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age, and then reftore the fame as fully (locked, &c. as 
received. By (tat. 6 Anne, c. 18, perfons who are .'guar¬ 
dians or truftees for infants holding over, without the 
confent of the perfon next intitled, (hall be adjudged 
trefpalfers, and be accountable for profits, &c. By (tat. 
4 Anne, c. 16, afilion of account may be brought againft 
the executors or adminiftrators of a guardian, who will 
be bound to anfwer fatisfafilorily to the ward. 
Guardian of the Spiritualties, the perfon 
to whom the fpiritual jurifdifilion of any diocefe is 
committed, during the vacancy of the fee. See flat. 25 
Hen. VIII. c. 21; and 3 Edto. I. c. 21. The archbifhop is 
guardian of the fpiritualties on. the vacancy of any fee 
within his province ; but when the archiepifcopal lee is 
vacant, the dean and chapter of the archbifhop’s diocefe 
are guardians of the fpiritualties, viz. the fpiritual ju- 
rifdifition of his province and diocefe is committed to 
them. 2 Rol. Abr. 223. The guardian of the fpiritualties, 
it is faid, may be either guardian in law ,jure magijlratus , 
as the archbifhop is of any diocefe in his province ; or 
guardian by delegation, being he whom the archbifhop 
or vicar-general doth for the time appoint. The guar¬ 
dian of the fpiritualties hath all manner of ecclefiaftical 
jurifdidtion of the courts, power of granting licences 
and difpenfations, probate of wills, &c. during the va¬ 
cancy, and of admitting and inflituting clerks prefented; 
but fuch guardians cannot, as fuch, confecrate or ordain, 
or prefent to any benefices. See fiat. 13 Eliz. c. 12. Wood’s 
lnjl. 25. 
Guardian of the Temporalties, [ cujlos tem- 
poralium.~\ The perfon to whofe cuflody a vacant fee 
or abbey was formerly committed by the king; who 
as fleward of the goods and profits was to give an ac¬ 
count to the efcheator, and he into the exchequer. His 
truft continued till the vacancy was fupplied, and the 
fucceffor obtained the king’s writ de rcjlitutione temporalium , 
which was ufually after confecration. 
GUAR'DIAN, adj. Performing the office of a kind 
protector or fuperintendant.—My charming patronefs 
prplefils me unfeen, like my guardian angel ; and (huns 
my gratitude like a fairy, who is bountiful by Health, 
and conceals the giver when (lie beflows the gift. Dryden. 
Thus (hall mankind his guardian care engage, 
The promis’d father of the future age.— 
Meanwhile Minerva, in her guardian care, 
Shoots from the (tarry vaults through fields of air. Pope. 
GUARDIA'NA, a river of Spain, which rifes in New 
Caltile, pafles through the province of La Mancha and 
Eftremadura : a few miles weft of Badajos it enters Por¬ 
tugal, pafles through the province of Alantejo, and runs 
into the Atlantic between Ayamonte and Caftromarin. 
GUAR'DI ANSHIP, f. The office of a guardian.— 
The curate ftretch’d his patent for the cure of fouls, to 
a kind of tutelary gitardianjhip , over goods and chattels. 
V EJlrange. 
GUARD'LESS, adj. Without defence : 
So on the guardlefs herd, their keeper (lain, 
Ru (hes a tiger in the Lybian plain. Waller. 
GUAR'DO, a town of Italy, in theBrefifan, belonging 
to the (late of Venice : ten miles north-eaft of Brefcia. 
GUAR'DO, a town of Spain, in the province of Leon: 
forty miles eaft-north-eaft of Leon. 
GUARD'SHIP, /. Care ; protefilion : 
How blefs’d am I, by fuch a man led! 
Under whofe wife and careful guardjkip 
1 now defpife fatigue and hardlhip. Swift. 
GUARE'A,/. [from its vernacular name of Guara, 
in the Weft Indies.] In botany, a genus of the clafs 
ofitandria, order monogynia, in the natural order of 
melia, JuJf. The generic charafilers are—Calyx : peri- 
anthium one-leafed, four-parted, flattifl), ftiort. Corolla: 
petals four, fpreading, lanceolate, obtufe; nefilary tu¬ 
bular, cylindric, quite entire, length of the corolla, con- 
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trafiled at the throat. Stamina : filaments none p anthers 
eight, growing to the inner edge of- the nefilary, ovate. 
Piftillum: germ roundifh, on a very ftiort pedicel; ftyle 
fubulate, thick, length of the nefilary; ftigma four-cor¬ 
nered, deprefled. Pericarpium : capfule roundifli, large - , 
fubfeflile, four-grooved, four-celled, four-valved. Seeds: 
folitary, oblong, with- a fcarlet aril.-— EJfeniial CharaEler . 
Calyx four-cleft; petals four; nefilary cylindric, bear¬ 
ing the anthers at its mouth ; capfule four-celled, four- 
valved ;’ feeds folitary. 
Guarea triclulioides, or afii-leaved guarea, the only 
fpecies known, is a tree of a middling fize, with a fmooth 
trunk. Leaves pinnate, without an odd leaflet; com¬ 
mon petioles alternate, longiffi, round, fmooth, afli-co- 
loured ; pairs of leaflets two to four, lanceolate-ovate, 
obtufe, entire, nerved, fmooth. All parts of the plant, 
efpecially the bark, fmell ftrongly of mu(k, and may be 
ufed, inftead of that perfume, for many purpdfes. The 
wood is full of a bitter refinous fubftance, which renders 
it unfit for rum-hog(heads; being obferved to communi¬ 
cate both its fmell and tafte to all fpirituous liquors ; but 
it is often cut for (laves and heading, where there is a 
fcarcity of other timber. The powder of the bark is (aid 
to be a good emetic, and is fometimes ufed among the 
negroes for that purpofe. Native of South America and 
the Weft-India iilands,' in woods, and by rivers Tides ; 
flowering in January and February. The Englifli call 
it mu(k-wood and alligator-wood ; the French bois rouge. 
GUA'RI-PAR'IBI, f. in botany. See BiGNbNiA. 
GUARI'N (Peter), a learned French benedifiline 
monk, born at Rouen in 1678. When he was eighteen 
years of age he took the vows, and made fuch profici¬ 
ency in the Greek and Hebrew languages, that he was 
appointed profeflor of them in the feminary belonging 
to his order. He died at Paris, in 1729, in the monafte- 
ry of St. Germain-des-Pres, of which he w’as librarian, 
aged fifty-one years. He was the author of A Hebrew 
Grammar, publiflied at Paris, in 2 vols. 4to. 1724 and 
1728. He had alfo employed much labour on the com- 
pofition of A Hebrew Lexicon, which did not make its 
appearance till many years after his death. It was en¬ 
titled Lexicon Hebraicum & Chaldao-biblicum , in quo non foliim 
Voces primigenia, feu radicates, verum etiam derivative, cum 
omnibus earutn Accidentibus , Or dine alphabetico difponuntur, &c. 
1746, in 2 vols. 4to. 
GUARI'NI (Batifta), a celebrated Italian poet, 
born at Ferrara, in 1537. He ftudied at Pifa, Padua, 
and in his native city; in the univerfity of which he 
was for fome years profeflor of belles-lettres. At the 
age of thirty he entered into the fervice of Alfonfo II. 
duke of Ferrara, who created him a chevalier, and em¬ 
ployed him in various embaffies. He was fucceflively 
Cent to the republic of Venice, to the duke of Savoy, 
to the pope, to the emperor Maximilian, and to the re¬ 
public of Poland. In reward for thefe fervices, the 
duke, in 1585, nominated him his fecretary, but, through 
fome difguft, he reiigned his employment within two 
years. After the death of Alfonfo, he went to Flo¬ 
rence, and was very honourably received bp the grand- 
duke Ferdinand. He returned to Ferrara, whence he 
was delegated,-in 1603, to compliment pope Paul V. on 
his acceffion. He died in 1612, at the age of feventy- 
five. He was the author of Jl Secretario, or the Art of 
Letter Writing ; a comedy entitled ldropico ; &c. But 
hiS literary fame is entirely founded upon his famous 
dramatic paftoral, the Pajlor Fido, which (lands at the 
head of all thofe Italian compofitions, unlefs that place 
be claimed for the Aminta of Taflo, which appeared 
before it. This piece was reprefented for the firft time 
at Turin, in 1585, on occalion of the nuptials of Charles- 
Emanuel, duke of Savoy, with Catharine of Auftria. 
It was printed two years afterwards, and editions of it 
were immediately multiplied throughout Italy, and 
tranflations made into various languages. It continues 
to be regarded as one of the ftandard produfilions of 
