Glossary 225 



CONTENTATION, = contentment. 



CONTESTATIONS, i8,=contests, contentions. 



CONTINENT, io5, = the whole extent of anything. So here &quot; the 

 continent of Nature&quot; is &quot;all that comes within the limits of 

 Nature.&quot; 



CONTESTATION, 4,=trouble or distress. In Eccles. i. 18, the word 

 which Bacon englishes by contristation, the Authorized Version 

 renders grief. 



COPIE, 24, 126, 1 3 5, = plenty a French word imported into England 

 in the sixteenth century. We still retain its adjective copious 

 and copy is really another form of the same word, though its 

 usage is different. To copy is &quot; copiam facere exscribendi,&quot; and 

 perhaps carries us back to the days of the multiplication of 

 &quot; copies &quot; of books by the hand. See Dean Trench s Glossary. 

 There is a curious use of the word in p. 182 &quot; howsoever a man 

 change copy, he can no ways quit himself well of it &quot; (of contending 

 with a fool). The Latin simply has &quot; quocunque nos vertamus.&quot; 



CORROBORATE, i7,=strong, matured. 



DECARDED, 103, = discarded de or dis carta, to throw away one s 

 hand at cards. Richardson quotes Macklin s Dumb Knight, 

 &quot; Indeed, mine are two queens, and one, I ll throw away 

 Can you decard, madam? &quot; 



DEDUCEMENTS, i86,=deductions. 



DEFUNCT, 122, a substantive, now only used as an adjective. 



DESIGNMENTS, 19,= intentions. 



DESTITUTED, 1 06, = abandoned. 



DEVOTE, 34, = devoted (not devout, as one ed. reads it), given up to 

 any matter then (especially) to the worship of God. 



DIFFICILE, 179, = difficult. 



DIGLADIATION, 27,=fencing, with swords, properly: thence with 

 sharp instruments as the tongue. 



DILATATION, 96, power of expansion. Bacon, in saying that God 

 is &quot; Holy in the description or dilatation of his works,&quot; seems to 

 use these words as synonyms, whereas they are more properly 

 used, dilatation of the expansion of the thing itself; description 

 of the limitation of the thing by investigators. 



DISCOURSE, 23, 186. See Trench s Glossary, &quot; Might have received 

 large discourse,&quot; illustration or investigation of a subject. So 

 again, &quot; discourse of government,&quot; &quot; discourse of business,&quot; and 

 &quot; discourse of reason,&quot; are all phrases used by Bacon in the 

 original sense of the word, springing out of the Latin discursus 

 the passing from thought to thought, subject to subject; or, 

 as in logic, from premise to conclusion; and thence the word 

 descends to the modern usage of discussion by talk. There is 

 a curious usage of discoursing in p. 97, where Bacon uses it (unless 

 some words have been omitted) as = final causes. 



DROUMY, 203,= disturbed, troubled, &quot;to fish in droumy waters.&quot; 

 The Latin has &quot; in aquis turbidis piscari.&quot; The word is not found 

 in Richardson s dictionary, nor can I trace its history. 



DULCENESS, 1 97,= sweetness. I find no other example of this 

 substantive, though dulcet and the verb to dulce are not un 

 common in old writers. (This substantive is not in Richardson.) 



