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Univerfal Dictionary

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ENCYCLOPÆDIA PERTHENSIS.

SIN

IMSON, Profeffor, a younger brother of the

SIN

-I am pure from all sin with m'an. Tob. iii. 14.

Scared off, asn, with a memoir of 2. Habitual negligence of religion-Sing death,

whom we concluded our laft volume. This gentleman was profeffor of medicine in the univerfity of St Andrew's, and is famed for fome works of reputation; particularly a Differtation on the Nervous Srem, occafioned by the Direction of a Brain completely Offified.

. SIMULAR. n. f. [from simulo, Latin.] One that counterfeits.

Thou perjurer, thou simular of virtue, That art incestuous.

Shak. • SIMULATION. n.f. [simulation, French; simulatio, from simulo, Latin.] That part of hypocrify which pretends that to be which is not.Simulation is a vice rifing of a natural falfenefs, or fearfulness; because a man must needs disguise, it maketh him practise simulation. Bacon.—He well expreffed his love in an act and time of no simulation towards his end, bequeathing her all his manfion-houfes. Wotton.-Deceiving by actions, gef tures, or behavour, is called simulation or hypocrify. South.

SIMULTANEOUS. adj. [ simultaneus, Lat.] Acting together; exifting at the fame time.-Why may not bullets, closely crowded in a box, move by a like mutual and simultaneous excharge? Glan

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and hell, have fet their marks upon him. Shak. Sin-bred! how have ye troubled all mankind?

Milton.

The rank vapours of the sin-worn mould.

Milton.

Is there no means, but that a sin-fick land Should be let blood with fuch a boitt'rous hand? Daniel.

-Vice or virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men; sin and holinefs imply their relation to God. Watts.

Each affection of this sin-worn globe. Brooke. 3. It is nfed by Shakespeare emphatically for a man enormoully wicked.

Thy ambition,

Shak.

Thou fearlet sin, robb'd this bewailing land Of noble Buckingham. (2.) SIN. See THEOLOGY. (3.) SIN, the name of one of the chief Japanese Deitics, in their ancient SINTOo Religion.

(4.) SIN, in geography, or Barbe-Sin, a kingdom of Africa, in Senegal, extending about 21 miles along the coaft, and abounding in rice, fruits, cotton, maize, &c. Jeal is the capital.

* To SIN, b. n. [from the noun.] 1. To neglect the laws of religion; to viclate the laws of religion.-Stand in awe and sin not. Pfalm iv. 4. -Many alfo have sim'd for women. Efdr.-He fhall give him life for them that sin not unto death. 1 John, v. 16. 2. To offend against right.

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Shak.

But thofe that fleep, and think not on their sins,

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SINA, an ancient people of India, reckoned. by Ptolemy the most aftern nation in the world. SINAI, or SINA, a famous monatain of Arabia Petræa, upon which God gave the law to Mofes, It

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