228 Bacon 



contracted in course of time. The joculator in low Latin was the 

 merry-.andrew, or juggler (jocus). 



JURISCONSULTS, 69, = lawyers professors of law; being the Latin 

 word simply transferred into the English tongue. 



LEESE, 30, 59, 62, 148, 168, 198. This is the old spelling of the 



same verb as &quot; to lose &quot; ; akin to it are loss, less, to loose. In p. 



30, Bacon uses it as equivalent to waste, or diminish a thing; in 



pp. 59, 148, = to lose. (So, too, the termination less comes from 



this verb blame-Jess, etc.) ; so Germ, los, free. 

 LEVANT, THE, 2o,=the East, not part of the Mediterranean sea. 

 LIDGER, I92,=legate (a corrupt form of the word not noticed by 



Richardson) . In Bailey s Diet, it is spelt ledger. 

 LIKER, 49, = more likely. 



LIMNED, 24,= illuminated; the derivation being the same. 

 LUST, 85, used by Bacon of Poesy, which &quot; is as a plant that cometh 



of the lust of the earth.&quot; so used as nearly equivalent to its 



German meaning. 



MACHINATION, 40, = machine. The bad sense of the term is met with 

 early. Richardson quotes Sandy s Psalms, p. 96, 



&quot; How long will you machinate, 

 Persecute with ceaseless hate! &quot; 



MAGISTRAL, 34,= our dogmatic. 



MAGISTRALITIES, 115. Magistery was a term used by chemists. 

 Paracelsus describes it thus &quot; a preparation whereby the whole 

 or very near the whole of any body, by the help of some addita- 

 ment, greater or less, is turned into a body of another kind.&quot; 

 (Boyle, Works, i. p. 637.) This explains Bacon s use of the term; 

 but in p. 103, he uses it as almost equivalent to dogmatism. 



MANIABLE, 14, = manageable, tractable (through the French manier, 

 from manus). This French form of the word never took root. 



MANURED, 68, 151. The same word as manoeuvre ceuvre into ure. 

 To manure, then, is to work by hand, or cultivate first land, then 

 intellects. Richardson quotes Bishop Hall, who, in one of his j 

 Satires, Bk. v. Sat. i. speaks of &quot; many a load of marie and j 

 manure.&quot; This brings in the modern usage of the term a very 

 restricted and debased use. 



MIRABILARIES, 71, works containing things marvellous. (?) Note 

 books of Marvels. 



MOE, 1 8, 136. See Richardson, v. More. Bacon uses the word as a 

 comparative. It is (according to the etymologists) that which is 

 mow-en, or mow-ed, into a heap (mawan, to mow, A.S.). Then 

 mo; mo-er, (more); mo-est, (most). Our much is a derivation of 

 mo mickle. The general use of the word is comparative and 

 more. 



MORAL, 2 1 , = (perhaps) customary a Latinised use &quot; secundum 

 morem &quot; deriving the adjective from the singular, not from the j 

 plural of mos. 



MORIGERATION, 21, =complaisance or compliance; &quot; morem gerere I 

 alicui,&quot; to humour him. 



MOUGHT, 78, 79, H3,=might. 



