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tion, when completely distempered, is the most incurable of all disordered faculties. Buckminster.

To cause; to make; -- with an infinitive. [Obs.] My lord Abbot of Westminster did do shewe to me late certain evidences. W. Caxton. I shall . . . your cloister do make. Piers Plowman. A fatal plague which many did to die. Spenser. We do you to wit [i. e., We make you to know] of the grace of God bestowed on the churche…

te. They stand at a distance, dwelling on his looks and language, fixed in amazement. Buckminster.

a ditch or mount a rampart. Sin enters, not by escalade, but by cunning or treachery. Buckminster.

which the ribs diverge somewhat like the rays of a fan, as in Henry VII.'s chapel in Westminster Abbey. It is peculiar to English Gothic. -- Fan wheel, the wheel of a fan blower. -- Fan window. Same as Fan light (above).

on, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment. He was entered on the foundation of Westminster. Macaulay.

ral. King James his funerals were performed very solemnly in the collegiate church at Westminster. Euller.

. 10. To grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities ot a worldly life. Buckminster.

ing mark of habitual piety to be grateful for the most common and ordinary blessings. Buckminster.

building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London.

ardihood. Wordsworth. It is the society of numbers which gives hardihood to iniquity. Buckminster.

d without gratitude, it can not be sported with without loss, or regained by courage. Buckminster.

e; defilement; foulness; adulteration. Profaneness, impurity, or scandal, is not wit. Buckminster.

f being i Of every species of incredulity, religious unbelief is the most irrational. Buckminster.

titude. The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the sublimest thing in nature. Buckminster. Their sober zeal, integrity. and worth. Cowper.

One who libels. [Written also libeller.] " Libelers of others." Buckkminster.

ng or deep-seated disorder. The maladies of the body may prove medicines to the mind. Buckminster.

irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus. Buckminster.

An angle in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, London; -- so called because it contains the tombs of Chaucer, Spenser, Dryden, Ben Jonson, Gray, Tennyson, Browning, and other English poets, and memorials to many buried elsewhere.

oughts are the invisible, airy precursors of all the storms and tempests of the soul. Buckminster.