overthrow Subvert To overthrow to destroy Succinct Briefe short Suffocate To strangle choak Suffocation A choaking a strangling Suffrage Favourable voyces in our behalfe as at the choosing of officers or Magistrates Suggest To put closely into ones minde Suggestion A prompting or putting of a thing into ones minde Sulphur Brimstone Summary A briefe gathering together an abridgment containing the whole effect of a matter in few words Summarily Briefly touching onely the chiefe points Summity The height or top of a thing Superabound To abound very much to be in great plenty Supereminence Authoritie or dignitie above others Supererogation Laying out of more then one hath received or the doing of more then a man is of necessity bound to doe Superficiall Going no farther then the outside slight bearing shew onely in the outside without any goodnesse within Superficies The outside of every thing which is alwayes in sight Superfluity More then needs to be overmuch Superfluous That which is too much also vaine or unprofitable Superlative The highest Superiour Higher above another Supernall That which commeth from above Superscription A writing set upon any thing as on the outside of a letter Supersedeas In our common Law it signifieth a commandement sent by writing forbidding an officer from the doing of that which otherwise he might and ought to doe Superstition An excesse of ceremonious worship false worship or honour given to God Supplant To trip one or to overthrow him craftily Supplement That which supplyeth or maketh up what is wanting Supply To fill up or adde too Suppliant He that maketh a supplication or humbly intreateth another Supplicate To beseech humbly Suppository Any thing put up into the Fundament to make the body soluble It is commonly made of honey boyled till it grow thick and so made into an apt forme for that purpose whereto sometime is added the yolke of an egge or salt when we will have it to worke the effect more speedily Suppresse To keepe downe to beate under sometime to conceale or keep close Supputation An account or reckoning Supreme Chiefe highest most excellent Surcease To give over leave off or cease * Surcote A gowne with a hood of the same Surplusage Overplus more then needs Surprise To come unawares to take upon a sudden Surprisall A taking unawares * Surquidrie Presumption Surrender To yeeld up lands or tenements to another Surreption A privy taking away Surround To compasse round about Survey To overlooke or oversee Surveyer He that hath the oversight of the kings or some great personages lands or works Survive To overlive or live after another Surviver He that liveth after another Suspend To stay one by authority for a time from executing his office to delay to deferre Suspence Doubtfulnesse uncertainty Suspiration A breathing or sighing Swallowes tayle In building it signifieth a fastening of two peeces of timber so strongly together that they cannot fall asunder Swaine A Servant Swaynemote A Court kept thrice a yeare touching matters belonging to a forrest * Sweven A dreame * Swynker A labourer Sycomore A tree like a fig tree having great branches and large leaves like a Mulberry It beares fruit three or foure times in a yeare much like a wilde Fig but without any seeds within The fruit groweth upon the very body of the tree and the great maine boughes and will never be ripe except it be scraped with an yron tool It is found plentifully in Caria Egypt and the I le of Rhodes especially in such places where Wheate will not grow Sycophant A Tale bearer a slanderer a false accuser Syllogisme An Argument consisting of three parts whereby somthing is necessarily prooved as thus Every vertue is honorable Patience is a vertue Therefore Patience is honourable The first part of a syllogisme is called the Proposition or Major the second the Assumption or Minor and the third the Conclusion Sylvane Of or belonging to the woods Symbole A short gathering of principal points together Symmetrie Due proportion of one part with another Symmetrian Hee that considereth the due proportion of a thing and how well the parts agree with the whole Sympathy A likenesse in quantity or a like disposition or affection of one thing to another Symphony Harmony or consent in Musicke Symptome Any passion or griefe following a disease or sensibly joyned with it as headach with an Ague a pricking in the side with a Plurisie and such like Synagogue A Congregation or assembly commonly it signifies a church of the Iewes Synteresie The inward conscience or a naturall quality ingrafted in the soule which inwardly informeth a man whether he do well or ill Synod A generall councell a generall or universall assembly Synoper See Cinoper Synopsie A sight or full view of a thing T * TAas. An heape Tabernacle A shelter or a room made abroad with boords and boughes of trees There was of old among the Israelites a feast commanded by God called the feast of Tabernacles which began on the fifteenth day of the seventh moneth and continued seven dayes during which time the Israelites lived abroad in Tabernacles in remembrance that their Fathers a long time so lived after God had delivered them out of the land of Egypt Tacamabaca A Rosin brought out of the West Indies of great vertue against any cold humours rising of the Mother Toothache and divers other griefes Talent A certaine value of money Among the Greekes there were two kinds of talents the greater and the lesse The greater contained about two hundred thirty three pounds sterling the lesse about an hundred seventy five pounds Among the Hebrewes the greater talent of the Sanctuary contained 400. pounds the lesser Talent halfe so much Tallage Custome fraight Tamarinds A fruite brought hither out of India like unto green Damsens They are cold in operation and therefore good against burning Feavers and all inward diseases proceeding of heate and choler Tamariske A little tree bearing leaves not much unlike to heath the decoction whereof in Wine and a little Vineger being drunken is of great vertue against the hardnes or stopping of the spleene or Milt This tree doth by nature so wast the Milt that Swine which have been daily fed out of a vessell made thereof have beene found to have no Milt at all * Tapinage Secrecie slilinesse Tarantula A little beast like a Lizard having spots in his necke like starres Tardie Slow Tartar Leeâ—e of wine Tautologie A repeating of one speech or matter often Taxe To appoint what one shal pay to the Prince sometime to reprove Tearce A measure of moyst things being the sixt part of a tun and the third part of a pipe * Teene Sorrow Temerarious Rash hasty Temeritie Rashnesse Templaries Certaine Christian souldiers dwelling about the Temple at Hierusalem whose office was to entertain Christian strangers that came thither for devotion and to guard them in safetie when they went to visite the places of the holy Land They wore by their Order a white Cloake or upper Garment
the foregoing example Enveloped Wrapped Environ To compasse about Enumerate To reckon up to declare Enumeration A reckoning a rehearsall Enunciative Any thing pronounced or spoken A proposition or speech which simply affirmed or denyeth any thing as Cicero is vertuous Cicero is not vertuous Epact A number which is in use every yeer to find the age of the Moone by This Epact changeth yeerly and is made by the addition of eleven to the former Epact both which numbers are the Epact for the following yeer but alwaies so that both those numbers exceed not the number of 30. For if they amount to above 30. theâ— must you cast away the 30. and the remaining number shall be the Epact As for example in this yeere 1616. the Epact is 22. to which if you adde eleven for the next yeers Epact it maketh 33. from which if you take away 30. there will remaine three which is the Epact for the next yeere 1617. Note also when in any yeere the Epact is 29. you must ad 12. to find out the next yeeres true Epact that casting away thirty the Epact may come to be eleven In al other numbers the Epact is still made as before by eleven And these Epacts are ever changed on the first day of March. Ephemerides A booke wherein day acts are registred Commonly it is taken for a Booke of Astronomie in use among such as erect figures to cast mens nativities by which booke is shewne how all the Planets are placed everie day and houre of the yeare Ephi An Hebrew measure containing about five pecks of ours Ephod A holy garment worne by the high Priest of the Hebrewes when he executed his function It covered the back and was curiouslie wrought with gold and twisted silke of Purple Skarlet and Violet colour On the shoulders there were set two great precious Onix stones and in them graven the names of the twelve sonnes of Iacob called the twelve Patriarchs in the right shoulder the six eldest and in the left the six youngest that the High Priest entring into the Sanctum Sanctorum which was the holiest place of the Temple might beare with him the names of the people for whom he was to pray unto God Epicycle A terme used in Astronomie It signifieth a lesser circle whose center or middle part is in the circumference of a greater circle In the upper part of this Eâ—icycle the five Planets Saturne Jupiter Mars Venus and Mercury doe goe forward according to the course of the signes as Aries to Taurus c. in the lower part they are retrograde that is goe backward as from Gemini to Taurus from Taurus to Aries againe Betweene these two motions are said to be two stations namely when a Planet ceaseth going forward and beginneth to be retrograde or comming to the farthest point of his retrogradation goeth forward againe so that in the Epicycle these Planets wheele about somtime according sometime contrary to the order of the signs Epicure It is commonly â—aken with us for a man given over much to pleasure especially in gluttony In ancient times it signified one that followed the sect of a Philosopher named Epicurus who taught that the greatest happines was to be without paine and enjoy pleasure of bodie and mind Epigramme It properly signifieth a superscription or writing set upon any thing now it is commonly taken for a short witty poeme which under a faigned name doth covertly praise or tax some particular person or thing Epilepsie The falling sicknesse whereto most commonly children and yong folkare subject This disease is caused by some humor or vapor suddenly stopping the passage of spirits in the braine which the brain striving to expel causeth the patient to fall downe and commonly some at the mouth Spilog The conclusion or end of a matter A speech made after an entâ—â—lude or play is ended Epiphanie An appearing or manifestation The feast of Twelfe day at Christmas is so called because theÌ„ the appearing of a new star did manifest the birth of our Saviour Episcopall Of or belonging to a Bishop Epitaph An inscription or writing set upon a tombe most commonly in lamentation or praise of the party there buried Epithete Any word or short sentence added to a Noune substantive to expresse some qualitie of it as in saying Barbarous crueltie unbridled lust anger the short madnes of the mind where barbarous unbridled and the short madnesse of the mind are Epithetes expressing the qualitie of crueltie lust and anger Epitome An abridgement or short gathering of any matter in writing Epitomize To make an abridgement or short gathering Equanimitie Vprightnes of heart quietnes of mind Equinoctiall An imagined line passing just in the midst between the two poles of heaven to which line the sun coming twice a yeer namely about the xj of March and the xj of September maketh the daies and nights of equall length in all the world for which cause it is called Equinoctiall The signes Aries and Libra do both begin at this line Equipage Furniture or provision for horsemanship especially in triumph or turnaments Equivalence The equall value of one thing with another Equivalent Of equall value to another thing Equivocate To speak or answer with a secret meaning reserved in ones own mind which peradventure the hearers do not understand Equivocation A speech or answermade with a secret meaning reserved in ones mind Equivoke When one word signifieth two things Erased A terme of Heraldrie when any member of a beast seemeth torne from the body Erebus Hell or a river in hell Erect To lift up Erection A lifting up Eremite See Hermite Ereption A taking away Ermines A little beast lesse then a Squirrell the furre whereof is very costly worn onely by Princes or great Potentates It hath a taile of a thumbe length and is browne Ermine in Heraldry somtime signifieth white powdred with black and Ermines black powdred white Errant Wandring having no certaine abode Erroneous Full of error deceived Erst Heretofore Erudition Learning instruction Eruption A violent breaking out Escheate To be forfeited to the King or chiefe Lord. Escheater An Officer that observeth and certifieth into the Exchequer such things as do escheate unto the King Escript A writing Escuage A tenure of lands whereby the tenant is bound at his own charg to follow his Lord into the warres either in Scotland or Wales sometime in this tenure the Tenant onely payeth a yeerly rent Escuerconera An hearbe in the West Indies so named because it is of great vertue against the deadly stingings or bitings of certaine venemous beastes which in that country they call Escuercos Esperance Hope Essayes Tryals Essence The being or naturall substance of any thing Essenes Certaine religious men among the Jewes which lived a very strict life abstaining from wine flesh and women Essentiall That which belongeth to the essence of a thing Essoine A tearme in the common Law when a man cannot well appeare at a day appointed in court and is
histories omitted in the bookes of Kings are there related Parallels Lines running of an equall distance from each other which can never meete though they be drawne infinitely in length thus In Astronomie there are five such imagined lines running circlewise about the round compasse of the heavens The first is the Equinoctiall line just 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 twelfth day of June The third yet more northward is the northern â—ircle 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 cometh about the twelfth of December The fift and last line is the Southern circle being as neere the South pole as the Northerne circle before spoken of is to the North pole Paralogisme A deceitfull syllogisme a manner of arguing which seemeth true when it is not as in saying He that affirmeth William to be a living creature saith true He that affirmeth William to be a Horse affirmeth him to be a living creature Therefore he that affirmeth William to be a Horse saith true Paramounte The chiefe Lord of the fee. Paramour A Sweet-heart one dearely beloved Paraphrase A free manner of translation or interpretation wherein a man doth not tye himselfe to expresse every word as it lyeth in the copie 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 one some rich man and flatteringly feedeth his humor because he would be 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 half circles thus Paricide One that hath killed his owne Father or Mother Among the ancient Romans if any committed so horrible a crime he was sowed alive in a leather bag with a Cock an Ape and an Adder put to him and as some write a Dog so were thrown together into the river Tyber where the miserable Caytife must needs die a lingring death being depriued of the use of all elements save only a little aire to draw his wretched life in torment the longer Paritie Equality likenesse Parley A talking together Poroxysme The sharp assault or fit of an ague Paâ—simonie Thriftines good husbandry Parsimonious Thrifty paring Particularise To draw or divide things in speaking into certain 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 Passiâ—le Which may suffer or feele pain Passion A suffering Pastor A shepheard Pastorall Of or belonging to a shepheard Paternall Fatherly Patheticall Passionate or that which moveth passions in a man Patriarch A great ancestour a great Bishop or father Patrimonie Goods or lands left one by his father or some other ancestor Patrone A defender a great friend that supporteth one Patronage Defence Patronize To defend Paucitie Fewnesse Pavice A great large shield that covereth the whole bodie Pavilion A tent for war Paunage The feeding of swine in any forrest wood or other place with mast Peccavi I have offended Pectorall Belonging to the breast or which hangeth before the breast Pecuniarie Of or belonging to money Pellican A bird that wanteth food feedeth her yong ones as is said with her own blood Pellmell Confusedly running disorderly together Penall Of or belonging to pain or punishment Pendant Hanging downward Penetrable Which may be pearsed thorow Penetrate To pearse thorow Penitentiall Belonging to penance or repentance Penitent He that is heartily sorry and repenteth Penon An ensigne or banner borne in warre Pension A yeerely fee or wages for some service done Pensive Sad heavie Pentateuch The five bookes of Moses to wit Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numeri and Deuteronâ—mie Pentecost The feast of Whitsontide so called because it is fiftie daies after Easter For Pentecost in Greeke signifieth the fiftieth Penurie Want povertie Penurious Poore in want Perambulation A walking Perceptible Which may be perceived Perch A kinde of fish It signifieth also a rod or long pole used in measuring of land being of 16. foot and a half in length and in some places more Percullis The name of an office of one of the Pursivants at armes Percussion A striking Perdition Destruction Perdurable Lasting of long continuance Peregrination A travelling into a strange land Peremptorie Resolute short quicke Perennitie Long continuance Perfidious Treacherous not to be trusted Perfidiousnesse Treachery disloyalty Perfunctory Carelesly done Perigion The nearest distance of the Planets from the earth Period The perfect end of a senteÌ„ce marked commoÌ„ly 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 neare either of the two Poles that their shadowes goe round about them like a wheele Perjury A forswearing Permission Sufferance leave Permutation A changing Pernicious Deadly dangerous Peroration The conclusion of a long speech or Oration Perpendicular Directly downe right Perpetrate To commit any unlawfull thing Perpetuity Everlastingnesse Perplexity Great doubtfulnesse intanglednesse Perquisits Profits comming to Lords of mannors by casualty or uncertainly as escheats heriots releafes strayes forfeitures Persist To continue to the end Personate To represent the person of another Perspecuity Cleerenesse plainnesse Perspicuous Cleere plain manifest Perswasive Which doth or may perswade Pertinacy Stubbornnesse wilfulnesse Perturbe To trouble Perturbation A trouble a great disquietnesse Perverse Froward contrary Pervert To corrupt or marre to turne one from good to bad Pestiferous Mortal deadly poisonous Potition A suite a demand 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 Petty Being placed before other words it signifieth little Petty Sergeanty A tenure of lands holden of the King by yeelding to him a Buckler Arrow Bow or such like service Petulancy Wanton saucinesse malepart boldnesse Phantasme A vision or imagined appearance Pharisee A sect of Iewes professing more holinesse than the common sort did They wore on their foreheads little scrols wherein were written the ten commandements and were called Pharises of the Hebrew word Phares which signifieth to divide or separate because by their feined devotion they seemed to separate themselves from the other people Pheere See Feere Phenix The rarest Bird