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RE.nUKE1, v., to reprehend, to reprimand. F. reboucher, to stop up (re, and bouche,-L. bucca,-the mouth), that is, to chide into silence.
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Wipe thy wet wings and banish all thy fear:
Go, join thy num'rous kindred in the air; Away it ies, resumes its harmless play, And lightly gambols in the golden ray.
3. Smile not, spectators, at this humble deed; For you, perhaps, a nobler task's decreed:
A young and sinking mily to save;
To raise the infant om destruction's wave l To you, r help, the victims lift their eyes: Oh 1 hear, r pity's sake, their plaintive cries; Ere long, unless some guardian interpose,
O'er their devoted heads the ood may close!
ANON.
LESSON VIII.
ON RESPECT FOR THE AGED, AND ON POLITENESS.
GEN1TLE .rn, n., one born or descended of a good mily, and supposed to inherit the virtues or generous qualities of such mily. Gentle is, there re, applied to denote the possession of such qualities as a ability, politeness, eedom om coarseness or vulgarity, &c. F.
gentilhomme,-gent, om gens, L., which meant among the Romans rare or surname ; and every male heir was styled a gentilis, or a gentleman, of such a race or mily.
lNvI'TED, pt., beckoned to. L. invitatu., om in ito, I bid to come.
j ErnAR1RASSMEN'1', n., perplexity, con sion. F. ernbarras,-barre, an l obstruction, om L. vara, a bar, by the change of the initial letter.
SUPERSEDES', v., dispenses with; sets aside. L. supersedere, to sit upon, to make void, om scdeo, I sit.
I PERPET1UATED, pt., continued without intermission. F. perpetue. Ety­ mology uncertain.
I SuPERCIL'rous, a., haughty, overbearing. L. s erciliosus. e1·­ cilium, the eyebrow (super and cili , the eye-lids), haughtiness, disdain; manifested by the contraction or drawing together of the eyebrows.
FFECTA1TION, n., an arti cial show or display. F. a ectation, om jacio, L., I do or make.
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