{240} [‘Devest’ was still in use till the end of the eighteenth century, but ‘divest’ is already found in _King Lear_, 1605, i, 1, 50.] {241} Pygmæi, quasi _cubitales_ (Augustine). {242} First so used by Theophrastus in Greek, and by Pliny in Latin.--The real identity of the two words explains Milton’s use of ‘diamond’ in _Paradise Lost_, b. 7; and also in that sublime passage in his _Apology for Smectymnuus_: “Then zeal, whose substance is ethereal, arming in complete _diamond_”.--Diez (_Wörterbuch d. Roman. Sprachen_, p. 123) supposes, not very probably, that it was under a certain influence of ‘_dia_fano’, the translucent, that ‘adamante’ was in the Italian, whence we have derived the word, changed into ‘_dia_mante’. {243} [Similarly _jowl_ for _chowl_ or _chavel_.] {244} _Richard III_, Act iv, Sc. 4. {245} [For another account of this word, approved by Dr. Murray, see _The Folk and their Word-Lore_, p. 156.] {246} [‘Bliss’ representing the old English _bliths_ or _blidhs_, blitheness, is really a quite distinct word from ‘bless’, standing for _blets_, old English _blétsian_ (=_blóedsian_, to consecrate with blood, _blód_), although the latter was by a folk-etymology very frequently spelt ‘bliss’.] {247} [But ‘afraied’ is the earliest form of the word (1350), the verb itself being at first spelt ‘afray’ (1325). N.E.D.] {248} How close this relationship was once, not merely in respect of etymology, but also of significance, a passage like this will prove: “Perchance, as vultures are said to smell the earthiness of a dying corpse; so this bird of prey [the evil spirit which personated Samuel, 1 Sam. xxviii. 41] _resented_ a worse than earthly savor in the soul of Saul, as evidence of his death at hand”. (Fuller, _The Profane State_, b. 5, c. 4.) {249} [There is an unfortunate confusion here between ‘heal’ to make ‘hale’ or ‘[w]hole’ (Anglo-Saxon _hælan_) and the old (and Provincial) English _hill_, to cover, _hilling_, covering, _hellier_, a slater, akin to ‘hell’, the covered place, ‘helm’; Icelandic _hylja_, to cover.] {250} [By a curious slip Dr. Trench here confounds ‘recover’, to recuperate or regain health (derived through old French _recovrer_ from Latin _recuperare_), with a totally distinct word _re-cover_, to cover or clothe over again, which comes from old French _covrir_, Latin _co-operire_. It is just the difference between ‘recovering’ a lost umbrella through the police and ‘recovering’ a torn one at a shop. I pointed this out to the author in 1869, and I think he altered the passage in his later editions.]