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holy. The people, who profecuted this method of wor- 
fhip, enjoyed a fpothing infatuation, which flattered the 
gloom of fuperftition. The eminences'to which they 
retired were lonely and filent, and calculated for con¬ 
templation and prayer. They, who frequented them, 
were raifed above the lower world ; and fancied that 
they were brought into the vicinity of the powers of the 
air, and of the deity who refided in the higher regions. 
But the chief object for which they were frequented, 
was the Omphi, expreffed by the Greeks, and in¬ 
terpreted Oeict xfcflSW; vox divina 5 being a particular re¬ 
velation from heaven. In fhort, they were looked upon 
as the peculiar places where God delivered his oracles. 
In the Scriptures, as often as a reformation among 
the Jews was introduced by fome of tlie wifer and bet¬ 
ter princes, it is lamented by the facred writer, (1 Kings 
xxii. 2 Kings xii. xv. &c.) that the high places were 
not taken away ; for the people Jlill offered ,, and burnt 
incenfe, on the high places. Yet before the temple was. 
built, there was nothing in the high-places very con¬ 
trary to the law, provided God only was adored there, 
and that no incenfe or vi£tims were offered to idols. 
Under the judges they feem to have been tolerated ; for 
Samuel offered facrifices in feveral places befides the ta¬ 
bernacle, where the ark was not prefent. Even in Da¬ 
vid’s time, they facrificed to the Lord at Shilo, Jerufa- 
lem, and Gideon; but after the temple was built, and 
a place prepared for the fixed fettlement of the ark of 
the covenant, it was no more allowed of to facrifice out 
of Jerufalem. Solomon, in the beginning of his reign, 
went a pilgrimage to Gibeon; but from that time we 
hear of no lawful facrifices offered out of the temple. 
HIGH POINT, a cape on the north coaft of the ifland 
of Barbadoes. Lat. 13. 22. N. Ion. 58. 30. W. Green¬ 
wich. 
HIGH-PRIEST, a pried of the fuperior order. See 
Pontxfex and Priest. 
HIGH-PRIN'CIPLED, extravagant innotionsof po¬ 
litics.—This feems to be the political creed of all the 
high-principled men I have met with. Swift. 
HIGH-REACB'ING, adj. Afpiring.— High-reaching 
Buckingham grows circumfped. Shakefpeare. 
HIGH-RED, adj. Deeply red.—Oil of turpentine, 
though clear as water, being digefted upon the purely 
white fugar of lead, has in a fhort time afforded a high- 
red tindure. Boyle. 
HIGH-RESOL'VED, adj. Refolute : 
With a power 
Of high-rcfolved men, bent to the fpoil, 
Tiiey hither march amain, Titus Andronicus. 
HIGH-RIG'GED, adj. Furnilhed with high rigging; 
formed with a fhoulder as the head of an arrow. 
HIGH-SE AS'ONED, adj. Piquant to the palate.—Be 
fparing alfo of fait in the feafoning of all his victuals, 
and ufe him not to highfeafoned meats. Locke. 
HIGH-SIGHT'ED, adj. Always looking upwards: 
Left high-fighted tyranny range on, 
’Till each man drop by lottery. Shakefpeare. 
HIGH-SPIR'ITED, adj. Bold; daring; infolent. 
HIGH-STOM'ACHED, adj. Obftinate; lofty: 
High-fomach’d are they both, and full of ire ; 
In rage, deaf as the fea, hafty as fire. Shakefpeare. 
HIGH-TA'PER,/. in botany. See Verbascum. 
HIGH-TAS'TED, adj. Guftful; piquant : 
Flattery ftill in fugar’d words betrays, 
And poifon in high-lajled meats conveys. Denham. 
HIGH-VI'CED, adj. Enormoufly wicked : 
Be as a planetary plague, when Jove - 
Will o’er fome high-vic’d city hang his poifon 
In the Tick air. , Shakefpeare. 
HIGH-WA'TER, that ftate of the tides when they 
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have flowed to their greateft height, and have ceafed to 
flow or rife. At high-water the motion commonly 
ceafes for a quarter or half an hour, before it begins to 
ebb again. The time of high-water of every day of the 
moon’s age, is ufually computed from that which is ob- 
ferved on the day of the full or change; viz. by taking 
4-5ths of the moon’s age on any day of the month, and 
adding it to the time of high-water on the day of the full 
or change ; then is the fum nearly equal to the time of 
high-water on the day of the month propofed. See the 
article Tide. 
HIGH-WROUGHT, adj. Accurately finilhed ; no- 
bly laboured: 
Thou triumph’d: vidor of the high-wrought day, 
And the pleas’.d dame, foft fmi.ling, lead'd away. Pope. 
HIGH-WYC'OMB, an ancient town of Buckingham- 
fhire, alfo called Chipping Wycomb, from cwmm, a Bri- 
tiflt word for valley or vale. It is a great thoroughfare 
; from London to Oxford : twelve miles from Aylefbury, 
fourteen from Uxbridge, and thirty-three from London. 
It has a market on Fridays, which is plentifully fup- 
plied with filli, flefli, and other provifionsfair Sept. 25. 
It is feated on a final 1 river, which falls into the Thames. 
The church is a large Gothic ftrudure, with a fteeple 
not ill-built; and the town has a free grammar-tchool, 
and two alms-houfes ; with feveral paper and corn mills 
near the town. In July 1724, in a meadow adjacent, 
was difcovered a curious piece of Roman antiquity, a 
pave/nent of about nine feet fquare, with ftones of vari¬ 
ous colours, wrought with exquifite art, the biggeft no 
broader than the fquare of a die. High Wycomb fends 
two members to parliament; and is governed by a mayor, 
recorder, twelve aldermen, a town-clerk, &c. It has 
returned to parliament ever fince 28 Edward I. The re¬ 
turning officers are the mayor and bailiffs. 
HIGH'AM-FER'RERS, a pleafant healthy town in 
Northamptonfhire, diftant feventy-one miles from Lon¬ 
don. In the reign of Philip and Mary, it was made a 
, borough and corporation, confiding of a mayor, ftewai'd, 
recorder, feven aldermen, thirteen capital burgeffes, and 
commonalty, with power to fend one member to parlia¬ 
ment. Higham-Ferrers, which fignifies the high houfe of 
Ferrers , derives its name from a caftle on a riling ground, 
anciently in the poffeffion of the family of Ferrers. In the 
tenth year of Henry V. that prince granted a licence to 
Henry Chichely, archbiftiop of Canterbury, to found a 
college here, (this being the place of his birth,) for 
eight fecular chaplains, four clerks, and fix chorifters. 
It was incorporated by the name of the College ot the 
Bleffed Virgin, St. Thomas of Canterbury, and St. Ed¬ 
ward the Confeffor. The bilhop endowed it with lands 
in his life-time, and thefe were incrcafed after his death 
by his brothers Robert and William, aldermen of Lon¬ 
don, his executors. Its annual value, at the fuppref- 
fion, according to Dugdale, was 155I. 2s. This town 
has a good free-fchool; and an alms-houfe for twelve 
men and one woman. The market is on Saturdays; 
fairs, Feb. 5, March 7, May 3, June 28, Aug. 3, Od..io, 
and Thurfday before Dec. 17. 
Higham-park is oil the fouth-eaft of Higham-Ferrers. 
—Thingdon, or Findon, north-weft of Higham-Ferrers, 
in the road to Kettering, hasa charity-lchool for twenty 
girls, who are clothed, lodged, and dieted^taught to 
read and write, and fpin Jeriey yarn, which is made into 
ferge for clothing the children of the charity-fchools 
in London. 
HIGH'GATE, a village or fmall town in Middle- 
fex, diftant four miles from London ; fo called front its 
high lituation on the top of a hill, and a gate ereded there 
above four hundred years ago, to receive toll for the 
bilhop of London, becaufe an old road from Gray.’g-inn- 
lane to Barnet was turned through that bifhop’s park. 
It has a chapel of eafe to Pancras and Hornfey ; and on 
its fite was once an hermitage : hear which lord-chiel- 
baron Cholmondcley built a free-fchooh in 1362, which 
