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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17230	An English expositor teaching the interpretation of the hardest words vsed in our language. With sundry explications, descriptions, and discourses. By I.B. Doctor of Phisicke.	J. B. (John Bullokar)	1616 (1616)	STC 4083; ESTC S107055	109,871	224

Geomancie is a kinde of diuination practised by making prickes and lines in the earth as the name in Greeke signifieth So Hydromancie is a diuination made by some apparition in water as Varro writeth that a Boy saw in water one bearing the forme of Mercurie who foretold in one hundred and fiftie verses the euent of the warre which the Romans had with King Mithridates Pyromancie is a diuination made by the fire or spirits appearing in the fire Coscinomancie is a ridiculous kinde of diuination made with a sieue which at this day is vsed by some simple women and appeareth to bee of antiquitie for in the third Idylle of Theocritus there is mention made hereof Palmistrie or Chiromancie is a diuination practised by looking vpon the lines of the fingers and hands an art still in vse among fortune tellers Egyptians and iuglers Besides these there were also other diuinations as namely Acromancie that which is gathered by apparitions in the aire Capnomancie by the flying of smoake Catoptromancie by visions shewne in a glasse All which beeing euen by the Pagans themselues accounted deceitfull and vaine it remaineth that of Christians they be vtterly reiected and abhorred Diuorce A separation of man and wife which was as our Sauiour witnesseth first permitted by Moses vnto the Israelites for the hardnesse of their hearts that men might rather put their wiues away whome they grew wearie of than vse them with too great extremitie to shorten their liues as many did The woman so diuorced was to haue of her husband a writing as Iosephus witnesseth to this effect I promise that hereafter I will lay no claime to thee And this writing was called a bil of diuorce But with Christians this custome is abrogated sauing onely in case of adulterie The auncient Romanes also had a custome of diuorce and amongst them it was as lawfull for the wiues to put away their husbands as for the husband to dismisse his wife but amongst the Israelites this prerogatiue was onely permitted to the husband Diureticall That which is of vertue to cause one to make water Diumall Of or belonging to a day Also a booke wherein daily actions or accounts are set downe Diuturmitie Long continuance Diuulge To publish or tell abroad Diuulgation A telling or reporting abroad Docibilitie See docilitie Docible See docill Docill Easie to bee taught one that wil soone learne Docilitie Aptnesse quicknesse of vnderstanding Document A lesson an instruction Dogdayes Certain dayes in Iuly and August so called of the Starre Canis the Dogge which then rising with the Sun doeth greatly increase the heate thereof Dogmaticall Which is held or maintained in som mens opinion Dole Sorrow heauinesse griefe sometimes almes giuen to many poore folkes Dolefull Heauie sorrowfull Dolorous Greeuous painefull Dolphine A fish friendlie to man and especially to children the Females of this fish haue breasts like to women which are well stored with milke They are very faithfull to one another and bring foorth yong ones like whelpes after tenne moneths and in Sommer time They sometime breake foorth of the Sea but presently die as soone as they touch land Doome A sentence pronounced a iudgement Doomesman A Iudge Domesticall One of the house or any thing belonging to the house Domesticke See Domesticall Domineere To beare rule or great sway Dominicall Belonging to sunday or our Lordes day Dominion Lordship rule Donarie A gift properly that which is hanged vp in a Church Donation A giuing Donee Hee to whom a thing is giuen or granted Donour A giuer Dormant Sleeping Dormitorie A place to sleepe in or that which hath vertue to make one sleepe Dorter A cell or chamber vsed onely for religious men to sleepe in Dowager A Widdow Princesse hauing dowrie in the countrey which was in subiection to her deceased husband Doulcets The stones of a Hart or Stag. Drachme See dram Dramme A smal weight the eight part of an ounce It conteineth in it three scruples euery scruple beeing of the weight of twentie Wheate cornes so that a dramme is the iust weight of 60. cornes of wheate Drerie Sorrowfull lamentable Dromedarie A kinde of camel hauing two bunches on the backe which is very swift and can trauell two or three daies without drinke Drone An idle Bee that will not labour Druides Ancient Pagane Priests in France which liued naked in woods giuing themselues to the study of Philosophy and auoyding all company so much as they might They were of such estimation among the people that all controuersies were referred to their determination and a great penaltie laid on such as disobeied their sentence They beleeued the immortalitie of soules but supposed with Pythagoras that they still passed by death from one body to another Dryades Nymphs of the woods so called of the Greek word Drys which signifieth an Oake Duall Of or belonging to two Dubious Doubtfull Dubitable Doubtfull Dulia Seruire a worship done to Angels and Saints Duplication A doubling Duplicitie Doublenesse Durabilitie Long continuance Dwale An hearb of cold operation hauing power to make one sleepe some call it Nightshade E EAglet A yong Eagle Ebene A tree which groweth in Ethiopia bearing neither leaues nor fruit It is blacke and hath no graine like other wood and is sharp byting in tast Being burned it yeildeth a pleasant smell neither is the smoake thereof offensiue but the greene wood is so full of sap that it will flame like a candle It is good against many diseases of the eyes That which groweth in India is spotted with white and yellow being not in such estimation as the Ethiopian Ebene is Ebionits Certaine olde Heretikes which affirmed that Christ was not before his mother the B. Virgin Against these Heretickes Saint Iohn writ his Gospel after he returned from his banishment in the I le Pathmos Ebonie See Ebene Ebrictie Drunkennesse Eccho A rebounding or sounding backe of any noyse or voyce in a wood valley or hollow place Poets feine that this Eccho was a Nymphc so called which beeing reiected of one whom she loued pyned away for sorrow in the woods where her voyce still remaineth answering the outcryes of all complaints Ecclesiasticall Of or belonging to the Church Ecclesiasticus Of or belonging to a Preacher The name of a Booke in the olde Testament is so called Eclipse A fayling or want of any thing Commonly it signifieth a want of light and there be two such Eclipses namely of the Moone and of the Sunne Eclipse of the Moone neuer happeneth but at the full Moone neither then alwaies but whē she is in such a point that the shadow of the earth depriueth her of the Sunne beames from whence she taketh her light Eclipse of the Sunne is not so vsuall and happeneth only at the change of the Moone namely when the Moone being betweene the Sunne and vs doth with her dark body hide part of her light from vs which was the cause that Dionysius Areopagita seeing the Sunne so admirably eclipsed at our Sauiours

a louely creature Paragraph It properly signifieth any marke set in a margent to note the different discourses in a booke or long chapter wherefore such diuisions in writing are commonly called Paragraphs Paralipomenon Omitted or not spoken of There are two bookes in the old testament so called because many worthy histories omitted in the bookes of Kings are there related Parallels Lines running of an equall distance from each other which can neuer meete though they bee drawne infinitely in length thus In astronomie there are fiue such imagined lines running circlewise about the round compasse of the heauens The first is the Equinoctiall line iust in the middle of the world betweene the two Poles The second northward from the Equinoctiall is the Tropike of Cancer to which line the sunne commeth about the the twelfth day of Iune The third yet more northward is the northern circle within 23. degrees and 50. minutes of the North-pole The fourth line is the Tropike of Capricorne declining southward from the Equinoctiall as much as the Tropike of Cancer doth northward and to this line the sunne commeth about the twelfth of December The fift and last line is the southerne circle beeing as neere the South pole as the northerne circle before spoken of is to the North pole Paralogisme A deceitfull syllogisme a maner of arguing which seemeth true when it is not as in saying He that affirmeth William to be a liuing creature sayth true He that affirmeth William to be a Horse affirmeth him to be a liuing creature Therefore he that affirmeth William to be a Horse saith true Paramounte The chieft Lord of the fee. Paramour A Sweete-heart one dearely beloued Paraphrase A free manner of translation or interpretation wherein a man doth not tye himselfe to expresse euery word as it lieth in the coppie but to explicate and adorne the matter more at large and to abridge some things yet still keeping the sense of the Author any such translation is called a Paraphrasticall translation Parasite A Flatterer a trencher friend One that is still hanging on some rich man and flatteringlie feedeth his humor because he would bee partaker of his good cheere Parcitie Sparingnesse niggardlinesse Parenthesis Any word or sentence thrust into an other sentence in such sort that it may be left out in speaking and yet the sense of the matter still remaine whole Such word or sentence is commonly marked with two halfe circles thus Paricide One that hath killed his owne Father or Mother Among the auncient Romans if any committed so horrible a crime he was sowed aliue in a leather bag with a Cocke an Ape and an Adder put to him and as some write a Dog so were throwne together into the riuer Tyber where the miserable Caytife must needes die a lingering death being depriued of the vse of all elements saue onely a little aire to draw his wretched life in torment the longer Paritie Equality likenesse Parley A talking together Paroxysme The sharpe assaulte or fit of an ague Parsimonie Thriftines good husbandrie Parsimonious Thriftie sparing Particularise To draw or deuide things in speaking into certaine particulars or small parcels Partisan A weapon like a Halberd Paschall Of or belonging to the feast of Easter Pasche The feast of Easter Passant Walking passing along Passible Which may suffer or feele paine Passion A suffering Pastor A shepheard Pastorall Of or belonging to a shepheard Paternall Fatherly Patheticall Passionate or that which mooueth passions in a man Patriarch A great auncestour a great Bishop or father Patrimonie Goods or lands left one by his father or some other auncestour Patrone A defender a great friend that supporteth one Patronage Defence Patronize To defend Paucitie Fewnesse Pauice A great large shield that couereth the whole bodie Pauilion A tent for war Paunage The feeding of swine in any forrest wood or other place with mast Peccaui I haue offended Pectorall Belonging to the breast or which hangeth before the breast Pecuniarie Of or belonging to money Pellican A bird that wanting food feedeth her yong ones as is said with her owne blood Pellmell Confusedly running disorderly together Penall Of or belonging to paine or punishment Pendant Hanging downward Penetrable Which may be pearsed through Penetrate To pearse thorough Penitentiall Belonging to penance or repentance Penitent He that is heartily sorrie and repenteth Penon An ensigne or banner borne in warre Pension A yearely fee or wages for some seruice done Pensiue Sad heauy Pentateuch The fiue bookes of Moses to wit Genesis Exodus Leuiticus Numeri and Deuteronomie Pentecost The feast of Whitsontide so called because it is fiftie daies after Easter For Pentecost in Greeke signifieth the fiftieth Penurie Want pouertie Penurious Poore in want Perambulation A walking Perceptible Which may be perceiued Perch A kinde of fish It signifieth also a rod or long pole vsed in measuring of land being of 16. foote a halfe in length and in some places more Percullis The name of an office of one of the Pursiuants at armes Percussion A striking Perdition Destruction Perdurable Lasting of long continuance Peregrination A trauelling into a strange land Peremptorie Resolute short quicke Perennitie Long continuance Perfidious Treacherous not to be trusted Perfidiousnesse Treacherie disloyaltie Perfunctorie Carelesly don Perigeon The neerest distance of the Planets from the earth Period The perfect end of a sentēce marked commōly with a full point thus Peripatetickes Philosophers of the sect of Aristotle so called because they walked in their readings and disputations for Peripateo in Greeke signifieth to walke Periphrasis A long speaking a speaking of one word by many Periscians People dwelling so neere either of the two Poles that their shadowes goe round about them like a wheele Periurie A forswearing Permission Sufferance leaue Permutation A changing Pernicious Deadly dangerous Peroration The conclusion of a long speech or Oration Perpendicular Directlie downe right Perpetrate To commit any vnlawfull thing Perpetuitie Euerlastingnesse Perplexitie Great doubtfulnesse intanglednesse Perquisits Profits comming to Lords of mannors by casualtie or vncertainely as escheats heriots releefes strayes forfeitures Persist To continue to the end Personate To represent the person of another Perspicuitie Cleerenesse plainnesse Perspicuous Cleere plain manifest Perswasiue Which doth or may perswade Pertinacie Stubbornnes wilfulnesse Perturbe To trouble Perturbation A trouble a great disquietnesse Peruerse Froward contrarie Peruert To corrupt or marre to turne one from good to bad Pestiferous Mortal deadly poysonous Petition A suite a demaund a request Petroll A substance strained out of the naturall Bitumen spoken of before It is for the most part white and somtime black and being once set on fire can hardly be quenched Pettie Being placed before other words it signifieth little Pettie Sergeantie A tenure of lands holden of the King by yeilding to him a Buckler Arrow Bow or such like seruice Petulancie Wanton saucinesse malepart boldnesse Phantasme A vision or imagined appearance Pharisee A sect of Iewes professing more