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To Deign, to be fo kind or favourable as to do a
Thing; to vouchsafe or condefcend
Deity, God or Godhead

Delicious, full of Pleasure and Delight
Deluded, deceived, cheated

Deluge, a Flood, or overflowing

Demon, Spirit, good or bad

Demoniack, one that has an Evil Spirit, Mad Demonftration, making plain, fhewing or proving a Thing to be fo

To deplore, to forrow for, to fhew forrow for,
Depraved, made evil or bad

Depreffed, forced down, caft down

To Derive, to come from, as Water from a River -Deferted, forfaken, left alone

Defcending, going down from

Defpotick, abfolute Power, doing as one pleases,
without minding the Laws

Destiny, Fate, Lot, or that unchangeable Order of
Things that doth not adniit of any Alteration
Dethrone, to turn out of the Throne or Govern

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To deviate, to go out of the way, to mistake, ☀c
Devolving, coming to, rolling upon

Diadem, an Ornament for the Heads of Kings and
Princes, being white Filleting, bound round: It
is alfo ufed for a Kingdom, &c.

Dialogue, a Difcourfe between two or more Per-
fans

Dictator, chief in Authority. An Officer of vált
Power among the Romans

Diffufed, fpread abroad

Dignity, high Degree, Worthiness
A Dike, a Ditch

Diminution, leffening, making lef
A Din, Noile, Sound

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Dire, fierce, cruel, dreadful

Dis, of the Ufe of this Prepofition, fee the Effay towards a Practical English Grammar, P. 198. To difarm, to take away ones Arms

Difafter, misfortune, ill hap

To dfclaim. to deny to have to do with

To difclofe, to fhew, to open, to uncover, to res veal

To difcompofe, to put out of Order or Place
Difcord, falling out, not agreeing
Difdain, fcorn, diflike

Difmal, frightful, fad, unhappy
Difpelled, driven away

To difpenfe, to give, or part among

To difpenfe with a Law, is not strictly to require the Obfervance of it

To difperfe, to fcatter or spread abroad

Difporting, playing, pleafing ones felf

To diffect, to cut afunder or feparate the Parts by cutting

Dithyrambick, a Song in Honour of Bacchus, the God of Wine

Dottrine, what is taught, teaching

Dolour, Grief, Pain

Dometick, belonging to the House or Family
Doom, Judgment, Sentence paft on one
Dowager, a Widow

Drift, To run a-drift, to be driven about

Drone, a Bee without a Sting, also an idle Perfon Droply, the fwelling and ftretching the Skin of the Belly, and other Parts, from abundance of Watry Humours

Drofs, the worst Part

Ductile Matter, drawn out, properly by Hammering.

A ductile Mind, eafy to be perfwaded

Dungeon,

Dungeon, Dark Prifon.
Dusk, Dark..
Dye, Colour.

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Art, Formerly, a while ago.

Ebb, Low-Tyde, or the Tyde being down
Effulgence, Brightnefs, thining fortr
Cound turning back, anfwering again.

Elaborate, Done with a great deal of Pains; per fect, exact, alfo diligent.

Elf, A Fairy, Hobgoblin, a little forry thing; also a Dwarf.

Election, Choofing, Choice.

Elements, The first Beginnings of which all mixed Bodies are made up; there are Four, Fire, Air, Earth, Water.

Elfium, A Place of Happiness: Fields whither the Poets feigned the Souls of pious Persons to go. Emanation, Flowing out or from.

To Embalm, To preferve dead Bodies by means of feveral forts of Spices and Baln

To Embark, To go a Shipboard.
Embattled. See Imbattled.

Embofed, Covered, overlaid; a Word borrowed
from raised Works in Architecture and Carving.
To Embrace, To falute, alfo to furround. A
Embryo, The Child before it hath its perfect Shape.
Emmet, An Ant.

Emergent, Coming out where it was drowned or hid; alfo the prefent Occafion, or what now requires to be done.

Emperor, King; the Governour.

Empire, The Government, Rule.

Empyreal-Heaven, The higheft Heaven.

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Emulous.

Emulous, One that seeks to outdo another; envious. To Ennoble. To make Noble or Great

Enormous. Out of Rule or Proportion, exceeding Great

To Enrich. To make Rich

Enfuing. Following

Enthralling. Made a Slave; from the Inpired from

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Entity. The Being of a Perfon or Thing

Epilepfy. The Falling-Sickness

Epitaph. The writing on a Tomb

To Err. To mistake, do amifs

Errand or Errant. A Meffage; also wandring, travelling, as a Knight-Errant

Error. Miftake, going out of the way
Eternal. Abiding for ever: Everlasting

Eternity. Time without beginning or end: Everlaftingness

Euphrates. A great River of Mefopotamia
Exalted. Lifted up, raised to Honour
To Exclaim. To cry out against

To Exclude. To fut out

Executor. He that performs or does a thing; properly the Perfon intrufted to fee a Laft Will performed

Exempted. Freed from doing; excufed

Exhalation. A Steam or Vapour arifing from
Exhaled. Breathed out

Exile. Banifhment

Existence. The Being of a Perfon or Thing
Expanfe. The fpreading out of the Heavens, the
Sky, the Firmament

To Explore. To fearch out, to try, to spy or scent
Expunged wiped out

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To Extend. To ftretch out
To Extol. To lift up, to praise
Extracted. Drawn out, or forth
Exulting. Triumphing, rejoicing, bragging
Eme. A Female-Sheep, whofe Male is a Ram
Eyrie. A Neft built on high

FAbrick. A Building

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Faction. The rifing against, or oppofing what is lawfully established

Faculty. The Natural Power to do a Thing; also Leave or Licence to do it

Fain. I fain would have; that is, I defire to have Falcon. A kind of Hawk

Fime. Common Report; alfo Praife, Good Name Famed. Talked of, known

Famine. Want of Food, great Hunger;

To Fan. To fhake about, as they do Corn
Fann'd. Blown, toffed

Fantaftick. Following one's Fancy, conceited

Furce. What is acted at the end of a Play, or bes tween the Afts, to make People laugh

To Fare. To go.

Farrowed. Brought forth Pigs

Fatal. Cauling Misfortune or Death
Fate. See Destiny

Fell. Fierce, cruel, deadly

Felicity, Happiness

Ferment, or Fermenting. The working of Liquid Bodies, after they have been Fermenting, heated upon one another: the working of Liquors Fermented. Working up, grown puffy or light Fertile. Which brings forth, fruitful

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