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luun Norum is thought to be the ILIENSIUM FAGUS of Strabo. New or modern Ilium was a village near the fea, with a temple of Minerva ; where letander, after the battle of Granicus, offer ed gifts, and called it a city, which he ordered to be enlarged. His orders were executed by Lylimachus, who encompaled it with a wall of 40 ftadia. It was afterwards adorned by the Romans, who granted it immunities as to their mother city. From this city the lins of Homer takes its name, containing a account of the war carried on between the Greeks and Trojans on account of the rape of Helen: a variety of difafters being the confequence, gave rife to the proverb Ilias Malorum.

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Your roundless fresh, 'to hear a doleful, verfe Of Rofalind. Who knows not Rofalind, That Colin made? ilk can I you rehearfe. Spenf ILKUCH, a ci devant royal town of Poland, in the palatinate of Cracow, remarkable for its filver and lead mines; feated in a barren and mountain. oas country, 15 miles NW. of Craców. Lon, 20 S ༈ E. Lat. 6. 26: N. T ,、,、༽;.

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(1) ILL. adj: (contracted from EVIL, and retaining alliats fenfes.] 1. Bad in any refpect; trary to good, whether phyfical or moral; evil. See EVIL.

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I must be patient, 'till the Heavens look
With an afpect more favourable.

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Of his own body he was.ill, and gave The clergy ill example. ASbak. Hen. VIII. -Nether is it ill air only that maketh an ill feat; but ill ways, ill markets, and ill neighbours. Bacon. Some, of an ill and melancholy nature, incline the company to be fad and ill-difpofed: others, of ajorial nature, difpofe them to be merry. Baton. 2. Sick; difordered; not in health. I know not that evil is ever ufed in this fenfe.

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But are compell'd to avarice alone:

For then in virtue's fhape they follow vice. Dryd.
Strong virtue, like ftrong nature, ftruggles ftill,
Exerts itself, and then throws off the ill. Dryd
Misfortune; mifery.-

Who can all fenfe of others ills escape,
Is but a brute at beft in human fhape. Tate's Juv.
Though plung'd in ills and exercis'd in care,
Yet never let the noble mind defpair;
When preft by dangers, and befet with foes,
The gods their timely fuccour interpofe;
And when our virtue finks, o'erwhelm'd with
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By unforeseen expedients bring relief. A. Philips. (4.) IL. fubftantiue or adverb, is ufed in pofition to exprefs any bad quality or condition, which may be easily understood by the following examples.

(5.) ILL. fubftantive.
Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds.
Shak. Hamlet.

Shak.

I have an ill-divining foul:
Methinks I fee thee, now thou art below,
a tomb.
As one dead in the bottom of a
No look, no laft adieu before he went?
In an ill-boding hour to flaughter fent. Dryden.
I know

The voice ill-boding, and the folemn found.

Philips.
The wifeft prince on earth may be deceived by
the craft of ill-defigning men. Swift's Examiner.
Your il-meaning politician lords,

Under pretence of bridal friends and guests,
Appointed to await me thirty fpies,

Who threat'ning cruel death, conftrain'd the brain bride

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Ay diftinguifh'd from his airy ftand, To bribe whofe vigilance, gifthus told A mighty, fum of ill-perfuading gold. ((6) ILL adv.-There founded an ill-according cry of the enemies, and a lamentable noife was carried abroad. Wifd. xviii, 10.My colleague,

Shak.

You with me health in very happy feafon; For I am on the fudden fomething ill. I have known two towns of the greatest confepace loft, by the governors falling ill in the time f the Geges. Temple

(2) ILL. adv. 1. Not well; not rightly in
relpect-

El at eafe, both the and all her train
The fcorching fun had borne, and beating rain.
Dryden.

Not cafily; with pain; with difficulty.
Thou defir'ft

The punishment all on thyfelf! alas!
Bear thine own firft; ill able to fuftain
His full wrath, whofe thou feel' ft as yet leaft part,
And my difpleasure bear'st fo ill.
Milton.

bears the fex a youthful lover's fate,
When juft approaching to the nuptial ftate. Dryd.
b) ILL. n. f. 1. Wickedness; depravity:
castrariety to holinefs.Ill, to man's nature, as it
fads perverted, hath a natural motion ftrongeft
Cotinuance. Bacon.

Young men to imitate all ills are prone;

Pope.

Being fo ill-affected with the gout,
Will not be able to be there in perfon. Ben Jonf.
The examples

Of every minute's inftance, prefent now,
Have put us in thefe ill-befeeming arms. Shak.
Lead back thy Saxons to their ancient Elbe:
I would reftore the fruitful Kent, the gift
Of Vortigern, or Hengift's ill-bought aid. Dryd
We fimple toafters take delight
To fee our women's teeth look white;
And ev'ry faucy ill-bred fellow
Sneers at a mouth profoundly yellow.
-The ungrateful treafon of her ill-chofen hufband
overthrows her. Sidney-Envy, how does it look?
How meagre and ill-complexioned? It preys upon
ittelf, and exhausts the fpirits. Collier.
There grows,

Prior.

In my moft ill-compos'd affection, fuch
A ftanchlefs avarice, that, were I king,
I fhould cut off the nobles for their lands. Shak.
To what end this ill-concerted lie,
Dryden's Don Sebaftian.
Palpable and grofs?
-Our generals at prefent are fuch as are likely to
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make the best use of their numbers, without Soon as the ill-omen'd rumour reach'd his ear, throwing them away on any ill-concerted projects. Who can describe the amazement in his face ! Addison on the War. The second daughter was a

Dryden. peevish, forward, ill-conditioned creature as ever -The eternal law of things mut not be altered, was. Arbuthnot's History of John Bull.

to comply with his ill-ordered choice. Locke. Na Persian arras hides his homely walls

When you expose the scene, With antic vefts, which, through their shady fold, Down the ill-organ'd engines fall, Betray the streaks of ill-diffembled gold. Dryd. Off fly the vizards.

Swift, You shall not find me, daughter,

For Phthia fix'd is my return; After the Nander of most step-mothers,

Better at home my ill-paid pains to mour, In-ey'd unto you.

Sbak. Cymbeline. Than from an equal here sustain the public scorn. I see thy fifter's tears,

Dryden. Thy father's anguish, and thy brother's death, There motly images her fancy ftrike, In the pursuit of our ill-fated loves. Addif. Cato. Figures ill-pair'd, and similies unlike.

Pope. Others ill-fated are condemn'd to toil

Sparta has not to boast of such a woman ; Their tedious life.

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Nor Troy to thank her, for her ill-plac'd love. -Plain and rough nature, left to itself, is much

Dryden. better than an artificial ungratefulness, and fuch - I shall direct you, a tak for which I take myftudied ways of being ill-fashioned. Locke.-Much self not to be all qualified, because I have had op. better, when I find virtue in a fair lodging, than portunities to observe the follies of women. Swift. when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favoured crea. -Actions are pleasing or displeasing, either in ture, like a pearl in a dunghill. Sidney:-Near to an themselves, or confidered as a means to a greater old ill-favoured caftle they meant to perform their and more delirable end: the eating of a well-feaunknightly errand. Sidney.- If a man had but-an foned dish, suited to a man's palate, may move ill.favoured nose, the deep-thinkers would con- the mind, by the delight itself that accompanies trive to impute the cause to the prejudice of his the eating, without reference to any other end ; education. Swift:

to which the confideration of the pleasure there is I was at her house the hour she appointed. in health and strength may add a new guft, able --And you sped, fir?

to make us swallow an ill-relifhed potion Locke. - Very w1l-favouredly.'

Shak. Bluhesill-reftrain'd, betray They would not make bold, as every wbere : 'Her thoughts intentive on the bridal day. Pope.

they do, to destroy ill-formed and mis-shaped pro- .. vs Behold the fruit of ill-rewarded pain. Dryd. ductions. Locke.

The god inform'd The tabled dragon never guarded more This ill-fhap'd body with a daring soul. Dred. The golden fleece, than be' his ill-got store. Drod. –There was plenty enough, but the dishes were

Bid him employ his care for these my friends, dll-forted: whole pyramids of fweetmeats for boys And make good use of his ill-gotten power, and women ; but little of solid meat for men. DryBy Melt'ring men much better than himself. den.It does not belong to the priest's office to

Addison's Cato. impose this name in baptism: he may refuse to Ill-govern'd paffions in a prince's breaft, pronounce the same, if the parents give them lu. Hazard his private and the public reft. Waller: dicrous, filthy, or ill. founding names. Aşliffe.-That knowledge of theirs is very superficial and Ill-spirited Wor'fter, did we not send grace, ill-grounded, Dryden's Dufresnoy.

Pardon and terms of love to all of you? Sbak. Ill-grounded passions quickly wear away; From thy foolish heart, vain maid, remove What's built upon esteem can ne'er decay. Walsh. An useless sorrow, and an ill-starr'd love. Prior.

Hither, of ill-join'd sons and daughters born, Ah, why th' ill-fuiting paftime muft I try? First from the ancient world these giants came, To gloomy care my thoughts alone are free:

Milton. Ill the gay sports with troubled hearts agree. -Nor has he erred above once by ill-judged 'lu

Pope's Odystos. perfluity. Garth's Ovid.-Did you never taste de- -Holding of ill-tasted things in the mouth will licious drink out of an ill-looked vessel ? L'Efr. make a small falivation. Grew..

- The match had been so ill-made for Plexirtus, The maid, with downcast eyes, and mute that his ill-led life would have fumbled to destruce with grief, tion, had there not come fifty to his defence. Șid. For death unfinish'd and ill-tim'd relief, i These are the product

Stood sullen to her suit. Dryden's Ovid. Of those ill-mated marriages thou saw'ft, - How should opinions, thus settled, be given up, Where good with bad were match'd. Milton. if there be any fufpicion of interest or design, as

The works are weak, the garrison but thin,' there never fails to be, where men find themselves Dispirited with frequent overthrowe,

ill treated ? Locke.—That boldness and spirit which Already wavering on their ill-mann'd walls. Dryd. lads get amongst their play-fellows at school, baş ' He will not hear me out ?

ordinarily a mixture of rudeness and ill-turned Was ever criminal forbid to plead ?

confidence; fo that these misbecoming and disenCurb'd their ill-manner'd zeal. Dryden. genuous ways of Mifting in the world must be un

It is impossible for the most ill-minded, avari. learned. Locke, ţious, or curning clergymän, to do the least injuf. (7.) ILL, in geography, a river of France, which tice to the meanest cottager, in any bargain for rises in the dept. of the Upper Rhine, and falls tythes. Swifi."" **

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ing under the 12th order, Holoracea. The calyx is pentaphyllous, and cartilaginous; there is no corolla; the ftigma is fimple; the capfule quinquevalved, and monofpermous. There are feveral fpecies, of which the most remarkable are

I. ILLECEBRUM CAPITATUM, and Both have trailing 2. ILLECEBRUM PARONYCHIA, stalks near two feet long, which spread on the ground, garnished with fmall leaves like those of knot-grafs. The heads of the flowers come out from the joints of the ftalks, having neat filvery bractea furrounding them, which make a pretty Their flowers appear in June, and appearance, there is generally a fucceffion of them for at least When the autumn proves warm, two months. The feeds they ripen their feeds in October. fhould be fown in a bed of light earth in the be ginning of April: the plants come up in May, when they should be kept clean from weeds till they are fit to remove. Some fhould be planted in fmall pots, and the reft in a warm border, obe ferving to water and fhade them till they have taken new root. These plants are fometimes killed in fevere winters; for which reason fome of them fhould be planted in pots, that they may be sheltered.

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*ILLAPSE. n. f. [illapfus, Lat.] 1. Gradual emition or entrance of one thing into another, -As a piece of iron red hot, by reafon of the illapfe of the fire into it, appears all over like fire; fo the fouls of the bleffed, by the illapfe of the disine effence into them, shall be all over divine. Norris. 2. Sudden attack; cafual coming.Life is oft preferved

By the bold fwimmer in the fwift illapse Of accident difaftrous. Thomjon's Summer, *To ILLAQUEATE. v. a. illaqueo, Lat.] To entangle; to entrap; to enfnare.-I am illaqueated, but not truly captivated into your conclufion. Mort's Divine Dialogues.

ILLAQUEATION. . f. [from illaqueate.] 1. The act of catching or enfaring.-The word in Matthew doth not only fignify fufpenfion, or pendulous illaqueation, but also fuffocation. Bros. a. A fnare: any thing to catch another;

Anoole.

(1) ILLASI, a pleasant valley of Italy, in the ci-devant prov. of the Veronefe; included in the department of the Mincio. It extends to the territory of Vicenza, and contains 5 parishes. (3.)ILLASI, a town and rivulet in the above valley, among the hills.

*ILLATION. n. f. [illatio, Lat.] Inference; conclufion drawn from premifes. Herein there keema to be a very erroneous illation from the indulgence of God unto Cain, concluding an im munity unto himself. Brown. Illation fo orders the intermediate ideas as to difcover what conrection there is in each link of the chain, where. by the extremes are held together. Locke. •ILLATIVE. adj. (illatus, Lat.] Relating to lation or conclufion. In common difcourfe or writing fuch cafual particles as for, because, manifeit the act of reafoning as well as the illative particles then and therefore. Watts *ILLAUDABLE. adj. illaudabilis, Lat.] Unworthy of praife or commendation.

Strength from truth divided, and from juft, Fludable, nought merits but difpraife. Milton. ILLAUDABLY. ad. [from illaudable.]. Un worthily; without deferving praife. It is natural f all people to form, not illaudably, too favourable a judgment of their own country, Broome. (1.) ILLE, a river of France, which rifes in the dept. of Ille and Vilaine, near Dinge, and jans the Vilaine near Rennes.

(2) ILLE, a town of France, in the dept. of the Eastern Pyrenees, ro miles from Perpignan, Lon. 3. 5. E. Lat. 42. 35-N...!

(3) ILLE AND VILAINE, a department of France, comprehending part of the ci-devant prov. of Bretagne; bounded on the E. by the dep. of Maine; S. by that of Lower Loire; W., by thofe of Morbihan and the North Coafts, and N. by the British Channel, and the dep. of the Channel. ILLECEBRUM, in botany: A genus of the nogynia order, belonging to the pentandria chals of plants; and in the natural method rank

* ILLEGAL. adj. [in and legalis, Lat.] Contrary to law. No patent can oblige the fubject againft law, unlefs an illegal patent paffed in one kingdom can bind another, and not itself. Swift. * ILLEGALITY. n. f. [from illegal) Con trariety to law. He wished them to confider what votes they had paffed, of the illegality of all thofe commiffions, and of the unjuftifiableness of all the proceedings by virtue of them. Clarendon. *ILLEGALLY. adv. [from illegal] In a man, ner contrary to law.

* ILLEGIBLE. adj. [in and legibilis, from lego, Lat.] What cannot be read. The fecretary poured the ink-box all over the writings, and fo defaced them, that they were made altogether illegible. Howel.

ILLEGITIMACY. n. f. [from [illegitimate.] State of baftardy.

* ILLEGITIMATE. adj. [in and legitimus, Lat.] Unlawfully begotten; not begotten in wedlock.Grieve not at your state;

3. For all the world is illegitimate.

Cleaveland.

Being illegitimate, I was deprived of that ens dearing tendernefs and uncommon fatisfaction, which a good man finds in the love and converfa. tion of a parent. Addifon's Spectator.

* ILLEGITIMATELY. adv. [from illegiti mate. Not begotten in wedlock.

* ILLEGITIMATION. n. f. [from illegiti mate.] The ftate of one not begotten in wedlock. Richard III. had a refolution, out of his hatred to both his brethren, to difable their iffues, upon false and incompetent pretexts, the one of attainder, the other of illegitimation. Bacon.

ILLENAS, a town of Hifpaniola.
ILLENOIS. See ILLINOIS.

ILLER, a river of Germany, which rises in the mountains of Tyrol, runs N. through Suabia, and paffing by Kempten, Memmingen, and Kirch berg, falls into the Danube at Ulm.

ILLESCAS, a town of Spain, in New Caftile, *ILLEVIABLE. between Madrid and Toledo.

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ILLEVIABLE: adv. [lever, Fr.] What can not be levied or exacted. He rectified the method of collecting his revenue, and removed obfolete and illeviable parts of charge. Hale. * ILLFAVOURED. adj. Deformed.Q, what a world of vile illfavour'd faults Look handfome in three hundred pounds ayear! Shak * ILLFAVOUREDLY. adv. 1. With Deformity. 2. Roughly; ruggedly; in ludicrous language. He shook him very illfavouredly for the ume, raging through the very bowels of his country, and plundering all wherefoever he came. Howel.

ILLFAVOUREDNESS. x.f. Deformity. *ILLIBERAL. adj. [illiberalis, Lat.] 1. Not noble ; not ingenuous. The charity of moft men is grown fo cold, and their religion fo illiberal. King Charles. 2. Not munificent; not generous; fparing. Yet fubfift they did, and well too: an argument that that earth did not deal out their nouzishment with an oversparing or illiberal hand. Woodsward's Natural History.

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*** ILLIBERALITY. n. f. [illiberalitas, Lat. from illiberal.] 1. Meannefs of mind. 2. Parimony; niggardlinefs; want of munificence.-The illibe rality of parents, in allowance towards their children, is an harmful error, and acquaints them with fhifts. Bacon...

** ILLIBERALLY. adv. (from illiberal. Dif ingenuously; meanly. One that had been bountifully only upon furprife and incogitancy, illibe rally retracts. Decay of Piety.

ILLIBERIS, a town of Gaul, through which Hannibal pafied as he marched into Italy. It is now called ELVIRA.

ILLICE, an ancient town of Spain, with a bay and harbour, now called Elche. Pling.

* ILLICIT. adj. [illicitus, Lat. illicite, Fr.] Unlawful; as, an illicit trade.

- ILLICIUM, in botany: A genus of the penta gynia order, belonging to the dodecandria class of plants; and in the natural method ranking with thofe of which the order is doubtful. The calyx is tetraphyllous, and deciduous; there are 8 petals, and 8 petaloid fubulated nectaria. There are 16 ftamina with bifid antheræ; the capfules are ovate, compreffed, and monofpermous. There are two species, viz.

1. ILLICIUM ANISATUM, a native of the woods of China and Japan. It rifes with an erect branch ed ftem to the height of a cherry tree; and is co. vered with an afh-coloured bark, under which is another bark that is green, fleshy, fomewhat mucous, and of an aromatic tafte, combined with a fmall degree of aftringency. The wood is hard and brittle; the pitch fmall in quantity, fungous, and of a green herbaceous colour. The leaves refemble thofe of laurel; the flowers thofe of nar. ciffus. Thefe laft generally ftand fingle, are of a pale white, and confift of 16 petals, which differ in their form. The extremity of the flower-ftalk being continued into the germen or feed bud of the flower, forms 8 conjoined capfules, or one deeply divided into 8 parts. Of thefe capfules, fome frequently decay; the rest inclofe each a finge feed, fomewhat refembling that of palma chrifti, and which, when the hardish corticle

that clofely covers and involves it is broken, exhibits a kernel that is white, fleshy, foft, and of yapid taste. The bonzes, or priests of China and Japan, perfuade the inhabitants that the gods are delighted with this tree. Hence they generally place before their idols garlands and bundles made of the branches. The bark of the anife-free, reduced to powder, and equally burnt, the public watchmen in Japan, by a very curious contrivance defcribed by Kempfer, render useful in the mea furing of time during the darkness of the night. The fame powder is frequently burnt in brazen veffels on the Japanese altars, as incenfe is in other countries, from a belief that the idols in whofe honour the ceremony is performed are greatly refreshed with the agreeable fragrancy of its odour. A branch of this tree added to the decoction of the poifonous fish, termed by the Dutch de ophlafer (a fish the moft delicate for eating, if the poisonous matter be first properly expelled), increases its noxious quality, and exafperates the poifon to an astonishing degree of activity.

2. ILLICIUM FLORIDANUM, with red flowers, and very odorous fruit. It is a native of China. ILLIERS, a town of France, in the dep. of Eure and Loire; 12 miles SW. of Chartres.

* To ILLIGHTEN. v. n. [in and lighten.] To enlighten; to illuminate: A word, I believe, only in Raleigh.-Corporeal light cannot be, becaufe then it would not pierce the air, nor diaphonous bodies; and yet every day we fee the air illightened. Raleigh.

ILLIMITABLE. adj. [in and limes, Latin.] That which cannot be bounded or limited. Al though in 'adoration of idols, tunto the fubtiler heads, the worship perhaps might be fymbolical; yet was the idolatry direct in the people, whofe credulity is illimitable, and who may be made believe that any thing is God. Broton

With what an awful world revolving power, Were first th' unwieldy planets launch'd along The illimitable void lamtumnja"»Thomfon, * ILLIMITABLY. adv. [from illimitable.] Without fufceptibility of bounds.

* ILLIMITED. adj. [in and limes, Latin ; illimité, Fr.] Unbounded interminable.

ILLÍMITEDNESS. n. ƒ. {from illimited.] Exemption from all bounds. The absoluteness and illimitedness of his commission was generally much spoken of. Clarendon. *

ILLINISSA, a mountain of the ANDES. ILLINOIA, one of the 16 New States of N. America, into which the North Western Terri tory is propofed to be divided,

(1.) ILLINOIS, a people of N. America, inhabiting a country lying near a large lake of the fame name.(See No3) The country is fertile; and the people plant Indian corn, on which they chiefly fubfift. They are civil, active, lively, and robuft; and are much lefs cruel in their difpofi tions than the other Indian nations. They are, however, faid to be great libertines, and to marry a number of wives; but the inhabitants of fome of their villages have embraced Chriftianity.

(2.) ILLINOIS, a large navigable river of the United States in the North Western Territory, formed by the conflux of the Plein and Theakiki,

in Lou. 8842" W. and Lat. 41° 47′ N. After run-It might be one of those illnatured beings who ning a ferpentine courfe through an extenfive are at enmity with mankind, and do therefore take country, where it receives the waters of many pleasure in filling them with groundless terrors. tivers for 180 miles, it approaches within 5 miles Atterbury. 2. Philips applies it to land. Untractof the Miffifippi; then turning E. about 12 miles able; not yielding to cultures it falls into that river, by a mouth 400 yds. wide; in Lon. o 12 W. and Lat. 38° 40′ Ni Its whole length, from the fource of the THEAKIKI, is 480 miles.

(3.)ILLINOIS, a lake of the United States, formed by a dilatation of the above river, about 240 miles below the fource of the Theakiki. It communicates with lake Michigan by the Chicago. It is 20 miles long, and s broad in the middle. ILLIPULA MAJOR, two ancient towns of ILLIPULA MINOR, Spain.

* ILLITERATE. adj. (illaeratus, Lat.] Unlettered; untaught; unlearned; unenlightened by fcience.-The duke was illiterate, yet had learned at court to fupply his own defects, by the Crawing unto him of the best instruments of experience. Wotton.

Th' illiterate writer, empirick like, applies
To minds difeas'd unlafe chance remedies:
The learn'd in fchools, where knowledge firft
began,

Studies with care th' anatomy of man ;
Sees virtue, vice, and pallions in their caufe,
And fame from science, not from fortune draws.

Dryden. In the firft ages of Christianity not only the learned and the wife, but the ignorant and illiterate, embraced torments and death. Tillotson.

ILLITERATENESS. n. f. [from illiterate.] Want of learning; ignorance of fcience.-Many, acquainted with chymiftry but by report, have, from the illiterateness and impoftures of those that pretend kill in it, entertained an ill opinion of the Bogle

ILLITERATURE. .f. [in and literature: Want of learning, a word not much úfed.-The more ufual caufes of this deprivation are want of holy orders, illiterature, or inability for the difcharge of that facred function, and irreligion. Anife.

LLITURGIS, ILITURGIS, or ILIRGIA, a city of ancient Spain, on the Batis, deftroyed by Scipio, for having revolted to the Carthaginians. Lity. 13.6.49.) It food near the fite of An

ILLNATURE. . f. [ill and nature.] Habi faal malevolence; want of humanity-Illnature cines a man to thofe actions that thwart and four and diffurb the converfation, and confifts of pronenets to do 'ill turns, attended with a fecret upon the fight of any mifchief that befals another, and of an utter infenfibility of any kindness dute him. South.

ILLNATURED. adj. [from illnature. Habitually malevolent; wanting kindness or good vil; mitchievous; defirous of another's evil.4 Thefe ill qualities denominate a perlon illnatured, they being fuch as make him grievous and unealy to all whom he deals and affociates himself with. Lab

Stay, filly bird, th' illnatur'd task_refuse; Na be the bearer of tinwelcome news.

Addifon.

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ILLNATUREDNESS. n.. [from illnatured.] Want of a kindly disposition,

ILLNESS. x.f. [from ill.] *r. Badness or inconvenience of any kind, natural or moral-He that has his chains knocked off, and the prifon doors fet open, is perfectly at liberty, though his preference be determined to ftay, by the illwes of the weather. Locke. 2. Sickness; malady; diforder of health. On the Lord's day which immediately preceded his illness, he had received the facrament. Atterbury. Since the account her måjesty received of the infolent faction, during hér late lines at Windfor, the hath been willing to fee them deprived of power to do mifchief. Swift. 3. Wickedness.→→→ ..

Thou would be great

Art not without ambition; but without
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ILLOCK, a town of Sclavónia.

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ILLOGAN, ST, a town of Cornwall, N. of Redruth.

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ILLOGICAL. adj. [in and logical.}. Ignorant or negligent of the rules of reafoning. Orie of the diffenters appeared to Dr Sanderson fo bold and illogical in the difpute, as forced him to fay, he had never met with a man of more pertinaci ous confidence, and lefs abilities. Walton. 2. Contrary to the rules of reafon.-Reafon cannot difputé and make an inference fo utterly illogical. Decay of Piety.

* ILLOGICALLY. adv. [from illogical.] In a manner contrary to the laws of argument.

* To ILLUDE. v. a. [illudo, Latin.] To de Ceive; to mock; to impofe on; to play upon; to torment by fome contemptuous artifice or moc"kery.

Sometimes athwart, fometimes he strook him ftrait,

And falfed oft his blow, t' illude him with fuch bait. Fairy Queen. In vain we measure this amazing sphere, While its circumference, fcorning to be brought Ev'n into fancy'd space, illudes our vanquish'd I thought. JI Prior. * To ILLUME. v. a. {illuminer, Fr.] 1. To enlighten: to illuminate.

When yon fame ftar, that's weftward from the pole,

Had made his courfe, t' illumine that part of heav'nets Where now it burns...

2. To brighten; to adorn

The mountain's brow, "Illum'd with fluid gold, his near approach Betokens.

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Thomson. * To ILLUMINATE. v. a. [illuminer, French; lumen, Latin.] 1. To enlighten; to fupply with light.

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