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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
secure
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a secure/stable home (=a caring family without a lot of changes)
▪ He had grown up in a stable home.
a sound/firm/secure footing
▪ They managed to get the business onto a more secure footing.
a sound/secure base
▪ A child needs a responsive mother in order to form a secure base for future development.
ensure/secure/enforce compliance
▪ The staff involved should be monitored to ensure compliance with the policy.
financially secure
▪ He was successful and financially secure.
obtain/secure a conviction (=make someone be found guilty)
▪ The prosecution had obtained a conviction based on false evidence.
obtain/secure employmentformal (= get employment)
▪ He found it difficult to obtain employment because of his criminal record.
secure a loan (on sth) (=agree to give the lender something if you do not pay back the loan on time)
▪ The loan was secured on his home.
secure a majority (=win a majority)
▪ They failed to secure a majority.
secure accommodation
secure accommodation for young offenders
win/obtain/gain/secure a concession
▪ In the end, the strikers returned to work having won few concessions.
win/secure a nomination
▪ Do you think she has enough votes to win the nomination?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
financially
▪ We invested in Equitable Life because it was constantly listed as one of the oldest, most financially secure and efficient companies.
▪ He was successful and financially secure.
▪ Everybody outside the financially secure, self-serving and blinkered Cabinet.
▪ Aunt Glegg and Aunt Pullet are financially secure and their husbands are equally so.
▪ He had worked his way up the bureaucratic ladder, but he was no more financially secure than when he had begun.
▪ Today, they are financially secure, free to work less and to enjoy life more.
■ NOUN
accommodation
▪ At present, too many young offenders are being remanded in prisons because local authorities lack enough secure accommodation for them.
▪ They are the result of a conference held last year for young women in secure accommodation.
▪ The boy, who had only been in care for a short while before the incident, is now in secure accommodation.
▪ And in the last two years only three children under 14 have had to be placed in secure accommodation.
▪ There will be an interim secure accommodation order for three weeks from today.
▪ It is clear that the planning meeting was for the purpose of deciding how the period in secure accommodation should be managed.
▪ However, I wish to address one potentially significant impact of the Act in relation to secure accommodation applications in civil proceedings.
▪ On 7 December 1990 a secure accommodation order was made by the justices under section 21A of the Child Care Act 1980.
base
▪ From a secure base parish musicians can be adventurous in exploring new music and in experimenting with differing styles.
▪ But they are not a secure base, particularly in northeastern states.
▪ The improvements in performance over the last two years provide us with a secure base from which to move forward.
▪ Coupled with the committed Management of National Office, I am sure we will create a secure base for progression.
basis
▪ Cabling upgrading, allied to netware improvements, will provide a secure basis for all future network requirements.
▪ The other is that observation yields a secure basis from which knowledge can be derived.
environment
▪ These types are intended to provide a structured and secure environment for data addressed by many different programs.
▪ Up to a point, regulation may attract business by offering a more secure environment.
foundation
▪ If faith is to be solidly grounded at all, it must rest on some more secure foundation than that.
▪ Then mathematics would be placed, once and for all, on an unassailably secure foundation.
▪ The shed has secure foundations of concrete.
▪ In sum, culture provides no secure foundation for defining a national group.
future
▪ A secure future in their home from an established landlord.
▪ Many entrepreneurial companies simply can not even match six percent pretax margin or look forward to a secure future.
▪ Adoption offers the most secure future.
▪ There are exceptions, of course, but a good education is still the ticket to a secure future.
▪ These people were all robbed of a secure future by Robert Maxwell.
▪ And it should mean the 370 employees working on propellers can look forward to a more secure future.
▪ The new order should mean a more secure future for the remaining staff.
▪ Few young people face a secure future.
home
▪ The occasional smack meted out in a happy, secure home is not going to scar a child's psyche.
▪ Therefore when there is trouble afoot, they will move their young to what they regard as a more secure home.
▪ She could write her books and try to make a secure home for her baby.
▪ It also funds innovative schemes to provide secure homes for young and old.
job
▪ Directors of licensed dealers rarely have secure jobs.
▪ What people need to know is that there are no secure jobs any more.
▪ It will provide 40 quality secure jobs in the operation of the station once it has been built.
▪ I had no secure job, no type of savings in the account.
▪ Only the gunmen had secure jobs.
▪ Many academics, being civil servants, have secure jobs guaranteed for life.
▪ It also means a more profitable company and more secure jobs.
▪ Security for the company translates into secure jobs for the workers.
place
▪ These islands are secure places and are used as sites for villages, small towns and even imposing fortresses.
▪ Cabbage has earned a secure place in the winter repast for its unpretentious, wholesome goodness and its versatility.
▪ They should be kept in a rigid container made for the purpose and stored in a secure place.
position
▪ Normal growth resumes when the fish has a secure position.
▪ James is certain that the railway is now in a more secure position and will go from strength to strength.
▪ The young bride in her husband's family does not automatically receive love and a secure position.
▪ Using these newly acquired turning skills the board can be lined up into the secure position from which you can start sailing.
▪ Setting Off Remember that before you start to sail the board must be in the secure position.
unit
▪ Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley has now given council chiefs permission for him to be held in a secure unit.
▪ Earlier Bill Scanlon, a solicitor representing the boy's guardian, said accommodation at the secure unit is £500 per day.
▪ New secure units to hold hardened young criminals would stop bail bandits in their tracks.
▪ In the past they've called publicly for notorious joy riders to be held in secure units.
▪ Many courts rubber stamp them and those children who like being in secure units may not press to leave.
▪ He was brought back to Gloucester, and has now been transferred temporarily to a secure unit in Bristol.
▪ Two young men, both slightly overweight, have lost their strong Liver pool accents during their years in the secure units.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a secure area near the governor's office
▪ Children need to feel safe and secure about the world they grow up in.
▪ Gorbachev's place in history is secure.
▪ He kept his savings under his bed, secure from the prying eyes of his roommate.
▪ I don't think Marie is as secure as she would have liked us to believe.
▪ If your password gets known by anyone else, your data may not be secure.
▪ Keep your passport in a secure place.
▪ Make sure the building is completely secure before you leave.
▪ People should feel secure when they walk the streets of this city.
▪ She felt much more secure now that she had put a bolt on the door.
▪ The children all slept together in the same bed, snug and secure.
▪ Wilson had no secure job.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A secure soloist, it is implied, might not be given much guidance.
▪ A new start, far away from Hugh, in this novel but secure haven.
▪ After that Corbett just had to wait, pleased to rest and stay in the monastery where he felt secure and safe.
▪ Being in charge and feeling legally secure seems necessary for whoever carries out the parenting role.
▪ She was no more secure than she'd ever been - one mistake, and she'd be out on her ear!
▪ The majority had therefore experienced secure employment for relatively long periods of time.
▪ There is also an emerging globalisation of ethical and judicial standards, which should render social and individual rights more secure.
▪ These tenants can frequently be living in the least desirable and least secure of all housing in rural locations.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
agreement
▪ At the first meeting with the students we discussed with them the arguments for this way of working and secured their agreement.
▪ The credit facilities replace a secured, two-year credit agreement totaling $ 170 million and set to mature Jan. 31.
▪ His next triumph was to secure agreement from important Frontier leaders to an agreed constitutional solution.
▪ With an established, respected management company it is unlikely that any band would secure an agreement for less than five years.
▪ Our most important priority is to secure the agreement of the industry to effective voluntary agreements and then to police them robustly.
attempt
▪ This was an obvious attempt to secure his silence in return for a plea-bargain and suspended sentence on the passport charge.
▪ While pledging themselves publicly to legislation, they worked privately to block many of the attempts to secure new acts and statutes.
contract
▪ During the year we renegotiated the Rustenburg agreement securing this important contract into the next century.
▪ Swan was the favourite to secure the lucrative contract until the yard was placed in receivership in May.
▪ What else would you expect from Lisa Leslie, who has secured a modeling contract as a side gig?
▪ Hence they were predisposed to secure contracts under the state scheme which preserved their freedom.
▪ These items should include the salary group classed as permanent, as temporary, or as services secured on a contract basis.
▪ Why should they study when they imagine a future secured by a seven-figure contract?
deal
▪ Licensing deals have secured Dior's reputation.
▪ However, Romley left a loophole in the deal by not securing in writing the promise that Carey would resign.
▪ But the deal has still to secure planning permission from Birmingham City Council.
▪ Though his early death traumatised Pierre, his shrewd business deals secured the family a $ 1m fortune.
effort
▪ This will keep the board informed of fundholders' efforts to secure high standards and improved quality of care.
▪ Hence also the efforts to secure West Irian.
▪ By placing Franco in overall command, the Nationalists made a quantum leap forward in their efforts to secure victory.
▪ The Herrera administration went even further in its efforts to secure aid from the United States.
▪ From now to the end of the year we can expect governments to make a big effort to secure a settlement.
▪ Joe was not so successful in his effort to secure a commission.
▪ They will continue their efforts to secure the release of hostages in the Middle East.
▪ Yet the party leaders also used various forms of manipulation and intimidation in their efforts to secure a victory.
future
▪ We believe that we have charted a way forward which will secure our future.
▪ Thus, if the sales department is able to secure firm future orders, it becomes the most powerful department.
▪ If you're paid in advance for something, you secure your future.
▪ Having acquired a wife, Leslie began to think that he ought to take some steps towards securing our future.
▪ Leapor had probably done some arithmetic of her own, and indulged the hope that the subscription might secure her future.
▪ Its purpose is to keep secure the future of the library of the Royal Commonwealth Society.
▪ The earl is currently struggling to secure the future of his stately home, Bemersyde, near St Boswells.
job
▪ He or she will hope to secure a job that involves the initiation of policies from the party's programme.
▪ However, the disabled person has to secure the job first.
▪ He secured 11 ministerial jobs, including home affairs and justice, during the Fourth Republic.
▪ Every young person who has achieved the Compact goals will have an equal chance of securing a Compact job.
▪ His move secures the 14 jobs at the site and keeps the famous A3 landmark alive.
▪ The increasing use of Sharpness docks for imported goods is undoubtably good news for workers there; helping to secure their jobs.
▪ It marks the opening of the company's £190 million engine factory which will both secure jobs and create new ones.
loan
▪ Careful arrangements were made to secure loans.
▪ It was alleged that the shares were deposited at National Westminster Bank and used to secure loans for the Maxwell companies.
▪ While others advertise building societies, he has enough problems securing a loan.
▪ The new guarantee is designed to help farmers establish a base farming income, needed to secure agricultural loans.
▪ Even those Junkers who managed to secure loans were already heavily in debt.
▪ Government favour also helped firms secure loans from private banks.
▪ Lendoiro secured a loan to wipe out the club's debts and give the club some clout in the transfer market.
majority
▪ The draft was due to be discussed with opposition parties in September with a view to securing a parliamentary majority.
▪ However, with his defeat at Puebla, the moderates secured a majority in Congress and determined to make peace.
▪ President Herzog granted the Labour leader a further 15 days in which to secure majority support.
▪ Leaders of several parties might form a coalition in order to secure majority support for certain policies.
▪ The way to avoid this was to vote Tory and secure a majority government maintaining the existing system.
▪ National secured an absolute majority with only 35.1 % of the vote.
▪ They hoped and believed that Bonar Law would fail to secure an overall majority for the Conservative Party.
▪ Election results Mahathir's coalition won 127 parliamentary seats, thereby securing its two-thirds majority.
place
▪ But the number of graduates securing places on training courses to teach these subjects is still being squeezed.
▪ Lebed has, indeed, secured a place for himself in the fanfare.
▪ The stoppage means some students will have to wait longer to learn whether they've secured a college place.
▪ We were lifting metal girders on to a lorry and securing them in place with wooden slats which we nailed together.
▪ Having secured miners' place at the top of the manual wages league, there was nowhere for that economism to go.
▪ Played well against Midlands and needs a sound game to secure a Test place.
▪ Buck still had to putt and secure second place.
position
▪ She felt her legs being secured in that position, so she was doubled over to look like a sandwich.
▪ Late in 1822 he arrived back in London and Place secured him a position as a correspondent for the Morning Chronicle.
▪ Peter would have liked to sit next to Kate but he had lacked the necessary social agility to secure the centre position.
▪ I came here at the instigation of your letter, believing myself to have secured a position.
▪ Tailor the sail over the frame for a fit, then sew the tags secure in their positions.
▪ As a result of the agreement the defendants secured their position commercially.
▪ But a boardroom vote of six to one in favour was not enough to secure him the position.
▪ Taking part in protests could jeopardise any existing opportunities of securing a decent employment position for those coming up to graduation.
release
▪ You feel that the music carries the words along on the back of its urge to secure release.
▪ Relatives of the men were confident the new evidence would eventually secure their release.
▪ In Fennell a father sought to secure the release of his son who had been arrested for participating in an affray.
▪ They will continue their efforts to secure the release of hostages in the Middle East.
▪ Often we can secure the release of refugees from detention if we can find them somewhere to live.
▪ Video cameras could accompany Amnesty missions to secure unique footage for release to television worldwide.
▪ He said his membership of the Legal Aid Foundation helped to secure his early release.
▪ Samuelson secured a short-lived distribution arrangement with First National Exhibitors' Circuit, and various other films secured some sort of release.
seat
▪ The Liberals themselves secured only 59 seats.
▪ A few people close to their chairs amuse themselves by watching the others engage in mortal combat to secure a seat.
▪ In the election of 1983, however, third parties polled some 28 percent of the vote and secured forty-four seats.
▪ He had been publicly humiliated by widespread accusations that supporters had rigged the results of the poll to secure him a seat.
support
▪ The five other parties contesting the election failed to secure sufficient support to gain representation.
▪ These figures in turn played a major role in securing the support of Sen.
▪ Leaders of several parties might form a coalition in order to secure majority support for certain policies.
▪ President Herzog granted the Labour leader a further 15 days in which to secure majority support.
▪ He secured the support of mayors south of Jerusalem, and clearly hoped to extend his influence northwards.
▪ Labor secured Green support in the Ryan byelection only after promising to ban the clearing of native woodlands in Queensland by 2005.
▪ The entry of the new Lander would, however, have to secure two-thirds support in the Bundestag and Bundesrat.
victory
▪ By placing Franco in overall command, the Nationalists made a quantum leap forward in their efforts to secure victory.
▪ Her machinations appear intended to secure a Bush victory-nothing else.
▪ Ladies al; so will have an enormous challenge in trying to secure a coveted victory.
▪ McCoy grabbed the rebound and Dollar hit two free throws to secure the victory.
▪ However, independent political analyst Andrew MacMullen says Labour could still secure victory with a smaller swing in its favour.
▪ Pasok by-election victory Pasok secured a convincing victory in a by-election in the Athens B district on April 5.
▪ Yet the party leaders also used various forms of manipulation and intimidation in their efforts to secure a victory.
vote
▪ A candidate would be elected not by securing a plurality of votes but by securing a quota of votes.
▪ Thomas F.. Birmingham, who has the secured the necessary votes to take over the post.
▪ A candidate would be elected not by securing a plurality of votes but by securing a quota of votes.
▪ In the second ballot for the vacancy left by Bryan Gould's resignation, he secured 125 votes.
▪ This is a pity for his achievement in securing the crucial Committee vote deserves the members' recognition for his astuteness.
■ VERB
fail
▪ At the general election on March 5, Haglelgam failed to secure re-election as the at-large senator for Yap.
▪ Gradualism had failed to secure the collaboration of masters or their agents in educating or providing religious instruction for the slaves.
▪ They hoped and believed that Bonar Law would fail to secure an overall majority for the Conservative Party.
▪ Prospects were bleak a year ago at Thornaby Impasse after it failed to secure funding.
▪ Tranmere failed to secure Rosenthal's services on loan last season and his name has now been circulated to Premier League clubs.
▪ The subject attracted no interest, and they failed to secure enough participants for the proposed 2-hour discussion.
hope
▪ He or she will hope to secure a job that involves the initiation of policies from the party's programme.
▪ We hope to secure the signatures of two-thirds of our registered voters, thus bypassing the need for an incorporation election.
▪ Motherwell College hopes to secure funding to reciprocate the visit.
▪ Mr Theron hopes to secure immunity from prosecution by testifying.
manage
▪ He strolled over towards the New Town in which Sylvia had managed to secure a flat.
▪ Even those Junkers who managed to secure loans were already heavily in debt.
▪ More importantly, she was learning that she must manage him to secure her own comfort.
need
▪ The move is needed to secure profitability which has fallen due to world-wide over capacity in uranium enrichment.
▪ The new guarantee is designed to help farmers establish a base farming income, needed to secure agricultural loans.
▪ A few extra nails may be all that is needed to secure them if they loose.
▪ At 12-4, Washington needs two wins to secure its first winning season since 1987.
▪ But they need strong evidence to secure a conviction.
▪ The Senate majority leader already holds more than one-third of the delegates needed to secure the Republican presidential nomination.
▪ Those who live alone perhaps need to be especially secure from harm coming and going from their home.
▪ Only a handful of polls since Christmas have given either party the lead they would need to secure an outright majority.
try
▪ Ladies al; so will have an enormous challenge in trying to secure a coveted victory.
▪ It rejects the divorce between law and politics that a conventionalist theory with the motives I described tries to secure.
▪ The committee held that a direct approach should be made to Moscow to try and secure progress in the Joint Committee.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Fox had used company money to secure a personal loan.
▪ France was able to secure the release of two of its hostages.
▪ Ms. Ferrer and Santos are working together to secure the hostages' release.
▪ Oregon secured a place in the NCAA basketball tournament.
▪ Schiller secured funds for the special education project.
▪ Troops were brought in to secure the area.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Fairfax is securing its wheels with rocks.
▪ I congratulate him on securing this debate today.
▪ On Wednesday, I contacted DeltaTech so l could determine the next step I should take to secure this important account.
▪ They would be securing the boats, and perhaps some of the stock, and looking to the hay and peat-stacks.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Secure

Secure \Se*cure"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Secured; p. pr. & vb. n. Securing.]

  1. To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.

    I spread a cloud before the victor's sight, Sustained the vanquished, and secured his flight.
    --Dryden.

  2. To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; to insure; -- frequently with against or from, rarely with of; as, to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage.

    It secures its possessor of eternal happiness.
    --T. Dick.

  3. To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping; as, to secure a prisoner; to secure a door, or the hatches of a ship.

  4. To get possession of; to make one's self secure of; to acquire certainly; as, to secure an estate.

    Secure arms (Mil.), a command and a position in the manual of arms, used in wet weather, the object being to guard the firearm from becoming wet. The piece is turned with the barrel to the front and grasped by the right hand at the lower band, the muzzle is dropped to the front, and the piece held with the guard under the right arm, the hand supported against the hip, and the thumb on the rammer.

Secure

Secure \Se*cure"\, a. [L. securus; pref. se- without + cura care. See Cure care, and cf. Sure, a.]

  1. Free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident.

    But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes.
    --Dryden.

  2. Overconfident; incautious; careless; -- in a bad sense.
    --Macaulay.

  3. Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; -- commonly with of; as, secure of a welcome.

    Confidence then bore thee on, secure Either to meet no danger, or to find Matter of glorious trial.
    --Milton.

  4. Not exposed to danger; safe; -- applied to persons and things, and followed by against or from. ``Secure from fortune's blows.''
    --Dryden.

    Syn: Safe; undisturbed; easy; sure; certain; assured; confident; careless; heedless; inattentive.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
secure

1530s, "without care, dreading no evil," from Latin securus, of persons, "free from care, quiet, easy," also in a bad sense, "careless, reckless;" of things, "tranquil; free from danger, safe," from *se cura, from se "free from" (see secret (n.)) + cura "care" (see cure (n.)).\n

\nIn English, of places, "free from danger, unexposed," from 1580s. Meaning "firmly fixed" (of material things) is from 1841, on notion of "affording grounds for confidence." Of telephones, "not wiretapped," from 1961. Replaced Middle English siker, from Old English sicor, from the Latin word. Related: Securely.

secure

c.1600, "to make safe," from secure (adj.). Meaning "ensure, make certain" is from 1650s; that of "seize and hold" is from 1640s; sense of "get possession" is from 1743. Related: Secured; securing.

Wiktionary
secure
  1. 1 Free from attack or danger; protected. 2 Free from the danger of theft; safe. 3 Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret. 4 Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid. 5 firm and not likely to fail; stable. 6 Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable. 7 Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly used with ''of''. 8 Overconfident; incautious; careless. v

  2. 1 To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect. 2 To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with ''against'' or ''from'', or formerly with ''of''. 3 To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping. 4 To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.

WordNet
secure
  1. v. get by special effort; "He procured extra cigarettes even though they were rationed" [syn: procure]

  2. cause to be firmly attached; "fasten the lock onto the door"; "she fixed her gaze on the man" [syn: fasten, fix] [ant: unfasten]

  3. assure payment of

  4. make certain of; "This nest egg will ensure a nice retirement for us"; "Preparation will guarantee success!" [syn: guarantee, ensure, insure, assure]

  5. fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug; "plug the hole"; "stop up the leak" [syn: plug, stop up]

  6. furnish with battens; "batten ships" [syn: batten, batten down]

secure
  1. adj. free from fear or doubt; easy in mind; "secure himself, he went out of his way to help others" [syn: unafraid, untroubled] [ant: insecure]

  2. free from danger or risk; "secure from harm"; "his fortune was secure"; "made a secure place for himself in his field" [ant: insecure]

  3. kept safe or defended from danger or injury or loss; "the most protected spot I could find" [syn: protected] [ant: unprotected]

  4. not likely to fail or give way; "the lock was secure"; "a secure foundation"; "a secure hold on her wrist" [ant: insecure]

  5. able to withstand attack; "an impregnable fortress"; "fortifications that made the frontier inviolable" [syn: impregnable, inviolable, strong, unassailable, unattackable]

  6. financially sound; "a good investment"; "a secure investment" [syn: dependable, good, safe]

Wikipedia
Secure

Secure may refer to:

  • Security, being protected against danger or loss(es)
    • Physical security, security measures that are designed to deny unauthorized access to facilities, equipment, and resources
    • Information security, defending information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, perusal, inspection, recording or destruction
    • Secure communication, when two entities are communicating and do not want a third party to listen in
  • Securitate (Romanian for "security"), the secret service of Communist Romania
  • Security (finance), e.g. secured loans
    • Secured transaction, a loan or a credit transaction in which the lender acquires a security interest in collateral owned by the borrower
    • Secured creditor, a creditor with the benefit of a security interest over some or all of the assets of the debtor
  • Secure (G5), a NatureServe conservation status similar to "Least Concern", indicating a species is not at risk of extinction
  • Sécure River, Bolivia

Usage examples of "secure".

I think almost any invalid who will visit your Hotel, and see for themselves the wonderful appliances that you have accumulated for the cure of disease, must soon become convinced that if there can be any hope of relief it can be secured there, if anywhere.

Dost thou not love me enough to make me secure with the prince, and so, secure in mine advisership to the king?

Their hypocotyls were secured to sticks, and glass filaments bearing little triangles of paper were affixed to the cotyledons of both.

In order to ascertain more accurately the nature of these movements, the hypocotyl of a seedling, with its cotyledons well expanded, was secured to a little stick, and a filament with triangles of paper was affixed to one of the cotyledons.

Loodiana, at once securing his own force, and affording safety to the garrison.

Instead of attempting to secure the allegiance of his son by the generous ties of confidence and gratitude, he resolved to prevent the mischiefs which might be apprehended from dissatisfied ambition.

She accustomed her husband to consider Julian as a youth of a mild, unambitious disposition, whose allegiance and gratitude might be secured by the gift of the purple, and who was qualified to fill with honor a subordinate station, without aspiring to dispute the commands, or to shade the glories, of his sovereign and benefactor.

The Isle of Thanet, a secure and fertile district, was allotted for the residence of these German auxiliaries, and they were supplied, according to the treaty, with a plentiful allowance of clothing and provisions.

That cunning which is the wisdom of the worldling, and which he possessed in a very surprising degree, enabled him to adopt a course of conduct, look, and remark, which amply satisfied the exactions of the scrupulous, and secured the unhesitating confidence of those who were of a more yielding nature.

The measures, therefore, adopted to secure that payment consisted in the levy of an internal tax, termed a war tax, and the appropriation of the revenue from imports.

Valens was persuaded, that royal liberality can be supplied only by public oppression, and his ambition never aspired to secure, by their actual distress, the future strength and prosperity of his people.

It is almost needless to observe, that Tiridates, the faithful ally of Rome, was restored to the throne of his fathers, and that the rights of the Imperial supremacy were fully asserted and secured.

He declared his resolution of asserting the justice of their cause, and of securing the peace of the provinces by the extirpation, or at least the banishment, of the Limigantes, whose manners were still infected with the vices of their servile origin.

He had caught onto the ladder, of course, and its upper end was secured somewhere inside the wicker rim, and now he was doing the same acrobatic poses and contortions and convulsions that he did in the ring on his wooden ladder, and the crowd was laughing and sobbing with relief, and cheering and applauding with pleasure.

In the next place the Assise of Arms of Henry II was improved so as to secure for the king a national support in the time of danger.