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f ,j~.j f~,-..,j f..*,,,1 fr*/iuiln<!\ OS friiiiitl usages of the orthodox Friends. The latter as 
fretnd, fry id, ft end, J condas) v*. ji luna ^ ^ M ^ oval)Kl . linll rhrist ians, but la; 
OFries. Jrntnd, jnoiul = D. vnenct = MIA*. strcss oll tne d oct rine of the personal presence 
The latter agree doc- 
iy greater 
and gni- 
friendship 
2. Exercise of benevolence or kindness. 
Let all the intervals be employed in prayers, charity, 
w, and neighbourhood. 
Jer. Taylor, Holy Living. 
friendly (frend'li), a. [< WR.frcndly,frendcly, < 
AS. freondlic (= OFries. fntindlil; = D. vriende- 
d States. 
.tual or re- 
~j-j~, * - /IT. -u leglHltHavo power, luurearonww iwuij .MTOVU| 
merged in some instances with the later verb Br j taill| ()1]e j n Canada, and ten in the United 
meaning 'free, liberate,' < free, a., from the To be friends with, to be in a relation of nm 
same root : of. AS. freon, fredgan, free, = ciprocal friendship with. 
OFries. fria, friaia, fraia = Icel. fria = Sw. I am friends with a\\ the world but th 
fria = Dan. fri = Gr.freien, befreien, free, lib- 
erate : see free, a. and v. Cf. fiend, which is 
similarly formed.] 1. One who is attached 
to another by feelings of personal regard and 
preference; one who entertains for another 
sentiments which lead him to seek his com- 
pany and to study to promote his welfare. **,.,, ,.,v,..v^, j..*.~. ~ 
A faithful frende is a strong defence : whoso fyndcth Mendt (frend), V. t. \_< friend, n.] To befriend. 
t thy base malice. 
"r a Month, iii. 2. 
He that was friends with earth, and all her sweet 
Took with both hands unsparingly. 
Lowell, Agassiz, v. 1. 
I shall never befriends again with roses. 
Swinburne, Triumph of Time. 
=Syn. 1. Companion, Comrade, etc. See associate. 3. 
I'ati.n,, advocate partizan well-wisher. 
The courteous Amphialns would not let his lance de- 
scend, but with a gallant grace ran over the head of his 
therein friended enemy. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, iii. 
Hot friended by his wish, to your high person 
His will is most malignant. Shak., Hen. VIII., i. 2. 
Oh, where have I been all this time? how friended, 
That I should lose myself thus desperately ? 
Beau, and Fl., Maid's Tragedy, iv. 1. 
Both Heaven and earth 
Friend thee for ever ! 
Fletcher (and another), Two Noble Kinsmen, i. 4. 
friend-back (frend'bak), n. A hangnail. Hal- 
. . liwell. [North. Eng.] 
2. One not hostile; one of the same nation, friendfult, a. [ME.frendfull; < friend + -/?.] 
party, or kin; one at amity with another; an Friendly, 
ally: opposed to foe or enemy. 
Yf she have nede of Robyn Hode, 
Afrende she shall hym fynde. 
Lylell Geste of Robyn Hode (Child's Ballads, V. 88). 
Fran. Stand ! who's there 1 
llor. Friendi to this ground. 
Mar And liegemen to the Dane. 
Shak., Hamlet, i. 1. 
suche one, fyudeth a notable treasure. 
Bible q/1551, Ecclus. vi. 14. 
I spake to you then, I courted you, and woo'd you, 
Call'd you "dear Cresar," hung about you tenderly, 
Was proud to appear your friend. 
Fletcher (and another), False One, iv. 2. 
If we from wealth to poverty descend, 
Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. 
Dryden, Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 486. 
Since we deserved the name of friends, 
And thine effect so lives in me, 
A part of mine may live in thee, 
And move thee on to noble ends. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, Ixv. 
Ther is no lorde in this londe as I lere, 
In faith that hath a frendlyar feere, 
Than yhe my lorde, 
My-seltfe yof [though) I saye itt. 
York Plays, p. 272. 
He seined frendlij to hem that knewe him nought, 
But he was feemily, both in werke and thought. 
Chaucer, Canon's Yeoman's Tale, 1. 291. 
A man that hath Wends must show himself friendly. 
Prov. xviii. 24. 
2. Characteristic of or befitting a friend or 
friends ; amicable ; amiable : as, to be on 
friendly terms. 
Long they thus travelled in friendly wise, 
Through countreyes waste, and eke well edifyde. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. i. 14. 
According to your friendly Request! have sent you this 
Decastich. Hou-ell, Letters, I. vi. 27. 
The approach of a long separation, like the approach 
of death, brings out all friendly feelings with unusual 
strength. tlacaulay, Life and Letters, I. 309. 
3. Not hostile ; disposed to peace : as, a, friend- 
ly power or state. 
Why answer not the double majesties 
This friendly treaty of our threaten'd town ? 
Shak., K. John, ii. 2. 
Four friendly merchants, or bunneahs, who were re- 
turning to the town, were shot by our pickets. 
Me thynkith myn herte is boune for to breke * * **<* ^ in India > L f 7 ' 
Of his pitefull paynes when we here speke, . 4. Favorable ; propitious ; salutary ; conter- 
Sofrendfull we fonde hym in fraistyng r ; ng b ene fit : as, a, friendly breeze or gale ; rains 
' friendly to ripening fruits. 
Timely he flies the yet untasted food, 
This was the peace we had, and the peace we gave, 
whether to friends or to foes abroad. 
friendingt (fren'ding), n. [Verbal n. of friend, 
.] The state of being a friend ; friendly dis- 
position. 
What so poor a man as Hamlet is 
May do, to express his love &i\d friending to you, 
God willing, shall not lack. Shak., Hamlet, i. 5. 
And gains the friendly shelter of the wood. 
Pope, Iliad, xvi. 
Friendly the sun, the bright flowers, and the grass 
Seemed after the dark wood. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 221. 
MMon, Eikonoklastes, ix. friendless ( f re nd'les), o. [< ME. frendles, < AS. 5. [ ca p.] Pertaining or belonging to the Soci- 
3. One who is favorable, as to a cause, msti- f reon( n e( i s (_ jj. vriendenloos = OHG. friunt- e ty of Friends, 
tution, or class; a favorer or promoter: as, a j Q f reunc u os _ Dan. fraindelds), < freond, whose family are Friendly people. 
tution, or class; a favorer or promoter: as, a ^^ ^ 
friend of or to commerce ; a friend of or to pub- fjjend + -. 
lie schools. 
Statesman, yet friend to Truth ! of soul sincere. 
Pope, Epistle to Addison, 1. 67. 
He was no friend of idle ceremonies. 
Preseott, Ferd. and Isa., il. 25. 
He is the friend of the poor the friend of the blind 
the friend of the prisoner- the friend, of the slave. 
Smnner, Against the Mexican War, Nov. 4, 1846. 
4. Used as a term of salutation, or in familiar 
address. 
Friend, how earnest thou in hither? Mat. xxii. 12. 
Good dawning to thee, friend : art of this house? 
Shak., Lear, ii. 2. 
f reunc u os _ Dan. framdelos), < f refold, 
j -l es s.] Without friends ; want- 
Whose family are Friendly people. 
The American, XII. 155. 
Friendly societies, associations, chiefly among trades- 
men and mechanics, for tile purpose of forming a fund for 
the assistance of members in sickness, or of their families 
in case of death. The name is used principally in Great 
Britain ; in the United States such associations are more 
commonly called benefit or benevolent societies. Friend- 
ly Societies Acts, English statutes of 1855-8, 1875-6, 
regulating the organization and conduct of such socie- 
ties = Syn. AiniciiMe, Friendly. See amicable. 
friendly (frend'li), adv. [< ME. frendly, < AS. 
freondlicc, adv., < freondlic, adj., friendly: see 
friendly, o.] In the manner of friends ; in the 
way of friendship ; with friendship. 
Syr Herowde, thai say no fante in me fand, 
He fest me to his frenschippe, so frendly he fared. 
York Plays, p. 322. 
Hee found him a very gentle person who entertained 
\umfriendln, and shewed him many things. 
Hakluyt's Voyages, III. 7. 
Thou dost chide me friendly. 
Beau, and Fl., Laws of Candy, iii. 2. 
friendship (frend'ship), ?i. [< ME. frendshipe, 
frendschip, frenchipe, freondschipe, etc., < AS. 
fredndscipe (= OS. friundskepi = OFries. fri- 
endship = D. vriendschap = MLG. vruntschap, 
vrentscJiap, -schop, -schup, LG. friindschap = 
OHG. friuntscaf, MHG. friuntschaft, Gt.frennd- 
schaft. friendship, = Sw. frdndskap = Dan. 
,.,,..,...- That true with, wnereever it is, worKetnanniramemuie r ""J "' . ... , f '. , /, t^^* . _ QQ A..-,,? 
Allen friend, a foreigner whose country is at peace with heart tofrietuilike dispositions unto God, and brings forth frtenasKaO, kinship), <.JteOna, Ir 
ing support or sympathy; forlorn. 
Tho he was tleyne unAfrendeles, mo than thrutty jer. 
Robert of Gloucester, p. 343. 
In this sad plight, friendlesse, unfortunate, 
Now miserable I, Fidessa, dwell. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. ii. 26. 
la friendless and unloved as any king. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 173. 
Friendless nrant [AS. fretindleds man], an outlaw. 
Frendlesse man was wont to be the Saxon word for him 
we call an outlaw. The reason thereof I take to be, be- 
cause he was upon his exclusion from the Kings peace and 
protection denied all helpe of friends, after certain daies. 
5. [cop.] A member of the Society of Friends; 
a Quaker. friendlessness (frend'les-nes), n. The state of 
He had been a member of our Society upwards of sixty 3 . em g en ^ less - ,. _ _ -_,?- 
years and he well remembered, that, in those early times, friendllheadt, n. [WE.frcndlyJied(=D.Vr<en<lC- 
'Frieilli were a plain, lowly-minded people. lijkheid = ODan. fryntliglted) ; < friendly, a., + 
John Wool-man, Journal (ed. Whittier), p. 209. " JZS2_ Mt 
6. A lover, of either sex. [Now only colloq.] 
If you know yourself clear, why, I am glad of it : but if 
you have a friend here, convey, convey him out. 
Shak.,M. W. of W., iii. 3. 
A friend at or in court, one who has sufficient interest 
or influence with those in power to serve another. 
A friend i' the court is better than a penny in purse. 
" t., 2 Hen. IV., v. 1. 
-head.'] Friendliness; friendship. 
By good frendlyhed of thy deite, 
Here in humbly wise pray thy excellence 
Off tham to haue mercy, grace, and pite, 
Without tham shewing any uiolence. 
Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 6448. 
friendlike (frend'lik), a. [< friend + like^.] 
Like a friend ; friendly. 
,rue faith, whereever it is, worketh and frameth the 
own. Friends Of God, a name assumed by an un- friendlike carriage in the life towards God. 
organized brotherhood of German mystics existing in the 
fourteenth century, who, in opposition to the formalism 
and ecclesiasticism of their age, emphasized the possibil- 
and -ship.] 1. Mutual liking and regard be- 
Friendlike, and side by side, two brethren fought, 
Whom at a birth their fruitful mother brought. 
Rowe, tr. of Lucan's Pharsalia, ii. 
, 
ity and duty of complete self-renunciation and intimate 
spiritual union with God. Prominent among the leaders 
were Nicholas of Basel and John Tauler. As they were friendllly (frend'h-ll), adv. [< friendly, a., + 
-?2 1 J n a friendly manner. [Bare.] 
estant Friends. See Free Congregations, under congre- personal enmities. Gifford, Int. to 1 01 d s Play s, p. 1. 
qation. Next friend (Law F. proehein amy or ami), in friendliness (frend'li-nes), n. 1. The condi- 
lau> .- (o) In some j arisdictions, a person by whom an infant t j quality of being friendly ; a disposition 
or a married woman sues, and who is responsible for costs. """ " , '. r ;n 
(6)InSco<!<w,atutororcurator. Progressive Friends, to favor or belnend, good will, 
a religious society first formed in 1853 in Pennsylvania, Were you ignorant to see 't? 
not bound together by either an ecclesiastical urgnni/a 
tion or a common creed, their views of religious truth dif- 
fered, and some of their utterances gave rise to charges of 
pantheism and antinomianism.FriendSOf Light, Prot- 
- .'eligious society 
rationalistic in its theological tendencies, but disclaim- 
ing the binding obligation of creeds and the exercise of 
disciplinary authority. Society of Friends, the proper 
designation of a Christian sect commonly called Quakers, 
which took its rise in England about the middle of the 
seventeenth century through the preaching of George Fox. 
A division occurred in portions of the society in America 
in 1827, through the preaching of Ellas Hicks, whose fol- 
lowers, commonly called Hicksites, hold doctrinal views 
closely approximating those of the Unitarians, while in 
church government and other respects they retain the 
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Or, seeing it, of such childish friendliness 
To yield your voices! Shak., Cor., ii. 3. 
'Tis a disposition quite unchristian that we show in 
such bad actions, being wholly contrary to that intermu- 
tual amity and friendliness that should be in the world. 
Felthain, Resolves, ii. 52. 
Your extreme friendliness hath even tempted you to act 
a part whicli your true sense and the_very decorum of 
your profession . . . has r< 
Goodwin, Works, V. ii. 48. tween persons, irrespective of sex ; mutual inter- 
est based on intimate acquaintance and esteem; 
the feeling that moves persons to seek each oth- 
er's society or to promote each other's welfare. 
Feithfullere frenchipe saw neuer f rek in erthe. 
William, of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 5434. 
Then those two knights, Just friendship for to bynd, 
And love establish each to other trew, 
Gave goodly gifts, the signes of grateful! mynd, 
And eke, as pledges flrme, right hands together joynd. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. ix. 18. 
True and perf ectfriendship requlreth these three things 
especially : virtue, as being honest and commendable ; 
society, which is pleasant and delectable ; and profit, 
which is needfull and necessary. 
Holland, tr. of Plutarch, p. 185. 
For 'tis the bliss of friendship's holy state 
To mix their minds, and to communicate ; 
Though bodies cannot, souls can penetrate. 
Dryden, Eleonora. 
2. Desire for intercourse with or the welfare 
others; personal favor or good 
i feeling or regard. 
