Document. Now used only of the material, and not, as once, of the moral proof, evidence, or means of instruction.
They were forthwith stoned to death, as a document unto others.—Sir W. Raleigh, History of the World, b. v. c. 2, § 3.
This strange dejection of these three great apostles at so mild and gentle a voice [Matt. xvii. 6], gives us a remarkable document or grounded observation of the truth of that saying of St. Paul, Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.—Jackson, Of the Primeval State of Man, b. ii. c. 12.
It was a rare document of divine justice to ordain, and of divine wisdom so to contrive, that the dogs should lap King Ahab’s blood in the same place where they had lapped the blood of Naboth.—Id., Of the Divine Essence and Attributes, b. vi. ch. iii. 3.
Dole. This and ‘deal’ are one and the same word, and answer to the German ‘Theil,’ a part or portion.[14] It has now always the subaudition of a scanty portion, as ‘to dole’ is to deal scantily and reluctantly forth (‘pittance’ has acquired the same); but Sanderson’s use of ‘dole’ is instructive, as showing that ‘distribution or division’ is all which once lay in the word.
There are certain common graces of illumination, and those indeed are given by dole, knowledge to one, to another tongues, to another healings; but it is nothing so with the special graces of sanctification. There is no distribution or division here; either all or none.—Sanderson, Sermons, 1671, vol. ii. p. 247.
Draught. Many ‘draughts’ we still acknowledge, but not the ‘draught’ or drawing of a bow.
A large draught up to his eare
He drew, and with an arrow ground
Sharpe and new, the queene a wound