufe fome Jawwyers in thei office fwerve from it Whitgifiz I have éntered intoa work touching laws, in By a branch of the auditory nerve that goes between the ear and the palate, they can hear them Shkakefpeare Natural agents have their /aw Hooker I dy'd, whilft in the womb he ftay'd Attending Nature's law Shakefpeare's Cymbeline mong Profeffor o law; advocate ; pleader 5 He needs no indireét nor /aawlefs courf To cut off thofe that have offended him 8. An eftablithed and conftant mode o procefs ; afixed correfpondence of cauf and effet: as, the /aws of magneti{m 3 flofif illegal Take not the quarrel from his powerful arms the Jzaws of mechanicks onfertt Dryd He meteor-like, flames Jazv/zfs through the void Pope Deftroying others, by himfelf deftroy'd as f{cience La'wyer. z. /. [from Jaw. giving. an Ere empire's arts their breafts bad civiliz'd In a rebellion Shakefpeare's Coriolanus [la The neceflity of war, which among huma attions is the moft /awlefs, hath fome kind of affiRaleigh's E[Jays nity with the necefiity of law The /awlefs tyrant, who denie To know their God, or meflage to regard Milton Muft be compell'd Orpheus did not, as poets feign, tame favage beafts But men as lawlefs, and as wild as they. Rofcommon Not the gods, nor angry Jove, will bea Thy lazvlefs wand'ring walks in open air. Dryden Blind as the Cyclops, and as blind as he They own'd a Jawl/efs favage liberty Like that our painted anceftors fo priz'd 5. A diftin& ediét or rule Then were they chofen adj A pro The giving the prieft a right to the tithe woul produce /azvfuits and wrangles; his attendance o the eourts of juftice would leave his people withou Savift a fpiritual guide La'wyrzss. adj. [from law. 1. Unreftrained by any law ; not fubje& to law And therefore /azv fhall fcorn him further tria Shakefpeare Than the feverity of publick power Tom Touchy is a fellow famous for taking th laww of every body : there is not one in the tow where he lives that he has not fued at a quarterfeffions Addifon's Speciator When what's not meet, but what muft be, was /a2 La'wsvuit. n. /. [law and fuit. cefs in law ; a litigation Lawgiving heroes, fam'd for taming brutes And raifing cities with their charming lutes. #aller He hath refifted /aww Tickell Swift Shake[peare ‘When every cafe in /aw is right And the laft words, that duft to duft convey'd Le La'weiver. 7. /. [law and giver. Hooker 4. Judicial procefs Le Itwere an error to fpeak further, till T may fee fom found foundation luid of the lawfulnefs of th Bacon action 1. A rule of aétion The duties by the /awn rob'd prelate pay'd Dryden gality ; allowance of law lawgh, Erfe. rebellious lawfully you may exercife i Pope So many /aws argue o many fins ‘What awe did the flow folemn knell infpire T may be allowed to tell your lordfhip; the king o Or in fair feries Jaurell'd bards be thown LAW LA LA as Agree La'wruvr. adj. [law and full. able to law; conformable to law; al lowe by law; legitimate; legal It is not /awwful for thee to have her Matth. ¥ive. 4 Glofter' baftar fon wa kinder to hi father than my daughters got 'tween the /azvfu/ theets Shakefpeare's King Lear La'wruLry. adv. [from /lawful. gally; agreeably to law Le This bond is forfei And Jawfully by this the Jew may clai Shakefpeare's Merch. of Penice A pound of fleth Though it be not againft ftri& juftice for a ma to do thofe things which he might otherwife /zwJully do f}rp albeit his neighbour dot thenc to conceiv iief; yet Chriftia reftrain 2 man take occafio in his min charity will a falfe 130 in man cafes South Thou the firft, lay down thy /aw/efs claim Thou of my blood who bear'ft the Julian name Dryden In LA'WLESSLY. adv. [from /Jawlefs. manner contrary to law Fear not, he bears an honourable mind And will not ufe a woman Jlazvlefsly Their judgment is, that the church of Chrif fhould -admit no /gqumakers but the evangelifts Lawn. 2. /. [land, Danith ; laavn, Welth lande, French. 1. An open fpace between woods Grazing the tender herb, were interpos'd. Milton His mountains were fhaded with young trees that gradually fhot up into groves, woods, an intermixe wit walks an Jazvns an Addifon gardens Stern beafts in trains that by his truncheon fell Now gritly forms fhoot o'er the /azvns of hell, Pope Interfpers'd in laawns and opening glades Thin trees arife that thun each other's thades, Pope Fine linen, remark2. [Linon, French. able for being ufed in the fleeves o bifhops Should'®t thou bleed To ftop the wounds my fineft Jawn I'd tear Waih them with tears, and wipe them wit hair From high life high chara&ers are drawn A faint in crape is twice a faint in agvn The oil in wax is emollient, /axative, and anodyne Arbuthnot on Aliments A medicine {lightl La'xative. #. / purgative; a medicine that relaxes th bowels without ftimulation Nought profits him to fave abandon'd life Betwixt them Zawvns, or level downs, and flock forefts Onmitting honey, which is of a laxative powe itfelf; the powder of loadftones doth:rather confti-pate and bind, than purge and loofen the belly m Prior Pape Nor vomits upward aid, nor downward laxative Dryden LA'XATIVENESS. #z. /. [from laxativs. Power of eafing coftiverefs La‘x1iry. 2. f. [laxitas, Latin. 1. Not compreffion 3 not clofe cohefion The former caufes could never b in a chaos of fo great a /axity and t ‘hirlpool « Bentle 2. Contrariety to rigorous precifion : as laxity of expreflion 3. Loofenefs ; not coftivenefs If foraetimes it caufe any /axity, itis in the fam way with iron unprepared, which will difturb fom bodies and work by purge and vomit 4. Slacknefs Brown contrariety to tenfion Laxity of a fibre parts which a fmal is that degree of cohefion in it force can alter, fo as to increaf its length: beyond what is natural Kuinizy I |