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and, before he had completed his twenty-fifth year, was 
created dodtor in, divinity, by a royal mandate, in order 
to be qualified for tire mafterfhip cf Catherine-hall, to 
which he was unanimoufly elected in 1696. Not long 
after his eleiftion lie had the honour of being appointed 
to the vice-chsncellorfhip of the univerfity, and dil- 
charged the duties of that office with univerfal applaufe. 
In the fame year in which he was chofen mater ot Ca¬ 
therine-hall, he was appointed chaplain in ordinary to 
king William, and made a prebend of Worcelter. In 
1698, he was collated by archbifhop Tennifon to the 
redory and deanery of Booking in Etfex ; where his pro- 
fetlional fervices and conduct, his polite and amiable 
manners, and his beneficence and charity towards the 
poor, endeared him to the whole neighbourhood. After 
the acceffion of queen Anne to the throne, fir William, 
was appointed one of the chaplains to her majefty ; and, 
in 1707, he was made bilhop of Chefter; whence, in 
1713-14, he was tranllated to the archiepifcopal fee of 
York. That eminent flation lie filled for ten years, dif- 
charging the duties of it with exemplary diligence, fe- 
rioufnefs, and impartiality, and by his prudence, bene¬ 
volence, and affability, fecuring univerfal honour and 
elteem. He was the author of, 1. A poem called, T he 
Anatomy of Atheifm, 1693, 4to. which poffeffes few 
claims to poetical merit. 2. The Duties of the Clofet, 
&c. 3. The Duties of Communicating explained and 
enforced, &c. 4. Sermons preached upon feveral Oc- 
cafions, before King William and Queen Anne, 1707, 
8vo. 5. The Preface to the Works of Offspring Black- 
all, D. D. late Bifliop of Exeter, 1723, folio; and dif¬ 
ferent pofihumous pieces, which, with the preceding, 
were collected and publiflicd in 3 vols. 8vo. 1733, with a 
life of the author prefixed to them. 
DAWIDGRO'DEK, a town of Lithuania, in the pa¬ 
latinate of Brzefc : fifty-fix miles eaft of Bcrzfc. 
iDAWIDO'W, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate 
©f Brzefc : fifty-lix miles eaft of Brzefc. 
DAWFUSKE'E, an illand on the coaft of South Ca- 
rolipa, which forms the north-eaft fide of the entrance of 
Savannah River, and fouth-weft fide of the entrance of 
Broad River, and admits of an inland communication 
between the two rivers. 
DAWK, / A cant word among the workmen for a 
hollow, rupture, or incilion, in their fluff.—Obferve if 
any hollows or dawks be in the length. Moxon. 
To DAWK, v. a. To mark with an incifion.—Should 
they apply that fide of the tool the edge lies on, the fwift 
coming about of the work would, where a fmall regula¬ 
rity of fluff fliould happen, jobb the edge into the fluff, 
and fo dawk it. Moxon. 
To DAWN, v. n. [fuppofed by the etymologifts to 
have leen originally to dayen , or advanced towards day.] 
To grow luminous ; to begin to grow light.—.As it be¬ 
gan to dawn, towards the firft day of the week, came Mary 
Magdalen to fee the fepulchre. Matthew. 
All night I flept, oblivious of my pain; 
Aurora dawn'd , and Phcebus fhin’d in vain. Pope. 
To glimmer obfcurely.—A Romanift from the very firft 
dawning of any notions in his underftanding, hath this 
principle conftantly inculcated, that he mult believe as 
the church. Locke. —To begin, yet faintly; to give fome 
promifes of lulire or eminence : 
Thy hand ftrikes out fome free defign, 
When life awakes and dawns at ev’ry line. Pope. 
DAWN,/. The time between the firft appearance of 
light and the fun’s rife, reckoned from the time that the 
fun comes within eighteen degrees of the horizon : 
Then on to-morrow’s dawn your care employ 
To fearch the land, but give this day to joy. Dryden. 
Beginning; firft rife.—Thefe tender circumftances dif- 
jufe.a dawn of ferenity over the foul. Pope. 
Such their guiltlefs pafiion was, 
As in the dawn of time inform’d the heart 
Of innocence and undilfembling truth. Thomfon. 
DAWN'ING, f. Dawn of day.—Alas poor Harry of 
England, he longs not for the dawning as we do. Shake/. 
DAX, or Dacqj;, a town of France, and principal 
place of a diftrift, in the department of the Landes, fitu- 
ated on the Adour, furrounded with walls, flanked with 
towers, and containing about 5000 inhabitants, celebrated 
for its warm baths ; the fpring of which difeharges 543 
cubic feet of water in fifteen minutes: before the revolu¬ 
tion, it was the fee of a bifliop, fuffragan of Auch. This 
town was deftroyed by the Saracens in 910. It was. a 
long time in the poffefiion of the Englifli, from whom it 
was taken in 1461, by the French, and has remained an¬ 
nexed to that country ever fince : twenty-two miles north- 
eaft of Bayonne, and twenty-fix fouth-weft of Monte de 
Marfan. Lat. 43. 42. N. Ion. 16. 37. F,. Ferro. 
DAX'ABON, Dajabon, or Dahabon, which the 
French call Laxahon , a town and fettlement of Spaniards 
on the line between the French and Spanifti divifions of 
the ifland of St. Domingo. It was fettled to prevent 
fmuggliog, when the Spaniards had their Ihare of the 
ifland. It is bounded eaft by the territory of St. L ago, 
north by the extremity of tiie ^ed of the Great Yaqui, 
and the bay of Mancenilla, weft by the river and the lit¬ 
tle ifland of Maffacre. It contains about 4000 perfons. 
The town Hands 400 fathoms from the eaft bank of Maf- 
facre river, more' than eighty leagues north-weft of St. 
Domingo, and twenty-eight weft of St. Yago. Lat. 19. 
32. N. Ion. from Paris 74. 9. W. 
DAX'BERG, a town of Germany, in the archduchy 
of Aultria • two miles weft of Efterding. 
DAX'ENBACII, or Taxenbach, a town of Ger¬ 
many, in the circle of Bavaria, and archbiftiopric of Salz¬ 
burg : thirty miles fouth of Salzburg. 
DAY,/ [bxj, Sax.] The time between the rifing 
and fetting of the fun, called the artificial day.—Why 
ftand ye here all the day idle ? Matthew. 
Of night impatient, we demand the day ; 
The day arrives, then for the night we pray: 
The night and day fucceflive come and go. 
Our lading pains no interruption know. Blacbnore. 
The time from noon to noon, or from midnight to mid¬ 
night, called the natural day. See Chronology. 
How many hours bring about the day. 
How many days will finilh up the year. Shakefpeare. 
Light; funfhine.—Let us walk honeftly, as in the day • 
not in rioting and drunkennefs. Romans. 
Yet are we able only to furvey 
Dawnings of beams, and promifes of day. Prior. 
Any time fpecificd and diftinguiflied from other time 5 
an age ; the time. In this fenfe it is generally plural.—. 
I think, in thefe days, one honeft man is obliged to ac¬ 
quaint another who are his friends. Pope. 
After him reigned Gutheline his heir. 
The jufteft man and trued in his days. Spenfer. 
Life : in this fenfe it is commonly plural. He never in his 
days broke his word ; that is, in his whole life. —He was never 
at a lofs in his days for a frequent anfvver. Carte.- —-The 
day of conteft ; the conteft ; the battle : 
His name (truck fear, his conduct won the day ; 
He came, he law, he feiz’d, the ftruggling prey. Rojcom, 
Would you th’ advantage of the fight delay, 
If, ftriking firft, you were to win the day? Dryden. 
An appointed or fixed time. A day appointed for fome 
commemoration: 
The field of Agincourt, 
Fought on the day of Crifpin Crifpiaints. Shakefpeare. 
From day to day, without certainty or continuance.—Ba¬ 
varia 
