Angles of contingency, 83; of incidence, 183, 184; of indenture, 153. Animosity of that attempt, courage, boldness, 65, 66. Ansatæ cruces, handed crosses, 97, 187. Antiquate, to make old, 69. Appendencies, things appendent, 50. Apposition, application, or bringing nigh to, 59. Aræ, allars of the Gods above, 15. Archimime, the chief jester, or mimic, who took part in Roman funeral processions, 59. Architectonical, according to the principles of an architect, 103, 106. Arefaction, state of growing dry, 49. Areostylos, a building in which the distance between the columns is equal to four or more diameters of the column, 177. Artifice of clay, art of working, workmanship, 31. See Latham. Attenuable parts, that may be attenuated or made thinner, 45. Attrition, rubbing together, 36. Augmenting glasses, increasing, magnifying, 144. Aurelian metamorphosis, 143, 157. Averse from, disliking, 10. Aversely, in an averse manner, turning the face away, 55 (Vulgar Errors, pp. 137, 261, Murray). Battalia, Roman, 113. Bit, that frugal, small morsel, 25. Blot, indistinct mass, 70. Boisterous, rough, savage, 82. Bonfires, in old editions spelt bonefires, 22. Botanologer, botanist, 102. Botanology, botany, 175. Breeze, gadfly, 152. Brendetyde (Danish), burning tide, to signify the era of cremation, 26 note. Brother of death, sleep, 77. See note. By-themes, out of the way, 2nd Ep. Ded. x. Cabbalistical, cabbalistic, 192 bis, 196. Cadavers, corpses, 59. Cadaverous burials, burials of the entire corpse, 30 Calicular leaves, formed like a cup, from Latin calix, a cup, 128, 139, 140, 155, 180. Also in Vulgar Errors. Callosities, dull feelings, insensibility, 77. Calx, a term used by the old chemists for a powder or friable substance, the result of burning or roasting, 45. Candour, whiteness, Latin, candor, 178. Cariola, the haunch-bones of a horse. Sir John Evans (note in R) says, "The term seems to be Italian. In Florio's Italian and English Dictionary, 1659, Cariola or Carriola is defined to mean a trundlebed... also the root or rumpe of a horse's taile,'" 50. Carnous parts, fleshy, 50. Castrensial mansions, belonging to a camp, 117. Causally, for a special reason, 102. Cavedia (Lat. cavædium), courtyard, or atrium, 177. See Plin. Ep. ii. 17. Centos, "a composition formed by joining scraps from other authors " Century, a collection of a hundred names, 76. Cereclothed, wrapped in a cerecloth, 49. Chapiters of the pillars, capitals, a word often found in the Old Chet mat, Arabic words whence our check mate is derived. (Shah mat. Chiasmus, Xiaopos, decussation, 128, 146. Chimæras, mere fancies, 83. Chiromantical conjecturers, making conjectures from palmistry, 198. Chirurgery, surgery, 90. Circinations (Latin, circinatio), spherical rounds, 168. Circumscription, limitation, boundary, 32, 92, 93. Cirrous parts, having curls or tendrils, 164. Civilians, writers upon the Civil Law, 12. Civility, civilization, Ep. Ded. vii, 26. Civilly, in a civilized manner, 9. Clamations, iterated, cryings out, invocations, lamentations, referring to the conclamatio of the Roman funerals, 58. Clouts and stones, blows, buffets, 55. Cod, husk or pod, 127, 131, 181. Cognition, knowledge, 67, also in Rel. Med. 214. 1. 23. Collectible, capable of being collected or gathered, 3. Columnary, formed in columns, 158. Commissure, line of junction, joint, seam, 158. Compage, coherence, 49. Used also in Rel. Med. 188. 1. 2. Complexed, complex, 195. Complexionally, by temperament, constitutionally, 65. Also found in Composure, composition, 31, 158. Also in Rel. Med. 108. 1. 22. Comproduction, producing together, 129. Comproportions, proportions together, 50. Compute, point of, reckoning, of time, 27. Concentrical, concentric, having a common centre, 168, 175. Conceptions, with many, according to many opinions, 92. Concernments, concerns, affairs, 161. Conclamation, shout of many together, 12. Confirmable, capable of being confirmed, 4, 22, 109, 200. Rel. Med. 75. ll. 10, 11. Consideration unto, comparison with, 65. Used also in ་ Consulary coins, consular, 95; date, 34. Contemner, despiser, 63. Used also in Rel. Med. 191. Contignations, act of framing or uniting beams, 147. Coronally, like a crown, or circle, 98. Cosmography, description of the world, 79. Cottonary, relating to, or composed of, cotton, 145. Counters, common, ordinary arithmeticians, 70. Country, used in the sense of county, 17, 27. 1. 3. Crambe verities, stale, tedious, alluding to the Greek крáμßη, 199. Also used in Rel. Med. 123. l. 17. Cremation, burning of the dead, 5, 9, 14. Cretaceous, having the qualities of, or abounding with, chalk, 152. Criticism in agriculture, quibble, 133. Cruciated, crossed, 148, 149. Crucigerous, marked with the figure of a cross. Stone of St. Jago. Chiastolite, from xiaorós, decussated, 95, 122. Crusero, the Southern Cross, 122. Cryptography, act or art of writing in secret characters, 121. Culinarily, in cooking, 149. Cuneus, a wedge, a military term, 115. Cupel, a refining vessel used in cupellation, the process of refining gold and silver by melting them in a cupel with lead, 45. Copel, obsolete form used by Sir T. B. Curiosity of plants, interest in plants, inclination to learn about them, 91. Declinations, inclination, 166. Decline, to shun, avoid, 6, 7, 14, 32, 40, 47, 96. Decretory, definitive, setiled, 81. Decussation, decussated, decussatively, decussative, crossing at an acute angle, intersection in the form of X, 95 bis, 98, 99, 110, 112, 113, 143, 152, 186. Defensative, that which serves to guard or defend, 126. Delivered, recorded, handed down, 14, 28, 100. Deformity, departure or difference in shape, 119. Delivereth, 25, 91, 134. Deliveries, histories, accounts, 99, 161. Depositure in dry earths, deposition, laying down, interment, 8, 9. Descensions, astronomical phrase, 77. Diameters, diminish their, shrink into nothing, 83. Diametrally, diametrically, 153. Diametrals, diameters, 152. Diaphanous, transparent, 134. Dietetical conservation, preservation for food, 90. Differenced, distinguished, 135, Diffusions, spread, extension, 162. Dipteros hypæthros, 176. Discover, display, betray, 58. Disparage, to undervalue, depreciate; we shall not think our reader requires us to repeat the solemnities, &c., 14. Dispersed, spaced out, 100. Dispersedly, in a dispersed manner, 18. Disposed unto, liable to, 45. Diuturnity, length of time, long duration, 69, 73, 77. Divinity, used for divines, 90, 196. Draught, sketch, outline, drawing, 9, 39 ter, and frequently. Drive at, aim at, Ep. Ded. vii, 53. Ductors, leaders or commanders, 115. Eccentrical, deviating from the centre, 160. Edificial, architectural, 143. Effluviums, powerful smells, 163. Elbow, applied geographically to an angle of a country, 17. Sir T. B. uses elder for older in Rel. Embezzle, to squander, waste, 37. Embryon philosophers, more commonly embryo (Gr. čμßavor), in an undeveloped state, 63. Found also in Christ. Morals, pt. iii. sect. 11, pt. ii. sect. 5. Emphatical word, 99. sense, 99. Entelechia or soul of our subsistences (Gr. évredévelo), not used exactly in Aristotle's sense of actuality, but rather the perfection_or chief excellence of our existence, 75. The word occurs also in Rel. Med. pt. i. sect 8, p. 19, 1. 12 (where see note in Golden Treas. ed.), and in Miscell. Tracts, xi. vol. iii. p. 258, ed. Bohn. Equal, equitable, 6. Equicrural, isosceles, having legs of equal length, 110. Equivocal production, irregular, out of order, 135. The meaning is that of spontaneous generation, a notion still entertained in Sir Thomas Browne's time. Evacuate hopes, to make void, to nullify, 68. Evacuo is used in the Vulgate as the rendering of St. Paul's KaTopуew (Rom. iii. 3), and Kerow (1 Cor. i. 17). Evulsion, extraction or pulling out. 113. Exception, objection, cavil, 2nd Ep. Deď. xi. Excitate, to arouse, 58. Excoriable, that may be stripped off, or excoriated, 147. Excursions, digressions, Ep. Ded. x. Exedræ, halls, parlours, 177. Exenteration, disembowelling, evisceration, 42. Exequies, funeral rites, 13, 53. Exiguity, of seeds, smallness, 136. Exility, of bones, weakness, smallness, thinness, 22. Used also by Exolution, more properly exsolution, in Mystical Theology, rapturous languor, 83. Used also in Christ. Morals, in fin. Expilators, pillagers, 41. Explantations, offshoots, 158. Explication, opening, unfolding, applied to leaves or flowers, 122, 139, 140. Exsuccous, without juice, dry, 56, 150, 151. Extenuate, disparage, depreciate, 65. Fasciated, bound or bandaged up, 120. Favaginites, honeycomb stone, mellilite; an opalescent variety of sapphire, 122. See Plin. Hist. Nat. xxxvii. 47. Favaginous sockets, resembling a honeycomb, 126. Feeding the wind, feeding on the wind, 78. Feretra, biers, 10. Ferity, barbarity, cruelty, 45. See also Christ. Morals, pt. iii, and Vulgar Errors, bk. vii. ch. 19, sect. 3. Fictile vessels, moulded by the potter, 43. Figurations, configuration, giving a certain form, 168. Flat truths, dull, spiritless, 199. The meaning would seem to be smooth, without relief, as metal plates. Flatuous, distension, caused by flatus or wind, 134. Flexures, bends or folds, 146. Foliaceous, leafy, 134. Foliations, the forming into leaves, leafing, 126, 170. Folious emission, leafy, 135. Used also in Christian Morals. Foraminous roundles, round forms full of holes, 135. Forceps, a kind of battle-array, 115. (Gell. x. 9.) Fore-being, pre-existence, 83. Fore-writers, former writers, Ep. Ded. x. Frustums, any part, except the vertex, cut off from a cone, 155. Fulciment, the fulcrum of a lever, 113. Funerally burnt, 5. Furdling, furling, 128. Fusil, spindle-shaped figure in heraldry, 110. Gallature, treadle of an egg, 138. Geomancer, a diviner by the earth, 198. Geometrizeth, how nature, 145. Geometry of nature, the, 141. Gloss, to embellish with superficial lustre, 53. Gomphosis (Gr. yóμpwois), immovable articulations like teeth in their sockets, 155, 159. Gustation of God, spiritually tasting, 83. Handed crosses, cruces ansata, 187. (See Edin. Review, 1870, for a valuable dissertation upon the pre-Christian cross in its various forms.) Handsome account, anticipation, economy, 8, 43, 55, 100, 190. Handsomely, liberally, skilfully, elegantly, 3, 65, 114, 146, 175, a favourite word of Sir Thomas. Harmony, douovia, the union of two bones by simple apposition of their surfaces (Galen, De Oss. procm. tom. ii. p. 137, ed. Kühn), 159. Hastati, 113, 114. |