Passable, of tolerable ability, 209; passable with, acceptable to, 217. Passages, the connecting portions of a speech, serving for transition from one topic to another, 105. Passport, leave of departure, 140. Paul's, St. Paul's Cathedral or Paul's Walk,' used as a general promenade and place of resort in Bacon's time, 97. Pawns, pledges, 177. Perfect in, skilled or accomplished in, 93, 221. Period, termination, conclusion, 104, 182. Perish, cause to perish, injure, 113. Personal, awarded to individuals, 134. Personate, to assign a part or character to, 13. Philology, the literature of a subject, 249. 148. Pine-apple-trees, pine-trees, 195. Pieced (up), patched up, 12, Place, precedence, 75; a topic, 251. To take little place, to have but small weight or effect, 212. Placebo: see Index of Phrases. Plant, to colonize; plantation, a colony, colonizing, 144-9. Plausible, praiseworthy, deserving applause, 36, 57. Play-pleasure, the pleasure felt in witnessing a play or drama, 31. Pleasing, complaisant, 138. Ply, a bend (given to the mind: cf. pliant just before), 171. estate Point, a subject or matter (defined by what follows): thus, point of the State, something that concerns the State, 237; from the point of contempt, i.e. from any implication of contempt, 241. Point, to appoint, 191, 249. Point device, fashioned or adjusted with extreme precision, 222. Politic (spelt politique and politicke in orig. edition), political, belonging to or concerned with the State: politic person or man politician, 34, 92; politic ministers ministers of State, 131; politic body body politic, the State, 47, 132. = Politics, politicians, statesmen, 10, 19, 51. = Politics, the, the science of politics or statecraft, 251. Poll, a 'head' or unit of population; the hundred (= hundredth) poll, i.e. one man in a hundred, 126. Poller, one who exacts money, 236. Polling, plundering, exacting fees, 236. (See Catchpole.) 209. Poser, an examiner or questioner in the Schools, 142. Practice, plotting, intrigue, crafty dealing, 12, 93, 151, 206. Praying in aid of alchymists, calling in alchemists to help the case, 114. Precisely, look, keep a keen watch, 177. Pre-occupateth, anticipates, 6. Prescription, title (to be considered lucky), 206. Presently, straightway, immediately, 116, 177. Prest, prompt, 131. Pretendeth, makes a pretext of, 103; cf. 131, as may be pre tended. Prevent, anticipate, 234. Pricked, planted, 202; so perhaps prick in, 76. Primum mobile: see Index of Phrases. Principial, initial, 156. Private, for his own: i.e. private benefit, 146. Proceeder, small, one who makes small progress, 166. Proof, the result of trial or experience: the proof is best it is found to turn out best, 25. Proper, (of words), having a personal application, 241. Prospectives, perspective glasses,' an optical contrivance of the stereoscope-kind, 107. Proyning, cultivating, pruning, 214. Purchase, to obtain, acquire, 15, 229; a new purchase, a new acquisition, 218. Purchasing, acquisition of landed property, 176. Pure, free (of inhabitants), unoccupied, 144. Purpose, of, intentionally, purposely, 34. Purprise, enclosure, enclosed area, 236. Pursuit, pursuit of office, canvassing, III. Put you in way for, put you in the way of, 117. Pyramides, pyramids (the Latin pl. ; elsewhere Bacon uses the sing. pyramis), 200. Pythonissa, a woman possessed with a spirit of divination, 154. Quadlins, codlings, 196. Quarrel, reason, plea, 29; cf. grounds and quarrels, 131. Quarter, keep, keep its proper place, 40; kept good quarter between themselves, kept on friendly terms, 96. Queching either (1) flinching or (2) crying out, 170. = Quicken, give life to, stimulate, 178, 206, 212. Quickest, most vivid, 229. Quire, choir, 163. Race, the extent to which a thing goes, 239. Rasps, raspberries, 196. Ravisheth, carries away violently or hastily, 71. Reason, (it is, it were), reasonable, 27, 41, 54. Much like is the reason of their case is much the same, 187. = Recamera, inner chamber, back chamber, 193. Receipt, receptacle, 200; recipe, prescription, 110, 116, 216. Reduced, brought within limits, 249. Referendaries, referees, 212. Regard, upon, out of personal regard, 221. 126. = Regiment, regimen, Essay xxx. Reiglement, regulation, 178. Relate himself, tell his thoughts, 115. In regard, because, Remover, one who is always moving about or stirring, 173. Reparation of a denial: the gaining of one's suit, on a second urging, after it has been once refused, 213. Reputed of, well, having a good reputation, 65. Resemblance, comparison, likening, 236; resembled, likened, compared, 86. Resorts, springs, starting-points, sources; or the springs or movements (of machinery), 98. Respect, have regard to, 137. Respected, attended to, 25. Respects, regard for persons, personal considerations, punctilious observances, 44, 53, 222; Essay lii. (title). In respect, in case, 120. In respect of, in comparison with, as compared with, 134, 174. Rest, set up their, staked everything (upon an issue), 133. Returns, wings or side-buildings built out at the back of a house, 190. side of the court,' 191. Ribes, currants, 196. Rid, despatch, get done, 129. Rise, though it be of the best, i.e. come from the best source, 152. Rise in his suit, i.e. begin by asking little, and gradually increase his demands, 213. Round (dealing), straightforward, direct, 3; spoil the feathers of round flying, i.e. prevent their flying direct to the mark, 23. Sad, sober, 251; of sober hue, 18. Satyrian, a species of orchis, 196. Scantling, measure, limit, 231. Scope, aim, object aimed at, 130. Season, in, in their happy time, at the time when they come out strongest, 51. Secure, without care, at ease, 60; security, serene freedom from care, sense of safety, 17. Seek for, to, at a loss for, 178. Seeled, having the eyelids sewn up (a term of falconry), 160. Seelings, panellings, wainscotings, 227. Sensible (of), sensitive (to), 28, 45, 131, 162, 240. Sentence, judgement, opinion, 242. Several, separate, distinct, different, 19, 83, 188, 190, 217. Severally, differently, 190. Sharings, partnerships, 151. Shrewd, mischievous, hurtful, 99. Shut itself out to take, debar itself from taking, 179. Side (oneself), to take a side, adhere to one party, 45, 219. Slide, smoothness of motion, 55, 174. Slight it over, dismiss it slightly, slur it over, 47. Slope, sloping, 199. Slug, drag, hindrance to motion, 177. Smother, pass in, be smothered or stifled, 115; cf. keep in smother, 139. Soap-ashes, alkalis, 146. Softly, with slow or gentle movement, 20, 58. Solecism, a gross error or blunder, 79. Sort with, agree or harmonize with, match, suit, 19, 119, 168; associate or consort with, 25; sorteth to, turns to, results in, 25, 111; it sorted with them, things turned out in their case, they fared (accordingly), 128. Spaces, intervals, 168. Spangs, spangles, 164. Speculative into, disposed to pry into, 88. Spials, spies, 187. (Cf. Espials.) Spirits, good, men of good or noble spirit, 6. Spoken to, spoken upon, discussed, 89. Sponne, spun, 156. Staddles, young trees left standing in a copse when other trees and underwood are cut down, 126. Stages, the theatre' of wars, 246. State, an estate, 121, 153; government, statecraft, 136; a rank or order of persons, 82 (of the clergy), 127. (Cf. Estate.) State, to keep, to observe some degree of formality, to be dignified, 221. Stately, statelily, in a stately manner, 2, 195. Statua, statue, 115; pl. statuas, 164, 190, 193, 201, 204. Stay, at a, at rest, 242; stand at a stay, stand still, 48, 54, 78; give stay to, arrest the progress of, 245. Steal it, do it stealthily, 44. Stick, hesitate, scruple, 97, 232. Stirps, stocks, families, 53. Stond, impediment, stoppage, 172, 215. Stood upon, insisted upon, 130. Store, a good quantity, 145, 146. Stoved, kept in a hothouse, 195. |