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Show L L1 Damlatius's letter to Nicholas {s an aufhentic libations record of the lexvdnefles committed under the reig of celibacy Atterbury LE'WDsTER. 7./. [from Jewd.] A lecher one given to criminal pleafures Againft fuch /ezvdfers and their lechery Thofe that betray them do no treachery LEWI D'OR. ». /. [French. Shakefp The /ibbard and the tiger, a Are we reproached for the name of Chrift ? tha ignominy ferves but to advance our future glory every fuch /ibe/ here becomes panegyrick there Decay of Piety Good heav'n ! that fots and knaves fhould be f a li guift fhould pride himfelf to hav vain To with their vile refemblance may remain And ftand recorded, at their own requett To future days, a /ibel or a jeft Dryden cnaf Ley, lee, lay, are all from the Saxon leag, field or pafture, by the ufual melting of the letter or g Gibfon's Camden Li'asre. #n. /. [liable, from lier, ol French. Obnexious not exempt 2. [In the civil law. A declaration o charge in writing againft a perfon exhibited in court 7o L1'8EL. w. n. [from the noun. T fpread defamation ; written or printed it is now commonly ufed as an a&iv verb, without the prepofition again/? Sweet fcrawls to fly about the fireets of Rome What's this but libelling againft the fenate Shakefpeare He, like a privileg'd fpy, whom nothing ca Difcredit, /ibels now 'gainft each great man. Done {ubje&t : with z0 But what is ftrength without a double fhar Of wifdom? vaft, unwieldy, burthenfome Proudly fecure, yet /iable to fal By weakeft fubtleties Milton's Agoniftes The Englifh boaft of Spenfer and Milton, wh neither of them wanted genius or learning; an vet both of them are /iab/e to many cenfures. Dryd This, or any other fcheme, coming from a private hand, might be /izble to many defeéts. Swift Zo L1'BEL poon ha prevailed an nience of diftin&ion fro lies down th conve /Zer he wh is fuflicient to confir it. LiseLrer. #. /o [from [ibel.] famer by writing; a lampooner Th phrafe Shakefpeare 1. Mingled roan Markbam 2. Liard in Scotland denotes grey-haired as, he's a liard old man Liva'rion. n. /. [libatio, Latin. 1. The a& of pouring wine on the groun in bonour of fome deity In digging new eart pou i fom wine tha the vapour of the carth and wine may comfprt th fpirits, provided it be not taken for a heathen facrifice, or libaticn to the eatth Bacow's Nat. Hif} 2. The wine fo poured th The ha n other Chriftians,. bu Vot, I1 tha crim the t di obje againt no effer u Li'eerav. adj French. 1. Not mean in mind 3 Munificent no generous ‘That liberality is but caft away Which makes-us borrow what we cannot pay Denbant LiBErALLY. adv. [from liberal. 1. Bounteoufly ; bountifully ; largely If any of you lack wifdom, let him afk of God that giveth to all men /iberally, and upbraideth not Famesy i 5 2. Not meanly ; magnanimoufly Li'eerTINE. 2.f. [libertin, French. 1. One unconfined; one at liberty When he fpeaks The air, a charter'd Jibertine, is ftil And the mute wonder lurketh'in men's ears To fteal his fweet and honied fentences Shakefpeare's Henry V 2. One who lives without reftraint or law Man, the lawlefs /ibertine, may rove Free and unqueftion'd Roawe's Fane Shore Want of power is the only bound that a /ibertin puts to his views upon any of the fex Clarifla 3. One who pays no regard to the precepts of religion They fay this town is full of couzenage Difguifed cheaters parfimonious 4+ [In law; Zibertinus, Latin.] ~ A freedman ; or rather That made us, and for us this ample world the fon ofa freedman Some perfons are forbidden to be accufers o the fcore of their fex, as women; others on th {core of their age as pupils and infants the fcore of their condition their patrons others o as /libertines againf Ayliffe's Parergon LUBeRrTINE. adj. [libertin, French. centious; irreligious Li There are men that marry not, but chufe rather a libertine and impure fingle life, than to b yoked in marriage Bacon Might not the queen make diligent inquiry if any perfon about her fhould happen to be o Jibertine principles or morals S20ift's Projeéz LUBERTINISM Irreligion and pra&tice 7. / [fro licentioufnef libertine. of opinion That {pirit of religion and ferioufnefs vanifhe all at once, and a fpirit of liberty and Zbertinifm, o infidelity and profanenefs, ftarted up in the room of it Her name was Mercy, well-known over all To be both gracious and eke Ziberal. Fairy Queen Sparing would fhew a worfe fin than ill do@rine Men of his way fhould be mofk /iberal They're fet here for examples. Shake/p. Hen. VIIL Needs muft the pow' prating mountebanks And many fuch like Jibertines of fin. Shakefpeare That word may be applied to fome few /ibertine in the audience Collier's Vieav of the Srage not lo bountiful Latin That thou may'ft nothing give that is not thine [liberalis, Latin; liberal 2. Becoming a gentleman [liberalitas Why fhould he defpair, that knows to cour With words, fair looks, and /iberalit Shakefpeare Sech moderation with thy bounty join Defama not low in birth n f ty 5 generofity; generous profufion de tory It was the moft malicious furmife that ha ever been brewed, howfoever countenanced by libellous pamphlet Wotton that wherein Bacow's Efjays liberalité, French.] Munificence; boun Pope fquibs are thofe who in the commo are called Jibellers and lampooners. Tat/er Ly'errLoOvUS. adj. [from /ibel. Pope Li'ArD. adj lam The common /ibellers, in their inve@ives, ta the church with an infatiable defire of power an wealth, equally common to all bodies of men Savift /Jiar, fame ‘Thy better foul ‘abhors a /iar's part Wife is thy voice, and noble is thy heart Lizera'vivy Our common /ibellers are as free from the imputation of wit, as of morality Dryden's Fuwenal She's like a /iar, gone to burning hell >Twas I that kill'd her Shakejpeare's Othello I do not reject his obfervation as untrue, muc lefs condemn the perfon himfelf as a /iar, whenfoever it feems to be contradicted Boyle t Some wicked wits have /ibe/I'd all the fair veracity ‘Who fpeaks him thus at Rome fatirife fpare . One who tells falfehood ; one who want He approves the commo T Is the peerage of England difhonoured when peer fuffers for his treafon? if he be libelled, o any way defamed, he has his fcandalum magnatu to punifh the offender Dryden But what fo pure which envious tongues yyil Li'ar. z. /. [from Zie. 'This word woul analogically be Zier ; but this orthograph w. a i Several clergymen, otherwife little fond of obfcute terms, are, in their fermons, very liberal o all thofe which they find in ecclefiattical writers as if it were our duty to underftand them Sawif LUBEL #. f. [libellus, Latin; libelle French. I. A fatire; defamatory writing; a lampoon all the to 1at Babel cleft the world into, ye if he had not ftudied the folid things in them a LE and commendation to others man's felf hath any perfeétion the mol The torrid parts of Africk are by Pifo refembled to a /ibbard's fkin, the diftance of whofe {pot reprefent the difperfenefs of habitations, or town of Africk Brerewwood. words Milton the perion Milton LEXICON. #. /. [aeéxd.] A diionary a book teaching the fignification o man competently wife in his mother diale¢t only Granvil'e Rifing, the crumbled earth above them threw aries well as the words and /lexicons, yet he were nothin fo much to be efteemed a learned man as any yeo As liberal and free, as infinite Miltou The liberal are fecuse alone For what we frankly give, for ever is our own Spe himfelf in tracing the original, and detailing the fignification of words Thoug Be infinitely good, and of his goo dea There is no art better than to be Ziberal of praif that bufie Lex1co'GRAPHY. #./. [acéirdy and yodpe. The art or pradtice of writing dition t Make the /ibbard fter Leave roaring, when in ragehe for revenge did yearn A writer of dic Commentators and lexicographers acquainted wit the Syriac language, have given thefe hints in thei writings on fcripture Watts of facrifices 4. It has of before the thing, and #o befor A golde tionaries ; a harmlefs drudge fmok Li'searp. n. f. [licbard, German ; leopardus, Latin. A leopard LEXICO'GRAPHER. #./i [n:findy and youpu French. th men Stilling flect on Romifb Idolatry The goblet then fhe took, with ne&ar crown'd Sprinkling the fix@ /ibarions on the ground Dryden's Aneid ~ French coin, in value twelve livres, no fettled at feventeen fhillings Dis lexicographe an LT Lr'serTYy 7. /. [liberté, French ; liber tas, Latin. 1 Freedom ‘-Irtc."é::r;',"s Sermons as oppofe to {lavery My mafter knows of your being here, and hat threatened t> put me into everlatting Zberty, if tell you of it ; for he fwears, he'll turn me: away O liberty! thou goddefs, heav'nly brigh Profufe of blifs, and pregnant with delight Eternal plealures in thy prefence reign . Add:fo 2. Exemptio |