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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	reason_n	see_v	1,402	5	3.3292	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69015	An Englis[h] expositor[:] teaching the in[ter]pretation of the harde[st] words [vsed] in our language. With sundry [ex]plicat[ions, de]scriptions [, and d]iscourses. By I.B. ...	J. B. (John Bullokar)	1621 (1621)	STC 4084; ESTC S115630	109,867	269

in Greeke signifieth So Hydromancie is a diuination made by some apparition in water as Varro writeth that a Boy saw inwater 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 Throcritus 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 Aeromancie 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 euen by the Pagans themselues accounted deceitfull and vain● 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 then 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 Diuulg● To publish or tell abroad Diuulgation A telling or reporting abroad Docibilitie See docilitie Docible See docill Docill Easie to bee taught one that will soone learne Docilitie Aptnesse quicknesse of vnderstanding Document A lesson an instruction Dogdayes Certaine daies in Iuly and August so called of the Starre Canis the Dogge which then rising with the Sun doth greatly increase the heat thereof Dogmaticall Which is helde or maintained in some mens opinion Dole Sorrow heauinesse griefe sometimes almes giuen to many poore folkes Dolefull Heauie sorrowfull Dolorous Grieuous painfull Dolphine A fish friendly 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 Domincere To beare rule or great sway Dominicall Belonging to sunday or our Lords day Dominion Lordship rule Dona●ic A gift properly that which is hanged vp in a Church Donation A giuing Donce 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 sto●es of a Hare or Stag. Drachme See dram Drammt 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 Pagan 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 young Eagle Ebene A tree which groweth in Ethiopia beating neither leaues nor fruite It is blacke 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 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 eies That which groweth in India is spotted with white and yellow being not in such estimation as the Ethiopian Ebene is Ebionits Certaine old Heretikes which affirmed that Christ was not before his mother the B. Virgin Against these Heretikes Saint Iohn writte his Gospel after he returned from his bainishment in the yle Pathmos Ebonie See Ebene Ebrietie 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 Nymphe so called which beeing reiected of one whom shee 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 alwayes 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 passion contrary to all reason when the Moone was not in any neerenesse to hinder his light cryed out

the value of twentie nobbles and vnder thirty poundes sixe shillings and eight pence where the goods exceede thirtie pounds and ten shillings where the goods amount aboue the valew of threescore pounds Mosaicall A cunning kinde of painting which seemeth to bee embossed and grauen in some places Mother A disease in women when the wombe riseth with paine vpward In this disease the smelling to all sweet sauours is harmefull as contrarily the smelling to all strong loathsome sauours profitable Motion A mouing from place to place or the moouing of a matter to haue it considered of Motiue A cause mouing one to any thing Motte A word or short sentence Mountibancke A base deceitfull merchant especially of Apothecaries drugs that with impudent lying doth for the most part sell counterfeite stuffe to the common people Mugwet See Gatherbagge Mulet A fine or penalty layd on one Mullet A kinde of deynty fith it is also a tearme in Heraldry which signifieth a spot descending from high and deuided into fiue corners or ends out of one drop Mummia A thing like pitch solde by Apothecaries Some affirme it is taken out of olde Tombes being a corrupted humour that droppeth there from embalmed bodies others say it is made of mans flesh boyled in a pitch It is hot in the second degree and good against all bru●sings spetting of bloud and diuerse other diseases Mundane Worldly Mundifie To make cleane Mundification A making cleane Municipall Of or belonging to the state of a Free-man or Burgesse of a Citty Munificence Liberality Munificent Liberal bountifull Munition Great Ordinance for the warre great shot Muscle In physicke it signifieth a knitting together of flesh with veines arteries and sinewes seruing specially for the motion of some part of the bodie by reason of sinewes in it Muses The feined goddesses of poetry and musicke which were nine in number and daughter vnto Iupiter and Mnemosyne Their names were Cleio Melpomene Thaleia Euterpe Terpsichore Erato Calliope Vtania and Polymneia Muske It is brought out of India and other hotte countries taken there from a beast like a Roe sauing that it hath two crooked teeth bending inward like two hornes within which beast the muske groweth conteined in a little bag or bladder It is comfortable to the heart and braine by reason of the sweete smell thereof being hotte and dry in operation and it conueyeth the vertues of diuerse medicines to those the two principall parts Mutation A change Mute Dumbe Mutable Changeable Mutabilitie Changeablenesse Mutinie An vprore a troublesome assembly of people together Mutinous Apt to broed quarrels or discord among the people Mutuall That which passeth one from another Mutulate To maime cut off or make lame Muzrole A ring or band of yron to come ouer a horses nose Myrobalanes A fruite growing in Egypt and Syria like Plummes or Damsens There are fiue kinds hereof distinguished by these names Citrina Inda Cepula Emblica and Bellirica They are colde in operation and comfortable to nature The first of these purgeth choler the second melancholie and the three last fleame Myrrhe A Gumme brought out of Arabia and Assyria of colour betweene white and red It is hotte and drie in the second degree or as some write in the third and is often vsed in Physicke being of an opening cleansing and dissoluing nature Poets feine that Myrrhe first came by reason of a kings daughter named Myrrha who for a grieuous crime committed was by the gods turned into a little Tree out of the branches whereof this Gumme still droppeth in manner of teares as a token of her repentant sorrow Myrtle A little lowe Tree growing in some hotte countries ●hauing small darke leaues and bearing berries which are of a binding nature good to stop any issue of blood This myrtle is a tender plant not able to endure cold and was wont to bee worne of the Romane captaines garland-wise in triumph when they had obtained any victorie without slaughter of men Poets consecrated this Tree to Venus Myster Vnknowen strange Mysticall Darke which hath a mysterie in it Mysterious Darke spoken in a mystery hard to vnderstand N NAdir That point in the heauens which is direct vnder our feet Naiades The water Nimphes Naperie Linnen for the Table Narcoticall That which hath power to prouoke sleepe or to make the bodie insensible * Narre Neerer Narration A declaration of the matter whereof one purposeth to speake A report a discourse Natiue Naturall The place where one was borne Naturalize To make naturall Naue The middle part of a wheele Nauigable Any water where ships may faile Nauigation A sailing by Sea Nauigator A Sayler a Marriner Nazarite In Hebrew it signifieth a man separated or diuided The Iewes so called those that had vowed themselues for sometime to God And these Nazarites while their vow lasted where to abstaine from wine and Grapes either greene or dry and generally from all whatsoeuer came from the vine tree or might make a man drunke They also cut not their haire but suffered it still to grow and obserued diuers other ceremonies The date of their vowe being expired they presented themselues to the Priest who offered a sacrifice for them and then was the Nazarites haire cut and burnt with the sacrifice After which time it was lawfull for the Nazarites to drinke wine as before Necromancy See Diuination Nectar Poets faine it to be a delicate pleasant liquor which the gods vsed to drinke Nefarious Very wicked Negation A denying Negatiue A denyall or that which denyeth Negotiate To trafike in merchandise to follow much businesse Negotiation A buying and selling a trafike of merchandise Neophyte Any thing lately planted or set wherefore it is often taken for one who is newly conuerted to the faith a nouice or young learner Nerue A sinew Neuter Neither on the one side nor the other An indifferent party Neutrality A retchlesse beeing on neither side Nicotiane The hearbe Tobacco so called of a French mans name who first brought the knowledge of this herbe into France Niese In our common Lawe it signifieth a bond woman Niter A substance like Salt but sometime of a light red colour It is hot and dry of a strong fretting nature some take it to be salt Peter Nobilitate To make Noble Nocent Hurtfull Nocturne Psalmes and Prayers vsed at certaine houres of the night Nocturnall Belonging to the night N●linie tangere A disease by some so called It is a peece of flesh growing in the nostrill in such sort that it often stoppeth the winde Nombrill In Herauldry it signifieth the lower part of a scuchion which is diuided by the breadth into three euen parts Nominate To name to appoint Nomination A naming Nonage A childes age vnder 21. yeares old Nonresidencie Vnlawfull absence from the place of of ones charge Nonresident Absent from his charge or where hee ought to dwell Nones In March May Iulie and October they art the sixe dayes next following the first day In other months they are