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He that flatkretk his neighbour, fpreadeth a net for his 
feet. Prov. xxix. 5.—He Jlattercth himfelf in his own 
eyes, until his iniquity be found hateful. Pf. xxxvi. 2. 
His nature is too noble for the world ; 
He would not Jlatter Neptune for his trident. 
Or Jove for’s power to thunder: his heart’s his mouth ; 
What his bread forges that his tongue mu ft vent. Shakefp. 
To praife falfely: 
Flatter'd crimes of a licentious age, 
Provoke or cenfure. ^ Young. 
To pleafe ; to iooth : this fenfe is purely Gallic.—A 
confort of voices fupporting themfelves by their different 
parts makes a harmony, pleafingly fills the ears and fat. 
ters them.—To raife falfe hopes : 
He, always vacant, always amiable, 
Hopes thee, of fatt'ring gales 
Unmindful. Milton. 
FLAT'TERER,/. One who flatters; a fawner; a 
wheedler; one who endeavours to gain favour by pleading 
falfities.—Some praifes proceed merely of flattery; and 
if he be an ordinaVy flatterer, he will have certain com¬ 
mon attributes, which may ferve every man : if he be a 
dinning flatterer, he will follow the arch fatterer, which 
is a man’s felf. But if he-be an impudent flatterer, look 
w herein a man is confcious to himfejf that he is mod de¬ 
fective, and is mod: out of countenance in himfelf, that 
will the Jlatterer entitle him to perforce. Bacon. 
If we from wealth to poverty defeend, 
Want gives to know the Jlatterer from the friend. Dryden. 
FLAT'TERY,/. [_jlatterie, Fr.] Falfe praife ; artful 
obfequioufnefs ; adulation: 
Minds, by nature great, are confcious of their greatnefs, 
And hold it mean to borrow aught from jlattery. Rowe. 
FLAT'TERY CAPE, fo named by captain Cook, on 
account of its promiflng at a didance what it denied on a 
nearer approach. Lat.48.15. Ion. 235. 30. E. This cape 
captain Ingraham, of Bodon, has afeertained to be the 
fouth fide of the entrance of the draits of Juan de Fuca. 
FL AT'TING, f. in gilding, the act of touching that 
part of the work which is not burnifned with a pencil 
dipped in fize in order to preferve it; that part of the 
work fo touched. 
FLAT'TING-MILL. See Mill. 
FLAT'TISH, adj. Somewhat flat; approaching to 
flatnefs.'—Thefe are from three inches over to fix or fe- 
ven, and of a jlattijh lhape. Woodward. 
FLA'TULENCY, /I Windipefs; fulnefs of wind ; tur- 
gefcence by wind confined.—Vegetable fubdanees contain 
a great deal of air, which expands itfelf, producing all 
the diforders of fatulency. Arbuthnot. —Emptinefs; vanity; 
levity; airinefs.—Whether mod of them are not the ge¬ 
nuine derivations of the hypothefis they claim to, may be 
determined by any that confiders the natural jlatulency of 
that airy fcheme of notions. Glanville. 
FLA'TULENT, adj. [_fatu/entus,fatus, Lat.] Turgid 
with air; windy.—Peafe are mild and demulcent; but 
being full of aerial particles are fatulent, when diflolved 
by digedion. Arbuthnot. —Empty; vain; big without fub- 
ffance or reality; puffy —To talk of knowledge, from 
thofe few indidindt reprefentations which are made to our 
groffer faculties, is a flatulent vanity. Glanville. 
FLATUO'SITY, j. [ flatuofte , Fr. from flatus , Lat.] 
Windinefs ; fulnefs of air.—The caufe is jlatuofity ; for 
wind dirred, move: h to expel; and all purgers have in 
them a raw fpirit of wind, which is the principal caufe 
of tendon in the ftomach and bel y. Bacon. 
FLA'TUOUS, adj. [Jlatus, Lat.] Windy; full of 
wind.—Rhubarb in the (lomach, in a fmall quantity, 
doth diged and overcome, being not f atuous nor loath- 
fome; and fo fendeth it to the mefentery veins, and, 
being opening, it helpeth down urine. Bacon. 
FLA'rUS,_/i [Latin.] Wind gathered in any cavities 
.fla 
of the body, caufed by indigedion and a grofs internal 
perfpiration; which is therefore difeuffed by warm aro¬ 
matics. Quincy. 
FLA'I'WISE, adj. [fo it fliould be written, not fat. 
zoays.] W:th the flat downwards; not the edge._Its 
podure in the earth was jlatwifc, and parallel to the fite 
of the flratum in which it was repofitod. Woodward. 
FLAVACOU'R, a town of France, in the department 
of the Oife, and chief place of a canton, in the diflridt of 
Chaumont: three miles north-wed of Chaumont. 
FLA'VEL (John), a celebrated Englidi nonconformid 
divine, born in Worcederfliire, in 1627. He was fent for 
academical education to Univerfity-college, Oxford, where 
he applied himfelf with diligence and fuccefs, and took his 
degree of bachelor of arts. In 1560, he became affiffant- 
minider to Mr. Walplate, reCtor of Diptford, in Devon- 
fliire. After the death of Mr. Walplate he fucceeded to 
the redory; but in 1656 he was induced to refign that 
living, and to accept of an unanimous invitation to be¬ 
come one of the miniders of a populous parifli at Dart¬ 
mouth, where his fphere of ufefulnefs was greatly en¬ 
larged, notwithdanding that in point of profit it was a 
lefs valuable benefice. In this fituation he continued to 
officiate with great popularity, until his ejedment under 
the ad of uniformity; after which he fuffered confider- 
able perfecution, and was for a time confined a clofe pri- 
foner to his own houfe. After the revolution, and the 
legal toleration which was granted to nonconforntids took 
place, Mr. Flavel fpent the remainder of his days in 
peace, applying himfelf with unwearied diligence to the 
duties of his profeffion, and podeffed of the refped and 
edeem of all good men. He died at Exeter, in 1691, in 
the fixty-fourth year of his age. He was a plain, but a 
very pathetic and popular, preacher, and remarkable for 
the fluency, fervour, and variety, of his devotional exer- 
cifes. His writings poffels the fame charader with his 
pulpit difeourfes; and are ftill much read and admired 
by perfons whole fentiments are calvinidic. They confift 
of, 1. nm^aloTwyia, A Treatife of the Soul of Man,.&c. 
2. The Fountain of Life in forty-two fermons. 3. The 
Method of Grace, in thirty-five fermons. 4. England’s 
Duty, in eleven fermons. 5. A Token for Mourners, See. 
6 . Hulbandry Spiritualifed, See. 7. Navigation Spiritu- 
alifed, &c. 8. Repentance enforced by Arguments from 
Reafon only ; and feveral other pieces, which have been 
colleded fince his death, and publilhed in 2 vols. folio. 
FLAVI A'NUM, in ancient geography, a town of Etru¬ 
ria, on the Tiber, called alfo Flavinium. Virgil. 
FLAVIA'NUS, patriarch of Antioch in the fourth 
century, and a native of that city, where he embraced 
the monadic life, and didinguiihed himfelf while a monk 
by his drenuous oppofition to the Arians. Upon the 
death of Meletius, in 381, by the fuffrages of the council 
of Condantinople he was chofen his fuccelfor, notwith¬ 
danding that Paulinus, the colleague of Meletius, was 
dill living, and that Flavianus himfelf had formerly fworn 
not to confent to the eledion of any fucceffor to Meletius 
during the life of Paulinus. His eledion under thefe cir- 
cumdances was the occafion of a fchifm, which divided 
almod the whole Chridian world into oppofite parties. 
The wedern bidtops, with thofe of Egypt, Arabia, and 
Cyprus, adhered to the caufe of Paulinus; while thofe 
of Syria, Phoenicia, Armenia, Cappadocia, Pontus, and 
the greater part of the eadern bifliops, declared them¬ 
felves on the fide of Flavianus. The confequence was, 
much unchridian animofity among the refpedive parti- 
fans of the rival prelates, which led them to feparate from 
each other’s communion, and to difgrace the religion 
which they profeffed, by their mutual anathemas and ill 
offices. Flavianus died in 404. He was the author of 
Epidles, noticed in the Codex of Photius; and of fome 
Homilies, of which fragments are to be found in the fird 
and fecond Dialogues of Theodoret on Heretics. 
FLAVIA'NUS, patriarch of Condantinople in the fifth 
century, was elected to that dignity from the Ration of 
pre ibyter 
