The dictionary of syr Thomas Eliot knyght

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• ACananthide, the olde name of the yle of Cypres.
• Acanthus, is an herbe cōmonly callid Brankursyn. Loke afore in Acanthis.
• Acapis, a ryuer in Asia.
• Acarpos, vnfruytefull. Acasta, a nymphe.
• Acar, & Acarus, a lyttell worme that bree∣deth in waxe.
• Acatia, a thorne growynge in Egipt, wher∣of commeth a gumme. whyche is medy∣cynable for many diseases.
• Acatium, a bote.
• Accede adiutare, come helpe me.
• Accedit huc, more ouer than that.
• Accedere obuīam, to mete with one.
• Accedere periculum, to take on hym the daungiere.
• Accedere alicui, to graunt to an other, to be of an other mans opinion.
• Accelerare gradum, to go apace.
• Acceleratio, haaste or spede.
• Accento, tare, to synge often.
• Accessio, an augmentacyon, increase. Also a commynge. Accessio morbi, the begyn∣nynge of a syckenesse.
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• Accersio, sire, to sende or call for one.
• Accersitus, ta, tum, callyd for.
• Accersi iube filiam, commande thy daughter to be sent for, or callyd for.
• Accido cidere, to extenuate or make feeble, to destroye.
• Accisus, a, um, made feble, decayed.
• Accidit, there happened, it is chaunced.
• Acecinere, to synge to an instrument, or to synge a parte, as a treble to a tenoure, or a descant to a playne songe.
• Accipenser, a fyshe hauynge the skales tur∣ned forewarde, contrary to other fysshes. which in the old time was of most estima∣tion at the tables of kynges and princis.
• Accipere auribus, to here.
• Accipere causam, to holde excused.
• Accipere cladē. to haue great losse in bataile.
• Accipere corde, to perceiue well. Pol haud satis meo corde accepi querelas tuas, in good faythe I do not well perceyue the cause of thy griefe.
• Accipere conditionem, to take the offre.
• Accipere dolorē, to take thought, to be heuy
• Accipere nomen, to take accounte.
• Accipere potesiatem, to haue leaue.
• Accipere uulnus, to be wounded.
• Acceptus, receyued, entertayned.
• Acceptus, ta, tum, accepted, acceptable.
• Accepti & expensi ratio, accompte of recei∣tes and expenses.
• Accipiter humipera, a sparhawke.
• Accipiter hierax, an hawke callid a sakre.
• Accipiter pecuniarum, a poller of people.
• Accipitiarius, a faulconer.
• Accliuitas, a raysynge vp of a hylle.
• Accommodatus, ta, tum, applyed to a thyng besemyng, couenable.
• Accommodus, dà, dū, apt, mete, conuenient.
• ...Accreduo, duis, duere, idem quod accredo.
• Accubatio, a syttynge at the table.
• Accubitores, they that sytte at the table.
• Accumbere alicui, to syt by one at the table.
• Accurare, to do a thynge dylygently.
• Accurare prandium, to make redy the diner.
• Accurata malitia, malyce prepensed.
• Accuratum habere, to prepense.
• Accusatio, an accusement.
• Accusatorius liber, a bylle of complaynt.
• Accusare, to blame.
• Accusabilis, le, worthy to be blamed.
• Accusator, an accuser, a rebuker.
• Accusatrix, a woman rebuker.
• Acedaria, salett{is} or meate lyghtly p̄pared.
• Acri ingenio, quycke wytted.
• Acer equus, a swyfte horse.
• Acerrimi inimici, mortall ennemies.
• Acer morbus, a greuous syckenes.
• Acres oculi, cleere eyes.
• Acerrima uxor, a very shrewde wyfe.
• Acere, a cytie by Naples.
• Acerátum, mortar, or claye myxte with hey or strawe, wherwith walles are daubyd.
• Acerbè, bitterly, vnripely, cruelly, vehemēt¦ly.
• Acero, rare, to myxte with chaffe.
• Acernus, na, num, of the tree callyd Acer.
• Acerra, a shyppe, wherein frankyncense is put. some do name it an aultar, which was sette before a deed corps, wheron incense was burned. Some call it a cuppe, wherin they dyd sacrifyce wyne.
• Acerosus panis, browne bredde not ranged.
• Acesinus, a great ryuer in Persia, whiche runneth into the ryuer of Indus, wherein do growe canes of suche greatnesse, that they doo make betwene euery knotte or ioynt therof, botes to rowe in.
• Acesis, an herbe, which is yelow in colour.
• Acestis, a great ryuer in India.
• Acerabulum, a measure contayninge in it of water measure, two ounces.
• Acetositas, a••grenesse or sowrenes.
• Acetofus, a, um, eygre, sowre.
• Acetum in pectore. Nunc experiar, sit ne ace∣tum tibi cor acre in pectore, Howe wylle I proue, yf thou haste any thynge that doth prycke the in the stomacke.
• Aceum, a citie in Colchis, on the banke of the ryuer callyd Phasis.
• Achantia, a fyshe, whiche some men do sup∣pose to be thornebacke.
• Achar, a citie in Siria, nowe callyd Nisibis.
• Acha••eon, the mayne sayle of a shyppe.
• Achelous, a ryuer in Grecia, so named of a kynge of that name.
• Acheloeus, of that ryuer. sommetyme it is put for aqueus.
• Achemenia, a countray in Persia.
• Acherontinus, & Acherontius, of the ryuer of Acheron.
• Acherusia, a fenne in the realme of Naples.
• Achilleias, a kynde of barly, peraduenture that whiche is callyd beare corne.
• Achilleon, some do suppose to be mylfoyle.
• Achras, a wylde peare.
• Achylus, without lyppes.
• Aciale, harde yron.
• Acidalia, a name of Venus, of a foūtayn in a citie of Boeotia, callyd orchomenae.
• Acidylus, a knotte in the gyrdell of Venus.
• Aciem trahere, to sette in edge.
• Acies animi, the capacitie of a mans wytte.
• Acinaceus, a, um, full of kernels.
• Aciritani, were a people in Spayne.
• Acis, a ryuer in Sycil, which cometh from the mountayne of Aethna.
• Acitia, an Ilande callyd also Melos in the sea by Candye.
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• Acilon, the bearye of holy.
• Aclassis, a garmēt vnsowed frō the shulders
• Acon, aconis, a fyshe, whiche after the des∣cription of Paulus Ioutus, I suppose to be that, whiche at London is callid a shad.
• Acopus, an herbe callyd also Anagyris, full of braunches, and hathe flowres lyke to colewortes, and hath an ylle sauoure, the sede therof is in longe coddes, harde and lyke in facion to kydneys.
• Acorus, an herbe with longe leaues, lyke the blade of a sworde. I suppose it be that, whiche is callyd Gladwen or Gladen.
• Acratismus, & acratisma, a breakefast.
• Acris, a ryuer of Italye.
• Acrodria, be all frutes, which haue an hard rynde or shale, as pomegranades, nuttes, chestyns, pistaces, and other lyke.
• Acre, swyft, sowre, cruell, valiant, vehemēt, dyligent, circumspecte.
• Acritas, sowrenesse, crueltie, dilygence.
• Acriter, swiftly, cruelly, vehemētly, diligētly
• Acrisius, kynge of Argiues, the father of ••anaes, on whom Iupiter begate Perse{us}.
• Acroama, a subtyle sentence, which requi∣reth an exquysite study to perceyue.
• Acroamata, were certayne lectures of A∣ristotle, whiche he radde to his scholers, wherin was the moste subtylle and coun∣nynge parte of philosophie.
• Acroecraunia, mountaynes of wonderfulle heyght, betwene Armenia and Hiberia.
• Acrocomus, one hauynge longe heare.
• Acrocorinthus, an high mountayne in Mo∣rea, betwene the two sees Aegeū & Ioniū.
• Acropolis, a castell sette on a hylle.
• Acte, an elder tree.
• Action, the bearye of an elder.
• Acteus, a, um, of Athenes.
• Actia, orum, plays made ones in fiue yeres.
• Actitatus, ta, tum, determyned by iugement.
• Actitatio, a debatynge of a case in lawe, or pleedynge.
• Actius, a noble poete that wrate tragedies.
• Actiuus, actyue.
• Actualis scientia, a science that declarethe thinges by their operation, of the which ar thre partes, morall, dispensatiue, and ciuile.
• Acta aetas, age whan youth is paste.
• Acta agere, to doo that whiche is all redye done, to lose laboure.
• Actus, put in feare.
• Actus, a braid in tillage, it is also a cartway.
• Actuosus, alway in busynesse.
• Actuosus ignis, fyre whiche alway burneth.
• Aculeatus, ta, tum, any thyng that prycketh.
• Acupedius, he that hath a quycke and apte foote to runne with.
• Acus, a fishe, whiche is longe and somwhat grene, and hath a beke, as it were the byll of a crane, I suppose it is that, which som calle an hornekeke.
• Acustici, they whiche do here all, and speke nothynge them selfes.
• Acuté, quyckely, subtilly.
• Acuti oculi, cleere eyes.
• Acuti cibi, sharpe meates.
• Acutum ingenium, a subtyll or quycke wyt.
• Acylon, an holye beary.
• Acyphantes, a cytie in Thessaly, whiche is also callyd Pindus.

Notes

• Plautus in Truculen.
• Plautus in Epidic.
• Liuius.
• Plautus in casina. Ci. Tyro.
• Cicero de Amic.
• Plautus in Trucu.
• Seneca.
• Paul. Ioui{us}