have afcribed to the influence of dæmons, not on- (4.) DEMONIACS, ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXly that fpecies of madness in which the patient is 1STENCE OF. In oppofition to thefe arguments rasing and furious, but alfo melancholy madnefs. (§ 3.) the following are urged by the DæmonianOf John, who feciuded himfelf from intercourfe its. In the days of our Saviour, it would appear with the world, and was diftinguished for abfti- that dæmoniacal poffeffion was very frequnt anence and acts of mortification, they faid, He hath mong the Jews and the neighbouring nations. a demon. The youth, whofe father applied to Many were the evil fpirits whom Jefus is related Jefus to free him from an evil fpirit, deferibing in the gospels to have ejected from patients that his unhappy condition in these words, Have mer- were brought unto him as poffeffed and tormentcy on my fon for he is lunatic. and fore vexed with ed by thofe malevolent dæmons. His apoft les toe, a demon; for oft times be filleth into the fire, ond and the first Chriftians, who were most active and oft into the water, was plainly epileptic. Every fuccefsful in the propagation of Chriftianity, apthing indeed that is related in the New Teftament fear to have offen exerted the miraculous powers concerning dæmoniacs, proves that they were with which they were endowed on fimilar occapeople affected with fuch natural difeafes as are fons. The dæmons difplayed a degree of knowfar from being uncommon among mankind in the ledge and malevolence which fufficiently diftinprefent age. When the fymptoms of diforders guifhed them from human beings: and the lan cured by our Saviour and his apoftles as cafes of guage in which the dæmoniacs are mentioned, and dæmoniacal poffeffion, correspond fo exactly with the actions and fentiments afcribed to them in the thofe of difeafes well known as natural in the pre- New Teftament, fhow that our Saviour and his fent age, it would be abfurd to impute them to a apoftles did not confider the idea of dæmoniacal fupernatural caufe. It is much more confiftent poffeffion as being merely a vulgar error concernwith common fenfe and found philofophy to ipping the origin of a difcafe or difeafes produced by pofe, that our Saviour and his apofties wifely, and with that condefcenfion to the weakness and prejudices of thofe with whom they converfed, which fo eminently diftinguished the character of the author of our holy religion, and mukt always be a prominent feature in the character of the true. Chriftian, adopted the vulgar language in fpe king of thofe unfortunate fans who were groundiefs ly imagined to be poffeffed with dæmons, though they well knew the notions which had given rife to fuch modes of expretion to be ill founded, than to imagine that difeafes which arife at prefent from natural caufis, were produced in days of old by the intervention of dæmons, or that e-, vil fpirits ftill continue to enter into mankind in all cafs of madnets, melancholy, or epilepfy. Be fides, it is by no means a fufficient reafon for receiving any doctrine as true, that it has been generally received through the world. Frror, like an epidemical difcafe, is communicated from one to another. In certain circumftances, too, the influence of imagination predominates, and reftrains the exertions of reafon. Many falle opinions have extended their influence through a ve ry wide circle, and maintained it long. On every fuch occafion as the prefent, therefore, it becomes us to enquire, not fo much how generally any opinion has been received, or how long it has prévailed, as from what cause it has originated, and on what evidence it refts. When we contemplate the frame of nature, we behold a grand and beautiful fimplicity prevailing through the whole: Notwithstanding its immenfe extent, and though it contains fuch numberlefs diverfities of being; yet the fimpleft machine conftructed by human art does not difplay greater fimplicity, or an happier connection of parts. We may therefore in fer, by analogy, from what is obfervable of the order of nature in general to the prefent cafe; that to permit evil spirits to intermeddle with the concerns of human life, would be to break through that order which the Deity appears to have eftablifhed through his works; it would be to introduce a degree of confufion unworthy of the wifdom of Divine Providence. natural caufes. The more enlightened cannot always avoid the ufe of metaphorical modes of cxpretion; which though founded upon error, yet have been fo eftablished in language by the influence of cufiom, that they cannot be fuddenly dif miffed. But in deferiptions of characters, in the narration of facts, and in the laying down of fyftens of doctrine, we require different rules to be obferved.. Should any perfon, in compliance with p pular. opinions, talk in ferious language of the exiftence, difpofitions, declarations, and actions of a race of beings whom he knew to be abfolutely fabulous, we furely could not praife him for integrity: we muft fuppofe him to be either exulting in irony over the weak credulity of thofe around him, or taking advantage of their weakness, with the dishonefty and the felfth views of an impoftor. And if he himself thould pretend to any connection with this imaginary fyftem of beings; and fhould claim, in confequence of his connec tion with them, particular honours from his contemporaries; whatever might be the dignity of his character in all other refpects, nobody could helitate to brand him as an impoftor. In this light must we regard the conduct of our Saviour and his apoftles, if the idea of dæmoniacal poffeffion were to be confidered merely as a vulgar error. They talked and acted as if they believed that evil fpirits had actually entered into those who were brought to them as poffeffed with devils, and as if thofe fpirits had been actually expelled by their authority out of the unhappy perfons whom they had poffeffed. They demanded too, to have their poffeflions and declarations believed, in confe quence of their performing fuch mighty works. and having thus triumphed over the powers of hell. The reality of dæmoniacal poffeffion ftands upon the fame evidence with the gofpel fyttem in general. Nor is there any thing unreasonable in this doctrine. It does not appear to contradict thofe ideas, which the general appearances of na ture and the feries of events fuggeft, concerning the benevolence and wifdom of the Deity, by which he regulates the affairs of the univerfe We often fancy ourfelves able to comprehen things to which our understanding is wholly inadequate we perfuade ourselves, at times, that the whole extent of the works of the Deity mult be well known to us, and that his defigns muft always be fuch as we can fathom. We are then ready, whenever any difficulty arifes to us, in confidering the conduct of Providence, to model things according to our own ideas; to deny that the Deity can poffibly be the author of things which we cannot reconcile; and to affert, that he muft act on every occation in a manner confitent with our narrow views. This is the pride of reafon; and it feems to have fuggefted the flroageft objections that have been at any time urged against the reality of dæmoniacai poñention. But the deity may furely connect one order of his creatures with another. We perceive mutual relations and a beautiful connection to prevail through all that part of nature which falls within the fphere of our obfervation. The inferior animals are connected with mankind, and subjected to their authority, not only in infances in which it is exerted for their advantage, but even where it is tyrannically abused to their deftruction. Among the evils to which mankind have been fubjected, why might not their being liable to dæmoniacal podeffion be one? While the Supreme Being retains the fovereignty of the univerfe, he may employ whatever agents he thinks proper in the execution of his purpofes: he may either commiffion an angel or let loose a devil; as well as bend the human will, or communicate any particular impulfe to matter. All that revelation makes known, all that human reafon can conjecture, concerning the existence of various orders of fpiritual beings, good and bad, is perfectly confiftent with, and even favourable to, the doctrine of dæmoniacal poffeffion. It is mentioned in the New Teftament in fuch language, and fuch narratives are related concerning it, that the gofpe's cannot well be regarded in any other light than as pieces of impofture, and Jefus Chrift must be confidered as a man who took advantage of the weak efs and ignorance of his contemporaries, if this doctrine be nothing but a vulgar error; it teaches nothing inconfiftent with the general conduct of Providence. In fhort, it is not the caution of philofophy, but the pride of reafon, that fuggefts objections against this doctrine. Dr Jortin thinks, that about the time our Saviour appeared, the evil fpirits had more influence over the bodies of men, in order that the power of Jefus Chrift over fin and Satan, might be manifefted in expelling them, and putting them to open thame; and that thus even they might be made unwilling witneffes of the truth of his gofpel, Thus men beheld the the vile nature and terrible force of these apoftate fpirits, and at the fame time the fuperior power and goodness of the Saviour of the world, who delivered miferable men from fuch dreadful enemies. (II.) DÆMONIACS, in church hiftory, a branch of the Anabaptifts; whofe diftinguishing tenet is, that the devils fhall be faved at the end of the world. DÆMONIANISTS, a name given to authors, who plead for the reality of dæmoniacal poffef fion; as their opponents are stiled Anti-dæmonianfs. DÆMONISM, n. f. the worship of dæmons. DAER, Lord. See DouGLAS. (1) DAFAR, a town of Arabia, near the coaft of the Red fea, in the country of Yemen, 130 miles S. of Mecca. (2.) DAFAR, DOFAR, or DOLFAR, a feaport of Arabia, in Hadramaut, feated on the bay, (N° 3.) and governed by a scheick. Its chief export is olibanum. It is 160 miles ENE. of Cape Fartach. (3) DAFAR, or DOFAR BAY, a bay on the W. coat of Arabia Felix. (1.) DAFFODIL, in botany. See NARCISSUS. n. f. (Suppofed by Skinner to be corrupted from * DAFFODOWNDILLY. afpodelus.]-This plant hath a lilly flower confift ing of one leaf, which is bell fhaped and cor into 6 fegments, which encircle its middle like a crown; but the empalement, which commonly rifes out of a membranous vagina, turns to an oblong or roundish fruit, which is triangular, and grapes in three parts; is divided into three cells, and full of rouniifh feeds. Miller. DAFNE, a river of European Turkey, in Bulgaria, which runs into the Urana, between Marcenopoli and Varna. * To DAFT. v. a. [contracted from do aft: that is, to throw back, to throw off.) To tofs afide; to put away with contempt; to throw a way flightly. Not now in ufe I would fhe had beftow'd this dotage on me: I would have daft all other refpects, and made her half myself. Shak. * DAG. n. f. (dague, Fr.] 1. A dayger. 2. A Handgun; a pistol: fo called from ferving the purpofes of a dagger, being carried fecretiy, and doing mifchief fuddenly. It is in neither fenfe now ufed. To DAG. v. a. [from daggle] To daggle; to bemire; to let fall in the water: a low word. DAGELET, an ifland on the coaft of Corea, about three leagues in circumference, covered with fine trees, and furrounded with fteep rocks, except a few fandy creeks, which form convenient landing-places. It was difcovered by La Peyroufe in 1787, who found fome boats of a Chinese conftruction upon the flocks. The men employed upon them, were supposed to be Corean carpenters, but as the fhips approached, they fled to the woods. The French navigator supposed that the ifland was uninhabited, except during fummer by people froin Corea, for building boats. Lon. 129. 2. E. from Paris, Lat. 3. 15. N. DAGENHAM, a village in Effex, on the Thames, 9 miles E. by N. of London. In 1734, a breach was made by the river, which overflowed near 5000 acres of ground; but Captain Perry reduced it to its former channel. DAGER-ORT, a town of Ruflia, in the island of Dago, 84 miles WSW. of Revel, * DAGGER. n. f. (dague, French.] 1. A short fword; a poniard.-He ftrikes himself with-his dagger; but being interrupted by one of his friends, he ftabs him, and breaks the dagger on one of his ribs. Addijon. 2. In fencing fchools.] A blunt blade of iron with a baiket hilt, used for A 2 defence. others Saturn or Venus; but according to mo Neptune. deferee. 2. [With printers.] The obelus: a mark of reference in form of a dagger; as [†). (1.) * To DAGGLE. v. a. [from dag, dew: a word, according to Mr Lye, derived from the Danifh; according to Mr Skinner, from dag, sprinkJed, or deagan, to dip. They are probably all of the fame root.] To dip negligently in mire or water; to bemire; to besprinkle. (1.) To DAGGLE. V. n. To be in the mire; to run through wet or dirt.- Nor like a puppy, doggled through the town. To fetch and carry fing fong up and down. Pope. * DAGGLEDTAIL. n. f. [daggle and tail.] Bemired; dipped in the water or mud; befpattered-The gentlemen of wit and pleafure are apt to be choaked at the fight of fo many daggled tail parfons, that happen to fall in their way. Squift. DAGHESTAN. a province of Afia, bounded by Circaflia on the N. by the Caspine Sea on the E.; by Shirvan, in Perfia, on the S.; and by mount Caucafus and Georgia on the W. Its chief towns are Tarku and Derbent, both fituated on the Cafpian Sea. It is inhabited by Tartars, who are fubject to Ruffia, (1.) DAGISTAN, or DARESTAN, à diftrict of Perfia, probably the fame with DAGHESTAN; fome geographers often make great blunders in or. thography. DAGISTAN, the capital of the above district (N1.) heated on a river which runs into the Cafpian Sea; 240 miles NW. of Mefchid. Cruttwell DAGLAN, a town of France, in the department of Dordogne, 8 miles S. of Sarjat. DAGLINGWORTH, a village in Gloucefter, fhire, 3 miles NW. of Cirencefler. DAUNQ, a town of Turkey in Europe, in Al. bania, with a bishop's fee; capital of the district of Ducagini; near the confluence of the Drino, and Nero; 13 miles SE. of Scutari, and 15 NE. of Aleffio. Lon. 19. 39. E. Lat. 42. 30. N. DAGO, or DAGHO, an inland in the Baltic Sea, on the coaft of Livonia, between the gulf of Finland and Riga. It is of a triangular figure, and may be about 20 miles in circumference. It has nothing confiderable but two caftles called Daggerawort and Paden. Lon. 22, 50, E. Lat. 58. 44 N. DAGON, the idol of Afhdod or Azotus. He 8.monly reprefented as a monfter, half man and half fish; whence most learned men derive the name from the Hebrew dag, which fignifics "a fifh." Thofe who make him to have been the inventor of bead corn, derive his name from the Ilebrew, 27, Dagon, fignifying, corn; whence PhiloBiblius calls him Zeus Agas, Jupiter Acatrius, This deity continued to have a temple at Afhdod to the time of the Maccabees; for the author of the first book of Maccabees tells us, that "Jona than, one of the Maccabees, having beaten the army of Apollonius, Demetrius's general, they fled to Azotus, and entered into Bethdagon (the temple of their idol); but Jonathan fet fire to Azotus, and burnt the temple of Dagon and all thofe who were fied into it." Dagon according to fome, was the fame with Jupiter, according to DAGONVILLE, a town of France, in the de partment of Meufe, 9 miles E. of Bar-le-duc. DAGOUA, a town of Egypt, on the Nile, harbour for thieves and pirates, 12 miles N. of Cairo. DAGSBOROUGH, or ) a town of the United DAGSBURY, States, in Suffex coun ty, Delaware, on the NW. bank of Pepper Creek, 19 miles from Clowes, 35 SSE. from Dover, and 127 S. of Philadelphia. DAGWORTH, a village NW. of Stow, Suffex, DAGESTAN. See DAGHESTAN. DAHHI, a town of Arabia, in the country of Zemen, 67 miles SE. of Locheia. DAHHLAK, DALAKA, OF DALACCA, an island in the Red Sea, near the coaft of Abyssinia, about 22 leagues in length, and four in breadth, ancient. ly celebrated for its pearl fishery. It is low and flat, with a fandy foil, mixed with fhells, and in fummer deftitute of every kind of herbage, except a small quantity of bent grafs, which is barely fufficient to feed a few antelopes and goats. In many places, however, it is covered with extenfive plantations of acacia trees, which feldom exceed 8 feet in height, fpreading wide, and turning flat at the top, probably from the, influence of the wind, which blows from the fea. From the end of March to the beginning of October, they have no rain in Dahhlak; but in the intermediate months they have heavy fhowers, when the water is collected into artificial ciferus, to fupply the inhabitants during the enfuing fummer. Of these cifterns, which are supposed to be either the work of the Perfians or of the firft Ptolemies, 370 yet remain, cut out of the folid rock. The grafs fprings up luxuriantly after the rains, and then the goats give the inhabitants a plentiful fupply of milk, which in winter is the principal part of their fubfiftence. The poorer fort live entirely on thell and other fish. This is the only part of Arabia, where no one is furnished with arms of any kind; and its inhabitants are a fimple, fearful, and inoifenfive people. Their chief employment is to work the veffels which trade to the different parts of the coaft. The island contains 12 villages c towns, each of which is encircled with a planta tion of deom trees; the leaves of which, when dri éd, are of a gloily white; and of these the inhabi tants make neat and beautiful bafkets, feemingly the only refemblance to manufacture among them This as well as the other iflands of the Red Sea i dependent upon Mafuah; and the governor is fur nithed monthly with a goat from each of the villages; befides which every veffel putting in her for Mafuah, pays him a pound of coffee, and eve ry one from Arabia, a dollar. From these his re venue chiefly arifes. Lon. 39. o. E. Lat.15.40. N DAHHMAK, a town of Arabia, in the cour try of Yemen, 16 miles SSE. of Abu-Arifch. DAHL, or DAL, the firft river of Sweder which runs through the provinces of Dalecarl and Geftricia, and falls into the gulf of Bothni four leagues ESE. of Geffle. Near Efcarleby forms a celebrated cataract, fcarcely inferior to th fall of the Rhine at Lauffen. DAHLEN 5 DAHLEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of Upper Saxony, and margraviate of Meiffen, 23 miles NW. of Meiffen. DAHME, a town of Saxony, in the circle of Upper Germany, and principality of Querfurt, 40 miles S. of Berlin. DAHMEC, a town of Afia, in the country of Candahar, 28 miles SW. of Candahar. DAHN, a town of France, in the department. of Lower Rhine, 13 miles W. of Landau. DAHOME, or DAUMA, a kingdom of AfriDAHOMY, ca, on the coaft of Guinea, fituated about 60 or 70 miles from the Atlantic. This kingdom, which is correctly placed in various old maps, particularly that of Mercator, who names its ancient capital Dauina, was erazed from the maps of Africa, in 1700, and the exiftence of the nation of Dauma denied, but it emerged from obfcurity, in 1727, by the fame of its conquefts of the Maritime States of Whidah and Ardra. Dahome, as known at prefent, is fuppofed to reach from the fea coaft 150 or 200 miles inland, though no European has penetrated above half that diftance. The fol is a deep rich clay, of a reddifh colour, with a little fand on the furface, except a bout Calmina, where it is more light and gravelly; but there is not to be found a ftone fo big as an egg in the whole country, fo far as it has been visited by Europeans. Of farinaceous vegetables, the country yields a plentiful fupply, in proportion to the quantity of culture; viz. maize, mil. let or Guinea corn of different forts, a kind of peas, or rather kidney-beans, called cadavances, and alfo a fpecies of beans, called ground-beans. The Dahomans likewife cultivate yams, potatoes of two forts, the caffada or manioka, the plantain, and the banana. Pine-apples, melons, oranges, limes, guavas, and other tropical fruits, alfo a bound in this fertile country. Nor is it deftitute of productions adapted for commerce and manufacture; fuch as indigo, cotton, the fugar-cane, tobacco, palm-oil, with a variety of spices, particularly a fpecies of pepper, very fimilar in flavour, and indeed fcarcely diftinguishable from the black pepper of the Eaft Indies. A very curious fruit is produced in Dahomy, as well as in fome other parts of Africa, which refembles a small olive in every refpect but the colour, being of a dufky reddish hue, changing at the end next the ftalk to a faint yellow; the pulp is firm, and almost infipid; the ftone is hard like that of the olive. After having chewed one or more of fuch berries, and fpit out or fwallowed the pulp at pleafure, a glass of vinegar will tafte, to the perfon trying the experiment, like fweet wine; a lime will feem to have the flavour of a very ripe China orange; and the fame change is produced in other acids, without effervefcence, or any fenfible motion. The Dahomans, like the other inhabitants of tropical climates, plant twice a-year, viz. at the vernal and autumnal equinoxes; after which the periodical rains prevail. The language is that which the Portuguese call Lingua Geral, or General Tongue, and is fpoken not only in Dahomy Proper, but in Whidah, and the other dependent ftates, as well as in Mahee and several neighbouring places. With respect to the Dahoman religion, it is vague and uncertain in its principles, and rather confifts in the performance of fome tradi tionary ceremonies, than of any fixed fyftem of belief, or of moral conduct. They believe more firmly in their amulets and fetiches, than in the deity; their national fetiche is the Tiger; and their houfes or huts are decorated with ugly images, tinged with blood, fuck with feathers, befmeared with palm oil, and bedaubed with eggs. The government is perhaps the most perfect defpotifm upon earth. The policy of the country admits of no intermediate degree of fubordination between the king and flave, at leaft in the royal prefence, where the prime minifter is obliged to proftrate himself with as much abject fubmiflion as the meaneft fubject, all acknowledging the unlimited power of the fovereign. A minifter of ftate crawls towards the apartment of audience on his hands and knees, till he arrives in the royal prefence, where he lays him felf flat on his belly, rub bing his head in the duft, and uttering the most humiliating expreffions. Being detired to advance, he receives the king's commands, or cominunicates any particular bufinefs, ftill continuing in a recumbent pofture; for no perfon is permitted to fit, even on the floor, in the royal pretence, except the women; and even they muft kits the earth when they receive or deliver the king's meilage. The king of Dahomy maintains a confiderable ftanding army, commanded by an agaow or general, with feveral other fubordinate military offcers, who must hold themfelves in readiness to take the field upon all occafions, at the command of the fovereign. The payment of thefe troops chiefly depends on the fuccefs of the expeditions in which they are engaged. On extraordinary occafions, all the males able to bear arnis are obliged to repair to the general's ftandard, every caboccer marching at the head of his own people. Sometimes the king takes the field at the head of his troops; and on very great emergencies at the head of his women. Within the walls of the different royal palaces in Dahomy are immure not less than 3000 women; feveral hundreds of these are trained to arms under a female general, and fubordinate officers appointed by the king, in the fame manner as thofe under the agaow. Thefe Ama. zons are regularly exercifed, and go through their evolutions with as much expertnefs as the male foldiers. They have their large umbrellas, their flags, their drums, trumpets, flutes, and other mufical inftruments. In fhort, the fingularity of this inftitution never fails to attract the particular attention of Europeans, when, among other upcommon exhibitions, they are prefented with the curious fpectacle of a review of female troops. The drefs of the men in Dahomy confifts of a pair of ftriped or white cotton drawers, of the manu facture of the country, over which they wear a large fquare cloth of the fame, or of European manufa ture. This cloth is about the fize of a common counterpane, for the middling class, but much larger for the grandees. It is wrapped about the loins, and tied on the left fide by two of the corners, the others hanging down, and fome times trailing on the ground. A piece of filk or velvet, of 16 or 18 yards, makes a cloth for a grandee. The head is uiually covered with a beaver or felt hat, according to the quality of the wear er: Agriculture is much improved, but the ground is fitter for pafture. The population, in 1801, was 1621. (1.) DAILY. adj. [daglie, Saxon] Happening every day or very frequently; done every day; quotidian.Much are we bound to heaven In daily thanks that gave us fuch a prince. Shak. Ceafe, man of woman born! to hope relief From daily trouble, and continued grief. Prior. (2.) * DAILY. adv. Every day; very often.A man with whom I converfed almoft daily, for years together. Dryden. et. The king, as well as fome of his minifters, often wears a gold or filver laced hat and feather. The arms and upper part of the body remain na. ked, unlefs when the party travels, or performs certain pieces of work, when the large cloth is laid afide, and the body is covered with a fort of frock or tunic without fleeves. The feet are always bare, none but the sovereign having a right to wear fandals. The drefs of the women, though fimple, consists of a greater number of articles than that of the men. They ufe feveral cloths or handkerchiefs, fome to wrap round the loins, and vthers to cover occafionally the breafts and upper parts of the body. The neck, arms, and ancles, are adorned with beads and chowries; and rings of filver, or bafer metal, encircle the fingers. The ears are fo pierced as to admit the little finger, and a coral bead of that fize ftuck into each, if the party be able to afford it; otherwife a portion of red fealing wax, or a piece of oyfter-fhell pothed, is applied in the fame manner. Girls before the age of puberty, wear nothing but a ftring of beads or fhells round the loins, and young women ufually expose the breafts to view. The general character of the Dahomans is marked by a mixture of ferocity and politenefs. The former appears in the treatment of their enemics; the latter they poflefs far above the African nations with whom we hitherto had any intercourfe; this being the country where frangers are leaft expofed to infult, and where it is eafy to refide in fecurity and tranquillity. Abomey, the capital, lies between Lon. 3° and 4° E. and in Lat. 9. 50. N. DAIRIJE, a town of Egypt, feated on the Nile; 13 miles SSW. of Damietta. DAILESFORD, a town of Worcestershire, nearly furrounded by Oxfordshire. DAILLE, John, a proteftant minifter near Paris, one of the most learned divines of the 17th century, and the moft efteemed by the Catholics, of all the controverfial writers among the Proteftants. He was tutor to two of the grandfons of the illuftrious M. Du Pleflis Mornai. Mr Daille having lived 14 years with this excellent mafter, travelled into Italy with his two pupils; one of them died abroad; with the other he visited Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Flanders, Holland, and England, and returned in 1621. He was received minifter in 1623, and firft exercifed his office in the familyof M. Du Pleffis Mornai; but that lord died foon after. The memoirs of this great man employed Mr Daille in 1624. In 1625, he was appointed minister of the church of Samur, and in 1625 removed to Paris, where he spent all the reft of his life, and compofed feveral works. His firft piece was his masterpiece, and an excellent work; Of the Ufe of the Fathers, printed 1631. It is a ftrong chain of reafoning, which forms a moral demonstration against those who would have religious difputes decided by the authority of the fathers. He died in 1670, aged 77. DAILLY, a parish of Scotland, nearly in the centre of Airfhire, extending along the banks of the Girvan, 6 m. in length and from 4 to 6 in breadth; and containing about 17,000 acres. The foil is various; the furface diverfified with natural woods and plantations. The climate is usually dry, mild, and agreeable, but moift and chilly on the hills. * DAINTILY. adv. (from dainty.] 1. Elegant; delicately.-Truth is a naked and open day light, that doth not fhew the mafks and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half fo flately and dainting as candle-light. Bacon. 2. Deliciously; pleasan ly.-Thofe young fuiters had been accustomed to nothing but to fleep well, and fair daintily. Brome. 3. Nicely; ceremonioully; ferupulously. 4. Squeamishly: iaftidioully. * DAINTINESS. n. J. [from dainty.] 1. Deli, cacy; foftnefs. What should yet thy palate please? Dai tinefs and fofter ease, Sleeked limbs and fineft blood? Ben Jonion. 2. Elegance; nicety.-The duke exceeded in the daintine's of his leg and foot, and the earl in the fine fhape of his hands. Wotton. 3. Delicacy; delicioufnefs. It was more notorious for the daintinefs of the provifion which he ferved in it, than for the maffinefs of the dish. Hakewill. 4. Squeamifhness; faftidioufnefs.-Of fand, and lime, and clay, Vitruvius hath discoursed without any daintinels. Wotton. 5. Ceremonioufnefs; fcrupulofity. (1.) * DAINTY. adj. [derived by Skinner from din, an old French word for delicate; which yet I cannot find in dictionarics] 1. Pleafing to the palate; of exquifite tafte; delicious.-Higher concoction is required for fweetness, or pleasure of tafte, and therefore all your dainty plumbs are a little dry. Bacon. 2. Delicate; of acute fenfibility; nice; fqueamish; foft; luxurious; tender. This is the floweft yet the daintiest sense; For ev❜n the ears of fuch as have no fkill, Perceive a difcord, and conceive offence; And knowing not what's good, yet find the ill. Davies. →They were a fine and dainty people; frugal and yet elegant though not military. Bacon. 3. Scrupulous; ceremonious.- Which of vou all |