GLOSSARY, 363 
Pedanti, sb, A pedant: p. 13, ll. 16, 19. Plur. fedantes: p. 13, Il. 7, 14; 
p. 21, 1.8. From the It. pedante, which appears not to have been quite 
naturalised in 1605, ‘Pedante’ occurs in Florio’s Worlde of Wordes, 
1598; and in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, iii. 1. 179, ‘ A domi- 
neering pedant o’er the boy,’ it must have been pronounced as a dis- 
syllable. The first ed. of this play was published in 1598, 
Pedantical, adj. Pedantic: p. 13, 1. 26; p. 165, 1. 3. 
Pensileness, sb. Suspended condition: p. 47, 1. 26. 
Percase, adv, Perhaps: p, 209, 1. 11. 
Peremptory, adj, Destructive: p. 53, 1. 18. 
Perfective, adj. Capable of being perfected or improved: p. 258, 1. 2. 
Compare Demonstrative. 
Peruse, v.t, To review: p. 3,1. 21. See Shakespeare, Rich. II, iii. 3. 53. 
‘That from this castle’s tatter’d battlements 
Our fair appointments may be well perused,’ 
Phainomena, p. 129, |. 30. This mode of spelling shows that the word 
in Bacon’s time had not become fully naturalised, though in p. 127, 1. 23 
it appears in its usual form. Later still in the Reliquia Wottoniane 
(p. 101, ed, 1655) I find phainomenon, 
Physic, sb. Physics, or physical science; p. 111, 1. 33; p. 114, 1. 21. 
Pilosity, sb. Hairiness: p. 120, |. Io. 
Place, sb. A passage of an author or book: p. 7,1. 32; p. 8, 1. 12; p. 
190, 1. 25. A topic or subject of discourse: p. 155, 1. 33. A piazza, or 
public square ; here, the Forum; p. 220, l. 12; p. 249,110, ‘To give 
place’ =to yield: p. 98, 1. 19. 
Plash, sb. A shallow pool, a puddle: p. 244, I. 32. 
Platform, sb, Plan: p, 44, 1.12; p. 114, 1.12. Pattern: p, 187, 1. 19. 
See note on p. 44. 
Ply, sb. Bend, bias: p. 239, 1. 19. ‘For it is true, that late learners, 
cannot so well take the plie.’ Essay xxxix. p. 164. 
Poesy, sb. A poem: p. 35, 1.6. Poetry: p. 60, 1. 28; p. 211, L. 25. 
Point, sb. In the phrase ‘was of such a point as whereat Sarah laughed’: 
p. 253, l. 10; where the Latin has de hujusmodi re extitit quam irrisui 
habebat Sarah, 
Police, v.¢. To regulate; p. 56, 1.11. ‘Spain,’ says Bacon, in his Observa- 
tions on a Libel (Works, viii, 169) ‘is not in brief an enemy to be feared 
by a nation seated, manned, furnished, and pollicied as in England ;’ where 
two MSS. read polliced. 
Politique, sb. A politician: p. 5, 1.9; p. 10,1. 17; p. 18, 1. 12, &c. In 
p. 13, 1. 6, it is used as an adjective; ‘ politique men’ = politicians, 
Popular estate. A democracy: p. 53, 1.8; p. 208, 1.1. ‘Therefore, we 
see it (i.e, boldness) hath done wonders, in popular states,’ Essay xii. 
Pp. 45. 
pe tastty, sb, Democratic character: p, 252, I. 5. 
Populous, adj, Numerous: p. 243, 1.5. See Deut, xxvi. 5. 
Portugal, adj. Portuguese: p. 29, 1. 23. 
Position, sb. The laying down of a law: p. 147, 1, 11. A maxim, senti- 
ment; p. 221, 1. 1; p. 227, 1.19; p. 246, 1, 20, 
Possess, v.i. To prepossess: p. 224, l. 3. 
Practique, sb, Practice: p, 165, 1. 33. 
