Camden
Cited as Camden. — 23 quotations
Chafe
The cardinal in a chafe sent for him to Whitehall.
Counterfeiter
The coin which was corrupted by counterfeiters.
Credential
Their credential letters on both sides.
Crook
Their shoes and pattens are snouted, and piked more than a finger long, crooking upwards.
Currentness
When currentness [combineth] with staidness, how can the language . . . sound other than most full of sweetness?
Dandiprat
Henry VII. stamped a small coin called dandiprats.
Distrain
Upon whom I can distrain for debt.
Dominator
Jupiter and Mars are dominators for this northwest part of the world.
Force
I force not of such fooleries.
Gravel
Willam the Conqueror . . . chanced as his arrival to be graveled; and one of his feet stuck so fast in the sand that he fell to the ground.
Hay
Make hay while the sun shines.
Imprese
An imprese, as the Italians call it, is a device in picture with his motto or word, borne by noble or learned personages.
Natal
Princes' children took names from their natal places.
Nick
Words nicking and resembling one another are applicable to different significations.
Pedigree
Alterations of surnames . . . have obscured the truth of our pedigrees.
Prince
Queen Elizabeth, a prince admirable above her sex.
Ratable
Twenty orae were ratable to [at] two marks of silver.
Reckoner
Reckoners without their host must reckon twice.
Significative
Neither in the degrees of kindred they were destitute of significative words.
Sound
The Sound of Denmark, where ships pay toll.
Synonymize
This word “fortis” we may synonymize after all these fashions: stout, hardy, valiant, doughty, courageous, adventurous, brave, bold, daring, intrepid.
Void
Divers great offices that had been long void.
Winterly
The sir growing more winterly in the month of April.