350 | GLOSSARY. oy aie 
Extensive, adj. Capable of being extended: p. 31, 1. 13. Compare 
demonstrative. 
Extenuate, v.4. To lessen, depreciate: p. 13, 1. 6. ‘ Extenuating and 
blasting of your merit.’ Bacon, Letter of Advice to Essex (Works, ix. 41). 
‘Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, 
Nor set aught down in malice.’ 
Shakespeare, Oth. v. 2. 342. 
Extern, adj. External: p. 106, 1. 16; p. 199, |. 20. 
‘When my outward action doth demonstrate 
The native act and figure of my heart 
In compliment extern.’ Shakespeare, Oth, i, 1. 63. 
Extinguish, v.i. To be extinguished: p. 92, 1. 27. 
Extinguishment, sb. Extinction; P. re Lax. 
Eixtirper, sb. An extirpator: p. 52,1 
Extreme, adv. Extremely: p. 243, i 16. ‘ Acting in song, especially 
in dialogues, hath an extreme good grace.’ Essay xxxvii. p. 156, 
1, Io. 
Extremely, adv. ‘Most extremely compounded’=compounded in the 
most extreme degree: p. 134, |. 8. 
Exulceration, sb. An ulcer: p. 68, 1. 32. 
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Face out, v.¢. To confront boldly, brazen out: p. 238, I. 8. 
Facile, adj. Easily swayed, fickle, pliant: p. 222, 1. 27. ‘If they 
(i.e. judges) be facile, and corrupt, you shall have a servant, five times 
worse than a wife.’ Essay viii. p. 27. 
Facility, sb. Pliancy: p. 238,1. 21. See quotation under Apply. 
Facture, sb. Shape, form: p. 131, l. 4; p. 138, 1. 19. ‘ Facture; 
f. The facture, workemanship, framing, making of a thing.’ Cotgrave, 
Fr. Dict. 
Faculty, sb, Power, influence: p. 136, 1. 12. 
‘ Besides, this Duncan 
Hath borne his faculties so meek.’ 
Shakespeare, Macb. i. 7. 17. 
Fair, adj. Handsome: p. 32, 1. 30. ‘It is a reverend thing, to see an 
ancient castle, or building not in decay; or to see a faire timber tree, 
sound and perfect.’ Essay xiv. p. 52. 
Faith, sb. The Christian faith or religion; p. 49, 1. 10; p. 132, 1. 73 
p. 255, 1. 11. 
False, adv. Falsely: p. 182, 1, 11. 
Fallace, sb. Fallacy: p. 159, |. 30° 
Fallacy, sb. Deception: p. 71, 1. 22. ‘Fallace: f. A fallacie ; guile, 
deceit, wile, tromperie, a craftie tricke, cheating, sleight, cousening deuice.’ 
Cotgrave, Fr. Dict. 
Fall out, v.i. To happen: p. 28,1. 7; p. 103, I. 16. 
Fame, sb. Report, rumour: p. 34, l. 21. See Gen. xlv. 16. ‘Seditious 
tumults, and seditious Sames, differ no more, but as brother and sister, 
masculine and feminine,’ Essay xv. p. 55. 
