GLOSSARY 



Passages : digressions. E. xxv. 

 Introductions, processes. 249. 



Passing : surpassingly, exceedingly. 

 E. vi. 



Patent : warrant issued by the 

 sovereign. 191. 



Pawns : pledges. E. xli. 



Peccant humours : physical ill con- 

 ditions. 197. 



Pennyworth : a purchase. C. 9. 



Pensileness : the fact that the earth 

 is suspended. 205. 



Percase : perhaps. C. 3. 339. 



Peremptorily : irrevocably. 369. 



Peremptory: deadly, destructive; 

 arbitrary, obstinate. E. xv. 



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Personage : a representation of the 

 human face. E. xliii. 



Persuade : to recommend. E. iii. 



Pilosity : hairiness. 241. 



Pine-apple-tree : the pine. E. xlvi. 



Place : topic. F. 



Place, take : to have effect. E. xxxi. 

 xlix. 



Plant : to colonize. E. xxxiii. 



Plantation : colony. E. xxxiii. 



Plash : a pool, or puddle. C. 4. 



Platform: plan, pattern. E. xlvi. 

 202. 



Plausible: praiseworthy, deserving 

 applause. E. ix. xv. In Ivi. it 

 seems to mean * courting ap- 

 plause/ and so approaches to the 

 modern sense. W. 



Plentiful: lavish. E. xxviii. 



Ply : bend, twist. E. xxxix. 



Point : to appoint. E. xlv. Iviii. 



Point device : exact. E. Hi. 



Poler : an exacter of fees. E. Ivi. 



Poling: exacting. E. Ivi. 



Politics : politicians. E. iii. 



Politic men : politicians. 177- 



Politique : sb. a politician. E. xiii. 

 adj. 'The Politique Body,' the 

 body politic, or state. E. xii. 

 Politique Ministers, or Ministers 

 of State, E. xxix, 



Poll : head ; whence ' poll,' a rec- 

 koning or census of heads. E 

 xxix. 



Popular : democratic. E. xii. 



Poser : an examiner. E. xxxii. 



Posies : nosegays. 337. 



Position: maxim. 192,205. 



Power : ' to have power with ' is 

 ' to have influence over.' E. 

 xxvii. 



Practise : plot, plotting. E. iii. 

 xxii. xlvii. 



Pray in aid : to call in as an advo- 

 cate. E. xxvii. 



Preceptions : precepts. 344. 



Predigestion : premature digestion. 

 E. xxv. 



Prefer : promote, E. xxiii. 



Prenotion : foreknowledge. 274. 



Preoccupate : to anticipate ; pre- 

 judice. E. ii. 388. 



Prerogative : superiority. 236. 



Prescription : title, claim. E. xlvii. 



Prescripts: prescriptions. 275. 



Presention : presentiment. 286. 



Presently : immediately. E. xli. 



Prest : ready. E. xxix. 



Prevail : to succeed. E. xlvii. 



Prevent : to anticipate. E. Ivi. 



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 Prick : to set, plant. E. xviii. 



xlvi. 



Prime: best. E. xxxiv. 

 Primum mobile. E. xv. li. 

 Principial : initial. E. xxxv. 

 Privadoes : intimate friends, fav- 

 ourites. E. xxvii. 

 Private : private person. E. xxxiii. 

 Profane : secular. 1 69. 

 Professory : adapted to a particular 



profession. 231. 

 Proficience : progress. 202. 

 Profit : to make progress. E. xlii. 



xxix. 

 Promus and condus : dispenser and 



collector. 326. 

 Proportionable : comprehensive 



enough. 193. 



