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To render Italian, or conformable to Italian customs; to Italianize. [R.] Ascham.

Indeed; truly. See Ywis. [Written also iwys, iwisse, etc.] [Obs.] Ascham.

An exercise in schools, consisting in turning English into Latin. [Obs.] Ascham.

Flimsy; vague; deceptive. [Obs.] Ascham.

at which before us lies in daily life. Milton. By experience of life abroad in the world. Ascham. Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime. Longfellow. 'T is from high life high characters are drawn. Pope

Anything which moves slowly. [Obs.] Ascham.

man meanly learned himself, but not meanly affectioned to set forward learning in others. Ascham.

A measuring rod. Ascham.

take; error; fault. Shak. He did without any great miss in the hardest points of grammar. Ascham.

To admonish; to warn. See Admonish. [Archaic] Ascham.

A satirist. [Obs.] Ascham.

. The odd man, to perform all things perfectly, is, in my poor opinion, Joannes Sturmius. Ascham. Patients have sometimes coveted odd things. Arbuthnot. Locke's Essay would be a very odd book for a man to make himself master of, who would get a reputation by critical writings. Spectator.

To stare wildly. [Obs.] Ascham.

, or of judging of character, by the lines and marks in the palm of the hand; chiromancy. Ascham. Cowper.

writing; a book. Testament of love. Sir Thomas More in his pamphlet of Richard the Third. Ascham.

ibe grammatically. Let him construe the letter into English, and parse it over perfectly. Ascham.

es; to concern one's self with trivial matters rather than with those that are important. Ascham.

and actions. "Pure religion and impartial laws." Tickell. "The pure, fine talk of Rome." Ascham. Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records. Macaulay.

The ring finger. [Obs.] Ascham

The quality or state of being sage; wisdom; sagacity; prudence; gravity. Ascham.