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earth, and if plunged into the tan-bed in the dove, the 
plants will make greater progrefs, and flower oftener, 
than when they are placed on Ihelves ; though in the 
latter way they will fucceed very well, provided they 
are kept in a good temperature o'f heat. The roots fhoul-d 
be tranfplanted in the fpring, and all the offsets taken 
off, otherwife they will fill the pots, and ftarve the old 
plants : they mud be frequently refreflied with water, 
but it mud not be given them too plentifully, efpecially 
in winter. Thefe forts flower at every feafon of the year, 
which renders them more valuable ; for, where there are 
many plants, there will be almod a perpetual fueceflion 
of flowers, which emit a very agreeable odour. See 
Agapanthus, Cyrtanthus, and Amaryllis. 
CRIP'PLE,y.' [cjrypel, Sax. krcpel, Dut.] A lame 
map ; one that has loft or never enjoyed the ufe of his 
limbs. Donne, with great appearance of propriety, writes 
it creeple, from creep. —I am a cripple in my limbs ; but 
what decays are in my mind, the reader mud determine. 
Dry den. 
See the blind beggar dance, the cripple fl.ng, 
The fot a hero, lunatic a king. Pope. 
To CRIP'PLE, v. a. To lame; to make lame ; to de¬ 
prive of the ufe of limbs.—The dancing-mailer threw 
himfelf from the rock, but was crippled in the fall. Addifon. 
Knots upon his gouty joints appear, 
And chalk is in his crippled fingers found. Dryden. 
CRIP'PLEGATE, a gate of the city of London, fo 
Called' from an hofpital of cripples formerly eredled there. 
CRIP'PI.ENESS,/! Lamenefs; privation of the limbs. 
CRIPSOR'CHIS, f. [from xgvdlv, to conceal, and 
atedicle.] An epithet applied to thofe perfons 
whofe tedes have not defeended into the ferotum. 
CRI'QUETOT, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lower Seine, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
tridt of Montivilliers : feven miles north of Montivilliers. 
CRl'SIMA,/! [Gr.] Signs by which a phydeian may 
judge of a difeafe. 
CRI'SIS,/. [from vu, to judge.] That date of a 
difeafe in 1 which its termination or confequence may be 
judged of: 
Wife leeches wifi not vain receipts obtrude ; 
Deaf to complaints, they wait upon the ill. 
Till fome fate crijis authorize their fkill. Dryden. 
The point of time at which any affair comes to the height: 
This hour’s the very crifis of your fate ; 
Your good or ill, your infamy or fame, 
And all the colour of your life, depends 
On this important now. Dryden. 
CRISM and CRISOM. See Chrism and Chrisom. 
CRISP, adj. \_crifpus y Lat.] Curled.—Bulls are more 
crifp on the forehead than cows. Bacon. —.Indented; 
winding : 
You nymphs, call’d Naiads, of the winding brooks, 
With your hedg’d crowns, and ever liarmlefs looks, 
Leave your crifp channels, and on this green land 
Anfwer your fummons; Juno does command. Shakcfp. 
Brittle ; friable.—In frody weather, mufic within doors 
fonndeth better; which may be by reafon, not of the 
difpodtion of the air, but of the wood or dring of the 
indrument, which is made more crifp , and fo more porous 
and hollow. Bacon. 
To CRISP, v. a. \_crifpo, Lat.] To contract into knots 
or curls.—Spirit of wine is not only unfit for inflamma¬ 
tions in general, but alfo crifps up the veffels of the dura 
mater and brain, and fometimes produces a gangrene. 
Sharp. —To twid : 
Along the crifpcd fliades and bow’rs 
Revels the fpruce and jocund fpring, Milton, 
To indent ; to run in and out, 
CRI 
CRISP (Tobias), a divine of the church of England, 
and one of the principal champions of the dodtrines of 
Antinomianifm, was born at London, in 1600. After 
receiving a clailical education at Eton fchool, he entered 
at fome college in the univerfity of Cambridge, where 
he took the degree of bachelor of arts; whence he re¬ 
moved to Baliol-college, Oxford, where he was incorpo¬ 
rated in the fame degree, in the year 1626. In the fol¬ 
lowing year he became redlor of Brinkworth in Wiltfliire, 
and in a few years afterwards proceeded to the degree of 
dodtor in divinity. In early life he had been a favourer 
of the Arminian doctrines ; but, changing his opinions, 
he became zealoufly attached to the principles of the An- 
tinomians. Unfavourable, however, as, his ©pinions were 
to the interefls of rational Chriftianity, Dr. Crifp was 
himfelf remarkable for the chaftenefs of his piety, the 
purity and fandlity of his manners, and the humility and 
modefty of his deportment. He devoted an ample in¬ 
come, arifing from a large eftate, to works of hofpi- 
tality and beneficence. Upon the breaking out of the 
civil war he was obliged to fly to London, to avoid the 
infolence of the king’s foldiers, among whom he was 
an object of perfecution, on account of his being ranked 
with thofe divines w'ho were puritannicaliy inclined. In 
this great metropolis the peculiarity of his opinions en¬ 
gaged him in numerous contefts, which he did, not live 
to carry to any great length, having cor.tradled a difeafe 
which proved mortal to him in 1642. He published no¬ 
thing during his life-time, but after his death his Ser¬ 
mons appeared, in 3 vols. Svo. which were reprinted by 
his fon, with additions, in one volume, 4to. 16S9. 
CRIS'PALT, a mountain of Swiflerland, in the can¬ 
ton of Uri: ten miles fouth-eaft of Altroff. 
CRISPA'TION, J. The act of curling. The Hate of 
being curled.—Some differ in the hair and feathers, both 
in the quantity, crijpation, and colours of them ; as he- 
lions are hirfute, and have great manes; the fhe’s are’ 
fmooth, like cats. Bacon. 
CRISPATU'RA, f. [from crifpo, Lat. to curl.] A 
fpafmodic contraction or curling of the membranes and 
fibres. 
CRISPEL'LO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of 
Naples, and province of Abruzzo Citra : twenty-five 
miles eafi of Civita Borella. 
CRIS'PIN and CRISPIA'NUS, two legendary faints, 
whofe feftival, as marked in the kalenaar, is on the 25th 
of October. According to the legend, they were brethren, 
born at Rome ; from whence they travelled to Soiffons in- 
France, about the year 303, to propagate the Chriftian 
religion; and becaufe they would not be chargeable to 
others for their maintenance, they exercifed the trade of 
ihoemakers ; but the governor of the town, difeovering 
them to be Chriftians, ordered them to be beheaded. 
From which time the flioemakers made choice of them 
for their tutelar faints. 
St. Crispin’s Lance, f. A vulgar term for a flioe- 
maker’s awl. 
CRIS'PING-PIN, f. A curling-iron.—The changea¬ 
ble fuits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, 
and the crifping-pins. IJ'aiak, iii. 22. 
CRISPISUL'CANT, adj. [ crifpifulcans , Lat.] Waved, 
or undulated, as lightning is reprelented. 
CRISP'NESS, J'. Curlednefs. 
CRIS'PUS, or Crispo (John Baptift), a learned Ita¬ 
lian divine and poet, in the lixteenth century, born at 
Gallipoli, in the kingdom of Naples. Rome was the 
place in which his talents excited notice and.encourage¬ 
ment, and whither many perfons of confideration reforted 
for the benefit of his inftruCfions in jurifprudence, philo- 
fophy, and theology. He died in that city in 1595, when 
pope Clement VIII. was on the point of rewarding his 
merits with the epifcopal dignity. He was the author ot 
a critical work, entitled, De Etknicis PhiLofophis caute le~ 
gendis, 1594, folio ; on which Polfevin bellows very high 
commendations. He alfo publifhed, 1. De Medici Laudu 
