Burton
Cited as Burton. — 40 quotations
Affinity
About forty years past, I began a happy affinity with William Cranmer.
Ambages
After many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is.
Ambidexter
The rest are hypocrites, ambidexters, so many turning pictures -- a lion on one side, a lamb on the other.
Arrant
An arrant honest woman.
Confabulation
Friends' confabulations are comfortable at all times, as fire in winter.
Crank
Thou art a counterfeit crank, a cheater.
Creeper
Standing waters are most unwholesome, . . . full of mites, creepers; slimy, muddy, unclean.
Decline
He knoweth his error, but will not seek to decline it.
Denotate
These terms denotate a longer time.
Diverb
Italy, a paradise for horses, a hell for women, as the diverb goes.
Drone
By living as a drone,to be an unprofitable and unworthy member of so noble and learned a society.
Escape
I should have been more accurate, and corrected all those former escapes.
Exornation
Hyperbolical exornations . . . many much affect.
Fume
To smother him with fumes and eulogies.
Inanition
Repletion and inanition may both do harm in two contrary extremes.
Incubus
Such as are troubled with incubus, or witch-ridden, as we call it.
Incult
Germany then, says Tacitus, was incult and horrid, now full of magnificent cities.
Inescate
To inescate and beguile young women!
Ingenite
It is natural or ingenite, which comes by some defect of the organs and overmuch brain.
Innocuous
A patient, innocuous, innocent man.
Jumble
Why dost thou blend and jumble such inconsistencies together?
Jument
Fitter for juments than men to feed on.
Just
Their names alone would make a just volume.
make
If a child were crooked or deformed in body or mind, they made him away.
Motion
I want friends to motion such a matter.
Nill
The actions of the will are “velle” and “nolle,” to will and nill.
Obsession
Whether by obsession or possession, I will not determine.
Oligarchy
All oligarchies, wherein a few men domineer, do what they list.
Range
Like a ranging spaniel that barks at every bird he sees.
Ruinate
Ruinating thereby the health of their bodies.
Sensible
This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles.
Smattering
I had a great desire, not able to attain to a superficial skill in any, to have some smattering in all.
Soft
He made soft fellows stark noddies, and such as were foolish quite mad.
Steatopygous
Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed.
Stove
How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy, or under the pole!
Temporizer
A sort of temporizers, ready to embrace and maintain all that is, or shall be, proposed, in hope of preferment.
Turgent
Recompensed with turgent titles.
Vegetal
All creatures vegetal, sensible, and rational.
Wearish
A little, wearish old man, very melancholy by nature.
Woolgathering
His wits were a woolgathering, as they say.