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ABRUPT, to break off.

ABSTERSION, cleansing.

ABSUMPTION, consumption.

ACCEPTIONS, acceptations.

ACCUMINATED, sharp-pointed.

ACTIVES, Sub., active principles.
ACULEOUS, needle-like.

ADAM, QUID FECISTI? Adam, what hast thou done? 2 Esdras vii. ADRASTE AND NEMESIS, the powers of vengeance (J.).

ADRIANUS ("the moles of "), "A stately mausoleum or sepulchral pile, built by Adrianus in Rome, where now standeth the castle of St. Angelo." [Note by Sir T. B.] ADUMBRATION, faint resemblance, as of a shadow to the object it repre

AMPHIDROMICAL FEASTS, held at the naming of a child.

ANAXAGORAS. Several editors have wrongly printed Anaxarchus," who actually held the opinions attributed by Browne to Anaxagoras. ANGUSTIAS, agonies (J.).

ANIMA EST DEI," the soul is the angel of man, the body of God." ANIMOSITY, courage.

ANTICHRIST ("should be born of the tribe of Dan "). A belief held by the Ancient Church, based partly on the omission of the name of Dan from the list of tribes in the Apocalypse, and partly on the mention of him as adder" and " serpent" in Jacob's last blessing of his sons. [Condensed from Greenhill.} ANTICIPATIVELY, prematurely. ANTICKS, clowns.

ANTINOMIES, contradictions to law.
ANTIPODES, Opposites (J.).

APOGEUM, to the utmost point of dis-
tance from earth and earthly things
(J.).
APPARITIONS,

realities (J.).

appearances without

APPREHEND, to dread, to conceive, comprehend.

APPREHENSION, reason, conception; PASSED APPREHENSION, former opinion; GROSSER APPREHENSIONS, men of grosser apprehension. ARCANA, mysteries.

ARCHIDOXIS, a work of Paracelsus, translated into English in 1662. ARCHIMIME, chief jester.

AREFACTION, drying.

AREOPAGY, the great court, like the

Areopagus at Athens (J.).

ARUSPEX, Soothsayer, diviner.

DEI). "A planet in the ascendant reveals to those who seek many of the great things of nature (i.e., the works of God)." Paracelsus, Imaginibus." "Thereby is meant our good Angel appointed us from our nativity." [Note by Sir T. B.] ASPEROUS, rough.

ASPHALTICK LAKE, Lake of Sodom, the waters of which, being very salt, and therefore heavy, will scarcely suffer an animal to sink (J.). ASPIRES, aspirations.

ASQUINT, askance.

ASSASSINE, vb., to assassinate.

ASSIZE ("to call to "), to summon to judgment.

ASSUCFACTION, habituation.
ASTERISK, Small star.

ATTENDANCE, accompaniment.

ATTENUABLE, liable to diminution.
ATTRITION, friction.

AUDACITIES, bold persons.
AUDITORIES, lecture-rooms.
AURELIA, chrysalis, “ aurelion.”
AVE-MARY bell. "A church-bell,

that tolls every day at six and
twelve of the clock, at the hearing
whereof, everyone, in what place
soever, either of house or street,
betakes himself to his prayer, which
is commonly directed to the Virgin."
[Note by Sir T. B.]

BASILISO, a piece of ordnance. BELIEFS, believers. BELISARIUS AND BAJAZET, the former, after many victories, said, owing to incurring the Emperor's displeasure, to have been reduced to beggary; the latter to have been made captive by Tamerlane and shut up in cage; "both stories are false "(J.). BENEPLACIT, good pleasure. BENEVOLOUS, favourable. BEVIS, a famous giant-killer of Southampton, a hero of medieval English

romances.

BEZO LES MANOS, a salute, a kiss of the hand.

BISHOP ("the miserable "). Virgilius, Bishop of Salzburg in the eighth century, said to have been burnt for asserting the existence of Antipodes.

BIVIOUS, which open different tracks to the mind; lead two ways (J.); "bivious theorems."

BLOOD, "though we behold our own blood," though we bleed when we are wounded (J.). BOLARY, of the nature of bole, a clayey substance.

CACUS'S OXEN, stolen from Hercules, and drawn backwards by Cacus into his cave to avoid suspicion of theft.

CALDA, warm water (J.).

CALICULAR, in form of calix or cup. CALLOSITIES," calluses," or hard spots in the soul.

CANDLE, "by the candle," term borrowed from the auction-room where certain sales were held, at which the bidding went on as long as a small piece of candle continued to burn. CANDOUR, Whiteness.

CANTONS, Corners of a shield in heraldry.

CARIOLA. "That part of the skeleton of a horse which is made by the haunch-bones." [Note by Sir T. B.] CARNOUS, fleshy.

CARRACK, large merchantman. CASTRENSIAL, belonging to a camp. CATHOLICON, universal medicine. CAUSALLY, for a special reason (Greenhill).

CAUSES ("four second"), of all things. That is, the efficient,' the "material," the "formal," and the "final."

CAUTELOUS, cautious.

CEBES' TABLE, an allegorical representation of the characters and conditions of mankind (J.). CENTOES, patched garments, used metaphorically.

CERTUM EST QUIA IMPOSSIBLE, "it is
certain, because it is impossible
(i.e., to human reason). Tertullian,
"De Carne Christi," c. 5.
CHIASMUS, decussation (Greenhill).
CHIONIA ("the King of "), Gum-
brates, King of Chionia, a country
near Persia.

CHIROMANCY, palmistry.
CHORAGIUM, dance (J.).

CHOROGRAPHY, description of places and countries.

CHYMICKS, chemists.

CIRCENSES, Roman horse-races (J.).
CIRCINNATIONS, spherical

(Greenhill).

CIRCUMSTANTIAL, accidental, CIRROUS, bearing tendrils. CIVILITY, state of civil society.

rounds

CLAMATION, shouting.

CLAWING, tickling, flattering. CLIMACTER, the point in a man's life (supposed to be his sixty-third year) when his powers begin to fail. CODRUS, the last King of Athens. COMMISSURE, juncture, joining. COMMODITIES, advantages.

COMPAGE, framework or system of conjoined parts (H. E. D.). COMPLEMENT, completeness. COMPLEMENTAL, slight and subsidiary, merely making up weight. COMPLEXIONALLY, by temperament. COMPOSITION, compounding, but in the next line (by a play of words) composed-created.

COMPRODUCTION, joint production.
COMPROPORTIONS,

gether.

proportions

COMPUTE, Computation.

CONCEIT, Conception, idea, jest. CONCEIT, to imagine.

to

CONCLAMATION, noise made by several people shouting together. CONCOMITANCIES, accompaniments. CONCOURSE, help.

CONSIDERATION UNTO, value when compared with.

CONSIDERATIONS, considerers. CONSORTION, the consorting with others.

CONSTELLATED UNTO, by the constellation of my birth adaptive to. CONTEMPERED, diluted.

CONTIGNATION, framing together of beams.

DAMOCLES,a flatterer of Dionysius (J.). DASTARD, vb., to make craven. DECIMATION, selection of every tenth man for punishment (J.). DECIPIENCY, state of being deceived, hallucination (Webster).

DECUSSATION, crossing of lines in the form of the figure X. DELATOR, informer.

DEMONSTRATIONS, truths capable of demonstration.

DEPRAVE, to malign, to spoil; DEPRAVEDLY, in a corrupt form.

DERIVED, Secondary in source (i.e., from the sun?)

DESIRES, desirers.

DEVOTIONS, devout men.

DIAMETER WITH (to stand in), to be diametrically opposed to. DICHOTOMY, division into two. DIFFERENCE, vb., to show the difference between, to define. DIGLADIATION, fencing match (J.). DIOGENES (testament of). "Who

willed his friend not to bury him, but to hang him up, with a staffe in his hand, to frighten away the crowes." [Note by Sir T. B.] DISCRUCIATING, excruciating. DISSENTANEOUS unto, contrary to. DITTY, speech.

DIUTURNITY, long duration.
DONATIVES, gifts.

DORADO, a fish, probably either the gilt-head or dorade or the gold-fish. IGNORANT DORADOES are rich men of no education. [Condensed from Greenhill.]

DORMATIVE, sleeping draught.
DRAUGHT, drawing.

ECLIPTICALLY, in the direction of the
sun's apparent motion.
EDIFIED, formed.

EFFRONT, to embolden.
ELATER, "spring,"
(H. E. D.).

"elasticity'

ELEEMOSYNARIES, beggars.

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ELEMENTAL COMPOSITION, composition of elements" (Greenhill). ELIAS (prophecy of), "That the world may last but six thousand years.' [Note by Sir T. B.] EMPHATICAL, designated emphatically, or par excellence" (H. E. D.). EMPYREAL, in old astronomy, all beyond the tenth heaven. ENOCH'S PILLARS. "Josephus does not mention Enoch, but says the descendants of Seth erected two pillars, on which were engraven all the discoveries then known to mankind. [Condensed from Greenhill.]

ENQUIRIES, enquirers. ENTELECHIA, the realized, as distinct from the merely possible being of anything.

EPHEMERIDES, NOT OLYMPIADS, particular journals of every day, not abstracts comprehending several years under one notation (J.). EPHEMERIDES, schedules showing the position of the heavenly bodies from day to day, used for purposes of divination.

EPICYCLE, a small revolution made by one planet in the wider orbit of another planet (J.).

EQUABLE, just.

EQUAL, impartial; equitable.
EQUIVOCAL, doubtful.

ERGOTISMS, conclusions deduced according to the forms of logic (J.). ETHNICK, gentile.

EVULSION, extraction by force.
EXALTATION, refining.

EXCEPTING ONE (king). Christian
IV., King of Denmark, who began
to reign in 1588, and was still on the
throne when the book was written.
EXCEPTION, objection or reservation.
EXENTERATION, disembowelling.
EXEQUIES, funeral rites.
EXILITY, Smallness.
EXISTIMATION, estimation.

EXOLUTION, in medicine, great physical weakness; in mystical theology, dreamy exaltation of mind. EXPANSED, expanded.

EXPATIATE, to be about.
EXPILATORS, pillagers.

EXPLICATION, unfolding.

EXPRESSIONS, marks.

Exsuccous, dry.

EXTANCES, existences.
EXTEMPORARY, intuitive.
EXTENUATION, emaciation.

EXTRAMISSION, by the passage of sight from the eye to the object (J.). EXUPERANCES, exaggerations.

FACES ("so many imperial"), an allusion, probably to his collection of coins.

FACULTY, authority, power. FAITH, believer, abstract for concrete. FAMILIST, a member of the "family of love," a religious sect which appeared about 1575. FASCIATIONS, bandages.

FATHER ("that great"), probably St. Chrysostom.

FAVAGINOUS, cellular, like a honeycomb.

FERITY, ferocity, savageness.
FESTINATION, haste.

FIAT LUX, let there be light.

FICTILE, moulded.
FILED, placed in order. 14

FINGER ("one little ").

According

to the ancient arithmetick of the hand, wherein the little finger of the right hand contracted, signified an hundred." [Note by Sir T. B.] FLAW, sudden gust of wind. FLUX, flow.

FOL, mad, of the characteristic Englishman.

FORAMINOUS, full of holes.

FORM, the essence of anything apart from the actual material of which it is composed. FOUGADE,

a small mine for blowing

up walls" (Greenhill).

FRUSTRUM, any part except the vertex cut off from a cone (Greenhill). FULCIMENT, fulcrum.

FUNAMBULATORY, narrow, like the walk of a rope-dancer (J.).

FURDLING, furling.

FUSIL, heraldic

lozenge.

term,

GALLATURE, germ in an egg. GALLIARDISE, merriment.

elongated

GARAGANTUA, or Gargantua, Rabelais' giant.

GEOMANCER, one who divines by the
earth.
GERMANY ("defection of the Maid
of "). Nothing is known of this
personage except that she is men-
tioned in one of the MSS. as having
"lived without meat on the smell
of a rose." In default of any evi-
dence concerning the Maid, the pre-
cise meaning of the word "defec-
tion" is not clear; "detection "
has been suggested in place of it.
[Condensed from Greenhill.]
GLOME, a clue of yarn.

GOMPHOSIS, immovable articulations
like teeth in their sockets (Green-
hill).
GORDIANUS (" the epitaph of "). "In
Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Arabic,
Egyptian, defaced by Licinius the
Emperor." [Note by Sir T. B.]
GRAFFS, grafts.

GRAIN, dye in grain.

"Not grain'd,"

not deeply tinged (J.). GRAPHICAL, composed of letters. GUSTATION, tasting.

HAGGARD, wild, untamed, a term in falconry.

"A

HANGING PLAYED BEFORE THEM. barbarous pastime at feasts [among the Thracians], when men stood upon a rolling globe, with their necks in a rope, and a knife in their

hands, ready to cut it when the stone was rolled away; wherein if they failed they lost their lives, to the laughter of their spectators." [Note by Sir T. B.]. HELIACAL, spiral.

HELIX, a screw or spiral line: to run upon a helix, to be continually moving spirally.

HELLUOS, gluttons (J.).

HELMONT OR PARCELSUS, enthusiastic authors of romantic

(J.).

chemistry

HERMES' ROD, which procured sleep by a touch (J.).

HERMETICAL PHILOSOPHERS, followers of Hermes Trismegistus, addicted to chemistry and alchemy. HIPPOCRATES PATIENTS.

In some of the treatises of the Hippocratic collection rough notes of cases are found giving the names and addresses of the patients. The point of the comparison lies in its showing how the dead live only in their names; nothing more is known of them.

HISTRIONISM (of happiness), theatrical representation, mere show.

HORE COMBUSTE, the time when the moon is in conjunction and obscured by the sun. HOUR-GLASSES,

call for many hourglasses." Ancient pleaders talked by a clepsydra, or measurer of time.

HUMOUROUS, the result of some
humour or individual trait.
HYDROPICAL, dropsical.
HYPOSTASIS, distinct substance.

IDEATED, pictured in idea, in fancy. IDES, time when money laid out at interest was commonly repaid. (J.).

IMMORTALITY, exemption from death. IMPASSIBLE, impregnable to suffering and decay.

IMPOSTORS (the three). The Emperor
Ferdinand II. was accused by Pope
Gregory I. of maintaining that the
world had been deceived by three
impostors-Jesus Christ, Moses, and
Mahomet. A book with this title
Iwas said to have existed, but no
trace of it remains (Greenhill).
IMPROPERATIONS, insulting language.
INCESSION, progression.
INCINERABLE, reducible to ashes; IN-
CINERATED, reduced to ashes.

INCRASSATION, thickening.
INCREMABLE, incombustible.
INCURVATE, to make crooked.
INDIFFERENCY, impartiality; (pl.) in

KELL, caul.

Ac

KINGDOMS, "fatal periods of." cording to Plato about 500 years.

LACONISM, short sentence written on wall of Belschazzar (J.). LACRYMATORIES, tear-bottles. LARRON (French), thief. The characteristic Gascon.

LASH, soft and watery, but without flavour (Forby's vocabulary of East Anglia).

LAUREAT DRAUGHT, a picture with laurel (Greenhill).

LAZY OF BRAZIL, sloth (J.).
LIGATION, binding.

LION ("we sleep in lions' skins "), in armour, in a state of military

vigilance (J.).