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holly beguiled both church and state of the benefit of all my either retractions or Eikon Basilike.

tion or influence. Sacred truths cleared from all rust and dross of human mixtures. Eikon Basilike.

tion; a reservation; an excuse. They admit many salvos, cautions, and reservations. Eilon Basilike.

s which his mercy hath sanctified so to me as to make me repent of that unjust act. Eikon Basilike.

t survive the malice of my enemies, although they should be satiated with my blood. Eikon Basilike.

s to our passions by reason, to our errors by truth, and to our schisms by charity. Eikon Basilike.

vantage in the field, in an orderly way, than scuffle with an undisciplined rabble. Eikon Basilike.

the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation. This Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover. Sir P. Sidney. High disdain from sense of injured merit. Milton.

. I will slay the last of them with the sword. Amos ix. 1. I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk. Shak.

Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalidi, or genus Basilarchia, as the ursula and the viceroy.

One who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a second; an umpire. [Obs.] Basilius, the judge, appointed sticklers and trumpets whom the others should obey. Sir P. Sidney. Our former chiefs, like sticklers of the war, First sought to inflame the parties, then to poise. Dryden.

so confident of my own sufficiency as not willingly to admit the counsel of others. Eikon Basilike.

s. lxxiv. 11. I will never consent to put out the sun of sovereignity to posterity. Eikon Basilike. Sun and planet wheels (Mach.), an ingenious contrivance for converting reciprocating motion, as that of the working beam of a steam engine, into rotatory motion. It consists of a toothed wheel (called the sun wheel), fir…

Poverty; indigence. [Obs.] Eikon Basilike.

ersion; censure; reproof. I never bare any touch of conscience with greater regret. Eikon Basilike.

ch crosses at right angles to the greatest length, and between the nave and choir. In the basilicas, this had often no projection at its two ends. In Gothic churches these project these project greatly, and should be called the arms of the transept. It is common, however, to speak of the arms themselves as the transept…

, a tumult; disorderly; promiscuous; confused; tumultuous. "A tumultuary conflict." Eikon Basilike. A tumultuary attack of the Celtic peasantry. Macaulay. Sudden flight or tumultuary skirmish. De Quincey.

The quality or state of being unchristian. [R.] Eikon Basilike.

A beautiful North American butterfly (Basilarchia, or Limenitis, astyanax). Its wings are nearly black with red and blue spots and blotches. Called also red-spotted purple.

ate proceedings in a cause. That after act vacating the authority of the precedent. Eikon Basilike. The necessity of observing the Jewish Sabbath was Vacated by the apostolical institution of the Lord's Day. R. Nelson.