farcino to stuff Farragirous from farrago inis that is mixed with sundry grains together or with good and bad Vul. Er. Farinaceous or Farinous farinaceus mealy or full of meal bemealed beflowred Farreation farreatio a Sacrifice whereby Priests confirmed marriage Farsang is three of our English miles or a League among the Persians Herb. tra Fasciate fascio to swaddle or bind Fascicular facicularis belonging to a bundle or fardel Fasciculate To tye up into a bundle or fascicle Fascicle fasciculus a handful bound together a packet also any thing carried in the hand to smell Fascinate fascino to bewitch to forespeak or inchant Fascination A bewitching a charm a forespeaking Fascination is the power and intensitive act of the imagination upon the body of another Faâ—tidious fastidiosus disdainful loathing soon offended Fastigate Fastigiate fastigio to raise up or grow up to a sharp top Fasâ—s A strong hold an inaccessible place Bac. Fastuosity fastuositas disdain pride Fatality from fatum fatalness also unavoidableness as of a thing appointed by destiny Cotg. Fate fatum destiny that which must of necessity come to pass by Gods secret appointment Fatal fatalis pertaining to destiny or fate Fatidical fatidicus that telleth fortunes or destinies Fatiferous fatifer that brings fate or destiny Fatigable from fatigo which may be wearied or tired Fatigate fatigo to make weary to trouble much Fatigue Fr. weariness tediousness trouble toyl as we say the Fatigues of war or of a long journey Fatiloquent fatiloquus that soothsaith or prophecieth Fatuate fatuor to play the fool Fatuity fatuitas foolishness blockishness idiotism Favaginous from favus like or full of honey or honey comb Faunes Fauni Gods of the fields and woods Faunick faunicus wild woodish rude Favontan Favonius pertaining to the west-wind favorable Faustity faustitas good luck happiness Fautor Lat. a favorer a furtherer or maintainer Fautresse fautrix she that favors or maintains Fealty of the Fr. feaulte i. fidelitas signifies in our Common Law an oath taken at the admittance of every Tenant to be true to the Lord of whom he holds his Land And he that holds Land by this oath of fealty onely holds in the freest manner that any man in Engl. under the King may hold Because all with us that have Fee hold per fidem fiduciam that is by fealty at the least Smith de Repub. Anglor l. 3. c. 8. Act 1656. c. 4. Feasible Fr. faisable effectable which may be performed acted or done Febricitate febricito to be sick-of a Feaver or Ague Febriculous febriculosus that hath or is subject to a Feaver Februate februo to purge Souls by Sacrifice or Prayer Fecial faecialis pertaining to the Herald that denounceth war or peace The manner was thus The Faecialis carried a Lance or Spear headed with Iron and half burnt with fire and strewed herbs all the way in sign of peace even to the confines of those against whom he was to menace war there in the presence of three men of good years declared that he and the people of Rome did denounce war against them c. And then threw the Lance as far as he could upon their ground When they proclaimed Peace the Faecialis took up a stone in his hand which after certain solemn words pronounced and those to be read in Godwins Anthol lib. 4. cap. 1. he cast out of his hand c. And of these Foeciales or Heralds there were in Rome a Colledge of twenty the principal of them was Pater patratus Feculency foeculentia filthiness fulness of dregs Feculent foeculentus soul unclean loathsom full of dregs Fecundity foecunditas plenty fertility abundance Fedity foeditas filthiness foulness dishonesty Feid Feed or Feud Is that ill custom which hath been much used in Scotland and the North of England viz. a combination of kindred to revenge the death of any of their blood against the killer and all his race These deadly Feids King James in his Basilicon Doron advised his son to redress with all care possible The word signifies hatred See Feud Fee feodum alias feudum is in our Law an equivocal word but most usually taken for an estate of inheritance in Lands to one and his Heirs for ever or to one and the heirs of his body But it is also used for the compass or extent of a Mannor and in the common acceptance the word is well known Fee-farm is when a Tenant holds of his Lord in Fee-simple paying him a yearly rent to half or a third part of the value of the Land more or less Fee-simple feodum simplex is when any person holds Lands or Rent to him and his Heirs for ever and these words his Heirs make the Estate of inheritance for if Land be given to a man for ever yet he hath but an Estate for life Feisible See Feasible Fellifluous fellifluus flowing of the Gall. Felicitaeâ— felicito to make prosperous or hapyy Felth. And I have read Felicify Felicitous from felix happy or made happy Felion from fel i. choler or grief of mind an angry blister or wheal most commonly on the finger or thumbs end Felo de se Is he that commits Felony by murthering himself See Crompt Just of Peace fo 28. and Lamb. Eiren. l. 2. c. 7. p. 243. Feloqur See Falouque Fencemonth is a moneth wherein it is unlawful to hunt in the Forest because the female Deer fawn in this month which begins fifteen days before Midsomer and ends fifteen days after So that to this moneth there are 31 days assigned See Manwood part 1. of his Forest Laws p. 80. but more at large part secunda c. 13. per totum Fenestral fenestralis belonging to a window Felony felonia seems to come of the Fr. felonnie i. impetuositas atrocitas immisericordia We account any offence Felony that is in degree next to petty Treason and compriseth divers particulars under it as Murther Theft killing of a mans self Sodomy Rape wilful burning of houses and divers such like which are to be gathered especially out of Statutes whereby many offences are daily made Felony that before were not Felony is discern'd from lighter offences by this that the punishment thereof is death Howbeit Petit Larceny which is the stealing of any thing under the value of twelve pence is Felony as appears by Brook tit Coron n. 2. His reason is because the Indictment against such a one must run with these words felonicè cepit and yet this is not punished by death though it be loss of goods A man may call that Felony which is under petit Treason and punished by death And of this there are two sorts one lighter that for the first time may be relieved by Clergy another that may not and these are to be known by the Statutes for Clergy is allowed where it is not expresly taken away Vid. Stanf. l. 1. pl. Cor. à fine cap. 2. usque ad 39. Lamb. Just P. l. 2. cap. 7. and Crompt J.P. fol.
of some persons so called Morpheus somni minister sleep or the God thereof Morta one of the destines Mortal sin See Venial Mortgage Fr. mort i. mors and gage i. pignus merces signifies in our Common Law a pawn of Land or Tenement or any thing movable laid or bound for money borrowed peremptorily to be the Creditors for ever if the mony be not repaid at the day agreed on And the Creditor holding such Land or Tenement is called Tenant in Mortgage Mortiferous mortifer deadly that brings death Mortification mortificatio a mortifying a queling taming or punishing the flesh a deading the appetite a killing of lust Mortmain Fr. i. a dead hand signifies in Law an alienation of Lands or Tenements to any Corporation Guild or Fraternity and their Successors As Bishops Parsons Vicars c. which may not be done without license of the King and the Lord of the Mannor c. See more of this in Cowel Mortress a meat made of boyled Hens crums of bread yolkes of eggs and Saffron all boyled together Chauc Mortuary mortuarium is a gift left by a man at his death to his Parish Church in recompence of his personal Tithes and Offerings not duely paid in his life time Heretofore if a man had three or more Cattel of any kind the best being kept for the Lord of the Fee as a Herriot The second was wont to be given to the Parson in Right of the Church But by the Statute of 21 H. 8. ca. 6. a rate in money is set down for Mortuaries viz. three shillings four pence where the goods of the deceased are above the value of twenty Nobles and under thirty pound six shillings eight pence where the goods exceed thirty pound and under forty pound and ten shillings where the goods amount above the value of forty pound c. These Mortuaries are due but in some particular places and were also called Corse or Corps-presents Mosaique or Musaical work Mosaicum musaeacum vel Musivum opus is a most curious work wrought with stones of divers colours and divers mettles into the shape of knots flowers and other devices with that excellency of cunning that they seem all to be one stone and rather the work of Nature then Art Sir Henry Wotton describes it thus Mosaique is a kind of painting in smal Pebbles Cockles and shels of sundry colours and of late dayes likewise with peeces of glass figured at pleasure An ornament in truth of much beauty and long life but of most use in Pavements and floarings El. of Archit p. 261. St. Marks Church in Venice abounds with curiosity of this Work of which the Venetians vaunt themselves to be the Authors See Marquetry Mosaical of or pertaining to Moses or to Mosaick work Mosche or Mosque a Temple or Church among the Turks and Saracens the Persians call it a Moschea Motable motabilis alwayes moving still in motion Motacism motacismus the dashing out a letter Mother a disease in women when the womb riseth with pain for which the smelling to all sweet savors is harmful as contrarily to all strong and loathsom good Mot Fr. Motto Ital. a word But in a restrained sence it is properly taken for the Word or short sentence applied to an Imprése or Devise See Devise There are also Motto's belonging to the Coats of Arms of most of the Nobility and Gentry which are seldom in the English tongue Mot is also a Note which a Huntsman winds on his horn Motet Fr. a verse in Musick or of a Song a Pâ—sie a short-lay Mountain of Piety mons pietatis is a stock of money raised by the charity of good people who observing the poor ruined by the usury of Jews voluntarily contributed good store of treasure to be preserved and lent to them whereby they upon security might have money at a low rate to relieve their wants which because the mass is great and the thing pious and charitable in it self is called a Mountain of Piety But in respect the Officers and incident charges cannot be had without some emolument therefore the borrower payes somewhat by the moneth for the loan of that he receives Cajet opusc de monte Pietat c. 1. Mountebank Ital. Montimbanco Span. Saltaenbanco Fr. Charlatan Tent. Landstreicher Belg. Quaksalvar a cousening Drug-seller a base deceitful Merchant especially of Apothecaries Drugs that with impudent Lying does for the most part sell counterfeit stuff to the common people Muccâ—lâ—ginous comes from the Latin muccago or muccus or mucus snot or snivil snivilish snotty filthy and thence flegmy and the like Dr. Br. Mucculent or Muculent muculentus full of snot or snivel Mucid mucidus sinued hoâ—ry mouldy filthy Mucor Lat. hoariness filthiness Mue from the Fr. Muer to change a kind of Cage where Hawks are wintered or kept when they mue or change their feathers whence those great Stables belonging to Whitehall took denomination that place having been antiently full of Mues where the Kings Hawks were kept Mufti i. an Oracle or answerer of doubts a chief Priest among the Turks who is created by the Emperor and hath four several orders or Sects subordinate to him viz. 1. The Calenderim 2. The Haggiemlar 3. The Torlocchi 4. The Dervislar c. See Sir Hen. Blounts Voyage into the Levant p. 79. See Brachman Mugient mugiens lowing bellowing crying Mulato Span. the son of a woman Blackmore and a man of another Nation or è contra one that is of a mongril complexion Dr. Br. Mulcible mulcibilis which may be appeased Mulct mulcta a fine an amerciament a punishing by the purse Muleto a Moil or great Mule a beast much used in France for carrying Sumpters c. It may also be taken for a diminutive of Mule and so signifies a little Mule Muliebrity muliebritas tenderness delicateness womanliness Mulier Lat. signifies a woman that has had the company of a man but in our Law it signifies one that is lawfully begotten and born contradistinguished to Bastard Mulierosity mulierositas unlawful lust after women properly married or defiled women Mullar from the Lat. molo to grind is the upper stone which Painters and Limners use to grind their colours the neather stone is called the grinding stone The French call it a Moulleur Mullet mullus a kind of dainty fish Also a term in Heraldry signifying a Star-like spot and divided into five corners or ends and is the distinction for a third Brother Mulse mulsum water and honey sod together also sweet wine Mulsulmans Arab. the Turks or Mahumetists so called the word signifies as much as a people faithful in their Law or Religion Multatitious multatitius gotten by fine or forfeit Multifarious multifarius divers in conditions many ways divided Lo. Bac. Multiferous multifer bearing much or many fruitful Multifidous multifidus having many slits or clefts divided into many parts manifold Multiformity multiformitas diversity of form shape or figure Multiloquent multiloquus full of speech that hath many words
of God you may read described Exod. 26. It was made like a Tent to remove to and fro as occasion required it had in it one room called Sanctum Sanctorum wherein the high Priest entered but once a year and another room called the Holy place c. Heb 9.2 3 4. There was of old among the Israelites a feast commanded by God called the feast of Tabernacles which began on the 15. day of the Seventh moneth and continued seven days during which time the Israelties lived abroad in Tabernacles in remembrance â—hat their Fathers a long time so lived after God had delivered them out of the Land of Egypt Now the feast of Tabernacles drew near Lev. 23.34 Tabernarious tabernarius belonging to Shops or Taverns Tabid tabidus corrupted consuming pining away Tabifical tabificus that brings into consumption pyning or rotting away contagious corrupt poysonous Tabuha Heb. Roe-Buck a womans name Laws of the 12 Tables leges 12 tabularum were certain Grecian Laws brought for the most part from Athens by the decemviri unto Rome and there written in 12. Tables of brass and set up in the Market place by which Laws Justice was ever after administred to the Roman people Excellency of the Civil Law p. 134. See Decemvirate Table of Apelles was a picture drawn by Apelles that famous Painter the moral whereof was on the one side to represent the excellency of abstinence and sobriety in the life of man and on the other the deformity of drunkenness and gluttony c. you may read the story at length in part 1. Tr. of times fol. 609. Tabouret Fr. a Pincase also a little low stool for a child to sit on In France the privilege of the Tabouret is of a stool for some particular great Ladies to sit in the Queens presence Tabular tabularis whereof boards plancks or tables may be made long and large Tabulary tabularium a chest or place wherein Registers or Evidences are kept in a City the Chancery or Exchequer Office Tabularious tabularius pertaining to writings or accounts also belonging to tables or good for them Tabulate tabulo to board a floor or other place to make a thing of boards Taces armour for the thighs so called because they are tached or tacked on with straps of leather to the corslet Tachygraphy Gr. the art or description of swift writing Taciturnity taciturnitas silence secresie of tongue keeping of counsel Taciâ—e tacitus that holds his peace and is still quiet saying nothing without noise Tacticks tactici they whose office is to set an Army in array also books treating of that subject Taction tactio a touching Tagliacotian Nose an inhabitant of Bruxiels had his Nose cut off in a combate and a new one of another mans flesh set on in its sted by Tagliacotius a famous Chyrurgeon of Bononia a Nose of wax Dr. Charl. Tagus a River in Spain parting Castile from Portugal where hath been found gravel like gold Tâ—le from the Fr. Taille i. a cut or cutting signifies in our Common Law a kind of inheritance in Fee as when a man holds lands to him and the Heirs of his body lawfully begotten This Tail is different and as it were cut from Fee-simple or free inheritance because it is not in the Tenants free power to dispose of those lands being as it were Taille cut from him or divided by the first giver and entailed or tyed on his issue c. Tail is either general or special whereof you may read at large in Littleton Tailes Kentish men are said to have tails which thus took its origen St. Thomas of Canterbury being in disfavor with Hen. 2. rode from the Court towards Canterbury upon a poor Jade and some common people the more to vilifie him cut off his horse tail for which crime the successors of those people are said to have had tails as a judgment from heaven for some generations now long since ceased And from hence the French do in derision call us in general Caudaté Tailage or Taliage from the Fr. taille a tax tribute or imposition Hence also Tailagiers in Chaucer for tax or toll-gatherers Tainct a kinde of red-coloured Spider found in the summer-time It is so little of body that ten of the largest will hardly outweigh a grain this by Country people is accounted a deadly poison to Cows and Horses But see Vul. Err. p. 177. Talaries talaria shooes with wings which Mercury wore as Poets feign Talassion talassio a song used to be sung at marriages see Thalassio Talent talentum a value of money of divers sorts Among the Greeks there were two Talents the greater and the less the greater valued about 233 l. sterl the less about 175 l. Among the Hebrews the Talent of silver contained of ours 375 l. The Talent of Gold was 4500 l. It also signifies a faculty or aability as we say a man of good talents i. of good parts or abilities Tales de Circumstantibus see Circumstantibus Taley or tally from the Fr. taille i. cut or slit because a taley is a score made of a stick of wood slit in two pieces to keep account between two parties one part of it remaining in the custody of the one and the other of the other so that one cannot score up any thing without the other Talion or lex talionis a Law where each suffered what they had done to others eye for eye one bad turn for another Deut. 19.21 and Aul. Gell. lib. 11. ca. 1. Talismans Arab. images or figures made under certain constellations Magical Characters see Gaffarels curiosities p. 147. for their antiquity and use see Gamahes Talismanical belonging to such Images Tallage see Taliage Talmud or Thalmud from the Hebr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 talmid .i disciplina a superstitious and blasphemous Book containing the body of the Jewish Law composed by their Rabbins and of great authority among them Talmudical pertaining to the Talmud superstitious Talmudist a Student or Professor of the superstitions contained in the Talmud Talpicide talpicida the taking or killing Moles or Woants Talwood Ann. 33. 35. H. 8. ca. 3. A. 7 Ed. 6. ca. 7. 42 Eliz. ca. 14. Talshide ibid. It is a long kinde of shide of wood riven out of the tree which shortned is made into Billets Tamarinds tamarindi a fruit brought hither out of India like green Damascens the tree whereof is like a Date tree they are cold of operation and therefore good against burning Feavers and all inward diseases proceeding of heat and choler Tamarisk tamarice a shrub whereof there are two kinds the greater which bears fruit like the lesser oak apples or galls the less bearing gayish leaves without fruit The decoction of which lesser Tamarisk in wine and a little vinegar being drunk iâ— of great vertue against the lardness or stopping of the spleen or Milt Tamburine an old kind of instrument which by some is supposed to be the Clarion-Spencer Tampeon or Tampkin Fr. Tampon a bung or
3. ca. 1 2. and Britton c. 27. Intituled de Heritage divisable The â—own of England is not subject to Coparcenary An. 25. H. 8. ca. 22. If Coparceners refuse to divide their common inheritance and chuse rather to hold it joyntly they are said to hâ—ld in Parcenary or Coparcenary Lit. fol. 56. Copal a kinde of white and bright Rosin brought from the West-Indies whereof the people there were wont to make perfumes in their Sacrifices It is hot in the second degree and moist in the first and is used here to be burnt against cold diseases of the brain Bull. Copesmate from the Sax. Ceap i. merchandise and mate i. companion a partner or copartner in merchandise Copie copia plenty abundance riches eloquence provision of things Copiosity copiositas plenty store abundance copiousness Copulation copulatio a coupling or joyning it was one of the three ways of betrothing marriage in Israel See Moses and Aaron p. 231. Copulative copulativus which coupleth or joyneth or which may couple or joyn Coquetteriâ— Fr. the prattle or twattle of a pert Gossip or Minx Coquinate coquinor to play the Cook to boyl or dress meat Coraage coragium is a kind of imposition upon some unusual occasion of certain measures of Corn. For Corus tritici is a certain measure of Corn. Bracton l. 2. ca. 26. Coral or Corral Corallium There are two principal sorts hereof the one white the other red but the red is best It grows like a tree in the bottom of the Sea green when under the water and bearing a white berry and when out turns red It is cold and dry in operation good to be hanged about childrens necks as well to rub their Gums as to preserve them from the Falling-sickness Sands 235. There is also a black and yellow kind of Coral See more in Dr. Browns Vul. Err. fol. 91. A Corbel Corbet or Corbil In Masonry is a jutting or shouldering peece cut out in stone as we may see in walls to bear up a post Summer or other weight which in Timber-work is called a Bracket or Braggat This and such like terms of art for the most part are taken from the similitude of Beasts Birds or some living thing which they resemble whence this is called Corbel from the French Corbeau a Crow or Raven because they were wont to make such Jutties out of a wall in form of a Crow Min. See Bragget Corban or Korban Heb. a Chest or Coffer in the Temple of Hierusalem where the Treasure that served for the Priests or Temples use was kept Also the treasure it self or an Almes-box Also a gift or offering on the Altar Mark 7.11 Cordage Fr. Ropes or stuff to make Ropes of all kind of Ropes belonging to the rigging a ship Cordelier or Cordilier Fr. a grey Frier of the Order of St. Francis so called because he wears a rope or cord about his middle for a Girdle full of twisted knots Cordiner or Cordwainer from the French Cordvannier or from the Lat. corium a Skin or Hide a Shoo-maker a Tanner or Leather-dresser a Currier Cordovan Leather so called from Cordova or Corduba a City in Spain In the Islands of Corfica and Sardinia there is a beast called Musoli not found elsewhere in Europe horned like a Ram and skinned like a Stag his skin carried to Corduba and there dressed makes our true Cordovan Leather Corespond See Correspond Corinthian work a sort of Pillars in Architecture See Tuscan Cornage from the Lat. cornu a horn in our Common Law it signifies a kind of Grand Sergeanty the service of which tenure is to blow a horn when any invasion of the Northern Enemy is perceived and by this many hold their Land Northward about the wall commonly called the Picts wall Cam. Brit. fol. 609. Cornelian Law L. Cornelius Sylla being Dictator made a Law among others that all such as would follow him in the Civil War should be capable of any Office or Magistracy before they came to their full years c. Those kind of Roman Laws always took denomination from him that prefer'd them Corneous corneus of or like a horn hard or white as horn Cornicle corniculum a little horn Cornigerous corniger horned having or wearing horns One of the Wine-god Bacchus his Epithets because with drinking much wine men grow fierce and furious as horned beasts whence that Satyrical Sumit cornua pauper Cornice a term of Architecture See Frize Cornucopia Lat. plenty or abundance of all things Cornuted cornutus that hath horns also Cuckolded Corody Corrody from corrodo to eat together signifies in our Common Law a sum of money or allowance of meat and drink due to the King from an Abbey or other House of Religion whereof he is Founder towards the reasonable sustenance of such a one of his Servants being put to his Pension as he thinks good to bestow it on And the difference between a Corrody and a Pension seems to be that a Corrody is allowed towards the maintenance of any of the Kings servants that live in the Abby a Pension is given to one of the Kings Chaplains for his better maintenance in the Kings service till he may be provided a Benefice Cow Of both these read Fitz. nat br fol. 230 231 233. Corollary corollarium the addition or vantage above measure an over-plus or surplusage also a small gift or largess bestowed on the people at publick Feasts Coronary coronarius belonging to a Crown Coroner Cororator is an antient Officer of this Land so called because he deals wholly for the King and Crown There are four of them commonly in every County and they are chosen by the Free-holders of the same upon Writ and not made by Letters Pattents Crompt Jurisd fol. 126. See Lieghs Phil. Com. Corporal corporalis that hath or petains to the body Also an inferior Officer in a Foot-Company But in the Roman Church it signifies a little linnen cloth which is spread upon the Altar and whereon the Chalice and Host are placed And the word is also used in the like sence in the Service Book which was sent into Scotland in the year 1637. Corporation corporatio is a permanent thing that may have succession it is an Assembly and joyning together of many into one fellowship brotherhood and minde whereof one is Head and cheif the rest are the body Corporeal corporeus that hath a body or pertaining to the body Corporature corporatura the quantity fashion or constitution of the body Corpuscule corpusculum a little body Mr. Evelyn Corrade corrado to scrape together to take away or spoil Corrasive corrasivus from corrado which scrapes together shaves or spoils This word is many times mistaken for corrosive from corrodo Correlatives correlativa Relatio according to the Philosophers is Cujus totum esse est ad aliud esse whose whole being is to be to another whence Correlatives are such things as are mutually one to another and cannot be nor be explicated but in order to
term of Heraldry when any member of a beast seems torn from the body Erasmus Gr. amiable or to be beloved a mans name Erastianism the Tenets or Opinions of the Erastians Erastians A sort of modern Hereticks so called from one Thomas Erastus a Doctor in Physick their first Author born at Baden in Switzerland and died at Basil about the year 1583. Among other Tenets he held that the power of Excommunication in a Christian State principally resides in secular power c. Erato One of the nine Muses who as Ovid saith Nomen amoris habet Erean aereus made of brass or copper brasen Erebus Hell or a River in hell Eremetical eremiticus pertaining to an Hermite or one that dwells in the wildernss Ereption ereptio a violent taking away Eretriack a Sect of Philophers the same with the Eleack but changed into this name from Menedemus who was born at the City Eretria an eminent Philospher of this Sect. Ergotism Arguing quarrelling sophistry quiddities from the Lat. Ergo. a word much used in Syllogisms and Arguments Eriferous aerifer bringing forth or bearing Brass or Copper Erimanthian Belonging to Erimanthus a Mountain in Arcadia where Hercules slew a huge wild-Bore that wasted the Country hence this Beast is called the Erymanthian Monster in Il. Pastor Fido. Ermines Fr. a little beast less then a Squirrel the fur whereof is very costly worn onely by Princes or great persons It hath a tail of a thumb long Ermine in Heraldry sometimes signifies white powdered with black and sometimes black powdered with white Bull. Eristical from eris idis contentious full of strife Mr. White Apol. for Tradition Eristicks from eris Books or Treatises of Controversie or Disputes Erivate erivo to draw water away by a stream to dry up Erogation erogatio a bestowing or liberal distribution Erosion erosio a consuming or eating up a gnawing or eating into Erumnate aerumno to impoverish to make miserable or wretched Erratique erraticus that wanders or creeps up and down Errant errans wandring or straying out of the way it is also attributed to Justices of Circuit Pl Cor. fol. 15. Errata Lat. errors or faults committed of ignorance they are most commonly taken for those faults or omissions which escape correction in printing See Theta Errhâ—ne errhinum a medicine which being made either liquid or in dry powder is used to stop bleeding at the nose to provoke sneezing to cause child-birth and to purge the brain Bac. Erroneous erroneus full of errors or mistakes Erubescency erubescentia blushing for shame Eructate eructo to belch or break wind upward to send or cast out Eructation eructatio a belching Erudition eruditio learning knowledge or instruction Erugate erugo to take away wrinckles Eruginous aeruginosus full of rust cankered corrupted blasted Eruncate erunco to weed out to pull out weeds Eruption eruptio a violent issuing or breaking forth Erysipely erysipelas a bile or swelling full of heat and redness Also St. Anthonies sore Erysipelatous erysipelatosus troubled with that disease or grief Erâ—tâ—an Sea the Red-Sea otherwise called the Arabian Gulf or Gulf of Mecha so called from King Erythraeus It is called the Red Sea not from any material redness therein but from the redness of the earth and sands and from the great abundance of Coral which grows plentifully in the bottom of this Sea See more in Vul. Er. 320. Esay Heb reward of the Lord. Escal escalis pertaining to meat fit to be eaten Escambio is a Licence granted to one for the making over a Bill of Exchange to a man beyond Sea Register Original fol. 199. a. Escheat from the Fr. Escheoir i. cadere signifies in our Common Law any Lands or other profits that fall to a Lord within his Manor by way of forfeiture or the death of his Tenant dying without heir general or special or leaving his heir within age unmarried Magna Charta Cap. 31. Fitz. nat br fol. 143. Escheator An Officer that observes the Escheats of the King in the County where he is Escheator and certifies them into the Exchequer He continues in his Office but one year nor can he be Escheator above once in three years An. 1. H. 8. Cap. 8. An. 3. esusdem Cap. 2. See more of this in Cromptons Justice of Peace Escotcheon Fr. Escusson a Buckler or Shield whereof in Europe we have onely two kinds in use the Lozenge excepted viz. that we use in England France Germany c. the Oval they bear in Italy which form they yet from the old Romans hold in use The word Escutcheon is derived from the French un Escù that from the Latin Scutum and that again from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek which signifies Leather because the Antients had their Shields of tanned Leather the skins laid thick one over another as appears by that of Vlysses upbraiding Ajax Quae nisi fecissem frustrà Telamone creatus Gestasset laevâ taurorum tergora septem Escuage from the Fr. Escu i. clypeus a Buckler or Shield in our Common Law signifies a kinde of Knights service called service of the Shield the Tenant holding thereby is bound to follow his Lord into the Scottish or Welch wars at his own charge c. Fitz. nat br fo 84. C. Esculent esculentus that may be eaten or pertaining to eating Escutial Span. but some affirm it to be an Arabick word and to signifie Domus lucis is the name of that incomparable Edifice built by Philip the Second King of Spain in twenty four years times and at eight millions charge and is termed the eighth wonder of the world It contains first the King of Spains Palace Secondly St. Lawrence Church Thirdly the Monastery of Hieronymites And fourthly Free-Schools it hath eleven or twelve several Quadrangles every one with Cloisters Quade By extension of the word or by metaphor it may be taken for any other magnificent Palace or Structure Esnecy aesnecia is a Prerogative given to the eldest Coparcener to chuse first after the Inheritance is divided Flet. l. 5. cap. 10. in divisionem Esons-bath Aeson in his old age as Poets feign had youth and vigor restored to him by the Prayers of Medea a notable Sorceress c. See Medea Hence we may imagine Aesons-bath to have had the vertue of restoring youth to aged persons the phrase is used in Rel. Medici Esopical aesopicus fabulous or pertaining to such tales or fables as those of Aesop Esples expletia from the Lat. expleo seem to be the full profit that the ground or land yields as the hay of the Meadows the feed of the pasture the corn of the arable the Rents Services and such like issues Cow Esquier armiger is in letters little altered from the Fr. Escuier i. scutiger it signifies with us that degree of Gentry which is next to a Knight Sir Tho. Smith is of opinion that at the first these were bearers of Arms to Lords and Knights and by that had their name and dignity See Cam.
antiquity Grandeza Span. in Ital. Grandezza bigness greatness largeness magnificence great state Grandiloquence grandiloquentia stately eloquence high stile Grandiloquent grandiloquus that useth great words that hath a high stile Grandimoniensers an order of religious persons begun by Steven of Avern in Aquitane or Guyen about the year of our Lord 1076. under Pope Alexander the Second and had their title of the mountain where their Abbey stood Pol. Vir. Grandinous grandinosus full of hail subject to hail Grandity granditas excessive greatness Grand Sergeantie is in our Common Law where one holds Lands of the King by service which he ought to do in his own person as to bear the Kings Banner or his Spear c. See Littl. tit Serg. Grange à grana gerendo is a great Farm not onely where corn is laid up but where are Stables for Horses Stals for Oxen and other Cattel Styes for Hogs and other things necessary for Husbandry Linw. These did of old belong to Religious Houses and the Overseer thereof was called Prior of the Grange Granite Ital. a kind of speckled stone or marble very common at Milan and other parts of Italy Graniferous granifer that beareth grains or kernels Granivorous from Granum and vorans that eats or devours grain or corn Graphical graphicus cunningly wrought perfect excellent Granule dim of granum a little grain or Barly corn Grassation grassatio a robbing killing assailing Grateolent grateolens well savouring smelling pleasantly Gratification gratificatio a gratifying or the doing a pleasure in lieu of a pleasure done Gratis Lat. freely without reward or desert Gratulate gratulor to rejoyce and be glad in ones behalf to thank Grav◠Belg. a Lord or Ruler an Earl Sax. Gerefa Graveolence graveolentia an evil smell a stinking savour Graveolent graveolens that has an ill savour or smell Gravidity graviditas greatness with child or with young Gravid gravidus great with childe or young Graviloquence graviloquentia a grave speech or a speaking gravely Greaves Fr. Greves boots or armor for the legs Grecians Graeci are used by St. Paul to signifie all the Heathen people and stand in opposition with Hebrews in the General acception containing both the Grecists or dispersed Hebrews and also those of Palestina the Grecists were both by birth and religion Hebrews standing in opposition with Hebrews in the strict acception taken for those of Palaestina Moses and Aaron Grecism graecismus the form or speech or custom of the Grecians Greek Church differs from the Roman Catholick 1. Denying the Holy Ghost to proceed from the Father and the Son 2. Denying Purgatory but praying for the dead 3. Beleeving that holy men enjoy not the presence of God before the Resurrection 4. Communicating in both kinds but using leavened bread and mingling warm water with wine which both together they destribute with a spoon 5. Receiving children of seven years old to the Sacrament because then they begin to sin 6. Forbidding extream Unction Confirmation and fourth Marriages 7. Admitting none to Orders but such as are married and prohibiting marriage to them that are actually in Orders 8. Rejecting carved Images but admitting the painted 9. Observing four Lents in the year 10. Reputing it unlawful to fast on Saturdays So Heylin But others relate the differences to be otherwise as may be seen in Authors that write thereof Grees◠or Grise gradus a stair step or degree Gregal gregalis of the same flock or company common Gregorian a Cap of hair so called from one Gregory a Barber in the Strand that first made them in England Gregorian Accompt so called from Pope Gregory the thirteenth See Julian Accompt Gremial Gremious gremiosus pertaining to the lap or bosom Griffe-Graffe Fr. by hook or by crook catch that catch may any way Grilliade Fr. a broiled mess or meat boiled on a Grid-iron Grithbreach Is a breach of peace for Grith is a word of the old Angles or Saxons signifying peace Roger Hoveden par poster suorum annal fol. 346. b. Grobianism Fr. slovenliness unmannerly parts or precepts Cotg. A Groop minthorium a dunging or pissing place Gromatick gromaticus pertaining to the art of casting out the ground for the Quarters fortifying the Camp and chusing places of advantage in the field Grotesques Fr. from the Ital. Grotesca pictures wherein as please the Painter all kind of odd things are represented without any peculiar sence or meaning but onely to please the eye Hence taken for any rude mis-shapen thing Grot from the Ital. Grota a Cave Groveling lying on the face Grouppade Fr. a certain lofty mannage which must be beaten with a lively and setled measure the turn being more wide and the horses hinder parts more raised then in an ordinary Curvet Grumosity grumositas fulness of clods or lumps Grumous from Grumus that is full of clots or Hillocks Gryffen or Gryffon Gryps a strange Bird as some ancient Authors affirm with four feet armed with cruel claws being from the brest upward fashioned like an Eagle but of purple colour with red fiery eies and whitish wings and in the hinder part black made much like a Lyon This Bird nests in the high mountains and is exceeding hard to be taken except very young for he will adventure on any man and is so fierce that he often kills Elephants he is most enemy to horses for which cause Virgil in his eighth Eclog. brings in the shepherd Damon who wondred at a strange Marriage speaking thus Junguntur jam Gryphes Equis But modern Authors as Aldrovandus Michovius and others say there is no such Animal extant Vul. Err. fol. 129. Guadsane a River in Spain which runs under ground the space of fifteen miles Hence the Spaniards brag that they have a Bridge whereon 10000 cattel daily feed Hist of Spain Guastaliens an order of Religious People consisting both of men and women and instituted the year 1537. by the Countess of Guastala a Mantuan Lady Cotg. Gubernator Lat. a Master of a ship a Guide a Ruler Gugh◠from the Hebr. Gnugabh a Jews Harp or trifle for children to play with Guerdon Fr. recompence reward remuneration Guidon Fr. a Standard Ensign or Banner under which a Troop of men of Arms serve Also he that bears it Gules See Geules Gule or Yule of August may come from the Brit. Gwil i. festum or from the Lat. jubilum the first day of August called in old Almanacks St. Peter advincula and in our later Almanacks Lammas day An. 27. E. 3. Stat. 3. cap. unico Fitz. nat br fo 62.1 called Gule of August alias Goule de August ◠Plow casu Mines fo 316. b. It is the very day of St. Peter ad vincula which was wont and is still within the limits of the Roman Catholick Church celebrated upon the very Calends of August It is by some conjectured that Gule comes of the Latin Gula or the Fr. Gueule the throat The reason of this conjecture is in Durands rationali divinor l. 7. ca. de festo
a horse-race Hippogryph hippo-gryps a kind of feigned beast in part horse in part Griffin Hippomachy hippomachia a justing or tilting on horseback Hircine hircinus goatish of a Goat Hirculation hirculatio a disease in the Vine when it bears no fruit Hirsuts hirsutus rough hairy full of bristles sharp Hirundinous from â—hirundo inis of or pertaining to a swallow Hispanian Hispanus of or belonging to Spain born in Spain Hispid hispidus bristled or rough-haired terrible Historiography historiographia the writing an History Histriographer historiographus an historian a writer of Histories Histrionick histrionicus player-like fit for or belonging to a Stage-player or Stage-play Histrionically after the manner of a Stage-Player Hithe as Queen-Hithe in London is a petit Haven to land wares out of vessels or boats New Book of Enteries fol. 3. Col. 3. Hoane Sax. a fine kind of Whetstone softer then that which is most commonly called a Whetstone Hoblers hobellarii In Ireland there were certain Knights so called because they were wont to serve in the wars upon Hobbies also with us certain persons who were by their tenure tyed to maintain a little light Nag which in Ireland they call a Hobby and hence we say a Hobby-horse for the certifying of any invasion made by Enemies or such like peril towards the Sea side as Portsmouth c. Of these you shall read A. 18. Ed. 3. Stat. 2. cap. 7. An. 25. ejusdem Stat. 5. cap. 8. Antiq. Hibâ—rn p. 35. Hocktyde or Hockstyde of old thus Hardiknute the last King of the Danes in this Nation dying suddainly at Lambeth in the year 1042 his death was so welcome to his Subjects that the time was annually celebrated for some hundreds of years after with open pastimes in the streets and called Hockstide in some parts of this Nation not yet out of memory but observed the week after Easter signifying scorning or contempt which fell upon the Danes by his death Sir Rich. Baker See Fugalia Hocus-pocus a Jugler one that shews tricks by slight of hand Hodiernal hodiernus of to day or at this time Hodgee Persian a holy man a Priest among the Persians Herb. Ho-goo in true Fr. Haut-goust a high taste smatch or savour it is usually taken for any dish of meat that has some more then ordinary taste or savor Hogshead Brit. Hogsed is a measure of Wine or Oyl containing the fourth part of a Tun that is 63 Gallons A. 1. R. 3. cap. 13. Holocaust holocaustum a Burnt-Offering a Sacrifice wherein the whole beast was offered and no part reserved Holographical holographicus wholly written with his own hand from whom it is sent Homage Fr Hommage i. fides clientularis service fidelity In Court Barons the Jury sworn to enquire of matters is so called It signifies also a servile ceremony of duty by some Tenants to their Lords after this manner The Tenant that holds Lands by Homage kneeling on both knees before the Lord who sits and holds the Tenants hands between his saith as follows I become your man from this day forth for life for member and for worldly honor and shall owe you my faith for the Land I hold of you saving the faith I owe to our Soveraign Lord the King and to my other Lords And then the Lord sitting must kiss the Tenant An. 17. Ed. 2. Stat. 2. Glanvile lib. 9. cap. 1. Homageable that is subject to or ought to do homage Homeology homoeologia likeness of speech Homerical after the manner of Homer Homer like Bac. Homicide homicida a murtherer a man-slayer Homicide homicidium the slaying of a man and is divided into voluntary and casual homicide voluntary is that which is deliberate and committed of a set mind and purpose to kill And this is either with precedent malice or without the former is murther and is the fellonious killing through malice prepensed of any person living in this Realm under the Kings protection West par 2. Sym. tit Inditements sect 37 c. usque ad 51. where you may see divers subdivisions of it See also Glanvile l. 14. ca. 3. Bract. lib. 3. tract 2. cap. 4.15 and 17. Brit. cap. 5 6 7. Also a sort of knives so called Act. 1656. ca. 20. Homily homilia a familiar speech of men together a kind of Sermon properly of an inferior kind such as is delivered out of a Book or Manuscript by those that are not able to preach otherwise Homodox 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is of the same opinion with another Homogeneal homogeneus of one or the same kind congenerous Homography homographia like writing or painting Homologation homologatio an admission allowance or approbation a consent unto Homology homologia an agreement a confession Homonymy Gr. when divers things are signified by one word or name as Hart signifies a beast and a prinicipal Member of the body a likeness or sameness of name It is a term in Logick Holy War Homonymous Gr. whose name onely is common their essence divers doubtful ambiguous Honi soit qui maly â—ense Fr. signifies Evil or shame be to him that evil thinks it is the Motto belonging to the Order of Knights of the Garter Honor does sometimes signifie the most noble sort of Seigniories on which other inferior Lordships or Mannors depend by performance of some Customs or Services to the Lords of such Honors And it seems there are no Honors but such as did originally belong to the King and have since been given in Fee to Noble men Of this sort are the Honors of Windsor Greenwich Tickhil c. And Courts there held are called Honor-Courts 37 H. 8.18.33 H. 8.37 Honour point In Heraldry the upper part of an Escoutcheon is so called when its breadth is divided into three even parts Honorary honorarius pertaining to honour which is made for honor more then use Honorificabilitudinity honorificabilitudinitas honorableness Honorifical honorificus that brings or causeth honor Honâ—-moon applied to those married persons that love well at first and decline in affections afterwards it is hony now but it will change as the Moon Min. Hoguâ—ton Fr. a fashion of short Coat Cassock or Jacket without sleeves Horary horarius of the space of an hour hourly Hoplochrism from the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 arma and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unguentum an anointing of arms or weapons as they do in the use of the weapon salve Dr. Charl. Hoplochristical pertaining to the Weapon-salve Horcentrick Fr. out of the Center clean without the Compass of Mathematicians apply this word to the Sun when his Center being at the full height of his Epicycle is farthest from the Center of the earth Cot. Horizon Gr. a Circle immoveable dividing the half-Sphear of the Firmament which we see from the other half we see not it hath the name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. termino to bound or limit because it limits our sight For example imagine you stood upon Highgate or the Tower-hill at Greenwich so far as you
fineness Tenure from tenere to hold is the manner whereby Lands and Tenements are holden of their Lords What may make a Tenure and what not See Perkins Reservations 70. By Act of Parl. 1656. ca. 4. all Tenures are now turned into free and common Soccage Tepefie tepefacio to make warm Tephragmantie Gr. divination by ashes blown or cast up in the air Tepid tepidus mean between cold and hot luke-warm also cold and nothing earnest in a matter Tepidity tepiditas lukewarmness Tepor idem Teraphim the Heb. word Taraph signifies in general the compleat image of a man in particular an Idol or Image made for mens private use in their own houses Gen. 31.30 Iudges 17.5 Teribinthine terebinthinus belonging to Turpentine or the tree out of which it issues Terebrate terebro to bore or make a hole with a wimble or awger to pierce to thirle Terebration terebratio a boring or piercing Bac. Tergeminous tergeminus three fold triple one of or the three born at the same time Tergiductor Lat. the hinder man or bringer up of a file of Soldiers Tergiment tergimentum that which is put into the scales to makes weight Tergiversation tergiversatio a flinching withdrawing shifting slinking shrinking back or dodging a non-suit in Law a hasting a runing away yet fighting still See Calumniate Termagant from ter and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. magnus thrice great or great in the superlative degree Sir W.D. Terminals terminalia feasts instituted to the honor of Terminus the god of Bounds and kept in February at the eighth Calends of March because between terminalia and refugium the odd days of the Leap year were put in Terminate termino to end to finish to bound to appoint or assign bounds or marches to limit Terminus the God of Bounds who was wont to end the strifes and controversies of Countrey people in dividing their lands See Lactantius l. 1. c. 20. Ternary Ternarious ternarius belonging to the number three Ternion ternio the number three Terra-sigillata Lat. an earth brought from the Isle Lemnos it was used to be sent from thence sealed therefore called sigillata and said to be good for curing wounds stopping fluxes expelling poisons c. Tertae-filius i. son of the earth the name of the Fool in the Acts at Oxford Terrene terrenus earthly that lives on the earth or is done on the earth Terrestrial Idem Terrestrify to make earthly or like earth Br. Terrar or Terrer from terra a particular or survey of a Mannor or of ones whole estate of lands containing the quantity of acres and boundaries thereof In the Exchequer there is a Terrar of all the Glebelands in England made about the II. of Edw. 3. Sometimes used for a suit-roll or catalogue of all the tenants and Residents names within a Mannor and what Lands they hold terre-Terre-tenant i. tenens terram is he who hath the natural actual possession of the land which we otherwise call the occupation A. 39 Eliz. cap. 7. For example a Lord of a Mannor hath a Freeholder who lets out his free land to another this third person is called the terre-Terre-tenant West part 2. Simb tit Fines sect 137. Terricrepant terricrepus that rebuketh terribly or bitterly Terrisonant terrisonus that sounds terribly Territory territorium the Country or Continent of land lying within the bounds of a City Town or Lordship Terrulent terrulentus earthy or earthly made of earth Terse tersus clean pure neat as a terse Oration i. neat or well-pen'd Tertiate tertio to Till ground or do any thing the third time to tri-fallow as they say in Herefordshire Tertiary tertiarius of or belonging to the third or the third sort tertian Tessera Lat. a thing in every part square as a Dye Also a watchword or signal a note mark or token c. Tesserarious tesserarius belonging to Tessera or a Dye Test is a broad instrument made of Maribone ashes hooped about with iron on which Refiners do fine refine and part gold and silver from other Mettals or as we use to say put them to the Test Testaceous testaceus made of tile brick or baked earth that hath a shell Testaceous animals are such as have shels as all shel-fish snails c. Testament testamentum i. testatio mentis the witness of of the minde as the last Will Testament is of which there are two sorts viz. nuncupatory and in writing The first is when a man being sick and for fear least death want of memory or speech should come so suddenly upon him that he should be prevented if he staid the writing his Will desires his neighbours and friends to bear witness of his last Will and then declares the same by words before them which after his decease being proved by the witnesses and put in writing by the Ordinary stands in as good force except for lands as if it had in his life time been put in writing c. Some distinguish Testaments from Wills as if the first concerned lands onely and the other personal estate Of this read the Duty of Executors Testamentatious testamentarius belonging to a Testament or last Will. Testation testatio a witness bearing Testator Lat. he that makes a Will or Testament Testatrix Lat. she that does so Testicular testicularis belonging to the stones of man or beast Teston Fr. a piece of silver coyn worth about 18 d. sterl Testification testificatio a proving by witness a witness-bearing Testudineous testudineus belonging to or bowing like the shell of a Tortoise vaulted Also pertaining to that antient War-engine called Testudo or to the Target-fence of both which see Godw. Anthol p. 180. Tetanical tetanicus that hath the crick in the neck or a kinde of cramp which holds the neck so stiff that it cannot bow Tetra Gr. four hence Tetracord tetrachordium an antient instrument with four strings but now it is taken for every fourth in the Scale of Musick or Gamut Tetrade Fr. a quaternity or mess the proportion or number of four Tetraglottical Gr. that hath or consists of four Tongues or Languages Tetragonal tetragonus that is four square as a tetragon or quadrangle Tetragrammaton Gr. that hath four letters The Hebrews so called the great Name of God Jehovah because in their language it was written with four letters and was held in such reverence among them that it was unlawful to pronounce it Tetralogie Gr. a speaking or writing in four parts Among the Antients it was a kind of Tragedy consisting of four Dramma's as the manner was when they contested to be presented at four several Festivals Tetrameter Gr. a kind of verse having but four feet or measures Tetraptote tetraptotum declined in four cases Tetrach Gr. a Governor of the fourth part of a Country Tetrarchy tetrachia the goverment of the fourth part of a Country or a government of the whole by four persons Tetrastick tetrastichon a sentence or Epigram comprised in four verses Tetrasyllabical tetrasyllabicus that hath or contains four syllables
among the Greeks for manslaughter Abate from the Fr. Abatre i. to break down or destroy signifies in its vulgar sence to diminish or take away as to abate the courage of a man so one that abateth in Lands and Tenements by his entry diminishes and takes away the freehold in Law descended to the Heir In another sence it signifies to beat down or overthrow as to abate Castles Houses and the like and to abate a Writ is to destroy it for a time through want of good ground or other defect And hence comes Abatement which in our Common Law is an entry into Land by interposition of one that has no right after the death of the Ancestor and before the entry of the Heir Abba Syriack Father So Christ expounds it Mark 14.36 and St. Paul Rom. 3.15 Abbat or Abbot from Hebr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Abh or the Syriack Abba i.e. Father a spiritual Lord that has the rule and preheminence over a Religious House Abbord from the Italian abbordare to go near the shore also to bord or grapple with a ship Florio Abeyance or Abayence from the Fr. Bayer i. to gape covet or expect our Lawyers would signifie hereby a kind of hope or longing expectance because those things that are in Abeyance though for the present in no man yet they are in hope and expectation belonging to him who is next to enjoy them When the Parson of a Church dies we say the Freehold is in abeyance because the Church is in expectation of a successor in Potentia as Logicians phrase it Co. on Lit. l. 3. c. 11. Sect. 646. Abbreviator Latin one that abridges or makes a brief draught of a thing In Rome there are Officers belonging to the Pope called Abbreviators de parco majori whose Office is to endite letters at request of suppliants which inditing is termed a rough draught or copy of the Request And Abbreviators also de parco minori whom the Italians call Giannizzeri who also attend on the expedition of Letters 1. Part Treasury of Times Abbreviature abbreviatura a brief writing an Abridgment or brief of a thing Abdals a kind of Religious people among the Persians who take their name from Abdala Father of Mahomet they have no abode vow poverty lodge in Churches c. Herb. Travels p 167. Abdera A City in Thrace where Democritus the laughing Philosopher lived Hence Abderian laughter is used for mad foolish or incessant laughter and Abderite for Democritus or any inhabitant of that place Abdicate abdico to reject to renounce to refuse Abdication abdicatio a rejecting or refusing Abdominous from abdomen pertaining to the outward or former part of the belly or to an insatiable panch unweildy gross panch-bellied Mr. Fuller Abduct abduco to lead away by force or flattery to entice to withdraw Abduction abductio a leading or taking away Abecedary abecedarius pertaining to the Cross-row or the A B C. Abecedarian abecedarius one that teacheth or learns the Cross-row or the A B C. Abel Hebr. a mans name signifying mourning or vanity Abequitate abequito to ride away or from Aberration aberratio a wandring or straying out of the way Dr. Brown in his Vulgar Errors uses the word Aberrancy in the same sense Abessed or Abbaised Fr. abaissé debased dejected humbled bent or brought down Rush Dialog Abet in our Common Law signifies to encourage or set on to some evill also to maintain or patronize Abgregate abgrego to lead out or from the flock to separate Abhorrency from abhorreo an abhorring hating or detesting L. Bacon Abject abjectus cast away condemned base Abigat Hebr. the Fathers joy or Father of joy Abissines See Abyssines Abition abitio a going away or dying Abjudicate abjudico to give away by judgment Abjuration abjuratio a forswearing or renouncing by Oath In our Common Law it is an Oath taken to forsake the Realm for ever But there is a latter Oath so called which concerns matters of belief and was confirmed and established by Ordinance 1643. ca. 15. and enlarged 1656. ca. 16. which may be tendred to any person suspected of Popish Recusancy at the age of 16. and is impugned by a notable Treatise called the Christian Moderator Part 3. Ablactation ablactatio a weaning as children from the Mothers Teat or young beasts from their dam. Ablation ablatio a taking away or from a bearing away by stealth Ablectick ablectus that is set forth or garnished for sale Ablegation ablegatio a sending forth or out of the way Ablepsy ablepsia blindness of mind unadvisedness inconsiderateness Abligate abligo to bind from Ablocate abloco to set to hire to take from one and set to another Ablution ablutio a washing off a rensing away Abnegate abnego to deny earnestly or refuse to say no. Abnodate abnodo to prune or cut away knots from Trees Abolition abolitio an abolishing disannulling or destroying utterly Abone from the Ital. abonare or abbonare to make good or seasonable to ripen Abominate abominor to detest or abhor Abortion abortio the casting of the young a bringing forth before time Dr. Brown uses the word Abortment in this sense and I have read Aborcement Abortive abortivus any thing brought forth before its time that is delivered untimely still-born Abradacarba whence or what language quaere but Samonicus Serenus ascribes a vertue to the word against Agues Cambden Abraiamins a certain kind of Sorcerers or Enchanters among the Indians Treasury of Times Abrasion abrasio a shaving away Abrenunciation abrenunciatio a forsaking or renouning Abricot or Apricot plumb quasi in aprico coctus i. ripened in the Sun because they grow not unless in the Sun and warmth Min. Abrodictical abrodiaetus that feeds daintily curious in diet Abrogate abrogo to disannul take away or repeal to lay aside as of no use or fruit See Prorogue Abrupt abruptus broken off rash sudden out of order Absolonism The opinion or practice of Absolom i. disobedience or rebellion against Parents Abscession abscessio a departing or going away Abscission abscissio a cutting off or away Absconding abscondens hiding concealing Absconsion absconsio a hiding or concealing Absentaneous absentaneus done in absence pertaining to absence Absolution absolutio a dismissing forgiving or discharging Absonant Absonous absonus untuneable jarring unlike confused Absorb absorbeo to sup up all to drink up to consume to devour Bac. Absorpt absorptus supped up devoured swallowed up Abstemious abstemius that drinks no wine sober temperate moderate in diet Abstention abstentio an abstaining or a with-holding an heir from taking possession of his Land Cressy Absterge abstergeo to wipe away to cleanse or put away Feltham Abstract from abstraho a small work or draught taken out of a greater Also a term in Logick See Concrete Abstersion abstersio a wiping away or wiping out a cleansing Abstersive abstersus that wipes or makes clean Abstrude abstrudo to thrust away or out to hide to shut up Fel. Abstruse Abstrusive abstrusus hid secret dark not easie to be
cheer Alopecy alopecia a disease causing the hair to fall the Foxes evill shedding of the hair Alosha A kind of drink in Spain which they drink between meals in hot weather it is made of water and hony and is much of the taste of our Medea Alpha 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the first letter of the Greeks called of us a as Omega is the last it is used for the first or chief of any thing Almighty God is called in the Apocalypse Alpha and Omega i. the beginning and ending first and last Rev. 13.13 Alphabet alphabetum the cross-row of letters the A B C. so called from Alpha and Beta the two first letters of the Greek Alphabet or Cross-row and therefore most peculiar to the Greek tongue Alphabetical alphabeticus belonging to or done after the order of the A B C. Alphitomancy Gr. divination by barley meal Alphonso a famous Musician who invented a particular way of playing on the Viol which still retains his name Altercation altercatio an angry reasoning contention or brawling in words Alterative alterativus changed or that may be changed Bac. Alternative Alternate alternatus done or changed by courses or turns one after another interchangeable Alternity from alternus a succession by course a changing by turn Altiloquum altiloquus that speaks loud or of high matters Altisonous altisonus which sounds clear or loud Altitonant altitonans that thunders from above an Epithete of Jupiter used by Poets Altitude altitudo height depth or loftiness Altivolant altivolans flying on high or soaring aloft Alveary alvearium a Bee-hive or the place where Bees or Bee-hives stand It may be used Metaphorically for a house full of Inhabitants a Library full of Books or the like Alveated alveatus hollowed like a hive vaulted or trenched Aluminous aluminosus done with or full of Alume tasting of Alume Vul. Er. Alumnate alumno to nourish or feed Alutation alutatio a tawing tanning or dressing of Leather Alytatk alytarcha he who seeth that good rule be kept at common Games and Exercises Gregory Amalekites or Amalecites were descendents of Esau by his Grandchild Amalec which word is Hebrew and signifies populus lambens a licking people these Amalekites inhabited some of the lands betwixt Phaenicia and the red Sea and were the first that took Arms against Moses and the children of Israel as they were travelling betwixt the said Red Sea and the land of Promise over whom Joshua appointed General of the Israelites by Moses got a famous victory as you may read in Exod. 17. Hence 't is that enemies to the children of God or good people or enemies to good proceedings are commonly called Amalekites Amalthean Horn plenty of all things So used from Amalthaea a she Goat that Jupiter sucked whose horns are feigned to have abounded with plenty of all things Cicero's Library was also called Amalthaea for being abundantly stored with Books Amandation amandatio a sending away or removeing Amanuensis Lat. a Clerk or Secretary always attending a Scribe or publick Notary Amaritude amaritudo bitterness solitariness grief Amarous amarus bitter sharp froward hard to be appeased frightful sour Amarulent amarulentus very bitter frightful envious Amatory amatorius pertaining to love or lovers lovely Spots Amazons amazones warlike women of Scythia that had but one Teat their name in Greek importing as much they were very manlike and did cut off their right Breast that it might not hinder their shooting for they were excellent Archers they lived by themselves and if at any time they went to their Husbands or neighboring men and conceived if it were a Female childe they kept it if a Male they sent it to the Father the Country where they live is denominated from them and called Amazonia Ambage ambages an idle circumstance of words a far fetched speech or a speech far from the purpose Bac. Ambagious ambagiosus full of idle circumstances of speech or of deceitful words Amber ambra a kind of hard yellow Gum wherewith they make Beads and Bracelets Dioscorides saith it falls in manner of a liquor from Poplar Trees into the River Po in Italy where it congeals and becomes hard But L. Guicciard affirms and more probably that it is the juice of a Stone which grows like a Coral in Poland in a Mountain of the North Sea clean covered with water and in the Months especially of September and December this liquor is by violence of the Sea rent from the rock and cast into the Havens of Poland and the neighbouring Countries Besides its beauty and the quality it hath of burning like pitch and attracting straws and iron like the Adamant it is good for stopping the blood Falling-sickness Dropsies and many other Diseases Heyl. But see more of the quality and nature of Amber in Dr. Browns Vulgar Errors l. 2. cap. 4. Ambergreece or Ambergrise Fr. Ambergris a sweet Aromatick juice or perfume so called Aetius and Simon Sethius Greek Authors affirm it to be a kinde of Bitumen comming forth of the Fountains or Springs in the bottom of the Sea and that by floating upon the water it becomes hard c. A great quantity thereof is found in Sofala and in the Isles of Comaro Demogra Mozambique and along this Tract even to the Isles of Maldina or Naledina which look into the East There is Amber of four several colours White Gray Red and Black which comes according to the variety of places or Regions where it is found the Gray is preferred before all the other and is known to be good if when pricking it with a pin it delivers forth a moisture like oyle The fume of it is good against the falling-sickness and comfortable to the brain Ambidexter Lat. ex ambo and dexter he that useth his left hand as well as his right that plays on both sides In our Common Law it signifies that Juror or Embraceor that takes of both parties for the giving his Verdict He forfeits ten times so much as he takes Anno 38. Edw. 3. c. 12. Cromptons Justice of Peace fol. 156. B. Ambidextrous That can use both hands that plays on both sides Ambient ambiens environing encompassing seeking of honor ambitiously Ambifarious ambifarius double or that may be taken both ways Ambiguity ambiguitas doubtfulness incertainty obscurity Ambiguous ambiguosus doubtful obscure Ambilevous ambilaevus left-handed Vul. Er. Ambiloge Ambilogy ambilogium a doubtful speech Ambiloquent ambiloquus that speaks doubtfully or that can speak two languages Ambitude ambitudo a circuit or compassing round also ambition Ambosexous ambosexus that is both male and female of both Sexes Amblygone Gr. a blunt angle or a triangle one of whose angles is blunt Cotg. Ambrose Gr. divine immortal Ambrosia Gr. is Poetically used for the meat of the gods as Nectar was their drink It is sometimes taken for immortality Ambrosiack Ambrosial Ambrosian ambrosianus divine fragrant sweet-smelling also immortal Ambulatory ambulacrum substantively is a place to walk in a Gallery Ambulatory ambulatorius adjectively going or
agreeing somewhat in shape with the Column or Pillar Enchirid. of Fort. Astragalize astragalizo to make or use Astragals also to play at Dice Huckle-bones or Tables Astriction astrictio a knitting binding or fastening to or together Astrictive Astringent astrictivus which hath power to bind or knit unto Astriferous astrifer that beareth stars an Epithete most proper for the Heavens or Sky To Astringe astringo to bind fast to joyn together to strain to tie to knit Bac. Astroarch Gr. the Queen of the Planets the Moon Astrolabe astrolabium a flat-round instrument whereby Astronomers gather the motion and distance of heavenly bodies and whereby the length height and breadth of any other thing may be discerned and found out Astrology astrologia is a Science which tells the Reasons of the Stars and Planets motions Astrology says Dr. Bullokar doth promise by the motion and influence of Stars and Planets to foretel things to come or as my Lo. Bac. says it professeth to discover the influence and domination of the superior Globe over the inferior and therefore may be termed a kind of natural divination so long as it keeps it self in due limits and arrogates not too much to its certainty into which excess if it once break forth it can then be no longer called natural Divination but superstitious and wicked for the Stars may incline but not impose a necessity in particular things Astrological pertaining to Astrology Astrologer astrologus he that is well skilled in Astrology or discourseth of the variety of constellations planetical Aspects disposing of the Houses and by these and their dispositions conjectures of future occurrences Astronomy astronomia a Science that teacheth the knowledge of the course of the Planets Stars and other celestial motions This Art seems to be very antient for Josephus lib. 1. Antiq. writes that the Sons of Seth Grand-children to Adam first found it out who hearing Adam foretel the universal Flood which should shortly drown the world they thereupon erected two great Pillars engraving in them the Principles of Astronomy the one of which pillars was of brick the other of stone that in case the water should wash away the brick yet the stone might preserve the knowledge hereof for posterity Bull. These Pillars were called Enoch or Enos Pillars Zoroastes the first King of Bactria who reigned in the time of the Assyrian Monarch Ninus is said to have notably augmented or perfected this Science Astronomical belonging to Astronomy Astronomer astronomus is he who as Heylin describes him searcheth the reason of the variety of heavenly motions the diversity of circles asterisms risings and settings of Stars and the like Astute astutus crafty cunning subtile malicious Asyle Asylum a Sanctuary a defence or place of refuge for offenders Mont. See Sanctuary Asymbolike asymbolus that pays nothing of the shot or reckoning scot-free Asymphony asymphonia a disorder in descant a disagreeing Achievment Fr. Achevement the performance or accomplishment of any gallant exploit a bringing to perfection Also a term of Heraldry signifying the Arms of any Gentleman set out fully with all that belongs to it viz. the Supporters Helmet Wreath and Creast with Mantles and Words such as is hung out on the front of a House of any person of quality after his death Atheism Gr. the damnable doctrine and opinion of the Atheists infidelity the denying of or not beleiving in God Atheist from the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i.e. Sine Deo godless he that believes there is no God or rule of Religion and that the Soul dies with the body Athletike Athletical athleticus skilful in the art of wrestling active Atlantick Sea i. The Mediterranean Sea or a part thereof lying westward so named from Mount Atlas in Mauritania Atmosphere Gr. the Sphear of vapors or the second Region being as high in the Air as the Sun carries any vapors Atome atomus a mote flying in the sun-beams the least moment of time or any thing so small that it cannot be made less Atramental Atramentous atramentalis belonging to ink or black as ink Vul. Er. Atrabilarie atra bilis that is subject to or troubled with black Choler or melancholy Atrate atratus made black one cloathed in black Atrocity atrocitas cruelty fierceness outragiousness Atrophy atrophia a consumption that comes by a fearful eating too little or greedy devouring too much want of nourishment Attacted attactus touched or briefly handled Attainder from the Fr. Attaindre i. to attain unto overtake catch or touch from the Latin attingere because he that is attainted is as it were catched overtaken and plainly deprehended for Attainder is a conviction of any person of a crime or fault whereof he was not convict before As if a man have committed Felony or Treason c. and is thereof indicted arraigned found guilty and hath judgement then he is said to have an Attainder sued upon him or he is attainted Attaque Fr. an assault encounter skirmish fight a violent meeting of two Armies or Enemies Sir H.B. Voyage into the Levant Attemperate attempero to make fit or meet to aim right Attenuate attenuo to make thin or slender to diminish or make less Attentate attento to attempt assay or prove also used substantively Attestation attestatio a witnessing affirming or testimony Atticism Atticismus a phrase or manner of speech of the Athenians an elegancy of speech Attiguous attiguus joyning or touching by or near unto Attinge attingo to touch lightly or softly to mention or handle briefly to reach to to arrive or come to Attique or Attick Atticus pertaining to the Country of Athens Elegant Attick Faith is most firm Faithfulness in keeping promise Attrâ—râ—d from the Lat. Tiara which is an ornament for the heads of the Persian Kings Priests and women a term used among Heraulds when they have occasion to speak of the horns of a Buck or Stag. Attone from ad and tonus to bring into tune or harmony to make a consort or agreement which we also call an Attonement Attournment from the Fr. tournér i.e. to turn is in our Common Law a yielding of the Tenant to a new Lord or an acknowledgement of him to be his Lord which we usually call to turn Tenant for otherwise he that buyes or obtains any Lands or Tenements of another which are in the occupation of a third cannot get possession yet see the Stat. 27. H. 8. c. 16. The words used in attournment are set down in Littleton I agree to the Grant made to you c. But the more common attournment is to say Sir I attourn to you by force of the same Grant or I become your Tenant c. or else deliver to the Grantee a penny half penny or farthing by way of Attournment Lit. l. 3. ca. Attournment whom you may read more at large Attournment may be made to the Lord himself or to his Steward in Court Kitch fo 70. Attraction attractio a drawing or pulling unto a bait or allurement Attract from the
there are divers good Towns and Villages This word is proper to Helvetia or Switzerland which was divided or Cantonized about the year of Christ 1307. into 13 such Cantons It possesseth for the most part the dexter point of the Scotcheon and is the reward of a Prince given to an Earl Peach Cantonize To divide into Cantons quarters or corners Cantor Lat. a singer or charmer Cantred or rather Cantref signifies an hundred Villages being a British word compounded of the Adjective Cant which signifies an hundred and Tref a Town or Village In Wales the Counties are divided into Cantreds as in England into Hundreds This word is used An. 28. H. 8. c. 3. Canzonet from the Ital. Canzonetta a song or ditty Car-a-pe from the Lat. caput and pes from head to foot as when a Souldier is compleatly armed we say he is armed Cap-a-pe The Romans called such souldiers Cataphracti Capacitatâ— from capacitas made capable or fit to receive Lo. Prot. Speech to Parl. 8. April 1657. Capacity Capability capacitas an aptness to contain or receive Our Common Law allows the King two Capacities a natural and a politick in the first he may purchase Lands to him and his Heirs in the later to him and his Successors And a Parson hath the like Cape Fr. cap that whereof Sea-men speak in their voyages is some remarkable nook or elbow of Land that shoots farther into the Sea then any other near part of the Continent In Spanish it is called Cabo i. an end quasi the end or last of such a Land as Cabo de Buena Esperansa the Cape of good hope first found by Vasco de Gama a Portugal Caparison Fr. Caparasson trapping or furniture for a horse Capets Fr. Cappres A prickly plant almost like Brambles growing in Spain Italy and other hot Countries the root whereof is much used in Physick against obstructions of the Spleen or Milt The flowers and leaves are brought hither from Spain preserved in pikle and are commonly eaten with Mutton they stir up the appetite warm the Stomach and open the stoppings of the Liver and Milt Bull. Capharnaits those of Capharnaum in Palestine who first doubted of the mystery of the blessed Sacrament Caâ— Three chief Officers among the Venetians to whom and to the Senate the Dukes Authority is in all things subject Heyl. Capillary capillaris of or like hair hairy Capillaturâ— capillatura a frizling of the hair the bush of hair on the head Capistrate capistro to halter muzzle or tye Capillation capillatio hairiness a making a thing hairy or causing hair to grow Capital capitalis worthy of death deadly mortal belonging to the head The seven Capital sins are Pride Covetousness Lechery Anger Gluttony Envy and Sloath and are called Capital because they are heads of many others which proceed from them as Rivers from their source Capitation capitatio a tribute paid by the heads pole-money Br. Capite was a tenure when a man held Lands immediately of the King as of his Crown were it by Knights service or in Socage Brook tit Ten. 46.94 This Tenure and those of Knights service and Socage in chief are now taken away and all Tenures turned into Free and common Soccage Act. 1656. ca 4. Capitol capitolium an antient Pallace in Rome so called from the head of a man found there when they digged to lay the foundation Arnobius saith his name was Tolus and from Caput and Tolus came Capitolium When Brennus and his Gauls overcame the Romans near the River Allia in Italy Rome it self was forsaken of its chief strength only the Capitol was manned by Manlius and saved from the fury of the Gauls by the cackling of Geese which awaked the watch c. Capitulate capitulo to divide by chapters or heads also to bargain or agree by Articles Capnomancy capnomantia a divination by smoke arising from an Altar whereon Incense or Poppy-seed is burned Cotgr. Capouchâ— Fr. Capuchon lat Capitium a coul hood or cover for the head which Monks and Fryers use to wear Capouchins or Capucines a religious Order of Fryers so called of their Coule or Capouch ordained by Matth. Basci of Ancona Frier Lewis his companion obtained of the then Pope the habit and rule of St. Francis in the year 1526. In the space of 42 years they encreased to 2240 associates had 222 Monasteries and were divided into 15. Provinces Heyl. They wear neither shirts nor breeches Cotgr. Caprichio Caprich from the Spa. capricho an humor a fancy a toy in ones head a giddy thought hence Caprichious humersome fantastical full of whimseys or toys giddy-headed Capricorn capricornus the Goat or one of the 12 Signs of the Zodiack so named from the custom and nature of that beast for as the Goat commonly climbs up to the top of the steepest hills to seek his food so the Sun when in in Mid December he enters the Tropick of Capricorn ascends our Hemisphere Min. Caprification caprificatio husbanding or dressing wilde fig-trees or other trees Capriole Fr. a caper in dancing also the leaping of a horse above ground called by horsemen the Goats leap Capstand an Instrument to wind up things of great weight a Crane Bull. Capsulary from capsula pertaining to a little Coffer Chest or Casket Capsulated locked or shut up in a Chest or Casket Captation captatio subtilty to get favor a cunning endeavor to get a thing Captious captiosus full of craft curious hurtful catching or taking hold of every little occasion to pick quarrels Caracol from the Fr. fair le Caracol to cast themselves into a ring as souldiers do Captivity captivitas bondage Captivate captivo to take captive or prisoner Caracter Vide Character Caravan or Karavan Fr. Caravene a convoy of Souldiers for the safety of Merchants that travel by Land Voyage Levant and Sands Capuchet from the Fr. Capuchon a Coul or Hood hooded or covered with a Coul or into the Hood See Capouche Carbonado Spa. carbonada lat carbonella a rasher or collop of Bacon or any meat smutcht with or broiled on the coals also a slash over the face which fetcheth the flesh with it Caravel a kind of swift Bark Carbuncle carbunculus has two significations the one a precious stone the other a dangerous botch or sore Carbuncle stone is bright of the colour of fire and has many vertues but chiefly prevails against the danger of infectious air Some call a Ruby in perfection a Carbuncle others say a Diamond of a red or fiery colour is a Carbuncle Carbuncle disease is a botch or ulcer called otherwise by a Greek name Anthrax caused of gross hot blood which raiseth blisters and burns the skin This Ulcer is ever accompanied with a Feaver Carceral carceralis of or belonging to a prison Sea Card charta marina is a Geographical discription of coasts with the true distances heights and courses or winds laid down in it not describing any Inland which belongs to Maps Seamen use these Cards to instruct them in
who maintains the suit signifies in our common Law a maintenance of any man in his Suit depending upon condition to have part of the thing be it Lands or Goods when it is recovered Fitzh nat br fol. 171. and for this the party is to be fined by the Stat. 33. Ed 1. Lamb. 441. Champertors are those that move Pleas or Suits or cause them to be moved either by their own procurement or by others and pursue them at their proper costs to have part of the land in variance or part of the gain An. 33. E. 1. Stat. 2. in fine See more of this in Cowel Chanfton The name of an Italian coyn worth about xx d. Chanterie Fr. from the Lat. canto to sing was a Chappel commonly annexed to some Parochial or Cathedral Church endowed with lands or other yearly Revenues for the maintenance of one or more Priests daily to sing Mass for the Souls of the Donors or such others as they did appoint 37 Hen. 8.4 1. Edw. 6.14 Of these Chanteries there were forty seven within St. Pauls Church London See Mr. Fullers Ch. Hist l. 6. f. 357. Chanticleer Fr. one that sings clear a Cock. Chaomancy a kind of divination by the air Chaos Gr. a huge immense and formless mass the rude and undigested first heap of natural elements the world so called before it was formed as in Ovid. Vnus erat toto naturae vultus in orbe Quem dixere Chaos And metaphorically any thing without a shape a general confusion Chaperon Fr. a Hood or French-Hood for a woman also any Hood or Bonnet mentioned in the Stat. 1. R. 2.7 And among Heraulds it is that little Escotcheon which is fixed in the forehead of the horses that draw the Herse Chapin Span. Shooes with high cork or wooden soles Chaplet Fr. chapelet a Wreath Garland or attire for the head made of Gold Pearl or other costly or curious stuff used to be fastned behind in manner of a folded Roul or Garland Chapter Capitulum signifies in the common and Canon Law whence it is borrowed Congregationem Clericorum in Ecclesiâ Cathedrali conventuali regulari vel collegiata why this collegiate company should be called a Chapter i. a little head of the Canonists is for that this Company or Corporation is a kind of Head not onely to rule and govern the Diocess in the vacancy of the Bishoprick but also in many things to advise the Bishop when the See is full Character Gr. a mark sign seal or print of any thing a Branding-iron a letter or figure A Character in Chronology is a certain note whereby an infallible judgement is made of the time proposed Greg. The Printers Characters or names of their several sorts of Letters are 1. Pearl which is the least 2. Non-Pareil 3. Breviar 4. Minion 5. Long-Primer 6. Smal Piquy 7. Piquy 8. English Roman 9 Great Primer 10. Double Piquy 11. Small Canon 12. Fat Canon 13. Capitals And all these except the first and four last have an English or black letter corresponding Characteristique pertaining to a character mark sign or figure Characterize characterizo to note mark or describe To write in Short-hand or in characters See Brachygraphy Charientism charientismus pleasantness good grace in speaking It is a trope or manner of speaking which mitigates hard matters with pleasant words Charlatan Fr. a Mountebanck a cousening Drug-seller a pratling Quacksalver Mr. Montagu uses it See Mountebank Charlatancry Fr. cousening or gulling speech cogging lying extream commendation of a trifle thereby to make it more saleable Charls in the antient Teutonick from whence this name takes original was first Garedel whereof by abbreviation it became Careal now in the modern Teutonick it is Barle Gar did signifie all and edel or ethel noble so that Charles signifies all or wholly noble In the old Saxon it was Ceorl Verst Charles-wain certain Stars winding about the north Pole of the world in fashion like four Wheels and horses drawing it Bull. Charmer one that useth conjurations is said to be he that speaks words of a strange language without sence that if one say so or so to a Serpent it cannot hurt him He that whispers over a wound or reads over an Infant that it may not be frighted or lays the Bible on a child that it may sleep c Moses and Aaron p. 175. Charnel-house Fr. Charneir a place wherein the Souls and bones of the dead are laid Charons-boat Poetically thus Charon is feigned to be the Ferry-man of Hell that carries the souls of the dead in a boat over three Rivers i. Acheron Styx and Cocytus Chart charta paper parchment or any thing to write on Also a writing or written Deed. Charter Fr. Chartes i. instrumenta It is taken in our common Law for written evidence of things done between man and man which Briton in his 39 chapter divides into Charters of the King and Charters of private persons Charters of the King are those whereby the King passeth any Grant to any person or more or to any body politique as a Charter of exemption that a man shall not be empanelled upon any Jury c. Cowel Charter-land terra per Chartam is such as a man holds by Charter that is by evidence in writing otherwise called Free-hold an 19. H. 7. c. 13. and Kitch fol. 86. Charter-partie is an Indenture of Covenants and agreements made between Merchants and Mariners concerning their Sea affairs Stat. 32. H. 8.14 1649. 21. Charybdig A Gulph or Whirl-pit on Sicily side of the narrow Seas between Sicily and Italy which violently attracting all vessels that come too nigh it devours them and casts up their wrecks at the shoar of Tauronia not far from Catana Opposite to this in Italy stands the dangerous Rock Scylla at whose foot many little Rocks shoot out on which the waters strongly beating make that noise which the Poets feign to be the barking of Dogs This passage between these two being to unskilful Marriners exceeding perillous gave rise to the proverb Incidit in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim Who seeks Charybdis for to shun Doth often times on Scylla run Heyl. Chasmatical chasmaticus pertaining to a chasm which is the gaping or opening of the earth or firmament Chatharist See Catharist Chasuble Fr. a fashion of Vestment or Cope that 's open onely in the sides and is worn at Mass both by the Priest who hath it round and his assistant Deacon and sub-Deacon who have it square in the bottom Cotg. Chattels See Catals Chauldron See Chaldron Chaunce-medley Is in our Common Law the casual slaughter of a man not altother without the fault of the slayer See Man-slaughter Cheapside the famous London street is so called from the Sax. Ceapan i. to traffick buy or sell hence also comes to cheapen Chenix Lat. chaenix a measure containing a Sextary and half or about two pints and a quarter Chersonese chersonesus the same with penâ—insula a tract of Land which being almost encompassed
round by water is joyned to the firm land by some little Isthmus or narrow neck of land as Peloponnesus Taurica and Peruana Heyl. Cherub Cherubin Heb. i.e. fulness of knowledge the second of the nine Quires or Ranks of Angels mentioned in Scripture so called of their sublime knowledge or illuminated understanding In Scripture God is said to sit on the Cherubins because he over-reaches and is above all understanding They also are said to bear and draw his Chariot to signifie all his proceedings to bâ— according to wisdom and to be full of eyes to certifie Gods knowledge to penetrate into all secresies and all to be open before him They are set forth only with heads and wings without bodies whereby is notified that greatest understanding is found in spiritual and incorporeal creatures and that over-great corporal cares are impediments to profound knowledge Tr. of Mass Chessiy A vermine commonly lying under stones or Tyles Chevissance Fr. an Agreement or composition made an end or order set down between a Creditor and a Debtor sometimes taken for gain or booty Lo. Bac. in his H. 7. This word is used for bargaining An. 37. H 8. ca. 9. 13. Eliz. ca. 5. 8. Cheverel-Leather Minshew says it comes from the Fr. Chevreul i. a wild Goat of whose skin saith he it is made But others hold it takes denomination from the River Charwel or Chervel in Latin Cheruellus running on the East side of Oxford the water whereof is famous for tawing or dressing Leather then which no Leather in the world is more soft white and delicate Doctor Pit in his description of Oxford Cheverons Fr. Chevron strong rafters that meet at the top of the house to hold up the Tyles and covering of the house Chibbol caepulo a little Onyon Chicanerie Fr. wrangling pettifogging litigious or crafty pleading the perplexing of a cause with tricks or impertinent words Childermas-day See Innocents day Chiliad chilias adis the number of a thousand Chiliarch chiliarchus a Collonel Captain or Commander of a thousand men Chiliasts chiliastae certain Hereticks who hold that Christ shall come to live and reign corporally and his Saints with him in a fulness of worldly contents here on earth for a thousand years after the general Resurrection The first broachers of this Opinion are thought to be Cerinthus and Papias St. John the Evangelists Disciple who lived about the year of Christ 100. They are now commonly called Millenarians Rider Chilonick or Chilonian chilonicus brief succinct compendious from one of the Grecian wise men Chilo who in all his speeches and writings was very short Chimaera A hill in the South part of the Province of Lycaonia in the top whereof Lyons roared in the middle Goats grazed and in the lower parts Serpents lurked Hence Chimaera is feigned by the Poets to be a Monster having the head of a Lyon the body of a Goat the tail of a Serpent Ovid. Quoque Chimaera jugo mediis in partibus hircum Pectus ora Leae Caudam Serpentis habebat Chimer ' her mid-parts from a Goat did take From Lyon head and breast tail from a Snake This Mountain was made habitable by Bellerophon who is therefore feigned to have killed the Monster Chimaera Hence Chimaera is metaphorically taken for a strange fancy a castle in the air an idle conceit Chimaera was also the name of a ship for so Virgil l. 5. Aeneid calls one of the greatest ships of Aeneas Chimerical from Chimaera imaginary phantastical that never was nor ever will be Chiminage from the Fr. Chemin i. a way passage or rode a Law-term signifying a Toll for Wayfrage or passage through a Forest Manwood part 1. of his For. Laws fol. 86. Chiragrical from Chiragra that hath the Gowt in the fingers or hands Chirograph chirographum a sign Manual a Bill of ones hand an obligation or hand-writing Chirographer chirographus an Officer in the Common Bench that engrosseth Fines in that Court acknowledged into a perpetual Record c. Chirology chirologus a talking or speaking with the hand or by signs made with the hand Chiromancer chiromantes a Palmester or one that tells fortunes by the lines of ones hand Chiromancy chiromantia Palmestry a kind of divination practised by looking on the lines or marks of the fingers and hands an Art still in use among Fortune-tellers Egyptians and Juglers And is according to my Lord Bacon a meer Imposture Chiromancy according to Paracelsus treats not of the lineaments of the hands only but also of the whole body and not only of men but of all natural things Of which read Dr. Rothmans Treatise translated into English by Mr. Wharton 1652. Chironomer chironomus one that teacheth to use gestures with the hands either in dancing pleading c. a Morice-dancer Chivalry Fr. Chevalerie in Lat. servitium militare signifies in our Common Law a tenure of Land by Knight-service which is taken away by Act 1656. ca. 4. Chivalry is otherwise taken for Knighthood or the knowledge of a Knight or noble person in feats of Arms also valour prowess Chlorie The Goddess of Flowers called also Flora. Chocolate a kind of compound drink made and so called by the Indians the principal ingredient is a fruit called Cacao which is about the bigness of a great black fig c. See more in a Treatise of it printed by Jo. Okes 1640. Chorus Lat. a Company of Singers or Dancers a Quire The singing or musick between every Act in a Tragedy or Comedy In a Comedy there are four Accessory parts viz. 1. The Argument 2. Prologue 3. Chorus 4. Mimick Of all which the Tragedy hath onely the Chorus Of these see more in Mr. Godwins Anthology ch de Ludis Choral choralis belonging to the Chorus or Quire As Viccars Choral mentioned in Act 1649. ca. 24. Choriambiqus choriambus a foot in Meeter having the first and last syllable short and two middle short as flebilibus Churister See Quirister Chorographer chorographus a describer of Countries and Regions Câ—raphy chorographia is a description of any whole Region Kingdom or Nation and is two fold 1. Antient by Tribes and Families as Germany was divided betweee the Chatti Cherusci Suevi Tencteri c. 2. Modern into Shires and Provinces as Germany now is into Francony Saxony Suevia Bavaria c. Heyl. Chrisome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies properly the white cloth which is set by the Minister of Baptism upon the head of a child newly annointed with Chrism after his Baptism Now it is vulgarly taken for the white cloth put about or upon a child newly Christned in token of his Baptism wherewith the women use to shrowd the child if dying within the month Otherwise it is usually brought to Church at the day of Purification Chrisme chrisma a kind of hallowed oyntment used by the Roman Catholicks in the Sacrament of Baptism and for certain other Unctions And is composed of Oyl and Balm Chrismatory from Chrisma a vessel wherein that Oyl was kept
violate defloure or pollute Contemplatioâ— contemplatio beholding in mind deep musing study or meditation Contemplation in the accepted general notion of the word signifies a clear ready mental seeing and quiet regarding an object being the result and effect of a precedent diligent enquiry and search after the nature qualities and other circumstantial conditions of it Mr. Cressy Contemplative contemplativus that exercises or consists in contemplation or study Contemporiarism from con tempus the being at one and the same time coexistency Contemporaneous Contemporary Contemporal contemporarius that is of one and the same time or age Conterminate contermino to lye near or border on a place Conterraneous conterraneus that is of the same Country or Land Contesseâ—ation contesseratio a league between strangers Dr. Taylor Contest contestes a fellow witness or a witness examined in the same cause with another It is used among the Civilians at Doctors Commons Contestate contestor to bear or prove by witness to witness together Contexture contextura a weaving togetheâ— a composition the form and stile of a discourse a making fiâ— Contignation contignatio the raftering or rearing a house in Sollars Stories or Floors the boarding or planking a house Greg. Contiguity from contiguus a touching one another nearness the close being of two together Contiguous contiguus that toucheth or is next to very near Continency continentia a refaaining of ill desires or more strictly a refraining from all things delightful that hinder perfection Continent continens subst a great quantity of Land continued without division of Sea as the Low Countries to Germany that to Austria Austria to Hungary c. It is otherwise called Terra firma Contingent contingens which chanceth or hapneth Continuity continuitas a continuation wholeness intireness or intire conjunction Contorsion contorsio a wrestling or wreathing Continual Claim is a Claim made from time to time within every year and day to land or other thing which in some respect we cannot attain without danger For example if I be disseized of Land into which though I have right I dare not enter for fear of beating it behoves me to hold on my right of entry to the best opportunity of me and my Heirs by approaching as near it as I can once every year as long as I live and so I save the right of Entry to my Heirs Terms of Law Contorsion contorsio a writhing wresting or pulling away Contrabanded Goods prohibited goods that are forbidden to be imported by Proclamation from the Ital. Bando i. a Proclamation In the Act of Parl. 1649. c. 21. t is written Contrabanda goods Contramure Promurale an out-wall compassing the walls of the City and placed before them for the more safeguard Min. Contrasto Span. contrasta strife contention or opposition Contratation Spa. a Contract a Bargain A Contratation house is a house where Contracts or Bargains are made Contrectation contrectatio often touching handling or treating of Contravention from contravenio a coming against a speaking against one an accusing Contristate contristo to make sorry heavy or sad Contrite contritus worn or bruised but is most commonly used for penitent or sorrowful for misdeeds remorseful Contrition contritio bruisedness or wearing with use In Divinity it is a perfect sorrow and horror that a man hath for having committed sin and this for that he loves God with a soveraign and singular love Or Contrition saith an Author is when the foulness of sin is set off onely by conceiving the goodness of God without reflexion upon reward or pain Contrition says another Author is the bruising a sinners heart as it were to dust and powder through unfeigned and deep sorrow conceived at Gods displeasure for sin Contrucidate contrucido to wound to murder or kill Contumacy contumacia disobedience self-will stubbornness Contumelious contumeliosus reproachful in words spiteful disdainful Contumulate contumulo to bury or intomb together Conturd contundo to knock or beat in peeces to strike down And metaphorically to conquer or subdue Contusion contusio a beating pounding or bruising Convalesce convalesco to wax strong to recover health Convalescen convalescens that waxeth strong or recovers health Convalidate convalido to strengthen to confirm to recover health Convene convenio to come or assemble together to summon one to appear before a Judge Convent See Covent Conventional conventionalis that is done with agreement and consent of divers Conventicle conventiculum a little or private Assembly or Convention commonly for ill first attributed in disgrace to the Schools of Wicklif in this Nation above 200 years since Conventual from conventus belonging to a Covent or multitude resorting together as of religious persons Also a sort of Friers so called Convâ—ntual Church See Parish Convert See Pervert Convexity convexitas crookedness hollowness bending down on every side Convexity is the outside of an hollow body as Concavity the inside In a painted Globe of the world the descriptions are upon the convexity thereof and that face is convex the rest is belly or concave El. Armory Conviction convictio from convinco a proving guilty and is in our Common Law either when a man is outlawed and appears and confesses or else is found guilty by the Inquest Min. Convoke convoco to call or assemble together Conviviâ—l convivialis pertaining to Feasts or Banquets Convocation convocatio a calling or assembling together most commonly of Ecclesiastical persons for Church affairs A Synod and a Convocation seem to be all one before the Statute of Premunire 16. Ric. 2. ca. 5. it was constantly called a Synod afterwards it took up the name Convocation from the wordâ— convocari faciatis in the Kings Writ And since our Scotizing it is called an Assembly Convocation-House is that wherein the whole Clergy is assembled for consultation upon matters Ecclesiastical in time of Parliament and as the house of Parliament so this consisted of two distinct houses One called the higher Convocation-house where the Arch-Bishops Bishops c. sate severally by themselves the other the Lower Convocation house where all the rest of the Clergy were bestowed Cow See Prolocutor Convoy Fr. is most commonly taken for a company of Souldiers or Ships for the wafting or safe conducting of passengers Convulsion convulsio a drawing together a plucking or shrinking up of the sinews as in the Cramp or when the Mouth Nose Eye Lip or other part is turned awry out of its due place Coolisse Broth. See Cullis Co-operate coopero to labor or work together Co-optate coopto to elect or chuse Coparceners participos otherwise called Parceners in our Common Law are such as have equal portion in the Inheritance of their Ancestor Parceners are either by Law or Custom Parceners by Law are the issue female which in case of no Heir male come in equality to the Lands of their Ancestors Bract. l. 2. c 30. Parceners by custom are those that by custom of the Country challenge equal part in such Lands As in Kent by Gavel-kind See Littleton l.
one another As Father and Son superior and inferior Husband and Wife c. Correption correptio a correcting in words a rebuking a snatching away Correptory from corripio that rebuketh or chastiseth that snatches away Correspond correspondeo i. concorditer respondeo to answer concordingly agreeingly or in the same proportion to accord or consent together to run one and the same course together Correspondent agreeable proportionable or answerable to another thing Corridor A curtain in Fortification Corrigible corrigibilis that may be corrected or amended Corrivals corrivales they who have water from or use the same River And metaphorically a Competitor in love or they that love one and the same woman Corrivality corrivalitas the love of a Corrival a corrivalship Corroborate corroboro to make strong to harden or confirm Corrode corrodo to gnaw about to eat away Also to back-bite Corrodie See Corodie Corrodible corrodibilis that may be gnawn or eaten away Vul. Er. Corrosive corrosivus gnawing or eating about biting as it were a nipping the very heart Also a fretting plaister or any thing which being laid to the body raiseth blisters and makes it sore Corrugation corrugatio a wrinkling or furrowing of the skin a frowning Corsary Fr. Corsaire a Courser Corslet from the Ital Corsalletto armor for the breast and back Corse-present See Mortuary Corticated corticatus that hath a rind or bark Corvine corvinus pertaining to or like a Raven or Crow black as a Crow Coruscant coruscans glistering shining or lightning Coruscation coruscatio a flash of lightning or a kind of seeming sparkling fire which appears in Mines by night 'T is saith an Author a glistering of fire rather then fire indeed and a glimmering of lightning rather then lightning it self Corveâ— Ital. a prancing or continual dancing of a horse of Service Hence to corvet is to leap or prance as a Horse of Service doth Corâ—bant Corybantes Cybeles or Cybelles Priests so called from Corybantus one of her first Attendants To play the Corybant is to run madly up and down playing on a Cymbal and wagging the head as those Priests were wont to do Also to sleep with open eyes Coscâ—mancy coscinemantia a divining by a Sieve Co-siâ—ificativâ— from con and significo of the same signification with another thing Cosmâ—s Gr. mundus the world Hence Cosmarchy cosmarchia the power of the Devil the government of the world Cosmical cosmicus of the world worldly In Astronomy we term that the Cosmical ascension of a Star when it ariseth together with the Sun or the same degree of the Ecliptick wherein the Sun abides Vul. Er. 224. Cosmodelyte may be derived from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mundus and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 timidus or miser and so Englished one fearful of the world or a worldly wretch Cosmography cosmographia the description of the world in general This Art by the distance of the Circles in Heaven divides the Earth under them into her Zones and Climats and by the elevation of the Pole considers the length of the day and night with the perfect demonstration of the Suns rising and going down c. And is best handled by Pliny in his Natural History Cosmographer cosmographus a describer of the world Cosmographical pertaining to Cosmography Cosmology Gr. a speaking of the world Cosmopolite from Cosmos mundus and Polites Cives a Citizen of the world or Cosmopolitan Cosmometry Gr. a measuring of the world It is thus defined Cosmometry shewes the reason of the world by measures of degrees and minutes of the Heavens and the differences of Climates days and nights the elevation of the Poles diversity of the noon Tides and shadows in Dyals and divides it self into Cosmography and Geography 1. part Treasury Costrel or Casâ—rel a kind of bottle to carry wine or such like in Couchant Fr. couching or lying on the ground See Levant and Counchant Covent or Câ—vent conventus a multitude of men assembled together The whole number of religious persons dwelling in one house together which according to Chaucer in the Sompners Tale is but thirteen viz. twelve and the Confessor A Cloister or Abby of Monks or Nuns Hence Covent-Garden took denomination because it belonged to that Covent or religious House now called Whitehal which heretofore belonged to the Black Friers by the gift of the Earl of Kent Stow. Sur. 487. Coverture is a French word and signifies any thing that covers as Apparrel a Coverlet c. In our Common Law it is particularly applied to the estate and condition of a married woman who by the Laws of the Realm is in potestate viri under coverture or Covert baron and therefore disabled to make any bargain or contract without her husbands consent or privity or without his allowance or confirmation Brook hoc titulo per totum Coulant Fr. gliding slipping slowing gently along Count Fr. Comte an Earl Couldray is the name of a noble House belonging to the Lord Viscount Montagu in Sussex in French it signifies a Hasel wood or Grove whence perhaps it took denomination Counter-compone a term in Herauldry as if you say a Cross Counter-compone that is a Cross compounded of two sundry colours or three See Accidence of Armory fol. 54. The Counter or Contor Is the name of two Prisons in London wherein Debtors and others for misdemeanors are imprisoned so called from a Contor which in high Dutch signifies locus seclusus a Prison Countermure or Counter scarf in a fortified Town is a bank of a Ditch or Mount opposite against the wall See Contramure A Counterround Fr. contreronde when one round goes one way and another another Also a certain number of Officers and Commanders going to visit the Watch of the Corps de guard Sentinels or the Rounds to see if they are diligent in performing their duty Countertaile or Countertallie Fr. Contretaile a Tally to confirm or confute another Tally It is a peece of wood which the one party keeps that is cut off from another peece kept by the other party and so when both meet with their Tallies they score up the number of what is delivered and received by cutting a notch with a knife Min. Coupant Fr. cutting cleaving lopping mowing carving Court-Baron Curia Baronis is a Court that every Lord of a Mannor which in antient times were called Barons hath within his own Precincts Of this and Court Leet read Kitchin Couâ—tisan Fr. Courtesane a Lady Gentlewoman or waiting woman of the Court Also but less properly a professed Strumpet famous or infamous Whore Courteue of England Lex Angliae is used with us for a Tenure For if a man marry an Inheritrix seized of Land in Fee-simple or in Fee-tail general or as Heir in Tail special and gets a child of her that comes alive into the world though both it and his Wife die forthwith yet if she were in possession he shall keep the land during his life and is called Tenant by the Curtesie of England Glanvil l. 7 ca. 18.
descending of the meat and drink from the mouth into the stomach Degrade degrado to put out of Office to put from his degree estate or dignity In Sleidans Comment you may read the manner of degrading Priests to be thus The party to be degraded is attired in his Priestly Vestments and holds in the one hand a Chalice filled with wine mixed with water and in the other a gilt patent with a Wafer or bread Then kneeling down the Bishops Deputy first takes from him all these things commanding him to say no more Masses Secondly scraping his fingers end with a piece of glass he enjoyns him never to hallow any thing And thirdly stripping him of his Priestly Vestments he is clothed in a Lay habit and so delivered into the power of the Secular Magistrate if his offence so require it Degrandinate degrandino to hail much Degree A term often used in Astronomy and Physick In Astronomy it signifies the thirtieth part of a Sign viz. of Aries Taurus Gemini c. for into so many parts or degrees are all these Signs divided In Physick it signifies a proportion of heat or cold moysture or driness in the nature of Simples and there are four such proportions or Degrees The first Degree is so small that it can scarce be perceived The second that which manifestly may be perceived without hurting the sence The third that which somewhat offends the sense The fourth which so much offends that it may destroy the body For example sweet Almonds Rice Bugloss ripe Grapes are hot in the first degree Parsley Saffron Honey in the second degree Cummin Galingal Pepper in the third degree And Garlick Spourge Euphorbium in the fourth degree So Barley is cold in the first degree Cucumbers in the second Sengreen in the third and Hemlock in the fourth degree Where note that in heat cold and driness there may be four degrees and in moisture but two Bull. Deicide deicida he that kills God Dejeration dejeratio a solemn swearing Deiformity the form or shape of God Deify deifico to make a God Deipnosophists Gr. Deipnosophista Athenaeus his great learned books carry that title importing a Conference Discourse or inter-speech among wise men at a supper El. Ar. Deists See Anti-Trinitarians Deity Deitas the God-head or nature of God the Divinity Delator Lat. he that secretly accuseth A Delegate delegatus one to whom Authority is committed from another to handle and determine matters a Deputy or Surrogate To Delegate delego to assign or appoint to an Office or charge to send on a message Delenifical delenificus that mitigates or makes gentle Deletion deletio a racing or blotting out a destroying Deleted deletus scraped or put out defaced destroyed Deletorious deletorius that blotteth or raceth out Delian-twins Apollo and Diana the Sun and Moon so called from the famous Island Delos where Latona at one birth brought forth Apollo and Diana Delibate delibo to taste to touch to sacrifice or diminish Delibrate delibro to pill or pull off the bark Delict delictum a fault an offence properly by omitting that which should have been done Delignate to rid a place of wood to destroy wood Fuller Delimate delimo to file or shave off Delineate delineo to draw the form or portraiture of a thing Delinquent delinquens that hath offended failed or left undon Delirium Lat. dotage a going crooked or out of the right way madness Rel. Med. Delirous delirus that doteth and swerveth from reason Discourse of Enthusiasm Delphick sword In the City Delphos was the Temple of Apollo where was a sword that served for all purposes in Sacrifices Deltoton Gr. a constellation of stars like the Greek letter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Delusion delusio a mocking abusing or deceiving A Deluge from the Lat. diluvium◠an universal overflowing of the waters Noe's flood Demain or Demeasn from the Lat. Dominicum or Fr. Demain or Domain signifies as much as Patrimonium Domini Hotaman in verbis feudalibus verbo Dominicum by divers Authorities proves those lands to be Dominicum which a man holds originally of himself and those to be feodum which he holds by the benefit of a superior Lord. But this word is now most commonly used for a distinction between those Lands that the Lord of a Mannor hath in his own hands or in the hands of his Lessee and such other Lands appertaining to the said Mannor which belong to Free or Copy-holders howbeit the Copy-hold belonging to any Mannor is also in the opinion of many good Lawyers accounted Demeasn Cowel Dementation dementatio a making or being mad Demi Fr. from the Lat. dimidium half Demi chase Fr. half-chase or half-hunting boots so called by the French we call them Summer-riding-boots Demigrate demigro to flit or remove Demission demissio an abasement faintness abating Demit demitto to put or lay down to abate in courage to humble ones self Democracy democratia a kind of Government of a Commonweal wherein the people have the chief rule without any Superior or Magistrate over them save onely such as themselves choose Democratical democraticus pertaining to a such a Government Democritus A Philosopher of Abdera a City of Thracia who was wont to laugh at what chance or fortune soever Hence Democritick Mocking jeering laughing at every thing Demolition demolitio a demolishment the ruine subversion or pulling down of buildings c. Demon daemon a devil a spirit a hobgobling or hag Demonachation Fr. an abandoning or depriving of Monkish profession Cotg Demoniach or Demonical demoniacus possessed with a devil devillish furious Demonicratic The Government of devils Demonologie daemonologia a speaking of or consulting with the devil Demonstrative demonstrativus that which declareth any thing evidently Denary denarius of or containing ten Dendrology Gr. the speaking of Trees the title of Mr. Howels well-known Book otherwise called Dedonas Grove Deneer Fr. Denier a small copper coyn about the tenth part of an English penny also a penny weight Denigrate denigro to make black Denizen from the Fr Donaison i. Donatio aut quasi Danes-son i. Dani filius is in our Common Law an Alien enfranchised here in England by the Princes Charter and inabled almost in all respects to do as native Subjects do namely to purchase and possess Lands to be capable of any Office or Dignity Yet it is short of Naturalization because a stranger naturalized may inherit Lands by descent which a man made onely a Denisen cannot Denomination denomiratio a naming or denoncing Density densitas thickness Dental from dens ntis pertaining to the Teeth Bac. Denticle denticulus a little tooth Also that part of the Chapiter of a Pillar which is cut and graven like teeth Vitru Dentifrice dentifricium powder or any thing to rub the teeth with Dentiloquent dentiloquus one that speaks through the teeth or lisps Dentiscalp dentiscalpium an instrument to scrape the teeth a tooth-picker Dentition dentitio a breeding of teeth Denudation denudatio a laying or leaving bare
ends Bull. Dispicience dispicientia circumspection advisement diligent consideration Displâ—cence from displiceo displeasure dislike Mont. Displosion displosio a breaking asunder as a bladder Dispoliate dispolio to rob or spoil Disquamation disquamatio a scaling of fish a taking off the shell or bark Disquition disquisitio a diligent search or enquiry Disseitiâ— from the Fr. Disseisir signifies in our Common Law an unlawful dispossessing a man of his Land Tenement or other immoveable or incorporeal Right c. Instit of the Com. Law ca. 15. Dissection dissectio a cleaving in peeces a cutting off or asunder Disseminate dissemino to sow here and there to spread abroad Dissentaneous dissentaneus not agreeing disagreeing Dissenâ—rie See Dysentery Dissidence dissidentia discord or displacing Dissilient dissiliens leaping down off a place or hither and thither Dissimilar or Dissimilary parts dissimilares partes are those parts of a mans body which are unlike in nature one to another as the Head Hands Feet Heart Liver c. And the Similary parts are those that are of like nature as the Skin Nerves Fat c. Disheviled or Discheveled from the French deschevelè an old word used by Chaucer and yet still in use and signifies as much as bare-headed bare-haired or the hair hanging down disorderly about the ears Min. Dischevel Fr. discheveler to loose disorder scatter or pull the hair about the ears Dissipate dissipo to scatter or spread abroad to disperse Dissipable dissipabilis that may be spread or scattered abroad Dissology dissologia the speech of two Dissoluble dissolubilis easie to be loosed or dissolved Dissonance dissonantia a discord in tunes and voyces Dissyllable dissyllabus a word of two syllables Distantial distans antis differing or distant far asunder divers Distend distendo to stretch or reach out to enlarge Distention distentio a stretching out an enlarging Distick distichon a double meeter a couple of verses a sentence contained in two verses Distil distillo to drop down by little and little Distortion distortio a wresting writhing or crookedness Felth. uses the word Distorquement in the same sence Distress districtio signifies most commonly in our Law a compulsion in certain real Actions whereby to bring a man to appearance in Court or to pay debt or duty denied The effect whereof most usually is to drive the party distrained to Replieve the distress and so to take his action of trespass against the distrainer or else to compound neighborly with him for the debt or duty for which he distrains In what cases a distress is lawfull See The new terms of Law Verbo distresse Sometimes it signifies great affliction or misery Districate from the Ital. districare to rid out of trouble or incumbrance Distringent distringens that rubs or wipes off or that troubleth greatly Disveloped See Developed Dithyramb dithyrambus a kind of Hymn or song in honor of Bacchus who was surnamed Dithyrambus and the Poets who composed such Hymns were called Dithyrambicks Dition ditio dominion power authority mastership Ditty from the Ital. detto i. dictum a rime expressed in words and sung to a musical tune Min. Divagation divagatio a straying or wandering about Dival divalis divine belonging to the gods Divan Divano a Judgment hal a great Court of Law or Justice among the Turks and Persians not much unlike or inferior to our Parliament of which there is one held in every Province But the chief Divan or Tribunal of Justice is held in the Great Turks Palace at Constantinople the four first days of every week Hist of Fran. Divaricate divarico to stride or spread wide one from another Divelled from Divello pulled away or asunder undone ravished Felth. Diventilate diventilo to fan or winnow Corn with a Wind-fan also to turn out of one hand into another Diverberate diverbero to strike beat or cut Diversify diversifico to vary or make divers Diversiloquent diversiloquens that varieth or speaks diversly Diverticle diverticulum a by-way a crafty shift Dividend in the Exchequer seems to be one part of an Indenture An. 10. Ed. 1. ca. 11. 28 ejus Stat. 3. ca. 2. Dividenâ— from divido in the University is that share which every one of the Fellows does equally and justly divide either by an Arithmetical or Geometrical proportion of their annual stipend Dividual dividuus that may be severed or divided Dividuity dividuitas a division also an aptness to divide Divination divinatio a presage or foretelling of things to come which may be divided into three different kinds viz. Supernatural Natural and Superstitious Supernatural Divination onely revealed to man by God is not properly called Divination but Prophecy with which all the holy Prophets have in former times been inspired Natural Divination may be divided into two branches whereof the first is that which hath in former times been practised by wicked spirits in Oracles and Answers given by them in Idols and is at this day sometimes seen in possessed persons who by suggestion of the Devil may foretel things to come and this is but a Natural Divination For though to us it seem miraculous because of our ignorance in the causes and courses of things yet in those spirits it is but natural who by their long experience and great observation besides the knowledge of secrets in Nature and their quick intelligence from all places are able to fore-see much more then we by nature can The second Branch of Natural Divination is that which a wise man may foretell by probable conjecture being no way offensive so long as it is onely guided by reason and over-ruled by submitting it self to the Almighty power of God And to this second kind of Divination Astrology may also be referred which by the motion and influence of Stars and Planets promises to foretel many things so long as it keeps it self in due limits and arrogates not too much to the certainty thereof into which excess of vanity if it once break forth it is then no longer called Natural Divination but Superstitious and wicked For the Stars may incline but not impose a necessity on particular things The third and last manner of Divination is that which we call Superstitious whereof there has been among the Gentiles divers different kinds As namely Augury by the flying feeding and chirping of Birds Alphitomancy by Barley meal Auruspicy by opening and viewing the bowels of Beasts Necromancy by calling up Devils or dead mens Ghosts Geomancy by making certain circles and lines in the earth Hydromancy by some apparition in water Pyromancy by the fire or by spirits appearing in the fire Palmistry or Chiromancy by looking on the lines of the fingers and hands Coscinomancy by a Sieve Aeromancy by the Air. Capnomancy by the flying of smoak Catoptromancy by visions in a glass Sorcery or Cleromancy by lots Armomancy by the shoulders of beasts Axiomancy by Hatchets Daphnomancy by a Lawrel or Bay-tree Alectryomancy by a Cock Alebromancy by Barly meal mixed with Wheat Botanomancy by vertue of herbs
to speak out of theit belly England Sax. Engla-land was so first named after the common opinion by Egbert the first sole and absolute Monarch of the English men Engonasâ— or Engonnasâ— the name of one of the Constellations commonly taken for Hercules who in the Globe is figured with his right knee bent in the manner of kneeling and with his left foot treading part of the head of the Dragon Min. Engyscope from the Gr. an instrument for discerning the proportion of small things Enharmoniack enharmonion one of the three general sorts of Musick song of of many parts or a curious concent of sundry Tunes Enigma Aenigma a Riddle a dark speech or intricate sentence Enigmatical aenigmaticus obscure hard to understand full of Riddles Enigmatist aenigmatistes he that makes or propounds Riddles or hard questions Ennead enneas adis nine the number of nine Ennealogue Gr. a speaking or treating of nine points an Oration or Treatise divided into nine parts or Chapters Enoch or Enos pillars The story runs shortly thus Enos the son of Seth the son of Adam who is held to be the first Author of Astrology having heard his Grandfather Adam say all things should be destroyed by the universal Flood was desirous that Science should not perish before it came to the knowledge of men did therefore erect two Pillars one of stone the other of brick to the intent if the brick wasted with water or storms yet the stone should preserve the Letters whole and perfect and in these Pillars were graved all that concerns the observations of the stars c. one of which Josephus affirms remained even in his time See Astronomy Enodate enodo to unknit to cut away the knot to declare or make manifest to untie Enormitâ— enormitas want of measure or rule unevenness hugeness Ensiferous ensifer that bears or carries a Sword Enquest Inquisitio is in our Common Law especially taken for that Inquisition or Enquest of Jurors or by Jury which is the most usual tryal of all causes both criminal and civil in our Land Entaile feudum talliatum comes of the Fr entaillé And in our Common Law is a Substantive abstract signifying Fee tayl or Fee entailed See Fee and Tail Entelechie entelechia a soul or form that hath power or motion within herself Entendment Fr. wit or understanding It signifies in our Common Law so much as the true meaning or signification of a word or sentence Of which see Kitch fo 224. To Enterfeir from the Lat. inter and ferire to rub or dash one heel against the other to exchange some blows Enthalamize from Thalamus to bring the Bride-groom and Bride to their Bed-chamber Enthean or Entheater entheatus inspired with God Enthusiasts or Enthusiasiâ—s a Sect of people that thought themselves inspired with a Divine Spirit and to have a clear sight of all things they believed c. Spondanus says they sprung from the Anabaptistical Sect of Nicholas Stork of Silesia in the year 1522. Enthusiasm or Enthysiasm enthysiasmus an inspiration a ravishment of the â—pirit divine motion Poetical fury Enthysâ—asmicaâ— pertaining to an inspiration Enthymeme enthymema is a term of Logick and signifies an imperfect Syllogism which wants either the major or minor Proposition As for example Every sin deserveth correction Every theft is a sin Therefore every theft deserves correction Now if we leave out the first part called the major and say thus Every theft is a sin Therefore every theft deserves correction Or omit the second part called the minor and say Every sin deserves correction therefore every theft deserves correction then it is called an Enthymeme to wit a keeping in the mind for so the word properly signifies because one of these parts is concealed in the mind and not uttered and in that regard it is called truncatus Syllogismus a lame or maimed Syllogism Enthymematical pertaining to an Enthymeme Entitatively entitativè a term in Philosophy and is when a thing is taken according to its essence form or being Entitie entitas a being or subsistence Enucleate enucleo to take out the kernel to declare or explicate a difficulty to interpret or expound To Envelope Sp. Envelopér to wrap unfold involve or inclose also to poster or incumber Enumerate enumero to reckon up to declare to number Enunciative enunciatum Subst any thing pronounced or spoken a proposition or speech which simply affirms or denies any thing as to say Peter is a Scholar Peter is no Scholar To Enunciate enuncio to pronounce utter or reveal Enure See Inure Eolian pertaining to Aeolus the god of the winds also inconstant as the wind Epact epacta the day put to or added to make the Leap year or it is a number of eleven days in which the common Solar year exceeds the common Lunar year the one consisting of 365 days the other of 354 days and therefore they add the excess unto the Lunar year to coequal them For Epacta comes from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies intercalare or addere by the addition of which excess in every four years there is gotten a number more then 30 which is greater then the Epact can be because from Change to Change there can be but Thirty days therefore Thirty must be taken from that excess and the remainder is the Epact for the next year As 1659. the Epact is Seventeen whereto add Eleven which makes Twenty eight that is the Epact for the next year To get the Epact for ever do thus Multiply the Prime by Eleven parting the Product by Thirty and the Remainder is the Epact Or see the age of the Moon the Eleven Kalends of April for that is the number of the Epact Hop Concord Epatride were Noble men among the Athenians and held the like dignity with them as the Patricii did at Rome Eparch Eparchus the President of a Province or the chief of all the Provincial Presidents Epheby ephebus a Stripling of fourteen years of age and upwards An Ephemeran or Ephemerides ephemeris idis a book wherein daily Acts are registred a Journal or Diary commonly it is taken for a book of Astronomy in use among such as erect figures to cast mens Nativities by which is shewn how all the Planets are placed every day and hour of the year Ephemeridian belonging to such a Register or Day-book Ephemerist One that registreth daily actions or one that casteth Nativities with the help of an Ephemerides a maker of an Ephemerides Ephesian Temple i. The Temple of Diana at Ephesus See Diana Ephesian Moan may be taken for a sad and continual lamentation and is deduced from Heraclitus a Philosopher of Ephesus who always wept at the miseries of the world and mortal men The phrase is used by Du Bartas Ephi or Epha an Hebrew measure containing nine Gallons of ours Ephialtes Gr. the night Mare it is a kinde of disease commonly called the Elfe or Night-Mare with which whoever is affected he supposes himself to be invaded by some spirit which
Brit. fol. 111. In our old Saxon an Esquire was called Scyldknapa or according to our modern Orthography Shieldknave i. he that in war did bear the Shield of Arms of his Chief or Superior Verst Esqulinus one of the seven Hills in Rome As 1. Aesquilinus 2. Quirinalis 3. Viminalis 4. Coelius 5. Tarpeius 6. Palatinus 7. Aventinus which may be better be remembred by this contracted verse Aesqui Quiri-Vimin Coel. Tar. Palatinus Aventin Esquiry Fr. Eicuyrie the Stable of a Prince a Querry ship also the dignity or estate of an Esquire Spotswood Essay Fr. a proof a trial a flourish or preamble Among Comoedians the trial or proof of their action which they make before they come forth publickly upon the Stage is their Essay Essence essentia the being or natural substance of any thing Essenes or Esseans aesseni vel aessei so called from the Syriack 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Asa signifying to heal or cure diseases were certain Sectaries or Philosophers among the Hebrews of two sorts the one Practicks the other Theoricks both agreed in their Aphorisms but in certain circumstances they differed They referred every thing to Destiny deemed the Soul to be mortal would have men fight till death in defence of Justice sacrificed not with the rest of the people nor scarce conversed with them were much given to tillage and husbandry highly prizing purity of life and sanctity of conversation they lived in common never married kept no servants saying Servants were wicked and a Wife cause of discord Their life was Monastick and themselves given much to contemplation of the nature of Herbs Plants Stones and Beasts In diet meat and drink moderated by sufficiency much addicted to Moral Philosophy not caring for wealth or hoarding up treasure Josephus and Moses and Aaron p. 50. Essedary essedarius a kind of Warrior that was wont to ride in a Waggon or Chariot but fought on foot formerly in use with the antient Gauls also a Waggoner or Chariot-man Essed essedum a Wain Chariot or Waggon In antient time it was a Chariot for fight of a peculiar form Essential essentialis belonging to the essence or being of any thing Essentifical that makes or causeth the essence or being Essoine comes of the Fr. essoyné or exoiné i. causarius miles he that hath his presence forborn or excused upon any just cause as sickness or other incumbrance It signifies in our Common Law an alleadgement of an Excuse for him that is summoned or sought for to appear or answer to an Action real or to perform suit to a Court Baron upon just cause of absence c. See more in Cowel Estandard See Standard Estiferous aestifer that brings or endures heat Estival aestivalis pertaining to Summer or to the longest day in the year Estivate aestivo to summer in a place to dwell or retire to a place for the Summer season Estovers from the French estovér i. to foster signifies in our Common Law nourishment or maintenance For example Bracton l. 3. tract 2. cap. 18. num 2. useth it for that sustenance which a man taken for Felony is to have out of his lands or goods for himself and his family during his imprisonment and the Stat. An. 6. E. 1. cap. 3. useth it for an allowance in meat or cloth It is also used for certain allowances of wood to be taken out of another mans wood Mr. West part 2. Symbol tit Fines sect 26. saith that the name of Estovers contains house-boot hey-boot and plow-boot as if he gave in his grant these general words de ratiâ—nabili estoveria in boscis c. he may thereby claim these three Cow Estreat from the Lat. Extractum or from the Fr. Extraict is used in our Common Law for the Copy or true note of an original writing For example of amerciaments or penalties set down in the Rolls of a Court to be levied by the Bailiff or other Officer of every man for his offence See Fitz. nat br fol. 75. H. 1. K. and 76. a. And so it is used Westm 2. c. 8. 13. Ed. 1. Estrepement or Estripament of the Fr. Estropier i. to maim or lame signifies in our Common Law spoil or waste made by a Tenant for life upon any Lands or Woods to the prejudice or him in the reversion as namely in the Stat. An. 6. Ed. 1. cap. 13. And sometimes it is taken for a Writ in the nature of a prohition to forbid the committing Waste Nat. br 60 61. Estuate aestuo to burn or parch with heat to rage as the Sea doth Esurini esurialis pertaining to those days whereon men forbear meat fasting hungry Esurion esurio an hungry fellow Eternize aeterno to make immortal or eternal Etesiaâ— etesius belonging to the East winds easterly Etherial aethereus pertaining to the sky or firmament celestial Ethick ethicus moral belonging to manners Ethicks Books treating of moral Philosophy and manners Also moral Philosophers themselves are called Ethicks As Logick intreats of the Understanding and Reason so Ethick of the Will Appetite and affections Bac. Ethiopians or Moors the people of Aethiopia the particulars of their opinions wherewith they have infected the true purity I find thus registred 1. They use to Circumcise both males and females 2. They baptize males forty females eighty days after their circumcision 3. After the receipt of the Sacrament they are not to spit till Sun-set 4. They profess but one Nature and one Will in Christ 5. They accept only the three first general Councils 6. Their Priests live only by the labour of their hands for they allow them nothing and permit them not to beg 7. They rebaptise themselves every Epiphany day in Lakes and Ponds because that day they suppose Christ to have been bapâ—ised by John in Jordan Heyl. Ethnarchy ethnarchia principality or rule Ethnick ethnicus heathenish ungodly irreligious And may be used substantively for a Heathen or Gentile Ethology ethologia the feat of counterfeiting mens manners An interlude of a moral subject or wherein mens manners are acted and expressed Etiology aetiologia a rendring of a cause a shewing of reason Eâ—na Aetna a hill in the Island of Sicily which continually sends forth flames of fire occasioned by the abundance of sulphur and brimston therein contained which is blown by the wind driving in at the chaps of the earth as by a pair of bellows c. of this hill there are many Poetical fictions which I omit it â—s now called Montgibal Etymology etymologia ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 verus and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sermo the true original or derivation of a word as lepus quasi levipes Etymologia est resolutio vocis in verum proprium effectum verbi veritatem notificat ob id eam Cicero veriloquium appellat Clau. Cantiuncula de loc legal Etymological etymologicus pertaining to Etymology Etymologize etymologizo to shew the true derivation of a word to intrepret or expound words truly Evacuate evacuo
an antient Engine for war now used for a Petard to blow open a Port or Gate Exotetick was that part of Aristotles doctrine which conduced to Rhetorick Meditation nice Disputes and the knowledge of Civil things Yet I have read Exoterick Books libri Exoterici to consist of plain ordinary matter Exotick exoticus foraign strange barbarous outlandish Expand expando to declare or utter to display or spread abroad Expansion expansio a displaying an opening a spreading forth Ex-parte Lat. partly in part or of one part but in the Court of Chancery it hath this signification a joynt Commission is that wherein both Plaintiff and Defendant joyn a Commission Ex parte is that which is taken out by one party onely Expatiate expatior aris to wander to stray to spread abroad Expectable from expecto that may be expected or looked for Expedient from expedio is used both Substantively and Adjectively Substantively it is a help or fit means to prevent further mischief or compass any matter Adjectively it signifies fit helping furthering necessary Expeditate from ex and pes to unfoot is a word usual in the Forrest Laws otherwise called Lawing of Dogs signifying to cut out the balls of Dogs feet or as some will have it to cut off by the skin the three claws of the forefoot on the right side for the preservation of the Kings game Charta Forestae ca. 6. Every one that kept any great dogs not expeditated did forfeit to the King three shillings and four pence Cromp. Juris fol. 152. and Manwood part 1. fol. 205. and 212. Expedite expedio to dispatch to discharge to prepare to bring to pass Experiment experimentum use practice proof or trial Expâ—ble expiabilis that may be purged or satisfied for Expâ—ate expio to pacifie with prayer to purge by Sacrifice to make amends or satisfaction for Expâ— expiatio a pacifying with prayer a recompence or making amends The Feast of Expiation among the antient Hebrews was commanded to be celebrated on the tenth day of the moneth Tisri answering to our September Lev. 13. It was so called because the High Priest did then confess unto God both his own sins and the sins of the people and by the performance of certain Rites and Ceremonies expiate them and make an atonement with God for them Explement explementum a thing that fills up or accomplishes Expletive expletivus that fills a place or makes perfect fulfilling or making up Explicate explico to unfold display declare or expound Explicit explicitus unfolded declared ended Explode explodo publickly to disgrace or drive out by hissing or clapping of hands Explorement Exploration exploratio a search a trial or searching out Explosion explosio a casting of or rejecting a hissing a thing out Expolition expolitio a triming polishing or burnishing Ex post-facto Lat. a Law term and signifies the doing something after another or the doing something after the time wherein it should have been done Expostulate expostulo to require also to complain to quarrel in words to find him self grieved Exprobration exprobratio a reproach or upbraiding Expugnable expugnabilis pregnable which may be forced or won by force Expugnation expugnatio a conquering or winning by assault Expuition expuitio a spitting forth Expulsion expulsio an expelling banishing or putting forth Expumicate expumico to polish or smooth with a pumice stone to purge or make clean Expunge expungo to put cross or blot out Exquisite exquisitus much searched for singular curious exact Exsufflation a breathing out or upon Extant extans which appears above others standing out which is in being Extancy extantia a standing up or appearing above others Extacy See Ecstacy Extemporality extemporalitas a promptness or readiness without premeditation or study Extempore Lat. out of hand on a sudden without premeditation Extemporaneous Extemporary extemporarius sudden speedy without premeditation Extend extendo to stretch out enlarge or prolong It signifies in our Common Law to seize and value the Lands or Tenements of one bound by Statute c. that hath forfeited his bond to such an indifferent rate as by yearly rent the obligor may in time be paid his debt The course and circumstance of this see in Fitz. nat br fol. 131. Briefâ—d execut sur stat Merch. Extensible extensibilis wâ—ich may be extended or drawn out in length Extensive extensivus that may be stretched out or made long Extent from extendo hath two significations sometimes signifying a Writ or Commission to the Sheriff for the valuing of Lands or Tenements Regist Judicial in the Table Sometimes the act of the Sheriff or other Commissioner upon this Writ Brook tit Extent fol. 313. Extenuate éxtenuo to diminish to make less to undervalue Extercorate extercoro to carry forth dung or ordure to cleanse Exteriour exterior more outward in a lower place or degree Exterminate extermino to drive or cast out to banish to ruine to destroy External externus outward strange foreign Exterraneous or Extraneous exterraneus strange of another Land or Country Extersion extersio a wiping out Extimate extimus the outmost or last the contrary to intimate Extimulate extimulo to prick forward to stir up or encourage Extinct extinctus quenched put out appeased dead Extirpate extirpo to pluck up by the roots Extispicious from extispicium pertaining to South-saying by the intrals of beasts Extorsion extorsio exaction a wreathing or wringing out or from In our Common Law it signifies an unlawful or violent wringing of money or moneys worth from any man For example if any Officer by terrifying any Subject in his Office take more then his ordinary duties he commits and is inditable of Extorsion To this may be referred the exaction of unlawful Usury winning by unlawful Games excessive Toll in Milners c. See more in Cromp. Just of P. fo 48 49 50. Extort extoqueo to take away by force to wrest away by violence Extract Extraction extractio a drawing out a breviate or abridgment also a draught or copy Extramission extramissio a sending out or beyond Extraneous See Exterraneus Extravasal from extra and vas that is besides or out of the vessel Extricable extricabilis which a man may rid himself of or from Extricate extrico to rid out to deliver to shake off all lets Extrinsecal extrinsecus outward on the outside out of the matter Extroversion a turning outwards In mystical Divinity it is a scattering or distracting ones thoughts upon exterior objects Extrude extrudo to thrust or drive out to hasten forth Extuberate extubero to swell much to rise up like a bunch also to make to swell Extumescence from extumesco a swelling or rising up Exuberancy exuberantia abundance plenty Exuberate exubero to abound to be plentiful to bear in great abundance Exuccous exuceus without juyce Vul. Er. Exudate exudo to send forth liquor to sweat or drop out Exulcerate exulcero to make sore to vex to fret to raise blisters Exuge exugo to suck up to drink up Exulate exulo to be
32 c. Feminine foemininus of the female kinde Feneration foeneratio usury or the practice thereof Feneratitious foeneratitius taken or given to usury or pertaining thereto Feodarie alias Feudarie alias Feudatarie feudatarius was an Officer authorised and made by the Master of the Court of Wards and Liveries by Letters Patents under the Seal of that Office his Function was to be present with the Escheator at the finding any Office to give evidence for the King as well concerning the value as the tenure to survey the Land of the Ward after the Office found and to rate it he was also to assign the Kings widows their Dowers and to receive all the Rents of the Wards Lands within his Circuit and to answer them to the Receiver of the Court of Wards and Liveries This Office is mentioned An. 32. H. 8. cap. 46. Feofment from the Gottish word feudum and signifies Donationem feudi is in our Common Law any gift or grant of any Honors Castles Manors Messuages Lands or other corporal immoveable things of like nature to another in Fee-simple by the delivery of seism and possession of the thing given whether the gift be made by word or writing and when it is in writing it is called a Deed of Feofment and in every Feofment the giver is called the Feoffer and he that receives by vertue thereof the Feoffee And Littleton says that the proper difference between a Feoffer and Donor is that the Feoffer gives in Fee-simple and the Donor in Fee-tayl Feracity feracitas fruitfulness Feral feralis deadly mortal dangerous lamentable Ferial ferialis of or belonging to holy days idle vacant unimployed Feriation feriatio quietness idleness Ferient feriens striking hitting or knocking Ferine ferinus wild as a beast Ferit Ital. ferite a wound or blow Ferity feritas cruelty fierceness Fermentarious fermentarius made of leaven leavened Ferment fermentum leaven Fermented Fermentated leavened puffed up Fermentation fermentatio a fastning or setling a leavening as of bread a mixing or incorporating also a working as of Ale or Beer Ferocious from ferox ocis fierce harsh cruel proud haughty Ferocity ferocitas fierceness harshness cruelty Feronia a Goddess of the Woods Ferrean ferreus of iron iron-like also hard-hearted cruel Ferried from fero or ferre born or carried as ferried over a River Ferruginous ferruginosus like to or of the colour of rusty iron Ferruminate ferrumino to soulder or fasten together properly in matters of iron Fertility fertilitas fruitfulness abundance Fertilize Fr. fertilizer to make fertile fruitful or rank also to increase or grow fruitful Fervent fervens Fervid fervidus scalding burning fierce vehement Ferular ferula a wooden Instrument wherewith the Master strikes boys hands in Schools for correction called also a Palmer Fervor Lat. a burning heat earnestness vehemency of passion Fesse point from the Lat. Fascia the middle part of an Escutecheon whose breadth is divided into three even parts Fessitude fessitudo weariness tiredness Festinate festino to make haste to do a thing speedily Festivous festivus merry pleasant delightful provoking mirth pertaining to holy days Festivity festivitas mirth pleasantness a good grace Festucous from festuca belonging to a young tender sprig or stalk of a tree or herb from the root upward Fetiferous foetifer fruitful that brings forth fruit or young Feuid foetidus stinking filthy ill-smelling Fetor foetor a stink or ill-savor Feud or Feid or deadly Feud feuda a profession of an unquenchable hatred till we be revenged even by the death of our enemy and is deduced from the German word Feid which as Hotoman saith in verbis feudalibus modo bellum modo capitales inimicitias significat This word is used 43. El. c. 13. See Feid Feudal Fr. of or belonging to a Fief Manor Fee or Fee-simple also held in Fief or in Fee Cotg. Feudary See Feodary Feud-boote Sax. Faehth-bote a recompence for engaging in a Feud or Faction and for the damages consequent it being the custom of antient times for all the kindred to engage in their Kinsmans quarrel according to that of Tacitus de Morib German Suscipere tam inimicitias seu patris seu propinqui quam amicitias necesse est Sax. Dict. Feudist One that bears a feud or enmity also one that writes of Fees Inheritances Feuge See Fugue Fewmets or Fewmishing the dung of a Deer Fiants Fr. fiens the dung of a Fox or Badger a term of hunting Fibers fibrae the small threads or hair-like strings of roots also the threads or strings of Muscles and Veins Fibrous fibrosus full of hair-like threads or strings Fibulate fibulo to joyn or fasten together Fictile fictilis earthen or made of earth Bac. Fictitious fictitius dissembled feigned counterfeit Fideicide a Faith-destroyer a breaker of word or trust Fideicommissor Lat. he that commits a thing to the disposure of another Fidejussor Lat. a Surety for another in a mony matter Fidius the god of faithfulness and Son of Jupiter Fiduciary fiduciarius taken substantively is a Feoffee in trust or one intrusted on condition to restore adjectively trusty or sure A Fiduciary Father See Emancipate Fiduciate fiducio to commit a trust or to make condition of trust Fierabras from the Fr. fier a bras fierce at arms a name for a Braggadocia or desperate fellow Fifteenth Decima quinta is a Tribute or Imposition of money laid upon every City Burrough and other Town through the Realm not by the Poll or upon this or that man but in general upon the whole City or Town so called because it amounts to one fifteenth part of that which the City or Town hath been valued at of old Figment figmentum a forged tale a lye Figurative figurativus that is spoken by way of figure Filaceaus from filum or the Fr. filace of or pertaining to fine flax or thread Filament filamentum a thread string or rag or any thing like thereto the beard of a root Rel. Med. Filanders Fr. filandres small worms that breed in bruised surfeited or foul-fed Hawks also nets to catch wild Beasts with Filazer filazarius of the Fr. filace is an Officer in the Common Pleas whereof there are fourteen They make out all original Process as well real as personal and mixt File filum is a thread or wyer whereon Writs or other exhibits in Courts are fastned for the more safe keeping them It is also a term in War where six Musketeirs or Pike-men or as many as go a breast make a File or Rot. See Brigade Filial filialis of or belonging to a son Filiaster Fr. filiastre a Son in Law or Son by a former marriage Filme from the Belgick velme quod idem denotat a fine thin skin within the body dividing the flesh or any near member one from another Also a skin like a cap wherein divers children are born And the skins in wrapping the brains are called Filmes the inmost which is next the brain is also called pia meninx or pia mater the
twenty sols tournois which amounts to near 2 s. sterl Francis Ger. from Franc that is free not servile or bound The same with the Gr. Eleutherius and the Lat. Liberius Cam. Franciscans or Franciscan Friers a Religious Order instituted by St. Francis an Italian about the year of our Lord 1198. and confirmed by Pope Innocent the Third His rule prescribed Chastity Obedience Poverty much fasting and other austerities to all that should be admitted of that Order Of which you may read more in St. Bonaven de vita St Francisci Out of this great Order have sprung divers others as Observantes Conventuales Minimi Capuciani Collectanei c. Frangible frangibilis that may be broken breakable Franchise Fr. liberty freedom exemption also good breeding free-birth it is taken with us for a priviledge or exemption from ordinary Jurisdiction and sometimes an immunity from tribute c. Frank-Almoin libera Eleemosyna in French Franc Aumosne signifies in our Common Law a Tenure or Title of Lands Britton Cap. 66. num 5. saith thus of it Frank-Almoine is Lands or Tenements bestowed upon God that is given to such people as bestow themselves in the service of God for pure and perpetual Almes whence the Feoffers or givers cannot demand any terrestrial service so long as the Lands remain in the hands of the Feoffees Frank marriage Fr. Franc-marriage is a Tenure in Tayl special growing from these words in the gift Sciant c. Me T.B. de O. dedisse c. I.A. filio meo Marg. uxori ejus filiae verae T.N. in liberum maritagium unum Messagium c. West p. 1. Symb. l. 2. Sect. 303. The effect of which words is that they shall have the Land to them and the Heirs of their bodies and shall do no fealty to the Donor till the fourth Degree c. Frank pledge franciplegium is compounded of franc i. libâ—r and pledge i. fidejussor a free-pledge or surety and signifies in our Common Law a pledge or surety for free-men Fraternize from frater to agree as brothers to concur with or be near unto also to admit into a Fraternity Brotherhood or Society Fraternal fraternalis of or belonging to a brother Fratricelli a Sect of Hereticks broached by one Hermannius an Italian about the year of Christ 1304. in time of Pope Benedict the eleventh and Albertus the first Emperor they were otherwise called fratres de paupere vita brothers of a poor life 1. They taught promiscuous beddings that nothing was to be held proper or ones own that Christians are not to be Governors of a Commonwealth with other foolish errors condemned by Pope Boniface the eigth Fratricide fratricidium brother-slaughter Fratruelâ— fratrueles brothers children cousin Germans Fraudation fraudatio a deceiving or beguiling Fradulent fradulentus crafty deceitful full of guil Free-booters See Banditi Frederic Germ. Rich peace or as the Monk which made this allusion would have it peaceable reign Est adhibenda fides rationi nominis hujus Compositi Frederic duo componentia cujus Sunt Frederic Frith quid nisi Pax Ric quid nisi regum Sic per Hendiaden Fredericus quid nisi vel Rex Pacificus vel regia Pax Pax pacificusque For Frederic the English have commonly used Frery and Fery which has been now a long time a Christian name in the antient Family of Tilney and lucky to their house as they report Cam. Freed-stool Sax. i. sedes pacis was of old a refuge for malefactors at Beverley in Yorkshire where St. John of Beverley Archbishop of York erected a Monastery which King Athelstan made a Sanctuary to secure offenders against all legal prosecution Frement fremens gnashing or grinding the teeth roaring or braying Frenigerent fraeniger that ruleth the bridle Frescades Fr. refreshments as in Summer time light garments cool air cool places cool drinks Bowres or shades over-spread with green boughs Fresco Ital. fresh cool coldish also unsalt new laid new made sweet green or lusty As we say to walk or drink in Fresco i. to walk in the cool or fresh air or to drink cool or fresh wine Fretrots a sort of Sectaries which wore a secret Crown on their heads incestuous as Adamites by night and suppressed in the year 1310. Friable friabilis that may be crummed or broken smal Bac. Frication or Friation fricatio a rubbing or fretting together Friar or Frier from the Lat. Frater or from the Fr. frére i. a brother there are four principal Orders reckoned of them An. 4. H. 4. ca. 17. viz. Minors Grey Friers or Franciscans Augustins Dominicans or Black Friers and White Friers or Carmelites from these four Orders the rest descended See in Zecchius de Repuh Eccl. p. 380. And Linwood tit de Relig. Domibus ca. 1. verbo St. Augustin Frier Observant frater observans is an Order of Franciscans it is to be noted that of these four Orders mentioned in the word above the Franciscans are Minores tam observantes quam conventuales Capuchini Zecch de Repub. Eccl. tract de regular cap. 2. These Friers Observant mentioned An. 25. H. B. ca. 12. are so called because they are not combined together in any Cloister Covent or Corporation as the Conventuals are but onely tye themselves to observe the Rules of their Order and more strictly then the Conventuals do and upon a singularity of zeal separate themselves from them living in certain places and companies of their own chusing and of this you may read Hospinian de Orig prog Monachatus fol. 878. ca. 38. Fricasse Fr. fricassee any meat fried in a pan Friga an Hermaphroditical Idol adored by the old Saxons on the day now called Friday which thence took its denomination and was of old called Frigedeag Verst p. 63. Frigefaction frigefactio a making cool Frigerate frigero to cool Frigeratory frigeratorium a Cooling-house or place Frigid frigidus cold faint negligent flow also that is unable for carnal copulation Frigidity frigiditas coldness Frigifie frigifacio to cool or make cold Frigor Lat. coldness Frigorifical frigorificus that makes or procures cold Friperer from the Fr. Fripier i. interpolator one that scowres up and mends old Apparel to sell again a Broker This word is used for a bastardly kind of Broker A. 1. Ja. ca. 21. Fripery The use of that kind of Trade Brocage also a Brokers shop or a street of Brokers Fritiniancy Fritiniency from fritinio is a chirping like a Swallow Frize and Cornice the Crests furnitureÌ„ and finishing at the upper end of a Column or Pillar a term of Architecture Frondiferous frondifer that bears leaves or branches Frondosity frondositas leaviness or aptness to bear leaves Frontal frontale a Frontlet or attire for the forehead or a plaister applied to the Forehead It is also used Adjectively Frontispiece frontispicium the fore-front of an house or other building also the Title or first page of a book done in picture Frontiniac a luscious kind of rich wine made at a Town so
our farthing Also a Bill of news or short relation of the general occurrences of the time forged most commonly at Venice and thence dispersed every moneth into most parts of Christendom Cotgr. Gazul All Egypt where the Nile arrives not is nothing but a whitish Sand bearing no grass but two little weeds called Suhit and Gazul which burnt to ashes and conveyed to Venice make the finest Christal glasses Sir H. Blunt in his Levant Voyage Gebaltark or Gebaltarec corruptly call'd the Streights of Gibralthar scituate in the Mediterranean Sea on the north side whereof stood Mount Calpe on the south mount Abila on which Hercules placed his so memorized Pillars with this inscription Nil ultra The name comes from Gebal which in Arabick signifies a Mountain and Tarec the son of Abdalla who having transported his Barbarians over the Streight secured his Army with the natural fortifications of the place Gehenna Properly signifies a place in a valley in the Tribe of Benjamin terrible for two sorts of fires in it that wherein the Israelites sacrificed their children to the Idol Moloch Secondly for another fire there continually burning to consume the dead carcasses and filth of Jerusalem Hence it was a type of Hell fire and more usually taken for hell it self David Kimchi Psal 27.13 Geideor Gelt Dutch money or tribute Gelid gelidus cold as ice frosty Gelicide gelicidium a frost Gelidity geliditas coldness frostiness Gement gemens groaning lamenting Geminate gemino to double to increase Gemineis Gemini twins pairs matches or likes Gemites a kind of precious stone qui veluti candidas manus inter se complexas habet Gemote the Hundred-Court See Sir Richard Bakers Chronicle fol. 38. Gemmated gemmatus set or bedecked with precious stones Gemmery a Jewel-house or place to keep Gemms in a Cabinet Gemmiferous gemmifer that beareth or brings precious stones Gemmosity gemmositas abundance of precious stones Gemony gemoniae scalae a place in Rome where condemned persons were cast down by a pair of stairs headlong into the River Tibet Tacitus Gend-atme Fr. a man of Arms a horseman armed at all points one that serves in compleat armor and on a great horse Genealogy genealogia a description of ones linage stock or pedegree Generative generativus ingendring of an ingendring faculty or breeding power Generical from Genus pertaining to a Kindred stock kind or gender or to the beginning of ones birth Generosity generositas nobleness of minde gentleman-like courage Genesis Gr. a generation The first Book of Moses is so called in Greek and Latin because it declares the Creation and Generation of all things In Hebrew it is bereschith i. in principio and took its name from the first words of the first Chapter of the said Book as do many other books of the Old Testament Min. Genethliacal genethliacus pertaining to the casting of Nativities Genethlialogy genethlialogia telling or casting of Nativities Genethliaques casters of mens fortunes by the day or hour of their birth or books treating of that subject Genial genialis full of mirth pertaining to marriage the marriage-bed was of old called the Génial-bed quasi Genital-bed Genital genitalis serving to engender or for breed Genitals genitale the privy members of any creature Genitive genitivus natural ingendring of an ingendring faculty that hath power to ingender Genitor Lat. a Father a beginner a begetter also the stones of man or beast Genius Lat. a good or evil Angel the spirit of man nature it self natural inclination Genii were supposed to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Pararii Brokers as it were between men and the gods or rather Interpreters Salutigeruli Messengers between of a middle nature betwixt the one and the other Coelius Rho. l. 2. c. 3. But according to Empedocles each one was thought to have his Angel from the very day of Nativity to whom they used to sacrifice on their birth day as to their Guardian also every place had their peculiar Genii and then they were called Lares as Rurales and Permarini in Livie Gentilitious Gentilitial gentilitius that pertains to a stock an use or property taken from ancestors of the same kindred Gentil gentilis among the Jews all were Gentiles that were not of one of the Twelve Tribes Now commonly we call them Gentiles that profess not the faith of Christ Gentilesse Fr. Gentry Gentility Nobility Gentilism gentilismus the opinion or belief of the Gentiles Paganism Heathenishness Gentleman generosus seems to be compounded of two words the one French gentile i. honestus vel honesto loco natus the other Saxon mon as if you would say a man well born The Italian follows the very word calling those Gentil-homini whom we call Gentlemen Genuflexion genuflexi the bowing of the knee Genuine genuinus proper peculiar natural Genus Lat. the beginning of ones birth a kindred stock linage a kind or fashion c. a Gender Also a term in Logick And it is the first of the five Predicables When the Predicate comprehends the full Answer to a Question 't is called a Species but if it onely contains a part so that other common considerations are comprehended under it it is called a Genus See Mr. Whites Perip Institutions p. 17. Geodesie geodaesia the art of measuring Land Geodesian geodaetes a measurer of Land Geography geographia is a description of the earth by her parts and their limits scituations Inhabitants Cities Rivers fertility and observable matters with all other things annexed thereunto Heyl. Geographiae proprium est unam continuam terram cognitam ostendere quemadmodum se habeat naturâ positione Ptolemie Geographer geographus a describer of the earth Geomantie geomantia divination by points and circles made on the earth or by opening the earth Geometry geometria an art of due proportion consisting in Lineaments Forms Distances and Greatness there are four Principles hereof to wit 1. A prick or point 2. A Line 3. A Superficies or outside 4. A Body It hath properly the name from measuring the earth being first found out in Aegypt and was of great estimation among the Antient Grecians Geometrician geometres one skilful in Geometry Geometrical geometricus pertaining to Geometry To Geometrize to play the Geometrician to hold a due proportion to observe order Geoponical from the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of or belonging to Husbandry and Tillage Georgians A Sect of pernicious Hereticks so called from one David George born at Delft in Holland he held that the Law and Gospel were unprofitable for the attaining Heaven c That he was the true Christ and Messias c. with other such damnable Tenets he died in the year 1556. Heyl. Also a sott of Christians inhabiting a Country called Georgia lying between Colchos Caucasus the Caspian Sea and Armenia heretofore Iberia and Albania they are so called not of St. George as some write their selected Patron but of their said Country so named long before the time wherein he is supposed to have lived
Also the third degree among the Levites See Levites Licentious licentiosus rash unruly dissolute Lich-fowle the reputed unlucky Night-Raven so calâ—ed from the Saxon Lic or Lick i. a dead corps Country people by corruption call these Scritch-Owles or Lich-Owls Licitation licitatio a setting out to sale a prizing or cheapening Licite licitus lawful granted Lictor Lat. a Sergeant There were twelve Lictors or Sergeants among the antient Romans who with bundles of Rods and Axes always went before the Magistrate so called as Fastus thinks quod fasces virgarum ligatos ferant Lictorian lictorius pertaining to a Sergeant or Lictor Lief-â—ebber Dutch a Lover Bishop Derrys Answer to Militiere Liege from the Ital liga a League or Obligation is a word borrowed from the Feudists and has two significations in our Common Law sometimes being used for Liege Lord An. 34. and 35. H. 8 ca. 1. and An. 35. ejusdem ca. 3. And sometimes for Leige man An. 10. R. a. ca. 1. and An. 11. ejusdem ca. 1. Leige Lord is he that acknowledges no Superior Duarenus in commentar de consuetud Feudorum ca. 4. nu 3. Liege-man is he that ows Ligeancy to his Liege Lord. See more of this in Skene de verborum significatione verbo Ligiantia Ligeancy ligeantia is such a duty or fealty as no man may owe or bear to more then one Lord. See Skene num 4. This word is used in the Statutes of our Realm as the Kings Liege people An. 14. H. 8. ca. 2. Ligation Ligature ligatio a binding also the tongue-tying in children especially Ligament ligamentum a ty-band or string especially the insensible string that is seated either within or near a joynt and is termed by Anatomists a Ligament and is between a Cartilage and a Membrane appointed firmly to knit the joynts Ligneous Lignean ligneus of wood or timber wooden full of wood Lignicide lignicida a wood-cutter Lignum-vitae Lat. the wood called Aloes by the Arabians Calambuco which for its sweet savor is valued at its weight in pure Silver as being not onely serviceable for the pompous Funerals of Princes but also for Bathes And with the Indians among whom it grows it is held an unparallel'd medicine for many dangerous maladies Heil Ligue Fr. a League or Confederacy a Complot or Combination of sides or parties which have been divided an Agreement made or Alliance contracted Ligurion ligurio a devouter a spend-thrift Ligurition liguritio a gluttonous devouring immoderate appetite Lilith was held by the Jews to be a kind of she-Devil that killed children Clossa Talm. in Nidda fol. 24. b. Limaceous from limacia snaily snail-like full of or resembling a snail Limation limatio a filing or polishing Limenark limenarcha the Warden or Governor of a Port. Liminarie Fr. liminaire set before the entry or at the beginning of dedicatory fore-running Cot. Limosity limositas abundance of mud muddiness Limous limosus full of mud or slime muddy Br. Limpid limpidus clear bright pure transparent Limpitude Limpidity limpiditas clearness brightness Linament linamentum linnen thread lint a tent for a wound Lincolns-Inn one of the four Inns of Court and in antiquity next the Temples it was for the most part purchased of Sir Edw. Suliard of Essex by the Benchers and Gentlemen of that house But it took denomination from Sir H. Lacy Earl of Lincoln to whom part of this House was given by Edw. the first See more in Stow. Chron. p. 1072. Lineament lineamentum the feature or proportion of the face or of any other part a line drawn in painting Linear linearis pertaining to a line lineal Linguacity linguacitas talkativeness verbosity Linigerous liniger that beareth flax or linnen Liniment linimentum a thin ointment Linosity linositas abundance of flax Lintearious lintearius of or belonging to linnen Lintel from the Fr. Linteau the head-piece of a door the upper posts Lippitude lippitudo a dropping waterishness or bloodshot of the eyes blearedness of the eyes Lipothymie lipothymia a fainting or souning when the vital spirits being suddenly oppressed a man sinks down as if he were dead Hist of K. Cha. Liquable liquabilis which may melt or become soft or liquid Liquation liquatio a melting Liquefaction liquefactio a melting or making soft or liquid a dissolving Liquescency the same Liquid liquidus soft moist wet pure clear Liquids liquidae are four viz. L M N R and so called Quia pronunciatione liquescunt ore c. because in the pronunciation they melt as it were or become liquid in the mouth and are more softly uttered then other Consonants Min. Liquidate liquido to make moist or clear Litany litania an humble supplication or prayer the Gr. from whence the word is derived importing as much Literality from litera learning knowledge of letters Literature literatura learning cunning grammer knowledge of letters Litargy or Lithargy lithargyros white lead or the foam that riseth from lead when tried It is cold of operation and used by Chyrurgeons in oyntments and Plaisters being of a gentle drying clensing and binding nature Lithomancy lithomantia divination by casting Pibble stones or by the Lode-stone whereby as Tretzes in his Chiliads delivers Helenus the Prophet foretold the destruction of Troy Lithotomy lithotomia a Masons Work-house or Quarry also a Prison Dr. Br. Lithontriâ—tick from the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lapis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tritus that wears breaks or cuts a stone Dr. Br. Litigatioâ— litigatio a strife a suit or pleading Litigious litigiosus contentious full of strife wrangling Litispendence litispendentia the hanging of a suit till it be tried or decided Litoral Litorean litoralis of or belonging to the Sea-side or shore Liturate lituro to blot with the pen to dash out Liturgy liturgia publick service or a form of publick prayers Liturgick liturgicus pertaining to such a Liturgy ministerial Livery Fr. Liurée hath several significations 1. It is used for a Noble or Gentlemans Cloth or colours worn by his Servants or Followers with Cognizance or without A. 1. R. 2 c. 7. A. 20. ejus c. 1 2. A. 8. H. 6. c. 4. A. 8. E. 4. c. 3. c. 2. It signifies a delivery of possession 3. It is the Writ which lies for the heir to obtain the possession or seisin of his lands at the Kings hands which see in Fitzh nat br fol. 155. Also we call that a Livery stable where strangers horses are admitted at an allowance of so much by the week or by the day and night for Hay and Oats And this sence the Fr. Liurée does also bear as Liurée des Chanoines for their Corady stipend or daily allowance in victuals or money Livery of Seisin deliberatio seisinae is a delivery of possession of Land or Tenement or other things West part 1. Symbol lib. 2. Sect. 169. calls this a Ceremony in the Common Law used in the conveyance of Lands or Tenements c. where you may see the usual form of it set down Livid lividus
Letters Patents c. Fitz. nat br fol. 35. E. 2. Hen. 6. cap. 10. Patency patentia a lying open or uncovered Pater-guardian a Father-guardian a title given to the chief of the Franciscan Friers in their monasteries Paternal paternus of or belonging to a Father fatherly Pathetical patheticus passionate perswasive that moves affection Pathologie Gr. that part of Physick which intreats of the causes qualities and differences of diseases Pathologists Gr. writers on the diseases and symptomes incident to the body of man Dr. Charl. Pathologick pertaining to Pathologie Patible patibilis that may be suffered or endured Patibulated patibulatus hanged on a Gibbet Gallows or Cross Patin patina a kind of large Vessel wherein they both sod meat and brought it to the Table a great Platter a Charger a Bason to wash in Also the little Hat Sawcer or Plate used by Priests with the Chalice at Mass Patration patratio the finishing and perfecting a thing a doing or making it Patriark patriarcha a chief Father or the first Father of a Family or Nation in which sence the Jews reckoned Abraham Isaac and Jacob. It is also a principal dignity in the Church whereof there were antiently five as of Rome Constantinople Alexandria Jerusalem and Antioch Patriarchal of or belonging to a Patriarch Patriarchate Patriarchy patriarchatus the dignity and estate of a Patriarck a Patriarkship Patriciate patriciatus the dignity and estate of them that descend of Senators Patricide patricida a murtherer of his Father near Cousen or dear friend Patricide patricidium the murthering of ones Father Patricians patricii those in Rome that descended of the Race of Senators whose Fathers and Ancestors bore that Office the sons of Senators Hence the name of Patrick given originally to those who could cite their Fathers as men of honor Cam. Patrimonial patrimonialis of or belonging to the inheritance goods or Patrimony left by a Father to his Children Patrizare patrizo from the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to resemble his Father to do as his Father did to be the Fathers own childe in condition Patrocinate patrocinor to defend those that are poor and falsely accused to uphold bear out and maintain ones right and quarrel Liberty of Prophecying Patronal patronalis of or belonging to a Patron Advocate or Defender done in remembrance of a Patron Patronymical patronymicus derived from the Fathers or Ancestors name Patulicate patulico to be opened or made wide Pauciloquent pauciloquus that speaketh little Paucitie paucitas small number fewness brevity Paâ—efie pavefacio to make afraid to fright Pavice from the Ital. Pavése a great large Shield or Target that covers the whole body Sir Tho. More Pavid pavidus fearful timerous quaking starting Pavidity paviditas dread fear timerousness Pavillion Lat. Papilio Fr. Pavillon a Tent for war a Tabernacle Pavin Fr. Paváne a kind of Dance perhaps so called à pavienda terra of paving the ground Min. Paul Hebr. wonderful or rest But the learned Baronius drawing it from the Latin makes it little or humble Cam. Paunage from the Fr. panage or pasnage signifies in our Common Law the money taken by the Agistors for feeding Hogs with the Mast of the Kings Forest Cromp. Juris fol. 165. Agistment says Manwood is properly the common of herbage of any kind of ground Land or Woods or the money due for the same and Pawnage is most properly the Mast of the Woods or Hedgerowes or the money arising by it Mr. Skene calls it Pannagium and defines it to be the Duty given to the King for the pasturage of Swine in the Forest Pavoisade Fr. any Target-fence that of Galleys whereby the slaves are defended from the small shot of the enemy Cot. Pavonine pavoninus of or belonging to a Peacock or a Peahen Pavor Lat. great fear and dread Pausade Fr. a pausing resting or reposing also a resting seat or place Pearch or Perche pertica Fr. perche a Rod or Pole whereby land is measured the most usual contains sixteen foot and a half in length whereof forty in length and four in breadth make an Acre of ground Cromp. jurisd fol. 222. But in several Countries they are of several lengths as in Staffordshire twenty four foot in the Forrest of Sherwood twenty five foot See more in Skene Verbo Partica ta terrae Pearl the least Character for Printing see Character Peccadillo Span. Fr. peccadille a little crime a small fault a venial sin Peccaminous from peccamen inis full of sins Peccator Lat. a sinner or offender Pecâ—aâ—t from pecco I have sinned offended or done amiss Pecorous pecorosus full of Cattel or where many Cattel are Pectnâ—s from pecten a comb Dr. Br useth it for such fish whose ribs are straight as Soals Thornback Flounders c. because their back-bone and ribs do in some sort resemble a comb Pectinate pectino to kemb to harrow corn while it is in grass to rake corn together Pâ—ctoral pectorale a brest-plate or defence for the brest a Peitrel Poitrel or Stomacher In Physick it signifies a Lozenge or Medicine good for the stomack Pectoral pectoralis that belongs to the Brest or stomack Pecuarious pecuarius serving for or belonging to Beasts or Cattel Peculator Lat. that robs the Prince or common Treasure Peculiar peculiaris private proper ones own particular pertaining to some one Peculiate peculio to punish by the purse to take away a mans goods also to enrich Pecuniary pecuniarius pertaining to money The Heathens say the Impress of a sheep was stamped on their first coyn and from thence their money was called pecunia from pecus Greg. Pedage pedagium signifies money given for the passing by foot or horse through a Forest or other place Shep. Epit. Pedagogue paedagogus a bringer up of children a Tutor Scoolmaster Pedant Pedagogism the office of a Pedagogue Pâ—dal pedalis of a foot measure or space Pedality pedalitas ableness of foot a measuring by or going on foot Pedaneous pedaneus that goes on foot Pedant Fr. an ordinary Schoolmaster a Teacher of A B C. Pedanteries Fr. pedantick humors phrase affectings Inkhorn terms Br. Pedantism Fr. the Office or function of a Pedant Pedition pedatio a staking propping or setting up vines Pedaturâ— pedatura a proportion of digging building c. of so many foot assigned to Souldiers or workmen Pedee from pes a Commanders Foot-boy Pederastie paederastia the loving of young boys commonly taken in the ill part as signifying the abuse of them against kind Pedestal pedestella the foot or basis to support a pillar or any peece of work a footstal a stirrop Pedestrial from pedester that goeth on foot belonging to the foot Pâ—diculous pediculosus lowsie or full of lice Pedid paedidus filthy sluttish slinking Pedicle pediculus a little foot also the stalk of a leaf or any fruit Pedo-Baptism paedo-baptismus the baptizing of Children Infant-baptism Pedomancy Gr. a kind of divination by the lines of the soles of the feet Pedor paedor sluttishness uncleanness stink and filthiness in
phylacista the keeper of a Prison Phylactitians certain Sorcerers who were condemned in the year 6 2. for a kind of Magick relating in some sort to Phylacteries Moses and Aaron p. 44. Phylactery phylacterium a place where any thing is kept a preservative against poyson and fascination Also a Scrole or Frontlet of Parchment having the commandments of God written in it which the Pharisees wore about their heads and arms Also a thread or band of blew silk in the fringes of a garment by the beholding whereof the memory of Gods Precepts was kept and preserved Deut. 6.8 Matth. 23.5 see Pharisee and see Dr. Ham. Annotat. fol. 121. Phylark phylarchus the chief over a Tribe a Ruler of the people Physiark physiarcha the Governor of nature God Almighty Physick See Medicine Physicks physica books treating of Physick or natural phylosophy Physiâ—n Physicus The sence of this word in the common acceptation is wel known yet we vulgarly abuse it for a Leech or Medicus but not altogether intolerably because 't is a trite and true saying That ubi desiniâ— Philosophus incipit medicus where the Naturalist for there the word Philosopher stands for a Physiologer ends there the Medicus begins So as if an expert Leech must needs be skil'd in the Physicks Plagiarian Law plagiaria lex a Law made against those men c. Plaint Fr. a complaint moan or lamentation in our Common Law it is used for the propounding any action personal or real in writing So it is used in Brook tit Plaint in Assize and the party making this Plaint is called Plaintiff Kitch fol. 231. Planet planeta whereof there are seven bearing the names of seven several Deities which you may remember in their order by this verse Post SIM SUM sequitur ultima Luna subest Would you count the Planets soon Remember Sim Sum and the Moon The first letter S. for Saturn J. for Jupiter M. for Mars S. the Sun V. Venus M. Mercury lastly the Moon They are also called wandering Stars because they never keep one certain place in the Firmament Planetary planetarius a caster of Nativities becauâ—e the Planets are said to have some power over earthly Bodies Planetary Planetick of or belonging to a Planet Planiloquent planiloquus that speaks his mind plainly and freely Planimetry Gr. the measuring of Planes as board glass or any flat thing Planisphere planispherium a plain Sphere or a sphere projected in plano as an Astrolabe Plantigerous plantiger that beareth Plants or Graffs Plasmator Lat. a Potter or maker of earthen Images Plasmature plasmatura the forming or making any thing of earth Plastique plastice the craft of working and making things in earth Plastique is not only under-Sculpture but indeed very Sculpture it self with this difference that the Plasterer makes his figures by addition and the Carver by substraction Sir Hen. Wotton Plastick plasticus pertaining to that craft Plastography plastographia a counterfeiting or false writing Platanine plataninus belonging to a Plane tree Plateasm plateasmus a fault in speech when it is over-broad and full Platonick love is a love abstracted from all corporeal gross impression and sensual appetite and consists in contemplation and Idaea's of the mind not in any carnal fruition or it is a love of friendship without any admixture of sensuality So called from Plato the Divine Philosopher Platonical year annus platonicus is every 36000th year when some Philosophers imagin'd all persons and things should return to the same state as now they are Platonist a Philosopher of the Sect of Plato Plaudite from plaudo clap ye hands for joy is the literal signification but it is often used substantively in the same sence Plauâ—ible plausibilis received favorably with joy and clapping hands acceptable Plausidical plausidicus that speaketh plausibly eloquent Plausor Lat. that claps his hands in token of joy or in giving praise Plea placitum signifies in our Common Law that which either party but most commonly the Defendant alleadgeth for himself in Court c. Plebâ—ian plebeius of or pertaining to the common people poor base of little value of the common sort Plebeity plebeitas the commonalty vulgar people Plebicolist plebicola a favorer of the common people Pâ—ebiscite plebiscitum a Law Statute or Ordinance made onely by the consent of the people without the Senate Pledge from the Fr. pleige a surety or gage To pledge one drinking had its original thus when the Danes bore sway in this Land if a Native did drink they would sometimes stab him with a Dagger or Knife Hereupon people would not drink in company unless some one present would be their pledge or surety that they should receive no hurt whilst they were in their draught Hence that usual phrase I le pledge you or be a pledge for you Others affirm the true sence of the word was that if the party drunk unto was not disposed to drink himself he would put another for a pledge to do it for him else the party who began would take it ill Pleget or Splege splenium a long plaister of cloth or leather a linnen cloth dipped in any water to wash or lay to a sore place Pâ—eiedes Gr. the seven stars that appear in a cluster about mid-heaven Plenary from plenus full ample large wealthy abundant Plenarty is an abstract of the adjective plenus and is used by our common Lawyers in matters of Benefices wherin plenarty and vacation are meerly contrary Stawnf Praerog cap. 8. fol. 32. West 2. ca. 5. An. 13. Ed. 1. Plenilunary from plenilunium of or pertaining to the new Moon Br. Plenâ—otentiaries from plenus and potentia Ambassadors or Commissioners that have full power and authority from their King or those by whom they are sent to treat and conclude with an enemy or other person upon all or such points as are contained in their Commission c. Plenitude plenitudo fulness solidity thickness grosness Pleonasm pleonasmus a figure whereby something superfluous is added Hence Pleonasmick superfluous redundant Pleroâ—horie Gr. a fulness or perfection of any thing by some especially appropriated to knowledge or perswasion Plethorical or Plethorick plethoricus fat corpulent over full of humors or good juyce Plethorical state of the body is when it being full of blood and other humors needs evacuation Pleurisie pleuritis a disease when the inward skin of the ribs in mans body is inflamed with too much blood flowing unnaturally to it In this disease there is a difficulty to fetch breath a cough a continual Ague and a pricking pain about the Ribs Pleuritick pleuriticus that hath or is subject to the Pleurisie Plicature plicatura a folding or plaiting Ploâ—ket Ann. 1. R. 3. ca. 2. is a kind of woollen cloth Plottons a term of war are small divisions every Plotton being eight in front led off by a Captain and every division after him led up by a sufficient Officer Barif p. 172. Plumage Fr. Feathers or a bunch of feathers also pluming as a
one recovers again that was lost in war or taken from him by any unlawful means Postliminious from Postliminium pertaining to Postliminiage Postmeridian postmeridianus done in the afternoon Postnate postnatus born after taken substantively it may be the same with Posthume Postpone or Postpose postpono to set behinde to esteem less to omit or leave Postposure from postpono a setting behinde or esteeming less Mr. Montagu Postriduan postriduanus done the next day after or following Poâ—vene posâ—venio to come or follow after Postulate postulatum a request demand or suit Postulâ—toâ— postulatorius of or belonging to a request or demand Potable potabilis drinkable or which may be drunk Poteâ—als from potentia things apt to breed or give power strength or ability Potentially potenter powerfully mightily substantially effectually Potâ—states potestates men in authority Rulers great Magistrates Potorious potorius of or belonging to drink drinking Potulent potulentus any thing that may be drunk also half drunk Pouldabis Oulderness Medrinacles the course Canvas wherewith Taylors stiffen Dublets or whereof Sails of ships are made An. 1. Jac. 24. Poundage is a Subsidy granted to the King of all manner of Merchandizes of every Merchant Denizen and Alien carried out or brought into this Realm by way of Merchandise to the value of twelve pence in every pound An. 12. Ed. 6.13 An. 31. Eliz. cap. 5. and 1 Jac. 33. Pourcoutrel See Polypus Pourmenade Fr. a Walk Poursuivant Fr. a pursuer suitor or follower but more particularly a Messenger attending the King in Wars or the Council Table Exchequer c. to be sent upon any occasion or message Those that are used in Marshal causes are called Pursuivants at Arms. Anno 24. H. 8. cap. 13. whereof there are four of special names which see in Herald And Stow speaking of Richard the Thirds end p. 784. hath these words For his body was naked to the skin not so much as one clout about him and was trussed behinde a Pursuivant at Arms like an Hog or Calf c. The rest are used upon other Messuages in time of Peace especially in matters touching Jurisdiction Also a sort of mean persons that procure Commissions to prosecute the Romanists on the account of Religion Pourpresture from the Fr. Pourpris i. a close or enclosure is thus defined in Glanvile lib. 9. cap. 11. Pourprestura est propriè quando aliquid super Dominum Regem injustè occupatur c. Cromp. in his Jurisd fol. 152. defines it thus Pourpresture is properly when a man takes to himself or incroaches any thing that he ought not whether it be in any jurisdiction Land or Franchise and generally when any thing is done to the Nusance of the Kings Tenant c. Pourtrait pourtractus an Image Picture counterfeit or draught of Pourtraiture Fr. Portraicture a drawing or deliniating Powers the third order of the second Hierarchy of Angels so called by reason of their peculiar Jurisdiction over Fiends and all infernal spirits See Hierarchy Poynings Law is an Act of Parliament made in Ireland 10 Hen. 7. and was so called because Sir Edw. Poynings was Lieutenant of Ireland when that Law was made whereby all the Statutes of England were made of force in Ireland For before they were not neither are any now in force in Ireland which were made in England since that time Cokes 12 Rep. fol. 109. Practick Gr. pertaining to the practise or actual exercise of any Art or Science Pragmatical pragmaticus that is expert in doing things practised in the Law and in many matters Pragmatic Span. Pragmatica a Proclamation or Edict sometimes used for a kind of agreement or paction between a secular Prince and the Pope or some other Bishop c. Prandicle prandiculum a Breakfast a little Dinner a small pittance or repast Pransorious pransorius belonging to or serving for dinner Pratique from the Span. practica practise or a thing done by practise but among Merchants it is a Licence to Traffick as in the Ports of Italy and the Streights if the Mr. of the ship brings a Bill of Health that is a Certificate that the place from whence he came is not infected with any contagious disease then the Chief Magistrate or Signors of Health grant him Pratique that is leave to come in and Traffick Sands Pratical from the Span. done by practise or experience Pravity pravitas crookedness overthwartness lewdness naughtiness Prebend from praebeo to give is the portion which every member or Canon of a Cathedral Church receives in right of his place for his maintenance Prebendary praebendarius he that hath such a Prebend and is called so a Praebendo auxilium consilium Episcopo for to that end were Prebends ordained in Cathedral Churches that the Prebendaries thereof should be assistants and of Council to the Bishop in his Episcopal Function Pre Lat. prae a Preposition signifying before or in comparison often compounded Prebition praebitio a giving a shewing an offering a setting before one Precaution praecautio a preventing a thing before it comes a fore-seeing Precention praecentio a singing before the on-set or flourish of a Song Precarious praecarius granted to one by prayer and intreaty to use so long as it pleaseth the party and no longer Precedential from praecedens that goes before or surpasseth that gives a precedent or shews the way Precellâ—cy from praecello an exceeding surpassing excellency Bac. Precenâ—or Lat. the chanter he that beginneth the Tune It is used in an Act of Parliament of 31 July 1649. Preceptivâ— praeceptivus of or belonging to precepts Preceptor praeceptor a Master a Teacher an Instructer Precidaneous praecidaneus that which goes before or is cut or killed before Precinct praecinctus is used for a Territory or certain parcel of Land encompassed with some River Hedge or other mark to distinguish it from other lands adjacent Prâ—cipice praecipitium a steep place dangerous to go upon a downright pitch or fall Precipitate praecipito to hurl or cast down headlong to do unadvisedly or rashly It is also the name of a corrosive powder commonly called Red Mercury used by Chyrurgeons to eat corrupted flesh Precocity from praecox ocis early ripeness forwardliness in ripening over-hasâ—iness in ripening Dod. Grove Prâ—cognition praecognitio fore-knowledge prenotion or former notice of Preconious praeconius of or belonging to a Common-Crier also to praise or commendation Preconsultor Lat. a Pre-adviser there is a Colledge of these at Venice see Rel. Wotton p. 170. Precursor Lat. praecursor a fore-messenger a fore-rider a fore-runner or goer Predatory praedatorius of or belonging to robbing spoiling and piracy Predestination praedestinatio fore-appointment an ordaining before what shall come after It is most used in Divinity and is thus defined by Sir Walt. Ral. in his first Book fol. 16. We can saith he difference Predestination no otherwise from Providence and Prescience then in this That Prescience onely foresees Providence foresees and cares for and hath respect to all creatures even from the brightest
prohibitorius that belongs to forbidding Projectitious projectitius cast out and nourished of a stranger flung away as of no account Projecture projectura the jutting or leaning out in Pillars or other buildings the coping of a wall Prolatation prolatatio a delaying an enlarging a deferring or prolonging Prolation prolatio a speaking or pronouncing a shewing or bringing forth a delaying Prolegate Prolegatus a Deputy Legat or one that stands for a Legat. Prolepsie prolepsis a natural fore-knowledge conceived in the mind hence a figure in speaking whereby we prevent and avoid what another intended to alledge against us Proleptical belonging to the figure Prolepsis or to fore knowledge Proleptical time is that which is fixed in the Chaos Greg. Proletarious Proletaneous proletarius proletaneus of a poor and base condition that has many children and little maintenance or that gives nothing to the Common-wealth but onely a supply of children A Proletarious Speech proletarius sermo the common and vulgar speech complement or words of course as when one says to his friend Pardon my boldness and the other answers You are not so bold as welcome or the like Tho. Prolifical prolificus fruitful that breeds or brings forth issue apace Prolification prolificatio a making fruitful Br. Prolix prolixus long large high liberal sumptuous Prolixity prolixitas length largeness abundance Prologue prologus a preface a fore-speech The Prologue is such as either opens the state of the Comedy or Fable or such as commends it or the Poet to the people or such as refutes the objections and cavils of adversaries Prologâ—utor Lat. he that speaks before or for others or that speaks at length The Speaker or Chair-man of each Convocation-house or of a Synod is so termed His Office is to command the Clerk to call the names of such as are of that House when he sees cause to cause all things propounded to be read by him to gather the suffrages and such like Prolusion prolusio an Essay or flourish made to try what one can do before he fight indeed a Proof Prolyte prolyta a Licenciate of the Laws or one that has studied the Law four years Promenade see Pourmenade Prometheus son to Japetus who for stealing fire out of Heaven to make life in his Images was by Jupiter bound to Caucasus where an Eagle gnawed his heart c. Hence the fire of Prometheus Poetically used Prominence prominentia the extending or jutting of a thing out or over a Penthouse By this word Anatomists understand what portion soever notably surmounts the parts circumjacent in thickness as a hill in the plain Prominent prominens appearing or standing out further then another or above and before others extending to hanging over Promiscuous promiscuus confused mingled common to many indifferent mixed without order or consideration Promissary he to whom a promise is made Mr. White Promentorâ— promontorium q. mons in mari prominens a hill lying out as an elbow of land into the Sea a Mountain or head of land butting out upon the Sea Promoters Promotores are those who in popular and penal actions defer the names or complain of Offenders having part of the profit for their reward These were called among the Romans Quadruplatores or Delatores They belong especially to the Exchechequer and Upper-Bench Smith de Repub Angl. l. 2. c. 14. Promptitude promptitudo readiness quickness proneness Promptuary promptuarium a Cellar a Store-house a Spense a Buttery Promulgation promulgatio a publishing a proclaiming a noising abroad The Law was hanged up publickly in the Market-place for three Market days which kind of publishing the Law was termed Legis Promulgatio quasi provulgatio Pro-nephew pronepos a Nephews son Prone pronus having the face down inclined stooping downward ready easie Propagate propago to cut down an old Vine that of it many young may be planted to make to spread to extend or dilate Propelled from propello driven or put away a far off thrust or set forwards Propension propensio inclination of mind readiness proneness propensity Propense propensus heavy greatly inclined very ready and prone to Properate propero to go quickly or hastily to say or do quickly to make haste or speed Prophetize propheto to prophecy or foretel things to come to sing praises to God To preach or interpret Prophylactic prophylacticus preservative or that serves instead of an Antidote Dr. Ham. Paraen Propination propinatio a drinking to one a bidding one drink Propinquity propinquitas nearness Neighborhood also Affinity Alliance Kindred Propitiate propitio to reconcile and appease God with Sacrifices to please to pacifie also to asswage or mitigate Propitiatory propitiatorium the place where God is pacified also a Table or Cover set on the Arke of the Old Testament on either side whereof was a Cherubin of Gold with the wings spread over the Propitiatory and their faces looking one towards another It is also used adjectively as belonging to such a Sacrifice Propâ—tious propitius not displeased merciful favorable propice gentle Proposition propositio that whereby we shew what we will speak or prove a sentence or matter propounded a Question or Position In Logick the first part of a Syllogism is called the Proposition or Major and this hath three parts Subjectum Praedicatum and Copula as Peter is a man Peter is the Subject Man is the Predicate or Attribute and the Verb is is the Copula or tying them together Propraetor Lat. a Lieutenant appointed by the Emperor to govern a Province with the Authority of a Pretor a Lord Justice The Translator of Livie saith t is more properly he who having been Pretor went out of his Magistracy at the years end and was sent into his Province again with full authority of Pretor Proprietary proprietarius he to whom the property of a thing belongs It is most commonly used for him that hath the fruits of a Benefice to him and his Heirs or successors as in time past Abbots and Priors had to them and their successors see Appropriation Propudious propudiosus that is filthily abused in leachery or full of shameful infamy Propugnacle propugnaculum a Fortress a strong-hold a Bulwark a Defence a Block-house Propugnator Lat. a defender a maintainer one that fights in defence of some person Propulsation propulsatio a putting away a driving back a chasing forward a repelling Propulsory propulsorius that serves to put away or drive back Prorepsion prorepsio a creeping forward a stealing forward by little and little a growing spreading or coming forth Icon. Basil Proter Lat. a Viceroy he that in the Kings absence supplies his place and represents his person Proritate porito to provoke to allure to stir up to exasperate Prorogue prorogo to prolong defer or put off till another day to continue As we say the Parliament is Prorogued when it is adjourned or put off for some time but not ended The Romans if they did impose a law to be made by the people were said rogare legem because of asking moving
whereas they say in Oxford to Battel in the Buttery Book i. to set down on their names what they take in Bread Drink Butter Cheese c. In Cambrigde they call it Sizing Sizygy see Syzygie Skeleton see Sceleton Skellum see Scellum Skiff or Scâ—pâ— scapha a ship-boat properly all of one piece Skink is in Scotland a kind of Pottage of strong nourishment made of Knuckles and Sinews of Beef long boiled Skinker Dutch Schencker a Fil-câ—p one that fills bear or wine a Butler or Cup-bearer Slay from the Teuton Slagon i. to strike an Instrument of a Weavers Loom having teeth like a Comb. Slockster Belg. Slocker one that slocks or inticeth away mens servants See Plagiary Slot a term in hunting and signifies the view or print of a Stags foot in the ground Slough a damp such as usually happens in Colepits also a deep sinking mudy place Smaragdine smaragdinus belonging to the precious stone called a Smaradg or Emerald green as an Emerald Smâ—ctymâ—uans about the beginning of the long Parliament in the year 1641 five Ministers wrote a book against Episcopacy and the Common Prayer in behalf of the Presbyterian Government to which they all subscribed their names being â—tephen Marshal Edm. Calamy Tho. Young Matth. Newcomen and Will Spurstow the first letters whereof make this word Smectymnuus and from thence they and their Followers were called Smectymnuans Smegmatick smegmaticus that hath the power or strength to scoure or cleanse as soap Smeth or Smoothery a medicine or physical Ointment to take away hair Snapâ—ynse a fire-lock or Gun that strikes fire without the use of a Match Sobriquet Fr. a sirname also a nickname or by word See Fuller lib. 3. fol. 30. Soccog from the Fr. Soc. i. a Coulter or plough-share is a tenure of lands by or for certain inferior or husbandly services to be performed to the Lord of the Fee See Institutes of Common Law 31. Socinâ— a late Sect begun by Laelius Socinus the Uncle and made up by Faustus â—ocinus of Sienna his Nephew who first dispersed his Errors in Polonia Transylvania and Sarmatia about the year 1555. They deny the eternal Divinity of the second Person of the Blessed Trinity with other gross Errors See Mr Chewney's Anti-Socinianism Socome an old Law word signifying the custom of grinding at the Lords Mill and there is Bond-Socome where the Tenants are bound to it and Love-Socome where they do it freely out of love to their Land-lord Socord socordia Luskishness sloathfulness negligence idleness sottishness Socratick socraticus of or belonging to that excellent Philosopher Socrates or to the Sect whereof he was chief Hence wise prudent learned Soâ—ality sodalitas a Fellowship a Fraternity a Society an Assembly a Brotherhood a Company incorporate of any mystery or Craft Sodalicâ—ouâ— sodalicius belonging to sodality or Fellowship Sodomy sodomia buggery so called from the City Sodom in Judaea which for that detestâ—ble sin was destroyed with fire from heaven Gen. 19. Sodomite an Ingler or Buggerer Sodomitical pertaining to Sodomy or Buggery Sol the Sun one of the seven Planets See Saturn Solace solatium comfort consolation help or succor Solar solaris of or belonging to the Sun Solary solarium a Sun-Dyal Also a yearly Pension paid to the Prince to live out of common business or the rent that one pays yearly for an house that is built upon the soil or land of the Common-wealth Soldado Span. Soldat Fr. a Souldier one that follows the wars Soldádo borádo a cashiered Soldier a Soldier blotted out of the Muster Roll perhaps derived from the Brit. Sawdiwr i. miles and that from Sawd which signifies praelium or bellum Soldan See Sultan Soldures soldurii were as Caesar saith in the Gaulish language such kinde of men as destined and vowed themselves to the amity of any to take part in all their good and bad fortunes Soleated soleatus shod as horses are or that wears pattens Solecism soloecismus a false manner of speaking contrary to the rules of Grammer incongruity Any thing done out of order or contrary to rule may be termed a Solecism It arose from those who being Athenians born and dwelling in Soli a City in Cilicia spake not pure Attic but mixt with the Solian's more barbarous Language Solecismical pertaining to a Solescism incongruous Solegrebe or Solegrobâ— an old name of the moneth Frebruary Solennial solennis yearly used or done every year at a certain time publick solemn accustomed Solenâ— the ancient name of that part of the Sea which divides the Isle of Wight from our main Land in Hampshire Bedes Hist pag. 366. Solâ—vetion from the Span. Solevar i. sublevare a lifting or holding up Also an aiding succoring or assâ—sting Lustr Ludov. Solidation solidatio a making whole or firm a soldering Solideâ— Five regular bodies or figures Geometrical viz. the Circle Cube Pyramid Cilinder and Dodochaedron Solifidian from sola fides one that holds faith onely without works necessary to salvation or one that depends upon faith alone Soliloquy soliloquium talk alone as of one with one or one with himself Soliped from solidus and pes that hath a whole or sound foot not cloven nor broken such is that of a Horse If from solus and pes then it signifies one-footed or that hath but one foot Dr. Br. Solisequious from solem sequens following or that follows the Sun Br. Solistim solistimum a kind of dancing among the Augures or a Divination taken by falling of the bread on the ground which was given to Chickens Solitanâ—ous solitaneus solitary single alone without company Solivagart solivagus that goes here and there alone and flies company wandering all alone solitary Solon one of the seven wisemen of Greece The other six were Chilo Cleobulus Thales Bias Pittacus and Periander V. Hist of Philos in Preface Solstice solstitium quasi Solis statio the Sun-stead or stay when it can neither go higher nor lower which is in Summer about mid June when the days are at the longest and in Winter about mid December when they are at the shortest at which time the Sun comes to the Tropick of Capricorn and in June to that of Cancer It is most commonly taken for Midsummer and Mid-winter is termed Bruma Solstitical solstitialis belonging to the Solstice or stay of the Sun Also that continues but a little time Soluble solubilis which may be unloosed or unbound Solve solvo to loose to release to deliver to undo to dissolve resolve c. Solute Solutive solutus loosed or loosening set at liberty quiet free Somniculous somniculosus negligent sleepy drowzy sluggish also that makes drowzy or sleepy Somniferous somnifer that brings or causeth sleep Somnus Lat. sleep sometimes night also rest quietness also the God of Sleep Ovid. Somne quies rerum dulcissime Somne Deorum Sonorous sonorus loud making a great noise shril roaring Sonâ—agâ— is a tax of forty shillings laid upon every Knights Fee Stow p. 284. Sontick sonticus noysom hurtfull The Sontick disease
beareth scales scaly Square-number see Quadrate Squinant squinanthum the sweet rush which is very medicinable Camels meat Squinancy squinantia a swelling disease in the throat which causeth a difficulty in breathing the Squincy S.S. stand usually for Sacro-Sanctus or for Sacra Sciptura or for Sancti as S.S. Patres Sancti Patres Stability stabilitas firmness stableness soundness constancy Stabulate stabulo to stand or be as Cattel in a Stable or Stall to be housed as Beasts are to keep or stall up ones self Stade stadium a race for men or horses to run in also a proportion or measure of ground called also a Furlong whereof there are three sorts viz. The Italian containing one hundred twenty and five paces the Olympick of one hundred and twenty paces and the Pyâ—hick of two hundred paces all after five feet to the pace Of these Stades eight make an Italian mile containing one thousand paces see Furlong Staggaâ—d a red Male Deer four years old Stagirâ—te Aristotle so called from Stagira a Town in Macedonia where he was born Stallage Fr. Estallage signifies in our Common Law money paid for pitching stalls in Fair or Market see Scavage This in Scotland is called Stallange Skene verbo Stallongiatores And among the Romans it was termed Siliquaticum from siliqua their first and least of all weights Stallion from the Fr. Estallon or Ital. Stallóne a horse kept for covering Mares Stamineous stamineus pertaining to hemp or flax or that hath shreds in it Standard or Estandard from the Fr. Estandart an Ensign for Horsmen in War and is commonly taken for that of the King or chief General It is also used for the principal or standing measure of the King to the scantling whereof all the measures throughout the Land are or ought to be framed c. Magna Charta and confirmed 14 Edw 3. cap. 12. Of these Standards and Measures read Britton cap. 30. Stannaries Stannaria the Mines and Works touching the getting and purifying of Tin in Cornwal and other places of which works there are two sorts viz. Lode-work and â—tream-work See Cam. Brit. pag. 119. Stanza Ital. a Staff of Verses As Spencers Books are divided into Canto's and those again into Stanza's Staple Fr. Estape a Mart or general Market a publick Store-house in a Sea Town or Town of Traffick whither the Merchants of England by common Order or commandment did carry Wools Woolfels Cloaths Lead Tin c. which are the Staple Commodies of this Land for the utterance of them by the great Staple Inn near Holburn Bars now one of the Inns of Chancery was formerly an Inn or Hostel of the Merchants of the Staple and from thence took name Star Chamber a late Court at Westminster voted down by Act. Starrulet a dim of Star a little Star Stasiarch Gr. an Arch-rebel the head of a Sedition Stater Lat. an antient coyn of severall sorts The Corinthian Stater was worth 21 d. want a farthing The Macedonian Stater was worth about two shillings nine pence half penny The Golden Attick Stater weighed two drams and therefore worth seventeen shillings six pence But in Scripture it valued two Didrams for the tribute money to be paid for each person was Didrachmum Mat. 17.24 and a Stater was paid for two namely for Christ and St. Peter the value of it therefore was 2 s. 6 d. Staticks Gr. the science of weights and measures a species of Mechanicks Br. Station statio a standing place a Bay or Rode for ships to rest in also a place of resort abode or stay Station-staff is a strait Pole divided into feet and inches used by Surveyors in measuring Land Stationary stationarius appointed to keep ward in any place that is in a Garison setled standing Stationer so called of his station or standing shop to sell in is often confounded with Book-seller and sometimes with Book-binder whereas they are three several Trades the Stationer sells Paper and Paper-Books Ink Wax c. The Book-seller deals onely in printed Books ready bound and the Book-binder binds them but sells not Yet all three are of the Company of â—tationers Stative stativus pitched or set as a Fortress or pitched Camp also standing Statuary statuarius a Stone-cutter a Carver of Statues and Images Statuminate statumino to prop up to under-set to make sure Statute statutum signifies a Decree or Act of Parliament c. 2. It is a kind of Bond as Statute Merchant and Statute Staple An. 5. H. 4. cap. 12. The reason of which name is because those Bonds are made according to the form of certain Statutes which direct both before what persons and in what manner they ought to be made West par 1. Symb. lib. 2. sect 151.27 Ed. 3. ca. 9. and 23 Hen. 8.6 Statutes is also used in our vulgar talk for the petit Sessions which are yearly kept for the disposing of Servants in service by the Statutes of 1 and 5 Eliz. cap 4. Steccado Span Estacada a place railed in for a Combate or Lists Steel-yard see Stil-yard Steganâ—graphy Gr. a description of the way or manner of covering Edifices Stellar stellaris starry pertaining to a star Bac. Stellation stellatio a making star-like or adorning with stars also a blasting Stelled stellatus full of or garnished with stars Stelletto or Stiletto Ital. a little Ponyard or the small and sharp pointed Dagger Stelliferous stellifer that bears or has stars in it starry Stellion stellio the spotted or starry Lizard so called also an envious fellow or one that cannot endure another should be the better by him from the Stellion which having as he doth half yearly cast his skin a soverein remedy for the Falling-sickness presently devours it to deprive mankind of it Stellionate stellionatus a deceit in dissembling a thing to take profit by another unjustly a counterfeiting of merchandize a cousening or selling the same thing to several persons Lo Bac. Stem stemma a Garland of flowers a Race of Kindred the blood of a Gentile house Stenegraphy stenegraphia the Art of Short-writing or a description of reducing any thing in a narrower compass Stentor a Grecian that had a voyce lowder then fifty men together Hence we use Stentorian voyce for a great loud roaring voyce Stephen Gr. a Crown Step-mother so called because she steps in instead of a Mother by marrying the sons or daughters Father a Mother in Law Stercorean or Stercorarious stercorarius belonging to dung or muck Stercoration stercoratio a dunging or defiling with dung Sterile sterilis barren fruitless that cannot engender without generation yielding nothing Sterility sterilitas barrenness unfruitfulness Sterling is the old term or Epitheton for money currant in this Nation which thus took denomination In the time of Richard the First money coined in the East paâ—t of Germany began to be of special request in England for its purity was cal'd Easterling money as the Inhabitants of those parts were called Easterlings shortly after some of that Country skilful