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nothing above the line, or beyond the extempo- Norfolk, hie thee to thy charge ; rary sententiosity of common conceics with us. Use careful watch, chuse trusty sentinels. Shals.

Brown. Counsellors are not commonly so united, but SENTE'NTIous. adj. [sentencieux, Fr. from that one counsellor keepeth sentinel over ansentence.]

other ; so that if any do counsel out of faction 1. Abounding with sentences, axioms, and

or private ends, it commonly comes to the king's

Bacon. maxims, short and energetick.

First, the two eyes, which have the seeing He is very swift and sententio:ts. Shakspeare.

pow'r, Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues :

Stand as one watchman, spy, or sentinel, Sententious showers! O let them fall!

Being plac'd aloft, within the head's high tow's; Their cadence is rhetorical.

Crasbaw.

And though both see, yet both but one thing Eloquence, with all her pomp and charms,

tell.

Davies, Foretold us useful and sententious truths. Waller. Love to our citadel resorts, How he apes his sire,

Through those deceitful sallyports; Ambitiously sententious!

Addison.

Our sentinels betray our forts. Denbam. 2. Comprising sentences.

The senses are situated in the head, as sentiThe making of figures being tedious, and re- nels in a watch-rower, to receive and convey to quiring much room,

put men first upon contract- the soul the impressions of external objects. Ray. ing them, as by the most ancient Egyptian mo- Perhaps they had sentinels waking while they numents it appears they did : next, instead of slept; but even this would be unsoldierlike. sententious marks, to think of verbal, such as the

Broome. Chinese still retain.

Grew. SE'NTRY. n. so [corrupted, I believe, from SENTE'NTIOUSLY, adv. (from senten- sentinel.

tious.) In short sentences; with striking 1. A watch; a sentinel ; one who watches brevity.

in a garrison, or army, to keep them They describe her in part finely and ele

from surprise. gantly, and in part gravely and sententiously: they

If I do send, dispatch say, look how many feathers she hath, so many Those sentries to our aid; the rest will serve cyes she hath underneath.

Bacon.
For a short holding.

Shakspearts Nausicaa delivers her judgment sententiously, The youth of hell strict guard may keep, to give it more weight.

Broome.

And set their sentries to the utmost deep. Dryd. SENTE'NTIOUSNESS. n. s. [from senten.

One goose they had, 't was all they could allow, tious.] Pithiness of sentences; brevity A wakeful sentry, and on duty row. Dryden. with strength.

2. Guard; watch ; the duty of a sentinel. The Medea I esteem for the gravity and sen

Thou, whose nature cannot sleep, tentiousness of it, which he himself concludes to

Dryden. be suitable to a tragedy.

O'er my slumbers sentry keep;

Guard me 'gainst those watchful foes, SE'NTERY.n. s. (This is commonly writ.

Whose eyes are open while mine close. Brown, ten sentry, corrupted from sentinel.] One

Here toils and death, and death's half-brother, who is set to watch in a garrison, or in

sleep, the outlines of an army.

Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep. Dryd. What strength, what art, can then

SEPAR A BI’LITY, n. s. [from separable. Suffice, or what evasion bear him safe Through the strict senteries, and stations thick

The quality of admitting disunionc Of angels watching round?

Milton. discerption. SE'NTIENT. adj. [sentiens, Lat.] Perceiv- Separability is the greatest argument of

distinction.

Glanvi ing; having perception.

The greatest argument of real distinctio This acting of the sentient phantasy is performed by a presence of sense, as the horse is

separability, and actual separation ; for noth can be separated from itself.

Na under the sense of hunger, and that, without any

formal syllogism, presseth him to eat. Helé. SE'PARABLE, adj. (separable, Fr. sepe SE'NTIENT.n. s. (from the adjective.] He bilis, Lat. from separate. ) that has perception.

1. Susceptive of disunion ; discerptibl If the sentient be carried, passihus equis, with The infusions and decoctions of plants the body whose motion it would observe, sup- tain the most separabie parts of the plants, posing it regular, the remove is insensible.

convey not only their nutritious but' medi Glanvilla. qualities into the blood.

Arbut SENTIMENT. n. s. [sentiment, Fr.] 2. Possible to be disjoined from so 1. Thought ; notion ; opinion.

thing : with from. The consideration of the reason why they are Expansion and duration have this fanhera annexed to so many other ideas, serving to give ment, that though they are both considere us due sentiments of the wisdom and goodness of

us as having parts et their parts are not seg the sovereign Disposer of all things, may not be ble another. unsuitable to the main end of these enquiries.

Locke. SE'PARABLENESS. n. s. [from separa Alike to council or th' assembly came,

Capableness of being separated. With equal souls and sentiments the same. Pope. Trials permit me not to doubt of the sa 2. The sense considered distinctly from the bleness of a yellow tincture from gold.

language or things ; a striking sentence To SEPARATE. v. a. [separo, Lat in a composition.

Those who could no longer defend the con- 1. To break; to divide into parts. duct of Cato, praised the sentiments. Dennis,

2. To disunite ; to disjoin. SE'NTINEL. n.s.[sentinelle, Fr, from sentio,

I'll to England. Lat.] 'One who watches or keeps guard -To Ireland, I: our separated fortun to prevent surprise.

Shall keep us both the safer. Sboksy

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sense.

Resolvid,

4. Divorce ; disjunction from a married Rather than death, or aoght chan death more state.

dread, Shall separate us.

Did you not hear

Milton. A buzzing of a separation 3. To sever from the rest.

Between the king and Cath'rinę! Shakspeare. Can a body be inflammable, from which it would puzzle a chymist to separate an inflamma

SEPARATIST. n. s. (separatiste, Fr. from ble ingredient?

Boyle, 1 separate.] One who divides from the Death from sin no power can separate. Milt. church; a schismatick; a seceder. 4. To set apart ; to segregate.

The anabaptists, separatisés, and sectaries teSeparate me Barnabas and Saul, for the work nets are full of schism, and inconsistent with whereunto I have called them.

Acts.
monarchy.

Bacon David separated to the service those who Our modern separatists pronounce all those should prophesy.

1 Chronicles. heretical, or carnal, from whom they have withs. To withdraw.

drawn.

Decay of Piety. Separate thyself from me: if thou wilt take

Says the separatist, if those who have the rule the left, I will go to the right.

Genesis.

over you should command you any thing about To SE'PARATE. v. n. To part; to be dis

church affairs, you ought not, in conscience, to obey them.

Soutb. united. When there was not room enough for their

SEPARATOR, n. s. [from separate.] One herds to feed, they by consent separated, and en

who divides ; a divider. larged their pasture.

Locke.

SE'PARATORY.adj. [from separate.] Used SE'PARATE. adj. [from the verb.)

in separation. 1. Divided from the rest ; parted from

The most conspicuous gland of an animal is another.

the system of the guts, where the lacteals are the T were hard to conceive an eternal watch: SE'Pilille. adj. [sepio, Lat.] That may

emissary vessels, or separatory ducts. Cbeyne. whose pieces were never separate one from another, nor ever in any other form. Burnet. be buried.

Bailey, 2. Disjoined; withdrawn.

SE'PIMENT. . s. (sepimentum, Lat.) A Eve separate he wish'd. Milton, hedge; a fence.

Bailey. 3. Secret ; secluded.

SE POSITION.n. s. [sepono, Lat.] The act In a secret vale the Trojan sees A sep'rate grove.

of setting apart ; segregation.

Dryden. Sept. n. s. (septum, Lat. A clan; a race; 4. Disunited from the body; disengaged from corporeal nature. An emphatical

a family; a generation. A word used

only with regard or allusion to Ireland, Whatever ideas the mind can receive and

and, I suppose, Irish. contemplate without the help of the body, it can

This judge, being the lord's brehon, adjudgeth retain without the help of the body too; or else

a better share unto the lord of the soil, or the the soul, or any separate spirit, will have but

head of that sept, and also unto himself for his little advantage by thinking.

Locke,

judgment a greater portion, than unto the plain. SEPARATELY. adv. [from separate.]

tiffs.

Spenser.

The English forces were ever too weak to Apart; singly; not in union; distinctly; subdue so many warlike nations, or septs,

of the particularly.

Irish, as did possess this island. Davies. It is of singular use to princes, if they take The true and ancient Russians, a sept whom the opinions of their council, both separately and he had met wich in one of the provinces of that together; for private opinion is more free, but vast empire, were whice like the Danes. Bayle. opinion before others is more reserved. Bacon. SEPTA'NGULAR. adj. [septem and angulus,

If you admit of many figures, conceive the whole together, and not every thing separately SEPTEMBER. n. s. [Lat. Septembre, Fr.]

Lat.] Having seven corners or sides. and in particular.

Dryden. SE'PAR ATENESS. n. s. [from separate.]

The ninth month of the year; the se. The state of being scparate.

venth from March. SEPARATION. n. s. [separatio, Lat. sem

September hath his name as being the seventh paration, Fr. from separate.]

month from March : he is drawn with a merry

and cheerful countenance, in a purple robe. 1. The act of separating ; disjunction.

Peacban. They have a dark opinion, that the soul doth

SE'PTENARY. adj. [septenarius, Latin.] live after the separation from the body. Abbot. Any part of our bodies, vitally united to that

Consisting of seven. which is conscious in us, makes a part of our

Every controversy has seven questions belongselves; but upon separation from the vital union,

ing to it; though the order of nature seems too by which that consciousness is communicated,

much neglected by a confinement to this septerithat, which a moment since was part of our

ary number.

Watts. selves, is now no more so.

Locke.

SEPTE'NARY.N.S. The number seven. 2. The state of being separate ; disunion.

The days of men are cast up by seprenaries, As the confusion of tongues was a mark of

and every seventh year conceived to carry some reparation, so the being of one language was a

altering character in temper of mind or body.

Brown. mark of union.

Bacon. 3. The chymical analysis, or operation of

These constitutions of Moses, that proceed so

much upon a septenary, or number of seven, have disuniting things mingled.

no reason in the nature of the thing. Burnet. A fifteenth part of silver, incorporated with SEPTE'NNIAL. adj. [septennis, Lat.] gold, will not be recovered by any matter of som peration, unless you put a greater quantity of

1. Lasting seven years. Silver, which is the last refuge in separations. 2. Happening once in seven years.

Bacon, Being once dispensed with fox his septennid

Pope.

men

Ben Jonsen.

visit, by a holy instrument from Petropolis, he Sepulcbral lies our holy walls to grace, resolved to govern them by subaltern ministers. And new-year odes.

Howel. SE'PUICHRE. n. s. [sepulcre, Fr. sepulSEPTE'NTRION. n. s. (Fr. septentrio, chrum, Lat.) A grave ; a tomb. Lat.) The norih.

To entail him and 's heirs unto the crown, Thou art as opposite to every good

What is it but to make thy sepulebre? Sbaksp. As the antipodes are unto us,

Flies and spiders get a sepulchre in amber, Or as the south to the septentrion. Shakspeare. more durable than the monument and embalmSEPTE'NTRION. adj. (septentrionalis,

ing of any king.

Bacen. SEPTE'NTRIONAL.) Lat. septentrional,

There, where the virgin's son his doctrine

taught, Fr.] Northern.

His miracles, and our redemption wrought ; Back'd with a ridge of hills,

Where I, by thee inspir'd, his praises suns, That screen'd the fruits of th' earth and seats of

And on his sepulchre my cffering hurg. Sendvs. From cold septentrion blasts.

Milton.

Perpetual lamps for many hundred years have If the spring

continued burning, without supply, in the sea pulchres of the ancients.

Wilkins. Preceding should be destitute of rain, Or blast septentrional with brushing wings,

If not one common sepulchre contains

Our bodies, or one urn our last remains, Sweep up the smoaky mists and vapours damp,

Dryden. Yet Ceyx and Alcyone shall join.

Philips. Then woe to mortals. SEPTENTRIONALITY. n. s. [from septen

TO SEPULCHRE. v. a. [from the noun.] trional.] Northerliness.

It is accented on the second syllable by SEPTENTRIONALLY. adv. (from septen.

Shakspeare and Milton; on the first, more trional.] Toward the north; northerly.

properly, by Jonson and Prior.]To bury; If they be powerfully excited, and equally let to entomb. fall, they commonly sink down, and break the Go to thy lady's grave, and call her thence; water, at that extreme whereat they were sep- Or, at the least, in hers sepulcbre thine. Sbaksph tentrionally excited.

Brown. I am glad to see that time survive, TO SEPTENTRIONATE. v. n. (from sepo

Where merit is not sepulcbred alive ; tentrio, Lat.) To tend northerly.

Where good men's virtues them to honoun

bring, Steel and good iron, never excited by the load

And not to dangers. stone, septentrionate at one extreme, and austral. ize at another.

Thou so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie, Broun.

That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. SÉ'PTICAL. adi. Conflixoso? Having power

Milton. to promote or produce putrefaction. Disparted streams shall from their channels Ay, As a septical medicine, Galen commended the

And, deep surcharg'd, by sandy mountains lie, ashes of a salamander. Brown. Obscurely sepulcbred.

Prior. SEPTILATERAL. adj. (septem and lateris, SE'PULTURE. . s. [sepulture, Fr. sepul. Lat.) Having seven sides.

tura, Lat.) Interment ; burial. By an equal interval they make seven triangles,

That Niobe, weeping over her children, was the bases whereof are the seven sides of a septi

turned into a stone, was nothing else but that lateral figure, described within a circle. Brown.

during her life she erected over her sepulture a EPTUA’GENARY. adj. [septuagenarius, marble tomb of her own.

Brown. Lat. septuagenaire, Fr.] Consisting of Where we may royal sepulture prepare ; seventy.

With speed to Melesinda bring relief, The three hundred years of John of times, or

Recal her spirits, and moderate her grief. Drud. Nestor, cannot afford a reasonable encourage- In England, sepulture or burial of the dead ment beyond Moses's septuagenary determina- may be deferred and put off for the debts of the tion:

Brown.
person deceased.

Ayliga SEPTUAGE'SIMAL. adj. [septuagesimus,

SEQUA'Clous. adj. (sequacis, Lat.) Lat.] Consisting of seventy,

1. Following ; attendant. In our abridged and septuagesimal age, it is very

Orpheus could lead the savage race, rare to behold the fourth generation. Brown. And trees uprooted left their place, SE'PTUAGINT. n. s. ! suptuaginta, Latin.] Scquacious of the lyre;

But bright Cecilia raised the wonder higher : The old Greek version of the Old Testa

When to her organ vocal breath was giv'n, ment, so called as being supposed the

An angel beard, work of seventy-two interpreters. And straight appear'd, Which way soever you try, you shall find the Mistaking earth for heav'n.

Dryd product great enough for the extent of this earth; Above those superstitious horrours that e and if you follow the septuagirt chronology, it

slave will still be far higher.

Burnet. The fond sequacious herd, to mystick faith SE'PTUPLE, adj. (septuplex, Lat.] Seven And blind amazement prone, th’enlighten'd fi times as much. A technical term.

The glorious stranger hail.

T bonis SEPU'LCHRAL. adj. (sepulcral, Fr. sepul

2. Ductile; pliant. cbralis, from sepulchrum, Lat.) Relating

In the greater bodies the forge was easy, t to burial; relating to the grave ; monu.

matter being ductile and sequacions, and obedie

to the hand and stroke of the artificer, and : mental.

to be drawn, formed, or moulded.

R Whilst our souls negotiate there,

SEQUA'CITY. N. s. [from sequax, Latin We like sepulchral statues lay ; All day the same our postures were,

Ductility ; toughness. And we said nothing all the day. Dorne.

Matter, whereof creatures are produced, h: Mine eye h. th found that sad sepulcbral rock, SE'quel.n. s. [sequelle, Fr. sequela, La

a closeness, lentor, and sequacity.

Bad That was the casket of heav'n's richest store.

Milton.

1. Conclusion ; succeeding part.

Ifblack scandal or foul-fac'd reproach s. To deprive of possessions. Attend the sequel of your imposition,

It was his taylor and his cook, his fine fashions Your meer enforcement shall acquittance me. and his French ragouts, which sequestered him;

Sbakspeare. and, in a word, he came by his poverty as sinWas he not a man of wisdom? Yes, but he was

fully as some usually do by their riches. South, poor: but was he not also successful? True, but

SEQUE'STRABLE. adj. [from sequestrate.] suill be was poor: grant this, and you cannot keep off that unavoidable sequel in the next verse,

1. Subject to privation. che poor man's wisdom is despised. South. 2. Capable of separation. 2. Consequence; event.

Hartshorn, and divers other bodies belonging any principal thing, as the sun or the

to the animal kingdom, abound with a not unmoon, but once cease, fail, or swerve, and who

easily seyuestrable salt.

Boyle. doth not easily conceive that the sequel thereof To SEQUE'ST RATE. V. n. To sequester; would be ruia both to itself and whatsoever de. to separate. pendeth on it?

Hooker. 'In general contagions, more perish for want of In these he put two weights,

necessaries than by the malignity of the disease, The sequ l each of parting and of fight. Milton. they being sequestrated from mankind. Arbuib. 3. Consequence inferred; consequential. SEQUESTRATION. n. so (sequestration, ness.

French ; from sequestrate.] What sequel is there in this argument? An 1. Separation ; retirement. archdeacon is the chief deacon: ergo, he is only His addiction was to courses vain; a deacon.

Wbitgift. I never noted in him any study, SEQUENCE. n. s. [from sequor, Lat.) Any retirement, any sequestration 1. Order of succession. An elegant word, From open haunts and popularity. Shakspeare. but little used.

There must be leisure, retirement, solitude, How art thou a king,

and a sequestration of a man's self from the noise But by fair sequence and succession? Sbakspeare.

of the world; for truth scorns to be seen by eyes much tixt upon inferior objects.

Soutb. 2. Series; arrangement; method. The cause proceedech from a precedent sco

2. Disunion ; disjunction.

The metals renain unsevered, the fire only quence, and series of the seasons of the year.

Bacon,

dividing the body into smaller particles, hinder. SE'QUENT. adj. [sequens, Latin.]

ing rest and continuity, without any sequestration of elementary principles.

Boyle. 1. Following ; succeeding.

3. State of being set aside. Let my trial be mine own confession :

Since Henry Monmouth first began to reign, Immediate sentence then, and sequent death, Before whose glory I was great in arms, Is all the grace I beg.

Sbakspeare,

This loathsome sequestration have I had. Sbaks. There he dies, and leaves his racc Growing into a nation; and now growa

4. Deprivation of the use and profits of a Subjected to a sequent king, who seeks

po session. To stop their overgrowth.

Milton. If there be a single spot in the glebe more 2. Consequential.

barren, the rector or vicar may be obliged, by SE'QUENT. n. s. [from the adjective.] A

the caprice or pique of the bishop, to build upon it, under pain of sequestration.

Swift. follower. Not in use.

SEQUESTR A’TOR. n. s. [from sequestrate.) Here he hath framed a letter to a sequent of

One who takes from a man the profit the stranger queen's, which accidentally miscarried.

Sbakspeare.

of his possessions.

I am fallen into the hands of publicans and sem TO SEQUE'STER. v. a. [sequestrer, Fr.

questrators, and they have taken all from me. secrestar, Spanish ; sequestro, low Lat.]

Taylor. 1. To separate from others for the sake SERA'GL10. n. s. (Italian; perhaps of oriof privacy.

ental original. The g is lost in the proWhy are you sequester'd from all your train? nunciation.] A house of women kept

Sbakspeare. for debauchery. To the which place a poor sequester'd stag, There is a great deal more solid content to be That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt,

found in a constant course of well living, than in Did come to languish.

Sbakspeare.

the voluptuousness of a seraglio. Norris. In shady bow'r More sacred and sequester 2, though but feign'd, SE'RAPH. ». s. [978990] One of the Pan or Sylvanus never slept.

Milton. orders of angels.
Ye sacred Nine! that all my

soul
possess,

He is infinitely more remote, in the real exWhose raptures fire me, and whose visions bless, cellency of his nature, from the highest and pere Bear me, oh bear me, to sequester'd scenes fectest of all created beings, than the purest se

Of bow'ry mazes, and surrounding greens. Pope. rapb is from the most contemprible part of mata 2. To put aside ; to remove.

ter, and consequently must infinitely exceed Akhough I had wholly sequestered my civil af- what our narrow understandings can conceive of fairs, yet 1 set down, out of experience in busi- him.

Locke. Dess, and conversation in books, what I thought As full, as perfect, in vile man thar mourns, pertinent to this affair.

Bacon. As the rape seruph that adores and burns. Pope. 3. To withdraw; to segregate,

SERA'PHICAL? A thing as seasonable in grief as in joy, as de- SERA'PHICK, adj. (seraphique, French;

from seraph.] cent being added unto actions of greatest weight I. Angelick; angelical. and solemnity, as being used when mei most Love is curious of little things, desiring to be sequester themselves from action. Hooker,

of angelical purity, of perfect innocence, and se 4. To set aside from the use of the owner rapbical fervour.'

Taylor, to that of others : as, his annuity is Serapbick arms and trophies. Milton, sequestered to pay his credi:ors,

2. Pure; refined from sensuality.

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'Tis to the world a secret yet,

1. Calm ; placid ; quiet. Whether the nymph, to please her swain,

Spirits live inspher'd Talks in a high romantick strain;

In regions mild, of calm and serene air. Milten, Or whether he at last descends

The moon, serene in glory, mounts the sky. To like with less serapbick ends. Swift.

Popes SE'R APHIM. n. s. [This is properly the 2. Unruffled; undisturbed ; even of tem.

plural of seraph, and therefore cannot per ; peaceful or calm of mind; show-
have s added; yet, in compliance with ing a calm mind.
our language, seraphims is sometimes There wanted yet a creature might erect
written.] Angels of one of the heavenly

His stature, and upright with front serene
Govern the rest.

Milton. orders.

Exciting them, by a due remembrance of all To thee cherubim and serapbim contioually do cry.

Common Prayer.
that is past, unto future circumspection, and a

Grew, Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, hav- Gutta-SERE'N A. n. s. An obstruction in

serene expectation the future life. ing a live coal in his hand.

. Of serapbim another row.

Milton.

the optick nerve.

These eyes that roll in vain, SERE, adj. [reanian, Saxon, to dry.] So thick a drop serene hath quench'd their orbs. Dry; withered; no longer green. See

Milton. SEAR.

SERE'NE. N. s. [from the adjective.] A The muses, that were wont green bays to wear, calın damp evening. Now bringen bitter elder-branches sere. Spenser. Wherever death doth please t' appear, He is deformed, crooked, old, and sere,

Seas, serenes, swords, shot, sickness, all are there. Ill-fac'd, worse bodied, shapeless every where;

Ben Jonson. Vicious, ungentle.

Śbakspeare. To SERE'NE, v. a. (serener, Fr. sereno,
Ere this diurnal star

Latin.)
Leave cold the night, how we his gather'd beams
Reflected may with matter sere foment. Milton.

1. To calm ; to quiet.
They sere wood from the rotten hedges took, 2. To clear; to brighten, Not proper.
And seeds of latent fire from flints provoke.

Take care
Dryden. Thy muddy bey'rage to serene, and drive
On a sere branch,
Precipitant the baser ropy lees.

Philips
Low bending to the bank, I sat me down, SERE'NEI. Y. adv. [from serene.)
Musing and still.

Rowe.

1. Calmly ; quietly. SERE. n. s. (Of this word I know not the The setting sun now shone serenely bright. etymology, nor, except from this pas

Pope. sage, the meaning. Can it come, like 2. With unruffled temper ; coolly. sbeers, from scynan, Saxon, to cut ?]

Whatever practical rule is generally broken,

cannot be supposed innate; being impossible Claw; talon. Two eagles,

that men would, without shame or fear, contiThat, mounted on the wings, together still

dently and serenely break a rule, which they Their strokes extended; but arriving now

could not but evidentiy know that God had set up.

Locke. Amidst the council, over every brow Shook their thick wings, and threat'ning death's

The nymph did like the scene appear, cold fears,

Serenely pleasant, calmiy fair:

Soft fell her words as flew the air. Prier. Their necks and cheeks tore with their eager

Chapman. SERE'NENESS. n. s. [from serene.] Se SERENA'DE. 12. s. [serenade, French ; renity.

serenata, Italian ; whence, in Milton, SERE'NITUDE. n. s. [from serene.] Calmserenate, from serenus, Latin; the lovers

ness; coolness of mind. Not in use. commonly attending their mistresses in From the equal distribution of the phlegma. fair nighis.] Musick or songs with tick humour will flow quietude and serenitude is

the affections.

Wetten. which ladies are entertained by their lovers in the night.

SER E’NITY.". s. (serenité, French ; from Mixt dance, or wanton mask, or midnight bal}, serenus, Latin.] Or serenate, which the starv'd lover sings 1. Calmness; mild temperature. To his proud fair; best quitted with disdain. In the constitution of a perpetual equinox, the

Milton. best part of the globe would be desolate; and as Foolish swallow, what dost thou

to that little that would be inhabited, there is no So often at my window do,

reason to expect that it would constantly enjoy With thy tuneless serenade? Cowley. that admired calm and serenity. Bentley Shall I the neighbours nightly rest invade,

Pure serenity apace
At her deaf doors, with some vile serenade?

Induces thought, and contemplation still.
Dryden.

Tbom sort Will fancies he never should have been the

2. Peace; quietness; not disturbance. man he is, had not he broke windows, and di

A general peace and serenity newly succeeded sturbed honest people with his midnight serens a general trouble and cloud throughout all his ades, when he was a young fellow. Addison. kingdoms.

Temple TO SERENA'DE. v. a. (from the noun.] 3. Evenness of temper; coolness of mind To entertain with nocturnal musick.

I cannot see how any men should ever trans He continued to serenade her every morning, gress those moral rules, with confidence and se till the queen was charmed with his harmony. rinity, were they innate, and stamped upon thei Spectator. minds.

Lock SERE'NE. adj. (serein, French ; serenus, SERGE. n. s. [serge, French ; xerga, Spar Latin.]

ish, which Covaruvias derives fror

seres.

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