Henry More
Philosopher, 1614-1687
Cited as Dr. H. More. — 62 quotations
Assimilation
To aspire to an assimilation with God.
Assoil
Acquitted and assoiled from the guilt.
Cast
Were the case referred to any competent judge, they would inevitably be cast.
Center
Where there is no visible truth wherein to center, error is as wide as men's fancies.
Clumper
Vapors . . . clumpered in balls of clouds.
Cogent
No better nor more cogent reason.
Colluctation
Colluctation with old hags and hobgoblins.
Combine
Friendship is the cement which really combines mankind.
Concurrent
To all affairs of importance there are three necessary concurrents . . . time, industry, and faculties.
Considerate
They may be . . . more considerate of praise.
Consonant
That where much is given there shall be much required is a thing consonant with natural equity.
Consopite
The operation of the masculine faculties of the soul were, for a while, well slacked and consopited.
Contend
Many things he fiercely contended about were trivial.
Contract
In all things desuetude doth contract and narrow our faculties.
Deal
This is to drive to wholesale trade, when all other petty merchants deal but for parcels.
Disquietal
[It] roars and strives 'gainst its disquietal.
Dolorous
Their dispatch is quick, and less dolorous than the paw of the bear or teeth of the lion.
Exciter
Hope is the grand exciter of industry.
Fleak
Little long fleaks or threads of hemp.
For
God's desertion shall, for aught he knows, the next minute supervene.
Helper
Compassion . . . oftentimes a helper of evils.
Idiopathy
All men are so full of their own fancies and idiopathies, that they scarce have the civility to interchange any words with a stranger.
Imperceptive
The imperceptive part of the soul.
Impregn
Semele doth Bacchus bear Impregned of Jove.
Incentive
Competency is the most incentive to industry.
Individuate
Life is individuated into infinite numbers, that have their distinct sense and pleasure.
Ineptly
None of them are made foolishly or ineptly.
Ineptness
The feebleness and miserable ineptness of infancy.
Infuriate
Those curls of entangled snakes with which Erinys is said to have infuriated Athemas and Ino.
Initiate
Providence would only initiate mankind into the useful knowledge of her treasures, leaving the rest to employ our industry.
Institute
If children were early instituted, knowledge would insensibly insinuate itself.
Inwardness
Sense can not arrive to the inwardness Of things.
Jealous
How nicely jealous is every one of us of his own repute!
Knap
He will knap the spears apieces with his teeth.
Motion
This is the great wheel to which the clock owes its motion.
Multifarious
There is a multifarious artifice in the structure of the meanest animal.
Notwithstanding
Those on whom Christ bestowed miraculous cures were so transported that their gratitude made them, notwithstanding his prohibition, proclaim the wonders he had done.
Occasionate
The lowest may occasionate much ill.
Opponent
How becomingly does Philopolis exercise his office, and seasonably commit the opponent with the respondent, like a long-practiced moderator!
Peccability
The common peccability of mankind.
Pester
We are pestered with mice and rats.
Pique
Men take up piques and displeasures.
Premise
While the premises stand firm, it is impossible to shake the conclusion.
Pretext
With how much or how little pretext of reason.
puzzle
A very shrewd disputant in those points is dexterous in puzzling others.
Rank
Heresy is ranked with idolatry and witchcraft.
Recreate
These ripe fruits recreate the nostrils with their aromatic scent.
Resentment
He retains vivid resentments of the more solid morality.
Risible
Laughing is our busines, . . . it has been made the definition of man that he is risible.
Sagacious
Instinct . . . makes them, many times, sagacious above our apprehension.
Scratch
Dull, tame things, . . . that will neither bite nor scratch.
Scrupulosity
The first sacrilege is looked on with horror; but when they have made the breach, their scrupulosity soon retires.
Signature
Some plants bear a very evident signature of their nature and use.
Stateliness
For stateliness and majesty, what is comparable to a horse?
Stump
Around the stumped top soft moss did grow.
Sublimate
The precepts of Christianity are . . . so apt to cleanse and sublimate the more gross and corrupt.
Superadvenient
He has done bravely by the superadvenient assistance of his God.
Superstruct
This is the only proper basis on which to superstruct first innocency and then virtue.
Thrust
One thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism.
Tremulous
The tender, tremulous Christian.
Vacant
Religion is the interest of all; but philosophy of those . . . at leisure, and vacant from the affairs of the world.
Vivificate
God vivificates and actuates the whole world.