224 Bacon 



Hall, Henry VI., anno 26, &quot; By this praty cautele and slight 

 imposture was the town taken.&quot; 



&quot; So now no soil, nor cautel doth besmirch 

 The virtue of his will.&quot; SHAKES., Hamlet, i. 3. 



CEASE, 32, used transitively, &quot; to cease progression,&quot; equivalent to 

 &quot; put a stop to.&quot; 



CENSURE, 207, =to be kept under censorship not = blame. 



CEREMONIES, 120, used of superstitious usages, intended to invoke 

 the aid of spirits. So Shakespere, Jul. CCBS. ii. i : 

 &quot; For he is superstitious grown of late, 

 Quite from the main opinion he held once 

 Of phantasy, of dreams, and ceremonies.&quot; 



CIVIL ESTATE, 2, condition as member of a civitas. The highest use 

 of the term is now almost, it not entirely, gone. See Trench, 

 Glos. verbo. A &quot; civil opinion, &quot;= received, 119. 



CHAMPAIGN, 99, plain land locus campestris. In Bacon s day both 

 a substantive and (as here) an adjective. 



CIRCUMFER, 85, almost = transfer, a rare verb, though its sense is 

 plain enough, and its derivative common. 



COARCTATION, restraint. 



COEVALS, 80, coincident in point of time used as a substantive. 

 Hakewill, Apologie, &quot; taunted at by his coevals.&quot; 



COLLIQUATION, 93, melting opposed (by Sir T. Brown, Vulgar 

 Errors, Bk. ii. c. i) to coagulation. 



COLUMBINE, 165, dove-like the innocency of the dove, as opposed 

 to &quot; serpentine wisdom.&quot; This is the only instance of the use of 

 this adjective. 



COMPASS, 1 27, = (now) a pair of compasses. By the change of use 

 we distinguish between this instrument and the mariner s compass. 



COMPASS-REACHES, 192. This compound is not noticed in Richard 

 son. Its sense is that of roundabout steps taken towards the 

 accomplishment of any object reaching forth to compass it. 



COMPLEXION, 1 34, = (probably) temperament or disposition. The 

 word has now been degraded from the inward parts of a thing 

 or person to the tint of the outward countenance. The transition 

 is marked in Richardson (quoting Cook s Voyages, vol. i. c. 10), 

 &quot; without the least appearance of what is called complexion &quot; 

 where he is speaking of a man s skin as dead white, without colour. 



CONFECTIONARY, 170, the maker of confections, not the confections 

 made. So i Sam. viii. 13, &quot; He will take your daughters to be 

 confectionaries. The word confection is not rightly limited to sweet 

 stuff. Bacon here uses it as equal to apothecary (a word formed in 

 the same manner) and in mediaeval Latin the apothecary was 

 confectionarius. Comfit is derived from the same source. 



CONSCIENT, 1 88,= conscious. Richardson does not acknowledge 

 the existence of this word; but, quoting the passage whence it 

 comes, alters it to conscious. 



CONSIST IN, 119, = depend upon. Richardson quotes Ford 



&quot; Tho the use 



Of such set entertainments more consists 

 In custom, than in cause; yet,&quot; etc. 



