supplichevole (sopplikavole)

[It., Yyf thou wilt shynen with dignites, thou most bysechen and supplien hem that yiven tho dignitees. = = Chaucer , Boethius, iii. prose 8. supplier (su-pli'er), n. [ supply + -er1.] One who or that which supplies. supply (su-pli'), v. t .; pret. and pp. supplied , ppr. supplying . [Early mod. E. also supploy , supploye; souploier , soupplir , F. suppléer Pr. supplir , suplir = Sp. suplir = lir = Sp. suplir = Pg. supprir It. supplire , supplere , subplere , fill up, make full, complete, supply, sub , under, + plere , fill: see plenty . Cf. supplete, lete , supplement .] 1. To furnish with what is wanted; afford or furnish a sufficiency for; make provision for; satisfy; provide: with with before that which is provided: as, to supply the poor with clothing. Yet, to supply the ripe wants of my friend, I'll break a custom. Shak., M. of V., i. 3. 64. They have water in such abundance at Damascus that all parts are supplied with it, and every house has either a fountain, a large basin of water, or at least a pipe or conduit. Pococke , Description of the East, II. 1. 118. The day supplieth us with truths; the night with fictions and falsehoods. Sir T. Browne, Dreams. gence. An abundant stock of facile, new, and ever delicate expre ions supplied the varied requirements of her in tell i The Century , XLI. 367. 2. To serve instead of; take the place of; repair, as a vacancy or lo ; fill: especially applied to places that have become vacant; specifically, of a pulpit, to occupy temporarily. In the world I fill up a place which may be better sup plied when I have made it empty. Shak., As you Like it, i. 2. 205. If the deputy govern our (in regard of his age, being above 70) should not be fit for the voyage, then Mr. Brad street should supply his place. Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 319. The sun was set; and Vesper, to supply His absent beams, had lighted up the sky. Dryden, Flower and Leaf, L. 437. Thus drying Coffee was deny'd; But Chocolate that Lo supply'd . Prior, Paulo Purganti. Good-nature will always supply the absence of beauty, but beauty cannot long supply the absence of good-nature. Steele , Spectator, No. 306. 3. To give; grant; afford; provide; furnish. I wanted nothing Fortune could supply . Dryden, Flower and Leaf, 1. 26. Nearer Care... supplies Sighs to my Breast, and Sorrow to my Eyes. Prior, Celia to Damon. Alike to the citizen and to the legislator home-experiences daily supply proofs that the conduct of human beings baulks calculation. H : Spencer , Man vs. State, p. 74. The Roman law, which supplies the only sure route by which the mind can travel back without a check from civilisation to barbarism. Maine , Early Law and Custom, p. 238. 4. To replenish or strengthen as any deficiency occurs; reinforce. Out of the frye of these rakehelle horse-boyes. theyr kearne continually supplyed and mayntayned. are Spenser , State of Ireland. Being the very Bulwarke and Rampire of a great part of Europe, most fit by all Christians to have beene sup plyed and maintained. Capt. John Smith , True Travels, I. 23. supply (su-plī'), n.; pl. supplies (-plīz). [ No more that meek and suppliant look in prayer, Nor the pure faith (to give it force), are there. Crabbe, Works, I. 116. II. n. A humble petitioner; one who asks or entreats in a supplicating manner. Spare This forfeit life, and hear thy suppliant's prayer. Dryden, Eneid, x. 841. By Turns put on the Suppliant and the Lord: Threaten'd this Moment, and the next implor'd. My lord protector will come this way by and by, and then we may deliver our supplications in the quill . Shak., 2 Hen. VI., i. 3. 3. =Syn. 1 and 2. Suit , Entreaty , etc. See prayer1 . supplicat or (sup'li-ka-tor), n . [= It. suppli- catore , supplicat or , supplicare , supplicate: see supplicate .] One who or that which suppli- cates; a suppliant. Bp . Hall , Episcopacy by IMG:content-2524.png:[blocks in formation] 4. pl . Nece aries collected and held for dis- tri but i on and use; stores: as, the army was cut off from its supplies . Each [bee], provident of cold, in summer flies Through fields and woods, to seek for new supplies . Add is on, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, iv. 5. pl . A grant of money provided by a national legislature to meet the expenses of government. found them all unsatisfactory when they remembered his preaching. Howells , Annie Kilburn, xxx, Commi ioners of supply. See commi ioner . - Com- mittee of Supply, the British House of Commons in com- mittee, charged with the duty of discu ing in detail the estimates for the public service. Its deliberations and decisions form the basis of the Appropriation Bill. -De- IMG:content-2525.png:[blocks in formation] [The temple] hath in it an Ile made Arch-wise, sup- ported with foure hundred Pillars. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 270. When a ma is poised in the hand, certain muscles are strained to the degree required to support the ma plus the arm. H. Spencer , Prin. of Psychol., § 92. We left the earth, at the end of the second creative æon, with a solid crust supporting a universal ocean. Dawson, Nature and the Bible, p. 97. 2. To endure without being overcome; bear; undergo; also, to tolerate. I a heavy interim shall support By his dear absence. Shak . , Othello, i. 3. 259. These things his high spirit could not support. Evelyn, Diary, July 25, 1673. Whose flerce demeanour and whose insolence The patience of a God could not support . Dryden, Spanish Friar, ii. 1. 3. To uphold by aid, encouragement, or coun- tenance; keep from shrinking, sinking, fail- ing, or fainting: as, to support the courage or spirits. He who is quiet and equal in all his behaviour is sup- ported in that deportment by what we may call true courage. Steele , Spectator, No. 350. The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Emerson , West Indian Emancipation. 4. The at .: ( a ) To represent in acting on or as on the stage; keep up; act: as, to support the part a igned. Psha! you know, mamma, I hate militia officers,.. clowns in military masquerade, wearing the dre with- out supporting the character. Yours be the produce of the soil; O may it still reward your toil! Nor ever the defencele train Of clinging infants ask support in vain! As Ophelia, in New York and elsewhere, she supported the elder Booth. Harper's Mag., LXXIX. 871. subordinate part to.-6. To keep up; carry on; maintain: as, to support a contest. I would fain have persuaded her to defer any conversa- tion which, in her present state, she might not be equal to support . Barham , In golds by Legends, I. 189. 7. To supply funds or means for: as, to support the expenses of government; maintain with the nece ary means of living; furnish with a live- lihood: as, to support a family. And were supported from time to time By what he made of prey. 8. To keep from failing or fainting by means of food; sustain: as, to support life; to sup- port the strength by nourishment. The culinary expedients with which three medical stu- dents might be supported for a whole week on a single loin of mutton by a brandered chop served up one day, a fried steak another. Forster , Goldsmith, I. iv. 9. To keep up in reputation; maintain: as, to support a good character; sustain; substantiate; verify: as, the testimony fails to support the charges. And his man Reynold, with fine counterfesaunce, Supports his credite and his countenaunce. My train are men of choice and rarest parts,. And in the most exact regard support 10. To a ist in general; help; second; further; forward: as, to support a friend, a party, or a policy; specifically, mil it . , to aid by being in line and ready to take part with in attack or defense: as, the regiment supported a battery. He [Walpole] knew that it would have been very bad policy in him to give the world to understand that more was to be got by thwarting his measures than by support ing them. Macaulay , William Pitt. 11. To vindicate; defend succe fully: as, to support a verdict or judgment. That God is perfectly benevolent is a maxim of popu- lar Christianity, and it may be supported by Biblical texts. J. R. Seeley, Nat. Religion, p. 13. 12. To accompany or attend as an honorary coadjutor or aid; act as the aid or attendant of: as, the chairman was supported by 13. To speak in support or advocacy of, as a motion at a public meeting.-14. In her ., to accompany or be grouped with (an escutcheon) as one of the supporters. [Rare.] - To support arms ( mil it . ), to carry the rifle vertically at the left shoul- der. = Syn. 10. To countenance, patronize, back, abet. See We have plenty of property; he'll have that to sup- port on in his preach in'. W. M. Baker, New Timothy, p. 232. support (su-port'), n. [ support ; sup- port, v.] 1. The act or operation of support- ing, upholding, sustaining, or keeping from fall- ing; sustaining power or effect. That to the arched roof gave main support . Milton , S. A., 1. 1634. 2. That which upholds, sustains, or keeps from falling; that on which another thing is placed or rests; a prop, pillar, base, or basis; a foun- dation of any kind. We are so unremittingly subjected to that great power [gravity], and so much occupied in counteracting it, that the providing of sufficiency of Support on every needful occasion is our foremost solicitude. It [the choir of the abbey-church of St. Remi, Rheims] is, however, in advance of Paris as regards attenuation of supports and general lightne of construction. C. H. Moore, Gothic Architecture, p. 96. 3. That which maintains life; subsistence; sustenance. Of all the species of pedants which I have mentioned, the book pedant is much the most supportable . Add is on , Spectator, No. 105. The tyranny of an individual is far more supportable than the tyranny of a caste. Macaulay , Mirabeau. The supportablene (su-por'ta-bl-nes), n. state of being supportable. Hammond. supportably (su-por'ta-bli), adv . In a support- able manner; so as to be supportable or en- durable. Imp . Dict. support alt (su-põr'tal), n. [ supportayle , supportaile , supporter , support: see sup- port.] Support. And in mischief, whanne drede wolde us a ayle, Thou arte oure schilde, thou arte oure support a ule . Lydgate. (Hall i well) No small hope that som nedefull sup portal wold be for me (in due tyme) devysed. Dr. John Dee, in Ellis's Lit. Letters, p. 34. supportance (su-por'tans), n. [ support + -ance .] 1. A support; upholding; mainte- Give some supportance to the bending twigs. Shak., Rich. II., iii. 4. 32 Name and honour- What are they? a mere sound without supportance . Ford , Fancies, i 2. The tribute Rome receives from Asia is Her chief supportance . support at i on support: see suppo support.] Support; maintenance; aid; relief. They wol yeve yow audience and lookynge to support a cion in thy presence, and scorn thee in thyn absence. Chaucer , Tale of Melibeus. And for the noble lordship and support a cion shewid unto me at all tymes I beseche our Lord God guerdon yow. Paston Letters, I. 323. supported (su-põr'ted), p. a. In her., having another bearing of the same kind underneath. A chief or supported argent, for instance, signifies a chief of gold with the edge of what is a umed to be another chief of silver underneath it. It is an awkward blazoning, and is rare. See surmounted. Also sustained.