Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	woman_n	womb_n	work_n	22	3	5.1108	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19044	The English dictionarie: or, An interpreter of hard English vvords Enabling as well ladies and gentlewomen, young schollers, clarkes, merchants, as also strangers of any nation, to the vnderstanding of the more difficult authors already printed in our language, and the more speedy attaining of an elegant perfection of the English tongue, both in reading, speaking and writing. Being a collection of the choisest words contained in the Table alphabeticall and English expositor, and of some thousands of words neuer published by any heretofore. By H.C. Gent.	Cockeram, Henry, fl. 1650.; Cawdry, Robert. Table alphabeticall. aut; J. B. (John Bullokar). English expositor. aut	1623 (1623)	STC 5461.2; ESTC S118706	133,393	332

there Militant Which is in warfare Militarie Warlike Mimicall Belonging to scoffing Mimicke A scoffer a iester Mimigraph A writer of wanton matters Mina The weight of threescore Sheckles Minace To threaten Minatorie Threatning Minerall Metall or any thing dig'd out of the earth Miniuer Fine white furre made of a Squerils belly Minor The lesser Minoritie A mans time before he be full age to dispose of his goods or lands Minurize To sing small to faine in singing Mirmidoniz'd Hardened Mirmilloners Fighters with swords Mirrowring Wondering Misanthrophon One that hates mans company Miscreant An Infidell Misimprision A mistaking of the meaning or sense of one word for another Misocall One hating all honest dealings Misophone A hater of labour Missiculate Often to send Mission A sending Missiue That which witnesseth ones being sent Mithridate An excellent confection made by King Mithridates to expell poyson Mittigate To asswage Mittigation An asswaging Mittimus A warrant made to conuey an offendor to prison Mixture A mingling Mobilitie Aptnesse to moue Modder A daughter Moderable Temperate measurable Moderate To gouerne Moderation Temperance good discretion Moderator A discreet gouernour Moderne Liuing now in our age Modification A measuring Modicum A pittance a little Modle Part of ones selfe Modulate To sing by measure Modulation A singing by measure sweet singing Molestation A troubling Mollifie To make soft Mollification A making sumple or soft Mollocke Durt Moloch An Idoll like a Calfe to whom the Israelites did offer their children in sacrifice of fire Molossus A Mastiffe Moment A minute Momentanie During for a small time Monarch A King Prince or the like Monarchie The rule of one Prince alone Monarchize To beare a great rule c. Monasterie A religious house of Monkes Monasticall Comfortlesse solitarie Monedule A Chough or Iacke-daw Monition A warning Monodies Mournefull songs Monogamie Such as haue had but one wife Monologie A long tale of little worth Monoma●hie A combat of two hand to hand Monopolie When one ingrosseth commodities in such fashion that none can sell them or gaine by them but himselfe onely Monticle A little hill Moote To reason or argue a cause in Law Morall Of or belonging to good manners Moralitie Ciuilitie good behauiour Morbifie To cause sicknes Mordacitie Biting Morgage To pawne lands houses or goods Morigerate To doe as one is commanded to obey Morigerous Obedient ciuill Morositie Frowardnesse way wardnesse Mortalitie Death Mortifie To kill Mortification A killing or taking away of ones pleasure Mortuarie Payment due for buriall of the dead Mosaicke worke Cunning curious painting Mother A disease in women when the wombe riseth with paine vpwards sweet smelles are ill for it but loathsome sauors good Motion A mouing from place to place Motiue A cause mouing one to doe a thing Mott. A short sentence a word Mountebancke A base deceitfull Merchant chiefly of drugs which with impudent lying doth for the most part sell counterfeit stuffe to the common people Moytie Halfe. Mulct A fine or penaltie layed on one Muliebritie Finenesse womanlike Mulierositie The vice of louing many women Multifarious Of diuers sorts Multiplicable Which may be augmented Multiplication An augmenting Multate To punish by the purse Mummianiz'd Turn'd into Mummie Mummia A thing like Pitch some say it is made of mans-flesh boild in Pitch Others that it is taken out of old Tombes being a corrupted humour that droppeth from embalmed bodies Mundane Worldly Mundifie To cleanse Mundification A cleansing Municipall Belonging to the estate of a Free-man or Burgesse of a Citie Munificate To inrich Munificence Liberalitie Munition Great ordnance for warre or shot Murke Darke Mussitate To speake through the teeth Mustricle A Shooe-makers Last Mutabilitie Inconstancy Mutation A change Mutable Changeable Mute Dumbe Mutilate To mayme Mutilation A mayming Mutinous Apt to breed quarrels Mutuall That which passeth one from another Muzrole An Iron band which comes ouer a horses nose Myriads Ten thousands Myriarch A captaine of ten thousand Mystagoge An interpreter of ceremonies Mysterie A secret touching Diuinitie Mysterious Hard to vnderstand Mysticall Darke which hath a mysterie in it Mythologie An exposition of Poets riddles N NAdir The point of the Heauens right vnder our feet Naperie Fine linnen for the table Narcoticall Which hath power to make the body insensible Narre Neerer Narration A declaration Narrable That which may be declared Nastipade A Spice-cake Natation A swimming Natiue That place where one is borne naturall Naturalize To make naturall Naufrage Shipwracke Nauitie Diligence speed Nauigible Which may be sayled in Nauigator A Saylor Naumachie A battell or fight at sea Nausicus Disposed to vomit Naustible A Port or Haven for ships Nax A kinde of Whetstone Nazarite The Iewes so called those that vowed themselues sometime to God and while their vow lasted they abstained from all kinde of Wine nor could they drinke any thing which might make them drunke they neuer cut their haire but did suffer it still to grow their vow expired they presented themselues to the Priests who offered a Sacrifice for them and then was their haire cut and burnt therewith and then they might drinke any thing as before Necromancie Diuination by calling vp Deuils or dead mens ghosts Necessitude Kinne alliance in bloud Nectar A pleasant liquor which Poets faine the gods did drinke Nectariz'd Sweetned Necyomantie Diuination by calling vp damned spirits Nefarious Very wicked Negation A denying Negatiue Which denyeth Negotiation A buying and selling Nemorous Wooddy Neogamus A Bridegroome Neophyte Any thing newly planted or set one newly conuerted to the faith a nouice Neoptolimus A new souldier Neotericke One of late time Nepenthe An herbe being steept in Wine and drunke expels sadnesse Nequinate To play the wanton Nerue A sinew Neruositie Strength Neuter An indifferent partie not in one side nor the other Neutralitie A retchlesse being on neither side Newricall Gowtie Nexible Which may bee knit Nicotiane The herbe Tobacco Nictation The twinckling of the eye Nidulate To build a nest Nilling Vnwilling Nixicus White as snow Nixuriate To indeuour to attempt Nobilitate To make noble Nocent Hurtfull Nocticula The Moone Noctilucie The Moone shining Nocturnall Of or belonging to the night Nocturne Prayers vsed at certain houres of the night Nodation Knottinesse Nodosous Full of knots Noli me tangere The French disease Nominate To name Nomination A naming Nonage Vnder 21. yeeres old a childe Nonresidencie Vnlawfull absence from the place of ones abode Nonresident Which is absent from the place where he ought to be Nones Are six daies next following the first day in March May Iuly and October in the other moneths foure daies next after the first but the last of these daies is properly called Nones and the other reckoned backwards according to the number distant from the Nones They are called Nones because they are iust nine daies before the Ides Nonsuit The letting fall of a suit Notice Knowledge Notifie To make knowne Nouerca A mother in law Nouercall Belonging to a