assiduatet (asiduat)

[ By love's a iduate care and industry. Middle ton, Micro-Cynicon, i. 3. a iduity (as-i-du'i-ti), n.; pl. a iduities (-tiz), [= F. a iduité, for a nomenclator. Add is on. 347 dustry, patient a iduity, steady application, great dili gence, unshaken constancy, undaunted perseverance, persistence that will not take No for an answer. He [Richardson] advanced rapidly by industry and good conduct, was taken into partnership, and ultimately became the head of an extensive busine . Welsh, Eng. Lit., II. 146. He was distinguished among his fellow students by the a iduity with which he often prolonged his studies far into the night. Macaulay, Add is on. A man of judgment and application will succeed incomparably better in composing the Tables to his own writings than a stranger can. Boyle . Diligence and accuracy are the only merits which an historical writer may ascribe to himself. Gibbon. The careful search... Is made with all due diligence . Shak., Pericles, iii. (cho.). True constancy no time, no power can move. Gray. All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistle force of perseverance . Johnson, Rambler, No. 43. Full-arm'd upon his charger all day long Sat by the walls, and no one open'd to him. And this persistence turn'd her scorn to wrath. Tennyson, Pelleas and Ettarre.