Declination, sb. Decline: p. 143, 1. 25. And the one of them said, That to be a secretary, in the declination of a monarchy, was a ticklish thing, and that he did not affect it.' Essay xxii. p. 94. Deducement, sb. Deduction: p. 225, l. 6; p. 260, 1. 30. Defeat, v. t. To ruin, undo: p. 207, l. 11.

Desfaire. To vndoe; breake,

defeat, discomfit, ouercome; ruine, destroy, ouerthrow.'
Dict.
Deficience, sb. Deficiency: p. 84, ll. 6, 22; p. 118, l. 33.
To define: p. 116, l. 28; p. 257, l. 5.

Define of.
Defunct, sb. A dead man: p. 149, 1. 26.
Degenerate, p.p. Degenerated: p. 81, 1. 32.

Cotgrave, Fr.

Reduce things, to the

first institution, and observe, wherein, and how, they have degenerate.

Essay xi. p. 41.

Degrees, sb. Ranks in society: p. 96, l. 17.

Delectable, adj. Delightful: p. 64, l. 17; p. 89, 1. 24.

'Making the hard way sweet and delectable.'

Shakespeare, Rich. II. ii. 3. 7. Delectation, sb. Delight: p. 102, 1. 7. Delectation: f. Delectation, delight, pleasure, oblectation.' Cotgrave, Fr. Dict.

Delicacy, sb. Effeminacy: p. 19, l. 14. 'Delicatesse: f. Delicacie, daintinesse, tendernesse, nicenesse, wantonnesse, effeminacie; sensualite.' grave, Fr. Dict.

Delicate, adj. Affected, effeminate: p. 28, l. 10.

Cot

Deliver, v. t. To pronounce, communicate, as a message: p. 7, l. 21. "The former delivers the precepts of the art; and the latter the perfection.' Essay xlv. p. 181.

Demand, v. t. To ask, simply; not as now, to ask with authority or as a right: p. 85, 1. 7. See 2 Sam. xi. 7.

Demonstrate, p. p. Demonstrated: p. 39, ll. 10, II.

Demonstrative, adj. Capable of demonstration, demonstrable: p. 14,

1. 29.

He sends you this most memorable line,
In every branch truly demonstrative.'

Shakespeare, Hen. V, ii. 4. 89. Dependences, sb. Dependents: p. 229, l. 7; p. 231, l. 9; p. 235,

1. 14.

Depending, p. p. Impending: p. 218, l. 11.

Deplored, p. p. Despaired of: p. 140, l. 20.

Your love, sir, like strong water

To a deplor'd sick man, quicks your feeble limbs
For a poor moment.'

Albumazar, i. 2. (Dodsley's Old Plays, vii. 115, ed. 1825.)

Depravation, sb. Depreciation, defamation, slander: p. 17, 1. 2. 'Apt, without a theme,

For depravation.' Shakespeare, Tr. and Cr. v. 2. 132. Deprave, v. t. To defame, depreciate, disparage: p. 27, 1. 25; P. 37, l. 15. If affection lead a man, to favour the lesse worthy in desert, let him doe it without depraving or disabling the better deserver.'. Essay xlix.

p. 202.

Depredation, sb. A robbing, plundering: p. 106, 1. 6.

Derivation, sb. Originally, the turning of a stream into another channel:
p. 36, 1. 12.

Derived, p. p.

See note.

Drawn off, as in channels: p. 259, II. 9, 17.

Descry, v. t. To observe, discern: p. 71, 1. 33; p. 115, l. 29.

'Moreover, to descry

The strength o' the enemy.'

Shakespeare, Lear, iv. 5. 13.

Designation, sb. Appointment: p. 78, ll. 1, 3; p. 83, l. 12; p. 84, 1. 4.
Designment, sb. Design: p. 16, l. 1.

Served his designments

In mine own person.' Shakespeare, Coriolanus, v. 6. 35.
Desolate, v. t. To render desolate: p. 231, 1. 8. 'Desoler. To desolate;
make lonelie, solitary, deavelie, or desart; to deuast, waste extreamely,
ruine vtterly.' Cotgrave, Fr. Dict.

Despite, sb. Spite: p. 61, 1. 27.

'Full of despite, bloody as the hunter.'

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, iii. 4. 243.
Destituted, p. p. Left destitute, abandoned: p. 129, 1. 31. Bacon uses
'destitute' as a verb in Essay xxxiii. p. 143: 'It is the sinfullest thing in
the world, to forsake or destitute a plantation, once in forwardnesse.'
Determinate, adj. Definite: p. 209, 1. 25.

Determination, sb. The solution or decision of a question: p. 173, l. 7.
It is now used rather in the sense of resolution' which itself once was
equivalent to 'solution.'

Devote, adj. Devoted: p. 42, 1. 8.

Dexteriously, adv. Dexterously: p. 214, 1. 32. This is the form of the
word in the editions of 1605, 1629, 1633, and in Shakespeare, Twelfth
Night, i. 5. 66: Dexteriously, good madonna.' In p. 240, l. 15, the word
is spelt as usual.

Diascordium, sb. P. 140, l. 32. See note.

Dictature, sb. Office of dictator, dictatorship: p. 65, 1. 33.

Difference, sb. A distinguishing mark, a badge: p. 4, l. 14; P. 47, l. 4.
In heraldry a difference is a figure added to a coat of arms to distinguish
the persons or families who bear the same arms, and to indicate their
nearness to the original bearer.' (Webster, Dict.) Hence, in Shakespeare,
Haml. iv. 5. 183; O you must wear your rue with a difference'; and,
Much Ado, i. 1, 69; 'Let him bear it for a difference between himself
and his horse.

Differing, adj. Different: p. 10, l. 25; p. 28, 1. 33, &c..

Difficile, adj. Difficult: p. 217, l. 10. Difficile: com. Difficile, difficult;
hard, vneasie, troublesome, intricate, painefull, almost impossible.' Cot-
grave, Fr. Dict.

Digested, p.p. Arranged: p. 154, l. 28. We have cause to be glad
that matters are so well digested. Shakespeare, Ant. and Cl. ii. 2. 179.
Digladiation, sb. Literally, a combat with swords; hence, a quarrel or
controversy: p. 33, 1. 20.

Dilatation, sb. Dilation, expanded description: p. 117, 1. 32.

Dilute, adj. Diluted; and so, feeble: p. 260, 1. 16.

Disable, v. t. Literally, to disqualify; then, to pronounce disqualified, to
disparage: p. 13, 1. 7; p. 153, l. 32; p. 176, 1. 32. Comp. Shakespeare,
As You Like It, v. 4. 80; He disabled my judgement.'.

Disallowed, p.p. Disapproved: p. 27, l. 13; p. 41, 1. 31. See I Pet. ii. 4, 7.

Discern, v. t. To distinguish between, recognize: p. 136, 1. 20. 'To discern of': p. 203, l. 18. Comp. accept of,'' define of.'

Discharge, sb. The phrase 'discharge of cares' signifies delivery from the charge or burden of cares: p. 77, 1. 20.

Discharged, p. p. Dismissed, got rid of: p. 187, 1. 30.

Disclaim in. To disclaim all share in, renounce: p. 73, 1. 15. 'You cowardly rascal, nature disclaims in thee: a tailor made thee.' Shakespeare, Lear, ii. 2. 59.

Discontents, sb. Causes of disaffection: p. 58, 1. 23.

"His discontents are unremoveably

Coupled to nature.' Shakespeare, Tim. of Ath. v. 2. 227. Discontinuation, sb. A solution of continuity: p. 139, l. 11.

Discourse of reason. The power of inferring one thing from another; the reasoning faculty, as distinguished from reason: p. 28, l. 13. Compare Shakespeare, Haml. i. 2. 150:

A beast, that wants discourse of reason,
Would have mourn'd longer.'

And Troilus and Cressida, ii. 2. 116:

'Or is your blood

So madly hot that no discourse of reason
Nor fear of bad success in a bad cause,

Can qualify the same?'

Shakespeare uses discourse' alone in the same sense, Haml. iv. 4. 36:
Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not

That capability and godlike reason

To fust in us unused.'

Discoursing, adj. Discursive, shifting: p. 119, 1. 9.

evidently taken from a sandbank. See p. 120, ll. 1−5.

The figure is

Discover, v. t. To uncover, lay bare: p. 9, 1. 10. Comp. Ps. xxix. 9. Disesteem, v. t. To depreciate, undervalue: p. 20, 1. 28.

Disestimer. To

disesteeme, neglect, contemne, set naught by, make no reckoning of.' Cotgrave, Fr. Dict.

Disguisement, sb. A disguising, disguise: p. 123, 1. 19.

Disincorporate, adj. Disincorporated, dissevered: p. 258, 1. 32. Dismantled, p. p. Unmasked, stripped of disguise: p. 238, 1. 19. Compare Shakespeare, Lear, i. I. 220:

should in this trice of time

Commit a thing so monstrous, to dismantle
So many folds of favour.'

Dispose, v. t. To arrange: p. 44, l. 23; p. 81, 1. 25.

Disposition, sb. Arrangement: p. 44, 1. 27. Of studies, says Bacon, their chief use for ability, is in the iudgement and disposition of businesse.' Essay 1. p. 204.

Distaste, sb. Disgust: p. 8, 1. 8. Prosperity is not without many feares and distastes. Essay v. p. 17.

Distemper, v. t. To derange, disorder: p. 134, 1. 28.

The malignancy

of my fate might perhaps distemper yours.' Shakespeare, Twelfth Night,

ii. 1. 5.

Distinguish, v. i. To assert distinctly, decide: p. 166, 1. 3.
Disvalued, p.p. Depreciated: p. 237, l. 3.

'But in chief

For that her reputation was disvalued

In levity.' Shakespeare, Meas. for Meas. v. I. 221.

Divers, adj. Different; and so, several: p. 25, 1. 32; p. 85, l. 31. For indeed, every sect of them, hath a divers posture, or cringe by themselves.' Essay iii. p. 9.

Diverse, adj. Different: p. 39, l. 27; p. 85, 1. 15.

Divination, sb. Foretelling of future events: p. 87, 1. 25. 'Diuination, or Southsaying, & telling things by coniecture. Mantice.' Baret, Alvearie.

Divulsion, sb. A tearing asunder: p. 189, l. 13. 'Divulsion: f. A divulsion, or pulling vp; also, a cutting, section, or division.' Cotgrave, Fr. Dict.

Dogmatical, sb. Dogmatical statement, dogma: p. 152, 1. 30.
Dolor, sb. Grief, suffering: p. 140, l. 5.

A minde fixt, and bent upon

somewhat, that is good, doth avert the dolors of death.' Essay ii. p. 7. Domestique: com. Domes

Domestical, adj. Domestic: p. 223, l. 16.

ticall, housall, of our household.' Cotgrave, Fr. Dict.

Donative, sb. A gift, largess: p. 48, l. 14; p. 71, l. I.

For their men

of warre; it is a dangerous state, where they live and remaine in a body, and are used to donatives. Essay xix. p. 81.

Dotation, sb. Endowment: p. 79, l. I.

Doubt, v. i. To hesitate through fear, and then, to fear: p. 16, 1. 28; p. 26, 1. 8.

'I doubt some danger does

Droumy, adj. Turbid: p. 246, l. 16.

approach you nearly.'
Shakespeare, Macb. iv. 2. 67.
Halliwell (Arch. and Prov. Dict.)

gives the word as a Devonshire provincialism. Chaucer uses drovy. Drown, v. i. To be drowned: p. 92, 1. 27.

Drowth, sb. Drought: p. 151, 1. 23. Compare Pericles, iii. Gower, 8. Dulceness, sb. Sweetness, p. 238, 1. 21.

E.

29.

Easiliest, adv. Most easily: p. 41, 1. Ecstasy, sb. A trance: p. 145, 1. 24. A state in which the functions of the senses are temporarily suspended. Such was the 'trance' (OTAOIS) into which the Apostle Peter fell (Acts x. 10). See Shakespeare, Oth. iv. I. 80:

I shifted him away,

And laid good 'scuse upon your ecstasy."

Eccentrics, sb. According to the Ptolemaic system of astronomy, the supposed circular orbits described by the planets about the earth, which was not in the centre: p. 161, 1. 30.

Edition, sb. Promulgation, publication: p. 266, 1. 5.

Effectual, adj. Energetic, effective, practical: p. 235, 1. 17. Neither can they (i. e. vain persons) be secret, and therefore not effectuall.' Essay liv. p. 216.

Elected, p. p. Chosen: p. 158, 1. 28.

·

Why hast thou gone so far,

To be unbent when thou hast ta'en thy stand,

The elected deer before thee?' Shakespeare, Cymb. iii. 4. 112. Election, sb. Choice: p. 46, l. 18; p. 49, l. 9. 'But contrariwise in favour, to use men with much difference and election, is good.' Essay xlviii. p. 199. See also Haml. iii. 2. 69.

Elegancy, sb. Elegance: p. 47, 1. 33; p. 64, l. 18.

'But yet, since princes will have such things (i. e. masques), it is better, they should be graced with elegancy, then daubed with cost. Essay xxxvii. p. 156. Elenche, sb. From the Greek eλeyxos, a term in logic, which is defined as a syllogism by which the adversary is forced to contradict himself': p. 159, 11. 18, 25; p. 160, l. 14.

Elogy, sb. A panegyric, eulogy: p. 94, 1. 31.

Emancipate, p. p. Emancipated, set free: p. 130, l. 11.

Embased, p.p. Debased, deteriorated: p. 127, l. 9.

And that mixture

of falshood, is like allay in coyne of gold and silver; which they make the metall worke the better, but it embaseth it.' Essay i. p. 3.

Embassage, sb. An embassy. To come in embassage' to come on an embassy: p. 11, l. 1. 'I will do you any embassage to the Pigmies.' Shakespeare, Much Ado, ii. 1. 277.

...

Emulate with. To emulate, vie with: p. 112, 1. 32. The construction is an imitation of the Latin æmulari cum aliquo.'

Emulation, sb. Envy, rivalry in a bad sense: p. 49, l. 29.
Whilst emulation in the army crept.'

Shakespeare, Tr. and Cr. ii. 2. 212.

It is now used exclusively in a good sense, as in p. 50, l. 18. Enable, v. t. To make able, to qualify: p. 12, l. 22; p. 42, l. 23. Comp. 1 Tim. i. 12.

Enablement, sb. A qualifying or making able, qualification: p. 59, 1. 3; p. 79, 1. 9.

End. To the end' in order: p. 17, 1. 19; p. 46, l. 6; p. 48, I. 29. Nay, some undertake sutes, with a full purpose, to let them fall; to the end, to gratifie the adverse partie, or competitour.' Essay xlix. p. 201. Endeavour, v. t. To strive after, aim at, attempt: p. 10, l. 10. Obsolete construction.

'But I'll endeavour deeds to match these words.' Shakespeare, Tr. and Cr. iv. 5. 259. Engaged, p.p. Literally, bound by a gage or pledge; and so, pledged or committed to a certain course of conduct: p. 234, 29.

Engine, sb. A contrivance, device, requiring ingenium or skill: p. 241, 1. 18.

Enginery, sb. Engineering: p. 122, l. 8.

Enterprised, p. p. Attempted, undertaken: p. 97, 1. 33. And therefore is not by any to be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly.' Marriage Service.