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round. They do not amufe themfelves with taking a lit¬ 
tle, but drinking in good earned the greated draughts 
they can ; and there are fome of thefe German gentlemen 
who can drink a quart at a draught; fo that the cup, big 
as it is, mud foon be filled anew. The wine mud be of 
the bed Rhenidi ; and the officers of the cathedral have 
power to go and choofe it that day, with great ceremony, 
in the elector’s-cellars. While the cup goes round, the 
imificians drike up their notes, and fing, what the papids 
call theTmproperia. The company, at fird, were moded 
and cautious ; but, after the good wine began to difplay 
its virtue, they became foolilh and riotous ; the cup circu¬ 
lates five times. My hod owned he had drank fo many 
quart's of wine.” 
LORDA'NE, qr Lordant, /. [from lord and Dane.] 
A lazy lordly fellow. Scott. 
LOR'DTNG,/.' The aft of domineering. 
LOR'DING, f. A little lord ; a lord in contempt or 
ridicule.— I’ll quedion you of my lord’s tricks, and yours, 
when you were boys. You were pretty lor dings then. t 
Skakefpeare's Winter's Tale. 
To lordings proud I tune my lay, 
Who fead in bower or hall; 
Though dukes they be, to dukes I fay. 
That pride will have a fall. Swift. 
A general appellation of people above the vulgar: 
Then liften, lordings, if ye lid to vreet 
The caufe, why Satyrane and Paridell 
Mote not be entertayn’d, as feemed meet, 
Into that cattle, (as that fquyre does tell.) Spetfer. 
He call’d the worthies then, and fpake them fo : 
Lordings, you know, I yielded to your will, 
And gave you licenfe with this dame to go. 
To win her kingdom, and that tyrant kill. Fairfax. 
LOR'DLINGjjfi A diminutive lord: 
Traulus, of amphibious breed, 
By the dam from lordlings fprung, 
By the fire exhal’d from dung. Swift. 
LOR'DLINESS, /. Dignity ; high dation : 
Thou vouchfafed here to vifit me. 
Doing the honour of thy lordlinefs 
To one fo weak. Skakefpeare's Antony and Cleopatra. 
Pride ; haughtinefs. 
LOR'DLY, adj. Befitting a lord.— Lordly fins require 
lordly edates to fupport them. South. —Proud ; haughty ; 
imperious j infolent: 
Bad as yourfelf, my lord ; 
An’t like your lordly lord proteflorfhip! Skakefpeare. 
LOR'DLY, adv. Imperioufly ; defpotically ; proudly: 
So when a tiger fucks the bullock’s blood, 
A famifh’d lion, iffuing from the wood. 
Roars lordly fierce, and challenges the food. Dry den. 
LORDO'SIS, /. [TiogJo;, Gr. bent inwards.) A didem- 
pered date of the fpine, in which it is bent inwards, or 
towards the anterior parts. It is ufed in oppofition to 
gibbous , or hump-backed. 
LOR'DSHIP, f. Dominion; power.—Let me never 
know that any bafe affeftion fhould get any lordjhip in 
your thoughts. Sidney.—^ They which are accounted to 
rule over the Gentiles exercife lordjhip over them, and 
their great ones exercife authority upon them. Mark x. 42. 
—Seigniory ; domain.—How can thofe grants of the kings 
be avoided, without wronging of thofe lords whjch had 
thofe lands and lord/hips given them ? Spenfer on Ireland. 
What lands and lordjhips for their owner know 
My quondam barber, but his worfhip now. Dryden. 
Title of honour ufed to 3 nobleman not a duke.—I could 
not anfwer it to the world, if I gave not your lordjhip my 
tedimony of being the belt hufband now living. Dryden. 
LOR 
I affure your lordjhip. 
The extreme horror of it almod turned me 
To air, when fird I heard it. Ben Jonfon . 
Titulary compellation of judges, and fome other perfons 
in authority and office. 
LORE, a town of the principality of Georgia, in the 
province of Carduel : fixty miles fouth-fouth-wed of 
Teflis, and fixty-five north-ead of Erivan. 
LORE, f. [from laspian,' Sax. to learn.] Leflon ; doc¬ 
trine; indruCtion.—The law of nations, or the lore of war. 
Fairfax. 
And, for the moded lore of maidenhood * 
Bids me not fojourn with thefe armed men, 
Oh, whither fliall I dy ? Fairfax.. 
The fubtile fiend his lore 
Soon learn’d,now milder, and thusanfwer’d fmooth. Milton. 
Lo! Rome herfelf, proud midrefs now no more 
Of arts, but thund’ring againd heathen lore. Pope. 
Workmanfhip : 
In her right hand a rod of peace (he bore. 
About the which two ferpents weren wopnd, 
Entrayled mutually in lovely lore. Spenfer. 
In ornithology, a naked line between the bafe of the bill', 
and the eye in birds. 
To LORE, v. a. To leave.—Neither of them fhe found 
where (he them lore. Spenfer. 
LORE'DO, or Loreo, a town of Italy, near a canal 
of the Adige ; anciently called Lauretum Venetum. It is the 
principal place of a didriCl, and contains about 2300 in¬ 
habitants : twenty miles fouth of Venice. 
LOR'EL, f. [from leojtan, Sax.) An abandoned 
fcoundrel. Obfolete : 
Siker thou fpeaked like a lewd lorell 
Of heaven to deemen fo : 
How be I am but rude and borre'll. 
Yet nearer ways I know. Spenfer's Pajlorals. 
LO'REMBERG, a town of the county of Goritz s 
feven miles ead of Goritz. 
LOREN'TE (Andres), a Spanifh writer on mufic, and 
author of a book, now become very fcarce, intitled 
El Porque del la Mvfica, in which are contained the four 
arts of plain-fong, figurative mufic, or proportion of time 
or meafure, plain counterpoint, and compofition. Printed 
at Alcala in 410. 1672. This treatife defines and explains 
the whole art of mufic, as far as it was known at the time 
it was written. 
LORENZA'GO, a town of Italy, in the Cadorin: 
feven miles north-ead of Cadora. 
LORENZI'NI (Francis-Maria,) an eminent Italian 
poet, was born at Rome of a refpedtable family in 1680. 
He was educated among the Jefuits ; and, although his 
inclination led him to the dudies of polite literature, yet, 
a profeflion being neceffary to his maintenance, he en¬ 
gaged in that of the law, which he pra&ifed with fuccefs. 
At length, however, he devoted lrimfelf folely to letters 5 
and, in 1705, he entered into the Academy of the Arcadi, 
the chief objeCt of which was the reformation of the bad 
tade which had infeCted Italian poetry. See vol. i. p. 46. 
The founders of this fociety propofed the fimple and na¬ 
tural dyle of Petrarch as a model, in oppofition to the af¬ 
fected and condrained diCfion of Marino and others. 
Lorenzini, though fenfible of the merit of Petrarch, yet 
feared that the imitation of him alone would bring back 
the languor of the poets of the fixteenth century; and 
therefore borrowed for his own praftice fome of the force 
and freedom of Dante, and thus formed a manner which 
gave him a high reputation. He alfo exercifed himfelf in 
Latin poetry, particularly in what were termed Melo- 
drames, or pieces on religious fubjefts, adapted for being 
fung. Of thefe he publithed feveral, which obtained the 
praife of elegance, the only praife which he fought from 
them. 
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