To ABLE. To uphold; to justify. Henry 8, iv. 2. None does offend, none,-I say, none; I'll able 'em : ABODE. Delay; tarriance; stay. Especially that of Cleopatra's, which wholly depends on your abode. Antony and Cleopatra, i. 2. Sweet friends, your patience for my long abode. Merchant of Venice, ii. 5. TO ABODE. To bode; to portend. That this tempest, Dashing the garment of this peace, aboded The sudden breach on't. ABODEMENT. Omen; prodigy. Tush, man; abodements must not now affright us. Would he abuse the countenance of the king, His hands abroad display'd, as one that grasp'd TO ABROOK. To brook; to endure. ABRUPTION. Interruption; pause. What should they grant? what makes this pretty abruption? Troilus and Cressida, iii. 2. ABSOLUTE. Complete; perfect; resolved ; cer tain; positive. Henry 6, P. 3, iv. 7. The wicked'st caitiff on the ground Be absolute for death; either death or life Measure for Measure, iii. 1. ABSTRACT. An epitome; an abridgment; a table; a schedule. I have to-night dispatched sixteen businesses a month's length apiece, by an abstract of success. All's well that ends well, iv. 3. You shall find there A man who is the abstract of all faults ABUSE. Brief abstract and record of tedious days. Richard 3, iv. 4. He hath an abstract for the remembrance of such places, and goes to them by his note. Merry Wives of Windsor, iv. 2. They are the books, the arts, the academes, ABUSE. Deceit; trick; artifice; corrupt prac- ACCEPT. Acceptance; assent. tice; offence. This is a strange abuse. Let's see thy face. Henry 6, P. 1, ii. 3. For the poor abuses of the time want countenance. Henry 4, P. 1, i. 2. Henry 5, v. 2. To induce; to call; to summon. To ACCOMMODATE. Ibid. P. 2, v. 2. To furnish; to supply; to dress up; to deck. But who comes here? The safer sense will ne'er accommodate King Lear, iv. 6. ACCOMMODATED. Advantaged; favoured. These three, Accommodated by the place, more charming With their own nobleness,-which could have turn'd Part shame, part spirit renew'd. Cymbeline, v. 3. ACCOMMODATIONS. Necessaries; conveniences; food, clothing, &c. Thou art not noble; For all the accommodations that thou bear'st Measure for Measure, iii. 1. ACCOMPLICE. A friend; a companion; an ally. Success unto our valiant general, Henry 6, P. 1, v. 2. TO ACCOMPLISH. Richard 2, ii. 1. Though it do work as strong Courageous Richmond, well hast thou acquit thee. To ACQUIT. To quit; to be rid of; to release. I will acquit you. To ACCOST. To approach; to salute; to woo. Now must your conscience my acquittance seal. Hamlet, iv. 7. TO ACQUITTANCE. To release; to discharge; to acquit. But if black scandal or foul-fac'd reproach ACT. Action; operation; activity. But on us both did haggish age steal on, I will try the forces Othello, iii. 3. 1 Some to dance, some to make bonfires, each man to what sport and revels his addiction leads him. Othello, ii. 2. ADDITION. Name; title; distinction; honour; exaggeration. Where great additions swell us, and virtue none, Macbeth, i. 3. Othello, iii. 4. TO ADMIT. To choose; to elect; to approve. The custom of request you have discharg'd: Coriolanus, ii. 3. ADMITTANCE. Repute; acceptance; vogue; fashion. A gentleman of excellent breeding, admirable discourse, of great admittance. Merry Wives of Windsor, ii. 2. The brow that becomes the ship-tire, the tirevaliant, or any tire of Venetian admittance. Ibid. iii. 3. ADMONISHMENT. Counsel; admonition. ADVERTISE. Though we seemed dead, we did but sleep; advantage is a better soldier than rashness. Henry 5, iii. 5. Advantage feeds him fat while men delay. Henry 4, P. 1, iii. 2. For where there is advantage to be ta'en, Macbeth, v. 4. That none so small advantage shall step forth To check his reign, but they will cherish it. King John, iii. 4. TO ADVANTAGE. To benefit; to profit. Stand fast, good Fate, to his hanging! make the rope of his destiny our cable, for our own doth little advantage! Tempest, i. 2. By this is your brother saved, your honour untainted, the poor Mariana advantaged, and the corrupt deputy foiled. Measure for Measure, iii. 1. Convey what I will set down to my lady: it shall advantage thee more than ever the bearing of letter did. Twelfth Night, iv. 2. ADVANTAGEABLE. Convenient; advantageous; suitable. And take with you free power to ratify, Shall see advantageable for our dignity, Any thing in or out of our demands. Henry 5, v. 2. ADVANTAGEOUS. Politic; wise; prudent. TO ADVANCE. To prefer; to dignify; to lift ADVENTURE. Chance; hazard; accident. up; to raise. Alas, poor shepherd! searching of thy wound, I have by hard adventure found mine own. 4. As you like it, ii. 4. ADVERSITY. Perversity; contrariety; contradiction. Well said, Adversity and what need these tricks? Troilus and Cressida, iv. 5. TO ADVERTISE. To teach; to make known; to inform. But I do bend my speech |