PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME, PATERNOSTER-ROW; J. JOHNSON; W. J. AND J. RICHARDSON; J. WALKER; R. BALDWIN; F. AND C. RIVINGTON; T. PAYNE; A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. DIA This in other beasts observed, Doubt might beget of diabolick pow'r, Active within, beyond the sense of brute. Milt. Does not the ambitious, the envious, and the revengeful man know very well, that the thirst of blood, and affectation of dominion by violence and oppression, is a most diabolical outrage wpon the laws of God and Nature. L'Estrange. The practice of lying is a diabolical exercise, and they that use it are the devil's children. Ray. Damned spirits must needs be all envy, despair and rage; and have so much of a diabolical nature in them, as to wish all men to share their misery. Atterbury. DIACÓ DIUM. n. 5. [διακώδιον.] The syrup of poppies. DIACOUSTICS, n. 5. [διακυσικά.] doctrine of sounds. The nights, To him who wears the regal diadem. Milton. Faction, that once made diadems her prey, And stopt our prince in his triumphant way, Fled like a mist before this radiant day. Roscom. DIADEMED. adj. [from diadem.] Adorned with a diadem; crowned. Not so, when diadem'd with divine, Touch with the time that breaks from virtue's string, Her priestless muse forbids the good to die, And opes the temple of eternity. Pope. DIADROM. π.ς. [διαδρομέω.] The time in which any motion is performed; the time in which a pendulum performs its vibration. A gry is one tenth of a line, a line one tenth of an inch, an inch one tenth of a philosophical foot, a philosophical foot one third of a pendulum; whose diadroms, in the latitude of fortyfive degrees, are each equal to one second of time, or a sixtieth of a minute. Locke. DIÆ RESIS. n. 5. [διάιρεσις.] The sepa ration or disjunction of syllables; as aër. DIAGNOSTICK. n. 5. [διαγινώσκω.] Α symptom by which a disease is distinguished from others. I shall lay down some indisputable marks of this vice, that whenever we see the tokens, we may conclude the plague is in the house :-let us hear your diagnosticks. Collier on Pride. One of our physicians proved disappointed of his prognosticks, or rather diagnosticks. Harvey. DIAGONAL. adj. [δίαγώνος.] Reaching from one angle to another, so as to divide a parallelogram into equal parts. The monstrosity of the badger is ill-contrived, and with some disadvantage; the shortness being Sxed unto the legs of one side, that might have B been more properly placed upon the diagonal Brown's Vulgar Errours. movers. All sorts of stone composed of granules, will cut and rive in any direction, as well in a perpendicular, or in a diagonal, as horizontally and parallel to the side of the strata. Woodward. DIAGONAL. n. 5. [from the adjective.] A line drawn from angle to angle, and dividing a square into equal parts. When a man has in his mind the idea of two lines, viz. the side and diagonal of a square, whereof the diagonal is an inch long, he may have the idea also of the division of that line into a certain number of equal parts. DIAGONALLY. adv. [from diagonal.] In a diagonal direction. Locke. The right and left are not defined by philosophers according to common acceptation, that is, respectively from one man unto another, or any constant site in each, as though that should be the right in one, which, upon confront or facing, stands athwart or diagonally unto the other; but were distinguished according unto their activity, and predominant locomotion, on the either side. Brown's Vulgar Erreurs. DIAGRAM. n. 5. [διάγραμμα.] A delineation of geometrical figures; a mathematical scheme. Many a fair precept in poetry is like a seeming demonstration in the mathematicks; very specious in the diagram, but failing in the mechanick operation. Dryden. Why do not these persons make a diagram of these cogitative lines and angles, and demonstrate their properties of perception and appetite, as plainly as we know the other properties of triangles and circles? Bentley. DIAGRY DIATES. n. s. [from diagrydium, Latin.] Strong purgatives made with. diagrydium. : Floyer: All cholerick humours ought to be evacuated by diagrydiates, mixed with cartat, or some acid,. or rhubarb powder, DIAL. n. s. [diate, Skinner.] A plate marked with lines, wirere, a hand or shadow shows the hour. :: O, gentlemen, the time of life is is short If the motion be very slow, weperceive it not: we have no sense of the accretive motion of plants or animals; and the sly shadow steals away upon the dial, and the quickest eye can discover no more than that it is gone. Glanville. DIAL-PLATE. n. s. [dial and plate.]. That on which hours or lines are marked. Strada tells us that the two friends, being each DIALECT. π. 5. [διάλεκτος.] When themselves do practise that whereof they write, they change their dialect; and those words they shun, as if there were in them some secret sting. 3. Language; speech. In her youth There is a prone and speechloss dialect, Hooker. [from dial.] The sciaterick science; the knowledge of shadow; the art of constructing dials on which the shadow may show the hour. DIALIST. n. s. [from dial.] A constructer of dials. Scientifick dialists, by the geometrick considerations of lines, have found out rules to mark out the irregular motion of the shadow in all latitudes, and on all planes. Moxer. DIALOGIST. n. s. [from dialogue.] A speaker in a dialogue or conference; a writer of dialogues. DIALOGUE. n. 5. [διάλογος.] A conference; a conversation between two or more, either real or feigned. Will you hear the dialogue that the twe learned men have compiled in praise of the owl and cuckoo? Shakspeare. Oh, the impudence of this wicked sex! Lascivious dialogues are innocent with you. Dryden. In easy dialogues is Fletcher's praise: He mov'd the mind, but had not pow'r to raise. DIAMETER. n. 5. The space between the earth and the moon, according to Ptolemy, is seventeen times the diameter of the earth, which makes, in a gross account, about one hundred and twenty thousand miles. Raleigh. The bay of Naples is the most delightful one that I ever saw: it lies in almost a round figure of about thirty miles in the diameter. Addison. DIAMETRAL. adj. [from diameter.] Describing the diameter; relating to the diameter. DIA METRALLY. adv. [from diametral.] Hammond. DIAMETRICAL. adj. [from diameter.] 1. Describing a diameter. 2. Observing the direction of a diameter. • The sin of calumny is set in a most diametrical opposition to the evangelical precept of loving our neighbours as ourselves. Gov. of the Tongua DIAMETRICALLY. adv. [from diametri Shakspeare. cal.] In a diametrical direction. |