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To make sour or morose; to embitter. [Obs.] Sickness sours or crabs our nature. Glanvill.

y. He that hath been cradled in majesty will not leave the throne to play with beggars. Glanvill.

Grossness. [Obs.] Glanvill.

ng; perverse. "A cross fortune." Jer. Taylor. The cross and unlucky issue of my design. Glanvill. The article of the resurrection seems to lie marvelously cross to the common experience of mankind. South. We are both love's captives, but with fates so cross, One must be happy by the other's loss. Dryden.…

Hidden; secret; occult. "Her [nature's] more cryptic ways of working." Glanvill.

f danger; to cow; to intimidate; to dishearten. Some presences daunt and discourage us. Glanvill.

That which is plucked off or rent away; a fragment; a piece. Glanvill.

apable of being deduced from premises; deducible. All knowledge of causes is deductive. Glanvill. Notions and ideas . . . used in a deductive process. Whewell.

Capable of being wearied or tired out. [R.] Glanvill.

r; to purify, as from that which materializes. We defecate the notion from materiality. Glanvill. Defecated from all the impurities of sense. Bp. Warburton.

Delusive; fallacious. Glanvill.

nd doubt or question. The grand articles of our belief are as demonstrable as geometry. Glanvill.

Stripped of flesh. [Obs.] "Discarnate bones." Glanvill.

composure or equanimity; to agitate. Opposition . . . discomposeth the mind's serenity. Glanvill.

What is contrary to interest or advantage; disadvantage. [Obs.] Glanvill.

Disposed. [Obs.] Glanvill.

A divisible substance. Glanvill.

atic way. Spectator. [They] are as assertive and dogmatical as if they were omniscient. Glanvill. Dogmatic theology. Same as Dogmatics.

ccess of all this upon the dogmatist; his opinioned assurance is paramount to argument. Glanvill.

Deceitful; deceptive. Glanvill.