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old French language has werbler, parler a haute voix, reciter, 
discourir. Roquefort. —To quaver any sound. 
Fountains, and ye that warble as ye flow. 
Melodious murmurs •warbling tune his praise. Milton. 
To cause to quaver. 
Follow me as I sing, 
Aud touch the warbled string. Milton. 
To utter musically. 
She can thaw the numming spell. 
If she be right invok’d with warbled song. Milton. 
To WA'RBLE, v. n. To be quavered.—Such strains ne’er 
warble in the linnet’s throat. Gay. —To be uttered melo¬ 
diously. 
'There birds resort, and in their kind, thy praise 
Among the branches chant in warbling lays. Wotton. 
To sing. 
Creatures that liv’d and mov’d, and walk’d, or flew; 
Birds on the branches warbling; all things smil’d. Milton. 
WA'RBLE, s. A song.—Every warble of the feather’d 
choir. Dyer. 
WA'RBLER, s. A singer; a songster. 
Hark! on ev’ry bough, 
In lulling strains the feather’d warblers woo. Ticket!. 
WARBLETON, a parish of England, in Sussex; 6| miles 
north-by-east of Haylsham. Population 966. 
WARBLINGTON, a parish of England, in Southampton- 
shire. Population 1658. 
WARBOROUGH, a parish of England, in Oxfordshire; 
10J miles south-east-by-south of Oxford. Population 600. 
WARBOYS, a parish of England, in Huntingdonshire; 
4 miles south-south-east of Ramsay. Population 1100. 
WARBRECK, a hamlet of England, in Lancashire; 1 
mile north-north-east of Blackpool. 
WARBSTOW, a parish of England, county of Cornwall; 
8 J miles north-east of Camelford. 
WARBURG, a town of Prussian Westphalia, on the 
Dymel; 22 miles south-east of Paderborn. Population 2200. 
WARBURTON (William), was the son of an attorney 
at Newark-upon-Trent, where he was born December 24, 
1628, and destined by his father for his own profession. But 
it was soon found, that his talents and disposition were more 
adapted to the church than to the law; and, therefore, in 
1723, he took deacon’s orders. To his first work, consisting 
of “ Miscellaneous Translations in Prose and Verse,” from 
Roman authors, was prefixed a Latin dedication to sir George 
Sutton, who, in 1726, presented him to a small vicarage. 
In 1727 he evinced his ability for original writing, by “ A 
Critical and Philosophical Inquiry into the Causes of Pro¬ 
digies and Miracles, as related by Historians, with an Essay 
towards restoring a Method and Purity in History, in which 
the Characters of the most celebrated Writers of every age, 
and of the several Stages and Species of History, are occa¬ 
sionally criticised and explained.” This work was dedicated 
in very respectful and complimentary language, to Sir 
Robert Sutton, his first patron ; by whose interest he was 
placed in the list of king’s masters of arts, upon his majesty’s 
visit to Cambridge in 1728. He was also presented by the 
same patron to the rectory of Broad Broughton, in Lincoln¬ 
shire, where he remained some years in the assiduous prose¬ 
cution of his studies. In 1736 he engaged the public at¬ 
tention as a writer by his well -known work entitled “ The 
Alliance between Church and State ; or, the Necessity and 
Equity of an established Religion and a Test-law, demon¬ 
strated from the essence and end of Civil Society upon the 
fundamental Principles of the Law of Nature and Nations.” 
Our author’s greatest work was published in 1738, and en¬ 
titled “The Divine Legation of Moses, demonstrated on the 
Principles of a religious Deist, from the Omission of the 
Doctrine of a future State of Rewards and Punishments.” In 
the year 1738 he published a sermon, entitled “ Faith work¬ 
ing by Charity to Christian Edification,” and became chap¬ 
lain to the prince of Wales. He published, in the “ Works 
of the Learned,” a defence of Pope’s “ Essay on Man,” 
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against the remarks of M. de Crousaz. Mr. Pope acknow¬ 
ledged his obligations; and an intimacy commenced be¬ 
tween them, which very much contributed to the subsequent 
advancement of Warburton. 
In the year 1746 he became preacher to the Society of 
Lincoln's Inn ; and in the following year he appeared as an 
editor of Shakspeare. Bold and original in his criticisms 
and conjectures, the absurdity of several of which has been 
exposed by Edwards, Johnson, and others, he has never¬ 
theless thrown light on some obscure passages, and drawn 
forth into view latent beauties, so that many of his notes 
will find a place in the approved editions of this admirable 
dramatist. Warburton’s “ Julian, or a Discourse concern¬ 
ing the Earthquake and fiery Eruption which defeated that 
Emperor’s Attempt to rebuild the Temple at Jerusalem,” 
published in 1750, on occasion of Dr. Middleton’s “ Inquiry 
concerning the miraculous Powers,” is commended for its 
candour, a quality for which the writer was not remarkably 
distinguished. The notes annexed to his complete edition 
of Pope’s works, in 9 vols. 8vo., are said by the most com¬ 
petent judges to have disguised and perverted the author, 
and to have aggravated the satirical asperities of the poet by 
the malignities of the annotator. He was now rapidly ad¬ 
vancing from one stage of preferment to another; from that 
of prebend of Gloucester, obtained in 1753, to that of 
king’s chaplain inordinary in 1754; and in 1755 to that 
of prebend of Durham, in exchange for that of Gloucester, 
to the honour of a Lambeth degree of D.D. conferred upon 
him by archbishop Herring, to the deanery of Bristol in 
1757, and in 1759 to the see of Gloucester. His life ter¬ 
minated at Gloucester, June 7th, 1779, in the 81st year of 
his age. His works were collected and printed by Dr. Hurd, 
bishop of Worcester, in 1788, comprehended in 7 vols. 4to. 
WARBURTON, a township of England, county of 
Chester; 9| miles north-north-west from Nether Knutsford. 
Population 470. 
WARCOP, a parish of England, in Westmoreland; 3 
miles west-by-north of Brough. Population 673. 
WARD, a small fishing village of Scotland, in Aber¬ 
deenshire, near the Bullers of Buchan. 
WARD, a township of the United States, in Worcester 
county, Massachusetts; 45 miles west-south-west of Boston. 
WARD. A syllable much used as an affix in composition, 
as heavenward, with tendency to heaven; hitherward, 
this way; from peapb, Saxon ; it notes tendency to ox from. 
—Before she could come to the harbour, she saw walking 
from hex-ward, a man in shepherdish apparel. Sidney. —Me- 
ward is also found among our old writers. 
To WARD, v. a. [peapbian, Saxon; waren, Dutch; 
garder, Fr.] To guard; to watch. _ v 
He marched forth towards the castle wall, 
Whose gates he found fast shut, ne living wight 
To ward the same, nor answer comer’s call. Spenser, 
To defend ; to protect. 
Tell him it was a hand that warded him 
From thousand dangers, bid him bury it. Shakspeare. 
To fence off; to obstruct, or turn aside any thing mis¬ 
chievous. It is now used with off, less elegantly. 
Toxeus amaz’d, and with amazement slow, 
Or to revenge, or ward the coming blow, 
Stood doubting; and while doubting thus he stood. 
Receiv’d the steel bath’d in his brother’s blood. Dryden. 
To WARD, v. n. To be vigilant; to keep guard.—To 
act upon the defensive with a weapon. 
Short crooked swords in closer fight they wear. 
And on their warding arms light bucklers bear. Dryden. 
WARD, s. Watch; act of guarding. 
Sublime on these a tow'r of steel is rear’d. 
And dire Tisiphone there keeps the ward; 
Girt in her sanguine gown, by night and day, 
Observant of the souls that pass the downward way. Dryden. 
Garrison ; those who are intrusted to keep a place. 
The assieged castles ward 
Their stedfast stonds did mightily maintain. Spenser. 
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