Thee, bold Longinus ! all the Nine inspire, Many can use both hands, yet will there divers And bless your critick with a poet's tire : remain that can strenuously make use of neither. An ardent judge, who, zealous in his trust, Broun. With warmth gives sentence, yet is always just; 2. Zealously ; vehemently, with ardour. Whose own example strengthens all his laws, Writers dispute strenuously for the liberty of And is himself that great sublime he draws. conscience, and inveigh largely against all eco Pope. clesiasticks, under the name of high church. If it were true that women were thus naturally Swift. vain and light, then how much more blameable There was no true catholick but strenuously is that education, which seems contrived to contended for it. Waterland. strengthen and increase this folly. Law STRE'PEROUS, adj. (strepo, Lat.} Loud; 3. To animate ; to fix in resolution. noisy. Let us rise up and build: so they strengthened Porta conceives, because in a strepereus eruptheir hands for this work. Nebemiab. tion it riseth against fire, it doth therefore resist Charge Joshua, and encourage him, and lightning. Broue. strengthen him. Deuteronomy. STRESS. n. s. (rtece, Saxon, violence; or 4. To make to increase in power or secu from distress.] rity. Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest, 1. Importance; important part. With powerful policy strengtben themselves. The stress of the fable lies upon the hazard of having a numerous stock of children. Sbakspeare. L'Estrange. They sought the strenghtening of the heathen. 1 Maccabees. This, on which the great stress of the business T. STRE'NGTHEN. v. n. To grow strong. depends, would have been made out with reasons sufficient. Locke. Oh men for flatt'ry and deceit renown'd! Thus when y' are young ye learn it all like 2. Importance imputed ; weight ascribed. him; A body may as well lay too little as too much Till, as your years increase, that strengthens too, stress upon a dream; but the less we heed them the better. T’undo poor maids. L'Estrange. Otway. The disease, that shall destroy at length, It showed how very little stress is to be laid Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his upon the precedents they bring. Lesiry. strength. Consider how great a stress he laid this Pope. upon STRE'NGTHENER. n. s. [from strength duty, while upon earth, and how earnestly he recommended it. Atterbury. STRE'NGTHNER. I en: by contraction 3. Violence ; force, either acting or sui. strengthner.] fered. 1. That which gives strength; that which By stress of weather driv'n, makes strong. At last they landed. Dryden. Garlick is a great strengthener of the stomach, Though the faculties of the mind are improved upon decays of appetite, or indigestion. Temple. by exercise, yet they must not be put to a stress 2. [In medicine.] Strengtheners add to beyond their strength. Locke. the bulk and firmness of the solids : T. STRESS. v. a. (evidently from distress.) cordials are such as drive on the vital To distress; to put to hardships or difactions; but these such as confirm the ficulties. stamina. Quincy. Stirred with pity of the stressed plight Of this sad realm. STRENGTHLESS. adj. [from strength.) Spenser. 1. Wanting strength; deprived of strength. TO STRETCH. v. a. (rtrecan, Saxon; Yet are these feet, whose strengthless stay is strecken, Dutch.) numb, 1. To extend; to spread out to a distance. Urable to support this lump of clay. Shakspeare. The stretebing out of his wings shall fill the As the wretch, whose fever-weakened joints, breadth of thy land. Isanub. Like strengthless hinges, buckle under life, Stretch chine hand unto the poor. Ecclesiasticus. Impatient of his fii, breaks like a tire Out of his keeper's arms. Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand. Sbakspeare, Exedes. 2. Wanting potency; weak. Used of Eden stretcb'd her line liquors. From Auran eastward to the royal towers The liquor must be iniammable or not, and Of great Seleucia, built by Grecian kings. Mill. yet subtile and pungent, which may be called 2. To elongate, or strain to a greater spirit; or else strengtbless or insipid, which may be named phlegm. space. Boyle. Regions to which And all the sea, from one entire globose Stretcli'd into longitude. Miller, Love bondage more than liberty;, 3. To expand ; to display. Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty. Milt. Leviathan on the deep, 2. Zealous ; vehement. Stretch'd like a promontory, sleeps. Milton. He resolves to be strenuous for taking off the What more likely to stretch forth the heavens, test, against the maxims of all wise christian and lay the foundation of the earth, than infinite go: ernments, which always had some established power? Tillotses. religion, leaving at best a toleration to others. 4. To strain to the utmost. Swift to Pipe. This kiss, if it durst speak, Citizens within the bills of mortality have Would stretch thy spirits up into the air. Sbaks, been strenuous against the church and crown. 5. To make tense. Srvift. So the stretch'd cord the shackled dancer tries. STRE'NUOUSLY. adv. [from strenuous.] Swité, 1, Vigorously i actively. 6. To carry by violence farther than is right ; to strain : as, to stretch a text; which it may be derived. Strawan, to stretch credit. Gothick; strogen, Dutch ; streapian, TO STRETCH. v. n. Saxon ; strawen, German ; strốer, Dan1. To be extended, locally, intellectually, ish. Perhaps strow is best, being that or consequentially. which reconciles etymology with proIdolatry is a horrible sin, yet doth repentance nunciation. See Strow.) stretcb unto it. Whitgift. 1. To spread by being scattered. A third? a fourth? The snow which does the top of Pindus streru, What! will the line stretch out to th' crack of Did never whiter shew. Spenser. doom? Sbakspeare. Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain? This to rich Ophir's rising morn is known, The birds of heav'n shall vindicate their grain. And stretch'd out far to the burnt swarthy zone. Pope. Cowley. 2. To spread by scattering. Your dungeon stretching far and wide beneath. Milton, I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet maid! 2. To bear extension without rupture. And not have strew'd thy grave. Sbakspeare. The inner membrane, that involved the liquors Here be tears of perfect moan, of the eggs, because it would stretch and yield, remained unbroken. Bogle. Wept for thee in Helicon; And some flowers and some bays, 3. To sally beyond the truth. For thy herse, to strew the ways. Milton. What an allay do we find to the credit of the 3. To scatter loosely. most probable event that is reported by one who The calf he burnt in the fire, ground it to uses to stretch. Government of the Tongue. powder, and strewed it upon the water, and STRETCH. n. s. (from the verb.] made Israel drink of it. Exodus. 1. Extension; reach ; occupation of more With furies and nocturnal orgies fir'd, Whom e'en the savage beasts had spar'd, they space. At all her stretch her little wings she spread, kill'd, And with her feather'd arms embrac'd the And strew'd his mangled limbs about the field. Dryden. dead : Then flickering to his pallid lips, she strove STRE'WMENT. n. s. [from strew.] Any To print a kiss. Dryden. thing scattered in decoration. Disruption, as strong as they are, the bones Her death was doubtful.---For charitable would be in some danger of, upon a great and prayers, sudden stretch or contortion, if they were dry. Shards, flints, and pebbles, should be thrown on Ray. her; 2. Force of body extended. Yet here she is allow'd her virgin chants, He thought to swim the stormy main, Her maiden strewments, and the bringing home By stretch of arins the distant shore to gain. Of bell and burial. Shakspeare. Dryden. STRI'£. n. s. (Latin.] In natural history, 3. Effort ; struggle : from the act of run. the small channels in the shells of cockles ning. and scallops. Those put a lawful authority upon the stretch, The salt, leisurely permitted to shoot of it. to the abuse of power, under the colour of pre- self in the liquor, exposed to the open air, did rogative. L'Estrange. shoot into more fair crystalline striæ than Upon this alarm we made incredible stretches those that were gained out of the remaining towards the south, to gain the fastnesses of part of the same liquor by a more hasty evapora Preston. Addison. ation. Boyle. 4. Utmost extent of meaning. STRI'ATE. Quotations, in their utmost stretch, can signify STRIATED. Fr.] Formed in striæ. no more than that Lucher lay under severe ago- These effluviums fly by striated atoms and nies of mind. Atterbury winding particles, as Des Cartes conceiveth, or s. Utmost reach of power, glide by streams attracted from either pole unto This is the utmost stretch that nature can, the equator. Brown. And all beyond is fulsome, false, and vain. Des Cartes imagines this earth once to have Granville, been a sun, and so the centre of a lesser vortex, STRETCHER. N. s. [froni stretch.] whose axis still kept the same posture, by rea1. Any thing used for extension. son of the striate particles finding no fit pores His hopes enstil'd for their passages, but only in this direction. His strength, the stretcher of Ulysses' string, Ray. And his steele's piercer. Chapman. Crystal, when incorporated with the fibrous 2. A term in bricklaying. talcs,' shews, if broke, a striated or fibrous texTooth in the stretching course two inches with ture, like those talcs. Woodward. the stretcher only. Moxon. Srri'ATUR E. n. s. [from striæ ; strieure, 3. The timber against which the rower French.) Disposition of striæ. plants his feet. Parts of tuberous hæmatitæ shew several vaThis fiery speech inflames his fearful friends; rieties in the crusts, striature, and texture of the They tug at ev'ry oar, and every stretcher bends. body. Woodward. Dryden. STRICK. n. s. (spiys; strix, Latin.) A bird of bad omen. v. a. [The orthography of this word is doubtful. It is sometimes The ill-fac'd owl, death's dreadful messenger, written strew, and sometimes strow; The hoarse night-raven, trump of doleful drere, The leather-winged bat, day's enemy, I have taken both : Skinner proposes The rueful strick, stili waiting on the bier. strow, and Junius writes straw. Their Spenser. reasons will appear in the word from STRI'CKEN. The ancient participle of a TO STREW. strike; but it has in the antiquated phrase In the discharge of thy place, set before thee stricken (that is, advanced in years) a the best examples; and, after a time, set before thee thine own, and examine thyself strictin meaning not borrowed from strike. whether thou didst not best at first. Bevon. The cunningest mariners were so conquered God may with the greatest justice strictly reby the storm, as they thought it best with quire endeavours from us, and, without any instricken sails to yield to be governed by it. Sidney. consistency with his goodness, inflict penalties That shall I shew, as sure as hound on those who are wanting. Rogers. The stricken deer doth challenge by the bleeding A weak prince again disposed the people to wound. Spenser. new attempts, which it was the clergy's duty Abraham and Sarah were old, and well stricken to endeavour to prevent, if some of them had in age. Genesis. not proceeded upon a topick that, strictly fol. With blindness were these stricken. Wisdom. lowed, would enslave all mankind. Saif. Parker and Vaughan, having ltad a controversy touching certain arms, were appointed to 3. Closely, tightly; with tenseness. run some courses, when Parker was stricken in- STRI'CTNESS. n. s. [from strict.] to the mouth at the first course. Bacon. 1. Exactness; rigorous accuracy ; nice re. Though the earl of Ulster was of greater power gularity. than any other subject in Ireland, yet was he so far stricken in years, as that he was unable to I could not grant too much, or distrust too Davies. manage the martial affairs. Mittle, to men that pretended singi lar piety and religious strictness. King Cbarles. STRICKLE, or Strickless, or Stritchel. n.s. Such of them as cannot be concealed connive That which strikes the corn, to level it at, though in the strictness of your judgment you with the bushel. Ainsworth. cannot pardon. Dryden. STRICT. adj. (strictus, Latin.) Who were made privy to the secrets of Hea1. Exact ; accurate; rigorously nice. ven, but such as performed his revealed will at Thou ’lt fall into deception unaware, an higher rate of strictness than the rest? Seetb. Not keeping strictest watch. Milton. Eusebius, who is not in strictness to be reckAs legious in the field their front display, oned with the Ante-Nicenes. Waterland. To try the fortune of some doubtful day, Though in strictness our Saviour might have And move to meet their foes with sober pace, pleaded exemption from the Jewish tribute, he Strict to their figure, though in wider space. exerted his divine power in a miracle to pay it. Dryden. Rogers. He checks the bold design; 2. Severity ; rigour. And rules as strict his labour'd works confine, These commissioners proceeded with such As if the Stagyrite o’erlook'd each line. Pope. strictness and severity as did much obscure the king's mercy. Becer. 2. Severe ; rigorous; not mild ; not indulgent. 3. Closeness ; tightness; not laxity. Implore her, in my voice, that she make STRI'CTURE. N. s. [from strictura, Lat. friends a spark.] To the strict deputy. Sbakspeare. I. A stroke ; a touch. The God of nature implanted in their vegeBy nature free, not over-ruld by fate table natures certain passive strictures, or signaInextricable, or strict necessity: Milton. tures of that wisdom which hath made and or. If a strict land be kept over children from the dered all things with the highest reason. Haie. beginning, they will in that age be tractable; and 2. Contraction ; closure by contraction. if, as they grow up, the rigour be, as they deserve As long as there is thirst, with a free passage it, gently relaxed, former restraints will increase .by urine, and stricture of the vessels, so long is their love. Locke. Numa the rites of strict religion knew; water safely taken. Arbutbnoi. On ev'ry alcar laid the incense due. 'Prior. 3. A slight touch upon a subject ; not a set discourse. 3. Confined ; not extensive. As they took the compass of their commission Thus have I passed through all your letter, stricter or larger, so their dealings were more or and given myself the liberty of these strictures, less moderate. Hooker. Hammond. 4. Close: tight. The god, with speedy pace, Stride. n. s. (rtræde, Saxon.) A long Just thought to strain her in a strict embrace. step ; a step taken with great violence; Dryden. a wide divarication of the legs. The fatal noose performed its office, and with I'll speak between the change of man and boy, most strict ligature squeezed the blood into his With a reed voice, and turn two mincing steps face. Arbuthnot. Into a manly stride. $. Tense; not relaxed. The monster moved on with horrid strides. We fucl our fibres grow strict or lax according Miltor. to the state of the air. Arbuthnot. Her voice theatrically loud, STRICTLY. adv. (from strict.] And masculine her stride. I. Exactly ; with rigorous accuracy. To STRIDE. v. n. preterit strode or strid; His horse-troupes, that the vantgard had, he part. pass. stridden. [from the noun.] strictly did command 1. To walk with long steps. To ride their horses temperately. Chapman. The other parts, being grosser, composed not Mars in the middle of the shining shield only water, strictly so called, but the whole mass Is grav'd, and strides along the liquid field. Dryd. of liquid bodies. Burnes, To Jove, or to thy father Neptune, pray, Charge him strictly The brethren cried, and instant strode away. Not to proceed, but wait my farther pleasure. Pope. Dryden. 2. To stand with the legs far from each 2. R gorously; severely; without remission other. or indulgence. TO STRIDE, V. a. Ta pass by a step. Sbakspeare. Swift. See him stride To punish the just is not good, nor to strike Proverbs STRI'DULOus. adj. [stridulus, Latin.) 3. To dash; to throw by a quick motion. Making a small noise. The blood strike on the two side-posts. Exod. it arises from a small and stridulous noise, 4. To notify by sound. which, being firmly rooted, maketh a divulsion The Windsor bell hath struck twelve. Shaksp. of parts. Brown. The drums presently striking up a march, they STRIFE, 1. s. [from strive.] plucked up their ensigns, and forward they go, Knolles. 1. Contention; contest; discord; war ; lawsuit. A judicious friend moderates the pursuit, gives the signal for action, presses the advantage, and I and my people were at great strife with the strikes the critical minute. Collier. children of Ammon. Judges. Some preach Christ even of envy and strife, s. To stamp; to impress. and some of good-will. Philippians. The memory in some men is very tenacious; He is proud, knowing nothing; but doating but yet there seems to be a constant decay of about questions and strife of words. 1 Timothy. all our ide s, even of those which are struck These acts of hateful strife, hateful to all, deepest, and in minds the most retentive. Locke. How hast thou disturb'd heav'n's blessed peace! Milton. 6. To contract; to lower; to vale. It is These vows, thus granted, rais'd a strife above used only in the phrases to strike sail, or Betwixt the god of war and queen of love: to strike a fag. She, granting first, had right of time to plead; How many nobles then would liold their places, But he had granted too, and would recede. That must strike sail to spirits of vile sort! Dryden. Sbakspeare. T is this that shakes our country with alarms, To this all differing passions and interests And gives up Rome a prey to Roman arms, should strike sail, and, like swelling streams runProduces fraud, and cruelty, and strife. Addison. ning different courses, should yet all make haste Inheriting no strife, into the sea of common safety. Temple: Nor marrying discord in a noble wife. Pope. They strike sail where they know they shall 2. Contest of emulation. be mastered, and murder where they can with Thus gods contended, noble strife! safety. Dryden. Who most should ease the wants of life. Congr. Now, did I not so near my labour's end By wise governing, it may be so ordered, that Strike sail, and hast'ning to the harbour tend, both sides shall be at strife, not which shall Hat- My song to flow’ryagardens might extend. Dryd, ter most, but which shall do the prince and the 2. To alarm; to put into emotion ; to i publick the most honest and the most faithful service. Davenant. surprise. The rest struck with horror stood, 3. Opposition; contrariety ; contrast. To see their leader cover'd o'er with blood. Artificial strife Waller. Lives in those touches, livelier than life. Sbaks. Jack Straw at London-stone, with all his roue, 4. Natural contrariety: as, the strife of Struck not the city with so loud a shout. Dryden. acid and alkali. His virtues render our assembly awful, STRI'FEFUL. adj. [strife and full.] Con- They strike with something like religious fear. tentious; discordant. Addison. Didst thou hut view him right, shouldst see The ape was strifeful and ambitious, him black And the fox guileful and most covetous. Spens. I know not what new creation inay creepforth With murder, treason, sacrilege, and crimes That strike my soul with horror but to name from the strifeful heap of things, into which, as them. into a second chaos, we are tallen. Dr. Maine. Addison. We are no sooner presented to any one we STRI'GMENT. n. so [strigmentum, from never saw before, but we are immediately struck stringo, Latin, to scrape.] Scraping; with the idea of a proud, a reserved, an affable, recrement. or a good-natured man. Addison. Many, besides the strigments and sudorous ad Nice works of art strike and surprise us most hesions from men's hands, acknowledge that upon the first view; but the better we are acnothing proceedech from gold in its usual de quainted with them, the less we wonder. coction. Brown. Atterbury. To STRIKE. v.a. preterit struck or strook; Court virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where heav'n's influence scarce can penepart. pass. struck, strucken, stricken, or trate; strook. [arırıcan, Sax. streichen, Germ. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, adstrykia, Islandick; stricker, Danish.] They please as beauties, here as wonders strike. 1. To act upon by a blow; to hit with a Pope. 8. [ fædus ferire.) To make a bargain. He at Philippi kept Sign but his peace, he vows he'll ne'er again His sword e'en like a dancer, while I struck The sacred names of fops and beaus profane; 'The lean and wrinkled Cassius. Sbakspeare. Strike up the bargain quickly; for I swear, As times go now, he offers very fair. Dryden, Why I, that did love Cæsar when I struck him, I come to offer peace; to reconcile Past enmities; to strike perpetual leagues A. Pbilipso But wail his fall, whom I myseif struck down. 9. To produce by a sudden action. Shakspeare. The court paved striketh up a great heat in Then on the crowd he cast a furious look, summer and mucr: cold in winier. Bacon. And wither'd all their strength before he strook. Waving wide her myrtle wand, Dryden, She strikes an universal peace thro' sea and land. 2. To punish ; to afflict. Milton. blow. Proceeded thus. Pope. a like kings. These men are fortune's jewels moulded bright, 17. TO STRIKE out. To blot ; to efface. Brought forth with their own fire and light; If I her vulgar stone for either took, By expurgatory animadversions, we might strike out great numbers of hidden qualities; and, Out of myself it must be struck. Cowley. having once a conceded list, with more saftry Take my caduceus! Brown, With this th' infernal ghosts I can command, attempt their reasons. To methodize is as necessary as to strike out. And strike a terror through the Stygian strand. Dryden. 18. To STRIKE out. To bring to light. 7o. To affect suddenly in any particular 19. TO STRIKE out. To form at once by manner. When verses canrot be understood, nor a man's a quick effort. good wit seconded with the forward child under Whether thy hand strike out some free design, Where life awakes and dawns at ev'ry line; standing, it strikes a man more dead than a great Sbakspeare reckoning in a little room. Or blend in beauteous tints the colour'd mass, Strike her young bones, And from the canvass call the mimick face. Ye taking airs, with lameness. Sbakspeare. To STRIKE. v. 1. Popes He that is stricken blind cannot forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. Sbak. 1. To make a blow. So ceasd the rival crew, when Purcell came, I, in mine own woe charm'd, They sung no more, or only sung his fame; Could not find death where I did hear him groan, Strucé dumb, they all admir'd. Dryden. Nor feel bim where he struck. Sbakspeare. Humility disarms envy, and strikes it dead. Ir pleas'd the king To strike at me upon his misconstruction, Addison. He wither'd all their strength before he strook. 11. To cause to sound by blows: with up Drydea. only emphatical. 2. To collide ; to clash. Strike up the drums, and let the tongue of war Holding a ring by a thread in a glass, tell him Plead for our int'rest, and our being here. Sbaks. that holdeth it, it shall strike so many times against the side of the glass, and no more. Baren. 12. To forge ; to mint. Though they the lines on golden anvils beat, 3. To act by repeated percussion. It looks as if they struck them at a heat. Tate. Bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready, Some very rare coins, struck of a pound weight, She strike Sbakspeare. of gold and silver, Constantine sent to Child Those antique minstrels, sure, were Charlesperick. Arbuthnot. Cities their lutes, and subjects hearts their strings; 13. It is used in the participle, I know On which with so divine a hand they strook, not well how, for advanced in years. Consent of motion from their breath they took. The king Waller. Is wise and virtuous, and his noble queen 4. To sound by the stroke of a hammer. Well struck in years; fair, and not jealous. Sbak. Cæsar, 't is strucken eight. Sbakspeare. 14. TO, STRIKE off. To erase from a Deep thoughts will often suspend the senses reckoning or account. so far, that about a man clocks may strike, and Deliver Helen, and all damage else bells ring, which he takes no notice of. Grew. Shall be struck off Sbakspeare. 5. To make an attack. I have this while with leaden thoughts been prest; Is not the king's name forty thousand names? But I shall in a more convenient time Strike off this score of absence. Arm, arm, my name; a puny subject strikes Sbakspeare. At thy great glory: Sbakspear: When any wilful sin stands charged on our ac- When, by their designing leaders taught count, it will not be struck off till we forsake and To strike at power which for themselves they turn away from it. Kettlewortb. sought, Ask men's opinions: Scoto now shall tell The vulgar, gull'd into rebellion, arm'd, How trade increases, and the world goes well: Their blood to action by their prize was warm'd. Strike off" his pension by the setting sun, Dryder. And Britain, if not Europe, is undone. Pope. 6. To act by external influx. 15. To STRIKE off: To separate by a Consider the red and white colours in porblow, or any sudden action. phyre; hinder light but from striking on it, and Germany had stricken off that which appeared its colours vanish, Locke. corrupt in the docu ine of the church of Rome; 7. To sound with blows. but seemed nevertheless in discipline still to re Whilst any rrump did sound, or drusi struck up, tain therewith great conformity. Hooker. His sword did ne'er leave striking in the field. They followed so fast that they overtook him, Sbakspeare. and without further delay struck off his head. 8. To be dashed; to be stranded. Knolles. The admiral galley, wherein the emperor was, He was taken prisoner by Surinas, lieutenant struck upon a sand, and there stuck fast. Knclles. general for the king of Parthia, who stroke off his head. Hakerill . 9. To pass with a quick or strong effect. A mass of water would be struck off and sepa- Now' and then a glitrering beam of wit or pasrate from the rest, and tossed through the air sion strikes through the obscurity of the poem: like a flying river. Burnet. any of these effect a present liking, but not a 16. To STRIKE cut. To produce by col- lasting admiration. Drydes. lisioni. 10. To pay homage, as by lowering the My thoughtless youth was wing'd with vain sail. desires; We see the wind sit sore upon our sails; My manhood, long misled by wand'ring fires, And yet we strike not, but securely perish. Follow'd false lignis; and, when their glimpse Sbakspeare. was gone, I'd rather chop this hand off at a blow, My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. And with the other fing it at thy face, Dryden. Than bear so low a sail, to strike to thee. Skals. |