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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28464	Glossographia, or, A dictionary interpreting all such hard words of whatsoever language now used in our refined English tongue with etymologies, definitions and historical observations on the same : also the terms of divinity, law, physick, mathematicks and other arts and sciences explicated / by T.B.	Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679.	1661 (1661)	Wing B3335; ESTC R25635	507,622	698

represents a thing after an excellent manner neither by bare words onely but by presenting to our minds the lively Idaea's or forms of things so truly as if we saw them with our eyes As the places in Hell the fiery arrow of Acesta the description of Fame the flame about the Temples of Ascanius c. Efficient efficiens that brings to pass causing or effecting Effiction effictio an expressing or representing Effigies Lat. an image made after the similitude of a thing likeness representation Efflagitate efflagito to desire earnestly or require importunately Efflated efflatus breathed or blown away yeelded or given up Herb. Travels Efflorescence from Effloresco the outward face or superficies the upmost rind or skin of any thing also a deflouring Bac. Effluence effluentia a running or flowing out a flux Effluent Effluous effluus that runs or flowes out Effluvium Lat. a running out or flowing over Often used in Vul Er. Effocate effoco to choak or strangle Effoeminate effoeminatus woman-like nice wanton Effort Fr. endeavor labor travel pains-taking a striving for a matter with whole force and power Effracture effractura a breaking open Effrenation effrenatio head-long rashness unbridled rashness unruly headiness Effrontery Fr. impudence malepertness shamelesness Eicon Basil Effund effundo to pour out to consume riotously Effusion effusio a pouring out prodigality Egbert or rather Ecbert Sax. i. always bright or famous for ever King Egbert who was the seventeenth King of the West Saxons having subdued the Principal Kingdoms of the Saxon Heptarchy stiled himself the first English Monarch commanding South Brittain to be called England from the English Saxons from whose blood he was extracted and over whom he reigned Cam. Egean Sea mare Aegaeum part of the Mediterranean Sea near Greece dividing Europe from Asia A Sea dangerous troublesom to sail through in regard of the multitude of rocks and Islands every where dispersed Insomuch that a man is proverbially said to sail in the Aegean Sea that is incumbred with difficulties or attempts a business of much hazard Egestion egestio a distributing abroad a carrying or casting forth of ordure or dung a voiding or evacuation Egestuosity egestuositas extream poverty Egestuous egestuosus very poor or needy Eglentine Sweet-briar or Dog-briar Egilopical egilopicus that hath or pertaineth to the disease Aegilopa which is a kind of Fistula or Imposthume in the corner of the eye growing to be a Canker eating to the nose and is called the Lachrymale Fistula Bid. Eglogue vide Eclogue Eglomerate eglomero to unwinde Egregious egregius excellent singular passing good Egresse Egression egressus a passage or going forth Egritude aegritudo sickness grief discontentment Egrimony aegrimonia idem Egurgitate egurgito to draw out to empty to disgorge Ejaculate ejaculo to shoot or cast out to hurle forth Ejaculatorie ejaculatorius that hath the property or power to dart shoot or spout forth Ejection ejectio a throwing or casting forth Eirenarch Eiranarches a Justice of Peace Eirenarchy Irenarchia the Office or Government of a Constable or a Justice of Peace Mr. Lamberd wrote a book called Eirenarchie or the Office of a Justice of Peace Eigne Fr. Aisn eldest a Law term as Eign right is the eldest right where there are more Titles then one Act. of Parl. 30. April 1649. Ejulation ejulatio wailing or crying out with pittiful lamentation Ejuration ejuratio a renouncing or resignation Ela the highest note in the Gamut Elaborate elaboratus cunningly wrought exactly done laboured painfully An Elaboratory a Work-house Elacerate elacero to tear or rend in pieces Elamites the people of Persia so called from Elam son of Sem son of Noah Elapidate elapido to rid a place of stones Elapsion elapsio a fliding forth or away Elaqueate elaqueo to unsnare or dis-intangle Elate elatus carried out advanced proud lofty Elaxate elaxo to unloose or make wider Eleack a Sect of Philosophers instituted by Phaedo an Elean of a noble family Eleanor a womans name from Helena i. pittiful Electorat An Electorship a chusing or electing or the right or power of election such as the Electors of the Empire have Also the Office or territory of an Elector Elective electivus pertaining to election or chusing subject to choyce Electriferous electrifer that yields Amber Electrum Lat. a kind of Amber distilling out of the Poplar tree as some report the Poets faign it to have been the tears of the Phaetontiades which were turned into Poplar trees bewailing their brother Phaeton See Amber Electricity electrisitas the power to attract straws or light bodies as Amber doth Electrine electrinus pertaining to or that is made of Amber Electuary electuarium a medicine or confection to be taken inwardly and is made two ways either liquid as in Forma opiat● or whole as in Tables or Lozenges or in fashion four square and long which is called Manus Christi Or it is a medicinable composition made of choyce Drugs and of substance between a Syrup and a Conserve but more inclinable to this then that Cot. Eleemosynary eleemosynarius an Almner or one that gives almes Eleemosynate eleemosyno to give almes Elegancy elegantia eloquence of words fineness neatness Elegy elegia a mournful song or verse commonly used at Funerals or upon the death of any person and composed of unequal verses Elegiacal elegiacus belonging to an Elegy or lamentation Elegiographer elegiographus a writer of Elegies or lamentable verses Elements elementa are the most simple bodies extant in nature from the several participation of whose qualities all mixt bodies have their several beings and different constitutions they are four in number to wit Fire Air Water and Earth Element in the singular number stands for one of those sometimes also it signifies a Letter as A B C sometimes the first foundation or Principle of a thing Elementary elementarius pertaining to or which consists of Letters Principles or Elements Elench elenchus an argument subtilly reproving Elenchical that reproves by argument Elenct●s Elenctical elencticus which serves for reprehension Elephantine elephantinus pertaining to an Elephant Elevate elevo to lift or hold up to lighten Elevatory from the Lat. elevo to lift up the instrument wherewith Chyrurgeons lift up the broken and sunk-in parts of the skul and draw out Bullets or hail-shot that is entred but a little way into the flesh or bones Elibation elibatio a tasting or offering Sacrifices Elicitation elicitatio a drawing out or alluring Elide elido to hit against a thing to dash to break to squeeze to strangle Elicite elicitus drawn out or allured Eligible elegibilis to be elected fit or like to be chosen Eliminate elemino to put out or cast forth of doors to publish abroad Mont. Elimate elimo to cut off with a file to polish or purge Elingued elinguis dumb speechless Felth. Ellipsis Gr. a defect also a certain crooked line coming of the byas-cutting of a Cone or Cylinder Eliquament eliquamentum fatness or juyce of fish or flesh Elixation elixatio a

adultery to counterfeit or corrupt Adultery adulterium properly spoken of married persons but if onely one of two persons by whom this sin is committed be married it makes Adultery and this is felony by Act of Parl. 1650. ca. 10. Adulterium seems to have taken that name as it were ad alterius thorum i. to anothers bed which the Adulterer always aims at Adumbrate adumbro to shadow to resemble to draw a picture imperfectly Adumbration adumbratio a shadowing or bare portraying of a thing also an imitation or expressing of another thing somewhat to the likeness and nature of the same Aduncity aduncitas crookedness hookedness Aduncous Adunque aduncus crooked downwards hooked Bac. Advecate advocatus a man of Law that pleads assists or sollicits another mans matter so called ab advocando i. calling unto because he is called to his Clients assistance most properly a Procurator or Doctor of the Civil Law Advowzen advocatio the reversion of a spiritual promotion and signifies in our Common Law a right to present a Clergy-man to a Benefice as much as Jus Patronatus in the Canon Law Of this there are two sorts Advowzen in gross which belongs or adhears to any Manor as parcel of the right of it and Avowzen dependent which depends on a Manor as appurtenant thereunto Adure aduro to roast burn or parch Bac. Adust Adusted adustus burnt parched vexed Adustible burnable parchable Adustion adustio parching or burning Adynamous adynamus weak impowerful Aedil aedilis See Edil Aegipans aëgipanes monsters having bodies like men and feet like Goats Wood-Gods Aera See Epoche Aereal aërius belonging to the air Aeromancy aëromantia a kind of divination by the air Aeromantick aëromanticus pertaining to such divinations Affability affabilitas curtesie in speaking and hearing others kindness to men Affectation affectatio too much curiosity study of eloquence against nature an extream labouring without discretion to imitate another Affeerours afferatores alias affidati are those that are appointed in Court-Leets upon oath to mulct or set fines upon the heads of such as have committed faults arbitrably punishable and have no express penalty set down by Statute To Affiance from ad and fides to betroth or make sure Affictitious affictitius feigned or counterfeit Affidavit is borrowed from the Canonists among whom Affidare is used for fidem dare and so it signifies he hath sworn or given his faith but with us it is generally taken for an Oath or Deposition put in writeing Affinage Fr. a fineing or refining of metals Affinity affinitas kindred or alliance by marriage sometimes likeness or agreement Affirmative affirmatus that affirms or avoucheth Affluence affluentia plenty abundance Afforest afforesto to turn ground into Forest Affray from the Fr. Affres i. a fright may be without word or blow given as if a man shew himself furnished with Armor or Weapons not usually worn it may strike a fear into others unarmed For which reason it is a common wrong and inquireable in a Leet which makes it differ from Assault which is always a particular injury 4 H. 6 10.8 Ed. 4 5. Affricate affrico to rub upon or against to grate or crumble Africa Gr. one of the four parts of the world lying Southward herein is Barbary Numidia Lybia the Land of Negroes Aethiopia interior and exterior Aegypt and the Islands It is called Africa of the Greek word Phrice which signifies cold and the privative A so Africa signifies a Country without cold as indeed it is Africk African Africus pertaining to Africa or to the Southwest wind Africk-bird taken for a coward or one in gay cloaths that has little Spirit Aga from the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. duco to lead an Officer that commands the great Turks Janizaries and is the third in repute in his Empire Sands Agamist agamus he that is unmarried Agarick agaricum a white and soft Mushrom or excrescence growing on the Larch Tree also a root in Sarmatia that helps digestion Cotgr. Age aetas that part of a mans life which is from his birth to this or his last day A man by our Common Law hath two ages the age of 21 years is termed his full age and 14 the age of discretion Lit. l. 2. c. 4. In a woman there are six 1. At seven years of age the Lord her Father may sistrain his Tenants for aid to marry her for at those years she may consent to Matrimony 2. At the age of nine years she is Dowable 3. At twelve years she is able finally to confirm her former consent given to Matrimony 4. At fourteen years she is enabled to receive her land into her own hands and shall be out of Ward if she be of this age at the death of her Ancestor 5. At sixteen years she shall be out of Ward though at the death of her Ancestor she was within the age of fourteen years 6. At one and twenty years she is able to alienate her Lands and Tenements At sixteen years of age every person may be summoned to take the Oath of Abjuration Acts 1656. c. 16. Proclus a Greek Author divides the life of man into seven Ages 1. Infancy contains four years 2. Childhood contains ten years 3. Youth-hood or Adolescency consists of eight years that is from fourteen to two and twenty 4. Young man-hood continues nineteen years that is from two and twenty to forty one 5. Ripe man-hood hath fifteen years of continuance and therefore makes his progress to 56 years 6. Old age which in adding 12 to 56 makes up 68. 7. Decrepit age is limited from 68 years to 88. See more divisions of Age if you please in first part Treasury of Times p. 377. and in Vul. Err. p. 216. Agelastick from Agelastus Grandfather of Crassus who never laughed but once in al his life and that was to see a Mare eat Thistles hence we use it for one that seldom laughs sad or sullen Agemoglans or Agiam Oglans are those Christian children which are seised by Turkish Officers when they are between the age of ten and eighteen or twenty to be made Janizaries or for other service of the Great Turk The word signifies unexpert or untutored youths Aggerate aggero to heap up to encrease Aggested aggestus heaped up or laid on a heap Fuller Agglomerate agglomero to fold or wind up in bottoms to gather together Agglutinate agglutino to joyn or glue together Aggrandisement Fr. a greatning inlarging advancement Aggrandize from the Ital. Aggrandire to greaten augment enlarge encrease or make great Aggravate aggravo to load or burthen to make a thing worse by words Aggregate aggrego to gather or assemble together or in Troops Aggressor Lat. a setter upon an Assailant one that begins Aggression aggressio a setting upon or entrance into an assault Agiograph agiographa a holy writing a holy Writ See Hagiographer Agist from the Fr. gist signifies in our Common Law to take in and feed the Cattle of strangers in the Kings Forest

fire will grow hot no higher then the liqour in them ariseth Dr. Br. Porcine porcina of or belonging to an Hog hoggish Porculation porculatio feeding or fatting of Swine bringing up of Hogs Pores pori small and unsensible holes of the skin whereby the sweat and vapors pass out of the body Porose or Porous porosus full of pores or little holes Bac. Porosity porositas poriness or the being full of pores Porphyry porphyrites a dark red Marble spotted with white Porphyry Chair a Chair of Porphyry Marble in the Cloister of St. John Lateran at Rome called Sedes Stercoraria because when the Pope takes possession of his Episcopal See in that Church at the intoneing the Verse Suscitans de terra inopem de stercore erigens pauperem Psal 113. he was carried from a side Chappel to the high Altar in that Chair to signifie that God had raised him from a low condition to that supreme Dignity The usual tale of this Chair is a meer fiction Porphyretick porphyreticus belonging to red Marble or purple Porrection porrectio a stretching or reaching out Porsyllogism is as it were an Auxiliary Syllogism to prove the main one Portable portabilis that may be born or carried Portate portatus a bearing or bringing Portculits from the Fr. porte and coler i. delabi a faling gate or door to let down to keep enemies from or in a City Portegue Fr. Portugaise a golden chain worth about 4 l. 10 s. sterl Portend portendo to signifie before a thing happens to foretel to betoken Portentifical portentificus which works wonders or whereby strange things are done Portentous portentosus monstrous betokening some mischance or fortune to come Portglaive Fr. a Sword-bearer Portgreve compounded of Port and greve or grave i. perfectus signifies with us the chief Magistrate in certain Port Towns And as Cam. saith in his Britan. p. 325 the chief Magistrate of London was termed by this name instead of whom Richard the first ordained two Bayliffs but presently after King John granted them a Major for their yearly Magistrate Porteguidon Fr. an Ensign-bearer to a troop of men at Arms. Portmanteau Fr. from the Span. Portar to carry and Mantea a Cloakbag or Male. Portmote compounded of Port and the Fr. Mot i. dictio or perdition as some have used it c. Predial or Prediatory praedialis of or belonging to Lands or Mannors Predial Tythes are of those things which arise yearly of the fruit and profit of the earth as of Wood Corn Hay c. See Mr. Shep. Epit. fol. 1004. Predial in French relates properly to a Meadow Prediator Lat. Praediator a Lawyer that is expert in Actions real or cases concerning Lands Predicable praedicabilis that may be told or spoken of abroad In Logick there are five Predicables otherwise called Porphyries five Terms viz. Genus Species Differentia Proprium Accidents and are called Predicables à praedicando because they are Attributes of all things Predicament praedicamentum a term in Logick whereof there are Ten in which every limited and bounded nature is ranked and disposed The first called Substance includes all substances whatsoever as the four Elements and all other creatures The second Quantity contains all quantities as 10 20 a yard a furlong a mile The third called Quality has under it all qualities as Wisdom Art Fortitude Diligence Sloth The fourth named Relation ss properly of such words as depend mutually one upon another as a Husband and Wife a Master and Servant The rest are 5. Action or doing 6. Passion or suffering 7. Where 8. When 9. ●cituation or place 10. The Habit or outward covering of a thing See Peripatetical Institutions Les 3.4 Predicament is sometimes used in ordinary discourse for state condition order or the like Predicate praedico to publish to say or tell openly to noise abroad In Logick it is used substantively and signifies the later part of a Proposition as in saying John is a Schollar the word Schollar is called the Predicate because it is spoken or affirmed of the subject John Prefect praefectus a Ruler Governor or President a Captain a Provost a Lord Mayor In old Rome the Prefect of the City had the hearing of all matters between Master and Servant Buyer and Seller Orphans and their Overseers c. But afterwards he did assume to himself authority to hear all causes whatsoever within a hundred miles of Rome Prefecture praefectura a Captainship a Lieutenantship an Authority or Rule an Office or little Jurisdiction Preference from praefero preferment advancement account before place above others Prefinition a determination before Pregnant praegnans great with child or young full of good sap and juyce pithy ripe lively strong Pregression praegressio a going before an out-going or over-passing a preventing Pregustation praegustatio a tasting or assaying before Preignotary see Protonotary Prejudicate praejudicatus fore-judged determined or condemned before Prelation praelatio a carrying or setting before preferment preference Prelect Either from praelectus read before or from praeelectus one chosen before another Preliminary see Liminary Preludium Lat. praeludium an entrance to a matter a proem In Musick a voluntary before the Song a flourish or preamble and as you would say signs and proffers Prelusion praelusio a playing before a flourish the same with praeludium Premature praematurus ripe before other or ripe before due time and season untimely coming too soon Premeditate praemeditor to muse and think on a thing before hand Premious praemiosus rich in money gifts presents and rewards Premission praemissio a sending before Premium praemium a reward given to him that doth any thing a recompence It is used in Schools for a reward given to that Schollar that says his Lesson or performs his Exercise well And among Merchants it is used for that sum of money as Eight or Ten per Cent. which the Ensured gives the Ensurer for ensuring the safe return of any Ship or Merchandize Premunire more properly Praemonere when any man for an offence committed shall incur a Praemunire it is meant he shall incur the same punishment which is inflicted on those that transgress the Statute made Anno 16. Ric. 2. cap. 5. commonly called the Statute of Praemunire and is to be out of the Kings protection to forfeit Lands and Goods and to be imprisoned c. See more in Fullers Hist p. 148. Premunition praemunitio a fortifying or fencing before-hand Prenotion praenotio a fore-knowing of a thing fore-knowledge Prenuncious praenuncius that first brings tidings that goes afore and tells news that signifies a thing to be at hand Preominate from prae and omen to presage or foretel Dr. Br. Preoccupate preoccupatus prevented over-reached taken aforehand Prepensed from the Fr. pre-pense fore-thought as malice prepensed in our Common Law is malice fore-thought Preponderate praepondero to poise or weigh more to ponder or examine before to be of great price or more worth Preposition praepositio a putting or setting before a part of speech