Remember, sir, your fury of a wife, Who, not content to be reveng'd on you, The agents of your passion will pursue. Dryd. 3. That which has the power of operating, or producing effects upon another thing. They produced wonderful effects, by the proper application of agents to patients. Temple. AGGELA'TION. n. s. [Lat. gelu.] Concretion of ice. It is round in hail, and figured in its guttulous descent from the air, growing greater or lesser according to the accretion or pluvious aggelation about the fundamental atoms thereof. Brown. AGGENERATION. n. s. [from ad and generatio, Lat.] The state of growing or uniting to another body. To make a perfect nutrition, there is required , a transmutation of nutriment; now where this conversion or aggeneration is made, there is also required, in the aliment, a similarity of matter. Brown's Vulgar Errours. To A'GGERATE. v. a. [from agger, Lat.] To heap up. AGGERO'SE. adj. [from agger, Lat.] Full of heaps. Dict. Dict. To AGGLOMERATE. v. a. [agglomero, Lat.] 1. To gather up in a ball, as thread. 2. To gather together. To AGGLOMERATE. V. n. Besides the hard agglomerating salts, The spoil of ages, would impervious choke Their secret channels. Thomson's Autumn. AGGLUTINANTS. n. s. [from aggluti nate.] Those medicines or applications which have the power of uniting parts together. To AGGLUTINATE. v. n. [from ad and gluten, glue, Lat.] To unite one part to another; to join together, so as not to fall asunder. It is a word almost appropriated to medicine. The body has got room enough to grow into its full dimensions, which is performed by the daily ingestion of food that is digested into blood; which being diffused through the body, is agglutinated to those parts that were immediately agglutinated to the foundation parts of the womb. Harvey on Consumptions. AGGLUTINATION. n. s. [from agglutinate.] Union; cohesion; the act of agglutinating; the state of being agglutinated. The occasion of its not healing by agglutina tion, as the other did, was from the alteration the ichor had begun to make in the bottom of the wound. Wiseman's Surgery. AGGLUTINATIVE. adj. [from agglutinate.] That has the power of procuring agglutination. Rowl up the member with the agglutinative rowler. Wiseman. To AGGRANDI'ZĒ. v. a. [aggrandiser, Fr. To make great; to enlarge; to exalt; to improve in power, honour, or rank. It is applied to persons generally, sometimes to things. If the king should use it no better than the pope did, only to aggrandise covetous churchmen, it cannot be called a jewel in his crown. Ayliffe. These furnish us with glorious springs and mediums, to raise and aggrandize our conceptions, to warm our souls, to awaken the better passions, and to elevate them even to a divine pitch, and that for devotional purposes. Watts. A'GGRANDISEMENT. n. s. [agrandissement, Fr.] The state of being aggrandized; the act of aggrandizing. A'GGRANDIZER. n. s. [from aggrandize.] The person that aggrandizes or makes great another. To AGGRATE. v. a. [aggratare, Ital.] To please; to treat with civilities. Not in use. And in the midst thereof, upon the floor, Courted of many a jolly paramour; Fairy Q To A'GGRAVATE. v. a. [aggravo, Lat.] 1. To make heavy used only in a metaphorical sense; as, to aggravate an accusation, or a punishment. A grove hard by sprung up with this their change, His will who reigns above! to aggravate Their penance, laden with fruit like that Which grew in Paradise, the bait of Eve, Us'd by the tempter. Milton's Paradise Lost. Ambitious Turnus in the press appears, And aggravating crimes augments their fears. Dryden. 2. To make any thing worse, by the addition of some particular circumstance, not essential. This offence, in itself so heinous, was yet in him aggravated by the motive thereof, which was not malice or discontent, but an aspiring mind to the papacy. Bacon's Henry VII. AGGRAVATION. n. s. [from aggravate.] 1. The act of aggravating, or making heavy. 2. The act of enlarging to enormity. 3. A painter added a pair of whiskers to the face, and by a little aggravation of the features changed it into the Saracen's head. Addison. The extrinsical circumstances or accidents, which increase the guilt of a crime, or the misery of a calamity. He, to the sins which he commits, hath the aggravation superadded of committing them against knowledge, against conscience, against sight of the contrary law. Hammond, If it be weigh'd By itself, with aggravations not surcharg'd, The easier towards me, or thy hatred less. Milton. A'GGREGATE. adj. [aggregatus, Lat.] Framed by the collection of any particular parts into one mass, body, or system. The solid reason of one man, with unprejudicate apprehensions, begets as firm a belief as the authority or aggregate testimony of many hundreds. Brown's Vulgar Errours. They had, for a long time together, produced many other inept combinations, or aggregate forms of particular things, and nonsensical systems of the whole. Ray on the Creation. AGGREGATE. n. s. [from the verb.] The complex or collective result of the conjunction or acervation of many particulars. The reason of the far greatest part of mankind, is but an aggregate of mistaken phantasms, and, in things not sensible, a constant delusion. Glanville's Scepsis Scientifica. A great number of living and thinking particles could not possibly, by their mutual contact, and pressing, and striking, compose one greater individual animal, with one mind and understanding, and a vital contension of the whole body; any more than a swarm of bees, or a crowd of men and women, can be conceived to make up one particular living creature, compounded and constituted of the aggregate of them all. Bentley. To A'GGREGATE. v. a. [aggrego, Lat.] To collect together; to accumulate; to heap many particulars into one mass. The aggregated soil Death, with his mace petrifick, cold, and dry, As with a trident, smote. Milt. Par. Lost. AGGREGATION. n. s. [from uggregate.] 1. Collection, or state of being collected. Their individual imperfections being great, they are moreover enlarged by their aggregation; and being erroneous in their single numbers, once huddled together, they will be errour itself. Brown's Vulgar Errours. 2. The collection, or act of collecting many particulars into one whole. The water resident in the abyss is, in all parts of it, stored with a considerable quantity of heat, and more especially in those where these extraordinary aggregations of this fire happened. Woodward's Natural History. 3. The whole composed by the coacervation of many particulars; an aggregate. To AGGRE'SS. v. n. [aggredior, aggres sum, Lat.] To commit the first act of violence; to begin the quarrel. The glorious pair advance With mingled anger, and collected might, To turn the war, and tell aggressing France, How Britain's sons and Britain's friends can fight. Prior. AGGRESSION n. s. [aggressio, Lat.] The first act of injury; commencement of a quarrel by some act of iniquity. There is no resisting of a common enemy, without an union for a mutual defence; and there may be also, on the other hand, a conspiracy of common enmity and aggression. L'Estrange. AGGRESSOR. n. s. [from aggress,] The person that first commences hostility; the assaulter or invader, opposed to the defendant. Fly in nature's face? It is a very unlucky circumstance, to be obliged to retaliate the injuries of such authors, whose works are so soon forgotten, that we are in danger already of appearing the first aggressors. Pope and Swift. AGGRIEVANCE.N.S. [See GRIEVANCE.] Injury; hardship inflicted; wrong en dured. To AGGRIEVE. v. a. [from gravis, Lat. See To Grieve.] 1. To give sorrow; to cause grief; to vex. It is not improbable, that to grieve was originally neuter, and aggrieve the active. But while therein I took my chief delight, The spring, the place, and all clean out of sight: 2. To impose some hardships upon; to harass; to hurt in one's right. This is a kind of juridical sense; and whenever it is used now, it seems to bear some allusion to forms of law. Sewall, archbishop of York, much aggrieved with some practices of the pope's collectors, took all patiently. Camden. The landed man finds himself aggrieved by the falling of his rents, and the streightening of his fortune, whilst the monied man keeps up his gain, and the merchant thrives and grows rich by trade. Locke. Of injur'd fame, and mighty wrongs receiv'd, Chloe complains, and wondrously's aggriev'd. Granville. To AGGROUP. v. a. [aggropare, Ital.] To bring together into one figure; to crowd together: a term of painting. Bodies of divers natures, which are aggrouped (or combined) together, are agreeable and plea sant to the sight. Dryden. AGHAS'T. adj. [either the participle of agaze (see ÁGAZE) and then to be written agazed or agast; or from a and gart, a ghost, which the present orthography favours: perhaps they were originally different words.] Struck with horrour, as at the sight of a spectre; stupified with terrour. It is generally applied to the external appearance. She sighing sore, as if her heart in twaine Had riven been, and all her heart-strings brast, With dreary drooping eyne look'd up like one agbast. Spenser. The aged earth aghast, With terrour of that blast, Shall from the surface to the centre shake. Milton. Agbart he wak'd, and starting from his bed, Cold sweat in clammy drops his limbs o'erspread. Dryden's Æneid. I laugh to think how your unshaken Cato Will look agbast, while unforeseen destruction Pours in upon him thus from every side. Addison. A'GILE. adj. [ague, Fr. agiks, Lat.] Nimble; ready; having the quality of being speedily put in motion active. With that he gave his able horse the head, And bending forward struck his agile heels Against the panting sides of his poor jade, Up to the rowel head. Shakspeare. The immediate and agile subservience of the spirits to the empire of the mind or soul. Hale. To guide its actions with informing care, In peace to judge, to conquer in the war, Render it agile, witty, valiant, sage, As fits the various course of human age, Prior. AGILENESS. . . [from agile.] The quality of being agile; nimbleness; readiness for motion; quickness; activity; agility. AGILITY. n.. [agilitas, Lat. from agilis, agile.] Nimbleness; readiness to move; quickness; activity. A limb over-strained by lifting a weight above its power, may never recover its former agility and vigour. Watts. AGILLOCHUM. n. s. Aloes-wood. A tree in the East Indies, brought to us in small bits, of a very fragrant scent. It is hot, drying, and accounted a strengthener of the nerves in general. The best is of a blackish purple colour, and so light as to swim upon water. Quincy. A'GIO. n. s. [An Italian word, signifying ease or conveniency.] A mercantile term, used chiefly in Holland and Venice. for the difference between the value of bank notes, and the current money. Chambers. To AGI'ST v. a. [from giste, Fr. a bed or resting place, or from gister, i. e. stabulur.] To take in and feed the cattle of strangers in the king's forest, and to gather the money. The officers that do this, are called agistors, in English, guest or gist takers. Their function is termed agisment, as agistment upon the sea-banks. This word agist is also used for the taking in of other men's cattle into any man's ground, at a certain rate per week. Blount. AGI'STMENT. n. s. [See AGIST.] It is taken by the canon lawyers in another sense than is mentioned under agist. They seem to intend by it, a modus or composition, or mean rate, at which some right or due may be reckoned; perhaps it is corrupted from addoucissement, or adjustment. AGI'STOR, U. s. [from agist.] An officer of the king's forest. See AGIST. A'GITABLÉ. adj. [from agitate; agitabilis, Lat.] That may be agitated, or put in motion; perhaps, that may be disputed, See AGITATE, and AGITATION. To A'GITATE. v. a. [agito, Lat.] 1. To put in motion; to shake; to move nimbly; as, the surface of the waters is agitated by the wind; the vessel was broken by agitating the liquor. 2. To be the cause of motion; to actuate; to move. Where dwells this sov'reign arbitrary soul, Which does the human animal controul, Inform each part, and agitate the whole? Blackmore, 3. To affect with perturbation; as, the mind of man is agitated by various pas sions. 4. To stir; to bandy from one to another; to discuss; to controvert; as, to agitate a question. 5. Though this controversy be revived, and hotly agitated among the moderns; yet I doubt whether it be not, in a great part, a nominal dispute. Boyle on Colours. To contrive; to revolve; to form by laborious thought. Formalities of extraordinary zeal and piety are never more studied and elaborate, than when politicians most agitate desperate designs. King Charles. AGITATION. n. s. [from agitate; agitatio, Latin.] 1. The act of moving or shaking any thing. Putrefaction asketh rest; for the subtle motion which putrefaction requireth, is disturbed by Bacon. any agitation. 2. The state of being moved or agitated; as, the waters, after a storm, are some time in a violent agitation. 3. Discussion; controversial examination. 3. A kind of a school question is started in this fable, upon reason and instinct; this deliberative proceeding of the crow was rather a logical agitation of the matter. L'Estrange's Fables. Violent motion of the mind; pertur bation; disturbance of the thoughts. A great perturbation in nature! to receive at once the benefit of sleep, and do the effects of watching. In this slumbry agitation, besides her walking, and other actual performances, what have you heard her say? Shaksp. Macbeth. His mother could no longer bear the agitations of so many passions as thronged upon her. Tatler. Deliberation; contrivance; the state of being consulted upon. The project now in agitation for repealing of the test act, and yet leaving the name of an es tablishment to the present national church, is inconsistent. Swift's Miscellanies. AGITA'IOR. n. s. [from agitate.] He that agitates any thing; he who manages affairs; in which sense seems to be used the agitators of the army. A'GLET, . . [some derive it from dy splendour; but it is apparently to be deduced from aigulette, Fr. a tag to a point, and that from aigu, sharp.] 1. A tag of a point curved into some re presentation of an animal, generally of a man. He thereupon gave for the garter a chain worth 2001 and his gown addressed with agiets, esteemed worth 251. Hayward. Why, give him gold enough, and marry him to a puppet, or an aglet baby, or an old trot, and ne'er a tooth in her head. Shakspeare. 2. The pendants at the ends of the chives of flowers, as in tulips. A'GMINAL. adj. [from agmen, Lat.] Belonging to a troop. Dict. A'GNAIL. adj. [from ange, grieved, and nagle, a nail.] A disease of the nails; a whitlow; an inflammation round.the nails. AGNA'TION. n. s. [from agnatus, Lat.] Descent from the same father, in a direct male line, distinct from cognation, or consanguinity, which includes descendants from females. AGNITION n. s. [from agnitio, Lat.] Acknowledgment. To AGNIZE. v. a. [from agnosco, Lat.] To acknowledge; to own; to avow. Obsolete. I do agnize A natural and prompt alacrity I find in hardness. Shakspeare's Othello. AGNOMINATION. n. s. [agnominato, Lat.] Allusion of one word to another, by resemblance of sound. The British continueth yet in Wales,' and some "illages of Cornwall, intermingled with provincial Latin, being very significative, copious, and pleasantly running upon agnominations, although harsh in aspirations. Camden. AGNOS C4STUS. n. s. [Lat.] The name of the tree commonly called the Chaste Tree, from an imaginary virtue of preserving chastity. Of laurel some, of woodbine many more, And wreathes of agnus castus others bore. Dryd. AGO'. a [agan, Sax. past or gone; whence writers formerly used, and in some provinces the people still use, agove for ago.] Past, as long ago; that is, long time has past since. Reckoning time toward the present, we use since; as, it is a year since it happened: reckoning from the present, we use ago, as, it happened a year ago. This is not, perhaps, always observed. The great supply Are wreck'd three nights ago on Godwin sands. Shakspeare. This both by others and myself I know, For I have serv'd their sovereign long ago; Oft have been caught within the winding train. Dryden's Fables. ago. I shall set down an account of a discourse I chanced to have with one of them some time Addison's Freebolder. Aco'c, adv. [of uncertain etymology: the French have the term à gogo, in low language, as ils vivent à gogo, they live to their wish from this phrase our word may be, perhaps, derived.] 1. In a state of desire; in a state of warm imagination; heated with the notion of some enjoyment; longing; strongly excited. As for the sense and reason of it, that has little or nothing to do here; only let it sound full and round, and chime right to the humour, which is at present agog (just as a big, long, rattling name is said to command even adoration from a Spaniard), and, no doubt, with this powerful, senseless engine, the rabble driver shall be able to carry all before him. South's Sermons. 2. It is used with the verbs to be, or to set, as, he is agog, or you may set him agog. The gawdy gossip, when she's set agog, In jewels drest, and at each ear a bob, Goes flaunting out, and, in her trim of pride, Thinks all she says or does is justify'd. Dryden. This maggot has no sooner set him agog, but he gets him a ship, freights her, builds castles in the air, and conceits both the Indies in his coffers. L'Estrange. 3. It has the particles on, or for, before the object of desire. On which the saints are all agog, Hudibras. Gypsies generally straggle into these parts, and set the heads of our servant-maids so agog for husbands, that we do not expect to have any business done as it should be, whilst they are in the country. Spectator. AGUING. participal adj. [from a and going. In action; into action. Their first movement, and impressed motions, demanded the impulse of an almighty hand to set them first agoing. Tatler. AGO'NE. adv. [agan, Sax.] Ago; past; See Ago. Ben Jonson. Contention Is he such a princely one As you speak him long agone? A'GONISM. n. s. [άywnomos.] for a prize. A'GONIST.n. s. [dywvisn.] A contender for prizes. Dict. Dict. AGONISTES. n. s. [dhwvisns.] A prizefighter; one that contends at any public solemnity for a prize. Milton has so styled his tragedy, because Samson was called out to divert the Philistines with feats of strength. AGONISTICAL. adj. [from agonistes.] Re- Pope Or touch, if tremblingly, alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at every pore? AGONOTHE'TICK. adj. [dy and Proposing public contentions for prizes; giving prizes; presiding at ublic games. Thou who for me did feel such pain, Whose precious blood the cross did stain, Let not those agonies be vain. Sidney. Roscommon. 2. Any violent or excessive pain of body or mind. Betwixt them both, they have me done to dy, Thro' wounds and strokes, and stubborn handeling, That death were better than such agony, As grief and fury unto me did bring. Fairy Q. Thee I have miss'd, and thought it long, depriv'd Thy presence, agony of love! till now Not felt, nor shall be twice. Paradise Lost. 3. It is particularly used in devotions for our Redeemer's conflict in the garden. To propose our desires, which cannot take such effect as we specify, shall, notwithstanding, otherwise procure us his heavenly grace, even as this very prayer of Christ obtained angels to be sent him as comforters in his agony. Hooker. AGO'OD, adv. [a and good.] In earnest ; not fictitiously. Not in use. At that time I made her weep agood, For I did play a lamentable part. Shakspeare. AGOU'TY. n.s. An animal of the Antilles, of the bigness of a rabbit, with bright red hair, and a little tail without hair. He has but two teeth in each jaw, holds his meat in his foree-paws like a squirrel, and has a very remarkable cry. When he is angry, his hair stands on end, and he strikes the earth with his hind-feet, and, when chased, he flies to a hollow tree, whence he is expelled by smoke. Trevoux. To AGRA'CE. v. a. [from a and grace.] To grant favours to; to confer benefits upon. Not in use. She granted, and that knight so much agrac'd, That she him taught celestial discipline. Fairy Q. AGRA'MMATIST. n. s. [α, priv. and ygápua.] An illiterate man. Dict. AGRA'RIAN. adj. [ugrarius, Lat.] Relating to fields or grounds: a word seldom used but in the Roman history, where there is mention of the agrarian law. To AGRE'ASE. v. a. [from a and grease.] To daub; to grease; to pollute with filth. The waves thereof so slow and sluggish were, Engross'd with mud, which did them foul agrease. Fairy Queen. To AGREE. v. n. [agréer, Fr. from gré, liking or good-will; gratia and gratus, Lat.] 1. To be in concord; to live without contention; not to differ. The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you. Broome on Epic Poetry. 2. To grant; to yield to; to admit: with the particles to or upon. conditions. And persuaded them to agree to all reasonable 2 Maccabees. We do not prove the origin of the earth from a chaos; seeing that is agreed on by all that give Burnet. it any origin. 3. To settle amicably. A form of words were quickly agreed on between them for a perfect combination. Clarendon. 4. To settle terms by stipulation; to accord: followed by with. Agree with thine adversary quickly, whilst thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. Matthew. 5. To settle a price between buyer and seller. Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny? Matthew. 6. To be of the same mind or opinion. He exceedingly provoked or underwent the envy, and reproach, and malice, of men, of all qualities and conditions, who agreed in nothing else. Clarendon. Milton is a noble genius, and the world agrees to confess it. Watts' Improvement of the Mind. 7. To concur; to co-operate. 8. Must the whole man, amazing thought! return To the cold marble and contracted urn? And never shall those particles agree, That were in life this individual he? To settle some point among many: with upon before a noun. Prior. Strifes and troubles would be endless, except they gave their common consent all to be ordered by some whom they should agree upon. Hooker. For many bear false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together. Mark. They that stood by said again to Peter, surely thou art one of them: for thou art a Galilean, and thy speech agreeth thereto. Mark. Which testimony I the less scruple to allege, because it agrees very well with what has been affirmed to me. Boyle. 10. To suit with; to be accommodated to: with to or with. Thou feedest thine own people with angel's food, and didst send them from heaven bread agreeing to every taste. Wisdom. His principles could not be made to agree with that constitution and order which God had settled in the world; and, therefore, must needs clash Locke. with common sense and experience. II. To cause no disturbance in the body. I have often thought, that our prescribing asses' milk in such small quantities is injudicious; for, undoubtedly, with such as it agrees with, it would perform much greater and quicker effects, in greater quantities. Arbuthnot, To AGREE. v. a. 1. To put an end to a variance. |