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ed more honourable than the other members of that af- 
fembly, the general meetings of. which were always fum- 
moned by them, and their names were prefixed to the 
decrees made by that council.—The term is now ap¬ 
plied to an officer in the Greek church, whofe principal 
funftion is to ftand behind the patriarch at the facra- 
ments, ceremonies, and other offices, performed by him. 
HIERONO'MI ANS, f. In church hiftory., an order 
of monks faid to have been eftabliftied by Saint Jerome : 
an order of hermits founded in the year 1365. 
HIEROPH AN'TES, or Hierophan'ta,/ [ l 5 g o ? , Gr. 
holy, and <pa.ua, I appear.] In antiquity, a prielt among 
the Athenians. The hierophantes was the chief perfon 
that officiated in the eleufinia, or great folemnity facred 
to Ceres. 
HIEROPH AN'TIC, ctdj. [from hierophant.] Belong¬ 
ing to the hierophant. 
HIEROPH'YLAX,/. An officer in the Greek church, 
who was guardian or keeper of the utenfils, veftments, 
Sc c. anfwering to our facrifta or veftry-keeper. 
HIERQS'COPY../: [from i£ge;, Gr. facred, and axorreu, 
to view.] A kind of divination; hieromancy. 
HIEROSOL'YMA, a celebrated city of Paleftine, 
the capital of Judaea, taken by Pompey, who, on that 
account, is furnamed Hierofolymarius. Titus alfo took it 
and deftroyed it on the 8th of September, A. D. 70, ac¬ 
cording to Jofephus 2177 years after its foundation. In 
the fiege by Titus, 110,000 perfons are faid to. have pe- 
riffied, and 97,060 to have been made prifoners, and af¬ 
terwards either fold for (laves, or wantonly expofed for 
the fport of their infolent vigors to the fury of wild 
hearts. 7 ofeph. Bell. J. vii. c. 16. 
HIEROSOLOM'YTAN, adj. Belonging to Jerufa- 
lem, done at Jerusalem. Bailey. 
HPERTING, or Jet'ting, a feaport of Denmark, 
fituated at the mouth of the Warde, with one of the belt 
harbours in North Jutland: twenty-two miles north- 
weftofRipen. Lat.55. 29..N. Ion. 8. 22. E. Greenwich. 
HIG'DEN (Ralph), one of the Englilh chroniclers, 
and a monk of St. Werburg’s in Chefter, where he died 
in 1377. He was the author of an hiftorical compilation, 
entitled Polychronicon, originally written in Latin, but 
tranflated by John de Trevifa into Englilh, and printed 
by Caxton. 11 is in feven books, and extends from the 
creation to the year 1357. He is confidered valuable 
^as having, preferved feveral documents relative to the 
ancient Britons and Saxons, from chronicles now loll ; 
hence he is often cited as an original author. The belt 
edition of his work is that of 1642, folio. 
HIG'GINS, Hug'gins, or Hig'genson, [contrac¬ 
tions of Hugh, and in, which- Africus fays, iignifies a 
fon ; q. d. Little Hugh, or Hugh’s Son. ] A proper name. 
To HIQ'GLE, n. n. [of uncertain etymology, proba¬ 
bly corrupted from haggle. ] Tothaffer; to be penuri¬ 
ous in a bargain.—In good offices and due retributions 
we'may not be pinching and niggardly ; it argues an ig¬ 
noble mind, where we have wronged, to higgle and dodge 
in the amends. Hale. —Why all this higgling with thy 
friend about fuch a paltry fum ? Does this become the 
generofity of the noble and rich John Bull ? Arbuthnot .— 
To go felling provifions from door to door. This feems 
the original meaning; fuch provifions being cut into 
fmall quantities. 
HIG'GLEDY-PIG'GLEDY, adv. A cant word, cor¬ 
rupted from higgle, which denotes any confufed mafs, as 
higglers carry a huddle of provifions together. 
HIG'GLER, / One who fells provifions from door 
to door ; and buys up poultry, rabbits, fiffi, &c. for 
that purpofe. 
HIG'GLING, f. The aft of chaffering, the aft of 
making many words to a bargain ; the trade of a higgler. 
HIGH, adj. [heah, Sa x. hoogh, Dut.] Long upwards 5 
rifing above from the furface, or from the centre ; op- 
poled to deep, or long downward. —The higher parts of 
the earth being continually ipending, and the lower con- 
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tinually gaining, they nut ft of neceffity at length come 
to an equality. Burnet .—Elevated in place; raifed aloft; 
oppofed to low .—Reafon elevates our thoughts as high 
as the ftars,. and leads us through the vaft fpaces of this 
mighty fabric ; yet it comes far Ihort of the real extent 
of even corporeal being. Locke. 
They that ftand high have many blafts to fhake them. 
And if they fall they dalh themfelves to pieces. Shakefp. 
Exalted in nature.—The highejl faculty of the foul. Bax¬ 
ter .—Elevated in rank or condition ; as, high prieft.—He 
wooes both high and low, both rich and poor. Shakejp. 
O mortals! blind in fate, who never know 
To bear high fortune, or endure the low. Dryden. 
Exalted in fentiment: 
Solomon liv’d at eafe, nor aim’d beyond 
Higher defign than to enjoy his ftate. Milion . 
Difficult; abftrufe.—They meet to hear and anfwer 
fuch high things. Shakefpeare. —Boaftful; oftentatious.—> 
His forces, after all the high difcourfes, amounted really 
but to eighteen hundred foot. Clarendon. —Arrogant; 
proud ; -lofty.—The governor made himfelf merry with 
his high aud threatening language, and fent him word he 
would neither give nor receive quarter.. Clarendon. —Se¬ 
vere ; oppreffive—-When there appeareth on either fide 
a high hand, violent profecution, cunning advantages 
taken, and combination, then is the virtue of a judge 
feen. Bacon. —Noble; illuftrious.—Truft me, I am e«- 
ceeding weary.- — I had thought wearinefs durft not 
have attacked fo high blood.—It doth me, though it dis¬ 
colours the complexion of my greatnefs to acknowledge 
it. Shakefpeare .—Violent ; tempeftuous ; loud. Ap¬ 
plied to the wind.—Spiders cannot weave their nets in 
a high wind. Duppa. 
More Ihips in calms on a deceitful coaft, 
Or unfeen rocks, than in high ftorms, are loft. Denham , 
Tumultuous; turbulent; ungovernable: 
Can heav’nly minds fuch high refentment (how. 
Or exercife their fpite in human woe i Dryden . 
Full 5 complete; applied to time; now u fed only in 
curfory fpeech.—It was high time for the lords to look 
about them. Clarendon. 
High time now ’gan it wax for Una fair. 
To think of thofe her captive parents dear. Spenfcr. 
Raifed to any great degree : as high pleafure ; high lux° 
ury; a high performance; a high colour ;: 
Solomon liv’d at eafe, and full 
Of honour, wealth, high fare. Milton. 
Advancing in- latitude from the line.—They are forced 
to take their courfe either high to the north, or low to 
the fouth. Abbot .—-At the molt perfeft ftate; in the me¬ 
ridian : as, by the fun it is high : whence probably the 
foregoing expreffion, high time.—It is yet high day, nei¬ 
ther is it time that the cattle Ihould be gathered. Gen . 
xxix. 7.—Far advanced into antiquity.—The nominal- 
obfervation of the feveral days of the week is very high , 
and as old as the ancient Egyptians, who named the 
fame according to the feven planets. Brown .—Dear ; ex¬ 
orbitant in price.-—If they muft be good at.fo high a 
rate, they know they may be fafe at a cheaper. Sout/i .— 
Capital; great; oppofed to little : as, high treafon, in 
oppofition to petty. 
“The higher the tree, the greater the fall.”-— Cel- 
fa graviore cafu decidunt turres. Horace.—The Latins fay, 
Tolluntur in ahum, ut lapfu graviore ruant. This proverb is 
commonly applied to thefe perfons who afpire to high 
or exalted offices in the ftate, without any patriotic mo¬ 
tives, but with a view to felf-aggrandizement and'riches ; 
and who, by being detefted in fome bafe or fraudu¬ 
lent aft, are degraded from their places, and then faid 
to have had a great fall; and they generally and de- 
fervedly 
