The mysterie of rhetorique unveil'd wherein above 130 the tropes and figures are severally derived from the Greek into English : together with lively definitions and variety of Latin, English, scriptural, examples, pertinent to each of them apart. Conducing very much to the right understanding of the sense of the letter of the scripture, (the want whereof occasions many dangerous errors this day). Eminently delightful and profitable for young scholars, and others of all sorts, enabling them to discern and imitate the elegancy in any author they read, &c.
Smith, John, Gent., Sergeant, John, 1622-1707.
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DISSIMILITVDO, Dissimilitude.
Dissimilitude is a form of speech, whereby divers things are compared in a diverse quality.
An Example of Chrysostom.
If we have any disease in our body, we use exercise, and all other means, that we may hence forward be delivered and free from it; but being sick in soul, we dissemble and make delay: we leave the fountain uncured, and count necessary things superfluous.
Scriptural Examples.
Luke 9.58. The foxes have holes, and the fowls of the air have nests, but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
Jer. 8.7. The Stork in the air knoweth her appointed times, and the Turtle, and the Crane, and the Swallow observe the time of their co∣ming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord, &c.
The like in Isai. 1.3, &c.
