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searches with peculiar industry, of which he printea, 1. The Course of Hannibal over the Alps. 2. Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall; and 3. Supplement to Mr. Polewhele's Antiquities of Cornwall. His London and his Oxford remain in manuscript; but whether they are fit for publication we know Besides these great works, the public are indebted to Mr. Whitaker for many valuable articles of periodical criticism in the English Review, in the British Critic, and in the Antijacobin Review. His review of Gibbon, which, though severe, is just and able, and even candid, added greatly to the reputation of the English Review. Mr. Whitaker was a man evidently of strong passions, and of a warm imagination; but, even in those anonymous articles of periodical criticism, we find him generally candid and good natured; if not sparing of censure, nor lavish of applause, we find him generally just, often generous, and always benevolent. The nature and the force of his principles particularly appear in those articles in which he combats the enemies of our civil and ecclesiastical constitution. In addition to all his other literary qualifications, Mr. Whitaker was a poet, and contributed some valuable pieces to the Cornwall and Devon poets. As a minister of the gospel, Mr. Whitaker was zealous in principle, and sincere in the practice of all that he professed. He was irritable; and this failing, added to great ignorance of the world, was sometimes destructive of his social comfort; but he was in fact goodhumored, hospitable, and benevolent; and his loss will long be lamented by his family, his parishioners, and the learned world. He died in 1808 at the age of seventy-three; and his death was evidently hastened by a journey to London, and by his vast exertions there in procuring information for his work on the Antiquities of that vast metropolis. His decline at length was gradual, and his death (of which he was perfectly aware) such as became a Christian, at peace with himself, with his fellow-creatures, and, through the merits of the Redeemer in whom he trusted, with his God.

WHITBREAD (Samuel), for many years a leading member of the house of commons, was the son of an eminent brewer of the same name. He was born in London in 1758, was educated at Eton, whence he removed to St. John's College, Cambridge, after which he made the tour of Europe under the care of Mr. (afterwards archdeacon) Coxe. Soon after his return he married the daughter of Sir Charles (afterwards earl) Grey, and in 1790 was returned to the house of commons for the borough of Steyning. For the greater part of his career, however, he represented the town of Bedford, in which borough and county he possessed a large landed property. For many years he was esteemed one of the most shrewd and vigorous opponents of the Pitt administration, and of the war growing out of the French revolution. was also the conductor of the impeachment against lord Melville, which, although terminating in acquittal, threw a shade over the close of that statesmpan's life, and proved a source of extreme concern to the administration. The close of his life was most melancholy; an over-anxious attention to business in general, but more especially to the intricate concerns of Drury Lane Theatre, produced a temporary aberration of intellect, during which he cut his throat, July 6th, 1815.

He

WHITBY (Daniel), D. D., a learned English

divine, born in 1638, and bred at Oxford; where, in 1664, he was elected perpetual fellow of his college. He afterwards became chaplain to Dr. Seth Ward, bishop of Salisbury; who collated him in 1668 to the prebend of Yatesbury in that church, and soon after to that of Husborn and Burbach. In 1672 he was admitted chaunter of the said church, and rector of St. Edmund's, Salisbury. He was made a prebendary of Taunton-Regis in 1696, and died in 1726. He was ever strangely ignorant of worldly affairs. His writings are numerous and well known, particularly his Commentary on the New Testament.

WHITBY, a sea-port, market-town, and parish, in the liberties of Whitby-Strand, North Riding of Yorkshire, twelve miles N. N. W. of Scarborough, and 242 north by west of London. It stands on the banks of the Eske, which forms its harbour, and divides the town into two nearly equal parts, connected by a draw-bridge, which will admit ships of 500 tons to pass. The houses are strongly built of rough stone, and some of them are spacious and elegant. The town-hall is a heavy pile of the Tuscan order. The customhouse is a commodious building, well adapted to its purpose. The principal public charities and institutions are the dispensary, and the schools on the British plan for the education of youth of both sexes. This is a town of great antiquity, and appears to have had a convent founded in the seventh century, by Oswy, king of Northumberland, afterwards burnt by the Danes, but rebuilt with great splendor, and continued till the general dissolution. Whitby had also formerly a splendid abbey, of which the venerable ruins are now very inconsiderable. At present it is a considerable town, and carries on a great trade in coals and alum works. In 1787 a strong new built quay, supporting a pile of buildings, eighty feet above the level of the sea, was destroyed, and the venerable old church belonging to its ancient convent, standing on a cliff about thirty yards distant, nearly shared the same fate. In the town are a chapel of ease, and many meeting houses for dissenters. The entrance to the harbour is now secured by two handsome and substantial stone piers. Ship building is here carried on to a very considerable extent. On the east side of the harbour the cliffs are nearly 180 feet perpendicular above the level of the sea. The shore consists of a smooth flat_rock, resembling slate, called by the inhabitants Scarr. Many curiously shaped stones, petrifactions, bones, and shells, are found in the strata. Market on Saturday.

WHITE, adj., n. s., & v. a.)
WHITE LEAD, n. s.
WHITE'LY, adj.
WHITE MEAT, N. 3.
WHITEN, v. a. & v. n.
WHITE'NESS, n.s.
WHITE WASH,
WHITE WINE,
WHITISH, adj.
WHITISHNESS, n.s.
WHITE LEATHER.

Sax. hpit; Belg. wit; Swedish huit. Having the color or

appearance that arises from the mixture of all colors; snowy; pale; pure; gray whiteness, any thing white; white spot or color; J the white part of

any thing, as of the eye, an egg, &c. to white or whiten is to make white: and whiten, as a verb neuter, to grow white: whitelead, a white calx of lead: whitely and whitish, approaching in color to white: whitemeat, food made of milk: whitewash. is a wash of this huc for the skin or for walls:

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As little as a whitethorn and pear-tree seem of kin, a cion of the latter will sometimes prosper well, being grafted upon a stock of the former. Id.

Flax the soil and climate are proper for whitening, by the frequency of brooks, and also of winds. Temple.

If a mark be set up for an anchor at a great distance, let him aim as exactly as he can, the least wind shall take his arrow, and divert it from the white. Dryden.

White as thy fame, and as thy honour clear; And let new joys attend on thy new-added year. Id. The horney or pellucid coat of the eye doth not lie in the same superfices with the white of the eye, but riseth up, as a hillock, above its convexity.

The bark expects its freight;

The loosened canvas trembles with the wind,
And the sea whitens with auspicious gales.

Ray.

Smith.

The clergy, during Cromwell's usurpation, were very much taken up in reforming the female world. I have heard a whole sermon against a whitewash. Addison.

Striking her cliff, the storm confirms her power; The waves but whiten her triumphant shore. Prior. White-lead is made by taking sheet-lead, and having cut it into long and narrow slips, they make it up into rolls, but so that a small distance may remain between every spiral revolution, &c.

Quincy. When the paper was held nearer to any colour than to the rest, it appeared of that colour to which it approached nearest; but when it was equally, or almost equally, distant from all the colours, so that it might be equally illuminated by them all, it appeared white. Newton. The seeds and roots are to be cut, beaten, and in

fused in white-wine.

Wiseman.

Whether the darkened room to muse invite, Or whitened wall provoke the skewer to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgell, I will rhime and print. Pope.

Unhappy Dryden! in all Charles's days, Roscommon only boasts unspotted lays; And in our own, excuse some courtly stains, No whiter page than Addison's remains.

Now, governor, I see that I must blush Quite through this veil of night a whitely shame, To think I could design to make those free, Southern Who were by nature slaves. Four rooms above, below, this mansion graced, With white-wash decked, and river-sand o'er-cast. Harte.

WHITE (Francis), was educated at Cambridg He became almoner to king James I., then deas and bishop of Carlisle, and in 1631 bishop Norwich. He died in 1637. He was famous fr his writings against Popery, and for his conferens with Fisher the Jesuit, in presence of king Jame

in 1624.

WHITE (Jeremiah), a nonconformist divine, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and chaphaz to Oliver Cromwell. He lived privately long afte the Restoration, and wrote a work on the Restor tion of all Things, wherein he supports the doctrine of universal redemption. He died in 1737.

WHITE (Robert), an eminent English engraver who acquired his art under Loggan. He engraved a vast number of portraits and frontispieces for books, and was very correct in his likenesses. He died in 1704.

born at Bristol early in the sixteenth century. He WHITE (Thomas), D. D., an eminent divine became rector of St. Gregory and St. Dunsta studied at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, in 1566. He prebendary of St. Paul's; treasurer of Salisbury church, and canon of Windsor. He publishe Sermons, but is most respectable for his charte as he founded an alms-house at Bristol, a lecture ship at Oxford, and made a liberal bequest to Su for the London clergy. He died in 1623.

WHITE (Thomas), or Thomas Albus, his Lat church, born in Essex. He was intimate w name, a philosopher and divine of the Roma Hobbes, though their systems were opposite. Es works are remarkable for trifling subtleties. E died in 1676.

WHITE (Thomas), a learned English divine, wh became lecturer of St. Andrew's Holborn. H published a pious work on The Art of Divin Meditation, 8vo.

WHITE (Gilbert), a writer on natural history and antiquities, was born at Selborne in 179 studied at Oriel College, Oxford, where he obtained in 1746. In 1752 he filled the office of ser a fellowship in 1744; and took the degree of M.A of the university. He afterwards fixed hi proctor residence in his native village, devoting his leiser to literature. The fruit of his researches appeared in his Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. 1789, 4to., of which a German translation was pub lished at Berlin in 1792. He died in 1793. A Naturalist's Calendar, extracted from his paper. was published posthumously; and this was t printed in a collection of his works on natural his tory, 1802, 2 vols. 8vo.

WHITE (Henry Kirke), a highly gifted youthfe poet, was born at Nottingham, March 21st, 178 and was the son of a butcher. The delicacy of he constitution occasioned him to be designed for the sedentary employment of a stocking weaver; from his infancy he manifested an extraordinary love of learning. He was at length removed from the stocking loom to an attorney's office and de

voted his spare time to the study of Latin and Greek, until increase of knowledge inspired him with the desire to obtain more favorable opportunities for improving his talents; and a university education for the church became the great object of his ambition. Through the generosity of Mr. Wilberforce, and the Rev. Charles Simeon, he was admitted a student of St. John's College, Cambridge, where he applied to his studies with such unremitting labor that his health became deranged, and he died October 19th, 1806, deeply lamented. He published in 1803 a poem called Clifton Grove, and after his death his Remains, consisting of Poems, Letters, and Fragments, were edited by Dr. Southey in 2 vols. 8vo.

WHITE BEAR LAKE, a lake of North America, out of which proceed some of the head waters of the Mississippi. Carver supposes it to be the most northern of any which supply that great river. But subsequent travellers have discovered the source of the Mississippi to be in several lakes farther to the north. Long. 95° 30′ W., lat. 46° 50′ N. WHITE EARTH RIVER, a river which empties itself into the Missouri from the north. Before it reaches the low-grounds near the Missouri this river is a fine bold stream, sixty yards wide, deep, and navigable; but it is so much choked up at the entrance by the mud of the Missouri, that its mouth is no more than twenty yards wide. Its course, as far as captains Lewis and Clarke could discern from the neighbouring hills, is nearly due north through a beautiful and fertile valley, though without a tree or bush. It has steep banks, about ten or twelve feet high, and the water is much clearer than that of the Missouri. The salts also, which have been mentioned as common on the Missouri, are here so abundant, that in many places the ground appears perfectly white. It is navigable almost to its source, supposed nearly to extend to 50° of N. lat.

WHITE MOUNTAINS, or White Hills, a range of mountains in New Hampshire, North America; eighteen or twenty miles long, and eight or ten broad. The base of the mountains is about twentyfive miles south-east of Lancaster; and Mount Washington, the highest summit, is seventy miles in a right line north of Concord, and eighty-two north by west of Portsmouth. Long. 71° 20′ W., lat. 44° 15′ N. In the western pass of these mountains there is a remarkable gap, called the Notch. These mountains have been ascended by different routs. The course which is usually considered as attended with the least difficulties, is that which commences at the plain of Conway, and follows the course of Ellis River, a northern branch of the Saco, having its origin high in the mountains. The view from the summit is rendered wonderfully grand and picturesque, by the magnitude of the elevation, the extent and variety of the surrounding scenery, and above all by the huge and desolate pile of rocks, extending to a great distance in every direction. These mountains are covered with snow nine or ten months in the year, and derive their name from their white appearance. They are seen many miles off at sea, and a person when on their summit has a distinct view of the Atlantic Ocean, the nearest part of which is sixtyfive miles distant in a direct line. The limit of forest trees is at the height of 4428 feet. The sides are composed of micaceous schistos, and the summit of gneiss.

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WHITEFIELD (George), A. B., the celebrated field-preacher, and the founder of the sect of Calvinistic methodists, was born in 1714, at GloucesAt about twelve years of age he was put to a grammar-school, but his mother keeping a tavern, he, about fifteen, served her as a waiter. Next year he got admitted servitor in Pembroke College, Oxford. Here he distinguished himself by the austerities of his devotion. At the age of twentyone, the fame of his piety recommended him so effectually to Dr. Benson, then bishop at Gloucester, that he ordained him. Immediately after his admission into the ministry, Mr. Whitefield applied himself to the most extraordinary, indefatigable duties of his character, preaching daily in prisons, fields, and open streets, wherever he thought there would be a likelihood of making proselytes. Having at length made himself universally known in England, he embarked for America, where the tenets of Methodism began to spread very fast under his friends the Wesleys; and first determined upon the institution of the orphan house at Georgia, which he afterwards effected. After a long course of peregrination his fortune increased as his fame extended among his followers, and he erected two very extensive buildings for public worship, under the name of tabernacles; one in Tottenham Court Road and the other near Moorfields. Here, with the help of some assistants, he continued for several years attended by very crowded congregations, and quitting the kingdom only occasionally. Mr. Whitefield, by being chaplain to the countess dowager of Huntingdon, was also connected with two other religious meetings, one at Bath, and the other at Tunbridge, chiefly erected under that lady's patronage. By a lively, fertile, and penetrating genius, by the most unwearied zeal, and by a forcible and persuasive delivery, he never failed of the desired effect upon his ever crowded and admiring audiences. America, however, which always engaged much of his attention, was destined to close his eyes; and he died at Newberry, about forty miles from Boston in New England in 1770.

WHITEHAVEN, a sea-port and market town in the parish of St. Bees, Allerdale ward, above Durwent, Cumberland, lying on a bay of the Irish

Sea, five miles north by west from Egremont, and 307 north-west of London. The town is recorded to have contained only six houses in 1566: it owes its present thriving condition to the improvement in its harbour, during the reign of queen Anne. The piers or moles have since been greatly enlarged, and further additions and improvements are in contemplation. Here are three churches, St. James's, the Trinity, and Hold Church; several meeting-houses for various sectaries, a public dispensary, charity schools, and a theatre, &c. Besides the extensive coal mines in the vicinity, some of which are 130 fathoms deep, and in many places a considerable way under the sea, here are copperas-work, breweries, yards for ship-building, sail-cloth manufactories, and three large roperies. A steam packet plies during the summer between this port, Liverpool, and Dumfries. On both the old and new quay are erected light houses, and the entrance of the harbour is defended by a fort and half moon battery. This port has a custom house, with regular officers attached to it, and the coal trade is reckoned the most eminent in England, next to Newcastle. In March 1793 this town suffered by a storm, when the tide rose six feet above its usual height. Market on Tuesday.

WHITEHEAD (Paul), a poet and satyrist, born at Westminster in 1710, where he received a liberal education. The first of his pieces which attracted attention were, The State Dunces, 1733, and 2. Manners, a satire, 1738: 3. Honor, a satire, 1747; 4. The Gymnasiad, a mock heroic poem, 1748; a well timed satire on the brutal custom of boxing. His friend and patron, lord le Despencer, procured him a place of £800 a year, which he held for life. He died in 1774.

WHITEHEAD (William), a poet and dramatic writer, the son of a baker, born at Cambridge in 1715. He was admitted in 1735 a sizar, and in 1742 a fellow of Clare Hall College. He attended the sons of the earls of Harcourt and Jersey on their travels. On his return he published the Roman Father, a tragedy, 1750; Creusa, another, in 1754. Fatal Constancy. The School for Lovers, a comedy. A Trip to Scotland, a farce, and other pieces. In 1755 he was appointed poet laureat; and died in 1785, aged seventy.

WHITEHURST (John), F. R. S., was the son of a watchmaker, born at Congleton in Cheshire, in 1713. In 1734 he went to Dublin, on purpose to see a curious clock he had heard of. He took lodgings in the house, where the clock was closely secured from all inspection. He, however, made way to it, inspected its machinery, and retired undetected. lle returned to England, and settled at Derby, where he made the clock of the town hall, and the clock and chimes of the beautiful tower of All Saint's Church. He was appointed stamper of the money weights at the mint; on which he came to London, where his house soon became the resort of all men of science. In 1778 he published his Enquiry into the Original State and Formation of the Earth. In 1779 he was elected F. R. S. In 1786 he republished his Enquiry, with improvements, in 1 vol. 4to. He also published An Attempt towards obtaining invariable measures of Length, Capacity, and Weight, from the mensuration of time, in 8vo.; besides several papers in the Philosophical Transactions. He died in London in 1788.

WHITELOCKE (Sir James), LL.B., learned

lawyer, born in London in 1570, and educated at Merchant Tailor's School, and St. John's College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1594. He entered in the Middle Temple, and in 1620 was chosen M. P. for Woodstock. He was made chief justice of Chester, and afterwards of the king's bench; and was knighted. His works consist of Lectures in the Middle Temple, and Speeches in Parlia ment. He died in 1632, aged sixty-two.

WHITELOCKE (Sir Bulstrode), son of Sir James, was born in 1605; educated at London and Or ford, whence he went to the middle temple. Ia the long parliament he was M. P. for Marlow, and was appointed chairman of the committee for prosecuting the earl of Strafford, against whom te was very zealous. He was a member of the assen bly of divines at Westminster, and in 1647 was a commissioner of the great seal. In 1653 he was sent ambassador from the Commonwealth to Swe den; and on his return was made a commissione of the treasury. In 1656 he was chosen speaker of the house of commons; and in 1653 a member of Cromwell's house of lords. In 1659 he was made president of the council of state, and keeper of the great seal. He died at Chilton, Wils, in 1676. He wrote 1. Monarchy the best, most a cient, and legal Form of Government, Sve Memorials of English Affairs, fol., 1682 3. Speeches, &c.

WHITGIFT (John), D. D., an eminent prelate, was born at Great Grimsby, in Lincolnshire, a 1530; educated at Queen's College and Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. In 1560 he took orders, ai became chaplain to bishop Cox of Ely, who ga him a living. In 1563 he was appointed Margaret's professor of divinity, and restored orde in the university. In 1567 he was made master Trinity College; in 1573 dean of Lincoln; 1576 bishop of Worcester; and in 1583 archbishop i Canterbury. He was a great favorite with ques Elizabeth, and founded an hospital at Croyd He died at Lambeth in 1604. He wrote seve valuable tracts in defence of the discipline, c stitution, and liturgy of the church of Eng against Cartwright, whom he also befriended m manner not common among controversialists. WHITHER, adv. Į Sax. hpyden. To w WHITHERSOEVER. S place? interrogatively, absolutely; to which place; to what degree! » whatsoever place.

Whither when as they came, they fell at words, Whether of them should be the lord of lords. Spe Sister, well met; whither away so fast? Shakspert Whither at length wilt thou abuse our patience? Ben Jons Still shall thy fury mock us?

the nature and intention of the grace does drive us For whatever end faith is designed, and whithra thither we must go, and to that end we must direct a

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-Skinner. Sax. peit, and low, a flame.-Lye. A swelling between the cuticle and cutis, called the mild whitlow; or between the periosteum and the bone, called the malignant whitlow.

Paronychia is a small swelling about the nails and ends of the fingers, by the vulgar people generally called whitflaw.

Wiseman.

WHITSUN FARTHINGS, otherwise called smoke farthings, or quadrantes Pentecostales, a composition for offerings which were anciently made in Whitsun-week by every man in England, who occupied a house with a chimney, to the cathedral church of the diocese in which he lived.

WHITSUNDAY, a solemn festival of the church, observed on the fiftieth day after Easter, in memory of the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the apostles in the visible appearance of fiery cloven tongues, and of those miraculous powers which were then conferred upon them. It is called Whitsunday or White Sunday, because, this being one of the stated times for baptism in the ancient church, those who were baptised put on white garments, as types of that spiritual purity they received in baptism. As the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the apostles happened upon the day which the Jews called Pentecost, this festival retained the name of Pentecost among the Christians. See PENTECOST.

WHITSUNTIDE, n. s. White and Sunday; because the converts newly baptised appeared from Easter to Whitsuntide in white.-Skinner. The feast of Pentecost.

Strephon, with leafy twigs of laurel tree, A garland made on temples for to wear; For he then chosen was the dignity

Sidney.

Of village lord that Whitsuntide to bear.
And let us do it with no shew of fear;
Nor with no more than if we heard that England
Were busied with a Whitson morrice dance. Shaksp.
This they employ in brewing and baking against
Whitsuntide.
Carew.

WHITTINGTON (Sir Richard), a rich citizen cf London, who flourished in the reigns of Richard II., Henry IV., and Henry V., and was knighted. He was three times elected lord mayor; the last time in 1419. Being very successful in foreign trade, he amassed a fortune. He built Newgate, part of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and erected the library in Grey Friars, now called Christ's Hospital. He also built part of Guildhall, with the chapel and depository for the city records.

WHITTINGTON (Robert), a learned teacher, born at Lichfield, and educated at Oxford. He published a Latin Grammar in 4to., in 1500; and several other tracts in Latin, on Philology, &c. He died in 1530.

WHITTLE, n. s. & v. a. Sax. Þeytel. A knife: to edge; sharpen.

He wore a Sheffield whittle in his hose. Betterton. When they are come to that once, and are thoroughly whittled, then shall you have them cast their wanton eyes upon men's wives. Hakewill.

WHITWORTH (Charles), earl, was descended of an ancient family in Staffordshire, one of the members of which had been ennobled for his diplomatic services in 1720. The subject of this article was born in 1754 at Leoburne-grange, Kent, the seat of his father Sir Charles Whitworth, and was educated at Tunbridge grammar-school. He early obtained commission in the guards; but, the example of his ancestor appearing to point out diplomacy as a

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sure road to distinction, he quitted the army, and, after going rapidly through several subordinate situations, was appointed in 1786 minister plenipotentiary to the court of Poland. Recalled in the autumn of 1788, Mr. Whitworth proceeded in the same capacity to St. Petersburgh, where in 1793 he received the red riband of the bath. On his return to England, in 1800, Sir Charles was created baron Whitworth of the kingdom of Ireland, and soon after again despatched on an embassy to the court of Denmark. An adjustment which proved but short lived took place through his exertions in August, and the ambassador returned home. In the following April he married the duchess dowager of Dorset. After the treaty of Amiens, lord Whitworth, having been previously created a privy counsellor, was accredited as plenipotentiary to Paris, and is admitted to have conducted himself with equal spirit, firmness, and moderation, till his mission terminated abruptly in the renewal of hostilities. He quitted the French capital May 13th, 1803. Lord Whitworth now retired to Knowle in Kent, the family seat of the Sackvilles, into the temporary possession of which he had come in right of his wife, and there exerted himself in raising, at his own expense, a troop of yeoman cavalry. In the spring of 1813 he was made one of the lords of the bedchamber, and the year following took his seat in the house as an English peer by the title of viscount Whitworth of Adbaston. In August of 1814 he succeeded the duke of Richmond as viceroy of Ireland, which high dignity he enjoyed till 1817, when, the usual period of office being expired, he returned to England, having been in the interval advanced to an earldom. Lord Whitworth, who united much private worth to unquestioned talent, died at Knowle, after an illness of three days' duration, May 13th, 1825. WHIZ, v. n. loud humming noise.

From the sound. To make a

The exhalations, whizzing in the air, Give so much light that I may read by them. Shaksp. Turn him about;

I know him, he'll but whiz, and straight go out.

WHO, pronoun, WHOM, WHOMSOEV'ER, WHO'SO,

Dryden.

Genitive whose; other cases whom. Sax. hpa; Belg. wie. A pronoun relative, applied to persons: it is WHO'SOEVER. often used interrogatively: whoso and whosoever, is any one soever. Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Job.

In the grave who shall give thee thanks? Psalms. Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained. John. Whoever doth to temperance apply His stedfast life, and all his actions frame, Trust me shall find no greater enemy, Than stubborn perturbation to the same. Were the graced person of our Banquo present, Whom I may rather challenge for unkindness, Than pity for mischance.

Spenser.

Shakspeare.

Thy name affrights me, in whose sound is death. Id. will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's Whoso is out of hope to attain to another's virtue

fortune.

Bacon.

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