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end of Tiberius. His body was thrown into the Tiber, 
and his wife was forbidden to put on mourning for his 
deatli. Cains has been acciifed of having ftained his 
hands in the blood of Scipio Africanus the younger, 
w ho was found mui dered in his bed. Pint, in vita. — Cic. 
in C.it. I. — Lucan. 6, v. 795. 
GRACK, f. \_arace, Fr. gratia, Lat. graace, Erfe.] 
Favour ; kiiidneis.—Is this the reward and thanks I am 
to have for thofe many adts of grace I have lately palfed ? 
King Charles. 
O momentary grace of mortal men. 
Which we more hunt for than the j-race of God ! 5 hakefp. 
Favourable indiience of God on tlte human mind.—The 
grace of God, that paffeth underdanding, keep your 
hearts and minds. Common. Prayer. —Virtue; effeit of 
God’s influence.—Within the church are contained 
perfons truly good and I'andtified ; and together with 
them other perfons void of all faving grace. Pcarjon. — 
Pardon ; mercy ; 
Noble pity held 
Flis hand a wliile, and to their choice gave fpace. 
Wliicli they would prove, his valour or his grace. Waller. 
Favour conferred : 
I fhould therefore efteem it great favour and grace. 
Would you be fo kind as to go in my place. P/ior. 
Privilege : 
But to return and view the cheerful Ikies, 
To few great Jupiter imparts this g?-acf. Dryden. 
Behaviour, confidered as decent or unbecoming.—Have 
I reafoa or good grace in w hat I do ? Temple. —Adventi¬ 
tious or artificial beauty; pleafing appearance.—To 
write and fpeak correctly gives a grace and gains a fa¬ 
vourable attention to what one has to fay. Locke. 
One lilac only, wit-h a ftatelier grace, 
PiCfum’d to claim the oak’s and cedar’s place. Harte. 
Natuial e.xcellence : 
The charming Latifus, full of youthful fire, 
To Turnus only fecond in the grace 
Of manly mien, and features of the face. Dryden. 
Embelli/hment ; recommendation; beauty.—Where 
jultice grows, there grows the greater grace. Spenfer. 
Set all things in their own peculiar place. 
And know that order is the greateft grace. Dryden. 
Single beauty.—[ pafs their form and every chaiming 
grace. Dryden. —Ornament; flower; highefl; perfection : 
By, their hands this grace of kings mull die, 
If hell and treafon liold their promifes. Shakefpeare. 
Single or particular virtue.—The graces of religion pre¬ 
pare him for the moll ul'eful difeharge of every relation 
of life. Rogers. —Virtue phylical; 
O, mickle is the pow’rful grace that lies 
In plants, herbs. Hones, and their true qualities. Shakefp. 
The title of a duke or archbifhop ; formerly of the king, 
meaning tJie fame Ai your goodnefs, orycur clemency •. 
Here come I fro.u our princely general, 
To know your grief; to tell you from his grace. 
That he will give you audience. Shakefpeare. 
A fiiort prayer faid before and after meat: 
Then cheerful healths, your milliefs Ihall have place : 
And w hat’s rnorei rare, a poet ftiall lay grace. Pope. 
7 a GRACE, va. To adorn; to dignify; to em- 
beltilh ; to recommend ; to decorate : 
Tiiough triumphs were to generals only due. 
Crowns were referv’d to grace the Ibldiers too. Pope. 
To dignify or raife by an aCt of favour : 
Difpofe all honours of the fword and gun, 
Grace with a nod, and rain with a frown. Dryden, 
To favour; 
When the guells withdrew, 
Their courteous hod, faiuung all the crew, t 
Regardiefs pafs’d her o’er, nor grac'd witli kind adieu. 
Diyden. 
Act of GRACE, an appellation firlt given 10 the 
a6l of parliament of rScja, c. 32. wlyicli allows prildners 
for civil debts to be let at liberty, uponmaking oath 
that they have not w herewithal to fupport th nifelves 
in prifon, unlefs they are alimented by the creditors on 
whofe diligences they were iiupnfoned, within ten days 
after intimation made for that ptirpofe. 
Days of GRACE, three days immediately follow'- 
ing the term of payment of a bill of exchange, in tlie hill 
of which the creditor mull proted it, if payment be not 
obtained, in order to intitle him to recourfe againd tire 
drawer. See the article Bill of Exchange, vol. iii. 
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GRACE-CUP, f. The cup or health drank after 
grace : 
T\\grace-cup ferv’d, the clotli away, 
Jo\re thought it time to drew his play. Prior. 
GRA'CED, adj. Beautiful; graceful ; virtuous; 
regular ; thade. Not in vfe ; 
Epicurifiu and lud 
Make it more like a tavern or a brothel, 
T han a grac'd palace. Shakefpeare. 
GRA'CEFUL, adj. Beautiful witli dignity: 
Matchlefs his pen, vittoriou-s was his lance ; 
Bold in the lids, Aixd. graceful in the dance. Pope, 
Graceful to fight, and elegant to thought-. 
The great are vanquifli’d, and the wife are taught. Young, 
GRA'CEFULLY, adv. Elegantly; witli pleafing 
dignity.—Walking is the mode or manner of man, or of 
a beali ; but walking gracefully implies a manner or mode 
fuperadded to that action. Watts. 
Through nature and tlirough art die rang’d. 
And gracefully her I'ubject chang’d. Swift. 
GRA'CEFULNESS, f. Elegance of manner ; dignity 
with beauty.—lie executed with fo much gracefulnefs 
and beauty, that he alone got money and reputation. 
Dryden. —There is a fecret gracefulnefs of youth which 
accompanies his writings, though the daidnefs and fo- 
briety of age be wanting. Dryden's Ovid, Prface. 
Her hearers are amaz’d from whence 
Proceeds that fund of wit and fenfe ; 
While gracefulnefs its art conceals. 
And yet through every motion deals. Swft. 
GRA'CELESS, adj. Void of grace ; wicked ; hope- 
lefsly corrupt ; abandoned.—In all manner of gracelefs 
and hopeiefs characlers, fome are loll for w ant of ad¬ 
vice, and others for want of heed. L'Fjlrangc, 
Furnidi’d for offence, he crofs’d tiie way, 
Betwixt rho gracelefs vilUdn and his prey. D'ydcn. 
GRA'CEa.ESSLY, adv. In a gracelefs manner. 
GR A'CELESSNESS, f. The date of quality of being 
gracelefs. Scott. 
GRA'CES, y. Gaai graces, for favour, is feldom lift'd 
in the fingular; 
Demand deliv’ry of her heart. 
Her goods and chatties, and good graces, 
And perlbn up to his embraces. Hudibras. 
GRA'CES, or Charites, in mythology, were three 
beautiful deities wlio .ittcnded ou Venus, 'i'heir name.' 
Agfa, Thalia, and Euphrojyne, aie faid literally to fignify 
Jhinivg,JL'urifung, and gay. T hey are painted naked, to 
Ihow that the Graces borrow nothing liom art, asid that 
tliey have no other beauties than wliat are natural. Yet 
in the firll ages they were not repiefented naked, as ap¬ 
pears from Paufanias, lib. vi. and lib. ix. w ho deferibts 
their 
