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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	fee_n	simple_a	tail_n	1,656	5	9.7489	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30077	An English expositor teaching the interpretation of the hardest words used in our language : with sundry explications, descriptions and discourses / by I.B., doctor of physick.	J. B. (John Bullokar)	1641 (1641)	Wing B5429; ESTC R29141	109,869	224

Arabia of the colour of yron which being o●ce set on fire can hardly be quenched Abject Vile base of no estimation Abjure To sweare or forsweare a terme sometime used in Law when one having committed a capitall offence flyeth to a Church or Churchyard and chooseth rather perpetuall banishment viz. to abjure the Realme then stand to tryall of Law This Law was instituted by S. Edward the Confessor in favour of life but now is not in use Abjuration A renouncing by oath see Abjure Ablepsie Want of sight blindnes unadvisednes Ablution A washing Abolition A taking away destroying or abolishing Abortion The birth of a child before due time or the destroying in the mothers wombe Abortiva That which is untimely born Abrahams Baume A little tree of the kind of Withies growing in Italy and other hot countreys bearing round fruit like Pepper cornes It is very hot and dry and hath a singular propertie to procure chastitie for which cause Physicians have named it Agnus castus Abridge To shorten to cut off to gather onely the principall points Abrogate To abolish to disanull by publike authoritie to alter and make a Law which was in force to be of no effect Abrupt Broken off Abruptly By peece-meale out of order without observing of due circumstance Absolve To pardon acquite or discharge Absolute Perfect accomplished Absolution Pardon acquitall forgivenesse Abstinence A forbearing from gluttony or unlawfull taking other mens goods Abstinent Sober temperate content with his own Abstract A little booke or gathering taken out of a greater Abstraction A taking away or a short draught taken out of a greater thing Abstruse Hidden secret not easie to understand Absurde Foolish without any wit or grace Absurditie Foolishnesse Abusive That which offereth abuse Abisse A bottomlesse pit any deepnesse so great that it cannot be sounded Acatia A little thorne growing in Egypt out of the leaves and fruit whereof they draw a juyce or black liquor which being dryed is called Acatia and is very astrictive or binding Our Apothecaries have not the right Acatia but insteed thereof they use the juyce of Sloes being of the same vertue that Acatia is Academie A Vniversitie or great publike schoole the name hereof first came of a place in Athens called Academia where Plato taught Academicall Belonging to an Vniversitie or Academie Academicke A Philosopher of the sect of Plato They acknowledged one God and beleeved the immortalitie of souls Plato having learned many things of the Hebrews then the peculiar people of God Accelerate To hasten Acceleration A hastening Accesse Liberty or power to come to a place Accessible Which may be gone too Accessary He that counselleth or commandeth another to commit any offence or comforteth or hideth him knowing that he hath committed an offence Accident That which happeneth by chance sometime it signifieth that which belongeth to a thing and yet is no part of the substance as the quantitie qualitie and such like Accidentall Happening by chance or belonging to an Accident Acclamation A crying out to one Accomodate To make fit to apply Accoutrement Attire or dressing Accoste To draw neere to one Acc●ew To grow arise or increase Accumulate To heape up Accumulation A heaping together Acerbity Sowrenesse Acheeve To performe or bring to passe Acolite A Minister serving to bring water wine and light to the altar Aconitum A venemous herbe having a root much like to a Scorpion and shining within like alabaster Poets faine that Cerberus the three headed dog of hell being dregged up in a chaine of Adamant by Hercules did cast some of his some upon this herbe whereby it became so venomous Acquire To get or procure Acquisition A getting or purchasing Acquite To discharge or free one Acquitall A freeing of one from being guiltie of an offence wherewith he was charged Action A deed done or the doing of any thing In our common Law it signifieth a suit commenced against any man and is commonly divided into three differing kinds viz 1. Action personall which is for debt goods cattell 2. Action popular which any man may sue as upon the breach of a penall statute where some advantage is allowed to him that will sue for it 3 Actionreall when one claimeth title to any lands tenements rents or common in fee simple fee taile or for terme of life Active Livelie strong nimble Activitie Strong nimblenes Actor A doer sometime a Player Actuall That which is done or committed Acute Sharp wittie Adage A proverbe Adamant A precious stone commonly called a Diamond brought out of Arabia and Cyprus It is the hardest of all stones insomuch that it cutteth glasse and yeeldeth neither to stroke of hammer nor fire for which cause the Greeks name it Adamas which in their tongue signifieth Invincible Notwithstanding it is softened with goats blood being steeped therein new and warme It is of contrarie nature to the loadstone in so much that being laid near it the loadstone cannot draw yron having the vertue thereof overmastered by the Adamant Addict To apply or give ones selfe much to any thing Additament Any thing added Addition An adding or putting to In our common law it signifieth any title given to a man beside his name which title sheweth his estate trade course of life and also dwelling place Adhere To cleave to Adherence A cleaving to or belonging to any thing Adherent That which cleaveth or joineth close to a thing Adjacent That which lyeth neare to another thing Adjourne To deferre or put off till another time Adjournement A terme in law when any Court is dissolved and appointed to be kept upon some other time or at any other place Adjunct A qualitie joyned to a thing as heate to fire coldnesse to Snow Adjure To binde by oath to make one to sweare Adjuration A swearing or binding by oath Administer To do service sometime to take charge and dispose of a dead mans goods by appointment of the Ordinarie Administration The doing or handling of a busines or the disposing of a dead mans goods that made no will Administrator He to whom the Ordinary committeth in charge the goods of a man dying without will Admire To wonder to honour or esteem highly Admiration A wondering Admission A receiving or giving one leave to enter Admit To let in to allow of Admixtion A mingling of things together Admonish To warne Admonishment A warning given one Adopt To choose one to be his sonne Adoption The choosing and making one to be as his sonne to him Adore To worship to give divine reverence Adoration A worshipping Adorne To decke to set out to beautifi● Adornation A decking or trimming Advent A comming C●rtaine weekes before Christmas are so called because then is made in the Church solemn preparation for the comming of our Saviour Adventaile A coate of Armour Adverse Contrary Advert To marke Advertise To give knowledge of a thing Adulation Flattery Adul●tory Which fla●tereth Adulterate To corrupt or counterate Ad●ocate He that pleadeth for

overthrow Subvert To overthrow to destroy Succinct Briefe short Suffocate To strangle choak Suffocation A choaking a strangling Suffrage Favourable voyces in our behalfe as at the choosing of officers or Magistrates Suggest To put closely into ones minde Suggestion A prompting or putting of a thing into ones minde Sulphur Brimstone Summary A briefe gathering together an abridgment containing the whole effect of a matter in few words Summarily Briefly touching onely the chiefe points Summity The height or top of a thing Superabound To abound very much to be in great plenty Supereminence Authoritie or dignitie above others Supererogation Laying out of more then one hath received or the doing of more then a man is of necessity bound to doe Superficiall Going no farther then the outside slight bearing shew onely in the outside without any goodnesse within Superficies The outside of every thing which is alwayes in sight Superfluity More then needs to be overmuch Superfluous That which is too much also vaine or unprofitable Superlative The highest Superiour Higher above another Supernall That which commeth from above Superscription A writing set upon any thing as on the outside of a letter Supersedeas In our common Law it signifieth a commandement sent by writing forbidding an officer from the doing of that which otherwise he might and ought to doe Superstition An excesse of ceremonious worship false worship or honour given to God Supplant To trip one or to overthrow him craftily Supplement That which supplyeth or maketh up what is wanting Supply To fill up or adde too Suppliant He that maketh a supplication or humbly intreateth another Supplicate To beseech humbly Suppository Any thing put up into the Fundament to make the body soluble It is commonly made of honey boyled till it grow thick and so made into an apt forme for that purpose whereto sometime is added the yolke of an egge or salt when we will have it to worke the effect more speedily Suppresse To keepe downe to beate under sometime to conceale or keep close Supputation An account or reckoning Supreme Chiefe highest most excellent Surcease To give over leave off or cease * Surcote A gowne with a hood of the same Surplusage Overplus more then needs Surprise To come unawares to take upon a sudden Surprisall A taking unawares * Surquidrie Presumption Surrender To yeeld up lands or tenements to another Surreption A privy taking away Surround To compasse round about Survey To overlooke or oversee Surveyer He that hath the oversight of the kings or some great personages lands or works Survive To overlive or live after another Surviver He that liveth after another Suspend To stay one by authority for a time from executing his office to delay to deferre Suspence Doubtfulnesse uncertainty Suspiration A breathing or sighing Swallowes tayle In building it signifieth a fastening of two peeces of timber so strongly together that they cannot fall asunder Swaine A Servant Swaynemote A Court kept thrice a yeare touching matters belonging to a forrest * Sweven A dreame * Swynker A labourer Sycomore A tree like a fig tree having great branches and large leaves like a Mulberry It beares fruit three or foure times in a yeare much like a wilde Fig but without any seeds within The fruit groweth upon the very body of the tree and the great maine boughes and will never be ripe except it be scraped with an yron tool It is found plentifully in Caria Egypt and the I le of Rhodes especially in such places where Wheate will not grow Sycophant A Tale bearer a slanderer a false accuser Syllogisme An Argument consisting of three parts whereby somthing is necessarily prooved as thus Every vertue is honorable Patience is a vertue Therefore Patience is honourable The first part of a syllogisme is called the Proposition or Major the second the Assumption or Minor and the third the Conclusion Sylvane Of or belonging to the woods Symbole A short gathering of principal points together Symmetrie Due proportion of one part with another Symmetrian Hee that considereth the due proportion of a thing and how well the parts agree with the whole Sympathy A likenesse in quantity or a like disposition or affection of one thing to another Symphony Harmony or consent in Musicke Symptome Any passion or griefe following a disease or sensibly joyned with it as headach with an Ague a pricking in the side with a Plurisie and such like Synagogue A Congregation or assembly commonly it signifies a church of the Iewes Synteresie The inward conscience or a naturall quality ingrafted in the soule which inwardly informeth a man whether he do well or ill Synod A generall councell a generall or universall assembly Synoper See Cinoper Synopsie A sight or full view of a thing T * TAas. An heape Tabernacle A shelter or a room made abroad with boords and boughes of trees There was of old among the Israelites a feast commanded by God called the feast of Tabernacles which began on the fifteenth day of the seventh moneth and continued seven dayes during which time the Israelites lived abroad in Tabernacles in remembrance that their Fathers a long time so lived after God had delivered them out of the land of Egypt Tacamabaca A Rosin brought out of the West Indies of great vertue against any cold humours rising of the Mother Toothache and divers other griefes Talent A certaine value of money Among the Greekes there were two kinds of talents the greater and the lesse The greater contained about two hundred thirty three pounds sterling the lesse about an hundred seventy five pounds Among the Hebrewes the greater talent of the Sanctuary contained 400. pounds the lesser Talent halfe so much Tallage Custome fraight Tamarinds A fruite brought hither out of India like unto green Damsens They are cold in operation and therefore good against burning Feavers and all inward diseases proceeding of heate and choler Tamariske A little tree bearing leaves not much unlike to heath the decoction whereof in Wine and a little Vineger being drunken is of great vertue against the hardnes or stopping of the spleene or Milt This tree doth by nature so wast the Milt that Swine which have been daily fed out of a vessell made thereof have beene found to have no Milt at all * Tapinage Secrecie slilinesse Tarantula A little beast like a Lizard having spots in his necke like starres Tardie Slow Tartar Lee●e of wine Tautologie A repeating of one speech or matter often Taxe To appoint what one shal pay to the Prince sometime to reprove Tearce A measure of moyst things being the sixt part of a tun and the third part of a pipe * Teene Sorrow Temerarious Rash hasty Temeritie Rashnesse Templaries Certaine Christian souldiers dwelling about the Temple at Hierusalem whose office was to entertain Christian strangers that came thither for devotion and to guard them in safetie when they went to visite the places of the holy Land They wore by their Order a white Cloake or upper Garment