Locke [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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.]

London

Printed by W. Strahan [etc.]

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."

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; or else supposing the wax of a temper fit, but the seal not applied with a sufficient force to make a clear impression: in any of these cases the print left by the seal will be obscure.

Writing::Wax::Wax Seal Impressions

Consulted Johnson's Dictionary while searching "seal" in HDIS.

Johnson, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words Are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers. To Which Are Prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar. New York,: AMS Press, 1967.

04/19/2005