FICTILE, moulded. to the ancient arithmetick of the hundred.” [Note by Sir T. B.] Flaw, sudden gust of wind. Flux, flow. Fol, mad, of the characteristic Eng. lishman. 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 term, elongated lozenge. ENQUIRIES, enquirers. from the merely possible being of anything. EPHEMERIDES, NOT OLYMPIADS, par ticular 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 ac cording 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 phy sical weakness; in mystical the ology, dreamy exaltation of mind. EXPANSED, expanded. EXPATIATE, to roam 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 ap peared about 1575. FASCIATIONS, bandages. FATHER (“ that great "), probably St. Chrysostom. comb. GALLATURE, germ in an egg. GALLIARDISE, merriment. GARAGANTUA, or Gargantua, Rabe lais' giant. GEOMANCER, one who divines by the earth. GERMANY (" defection of the Maid of”). Nothing is known of this personage except that she is mentioned in one of the MSS. as having “ lived without meat on the smell of a rose." In default of any evidence concerning the Maid, the precise meaning of the word “defection” 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, Emperor.". (Note by Sir T. B.) not deeply tinged (J.). GRAPHICAL, composed of letters. GUSTATION, tasting. HAGGARD, wild, untamed, a term in falconry. HANGING PLAYED BEFORE THEM. “A barbarous pastime at feasts [among Thracians), stood upon a rolling globe, with their necks in a rope, and a knife in their men or 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 chemistry (J.). 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 ad. dresses 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. HORÆ COMBUSTÆ, the time when the moon is in conjunction and obscured by the sun. HOUR-GLASSES, “call for many hour. glasses." Ancient pleaders talked by a clepsydra, or measurer of time. HUMOUROUS, the result of 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 was 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 significant matters; of arguments, exact balance. INDIFFERENT, impartial. INFLEXURES, bends or folds (Green hill). INGENUITIES, people of ingen uous dis position. INGRESSION, entrance. INHUMATION, burying. INNITENCY, leaving, pressing, or resto ing upon something (H. E. D.). INORGANICAL, without organs. INQUINATED, defiled (J.). INSENSIBLE, too smali to be felt. INSERVIENT TO, conducive to. INSTANCES, instants. INTELLIGENCES, unbodied angelic spirits. INTENTIONS, persons who intend. IRONICALLY (“ live ironically "), with dissimulation personation (H. E. D.). ITEM, earnest, specimen. ITERATELY, repeatedly. JUDGMENTS, men of judgment. KELL, caul. KINGDOMS, “fatal periods of.” Ac cording to Plato about 500 years. LACONISM, short sentence written on wall of Belschazzar (J.). LACRYMATORIES, tear-bottles. LARRON (French), thief. The charac teristic Gascon. LASH, soft and watery, but without flavour (Forby's vocabulary of East Anglia). LAUREAT DRAUGHT, a picture with laurel (Greenhill). LAZY OP Brazil, sloth (J.). LIGATION, binding. Lion (“we sleep in lions' skins "), in armour, in a state of military vigilance (J.). LIPARA, the Liparæan Islands, near Italy, being volcanoes, were sabled to contain the forges of the Cyclops (J.). LIQUATION, melting. LIVELY, vividly. LIVERY("without a "), without recompense or fee. Lixivious, impregnated with alkaline salts. LURE, bait, a term used in falconry. LUX EST UMBRA DEI,“ light is the shadow of God." some MAGNÆ... ... VITIA, “Great virtues, and no smaller vices." MAGNALITIES, great works from small beginnings (Greenhill). OLYMPICS, Olympic games. dreams. OPINION (vb.), to consider. ORBITY, loss of parents or children, bereavement. ORDINATION, arrangement. ORONTES INTO TIBER, “In Tiberim defluxit Orontes," says Juvenal, speaking of the confluence of foreigners to Rome (J.). OSSUARIES, places for bones. OSTIARIES, estuaries. MAGNETICALLY (“ stand magnetically upon that axis "), with a position as immutable as that of the magnetical axis (J.). MALIZSPINI, born about 1540, the author of the “ Ducento Novelle." MANIPLE, handful. MARASMUS, wasting disease. MASCLE, heraldic term : a lozenge voided. MATERIAL (vb.), to materialize. MATILDA. " A piece of Maud, the Empress, said to be found in Buckenham Castle, with this inscription : 'Elle n'a d'elle.'” [Note by Sir T. B.) MATURATION, maturing, ripening. MEANNESS, low estate. MEDIOCRITY, moderation. MEMORY (whose), recollection of which. MERCURIAL, relating to Mercury (“ mercurial characters "'). MERCURISMS, communications. MERITS, deserts (in a bad sense). METELLUS. The supper was not given by Metellus, but by Lentulus when he was made priest of Mars, and recorded by Me (J.). METEMPSUCHOSIS, transmigration of souls. METRICULOUSLY, timidly (J.). MINORATE, diminish. MORTAL, deadly, fatal. MOTIVES, motive forces. MUTILATE, P.p. mutilated. MUTIN (French), stubborn. The characteristic Englishman. MYSTERY, trade, craft. PANTAGRUEL's library. Rabelais, in his “ Pantagruel " (liv. ii., ch. vii.), gives a list of sham titles of books for an imaginary library. PAPPOUS, downy. PARALLAXIS, the parallax of a star is the difference between its real and apparent place (J.). PARALOGICAL, illogical. PARAMOURS, lovers. PARTICULARITIES, peculiarities. PASSIVES, passive principles. PATRON, vb., to patronize. PENDULOUS, hanging. PERPLATION, blowing through of the air, PERIOD, term, end. PERIECI (" to be but their perioci "), only placed at a distance in the same line (J.). PERISCIAN, with shadows all round us. Thé Periscii, living within the Polar circle, see the sun move round them, and consequently project their shadows in all directions (J.). PERISH upon, to die for the sake of. PERSPECTIVE, telescope. PHILOPMEN, chief of the Achæao League in Rome's second Mace donian War." PHILOSOPHER. “Alluding either to Antisthenes or Aristippus, for the story is told of each of these philoso phers ” (Greenhill). PHYLACTERY, a writing bound upon the forehead containing something to be kept constantly in mind. This was practised by the Jewish doctors with regard to the Mosaic Law (J.). PHYTOGNOMY, “discerning the nature of plants from their outward forms (Greenhill). PHYTOLOGY, science of plants. PIAE FRAUDES, pious frauds. PICKTHANK, flatterer. PINAX, tablet, register ; hence list scheme inscribed tablet (Webster). NATURA FRUSTRA, “nature does nothing in vain.' NATURALITY, naturalness. NEBB, nib, "generative particle " (Greenhill). NEBUCHODONOSOR, SO spelt in the most trustworthy MSS. NEQUE EMIN. MIHI. " For when the study or the couch calls me, I do not fail.” Misquoted from Horace (Sat., i. 4, 133), who has lectulus aut me porticus excepit. NERO, the Emperor Tiberius. NOCENT, criminal (Webster). NON ACCIDES, “ thou shall not kill." NUMERICAL, individual. NUNQUAM .. SOLUS, never less alone than when alone." OBSERVATOR, observer. 511, referring to the death of Ajax a QUADRATE, square, vb. and sub. “ how greatly changed from him." QUESTUARY, studious of profit (J.). QUINCUNX, arrangement of things by fives, one at each corner, and one in the centre. QUINQUERNIO, set of five (Green hill). QUINTAPLE, fivefold. QUODLIBETICALLY, determinable on either side (J.). PINEDA. “ Pineda, in his ‘Monarchia Ecclesiastia,' quotes one thousand and fortie authors." (Note by Sir T. B.) Plato's year. “A revolution of certain thousand years, when all things should return unto their former estate, and he be teaching again in his school, as when he delivered this opinion.” (Note by Sir T. B.1 PLAUDIT, plaudite was the term by which the ancient theatrical per formers solicited a clap (J.). PLAUSIBLE, praiseworthy. POLTRON (French), coward. The characteristic of the modern Roman. PONDERATION, weighing. POPES (“ four "). Leo XI., Paul V., Gregory XV., and Urban VIII. before Browne was born. Peru. PRACTISED, practical. PRECEDENTS, signs. PREGNANT, instructive. PREJUDICATE, formed without know ledge of the facts. PRELATES, Presbyters in the pirated editions of 1642. PRESCIOUS, foreknowing. PRESCRIPT, direction. PRESENTLY, immediately. PROCESS OF THE TEXT, context. PROFOUND, to fathom. PROGENY, lineage. PROGNOSTICKS, fore-tokens. PROPENSE, inclined to; PROPENSION unto, inclination towards. PROPHAN'D, probably in the sense of common," which the first edition has. PROPRIETARIES, proprietors. PROPRIETIES, properties. PTOLOMY, the King of Egypt who had the Hebrew scriptures translated and put in his library. PUCELLAGE, virginity. PUNCTUAL, exact; PUNCTUALLY, exactly. PUNCTICULAR, contained in, size of, a point. PUNCTILIO, point, hence a very small body (Greenhill). PYRRHUS HIS TOE, which could not be burnt.' (Sir T. B.) PYTHAGORAS (“escapes in the fabulous Hell of Dante"), escapes condemnation, or, perhaps, escapes notice altogether. RADICAL LETTERS, according to old tradition Moses, by command of God, took the first letters of the names of the tribes, and found them equal to the number of the Israelites, deducting those who were slain in the affair of Korah, etc." (extract from Greenhill's note). RADICATION, process of takiug root. RAMPIERS, ramparts. REACTION, retaliation. REASONS, reasonable persons. REFLEX, reflection. REFLUX, ebb. Regio-MONTANUS. John Müller of Königsberg (1436-75), who con structed an iron fly and a wooden eagle, both of which were able to fly." (Condensed from Greenhill.] RELENTMENT, dissolution. RELISH OF, to taste of. REMINISCENTIAL, relating to reminis cence. REMORAS, obstacles. REMOVE, step. REPROBATED, condemned to eternal punishment. RESOLUTION, solution ; RESOLUTIONS, men of resolution. RESPECTIVE, partial. RESTRAINT (upon) OF TIME, impeded by the restrictions of time. RETIARIUS, a prize-fighter who en. tangled his opponent in a net, which by some dexterous management he threw upon him (J.). RETIARY, RETICULATE, in form of net work. “ fused as in a reverberatory furnace” (Green hill). REVIVIFICATION, recalling to life. RHAPSODIES, "extravagant nonsensi cal books (Greenhill). RIVALITY, equality. ROUNDLES, steps of a ladder. RUAT... TUA, “ The sky may fall, thy will be done." as « The RUBICON, the river by crossing which Cæsar declared war against the Senate (J.). SALAMANDER'S Wool, a kind of as bestos. SALIENT, leaping " salient animals." SALTYR, heraldic term for cross blazoning of shield. SALVE, explained by Gardiner cure, * remedy,” but it means rather to make a reservation which saves. To Salve Priscian's pate means to avoid breaking Priscian's head. In Sir T. B. the word has the general sense of solve, explain. SALVIFICALLY,“ so as to procure sal vation " (J.). SANCTUARY (“St. Paul's "). Several passages in St. Paul's writings have been quoted by various editors to explain this passage, but Greenhill points out that the Dutch translator was probably right in quoting Rom. xi. 33 : O the depth of the riches,” etc., as the passage referred to, especially as Sir T. B. himself alluded to it, and that the sanctuary is “the incomprehensibility of God." SATION, sowing. SATURN (revolution of). planet Saturn maketh his revolution once in thirty years." [Note in one of the MSS.j SCALES, ladders. SCANDAL, ill odour. SCHOOLS, the medieval schools of dis putation and theology. SEASES, a word not to be found in any dictionary (Greenhill). SECONDINE, after-birth. SENSIBLE, perceptible by the senses. SEVEN YEARS PAST. The Address to the Reader was first published in 1643; according to this the “Religio Medici was written about 1636. SHADOWED, shadowed forth. SHARP, a pointed weapon. TO PLAY AT SHARP, to fight in earnest. Sic... VELFM. “Thus would I wish to be gathered together when turned into bones,” Tibullus, iii., SI FORET... DEMOCRITUS. “If De mocritus were still on earth he would laugh" (Horace, Ep. ii. 1, 194). SIGIL, seal. SIMPLE, vb., to botanize. SINISTROUS, left-handed. SOCIETY, co-operation. SOCRATES AND CARDAX, Socrates and Cardax talked of an attendant spirit that hinted from time to time how they should act (J.). SOLSTICIALLY, at the solstices (Green hill). SORITES, a series of elliptic syllogisms. SORTILEGIES, divination by drawing lots. SPERMATICAL, pertaining to the seed. SPICATED, spiked. SPINDLES, slender stalks. SPINTRIAN, obscene. SPRUCE, ' formerly used of things with a serious meaning ” (J.). SQUAMOUS, scaly. STATION, fixity. STATISTS, politicians. ST. INNOCENT'S CHURCHYARD, PARIS where bodies decay quickly. STINT, limit. STRABO'S CLOAK. Strabo compared the then known world to a cloak. SUPEREROGATE, to do more than is absolutely necessary. SUPINITY, sloth. SUPPOSED, undeniable. SUPPUTATION, reckoning. SURCLE, small shoot, sucker. SURD, deaf. TABLES (a game at), backgammon. TABID, wasted by disease. TARGUM, a paraphrase or amplifica tion (J.). TARTARETUS, a real person, a doctor of the Sorbonne and a writer of some celebrity in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (Greenhill). TEGUMENT, covering. TELARELY, in a weblike manner. Telesmes, talisman. TEMERARIOUS, rash. TESTACEOUS, made of earthenware. TESTIFY THEIR POSSESSIONS, show the Romans once inhabited them. TETRICK, sour, morose (J.). TEXTUARY, text-learned. THETAS 0, a theta inscribed upon the judges' tessera or ballot was a mark for death or capital condemnation (J.). THIRTY YEARS (nor hath my pulse beat). As Browne was born in been written about 1635. into another species. TRANSVERTIBLE, invertible. TREASURE, treasury. TREDDLES, albuminous cords in an egg 2, 26. |