Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	act_n	offence_n	punish_v	1,000	5	10.2563	5	true

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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

waver doubt or be uncertain Fluctisonant fluctisonus sounding or roaring with waves or billows Fluctivagant fluctivagus wandering on the water or Sea tossed by the waves Fluctuous fluctuosus troublous unquiet boysterous Fluent Fluid fluens flowing or gushing out waterish Fluidity fluiditas wetness or flowing Fluminous fluminosus full of rivers Fluvial fluvialis of or belonging to a River Fluvious fluviosus flowing much Flux fluxus a flowing or issue Fluxibility Aptness to flow Focillate focillo to nourish comfort or refresh Fodder or Fother Sax. a certain weight of Lead or Tin about 2000 pound or a Wain-load it is mentioned in Acts 1656 9. Fodient fodiens that digs or thrusts into To Foine pungo to prick or sting Rider Foines A kinde of Fur brought for the most part out of France The top whereof is black and the ground whitish the beast that bears it is about the bigness of a Cat. Foliaceous foliaceus of or like a leaf Folio folium a sheet or large leaf of paper We say a book is in Folio when two leaves of it make a sheet in Quarto when four leaves make a sheet in Octavo when eight leaves make a sheet Duodecimo or in Twelves when the sheet is made into twelve leaves c. Every folio or leaf hath two pages Foliatanes from folia i. leaves an order of religious persons who lived onely upon leaves which the Pope put down as finding leaves unable to nourish mans body Folcland Sax Copy-hold Lands were so called in the time of the Saxons and Charter-lands were called Bock-land Kitch 174. fundus sine scripto possessus says Mr. Sumner Folkmoote is a Saxon word compounded of Folk i. populus and Gemettan i. convenire It signifies according to Mr. Lambert in his exposition of Saxon words verbo conventus two kinds of Courts one now called the County Court the other called the Sheriffs Turn This word is still in use among the Londoners and signifies Celebrem ex omni Civitate conventum Stow. Surv. But Mr. Manwood in his first part of Forest Laws p. 111 hath these words Folkmote is the Court holden in London wherein all the folk and people of the City did complain of the Mayor and the Aldermen for misgovernment within the City Foliage Fr. Fueillage branched work in painting or Tapestry also leasiness Follicle folliculus a little bag purse or bladder Foliate foliatus leaved or having leaves Gold foliate is leaf Gold Bac. Foment fomento to warm comfort cherish Fomentation fomentatio a fomenting comforting or asswaging In Physick it properly signifies powdry or dry things in bags or any liquor in a Spunge or Bladder applied warm to the body to metigate pain or make way by opening the ●pores for ointments or plaisters to be applied Fons Solis a Fountain near the Temple of Jupiter Hammon in Lybia that at midnight is as hot as boiling water and at noon as cold as any ice which may the rather be credited since our Bathes in England are much warmer in the night then in the day Sir Wa. Ral. History of the World l. 4. f 184. Font fons a Fountain or Water-spring What the Font of a Church is every one knows but not why so called The Rites of Baptism in the primitive times were performed in Fountains and Rivers both because the Converts were many and those ages unprovided of other Baptisteries and in this Rite we still retain the name for hence t is we call our Baptisteries Fonts which when Religion found peace were built and consecrated for the more reverence and respect of the Sacrament Rationale Fontal fontalis pertaining to a Fountain or Well Forable forabilis that may be boared or pierced Foraminous foraminosus full of holes Foraneous foraneus belonging to a Market or Court Forcinated forcipatus bended like a hook Foreloin a term in hunting when a Hound meets a chase and goes away with it before the rest of the Cry Forensal forensis pertaining to the Common-place used in pleading or in the Judgment place Forestal from the Belg. Veur i. ante and Stallen Merces disponere is to buy Corn Cattle or other Merchandize by the way as it comes towards the Fair or Market to be sold to the intent to sell the same again at a dearer price Forestaller is he that forestalls and buys things in such sort Forelorn Hop● a party of Souldiers sent before the whole body of the Army to skirmish with the Enemy the French call it Enfans perdues the Roman Velites were in a manner answerable hereunto Forelorn comes from the Belg. Verloren i. perditus lost The Forelorn-Hope is given for lost in respect it is most commonly desperate Service See Perdu Formalist from forma one that is very punctual or precise in his actions or words Formator Lat. he that instructeth maketh or formeth Formalize to form to give or add form unto Formidable formidabilis dreadful to be feared terrible Formidolous formidolosus fearful that feareth dreadful dangerous Formosity formositas comeliness beauty Formulary Fr. Formulaire the stile or manner of proceeding in the Law a President for doing any thing Fornication fornicatio Whoredom Letchery spoken of single persons if either party be married then it is Adultery It is punished by three moneths imprisonment for the first offence the second is made Felony by Act 1650. c. 10. Fortitude fortitudo strength valour courage It is one of the four Cardinal Vertues and is thus defined Fortitude is a vertue that moderates the irascible power according to reason and so it helps us to overcome those difficulties which require courage in chusing one harm to avoid another Fit Cat. Fortuitous Fortuite fortuitus that hapneth by chance sudden casual accidental Fosse way from fossus dig'd it was originally one of the four grand High-ways of England so called because t is conceived to be digged or made passable by the antient Romans or ditched at least on one side but now several inferior High-ways are so called See Watling-street Fosset cistella a little chest Fossion fossio a digging or delving Fossile fossilis that which is or may be digged Fotion fotio a nourishing or keeping warm Fotive fotus nourished kept warm Fougade Fr. a Mine or up-blowning Fire-work or Wild-fire Rel. Med. Foulk or Fulk● a mans name some derive it from the German Volig i. noble and gallant But I from Fole the English Saxon word for people as though it were the same with Publius of the Romans and onely translated from Publius as beloved of the people and Commons Fracid fracidus more then ripe rotten-ripe putrified Faction fractio a breaking or bursting Fragile fragilis frail brittle soon broken mortal weak Bac. Fragility fragilitas brittleness weakness inconstancy Fragment fragmentum a peece or gobbet of a thing broken Fragor Lat. the noise made with the fall of any thing a cracking or crashing of things broken asunder a great noise or busling Sands Fragrancy fragrantia a sweet smell or savour Franc is a French coyn of