The pursuivants came next, And like the heralds each his scutcheon bore. Dryden. PURSUIVANT, in heraldry, is the lowest order of officers at arms. They are properly attend ants on the heralds when they marshal public ceremonies. Of these in England there were formerly many; but at present there are only four, viz. blue-mantle, rouge-cross, rouge-dragon, and port-cullice. In Scotland there is only one Perfume their breaths, and cure old pursy men. Temple. PURTENANCE, n. s. Fr. appertenance. The pluck of an animal. Roast the lamb with fire, his head with his legs, Exodus: and with the purtenance thereof. Hudibras. The shaft against a rib did glance, And galled him in the purtenance. PURVES (James), a learned Arian preacher, born at a little village of Berwickshire, in 1734. His father was only a keeper of cattle, and intended James for the same profession. He meanwhile, having obtained the loan of some books on mathematics, made himself master of geometry and trigonometry, and afterwards taught these sciences with other branches of mathematics, and assisted some public authors in compiling mathematical works, which have been well received. He joined a party of the ancient Cameronians, and in 1769, at one of their geneal meetings, was called to be a pastor among them. To qualify himself for this office he studied the Greek and Hebrew languages, and compiled a Hebrew Grammar, which is still in MS. These acquisitions led him into the study of the Arian Controversy, when he finally adopted the opinions of Arius; and afterwards became preacher to a small Arian congregation in Edinburgh; where he also kept a school and a book shop, for many years before he died, His works are, 1. A Humble Attempt to investigate the Scripture doctrine of the Trinity. Observations on Prophetic Times, 2 vols. A Treatise on Civil Government. 4. Observations on Socinian Arguments. 5. A Scriptural Catechism. 6. Correspondence with the Buchanites. 7. Dissertation on the Seals, Trumpets, &c. 8. Enquiry into the Nature of Faith and Regeneration. 9. Review of Paine's Age of Reason. 10. A Treatise on Sacrifices. Review of some Religious Opinions, established by the Powers of the World, favorable to Despotism. 12. An Historic and Prophetic Representation of Events. 13. Scheme of the Lives of the Patriarchs. All these were published at Edinburgh within the last twelve years of his life, and evidence at least uncommon industry. He was three times married, and left a daughter by each wife. He died in 1789. PURVEY', v. a. & v. n. PURVEY'ANCE, n. s. PURVEY'OR, PUR'VIEW. 2. 3. 11. Fr. pourvoir; Lat. provisus. To provide with conveniencies; a sense not now in use: procure; buy in provisions: purveyance is provision; or the procurement or exaction of it: purveyor, he who procures victuals; a procurer of any kind: purview, proviso; providing clause. Whence, mounting up, they find purveyance meet Of all that princes royal court became. Id. The purveys or victuallers are much to be condemned, as not a little faulty in that behalf. Raleigh. Some lands be more changeable than others; as for their lying near to the borders, or because of great and continual purveyances that are made upon them. Bacon. I the praise. Yield thee, so well this day thou hast purveyed. Milton. Though the petition expresses only treason and felony, yet the act is general against all appeals in parliament; and many times the purview of an act is larger than the preamble of the petition. Hale. His house with all convenience was purveyed, The rest he found. Dryden. These women are such cunning purveyors ! Mark where their appetites have once been pleased, The same resemblance in a younger lover Lies brooding in their fancies the same pleasures. Id. The king of the south shall push at him, and the king of the north shall come against him. Daniel. Ne might his corse be harmed With dint of sword or push of pointed spear. Spenser. They, like resolute men, stood in the face of the breach, receiving them with deadly shot and push of pike, in such furious manner, that the Turks began to retire. Shew your mended faiths, Knolles. To push destruction and perpetual shame Out of the weak door of our fainting land. Shakspeare. He gave his countenance against his name, To laugh with gybing boys, and stand the push Of every beardless vain comparative. Id. We'll put the matter to the present push. Id. He that was praised to his hurt should have a push rise upon his nose; as a blister will rise upon one's tongue, that tells a lye. Bacon. Waters forcing way, Sidelong had pushed a mountain from his seat, Milton. He forewarns his care With rules to push his fortune or to bear. Dryden. Arts and sciences, in one and the same century, have arrived at great perfection, and no wonder, since every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies; the work then being pushed on by many hands, The stranger, ravished at his good fortune, is introduced to some imaginary title; for this purveyor has her representatives of some of the finest ladies. Addison. What though from outmost land and sea purveyed, must go forward. For him each rarer tributary life Bleeds not. Thomson. And winged purveyors his sharp hunger fed With frugal scraps of flesh, and maslin bread. Harte. Id. Away he goes, makes his push, stands the shock of a battle, and compounds for leaving of a leg beL'Estrange. hind him. 'Tis common to talk of dying for a friend; but, when it comes to the push, 'tis no more than talk. Id. A calf will so manage his head as though he would push with his horns even before they shoot. Ray. Ambition pushes the soul to such actions as are apt to procure honour to the actor. Spectator. Lambs, though they never saw the actions of their species, push with their foreheads, before the budding of a horn. Addison. Jove was not more pleased With infant nature, when his spacious hand Had rounded this huge ball of earth and seas, To give it the first push, and see it roll Along the vast abyss. Id. The question we would put is not whether the sacrament of the mass be as truly propitiatory as those under the law? but whether it be as truly a sacrifice? if so, then it is a true proper sacrifice, and is not only commemorative or representative, as we are told at a push. Atterbury. room. This terrible scene which might have proved dangerous, if Cornelius had not been pushed out of the Arbuthnot. We are pushed for an answer, and are forced at last freely to confess, that the corruptions of the Swift. administration were intolerable. When such a resistance is made, these bold talkers will draw in their horns, when their fierce and feeble pushes against truth are repelled with pushing and confidence. Watts. PUSILLANIM'ITY, n. s. Į Fr. pusillaniPUSILLAN IMOus, adj. mité; Lat. pusillus and animus. Cowardice; meanness of spirit; the adjective corresponding. The property of your excellent sherris is the warming of the blood, which, before cold and settled, left the liver white and pale, the badge of pusillanimity and cowardice. Shakspeare. The Chinese sail where they will, which sheweth that their law of keeping out strangers is a law of pusillanimity and fear. Bacon. An argument fit for great princes, that neither by overmeasuring their forces they lose themselves in vain enterprizes; nor, by undervaluing them, descend to fearful and pusillanimous counsels. Bacon. What greater instance can there be of a weak pusillanimous temper, than for a man to pass his whole life in opposition to his own sentiments? Spectator. It is obvious, to distinguish between an act of courage and an act of rashness, an act of pusillanimity, and an act of great modesty or humility. South. He became pusillanimous, and was easily ruffled with every little passion within; supine, and as openly exposed to any temptation from without. Woodward's Natural History. PUSS, n. s. Lat. pusio, a dwarf, Johnson conjectures; but Belg. poes, is a cat. The fondling name of a cat. A young fellow, in love with a cat, made it his humble suit to Venus to turn puss into a woman. L'Estrange. Poor honest puss, It grieves my heart to see thee thus ; But hounds eat sheep as well as hares. Gay. I will permit my son to play at apodidrascinda, which can be no other than our puss in a corner. Arbuthnot and Pope. Let puss practise what nature teaches. Watts. Puss grew presently familiar, and would leap into my lap. Cowper. PUSTERTHAL, a mountainous district of the Austrian states, in the Tyrol, on the borders of Carinthia, fifty miles long by eighteen broad. Its chief product is flax, and the manufactures linen and lace. It abounds in metallic ores, rock crystal, mineral waters, and warm baths. The population is 80,000, and the chief town Lienz. PUSTULE, n. s. Fr. pustule; Lat. pustula. A small swelling; a pimple. The blood, turning acrimonious, corrodes the vessels, producing hemorrhages, pustules, red, black, and gangrenous. Arbuthnot. PUT, v. a., v. n. & n. s. Dan. putten, to plant,' says Junius; but Lat. posito, and Ital. postare and potta, seem a more natural etymology. To place; deposit; repose; trust; apply; use actively; oblige; urge: hence cause; produce; consign, especially to writing; incite; instigate (taking upon); propose; state; offer; place as an ingredient: this word takes a variety of prepositions, as by, down, forth, in, off, on, . upon, &c.; but explained in their actual use: as a verb neuter, to put, is to go, or move; steer a vessel; germinate; shoot; taking forth, in, in for, off, over, &c.: as a noun substantive, put, is an action or signal of distress: hence, perhaps, a rustic; low person; and an excuse; theft; as is a put-off. And alle men that herden puttiden in her herte, and seiden what manner child schal this be, for the hond of the Lord was with him. Wicliff Luk. i. God planted a garden, and there he put man. Gen. ii. 8. He put forth his hand and pulled her in. Id. viii. 9. If God be with me, and give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, then shall the Lord be my God. Id. xxviii. 20. When she travailed, the one put out his hand. Genesis. If a man put in his beast, and feed in another man's field; of the best of his own shall he make restitution. Exod. xxii. 5. Rejoice before the Lord in all that thou puttest She shall be his wife, he may not put her away. Judges. Id. xvii. you. Id. Canticles ii. 13. When he had put them all out he entereth in. Mark v. 40. As we were put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God. 1 Thess. Basilius, in his old years, marrying a young and fair lady, had of her those two daughters so famous in beauty, which put by their young cousin from that expectation. Sidney. The greedy thirst of royal crown Stirred Porrex up to put his brother down. Spenser. The Turks were in every place put to the worst, and lay by heaps slain. Knolles's History of the Turks. Taking his cap from his head, he said, this cap will not hold two heads, and therefore it must be fitted to one, and so put it on again. Knolles. The carpenters being set to work, and every one putting to his helping hand, the bridge was repaired. Id. Those that put their bodies to endure in health, nay, in most sicknesses, be cured only with diet and tendering. Id. An excellent observation of Aristotle, why some plants are of greater age than living creatures, for that they yearly put forth new leaves; whereas living creatures put forth, after their period of growth, nothing but hair and nails, which are excrements. Id. It is the new skin or shell that putteth off the old; so we see, that it is the young horn that putteth off the old. Id. The nobility of Castile put out the king of Arragon, in favour of king Philip. Id. Henry VII. There were no barks to throw the rebels into, and send them away by sea, they were put all to the sword. Bacon. Having lost two of their bravest commanders at sea, they durst not put it to a battle at sea, and set up their rest wholly upon the land enterprize. Id. It is to be put to question in general, whether it be lawful for Christian princes to make an invasive war, simply for the propagation of the faith. Id. The wind cannot be perceived, until there be an eruption of a great quantity from under the water; whereas, in the first putting up, it cooleth in little portions. ld. It is manifest that the duke did his best to come down, and to put to sea. Id. One Bell was put to death at Tyburn for moving a new rebellion. Hayward. In these he put two weights. When the wisest council of men have with the greatest prudence made laws, yet frequent emergencies happen which they did not foresee, and therefore they are put upon repeals and supplements of such their laws; but Almighty God, by one simple foresight, foresaw all events, and could therefore fit laws proportionate to the things he made. Hale. Id. Soon as they had him at their mercy, They put him to the cudgel fiercely. Hudibras. Nor put up blow, but that which laid Right worshipful on shoulder-blade. One hundred pounds only put out at interest, at ten per cent, doth in seventy years encrease to above one hundred thousand pounds. Child. Although astrologers may here put in, and plead the secret influence of this star, yet Galen, in his comment, makes no such consideration. Browne. I do not intend to be thus put off with an old More. song. The discourse I mentioned was written to a private friend, who put me upon that task. Boyle. I hope for a demonstration, but Themistius hopes to put me off with an harangue. Id. The Canaanitish woman must put up a refusal, and the reproachful name of a dog, commonly used by the Jews of the heathen. Id. We are put to prove things, which can hardly be made plainer. Tillotson. Those who have lived wickedly before, must meet with a great deal more trouble, because they are put upon changing the whole course of their life. Id. To put your ladyship in mind of the advantages you have in all these points, would look like a design to flatter you. Temple. So nature prompts; so soon we go astray, When old experience puts us in the way. Dryden. Put it thus-unfold to Statius straight, What to Jove's ear thou didst impart of late: He'll stare. Id. I am as much ashamed to put a loose indigested play upon the publick, as I should be to offer brass money in a payment. When I drove a thrust, home as I could, Now the cheerful light her fears dispelled, ld. Id. Id.. I was not more concerned in that debate Of empire, when our universal state Was put to hazard, and the giant race Our captive skies were ready to embrace. Id. Id. He warned him for his safety to provide; Not put to sea, but safe on shore abide. Some hard words the goat gave, but the fox put off all with a jest. L'Estrange. The most wretched sort of people are dreamers upon events and putters of cases. Id. Mercury had a mind to learn what credit he had in the world, and so put on the shape of a man. Id. The stork found he was put upon, but set a good face however upon his entertainment. Id. It is prudence in many cases, to put up the injuries of a weaker enemy, for fear of incurring the displeasure of a stronger. Id. The stag's was a forced pnt, and a chance rather than a choice. Id. Christ will bring all to life, and then they shall be put every one upon his own trial, and receive judg ment. Id. Feed land with beasts and horses, and after both put in sheep. Mortimer's Husbandry. As for the time of putting the rams to the ewes, you must consider at what time your grass will maintain them. Mortimer. A fright hath put by an ague fit, and mitigated a fit of the gout. Grew's Cosmologia. I expect an offspring, docile and tractable in whatever we put them to. Tatler. This last age has made a greater progress than all ages before put together. Burnet. Do men in good earnest think that God will be put off so? or that the law of God will be baffled with a lie clothed in a scoff? South. I put the case at the worst, by supposing, what seldom happens, that a course of virtue makes us miserable in this life. Spectator. He replied, with some vehemence, that he would undertake to prove trade would be the ruin of the English nation; I would fain have put him upon it. Addison. My friend, fancying her to be an old woman of quality, put off his hat to her, when the person pulling off his mask appeared a smock-faced young fellow. Id. An old usurer, charmed with the pleasures of a country life, in order to make a purchase, called in all his money; but, in a very few days after, put it out again. Id. When I was at Venice, they were putting out curious stamps of the several edifices, most famous for their beauty or magnificence. Id. I shall be hard put to it, to bring myself off. Id. Such national injuries are not to be put up, but when the offender is below resentment. Id. An ordinary fleet could not hope to succeed against a place that has always a considerable number of men of war ready to put to sea. Id. This scrupulous way would make us deny our senses; for there is scarcely any thing but puts our reason to a stand. Collier. If a man should put in to be one of the knights of Malta, he might modestly enough prove his six descents against a less qualified competitor. Id. Queer country puts extol queen Bess's reign, And of lost hospitality complain. Bramston. This put me upon observing the thickness of the glass, and considering whether the dimensions and proportions of the rings may be truly derived from it by computation. Newton. It need not be any wonder why I should employ myself upon that study, or put others upon it. Walker. He seems generally to prevail, persuading them to a confidence in some partial works of obedience, or else to put off the care of their salvation to some future opportunities. Rogers. Wherever he puts a slight upon good works, 'tis as they stand distinct from faith. Atterbury. Teuta put to death one of the Roman ambassadors; she was obliged, by a successful war which the Romans made, to consent to give up all the sea coast. Arbuthnot. So many accidents may deprive us of our lives, that we can never say, that he who neglects to secure his salvation to-day, may without danger put it off till to-morrow. Wake. We see the miserable shifts some men are put to, when that which was founded upon, and supported by idolatry, is become the sanctuary of atheism. Bentley. If without any provocation gentlemen will fall upon one, in an affair wherein his interest and reputation are embarked, they cannot complain of being put into the number of his enemies. Pope. As Homer went, the ship put in at Samos, where he continued the whole winter, singing at the houses of great men, with a train of boys after him. ld. When men and women are mixed and well chosen, and put their best qualities forward, there may be any intercourse of civility and good will. Swift. These wretches put us upon all mischief, to feed their lusts and extravagancies. Id. I only put the question, whether in reason it would not have been proper the kingdom should have received timely notice? Id. It is very hard that Mr. Steele should take up the artificial reports of his own faction, and then put them off upon the world as additional fears of a popish Id. |