After the lecture of the law and of the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Good brethren, if ye have any sermon to exhort the people, say on.—Acts xiii. 15. Coverdale.
That may be gathered out of Plutarch’s writings, out of those especially where he speaketh of the lecture of the poets.—North, Plutarch’s Lives, p. 982.
In my lecture I often perceive how my authors commend examples for magnanimity and force, that rather proceed from a thick skin and hardness of the bones.—Florio, Montaigne’s Essays, p. 72.
Legacy. This now owns no relation except with ‘lēgatum,’ which meant in juristic Latin a portion of the inheritance by testamentary disposition withdrawn from the heir, and bestowed upon some other. It was formerly used as a derivative of ‘legatus,’ ambassador, in the sense of embassage.
They were then preaching bishops, and more often seen in pulpits than in princes’ palaces: more often occupied in his legacy, who said, Go ye into the whole world and preach the gospel to all men, than in embassages and affairs of princes.—Homilies, Against Peril of Idolatry.
Otherwise, while he is yet far off, sending a legacy, he asketh those things that belong to peace.—Luke xiv. 32. Rheims.
And his citizens hated him, and they sent a legacie after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.—Luke xix. 14. Ibid.
Levy. Troops are now raised, or ‘levied,’ indifferently: but a siege is only raised, and not ‘levied,’ as it too once might have been.
Euphranor having levied the siege from this one city, forthwith led his army to Demetrias.—Holland, Livy, p. 1178.
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