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ipecioufly.—Without ornament.—Without glofs ; fin- 
eerely.—You write to me with the freedom of a friend, 
fetting down your thoughts as they occur, and dealing 
plainly with me in the matter. Pope. — In earned; fairly. 
They charged tjie enemies horfe fo gallantly, that they 
gave ground ; and at lad plainly run to a fafe place. 
Clarendon. —Evidently; clearly; not obfeureiy.—St.Au- 
guftineacknowledgeth, that they are not only fet down, but 
alfo plainly fet down, in Scripture; fo that he which 
heareth or readeth, may without difficulty underffand. 
Hooker. —From Epiphanius’s cenfure of Origen, one may 
perceive plainly, that lie thought the anti-nicene church 
in general, both before and after Origen, to be of a very 
contrary judgement to that which he condemns in Lucien 
and Origen, that is, to Arianil'm. Water land. 
By that feed 
Is meant thy great deliverer, who (hall bruife 
The ferpent’s head ; whereof to thee anon 
Plainlier (hall be reveal’d. Milton's P. L. 
PLAI'NNESS, / Levelnefs ; flatnefs.—Want of or¬ 
nament; want of (how.—The great variety of God’s 
bounty is fird fet forth in nature’s plainnefs or beauty, 
fo as to court and pleafe every of our fenfes, and to ac¬ 
commodate every of our occaliona, in thofe feveral ways 
and methods which man’s indudry likes bed. Bp Taylor's 
Artif. HandJ'om. 
As (hades mod fweetly recommend the light. 
So modell plainnefs fets off fprightly wit. Pope. 
Opennefs ; rough fincerity.—Your plainnefs and your 
(hortnefs pleafe me well. ShaheJpeare. 
Think’d thou, that duty (hould have dread to fpeak, 
When power to flatt’ry bows ; to plainnefs honour 
Is bound, when majedy to folly falls. ShaheJpeare. 
Artleflbefs; limplicity.—Such was my plainnefs, fuch 
their doublenefle. Mir. for Mag. 
All laugh to find 
Unthinking plainnefs fo o’erfpreads thy mind. Dryden. 
PLAINS, a town of the date of New Jerfey: ten miles 
north-north-wed of Amboy. 
PLAINT,/, [old French.] Lamentation; complaint; 
lament. — Bootlefs are plaints, and curelefs are my 
wounds. ShaheJpeare. 
Then pour out plaint, and in one word fay this : 
Helplefs his plaint, wdio fpoils himfelf of blifs. Sidney. 
Exprqbation of injury.—There are three jud grounds of 
war with Spain; one of plaint, two upon defence. Bacon. 
—Exnreffion of forrow.—How many children’s plaints, 
and mother’s cries ! Daniel. 
Where though I mourn my matchlefs lofs alone, 
And none between my weaknefs judge and me $ 
Yet even tliefe gentle walls allow' my moan, 
Whofe doleful echoes to my plaints agree. Wotton. 
Plaint, in law, the propounding or exhibiting any 
aftion, real or perfonal, in writing ; and the party making 
his plaint is called the plaintiff. A plaint in aninferior 
court is the entry of an aftion, after this manner : “ A. B. 
complains of C. D. of a plea or trefpafs, &c. and there are 
pledges of profecuting, that is to fay John Doe and 
Richard Roe.” 
The fird procefs in an inferior court is a plaint which is 
in the nature of an original writ, becaufe therein is briefly 
fet forth the plaintiff’s caufe of aftion ; and the judge is 
bound, of common right, to adminiffer juflice therein 
without any fpecial mandate from the king. 3 Comm. c. 18. 
p. 273- And on this plaint they may iflue a pone, till 
the return of a nihil, upon which a capias will lie againd 
the body of the defendant. 2 Lill. Air. 294. 
PLAINT'FUL, xulj. Complaining; audibly forrowful. 
—To what a fea of miferies my plaintjul tongue doth lead 
me! Sidney. 
PLAINTIFF,/, [plaintiff, Fr.] He that commences a 
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fuit in law againd another: oppofed to the defendant.— 
The plaintiff proved the debt by three pofitive witnefies, 
and the defendant was cad in cods and damages. 
Id Estrange. 
In fuch a caufe the plaintiff will be hifs’d : 
My lord, the judges laugh, and you’re difmifs’d. Pope. 
PLAINTIFF, adj. Complaining. Not invffe. 
His younger fon on the polluted ground, 
Fird fruit of death, lies plaintiff of a wound. 
Given by a brother’s hand. Prior. 
PLAINTIVE, adj. Complaining; lamentin g; expreffive 
of forrow.—Leviathans in plaintive thunders cry. Young. 
His careful mother heard the plaintive found, 
Encompafs’d with her fea-green fiders round. Dry den: 
PLAINTIVELY, adv. In a manner exprefiing grief or 
forrow. 
PLAIN'TIVENESS, f. State or quality of being 
plaintive. 
PLAINT'LESS, adj. Without complaint; unrepining. 
PLAIN'VILLE, a town of France in the department 
of the Oife : fix miles ead of Breteuil. 
PLA'JO W, a town of the ifland of Borneo : 150 miles 
north of Banjar-Maflim. 
PLAFSANCE, a town of France in the department of 
the Gers: nine miles fouth-fouth-ead of Nogaro, and 
twenty-two wed of Auch. 
PLAI'SANCE, a town of the ifland of Hifpaniola : 
forty miles fouth-fouth-ead of Port-Paix. 
PLAISA'NO, a town of Naples, in Calabria Ultra : fix 
miles north of Oppido. 
PLAIST'ER,/ and its derivatives. See Plaster, &c. 
PLAI'STOVV, a village near Bromley, in Kent. Here 
was the feat of Peter Thelluflon, efq. a native of Geneva, 
who, after having been in partnerfliip in Paris with the late 
great financier, Necker, fettled in London as a brandy- 
merchant, where he acquired an immenfe fortune. He 
died in 1797, leaving to his relations legacies to the 
amount of ioo,oool. the refidue of his property, confiding 
of lands of the annual value of45ool. and a perfonal pro¬ 
perty of 600,oco). to truftees,“ for the purpofe of accumu¬ 
lating during the lives of his three fons, and the lives of 
all their fons who (hould be living at the time of his 
death, or be born in due time afterwards, and the lives of 
the furvivors of them ; then the eflates di refled to be pur- 
chafed with the produce of the accumulating fund, to be 
conveyed to the elded male defeendant of his three fons, 
with benefit of furvivorfliip.” This remarkable will was 
oppofed by the family, but without fuccefs; it was finally 
eftabliftied by the houfe of lords June 25, 1804; but it 
gave occafion to the aft 39,40, Geo. III. c. 98. redrain¬ 
ing in future the power of deviling property, for the 
purpofe of accumulation, to 21 years after the death of 
the tedator. Mr. Thelluflon’s elded fon was created Lord 
Rendlefliam in 1806; but died fuddenly, Sept. 16, 1808, 
aged forty-feven, while out with a fnooting-party near 
his houfe in Suffolk, confiding of Louis XVIII. and 
feveral noblemen, having only enjoyed the title for two 
years. His fon, the prefent lord, is extremely poor; 
while it has been calculated that the property, before any 
part of it can be alienated, may probably amount to thirty 
millions derling. 
PLAI'STOW, a pleafant rural village of Eflex, in the 
parifli of Wed Ham, two miles from Barking, gives the 
name of Plaidow Levels to the low land between the 
mouth of the river Lea and Ham-creek. The mod re¬ 
markable objefd in the village of PlailtoW is an ancient 
manfion, called Hyde-houfe, which is faid to have been, 
inhabited by the monks of Stratford, after their convent 
was diflblved. An invitation to embrace the monadic 
life, isinferibed over the gateway; “This is the gate 
of everlaffing life.” 
PLAI'STOW, a town of America, in Rockingham- 
county, New Hampfhire, containing 424 inhabitants. 
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