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fufed fenfe, and Rands for that fpace which any body 
rakes up. Locke —Local exigence.—The earth and the 
heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them. 
Rev. xx. 11.—Space in general: 
All bodies are confin’d within fome place ; 
Tut flie all place within herfelf confines. Davies. 
Separate room.—His catalogue had an efpecial place for 
fequeftered divines. Fell. 
In his brain 
He hath ftrange places cram’d with obfervation. Shahefp. 
A feat; relidence ; nianfion ; ’[plus, VVeUh and Corn ill), 
a palace, a gentleman’s hotife.]— Place, in the prefent 
fenfe, is old in our language; and is now very common 
in compofition. Todd —With grene trees yfhadowed was 
liis place. Chaucer's C. T. Pro/.—The Romans fhall take 
away both out place and nation. St. John, xi. 48. 
Divine Elifa, facred emperefTe, 
Live flie forever, and her royall places 
Be fill’d with praifes of divineft wits ! Spenfer. 
Paflage in writing.— Hofea faith of the Jews, They have 
reigned, but not by me; which place proveth, that there 
are governments which God doth not avow. Bacon's 
Holy War. — I could not pafs by this place without 
giving this fliort explication. Burnett's Theory of the 
Earth. —Ordinal relation.—What feripture doth plainly 
deliver, to that the firlt place both of credit and obedience 
is due. Hooker. —We fhall extinguifh this melancholy 
thought, of our being overlooked by our Maker, if we 
confider, in the fir ft place, that he is omniprefent ; and, in 
the fecond, that he is omnifeienr. Addifon's Spedator. — 
State of a/dual operation ; effect.—Thefe fair overtures 
made by men well efteemed for honeft dealing, could 
take no place. Hayward. —They are defeats, not in the 
heart, but in the brain; for they take place in the ftouieft 
natures. Bacon. 
With faults confefs’d commifiion’d her to go, 
If pity yet had place, and reconcile her foe. Drydcn. 
Evidence.—Mixt government, partaking of the known 
forms received in the fchools, is by no means of Gothic 
invention, but hath place in nature and reafon. Su'ift. 
•—Rank ; order of priority : 
The heavens themfelves, the planets, and this center, 
Obferve degree, priority, and place. Shahefpeare. 
Precedence; priority. This fenfe is commonly ufed in 
the phrafe take place. —There would be left no meafures 
of credible and incredible, if doubtful propofitions lake 
place before felf-evident. Locke. —As a Britifh free¬ 
holder, I fhould not fcruple taking place of a French 
marquis. Addifon’s Freeholder. 
I know him a notorious liar; 
Think him a great way fool, folely a coward ; 
Yet thefe fix’d evils fit fo fit in him, 
That they take place, when virtue’s fleely bones 
Look bleak in the cold wind. Shahefpeare. 
Do you think I’d walk in any plot. 
Where Madam Sempronia fhould take place of me, 
And Fulvia come i’ the rear ? B. Jonfons Catuline. 
Office; public character or employment.—Some ma- 
giltrates are contented, that their places fhould adorn 
them; and fome ftudy to adorn their places, and reflect 
back the luflre they receive from thence. AUerhury. — 
Do your office, or give up your place. Shukefpcure. 
Fenfions in private were the fenate’s aim ; 
And patriots for a place abandon’d fame. Garth. 
Room; way; fpace for appearing or adding by ceffion, 
not oppofition. With give'. —Avenge not yourfelves, 
bur rather give place unto wrath. Horn. xii. 19. 
Victorious \ ork did firft, with famed fuccefs, 
To his known valour make the Dutch stive place. Drydcn. 
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Ground; room.—Ye feek to kill me, becaufe my word 
hath no place in you. John, viii. 37. Station in life.— 
God would give them, in their feveral places and callings, 
all fpiritualand temporal bleffings, which he fees wanting 
to them. Whole Duty of Man. —Height. A term of falconry. 
—A falcon towering in his pride of place Shahefpeare. 
To PLACE, v. a. To put in any place, rank, con¬ 
dition, or office_ Place fuch over them to be rulers. 
Ex. xviii. 21.—He placed forces in all the fenced cities. 
2 C/iron. xvii. 2. 
And I will place within them as a guide 
My umpire confcience, whom if they will hear. 
Light after light well us’d they fhall attain. 
And at the end perfifting fafe arrive. Milton's P. L. 
To fix ; to fettle; to eftablifli.—God or nature has not 
any-where placed any fuch jurifdiCtion in the firft born. 
Locke. —To put out at intereft: 
’Twas his care 
To place on good fecurity his gold. Pope. 
PLACE fPeter de la), a learned French magiftrate 
and various writer, was a native of Angouleme, and born 
in the year 1526. He applied with great fuccefs to the 
ftudy of jurilprudence; and in 1548, when he was only 
twenty-two years of age, afforded honourable evidence 
of his learning and judgment, by publifhing a Latin 
paraphrafe on the titles of the Imperial Inftitutes, “ De 
ACtionibus, Exceptionibus, et InterdiCtis,” in 4to. 
Afterwards he pleaded at the bar of Paris ; and acquired 
the character of a learned, eloquent, and virtuous, coun- 
fellor. Apprifed of his merits, Francis I. appointed him 
advocate of his court of aids at Paris; and lie difeharged 
the duties of this office with fo much ability and in¬ 
tegrity, that King Henry II. nominated him his firft 
prefident of the fame court. He is thought to have 
become a fecret convert to the proteftant religion in 
the year 1554; but he did not make an open profeffion 
of it before the death of Francis II. 
When the firft civil war, to which the duke of Guife 
was the great infligator, broke out, he retired to one of 
his houfes in Picardy ; but, upon the conclufion of peace 
in 1562, he leized the eariieft opportunity of vindicating 
liimfelf before the king from feveral charges which had 
been preferred againft him ; and his rnajefty appeared 
to be perfectly fatisfied with his conduCl. He was now 
appointed by the prince of Conde iuperintendant of his 
houfehoid ; and he fully jultified the confidence which 
that prince placed in him, by the zeal which he dif- 
covered for his interefts. Upon the new rupture between 
the prince of Comic and the court, about the year 1566, 
M. de la Place retired to the caftle of Ve in the Valois, 
where he continued after the death of the prince, till 
king Charles IX. granted the proteftants advantageous 
terms of peace in 1569, with the defign of lulling them 
into a falfe fecurity, that he might the more readily carry 
into execution the nefarious project which he had formed 
for their extirpation. Equally deceived with many- 
other leading men of his party, M. de la Place was in¬ 
duced to return to Paris, where he refumed his office of 
prefident if the court of aids, and retained it till he fell a 
victim in the horrible maflacre of the Proteftants on St. 
Bartholomew’s day 1572, at the age of 46. He poflefled 
great loundnefs of judgment, clearnefs of diferimination, 
and a truly phiiofophic ipirit, which admirably qualified 
him for the office of a magiftrate, and were feldom found 
united in the profeffional men of his time. Of thefe qua¬ 
lifications he gave a fatisfaCtory proof, in his “ Com,- 
mentaries on the State of Religion and of the Common¬ 
wealth, from 1556 to 1561,” publiflied in 1566, 8vo. He 
was alfo the author of “ A Treatife on the Right Ufe of 
Moral Philofophy in Connection with the Chriftian 
DoCtrine;” ‘‘A Treatife on the Excellence of the 
Chriftian Man ;” and other moral and pious pieces. 
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