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his office by deputy ; and hath power to appoint the 
clank of the peace, &c. The cudos rotulorum, two juf- 
tices of the peace, and the clerk of the peace, are to in¬ 
roll deeds of bargain and fale of lands of papifts, &c. 
bv 3 Geo. 1 . c. 18. 
CUS'TOS SPIRITUA'LIUM, f. He that exercifes 
the fpiritual jurifdiction of a diocele, during the vacancy 
ol any lee, which, by the canon law, belongs to the dean 
and chapter; but at prefent, in England, to the archbi- 
fhop of the province by prefcription. 
CUS'TOS TEMPORA'LIUM,/. Was the perfon to 
whom a vacant fee or abbey was given by the king, as 
lupreme lord. His office was, as deward of the goods 
and profits, to give an account to the efcheator, who did 
the like to the exchequer. 
CUS' TREL,/i A buckler-bearer. A velfel for hold¬ 
ing-wine. Ainjworth. 
CUS'TRIN, or Kustrin, a town of Germany, in the 
circle of Upper Saxony, and new mark of Brandenburg 
on the Oder. The environs are marfhy, and the road 
which leads to the circle of Lebus, is a fortified dike, 
with thirty-fix bridges in the fpace of a league ; the road 
towards the new mark has feven. It is very drong by 
art and nature, and contains only about 200 houfes within 
the walls; but the three fauxbourgs are more cxtenlive, 
and handfomer than the town. There are four churches, 
three magazines, two hofpitals, See. It was burned by 
the Ruffians in 1739, but not taken. After the fire, it 
was rebuilt in a more regular form. In 1758, it was be- 
fieged by the Ruffians, who threw in a great number of 
fed-hot balls, and fet fire to it in feveral places : great 
part of the houfes were deftroyed, or greatly damaged. 
The king of Pruffia arrived in the neighbourhood in a 
few days, when the Ruffians abandoned their enterprife: 
forty-eight miles eaft of Berlin. Lat. 52. 36. N. Ion. 32. 
27. E. Ferro. 
To CUT, pret. cut, part. paff. cut; [probably from the 
«■ French couteau, a knife.] To penetrate with an edged 
indrument; to divide any continuity by a iharp edge.— • 
Ah, cut my lace afunder. Shakcjpcare. 
And when two hearts were join’d by mutual love. 
The fword of juftice cuts upon the knot. 
And levers ’em for ever. Dryden. 
To hew.—Thy fervants can (kill to ait timber in Leba¬ 
non. 2 C/iron. ii.—To carve ; to make by fculptuie : 
Why ihould a man, whofe blood is warm within. 
Sit like his grandfire cut in alabafier ? Shakcjpcare. 
To form any thing by cutting.—And they did beat the 
gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires. Exod. xxxix.3. 
•—To divide by palling through : 
Before the whiffling winds the veffiels fly. 
With rapid fwiftnefs cut the liquid way, 
And reach Gereltus at the point of day. Pope. 
To pierce withany uneafy fenfation.—The man was cut to 
tire heart with thefe confolations. 'Mid Jon. —To divide 
packs of cards : 
We lure in vain the cards condemn, 
Ourfelves both cut and ihufiled them. Prior. 
Take a frelh pack, nor is it worth our grieving, 
Who cuts or IhufHes with our dirty leaving. Granville. 
To interfedl; to crofs: as, one line cuts another at right 
angles. 
To CUT, v. a. [perhaps in a fenfe peculiar to Ireland.] 
To levy.—I have known, when theie lords have had the 
leadings of their 0W11 followers, that they have for the 
fame cut upon every plough-land within their country 
forty (hillings. Spencer. 
To Cur down. To fell; to hew down.—All the tim¬ 
ber whereof was cut down in the mountains of Cilicia. 
Knollcs. —To excel; to overpower: a low phraje. — So 
jreat is his natural eloquence, that he cuts down the fined 
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orator, and dedroys the bed contrived argument, as foon 
as ever he gets himfelf to be'heard. Addijon. 
To Cut off. To feparate from the other parts by cut¬ 
ting.—And they caught him, and cut off his thumbs. 
Jud. i. 6.—To deftroy ; to extirpate; to put to death 
untimely.—All Spain wasfird conquered by the Romans, 
and filled with colonies from them, which were dill in- 
creafed, and the native Spaniards dill cut off. Spenjcr .— 
Irenaeus was likewife cut off by martyrdom. Addijon. 
Ill-fated prince ! too negligent of life ! 
Cut off in the frefii ripening prime of manhood, 
Even in the pride of life. Philips. 
To refeind ; to feparate ; to take away.—The propofal 
of a recompence from men, cuts off the hopes of future 
rewards. Smalridge. 
Fetch the will hither, and we diall determine 
How to cut off forne charge in legacies. Shahjpcare. 
Prefume not on thy God, whoe’er he be : 
Thee he regards not, owns not, hath cut off 
Qu_ite from his people. Milton. 
To intercept; to hinder from union or return,—The 
king of this illand, a wife man and a great warrior, cut off 
their land forces from their (hips. Bacon .—To put an end' 
to ; to obviate.—It may Conrpofe our unnatural feuds, 
and cut off frequent occafions of brutal rage and intem¬ 
perance. Addijon .—To withhold.—We are concerned to 
cut iff all occafion from thofe who feek occafion, that 
they may have whereof to accufe us. Rogers .■—To pre¬ 
clude.—Every one who lives in the practice of any vo¬ 
luntary fin, actually cuts himfelf off from the benefits 
and profeffion of chridianity. Addijon. 
This only object of my real care, 
Cut off from hope, abandon’d to defpair. 
In lome few poding fatal hours is hurl’d 
From wealth, from pow’r, from love, and from the world. 
Prior.. 
To interrupt; to filence.-—It is no grace to a judge to 
Ihew quicknefs of conceit in cutting (^evidence or coun- 
fel too (liort. Bacon .—To apodropldfe ; to abbreviate.— 
No vowel can be cut off before another, when we cannot 
(ink tire pronunciation of it. Dryden. 
To Cut out. Tofhape; to form.—By the pattern of 
mine own thoughts I cut out the purity of Iris. Shakjpearc. 
—They have a large fored cut out into walks, extremely 
thick and gloomy. Adclifon .—To fcheme ; to contrive.—. 
Every man had cut out a place for himfelf in his own 
thoughts : I could reckon up in our army two or three 
Jord-treafurers. Addijon .—To adapt.—.You know I am 
not cut out for writing a treatife, nor have a genius to pen 
any thing exactly, Rymer. —To debar.—I am cut out 
from any thing but common acknowledgements, or com¬ 
mon difeourfe. Pope .—To excel ; to outdo. 
To Cut Jiort. To hinder from proceeding by hidden 
interruption: 
Titus much he fpoke, and more he would have faid. 
But the dern hero turn’d alide his head, 
And cut him Jiort. * Dryden. 
To abridge : as, the foldiers were cut fhort of their pay. 
To Cut up. To divide an animal into convenient 
pieces.—The boar’s intemperance, and the note upon 
him afterwards, on the cutting him itp, that he had no 
brains in his head, may be moralized into a fenfual man. 
L’Effrange .—To eradicate.—-Who cut up mallows by the 
bullies, and juniper-roots for their meat. Job. 
To CUT, v. n. To make way by dividing ; to divide 
by paffing through.—When the teeth are ready to cut, 
the upper part is rubbed with hard fubdances, which 
infants, by a natural indinft, a tie ft. Arbuthnot. —To per¬ 
form the operation of lithotomy.—He Laved the lives of 
thoufands by his manner of cutting for the done. Pope .—. 
To interfere ; as, a horfe that cuts. 
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