room. active. a shop to a life of state and pleasure ; but will For stateliness and majesty what is comparaconsider what arts, what methods, what applica- ble to a horse? More. tion, can make worldıy business most acceptable 2. Appearance of pride ; affected dignity. to God, and make a life of trade a lite of holi Agenor, glad such punctual ready bliss ness, devotion, and piety. Law. Did on his own design itself obtrude, 33. A seat oi dignity. Swell' his vast looks to bigger stateliness. This chair shall be my state, this dagger my Beaumont. sceptre, and this cushion my crown. Sbakspeare. She hated stateliness; but wisely knew As she affected not the grandeur of a state What just regard was to her title due. Betterton. with a canopy, she thought there was no offenc STA’TELY. adj. į from state.] in an elbows-chair. Arbuthnot. 1. August; grand ; lofty; elevated; maThe brain was her study, the heart her state jestick; magnificent. Arbuthnot. A statelier pyramid to her l'll rear, 14. A canopy; a covering of dignity. Than Rhodope's or Memphis' ever was. Shaks. Over the chair is a state made round of ivy, These regions have abundance of high cedars, somewhat whiter than ours; and the state is cu and other stately trees casting a shade. Rakigb. riously wrought with silver and silk. Bacon. Truth, like a stately dome, will not shew here His nigh throne, under state self at the tirst visit. South, Of richest texture spread, at th' upper end He many a walk travers'd Was plac'd. Alilton. Of stateliest covert, cedar, pine, or palm. Milt. 15. A person of high rank. Obsolete. 2. Elevated in mien or sentiment. She is a duchess; a great state. Latimer. He maintains majesty in the midst of plais16. The principal persons in the govern- ness, and is stately without ambition, which is ment. the vice of Lucan. Dryden. The bold design STATELY. adv. [from state.] MajestiPleas'd highly those infernal states. Milton. cally. 37. Joined with another word, it signifies Ye that stately tread or lowly creep. Milter, publick. STA'TEROOM.n. s. [from state and room ] I am no courtier, nor versed in state affairs: my life hath rather been contemplative than A magnificent room in a palace or great Bacon. house, Council! What's that? a pack of bearded STATES, n. s. pl. [from state.] Nobislaves, lity, The scavengers that sweep state nuisances, STA'T ESMAN. n. s. [state and mar.] 1. A politician; one versed in the arts of folks. Swift. government. It looks grave enough Bm Jensen 1. To settle ; to regulate. This is so stated a rule, that all casuists press The corruption of a poet is the generation of a statesman. it in all cases of damage. Pope. Decay of Piety. This is to state accounts, and looks more like 2. One employed in publick affairs. merchandize than friendship. Collier. If such actions may have passage free, He is capable of corruption who receives more Bond-slaves and pagans shall our statesmen be. Sbaksbeart. than what is the stated and unquestioned fee of his office. It is a weakness which attends high and low; Addison. 3. To represent in all the circumstances the statesman who holds the helm, as well as the peasant who holds the plough. Sastb. of modification. Absolute power is not a plane that will grow Many other inconveniences are consequent to in this soil; and statesmen, who have attempted this stating of this question; and particularly to cultivate it here, have pulled on their own that, by those which thus state it, there hath never and their master's ruin. Davenant. yet been assigned any detinite number of funda- A British minister must expect to see many mentals. Hammond. friends fall off, whom he cannot gratify; since, Its present state statetb it to be what it now to use the phrase of a late statesman, the pasture is. Hale. Addisor. Were our case stated to any sober heathen, he Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom would never guess why they who acknowledge Of foreign tyrants, and of' nymphs at home. the necessity of prayer, and confess the same Popes God, may not ask in the same form Doof Picty. Sta’r ESWOMAN.n. s.[state and woman.} Tossute it fairly, imitation is the most advan A woman who medules with publick tageous way for a translator to shew himself, but the greatest wrong which can be done to the affairs : in contempt. memory of the dead. Dryden, How she was in debt, and where she meant I pretended not fully to state, much less de- To raise fresh sums: she's a great statesquemar! nonstrate, the truth contained in the text. Ber Janses. Atterbury. Several objects may innocently be ridiculed, Though I don't pretend to state the exact de. as the passions of our states women. Addisca. gree of mischief that is done by it, yet its plain STATICAL. adj. [from staticks.] Re. and natural tendency to do harm is sufficient to STA'TICK. Slating to the science of justify the most absolute condemnation of it. weighing. Law. A man weigheth some pounds less in the height STA'TELINESS. n. s. [from stately.] of winter, according to experience, and the size J. Grandeur; majestick appearance ; au- tick aphorisms of Sanctorius. Broun gust manner; dignity. If one by a statical engine could regulate his We may collect the excellency of the under. insensible perspiration, he might often, by restanding then by the glorious remainders of it storing of that, foresee, prevent, or shorten a fit pow, and guess at the stateliness of the building Arbutbact. by the magnificence of its ruins. Soutib. STA'TICKS. n. s. [5aliwi; statique, French.] of the gout. a The science which considers the weight tion, as it happened in many species, so doth it of bodies. fall out in individuals. Brown, This is a catholick rule of staticks, that if any 3. Belonging to a stationer. body be bulk for bulk heavier than a fluid, it will STATIONER. n. s. [from station.] sink to the bottom; and if lighter, it will float 1. A bookseller. upon it, having part extant, and part immersed, Some modern tragedies are beautiful on the as that so much of the fluid as is equal in bulk stage, and yet Tryphon the stationer complains to the immersed part be equal in gravity to the they are seldom asked for in his shop. Dryden. whole. Bentley. With authors, stationers obey'd the call; STA'TION, 1. n. s. [station, French ; statio, Glory and gain th' industrious tribe provoke, Latin.) And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke. Pope. 2. A seller of paper. 1. The act of standing. Their manner was to stand at prayer, where- STA'TIST. . s. [from state.) A statesupon their meetings unto that purpose on those man; a politician ; one skilled in godays had the names of stations given them. Hooker, I do believe, Statist though I am none, nor like to be, That this shall prove a war, Sbakspeare. 2. A state of rest. Their orators thou then extoll'st, as those All progression is performed by drawing on The top of eloquence, statists indeed, or impelling forward some part which was be And lovers of their country. Milton. fore in station or at quict, where there are no joints. Brown. STA'TUARY, n. s. [statuaire, Fr. from 3. A place where any one is placed, statua, Latin.] The seditious remained within their station, 1. The art of carving images or representwhich, by reason of the nastiness of the beastly ations of life. multitude, might more fitiy be termed a kennel The northern nations, that over:vhelmed it than a camp. Hayward. by their numbers, were too barbarous to preserve The planets in their station list'ning stood. the remains of learning more carefully than they Milton, did those of architecture and statuary. Temple. A. Post assigned ; office. 2. One that practises or professes the art Michael in either hand Icads them out of Pa of making statues. radise, the fiery serpent waving behind them, On other occasions the statuaries took their and the cherubims taking their stations to guard Milton, subjects from the poets. the place. Addison. How shall any man, who hath a genius for his. Situation; position. story, undertake such a work with spirit and To single stations now what years belong, cheerfulness, when he considers that he will be With planets join'd, they claim another song. read with pleasure but a very few years? This is Creech. like employing an excellent statuary to work The fig and date, why love they to remain upon mouldering stone. Swift. In middle station, and an even plain; While in the lower marsh the gourd is found, STA'TUE, n. s. [statue, Fr. statua, Lat.] And while the hill with olive shade is crown'd? An image; a solid representation of any Prior. living being. 6. Employment; office. The princess heard of her mother's statue, a No member of a political body so mean, but it piece many years in doing, and now newly permay be used in some station or other. L'Estr. formed by that rare Italian master. Sbakspeare. By spending this day in religious exercises, we They spake not a word; acquire new strength and resolution to perform But like dumb statues, or unbreathing stones, God's will in our several stations the week fol. Star'd each on other. Shakspeare, lowing. Nelson. Architects propounded unto Alexander to cut They believe that the common size of human the mountain Athos into the form of a statue, understanding is fitted to some station or other. which in his right hand should hold a town ca Swift. pable of containing ten thousand men, and in Whether those who are leaders of a party ar- his left a vessel to receive all the water that sive at that station more by a sort of instinct, or flowed from the mountain Wilkins. influence of the stars, than by the possession of A statue of Polycietus, called the rule, deany great abilities, may be a point of much dis serves that name for having so perfect an agreepute. Swift. ment in all its parts, that it is not possible to 7. Character; state. find a fault in it. Dryden. Far the greater part have kept their station. TO STA'TU£. v. a. (from the noun.] To Milton, place as a statue. 8. Rank; condition of life. Thou shalt be worshipp'd, kiss'd, lov'd, and I can be contented with an hombler station, ador'd; in the temple of virtue, than to be set on the pin And, were there sense in his idolatry, nacle, Dryden. My substance should be statued in thy stead. TO STA'TION. v. a. (from the noun.] To Bbakspeare. place in a certain post, rauk, or place. STA'TURĖ. n. s. [stature, Fr. statura, STA'TIONARY. adj. [from station.] Lat.) The height of any animal. ... Fixed; nct progressive. What stature we attain ai seven years te Between the descent and ascent, where the sometimes double, most times come short of at image seemed stationary, I stopped the prism, one-and-twenty. Brown, and fixed it in that posture, that it should be A creature who might erect moved no more. Newton. His stature, and upright with front serene 2. Respecting place. Govern the rest. Milton, The same barmony and stationary constitka Foreign men of mighty stature came. Dryden, VOL. IV. vers. Thyself but dust, thy statære but a span; If she de bid me pack, I 'll give her thanks, A moment thy duration, foolish man! Prior. As though she bid me stay by her a week. We have certain demonstration from Egyptian Sbakspeare: mummies, and Roman urns and rings, and mea- Nor after resurrection shall he stay sures and edifices, and many other antiquities, Longer on earth than certain cimesi' appear. chat human stature has not diminished for above Milton two thousand years. Bentley. He did ordain, that as many might depart as STA'TUT ABLE. adj. [from statute.] Ac. would; but as many as would stay should have cording to statute. very good means to 'live, from the state. Becor. I met with one who was three inches above They flocked in such multitudes, that they not Ave feet, the statutable measure of that club. only stayed for their resort, bur discharged diAddison. Hayward. STA'TUTABLY. adv. (from statutable.] The injur'd sea, which from her wonted place, To gain some acres, avarice did force, In a manner agreeable to law. If the new banks neglected once decay, STA'TUTE. n. s. (statut, French; statut No longer will from her old channel stay. un, Latin.] A law; an edict of the le Waller, gislature. Stay, I command you, stay and hear me first. Not only the common law, but also the sta Dryden. trutes and acts of parliament, were specially in- Nor must he stay at home, because he must tended for its benefit. Spenser. Locke. Every plant has its atmosphere, which hath Ere human statute purg'd the gen'ral weal. various effects on those who stay near them. Shakspeare. Arbuthnol. There was a statute against vagabonds; where- Servants sent on messages stay out longer than in nore the dislike the parliament had of goaling the message requires. Swift them as chargcable and pesterous. Bacon. 2. To continue in a state. Know the statutes of heaven and laws of eter The fames augment, and stay nity, those inamutable rules of justice. Tillotsox. At their full height; then languish to decay. O queen! indulg'd by favour of the gods Dryden To build a town, with statutes to restrain The wild inhabitants beneath thy reign." Dryd. 3. To wait; to attend ; to forbear to act. I'll tell thee my whole device TO STAVE. v. a. [from staff, in the plural When I am in my coach, which stays for us. staves.] Sbakspeare. 1. To break in pieces : used originally of Would ye tarry for them till they are grown? barrels made of small parts or staves. would ye stay for them from having husbands? Ruth. If an irreverent expression, or a thought too We for his royal presence only say wanton, are crept into my verses, let them be To end the rites. staved or forfeited like contrabanded goods. Drydes Dryden. I stay for Turnus, whose devoted head Is owing to the living and the dead; 2. To push away as with a staff: with off. My son and I expect it from his hand. Dryden. How can they escape the contagion of the The father cannot stay any longer for the forwritings, whom the virulency of the calumnies tune, nor the mother for a new set of babies to have not staved off from reading? Ben Jonson. play with. The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance; but the gospel speaks nothing but al 4. To stop; to stand still. When shé list pour out her larger spright, lurement, ateraction, and invitation. Soutb. She would command the hasty sun to stay, 3. To pour out by breaking the cask. Or backward turn his course. Spenser. The feared disorders that might ensue thereof Perkin Warbeck, finding that when matters have been an occasion that divers times all the go down the hill, they stay not without a dine in the city hath been staved. Sandys. new force, resolved to try some exploit upot To furnish with rundles or staves. England. Bacm. This was the shameful end of Aloysus Grit. Satan fus, Solyman's deputy in Hungary; who, climba Throws his steep fight in many an airy wheel, ing too fast up the evil staved ladders of ambi Nor stay'd, till on Niphates' top he lights. Mill. tion, suddenly fell and never rose more. Knolles. 5. To dwell; to be long, T. STAVE.V. n. To fight with staves. Nor will I stay On Amphix, or what deaths he dealt that day, I'th' enemy, that one should beard Dryden So many warriours, and so stout, I must stay a little on one action, which preAs he had done, and stav'd it out. Hudibras. ferred the relief of others to the consideration TO STAVE and Tail. v. a. To part dogs of yourself. Dryder by interposing a staff, and by pulling 6. To rest confidently : with upon. the tail. Because ye trust in oppression, and stay thert The conquering foe they soon assail'd; on, this shall be as a breach ready to fall Isaiah. First Trulla stav'd, and Cerdon tail'd. Hudibras. They call themselves of the holy city, and 1uias. STAVES. N. s. The plural of staff. stay themselves upen God. TO STAY. v. a. All in strange manner arm'd, Some rustick knives, some staves in fire warm'd. 1. To stop; to withhold; to repress. Spenser. All that may stay their minds from thinking They tie teasils up in bundles or staves. that true which they heartily wish were false, Mortimer. but cannot think it so without some scruple. STA'VESACRE. n. s. [berba pedicularis, Hooker. Latin.7 Laikspur ; a plant. The Syrens sang to allure them into danger; but Orpheus sang so well that he staid them. TO STAY. v. n. [staen, Dutch.] Raleigh. 1. To continue in a place; to forbear de. He took nothing but a bit of brend to stay his parture. stomach, Locke. once Lata moan, To stay these sudden gusts of passion His fell heart thought long that little way, Thae hurry you from reason, rest assurd Griev'd with each step, tormented with each stay. The secret of your love lives with me only. Fairfax. Rozue. 4. Restraint ; prudence ; caution ; discrete Stay her stomach with these half hundred steadiness ; sobriety of judgment. plays, till I can procure her a romance big enough For her son, to satisfy her great soul with adventures. Pope. In her own hand the crown she kept in store, Why cease we then the wrath of heaven'to Till riper years he raught, and stronger stay. stay? Spenser. Be humbled all. Pope. Many just and temperate provisos well'shew1. To delay ; to obstruct; to hinder from ed and foretokened the wisdom, stay, and mo deration, of the king. Bacon, progression. The joyous Time will not be stay'd With prudent stay he long deferr'd Unless she do him by the forelock take. Spens. The rough contention. Pbilips. your ships are staid at Venice. Sbakspeare. 5. A fixed state. Unto the shore, with tears, with sighs, with Who have before, or shall write after thee, Their works, though toughly laboured, will be They hiin conduct; cursing the bounds that stay Like infancy or age to man's firm stay, Their willing fleet, that would have further Or early and late twilights to mid-day. Donne. gone, Daniel. Alas! what stay is there in human state? I will bring thee where no shadow stays. And who can shun inevitable fate? Dryden. Thy coming, and thy soft embraces. Milton. 6. A prop ; a support. I was willing to stay my reader on an argu- Obedience of creatures unto the law of natura ment that appears to me new. Locke. is the stay of the whole world. Hooker. 3. To keep from departure. What surety of the world, what hope, what stay, If as a prisoner I were here, you might When this was once a king, and now is clay? Have then insisted on a conqueror's right, Shakspeare. And stay'd me here. Dryden. My only strength, and stay! forlorn of thee, 4. [estager, French.] To prop; to support; Whither shall I betake me where subsist? to hold up. Milton On this determination we might stay our. Trees serve as so many stays for their vines, which hang like garlands from tree to tree. selves without further proceeding herein. Addison, Hooker, Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one 7. Tackling. on the one side and the other on the other. With stays and cordage last he rigg'd a ship, Exodus, And, rollid on levers, launch'd her in the deep. Sallows and reeds, for vineyards useful found, Pope. To stay thy vines. Dryden. 8. Steadiness of conduct. STAY. n. so [estaye, French.) See Stays. STA'Yep. part. adj. [from star.] Fised; 1. Continuance in a place ; forbearance of settled ; serious ; not volatile. Whatsoever is above these proceedeth of shortdeparture. ness of memory, or of want of a stayed and equal Determine attention. Bacon. Or for her stay or going; the affair cries haste. He was well stay'd, and in his gait Shakspeare. Preserv'd a grave majestick state. Hudibras. Should judges make a longer stay in a place A stayed man and wife are seldom so indolent than usually they do, a day in a county would as not to find consolation in each other. Pope. be a very gcod addition. Bacon. Her long with ardent look his eye pursu'd, STA'YEDLY. adv. [from stayed.] ComDelighted! but desired more her stay. Milton. posedly; gravely ; prudently; soberly; 'The Thracian youth invades calınly ; judiciously, 1. Solidity; weight. The jealous king suspect we have been plotting. When substantialness combineth with delightDenham. fulness, and currentness with stayedness, how can What pleasure hop'st thou in my stay, the language sound otherwise than inost full of When I'm constrain'd and wish myself away? Camden. Dryden. 2. Composure; prudence ; gravity; judiWhen the wine sparkles, ciousness. Make haste, and leave thy business and thy Sta’YER. n. s. [from stay.] One who care; No mortal int'rest can be worth thy stay. Dryd. stop3, holds, or supports, May Jove, the guardian of the capitol, 2. Stand ; cessation of progression. He, the great stayer of our troops in rout, Bones, after full growth, continue at a stay; Fulfil your hopes, and animate the cohorts. teeth stand at a stay, except their wearing; A. Philips Bacon. STA'YLACE. n. s. [stay and lace.) A lace Affairs of state seemed rather to stand at a say, than to advance or decline. with which women fasten their boddice. Hayward. Made of sphere-metal, never to decay, A staylace from England should become a to. Until his revolution was at stay. Milton. Swift. Dryden. of whalebone, worn by women. 3. A stop; an obstruction; a hinderance No stubborn stays her yielding shape embrace. from progress. Guy. sweetness Drydes. 2. Ropes in a ship to keep the mast from Your friendly aid and counsel much may stead me. Rowe. falling aft. All masts, topmasts, and flagstaves, have stays, 2. To fill the place of another. Obsolete. We shall advise this wronged maid to stead up except the spritsail topmast : the mainmast, foremast, with the masts belonging to them, your appointment, and go in your place. Sbaki. have also back stays, which help to keep the Stea'd fast. adj. (stead and fast.] mast from pitching forward or overboard. Harris. 1. Fast in place ; firm ; fixed. 3. (rzade, Saxon.] Station ; fixed anchor. Such was this giant's fall, that seem'd to shake age. This stedfast globe of earth, as it for fear did They were come upon the stays, when one of quake. Spenser. the sailors descried a galley. Sidney. Laws ought to be like stony tables, plain, stead. Our ships lay anchor'd close: nor needed wé fast, and immoveable. Spenser. Feare harme on any staies. Chapman. How rev'rend is the face of this tall pile, 4. Any support; any thing that keeps an- Whose massy pillars rear their aged heads To bcar aloft its arch'd and pond'rous roof, other extended. By its own weight made steadfast and immoreWeavers, stretch your stays upon the west. able, Dryden. Looking tranquillity; it strikes an awe STEAD. n. s. (rred, Saxon.] And terrour on my aking sight. Congreos 1. Place. Obsolete. 2. Constant; resolute. Fly, therefore, fly this fearful stead anon, I hope her stubborn heart to bend, Lest thy tool hardize work thee sad confusion. And that it then more stedfast will endure. Spenser. Spensch They nigh approached to the stead Be faithful to thy neighbour in his poverty; Where as those maremaids dwelt. Spenser. abide stedfast unto him in the time of his trouble. The term of life is limited, Ecclesiasticas Ne may a man prolong nor shorten it; Him resist, stedfast in the faith. 1 Paer. The soldier may not move from watchful stead, 3. Not turned aside by fear. Nor leave his stand, until his captain bed. Spens. What form of death could him affright, 2. Room; place which another had or Who, unconcern'd, with stedfast sight might have. It is scarcely used but Could view the surges mounting steep, with the preposition in. And monsters rolling in the deep? If we had taken them clean away, or else re Stea'D FASTLY. adv. [from steadfast.) moved them, so as to place in their stead others, we had done worse. Hooker. Firmly; constantly. There fell down many slain, and they dwelt God's omniscience steadfastly grasps the great est and most slippery uncertainties. Sautb. in their stedds until the captivity. 1 Cbronicles. Nor do the bold'st attempts bring forth In general, stedfastly believe, that whatever God hath revealed is infallibly true. Wake. Events still equal to their worth; But sometimes fail, and in their stead ȘTE A'DFASTNESS. n. s. [from steadfast.] Fortune and cowardice succeed. Butler. 1. Immutability: fixedness. Jealousy then fir'd his soul, So hard these heavenly beauties be enfir'd, And his face kindled like a burning coal; As things divine, least passions do impress, Now cold despair succeeding in her stead, The more of steadfast minds to be admir'd, To livid paleness turns the glowing red. Dryden. The more they stayed be on stedfastness. Spende 3. Use; help. To stand in stead; to be of 2. Firmness ; constancy; resolution. great vise ; to help; to advantage. d complete man bath some parts, whereof the STEA'DILY. adv. (from steady.) want could not deprive him of his essence; yet 1. Without tottering; without shaking. to have them standeth him in singular strad, in Sin bas a tendency to bring men under evils, respect of special uses. Hooker. unless hindered by some accident, which ne He makes his understanding the warehouse of man can steadily build upon. South. lumber rather than a repository of truth, which 2. Without variation or irregularity. will stand him in strad when he has occasion for So steadily does fickle fortune steer it. Locke. Th' obedient orb that it should never err. The smallest act of charity shall stand us in Blackmore. great stead. Aiterbury. STEA’DINESS. n. s. (from steady.] 4. The frame of a bed. 1. State of being pot tottering nor easily The genial bed, shaken. Sallow the feet, the borders, and the sted. Dryd. 2. Firmness ; constancy. STEAD, Sted, being in the name of a place John got the better of his cholerick temper, that is distant from any river, comes and wrought himself up to a great steadiness of from the Saxon rzed, rzyo, a place ; mind, to pursue his interest through all impedi Arbwibrat. but if it be upon a river or harbour, it is to be derived from staðe, a shore or 3. Consistent unvaried conduct. station for ships. Gibson's Camden. Steadiness is a point of prudence as well as of courage. L'Estrange. TO STEAD. v. a. (from the noun.] A friend is useful to form an undertaking, and 1. To help; to advantage; to support ;. secure steadiness of conduct. Collier. to assist. A word somewhat obsolete. STE A'D Y. adj. [rtedig, Sax.] We are neither in skill nor ability of power greatly to stead you. 1. Firm ; fixed; not tottering. Sidney. Their feet steady, their hands diligent, their It nothing steads us To chide him from our eyes. Sbakspeare. eyes watchful, and their hearts resolute. Rich garm onts, linens, stuffs, and necessaries, 2. Regular; constant; undeviating ; un. Which since have stealled much. Sbakspeare. remitted. Can you so stead me He sails 'tween worlds and worlds with steady As bring me to the sight of Isabella? Sbaksp. wing. ments. |