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But in some instances, as when the same word falls into two or more groups that are near to each other, or when there are so many synonymes for a word that a repetition of every one of them under each in its alphabetical place would seem to be too formal and prolix, the inquirer is referred to some prominent word among them for a view of the whole.

Under the word Blockhead, for example, reference is. This example is given because it is the most marked one in our language of a multiplicity of terms for the same idea. Many nouns ending in ness, and adverbs ending in ly, have been omitted in their alphabetical places, for the reason that their synonymes are sufficiently indicated by the corresponding adjectives.

The aim has been to present at a single glance the words or modes of speech which denote the same object, or which express the same general idea, with only slight shades of difference. There has been no attempt at elaborate discussion of the nice distinctions that obtain between words apparently synonymous; but hints of such distinctions have been given whenever it was practicable to give them briefly in a parenthetical remark.

It contains much, however, that has been gathered from a wide field of miscellaneous reading during a long series of years. The author is under special obligations to his friends Mr. LooMIS J. Page VI. England, or English. Q Geometry. United States. Verb Active. Verb Neuter. Zoo l Page VIII. A Aback, ad. Behind, back of, put down, put out of countenance, take in the rear of. Aft, behind, astern, ear.

Abashment, n. Confusion, shame, Abalienate, v. Alienate, mortification, embarrassment. Lessen, diminish, dedeliver over. Abalienation, n. Alienation, 2. Remit, allow, bate, rebate, deduct. Moderate, assuage, mitigate, Abandon, v. Leave, relinquish, soothe, soften, qualify, alleviate, molquit, forsake, desert, evacuate, drop, lify, allay, appease, pacify, compose, abjure, forswear, give over, cast off, tranquillize, temper, attemper, quiet, retire from, withdraw from.

Surrender, cede, yield, resign, 4. Remove, suppress, terforego, renounce, waive, vacate, ABDI- minate, put an end to. CATE, deliver up, give up, part with, Abate, v.

Decrease, diminish, let go, lay down. Relinquished, de- slacken. Be defeated, frustrated, discarded, given up, given over, cast or overthrown.

Abatelnent, ns. Diminution, de2. Depraved, corrupted, corrupt, crease, lessening, mitigation, assuageprofligate, vicious, sinful, wicked, dis- ment, decrement, extenuation, remissolute, reprobate, graceless, shameless, sion. Subsidence, wane, ebb. Discount, allowance, rebate, dedemoralized, lost to shame, dead to duction, reduction, drawback. Abbey, n. Monastery, convent, cloister, Abandonment, ta.

Abandoning, re- priory, nunnery. Abbreviate, v. Shorten by cutting 2. Abarticulation, it. Abbreviation, a. Shortening by cutting Abase, v. Degrade, humble, disgrace, dis- Abdicate, va. Resign an o ce or dighonor, humiliate, debase, bring low, nity , surrender a right , cede, forego, take down. Depression, detru- vacate, give up, part with, lay down, sion, reduction, lowering, fall, deteriora- renounce all claim to. Resign, relinquish office eracy, vitiation, perversion, deprava- especially that of a king , vacate the tion.

Abjectness, abjection, vileness, Abdication, n. Abdicating, resignation, baseness, contemptibleness, despicable- surrender, renunciation, abandonment. Abdomen, a. Belly, paunch. Humiliation, condescension, sub- Abdominal, a. Large-bellied, greathumility, meekness, humbleness, lowli- bellied, big-bellied, pot-bellied, tunness, self-abasement.

Abash, v. Shame, mortify, confuse, Abduce, v. Withdraw, draw confound, disconcert, discompose, DIS- away, pull back. Kidnap, carry off, run Ability, n. Power to execute amn away with, run off with. Withdrawing, with- efficiency, efficacy, strength, energy, drawal, withdrawment, drawing away. Siskin Carduelis qpi- aptness, knack, expertness, facility, nus.

Aberrance, n. Deviation, departure. Qualification, competency, suffiAberrant, a. Deviating, wandering, ciency. Irregular, abnormal, unnatural, ment, calibre, forte, turn. Base, vile, mean, low, desunconformable, exceptional, strange, picable, contemptible, beggarly, paltry, anomalistic, eccentric, monstrous, pre- dirty, squalid, grovelling, pitiful, ignoternatural. Deviation, diver- slavish, menial, sneaking, sordid, gence, wandering, rambling, departure.

Irregularity, eccentricity, singu- low-minded, base-minded, earth-born, larity, peculiarity, strangeness, uncon- earth-bred. Illusion, delusion, hallucination, 2. Abjectness, n. Meanness, servility, Abet, v. Aid, assist, help, support, vileness, baseness, abasement, abjecsuccor, second, sustain, uphold,. Renunciation upon support to. Favor, encourage, sanction, coun- donment, abnegation.

Recantation, retraction, revoca3. Instigate to commit a tion, repeal, reversal, recall. Abjure, v. Renounce upon oath , Abettor, n. Assistant, helper, aider, relinquish, forego, reject, forswear, coadjutor, co-operator, ally, auxiliary.

Advocate, adviser, promoter, in- off. Retract, revoke, recant, recall, 3. Confederate, accomplice, accesso- withdraw, disavow, take back. Clever, accomplished, talINIS. Expectation, terous, apt, quick, skilful, efficient, prospect, expectancy, waiting, anticipa- proficient, good, versed, practical, AU tion, calculation, contemplation.

Suspense, reservation, intermis- 2. Qualified, fitted, competent. Capable, gifted, powerful, strong, Abhor, v. Hate, abominate, detest, mighty, highly endowed. Masterly, effective, telling. Ableness, a. Abhorrence, n. Abomination, horror, Abntlu ion, n. Washing especially of detestation, hatred, loathing, disgust, the body, as a religious rite , lavation, antipathy, aversion. Abhorrent, a. Hating, detesting, Abnegate, v. Odious, offensive, shocking, repug- Abnegation, a.

Denial, renunciation, nant, hateful, loathsome. Stay, sojourn, tarry, surrender. Irregular, anomalous, ters, pitch one's tent.

Dwell, reside, live, inhabit, settle, gular, peculiar, unconformable, excepplant one's self, get a footing, get a tional, heteroclite, aberrant, eccentric, foothold. Remain, continue, persist, perse- ural. Irregularity, uncolnfast, be constant.

Endure, bear. Abide, v. Await, attend, wait for, Aboard, ad.. On board, in the ship, in be in readiness for, be in store for. Endure, tolerate, bear, brook, suf- Abode, n. Habitation, dwelling, lodgfer, bear with, put up with.

Act up to, conform to, per- quarters, head-quarters, place of resisist in. Abiding, a. Permanent, lasting, dura- 2. Abrogate, annul, dis- Above, prep.

Higher than. Over, exceeding, more than, greatnullify, quash, vacate, invalidate, set er than. Beyond, superior to. Destroy, overthrow, subvert, oblit- 4. Too high for, too proud for. Before, in a former part. Abolition, n. Abrogation, annulment, 3. Of a higher rank or order. Chiefly, in the first place, vocation, cancelling, repeal, rescission.

Destruction, overthrow, subver- Above-board, ad. Abominable, a. Hateful, odious, Abrade, v. ScRAPE, wear away, detestable, horrid, horrible, execrable, wear off, rub off. Friction, attrition, rubhellish. Loathsome, offensive, obnoxious, wearing away, wearing off, rubbing foul, nauseous, nauseating, disgusting, off. Alongside, side by ing.

Vile, wretched, sorry, scurvy, 2. Against, off, on a line with, opposhabby, bad. Abominate, v. Abhor, detest, exe- Abridge, v. Shorten by comnprescrate, hate, loathe, nauseate, shrink sion , epitomize, condense, compress, from, recoil from, shudder at, view make an abstract of. Diminish, reduce, contract, curAbomination, in.

Deprive, dispossess, divest. Contamination, pollution, defile- Abridger, n. Epitomizer, writer of an ment, taint, uncleanness, impurity, epitome. Abridgment, n. Shortening by 3. Aboriginal, a. Primitive, primeval, - 2. Compendium, compend, epitome, primordial, pristine, primary, prime, summary, abstract, digest, synopsis, original, first, native, indigenous, au- syllabus, breviary, brief, conspectus, tochthonal.

Deprivation, dispossession. Failure, disappointment, want of Abroach, ad. Broached, tapped, on success, vain effort or attempt.

Abortive, a. Miscarrying, failing, 2. Abroad, ad. Widely, at large. Unavailing, vain, fruitless, use- 2. Forth, out of the house, out of less, bootless, ineffectual, ineffective, doors, in the open air. Extensively, before the public. Without as opposed to within.

Abrogate, v. Annul, disannul, reAbound, v. Teem, swarm, super- peal, revoke, rescind, cancel, abolish, abound, swell, flow, increase, multiply, nullify, quash, vacate, invalidate, overbe in great plenty, be numerous, be rule, set aside, do away, make void.

Abrogation, se. Repeal, rescission, re2. Exuberate, luxuriate, revel, wan- scinding, abolition, annulment, annulton, be well furnished, be well supplied. About, prep. Around, round, encir- Abrupt, a. Broken, cragged, craggy, cling, surrounding. Near, near to, not far from. Steep, precipitous. Concerning; touching, respecting, 3. Sudden, -unexpected, unanticirelating to, relative to, with respect to, pated, precipitate, hasty, unseasonable, with reference to, in regard to, with ill-timed, unlooked for.

Short, blunt, unceremonious, curt. Through, over. Inelegant as style , stiff, cramped, About, ad. Around, here and there.

Nearly, near, approximately, not Abscess, s. Sore, ulcer, fester, impostfar from. Ready, in a state of readiness, on Abscond, v. Withdraw, flee, fly, the point. Abstaining, refrainaway, run away, run off, sneak ofilf, ing. Abstemiousness, soberness, tem2. Hide, secrete one's self. Absence, ni. Non-attendance, non- Abstinent, a. Abstaining, fasting. Abstemious, sober, temperate. Inattention, abstraction, preoccu- Abstract, v. Separate, disunite, pation, distraction, revery, musing, disjoin, dissociate, isolate, detach, disbrown study, absence of mind.

Want, deficiency, lack, default. Take, seize, appropriate, steal, 4. Privation, negation. Absent, a. Away, gone, not present. Abridge, abbreviate, epitomize, f. Abstracted, preoccupied, inatten- make an abstract of. Separate, isolated, not absent-minded, in a brown study. Absent-minded, a. Abstracted, AB- 2. Occult, recondite, subtile, refined, SENT. Absent one's self, Be not present, Abstract, a9. Abridgment, epitome, stay away. Independent, unre- pendium, synopsis, syllabus, outline, stricted, unqualified, unlimited, uncon- digest, brief, breviary, sum and subditional, unconditioned, complete, per- stance, concise statement.

Abstracted, a.. Subtile, refined, ab2. Despotic, arbitrary, tyrannical, stract, abstruse. Inattentive, preoccupied, lost, thoritative, autocratic, dictatorial, irre- dreaming, musing, absent, absentsponsible. Positive, actual, real, veritable, Abstraction, n.

Separation, discondeterminate, decided, genuine, cate- nection, disjunction, isolation. Preoccupation, inattention, revAbsolutely, ad. Completely, un- ery, musing, muse, absence, absence of conditionally, without limit. Truly, actually, positively, indeed, 3. Taking, abduction, seizure, approreally, in fact, in reality, in truth. Despotism, ABSO- ing. Abstruse, a. Recondite, occult, pro2. Positiveness, reality, actuality. Acquittal, remission, difficult, dark, enigmatical, mysterious, discharge, release, liberation, deliver- mystic, mystical, high, abstract, abance, clearance, forgiveness, pardon, stracted, subtile, refined.

Absurd, a. Unreasonable, irrational, Absolutism, n. Absoluteness, arbitra- foolish, nonsensical, ridiculous, inconriness, despotism, tyranny, autocracy. Absolve, v. Acquit, clear, release, -Absurdity, n. Unreasonableness, irliberate, free, discharge, loose, deliver, rationality, foolishness, folly, foolery, exculpate, exonerate, excuse, forgive, extravagance, absurdness.

Absurdness, 9s. Consume, exhaust, destroy, en- Absurd story, Cock-and-bull-story, gorge, devour, engulf, swallow up. Engross, engage, immerse, occupy, son. Abundance, n. Flow, overflow, exuAbsorbent, a.

Absorbing, imbibing. Engrossment, occupation, engage- ampleness, wealth, affluence, store, ment, immersion. Abstain, v. Refrain, forbear, desist, Abundant, a. Abstinent by habit , bountiful, lavish, rich, teeming, thick. Misuse, misemploy, sparing in diet. Temperance as profane, make an ill use of. Maltreat, harm, injure, hurt, illAbstergent, a.

Cleansing, puri- treat, ill-use. Revile, reproach, vilify, slander,. Assisting, aiding, abetblacken, disparage, berate, rate, up- ting, helping, accessory. Violate, outrage, ravish, deflour. Accession, n. Addition, increase, Abuse, n. Misapplication, misuse, enlargement, augmentation, extension. Coming into power as a new dytion, desecration, perversion, ill-use.

Maltreatment, outrage, ill-treat- Accessory, a. Accessory, it. Confederate, ACCEs3. Corrupt practice. Vituperation, railing, reviling, 2. Accomp'animent, attendant, concontumely, obloquy, opprobrium, in- comitant. Grammar, rudiments or vective, rude reproach. Abusive, a. Reproachful, opprobrious, Accident, c. Abut against, Meet end to end or sidle 2. Property, quality, modification, Abut upon, to side , be contiguous. Abyss, it. Gulf, gorge, great depth, Accidental, a.

Casual, fortuitous, bottomless gulf or pit. Hell, limbo, purgatory. Academic, a. Scholastic, liter- 2. Incidental, adventitious, non-esAcademical, ] ary, lettered. Platonic, of Plato. Accidentalness, it. Contingency, forAcademy, it. School, seminary, insti- tuity. Accipitres, cc. RapAcarpous, a. Accede, v. Consent, agree, assent, Acclaim, n. Acclamation, cn. Applause, plaudit, Accelerate, v,.

Acclimatize, inure or push on, press on, urge on. Acceleration, n. Hastening, increase Acclimatize, v. Acclivity, ci. Ascent, slope upwards , Accent, cc. Intonation, cadence, tone, rising ground. Accommodate, v. Oblige, serve, 2. Stress occ a certain syllable. Accentuate, lay stress the wants of, minister to the convenupon, pronounce with accent.

Accents, n. Language, words. Fit, suit, adapt, make conform, Accentuate, v. Mark with accent, make conformable. Reconcile, adjust, settle, compose. Accent, lay stress upon, pronounce Accommodate with, Furnish, supply, with accent. Accept, v. Take what is offered , Accommodation, n. Admit, assent to, agree to, accede ply of wants, provision of convento, acquiesce in.

Estimate, regard, value. Agreement, adaptation, fitness, Acceptable, a. Welcome, pleasing, suitableness, conformity. Reconciliation, adjustment, paciing. Acceptance, n. Accepting, taking, Accompaniment, n. Appendage, conreception, receipt. Favorable reception. Accepted bill of exchange. Accompany, v.

Attend, escort, conAcceptation, n. Meaning, signification, voy, follow, wait on, be associated with, significance, sense, import. Avenue, approach, pas- with, go hand in hand with. Confederate, accessary, proach. Accomplish, v. Explain, give a reason, show the consummate, compass, carry, carry in reason, render a reason, assign the to effect, carry through, carry out, get cause, make explanation.

Accountableness, out, turn off. Finish, end, conclude, terminate. Fulfil, realize, effectuate, bring to Accountable, a. Responsible, answerpass. Equip, furnish, supply. Accountableness, n. Instructed, edu- ITY. Book-keeper, expert consummate, ripe, thorough-bred, in accounts. Polished, refined, polite, elegant, Accoutrements, n. Credit, give trust or conconsummation, fulfilment. Acquirement, attainment, profi- ceive as an envoy, receive as commisciency, stock of knowledge, mental re- sioned, empowered, or authorized.

Accretion, is. Growth by accessiou Accord, v. Grant, concede, vouch- of parts. Growing together. Accord, v. Harmonize, correspond, 3. Gradual accumulation of agree, tally, quadrate, be in unison, be soil, as at the mouth of a river. Accrue, v. Result, proceed, come, Accord, o. Accord, concord, agree- added, be derived, be gained, be got, ment, concurrence, concordance, con- come in.

Leaning, reclining. Accumulate, v. Pile, amass, agAccordant, a. Agreeable, agreeing, gregate, collect, collect together, gather suitable, consonant, congruous, sym- up, pile up, heap up, bring together, phonious. Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen If there's any treachery , it'll be on your side, and the Lord help you.

The Call of the Wild, by Jack London But if any fraud or treachery is practising against him, I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens As I looked on him, his countenance expressed the utmost extent of malice and treachery. Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley The gods were all- wise, and there was no telling what masterful treachery lurked behind that apparently harmless piece of meat.

White Fang, by Jack London I enjoyed perfect health of body, and tranquillity of mind; I did not feel the treachery or inconstancy of a friend, nor the injuries of a secret or open enemy. Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift And yet that would involve treachery towards the mistress to whom this woman seems devoted.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle She could not endure the idea of treachery or levity, or anything akin to ill usage between him and his friend. Persuasion, by Jane Austen And why, now, was he so tame under the violence or treachery done him? AudioEnglish Definitions Political jealousies, human avarice and treachery arrested the progress of most of their missions. By dint of playing off his enemies against each other and by means of treachery , assassination and hard fighting, Sivaji won for the Mahrattas practical supremacy in western India.

But, as the press loitered, Schopenhauer, suspecting treachery , wrote so rudely and haughtily to the publisher that the latter broke off correspondence with his client. Ultimately the treachery and the murderous disposition of the king named Ingialdr led to his overthrow by a prince from Skane, called Ivarr Viafaami.

But when the revolt of the younger Cyrus against his brother B. But the garrison held out, and, to avoid a protracted siege, he had recourse to treachery. Aga Mahommed besieged it with a large army in , and, after a stout resistance, the gates were opened through treachery.

Ancient authors tell us but little about it, except that it was one of those towns governed by a prefect sent yearly from Rome, and that in the Social War it was taken by the allies by treachery. After the treachery of the French commander of this expedition a spirit of unity and despairing energy seemed reawakened in them; but this could not avert and scarcely delayed the rapidly approaching extinction of the community.

Edom is attacked by his own allies, and his folly appears in that he exposes himself to such treachery. Pollock on evacuating Kabul in as a record of the treachery of the city.

His force, largely owing to treachery , was completely overthrown August 19th when near that city, and Abd-el-Aziz fled to Settat within the French lines round Casablanca.

Edwin and Morcar, who should have been at his side with their Mercians and Northumbrians, were still far awayprobably from treachery , slackness and jealousy. Instead of profiting by Dumouriezs treachery and the successes in La Vende, the Coalition, divided over the resuscitated Polish question, lost time on the frontiers of this new Poland of the west which was sacrificing itself for the sake of a Universal Republic.

Thus in January the territory of France was cleared of the Prussians and Austrians by the victories at Hondschoote, Wattignies and Wissembourg; the army of La Vende was repulsed from Granville, overwhelmed by Hoches army at Le Mans and Savenay, and its leaders shot; royalist sedition was suppressed at Lyons, Bordeaux, Marseilles and Toulon; federalist insurrections were wiped out by the terrible massacres of Carrier at Nantes, the atrocities of Lebon at Arras, and the wholesale executions of Fouch and Collot dHerbois at Lyons; Louis XVI.

While on the march between Heracleia and Byzantium, at the beginning of the following year, he was assassinated through the treachery of his secretary Eros, who, in order to escape the discovery of his own irregularities, incited certain officers against the emperor by showing them a forged list, on which their names appeared as marked out for death.

He lost the two days' battle of Kossovo October 17thth owing to the treachery of Dan, hospodar of Wallachia, and of his old enemy Brankovic, who imprisoned him for a time in the dungeons of the fortress of Semendria; but he was ransomed by the Magyars, and, after composing his differences with his powerful and jealous enemies in Hungary, led a punitive expedition against the Servian prince, who was compelled to accept most humiliating terms of peace.

By advice of his secretary, who suspected treachery , he had only put him away in hiding. First he attempted to hold Vienna against the imperial troops, and, after the capitulation, hastened to Pressburg to offer his services to Kossuth, first defending himself, in a long memorial, from the accusations of treachery to the Polish cause and of aristocratic tendencies which the more fanatical section of the Polish emigrant Radicals repeatedly brought against him.

Alcibiades, after a severe blockade B. He was, however, full of vindictiveness, dissimulation and treachery , and there can be little doubt that in his historic conflict with Warren Hastings unworthy personal motives played a leading part. McGillivray was polished in manners, of cultivated intellect, was a shrewd merchant, and a successful speculator; but he had many savage traits, being noted for his treachery , craftiness and love of barbaric display. The truth is probably that the tradition of his wife's adultery and treachery was a genuine part of the Arthurian story, which, neglected for a time, was brought again into prominence by the social conditions of the courts for which the later romances were composed; and it is in this later and conventionalized form that the tale has become familiar to us see also Lancelot.

Such, in the Little Iliad e. Your excellency, they say they have got ready, according to your orders, to go against the French, and they shouted something about treachery. Retreat The treachery of the leaders came into conflict with the workers at Renault. But here perhaps the reader will ask what is meant by the treachery of the long knives? Despite the treachery of the leaderships, the workers had not been defeated.

The worst that a professed enemy can do is not so grievous as the treachery of a professed friend. Through the treachery of a surprising white devil, Shakespeare challenges his audiences to spot the true color of villainy.

He railed at the longstanding treachery of the army. Fearing no treachery from his cousin, Beorn, and just three of his men, set off with Swein. Neptune also rules deception in all its forms; from addiction to treachery to lies. Will Victor discover his son's treachery? This story is about love, treachery and transformation. Sauron was a balrog who discovered great power through treachery.

The Persian troops dared not attack the Greeks, but decoyed them into the interior, beyond the Tigris, and tried to annihilate them by treachery. Before the surrender of the city, however, he was murdered by Ferdinand's orders on strong suspicion of treachery. Count Ugolino had taken part in the battle of Meloria and was accused of treachery. Claudius Marcellus defeated the Gauls and won the spolia opima; in Hannibal took it and its stores of corn by treachery. To this end he shrank from no treachery or cruelty; yet, like Agesilaus, he was totally free from the characteristic Spartan vice of avarice, and died, as he had lived, a poor man.

The treachery of King Sigismund is undeniable, and was indeed admitted by the king himself. The charges of duplicity or treachery made against the foreign minister by Napoleon's apologists are in nearly all cases unfounded. In , however, this powerful earl was invited to Stirling by the king, and, charged with treachery , was stabbed by James and then killed by the attendants.

But though he met with sufficient success to encourage him to issue a charter in , dated "the first year of the reign in West Francia," treachery and desertion in his army, and the loyalty to Charles of the Aquitanian bishops brought about the failure of the enterprise, which Louis renounced by a treaty signed at Coblenz on the 7th of June The accuser, who was condemned to death in the reign of Vespasian for his conduct on this occasion, is a standing example of ingratitude and treachery.

It was a strongly fortified town which resisted successfully the attacks of the Turks, into whose hands it fell by treachery in , but they retained possession of it only for four years. Finally, the Aduatuci near Namur were compelled to submit, and were punished for their subsequent treachery by being sold wholesale into slavery. As a punishment for their treachery , Caesar put to death the senate of the Veneti and sold their people into slavery. Things happened that first exposed the treachery of one of these two colleagues.

Gandalf is lost to an enemy in the Misty Mountains, and treachery reaches into the hearts of the company itself, as Boromir tries to steal the Ring from Frodo, forcing Frodo and Sam to flee alone, and the rest of the Company to follow.

It was precisely at this time that Flanders, and gradually the other feudal states of the Netherlands, by marriage, purchase, treachery or force, fell under the dominion of the house of Burgundy. We possess two declamations under his name: Peri Sofiston, directed against Isocrates and setting forth the superiority of extempore over written speeches a recently discovered fragment of another speech against Isocrates is probably of later date ; ''Odusseus, in which Odysseus accuses Palamedes of treachery during the siege of Troy this is generally considered spurious.

Treachery and debauchery filled the first years of the annals of the beautiful island. Pisa and Perugia were threatened with extinction, and Florence dreaded the advance of the Visconti arms, when the plague suddenly cut short his career of treachery and conquest in the year Here, on the 2nd ' of June , whether by premeditated treachery or in a sudden brawl is uncertain, he was slain by the MacDonnells, and was buried at Glenarm.

His memory was long regarded in Saxony with great abhorrence, and stories of cruelty and treachery gathered round his name. But a promise of French help at once forced the confederates to come to terms, and Cesare by an act of treachery seized the ringleaders at Senigallia, and put Oliverotto da Fermo and Vitellozzo Vitelli to death Dec.

A Roman named' Maximus took advantage of this feeling to raise the standard of revolt in Britain and invaded Gaul with a large army, upon which Gratian, who was then in Paris, being deserted by his troops, fled to Lyons, where, through the treachery of the governor, he was delivered over to one of the rebel generals and assassinated on.

Villegagnon, finding his force much diminished in consequence of his treachery , sailed for France in quest of recruits; and during his absence the Portuguese governor, by order of his court, attacked and dispersed the settlement. Bonaparte had arranged to obtain Malta by treachery , and he took possession without resistance in June ; after a stay of six days he proceeded with the bulk of his forces to Egypt, leaving General Vaubois with troops to hold Valletta.

Though naturally passionate, Matthias's self-control was almost superhuman, and throughout his stormy life, with his innumerable experiences of ingratitude and treachery , he never was guilty of a single cruel or vindictive action. On the 23rd of July all was confusion at the depots, and the leaders were divided as to the course to be pursued; orders were not obeyed; a trusted messenger despatched for arms absconded with the money committed to him to pay for them; treachery , quite unsuspected by Emmet, honeycombed the conspiracy; the Wicklow contingent failed to appear; the Kildare men turned back on hearing that the rising had been postponed; a signal expected by a contingent at the Broadstone was never given.

At the same time he spoke of the treachery of Marlborough and Berwick, and of one other, presumably Oxford, whom he refused to name, all of whom were in communication with Hanover. Minos, disgusted at Scylla's treachery , tied her to the rudder of his ship, and afterwards cast her body ashore on the promontory called after her Scyllaeum; or she threw herself into the sea and swam after Minos, constantly pursued by her father, until at last she was changed into a ciris a bird or a fish.

He was accused of extortion and treachery to the state, and denounced by Gaius to the emperor. The purely selfish bond between condottieri and their employers, whether princes or republics, involved intrigues and treachery , checks and counterchecks, secret terror on the one hand and treasonable practice on the other, which ended by making statecraft in Italy synonymous with perfidy.

These facts, and not, as has often been assumed, the treachery of Talleyrand, decided Alexander to assume at Erfurt an attitude of jealous reserve. But it was finally by the treachery of one of Yagi-sian's commanders, the amir Firuz, that Bohemund was able to effect its capture. Siena was next at war for several years with Aldobrandino Orsini, count of Pitigliano, and with Jacopo Piccinini, and suffered many disasters from the treachery of its generals. Despite the treachery of Elfric, the English were victorious; and the Danes sailed off to ravage Lindsey and Northumbria.

He also summoned leading citizens on the pretext of wishing to consult them, but fearing treachery they refused to come. He is represented as the son of a widow, "la dame veuve," his father having been slain in tourney, battle or by treachery , either immediately before, or shortly after his birth. On receipt of the tidings of Mordred's treachery , Gawain accompanies Arthur to England, and is slain in the battle which ensues on their landing.

This treachery and the harsh treatment by Patterson created a strong public opinion in favour of the Yankees, and the government was compelled to adopt a milder policy. In May he defeated a greatly superior royalist force at Grantham, proceeding afterwards to Nottingham in accordance with Essex's plan of penetrating into Yorkshire to relieve the Fairfaxes; where, however, difficulties, arising from jealousies between the officers, and the treachery of John Hotham, whose arrest Cromwell was instrumental in effecting, obliged him to retire again to the association, leaving the Fairfaxes to be defeated at Adwalton Moor.

In response to his complaints Nicanor was appointed governor of Judaea with power to treat with Judas, It appears that the two became friends at first, but fresh orders from Antioch made Nicanor, guilty of treachery in the eyes of Judas's partisans. This is interrupted by the tidings of Mordred's treachery , and Lancelot, taking no part in the last fatal conflict, outlives both king and queen, and the downfall of the Round Table.

In r the French troops under Louvois seized Strassburg, aided by the treachery of the bishop and other great men of the city.