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carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed. Wise and dispassionate men. Clarendon.

ntention was that the two armies which marched out together should afterward be distinct. Clarendon.

cord and its effect; alienation. Such a disunion between the two houses as might much clouClarendon.

Doctorate. [R.] Clarendon.

illery. [Obs.] Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger. Clarendon.

To break; to disperse. [R.] Clarendon.

y understood; an explanation. The eclaircissement ended in the discovery of the informer. Clarendon.

free vent to speech; to spread out discourse. "They enlarged themselves on this subject." Clarendon. -- To enlarge the heart, to make free, liberal, and charitable.

e or argument. An enlargement upon the vices and corruptions that were got into the army. Clarendon.

l. Pure fear and entire cowardice. Shak. No man had ever a heart more entire to the king. Clarendon.

to the task. The Scots trusted not their own numbers as equal to fight with the English. Clarendon. It is not permitted to me to make my commendations equal to your merit. Dryden. Whose voice an equal messenger Conveyed thy meaning mild. Emerson.

e. He suffered his attorney-general to exhibit a charge of high treason against the earl. Clarendon.

s treason, hath naught left. Milton. The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury. Clarendon.

descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended. "A family of ancient extraction." Clarendon.

Tumult; discord; dissension. They remained at Newbury in great faction among themselves. Clarendon.

acilitate; advantageous; convenient. A place very favorable for the making levies of men. Clarendon. The temper of the climate, favorable to generation, health, and long life. Sir W. Temple.

sometimes by off; as, to free a captive or a slave; to be freed of these inconveniences. Clarendon. Our land is from the rage of tigers freed. Dryden. Arise, . . . free thy people from their yoke. Milton.

Peevish; froward. [Obs.] Clarendon.

High-spirited; fearless. [Obs.] Clarendon.

marching or walking, or in any action; arrest of progress. Without any halt they marched. Clarendon. [Lovers] soon in passion's war contest, Yet in their march soon make a halt. Davenant.