OCR Text |
Show SE S'E likenefs of matter came neareft to each [efion o I could mufter u My gfants and my witches too Which are vaft conftancy and fecretnefs Donnie Se‘crRETORY. adj. [from jecretus, Latin. Performing the office of fecretion, o animal {eparation All the giands are a congeries of veflels com plicated together, whereby they give the bl'oo time to feparate through the capillary veflels int the fecretory, which afterwards' exonerate themRay felves into one duct SECT. #. /. [ fefte, French; jfecta, Latin from JecFando. 1. A body of men following fome particular mafter tenets or united in fome fettle Often in a bad fenfe We'll wear out In a wall'd prifon, packs and feés of great ones That ebb and flow by th> moon. Shak. K. Lear The greateft viciflitude of thing is the vicif fitude of fef#s and religions: the true religion i built upon a rock; the reft are toflfed upon th Bacon's Effays waves of time The jealous fef?s, that dare not truft their cauf So far from their own will as to the laws, You for their umpire and their fynod take. Dryd The academics were willing to admit the good of fortune into their notion of felicity; but n feé#s of old philofophers did ever leave a room fo Dryden greatnefs A feét of freethinkers is a fum of cyphers Bentley 2. In Shakefpeare it feems to be mifprinte for fet Of our unbitted lufts, I take this that you cal love to be a fecZ or cion Shakelpeare's Othello Se'ctarism. z /o [from fei.] Difpofition to petty fefts, in oppofition t things eftablifhed Nothing hath more marks of {chifm and [eZa 7ifm than this prefbyterian way Se'cTarY fe2. King Charles 7. J. [fefaire, French; fro 1. One who divides from publick eftablithment, and joins with thofe diftinguifhed by fome particular whims My lord, you are a [ectary That's the plain truth Shake[peare Romifh catholick tenets are inconfiftent, on th one hand, with the truth of religion profefled an protefted by the church of England, whence we ar «called proteftants ; and the anabaptifts, and feparatifts, and fefZaries, on the other hand, whofe tenet are full of {chifm, and inconfiftent with monarchy Bacon The number of [effaries does not concern th Swift clergy in point of intereft or confcience Hooker their law The produétion of volatile falts I referve till Boyle mention them in another fefZion Without breaking in upon the conneétion of hi language, it is hardly poflible to give a diftiné view of his feveral arguments in diftin¢t feiFions Locke Se‘cTor metry . [ [ fe&eur, French. In geo Seftor is an inftrument made of wood or meral with a joint, and fometimes a piece to turn out t make a true fquare, with lines of fines, tangents fecants, equal parts, rhumbs, polygons, hours, latitudes, metals, and folids. It is generally ufeful i all the praétical parts of the mathematicks, an particularly contrived for navigation, furveying aftronomy, dialling, and projetion of the fphere All the lines of the feffor can be accommodate to any radius, which is done by taking off all divifions parallelwife, and not lengthwife; the groun of which practice is this, that parallels to the baf of any plain triangle bear the fame proportion to i as the parts of the legs above the parallel do t the whole legs Harris SE'CULAR adj. [ fecularis, Latin ; fecu lier, French. 1. Not {piritual ; relating to affairs o the prefent world ; not holy ; worldly ‘This, in every feveral man's a&ions of common life, appertaineth unto moral, in publick an politick fecu/ar affairs, unto civil wifdom. Hooker Then fhall they feek t'avail themfelves of names Places, and titles; and with thefe to joi Secular pow'r, though feigning ftill to ac By fpiritual Milton's Paradife Lof? 2. [In the church of Rome. by monaftick rules Not boun Thofe northern nations eafily embraced the religion of thofe they fubdued, and by their devotio gav great authority an reverence and thereb eafe, to the clergy, both fecu/ar and regular Temp In France vaft numbers of ecclefiafticks, fecula and religious, live upon the labours of others Addifon 3. [ feculaire, French.] Happening or coming once in a fecle or century The fecular year was kept but once in a cenAddifon tury SEcurA'rRITY. 7. /[ [from fecular.] Worldlinefs § attention to the things of th prefent life Littlenefs and fecu/arity of {pirit is the greatef Burn. The. of Earth enemy to contemplation 90 SE"cULARIZE. @. a. [fecularifer, Fr from fecular. appropriafpiritua fro conver T 1 2. A follower ; a pupil ufe commo t tion The fectaries of my celeftial fkill 2. To make worldly That wont to be the world's chief ornament They under keep Spenfer. SE‘cULARLY. adv. [from fecular. In worldly manner SEcTa'ToOR. n [. [ feftatenr, Fr. fe&ator A follower ; an imitator; a Se'curar~ess. # [ [ from fecular. Latin. Worldlinefs difciple Hereof the wifer fort and the beft learned phi1ofophers were not ignorant as Cicero witnefleth gathering, the opinion of Ariftotle and his feffators Raleigh Se'cTioN. #. /. [fedtion, French; fedtio Latin, %, The a& of cutting or dividing In the fection of bodies, man, of all fenfible crea tures, has the fulleft brain to his proportion Wotton 2. A part divided from the reft 3. A fmall and diftin€t part of a w-riting or book Inftead of their law, which they might not rea egenly, they read, of the prophets, that which i SE'cuNDINE n f [fecondines, fecondes Fr. fecunde, viz. partes infantem fequantur. Ainfw. quod nafcente Th mem brane in which the embryo is wrapped the after-birth The cafting of the fkin is by the ancients com- pare to the breakin of the fecundine or cawl but not rightly; for the fecundine is but a genera cover fkin is not fhape accordin to the parts but th Bacon's Natural Hiftory Future ages li Wrappd in their facred fecundine afleep Cowvley SECU'RE. adj. [ ficurisL 1. F ee from fear; exempt eafy; aflured Confidence then bore th To meet no danger R Jar 2. Confident ; not diftraftf ] . wlt]il But t ou, fecure of foul, unben Wit The more thy fortune rowns, the more e One maid fhe had, beloy'd "yde Secure of her, the fecret fhe conb;;lv';dt{m R%i The portion of their wealth they defign f du ufes of the poor, they may throw into 0';‘& ofgtfie publick repofitories, fecure that it will be well . flttcrl;:m ployed 3. Sure ; not doubting : with of s It concerns the moft fecure of his frength,1 pray to God not to expofe him toan en‘emy,R In Lethe's lake fouls long oblivion tafte: Of future life fecure, forgetful of the patt, Dlyi Haply too fecure of our difcharg From penalty We live and i as if we were perfe&lyfgm, the final event of things, however we may Behar ourfelves Aitrby 4. Carelels ; wanting caution; wantis vigilance Gideon fmote the hoft, for the hoft were fur Tudg 5. Free from danger; fafe Let us not then fufpeét our happy ftate As not fecure to fingle or combin'd Millm R Meflapus next Secure of fteel, and fated from the fire In pomp appears Secure from fortune's blows peci Secure of what I cannot lofe In my fmall pinnace I can fail. Dryd, Hoat 6. It has fometimes of before the objef frs §. in all its fenfes; but more properl before 3ewil, ors the caufe of evilo -peoy AE Hu 76 SEcu'RE. v. a. [from the ad]eéhv:.d '3 b 1. To make 2 certain; to putoutof hazard Ray T to afcertain Nothing lef That might his happy ftate fecure l.fi'f Secure from outward force Adions have their preference,not accordingt the tranfient pleafure or pain that accompanics follows the here, but as they ferve to fumfll Lu hereafter happinef durabl perfec b fecure no ar certaint an Trut principles but men are in the fame uncera floating eftate with as without t.hem efta b wifeas f b fhal wh That prince reefl' t proteétio fecur t liberty laws o induftr o mankin againft the opp z:m nugh hi fo toohar b quickl wil power h fi t u f f d u w t e Dee fie t i g t m a h o d Sh h i f h b u n Secures her c he y t e f f And triumphs whe ul er a t u t a r Nothing can be m a : v P a o l f i ‘ r c f of Ulyffesz h an a a n y p vocate, b ference to his friend i f f t 2. To proteé h , fl . Sh o c v t r f b o c 1 fpread o h i l d m j a ' f u n v Suftain'd th w El u f e w Ev'n then fecur'd him Z r u e a g u o The vow'd deftruétio P! a e Where two or three feien y d b e t o fame time, if o f‘"‘_ n n a r t e r m b anothe from wearinefs 3. To infure S . W p a : fi { e " n l If the feetus be taken out of the womb inclofed ! Love, that had no n :: ab e t m a u in the fecundines, it will continue to live, and th _In Venus' lap blood to circulat h o C b a h h a r a > : "‘." |