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Show VI V1 VI Tt inftils into their minds the utmolt wirulence Vister'vity The whigs might eafily have maintained a ma 1. The ftate or quality of being percepti ble by the eye inftead of that charity which is the perfettion 'n_m Addifon ornament of religion jority among the clergy, if they had not to much encouraged intemperance of fpeech; and wirulence of pen, in the moft proftitute of their party Swift Vr'RULENT. adj. [virulent, Fr. wirulentus Latin. venemous 1. Poifonous 2. Poifoned in the mind ; bitter; malignant Vi'rvrLenTLY. adv. [from wirulent. Malignantly; with bitternefs Vi'sace. n /. [wifage, Fr. wifaggio, Italian. countenance Face look I is now rarely ufed but with fome idea of diflike or horrour Phebe doth behol Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grafs. Shak ‘When fhe thall hear this of thee, with her nail She'll flea thy wolfith wifage. Shakefp, King Lear Whereto ferves mercy But to confront the wifage of oftence Shake[peare's Hamlet hoftile frown Wit And vifage all inflam'd, firlt thus began. Milton By the rout, that made the hideous roar His gory wifage down the ftream was fent Down the fwift Hebrus to the Lefbian fhore. Milt Love and beauty ftill that vifage grace Death cannot fright *em from their wented place Waller Zo VI'sCERATE [wifsera, Latin. w. a T'o embowel ; to exenterate VI'SCID Gluti nous ; tenacious ViscipiTy 1. Glutinoufnefs 2. Glutinous concretion Catharticks of mercurials precipitate the wifcidi ties by their ftypticity Floyer . f [wifecofité Fr fro vifeous. 1. Glutinoufnefs ; tenacity The air being mixed with the animal fluids determines their condition as to rarity, denfity vifcofity, tenuity Arbuthnat 2. A glutinous fubftance A tenuous emanation afte fom diftance or continue retractet unt efluvium itfelf as i obfervable in drops of fyrups, and feminal wifcofities Brown's Vulgar Errours VI'SCOUNT. #. /i [wicecomes, Latin. Vifcount fignifies as much as fheriff; betwee which two words there is'no other difference, bu that the one comes from our conquerors the Nor mans, and the other from our anceftors the Saxons Vifeount alfo fignifies a degree of nobilit next to an earl, which is an old name of office, bu a new one of dignity, never heard of amongft u till Henry V1. his days Cow. Visco'unTess z [ from wifeount Vifeount and wifeountef; are pronounce vicount and wicountefs. Th lad of vifcount ; a peerefs of the fourth order Vi'scous Lat. adj [fz'z_'/‘yx./eztx Fr Boyle 2. State of being apparent, or openly difcoverable; confpicuoufnefs wifcofus Glutinous ; fticky ; tenacious The caufe of the feouring virtue of nitre is that it hath a fubtile fpirit, which fevereth and di videth any thing that is foul and wifcous Bacon . Holly is of { wifeops a juice as they make birdlime of the bavk Bacon 4. Adream ; fomething fhewn ina rea A dream happens to a fleeping, 3 yi fion may happen to a waking man, 4 _f‘ dream is fuppofed natural, a vifio mi raculous ; but they are confounded ‘They produced this as an inftance againft th perpetual wifibility of the church, and he bring it to prove that it ceafed to be a true church Stilling fleet In thefe, the @ifibility and exampl His dream returns Th of our vir tues will chiefly confift VI'SIBLE. z. /. Perceptibility by the eye Vifibles work upon alooking-glafs, which is lik the pupil of the eye; and audibles upon the place of echo, which refemble the cavern of the ear LBacon Latin. 1. Perceptible by the eye On this mount he appeared; under this tre Stood wifible 5 and Here with him at this fountain talk'd Milton Each thought was @ifib/e, that roll'd within As through a cryftal cafe the figur'd hours are feen Dryden A long feries of anceftors thews the native luftr with great advantage; but if he degenerate fro his line, the leaft fpot is wifible on ermine. Dryd What 's true beauty, but fair Virtue's face Virtue made wifible in outward grace Young 2. Difcovered to the eye If that the heavens do not their ifible fpirit Humanity muft perforce prey on itfelf Like montters of the deep Shakefp. King Lear faction open confpicuous at cour wer greater o VIs1BLENESS. 7. /. [from wiffble. mor Clarendon Stat or quality of being vifible Vr'sizLy. adv. [from wiftble.] In a manner perceptible by the eye The day being @ifibly governed by the fun, is little longer than the revolution of the equator; f much as is occafioned by the advance of the fu in his annual contrary motion along the ecliptick Holder By the head we make known more wiffbly ou {upplications, our threatenings : enough to fee th face, and to underftand the mind at half a word VI'SION 1. Sight Dryden . [ [@ifion, Fr. «wifio, Latin. the faculty of feeing Anatomifts, whe they have taken off from th bottom of the eye that outward and moft thic coat called the dura mater, can then fee throug the thinner coats, the pictures of objects livel painted thereon And thefe pitures, propagate by motion alon th fibre of th optic nerve into the brain, are the caufe of wiffun Neavron's Opticks Thefe theorems being admitted into optics there would be feope enough of handling that fcience voluminoufly, after a new manner; not onl by teaching thofe things which tend to the perfection of wifion, but alfo by determining mathematically all kinds of phenomena of colours whic could be produced by refra@ions Newsz. Opticks 2. The a& of feeing Pifion in the next lite js the perfe@ing of fait in this; or faith Ler as hope into enjoying. is turned into wifion_there Ham. Pra&ical Catechilim 3. A {upernatural appearance ; a fpeétre a phantom Th N day feems long, batnigh fleep bu ftrange dreams n is odious dycams bu wiffon Sidne . murd'rer's come his friend appears agains - k now help, or I am lain >Twas but a wifion fill, and vifions are but vain Rogers's Sermons wifible than before This motion in fome human creatures may b weak, in refpect to the wiftidity of what is taken fo as not to be able to propel it Arbuthnot Visco'sity the dimnefs of the light they are beheld by upo Th tenacity; ropinefs vouchfaf' b To call by wifisn, from his father's houfe Into aland which he will thew him. , },'ar.f, darkened room, do much depend for their wifibilit 3. Apparent n /. [from vifcid. a wifion, full of majefty Will'd me to leave my bafe v cation, She Hen, V Him Go The colours of outward objeéts brought into Send quickly down to tame the vile offences [wifcidus, Latin. odj wifible. Vi'siBLE. adj. [vifible, French; «wifibilis Her filver wifage in the wat'ry glafs Laft night the very gods fhew' me a wifl God's mother deigned to appeat to Shakefpony, me; And, i #. fo [ifibilité, Fr. fro The ide Dryden of any thing in our mind no imor proves the exiftence of that thing, than the Vifin of adream make a true hiftory Vi'stonary Lacke adj. [wifionnaire, Fr. fro vifioy. 1. Affetted by phantoms ; difpofed to receive impreflions on the imagination No more thefe fcenes my meditation aid Or Iull to reft the vifionary maid 2 Pope's Eloifa to Abelard Imaginary; not real ; feen in a dream perceived by the imagination only The hounds at nearer diftance hoarfely bray'd The hunter clofe purfu'd the wifionary maid Dr]defl If you haveflany fkill in dreams, let me kno whether I have the fame place in the real heart that T had in the wifforary one Addifon Our victories only led us to further wifionar profpeéts; advantage was taken of the fanguin temper which fuccefs had wroughtthe nation up to Saift Vi'sionary. ) n. /. [vifionnaire, French. Vi'sionisT One whofe imaginatio is difturbed This account exceeded all the Notambulio vifionaries 1 have met with Turntr The lovely wifionary gave him perpetval uneafiFemale Quizote nefs Zo VI'SIT. . a. [wifiter, French; wifito Latin. i. To go to fee Yo muft go wifir the lady that lies m'f'f' wifit her with my prayers ; but I cannot go t_hlfhcr Shakefpeare's Coriolanus Virgins wifited by angel pow'rs Pope 2. [I To fen feriptural language. good or evil judicially im what fhall T anfwer !nm Foby xxX1s 1 Thou thalt be wifited of the Lord with tht.mder Whe God wifiteth Ifa. xxix. b God @ifit thee in good things. Fudith, Xill.20 That venerable body is in little concern afte what manner their martal enemies intend to trea them, whenever God fhall wi/it us with fo fatala event Swif 3. To falute with a prefent Samfon wifited his wife with a kid . 7udge{, XVe I 4. To come to a furvey, with judicial authority "The bithop ought to wifi# his diocefe every in perfon {4)'1£fi To Vi'sit. v. n. To keep up the 1nter courfe of ceremonial falutations a honfes of each other Whilft fhe was under her mother fhe was orht to be genteel, to live in ceremony, O fiz up at nights to be i th folly of every iafhnonidw always wifiting on Sundays Vistr m /o [wifite, Fr. from the vesb. The act of going to fee another I |