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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30077	An English expositor teaching the interpretation of the hardest words used in our language : with sundry explications, descriptions and discourses / by I.B., doctor of physick.	J. B. (John Bullokar)	1641 (1641)	Wing B5429; ESTC R29141	109,869	224

apparition in water as Varro wticeth that a Boy saw in water one bearing the forme of Mercury who foretold in one hundred and fiftie verses the event of the warre which the Romanes had with King Mithridates Pyromancie is a divination made by the fire or spirits appearing in the fire Costinomancie is a ridiculous kind of divination made with a sieve which at this day is used by some simple women and appeareth to be of antiquitie for in the third Idylle of Theocritus there is mention made hereof Palmistrie or Chiromancie is a divination practised by looking upon the lines of the fingers and hands an art still in use among fortune tellers Egyptians and Juglers Besides these there were also other divinations 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 being even by the Pagans themselves accounted deceitfull and vaine it remaineth that of Christians they be utterly rejected and abhorred Divorce A separation of man and wife which was as our Saviour witnesseth first permitted by Moses unto the Israelites for the hardnesse of their hearts that men might rather put their wives away whom they grew wearie of than use them with too great extremitie to shorten their lives as many did The woman so divorced was to have of her husband a writing as Josephus witnesseth to this effect I promise that hereafter I will lay no claime to thee And this writing was called a bil of divorce But with Christians this custome is abrogated saving onely in case of adulterie The ancient Romanes also had a custome of divorce and amongst them it was as lawfull for the wives to put away their husbands as for the husband to dismisse his wife but amongst the Israelites this prerogative was onely permitted to the husband Diureticall That which is of vertue to cause one to make water Diurnall Of or belonging to a day Also a booke wherein daily actions or accounts are set downe Diuturnitie Long continuance Divulge To publish or tell abroad Divulgation A telling or reporting abroad Docibilitie See Docility Docible See Docill Docill Easie to be taught one that will soone learne Docilitie Aptnesse quicknesse of understanding Document A lesson an instruction Dogdayes Certaine dayes in Iuly and August so called of the Starre Canis the Dogge which then rising with the Sun doth greatly increase the heate thereof Dogmaticall Which is held or maintained in some mens opinion Dole Sorrow heavinesse griefe sometimes almes given to many poore folks Dolefull Heavy sorrowfull Dolorous Grievous painefull Dolphine A fish friendlie to man and especiallie to children the Females of this fish have breasts like to women which are well stored with milke They are very faithfull to one another and bring forth young ones like whelps after ten moneths and in Summer time They sometime breake forth of the Sea but presently die assoone as they touch land Doome A sentence pronounced a judgement 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 Lords day Dominion Lordship rule Donarie A gift properly that which is hanged up in a Church Donation A giving Donee He to whom a thing is given or granted Donour A giver Dormant Sleeping Dormitorie A place to sleepe in or that which hath vertue to make one sleep Dorter A cell or chamber used onely for religious men to sleep in Dowager A Widdow Princesse having dowrie in the countrey which was in subjection to her deceased husband Doultets The stones of a Hart or Stag. Drachme See dram Dram. A small weight the eight part of an ounce It containeth in it three scruples every scruple being of the weight of twentie Wheat corns so that a dram is the just weight of 60 corns of Wheat Drerie Sorrowfull lamentable Dromedarie A kinde of camel having two bunches on the back which is very swift and can travell two or three daies without drinke Drone An idle Bee that will not labour Druides Ancient Pagane Priests in France which lived naked in woods giving themselves to the study of Philosophy and avoyding all company so much as they might They were of such estimation among the people that all controversies were referred to their determination and a great penaltie laid on such as disobeyed their sentence They beleeved 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 Service a worship done to Angels and Saints Duplication A doubling Duplicitie Doublenesse Durabilitie Long continuance Dwale An hearb of cold operation having power to make one sleep some call it Nightshade E EAglet A young Eagle Ebene A tree which groweth in Ethiopia bearing neither leaves nor fruit It is black and hath no grain like other wood and is sharp byting in tast Being burned it yieldeth a pleasant smell neither is the smoake thereof offensive 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 spored with white and yellow being not in such estimation as the Ethiopian Ebene is Ebionites Certaine old Heretikes which affirmed that Christ was not before his mother the blessed Virgin Against these Hereticks Saint John writ his Gospel after he returned from his banishment in the I le Pathmos Ebonie See Ebene Ebrietie Drunkennesse Eccho A rebounding or sounding backe of any noise or voyce in a wood valley or hollow place Poets feine that this Eccho was a Nymph so called which being rejected of one whom she loved 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 belong to a Preacher The name of a Booke in the old 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 never happeneth but at the full Moone neither then alwaies but whē she is in such a point that the shadow of the earth depriveth her of the Sunne beames from whence she taketh her light Eclipse of the Sunne is not so usuall and happeneth only at the change of the Moone namely when the Moone being between the Sunne and us doth with her dark body hide part of her light from us which was the cause that Dionysius Areopagita seeing the Sunne so admirably eclipsed at our Saviours Passion contrarie to all reason when the Moon was not in any neerenesse to hinder his light cryed out in amazement ARt Deus naturae patitur aut machina mundi

with his foot caused a fountaine forthwith to spring in the place Bacchus obtaining by this meanes his desire built a Temple there of exceeding huge greatnesse in the middle whereof he erected an Idoll to Iupiter in the likenesse of a Ram which Idol afterward gave Oracles and was called the Oracle of Ammon because it was situated in a dry sandy place for Ammos in Greeke signifieth Sand. The other Oracle was at Delphi a Citie of Beotia in Greece where Apollo was said to give answers Oratorie A place to pray in Oratour One that pleadeth causeth an eloquent speaker Orbe Any perfect round circle hollow in the midst Orbicular Round like an Orbe Orchall A stone like Allume used sometime by Diers to raise a red colour Ordinary A Judge that hath Ordinary jurisdiction in Ecclesiasticall causes Ordure Dung filth Orgall The lees of Wine dried used by Diers to make their cloth to drinke in the colour throughly Organicall That which consisteth of divers substantiall parts members Organist A player upon Organs Organ Ling. A kinde of Ling brought out of the North Countries Orgies Rude ceremonies instituted by the Poet Orpheus to be kept every third yeere in the honour of Bacchus Orient The East Orient Pearles Glistring Pearles of great price Orientall Of or belonging to the East Orifice The mouth of any thing or the outward hole of a wound Originall The first beginning The first of any thing Oringos Certaine roots growing in some places neere the Sea side The Plant is called Sea holly bearing prickly broad leaves and round sharpe prickly heads set about with small sky coloured floures These roots are very long and deepe into the ground of an ashie colour in the outside and full of joynts They use scraping of the outer rinde of these roots and pulling out the pith to preserve them by boyling them with Sugar or Honie a litle Cinamon and Ginger which preserve is very good for aged people and such as are consumed in their bodie to nourish them again Orisons Prayers Ornament A garnishing Ornature A garnishing a setting forth Ornifie To garnish Orphan He that wanteth father and mother friendlesse Orpment A soft yellow kind of Arsenik like unto Brimstone It is commonly taken for Rats-bane Orthodoxall That which belongeth to a true and right faith or Religion Orthographie The art of writing words truly as Sonne of man with an O Sun that shineth with the vowell V. Orthographist He that professeth or is skilfull in Orthographie Osanna See Hosanna Osprey A kinde of ravenous Fowle which hovereth over pooles to take Fish Ostentation Boasting vain craking or vaunting A proud setting forth to shew Ostiarie An officer having authoritie to keepe unworthy persons out of the Church Ostracisme A banishment among the Athenians for ten yeers so called because they used to write the names of the partie so condemned in Oyster shelles This punishment was chiefely used to abate the over great power of noble men Ovall A long round circle made like an egge such as pictures are sometimes drawn in Overture An overturning a sudden change Oxgang Thirteene acres of land Oxymell A sirupe made of Hony Vineger and water good to cut and clense grosse slegmatick humors sometime there are boyled certaine roots and seeds with it and then is it called Oxymell compositum sometime it is made with Honey Vineger and the Sea Onion and then it is named Oxymel Scylliticum which also is of two sorts to wit simple and compound P PAcal A tree in India so called Pacification An appeasing or pacifying Pacificatorie Which appeaseth or pacifieth Pact A bargain Page A written side of a leafe of paper Pagan A Heathen an infidell Paganisme The beliefe of the Pagans Paico An hearbe in India good against the griefe of the stone in the Kidnies which cometh of windinesse or cold causes Palate The upper hollow part of the mouth wherein lyeth the sense of tasting as in the tongue Palestricall Of or belonging to wrastling Also that which is done decently with comely gesture of the bodie Pali●ode A recantation or denying of an opinion formerly maintained * Palliard A Whooremonger * Palliardise Whooredome Palliate To cloke to cover Pallizado Great postes set up in the entrie to a Camp for a defence against great shot Palme The tree which beareth Dates growing plentifully in the holie land There are of these trees found also in some parts of Egypt but they beare no fruit or if they beare any it is unpleasant The branches of this tree were wont to be carried as a token of victory because they are of that nature that they wil stil shoot upward though oppressed with never so great weight the leaves thereof never fall Of this tree there is male and female the male beareth only blossomes no fruit but the female beares both In old times some people used to write with Paper made of leaves of the Palme tree Palmer A poore Pilgrime that visiteth all holy places Palmister He that telleth ones fortune by looking in his hand Palmistry See divination Palpable That which may be felt with the fingers m●nifest notorious Pamphlet A little book Pandar A base fellow that keepeth or attendeth upon Harlots Pandect A booke treating of all matters also the Volume of the Civill Law called Digests is so called Panegyricall That which is spoken flatteringly in praise of some great person Also it signifieth stately honorable magnificent or a speech made of many great matters together Panther A fierce wilde beast having a sweet smell and a faire spotted skin wherewith she allureth other beasts to looke on her hiding her head lest it should make them afraid and by this means getteth her prey more easily The male of this beast is the libard The panthers as is written have on their shoulder a spot which groweth and waineth like the Moon This beast is so fearfull of the Hyena that in his presence she dareth not doe any thing in so much that if one have but a peece of the skinne of a Hyena the Panther will not touch him and it is said that if both their skins be hanged together the haire of the Panthers skin will fall off Panyme A heathen a gentile Parable A similitude or resemblance made of a thing Para●elsian A Physitian that followeth the method of Paracelsus and his manner of curing which was by exceeding strong oyles and waters extracted out of the nature of things Paraclere A comforter Paradise A garden or pleasant place Paradox An opinion maintained contrary to the common allowed opinion as if one affirme that the earth doth move round and the heavens stand still Paragon A beautifull peece a lovely creature Paragraph It properly signifieth any marke set in a m●rgent to note the different discourses in a Booke or long Chapter wherefore such divisions in writing are commonly called Paragraphs Paralipomenon Omitted or not spoken of There are two bookes in the old testament so call'd because many worthy