Selected quad for the lemma: tradition_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
tradition_n	art_n	logic_n	skill_v	14	3	15.4121	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28464	Glossographia, or, A dictionary interpreting all such hard words of whatsoever language now used in our refined English tongue with etymologies, definitions and historical observations on the same : also the terms of divinity, law, physick, mathematicks and other arts and sciences explicated / by T.B.	Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679.	1661 (1661)	Wing B3335; ESTC R25635	507,622	698

black and blew wan of the colour of lead also malicious envious backbiting Lividity lividitas blewness the colour appearing upon a stroke a dead earthly leaden colour Livor Lat. a black and blew mark in a body coming of a stroke or blow also blackness of the eyes coming of humors also envy malice Lixiviated from lixivia of or like or washed with Lee or Lye made of ashes Dr. Br. Lixor Lat. a Water-bearer Lizard lacertus a little beast much like our Evet but without poyson breeding in Italy and other hot Countries whose dung is good to take away spots in the eye and clear the sight And its head being bruised and laid to draws out thorns or any thing sticking in the flesh Lobbe is a great kind of North-Sea-fish An. 31. Ed. 3. Stat. 3. ca. 2. Local localis pertaining to a place It signifies in our Common Law as much as tyed or annexed to a place certain Example the thing is local and annexed to the freehold Kitch fol. 180. Locality localitas the being of a thing in a place Location locatio a placing or setting in a place Also a letting out to hire or setting out work by the great Loche See Lohoc Lococession from locus and cedo a giving place Locomotion locus and motio a moving or stirring from one place to another Dr. Br. Loculament loculamentum a little place of bords made with holes for Pigeons or Conies a Coffin for a Book also the several places wherein the seeds lye as in Poppy heads Dr. Charl. Locuplicity locuplicitas abundance of wealth Locuplete locuples rich wealthy well-stored Locust locusta a kind of flying insect or Fly which the French term Cigale of which we have none in England See Dr. Brown in his Vul. Err. lib. 5. ca. 3. There were divers kinds of these some hurtful and venemous others comodious for meat Mat. 3.4 His meat was locusts which some conceive to be the tops of herbs and plants Lodemanage is the hire of a Pilot for conducting a ship from one place to another and comes from the Dutch Loot i. lead and in the same Dutch the Pilot is called Lootsman or Pi●loo● the man of lead or casting out his lead to save the Ship from danger Min. Chaucer would have this word signifie the skill or art of Navigation See Pilot. Lodestar a Star that guides Mariners the north star Lodestone magnes a stone of the colour of rusty iron which hath an admirable vertue not onely to draw iron to it self but to make any iron on which it is rubbed to draw iron also This stone is found in the Indian Sea and in the Country Trachonitis and is of greatest use in Navigation For by it Saylers find out the certain course of their Voyage the needle in the Compass tempered herewith still standing directly towards the North and South Read more of this stone in Dr. Br. Vul. Err. l. 2. c. 2. Locution locutio a saying or speaking Lod●works one of the works belonging to the Stanaries in Cornwal for which see Cam. Brit. in the title Cornwal See Stremeworks Log the name of an Hebrew measure as the Sextarius Atticus was among the Greeks Logarithmes logarithmi a term in Mathematicks signifying numbers which being fitted to proportional numbers retain always equal differences Wingate Logick logica the Art of Logick the Art of reasoning or disputing Logick according to my Lord Bacon professes the preparation and contrivance of Aids and Forces for the understanding Arts Logical or intellectual are four Art of Enquiry or Invention Art of Examination or Judgement Art of Custody or Memory and Art of Elocution or Tradition c. See his Advancement of Learning fol. 218 219. Logician logicus one skilled or learned in the Art of Logick Logism the due and judicious understanding of a thing formerly considered and esteemed of according to reason Cot. Logist logista he that causeth presidents or notable ●ayings to be registred a caster of accounts The Logists among the Athenians saith Harpocration were ten men elected out of the Tribes to whom all such as had ended their Office of Magistracy within thirty days of their Authorities expiration were to render an account of all such affairs as they had then administration of They not onely kept account of the moneys but of all other matters that appertained to the Kings revenue c. Logistick logistice the Art of counting or reckoning the practice of Arithmetick or that part thereof which contains Addition Substraction Multiplication and Division Logographers logographi Lawyers Clerks they that write Pleas and Causes in the Law or Books of Accompt Logomachy logomachia a contention in or strife about words a verbal altercation Lohoch or Loch a Physical word and is a thick Syrrup or other soft substance or confection which must not be swallowed but suffered to melt of it self in the mouth that so it may gently slide down and thereby have the more vertue against diseases of the Brest Lungs and throat Culpepper says it is an Arabick word and simply signifies a thing to be licked up Lollard● Lollardi a Sect that abounded in England in the days of Edw. 3. and Hen. 5 An. 2. H. 5. ca. 7. of these read Stows Annals p. 425. Tritemius in his Chronicle deduces the name from one Gualter Lolhard a German as the first author of that Sect living about the year 1315. And Chilian says Lollardus fuit Alexianus Monachus Lollardus quoque dicitur Haereticus Valdersis These Lolhards were much consenting with the Wicklevites in opinions they began in time of P. Innocent the sixth and Charles the fourth Emperor of that name says another Author See their Tenets in B. Spotswoods hist of Scotl. fol. 61. As for the word Lollard retained in our Statutes since the Reformation it seems now as a generical name to signifie such who in their opinions oppose the setled Religion of the Land in which sence the Sheriffs are bound by their oath to suppress them Lombardeer an Usurer or Broaker so called from the Lombards a people of the hither part of Italy who were great Usurers they were called Lombards alias Longobards from their long Beards which they wore Hence our word Lumbar which signifies refuse Housholdstuff Lombard is also by the same reason used for a bank for Usury or Pawns Hence Lombardstreet which is still full of Goldsmiths and Moneyers See Causines Lome lutum dirt mud or morter Longevity longaevitas long or old age Longanimity longanimitas long-suffering patience forbearance In Divinity it is thus defined Longanimity is an untired confidence of mind in respecting the good things of the life to come Longinquity longinquitas long distance of place length of time continuance long lasting or long life Longitude longitudo length of place time or any other thing The Longitude of a Star is the arch of the Ecliptick contained between the beginning of Aries and the circle of the stars latitude In Geography the longitude of a place