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compage, structure

compass (vb.) walk around compellation, address

complemental, accessary, unessential

complexioned, disposed by temperament

conceit (n.), imagination conceit (vb.), imagine concocted, digested

concourse, concurrence, cooperation

concurrence, coincidence

concurrency, competition, rivalry conference, conversation conscience, consciousness

considerable, worthy of consideration

consist, stand firmly

consistencies, permanent forms constellated unto, born under a

constellation that fits to contexted, woven together conversion, turning

convict, convicted cony, rabbit

copy, abundance

coranto, a dance in a lively

measure

corps, body

corrivation, running of several streams into one

cosset, pet

crambe, tiresome repetition curious, out of the way, too subtle

curiously, with great care curtole, horse with docked tail dastards (vb.), intimidates

declined, avoided

decretory, decreed

deprehend, take by surprise

difference, distinction

discoursing, discursive, rambling

discover, disclose

disgregated, disintegrated

disinterest, uninterested

dispirits, distils

distributive (justice), distribution of rewards and punish

ments

diuturnity, long-lastingness

dizzard, blockhead

doctrine, teaching

domestic, household companion donatives, gifts

doradoes, gold-fish

dormitive, sleeping-draught

doubt, fear

effront, embolden

elench, refutation

eluctation, struggling forth

embase, make base or inferior entelechia, realization, accomplishment

ephemerides (astrological), tables showing daily state of the heavens, daily records epicycle (old astronomical term), a small circle whose centre describes a larger one epidemical, common to many people

equable, equitable

ergotisms, conclusions logically

deduced

estridge, ostrich

ethnic, heathen, pagan

exantlation, pumping out excitement, incentive

indifferency, impartiality

exolution, rapturous languor expansed, spread out

extasis, mystic trance

fame, rumor, reputation fantastical, fanciful favor, countenance

fine, terms of rental for land folious, leaf-like

fond, foolish

fougade, a mine for blowing up a

wall

foxed, fuddled, drunk

frigid cold-blooded

furmenty, brewed

galliardize, sprightliness

globe, throng

glome, clue of yarn or worsted

graff, grafting

graduations, gradations

gustation, tasting

heaviness, sorrow helix, screw, spiral line horoscopal, relating to the disposition of the stars at the hour of one's birth hospital, house, home humor, peculiarity

humorous, result of some special humor or peculiarity impregnant, impregnated improperations, reproaches impropriation, appropriation to private use premisetrength-giving

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sorteth, relessly sortilegieshut-in, locked up ing lots

ke crooked

indifferent, impartial

indisposition, disorder indurate, hardened

infusion, pouring in, inspiration ingenuous, plain, simple injuriously, insultingly

institutes, principles, teachings institution, establishment

intempestive, unseasonable, untimely

intrenching, encroaching

invicem, in turn

inward, intimate

jade, over-drive jangling, quarreling

jubilee, a period of fifty years

jument, mule

leese, lose

ligation, binding

literati, scholars

loose (n), outlet, decision Lucina, goddess who presides at childbirth

luting, smearing a glass retort with clay to prevent its cracking

main (n.), important or chief point

maintain, support, uphold maistry, art, skill

make (n.), mate

mal-content, dissatisfaction

mangled, slashed

mansion, resting-place mart, fair

mate (vb.), deaden, overpower mean, low

mediocrity, moderation

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quodlibetically, determinable on either side

quotidian, daily

recarnified, turned again into flesh

rectify, make straight or erect reduce, bring back

remiss, lax

respects, considerations restrained, limited

retaining to, depending on rodomontado, rant

rubs, inequalities in the ground, collisions

sad, sober

sarza, sarsaparilla

scamble, scramble, struggle for place

scape, freak, evasion scelestique, wicked scenical, outward

sentence, meaning, idea, opinion,

sentiment, pointed saying sectaries, followers

seculum, century

secundine, after-birth

shamefastness, shyness, modesty

shickel, unstable

shoeing-horn, something to whet

the appetite

shoreless, unlimited

simple, collect simples or herbs

sited, situated

sophistication, falsification

sorites, syllogisms with 1 premise omitted

sorteth, results in

specious, showy, beautiful spintrian, obscene

squeazy, scrupulous, careful squibbed, assailed, tormented stated, settled

statism, politics, affairs of state statist, politician

stelled, furnished with stalls or benches

stigmatical, infamous

stond, hindrance

studied, strongly desired sufferance, patience sufficiency, capacity, ability summum bonum, greatest good supererogate, go beyond one's duty

supputation, computation suspensory, hesitating, undecided

temper, proper mixture, constitution

tenents, tenets, doctrines term, limit, end

tetrical, harsh

topography, description of par

ticular places

touch, reference

traduction, propagation

training, drawing

transcendences, extravagances

transcendency, superiority

translated, transferred

trivantly, triflingly

one

tutelary, guardian

sortilegies, devination by draw

ing lots

ubi (n.), habitation

ubiquitary, present in all places unequal, unfair

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