360 GLOSSARY, 
Mouctistion, sb. Transaction of business: p. 219, 1.17; p. 225, 1.17; 
pi 920; 1. 12. 
Neighbour, adj. Neighbouring: p. 58, 1. 25. See Jer. xlix. 18, 1. 40. 
Nestling, sb. A place for building a nest; hence applied to the place 
where humours may breed: p. 138, 1.13. ‘That the birds may have 
more scope, and naturall neaséling.’ Essay xlvi. p. 194. 
Nether, adj. Lower: p. 57,1. 13.. See Ex. xix. 17. 
New. In the phrase ‘one is new to begin’=‘ one has to begin anew’: 
p. 183, 1. 16. ‘ 
Non-promovent, adj. Literally, not advancing: p. 175, 1. 17. The 
epithet is applied to axioms as equivalent to ‘ circular’ and ‘ incurring 
into themselves.’ 
Wor...not. Double negative: p. 120, Il. 11, 13. 
Wor never. Double negative: p. 23, 1. 23. 
‘This England never did, zor never shall, 
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.’ 
Shakespeare, K. John, v. 7. 112. 
Not... nor: p. 4, ll. 10, 11; p. 127,1. 9; p. 186, ll. 22, 23; p. 240, 
1, 17. ‘Is it not hard, Nerissa, that I cannot choose one nor refuse 
none? Shakespeare, Mer. of Ven. i. 2. 28. 
Notably, adv. Remarkably, conspicuously: p. 59, l. 17. 
Note, sb, Mark, sign: p. 44, l. 28; p. 166, 1. 33. 
Note, v.¢. To denote: p. 146, 1.1. 
Nothing, adv. In no respect: p. 251, I. 23. 
Nothing less than=anything but: p. 87,1.13. ‘The use of this work 
. «+ is nothing less than to give contentment &c,’ that is, it is so little 
intended to give contentment to the appetite of curious and vain wits that 
nothing is less so. Comp. Stubbs, Anatomie of Abuses, fol. 5 (ed. 1585) : 
* Pride of the hatre is perpetrate, when as a man liftyng hymself on high, 
thinketh of hymself, aboue that whiche he is: dreamyng a perfection of 
himself, when he is nothyng lesse.’ 
Wull, sb. A non-significant cipher: p. 169, 1. 7. 
oO. 
Oblation, sb. An offering: p. 1,1. 10; p. 4, 1, 17. 
Obnoxious, adj. Exposed, p. 229, 1. 7. In dread of punishment: p. 246, 
1. 9. 
Sa sb. Obscurity: p. 20, I. Io. 
Obtain, v.i. To attain: p. 51, 1.22. Comp. Essay vi. p. 19: ‘ But ifa 
man cannot obfaine to that iudgment, then it is left to him, generally, to 
be close, and a dissembler.’ 
Occupate, v.z. ‘To occupy: p. 133, 1. 8. 
Occupate, p.f. Occupied: p. 268, 1. 4. 
Of, redundant in the phrases ‘ accept of,’ p. 63, 1. 23: ‘esteem of, p. 178, 
1.6; p. 228, 1. 24: ‘define of, p. 257, 1.5: ‘discern of,’ p. 203, 1. 18: 
‘meaning of, p. 241,1. 2. ‘The reverence of laws and government :’ 
p. 17,1. 1. We should now use for. Comp. ‘a zeal of God,’ Rom. x. 2. 
+ Of’ used partitively for ‘some of’: p. 72, l. 24, ‘cannot but leese of the 
life and truth.’ See p. 135, 1. 33. ‘ To participate of’ =to participate in; 
