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¶ A DICTIONARIE OF THE
French and English Tongues.
- The first letter of all Alphabets, is (as it is a letter) a substantiue: whence;
- Il est marqué à l'A
- he is a right honest man: or, one in whom there is as much vertue, as great worth, as can be in any man: (From the monie of France; euery sort whereof hath stamped on it a particular letter, denoting the place wherein it was made; now, that which is coined in Paris hath on it an A, and is, commonly, of the best mettall.)
- A.
- The third person singuler of the verbe Avoir, signifies (of it selfe) hath, holdeth, possesseth, enioieth; as,
- Assez a qui bon credit a
- also (when it hath the local Adverb y before it) is; as, Assez y a si trop n'y a: But when it precedes a Participle in the preterperfect Tense of another verbe, it is restrained unto the first signification, hath; as, il a gaigne ce qu'il a peu: In all which (and otherwise, onely as it is a letter) it is written without Accent.
- À.
- an Article, set before a proper name, or Nowme, signifies, in matters of possession, of; as, La maison à Pierre, La femme à Robert: But where the verbe Estre goes before, it signifies To, or, Vnto; as, La maison est à Pierre, belongs to Peter: So doth it also when it followes verbes that require a Datiue case; as, Ie l'ay donné à toy; cela appartient à moy; or that signifie motion to a place; as, Ie m'en iray à Londres, à ma metairie.
- À.
- an article, or Preposition; signifieth sometimes, As, or For; Il est tenu à perdu; à sot; à fable: sometimes only, For; à cette cause: sometimes, At; as, Tu me trouveras à Paris; à loisir; à vostre commandement: also In, or, At; as, à temps, & lieu: sometimes In, or, Before; as, à cœur, à droit; à tort: & (as in old Authors) à dieu le veu, in stead of par dieu ie le veux: sometimes On, or Vpon; as, à lundi; il monte à cheval: sometimes To; as, à propos; à point: also Agreeable, or, According to; as, à l'ordonnance des Arbitres: also, Like vnto; After the manner, or fashion of; as, vestu à l'Italienne; vne espée à l'Espagnole: sometimes, With; as, à peu de perte; à[*accent not legible] banniere desployée; vne chaire à accoudoirs; & (in Blazon) Il porte de Synople à trois Lyons d'argent; also, With, or Among; as, à nous **tel fait est bien vilain; Il est à nous grande vinée. À la mienne volunte, If I might haue my will: or, I would to God.
- Dont il est à grande ioye,
- Whereof he is very glad; which makes him very merrie.
- Ils se faisonient tenir à douze;
- They made themselues be held by twelue: or, were so fierce that twelue were faine to hold them.
- À.
- precedeing the Infinitiue mood of a verbe, signifies, to, serving to, for to, of purpose for; as, S'il a chose à dire; vn clou à pendre des sacs. Sometimes it either gives the verb a participiall sence, as, It est à dormir, he is sleeping, or new, or neere asleepe; or, the verb being present, it denotes the future, as, I'ay cela à faire, I am to doe that hereafter.
- À.
- before an Adiective, sometimes makes it admit of an Aduervbiall interpretation; as, à droict, à tort; rightfully, wrongfully.
- À,
- is sometimes not expressed, but vnderstood, as, Si Dieu plaist, for, s'il plaist à Dieu.
- Aachée: f.
- a dolefull crie, lamentation, Ay-mee.
- Aage: m.
- age, yeares, dayes; also, an age; time, season.
- De grand aage;
- very old, a grandsire, a gray-beard, whose tone foot is alreadie in the graue.
- De petit aage;
- very young, a child, an infant, an innocent, an vnderling.
- Avoir de l'aage,
- to be strong and lustie: also, to be well in yeares, or well stricken in yeares.
- Aagé: m. aagée
- f.
- aged, old; of age, of years; of full age, of great yeares.
- Abaissé; & Abaissement;
- as Abbaisse; & Abbaissement.
- Abaisser; & Abaisseurs;
- as Abbaisser; & Abbaisseur.
- Abandon: m.
- bandon, free licence, full libertie for others to vse a thing; The quitting, abandonment, or prostitution of a thing vnto other; whence;
- Mettre sa forest en abandon;
- to lay it open, or make it common for all men that will gather wood, or graze their cattell, in it.
- Abandon fait larron; Prov.
- Things carelesly left, layd vp, or looked vnto, make them theeues that otherwise would be honest: we say, fast bind fast find.
- Qui faict nopçes, & maison, il met le sien en abandon: Prov.
- The building of houses and making of feasts, are vnlimitted wasters of a mans substance.
- Abandonné: m. neé: f.
- abandonned, forsaken, forgone, quitted, giuen ouer, cast off; layd open, left at randome; prostituted vnto, made commonn for all, any man; also proscribed, outlawed.
- Cheval abandonné sur la bride.
- hanging upon the hand.
- Chose trop abandonnée.
- thats vnrecouerable, or in very desperate tearms.
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