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DICTIONARY

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DIABETES. n. s. [dacáilns.] A morbid copiousness of urine; a fatal colliquation by the urinary passages.

tions. DIABOLICAL. DIABOʻLICK.

An increase of that secretion may accompany the general colliquations; as in fluxes, hectic sweats and coughs, diabetes, and other consumpDerbam's Physico-Theology. adj. [from diabolus taking of the qualities of the devil; im Lat.] Devilish; pa pious; atrocious; nefarious; pertaining to the devil.

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This in other beasts observed, Doubt might beget of diabolick pow'r, Active within, beyond the sense of brute. Milt. Does not the ambitious, the envious, and the revengeful man know very well, that the thirst of blood, and affectation of dominion by violence and oppression, is a most diabolical outrage pon the laws of God and Nature. L'Estrange. The practice of lying is a diabolical exercise, and they that use it are the devil's children. Ray. Damned spirits must needs be all envy, despair and rage; and have so much of a diabolical nature in them, as to wish all men to share their misery. Atterbury.

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Brings dangers, troubles, cares, and sleeples
nights,

To him who wears the regal diadem. Milton.
Why should he ravish then that diadem
From your grey temples, which the hand of time
Must shortly plant on his?
Denban.

Faction, that once made diadems her prey,
And stopt our prince in his triumphant way,
Fled like a mist before this radiant day. Roscom.

with a diadem; crowned. DIADEMED. adj. [from diadem.] Adorned

Not so, when diadem'd with rays divine, Touch'd with the flame that breaks from virtue's shring,

Her priestless muse forbids the good to die, DI ADR.OM. n. ́s. [diadeonew.] The time And opes the temple of eternity. Pope. in which any motion is performed; the time in which a pendulum performs its vibration.

A gry is one tenth of a line, a line one tenth of an inch, an inch one tenth of a philosophical foot, a philosophical foot one third of a pendu lum; whose diadroms, in the latitude of fortyfive degrees, are each equal to one second of time, or a sixtieth of a minute. Locke.

[dáigecis] The separation or disjunction of syllables; as

DIACO DIUM. . s. [diaxádiov.] The DIE RESIS. n. s. syrup of poppies.

DIACOUSTICS. n. s. [diançà.] The

doctrine of sounds.

DIADEM. n. 5.

[diadema, Latin.]

1. A tiara; an ensign of royalty bound
about the head of eastern monarchs.

The sacred diadem in pieces rent,
And purple robe gored with many a wound.
Spenser.

A list the coblers' temples ties,
To keep the hair out of their eyes;
From whence 'tis plain the diadem,
That princes wear, derives from them. Swift.
2. The mark of royalty worn on the
head; the crown.

A crown,

Golden in shew, is but a wreath of thorns;

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DIAGNOSTICK. n. s. [daywoxw.] A symptom by which a disease is distinguished from others.

I shall lay down some indisputable marks of this vice, that whenever we see the tokens, we may conclude the plague is in the house :-let us hear your diagnosticks. Collier on Pride.

One of our physicians proved disappointed of his prognosticks, or rather diagnosticks. Harvey. DIAGONAL. adj. [diayos.] Reaching from one angle to another, so as to divide a parallelogram into equal parts. The monstrosity of the badger is ill-contrived, and with some disadvantage; the shortness being Sxed unto the legs of one side, that might have

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been more properly placed upon the diagonal Brown's Vulgar Errours.

movers.

All sorts of stone composed of granules, will cut and rive in any direction, as well in a perpendicular, or in a diagonal, as horizontally and parallel to the side of the strata. Woodward. DIAGONAL. . s. [from the adjective.] A line drawn from angle to angle, and dividing a square into equal parts.

When a man has in his mind the idea of two lines, viz. the side and diagonal of a square, whereof the diagonal is an inch long, he may have the idea also of the division of that line into a certain number of equal parts. Locke. DIAGONALLY. adv. [from diagonal.] In a diagonal direction.

The right and left are not defined by philosophers according to common acceptation, that is, respectively from one man unto another, or any constant site in each, as though that should be the right in one, which, upon confront or facing, stands athwart or diagonally unto the other; but were distinguished according unto their activity, and predominant locomotion, on the either side. Brown's Vulgar Erreurs. DIAGRAM. n. 5. [diáygaμμa.] A delineation of geometrical figures; a mathematical scheme.

Many a fair precept in poetry is like a seem ing demonstration in the mathematicks; very specious in the diagram, but failing in the mechanick operation." Dryden.

Why do not these persons make a diagram of these cogitative lines and angles, and demenstrate their properties of perception and appetite, as plainly as we know the other properties of triangles and circles? Bentley. DIAGRY DIATES. . s. [from diagrydium, Latin.] Strong purgatives made with. diagrydium.

All cholerick humours ought to be evacuated by diagrydiates, mixed with tartator some acid, or rhubarb powder. •'• Floyen DIAL. n. s. [didle, Skinner.] · A plate marked with lines, witte, a hand-or shadow shows the hour.

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O, gentlemen, the time of life is short To spend that shortness bastly were too long," Though life did ride upon a 'spoint,

Still ending at th' arrival of an hour. Shakspeare. If the motion be very slow, we perceive it not: we have no sense of the accretive motion of plants er animals; and the sly shadow steals away upon the dial, and the quickest eye can discover no more than that it is gone. Glanville. DIAL-PLATE. n. s. [dial and plate.] That on which hours or lines are marked.

Strada tells us that the two friends, being each of them possessed of a magnetical needle, made a kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with the four and twenty letters, in the same manner as the hours of the day are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate. Addison's Spectator. DIALECT. n. s. [διάλεκτος.] 1. The subdivision of a language; as the Attic, Doric, Ionic, Æolic dialects. 2. Style; manner of expression,

When themselves do practise that whereof they write, they change their dialect; and those words they shun, as if there were in them some secret sting. 3. Language; speech.

In her youth
There is a prone and speechless dialect,
Such as moves men.

Hooker.

Shakspeare.

If the conferring of a kindness did not bind the pesson upon whom it was conferred to the returns of gratitude, why, in the universal dialect of the world, are kindnesses still called obligations? South.

DIALECTICAL. adj. [from dialectick.] Logical; argumental.

Those dialectical subtleties, that the schoolmen employ about physiological mysteries, more declare the wit of him that uses them, than increase the knowledge of sober lovers of truth. Bovic DIALECTICK. n. s. [ĜizdextIX.] Logick; the art of reasoning. DIALLING. 2. S. [from dial.] The sciaterick science; the knowledge of shadow; the art of constructing dials on which the shadow may show the hour. DIALIST. n. s. [from dial.] A constructer of dials.

Scientifick dialists, by the geometrick considerations of lines, have found out rules to mark out the irregular motion of the shadow in all latitudes, and on all planes. Moxon.

DIA'LOGIST. n. s. [from dialogue.] A speaker in a dialogue or conference; a writer of dialogues.

DIALOGUE. n. s. [diáλoyos.] A conference; a conversation between two or more, either real or feigned.

Will you hear the dialogue that the two learned men have compiled in praise of the owl and cuckoo? Shakspeare. Oh, the impudence of this wicked sex! Lascivious dialogues are innocent with you. Dryden. In casy dialogues is Fletcher's praise: He mov'd the mind, but had not pow'r to raise. DIALOGUE. v. a. [from the noun.] Dryden To discourse with another; to confer.

Dost dialogue with thy shadow? Shakspeare. DIALYSIS. n. s. [didàvoic.] The figure in rhetorick by which syllables or words are divided.

DIAMETER. n. s. [à and μirgor.] The line which, passing through the centre of a circle, or other curvilinear figure, divides it into equal parts.

The space between the earth and the moon, according to Ptolemy, is seventeen times the diameter of the earth, which makes, in a gross account, about one hundred and twenty thousand miles. Raleigh.

The bay of Naples is the most delightful one that I ever saw it lies in almost a round figure of about thirty miles in the diameter. Addison. DIA METRAL. adj. [from diameter.] Describing the diameter; relating to the diameter.

DIA METRALLY. adv. [from diametral.] According to the direction of a diameter; in direct opposition.

Christian piety is, beyond all other things dia metrally opposed to prophaneness and impiety of Hammond.

actions.

DIAMETRICAL. adj. [from diameter.] 1. Describing a diameter.

2.

Observing the direction of a diameter. The sin of calumny is set in a most diametrical opposition to the evangelical precept of loving our neighbours as ourselves. Gov. of the Tongue DIAMETRICALLY. adv. [from diametrisal.] In a diametrical direction.

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