Sir T. Elyot
Cited as Sir T. Elyot. — 18 quotations
Comestible
Some herbs are most comestible.
Compendious
Three things be required in the oration of a man having authority -- that it be compendious, sententious, and delectable.
Discrepance
There hath been ever a discrepance of vesture of youth and age, men and women.
Duke
Hannibal, duke of Carthage.
Foreseen
One manner of meat is most sure to every complexion, foreseen that it be alway most commonly in conformity of qualities, with the person that eateth.
Infarce
The body is infarced with . . . watery humors.
Infrequent
The act whereof is at this day infrequent or out of use among all sorts of men.
Jest
The jests or actions of princes.
Maculate
Maculate the honor of their people.
Mercy
In whom mercy lacketh and is not founden.
Moot
First a case is appointed to be mooted by certain young men, containing some doubtful controversy.
The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots.
Ouch
A precious stone in a rich ouche.
Reboil
Some of his companions thereat reboyleth.
Rub
It shall be expedient, after that body is cleaned, to rub the body with a coarse linen cloth.
Spice
Justice, although it be but one entire virtue, yet is described in two kinds of spices. The one is named justice distributive, the other is called commutative.
Unkind
He is unkind that recompenseth not; but he is most unkind that forgetteth.
Vouch
[They] vouch (as I might say) to their aid the authority of the writers.