The Anatomy of Melancholy

being humiliated — Baffle.

benefit — Commodity.

birth charts — Geniture.

black bile — Bile and boil; Choler; Melancholy.

blood relationship — Affinity and consanguinity.

bloodletting — Phlebotomy.

bodily constitution — Complexion and temperament.

body’s balance — Complexion and temperament.

bogeymen — Bugbear.

boil — Bile and boil.

boiling — Concoction.

boiling clarifies it — Defecate.

bound themselves over to him — Legal evidence.

brain’s middle chamber — Cerebral chambers.

brought about by circumstances — Artificial.

building an almshouse, school, or bridge to make amends — Satisfaction.

burning fevers — Calenture and ague.

burning fevers and diarrhoea — Flux and lask.

burnt choler — Adust.

by choice — Election.

by reasoning — Intellect.

by their unaided natural powers — Grace.

cambium — Radical moisture.

cards, backgammon — Tables.

care and supervision — Custom and education.

carotid arteries — Anatomical arteries.

cast a birth horoscope — Geniture.

cast the evil eye on children and bewitch them — Fascination.

casting a birth horoscope — Geniture.

catoptrics — Catoptrics and perspectives.

cauterized — Cautery.

changing his habit — Habit and disposition.

charity itself — Charity.

charity may judge favourably — Charity.

cheerfulness — Mirth.

chemical preparations — Confection.

choosing favourable times — Election.

church appointments — Living and preferment.

church revenues appropriated to lay ownership — Church patronage.

chyle — Chyle.

clouds the mind — Obnubilate.

coaxing — Collogue.

college, lectureship, library — Exhibition.

combust — Astrological significators.

comets — Meteors.

committed a shameful act — Fact.

common soldiers — Proletary.

commonwealth — Commonwealth.

compare hand with hand — Confer and conference.

comparing ourselves with them — Confer and conference.

complete cure — Absolute.

completed it — Absolve.

completion of love — Complement.

composite parts — Organical parts.

compound — Confection.

concupiscible — Concupiscible and irascible.

condition of the body — Affection.

conducted excellent experiments — Experimental.

confident practitioners — Empiric.

confidently ridicule — Secure.

consciences are seared — Cautery.

consider themselves reprobates — Election and reprobation.

consoling words — Comfortable.

constipation — Costiveness.

constitutions — Complexion and temperament.

containing causes — Cause.

contingency of all things — Contingence.

continual conversation — Confer and conference.

continually crying — Still.

converse with them — Confer and conference.

corrosive troubles — Corrosive.

corrupt humours — Plethora and repletion.

corrupt passions — Affection.

creatures with senses — Sensible.

criticism — Censure.

curiosity — Curiosity.

custom — Custom and education.

customary prescriptions — Receipt.

daimones — Daemon and genius.

deadly affliction — Feral.

decoction of wormwood — Decoction.

defend anthony — Apologize.

dejected faint-heartedness — Magnanimity and pusillanimity.

deliberate divine permission — Voluntary.

delicate gentlewoman — Nice.

delicate gentlewomen — Nice.

delicate upbringing — Nice.

delusion — Dotage.

demonic harassment or possession — Obsession and possession.

denies that a man commits even a venial sin — Venial sin.

deny themselves — Daemon and genius.

derive from seed — Seed.

desiring faculty — Concupiscible and irascible.

despairing people — Desperate.

different meanings — Equivocation.

different meanings of melancholy — Equivocation.

digestive processing — Concoction.

discursive thought, reasoning — Intellect.

disordered imagination — Imagination; Maternal impressions.

disorders — Complexion and temperament.

disorders of the brain — Affection.

disown — Abdicate.

disputations on any subject whatever — Quiddity and quodlibet.

distilled spirit — Aqua vitae.

distinctive features — Genus and species.

distinguish my assurance from fleshly presumption — Faith and assurance; Hope.

distinguishing mark — Characters.

disturbances of the mind corrected — Perturbation.

divination by fire — Divination.

divine seneca — Divine.

divine testing — Temptation.

do not be complacent — Secure.

do not despair or think yourself rejected by god — Faith and assurance.

double-dealers — Ambodexter.

double-dealing — Ambodexter.

dress and gesture — Habit and disposition.

drinkable gold — Aurum potabile.

dulls their spirits — Spirits.

ecstasy — Ecstasy.