passion contrarie to all reason when the Moone was not in any neerenesse to hinder his light cryed out in amazement Aut Deus naturae patitur aut machina mundi dissoluetur Either the God of nature suffereth or else the frame of the world will be destroyed Ecliptike line An imagined line running thorough the midst of the twelue signes in which the sunne alwaies keepeth his course Eclog. It is commonly taken for a poeme conteining a communication of slepherds but the word in Greeke signifieth a collection or choice gathering of things together Eden An Hebrew word signifying delectation or a place of pleasure and delight Paradise Edible Which may bee eaten Edict An ordinance made by any in authorithority A proclamation or decree Edifie To build to frame sometime to instruct Edifice A building a frame Edification A buildding but most commonlie it is taken for an instruction so plainely deliuered that the hearer profiteth by it Edition A setting forth or publishing Educate To bring vp to nourish Education A bringing-vp Effectuate To performe Effeminate Womanish nice Efficacie Strength vertue force Efficiencie A bringing to passe Efficient Which bringeth to passe or performeth Effusion A powring out a large spending Eftsoones Againe often Egregious Notable excellent Egresse A going forth from any place Egritude Griefe of mind or paine of bodie Eiect To cast out Eiection A casting out Eiulation A howling a pittifull crying out Elaborate Curious done with great paines Elate Lifted vp aduanced proud loftie Elation A lifting vp pride loftinesse Elaterium The iuyce of wilde cucumbers dried Being taken inwardly it purgeth waterish humours and is good against the dropsie But it must bee mixed with somewhat to restraine the malice of it for otherwise it will bee painfull in operation * Eld. Old age Elect. To choose or one that is chosen Election Choice Electuarie Any medicine taken inwardly made of diuers powders mixed together and by tempering with some syrupes or hony brought to a soft liquid forme Elegancie Finenes neatnesse Elegant Fine neate picked trim Elegie A mournefull song vsed in funerals or other passions of sorrow Elegiacke Mournefull Element The first matter of visible substance from whence all things take their beginning wherof there be foure namely fire ayre water and earth Sometime it signifieth a letter as A.B.C. sometime the first foundation principle or instruction of any thing Elementarie Which consisteth of Elements Eleemosynarie Giuen in almes or which giueth almes Elench A subtill argument Eleuate To lift vp to aduance Eleuation A lifting vp Elixir An Arabian word of the same signification that Quintessence is in latine see Quintessence Elke A kinde Yew to make bowes with Elocution Vtterance eloquence Eloine To put giue or sell away Elong To put or set farre off Elude To mocke or deceiue Elusion A mocking a deceite Elysian Of or belonging to Elysium Elysium A supposed place of pleasure below where Poets imagined the soules of good men did rest Embalme To annoint with baulme Embassie An embassage a message from one Prince to another Embellish To make beautifull Embezill To steale to conuey away Embleme It properly signifieth any fine worke cunningly set in wood or other substance as we see in chesse boards and tables notwithstanding it is commonly taken for a picture or other deuice shaddowing some matter to be learned by it Embost A tearme vsed by hunters when a Deere is so weary that he fometh at the moâ—th Embracer A law terme of him that when a matter is in triall commeth for reward to the barre being no lawyer nor witnes and speaketh in fauour of one of the parties or which laboureth the Iury or vseth any vnlawful practise to make them giue their verdit as hee would haue them Embrion A childe vnperfect in the mothers wombe Emendation An amending Emeralde A precious stone the greenest of all other for which cause it is very comfortable to the sight The best of these stones are brought out of Scythia And some affirme them to bee taken out of the Griffons neastes who doe keepe this stone with great crueltie It is found by experience as Albertus writeth that if the Emerald be good it inclineth the bearer thereof to chastitie and cannot endure the action of lust There is also a disease sounding neere this word for which see Hemorrhode Eminence Highnes dignitie honour Eminent High lofty honourable Emmanuel An Hebrew word expressing the dignity of our Sauiour and is interpreted God with vs. Emolument Profit gaine aduantage Empannelâ— To make vp a iurie of twelue or more men Emphasis An expresse or most plaine signification of ones mind Emphaticall That which is vttered with most expresse signification in such sort that it setteth forth to the full the intent of the speaker Empiricke A physition that getteth skill by his owne practise Emplaster A plaister or salue made of herbes powders and oyle boyled together Empleade To sue one Emprimed A terme vsed by hunters when a Hart first forsaketh the heard Empyriall heauen The highest heauen aboue the firmament so called by a Greeke name because of the bright shining of it Emulate To enuie to striue to doe as another doth Emulation Enuie an earnest desire to doe as an other doth Enarration A telling or declaring Enchiridion It is commonly taken for a little booke which one may stil carrie in his hand Encomium A praise Encroche To creepe or presse vpon a man vnlawfully to get more then his due Encrochment A law terme when one man vnlawfully presseth too farre vpon another as in setting his pale oo farre vpon anothers land the more to enlarge his owne or in taking more rent then is due Endorse To write on the outside of a Letter Endorsed A terme of Herauldrie when two beastes are painted with their backs turned to each other Energeticall Very forcible and strong Energie Force vertue strength * Enewed Made new Enfranchise To make free to admit or receiue one into any corporation Enfranchisement A making free Enhance To aduance or make greater Enigma A riddle a darke speech Enigmaticall Obscure darke hard to vnderstand spoken in a riddle * Enmoised Comforted Enormitie A going out of rule a great disorder Enormous Wicked very bad Enquest A Iury of twelue or moe men Ensigne A banner borne in warres a flagge or any ornament seruing for a marke of some dignitie Entalented Ingrafted Enthymeme A terme of Logick It signifieth an imperfect syllogisme which wanteth either the Maior or Minor as for example Euery sinne deserueth correction Euery theft is a sinne Therefore euery theft deserueth correction Now if wee will leaue the first part called the Maior and say thus Euery theft is a sinne Therefore Euery theft deserueth correction Or omit the second part named the Minor and say Euery sinne deserueth correction therefore euery theft deserueth correction Then it is called an Enthymeme to wit a keeping in the minde for so the word properly signifieth because one of these parts is vnderstood in the minde
Geomancie is a kinde of diuination practised by making prickes and lines in the earth as the name in Greeke signifieth So Hydromancie is a diuination made by some apparition in water as Varro writeth that a Boy saw in water one bearing the forme of Mercurie who foretold in one hundred and fiftie verses the euent of the warre which the Romans had with King Mithridates Pyromancie is a diuination made by the fire or spirits appearing in the fire Coscinomancie is a ridiculous kinde of diuination made with a sieue which at this day is vsed by some simple women and appeareth to bee of antiquitie for in the third Idylle of Theocritus there is mention made hereof Palmistrie or Chiromancie is a diuination practised by looking vpon the lines of the fingers and hands an art still in vse among fortune tellers Egyptians and iuglers Besides these there were also other diuinations as namely Acromancie that which is gathered by apparitions in the aire Capnomancie by the flying of smoake Catoptromancie by visions shewne in a glasse All which beeing euen by the Pagans themselues accounted deceitfull and vaine it remaineth that of Christians they be vtterly reiected and abhorred Diuorce A separation of man and wife which was as our Sauiour witnesseth first permitted by Moses vnto the Israelites for the hardnesse of their hearts that men might rather put their wiues away whome they grew wearie of than vse them with too great extremitie to shorten their liues as many did The woman so diuorced was to haue of her husband a writing as Iosephus witnesseth to this effect I promise that hereafter I will lay no claime to thee And this writing was called a bil of diuorce But with Christians this custome is abrogated sauing onely in case of adulterie The auncient Romanes also had a custome of diuorce and amongst them it was as lawfull for the wiues to put away their husbands as for the husband to dismisse his wife but amongst the Israelites this prerogatiue was onely permitted to the husband Diureticall That which is of vertue to cause one to make water Diumall Of or belonging to a day Also a booke wherein daily actions or accounts are set downe Diuturmitie Long continuance Diuulge To publish or tell abroad Diuulgation A telling or reporting abroad Docibilitie See docilitie Docible See docill Docill Easie to bee taught one that wil soone learne Docilitie Aptnesse quicknesse of vnderstanding Document A lesson an instruction Dogdayes Certain dayes in Iuly and August so called of the Starre Canis the Dogge which then rising with the Sun doeth greatly increase the heate thereof Dogmaticall Which is held or maintained in som mens opinion Dole Sorrow heauinesse griefe sometimes almes giuen to many poore folkes Dolefull Heauie sorrowfull Dolorous Greeuous painefull Dolphine A fish friendlie to man and especially to children the Females of this fish haue breasts like to women which are well stored with milke They are very faithfull to one another and bring foorth yong ones like whelpes after tenne moneths and in Sommer time They sometime breake foorth of the Sea but presently die as soone as they touch land Doome A sentence pronounced a iudgement Doomesman A Iudge Domesticall One of the house or any thing belonging to the house Domesticke See Domesticall Domineere To beare rule or great sway Dominicall Belonging to sunday or our Lordes day Dominion Lordship rule Donarie A gift properly that which is hanged vp in a Church Donation A giuing Donee Hee to whom a thing is giuen or granted Donour A giuer Dormant Sleeping Dormitorie A place to sleepe in or that which hath vertue to make one sleepe Dorter A cell or chamber vsed onely for religious men to sleepe in Dowager A Widdow Princesse hauing dowrie in the countrey which was in subiection to her deceased husband Doulcets The stones of a Hart or Stag. Drachme See dram Dramme A smal weight the eight part of an ounce It conteineth in it three scruples euery scruple beeing of the weight of twentie Wheate cornes so that a dramme is the iust weight of 60. cornes of wheate Drerie Sorrowfull lamentable Dromedarie A kinde of camel hauing two bunches on the backe which is very swift and can trauell two or three daies without drinke Drone An idle Bee that will not labour Druides Ancient Pagane Priests in France which liued naked in woods giuing themselues to the study of Philosophy and auoyding all company so much as they might They were of such estimation among the people that all controuersies were referred to their determination and a great penaltie laid on such as disobeied their sentence They beleeued the immortalitie of soules but supposed with Pythagoras that they still passed by death from one body to another Dryades Nymphs of the woods so called of the Greek word Drys which signifieth an Oake Duall Of or belonging to two Dubious Doubtfull Dubitable Doubtfull Dulia Seruire a worship done to Angels and Saints Duplication A doubling Duplicitie Doublenesse Durabilitie Long continuance Dwale An hearb of cold operation hauing power to make one sleepe some call it Nightshade E EAglet A yong Eagle Ebene A tree which groweth in Ethiopia bearing neither leaues nor fruit It is blacke and hath no graine like other wood and is sharp byting in tast Being burned it yeildeth a pleasant smell neither is the smoake thereof offensiue but the greene wood is so full of sap that it will flame like a candle It is good against many diseases of the eyes That which groweth in India is spotted with white and yellow being not in such estimation as the Ethiopian Ebene is Ebionits Certaine olde Heretikes which affirmed that Christ was not before his mother the B. Virgin Against these Heretickes Saint Iohn writ his Gospel after he returned from his banishment in the I le Pathmos Ebonie See Ebene Ebrictie Drunkennesse Eccho A rebounding or sounding backe of any noyse or voyce in a wood valley or hollow place Poets feine that this Eccho was a Nymphc so called which beeing reiected of one whom she loued pyned away for sorrow in the woods where her voyce still remaineth answering the outcryes of all complaints Ecclesiasticall Of or belonging to the Church Ecclesiasticus Of or belonging to a Preacher The name of a Booke in the olde Testament is so called Eclipse A fayling or want of any thing Commonly it signifieth a want of light and there be two such Eclipses namely of the Moone and of the Sunne Eclipse of the Moone neuer happeneth but at the full Moone neither then alwaies but whē she is in such a point that the shadow of the earth depriueth her of the Sunne beames from whence she taketh her light Eclipse of the Sunne is not so vsuall and happeneth only at the change of the Moone namely when the Moone being betweene the Sunne and vs doth with her dark body hide part of her light from vs which was the cause that Dionysius Areopagita seeing the Sunne so admirably eclipsed at our Sauiours
the stronger of the two and next vnto the scull The other named Pia mater is within this first being more tender and fine and close wrapping the braine it selfe If any of these skinnes bee wounded it causeth speedy death Menstruous Which hath vpon her the monthly courses or which belongeth to them Mensuration A measuring Mentall That which is only thought in the mind Mercenarie 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 Metaphysickes dealeth onely with incorporall and euerlasting things and in this sense schoole Diuinitie is the highest part of the Metaphysickes being chiefly occupied in contemplatory knowledge of God angels and soules of men Meteore Any imperfect mixt substance ingendred in the aire as raine snow haile thunder lightening blazing starres cloudes and winde all which are made of vapours or exhalations drawen 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 adiunct or contrarily Metropolitan The chiefe or mother city An Archbishop 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 Midriffe A sinewie skin passing ouerthwarte in mans body which diuideth the heart and lungs from the stomacke guttes and liuer lest the vitall parts should be offended with any ill vapour comming from them Migraine A disease comming by fits either 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 Militarie Warlike or belonging to Warre Mimicall That which belongeth to scoffing behauiour or wanton gesture Mimicke A wanton iester a counterfet foole Minatorie Threatening Minerall Mettall or any thing digged out of the earth Miniature A small proportion a little figure Miniuer A fine white Furre made of the bellies of Squirrils some say it is the skinne of a little white Vermine breeding in Muscouia Minor The lesser the yonger Minoritie A mans time before he be of full age in the law to dispose of his goodes and lands Minotaure A poeticall monster halfe like a man halfe like a Bull. This monster was kept in the Labyrinth of Candie 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 fellonie or treason but not so capitall as fellonie 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 Missiue That which witnesseth ones being sent Mistleden A plant which hath slender branches and greene thicke 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 colde hard swellings Misy A kind 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 whome it taketh the name It is of singular vertue against poison and hath so many and strong simples in it that it ought not to be taken inwardly before it be aboue sixe moneths olde Mitigate To asswage or pacifie Mitigation A pacifying an asswaging Mittimus A warrant made to conuey an offender to prison Mixture A mingling Mobilitie Aptnes to moue Moderate Measurable temperate also to gouerne or temper with discretion Moderation A due proportion temperance good discretion Moderator A discreet gouernour he 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 Moitie 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 Idoll 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 Momentanie 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 Monasterie 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 sell 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 waywardnesse 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