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the lords and commons to the prince and princess of Orange, 
February 13, 1688; and afterwards enacted in parliament, 
when they became king and queen. This declaration sets 
forth, that king James II. did, by the assistance of 
divers evil counsellors, endeavour to subvert the laws and 
liberties of this kingdom, by exercising a power of dispensing 
with and suspending of laws; by levying money for the use 
of the crown, by pretence of prerogative, without consent of_ 
parliament; by prosecuting those who petitioned the king, 
and discouraging petitions; by raising and keeping a stand¬ 
ing army, in time of peace; by violating the freedom of 
election of members to serve in parliament; by violent pro¬ 
secutions in the court of king’s bench; and causing partial 
and corrupt jurors to be returned on trials, excessive bail to 
be taken, excessive fines to be imposed, and cruel punish¬ 
ments inflicted; all which were declared to be illegal. And 
the declaration concludes, in these remarkable words, “ And 
they do claim, demand, and insist upon, all and singular the 
premises, as their undoubted rights and liberties.” And the 
act of parliament itself (1 W. & M. stat. 2. cap. 2.) recog¬ 
nizes “ all and singular the rights and liberties' asserted and 
claimed in, the said declaration to be the true, ancient, and 
indubitable rights of the people of this kingdom.” 
To RFGHTEN, v. a. [pighcan, pihtan, Saxon.] To 
do justice to.—Seek judgment; relieve [in the margin 
tighten^ the oppressed. Isaiah, i. 17. 
RI'GHTEOUS, adj. [pihe-jjip,Saxon*, whence right-wise, 
in our old authors; rightwisness , in Wicliffe; and right- 
iwisely , in Bishop Fisher: so much, as Dr. Johnson remarks, 
are words corrupted by pronunciation.]—Just; honest; 
virtuous; uncorrupt.—That far be from thee, to slay the 
righteous with the wicked ; and that the righteous should 
be as the wicked. Genesis. —Equitableagreeing with 
right. 
Kill my rival too ; for he no less 
Deserves; and I thy righteous doom will bless. Dry den. 
RI'GHTEOUSED, adj. Made righteous; justified. 
Not in use, and inelegant. —-Can we meryte grace with 
synne? or deserve to be ryghtoused by folye ? Bale. 
RI'GHTEOUSLY, adv. Honestly; virtuously. 
Athens did righteously decide, 
When Phocion and when Socrates were try’d; 
As righteously they did those dooms repent. 
Still they were wise, whatever way they went. Dry den. 
According to desert.—Turn from us all those evils, that we 
most righteously have deserved. Litany. 
RIGHTEOUSNESS, s. Justice; honesty; virtue; 
goodness; integrity. 
Here wretched Phlegias warns the world with cries, 
Cou’d warning make the world more just or wise ; 
Learn righteousness, and dread th’ avenging deities. 
Dryden. 
RI'GHTER, s. [from pihcepe, Sax. rector, gubernator.] 
A redresser; one who relieves from wrong ; one who does 
justice to.—I will pay thee what I owe thee, as that righter 
of wrongs hath left me commanded. Skelton. 
RIGHTFUL, adj. Having the right; having the just 
claim. 
As in this haughty great attempt. 
They laboured to supplant the rightful heir; 
I lost my liberty, and they their lives. Shakspeare. 
Some will mourn in ashes, some coal black, 
For the deposing of a rightful king. Shakspeare . 
Honest; just; agreeable to justice.—-Grant to us, Lord, 
we beseech thee, the spirit to think and do always such things 
as be rightful. Collect. 
Gather all the smiling hours; 
Such as with friendly care have guarded 
Patriots and kings in rightful wars. Prior. 
RIGHTFULLY, adv. According to right; according 
to justice.—Henry, who claimed by succession, was sensible 
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that his title was not sound; but was rightfully in Mortimer’ 
who had married the heir of York. Dryden. 
RIGHT-HAND, s. Not the left. 
The rank of osiers, by the murmuring stream. 
Left on your right-hand brings you to the place. 
Sh akspeare. 
RI'GHTFULNESS, 5. Moral rectitude. 
But still although we fail of perfect rightfulness , 
Seek we to tame these superfluities, 
Nor wholly wink though void of purest sightfulness. 
Sidney. 
RPGHTLY, adv. According to truth or justice; pro¬ 
perly ; suitably; not erroneously. 
Each of his reign allotted, rightlier call’d 
Powers of fire, air, water, and earth beneath. Milton. 
Descend from heaven, Urania! by that name 
If rightly thou art call’d. Milton. 
For glory done 
Of triumph, to be styl’d great conquerors. 
Patrons of mankind, gods, and sons of gods; 
Destroyers rightlier call’d, and plagues.of men. Milton. 
Honestly; uprightly. 
Let not my jealousies be your dishonour; 
You may be rightly just, whatever I shall think. 
Shakspeare. 
Exactly. 
Should I grant, thou didst not rightly see; 
Then thou wert first deceiv’d. Dryden. 
Straightly; directly.—-We wish one end; but differ in 
order and way, that leadeth rightly to that end. Ascham. 
RI'GHTNESS, s. Conformity to truth; exemption from 
being wrong; rectitude; not error.—Like brute beasts we 
travel with the herd, and are never so solicitous for the 
rightness of the way, as for the number or figure of our 
company. Rogers. —Straitness.—Sounds move strongest in 
a right line, which nevertheless is not caused by the right¬ 
ness of the line, but by the shortness of the distance. 
Bacon. 
RIGI, a great mountain in the interior of Switzerland, 
between the lakes of Zug, Lucerne, and Lowerz, by which 
it is almost insulated from the other Alps. Height 6000 
feet. 
RPGID, adj: \rigidus, Lat] Stiff; not to be bent; 
unpliant.—A body, that is hollow, may be demonstrated to 
be more rigid and inflexible, than a solid one of the same 
substance and weight. Ray. —Severe; inflexible. 
His severe judgment giving law, 
His modest fancy kept in awe; 
As rigid husbands jealous are. 
When they believe their wives too fair. Denham. 
Unremitted; unmitigated. 
Queen of (his universe ! do not believe 
Those rigid threats of death; ye shall not die, Milton. 
Sharp; cruel. 
Cressy plains 
And Agincourt, deep ting’d with blood, confess 
What the Silures vigour imwithstood 
Could do in rigid fight. Philips. 
RIGI'DITY, s. [rigidite, Fr.] Stiffness.—Stiffness of 
appearance; want of easy or airy elegance. — This severe 
observation of nature, by the one in her commonest, and 
by the other in her absolute forms, must needs produce in 
both a kind of rigidity , and consequently more naturalness 
than gracefulness. Wotton. —Severity; inflexibility.—Not 
to mollify a transcendence of literal rigidity. Milton. _ 
Till the Lutherans abate of their rigidity. Burnet. 
RI'GIDLY, adv. Stiffly; unpliantly. Severely; inflexi¬ 
bly ; without remission ; without mitigation.—It is a greater 
fault rigidly to censure, than to commit a small oversight. 
Fuller. 
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