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at (owing-time, breedeth much dearth, infomuch as the 
corn never cometb up. Bacon. —>Good intentions are the 
feeds of good actions ; and every man ought to fow them 
whether they come up or no. Temple. —To come into uie; 
as, a fajhion comes up. 
To Come up to. To amount to.—He prepares fora fur- 
render, averting that all thefe will not come up to near the 
quantity requifite. Woodward. —To rife, to advance.— 
Cbnfiderations there are, that may make us, if not come 
up to the character of thole who rejoice in tribulations, 
yet at lead fatisfy the duty of being patient. Wake. —When 
the heart is full, it is angry at all words that cannot come 
come up to it. Swift. 
To Come up with. To overtake. 
To Come upon. To invade ; to attack.—Three hundred 
horfe, and three thousand foot, Englilli, commanded by 
fir John Norris, were charged by Parma, coming upon them 
with feven thoufand horfe. Bacon. —When old age comes 
upon him, it comes alone, bringing no other evil with it 
but itfelf. South. 
To Come. In futurity; not prefent; to happen here¬ 
after.—It ferveth to difcover that which is hid, as well as 
to loretel that which is to come. Bacon. 
In times to come, 
My waves {hall waft the walls of mighty Rome. Dryden. 
Come is a word of which the ufe is various and exten- 
five, but the radical fignification of tendency hitherward 
is uniformly preferved. When we fay he came from a 
place, the idea is that of returning, or arriving, or becom¬ 
ing nearer-, when we fay, he went from a place, we con¬ 
ceive fimpiy departure, or removal to a greater diltance. 
The butter comes ; it is palling from its former date to 
that which is defired ; it is advancing towards us. 
COME, part .— Thy words were heard, and I am come 
to thy words. Daniel. 
COME. A particle of exhortation; be quick ; make 
no delay.— Come, let us make our father drink wine. Gen. 
fix. 32. 
COME. A particle of reconciliation, or incitement to it; 
Come, come, at all I laugh he laughs no doubt; 
The only did'erence is, I dare laugh out. Pope. 
COME. A kind of adverbial word for when it Jhall 
come ; as, come Wedr.efday, when Wednefday (hall come.—. 
Come Candlemas, nine years ago fhe died. Gay. 
COME,/. A fprout: a cant term.—That the malt is 
fufficiently well, dried, you may know both by the tade, 
and alfo by the falling od' of the come or fprout. Mortimer. 
COMEEIAN,/. A player or aftor of-comic parts. A 
player in general; adage-player; an adtrefs or adlor.— 
Meliffarlon, pretty honey-bee, when of a comedian fte be¬ 
came a wealthy man’s wife, would be fainted Madam Pi- 
thias, or Prudence. Camden. —A writer of comedies.— 
Scaliger willeth us to admire Plautus as a comedian, but 
Terence as a pure and elegant Ipeaker. Peacbam. 
CO'MEDY, /. [comedia, Lat.] A dramatic reprefenta- 
tion of the lighter faults of mankind, with an intention 
to make vice and folly ridiculous: oppofed to tragedy; 
A long, exadf, nnd ferious, comedy ; 
In every feene fome moral let it teach, 
And, if it can, at once both pleafe and preach. Pope. 
COMELINESS,/ Grace; beauty; dignity. It figni- 
fies fomething lefs forcible than beauty, lefs elegant than 
grace, and lei's light than prettinefs. —A care'lefs comelinefs 
with comely care. Sidney .— The fervice of God hath not 
fuch perfection of grace and comelinefs, as when the dig¬ 
nity of the place doth concur. Hooker. 
COMELY, adj. [from become ; or, from epeman, Sax. 
to pleafe.] Graceful; decent; having dignity or grandeur 
of mien or look. Comelinefs leems to be that fpecies of 
beauty which excites refpedl rather than pleafure. He 
that is comely when old and decrepit, furely was very 
beautiful when be was young. South.— Uled of things, 
decent; according to propriety; 
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Oh, what a world is this, when what is comely 
Envenoms him that bears it! Sbakefpeare. 
COMELY, adv. Handfomely; gracefully.—To ride 
comely, to play at all weapons, to da’nce comely, be very ne- 
ceffary for a courtly gentleman. Afcham. 
COMENIT'ZA, a town of European Turkey, in the 
province ot Epire : fifty-two miles fouth-weft of Dolfino. 
COME'NIUS (John Amos), a grammarian and pro- 
teffant divine, born in Moravia in 1 592. He was emi¬ 
nent for his defign to introduce a new method of teach¬ 
ing languages; for which purpofe he publifted feveral 
ellays in 1616, and had prepared fome others, when the 
Spaniards pillaged his library, after having taken the city 
of Fulnec, where he was mir.ilter and mailer of the fchooi. 
Comenius fled to Lefna, a city of Poland, and taught La¬ 
tin there. The book he publifted in 1631, under the title 
of janua Lbiguarum referata, gained him a prodigious re¬ 
putation, inftmuch that he was offered a com million for 
regulating all the fchools in Poland. The parliament of 
England defired his affiftance to regulate the fchools in 
this kingdom. He arrived at London in 1641; and would 
have been received by a committee to hear his plan, had 
not the parliament been taken up with other matters. He 
therefore went to Sweden, being invited by a generous 
patron, who fettled a ftipend upon him that delivered 
him from the fatigues of teaching;, and he employed 
himfelf wholly in difeovering general methods for thofe 
who inftrufted youth. In 1657 he publiihed the different 
parts of his new method of teaching. He was not only 
taken up with the reformation of fchools, but alfo with 
prophecies, the fall of Antichrift, Millennium, &c. At 
laft Comenius took it into his head to addrel’s Louis XIV. 
of F ranee, and to fend him a copy of the prophecies of 
Drabicius, infinuating that it was to this monarch God 
promiled the empire of the world. He became lenfible of 
the vanity of tliele {peculations, and died in 3671. 
COMER,/. One that comes.—Houfe and heart are 
open for a friend; the pafiage is eafy, and not only ad=* 
mils, but even invites, the comer. South. 
Time is like a faffiionable hoft, 
That {lightly ftakes his parting gueft by th’ hand; 
But with-.his arms outffretch’d, as he would fly, ■> 
Grafps in the comer: welcome ever (miles, 
And farewel goes out fighing. Sbakefpeare. 
CO'MERCHIN, a town of European Turkey, in the 
province of Romania, lixty-two miles eaft of Emboli. 
COMESSAZ'ZA, a river of Italy, which runs into the 
Oglio: nine miles north-eaft of Sabionetta. 
COMESSAZ'ZO, a town of Italy, in the duchy cf Man¬ 
tua: three miles and a half north of Sabionetta. 
COME'SUS, a lake of United America, in the ftate of 
New York : twenty-feven miles fouth of Lake Ontario. 
CO'MET,/ [ cometa, Lat. a hairy ftar.] An opaque, 
fpherical, and folid, body like a planet, performing revo¬ 
lutions about the fun in elliptical orbits, which have the 
fun in one of their foci. For an aftronomical inveitiga- 
tion. of comets, fee Astronomy, vol. ii. p. 400. 
Fierce meteors {hoot their arbitrary light, 
And comets march with lawlefs horrors bright. Prior . 
COMETAfRIUM,/ A machine adapted to give a re~ 
prefentation of the revolution of a comet about the fuu. 
It is fo contrived as, by elliptical wheels,' to {hew the un¬ 
equal motion of a comet in every part of its orbit. The 
comet is reprefented by a fmall brafs ball, carried by a 
radius vedlor, or wire, in an elliptical groove about the 
fun in one of its foci; and the years of its period-are 
{hewn by an index moving with an equable motion over 
a graduated filver circle. 
CO'METARY, or Cometic, adj. Relating to a co¬ 
met.—Refradlions of light are in the planetary and come- 
tary regions, as on our globe. Cheyr.e. 
COME'TES, /. [xopjTJ)?, hairy ; the involucres being 
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