230 Bacon 



QUIT, i82,=acquit. So in the Bible, A.V. &quot; Quit you like men.&quot; 

 i Cor. xvi. 13. 



REDARGUTION, 64, 131,= refutation. 



RE-EDIFY, 46, = rebuild. The verb edify being used in its original 



signification, as edifice still is. 

 REGIMENT, 2, 108, 173, = rule, government (regimen) When did 



the technical use of the term for a body of men under strict 



government first obtain? Dryden uses it. 

 REINTEGRATE, 90, 138,= re-establish anew. (Not merely to renew, 



but to go back to the beginning as Bacon uses it of the term 



magia which he proposes to &quot; revive and reintegrate,&quot; i.e. to 



bring back to its original sense.) 

 RELUCTATION, 37, 155, 209,= resistance. We use reluctant still, of 



one struggling against what he dislikes, yet is driven to. 

 REMORA, 97 (remorare, mora), a little fish, as was thought, which, 



clinging to a ship s keel, stayed her course. Thence metaphor of 



any hindrance. 



&quot; All sodainly there clove unto her keele 



A little fish, that men call remora, 

 Which stopt her course, and held her by the heele, 

 That winde nor tide could move her thence away.&quot; 



SPENSER, The World s Vanitie. 

 REMOVE, 200,= removal. 

 RESPECTIVE, i,=respectful (almost) more exactly, having due 



respect or regard to the worth of the person dealt with. The 



honour which would be respective to a king would scarcely be 



respective to a squire. 



SAD, 1 8 1, = grave, firm, and fixed; derived from the A.-S. fat so 

 that sad is that which is set or fixed ; then grave or sedate ; then 

 serious, mournful. See French s Glossary. 



SAKE, 29 (if the reading be correct), either side (which has been 

 suggested as an emendation), or = quest following its derivation 

 from the verb seek, &quot; on the other sake &quot; would then be &quot; on the 

 other side of the investigation,&quot; referring to Aristotle s two 

 treatises one on Natural History, the other (attributed to him) 

 of Prodigies, etc. 



SAPIENCE, 36,= wisdom. 



SCHOLASTIC AL, 49,= pedantic, not necessarily in a bad sense. 



SECURED, = free from care or hindrance (?). 



SEEN, TO BE WELL, m,=to be esteemed. 



SEGREGATE, 178, as opposed to congregate, or aggregate separated 

 part from part. 



SEVER, TO, i78,=to be disjoined, or dissevered; &quot;seldom meet, 

 and commonly sever.&quot; 



SLUG, TO, 97,=to render sluggish; slug is from the same root as 

 slow. 



SOLUTE, 2i4,=loose and unrestrained. 



SORT, 185, 211. &quot; In sort that &quot; we now use &quot; in such sort.&quot; 



SORTABLE, 48, = agreeable to, corresponding with. 



SPIAL, 65, = spy. Shakespere uses espial, Hamlet, iii. i. 



