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STRENGTH, 5 . [ptpens$, Saxon.] Force; vigour; 
power of the body. 
Thou must outlive 
Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change 
To wither’d, weak, and grey. Milton. 
Power of endurance; firmness; durability; toughness; 
hardness.—Not founded on the brittle strength of bones. 
Milton. —Vigour of any kind; power of any kind. 
This act 
Shall crush the strength of Satan. Milton. 
Power of resistance; sureness; fastness. 
Our castle’s strength 
Will laugh a siege to scorn. Shahspeare. 
Support; security; that which supports. 
Bereave me not thy aid. 
Thy counsel in this uttermost distress. 
My only strength and stay. Milton. 
Power of mind; force of any mental faculty. 
We, like friendly colours, found our hearts unite, 
And each from each contract new strength and light. Pope. 
Spirit; animation. 
Methinks I feel new strength within me rise, 
Wings growing, and dominion given. Milton. 
Adam and first matron Eve 
Had ended now their orisons, and found 
Strength added from above, new hope to spring 
Out of despair. Milton. 
Vigour of writing; nervous diction; force opposed to 
softness, in writing or painting. 
Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know, 
What’s roundly smooth, or languishing! y slow. 
And praise the easy vigour of a line. 
Where Denham’s strength and Waller’s sweetness join. 
Pope. 
Caracci’s strength, Coreggio’s softer line, 
Paulo’s free stroke, and Titian’s warmth divine. Pope. 
Potency of liquors. Fortification; fortress.—The rashness 
of talking should not only be retarded by the guard of our 
heart, but fenced in by certain strengths placed in the 
mouth. B. Jonson. 
He thought 
This inaccessible high strength to have seiz’d. Milton m 
Betray’d in all his strengths, the wood beset; 
All instruments, all arts of ruin met. Denham. 
Support; maintenance of power.—What they boded would 
be a mischief to 11 s, you are providing shall be one of our 
principal strengths. Sprat. —Legal force; validity; se¬ 
curity. Confidence imparted.—The allies, after a successful 
summer, are too apt, upon the strength of it, to neglect their 
preparations for the ensuing campaign. Addison. —Arma¬ 
ment; force; power.—What is his strength by land? 
Shahspeare. —Persuasive prevalence; argumentative force. 
—This presupposed, it may then stand very well with 
strength and soundness of reason thus to answer. Hooker. 
To STRENGTH, v. a. To strengthen. Not used. 
Edward’s happy-order’d reign, most fertile breeds 
Plenty of mighty spirits, to strength his state. Daniel. 
To STRENGTHEN, v. a. To make strong.—To con¬ 
firm ; to establish. 
Thee, bold Longinus! all the Nine inspire, 
And bless your critic with a poet’s (ire; 
An ardent judge, who, zealous in his trust, 
With warmth gives sentence, yet is always just; 
Whose own example strengthens all his laws, 
And is himself that great sublime he draws. Pope. 
To animate; to fix in resolution.—Charge Joshua and en¬ 
courage him and strengthen him. Dent.—' To make to 
increase in power or security. 
Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest, 
With powerful policy strengthen themselves. Shahspeare. 
To STRE'NGTHEN, v. n. To grow strong. 
Oh men for flatt’ry and deceit renown’d! 
Thus when y’ are young ye learn it all like him. 
Till, as your years increase, that strengthens too, 
T’undo poor maids. Otway. 
STRE'NGTHENER, or Stre'ngthner, s. By con¬ 
traction strengthner. —That which gives strength; that 
which makes strong.—Garlic is a great strengthner of the 
stomach upon decays of appetite or indigestion. Temple. 
—[In medicine.] Strengthners add to the bulk and firm¬ 
ness of the solids: cordials are such as drive on the vital ac¬ 
tions ; but these such as confirm the stamina. Quincy. 
STRE'NGTHLESS, adj. Wanting strength; deprived 
of strength. 
Yet are these feet, whose strengthlcss stay is numb. 
Unable to support this lump of clay. Shahspeare. 
As the wretch, whose fever-weaken’d joints. 
Like strengthless hinges, buckle under life, 
Impatient of his fit, breaks like a fire 
Out of his keeper’s arms. Shahspeare. 
Wanting potency; weak. Used of liquors.—This liquor 
must be inflammable or not, and yet subtile and pungent, 
which may be called spirit; or else strengthless or insipid, 
which may be named phlegm. Boyle. 
STRENSALL, a parish of England, East Riding of 
Yorkshire ; 6 miles north-north-east of York. 
STRENSHAM, a village and parish of England, in 
Worcestershire, near the influx of the Avon into the Severn. 
It is noted as the birth-place of Samuel Butler, the author of 
Hudibras; 4f miles south-west-by-south of Pershore. 
STRENUOUS, adj. [strenuus, Lat.] Brave; bold; 
active; valiant; dangerously laborious. 
Nations grown corrupt 
Love bondage more than liberty ; 
Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty. Milton. 
Zealous; vehement.—He resolves to be strenuous for 
taking off the test, against the maxims of all wise Christian 
governments, which always had some established religion, 
leaving at best a toleration to others. Swift. 
STRENUOUSLY, adv. Vigorously; actively.—Many 
can use both hands, yet will there divers remain that can 
strenuously make use of neither. Brown. —Zealously; ve¬ 
hemently ; with ardour.—Writers dispute^ strenuously for 
the liberty of conscience, and inveigh largely against all 
ecclesiastics under the name of high church. Swift. 
STRE'NUOUSNESS, s. The slate of being strenuous; 
earnestness; laboriousness. Scott. 
STRE'PENT, adj. [ strepens, Lat.] Noisy ; loud. 
Peace to the strepent horn ! 
Let no harsh dissonance disturb the morn ; 
No sounds inelegant and rude 
Her sacred solitude profane. Shenstone. 
STRE'PEROUS, adj. [strepo, Lat.] Loud; noisy.— 
Porta conceives, because in a streperous eruption it riseth 
against fire, it doth therefore resist lightning. Brown. 
STREPTACHNE [from qragifioq, twisted, or spiral, and 
ayy-n, the pointed summit o f the glume, which insensibly 
becomes the awn, without any intermediate joint], a grass 
with the aspect of an Aristida or Stipa, differing from the lat¬ 
ter genus in the want of an articulation between the awn and 
its glume. Brown, Nov. Holt. 
STREPTIUM [from qr§e<pa, to twist, on account of the 
very singular spiral tube of the corolla]. See Tortola. 
STREPTOPUS [from qTgeifloq, twisted, and tvovc, afoot; 
because of a peculiar twist about the middle of each flower- 
stalk], a genus of Michaux’s allied to Convallaria and 
Uvularia ; distinguished from the former by its polypetalous 
corolla, with nectariferous furrows; from the latter by having 
a berry, not a capsule, and the want of an appendage, or 
tunic, to the scar of each seed. 
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