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To ABLE. To uphold; to justify.

Henry 8, iv. 2.

None does offend, none,-I say, none; I'll able 'em :
Take that of me, my friend, who have the power
To seal the accuser's lips.
King Lear, iv. 6.

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.
Henry 8, i. 1.
The night-crow cried, aboding luckless time.
Henry 6, P. 3, v. 6.

ABODEMENT. Omen; prodigy.

Tush, man; abodements must not now affright us.

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Would he abuse the countenance of the king,
Alack, what mischiefs might he set abroach,
In shadow of such greatness! Henry 4, P. 2, iv. 2.
ABROAD. Broadly; wide open.

His hands abroad display'd, as one that grasp'd
And tugg'd for life, and was by strength subdu'd.
Henry 6, P. 2, iii. 2.

TO ABROOK. To brook; to endure.
Sweet Nell, ill can thy noble mind abrook
The abject people gazing on thy face
With envious looks, still laughing at thy shame.
Henry 6, P. 2, ii. 4.

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.

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The wicked'st caitiff on the ground
May seem as shy, as grave, as just, as absolute
As Angelo.
Measure for Measure, v. 1.
Therefore, most absolute sir, if thou wilt have
The leading of thine own revenges, take
The one half of my commission. Coriolanus, iv. 5.
Believe me, an absolute gentleman, full of most
excellent differences.
Hamlet, v. 2.

Be absolute for death; either death or life
Shall thereby be the sweeter.

Measure for Measure, iii. 1.
I am absolute 'twas very Cloten. Cymbeline, iv. 2.
How absolute the knave is!
Hamlet, v. 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
That all men follow. Antony and Cleopatra, i. 4.
Let them be well used; for they are the abstract
and brief chronicles of the time. Hamlet, ii. 2.

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.

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They are the books, the arts, the academes,
That show, contain, and nourish all the world,
Else none at all in aught proves excellent.
Love's Labour's lost, iv. 3.

ABUSE. Deceit; trick; artifice; corrupt prac- ACCEPT. Acceptance; assent.

tice; offence.

This is a strange abuse. Let's see thy face.
Measure for Measure, v. 1.
Victorious Talbot! pardon my abuse.

Henry 6, P. 1, ii. 3. For the poor abuses of the time want countenance.

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Henry 5, v. 2.

To induce; to call; to summon.
And what accites your most worshipful thought
to think so?
Henry 4, P. 2, ii. 2.
Our coronation done, we will accite,
As I before remember'd, all our state.

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
His master thus.

King Lear, iv. 6.

ACCOMMODATED. Advantaged; favoured.

These three,

Accommodated by the place, more charming

With their own nobleness,-which could have turn'd
A distaff to a lance,-gilded pale looks,

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
Are nurs'd by baseness.

Measure for Measure, iii. 1.

ACCOMPLICE. A friend; a companion; an

ally.

Success unto our valiant general,
And happiness to his accomplices !

Henry 6, P. 1, v. 2.
To furnish; to adorn; to

TO ACCOMPLISH.
deck; to obtain; to gain; to win.
His face thou hast, for even so look'd he,
Accomplish'd with the number of thy hours.

Richard 2, ii. 1.

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Though it do work as strong
As aconitum or rash gunpowder.
ACQUIT. Acquitted.

Courageous Richmond, well hast thou acquit thee.
Richard 3, v. 3.

To ACQUIT. To quit; to be rid of; to release.
I am glad I am so acquit of this tinder-box.
Merry Wives of Windsor, i. 3.
Twelfth-Night, iii. 4.

I will acquit you.

To ACCOST. To approach; to salute; to woo.
Accost, Sir Andrew, accost. Twelfth-Night, i. 3.
ACCOSTING. Solicitation; courtship; wooing. ACQUITTANCE. Forgiveness; pardon.

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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
Attend the sequel of your imposition,
Your mere enforcement shall acquittance me
From all the impure blots and stains thereof.
Richard 3, iii. 7.

ACT. Action; operation; activity.

But on us both did haggish age steal on,
And wore us out of act. All's well that ends well, i. 2.
Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons,
Which at the first are scarce found to distaste,
But, with a little act upon the blood,
Burn like the mines of sulphur.

I will try the forces

Othello, iii. 3.

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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,
It is a dropsied honour. All's well that ends well, ii. 3.
He bade me, from him, call thee thane of Cawdor;
In which addition, hail, most worthy thane!

Macbeth, i. 3.
This man, lady, hath robbed many beasts of their
particular additions.
Troilus and Cressida, i. 2.
I do attend here on the general,
And think it no addition, nor my wish,
To have him see me woman'd.
Truly to speak, and with no addition,
We go to gain a little patch of ground,
That hath no profit in it but the name.

Othello, iii. 4.

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TO ADMIT. To choose; to elect; to approve.

The custom of request you have discharg'd:
The people do admit you; and are summon'd
To meet anon, upon your approbation.

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.
Thy grave admonishments prevail with me.
Henry 6, P. 1, ii. 5.

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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,
Both more and less have given him the revolt.

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,
Augment, or alter, as your wisdoms best

Shall see advantageable for our dignity,

Any thing in or out of our demands. Henry 5, v. 2.

ADVANTAGEOUS. Politic; wise; prudent.
I do not fly; but advantageous care
Withdrew me from the odds of multitude.
Troilus and Cressida, v.

TO ADVANCE. To prefer; to dignify; to lift ADVENTURE. Chance; hazard; accident.

up; to raise.

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Alas, poor shepherd! searching of thy wound, I have by hard adventure found mine own.

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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
To one that can my part in him advértise.
Measure for Measure, i. 1.
We are advértis'd by our loving friends
That they do hold their course toward Tewksbury.
Henry 6, P. 3, v. 3.

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