Glossary 229 



NON-PROM OVENT, 144. This is not Latin, as one edition seems to 

 make it, but an English word, formed after the type of such 

 compounds as non-proficient, non-conforming, etc. Bacon himself 

 interprets it by &quot; incurring into themselves.&quot; The meaning is= 

 &quot; not advancing &quot; as are arguments in circulo. 



OCCUPATE, io8,=occupy. Used as an adjective in 2 21,= occupied. 



PAINFUL, 201,== painstaking, industrious here and elsewhere an 

 epithet of the clergy. 



PALLIATE, 113,= palliated, or mitigated. 



PANTOMIMUS, in, the person, not the thing. See Trench s 

 Glossary. 



PARCEL, = part. 



PARTICIPLES, 86, =partaking of more kinds than one; used 

 generally and not solely of grammar. 



PASQUIL, 47,= pasquinade, or lampoon (from an image at Rome, to 

 which libels and satires were affixed). 



PED ANTES, 10, 17. This word was written thus by Bacon as a 

 foreign word (Italian or Spanish, probably the latter), newly 

 introduced into the English tongue and not acclimatised. It does 

 not seem to carry its modern notion of affectation joined with 

 learning, in the use Bacon makes of the word pedantical (p. 151). 



PERCASE, 172,= perchance. 



PLY, 198. This word is again used as a substantive by Bacon in 

 the Essay on Custom: &quot; Late learners cannot so well take the 

 ply; except it be in some minds, that have not suffered them 

 selves to fix.&quot; Where we see the same sense as in the compound 

 apply the bending or turning the mind to any matter. In this 

 passage Bacon uses the word as almost purpose : &quot; can bring 

 occasion to their ply,&quot; i.e. &quot; can bend circumstances to their 

 service,&quot; etc. 



POPULARITY, 2o8, = populousness. Sir T. Browne uses populosity 

 which, ugly as it is, would be the more correct form of the word. 



PRAGMATICAL, 1 88, = officious, busy now solely &quot;priggish,&quot; a 

 word which perhaps comes from it. See Trench s Glossary. 



PRENOTION, 106, a subdivision of that part of human science which 

 treats of the sympathy between mind and body. Also, 206, the 

 process of marking off beforehand what has no connection with 

 the subject. Used by Bacon as one of the two &quot; intentions &quot; or 

 means in the received Arts of Memory. 



PREPOSTEROUS, 201, used in its exact sense of wrong order of things. 



PRESENTION, n 8,= presentiment, or previous perception inwardly 

 of that which is about to occur. (Not in Richardson.) 



PROFICIENCE, 62, 79, 221, = a making of progress. (Profit is the 

 same word under another form.) 



PROPRIETY, 3, 208, property in its logical sense. 



PUNCTUAL, 21,= to a point thence exact even to littleness; later 

 confined to time only, in sense of accurate. See Trench s Glossary. 



PUNTO, 1 80, ( Spanish) = ceremony, punctilio. Another example of 

 the Spanish connection with England about this period of our 

 history. 



PURGAMENT, ii3,=that which purges or cleanses. 

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