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ng disease. To die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly. Rambler.

Frenzy; ungovernable rage; extreme folly.

Foolish talk; nonsense; folly. [Obs.]

To exceed in folly. [R.] Young.

to image; to depict. Disloyal The word is too good to paint out her wickedness. Shak. If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Pope.

That which is profane; profane language or acts. The brisk interchange of profanity and folly. Buckminster.

nd darest thou to the Son of God propound To worship thee, accursed Milton. It is strange folly to set ourselves no mark, to propound no end, in the hearing of the gospel. Coleridge.

sale or by gratuitous distribution. The publication of these papers was not owing to our folly, but that of others. Swift.

A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal.

eral knowledge; what is not revealed, or not to be revealed. To tell our secrets is often folly; to communicate those of others is treachery. Rambler.

Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense. "A sheer impossibility." De Quincey. It is not a sheer advantage to have several strings to one's bow. M. Arnold.

Proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness or folly; unwise; absurd; stupid; as, silly conduct; a silly question.

Weakness of intellect; silliness; folly. How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity and the scorners delight in their scorning Prov. i. 22.

le; distinct. [Obs.] Bacon. And God forbid that all a company Should rue a singular man's folly. Chaucer.

To affect in a certain way with a smile. [R.] And sharply smile prevailing folly dead. Young.

Folly. [Obs.] Gauden.

to dissipate; as, to squander an estate. The crime of squandering health is equal to the folly. Rambler.

(sometimes in a bad sense); as, supreme love; supreme glory; supreme magnanimity; supreme folly. Each would be supreme within its own sphere, and those spheres could not but clash. De Quincey.

ng. -- Syc"o*phant`ish*ly, adv. Sycophantish satirists that forever humor the prevailing folly. De Quincey.

from for the support of government. We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride, and folly than we are taxed by government. Franklin.