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Nobler arts: the liberal arts or sciences. "Arts that respect the mind were ever reputed nobler than those that serve the body"—Ben Jonson (quoted in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, under "Art").
Relish: taste; delight in; power of perceiving excellence.
Incommodious: inconvenient; vexatious.
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Melancholy: pensiveness; quietly serious thoughtfulness, sadness, or longing.
Nice: accurate in judgment to minute exactness; superfluously exact.
Vacancy: emptiness; sense of longing.
Want: need; deficiency.
Sensibly: quickly; keenly.
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Mean: lacking dignity; spiritless; low in worth or power.
Pusillanimous: mean-spirited; cowardly.
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Levity: inconstancy or changeableness; unsteadiness; trifling gaiety.
Artifice: trickery; fraud; stratagem.
Faction: tumult, discord, or dissention, especially as arising from disputes among civil or religious parties.
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Fiefs: estates.
Doge: title of the chief magistrate of the republic of Venice.
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Proscription: a sentence of death and confiscation of one's property.
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Meanness: want of dignity; low rank.
Desert: degree of merit or demerit.
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Enow: the plural of enough.
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Soldan: sultan; the supreme ruler of one or another of the great Mohammedan powers or countries of the Middle Ages.
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Mamalukes: members of the military body, originally composed of Caucasian slaves, that seized the throne of Egypt in 1254 and continued to form the ruling class in that country during the eighteenth century.
Prætorian bands: the bodyguards of the emperors of ancient Rome.
Prodigal: lavish; wasteful.
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Palliate: to cover with excuse; to extenuate or soften by favorable representations.
Appellation: name or title.
Peculiar: appropriate; belonging to any one with exclusion of others.
Tyes: ties; bonds or obligations.
Factitious: made by art, in opposition to what is made by nature.
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Refractory: obstinate; stubborn; perverse; unmanageable; rebellious.
Intestine: internal; domestic.
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Courts: jurisdictions; authorities.
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Byass: bias; propensity or inclination.
Specious: plausible; beautiful.
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Contrariety: opposition; inconsistency; a quality or position destructive of its opposites.
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Christendom: the collective body of Christianity; the regions in which the inhabitants profess the Christian religion.
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Counterpoise: counterweight; equivalence of force in the opposite side.
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Pernicious: mischievous in the highest degree; destructive.
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Unaccountable: not explicable; not to be solved by reason; not reducible to rule.
Credulity: easiness of belief; a readiness to credit.
Sublunary: earthly; of this world.
Raptures: violent seizures; violence of any pleasing passion; uncommon heat of imagination.
Transports: raptures; ecstasy.
Illapses: sudden attacks; emissions or entrances of one thing into another.
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Votaries: those devoted, as by a vow, to any particular service, worship, study, or state of life.
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Remissness: carelessness; negligence; lack of ardor; inattention.
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The Romish church: the Roman Catholic church.
Sectaries: persons who divide from public establishment and join with those distinguished by some particular whims; followers of a particular sect.
Regular: methodical; strict; orderly.
Infirmity: weakness; failing; disease or malady.
Abject: mean; worthless; base; groveling.
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Prerogative: exclusive or peculiar privilege or right; preeminence; superiority.
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Divines: ministers or priests; theologians.
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Tincture: color or taste superadded by something.
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Just: exact; accurate; orderly.
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Head: topic of discourse.
Internal police: the regulation and government of a city or country, so far as regards the inhabitants.
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Canvassed: examined; debated or discussed.
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Adulterate: corrupted with some foreign mixture.
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Nicety: minute accuracy of thought; exact discrimination; subtlety.
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Chimæra: a vain and wild fancy, as remote from reality as the existence of the poetical Chimera, a monster feigned to have the head of a lion, the belly of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.
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Bashaws: form of the Turkish title Pasha, meaning head or chief.
Cadis: town or village judges among the Turks or other peoples.
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Stop: obstruction; hindrance; check.
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Rant: high-sounding language unsupported by dignity of thought.
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Foppery: foolish ostentation; idle affectation; impertinence.
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Enthusiasm: heat of imagination; elevation of fancy.
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Bowers: a sheltered place covered with green trees, twined and bent.
Chearful: cheerful.
The schools: systems of doctrine as delivered by particular teachers.
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Debauch: fit of intemperance; excess.
Wanton: frolicsome; gay; sportive; airy.
Calumny: slander; false charges; groundless accusations.
Ravished: enraptured; ecstatic; overcome by a pleasing violence.
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Transported: put in ecstasy; ravished with pleasure.
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Fabulous: feigned; the product of fables or invented tales.
Loose: liberty; freedom from restraint.
Jollity: in a disposition to noisy mirth.
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Emergence: an emergency; any sudden occasion or pressing necessity.
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Aurora: The goddess who opens the gates of the day; poetically, the morning.
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Pile: an edifice; a building.
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Scholastic: adherent of a school; one who is needlessly subtle.
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Palpable: perceptible by the touch; plain; easily perceptible.
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Nerves: the organs of sensation passing from the brain to all parts of the body.
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Dropsy: a collection of water in the body, from too lax a tone in the solids, whereby digestion is weakened and all the parts stuffed.
Puerile: childish; boyish.
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Phthisis: a consumption, or wasting of the body, arising from any one of several causes, such as an ulcerated state of the lungs.
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Municipal laws: the civil or positive laws of a state, as distinguished from laws of nature and laws of nations.
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Condition: superior rank.
Seraglio: a palace or residence of a sultan; a harem; a house or part of a house allotted to women in a Muslim household and designed for maximum seclusion.
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Humour: temper of mind; disposition.
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Doom: destruction.
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Copious: not confined; diffuse.
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Toilettes: the receptions of visitors by a lady during the concluding stages of her process of dressing; very fashionable in the eighteenth century.
Arcadia: a mountainous district in the southern peninsula of Greece, taken in literature as an ideal region of rural contentment.
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Conceit: pleasant fancy; gaity of imagination; acuteness; pleasant thought.
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Vulgar: those with common or untrained minds, as distinguished here from "men of sense."
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Similitude: likeness; resemblance.
Knot: any bond of association or union; a confederacy; a small band.
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Rusticity: qualities of one who lives in the country; simplicity; artlessness; rudeness; savageness.
Phlegmatic: dull; cold; frigid.
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The Franks: from the third century &ad; onward, a generic name for the Germanic tribes that established themselves in western Europe; a western European.
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Coxcomb: a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments; a fop.
Subtilize: to make less gross or coarse; to refine.
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Remark: to observe; to distinguish; to point out.
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Scruples: doubts; hesitates.
Fustian: a high swelling kind of writing made up of heterogeneous parts, or of words and ideas ill associated; bombast.
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Habitudes: states with regard to something else; relations.
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Florid: embellished; brilliant with decorations.
Palls: makes insipid or vapid.
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Page 240
Specious: pleasing to the view; plausible.
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Pathetic: affecting the passions; moving.
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Victuals: provision of food; stores for the support of life.
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Ruffs: puckered linen ornaments, formerly worn about the neck.
Fardingales: farthingales; hoops or padded rolls once worn about the hips to spread the petticoat to a wide circumference.
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Complaisance: the act of yielding to the desire or demand of another; submission.
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| G.123 |
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On a sudden: sooner than was expected; without the natural or commonly accustomed preparations.
Retrench: to cut off; to live with less magnificence or expense.
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| G.126 |
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Grasiers: those who feed cattle.
Police: order; regulation; administration.
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Porter: a kind of beer, dark brown in color and bitter in taste, which originally was drunk chiefly by porters and the lower class of laborers.
Subject: that which can be drawn upon or utilized; means of doing something.
Expense: expenditures.
Libertine: licentious.
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Fund: stock that can be drawn upon; supply.
Apace: speedily.
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| G.133 |
Page 273
Bias: regular course; inclination.
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Page 276
Ortolans: small birds accounted very delicious.
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Numerary: of or pertaining to a number or numbers.
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Absentees: proprietors who live elsewhere.
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| G.147 |
Page 319
Finds surety: gives a pledge, bond, guarantee, or security for the fulfillment of an undertaking.
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Repine: to be vexed or discontented by something.
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Factors: agents for another; those who transact business for another in mercantile affairs.
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Page 332
Romance: a fable or tale, as distinguished from an authentic history.
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Barred: Hume's meaning is "would have barred."
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Funding: converting into a more or less permanent debt bearing regular interest.
Supine: negligent; thoughtless; inattentive.
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Scritoire: a type of large cabinet with drawers and the convenience of a table to write upon; a bureau.
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Boxes: a box under the driver's seat on a coach; hence, in general, the seat on which the driver sits.
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Projectors: those who form visionary or impracticable schemes or designs.
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Cudgel-playing: a fighting or sporting contest with short heavy sticks or clubs.
Faith: trust in the nation's credit-worthiness.
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| G.160 |
Page 363
Exchequer: the court to which are brought all the revenues belonging to the crown.
Trepan: to catch; to ensnare.
Bugbear: a frightful object; a walking specter, imagined to be seen—generally used in the eighteenth century for a false terror to frighten babes.
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Page 367
Irrefragable: not to be refuted; superior to argumental opposition.
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Pupillage: state of being still like a pupil.
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| G.164 |
Page 412
Raree-shows: (formed in imitation of the foreign way of pronouncing rare shows): shows carried in boxes.
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| G.167 |
Page 494
Repine: fret; vex oneself; be discontented.
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Page 500
Event: the consequence of an action; the conclusion; the upshot.
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Page 503
Prepossessions: preoccupations; preconceived opinions or prejudices.
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| G.174 |
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Session: the right to sit or occupy a seat.
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Break: to dismiss; to deprive of a commission or rank.
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Aphorisms: principles or precepts expressed in a few words.
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| G.180 |
Page 537
Affect: to be fond of or pleased with.
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Page 543
Parterre: the part of the floor of a theater behind the orchestra.
Phisiognomy: physiognomy; the face or countenance, especially viewed as an index to the mind and character.
Put a Violence upon: to apply severe or undue constraint to some natural process or habit so as to prevent its free development or exercise.
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| G.183 |
Page 554
Arrant: bad in a high degree; notorious; complete; manifest.
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| G.185 |
Page 565
Complexion: bodily constitution.
Essays: the first tentative efforts in learning or practice.
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Page 567
Brings: leads by degrees; makes liable to anything.
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Fairly: completely; plainly; suitably.
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Sophisticated: adulterated; corrupted with something spurious; not genuine.
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