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mptuous apparel. We are too magnificient and sumptuous in our tables and attendance. Atterbury. She spoke, and turned her sumptuous head, with eyes Of shining expectation fixed on mine. Tennyson. -- Sump"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Sump"tu*ous*ness, n.

truce or cessation of operations agreed on by the commanders of contending armies, as for burying the dead, making proposal for surrender or for peace, etc. -- Suspension scale, a scale in which the platform hangs suspended from the weighing apparatus instead of resting upon it.

To abound; to be filled (with). Atterbury.

. It is low ebb with his accuser when such peccadilloes are put to swell the charge. Atterbury.

contagion of evil example, swerve exceedingly from the rules of their holy religion. Atterbury.

ness; employment; undertaking; labor. His mental powers were equal to greater tasks. Atterbury. To take to task. See under Take.

y testamentary charities have been defeated by the negligence or fraud of executors! Atterbury.

A timeserver. [Obs.] Overbury.

, motion or tendency without arrival; movement toward; -- opposed to Ant: from. "To Canterbury they wend." Chaucer. Stay with us, go not to Wittenberg. Shak. So to the sylvan lodge They came, that like Pomona's arbor smiled. Milton. I'll to him again, . . . He'll tell me all his purpose. She stretched her arms to heave…

To place in a tomb; to bury; to inter; to entomb. I tombed my brother that I might be blessed. Chapman.

oq.] It may be said of Dryden that he was at no time touchy about personal attacks. Saintsbury.

in Chaucer, meaning, perhaps, an aromatic sweetmeat for sweetening the breath. T. R. Lounsbury. Under his tongue a truelove he bore. Chaucer. Truelove knot, a complicated, involved knot that does not readily untie; the emblem of interwoven affection or engagement; -- called also true-lover's knot.

To cover, as a corpse, with a mound or tomb; to bury. [Obs.]

quiet. Men who live without religion live always in a tumultuary and restless state. Atterbury.

blematic; prefigurative. The Levitical priesthood was only typical of the Christian. Atterbury.

estimation; to despise. In comparison of it I undervalued all ensigns of authority. Atterbury. I write not this with the least intention to undervalue the other parts of poetry. Dryden.

The inferior part of mankind. [R.] Atterbury.

e. Chaucer. We have wrought ourselves up into this degree of Christian indifference. Atterbury.

The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese; as, the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the Hereford use; the York use; the Roman use; etc. From henceforth all the whole realm shall have but one use. Pref. to Book of Common Prayer.

The act of ushering, or the state of being ushered in. [Obs.] Shaftesbury.