360 G L O S S A R y. 



Negotiation, sb. Transaction of business: p. 219, 1. 17; p. 225, 1. 17 ; 



p. 226, 1. 12. 



Neighbour, adj. Neighbouring: p. 58, 1. 25. See Jer. xlix. 18, I. 40. 

 Nestling, sb. A place for building a nest; hence applied to the place 



where humours may breed: p. 138,!. 13. That the birds may have 



more scope, and naturall neastling. 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. 1 6. 

 Non -promo vent, adj. Literally, not advancing: p. 175, 1. 17. The 



epithet is applied to axioms as equivalent to circular and incurring 



into themselves. 



Nor . . . not. Double negative : p. 120, 11. II, 13. 

 Nor never. Double negative : p. 23, 1. 23. 



This England never did, nor never shall, 

 Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. 



Shakespeare, K. John, v. 7. II 2. 

 Not . . . nor: p. 4, 11. 10, n ; p. 127, 1. 9; p. 186, 11. 22, 23; p. 240, 



1. 17. Is it not hard, Nerissa, that I cano choose one nor refuse 



none ? Shakespeare, Mer. of Ven. i. 2. 28. 

 Notably, adv. Remarkably, conspicuously: p. 59, 1. 17. 

 Note, sb. Mark, sign : p. 44, 1. 28 ; p. 166, 1. 33. 

 Note, v. t. To denote : p. 146, 1. I. 

 Nothing, adv. In no respect: p. 251, 1. 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, Anatomic 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? 

 Null, sb. A non-significant cipher: p. 169, 1. *]. 



O. 



Oblation, sb. An offering: p. i, 1. 10; p. 4, 1. 17. 



Obnoxious, adj. Exposed, p. 229, 1. 7. In dread of punishment : p. 246, 

 1. 9 . 



Obscureness, sb. Obscurity : p. 20, 1. 10. 



Obtain, v.i. To attain: p. 51, 1. 22. Comp. Essay vi. p. 19 : But if a 

 man cannot obtaine to that iudgment, then it is left to him, generally, to 

 be close, and a dissembler. 



Occupate, v. t. To occupy: p. 133, 1. 8. 



Occupate, p.p. Occupied : p. 268, 1. 4. 



Of, redundant in the phrases * accept o/, 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,!. 2. The reverence of laws and government: 

 p. 17, 1. I. We should now use for. Comp. a zeal o/ God, Rom. x. 2. 

 * Of used partitively for some of: p. 72, 1. 24, cannot but lecse o/the 

 life and truth. See p. 135, 1. 33. To participate o/ = to participate in: 



