f the "atheist crew" overthrown by Ab'diel.
(The word means, according to Hume, "one who exalts himself against
God.")--Milton, _Paradise Lost_, vi. 371 (1665).

=Raminago'bris.= Lafontaine, in his fables, gives this name to a cat.
Rabelais, in his _Pantag'ruel_, iii. 21, satirizes under the same name
Guillaume Cr['e]tin, a poet.

=Rami'rez=, a Spanish monk, and father confessor to Don Juan, duke of
Braganza. He promised Velasquez, when he absolved the duke at bed-time,
to give him a poisoned wafer prepared by the Carmelite Castruccio. This
he was about to do, when he was interrupted, and the breaking out of the
rebellion saved the duke from any similar attempt.--Robert Jephson,
_Braganza_ (1775).

=Rami'ro= (_King_) married Aldonza, who, being faithless, eloped with
Alboa'zar, the Moorish king of Gaya. Ramiro came disguised as a
traveller to Alboazar's castle, and asked a damsel for a draught of
water, and when he lifted the pitcher to his mouth, he dropped in it his
betrothal ring, which Aldonza saw and recognized. She told the damsel to
bring the stranger to her apartment. Scarce had he arrived there when
the Moorish king entered, and Ramiro hid himself in an alcove. "What
would you do to Ramiro," asked Aldonza, "if you had him in your power?"
"I would hew him limb from limb," said the Moor. "Then lo! Alboazar, he
is now skulking in that alcove." With this, Ramiro was dragged forth,
and the Moor said, "And how would you act if our lots were reversed?"
Ramiro replied, "I would feast you well, send for my chief princes and
counsellors, and set you before them and bid you blow your horn till you
died." "Then be it so," said the Moor. But when Ramiro blew his horn,
his "merry men" rushed into the castle, and the Moorish king, with
Aldonza and all their children, princes, and counsellors, were put to
the sword.--Southey, _Ramiro_ (a ballad from the Portuguese, 1804).

=Ramona=, young Indian woman, who, in defiance of her duenna's fierce
opposition, goes out into the wide world with gallant Alessandro. The
struggles and disappointments of the wedded pair, and their oppression
by Indian agents are told in Helen Hunt Jackson's novel, _Ramona_,
(1884).

=Ramorny= (_Sir John_), a voluptuary, master of the horse to Prince Robert
of Scotland.--Sir W. Scott, _Fair Maid of Perth_ (time, Henry IV.).

=Ramsay= (_David_), the old watch-maker, near Temple Bar.

_Margaret Ramsay_, David's daughter. She marries Lord N