once set on fire can hardly bee quenched Abiect Vile base of no estimation Abiure To sweare or forsweare a terme sometime vsed in Lawe when one hauing committed a capitall offence flyeth to a Church or Churchyard and chooseth rather perpetuall banishment viz. to abiure the Realme then stand to tryall of Lawe This Law was instituted by S. Edward the Confessour in fauour of life but now is not in vse Abiuration A renouncing by oath see Abiure Ablepsie Want of sight blindnesse vnaduisednesse 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 Abortiue That which is vntimely borne Abrahams Baume A little tree of the kind of Withies growing in Italy and other hot countreyes bearing round fruit like Pepper cornes It is very hot and drie and hath a singular propertie to procure chastitie for which cause Phisitians haue 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 obseruing of due circumstance Absolue To pardon acquite or discharge Absolute Perfect accomplished Absolution Pardon acquitall forgiuenesse Abstinence A forbearing from gluttony or vnlawfull taking other mens goods Abstinent Sober temperate content with his owne 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 vnderstand Absurde Foolish without any wit or grace Absurditie Foolishnesse Abusiue That which offereth abuse Abisse A bottomelesse pit any deepnesse so great that it cannot bee sounded Acatia A little thorne growing in Egypt out of the leaues and fruit whereof they draw a iuyce or blacke liquor which being dryed is called Acatia and is very astrictiue or binding Our Apothecaties haue not the right Acatia but insteed thereof they vse the iuice of sloes beeing of the same vertue that Acatia is Academie A Vniuersitie or great publike schoole the name hereof first came of a place in Athens called Academia where Plato taught Academicall Belonging to an Vniuersitie or Academie Academicke A Philosopher of the sect of Plato They acknowledged one God and beleeued the immortality of soules Plato hauing learned many things of the Hebrewes 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 Accessory 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 chaunce sometime it signifieth that which belongeth to a thing and yet is no part of the substance as the quantity quality 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 drawe neere to one Accrew To grow arise or increase Accumulate To heape vp Accumulation A heaping together Acerbity Sowrenesse Acheeue To performe or bring to passe Acolite A Minister seruing to bring water wine and light to the altar Aconitum A venemous herbe hauing a root much like a Scorpion and shining within like alabaster Poets faine that Cerberus the three headed dogge of hell being dregged vp in a chaine of Adamant by Hercules did cast some of his fome vpon this herbe whereby it became so venemous Acquire To gette or procure Acquisition A getting or purchasing Acquite To discharge or free one Acquitall A freeing of one from being guilty of an offence wherewith hee was charged Action A deede done or the doing of any thing In our common Lawe it signifieth a suite commenced against any man and is commonly diuided into three differing kindes viz. 1. Action personall which is for debt goods cattell 2. Action popular which any man may sue as vpon the breach of a penall statute where some aduantage is allowed to him that will sue for it 3. Action reall when one claimeth title to any lands tenements rents or common in fee simple fee taile or for terme of life Actiue Liuely strong nimble Actiuity Strong nimblenesse Actor A doer sometime a Player Actuall That which is done or committed Acute Sharpe witty Adage A prouerbe 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 yieldeth neither to stroke of hammer nor fire for which cause the Greekes name it Adamas which in their tongue signifieth Inuincible Notwithstanding it is softened with goates blood beeing steeped therein new and warme It is of contrary nature to the loadstone in so much that beeing laide neere it the loadstone can not draw yron hauing the vertue thereof ouer mastered by the Adamant Addict To apply or giue ones selfe much to any thing Additament Any thing added Addition An adding or putting to In our commō law it signifieth any title giuen to a man beside his name which title sheweth his estate trade course of life and also dwelling place Adhere To cleaue to Adherence A cleauing to or belonging to any thing Adherent That which cleaueth or ioyneth close to a thing Adiacent That which lyeth neere to another thing Adiourne To deferre or put off till another time Adiournement A terme in lawe when any Court is dissolued and appointed to be kept vpon some other time or at any other place Adiunct A qualitie ioyned to a thing as heate to fire coldnesse to Snow Adiure To binde by oath to make one to sweare Adiuration A swearing or binding by oath Administer To doe seruice sometime to take charge and dispose of a dead mans goods by appointment of the Ordinary Administration The doing or handling of a businesse or the disposing of a dead mans goods that made no will Administrator Hee to whom the Ordinary committeth in charge the goodes of a man dying without will Admire To wonder to honor or esteeme highly Admiration A wondering Admission A receiuing or giuing one leaue to enter Admit To let in to allow of Admixtion A mingling of things together Admonish To warne Admonishment A warning giuen one Adopt To choose one to be his sonne Adoption The choosing and making one to bee as his sonne to him Adore To worship to giue diuine reuerence Adoration A worshipping Adorne To decke to set out to beautifie Adornation A decking or trimming Aduent A comming Certaine weekes before Christmas are so called because then is made in the Church solemne preparation for the comming of our Sauiour Aduentaile A coate of Armour Aduerse Contrary Aduert To marke Aduertise To giue knowledge of a thing Adulacion Flattery Adulatory Which flattereth Adulterate To corrupt or counterfeit Aduocate Hee that pleadeth for another Aduouson The right which
bee carryed in triumph to Rome by Augustus Caesar who had vanquished her and Antonie Aspect Sight or the beholding of any thing In Astronomy it signifieth the distance betweene the planets heauenly signes And there are foure such Aspects The first called a Trine aspect because it diuideth the heauens into three euen partes is the distance of foure signes from each other as Aries beholdeth Leo and Sagittarius with a Trine aspect because these are distant foure signes the one before the other after Aries The second called a Quartill is the distance of three signes as Aries beholdeth Cancer and Capricorne with a Quartill aspect because they are distant three signes from him The third called a Sextill aspect is the distance of two signes as Aries beholdeth Gemini and Aquarius with this Sextill aspect beeing but two signes distant from them The fourth called an Opposite aspect is the farthest distance that can be namely a distance of sixe signes asunder as Aries beholdeth Libra with this opposite aspect and Libra beholdeth Aries with the same The like is of all the other signes or Planets placed in them For example Taurus beholdeth Cancer and Pisces with a Sextill Leo and Aquarius with a Quartill Virgo and Capricorne with a Trine and Scorpio with an opposite aspect The distance of one or fiue signes is not called an Aspect Asperity Sharpnesse Aspersion A sprinkling Aspire To hope to come to a thing to seek aduancement Aspiration A breathing or pronouncing the letter H. before a vowell Assasinate A Tobbing spoiling or murthering in the high way Assecure To make one sure or certaine to giue one assurance Assentation Flattery Assertion An affirming or auouching of any thing Assets A terme in the Common Lawe when wee would signifie that a man hath goods enough come to his hands to discharge a dead mans debts or legacies giuen by him Asseueration An earnest affirming Assiduitie Continuance or continuall attendance Assigne To appoint also one that is appointed in anothers behalfe Assignation An appointment Assignement An appointing or passing of a thing ouer to another Assistant A helper Associate To accompany Association A ioyning together in fellowship Assoile To acquite cleere or pardon Assume To take to himselfe Assumpsit When one for some consideration giuen him vndertaketh any thing Assumption A lifting or taking vp Astipulation An affirming an agreement Astriction A binding Astrictiue Which hath power to binde Astringent The same that Astrictiue is Astrolabe An instrument of Astronomie to gather the motion of the Starres by Astrologie See Diuination Astrologer One skilfull in Astrologie Astronomie An art that teacheth the knowledge of the course of the planets Starres This art seemeth to be very ancient for Iosephus lib. prim Antiq writeth that the Sons of Seth Nephewes to Adam for Seth was Adams sonne did first find it out who hearing their grandfather Adā foretell of the vniuersall flood which should shortly drowne the world they thereupon erected two great pillars engrauing in the principles of Astronomie which pillars were the one of bricke the other of stone because if the water shold haply wash away the brick yet the stone might preserue the knowledge hereof for posterity Astronomicall Belonging to Astronomy Atcheuement A terme of Heraldry signifying the armes of any Gentleman set out fully with all that belongeth to it Also the performance of any great matter Atheisme The damnable opinion of the Atheist Atheist He that wickedly beleeueth there is no God or no rule of religion Atomic A more flying in the sunne Any thing to small that it cannot bee made lesse Atrocitie Cruelty outragiousnesse Attache To take to lay hands on Attainder A conuiction or prouing one guilty of a capitall offence Attaynt Conuicted or prooued guilty of some great crime Attentiue Diligently harkening Attestation A witnessing Attired A terme vsed among Heralds when they haue occasion to speake of the hornes of a Bucke or Stagge Attract To draw or pul to Attraction A drawing or pulling too Attractiue Drawing or which hath vertue to draw Attrectation A handling or seeling Attribute To giue to or impute It signifieth sometime a fit title or terme applyed to any thing Attrition Sorrow repentance Atturny He that by mutual consent taketh charge of any other mans businesse Atturnement The paying of any small piece of mony by a Tenant in token that he acknowledgeth the party to whom he payeth it to bee now his Landlord Auarice Couetousnesse Aucupation Hunting after a thing Audacious Bold hardy Audacitie Boldnesse Audible That which is so spoken that it may bee heard Auditor An Officer of accounts it is often taken for a hearer Audience A hearing or hearkening sometime it signifieth an assembly of people harkening to some thing spoken Auerre To iustifie auouch or maintain a thing Auerment A terme in Law when one offereth to prooue that his plea is good Auersion A turning away a disliking Auert To turne away Augment To increase Augmentation An increasing Augur See Diuination Auiditie Greedinesse Auowable That which one may iustifie and maintaine Auow To iustifie or maintaine Auowrie A Law terme when a Bayliffe or other Officer auoweth or iustifieth the lawfull taking of a distresse from any man Auricular Spoken in ones care Auripigmentum Sec Orpment Aurora The morning Auspicious Lucky fortunate Austere Sharpe seuere cruell Austeritie Sharpnesse hard vsage Authenticall That which is vndeniable and approoued of all men Authentike The same as Authenticall Autumne Haruest time one of the foure quarters of the yeare the other three are winter spring-tide and sommer Autumnal Of or belonging to Autumne Axiome A proposition or short sentence generally allowed to be true as in saying the whole is greater than a part It signifieth also in Logicke any perfect sentence that affirmeth or denyeth a thing as in saying Caesar is mercifull or Caesar is not mercifull * Aye For euer Azymes A solemnity of seuen dayes among the Iewes in which it was not lawfull to eate leauened bread the Pasche or Ester of the Iewes Azure A fine blew colour B BAboone A beast much like an Ape but greater Bacchanals The feasts of Bacchus Badger He that buyeth corne or victuall in one place to carry into another It is also a beast of the bignesse of a young Hog liuing in the woods commonly called a Brock * Bale Sorrow great miserie Balase Grauell or any thing of weight laid in the bottome of ships to make them goe vpright Balefull Sorrowfull Balke A little peece of ground in earable lands which by mischance the Plough slippeth ouer so that it is not ploughed at all Ballon The round Globe or top of a pillar Balme A precious iuyce or liquor otherwise called Balsamum or Opobalsamum It droppeth by cutting out of a little lowe plant about a yard high hauing leaues like Rue but whiter which plant groweth in Egypt and some places of the holy Land This iuice is somewhat like to oyle but more clammie and inclining to a certaine rednesse
Wise warie heedfull Circumuent To compasse in to deceiue one craftily Cite To warne one to appeare Citation A warning one to appeare Citrene Yellow Citradell A castle with a small garrison to keepe a towne in awe Ciuet. A sweet substance like muske It is said to bee the dung of the beast Hycan Ciuilike To make ciuill Clamour A great cry or noise Clamorous Crying out or exclaiming Clandestine Priuy close secret Clarentius One of the Kings of armes whose office is to dispose the funerals of Knights Esquires of the southside of Trent Clarisie To make cleere Clarity Noblenesse cleerenesse Clause A short sentence * Cleepe An olde word signifying to name or to call Clemency Mercy gentlenesse Clement Mercifull pittifull Client One that asketh counsell of a Lawyer Clime See Climate Climactericall A Greek word signifying an accouÌ„t or reckoning made by certaine degrees or steps Some haue heereby diuided the age of mans life after this manner The seuenth yeare they reckon for dangerous and by this account the 14.21.28.35 c. are climactericall yeares Likewise the ninth yeare is esteemed equally as dangerous and by this account the 18.27 36. c. are called climactericall yeares But the most noted and famous climactericall yeare is at the age of 63. because both accounts doe meete in this number namely 7. times 9. and 9. times 7. And this is held the most dangerous yeare of all other Climate A terme vsed in Cosmography It signifieth a portion of the world betweene North South conteining some notable difference in the sunne rising Cloake To couer or hide Closhe An vnlawfull game called by some nine pinnes cules or kittles * Clum A note of silence Coaction Constraint Coactiue Constraining Coadiutor A fellow hel per. Coagulate To turne to curde Coca An hearbe in India the leaues whereof being bruished and mixt with the powder of Cockles or Oysters in their shelles burnt the Indians vse in litle balles to carry in their mouthes to preserue them from famin or great dryth Cockatrice See Basiliske Coequal Equal in degree with another Coessentiall Of the same essence or substance Coeternal Equall in eternity with another Cogitation A thinking Cognition Knowledge Cohere To cleaue sticke or hang together Coherence An agreement or hanging together Collaterall Sidewaies or ioyning to the side Euery degree of kindred is either lineall or collaterall The lineall is that which commeth from the grandfather to the Father from the Father to the Son and so still right downeward Collaterall is that which commeth sidewaies as first betweene brothers and sisters then betweene their children c. Also Vncles Aunts and all Cousins are conceiued vnder this tearme of Collaterall kindred Collation A short banquet Colleague A companion or one ioyned in office with another Collect. To gather together Collection A gathering Collocation A placing together Colloquie A talking or conferring together Collusion Deceite cousenage It is a tearme vsed in lawe when an action is brought against one by his owne agreement Collyrie A physical terme signifying any medicine for the eyes Colon. A marke of a sentence not fully ended which is made with two prickes thus Colonie Among the Romans when their city was too ful of inhabitants they vsed to withdraw a certain number to dwell in some other place which number so withdrawne as also the place to which they were sent was called by the name of Colonie Coloquintida A kinde of wilde Ground which the Persians name Gall of the earth because it destroyeth all hearbes neere which it groweth It is round hauing a thinne yellow rinde when it is ripe and the inner part open and spoâ—gie full of gray seede If there grow but one vpon a plant it must bee throwne away because it will bee too violent in operation This fruite is often vsed in physick to purge slimie grosse humours from the sinnewes and ioynts but must be well prepared for that otherwise it is very dangerous Colosse An image or statue of exceeding greatnesse made sometime by the olde Emperours of Rome There was one such image in the yle of Rhodes dedicated to the sunne of one hundred and fiue foot long the thun be of which image fewe men could fathome Columbine Douelike Columne A pillar Coluri Two imagined circles in the heauens drawne both through the Poles whereof one passeth through Aries and Libra the other through Cancer and Capricorne So that they deuide the Zodiacke and the whole heauens into foure euen parts Combat A fight between two allowed by the law or for triall of some controuersie Combatant He that sighteth or is to fight a combat Combine To couple or ioyne together Combination A coupling or ioyning together Combust Burnt or scorched a planet is said to be combust when he is vnder the sunnne beames or within certaine degrees of them Combustible That which will soon be set on fire and consumed Combustion A burning Comelie A play or Interlude the beginning whereof is euer full of troubles and the end ioyfull Among the Greeks Eupolis Aristophanes and Cratinus were the chiefe comical Poets among the Latines Plantus and Terence Commedian A Player or writer of comedies Comet A blazing starre It is properly a great quaÌ„tity of hot and drye exhalations drawn vp from the earth by the attractiue vertue of starres into the highest region of the aire where beeing neere the Element of fire it is inflamed and there mooued round according to the motioÌ„ of the starre vnder which it is growen or the motion of the ayre in those high pares Comicall That which pertaineth to comedies also pleasant or merry Comma A marke often vsed in writing and printing which is made thus Commemorate To rehearse or make mention Commemoration A rehearsall remembrance Commence To begin to enter an action against one Commenâ—atory Which recommendeth one Comment Notes of instruction set in some bookes to expound such things as cannot easily be vnderstood Sometime it is taken for a lye or fained tale Commentary See Comment Commendatorie That which hath commendations onely written in it Commerce Conuersation entercourse of merchandise Commination A threatning Commiserate To take pittie or compassion vpon any Commiseration Pittie or compassion Commissarie One that hath spirituall iurisdiction in some out places of a Diocesse so farre distant from the chiefe Citie that it were too great trouble to summon people to it Commission A writing testifying that one or many haue some authoritie in a matter of trust committed to their charge Commissioner He that is in authoritie by vertue of a Commission Committee He to whom a matter is committed to be decided or ordered Commixe To mingle together Commixtion A mingling together Commodious Fit profitable Commotion A great stir a hurly burly Communicable That which may bee imparted vnto an other Communion A partaking together Communitie Fellowship in partaking together Commutation A changing Compact Hard knit close ioyned together somtime a bargaine agreement Compassionate Pittifull which grieueth at others harmes
wrapping the braine it selfe If any of these skinnes hee wounded it causeth speedy death Menstruous Which hath vpon her the monethly courses or which belongeth to them Mensuration A measuring Mentall That which is only thought in the mind Mercenary A hireling one that worketh for hire Mercurian Eloquent as Mercury was Meridian Of or belonging to noone day or the South part of the world Merit Desert or to deserue Meritorious Which doth much deserue Messias The same in Hebrew that Christ is in Greeke to wit Annointed Our Lord and Sauiour is often so called Metamorphise To change the outward shape Metamorphosis A change from one shape to another Metaphore The changing of a word from the naturall sense into another sense like to it as in saying Couetousnesse is the roote of all euill Where the word Root is called a Metaphore because it signifieth the cause and beginning of all euill euen as a root is the cause from whence a Plante springeth Metaphoricall Spoken by a Metaphore Metaphysikes Arts which lifting themselues aboue the changeable nature of things doe consider of such as doe subsist in their owne essence not subiect to any alteration so that the Metaphysicks dealeth onely with incorporall and euerlasting things and in this sense schoole Diuinity is the highest part of the Metaphysickes being chiefely occupied in contemplatory knowledge of God angels and soules of men Meteore Any imperfect mixt substance ingendred in the ayre as rayne snowe hayle thunder lightning blazing starres cloudes and winde all which are made of vapors or exhalations drawn vp from the earth and Sea by attractiue vertue of the Sunne Meter Measure or a verse made by measure Method A direct way to teach or doe any thing Metonymie A figure in speaking when the cause is put for the effect the subiect for the adiuact or contrarily Metropolitan The chiefe or mother city an Arch-Bishop Microcosmus It properly signifieth a little world This terme is sometime applyed to man who is therefore called a Microcosmus or little world because his body being compared to the baser part of the world and his soule to the blessed Angels seemeth to signifie that man is as it were a little world and that the whole world doeth resemble a great man Midrisse A sinewie skin passing ouerthwarte in mans body which diuideth the heart and lungs from the stomacke guttes liuer lest the vitall parts should bee oftended with any ill vapour comming from them Migrant A disease coming by sits eyther in the right or left side of the head caused by distemperate humours or vapours brought thither from the veines or arteries at certaine times Militant Warring or which is in warfare Military Warlike or belonging to warre Mimicall That which belongeth or scoffing behaviour or wanton gesture Mimicke A wanton gester a counterfet foole Minatory Threatning Minerall Mettall or any thing digged out of the earth Miniature A small proportion a little figure Miniuer A sine white Furre made of the bellies of Squirrels some say it is the skinne of a little white Vermin breeding in Muscouia Minor The lesser the yonger Minority A mans time before he be of full age in the lawe to dispose of his goods and lands Minotaure A poeticall monster halfe like man halfe like a Bull. This monster was kept in the Labyrinth of Candy and fedde with mans flesh where at last he was slaine by Theseus as Poets report Miscreant An infidell a false beleeuer Misprision An offence inclinable to fellony or treason but not so capital as fellony or treason is in which the offendour shall be punished by fine losse of goods forfeite of lands during his life or perpetuall imprisonment according to the quality of his offence Mission A sending Missive That which witnesseth ones being sent Mistledon A plant which hath slender branches and greene thick leaues growing neuer vpon the ground but vpon other trees The best is that which groweth vpon an oake and the leaues and fruit hereof are good to soften and ripen any cold hard swellings Misy A kinde of yellow copperas shining like gold brought out of Egypt and the I le of Cyprus It is of a fretting burning nature as the common copperas is Mithridate A great confection like treacle inuented by King Mithridates from whom it taketh the name It is of singular vertue against poyson and hath so many and strong simples in it that it ought not to bee taken inwardly before it bee aboue sixe moneths old Mittigate To asswage or pacifie Mitigation A pacifying an asswaging Mittimus A warrant made to conuey an offender to prison Mixture A mingling Mobility Aptnes to mooue Moderate Measurable temperate also to gouerne or temper with discretion Moderation A due proportion temperance good discretion Moderator A discreet gouernour hee that keepeth both parties from beeing too extreame Moderne Liuing now in our age Modicum A little a poore pittance Modulation A pleasant tuning or sweete singing Modwall A bird which destroyeth bees Moity Halfe. Moleboute A great fish which maketh a grunting noyse when he is taken Molestation A troubling Mollifie To make soft Mollification A making soft Moloch The name of an Idol in the vally of Ennon in the tribe of Beniamin to which the Israelites did abhominably offer their children in sacrifice of fire This Idoll was made in the likenesse of a Calfe Moment A minute a very little time sometime the valew or weight of a thing Momentany Of short continuance which lasteth a very little while Monarch A King or Prince that ruleth alone without any equall Monarchie The rule of one Prince alone or a countrey so gouerned Monasterle A religious house of Monkes Monasticall Solitarie belonging to a Monasterie Monition A warning Monologie A speaking still of one thing a long tale of one matter Monomachie A single fight betweene two hand to hand Monopolie When a man doth ingrosse or get commodities into his hands in such fashion that none can sel them or gaine by them but himselfe Moote To argue or reason a case in law Morall Of or belonging to good manners some time one of good behauiour sometimes the meaning of a fable Moralitie Goodnesse of manners ciuilitie Morgage To lay house or land to pawne in such sort that they are forfeit if the money be not repayed at a certaine time Morositie Frowardnesse way wardnesse Morpheus Sleepe or the God of sleepe Mortifie To kill sometime to tame to breake the courage or take away ones delight Mortification A killing a pulling away of ones pleasure Mortmaine A terme in the Law when lands were giuen to a house of religion or to a company corporate by the Kings grant for then such land is said to come into Mortmaine that is a dead hand and by a statue the King or Lord of whom it is holden may enter into it Mortuarie A payment due in some places for the buriall of the dead which is foure shillings and foure pence where the goods of the deceased party are aboue