ness. Suspicion sleeps Simulation is a vice rising of a natural falseAt wisdom's gate, and to simplicity ness, or fearfulness; or of a mind that hath some Resigns her charge. Miltan. main faults; which, because a man must needs Of manners gentle, of affections mild; disguise, it maketh him practise simulation. Bacon. In wit a man, simplicity a child. Pape. From the unquestionable virtues of her perThe native elegance and simplicity of her son and mind, he well expressed his love in an manners were accompanied with real benevo- act and time of no simulation towards his end, lence of heart. Female Quixote. bequeathing her all his mansion houses, and a 2. Plainness; not subtilty; not abstruse power to dispose of his whole personal estate. Wotton. For distinction sake, a deceiving by word is Those enter into farther speculation herein, commonly called a lye; and deceiving by actions, which is the itch of curiosity, and content not theinselves with the sixplicity of that doctrine, gestures, or behaviour, is called simulation or hya within which this church hath contained herself. pocrisy. Soxin, Hannond. SIMULTA'NEOUS. adj. [simultaneus, Lat.} 3. Plainness; not finery. Acting together; existing at the same They represent our poet, when he left Man- time. tua for Rome, dressed in his best habit, too fine If the parts may all change places at the same for che place whence lie came, and yet retaining time, without any respect of priority or postepart of its simplicity. Dryden. riority to each other's motion, why may not 4. Singleness; not composition; state of bullets, closely crowded in a box, move by a like being uncompounded. mutual and simultaneous exchange? Glanville, Mandrakes a ford a papaverous unpleasant Sin, n. s. (syn, Saxon.] odour in the leaf or apple, discoverable in their 1. An act against the laws of God; a viosimplicity and mixture. Brown, lation of the laws of religion. We are led to conceive that great machine of It is great sin to swear unto a sin, the world to have been once in a state of greater But greater sin to keep a sinful oath. Sbaksp. simplicity than now it is, as to conceive a watch How hast thou the heart, once in its first and simple materials. Burnet. Being a divine, a ghostly confessor, s. Weakness; silliness. A sin absolver, and my friend profest, Many that know what they should do, would To mangle me with that word banishment? nevertheless dissemble it, and, to excuse them Shakspeare selves, pretend ignorance and simplicity, which But those that sleep, and think not on their now they cannot. Hooker. sins, How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simpli Pinch them. Shakspeare. city, and tools hate knowledge ? Proverbs. Thou knowest, Lord, that I am pure from all sin with man. Tobit. SI'NPLIST. n. s. [from simple.] One skill- 2. Habitual neglizence of religion. ed in simples. Şin, death, and hell, have set their inarks upe A plant so unlike a rose, it hath been mistaken on him, by some good simplists for aniomum. Brown, And all their ministers attend on him. Shaksp. Simply. adv. (from simple.] Dishonest shame 1. Without art; without subtilty ; plain- Of nature's works: honour dishonourable, ly; artlessly. Sin-bred, how have you troubled all mankind! Milton. Accomplishing great things by things deem'd weak; I would not soil these pure ambrosial weeds, Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise With the rank vapours of the sin-worn mould. By simply meek. Milton. Milton. Is there no means, but that a sin-sick land 2. Of itself; without addition. Should be lec blood with such a boist'rous hand? This question about the changing of laws con Daniel, cerneth only such laws as are positive, and do Vice or virtue chiefly imply the relation of our make that now good or evil, by being commande actions to men in this world: sin and holiness ed or forbidden, which otherwise of itselt were rather imply their relation to God and the other not simply the one or the other. Hooker. world. Watts. 3. Merely, solely. Light from her thought, a summer's careless Under man, no creature in the world is canze robe, ble of felicity and bliss; because their chiefest Fell each afection of this sin. worn globe. Brooke. perfection consisteth in that which is best for 3. It is used by Sbakspeare emphatically them, but not in that which is simply best,, as ours doth. Hooker. for a man enormously wicked. I will eat and drink, and sleep as soft Thy ambition, As captain shall; simply the thing I am Thou scarlet sin, robb'd this bewailing land Shakspeare. Henry viii. To say or to do aught with memory and imi To Sin. v. n. (from the noun.] tation, no purpose or respect should sooner 1. To neglect the laws of religion ; to vi. move us, than simply the love of God and of olate the laws of religion. mankind. Milton. Stand in awe and sin not. Psalmns. 4. Foolishly ; sillily. Many also have perished, erred, and sinned, for Esdras. SI'MULAR. N. s. [from simulo, Latin.] One that counterfeits. He shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. 1 Joba. Hide thee, thou bloody hand, Thou perjurer, thou simular of virtue, 2. To offend against righi. That art incestuous. I am a man More sinn'd against than sinning. Shakspeare. n. s. (simulation, French; And who but wishes to invert the laws simulatio, from simulo, Latin.] That Of order, sins against th' eternal cause. Pape. part of hypocrisy which pretends that SINCE, adv. [formed by contraction from to be which is not. sitbence, or sith thence, from ride, Sax.] women. SIMU I. A’TION. SIN I. Because that. That you may, fair lady, Since the clearest discoveries we have of other Perceive I speak sincerely, the king's majesty spirits, besides God, and our own souls, are in- Does purpose honour to you. Shakspeare. parted by revelation, the information of them In your whole reasoning, keep your mind sinshould be taken from thence. Locke. cerely intent in the pursuit of truth. W'atts. Since truth and constancy are vain, SINCE'RENESS. n. s. (sincerité, French ; Since neither love, nor sense of pain, SINCE'RITY. S from sincere.] 1. Honesty of intention ; purity of mind. Jesus Christ has purchased for us terms of re. 2. From the time that. conciliatio:, who will accept of sincerity instead Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast of perfection ; but then this sincerity implies our ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? honest endeavours to do our utmost. Rugers. Numbers. 2. Freedom from hypocrisy. him that ever was. Pope. In thy consort cease to fear a foe; Pope. 3. Ago; before this. SI'NDON. n. s. (Lat.) A fold; a wrapper; About two years since, it so fell out, that he There were found a book and a letter, both was brought to a great lady's house. Sidney. Spies held me in chace, that I was forc'd to written in fine parchment, and wrapped in sindons of linen. Bacon. wheel Three or four miles about; else had I, sir, SI'NE. n. s. (sinus, Lat.) A right sine, in Half an hour since, brought my report. Shaksp. geometry, is a right line drawn from one A law was made no longer since than the end of an arch perpendicularly upon the twenty-eighth of Henry the Eighth. Davies. diameter drawn from the other end of How many ages since has Virgil writ! Roscom. that arch ; or it is half the chord of SINCE. preposition. After; reckoning from twice the arch. Harris. some time past to the time present. Whatever inclinations the rays have to the He since the morning hour set out from plane of incidence, the sine of the angle of inciheav'n. Milton, dence of every ray, considered apart, shall have If such a man arise, I have a model by which to the sine of the angle of refraction a constant he may build a nobler poem than any extant ratio. Cbryne. since the ancients. Dryden. Si’NECUR E. 11. s. [sine, without, and cura, SINCE'R E, adj. [sincerus, Lat. sincere, Fr.] care.] An office which has revenue 1. Unhurt; uninjured. without any employment. He tried a tough weil chosen spear; A sikecure is a benetice without cure of souls. Thi inviolable body stood sincere. Dryden. Aylife. 2. Pure; unmingitd. No simony nor sinecure were known, Nor wouid the bee work honey for the drone. Pardon my tears, 't is joy which bids them flow, Garth. A joy which never was sincera till now; That which my conquest gulve I could not prize, SI'NEW. n. s. [senpe, Saxon; senewin, Or 't was imperfect, till I saw your eyes. Dryd, Dutch.] The pleasures of sense beasts taste sincere and 1. A tendon; the ligament by which the pure always, without mixture or allay; without joints are moved. being distracted in the pursuit, or disquieted in The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it the use of them. Atterbury. With lustv sine tus. Animal substances differ from vegetable, in Sbakspeare. The rooted fibres rose, and from the wound that, being reduced to ashes, they are perfectly Black bloody drops distill'd upon the ground: insipid, and in that there is no sincere acid Mute and amaz'd, my hair with terror stood; animal juice. Arbuthnot. Fear shrunk my sinews, and congeal'd my blood. In English I would have all gallicisms avoided, that our tongue may be sincere, and that we may Dryderio A sinew cracked seldom recovers its former keep to our own language. Felton. Locke. 3. Honest ; undissembling; uncorrupt. 2. Applied to whatever gives strength or This top proud fellow', compictness: as, money is the sinews From sincere motions by intelligence of war. I do know to be corrupt. Shakspeare. Some other sinere's there are, from which that Nor troubled at these tidings from the earth, overpius of strength in persuation doth arise. Which your sincerest care could not prevent; Hooker. Foretold so lately what would come to pass, Such discouraging of men in the ways of an When first this tempter cross'u the gulf from active conformity to the church's rules, cracks hell. Miiton. the sinctus of government; for it weakens and The more sircere you are, the better it will damps the spirits of the obedient. South. fare with you at the great day of account. In In the principal figures of a picture, the painter the mean while, give us leave to be sincere too, is to employ the sinete's of his art; for in them in condemning heartily what we heartily disap- consists the principal beauties of his work. Dryd. prove. Waterland. 3. Muscle or nerve. Through the want of a sincere intention of The feeling pow'r, which is life's root, pleasing God in all our actions, we fall into such Through ev'ry living part itself deth shed irregularities of life as, by the ordinary means By sinens, which extend from head to foot; of grace, we should have power to avoid. Law, And, like a net, all o'er the body spread. Davies. SINCE'RELY. adv. [from sincere.] Ho- To SI'New. v. a. [from the noun.] To nestly; without hypocrisy ; with purity knit as by sinews. Not in use. of heart. Ask the lady Bona for thy queen; The purer and perfecter our religion is, the So shalt thou sinew both these lands together. Worthier effects it hath in them who stedfastly Sbakspeart. and sincerely cmbrace it. Hooker. SI'NEWED. adj. [from sinew.] i any Dryden. 1. Furnished with sinews. TO SING. v. ». pretexit I sang or sung ; Strong sinewid was the youth, and big of bone. participle pass. sung. [singan, Sixon; Dryden. singia, Islandick; singhen, Dutch.] 2. Strong ; firm ; vigorous. He will the rather do it, when he sees 1. To form the voice to melody ; to artiOurselves well sinewed to our defence. Shaks). culate musically. Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing : he has been over-ridden, and so fatigued To his musick plants and flowers that he becomes gaunt-bellied, by a stiff- Ever sprung, as sun and showers ness and contraction of the two sinew's There had made a lasting spring. Sbaksp. Then they for sudden joy did weep, which are under his belly. Farrier's Dict. And some for sorrow sung. SI'NEWY. adj. [from sinew.] Sbakspeare. They rather had beheld 1. Consisting of a sinew; nervous. The Dissentious numbers pestering streets, than see nerves and sinews are in poetry often Our tradesmen singing in their shops, and going confounded, from nervus, Latin, which About their functions friendly. Sbakspeare. signifies a sinew. The morning stars sang together. Job. Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at The sinewy thread my brain lets fall Through every part, the presence of the Lord. 1 Chronicles. Can tie those parts, and make me one of all. Their airy limbs in sports they exercise, Some in heroick verse divinely sing. 2. Strong ; nervous; vigorous; forcible. 2. To utter sweet sounds inarticulately. And for thy vigour, The time of the singing of birds is come. Bull-bearing Milo his addition yields Canticles. To sinewer Ajax. Shakspeare. You will sooner bind a bird from singing than Worthy fellows, and like to prove from flying. Bacon. Most sinewy swordsmen. Sbakspeare. Join voices, all ye birds, The northern people are large, fair-com- That singing up to heaven's gate ascend. Milt. plexioned, strong, sinervy, and courageous. Hale. And parrots, imitating human tongue, Fainting, as he reach'd the shore, And singing birds, in silver cages hung. Drylen. He dropt his sinewy arms: his knees no more Oh! werel made, by some transforming pow'r, Perform'd their office. Pope. The captive bird that sings within thy bow'r, SI'N FUL. adj. (sin and full.) Then might my voice thy list'ning ears employ, And I those kisses he receives enjoy. 1. Alien from God; not hoiy ; unsancti. Pop. fied. 3. To make any small or sbrill noise. Drive out the sinful pair, A man may hear this shower sing in the wind. From hallow'd ground th' unholy. Milton, Sbakspeare. You leaden messengers, 2. Wicked; not observant of religion ; Fly with faise aim; pierce the still moving air, contrary to religion. It is used both of That sings with piercing; do not touch my lord. persons and things. Shakspeare. Thrice happy man, said then the father grave, We hear this fearful tempest sing. Spaksp. Whose staggering steps thy steady hand doth lead, O'er his head the fiying spear And shews the way his sinful soul to save, Sung innocent, and spent its force in air. Popea Who better can the way to heaven aread? Fairy Quteen. 4. To tell in poetry. Nature herself, though pure of sinful thought, Bid her exalt her melancholy wing, Wrought in her so, that, seeing me, she turn'd. And rais'd from earth, and sav'd from passion, Milion. sing The stoicks looked upon all passions as sinful Of human hope by cross event destroy'd, defects and irregularities, as so many deviations Of useless weaich, and greatness unenjoy'd. Prior. from right reason, making passion to be only another word for perturbation. Śctb. TO SING. V. a. All the prophets in their the times Milton. nance of God. All this from my remembrance brutish wrath I sing the man wiio Judal's sceptre bore Sinfully pluck'd, and not a man of you In that right hand which beld the crook before. Had so much grace to put it in my mind. Stöks. Cowley. Arms and the man I sing. The humble and contented mau pleases him Dryden. self innocently and easily, while the ambitious Weil might he sing the day he could not fear, And paint the glories he was sure to wear. South. man attempts to please others sinfully and difficulely, and perhaps unsuccessfully too. South. 2. To celebrate ; to give praises to, in SI'NFULNESS. n. s. [from sinful.] Alienation from God; neglect or violation of The last, the happiest British king, Whom thou shalt paint or I shall sing. Allison, the duties of religion ; contrariety to religious goodness. 3. To utter harmoniously. I am sent Incles, caddisses, cambricks, lawns, why he To shew thee what shall come in future days sings them over as they were gods and goddesses. To thee, and to thy offspring : good with bad Expect to hear; supernal grace contending They that wasted us required of us mirth, saya With sinfulness of men. Milton. ing, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. Psalms, Peevishness, the general fault of sick persons, How could we to his godhead sing is equally to be avoided for the folly and singul Forc'd hallelujahs? Miltrat. Waki. TO SINGE. v. a. [rængan, Sax. sengberg VOL. IV. M age verse. Shakspeare: ments. Dut.) To scorch ; to burn slightly or 4. Alone ; having no companion ; having superficially. no assistant. They bound the doctor, Servant of God, well hast thou fought Whose beard they have sing'd off with brands of The better fight, who single hast maintain'd fire. Skakspeare. Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth. Drake, in the vaunting stile of a soldier, would Milton. call this enterprise the singeing of the king of His wisdom such, Spain's beard. Bacon. Three kingdoms wonder, and three kingdoms That neither was singed in the combustion of fear, Phaëton, nor overwhelmed by the inundation of Whilst single he stood forth. Danbex. Deucalion. Brown. In sweet possession of the fairy place, They have a singed bottom all involvid Single, and conscious to myself alone With stench and smoke. Milton. Of pleasures to th' excluded world unknown. I singed the toes of an ape through a burning Dryden. glass, and he never would endure itatier. L'Estr. 5. Unmarried. Thus riding on his curls, he seem'd to pass Is the single man therefore blessed? ne: as a A'rolling fire along, and singe the grass. Dryden. walled town is more worthier than a village, so is SI'NGER. n. s. the forehead of a married man more honourable [from sing.] One that than the bare brow of a bachelor. Sbakspeere. sings; one whose profession or business Pygmalion is to sing Abhorr'd all womankind, but most a wife; His filching was like an unskilful singer, he So single chose to live, and shunn'd to wed, kept not time. Sbakspeare. Well pleas'd to want a consort of his bed. Dryde, gat me men singers and women singers, and 6. Not complicated; not duplicated. the delights of the sons of men. Ecclesiastes. To make flowers double, is effected by often To the chief singer on my stringed instru Habakkuk. removing them into new earth; as, on the con trary, double flowers, by neglecting and not reCockbirds, amongst singing birds, are ever the moving, prove single. Bacon. better singers, because they are more lively. Bacon. 7. Pure; uncorrupt; not double-minded; Thy heart no ruder than the rugged stone, simple. A scriptural sense. I might, like Orpheus, with my num'rous moan The light of the body is the eye: if thine eye Melt to compassion: now my trait'rous song be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. With thee conspires to do the singer wrong. Matrbeu. Waler. 8. That in which one is opposed to one. The birds know how to chuse their fare; He, when his country, threaten'd with alarms, To peck this fruit they all for bear: Shali more than once the Punick bands affright, Those cheerful singers know not why Shall kill the Gaulish king in single fight. Dryd. They should make any haste to die. Waller. To SI'NGLE. v. a. (from the adjective.] The Grecian tragedy was at first nothing but 1. To choose out from among others. a chorus of singers. Dryden. I saw him in the battle range about, SI'NGINGMASTER. n. s. [sing and ma- And how he singled Clifford forth. Sbakspeare. ster.] One who teaches to sing. Every man may have a peculiar savour, which, He employed an itinerant singing master to in- although not perceptible unto man, is yet sensistruct them rightly in the tunes of the psalms. ble unto dogs, who hereby can single out their Addison. master in the dark. Bacon. SI'NGLE. adj. [singulus, Latin.] Dust thou already single me? I thought 1. One ; not double; not more than one. Gyves and the mill had tam'd thee. Milton. The words are clear and easy, and their ori Begin, auspicious boy, to cast about ginals are of single signification without any am Thy infant eyes, and with a smile thy mother biguity. South, Dryden. Some were single acts, though each complete; Single the lowliest of the am'rous youth; But ev'ry act stood ready to repeat. Dryden. Ask for his vows, but hope not for his truth. Then Theseus join'd with bold Pirithous came, Prior. A single concord in a double name. Dryden. 2. To sequester; to withdraw. High Alba, Yea simply, saith Basil, and universally, wheA lonely desart, and an empty land, ther it be in works of nature, or of voluntary Shall scarce afford, for needful hours of rest, choice, I see not any thing done as it should be, A single house to their benighted guest. Addis. if it be wrought by an agent singling itself from Wliere the poesy or oratory shines, a single Hooker. reading is not sufficient to satisfy a mind that 3. To take alone. }ias a true taste; nor can we make the fullest Many men there are, than whom nothing is improvement of them without proper reviews. more commendable when they are singled: and Watts. yet, in society with others, none less fit to an2. Particular; individual. swer the duties which are looked for at their As no single man is born with a right of con hands. Hooker. trouling the opinions of all the rest, so the world 4. To separate. has no title to demand the whole time of any Hardly they herd, which by good hunters particular person. Pope. singled are. Sidney. If one single word were to express but one SI'NGLENESS. n. s. simple idea, and nothing else, there would be [from single.] scarce any mistake. Watts. 1. Not duplicity or multiplicity; the state 2. Not compounded. of being only one. As simple ideas are opposed to complex, and 2. Simplicity ; sincerity ; honest plainness, single ideas to compound, so propositions are dis- It is not the deepness of their knowledge, but tinguished: the English tongue has some advan- the singleness of their belief, which God accepttage above the learned languages, which have no eth. Hooker. usual word to distinguish single from simple. Men must be obliged to go through their buWatts, siness with singleness of heart. Lower consorts. SI'NGLY. adv. (from single.] consented to use this ungodly title; no bishop 1. Individually; particularly. of Rome ever took upon him this name of sine If the injured person be not righted, every gularity. Hoker. one of them is wholly guilty of the injustice, Catholicism, which is here attributed unto the and therefore bound to restitution singly and church, must be understood in opposition to the entirely. Taylor. legal singularity of the Jewish nation. Pearson. They tend to the perfection of human nature, 4. Character or manners different from and to make men singly and personally good, or those of others. tend to the happiness of socieiy. Tillotson. The spirit of sirgularity in a few ought to 2. Only; by himself. give place to publick judgment. Hooker, Look thee, 't is so; thou singly honest man, Though, according to the practice of the world, Here take: the gods out of my misery it be singular for men thoroughly to live up to Have sent thee treasure. Sbakspeare. the principles of their religion, yet singularity in 3. Without partners or associates. this matter is a singular commendation of it. Belinda Tillotson, Burns to encounter tiro advent'rous knights, Singularity in sin puts it out of fashion, since A: ombre singly to decide their docin, Pope. to be alone in any practice seems to make the 4. Honestly, simply ; sincerely, judgment of the world against it; but the con currence of others is a tacit approbation of that SINGULAR. adj. [singulier, Fr. singu- in which they concus. Soxtb. laris, Latin.] TO SINGULARIZE. v. a. [se singulariser, 1. Single; not complex; not compound. Fr. from singular.) To make singular. That idea which represents one particular de SI'NGULARLY. adv. (from singular.) Par. terminate thing is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. Watts. ticularly ; in a manner not common to 2. [In grammar.] Expressing only one ; others. not plural Solitude and singularity can neither daunt nor If St. Paul's speaking of himself in the first disgrace bim, unless we could suppose it a dis Soutb. person singular has so various meanings, his use grace to be singularly good. of the first person plural has a greater latitude. SI'NGULT. n. s. (singultus, Lat.] A sigh. Lorke. Spenser. 3. Particular; unexampled. SI'NISTER. adj. [sinister, Latin.] 1. Being on the left hand ; left; not right; Must have a cause as strange as the effect. not dexter. It seems to be used with Denbam. Doubtless, if you are innocent, your case is the accent on the second syllable, at extremely hard, yet it is not singular least in the primitive, and on the first Female Quixote. in the figurative sense. 4.. Having something not common to My mother's blood others. It is commonly used in a sense Runs on the descer cheek, and this sinister Sbudspeare. of disapprobation, whether applied to Captain Spurio, with his cicatrice, an emblem persons or things. of war, here on his sinister cheek. Sbakspeare. His zeaľ But a rib, It is very commendable to be singular in any More to the part sinister from me drawn. Milt. excellency, and religion is the greatest excel. The spleen is unjustly introduced to invi"ya lency: to be singular in any thing that is wise ate the sinister side, which, being dilated, ww.d and worthy, is not a disparagement, but a praise. rather infirm and debilitate it. Brown. Tillotson. In his sinister hand, instead of hall, 5. Alone ; that of which there is but one. He plac'd a mighty mug of potent ale. Dryuen. These buses of the emperors and empresses 2. Bad; perverse ; corrupt ; deviating from are all very scarce, and some of them almost honesty ; unfair. singular in their kind. Addison. Is it so strange a matter to find a good thing SINGULA'RITY.n.s. (singularité, Fr. from furthered by ill men of a sinister intem audpar pose, whose forwardness is not therefore a bridle 1. Some character or quality by which one to such as favour the same cause with a better is distinguished from all, or from most and sincere meaning ? Biker. The dole of Ciurence was soon after ly sinie others. ster means made clean away. Spenser. Pliny addeth this singularity to that soil, that When re there more unworthy men chosen the second year the very falling down of the to offices, when is there more strike and contenseeds yieldeth corn. Raleigh. tion about elections, or when do partial ard sini. 2. Any thing remarkable; a curiosity; ster affections more utter themselves, than when uncommon character form. an election is committed to many? Wbitgift. Your gallery He protesses to have received no sinister meaHave we pass'd through, not without much con- sure from his judge, but most willingly humbles himseif to the determina:ion of justice. Sbaksp. In many singularities; but we saw not Thuse may be accounted the left hands of That which my daughter came to look upon, courts; persons that are full of nimble and sinie The statue of her mother. Sbakspeare. ster tricks and shifts, whereby they pervert the I took notice of this little figure for the singu- plain courses of courts, and bring justice into ob. larity of the instrumens: it is not unlike a vio- lique lines and labyrinths. Pacona lin. Adárson. The just person has given the world an assur3. Particular privilege or prerogative. ance, by the constant tenor of his practice, that St. Gregory, being himself a bishop of Rome, he makes a conscience of his ways, and that he and writing against the title of universal bishop, scorns to undermine another's interest by any saith chus: None of all my predecessors ever sinister or inferior arts. Sexib. M2 singular.] tent |