neghstt

A Middle English form of next. Hampole. neglect (neg-lekt'), v. t. [L. neglect us, pp. of neglegere, negligere, neclegere (> It. negligere = F. négliger ), not heed, not attend to, be regardle of, I neglect phrases, and labour wholly to inform my reader's understanding. Burton, Anat. of Mel., To the Reader, p. 24. In the Netherlands the English Garrison at Alost in Flanders being neglected , the Governor Pigot, and the other Captains, for want of Pay, upon Composition yielded up the Town to the Spaniard. Baker, Chronicles, p. 361. When men do not only neglect Religion, but reproach and contemn it. Stilling fleet , Sermons, II. iv. The garden has been suffered to run to waste, and is only the more beautiful for having been neglected . Macaulay, in Trevelyan, I. 324. 2. To overlook or omit; disregard: as, the dif- ference is so small that it may be neglected . 3. To omit to do or perform; let slip; leave undone; fail through heedle ne to do or in doing (something): often with an infinitive as object. If thou neglect'st or dost unwillingly What I command, I'll rack thee with old cramps. 3959 neglectable (neg-lek'ta-bl), a. [ And subsequent experiments proved that all of these [causes of the lo of energy) are practically neglectable . Proc. Roy. Soc., XXXVIII. 42.