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though not to compel.—Denying me any power of a 
negative voice as king, they are not afhamed to feck to 
deprive me of the liberty of ufing my reafon with a good 
confcience. King Charles. 
NEG'ATIVE, I'. A proportion by which fomething is 
denied.— Of negatives we have the lealt certainty ; they are 
nfuslly liardeft, and many times impoffible, to be proved. 
Tillotfon. —A particle of denial; as, not : 
A purer fubftance is defin’d 
But by an heap of negatives combin’d; 
Aik what a fpirit is, you’ll hear them cry, 
It hath no matter, no mortality. Cleaveland. 
To NEG'ATIVE, v. a. To difmifs by negation.—The 
propofal was negatived by a final! majority. Andrews's 
Anecd. 
NEG'ATIVELY, adv. With denial; in the form of de¬ 
nial ; not affirmatively.—When I alked him whether he 
had not drunk at all ? he anfwered negatively. Boyle .— - 
In form of lpeech implying the abfence of fomething.— 
The fathers draw arguments from the Scripture negatively 
in reproof of that which is evil; Scriptures teach it not, 
avoid it therefore. Hooker. —To this I-Avail fugged fome- 
thing by way of anfwer, both negatively and pofitively. 
Wilkins. —I (hall (hew what this image of God in man is, 
negatively, by (hewing wherein it does not confiit; and 
pofitively, by (hewing wherein it does. South. 
NEGATORY, adj. [ negatoire , Fr.] Belonging to ne¬ 
gation. Cotgrave , and Sherwood. 
NEGATE, a town of the duchy of Stiria : four miles 
fputh-fouth-weft of Rack&jfburg. 
NE'GELSTADT, a town of Saxony, in Thuringia : ten 
miles fouth-eaft of Muhlhaufen. 
NE'GEM, a town of Arabia, in the province of Hedsjas: 
thirty miles weft of Giorafh. 
NEGESABAD', a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Irak: twenty miles north-welt of Ifpahan. 
NEG'GADE. See Neickade. 
NEG'ILA, a tolerably well-built town, or rather vil¬ 
lage, of Egypt,, on the eaft bank of the Nile, within one 
mile of Zaira. 
NEG'INOTH, j. A Hebrew word which occurs in the 
titles of fome of the Pfalnvs, as Pf. lxvii. It fignifies 
“ ftringed inftruments of rnufic, to be played on by the 
fingers of women muficians;” and the titles of thefe 
pfalms, where this word is found, may be thus tranllated, 
“ A Pfidm of David to the mafter of mufic who prefides 
over the ftringed inftruments.” Brown's Did. of the Bible. 
NEG'KO, the name of a clafs of iflands in the Eafterri 
Pacific Ocean, between Kamtfchatka and America, con¬ 
taining the fixteen that are called Andreanofskie Iflands ; 
which in a general view may be regarded as the fame with 
the Fox Iflands, being the weftern part of the fame range ; 
or the Andrenovian Ides, in a lftore limited fenfe, may be 
confidered as forming a group of fixteen or more ides, 
about 500 miles to the fouth-eaft of Beering’s Ifiand. 
Thefe, in both refpeCls, are a kind of elongation of the 
American promontory of Alafka ; and in the mod recent 
maps ofRuffia they are comprehended under one general 
name of Aleutian ides. 
NEGOIES'ZTI, a town of Walachia, on the Artifch : 
twenty-five miles fouth-eaft of Buchareft. 
. To NEGLEC'T, v. a. [ negle£lus , Lat.] To omit by 
careleffncfs.—Where honour due and reverence none 
negleds. Milton's P. L .—To treat with fcornful heedleff- 
Uefs.—If he neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church. 
St. Matthew. 
This my long differing, and my day of grace, 
Thofe who neglect and (corn (hall never tafte. Milton. 
To poltpone; 
I have been long a deeper; but I truft 
My abfence doth ncgl, el no great defign. 
Which by my prefence might have been concluded. 
Shakejpcare . 
Vo l. XVI. No. 1145. 
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NEGLEC'T, f. [ negleSus , Lat.] Inftance of inatten 
tion. Carelefs treatment; fcornful inattention.—I have 
perceived a mod faint negled of late, which I have rather 
blamed as my own jealous curiofity, than as a very pre¬ 
tence or purpofe of unkindnefs. Shaluj'pcare's K. Lear. — 
Negligence; frequency of negieCl: 
Age breeds neglect in all, and actions 
Remote in time, like things remote in place, 
Are not beheld at half their greatnefs. Denham. 
State of being unregarded : 
Refcue my poor remains from vile ncgleB, 
With virgin honours let my herfe be deck’f. Prior. 
NEGLEC'TER, f. One who negleCls.—Chfiftianity 
has backed all its precepts with eternal life, and eternal 
death, to the performers or neg letters of them. South. 
NEGLECT'FUL, adj. Heedlefs ; carelefs ; inattentive: 
with of .— Though the Romans had no great genius for 
trade, yet they were not entirely neglectful of it. Arbuth- 
not on Coins.— Treating with indifference.—If the father 
carefs them when they do well, (hew a cold and neglettful 
countenance to them upon doing ill, it will make them 
fenfible of the difference. Locke on Education. 
NEGLECT'FULLY, adv . With heedlefs inattention; 
carelefs indifference. Not ufed. 
NEGLEC'I'INGLY, adv. Carelefsly; inattentively: 
I then, all finarting with my wounds, being cold, 
Out of my grief and my impatience 
To be fo pelter’d with a popinjay, 
Anfwer’d neglettingly, I know not what. Shahefpeare. 
NEGLEC'T ION, f. The (late of being negligent: 
Sleeping neglettion doth betray to lofs 
The conquefts of our fcarce-cold conqueror. Shahefpeare. 
NEGLEC'TIVE, adj. Inattentive to; regardlefs of.— 
An abfolute forbearance, and neglettive forgetfulnefs of 
all earthly comforts. Bp. Hall's Remains .— It is a wonder 
they (hould be lo neglettive of their own children. Fuller's 
Holy War, p. 20s.—I wanted not probabilities fufficient 
to raife jealoufies in any king’s heart, not wholly llupid, 
and neglettive of the publick peace. King Charles. 
NEGLIGE'E,/l [French.] A fort of faffiionable gown, 
which the ladies.continued to wear in the early part of 
the prefent reign.—He fancied twenty Cupids prepared 
for execution in every folding of her white negligee. 
Goldfmith's Effays. —The (lory is an antique ftatue painted 
white and red, (ringed and dreffed in a negligee made by a 
Yorkffiire mantua-maker. Gray's Letters. 
NEG'LIGENCE, f. [Fr. from negligcntia, Latin.] Ha¬ 
bit of omitting by heedieffnefs, or of acting carelefsly.— 
By a thorough contempt of little excellencies, he is per¬ 
fectly mafter of them. This temper of mind leaves him 
under no neceffity of ftudying his air; and he has this 
peculiar diftinCtion, that his negligence, is unaffected. 
Spectator. —Inftance of negleCt: 
She let it drop by negligence ; 
And, to the advantage, I being here, took’t up. Shakefp. 
NEG'LIGENT, adj. Carelefs; heedlefs; habitually in¬ 
attentive.—My Ions, be not now negligent; for the Lord 
hath chofen you to Hand before him. 2 Citron, xxix, n.— 
Carelefs of any particular: with of before a noun.—Her 
daughters lee her great zeal for religion; but then they 
lee an equal earneftnefs for ail forts of finery. They lee 
(he is not negligent of her devotion ; but then they fee her 
more careful to preferve her complexion. Law .— We have 
been negligent in not-hearing his voice. Baruch, i. 19.— 
Scorniully regardlefs: 
Let ltubborn pride poffefs thee long, 
And be thou negligent of fame ; 
With ev’ry mule to grace thy fong. 
May’ll thou defpife a poet’s name. Swift's MiJ'cel. 
■ 3 i, NEG'LIGENTLY, 
