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clafllcal literature and poetry. He entered Into their or¬ 
der in 1683 ; and, being Coon after fent to Caen, he con¬ 
tracted an intimacy with Huet and Segrais. A love of 
literary freedom catifed him to quit his Jefuit’s habit in 
1694. He had hitherto been chiefly diftinguiflied for his 
(kill in the Latin language; but the fociety of Mad. la 
Fayette, and the celebrated Ninon de 1 ’Enclos, formed 
him to a polite ftyle in his own. He fixed his residence 
in Paris, and was elected a member of the French Aca¬ 
demy, and that of Infcriptions and Belles-letters. The 
abbe Bignon engaged his afliftance in the Journal des Sa- 
v&ns, for which he was well qualified, as betides his ac¬ 
quaintance with ancient erudition, he potfetTed feveral of 
the modern languages. Fraguier was a great admirer of 
Plato, whofe philofophy he put into Latin verfe, in a 
piece entitled Scholu Platonica. He meditated an entire 
new tranflation of Plato’s works ; but his labours were 
interrupted by a diforder from accidental cold, which 
fell upon the mufcles of his neck, and catifed him to pafs 
many years in a date of fullering and infirmity, which he 
bore with chriftian compofure. He was carried off by a 
fit of apoplexy in 1718, at the age of fixty-two. The 
candour, integrity, and mildnefs, of his character, ren¬ 
dered him greatly efteemed by his contemporaries. He 
obtained much reputation as a Latin poet; and a collec¬ 
tion of his pieces, together with thofe of Huet, was pub- 
lifhed by the abbe d’Olivet in 1729; they were repub- 
lilhed in a collection of the Latin poems of members of 
the French Academy, made in 1738. He wrote, in 
Latin profe, three diflertarions concerning.Socrates ; and 
he was the author of feveral learned and ingenious dilfer- 
tations in the Memoirs of the Academy of Infcriptions. 
FRAIL, /. A balket made of ruflies. A rufh for 
weaving bafkets. 
FRAIL, adj. [ fragilis , Lat.] Weak; eafily decaying; 
fnbjeCl to cafualties ; eafily defiroyed.—When with care 
we have raifed an imaginary treafureof liappinefs, we find, 
at laft, that the materials of the ftrnChire are frail and 
perifhing. Rogers. 
I know my body’s of fo frail a kind, 
As force without fevers within, can kill. Davies. 
Weak of refolution ; liable to error or feduCtion.—Man 
is frail, and prone to evil. Taylor. 
FRAIL'NESS, f Weaknefs ; inftability.—There is 
nothing among all the frailnejfes and uncertainties of this 
fublunary world fo tottering and unftable as the virtue of 
a coward. Norris. 
FRAILS, rocks on the fouth coaft of the county of 
Wexford, in Ireland, twelve miles Couth-weft of Carnfore 
Point. 
FRAIL'TY, f. Weaknefs of refolution ; inftability of 
mind ; infirmity.—God knows our frailty, pities our weak¬ 
nefs, and requires of 11s no more than we are able to do. 
Locke.— .Fault, proceeding from weaknefs ; fins of infir¬ 
mity : in this fenle it has a plural : 
Lov-e did his reafon blind, 
And love’s the nobleft frailty of the mind. Drydert. 
Death, only death, can break the lading chain ; 
And here, ev’n then, ftiall my cold duft remain; 
Here all its frailties , all its flames, refign, 
And wait, hill ’tis no fin to mix with thine. Pope. 
FRAIS'Ci-IEUR, f. [French.] Frelhnefs; coolnefs. 
A word innovated by Dryden : 
Hither in fummer-evenings you repair, 
To tafte the Jraifcheur of the purer air. Dryden. 
FRAISE, f. [French, the caul of an animal.] A pan¬ 
cake with bacon in.it. 
FRAISE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Vofges, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriCt of St. 
Diey ; three leagues and a half eafl of Bruyeres, and two 
louth of St. Diey. 
FRAK'MONT, a mountain of Swiflerland, in the can¬ 
ton of Uri. a 
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FRAM'BANT SUR PISSE, a town of France, in the 
department of the Mayenne, and chief place of a canton, 
in the diftridt of Mayenne : three leagues weft-north-weft 
of Laftay. 
1 ’ R AMB-TPSIA, f. in medicine, the yaws ; a difeafe 
endemical in Guinea, and the hot climates of Africa. 
To FRAME, v. a. To form or fabricate by orderly con- 
ftruction and union of various parts : 
The double gates he findeth locked faft ; 
The one fair fram'd of burnifti’d ivory, 
The other all with filver overcaft. Spenfer. 
To fit to one another.—Hew timber, faw \t, frame it, and 
fet it together. Mortimer.— To make ; to compofe : 
Then cluifing out few words mod horrible, 
Thereof did verfes frame. Spenfer. 
To regulate ; to adjuft.—Let us not deceive ourfelves by 
pretending to this excellent knowledge of Chrift Jefus our 
Lord, if we do not frame our lives according to it. 77 /- 
lotjon. —To form any rule or method by ftudy or precept; 
I have been a truant to the law ; 
I never yet could frame my will to it. 
And therefore frame the law unto my will. Shakefpcare. 
To form and digeft by thought.—The moftabftrufe ideas 
are only fuch as the iinderftandingyfawes to itfelf, by join- 
ing together ideas that it had either from objects of fenle 
or from its own operations about them. Locke. 
Full of that flame his tender feenes he warms, 
And/r<m«hisgoddefs by your mat chiefs charms. Granville. 
To contrive; to plan.—Unpardonable the prefumption 
and infolence in contriving and framing this letter was. 
Clarendon. —To fettle ; to fcheme out : 
Though I cannot make true wars. 
I’ll frame convenient peace. Shakefpeare. 
To invent; to fabricate, in a bad fenfe : as, to frame a. 
ftory or lie.—Aflronomers, to folve the phsenomena, 
framed to their conceit eccentrics and epicyles. Bacon. 
FRAME, f. A fabric ; any thing conftruCted of va¬ 
rious parts or members.—If the frame of the heavenly 
arch thould dilfolve itfelf, if celeftial fpheres fliould for¬ 
get their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility 
turn themfelves any way, as it might happen. Hooker. 
Tliefe are thy glorious works, parent of good ! 
Almighty ! thine this universal frame. Milton. 
Any thing made fo as to inclofe or admit fomething elfe. 
—His picture fcarcely would deferve a frame. Dryden.— 
Order; regularity; adjufted feries or difpofition : 
A woman, that is like a German clock, 
Still a repairing, ever out of frame, 
And never going aright. Shakefpcare. 
Scheme ; order.—Another party did refolve to change 
the whole frame of the government in (late as well as 
church. Clarendon. —Contrivance; projection: 
John the Baftard, 
Whofe fpirits toil in frame of villainies. Shakefpcare. 
Mechanical conftruCtion. Shape; form; proportion: 
A bear’s a favage beaft, 
Whelp’d without form, until the dam 
Has lick’d it into ftiape and frame. Hudibras. 
FRAMECOU'RT, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Straits of Calais, and chief place of a canton, 
hi the diftriCt of St. Pol : one league and a half fouth of 
St. Pol. 
FRA'MER,/. [pjiemman,Sax. ] Maker; former; con¬ 
triver ; fchemer.—The forger of his own fate, the framer 
of his fortune, fliould be improper, if aftions were pre¬ 
determined. Hammond. 
FRA'MEWORK, f. Wcrk done in a frame. 
FRA'MING, J'. The a£t of forming, the thing formed. 
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