Joseph Hall
Bishop and satirist, 1574-1656
Cited as Bp. Hall. — 89 quotations
Ablative
Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth.
Across
The squint-eyed Pharisees look across at all the actions of Christ.
Adjuration
What an accusation could not effect, an adjuration shall.
Amplexation
An humble amplexation of those sacred feet.
Angled
The thrice three-angled beechnut shell.
Animation
The animation of the same soul quickening the whole frame.
Apostate
We are not of them which apostate from Christ.
Apostatical
An heretical and apostatical church.
Apprecation
A solemn apprecation of good success.
Avenge
Thy judgment in avenging thine enemies.
Balk
Sick he is, and keeps his bed, and balks his meat.
Barren
She was barren of children.
Behind
A tall Brabanter, behind whom I stood.
Blink
This is the first blink that ever I had of him.
Brewis
Let them of their Bonner's “beef” and “broth” make what brewis they please for their credulous guests.
Building
Hence it is that the building of our Sion rises no faster.
Captivation
The captivation of our understanding.
Carven
A carven bowl well wrought of beechen tree.
Clawback
Like a clawback parasite.
Collybist
In the face of these guilty collybists.
Commissional
Delegate or commissionary authority.
Commonitive
Only commemorative and commonitive.
Comprehensor
When I shall have dispatched this weary pilgrimage, and from a traveler shall come to be a comprehensor, farewell faith and welcome vision.
Conditionate
Barak's answer is faithful, though conditionate.
Confinable
Not confinable to any limits.
Conspire
Angry clouds conspire your overthrow.
Cork
Tread on corked stilts a prisoner's pace.
Cowardize
God . . . cowardizeth . . . insolent spirits.
Crow
Sennacherib crowing over poor Jerusalem.
Denunciation
Public . . . denunciation of banns before marriage.
Devilize
He that should deify a saint, should wrong him as much as he that should devilize him.
Dichotomize
The apostolical benediction dichotomizes all good things into grace and peace.
Discomfort
Strive against all the discomforts of thy sufferings.
Divulgation
Secrecy hath no use than divulgation.
Edification
The assured edification of his church.
Egregious
The egregious impudence of this fellow.
Entireness
True Christian love may be separated from acquaintance, and acquaintance from entireness.
Epitaph
The common in their speeches epitaph upon him . . . “He lived as a wolf and died as a dog.”
Exorbitance
The lamentable exorbitances of their superstitions.
Exploration
“An exploration of doctrine.”
Imperative
The suit of kings are imperative.
Impugnation
A perpetual impugnation and self-conflict.
Inanimation
The inanimation of Christ living and breathing within us.
Inclemency
The inclemency of the late pope.
Incuriousness
Sordid incuriousness and slovenly neglect.
Inefficacy
The seeming inefficacy of censures.
Infrequence
The solitude and infrequency of the place.
Insatiableness
The eye of the covetous hath a more particular insatiableness.
Instinctive
Have we had instinctive intimations of the death of some absent friends?
Intenerate
Fear intenerates the heart.
Irresoluble
The second is in the irresoluble condition of our souls after a known sin committed.
Jaundiced
Jaundiced eyes seem to see all objects yellow.
Judicatory
Power to reject in an authoritative or judicatory way.
Knot
Ere we knit the knot that can never be loosed.
Laconic
His head had now felt the razor, his back the rod; all that laconical discipline pleased him well.
Lust
My lust to devotion is little.
Maiden
For had I maiden'd it, as many use. Loath for to grant, but loather to refuse.
Mantle
Or tend his sparhawk mantling in her mew.
Math
The first mowing thereof, for the king's use, is wont to be sooner than the common math.
Meteor
Hail, an ordinary meteor.
Mistaker
Well meaning ignorance of some mistakers.
Multipresence
The multipresence of Christ's body.
Nescience
God fetched it about for me, in that absence and nescience of mine.
Niggardly
Where the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is not for the steward to be niggardly.
Once
That court which we shall once govern.
Optatively
God blesseth man imperatively, and man blesseth God optatively.
Permeation
Here is not a mere involution only, but a spiritual permeation and inexistence.
Pine
One is pined in prison, another tortured on the rack.
Plunge
Some wild colt, which . . . flings and plunges.
Prerequire
Some things are prerequired of us.
Prorogue
Parliament was prorogued to [meet at] Westminster.
Puisne
It were not a work for puisnes and novices.
Put
Put case that the soul after departure from the body may live.
Reachless
Unto a reachless pitch of praises hight.
Refrication
A continual refrication of the memory.
Retribution
In good offices and due retributions, we may not be pinching and niggardly.
Rib
How many have we known whose heads have been broken with their own rib.
Selective
This selective providence of the Almighty.
Sequence
The inevitable sequences of sin and punishment.
Snuff
Do the enemies of the church rage and snuff?
Starvedly
Some boasting housekeeper which keepth open doors for one day, . . . and lives starvedly all the year after.
Stigma
The blackest stigma that can be fastened upon him.
Thrave
He sends forth thraves of ballads to the sale.
Tractation
A full tractation of the points controverted.
Univocally
How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin?
Ventilation
The ventilation of these points diffused them to the knowledge of the world.
Waning
This earthly moon, the Church, hath fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses.
Waspish
He was naturally a waspish and hot man.
Withe
You shall see him withed, and haltered, and staked, and baited to death.