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ion. I hope, for my brother's justification, he wrote this but as an essay or taste of my virtue. Shak.

discovery or publicity; not to communicate, reveal, or betray, as a secret. Great are thy virtues . . . though kept from man. Milton.

sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome. Dost thou love watchings, abstinence, or toil, Laborious virtues all Learn these from Cato. Addison.

ut light; hence, being without appreciation; dull. Your ladies' eyes are lampless to that virtue. Beau. & Fl.

eavy; dull. " Languid, powerless limbs. " Armstrong. Fire their languid souls with Cato's virtue. Addison.

To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake. To lapse in fullness Is sorer than to lie for need. Shak.

lt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; -- often with up. The Roman virtues lift up mortal man. Addison. Lest, being lifted up with pride. I Tim. iii. 6.

ose there. R. of Gloucester. I willingly confess that it likes me much better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature. Sir P. Sidney.

o last; -- said of inanimate objects, ideas, etc. Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water. Shak.

rve; - - used to call attention. Look, how much we thus expel of sin, so much we expel of virtue. Milton.

either physically or morally; past help or hope; as, a ship lost at sea; a woman lost to virtue; a lost soul.

-favored to see to; and yet, asloveless as they be, they are not without some medicinable virtues. Holland.

hich a notion may be analyzed; the essence; the pith; the embodiment. He is the matter of virtue. B. Jonson.

; medium; absence of extremes or excess; moderation; measure. But to speak in a mean, the virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. Bacon. There is a mean in all things. Dryden. The extremes we have mentioned, between which the wellinstracted Christian holds the mean, are correlatives. I…

th; to experience; to suffer; as, the eye met a horrid sight; he met his fate. Of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst, Which meets contempt, or which compassion first. Pope.

Bacon. All liquors are called menstruums which are used as dissolvents, or to extract the virtues of ingredients by infusion or decoction. Quincy.

To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate. A mingled, imperfect virtue. Rogers.

ought or perception; as, to mistake one person for another. A man may mistake the love of virtue for the practice of it. Johnson.

as, a government formed on the model of the American constitution; a model of eloquence, virtue, or behavior.

duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice, manners, or conduct of men as social beings in relation to each other, as respects right and wro…