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Definition of 'actour'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • * 1692 : , book X, page 205, § XXVII (5th edition; first published in 1634)
  • XXVII. Ever to mind and con?ider with thy ?elf, how all things that now are, have been heretofore much after the ?ame ?ort, and after the ?ame fa?hion that now they are: and ?o to think of tho?e things which ?hall be hereafter al?o. Moreover, whole dramata'', and uniform ?cenes, [or, ''?cenes that comprehend the lives and actions of men of one calling and profe??ion'',] as many as either in thine own experience thou ha?t known, or by reading of ancient Hi?tories; (as the whole Court of ''Adrianus'', the whole Court of ''Antoninus Pius'', the whole Court of ''Philippus'', that of ''Alexander'', that of ''Crœ?us:)'' to ?et them all before thine eyes. For thou ?halt find that they are all but after one ?ort and fa?hion: [or, ''all of the ?ame kind and nature: ] onely that the ac?tours were others.