withholdment (withholdment)

[ Thai thurle a nutte, and stuffe it so withinne With brymstoon, chaf, and cedria, thees three. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 34. Damascus does not answer within to its outward appear Pococke , Description of the East, II. i. 118. ance. It is designed, within and without, of two stories. E. A. Freeman , Venice, p. 50. 2. In the mind, heart, or soul; inwardly. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within . Spenser, Sonnets, viii. I am, within , thy love; without, thy master. T. Tomkis (?), Albumazar, iv. 11. Think not the worse, my friends, I shed not tears; Great griefs lament within . Fletcher, Val ent in i an, iv. 4. 3. In the house or dwelling; indoors; at home: as, the master is within. But at this hour the house doth keep itself; There's none within . Shak ., As you Like it, iv. 3. 83. Serv. Your brother, sir, is speaking to a gentleman in the street, and says he knows you are within. Joseph S. 'Sdeath, blockhead, I'm not within -I'm out for the day. Sheridan , School for Scandal, iv. 3. From within, from the inside; from the inner place or point of view. We look from within, and see nothing but the mould formed by the elements in which we are incased; other observers look from without, and see us as living statues. O. W. Holmes, Profe or, viii. II. prep. 1. In or into the inner or interior part or parts of; inside of; in the space inclosed or bounded by: as, within the city: opposed to without . Mount Syon is with inne the Cytee. Mandeville, Travels, p. 92. Come not within these doors; within this roof The enemy of all your graces lives. Shak., As you Like it, ii. 3. 17. Accominticus and Pa ata quack are two conuenient Harbours for small Barkes: and a good Country within their craggy clifts. Capt. John Smith , Works, II. 193. And now the Kingdom is come to Unity within it self, one King and one People. Baker, Chronicles, p. 78. Without and eke within The Walls of London there is Sin. Howell, Letters, L. vi. 51. IMG:content-2487.png:[blocks in formation] 3. Among. Tennyson, Arabian Nights. 2. To keep back; refrain from doing, giving, permitting, etc.: as, to withhold payment; to withhold a ent to something. Withhold revenge, dear God! 'tis not my fault. Shak., 3 Hen. VI., ii. 2. 7. Was it ever denied that the favours of the Crown were constantly bestowed and withheld purely on account of religious opinions? Macaulay, Sir J. Mackintosh. 3t. To keep; retain; hold; detain. It [the Lord's Prayer) is short, for it sholde be kond the more lightly, and for to withholden it the more esily in herte. Chaucer , Parson's Tale. We haue herde sey that ye with - holde alle the sowdioures that to yow will come. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 203. 41. To keep; maintain. IMG:content-2488.png:[blocks in formation] To save our selves therefore, and resist the common enemy, it concerns us mainly to agree within ourselves. Milton, True Religion. When we were come within the sandy hills, we were surprised at the sight of a magnificent tent, where a handsome collation was prepared. Pococke, Description of the East, L. 13. 4. In the course, range, reach, compa , or limits of; not beyond or more than: of distance, time, length, quantity. (a) Of distance: At or to a point distant le than; nearer than: as, within a mile of Edinburgh. As sone as Ermones the kyng Sawe that he was withynne his wepons length, Anon he smote Att hym with all his strength. Generydes (E. E. T. S.), L. 3044. The place shewn us for this City consisted of only a few Houses, on the tops of the Mountains, within about half a Mile of the Sea. Maundrell , Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 48. Not the sage Alquife, the magician in Don Belianis of Greece, nor the no le famous Urganda the sorcere , his wife,.. could pretend to come within a league of the truth. Sterne , Tristram Shandy, ii. 19. (b) Of time: In the limits or course of; before the expiration of; in: as, he will be here within two hours. Thow get is tydandis I trowe, within tene dayes, That some trofere es tydde sene thow fro home turnede. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), L. 3452. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary within The grete and olde cytie of Anthyoche, where seynt Petre preched and dyd many myracles, and there he baptysed aboue.x.M. men within.vij . dayes. Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 48. We arrived within this hour. Sheridan , The Rivals, i. 2. (ct) Not exceeding the space of; during; throughout. He should maintaine po e ion in some of those vast Countries within the tear me of sixe years. Capt . John Smith , Works, I. 80. (d) So as not to exceed or overpa ; under; below: as, to live within one's income. Alle the children that weren in Bethlem, and in alle the eendis of it, fro two zeer age and with ynne. Wyclif, Mat. ii. 16. 'Tis a good rule, eat within your Stomack, act within your Commi ion. Selden , Table-Talk, p. 88. I therefore bid them look upon themselves as no better than a kind of a a ins and murderers within the law. Add is on, Tatler, No. 131. 5. In; in the purview, scope, or sphere of action of. Againe I see, within my gla of Steele, But foure estates, to serue eche country Soyle. Gas coigne, Steele Glas (ed. Arber), p. 57. Both he and she are still within my pow'r. Dryden, Aurengzebe, i. 1. After living for three years within the subtile influence of an intellect like Emerson's. Hawthorne , Scarlet Letter, Int., p. 27. 6t. In advance of; before. The fifth [time of prayer], two houres within night, before they goe to sleepe. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 292. It was seen, several nights together, in the west, about an hour within the night. N. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 325. 71. All but; lacking. I served three years, within a bit, under his honour, in the Royal Inn i skillions. Sheridan , St. Patrick's Day, i. 1. To get within onet. See get1 . - Wheels within wheels. See wheell.- Within call, compa , hail, etc. See the nouns. Within landt, inland. The Pories dwell an hundred miles within Land , are low like the Way an a es, liue on Pinenuts, and small Cocos as bigge as Apples. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 840. Within one's hand. See hand . withinfortht (wi-Thin'forth), adv . [ with inne-forth; within + forth1 .] Within. The formes that resten withinne - forth .