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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	nature_n	reason_n	1,625	5	4.6916	4	false

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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

dissolvetur Either the God of nature suffereth or else the frame of the world will be destroyed Ecliptike line Animagined line running thorough the midst of the twelve signes in which the Sunne alwaies keepeth his course Eclog. It is commonly taken for a poeme containing a communication of shepherds but the word in Greeke signifieth a collection or choice gathering of things together Eden An Hebrew word signifying delectation or a place of pleasure and delight Paradise Edible Which may be eaten Edict An ordinance made by any in authoritie A proclamation or decree Edifie To build to frame sometime to instruct Edifice A building a frame Edification A building but most commonly it is taken for an instruction so plainly delivered that the hearer profiteth by it Edition A setting forth or publishing Educate To bring up to nourish Education A bringing up Effectuate To performe Effeminate Womanish nice Efficacie Strength vertue force Efficiencie A bringing to passe Efficient Which bringeth to passe or performeth Effusion A powring out a large spending Eftsoones Againe often Egregious Notable excellent Egresse A going forth from any place Egritude Griefe of mind or paine of body Eject To cast out Ejection A casting out Ejulation A howling a pittifull crying out Elaborate Curious done with great pains Elate Lifted up advanced proud loftie Elation A lifting up pride loftinesse Elaterium The juice of wilde cucumbers dried Being taken inwardly it purgeth waterish humors and is good against the dropsie But it must be mixed with somewhat to restraine the malice of it for otherwise it will be p●●infull in operation * Eld. Old age Elect. To choose or one that is chosen Election Choice Electuarie Any medicine taken inwardly made of divers powders mixed together and by tempering with some syrupes or hony brought to a soft liquid formy Elegancie Finenes neatnesse Elegant Fine neate picked trim Elegie A mournefull song used in funerals or other passions of sorrow Elegiacke Mournfull Element The first matter of visible substance from whence all things take their beginning wherof there be foure namely fire aire water and earth Sometime it signifieth a letter as A.B.C. sometime the first foundation principle or instruction of any thing Elementary Which consisteth of Elements Eleemosynarie Given in almes or which giveth almes Elench A subtill argument Elevate To lift up to advance Elevation A lifting up Elixir An Arabian word of the same signification that Quintessence is in latine see Quintessence Elke A kind of Yew to make bowes with Elocution Vtterance eloquence Eloine To put give or sell away Elong To put or set farre off Elude To mocke or deceive Elusion A mocking a deceit Elysian Of or belonging to Elysium Elysium A supposed place of pleasure below where Poets imagined the souls of good men did rest Embalme To annoint with balme Embassie An embassage a message from one Prince to another Embellish To make beautifull Embezill To steale to convey away Embleme It properly signifieth any fine worke cunningly set in wood or other substance as we see in chesse boards and tables notwithstanding it is commonly taken for a picture or other device shadowing some matter to be learned by it Embost A terme used by hunters when a Deere is so weary that he fometh at the mouth Embracer A law terme of him that when a matter is in triall cometh for reward to the barre being no lawyer nor witnes and speaketh in favour of one of the parties or which laboureth the Jury or useth any unlawfull practise to make them give their verdit as he would have them Embrion A childe unperfect in the mothers wombe Emendation An amending Emeralde A precious stone the greenest of all other for which cause it is very comfortable to the sight The best of these stones are brought out of Scythia And some affirme them to be taken out of the Griffons nests who doe keepe this stone with great crueltie It is found by experience as Albertus writeth that if the Emerald be good it inclineth the bearer thereof to chastitie and cannot endure the action of lust There is also a disease sounding neere this word for which see Hemorrhode Eminence Highnesse dignitie honour Eminent High loftie honourable Emmanuel An Hebrew word expressing the dignitie of our Saviour and is interpreted God with us Emolument Profit gaine advantage Empannel To make up a jurie of twelve or more men Emphasis An expresse or most plaine signification of ones minde Emphaticall That which is uttered with most expresse signification in such sort that it setteth forth to the full the intent of the speaker Empirick A physition that getteth skill by his own practise Emplaster A plaister or salve made of herbs powders and oyle boyled together Emplead To sue one Emprimed A terme used by hunters when a Hart first forsaketh the herd Empyriall heaven The highest heaven above the firmament so called by a Greeke name because of the bright shining of it Emulate To envie to strive to doe as another doth Emulation Envie an earnest desire to do as another doth Enarration A telling or declaring Enchiridion It is commonly taken for a little book which one may still carry in his hand Encomium A praise Encroch To creepe or presse upon a man unlawfully to get more then his due Encrochment A law terme when one man unlawfully presseth too farre upon another as in setting his pale too farre upon anothers land the more to enlarge his own or in taking more rent then is due Endorse To write on the outside of a Letter Endorsed A terme of Herauldrie when two beasts are painted with their backs turned to each other Energeticall Very forcible and strong Energie Force vertue strength * Enewed Made new Enfranchise To make free to admit or receive one into any corporation Enfranchisement A making free Enhance To advance or make greater Enigma A riddle a darke speech Enigmaticall Obscure darke hard to understand spoken in a riddle * Enmoised Comforted Enormitie A going out of rule a great disorder Enormous Wicked very bad Enquest A Iury of twelve or moe men Ensigne A banner borne in warres a flagge or any ornament serving for a marke of some dignitie Entalented Ingrafted Enthymeme A terme of Logick It signifieth an imperfect syllogisme which wanteth either the Major or Minor as for example Every sin deserveth correction Every theft is a sin Therefore every theft deserveth correction Now if we will leave the first part called the Major and say thus Every theft is a sinne Therefore Every theft deserveth correction Or omit the second part named the Minor and say Every sinne deserveth correction therefore every theft deserveth correction Then it is called an Enthymeme to wit a keeping in the mind for so the word properly signifieth because one of these parts is understood in the mind where note that if the two endes of the Enthymeme are like in speech then the Minor is wanting if the two beinnings be like the Major is omitted as may easily appeare by