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Contextual Lexicon

Body and medicine. Adust; Adventitious; Alteratives; Anatomical arteries; Anatomical membranes; Anatomy; Apophlegmatisms; Apothecaries measures; Aqua vitae; Aurum potabile; Bile and boil; Blood and sanguine; Calenture and ague; Cautery; Chirurgery; Choler; Chyle; Clister; Complexion and temperament; Concoction; Confection; Consent and essence; Cordial; Corrected medicines; Costiveness; Decoction; Diet and regimen; Distillation and rheum; Eclegme; Electuaries; Empiric; Epithemes; Excrements; Exercise; Experimental; Flux and lask; Friction and embrocation; Green sickness; Helleborism; Herbal; Humoral qualities; Humour; Hypochondria; Impostume; Intention and remission; Issue; Lenitive; Lights; Maternal impressions; Matrix and mother; Melancholy; Meseraic; Mountebank; Myrach; Nepenthe; Non naturals; Oppilation; Organical parts; Oxymel; Paracelsian; Phlebotomy; Phlegm; Physick; Plethora and repletion; Prognostics; Purging; Radical moisture; Receipt; Rectification; Satyriasis and priapism; Seed; Simples; Spirits; Spleen; Stibium; Strangury; Vapours; Ventricle; Waking.

Mind passions and conduct. Affection; Anger; Animal faculties; Appetite; Apprehension; Bugbear; Cerebral chambers; Common sense; Conceit; Concupiscence; Concupiscible and irascible; Constancy; Corrosive; Distraction; Dotage; Ecstasy; Emulation; Epichairekakia; Faculty; Fear; Habit and disposition; Happiness and fortune; Heart and cordolium; Heroical love; Idleness; Imagination; Jealousy; Judgment; Leisure; Love; Lucid intervals; Lycanthropy; Madness; Magnanimity and pusillanimity; Memory and recollection; Mirth; Music and harmony; Obnubilate; Passion; Perturbation; Phrenitis; Pleasure; Recreate; Remedy by diversion; Self love; Shame; Simulacra; Solitude; Sorrow; Species in perception; Tædium vitae; Wit.

Nature astrology and supernatural agencies. Air; Astrological aspects; Astrological significators; Astrology; Catoptrics and perspectives; Characters; Daemon and genius; Demonic apparitions; Divination; Essence and quintessence; Fascination; Geniture; Incubus; Intelligence; Jovial and martial; Ligation and ligature; Lodestone and adamant; Meteors; Obsession and possession; Occult; Philter; Physiognomy; Prime mover.

Philosophical distinctions. Accident; Actuality; Animal and vegetal; Cause; Contingence; Election; Ex traduce; Form; Generation and corruption; Genus and species; Inseparable and individual; Intellect; Matter; Mediocrity; Metempsychosis; Microcosm; Reason; Schoolmen; Sensible; Soul; Synderesis; Will and nill.

Religion and conscience. Anchorite; Carnal presumption; Casuists; Charity; Conscience; Cure; Despair; Desperate; Divine; Election and reprobation; Enthusiasm; Epicure; Faith and assurance; Grace; Hope; Mortification; Precise; Professor; Religion and superstition; Religious melancholy; Salvation; Satisfaction; Scruple; Supererogation; Temptation; Venial sin; Zeal.

Social life and institutions. Abraham men; Affinity and consanguinity; Ambodexter; Bawd; Calling; Church patronage; Clown; Commonwealth; Continence; Counterfeit; Custom and education; Dowry and jointure; Estate; Gossip; Hospital; Legal evidence; Living and preferment; Luxurious and riot; Mistress; Mortmain; Parasite; Policy; Proletary; Quean and slut; Sodomy; Suit; Temporize; Usury; Venery; Wittal and cuckold.

Words with changing senses. Abdicate; Absolute; Absolve; Admire; Apologize; Artificial; Baffle; Bewray; Bowels; Brave; Careful; Carriage; Censure; Collogue; Comfortable; Commodity; Complement; Confer and conference; Conversation; Crased; Curiosity; Defecate; Entertain; Explode; Exquisite; Fact; Familiar; Favour and feature; Feral; Fond; Fulsome; Generous; Glass; Happily; Homely; Honest; Idiot; Impertinent; Impotent; Indifferent; Judicial and judicious; Just; Lust and lusty; Macerate; Make away; Manure; Meat; Nice; Ordinary; Painful; Parable; Pine apple; Plausible; Present; Prevent; Privy; Proper; Secure; Silly; Simple; Still; Stupid; Tables; Tax; Tires and weeds; Virtue; Voluntary.

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