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"Seal [from A Dictionary of the English Language in Which Words are Deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers.]"
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Date: 1755
"If the organs of perception, like wax overhardened with cold, will not receive the impression of the seal; or, like wax of a temper too soft, will not hold it."
preview | full record— Locke [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Date: 1755
"He that brings this love to thee, / Little knows this love in me; / And by him seal up thy mind."
preview | full record— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Date: 1755
"The sense is like the sun; for the sun seals up the globe of heaven, and opens the globe of earth: so the sense doth obscure heavenly things, and reveals earthly things"
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