devotionist

[Eng. devotion; -ist.] A devotionalist. "There are certain zealous devotionists , which abhor all set forms and fixed hours of invocation." -Bp . Hall : Soliloq ., 73. *dě-vō-tious-ne , s . [English devot (e); -ious , -ne .] Devoutne , devotion. ne ."-Hammond: Works, i. 234. ""Tis clear what notion they had of *de-vō-tō, s. (Ital.) A devotee. devotious "This hath been commonly experimented by the devotos of all religions," -Scott: Works (1718), vol. ii., p. 129. *dě-vōt-or-ing, a. [Cf. O. Fr. avoltre , avoutre = an adulterer: O. Ital. a volte rare = to commit adultery.) Adulterous. "What a devot or ing rogue this is! He would have been at both." The Wizard, a Play (1640). ( Nares .) dě-vour, *de-vowr-yn, *de-voure, *de-vouren, v . t . & i . [Fr. dévorer ; Sp. & Port, devorar ; Ital. dev or are , div or are , from Lat. devoro: de (intens.), and voro to devour.] IMG:content-2365.png:[blocks in formation] *9. An object of worship. "For as I pa ed by and beheld your devotions , I found an altar with this inscription, To the Unknown God." Acts xvii. 23. "Longing they look, and gaping at the sight, Devour her o'er and o'er with vast delight." Dryden: Virgil's Æneid , vii. 1,107. To take into the mind with eagerne and avid "She'll come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse." Shakesp.: Othello, i. 3. *6. To ruin, to plunder. IMG:content-2366.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2367.png:[blocks in formation] dě-vout-lỹ, *de-vote-ly, *de-voute-liche, *de- vout-liche, adv . [Eng. devout ; -ly .] 1. In a devout manner; with devotion; piously, religiously. "Cast her fair eyes to heav'n, and pray'd devoutly." Saakesp.: Henry VIII ., iv. 1. 2. Earnestly, sincerely, with heartfelt earnestne "A consummation Devoutly to be wished."- Shakesp .: Hamlet , iii. 1. *dě-võ ve, v . t. Lat devoveo : de (intens.), and voveo to vow.] To dedicate, to consecrate, to devote, to destine for a sacrifice. ""'Twas his own Son whom God and mankind lov'd; His own victorious Son whom He dev or'd." *dě-vow', v . t. [Pref. de , and Eng. vow (q. v.).] 1. To dedicate, to vow, to devote. "As making full account either to win the victory, or devow and betake themselves to be consumed with the ashes of their country." -Holland : Ammianus Mar cell in us (1609). 2. To devote or give one's self wholly up to. "To the inquiry And search of which, your mathematical head Hath so devowed itself." Ben Jonson: Magnetic Lady, i. 1. dew (ew as ū), *deow, *deew, *dev, *dewe, s. & a. [A. S. deaw ; cogn. with Dut. dauw ; Icel. dogg: Dan. dug ; Sw. dagg ; O. H. Ger. tou , tau; Ger. thau .] IMG:content-2368.png:[blocks in formation] †(2) Used as an emblem of freshne . "Having the dew of his youth, and the beauty thereof." Long fellow: Miles Standish, i. *(3) Tears. "Do not steep thy heart *(4) A drop. " Dews of blood, Disasters in the sun; and the moist star, Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands." Shakesp.: Hamlet , i. 1. II. Meteorol.: Moisture condensed from the atmos- phere upon the surface of certain bodies. Dew must have attracted the attention of mankind from the earliest ages. In modern times Pictet of Ge- neva, Le Roy of Montpellier, Six of Canterbury, and Patrick Wilson of Glasgow, have investigated the subject-especially the last-named man of science, who wrote, in A. D. 1780, valuable observations on this part of meteorology; but the standard work on the subject is The Theory of Dew , published in A. D. 1814, by Dr. Charles William Wells, F.R.S., of Lon- don (formerly of the United States). The higher the temperature the more aqueous vapor can the atmosphere retain in solution. The diminution, therefore, of heat, which takes place when day is succeeded by night, in many cases renders the air incapable of retaining some of the moisture which it held in the form of vapor during the day. This is deposited on any bodies which at the time are ever happens that the air is saturated with vapor, colder than the adjacent atmosphere. It scarcely or, as it is more correctly worded, that the aqueous vapor is in the condition of greatest po ible den- sity for the temperature. As Aristotle long ago observed, dew is deposited chiefly on calm and serene nights. It is more plentiful in spring and with the condensation, for the clouds intercept autumn than in summer. A cloudy night interferes radiation from the earth, and, in many cases, pre- vent the temperature falling to the dew-point. [DEW-POINT.] Dew when congealed becomes hoar- frost. IMG:content-2369.png:[blocks in formation] *dew-besprent, a. Sprinkled with dew. "Had ta'en their supper on the savory herb Of knot-gra dew -besprent." Milton: Comus, 541, 542. dew-bit, s. The first meal in the morning. ( Prov .) dew-bright, a. Bright with dew. "Aslant the dew - bright earth, and color'd air He looks in boundle majesty abroad." Thomson: Summer, 86, 87. *dew-burning, a. Sparkling or glistening like "Unheeded there, pale, sunk, aghast, With brow against the dew - cold mast." dew-drop, s. A single drop of dew. "Dew-drops may deck the turf that hides the bones, But tears of godly grief ne'er flow within." "Bot restyt still quhill that the brycht day dew ; Agayne began the toun to sail ye new." Wallace , viii. 860. MS. A. Transitive : IMG:content-2370.png:[blocks in formation] He dews his reeking sword." 2. To accuse, to stain. "He that is unfortunate Philips: Blenheim. cent. IMG:content-2371.png:[blocks in formation] "Of my desert or of my dewfull right." Spenser: F. Q. , VII. vi. 35. [Fr. Dieu garde = God *dew'-gar (ew as ū), s . save (you).] A mode of salutation. "He salust thaim, as it war bot in scorn; Dewgar, gude day, bone Senyhour, and gud morn." Wallace, vi. 130. MS. *dewgs (ew as ū), s . pl . [Etym. doubtful; cf. DAG.] Rags, shreds, shapings of cloth, small pieces. "But gane onny of their friends be here, tell them if they stur again, they shall awe be cut in deegs , W. Laick : Answer to the Scots Presb. Eloquence , pt. i., p. 52.