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Show WE A child will have as much wit as he hath avay ardncfs Wotton on Education Wk, pronout. {in oblique cafes #s. See 7 1. The plural of Z Retire qve to our chamber Shakefpeare us of this deed A little water clear Fair and noble hoftefs Slnxhfi:.. ,7‘»{;1.7/)‘-/1) We are your gucfis to-_n]ght Notwithftanding animals had nothing like th afe of reafon, wwe find in them all the lower part Addifon of our nature in the greateft ftrength 2. I and others, indefinitely e firft endure, then pity, then embrace 3. Improperly an Pope ungrammaticall fo the oblique cafe, zs To poor we Thine enmity 's moft capital "% w Shakefpeare WEAK. adj. [pzc, Saxon ; aweet, Dutch. g, Peeble; not ftrong T He is weary and veak handed 2 Sanie Xvile 2 Here only weat Againft the charm of beauty's powerful glance Milton Wert thou not weak with hunger, mad with love My hand fhould force thee Dryden Fame and reputation are gvesk ties : many hav not the leaft fenfe of them : powerful men are onl awed by them as they conduce to their intereft Dryden et Childran, being by the courfe of nature born weak and unable to provide for themfelves, they have, b the appointment of God by their parenty a right to be maintaine Locke ¢. Infirm ; not healthy Here I ftand your brave, A poor, infirm, weat, and defpis'd old man 2, K y el s, ( He is no Sbak(fpmn' daily watchin over the aweat an infirm5 humbling himfelf to perverfe, rude, ignorant people, wherever he can find them. Lawv 3. Soft; pliant 4. Low of found piping and woman ifh5 but audible, ftrong, and manlike Alcham 5» Feeble of mind; wanting {pirit; wanting difcernment As the cafe ftands with this prefent age, full o tongue and awveak of brain, we yield to the firea thereof Hooker This murder'd prince, though wweak he was He was not ill, nor yet fo aweak, but tha He fhew'd much martial valour in bis place Daniel She firft his weak indulgence will accufe. AMils That Portugal hath yet no more than a fufpen fion of arms they may thank the Whigs, whof falfe reprefentations they wete {0 zveak to believe Savift Origen was never weak enough to imagine that th1ete were two Gods, equal in invifibility, i cter nity, in greatnefs Waterland To think every thing difputable, is a proof of Weak mind, and captious temper [Fe -26 Not muc 9. Unfortified 15 To quell the tyrant love, and guard thy hear Ox_\ this weak fide, where moft our pature f ils Would be a conqueft worthy Cato' fon Adeaha Addifon's Cato To 'W‘,rs AKEN @. 'To debilitate enfeeble ; to deprive of {trength ; The firft which weakene rity the wa t their fecuHooker Their hands fhall be weaken:d from the work that it be not done . Nebemiaby vi, 9 e broils nuggz the {cept re of old night Milton y violence offered to the body weakens an rs ity and renders it lefs durable Ray on the Creation Let us not aveaken fill the weaker fid By ou divifions Solem impreffions, that fee ,‘lmnj.-' trengthen it b prope WWEAkLING ., / ble creature refle€tion Addifon's Cato to woeake b th made t Clariffa [from weak. A fee Thou art no Atlas for fo great a weight And, weakling, Warwick takes his gift again And Henry is my king, Warwick his fubject Shake[peares Ulyfles5 who I thought was man With great and goodly perfonage; and bor A vertue anfwerable;- and this fhor Should fhake with weight of fuch a conqueror When now a weakling came, a dwarfie thing Cbzl[)mzm ZEfop begged his companions not to overcharg himj they foun pleafe himfelf him a weakling Beattie impregnated with any in %pedzent: as, a aweak tinlture eer 2. Not powerful 5 not potent and bade hi L'Eftrange WEeaARLY. adv. [from weak. 1. Feebly; faintly; without ftrength z. With want of efficacy The motion of gravity worketh wveakly, both fa from the earth, and alfo within the earth Bacon 3. Indifcreetly; injudicioufly; timoroufly with feeblenefs of mind This high gift of firength committed to me Under the feal of filence, could not keep But weakly to a woman muft reveal it Milton Tancred, I neither am difpos'd to mak Requeft for life, nor offer'd life to take Much lofs deny the deed; but leaft of al Bencath pretended juftice wweakly fall Dryden's Fables Troy in our aweaknefs lives, not in her ftrength Shakefpeare o She feems to be confcious of the weaknef 'Ii./"./at‘/a S thofe teftimonies 6. Want of judgment ; want of reiclution foolithnefs of mind A woman, and thence weak And T believe it5 weaknefs to refi Philiftian gold : if weaknefs may excufe Wha murderer, what traitor, parricide Inceftuous, facrilegious, but may plead it Milton All wickednefs is weaknefs 7. Defeét failing If you will work on any man, you muft kno his nature, and fo lead him; or his weskneffes an difadvantages, and fo awe him Bacon find a pleafure in contraditing the com Man mon reports of fame, and in fpreading abroad th aweakneffes of an exalted charatter Addifor's Spectator WeaksI'DE n. /. [weakand fide. ble; deficience Thi Foi infirmity dog would have fought for his mafter i any other cafe weakfide but the love of mutton was hi L' Eftrange Trade has increafed their thipping, whic the found to be their zveakfide in their laft attempts Temple WearL. = / [pelan Saxon awealuf? Dutch. 1. Happinefs profperity flourifhin ftate Our veal on you depending Counts it your weal, that he have liberty A w love the weal of our fouls an Shak bodies let us fo behave ourfelves as we may be at peac with God Bacon Thine, and of all thy fons The aveal or woe in thee is plac'd 5 beware ! Miiz ITreland ought to be confidered not only in it own intereft, but likewife in relation to England upon whofe weal in the main that of this kingdo depends Temple 2. Republick ; ftate ; publick intereft Blood hath been the Ere human ftatute purg'd the general weal. Shak How fhall the mufe from fuch a monarch ftea An hour, and not defraud the publick weal2 Pope WEAL # / [palan, Saxon. The mar of a ftripe Like warts or eveals it hangs upon her fkin Donne Of human wweaknefs rather than of firength 4. Infirmity ; unhealthinefs wealthy in the hour of death, and in the day o Jjudgment, good Lord deliver us Common Prayer 2. -Riches ; money, or precious goods Argumen awea edciafe fo wweak and feeble hath bee much per¢ Hooker Want of cogency Wea'kLy. adj. [from aveat.] Not ftrong ; WEAL away. intery. Alas. QObfolete Spenfer not healthy WeaLp, Wald, Walt. Whether fingly o Being old and qveakly, twenty years in prifon it was ten to one that ever I fhould have returned jointly, fignify a wood or grove, fro Raleigh the Saxon pealb Gibfon WEA'kNESS. 7 /. [from weak. WEALTH. z. /. [pale®, rich, Saxon. I. Want of firength; want of force ; fee1. Profperity; external happinefs blenefs In all time of our tribul:tion, ih all time of ou Milton The general's force, as kept alive by fight Now, not oppos'd, no longer can purfue Lafting till heav'n had done his courage right I muft make fair weather yet a while When he had conquer'd, he his weaknefs knew Till Henry be more weak and 1 mor ftvong. Shak Dryden e weak, by thinking themfelves ftrong, are | 2. Want of fprighti ne s Induced to venture and proclaim war aga n t tha New graces yearly like thy works difplay v:vhhlch ruins them; and the frong by conceitin Soft without ewveaknefs, without glaring gay. Pope -an?:]nlffllvefs weak, are thereby rendered una tiv 3 Wan o fteadinefs 10 teie S ; Sox{tb': Sermons By fuch a review we fhall difcern and firengthe 7 wle poor _fqgnd the rxc}.x difpofed t fuppl our eweakneffes with good refolution, and fo orde af""‘; or if ‘the gpeak might always find proou futur converfatio a ma rende u leaf exg °n from the mighty they could none of the pofed to falling Ragers's Sermons ament their own condition Swift 3. '_I:Ikot well fupported by a gument Weaknefs is thy excufe Was plighted faith {o zweatly feal'd above That for one error I muft lofe your love ? Dryden not ftiff A voice not foft, wweak W E Perfons in thofe pofts derive a gveaknefs of conftitution from the eafe and luxury of their ancef tors, and thedelicacy of theirown education, Femple In defart hait thine habitance And thefe rich heaps of zvealth doft hide apar From the world's eye and from her right ufance Fairy Queen I fhould forg Quarrels unjuft againft the good and loyal Defiroying them for wealth Shakefp. Macketh Once they fourithed in wealth and wit. Holyday I wifh thee, Vin above all qealth Both bodily and ghoftl health Not too much wit or ewealth come to thee ich of either. may undo thee. Bp. Corbet y me They li avealt withou their care pro afleep with prizes in their nets Wea'LTHILY Richly adv [fro Dryden avealiby. { come to wive it ewealthily in Padua I quealihily, then happily in Padua Shakefpeare Wea LTHL |