GLOSSARY 



413 



Dissolve : to annul, used of laws. 



E. iii. 



Distance : variance. E. xv. 

 Distasted : digusted. E. xlix. 

 Disvalued : depreciated. 362. 

 Doctor : teacher. E. iii. xiii. 

 Dogmatic als : dogmas. 292. 

 Dolor : pain. E. ii. 

 Donative : a largess, gift of money. 



E. xv. xix. xxix. 

 Doubt : to fear. E. xxii. xxviii. 



Iviii. 



Droumy: troubled. 370. 

 Drowth : drought. C. 4. 

 Dry blow : a joke, smart hit. E. 



xxxii. 

 Dulceness : sweetness of temper. 



364- 



Eccentrics: in the Ptolemaic system 

 of astronomy the sun and moon 

 were supposed to move about the 

 earth in circles ; but in order to 

 account for the varying velocity 

 of their motion the earth was 

 supposed not to be at the centre 

 of these circles, which were 

 therefore called eccentrics. E. 

 xvii. W. 



Edge : to incite, stimulate. E. xli. 



Effeminate : to become effeminate. 

 E. xxix. 



Either : each. E. xxx. 



Ejaculation : a darting forth. E. ix. 



Election : choice. E. xliv. xlviii. 



C. 3- 



Elegancy: elegance. E. xxxvii. xlv. 

 Blenches : refutations. 298. 

 Embase : to make base, deteriorate. 



E. i. 



Embassage : embassy. E. liii. 

 Employed men : employes. E. xviii. 

 Emulation : contention. E. vii. 

 Enablements: qualifications. 231. 

 End : intention. E. li. To the 



end'vn. order. E. xxii. xlix. 

 Endanger : to run the risk of. E. 



xv. 



Endangering: danger, risk. E. 

 xxxiii. 



Engage into : to involve in. E. 

 xviii. 



Enrich : to grow rich. E. xxxiv. 



Ensigns : insignia. E. xxix. 



Enterlace : to insert. E. liii. 



Enterpriser : an adventurer. E. xl. 



Entertainment : diversion ; some- 

 thing which withdraws attention 

 from the main subject. E. xlix. 



Entire : honest. 186. 



Entrance: used metaphorically of 

 elementary knowledge. E. xviii. 



Enucleating : extracting. 379. 



Envious: malicious. 181. 



Epicure: Epicurean. E. iii. C. 3. 



Epicycle : in order to account for 

 the apparent motion of the 

 planets, sometimes direct and 

 sometimes retrograde, it was 

 supposed in the Ptolemaic system 

 of astronomy that each planet 

 moved in a small circle, the 

 centre of which described a 

 larger circle about the earth. 

 These small circles were called 

 epicycles. E. xvii. W. 



Equipollent: equivalent. E. xxxix. 



Erecting : establishing. E. xix. 



Espial : spy. E. xlviii. 



Estate : state, condition. E. ix. 

 xiv. xv., etc.; estates, kingdoms. 

 1 86. 



Esteem: think. 185. 



Estivation, a place of: a summer- 

 house. E. xlv. 



Ethiope : Ethiopian, xxxvii. 



Evacuated: made void. C. 10. 



Every : each. E. xv. C. 5. 



Evil-favoured : bad-looking. E. 

 xxxix. 



Exaltation : that sign of the zodiac, 

 in which a planet was supposed 

 to exert its strongest influence. 

 E. xxxix. 



Exceeding : exceedingly. E. 

 xxxix. 



