GLOSSARY, 7% 366 
Allusive, adj. Figurative: p. 102, 1, 22, 28. Todd quotes from South 
(Serm. ii. 276), ‘ The foundation of all parables, is some analogy or simili- 
_tude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable, and the thing 
couched under it and intended by it 
Almost, adv. Apparently in the sense of ‘most of all,’ or ‘ generally’: 
p- 163, 1. 11. Bacon uses it in the same way in Essay xliii. p. 176; 
‘Neither is it almost seene, that very beautifull persons, are otherwise of 
great vertue.’ 
Aloft, adv. Upwards: p. 89, 1. 6. 
Ambages, sb, Circuitous ways or methods: p. 111, 1. 6; p. 124, 1. 18. 
Compare Bale, Image of both Churches (p. 260, Parker Soc.) ; ‘Evident’ 
will these secret mysteries be unto him, which are privily hid unto other 
under dark ambages and parables.’ 
Amplification, sb, Exaggeration: p. 3,1.17. Shakespeare uses ‘ ampli- 
fied’ in the sense of ‘ exaggerated’ in Coriolanus, v. 2. 16: 
‘His fame unparallel’d, haply, amplified.’ 
Anatomy, sb. A body used for dissection: p. 80, 1. 18; p. 138, ll. 16, 28; 
p-. 139, l. 17. 
Animosity, sb. Courage: p. 133, 1. 12. Cotgrave (Fr. Dict.) gives, 
‘Animosité: f. Animositie, stoutnesse, courage, metall, boldnesse, resolution, 
hardinesse.’ 
Anointment, sb. Anointing: p. 83, 1. 5. 
Answerable, adj. Corresponding: p. 93, 1. 29; p. 162, 1.9. Compare 
Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, ii. 1. 361: 
‘Six score fat oxen standing in my stalls, 
And all things answerable to this portion.’ 
Ant (p. 151, 1. 28), a feminine noun, as in Prov. vi. 6. 
Antistrophe, sb. Literally, that part of a song sung by a chorus of 
dancers when they retraced their steps in the dance. It corresponds to a 
previous ‘strophe,’ Bacon uses it of ‘correspondence’ generally: p. 131, 
1, 22. 
Antiques, sb, Grotesque figures: p. 25, 1. 24. Compare Shakespeare, 
Much Ado, iii. 1. 63: \ 
‘If black, why, Nature, drawing of an antique, 
Made a foul blot.’ 
Apace, adv. Swiftly: p. 15, 1. 8. 
Apparently, adv. Openly, manifestly: p. 127, 1. 7. Compare Shake- 
speare, Comedy of Errors, iv. 1. 78: 
‘I would not spare my brother in this case, 
If he should scorn me so apparently.’ 
Application, sb, Appliance: p. 21, 1. 3. Accommodation, adaptation: 
p- 192, 1. 30; p. 204, Il. 6,15, 24. Comp. p. 204, L 23, ‘which is 
that properly which we call accommodating or applying.’ See also p. 26, 
1, 25. 
Apply, v.i. To accommodate, adapt oneself: p. 204, 1. 26. Used re- 
flexively, p. 24, 1. 10. ‘To: apply ones selfe to others, is good: so it 
be with demonstrations that a man doth it upon regard, and not upon 
-facilitie’ Essay lii. p. 211. Used transitively in the sense of, to devote 
oneself to: p. 41, 1. 1. 
Apprompt, v.¢, To prompt: p. 156, 1. 32. 
