dompt

Example Sentences

• "As touching corporal puniſhments and penance, as faſting, diſciplin, hare cloth and other chaſtiſements, it behoueth thee herein to vſe good diſcretiõ, taking ſuch as help to repreſſe the aſſaults and temptations of the fleſh, and leuing others that may be hurtful, not yeelding herein to the heats, which ſome nouices are vvont to haue in their beginning, who thorough indiſcrete mortifying, and dompting of their fleſhe, fal into ſome ſuche infirmitie, as aftervvardes they muſt needes pamper and cheriſhe it to much."
• "And if he did apprehend (as they ſay) nothing by the iudgement of men, he had no need to carrie his mortification ſo farre, as to dompt and ſubject his moſt inward and ſecret motions, and to pull downe the moſt liuely and ſecret prouocations of his fleſh: but it had bene ſufficient for him to haue vſed diſſimulation, and ſome outward ſhew of pretended reformation."
• "I, with Regret, remember'd, what a bright Figure he made in one of my Treatiſes: How I had cloath'd him with Armour given him by all the Gods; and had made him the Hero of the Ancients, to dompt thoſe two formidable Moderns, B—t—y and W—tt—n."
• "Peace is "at home" […] [to all] who, with labour patient and hopeful, have made the wildernesses of the world to blossom as the rose, have dompted and domesticated the winds and lightning to message-birds of business and friendship; […]"
• "The masque represented an episode in the history of the Teutonic order during the year 1377. […] The Knights were victorious in all their engagements, and the wild Kynstutt was so far dompted that he sued for peace, and, as a guerdon of amity, proceeded to the Grand Master's quarters, with a train of richly-ornamented sledges, to invite him and Duke Albert to a grand banquet."
• "Seeing then that courteſy will dompt the ſavage bird, which, by nature, is devoid of reaſon; much more ſhould it maſter and diſarm the untractableneſs of man or woman; be they ever ſo haughty, fierce or forbidding."