

GLOSSARY 



OF WORDS EITHER OBSOLETE OR USED IN SENSES NOT NOW ALLOWED 



(The numbers refer to the pages) 



ACCEPTION, 90,= acceptation. 



ACCOMMODATE, 113, an adjective in use in Bacon s day, but here 



equivalent to the participle and almost = adjusted. 

 ADVENTIVE, 9 2,= adventitious from the verb to advene, which is 



also obsolete. 



AFFECTS, 107, = affections not used here with any sense of in 

 sincerity. 



AMBAGES, 90, 101, &quot; ambiguities of speech, subterfuges, evasions: &quot; 

 Richardson, who quotes Chaucer, 



&quot; And but if Calcas lede us with ambages, 

 That is to saine, with double words slie,&quot; etc. 



Trail, and Cress. Bk. v. 



Bacon uses the word according to its derivation ambe (d/j.^1), 

 agere (&yei.v) &quot; nature worketh by ambages,&quot; i.e. circuitous 

 paths. 



ANTIPODES, 12, of the dwellers on the other side of the earth, not of 

 that other side itself. So Holland, Plinie, B. ii. c. 65, &quot;The 

 Antipodes should marvaile why we fell not down.&quot; 

 APPROMPT, 129, to stir up, quicken. 



ASPERSION, 38, 168, sprinkling, now used chiefly, if not entirely 

 metaphorically, and in a bad sense then frequently in a good, 

 &quot; No sweet aspersions shall the heavens let fall.&quot; 



SHAKES., Tempest, iv. i. 



ATTEND, 185, used actively, &quot; I have attended them with observa 

 tions.&quot; 



BIRD-WITTED, 151, incapable of continuous attention. Bp. Fisher 

 uses the compound gross-witted Hall, subtil-witted. (Not in 

 Richardson.) 



BLANCH, i5o,=blink, to avoid or evade; also blench. So Shake- 

 spere, Measure for M. iv. 5. &quot; Do you blench from this? &quot; 



BRIBER, 184, here a receiver, not a giver, of bribes. This agrees 

 with the origin of the word (see Richardson) be-reaver, or be- 

 robber, the original usage being = thief. So, as the word changed 

 meaning, it became &quot; a receiver of unlawful gain.&quot; Then in 

 modern English it is transferred to the agent who bribes. 



CAPTION, 131, quibbling and deceit used in fallacies. 

 CARNOSITIES, 114, a mediaeval term, for growth of fleshy substances, 



as wens. (The word is not noticed in Richardson.) 

 CAUTELS, 165, tricks and frauds the word having drifted away from 



cautela, while caution has continued to represent the Latin. So 



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