Francis Bacon - The Essays 1601

GLOSSARY: A GLOSSARY OF ARCHAIC WORDS AND PHRASES

• Abridgment: miniature

• Absurd: stupid, unpolished

• Abuse: cheat, deceive

• Aculeate: stinging

• Adamant: loadstone

• Adust: scorched

• Advoutress: adultress

• Affect: like, desire

• Antic: clown

• Appose: question

• Arietation: battering-ram

• Audit: revenue

• Avoidance: secret outlet

• Battle: battalion

• Bestow: settle in life

• Blanch: flatter, evade

• Brave: boastful

• Bravery: boast, ostentation

• Broke: deal in brokerage

• Broken: shine by comparison

• Broken music: part music

• Cabinet: secret

• Calendar: weather forecast

• Card: chart, map

• Care not to: are reckless

• Cast: plan

• Cat: cate, cake

• Charge and adventure: cost and risk

• Check with: interfere

• Chop: bandy words

• Civil: peaceful

• Close: secret, secretive

• Collect: infer

• Compound: compromise

• Consent: agreement

• Curious: elaborate

• Custom: import duties

• Deceive: rob Derive: divert

• Difficileness: moroseness

• Discover: reveal

• Donative: money gift

• Doubt: fear Equipollent: equally powerful

• Espial: spy

• Estate: state Facility: of easy persuasion

• Fair: rather

• Fame: rumor

• Favor: feature

• Flashy: insipid

• Foot-pace: lobby

• Foreseen: guarded against

• Froward: stubborn

• Futile: babbling

• Globe: complete body

• Glorious: showy, boastful

• Humorous: capricious

• Hundred poll: hundredth head

• Impertinent: irrelevant

• Implicit: entangled

• In a mean: in moderation

• Insmoother: suppressed

• Indifferent: impartial

• Intend: attend to

• Knap: knoll

• Leese: lose

• Let: hinder

• Loose: shot

• Lot: spell

• Lurch: intercept

• Make: profit, get

• Manage: train

• Mate: conquer

• Material: business-like

• Mere-stone: boundary stone

• Muniting: fortifying

• Nerve: sinew

• Obnoxious: subservient, liable

• Oes: round spangles

• Pair: impair

• Pardon: allowance

• Passable: mediocre

• Pine-apple-tree: pine

• Plantation: colony

• Platform: plan

• Plausible: praiseworthy

• Point device: excessively precise

• Politic: politician

• Poll: extort

• Poser: examiner

• Practice: plotting

• Preoccupate: anticipate

• Prest: prepared

• Prick: plant

• Proper: personal

• Prospective: steroscope

• Proyne: prune

• Purprise: enclosure

• Push: pimple

• Quarrel: pretext

• Quech: flinch

• Reason: principle

• Recamera: retiring-room

• return: reaction

• Return: wing running back

• Rise: dignity

• Round: straight

• Save: account for

• Scantling: measure

• Seel: blind shrewd: mischievous

• Sort: associate

• Spial: spy

• Staddle: sapling

• Steal: do secretly

• Stirp: family

• Stond: stop, stand

• Stove: hot-housed

• Style: title

• Success: outcome

• Sumptuary law: law against extravagance

• Superior globe: the heavens

• Temper: proportion

• Tendering: nursing

• Tract: line, trait

• Travel: travail, labor

• Treaties: treatises

• Trench to: touch T

• rivial: common

• Turquet: Turkish dwarf

• Under foot: below value

• Unready: untrained

• Usury: interest

• Value: certify

• Virtuous: able

• Votary: vowed

• Wanton: spoiled

• Wood: maze

• Work: manage, utilize .