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arising from excess of these; and so Bacon here uses it; &quot; the 

 censure of humour, malignity, and pusillanimity &quot; where it is not 

 = ill-humour in our sense, but rather = a diseased or jaundiced 

 condition of mind. We apply the word in medicine to a moist 

 diseased state of the body: in common language, to good and ill 

 humour, or a cheerful or morose condition of temper; and to a 

 quality of mind, difficult to define a deep, almost solemn, sense 

 of the incongruities which coexist in the world. &quot; The humorous 

 man (i.e. the melancholy man) shall end his part in peace.&quot; 

 Hamlet, ii. 2. 



ILLAQUEATION, 131, 146,= entanglement. The chief part of the 

 glossary under this letter must be taken up with Latin words which 

 entered into our language, when learned men began to use it 

 instead of Latin for literary purposes. The early part of the 

 seventeenth century, under a pedantic king, was the time when 

 this transition was most marked. As the English tongue gathered 

 strength by greater use in philosophical writings, it threw off 

 these excrescences of unnatural words, and we are rid of con 

 siderable numbers of them. 



IMAGINANT, io8,=person who imagines a good word, though 

 perhaps not now in actual use. 



IMBAR, $8,=bar or hinder. 



IMBASE (or embase), 30, 78, 103, 196, 217, =to lower, degrade; 

 almost = debase. 



IMPERTINENT, 97,=out of place, according to the acceptance of the 

 word among other writers. 



IMPOSTHUMATION, H4,=tumour or cyst formed in any part of the 

 body by the humours withdrawn from the other parts. 



IMPROFICIENCE, 97,=want or absence of progress. 



INCEPTION, 160, 17 5,= beginning. 



INDIFFERENT, 17,= impartial. Thence it came naturally to = 

 moderate; thence, of course, lukewarm and careless. So hard is 

 it for one who feels to help being a partisan and so rare is a 

 really impartial and judicial spirit. 



INFIRM, I3i,=to deprive of strength. Used by Bacon as the 

 opposite of affirm. The method of Socrates, he says, was to 

 &quot; -infirm that which was affirmed by another.&quot; 



INFLUENCE INTO, 207, used in a sense of its derivation, as of one 

 stream flowing into another. 



INGURGITATION, 114, =a greedy swallowing. So Burton, Anatomy 

 of Mel. (p. 235), has, &quot; to eat and ingurgitate beyond all measure.&quot; 



INQUIRE, 115, used as our &quot; inquire into.&quot; 



INSATISFACTION, 17 3, = disappointment or absence of satisfaction. 



INSINUATION, 83, = bending of oneself, so as to correspond with the 

 form of a thing (not in a bad sense). 



INTEND, 180, 2oi,=attend to. 



INTRINSIC, 31, = internal (not as now = real). 



INVENT, I22,=discover (invenire) ; the wider use of the term, now 

 limited to the productions of man s ingenuity and skill. 



JOCULARLY, 117,= pertaining to jugglery, to which form it has been 



