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accepting of a peerage, obtained by political arrangement. 
His gracious matter applauded his manly fpirit, everafter 
continued him in his high military honours, and, to the 
day of his death, condefcended to (hew him ftrong marks 
of his regard. He died March 10, 1796, aged 82; he 
had been polhcaptain fixty years, having been appointed 
in March, 1736 ; he was made rear-admiral in 1746, and 
admiral in 1758 ; he was appointed admiral of the fleet in 
1781, Infirmity deprived him of exerting his great 
talents in his latter days publicly for the fervice of his 
country ; but all who had the happinefs of his acquain¬ 
tance will agree, that in private life he continued to his 
laft breath an example of the brighteft virtues which can 
adorn the human character : patience in long and painful 
fuffering, charity, benevolence, humanity, public fpirit, 
good breeding, firmnefs and difintereftedneis in friendfliip, 
tendernefs and feeling for all his dependents and friends, 
and an abhorrence of all felfifhnefs and illiberality, were 
difplayed by him in their mod lively and ftriking colours. 
He is buried in Watford church, in Hertfordfliire, where 
his lady is interred in<the family vault of the earl of Eftex, 
to whom (he was half-fifter. He left behind him a fortune 
of near 200,0001. 
To FORBID', v. a. pret. 1 forbade ; part .forbidden, or 
forbid ; [ponbeoban, Sax. verbieden, Dut.] To prohibit ; 
to interdict any thing.—All hatred of perfons, by very 
many Chriftian principles, we are mod folemnly and in- 
difpenfably forbid. Sprat. 
By tafling of that fruit forbid , 
Where they fought knowledge, they did error find. Davies. 
To command to forbear any thing.—They have deter¬ 
mined to confume all thofe things that God hath for¬ 
bidden them to eat by his laws. Judith , xi. 12.—To op- 
pore ; to hinder.—The moifttire being forbidden to come 
up in the plant, ftayeth longer in the rooty and fo dilateth 
it. Bacon. 
Thy throne is darknkfs in th’ abyfs of light, 
A blaze of glory that forbids the fight ! 
O teach me to believe thee thus conceal’d. 
And fearch no farther than thyfelf reveal’d. Dryden. 
To accurfe ; to blaft. Obfolcte. —To bid is in old language 
to pray ; to forbid therefore is to curfe -. 
Sleep (hall neither night nor day 
Hang upon his penthoufe lid ; 
He (hall live a man forbid. Shakefpeare. 
To FORBID', v. n. To utter a prohibition : 
Now the good gods forbid , 
That our renowned Rome 
Should now eat tip her own! Shakefpeare. 
FORBID'DANCE, f. Prohibition; edift againft any 
thing : 
How haft thou yielded to tranfgrefs 
The ftri Stforbiddance! how to violate 
The facred fruit forbidden ? Milton. 
FORBID'DENLY, adv. In an unlawful manner : 
With all confidence he fwears, as he had feen’t. 
That you have touch’d his queen forbiddenly. Shakefpeare. 
FORBID'DER,/. One that prohibits ; one that enacts 
a prohibition.—This was a bold accuf’ation of God, 
making the fountain of good the contriver of evil, and 
the forbidder of the crime an abettor of the fait prohi¬ 
bited. Brown. 
Other care, perhaps, 
May have diverted from continual watch 
Our great forbidder ! Milton. 
FORBID'DING, part. adj. Raifing abhorrence ; re- 
pel ling approach ; cauling averfion.—Tragedy was made 
forbidding and horrible. A. Hill. 
^FORBY', prep, [the jor being an expletive.] By: 
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FOR 
He took her up forby the lillv hand, ■ 
And her re-comforted the beft he might. Spenfer. 
FORCAI.QU EIRET', a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Var, and chief place of a cantori, in the 
diftrift of Hieres : five miles fouth of Brignoli. 
FORCALQUI'ER, a town of France, and principal 
place of a diftridt, in the department of the Lower Alps-, 
on the Laye ; formerly the capital of a confiderable 
county, united to Provence in the year 1193: (even 
leagues fouth-weft of Digne, and five and a half Couth of 
Sifteron. Lat. 43. 57. N. Ion. 23. 27. E. Ferro. 
FORCE,/] [force, Fr. forth, Lat.] Strength; vigour; 
might ; adtive power.—-He never could maintain his part 
but in the force of his will. Shakejpeare. 
A (hip, which hath (truck fail, doth run 
By force of that force which before it won. Donne. 
Violence : 
Thus got the houfe of Lancafter the crown. 
Which now they hold by force , and not by right. Shakefp. 
The fhepherd Paris bore the Spartan bride 
By force away, and then by force enjoy’d. Dryden. 
Virtue; efficacy.—No definitions, no fuppofitions of any 
fedt, are of force enough to deftroy conftant experience. 
Locke. —Validnefs; power of law.—A teftament is of 
force after men are dead. Heb. ix. 
Not long in force this charter flood ; / 
Wanting that feal, it rnuft be feal’d in blood. Denham. 
Armament; warlike preparation : 
A greater force than that which here we find, 
Ne’er prefs’d the ocean, nor employ’d the w'ind. Waller. 
Deftiny ; neceffity ; fatal compulfion : 
What you will have, I’ll give, and willing too : 
For do we muft what force will have us do. Shakefpeare. 
To FORCE, v. a. To compel; to conftrain.—Dangers 
are light, if they once feem light; and more dangers 
have deceived men than forced them. Bacon .—To over¬ 
power by ftrength : 
With fates averfe, the rout in arms refort, 
To force their monarch, and infult the court. Dryden. 
To impel ; to prefs; to draw or pufh by main ftrength* 
—Thou (halt not deftroy the trees by forcing an ax againft 
them. Deut. xx. 19.. 
Stooping, the fpear defeended on his chine, 
Juft where the bone diftinguifti’d either loin : 
It ftuck fo faft, fo deeply bury’d lay, 
That fcarce the vidtor forc'd the fteel away. Dryden. 
To enforce ; to urge : 
Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never fere, 
I come to pluck your berries harftt and crude, 
And with forc'd fingers rude 
Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Milton. 
To drive by violence or power: 
To free the ports, and ope the Punique land 
To Trojan guefts; left, ignorant of fate, 
The queen might/ore* them from her town and date. Dryd. 
To gain by violence or power: 
My heart is your’s; but oh ! you left it here 
Abandon’d to thofe tyrants hope and fear : 
If they forc’d from me one kind look or word. 
Could you not that, nor that fmall part afford? Dryden. 
To ftorm ; to take or enter by violence : 
Troy wall’d fo high, 
Atrides might as well have forc’d the (ley. Waller. 
Toraviftito violateby force.— Force her. Ilikeitnot. Dry. 
den. --Toconftrain; to diftort; not to obtain naturally or with 
eafe. 
