Content
I shall prove these writings . . . authentic, and the contents true, and worthy of a divine original.
Grew
Cited as Grew. — 34 quotations
Agreeableness
The agreeableness between man and the other parts of the universe.
Alternate
The most high God, in all things appertaining unto this life, for sundry wise ends alternates the disposition of good and evil.
Becomingness
The becomingness of human nature.
Concamerate
Of the upper beak an inch and a half consisteth of one concamerated bone.
Constriction
A constriction of the parts inservient to speech.
Contentment
Contentment without external honor is humility.
Crawl
A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another.
Current
His current value, which is less or more as men have occasion for him.
Devote
They devoted themselves unto all wickedness.
Expansible
Bodies are not expansible in proportion to their weight.
Extenuate
His body behind the head becomes broad, from whence it is again extenuated all the way to the tail.
Federal
The Romans compelled them, contrary to all federal right, . . . to part with Sardinia.
Fingering
The mere sight and fingering of money.
Give
The Babylonians had given themselves over to all manner of vice.
Gradually
Human reason doth not only gradually, but specifically, differ from the fantastic reason of brutes.
Insitiency
The insitiency of a camel for traveling in deserts.
Jerk
Lobsters . . . swim backwards by jerks or springs.
Knobbed
The horns of a roe deer of Greenland are pointed at the top, and knobbed or tuberous at the bottom.
Lap
The upper wings are opacous; at their hinder ends, where they lap over, transparent, like the wing of a flay.
Magnify
The least error in a small quantity . . . will in a great one . . . be proportionately magnified.
Maintain
God values . . . every one as he maintains his post.
Scratch
Small sand-colored stones, so hard as to scratch glass.
Sheathe
The leopard . . . keeps the claws of his fore feet turned up from the ground, and sheathed in the skin of his toes.
Somewhat
These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste.
Spur
Some bold men, . . . by spurring on, refine themselves.
Squat
The head [of the squill insect] is broad and squat.
Stale
Wit itself, if stale is less pleasing.
Superfetate
The female . . . is said to superfetate.
Tailed
Snouted and tailed like a boar.
Tilt
The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back.
Venery
Contentment, without the pleasure of lawful venery, is continence; of unlawful, chastity.
Whereness
A point hath no dimensions, but only a whereness, and is next to nothing.
Work
Purges . . . work best, that is, cause the blood so to do, . . . in warm weather or in a warm room.