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SPINOSITY, i2i, = prickliness, as of thorns. 



STATUA, 69, 167, I99,=statue. The English form was in use long 

 before Bacon s time, so that he might as well have written it 

 instead of disfiguring his text with an unnecessary Latin word. 

 Shakespere (according to Collier and Knight) wrote statue, not 

 statua, in Julius Ccesar, iii. 2, &quot; Even at the base of Pompey s 

 statua.&quot; 



STOND, 173. &quot; Knots and stands of the mind.&quot; Richardson says 

 it = standing-pi ace or station; stay, stop. It seems to be more 

 like the joints and divisions of the stem of a plant. 



SUPPEDITATION, i69,=support and supply. 



SURD, 210, almost = absurd i.e. without proper significance, 

 &quot; idolatry and magic, that are full of non-significants and surd 

 characters.&quot; So in mathematics, surds are &quot; roots incapable of 

 being exhibited in a finite form,&quot; and incommensurable. 



SYNTAX, 150,= arrangement in relation to one another. Bacon 

 uses it of the &quot; order of pursuit &quot; in which studies may be under 

 taken. 



TABLE, 47, = picture (tableau). So Holland s Pliny, xxxv. c. 9. So 

 Tablet (ibid.). 



TARRASSE, 35,=terrace. So spelt, following the pronunciation, etc., 

 of the French terrasse, or of the Spanish terrazo. 



TAX, TO, 16, 19, 21, no, 195, used absolutely, (almost = depreciated). 

 &quot; The imposter is prized, and the man of virtue taxed.&quot; So 

 Barrow, vol. iii. fer. 3, &quot; He was not like those masters of 

 philosophy, so frequently taxed and derided by the satirists.&quot; 

 Is it equivalent to &quot; taxed with folly,&quot; or (following the original 

 sense), weighed, or rated, and found wanting? So Bacon uses 

 taxation, pp. 77, 128. 



TERRENE, 39, = earthly. 



THEORY, 91, used in the original sense of Bewpia investigation, 

 chiefly of things abstract. 



THWART, 14, = perverse, twisted. The verb to thwart is in general use, 

 the adjective has now disappeared. The substantive thwart of a 

 boat (cross piece of board whereon the rowers sit), and athwart 

 are also in use. A.S. thweorian, to wrest; thweort, past participle. 

 Shakespere, King Lear, i. 4, &quot; And be a thwart disnatured 

 torment.&quot; 



TRACTATES, 202, = treatises we now have cut the word down to 

 tract, and its meaning down to a flimsy or short paper of a 

 few pages. A tractate was a complete work on some special 

 subject. 



TREACLE, 115, not our syrup of molasses, but a medicine composed 

 of viper s flesh, as an antidote to the viper s bite see note, p. 115. 



TRIVIAL, I44, = common and well-known: not in Bacon s use = 

 worthless; but (according to its derivation) of things in the 

 high-way, beaten down by many feet : the sense worthless is later. 

 Richardson notices the similarity of sense and sound with trifle; 

 but the words are not really connected. 



TYPOCOSMY, 145, = a figure or representation of the world; 



Tl/TTOS. 



