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he would have two tributes in one year, he are we brought in, that he may seek occasion must give them two seedtimes, and two harvests. against us, and take us for bondmen. Genesis.

Bacon, He seeketb unto him a cunning workman, to The first rain fell upon the seedtime about Oc- prepare a graven image.

Isaiab. tober, and was to make the seed to root; the lat- Seek thee a man which may go with thee. ter was to fill the ear. Brown,

Tobit. Day and night,

Sweet peace, where dost thou dwell? Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost,

I humbly crave, Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things. Let me once know;

Milton. I sought chee in a secret cave, Their very seedtime was their harvest, and by And ask'd if peace were there. Herbert. sowing cares they immediately reaped gold. The king meant not to seek out nor to decline

Decay of Piety. fighting with them, if they put themselves in his He that too curiously observes the face of the

Clarendon, heavens, by missing his seedtime, will lose the So fatal 't was to seek temptations out! hopes of his harvest.

Atterbury,

Most confidence has still most cause to doubt. SEE'DLING, n. s. [from seed.) A young

Dryden.

We must seek out some other original of power plant just risen from the seed.

for the government of politicks than this of Carry into the shade such seedlings or plants Adam, or else there will be none at all in the as are for their choiceness reserved in pots.

world.

Locke, Evelyn.

2. To solicit ; to endeavour to gain. SEE'D NESS. n. s. [from seed.] Seedtime; Others tempting him, sought of him a sign. the time of sowing.

Luke. Blossoming time

The young lions roar after their prey, and From the seedress the bare fallow brings

seek their meat from God.

Psalms, To teeming foyson.

Shakspears. God hath bid dwell far off all anxious cares, SEE'DSMAN. n.s. (seed and man.]

And not molest us, unless we ourselves 1. The sower; he that scatters the seed. Seck them with wandering thoughts. Milton. The higher Nilus swells

Oft our alliance other lands desir'd, The more it promises; as it ebbs, the seedsman And what we seek of you, of us requir’d. Dryde Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain, 3. To go to find.

And shortly comes to harvest. Sbakspeare. Let us seek death, or, he not found, supply %. One that sells seed.

His office.

Milton. SEE'DY. adj. [from seed.] Abounding

Dardanus, though born

On Latian plains, yet sought the Phrygian shore. with seed.

Dryden. SEE'ING. n. s. [from see.] Sight; vision. Like fury seiz'd the rest ; the progress known,

Love adds a precious secing to the eye. Sbaks. All seek the mountains, and forsake the town. SEE'ING,

Dryden. It would be more

Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygiap plains,

Within these walls inglorious silence reigns. Pope. grammatically written, as que, pourvû

Indulge one labour more, que, in French ; seen tbat, or provided And seek Atrides on the Spartan shore. that.] Since; sith; it being so that. Why should not they be as well victualled for 4. To pursue by machinations.

I had a son, so long time, as the ships are usually for a year,

Now outlaw'd from my blood; he sought my seeing it is easier to keep victuals on land 'than

life.

Sbakspeare. water?

Spenser.

David saw that Saul was come out to seek his How shall they have any trial of his doctrine,

life.

1 Samuel. learning, and ability to preach, seeing that he may not publickly either teach or exhort, be. TO SEEK. v.n. cause he is not yet called to the ministry? 1. To make search; to make inquiry:

W bitgift.

Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read. Seeing every nation affords not experience and

Isaiab. tradition enough for all kind of learning, there- I have been forced to relinquish that opinion, fore we are taught the languages of those people and have endeavoured to seek after some better who have been most industrious after wisdom.

Spectator. Milton.

2: To endeavour. Seeing they explained the phenomena of vi

Why should he mean me ill, or seek to harm? sion, imagination, and thought, by certain thin

Milton. fleeces of atoms that flow from the surfaces of

Ask not what pains, nor further seek to know bodies, and by their subtlety penetrate any ob

Their process, or the forms of law below. Dryd, stacle, and yet retain the exact lineaments of the several bodies from which they proceed: in con

2. To make pursuit. sequence of this hypothesis they maintained, Violent men have sought after my soul. Psal. that we could have no phantasy of any thing,

If thy brother's ox or sheep ge astray, it shall but what did really subsist either intire or in its

be with thee until thy brother seek after it. several parts. Bentley.

Deuteronomy. TO SEEK. v. a. pret. I sought ; part. pass.

4. To apply to; to use solicitation.

All the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his sought. [recan, Sax. soecken, Dutch.]

wisdom.

1 Kings. 1. To look for ; to search for: often with

Unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither out.

thou shalt come. He did range the town to seek me out.

Sbakspeare.

5. To endeavour after.

Being a man of experience, he wished by wise I have a venturous fairy, that shall seek

dom to order that which the young prince sought The squirrel's hoard, and fetch thee thence new

Knolles, Sbakspeare, Because of the money returned in our cacks, To SLEK. (An adverbial mode of speech.)

SEEPING:hat.} ady, [vủ que, Fr. from

see.

Pope.

reason.

Deuteronomy.

2

for by war.

nuts.

a

King Lear.

At a loss; without measures, know-
Jedge, or experience.

Being brought and transferred from other services abroad, though they be of good experience in those, yri in these they will be new io seek; and before they have gathered experience, they shall buy it with great loss to his majesty. Spens. Unpráctis'd, unprepar'd, and still to seek.

Milton, But they misplace them all; And are as much to seek in other things, As he that chily can design a tree,

Would be to draw a shipwreck. Roscommon. SEE':. E 1. so I from seek.] 1. One that seeks ; an inquirer.

Though I confess that in philosophy I am a seeker, yet cannot believe that a sceptick in philosophy must be one in divinity. Glan-oille.

A language of a very wirty volatile people, seekers after novelty, and abounding with variety of notions.

Locke. 2. The name of a sect which professed no

determinate religion. SEE'KSORROW, n. s. [seek and sorrow. .]

One who contrives to give himself vexaticn.

Afield they go, where many lookers be, And thou seeksorrow, Klaius, them among:

Indeed thou saidst it was thy friend to sec, Strephon, whose absence seem'd unto thee long.

Sidney. TO SEEL. V. a. [sceller, to seal, Fr.) To

close the eyes. A term of falconry, the eyes of a wild or haggard hawk being for a time sceled or closed.

Now she brought them to see a sceled dove, who the blinder she was, the higher she strave.

Sidney.
Mine eyes no more on vanity shall feed,
But

up

with death shail have their deadly meed.

Fairy Queen.
Come, seeling night,
Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day. Shaksp.

Some ambitious men seem as screens to princes in matters of danger and envy; for no man will take such parts, unless he be like the seeled dove, that mounts and mounts, because he cannot see about him.

Bacon. Since, blinded with ambition, he did soar Like a seeld dove, his crimes shall be his punish

ment,
To be depriv'd of sight.

Denbam. TO SEEL. V.n. [ryllan, Sax.] To lean on one side.

When a ship seels or rowls in foul weather, the breaking loose of ordnance is a thing very dangerous.

Ruleigh. SEEL or SEE'LING. 1. s. [from seel.] The agitation of a ship in foul weather,

Ainscuorth. SEE'ly. adj. [from seel, lucky time, Sax.] 1. Lucky ; happy.

My seely sheep like well below, For they been hale enough and trow, And liken their abode.

Spenser. 2. Silly; foolish ; simple.

Peacock and turkie, that nibbles off top, Are very ill nciglibours to seely poor hop. Tusser. TO SEEM. v. n. (sembler, Fr. unless it has

a Teutonick original, as seemly certainly

has.) 1. To appear; to make a show; to have semblance.

My lord, you've lost a friend, indeed; And I dare swear you borrow not that face Of sceming sorrow; it is sure your own. Sbaksp.

Speak: we will not trust our eyes Without our ears: thou art not what thou seem'st.

Sbakspeare. So spake th' Omnipotent; and with his words All seem'd well plcas'd; all seem'd, but were not all.

Milton. In holy nuptials ty'd; A seeming widow, and a secret bride. Dryden.

Observe the youth Already seems to snuff the vital air. Dryden. 2. To have the appearance of truth.

In seems to me, that the true reason why we have so few versions which are tolerable, is because there are so few who have all the talents requisite for translation.

Dryden. 3. In Shakspeare, to scem, perhaps, signifies to be beautirul.

Sir, there she stands:
If aught within that little seeming substance
May fitly like your grace,

She's there, and she is yours. 4. It SLEMS. A phrase hard to be ex

plained. It sometimes signifits that there is an appearance, though no reali. ty; but generally it is used ironically to condemn the thing mentioned, like the Latin scilickt, or the old English forsooth. Id mihi darur negotii scilicet. This, it seems, is to be my task.

The earth by these, 't is said, This single crop of men and women bred; Who, grown adult (so chance, it seems, enjain'd) Did male and female propagate.

bluckmore. 5. It is sometimes a slight affirmatiin.

prince of Italy, it seems, entertained his mis. tress upon a great lake.

Addison The raven, urg'd by such impertinence, Grew passionate, it seems, and took offence.

Addison. He had been a chief magistrate; and had, it seems, executed that high office justiy and how nourably.

Aiterbury. seems that when first I was discovered sleep ing on the ground, the emperor had early notice.

Gulliver, 6. It appears to be.

Here's another disconterted paper, Found in his pocket too; and this, it seems, Roderigo meant t' have sent. Sbakspeare.

It seems, the camel's hair is taken by painters for the skin with the hair on.

Brotun, SEE'MER. n.s. (from seem.] One that car. ries an appearance.

Angelo scarce confesses
That his blood flows, or that his appetite
Is more to bread than stune: hence shall we see,
If pow'r change purpose, what our seemers be.

Sbakspeare, SEE'MING. n. s. [from seem.] 1. Appearance; show ; semblance.

All good seeming,
By thy revolt, oh husband, shall be thought
Put on for villany.

Sbakspears.
Give him heedful note;
And, after, we will both our judgments join
In censure of his seeming.

Slatspeare, 2. Fair appearance.

For you there's rosemary and rue; these keep Seeming and savour all the winter long. Slaks. 3. Opinion.

Nothing more clear unto their seeming, than that, a new Jerusalem being otten spoken of in scripture, they undoubtedly were themselves that new Jerusalem.

Hooker,
His persuasive words impregn'd
With reason to her seeming.

Milton.

seeled

a

71.

SEEMINGLY, adv. [from seeming.) In

Caught, like dry stubble fir'd, or like ser man

wood; appearance ; in show ; in semblance.

Yet from the wound ensu'd no purple flood, To this her mother's plot,

But look'd a bubbling mass of frying blood. She, seemingly obedient, likewise hath Made promise to the doctor. Sbakspeare.

Dryden. They to their viands fell, not seemingly,

SEE's Aw. n. s. [from saw.] A reciproThe angels, nor in mist.

Milton. cating motion, I have touched upon them, theugh seemingly His wit all seesaw, between that and this; collateral to my scope; and yet I think they are Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, more than seemingly so, since they pertinently

And he himself one vile antithesis. Pope. illustrate my design.

Glanville. TO SEE'S A W. v. n. (from saw.] To move The city dame was so well bred, as seemingly with a reciprocating motion. to take all in good part.

L'Estrange. Sometimes they were like to pull John over, The king and haughty empress, to our wonder, then it went all of a sudden again on John's side; If not aton'd, yet seemingly at peace. Dryden.

so they went seesuwing up and down, from one This the father seemingly complied with; but end of the room to the other. Arbuthnot. afterwards refusing, the son was likewise set

TO SEETH. v. a. preterit I sod or seetied; aside.

Addison, They depend often on remote and seemingly

part. pass. sodden. [reodan, Sax soiden, disproportioned causes.

Atterbury;

Dutch.] To boil; to decoct in hot SE E'MINGNESS. n. s. [from seeming. ]

liquor. Plausibility; fair appeaiance.

The Scythians used to seeth the flesh in the The seemingness of those reasons persuades us

hide, and so do the northern Irish. Spenser. on the other side.

Digby.

Go, suck the subtile blood o' th' gripe, SEE'MLINESS. n. s. [from seemly.) De

Till the high fever seeth your blood to froth,
And so 'scape hanging.

Sbakspeare. cency; handsomeness ; comeliness ;

Set on the great pot, and seetb pottage for the grace; beanty:

sons of the prophets.

9 King. When substancialness combineth with delight. TO SEETH. v.n. To be in a state of ebulfulness, seeinliness with portliness, and currentness with stayedness, how can the language sound

lition ; to be hot. other than full of sweetness?

Camden, The boiling baths at Cairbadon, SEE'MLY. adj. (soommeligt, Danish; from

Which sectb with secret fire eternally,

And in their entrails, full of quick brimston, soome, Islandick, honour or decency.]

Nourish che flames which they are warm'd upon. Decent ; becoming ; proper; fit.

Fairy Queen. Suspense of judgment and exercise of charity

I will make a complimental assault upon him; were safer and seemlier for christian men, than

for my business seeths.

Sbakspeare. the hot pursuit of these controversies. Hooker.

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, I am a woman, lacking wit

Such shaping fantasies, that apprchend To make a seenly answer to such persons. Sbaks. More than cool reason ever comprehends. Skak. The wife

The priest's servant came, while the desh was Safest and seemliest by her husband stays. Milt.

in seetbing, with a flesh-hook, and stuck it into May we enjoy

1 Samucl. Our humid products, and with seemly draughts

Enkindle mirth and hospitable love. Philips. SEE ́THER. n. s. [from secth.) A boiler; SE E'MLY. adv. [from the adjective. ] In a

a pot.

The fire thus form’d, she sets the kettle on; decent manner; in a proper manner. Like burnish'd gold the little sectber shone.

There, seemly rang'd in peaceful order, stood
Ulysses' arms, now long disus'd to blood. Pope. SEGMENT. n. so (segment, Fr. segmentum,

Dryden SEEN. adj. [from spe.] Skilled ; versed.

Latin.] A figure contained between a Petruchio shall offer me, disguis'd in sober

chord and an arch of the circle, or so robes, To cld Baptista, as a schoolmaster

much of the circle as is cut off by that Well seen in musick.

Sbakspeare.

chord. Noble Boyle, not less in nature seen,

Unto a parallel sphere, and such as live under Than his great brother read in states and men. the poles for half a year, some segments may ap

Dryden. pear at any time, and under any quarter, the sun SE'ER. n. s. [from see.]

not setting, but walking round. Brown,

Their segments or arcs, which appeared so nu1. One who sees. We are in topes that you may prove a dreamer

merous, for the most part exceeded not the third of dreams, and a seer of visions.

Newton. Spectator.

part of a circle. 2. A prophet; one who foresecs future · SE'GNITY. n. s. [from segnis, Lat.] Slugevents,

gishness; inactivity. .

Dict. How soon hath thy prediction, seer blest! TO SE'GREGATE. v. a. (segrego, Lat. Measur'd this transient world the race of time, segreger, French.) To set apart; to seTill time stand fix'd.

Milton.

parate from others. By day your frighted seers Shall call for fountains to express their tears,

SEGREGA'TION. n. so (segregation, Fr. And wish their eyes were foods: by night from

from segregate.] Separation from others. dreams

What shall we hear of this? Of opening gulphs, black storms, and raging A segregation of the Turkish fleet; flames,

For do but stand upon the foaming shore, Starting amaz'd, shall to the people show

The chiding billows seem to pelt the clouds. Emblems of heav'nly wrath, and mystick types

Sbakspeare. of woe.

Prior. SE'Ant. adj. [In heraldry. ] Sitting. SEE'R WOOD. 7. s. See SEARWOOD. Dry SEIGNEU'RTAL. adj. [from seigrior. ] Inwood,

vested with large powers; independent.

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Those lands were seigneurial. Temple. There grimly smild, pleas'd with the beauteous SE'IGNIOR. n. s. from senior, Latin;

prize, seigneur, French.] A lord. The title of Nor envied Iove his sunshine and his skies.

Addisor. honour given by Italians.

TO SEIZE. v. n. To fix the grasp or the SE'IGNIORY, n. s. [seigneurie, Fr. from

power on any thing seignior.) A lordship; a territory.

Fairest Cordelia, O'Neal never had any seigniory, over that Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon: country, but what by encroachment he got upon Be 'c lawful I take up what is case away? Stats. the Enisb.

Spenser. Where there is a design of supplanting, that Were you not restor'd

necessarily requires another of accusing: even To all the duke of Norfolk's scigniories?

Jezebel projects nct to seize cn Naboth's vine

Sbakspeare. yard without a precedent charge. Dei. of Piety. Hosea, in the person of God, sayeth of the SE'IZIN. 11. s. [saisine, French.) Jews, they have reigned, but not by me; they 1. [In law.] Is of two soits: seisin in fact, have set a scigniory czer themselves: wnica place proveth plainly, that there are governments

and seisin in law. Seisin in fact, is when which God doth not avow.

Bacon, a corporal possession is taken: seisin in William, earl of Pembroke, being lörd of all law, is when something is done which Leinster, had royal jurisdiction throughout that the law accou:teth a seisin, as an enrolprovince, and every one of his five sons enjoyed

mcnt. This is as much as a rigit to that seigniory successively.

Davies.

lands and tenements, though the owner SE'IGNORAGE.n.s. [scigneuriage, French; be by wrong disseized of thein. Cowell,

from seignigr.] Authority; acknowledg. 2. The act of taking po session. ment of power.

Every indulged sin gives Suian livery and seisin They brought work to the mint, and a part of of his heart, and a power to dispose of it as he the money coined to the crown for seignorage. pleases.

Decay of Piety. Locke. Seisin is the same, in the canon law, as livery

and seisin at the common law. To SE'IGNORISE. v. a. [from seignior.]

5. The thing: posse sed. To lord over.

Many recoveries were had, as well by heirs as As fair he was as Cytherea's make,

successors, of the scizin of their predecessors. As proud as he that seignorisetb hell. Fairfax.

Hale, SEINE. n. s. (rezno, Saxon ; seine, senne, SE'IZUR E. n. s. (from seize.] seme, Fr.] A net used in fishing. 1. The act of seizing.

They have cock-boats for passengers, and seine 2. The thing seized. boats for taking of pilchards.

Carew, Sufficient that thy pray'rs are heard, and death, SE'INER, n. s. [from seine ] A fisher with Then due by sentence when thou didst trans

gress, nets.

Defeated of his seisure, many days
Seiners complain, with open mouth, that these

Giv'n thee of zrace.

Milton, drovers work inuch prejudice to the commonwealth of fishermen, and reap small gain to

3. The act of taking forcible nossessi n. themscives.

Carew.

Thy lavds, and all things that thou dost call

thine, T. SEIZE. v. a. [saisir, French.]

Worth seizure, do we seize into our hands. 1. To take hold of; to gripe; to grasp.

bakspeare. Then as a tiger, who by chance hath spy'd,

In the general town he maintained a seizure, In some purlieu, two gentle fawns at play,

and possession of the uncle.

W'ctton. Straight couches close, then rising changes oft Henry continued to buri. protestants, after he Hiscouchant watch, as one who chose his ground, had cast off the porc; and his seizi re of ccclesiWhence rushing he might surest scize them both, assical revenues cannot be reckoned as a mark Both griped in each paw.

Milton. of the church's liberty. 2. To take possession of by force. 4. Gripe; possession. At last they seize

And shall these hands, so lately purgid of blood, The scepter, and rogard not David's sons. Milt. Unyoke this seizure, and this kind regret? 3. To take possession of; to lay hold on;

Sbatspeare.

Make o'er thy honour by a deed of trust, to invade suddenly. In her sad breast the prince's fortunes roll,

And give me seizure of the mighty wealth.

Dryden. And hope and doubt alternate seize her soul. To take forcible possession of by law.

Let there be no sudden seizure of a lapsed syllable, to play upon it.

Watts. Anescheator of London had arrested a clothier that was outlawed, and seized his gouds. Coorden. SE’LCOUTH. adj. [relb, rare, Sax, and

It was judged by the highest kind of judgment, couth, known.] Rarely known; uncom. that he should be banished, and his whole estate mon: Spenser. The same with uncouth. confiscated and seized, and his houses pulled SE'LDOM. adv. [reldan, rarely; seldor, down.

Bacoll.

more rarely; seldort, most rarely. 5. To make possessed ; to put in posses- Seldan is supposed to be contracted ision of.

from seldæn, or seld, rare, and hpanne, Soth'one for wrong, the other strives for right: As when a griffin, seized of his prey,

when, Saxon; selden, Dutch ; seltan, A dragon fierce encount'reth in his flight,

German.] Rarely; not often; not freThrough wildest air making his idle way.

quently

Fairy Queen. Wisuom and youth are seldom joined in one; So Pluto, seiz'd of Proserpine, conrey'd and the ordinary course of the world is more aco To bell's tremendous gloom ti’ aftrighted maid, cording to Job's observation, who giveth men

Swift.

Pope. 5. Catch.

4.

advice to seek wisdom amongst the ancients, and is always added when they are used rein the length of days understanding. Hooker. There is true joy conveyed to the heart by

ciprocally, or return upon themselves : preventing grace, which pardoning grace seldom

as, I did not hurt him, he hurt himself; gives.

Soutb. the people biss me, but I clap myself; Where the flight of fancy is managed with thou lovest thyself, though the world good judgment, the seldomer it is seen it is the

scorns thee. more valuable.

Grew,

They cast to build a city, SE'LDOMNE)5, n. s. [from seldom.] Un- And get themselves a name.

Milton commonness; infrequency ; rareness ;

He permits rarity. Liitle used.

Within bimself unworthy pow'rs to reign
Over free reason.

Milton. Degrees of well-doing there could be none, except perhaps in the seldomness and oftenness of

Self is that conscious thinking thing, which is doing well.

Hooker.

sensible or conscious of pleasure and pain, capa.

ble of happiness and misery, and so is concerned SE'LDSHOWN. adj. (seld and shown.] Sel. for itself, as far as that consciousness extends. dom exhibited to view.

Locke. Selds bown flamins

3. It is sometimes used emphatically in the Do press among the popular throngs. Sbaksp. nominative case : as, myself will decide TO SELE'CT. v. a. (selectus, Latin ) To it; I myself will come ; himself shall choose in preference to others rejected. revenge it. This use of self, thus com

The foormen, selected out of all the provinces, pounded, without the pronoun personal, were urtatiy diminished, being now scarce eight is chiefly poetical. thousand strong

Knolies,

4. Compounded with him, a pronoun subThe pious chief A hundred youths from all his train selects.

stantive, self is in appearance an adjecDryden.

tive : joined to my, thy, our, your, proSELE'CT. adj. from the verb.] Nicely noun adjectives, it seems a substantive.

chosen ; choice; culled out on account Even when compounded with him it is of superiour excellence.

at last found to be a substantive, by its To the nuptial bow'r

variation in the plural, contrary to the I led her, blushing like the morn: all heav'n, nature of English adjectives, as bimself, And happy constellations, on that hour

themselves. Shed their selectest influence.

Milton.

No more be mention'd then of violence
Select from vidgar herds, with garlands gay,
A hundred bulls ascend the sacred way. Prior.

Against ourselves, or wilful barrenness. Milton.

5. Myself, himself, themselves, and the rest, SELECTION. n. s. [selectio, Latin; from

may, contrary to the analogy of my, select.] The act of culling or choosing ; bim, them, be used as nominatives. choice.

6. It often adds only emphasis and force While we single out several dishes, and reject others, the selection seems but arbitrary. Brown.

to the pronoun with which it is com

pounded : : as, he did it hinself. SELE'CTNESS, 1. s. [from select.] The

A horse well bitted which bimself did dress. state of being select.

Dryden. SELECTOR. n. s. [from select.] He who And touch'd with miseries myself have known, selects.

U learn to pity woes so like my own. Dryden. SELENOGRAPHICAL. adj. [selenogra- 7. It signifies the individual, as subject to SELENOGRA’THICK. I phique, French;

his own contemplation or action. from selenography.] Belonging to seleno

The spark of noble courage now awake,

And strive your excellent self to excel. F. Queen. graphy,

Next to the knowledge of God, this knowSELE'NOGRAPHY. n. s. [selenographie, Fr. ledge of our selves seems most worthy of our σεληνη and γράφω.] A description of the endeavour.

Hale. moon.

Since consciousness always accompanies thinkHevelius, in his accurate selenography, or de

ing, and it is that that makes every one to be scription of the moon, hath well translated the what he calls self, and thereby distinguishes himknown appellations of regions, seas, and moun

self from all other thinking things; in this alone tains, unto the parts of that luminary. Brown'. consists personal identity, i. e. the sameness of a SELF. pronoun; plur. selves (silba, Goth

rational being.

Locke.

· It is by the consciousness it has of its present ick ; rylj, sylfa, Saxon ; self, selve, thoughts and actions, that it is self to it self now, Dutch.]

and so will be the same self, as far as the same 1. Its primary signification seems to be consciousness can extend to actions past or to that of an adjective. Very ; particular ;

Locke. thisabove others; sometimes, one's own.

The fondness we have for self, and the relac Shoot an arrow that self way

tion which other things have to our selves, furWhich you did shoot the first. Sbakspeare.

nishes another long rank of prejudices. Watts, The cruel ministers, by se!f and violent hands, 8. It is much used in composition, which Took off her life.

Sbakspeare. it is proper to explain by a train of On these self hills the air is so thin, that it is examples. It is to be observed, that its pot sufficient to bear up the body of a bird.

composition in Sbakspeare is often harsh.

Raleigh. At that self moment enters Palamon

Then held she her tongue, and cast down a The gate of Venus.

Dryden.

self-accusing look, finding that in herself she had

shot out of the bow of her affection a more 3. It is united both to the personal pro- quick opening of her mind than she minded to pouns, and to the neutral pronoun it, and have done.

Sidney.

come.

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