vitors the lands and possessions of such as did The periodical times of the planets are in ses; oppose his invasion. Davies. quiplicate proportion, and not a duplicate propor3. One who professes duty and obedience. tion of the distances from the center or the My noble queen, let former grudges pass, radii; and consequently the planets cannot be And henceforth I am thy true servitor. Sbaksp. carried about by an harmonically circulating 4. One of the lowest order in the univer fluid. Cheyne. sity. SESQUITE'RTIAN. [In mathematicks.] His learning is much of a size with his birth Having such a ratio, as that one quanand education; no more of either than what a tity or number contains another once poor hungry servitor can be expected to bring and one third part more ; as between 6 with him from his college. Swift. and X Dict. SE'RVITUDE. n. s. [servitude, French ; Sess. n. s. [for assess, cess, or cense. se.] servitus, Latin.] Rate; cess charged; tax. J. Slavery ; state of a slave ; dependance. His army was so ill paid and governed, as the Aristotle speakerh of men, whom nature hath English suffered more damage by the sess of his framed for the state of servitude, saving, They soldiers than they gained profit or security by bave reason so far forth as to conceive when abating the pride of their enemies. Davies. others direct them. Hooker. SE'ssion. n. s. [session, F. sessio, Latin.) You would have sold your king to slaughter, His princes and his peers to servitude, 1. The act of sitting. His subjects to oppression and contemp:. Sbaks. He hath as man, not as God only, a supreme Unjustly thou deprav'st it with the name dominion over quick and dead; for so much his Of servitude, to serve whom God ordains, ascension into heaven, and his session at the right Or nature: God and nature bid the same, hand of God, do inport. Hooker. When he who rules is worthiest. Milton. Many, though they concede a table-gesture, Though it is necessary that some persons in will hardly allow this usual way of session. Brown. the world should be in love with a splendid sera vitude, yet certainly they must be much behold- 2. A stated assembly of magistrates or seing to their own fancy, that they can be pleased nators. at it; for he that rises up early, and gocs to They are ready t' appear bed late, only to receive addresses, is really as Where you shall bold your session. Shakspears. much abridged in his freedom, as he that waits Summon a session, that we may arraign to present one. South. Our most disloyal lady. Sbakspeare. 2. Servants collectively. Not in use. The old man, mindful still of moan, Weeping, thus bespake the session. Cbapman. Of herds, and flocks, and numerous servitude. Oi their session ended they bid cry Milton. SE'R UM. n. s. Cail'd to council all the Achaian states, (Latin.] 1. The thin and watery part that separ Nor herald sworn the session to proclaim. Pope. 3. The space for which an assembly sits, ates from the rest in any liquor, as in without intermission or recess. milk the whey from the cream. It was contrary to the course of parliament, 2. The part of the blood which in coagu- that any bill that had been rejected should be lation separates from the grume. again preferred the same session. Clarendor. Blood is the most universal juice in an ani- . The second Nicene council affords us plentia mal body: the red part of it differs from the ful assistance, in the first session, wherein the serum, the serum from the lymph, the lymph pope's vicar declares that Meletius was ordained from the nervous juice, and that from the seve- by Arian bishops, and yet his ordination was ral other humours separated in the glands. never questioned. Stilling fleet. Arbuthnot. Many decrees are enacted, which at the next SESQUIA'LTER. I adj. [sesquiultere, Fr. session are repealed. Norris. SESQUIA’LTERAL.) sesquialter, Latin.] 4. A mecting of justices: as, the sessions In geoinetry, is a ratio where one quantity or number contains another once SE'STERCE. n. s. [sesterce, Fr. sestertium, and half as much more, as 6 and 9. Lat.] Among the Romans, a sum of Dict. about 81. is. sd. half-penny sterling In all the revolutions of the planets about the Dict. sun, and of the secondary planets about the pri- Several of them would rather chuse a sum in mary ones, the periodical times are in a sesqui- sesterces, than in pounds sterling. Addisoni. alter proportion to the mean distance. Cheyne. TO SET. v.a. preterit I set; part. pass. I As the six primary planets revolve about the sun, so the secondary ones are moved about am set. (satgan, or satyan, Gothick ; them, in the same sesquialteral proportion of rettan, Saxon; setten, Dutch.] their periodical motions to their orbs. Bentley. 1. To place; to put in any situation or SE'SQUIPEDAL. adj. (sesquipedalis, place; to put. Ere I could SESQUIPEDA'LIAN.) Latin.] Contain. Give him that parting kiss which I had set ing a foot and a half. Betwixt two charming words, comes in my faAs for my own part, I am but a sesquipedal, ther. Sbakspeare. having only six foot and a half of staturé. Addis. But that my adınir alle dexterity of wit, coun Hast thou ever measured the gigantick Ethi- terfeiting the action of an old woman, delivered opian, whose stature is above eight cubits bigh, me, the knave constable bad set me i'th' coinor the sesquipedalian pigmy? Arhutbrot and l'ope. non stocks for a witch. Sbakspeare. SE'QUO PLICATE, adj. [In mathema- They that are younger have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set ticks.] Is the proportion one quantity with the dogs of my flock. Job. or rumbur has to another, in the ratio He that hath received his testimony, hath set of one and a half to one. to his seal, that God is true. fobr. of the peace. a They have set her a bed in the midst of the voured to be set on foot, it is not easy to imas alain. Ezekiel. gine how it should at first gain entertainment. God set them in the firmament, to give light Tillotson, upon the earth. Genesis. When the father looks sour on the child, every She sets the bar that causes all my pain; body else should put on the same coldness, till Orre gift refus’d, makes all their bounty vain. forgiveness asked, and a reformation of his fande Dryden. has set him right again, and restored him to his The lives of the revealers may be justly former credit. Locke. enough set over against the revelation, to find His practice must by no means cross his prewhether they agree. Atterbury. cepts, unless he intend to set him wrong. Locke. If the fear of absolute and irresistible power, 2. To put into any condition, state, or set it on upon the mind, the idea is likely to sink posture. the deeper. Lockea They thought the very disturbance of things When he has once chosen it, it raises desire established an hire sufficient to set them on that proportionably gives him uneasiness, which work. Hooker. determines his will, and sets him at work in purThat man that sits within a monarch's heart, ruit of his choice on all occasions. Locke. Would he abuse the count'nance of the king, This river, Sbakspeare. Quench'd the dire flame that set the world on firę. Addison. Will give you audience; and wherein A couple of lovers agreed, at parting, to set It shall appear that your demands are just, aside one half hour in the day to think of each You shall enjoy them; ev'ry thing set off other. Addison. That might so much as think you enemies. Your fortunes place you far above the necesSbakspeare. sity of learning, but nothing can set you above the ornament of it. Felton. This present enterprize set off his head, Their first movement and impressed motions I do not think a braver gentleman demand the impulse of an almighty hand to set Is now alive. Shakspeare. them a-going; Cheyne. Ye caused every man his servant, whom he That the wheels were but small, may be guesshad set at liberty, to return. Jeremiah, ed from a custom they have of taking them off, Every sabbach ye shall set it in order. and setting them on. Pope. Leviticus. Be frequent in setting such causes at work, I am come to set a man at variance against his whose effects you desire to know. Watts. father. Matthew. Thou shalt pour out into all those vessels, and 3. To make motionless; to fix immoveaset aside that which is full. 2 Kings. bly. Struck with the sight, inanimate she seems; The beauty of his ornament he set in majesty, Set are her eyes, and motionless her limbs. but they made images; therefore have I set it Garth, far from them. Ezekiel. The gates of thy land shall be set wide open. 4. To fix; to state by some rule. Nabum. Hereon the prompter falls to iat railing in the The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the bitterest terns; which the gentleman, with a children's teeth are set on edge. Jeremiah. set gesture and countenance, still soberly re The shipping might be set on work by fishing, lated; until the ordinary, driven at last into a by transportations from port to port. Bacon mad rage, was fain to give over. Carew. The wheel, set on going, did pour a war upon The town of Bern has handsome fountains the Venetians with such a tempest, as Padua planted, at set distances, from one end of the and Trevigi were taken from them. Bircon, streets to the other, Addison, That this inay be done with the more advan s. To regulate; to adjust. Cage, some hours must be set apart for this exa In court they determine the king's good by bis mination. Duppa. desires, which is a kind of setting the sun by the Finding the river fordable at the foot of the dial. Suckling, bridge, he set over his horse. Hayward. God bears a different respect to places set apart By his aid aspiring and consecrated to his worship, to what he bears To set himself in glory above his peers. Milton. to places designed to common uses. South. Equal success had set these champions high, Our palates grow into a liking of the seasonAnd both resolv’d to conquer or to die. Wuller. ing and cookery which by custom they are set Nothing renders a inan so inconsiderable; for Locke, it sets him above che meaner sort of company, He rules the church's blest dominions, and makes him intolerable to che beiter, And sets men's faith by his opinions. Prior. Government of tbe Tongue, Against experience he believes, Some are reclaimed by punishment, and some are set right by good nature. L'Estrange, He argues against deinonstration; Pieas'd when his reason he deceives, The fire was form’d, she sets the kettle on. Dry. And sets his judyinent by his passion. Privre Leda's present cam, To ruin Troy, and set the world on fiame. Dryd. 6. To fit to musick; to adapt with notes. Set calf betimes to school, and let hinn be Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute. Instructed there in rules of husbandry. Dryd. Over labour'd with so long a course, Grief he tames that fetters it in verse; 'T is time to set at ease the sinoking liorse. But when I have donc so, Some man, his art or voice to shoin Dotli sci and sing my pain; And, by delighting many, frees again Grict, which verse did restrain. Donne. I had one day set the hundredth psalm, and was The son of Maia, with severe decree, singing the first line, in order to put the congreo To kill the keeper, and to set her free. Dryden. Sestafor. I such a tradition were ac any ume eadea. 7. To plant, not sow. tion into the tune. a to. Dryden. Whatsoever fruit useth to be set upon a root or a slip, if it be sown, will degenerate. Bacon. I prostrate fell, Prior. 8. To intersperse or variegate with any thing. As with stars, their bodies all High on their heads, with jewels richly set, The body is smooth on that end, and on this it is set with ridges round the point. Woodward. 2. To reduce from a fractured or dislocated state. Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: honour hath no skill in surgery then? no. Sbakspeare. Considering what an orderly life I had led, I only commanded that my arm and leg should be set, and my body anointed with oil. Herbert. The fracture was of both the focils of the left leg: he had been in great pain from the time of the setting. Wiseman. Credit is gained by course of time, and seldom recovers a strain; but if broken, is never well set again. Temple. so. To fix the affection; to determine the thoughts. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. Colossians. They should set their hope in God, and not forget his works. Psalms. Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, the heart of men is fully set in them to do evil. Ecclesiasticus, Milton, Milton Denham. Our hearts are so much set upon the value of the benefits received, that we never think of the bestower. L'Estrange. These bubbles of the shallowest, emptiest, sor row, Which children vent for toys, and women rain For any trifle their fond hearts are set on. Dryd. Should we set our hearts only upon these things, and be able to taste no pleasure but what is sensual, we must be extremely miserable when we come unto the other world, because we should meet with nothing to entertain ourselves. Tillotson. No sooner is one action dispatched, which we are set upon, but another uneasiness is ready to set us on work. Locke. Minds, altogether set on trade and profit, often contract a certain narrowness of temper. Addis. Men take an ill-natured pleasure in disappointing us in what our hearts are most set upon. Spectator. An Englishman, who has any degree of reflection, cannot be better awakened to a sense of religion in general, than by observing how the minds of all mankind are set upon this inportant point, and how every nation is actentive to the great business of their being. Addison. I am much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune so wholly set upon pleasures, that they neglect all improvements in wisdom and knowledge. Addison. 11. To predetermine ; to settle. We may still doubt whether the Lord, in suche indifferent ceremonies as those whereof we dispute, did frame his people of set purpose unto any utter dissimilitude with Egyptians, or with any other nation. Hocker. He remembers only the name of Conon, and forgets the other on set purpose, to shew his country swain was no great scholar. Dryden. 12. To establish ; to appoint ; to fix. Of all helps for due performance of this service, the greatest is that very set and standing order itself, which, framed with common advice, hath for matter and form prescribed whatsoever is herein publickly done. Hooker. It pleased the king to send me, and I set him a time: Nebemiab, He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection. Job. In studies, whatsoever a man commandeth upon himself, let him set hours for it: but whatsoever is agreeable to his nature, let him take no care for any set times; for his thoughts will fly to it of themselves, so as the spaces of other business or studies will suffice. Bacon. For using set and prescribed forms, there is no doubt but that wholesome words, being known, are aptest to excite judicious and fervent affections. King Charles. His seed, when is not sct, shall bruise my head. Milton. Though set form of prayer be an abomination, Set forms of petitions find great approbation. Deabam, Set places and set hours are but parts of that worship we owe. South. That law cannot keep men from taking more use than you set, the want of money being that alone which regulates its price, will appear, if we consider how hard it is to set a price upon unnecessary commodities; but how impossible it is to set a rate upon victuals in a time of famine. Locke. Set him such a task, to be done in such a time. Locke. Take set times of meditating on what is future. Atterbury. Should a man go about, with never so set study and design, to describe such a natural form of the year as that which is at present established, he could scarcely ever do it in so few words that were so fit. Woodward. 13. To appoint to an office; to assign to a post: Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? Fab. As in the subordinations of government the king is offended by any insults to an inferior magistrate, so the sovereign ruler of the universe is affronted by a breach of allegiance to those whom he has set over us. • Addison, 14. To exhibit ; to display: with before. Through the variety of my reading, I set ben fore me many examples both of ancient and later times. Bacon, Reject not then what offer'd means: whe knows But God hath set before us, to return thee Home to thy country and his sacred house? Milton. Long has my soul desir'd this time and place, To set before your sight your glorious race. Dry. A spacious veil from his broad shoulders flew, That set th' unhappy Phaeton to view : The faming chariot and the steeds it shew'd, And the whole fable in the mantle glow'd. Addisor. When his fortune sets before him all The pomps and pleasures that his soul can wish, His rigid virtue will accept of none. Addison He supplies his not appearing in the present scene of action, by setting his character before us, carried by land with camels through that hot and and continually forcing his patience, prudence, sandy country. Knolles, and valour, upon our observation. Broome. 26. To station ; to place. 15. To propose to choice. Cænus has betray'd All that can be done is to set the thing before The bitter truths that our loose court upbraid: men, and to offer it to their choice. Tilloison. Your friend was set upon you for a spy, And on his witness you are dcom'd to die. 16. To value ; to estimate ; to rate. Dryden. Be you contented To have a son set your decrees at nought? 27. To oppose. To pluck down justice from your awful bench? Will you set your wit to a fool's? Shakspeare. Shakspeare. 28. To bring to a fine edge : as, to set à The backwardness parents shew in divulging razor. their faults, will make them set a greater value 29. To point out, without noise or dison their credit themselves, and teach them to be turbance: as, a dog sets birds. the more careful to preserve the good opinion 30. To Set about. To apply to. of others. Locke. They should make them play-games, or enIf we act by several broken views, and will deavour it, and set themselves about it. Locken not only be virtuous, but wealthy, popular, and every thing that has a value set upon it by the 31. To Set against. To place in a state world, we shall live and die in misery. Addison. of enmity or oppositio!, Have I not set at nought my noble birth, The king of Babylon set himself against JeA spotless fame, and an unblemish'd race, rusalem. Ezekiel. The peace of innocence, and pride of virtue? The devil hath reason to set himself against it; My prodigality has giv’n thee all. Rowe. for nothing is more destructive to him than a Though the same sun, with all-diffusive rays, soul armed with prayer, Depor. Blush in the rose and in the diamond blaze, There should be such a being as assists us We prize the stronger effort of his pow'r, against our worst enemies, and comforts us uniAnd always set the gem above the flow'r. Pope. der our sharpest sufferings, when all other things set themselves against us. Tillotson. 17. To stake at play. 32. To Ser against. To oppose; to place What sad disorders play begets ! Desp'rate and mad, at length he sets in rhetorical opposition. Those darts, whose points make gods adore. This perishing of the world in a deluge is set Prior. against, or compared with, the perishing of the 18. To offer a wager at dice to another. world in the contlagration. Burnet. Who sets me else? I'll throw at all. 33. To Set apart. To neglect for a sea Shakspeare. son. 19. To fix in metal. They bighly commended his forwardness, and Think so vast a treasure as your son all other matters for that time set apart. Too great for any private man's possession; Knolles. And him too rich a jewel to be set 34. To Set aside. To omit for the preIn vulgar metal for a vulgar use. Dryden. sent. He may learn to cut, polish, and set precious Set knighthood and your soldiership aside, stones. Locka. and give me leave to tell you that you lie in 20. To embarrass; to distress; to perplex. [This is used, I think, by mistake, for In 1585 followed the prosperous expedition of beset: as, Drake and Carlile; in the which I set aside the Adam, hard beset, replied. Milton.] taking of St. Jago and St. Domingo, as surprizes rather than encounters. Bacon. Those who raise popular murmurs and discon My highest interest is not to be deceived about tents against his majesty's government, that they these matters; therefore, setting aside all other find so very few and so very improper occasions for them, shew how hard they are set in this considerations, I will endeavour to know the truth, and yield to that. Tilletson, particular, represent the bill as a grievance. Addison. 35. To Set aside. To reject. 21. To fix in an artificial manner, so as to I 'll look into the pretensions of each, and produce a particular effect. shew upon what ground it is that I embrace that The proud have laid a snare for me, they have of the deluge, and set aside all the rest. set gins. Psalms. Woodward. No longer now does my neglected mind 22. To apply to something, as a thing to Its wonted stores and old ideas find: be done. Fix'd judgment there no longer does abide, Unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon To taste the true, or set the falsc aside. Prior. usury, that the Lord may bless thee in all that 36. To Set aside. To abrogate; to annul. thou settest thine hand to. Deuteronomy. Several innovations, made to the detriment of With whate'er gall thou sett'st thyself to write, the English merchant, are now entirely set Thy.inoffensive satires never bite. Dryden. aside, Addison, 23. To fix the eyes. There may be I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and Reasons of so much pow'r and cagent force, bring them again to this land. Jeremiab. As may ev'n set aside this right of birth : Joy salutes me when I set If sons have rights, yet fathers have 'em too. My blest eyes on Anoret. Waller. Rowe. 24. To offer for a price. a He shows what absurdities follow upon such a There is not a more wicked thing than a co- supposition; and the greater those absurdities vetous man; for such an one setteth his own soul are, the more strongly do they evince the falsity to sale. Ecclesiasticus. of that supposition from whence they flow, and 35. To place in order; to frame. consequently the truth of the doctrine set aside After it was framed, and ready to be set toge by that supposition. Atterbury. ther, he was, with infinite labour and charge, 37. TO SET by. To regard; to esteem. VOL. IV. H your your throat. Sbakspeared : men, David behaved himself more wisely than all, Up higher to the plain, where we'll set forth so that his name was much set by. 1 Samuel. In best appointment all our regiments. Shaks. 38. To Set by. To reject or omit for 47. TO SET forth. To show; to exhibit. the present. To render our errours more monstrous, and You shall hardly edify me, that those nations what unto a miracle sets forth the patience of might not, by the law of nature, have been sub- God, he hath endeavoured to make the world dued by any nation that had only policy and believe he was God himself. Brorum. moral virtue; though the propagation of the To set forth great things by small. Milton, faith, whereof we shall speak in the proper place, The two humours,of a chearful trust in providwere set by, and not made part of the case. Bacon. ence, and a suspicious disidence of it, are very 39. To Set down. To explain, or relate well set forth here for our instruction. L'Estren. in writing. When poor Rutilus spends all his worth, In hopes of setting one good dinner forth, Dryden. is sweeter, because the more fetid juice goeth into the garlick. Bacom. 48. To Set forward. To advance ; to Some rules were to be set down for the government of the army. promote. Clarendon. They, yield that reading may set forward, but The reasons that led me into the meaning which not begin, the work of salvation. Hooker. prevailed on my mind, are set down. Locke, Amongst them there are not those helps which An eminent instance of this, to shew what use others have, to set them forward in the way of can do, I shall set dozun. Locke. life. Hooker. I shall set down an account of a discourse I In the external form of religion, such things as chanced to have with one of these rural states are apparently, or can be sufficiently proved, Addison. effectual, and generally fit to set forward ged40. To Set down. To register or note in liness, either as betokening the greatness of God, any book or paper; to put in writing. or as besceming the dignity of religion, or as conLet those that play your clowns speak no more curring with celestial impressions in the minds than is set down for them. Shakspeare. of men, may be reverently thought of. Hooker. Every man, careful of virtuous conversation, They mar my path, they set forward may calastudious of scripture, and given unto any abstin mity. Job. ence in diet, was set down in his calendar of su Dung or chalk, applied seasonably to the roots Bacon, of trees, doth set them foruards. spected Priscilianists. Hooker. 49. To Set in. To put in a way to One half of my commission, and set down begin. As best thou art experienc'd, since thou know'st If you please to assist and set me in, I will reThy country's strength and weakness. Sbaksp. coilect myself. Collier. I cannot forbear setting down the beautiful description Claudian has made of a wild beast, newly 50. TO SET off. To decorate ; to recombrought from the woods, and making its first ap- mend ; to adorn ; to embellish. It pearance in a full amphitheatre. Addison answers to the French relever. 41. To Set down. To fix on a resolve. Like bright metal on a sullen ground, Finding him so resolutely set down, that he was My reformation, glittering o'er niy fault, neither by fair nor foul means, but only by force, Shall shew more goodly, and attract more eyes, to be removed out of his town, he inclosed the Than that which hath no foil to set it off. Sbaksp. same round. Knolles. The prince put thee into my service for no other reason than to set me off. 42. To Set down. To fix; to establish. Shakspeare. Neglect not the examples of those that This law we may name eternal, being that have carried themselves ill in the same place ; order which God before all others hath set down not to set of thyself by taxing their memory, with himself, for himself to do all things by. Hooker. Bucon. but to direct thyself what to avoid. 43. To Set forih. To publish ; to pro May you be happy, and your sorrow's past Set off those joys I wish may ever last. Wailer. muigate; to make appear. The figures of the groupes must contrast each My willing love, other by their several positions: thus, in a play, The rather by these arguments of fear, some characters must be raised to oppose others, Set forth in your pursuit. Sbakspeare: and to set them off. Dryden. The poenis, which have been so ill set forth The men, whose hearts are aimed at, are the under luis name, are as he first writ them. W'aller. occasion that one part of the face lies under a 44. TO SET forth. To raise; to send out kind of disguise, while the other is so much set on expeditions. off and adorned by the owner. Addison. Our merchants, to their great charges, set forth Their women are perfect mistresses in shew. fleets to descry the seas. Abbot. ing themselves to the best advantage: they are The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty always gay and sprightly, and set of the worst Knolles. faces with the best airs. Addison. gallies, set forth by the Venetians. The general good sense and worthiness of his 45. TO SET forth. To display ; to ex character, makes his friends observe these little plain; to represent. singularities as foils, that rather set off than blemish As for words to set forth such lewdness, it is his good qualities. Addison. not hard for them to give a goodly and painted The work will never take, if it is not set off shew thereunto, borrowed even from the praises with proper scenes. Addison. proper to virtue. Spenser. Claudian sets off his description of the Eridanus Whereas it is commonly set forth green or yel- with all the poetical stories. Addison.. low, it is inclining to white. Brown. SI. To Set on or upon. To animate ; to So little have these false colours dishonoured instigate ; to incite. painting, that they have only served to set forth You had either never attempted this change, her praise, and to make her merit further known. set on with hope ; or never discovered it, stopt. Dryden. with despair. 46. To Set forth. To arrange ; to place Sidneys He upbraids lago, that he made him in order. Brave me upon the watch; whercou it came |