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Show SE SE \ Mufick ot fongs with which ladies ar "entertained by their lovers in the night fing love ftarv' th whic ferenat O "T0'his proud fair; beft quitted with difdain. Mil Foolith {wallow, what doft tho . So often at my window do | Shall I the neighbours nightly reft invade w4t her deaf doors, with fome vile ferenade Dr:}'(/en % Will fancies he never fhould have bee "%ye is, had not he broke windows, an "woneft people with his midnight ferenades { "/ ivas a young fellow SERENADE . [fro noun. Th RENE adj. [ ferein, Fr. ferenus, Lat. "#2:Calm ; placid ; quiet Y Srd Spirits live infpher' There wanted vet a creature might ere lis ftature, angd fipright with front feren 1= tovern the reft ... Excitin them by a due remembranc felts into a hat SE'RGEANT #. /. [ fergent, French; fer FESRe'NE. 2. /0 [from the adjeitive. ""Zalm damp evening Is ftriét in his arreft, oh! I could tell. Sh. Haml When it was day, the magiftrates fent the fergeants, {aying, Let thefe men go Aés, xvi. 35 of the king by ferwice, whic »~ With unruffled temper; coolly Whatever pratical rule is generally broken annot be fuppofed innate; it being impoflible tha nen would, without fhame or fear, confidently an ¢ arenely break a rule, which they could not but evi ma chirurgeon tha SerMoOcINA'TION ¢ Latin. preflion upon the minds of the vulgar As for our fermons, be they never fo found an perfect, God's word they are not, as the fermon of the prophets were; no, they are but ambiguoufly termed his word, becaufe his word is commonly the fubject whereof they treat, and muft b the rule whereby the are framed Hooker This our life, exempt from publick haunt Finds tonguesin trees, books in the running brooks Sermons in flones, and good in every thing, Shdak order Scrmon Not in ufe _ From the equal diftribution of the phlegma4/ick humour will flow quietude and ferenitude i Wotton Fr. from fe renus, Latin. Calmnefs ; mild temperature courfe This is the feries of perpetual woe ‘Which thou, alas! and thine, are born to know Poj;t 1. Grave ; folemn; not volatile; not ligh of behaviour ar m [iriou friends! while we laugh roun abou us Go i all thing ferions wh veft part of the globe would be defolate; and as t exercifeth patience towards us; Chrilt is ferious who fhed his blood for us; the Holy Ghott is jerious, who ftriveth againft the obftinacy of ou sfon to expe@ that it would conftantly enjoy tha Bentley hearts ; the Holy Scriptures bring to our ears th roft ferious things in the world; the Holy Sacra Thom/ the whole creation is ferious in fexving God, an of a perpetuat equinox th ' ‘that little that would be inhabited, there is no rea ments reprefent the moft ferious and awful matters yet not fo man 7o SE'RMON. . a. [ fermoner, Fr. from th noun. 1. To difcourfe as in a fermeon SE'RIOUS. adj. [ ferieux, Fr. ferius, Lat. . Ah he heard As left no time to pradtife any He heard them reverently, and the His praétice preach'd them o'er again, Crafbaav Many, while they have preached Chrift in thei Jermons, have read a le@ure of atheifm in thei practice His preaching much, but more his pratic wrought A living [ermon of the truths he taught. Dryden The chafms of the correfpondence I canno fupply, having deftroyed too many letters to preferve any [eries Pope Succeflion Howwel SE"RMON. n. [ [ fermon, Fr. fermo; Latin. A difcourfe of inftrution pronounced b a divine for the edification of the people Draw out that antecedent, by refle€ting briefl upon the text, as it lies in the feries of the epiftle 2 The att or pratice of makin Thefe obftreperous fermocinators make eafy im SE'R1ES. 2 f. [ ferie, Fr. feries, Latin. Sere [/27‘moa'nalio A preacher; a {peechmaker SE'RGEANTSHIP. 7 [. [from fergeant. The office of a fergeant Prior SerMociNa'TOR. 7. /. [ fermocinor, Lat. he ought to do i holdeth land of the king, to yield him yearl 1. Sequence 7 fpeeches Ward of Infidelity RE'NITUDE. #. /. [from ferene.] Calm ,I,.[nduces thought, and contemplation fill Jerioufnefs to a long gallery, which was darkened a noon-day Addifor's Spectator fome fmall thing toward his wars; as a {word dagger, bow, knife,-fpear, pair of gloves of mail Coavell a pair of fpurs, or fuch like Locke nity admired calm and erenity Pure ferenity apac nefs ftarted-up in the room of it. Atterb. Sermons The youth was received at the door by 2 fexrvant, who then conduéted him with great filence an his own perfon unto him : as to bear the king' banner or his fpear, or to lead his hoft, or to be hi marfhal, or to blow a horn, whenhe feeth his enemies invade the land; or to find a man at arms t fight within the four feas, or elfe to do it himfelf or to bear the king's fword before him at his coronation, or on that day to be his fewer, carver, butler, or chamberlain Petit fergeantry is where Philips The fetting fun now fhone ferencly bright. Pope In the conftitutio That fpirit of religion and ferioufnefs vanifhe all at once, and a fpirit of libertinifm and profane Grand fergeantry is that where one holdeth land Take car 7.[. [ ferenité Se'rR10UsNESS. #. [, [from ferions.] Gravity; folemnity; earneft attention is, a chirurgeon ferwant to the king SE'RGEANTRY. . /. [from fergeant. SERE'NE.. w. a. [ ferener, Fr. fereno Latin. 1r2t%% To calm 3 to quiet "# o clear; to brighten. Not proper LRENITY neft defire of it, though it appeared in all its terrors Addifor bably might be held fit to be judges afterwards o iz he affe@ions made them ferioufly inquifitive into that religion which could endue the mind with fo much ftrength and overcome the fear of death, nay, raife an ear Who like a good and hardy foldier fought Shakefpeare's Macbeth fervants : as, fergean Dryd Juftin Martyr, Tertullian, Laantius, and Arnobins, tell us, that this martyrdom firft of al 4. It is a title given to fome of the king' Wherever death doth pleafe t* appear dleas, [erenes, fwords, fhot, ficknefs, all are there Ben Fonfon nefs; coolnefs of mind To keep their oaths, and to believe a God Had I but time, as this fell fergeant, Death Milton : ¢ RE'NENESS, 7. /. [from ferenc. That thou couldft [erioufly perfuade the crow Bacon Thefe eyes that roll in vain o thick a drop ferene hath quench'd their orbs ‘ently know that God had fet up The nymph did like the fcene appear Serenely pleafant, calmly fair Soft fell her words as flew the air fufion muft needs furprife that man, at the laft da of account, who had led his whole life by one rule when God intends to judge him by another. Sout All laugh to fin Unthinking plainnefs fo o'erfpread thy mind This is the fergeant and a fe le think ferioufly with himfelf, what horror and con 2. A petty officer in the army of al withou It cannot but be matter of very dreadful con fideration to any one, fober and in his wits, t cute the commands of magiftrates Milton in earneft vity gente, Italian ; from ferwiens, Latin, 1. An officer whofe bufinefs it is to exe iebia/ptic nerve u=*RE'NELY. adv. [from ferene. vze® Calmly 5 quietly ly; folemnly Gay None fhould be made fergeants, but fuch as pro ""hy muddy bev'rage to ferene, and driv Precipitant the bafer ropy lees Se'R10USLY. adv. [from ferious.] Grave into kerfey o Hale inta SERE'N A, 7./o An obftruétion in th Shake[peare's Henry V There's nothing ferious in mortality All is but toys Shakefpeare's Macheth an e expe@ation of the future life. Grew's Cofmol future circumfpection Tll hence to London on a ferions matter of woolle 3. A lawyer of the higheft rank. under judge ‘Mat is paft, unt one ma thefe excellen z. Important; weighty; not trifling fro And bid broad-cloths and ferges grow fhew s fame woo giv came not from the priefthood, but the court; an from a courtier as eminent as England ever boafted Young from ferge kin T words their full force, it thould be known that the Ye weavers, all your fhuttles throw #te { . Unruffled ; undifturbed ; even of tem ver3 peaceful or calm of mind (.ng acalm mind other weaves into cloth, anothe Jerge, and another into arras flLL], The moon, ferene in glory, mounts the fky. Pope ; a mat. derive cloth Milton "% %un regions mild of calm and ferene air Covaruwvia Arabick ; Skinne German .y, To-entertain with nofturnal mufick = whic xirica "Sui He continued to ferenade her every morning "2u Il the queen was charmed with his harmony Spectato then can we be gay SERGE. . /. [ ferge, French; serga, Spanith us3 all that are in heaven or hell are ferions ¢ ho I cannot fee how any men tfhould ever tranfgrefs thofe moral rules, with confidence and Jerenity, were they innate, and ftamped upon thei minds Locke the ma difturbe when h Addifon th quietnefs; not difturbance 3. Evennefs of temper; coolnefs of mind Cowley ' With thy tunelefs ferenade. A general peace and ferenity newly fucceeded general trouble and cloud throughout all his kingdoins Temple Mixtdance, or wanton mafk, or midnight ball 2. Peate SE Some would rather have good difcipline delivered plainly by way of precept, or fermoned a large, tha in allegorica thus cloudily inwrappe Spenfer devices 2. To tutor teflon to teach dogmatically t Come, fermort me no farther No villanows bounty yet hath pafs'd my heart DShia ® Tinont RMOUN |
