worthy (werTні)

and n. [ Therfore whan the Soudan wille avance ony worth i Knyghte, he make the him a Amyralle. Mandeville , Travels, p. 38. Tho moste worthiest thes brethren gan take, Vnto the castel conueing thaim certayn. Rom . of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), L. 1823. Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 154. Salust is a wise and worthy writer. I have done thee worthy service. Shak ., Tempest, 1. 2. 247. Against him Mauritius performed worthie attempts, which made way unto him for the Roman Empire. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 358. A really worthy life depends not only on the vividne and constancy of the ruling moral idea, but also on its volume and contents. J. Sully , Sensation and Intuition, p. 148. 21. Of high rank or social station. And though that he were worthy , he was wys, And of his port as meek as is a mayde. Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., L. 68. 3. Deserving; meriting: sometimes followed by of before the thing merited or deserved, sometimes by an accusative directly, and sometimes by an infinitive. ze, sire, bote I pertly vndo that I haue the profred, I am worth i muche blame; what mai I seize more? Joseph of Arimathie (E. E. T. 8.), p. 5. Now trewly ye be worthy to haue grete blame, for youre peple haue moc he lo e hadde seth ye wente from the bataile. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 404. Worthy the owner, and the owner it. Shak., M. W. of W., v. 5. 64. Oh, thou hast open'd A book in which, writ down in bloody letters, My conscience finds that I am worthy of More than I undergo! Beau, and Fl., Thierry and Theodoret, iv. 2. Epa min on das, amongst the The bans, is worthy of note and memory, even to our ages and those that shall succeed Ford , Line of Life. Friends! we have liv'd too long. I never heard Sounds such as these, so worthy to be feared. us. Cowper, Needle Alarm. When we consider a right or a wrong action as done by another person, we think of that person as worthy of moral approbation or reprobation. W. K. Clifford, Lectures, II. 180. 4. Well-deserved. Doing worthy vengeance on thyself. Shak., Rich. III., L 2. 87. 5. In keeping with the standing, character, dignity, etc. (of); fit; fitted; proper; suited; suitable: with of , for , or an infinitive clause. Whan a werkman hath wrougte thanne may men se the so the, What he were worth i for his werke and what he hath de serued; And nouzt to fonge bifore for drede of disalowynge. Piers Plowman (B), xiv. 138. Worthy for an empre ' love. Shak . , T. G. of V., ii. 4. 76. Wert thou a subject worthy of my sword, Or that thy death, this moment, could call home My banish'd hopes, thou now wert dead; dead, woman! Fletcher , Spanish Curate, v. L If your parts be worthy of me, I will countenance you. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, L. L Pope , Imit. of Horace, I. i. 164. After the greatest consociation of religious duties for preparation, no man can be sufficiently worthy to communicate. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 313. White gloves, and linen worthy Lady Mary! Foemen worthy of their steel. Scott , L. of the L., v. 10. Worthiest of blood, in law , a phrase applied to males, as opposed to females, in the succe ion to inheritance. See tanistry . II. n.; pl. worthies (-Thiz). 1. A person of eminent worth; one distinguished for serviceable and estimable qualities: as, Fuller's "History of the Worthies of England." Thou thyselfe dost now repute The wort[h]iest worthly of the race of Brute. Times' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 26. What do these worthies But rob and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave Peaceable nations? Milton , P. R., iii. 74. At the first appearance of my work, its aim and drift were misapprehended by some of the descendants of the Dutch worthies . Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 18 IMG:content-2583.png:[blocks in formation] Shak., Lear, ii. 2. 128. 6985 which wounds. wp. = OHG. wunt, G. wund = Goth. wunds, wound wounder (wön'der or woun'der), n. [ I, lately caught, will have a new made wound, And captive-like be manacled and bound. Marlowe , tr. of Ovid's Elegies, ii. aperture in such a plate through which wire is drawn. The wire [of manganese steel], owing to its hardne , breaking into short lengths when being pulled through Science, XII. 286. the wortles. 2. In medical jurisprudence, any lesion of the accompanied or not by rupture the skin or mucous membrane-thus differing from the meaning of the word when used in surgery. Great difference of opinion, however, appears in the way in which the word is interpreted when occurring in crim inal Some authorities have held that it neces