A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One Quotes

“Novel: A small tale, generally of love.”
― Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One

“APPEARER  (APPE'ARER)   n.s.[from To appear.]The person that appears. That owls and ravens are ominous appearers, and presignify unlucky events, was an augurial conception.Brown’sVul. Err.”
― Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One

“ANKER  (A'NKER)   n.s.[ancker, Dut.] A liquid measure chiefly used at Amsterdam. It is the fourth part of the awm, and contains two stekans: each stekan consists of sixteen mengles; the mengle being equal”
― Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One

“AMBRY  (A'MBRY)   n.s.[a word corrupted from almonry.]1. The place where the almoner lives, or where alms are distributed.2. The place where plate, and utensils for housekeeping, are kept; also a cupboard for keeping cold victuals:a word still used in the northern counties, and in Scotland.”
― Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One

“ALTAR  (A'LTAR)   n.s.[altare, Lat. It is observed by Junius, that the word altar is received, with christianity, in all the European languages; and that altare is used by one of the Fathers, as appropriated to the Christian worship, in opposition to the aræ of gentilism.]1. The place where offerings to heaven are laid. The goddess”
― Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One

“Bleed, bleed, poor country!Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure;For goodness dares not check thee!His title is affear’d.Shakesp.Macbeth.”
― Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One

“ÆTHIOPS-MINERAL  (Æ'THIOPS-MINERAL)   n.s. A medicine so called, from its dark colour, prepared of quicksilver and sulphur, ground together in a marble mortar to a black powder. Such as have used it most, think its virtues not very great.Quincy.”
― Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One

“ADVERSARIA  (ADVERSA'RIA)   n.s.[Lat. A book, as it should seem, in which Debtor and Creditor were set in opposition.]A common-place; a book to note in. These parchments are supposed to have been St. Paul’s adversaria.Bull’sSermons.”
― Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One

“which has the power or quality of adding. The additory fiction gives to a great man a larger share of reputation than belongs to him, to enable him to serve some good end or purpose.Arbuthnot’sArt of political Lying.”
― Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One

“I found our speech copious without order, and energetick without rules: wherever I turned my view, there was perplexity to be disentangled, and confusion to be regulated.”
― Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One

“Normandy became an appendix to England, the nobler dominion, and received a greater conformity of their laws to the English, that they gave to it.Hale’sCivil Law of England.2. An”
― Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One

“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then proposed as an object of worship, when it is set up by itself, and not by way of addition or ornament to another thing.Stillingfleet’sDefence of Discourses on Romish Idolatry.”
― Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One

“To APPEACH  (APPE'ACH)   v.a.1. To accuse; to inform against any person.”
― Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One

“Tender minds should not receive early impressions of goblins, spectres, and apparitions, wherewith maids fright them into compliance.Locke.”
― Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One

“She did apparel her apparel, and with the preciousness of her body made it most sumptuous.Sidney.3. To”
― Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One

“APPANAGE  (A'PPANAGE)   n.s.[appanagium, low Latin; probably from panis, bread.]Lands set apart by princes for the maintenance of their younger children. He became suitor for the earldom of Chester, a kind of appanage to Wales, and using to go to the king’s son.Bacon. Had he thought it fit,That wealth should be the appanage of wit,The God of light could ne’er have been so blind,To deal it to the worst of human kind.Swift.”
― Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One

“Give with thy trumpet a loud note to Troy,Thou dreadful Ajax; that th’ appalled airMay pierce the head of thy great combatant.Shakesp. The house of peers was somewhat appalled at this alarum; but took time to consider of it till next day.Clarendon. Does neither rage inflame, nor fear appal,Nor the black fear of death that saddens all.Pope.”
― Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One

“To APPAL  (APPA'L)   v.a.[appalir, Fr. It might more properly have been written appale.]To fright; to strike with sudden fear; to depress; to discourage.”
― Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One

“APOTOME  (APO'TOME)   n.s.[from    to cut off.]1.In mathematicks,the remainder or difference of two incommensurable quantities.2.In musick,”
― Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One

“APOSTLE  (APO'STLE)   n.s.[apostolus, Lat.    person sent with mandates by another.It is particularly applied to them whom our Saviour deputed to preach the gospel. But all his mind is bent to holiness;His champions are the prophets and apostles.Shak.Hen. IV. I am far from pretending infallibility; that would be to erect myself into an apostle: a presumption in any one that cannot confirm what he says by miracles.Locke. We know but a small part of the notion of an apostle, by knowing barely that he is sent forth.Watts’sLogick.”
― Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One

“APOSIOPESIS  (APOSIOPE'SIS)   n.s.[   from    after, and rixp  to be silent.] A form of speech, by which the speaker, through some affection, as sorrow, bashfulness, fear, anger, or vehemency, breaks off his speech before it be all ended. A figure, when, speaking of a thing, we yet seem to conceal it, though indeed we aggravate it; or when the course of the sentence begun is so stayed, as thereby some part of the sentence not being uttered, may be understood; as, I might say much more, but modesty commands silence.Smith’sRhetorick.”
― Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One

“APORRHOEA  (APORRHO'EA)   n.s.[   emanation; something emitted by another. The reason of this he endeavours to make out by atomical aporrhœas, which passing from the cruentate weapon to the wound, and being incorporated with the particles of the salve, carry them to the affected part.Glanville’sScepsis,c. 24.”
― Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One

“APORIA  (APO'RIA) n.s. [a figure in rhetorick, by which the speaker shews, that he doubts where to begin for the multitude of matter, or what to say in some strange and ambiguous thing; and doth, as it were, argue the case with himself. Thus Cicero says, Whether he took them from his fellows more impudently, gave them to a harlot more lasciviously, removed them from the Roman people more wickedly, or altered them more presumptuously, I cannot well declare. Smith’s Rhetorick.”
― Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One

“APOPHYGE  (APO'PHYGE)   n.s.[  flight, or escape.]Is, in architecture, that part of a column, where it begins to spring out of its base; and was originally no more than the ring or ferrel, which anciently bound the extremities of wooden pillars, to keep them from splitting, and were afterward imitated in stone work. We sometimes call it the spring of the column.Chambers.”
― Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One

“APOPHTHEGM  (A'POPHTHEGM)   n.s. remarkable saying; a valuable maxim uttered on some sudden occasion.”
― Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One

“APOPHASIS  (APO'PHASIS)   n.s.[Lat.    a denying.] A figure in rhetorick, by which the orator, speaking ironically, seems to wave what he would plainly insinuate; as, Neither will I mention those things, which if I should, you notwithstanding could neither confute or speak against them.Smith’sRhetorick.”
― Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One

“I shall neither trouble the reader, nor myself, with any apology for publishing of these sermons; for if they be, in any measure, truly serviceable to the end for which they are designed, I do not see what apology is necessary; and if they be not so, I am sure none can be sufficient.Tillotson.”
― Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One

“APOLOGUE  (A'POLOGUE)   n.s.[.]Fable; story contrived to teach some moral truth. An apologue of Æsop is beyond a syllogism, and proverbs more powerful than demonstration.Brown’sVulgar Errours. Some men are remarked for pleasantness in raillery; others for apologues and apposite diverting stories.Locke.   APOLOGY  (APO'LOGY)   n.s.[apologia, Lat.    Defence; excuse. Apology generally signifies rather excuse than vindication, and tends rather to extenuate the fault, than prove innocence. This is, however, sometimes unregarded by writers. In her face excuseCame prologue; and apology too prompt;Which with bland words at will she thus address’d.Milton’sParad. Lost,b. ix. l. 854.2. It has for before the object of excuse. It is not my intention to make an apology for my poem: some will think it needs no excuse, and others will receive none.Dryden’sPref. toAbs. and Achit. I shall neither trouble the reader, nor myself, with any apology for publishing of these sermons; for if they be, in any measure, truly serviceable to the end for which they are designed, I do not see what apology is necessary; and if they be not so, I am sure none can be sufficient.Tillotson.   APOMECOMETRY  (APOMECO'METRY)   n.s.[   from, l  distance, and lesqex, to measure.]The art of measuring things at a distance.  ”
― Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One

“APODICTICAL  (APODI'CTICAL)   adj.[from    evident truth; demonstration.]Demonstrative; evident beyond contradiction. Holding an apodictical knowledge, and an assured knowledge of it; verily, to persuade their apprehensions otherwise, were to make Euclid believe, that there were more than one centre in”
― Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One

“APOCOPE  (APO'COPE)   n.s.[  figure in grammar,when the last letter or syllable of a word is taken away; as, ingeni for ingenii.”
― Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One