wind. And kept low shrubs from winter's pow'rful Shakspeare. CE'DRINE. adj. [cedrinus, Lat.] Of or belonging to the cedar tree.. To CEIL. v. a. [celo, Lat.] To overlay, or cover, the inner roof of a building. And the greater house he ceiled with fir-tree, which he overlaid with fine gold. 2 Chronicles. How will he, from his house ceiled with cedar, be content with his Saviour's lot, not to have where to lay his head? Decay of Piety. CEILING. n. s. [from ceil.] The inner roof. Varnish makes ceilings not only shine, but last. CEʼLATURE. n. s. [cælatura, Lat.] The art of engraving or cutting in figures. To CELEBRATE. v. a. [celebro, Lat.] 1. To praise; to commend; to give praise to; to make famous. The songs of Sion were psalms and pieces of poetry, that adored or celebrated the Supreme Being. Addison. I would have him read over the celebrated works of antiquity, which have stood the test of so many different ages. Addison. 2. To distinguish by solemn rites; to perform solemnly. He slew all them that were gone to celebrate the sabbath. 2 Maccabees. On the feast day, the father cometh forth, after divine service, into a large room, where the feast is celebrated. Bacon. 3. To mention in a set or solemn manner; whether of joy or sorrow. This pause of pow'r 't is Ireland's hour to mourn; While England celebrates your safe return. Dryd. CELEBRATION. n. s. [from celebrate.] 1. Solemn performance; solemn remembrance. He laboured to drive sorrow from her, and to hasten the celebration of their marriage. Sidney. He shall conceal it, While you are willing it shall come to note; What time we will our celebration keep, According to my birth. Shakspeare. During the celebration of this holy sacrament, you attend earnestly to what is done by the priest. Taylor. 2. Praise; renown; memorial. No more shall be added in this place, his memory deserving a particular celebration, than that his learning, piety, and virtue, have been attained by few. Clarendon. Some of the ancients may be thought sometimes to have used a less number of letters, by the celebration of those who have added to their alphabet. Holder's Elements of Speech. CELE BRIOUS. adj. [celeber, Lat.] Famous; renowned; noted. Not in use. The Jews, Jerusalem, and the Temple, hav ing been always so celebrious; yet when, after their captivities, they were despoiled of their glory, even then the Assyrians, Greeks, and Romans, honoured with sacrifices the Most High God, whom that nation worshipped. Grew. CELEBRIOUSLY. adj. [from celebrious.] In a famous manner. CELEBRIOUSNESS. n. s. [from celebrious.] Renown; fame. CELEBRITY.n.5. [celebritas, Lat.] Publick and splendid transaction. The manner of her receiving, and the celebrity of the marriage, were performed with great magnificence. Bacon. CELERIACK. n. s. A species of parsley : it is also called turnep rooted celery. CELE'RITY. n. s. [celeritas, Lat.] Swiftness; speed; velocity. We very well see in them, who thus plead, wonderful celerity of discourse: for, perceiving at the first but only some cause of suspicion, and fear lest it should be evil, they are presently, in one and the self-same breath, resolved, that what beginning soever it had, there is no possi bility it should be good. Hooker. His former custom and practice was ever full of forwardness and celerity to make head against them. Bacon. Thus, with imagin'd wings, our swift scene In motion with no less celerity Shakspeare. Three things concur to make a percussion great; the bigness, the density, and the celerity of the body moved. Digby. Arbutbust, Whatever encreaseth the density of the blood, even without encreasing its celerity, heats, because a denser body is hotter than a rarer. CELERY. n. s. A species of parsley. CELESTIAL. adj. [celestis, Lat.] 1. Heavenly; relating to the superiour regions. There stay, until the twelve celestial signs Have brought about their annual reckoning. Shakspeare. The ancients commonly applied celestial descriptions of other climes to their own. Brown. 2. Heavenly; relating to the blessed state. Play that sad note I nam'd my knell, whilst I sit meditating On that celestial harmony I go to. Shakspeare. 3. Heavenly, with respect to excellence. Canst thou pretend desire, whom zeal inflam'd To worship, and a pow'r celestial nam'd? Dryd. Telemachus, his bloomy face Glowing celestial sweet, with godlike grace. Pope. CELESTIAL. n. s. [from the adj.] An inhabitant of heaven. Thus affable and mild the prince precedes, And to the dome th' unknown celestial leads. Popes CELESTIALLY. adv. [from celestial.] In a heavenly manner. To CELE'STIFY. v. a. [from celestis, Lat.] To give something of heavenly nature to any thing. Not used. We should affirm, that all things were in all things, that heaven were but earth terrestrified, and earth but heaven celestified, or that each part above had influence upon its affinity below. Brown's Vulgar Errears. CELIACK. adj. [xania, the belly.] Relat ing to the lower belly. CEM The blood moving slowly through the celiack and mesenterick arteries, produces complaints, Arbuthnot on Aliments. CE'LIBACY. n. s. [from cælebs, Lat.] Single life; unmarried state. can attribute their numbers to nothing but their frequent marriages; for they look on celibacy as an accursed state, and generally are marSpectator. ried before twenty. By teaching them how to carry themselves in their relations of husbands and wives, parents and children, they have, without question, adorned the gospel, glorified God, and benefited man, much more than they could have done in the devoutest and strictest celibacy. Atterbury. CE'LIBATE. n. s. [cælibatus, Ĺat.] Single life. The males oblige themselves to celibate, and then multiplication is hindered. CELL. n. s. [cella, Lat.] 1. A small cavity or hollow place. The brain contains ten thousand cells; In each some active fancy dwells. Grauni. Prior. How bees for ever, though a monarch reign, Their sep'rate cells and properties maintain. Pope. 2. The cave or little habitation of a religious person. Besides, she did intend confession At Patrick's cell this ev'n; and there she went not. Then did religion in a lazy cell, Let thee and I together dwell. Prior. Till call'd to heav'n, its native seat, Where the good man alone is great. Somerville. 5. Little bags or bladders, where fluids, or matter of different sorts, are lodged; common both to animals and plants. Quincy. CE'LLAR. n. s. [cella, Lat.] A place under ground, where stores and liquors are reposited. If this fellow had lived in the time of Cato, he would, for his punishment, have been confined to the bottom of a cellar during his life. Peacham on Drawing. CE'LLARAGE. n. s. [from cellar.] The part of the building which makes the cellars. Come on, you hear this fellow in the cellarage. Shakspeare. A good ascent makes a house wholesome, and gives opportunity for tellarage. Mortimer. CE'LLARIST. n. s. [cellarius, Lat] The butler in a religious house. CELLULAR. adj. [cellula, Lat.] Consisting of little cells or cavities. Dict. The urine, insinuating itself amongst the neighbouring muscles, and cellular membranes, Sharp's Surgery. destroyed four. CE'LSITUDE. n.s. [celsitudo, Lat] Height. Dict. CE'MENT. n. s. [camentum, Lat.] 1. The matter with which two bodies are made to cohere, as mortar or glue. Your temples burned in their cement, and your franchises confined into an augre's bore. Shaks. 2. There is a cement compounded of flour, whites The foundation was made of rough stone, Let not the peace of virtue, which is set To keep it builded, be the ram to batter. Shak. Look over the whole creation, and you shall May cement their divisions, and bind up Liquid bodies have nothing to cement them; they are all loose and incoherent, and in a perpetual flux: even an heap of sand, or fine powder, will suffer no hollowness within them, Burnet. though they be dry substances. Love with white lead cements his wings; Two brightest, brittlest, earthly things, Swift. To CEMENT. v.n. To come into conjunction; to cohere. When a wound is recent, and the parts of it are divided by a sharp instrument, they will, if held in close contact for some time, reunite by inosculation, and cement like one branch of a tree Sharp's Surgery. ingrafted on another. CEMENTATION. n. s. [from cement.] The act of cementing, or uniting with ce ment. CEMENTER. n. s. [from cement.] A person or thing that unites in society. God having designed man for a sociable creature, furnished him with language, which was to be the great instrument and cementer of society. Locke. CEMETERY. n.s. [xuntágio.] A place, where the dead are reposited. The souls of the dead appear frequently in cemetries, and hover about the places where their bodies are buried, as still hankering about their old brutal pleasures, and desiring again to Addison. enter the body. CEN, and CIN, denote kinsfolk: so Cin- The Romans washed, were anointed, and wore a cenatory garment; and the same was practised by the Jews. Brown's Vulgar Errours. CENOBI'TICAL. adj. [xov and Bi.] Living in community. nuns. They have multitudes of religious orders, black and grey, eremitical and cenobitical, and Stilling fleet. CENOTAPH. n. s. [xívC and rúp.) A monument for one buried elsewhere. Priam, to whom the story was unknown, As dead deplor'd his metamorphos'd son; A cenotaph his name and title kept, And Hector round the tomb with all his brothers wept. Dryden's Fables. The Athenians, when they lost any men at sea, raised a cenotaph or empty monument. Notes on the Odyssey. CENSE. n. s. [census, Lat.] Publick rate. We see what floods of treasure have flowed into Europe by that action; so that the cense, or rates of christendom, are raised since ten times, yea twenty times told. Bacon To CENSE. v. a. [encenser, Fr.] To perfume with odours: contracted from incense. The Salii sing, and cense his altars round With Sabansmoke, their heads with poplar bound. Dryden. Grineus was near, and cast a furious look On the side altar, cens'd with sacred smoke, And bright with flaming fires. CE'NSER. n. s. [encensoir, Fr.] 1. The pan or vessel in which incense is burned. Dryden. assessment. God intended this cension only for the blessed Virgin and her son, that Christ might be born where he should. Joseph Hall. CE'NSOR. n. s. [censor, Lat.] 1. An officer of Rome, who had the power of correcting manners. 2. One who is given to censure and exprobation. Ill-natur'd censors of the present age, And fond of all the follies of the past. Roscom. The most severe censor cannot but be pleased with the prodigality of his wit, though at the same time he could have wished, that the master of it had been a better manager. Dryden. Re CENSO'RIAN. adj. [from censor.] lating to the censor. As the chancery had the pretorian power for equity, so the star-chamber had the censorian power for offences under the degree of capital. Bacon. CENSO'RIOUS. adj. [from censor.] 1. Addicted to censure; severe; full of invectives. Do not too many believe no religion to be pure, but what is intemperately rigid? no zeal to be spiritual, but what is censorious, or vindicative? Spratt. O let thy presence make my travels light! And potent Venus shall exalt my name Above the rumours of sensorious fame. Prior. 2. Sometimes it has of before the object of reproach. A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be censoWatts on the Mind. rious of his neighbours. 3. Sometimes on. He treated all his inferiours of the clergy with a most sanctified pride; was rigorously and universally censorious upon all his brethren of the gown. Swift. CENSO'RIOUSLY. adv. [from censorious.] In a severe reflecting manner. CENSO'RIOUSNESS. n.s. [from censorious.] Disposition to reproach; habit of reproaching. Sourness of disposition, and rudeness of beha viour, censoriousness, and sinister interpretation of things, all crocs and distasteful humours, render the conversation of men grievous and uneasy to one another. Tillotson. CE'NSORSHIP. n. s. [from censor.] 1. The office of a censor. 2. The time in which the office of censor is born. It was brought to Rome in the censorship of Claudius. Brown's Vulgar Erreurs. CE'NSURABLE. adj. [from censure.] Wor thy of censure; blamable; culpable. Á small mistake may leave upon the mind the lasting memory of having been taunted for something censurable. Lecke CEN'SURABLENESS. n. 5. [from censura ble.] Blamableness; fitness to be cen sured. CE'NSURE. n. s. [censura, Latin.] 1. Blame; reprimand; reproach. Enough for half the greatest of these days To 'scape my censure, not expect my praise. Pope 2. Judgment; opinion. Madam, you, my sister, will you go To give your censures in this weighty business? Shakspeart. 3. Judicial sentence. To you, lord governour, Remains the censure of this hellish villain. Sbak. 4. A spiritual punishment inflicted by some ecclesiastical judge. Ayliffe's Parergon. Upon the unsuccessfulness of milder medicaments, use that stronger physick, the censures of the church. Hammond. To CENSURE v. a. [censurer, Fr.] 1. To blame; to brand publickly. The like censurings and despisings have em bittered the spirits, and whetted both the tongues and pens of learned men one against another. Sanderson. CE'NSURER. n. s. [from censure.] He 2. To condemn by a judicial sentence. that blame's; he that reproaches. We must not stint Our necessary actions, in the fear To cope malicious censurers. Shakspeare A statesman, who is possest of real merit, should look upon his political censurers with the same neglect that a good writer regards his cri ticks. Addison. CENT. n. s. [centum, Lat. a hundred.] A hundred; as, five per cent, that is, five in the hundred. CENTAUR. n. s. [centaurus, Lat.] 1. A poetical being, supposed to be com pounded of a man and a horse. Down from the waist they are centauri, though women all above. Shakspeart. The idea of a centaur, has no more falsehood in it than the name centaur. 2. The archer in the zodiack. The chearless empire of the sky To Capricorn the Centaur archer yields. Them. CENTAURY, greater and less. [centaw rium.] Two plants. Add pounded galls, and roses dry, And with Cecropian thyme strong scented centaury. Dryden. CENTENARY. .n. s. [centenarius, Lat.] The number of a hundred. In every centenary of years from the creation, some small abatement should have been made. Hakewill on Providence. CENTE'SIMAL. n. s. [centesimus, Latin] Hundredth; the next step of progression after decimal in the arithmetick of fractions. The neglect of a few centesimals in the side of the cube, would bring it to an equality with the cube of a foot. Arbuthnot on Coins. CENTIFO'LIOus. adj. [from centum and folium, Lat.] Having a hundred leaves. CE'NTIPEDE. n. s. [from centum and pes.] A poisonous insect in the West Indies, commonly called by the English forty legs. CE'NTO. n. s. [cento, Lat.] A composition formed by joining scraps from other authors. It is quilted, as it were, out of shreds of divers poets, such as scholars call a cento. Camden. If any man think the poem a cento, our poet will but have done the same in jest which Boileau did in earnest. Advertisement to Pope's Dunciad. CENTRAL. adj. [from centre.] Relating to the centre; containing the centre; placed in the centre, or middle. There is now, and was then, a space or cavity in the central parts of it; so large as to give reception to that mighty mass of water. Woodward's Natural History. Umbriel, a dusky melancholy sprite, Down to the central earth, his proper scene, Repairs. Pope's Rape of the Lock. CENTRALLY.adv. [from central] With regard to the centre. Though one of the feet most commonly bears the weight, yet the whole weight rests centrally upon it. Dryden. CENTRE. n. s. [centrum, Lat.] The middle; that which is equally distant from all extremities. The heav'ns themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place. Shakspeare. If we frame an image of a round body all of fire, the flame proceeding from it would diffuse itself every way; so that the source, serving for the centre there, would be round about an huge sphere of fire and light. Digby on Bodies. T CENTRE. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To place on a centre; to fix as on a centre. One foot he centred, and the other turn'd Round through the vast profundity obscure. Milton. 2. To collect to a point. By thy each look, and thought, and care, 't is shown, Thy joys are centred all in me alone. Prior. He may take a range all the world over, and draw in all that wide air and circumference of sin and vice, and centre it in his own breast. South. O impudent, regardful of thy own, Whose thoughts are centred on thyself alone! Dryden. To CENTRE. v. n. 1. To rest on ; to repose on: as bodies when they gain an equilibrium. Where there is no visible truth wherein to centre, errour i as wide as men's fancies, and may wander to eternity. Decay of Piety. 2. To be placed in the midst or centre. As God in heav'n 3. Is centre, yet extends to all! so thou, What hopes you had in Diomede, lay down; Our hopes must centre on ourselves alone. Dryd. The common acknowledgments of the body will at length centre in him, who appears sincerely to aim at the common benefit. Atterbury. It was attested by the visible centring of all the old prophecies, in the person of Christ, and by the completion of these prophecies since, which he himself uttered. Atterbury. CE'N TRICK. adj. [from centre.] Placed in the centre. Some, that have deeper digg'd in mine than I, CENTRIFUGAL. adj. [from centrum and Say where his centrick happiness doth lie. Danne. fugio, Lat.] Having the quality acquired by bodies in motion, of receding from the centre. They described an hyperbola, by changing the centripetal into a centrifugal force. Cheyne. CENTRIPETAL. adj. [from centrum and peto, Lat.] Having a tendency to the centre; having gravity. The direction of the force, whereby the planets revolve in their orbits, is towards their centres; and this force may be very properly called attractive, in respect of the central body; and centripetal, in respect of the revolving body. CE'NTRY. See SENTRY. Cheyne. The thoughtless wits shall frequent forfeits pay, Who 'gainst the centry's box discharge their tea. Gay. CENTUPLE. adj. [centuplex, Lat.] Á hundred fold. To CENTUPLICATE, v. a. [centuplicatum, of centum and plico, Lat.] To make a hundred fold; to repeat a hundred times. Dict. To CENTURIATE. v. a. [centurio, Lat.] To divide into hundreds. CENTURIA TOR. n. s. [from century.] A name given to historians, who distinguish times by centuries; which is generally the method of ecclesiastical history. The centuriators of Magdeburg were the first that discovered this grand imposture. Ayliffe. CENTURION. n. s. [centurio, Lat.] A military officer among the Romans, who commanded a hundred men. Have an army ready, say you?-A most royal The centurions, and their charges, distinctly billeted in the entertainment, and to be on foot at an hour's warning. Shakspeare. CENTURY. n. s. [centuria, Lat.] 1. A hundred : usually employed to specify time; as, the second century. one. The nature of eternity is such, that, though our joys, after some centuries of years, may.seem to have grown older by having been enjoyed so many ages, yet will they really still continue new. And now time's whiter series is begun, Which in soft centuries shall smoothly run. Boyle, eession was quick in the three first centuries, because the bishop often ended in the martyr. Addison. 2. It is sometimes used simply for a hundred. That when thou meet'st one, with enquiring eyes With dumb pride, and a set formal face, He moves in the dull ceremonial track, With Jove's embroider'd coat upon his back. Dryden. Spenser. CEREMONIAL. n. s. [from ceremony. I 1. Outward form; external rite; pre scriptive formality. Romulus, as you may read, did divide the Romans into tribes, and the tribes into centuries or hundreds. When with wood leaves and weeds I've strew'd And on it said a century of pray'rs, Shakspeare. CEOL. An initial in the names of men, which signifies a ship or vessel, such as those that the Saxons landed in. Gibson. CEPHALALGY, n. s. [xeparahyia.] The headach. Dict. CEPHALICK. adj. [xspan.] That is medicinal to the head. Cephalick medicines are all such as attenuate the blood, so as to make it circulate easily through the capillary vessels of the brain. Arbuthnot on Aliments. I dressed him up with soft folded linen, dipped in a cephalick balsam. Wiseman. CERA'STES. n. s. [xpass.] A serpent having horns, or supposed to have them. Scorpion, and asp, and amphisbena diré, Cerastes horn'd, hydras, and clops drear. Milt. C'ERATE. n. s. [cera, Lat. wax.] A medicine made of wax, which, with oil, or some softer substance, makes a consistence softer than a plaster. Quincy. CE'RATED. adj. [ceratus, Lat.] Waxed; covered with wax. To CERE. v. a. [from cera, Lat. wax.] To wax. You ought to pierce the skin with a needle, and strong brown thread cered, about half an inch from the edges of the lips. Wiseman. CE'REBEL. n. s. [cerebelium, Lat.] Part of the brain. In the head of a man, the base of the brain and cerebel, yea, of the whole skull, is set parallel to the horizon. Derbam. CE'RECLOTH. n. s. [from cere and cloth.] Cloth smeared over with glutinous matter, used to wounds and bruises. The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrowded in a number of folds of linen, besmeared with gums, in manner of cerecloth. Bacon. CE'REMENT. n. s. [from cera, Lat. wax.] Cloths dipped in melted wax, with which dead bodies were infolded when they were embalmed. Let me not burst in ignorance, but tell me Why canonized bones, hearsed in earth, Have burst their cerements? Shakspeare. CEREMONIAL. adj. [from ceremony.] J. Relating to ceremony, or outward rite; ritual. What mockery will it be, To want the bridegroom, when the priest attends To speak the ceremonial rites of marriage! Shak. We are to carry it from the hand to the heart, to improve a ceremonial nicety into a substantial duty, and the modes of civility into the realities of religion. South. Christ did take away that external ceremonial worship that was among the Jews. Stilling fleet. 2. Formal; observant of old forms. Oh monstrous, superstitious puritan, The only condition that could make it prodent for the clergy to alter the ceremonial, or any indifferent part, would be a resolution in the le gislature to prevent new sects. Swift. 2. The order for rites and forms in the Romish church. CEREMONIALNESS. n. s. [from ceremo nial.] The quality of being ceremonial; overmuch use of ceremony. CEREMONIOUS. adj. [from ceremony.] 1. Consisting of outward rites. Under a different economy of religion, God was more tender of the shell and ceremonious part of his worship. 2. Full of ceremony; awful. O, the sacrifice, South. Shakspeare. Attentive to outward rites, or prescriptive formalities. You are too senseless obstinate, my lord; Too ceremonious and traditional. Shakspeare. 4. Civil; according to the strict rules of civility; formally respectful. They have a set of ceremonious phrases, that run through all ranks and degrees among them. Addison's Guardian. 5. Observant of the rules of civility. Then let us take a ceremonious leave, And loving farewel, of our several friends. Shak. 6. Civil and formal to a fault. way. The old caitiff was grown so ceremonious, as he would needs accompany me some miles in my Sidney. CEREMONIOUSLY. adv. [from ceremonious.] In a ceremonious manner; for mally; respectfully. Ceremoniously let us prepare Some welcome for the mistress of the house. Shakspeare. CEREMONIOUSNESS. n. s. [from ceremo nious.] Addictedness to ceremony; the use of too much ceremony. CEREMONY. n. s. [ceremonia, Lat.] 1. Outward rite; external form in religion. Bring her up to the high altar, that she may The sacred ceremonies partake. Spenser. He is superstitious grown of late, Quite from the main opinion he held once Of fantasy, of dreams, and ceremonies. If Disrobe the images, Sbaks. you find them deck'd with ceremony. Shaki. 2. Forms of civility. The sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it. Shakspears. Not to use ceremonies at all, is to teach others not to use them again, and so diminish respect to himself. Bacon. 3. Outward forms of state. What art thou, thou idle ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal grief, than do thy worshippers? Art thou aught else but place,degree, and form? Shakspeare. |