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Litany; supplication. He perfecteth the rogations or litanies before in use. Hooker. Rogation days (Eccl.), the three days which immediately precede Ascension Day; -- so called as being days on which the people, walking in procession, sang litanies of special supplication. -- Rogation flower (Bot.), a European species…

pal works of God . . . be but certain tastes and saus, as if were, of that final benefit. Hooker. Thy tongue some say of breeding breathes. Shak.

ace, or reproach upon. I demand who they are whom we scandalize by using harmless things. Hooker. the congregation looked on in silence, the better class scandalized, and the lower orders, some laughing, others backing the soldier or the minister, as their fancy dictated. Sir W. Scott.

exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation. Nothing scandalous or offensive unto any. Hooker.

A scholium. [Obs.] Hooker.

ading against man's authority, is to overthrow such laws and constitutions in the church. Hooker.

rong. Abusing their liberty, to the offense of their weak brethren which were scrupulous. Hooker.

th public as with private prayer; in this, rather secrecy is commanded than outward show. Hooker.

Apprehension; judgment. [Obs.] Chaucer. Nothing more clear unto their seeming. Hooker. His persuasive words, impregned With reason, to her seeming. Milton.

ty were safer and seemlier for Christian men than the hot pursuit of these controversies. Hooker.

Rarely; not often; not frequently. Wisdom and youth are seldom joined in one. Hooker.

Rareness. Hooker.

men are such as prefer . . . that good which is sensual before whatsoever is most divine. Hooker.

; to withdraw; -- often used reflexively. When men most sequester themselves from action. Hooker. A love and desire to sequester a man's self for a higher conversation. Bacon.

] They think herein we serve the time, because thereby we either hold or seek preferment. Hooker.

ic] So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import. Hooker. But Viven, gathering somewhat of his mood, . . . Leaped from her session on his lap, and stood. Tennyson.

g that order which God . . . hath set down with himself, for himself to do all things by. Hooker.

had their several for heathen nations, their several for the people of their own nation. Hooker. In several, in a state of separation. [R.] "Where pastures in several be." Tusser.

Shadowy; vague. [Obs.] Hooker.

Stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular. A sheer precipice of a thousand feet. J. D. Hooker. It was at least Nine roods of sheer ascent. Wordsworth.