The Anatomy of Melancholy

ecstasy is a taste of future happiness — Ecstasy.

educated — Custom and education.

efficient cause — Cause.

elaborate crosses — Curiosity.

elishi — Heroical love.

empirical healers — Empiric.

empirical practitioners — Empiric.

empty fancies — Conceit.

empty privies — Privy.

empty superstition — Religion and superstition.

enema — Clister.

enemas — Clister.

enforced continence — Continence.

established as a habit or present as a disposition — Habit and disposition.

ever-flowing rivers — Still.

every agreeable means — Plausible.

evil spirit — Daemon and genius.

exact conjunction — Astrological aspects.

exact knowledge — Exquisite.

excellent powers of understanding — Apprehension.

exceptional beauty — Favour and feature.

excessive exercise — Exercise.

excessive sexual activity or none at all — Venery.

excessive solitude — Solitude.

excluded — Abdicate.

exercise of body and mind regulated — Exercise.

external, adventitious causes — Adventitious.

extortionate moneylenders — Usury.

extraordinary imagination — Maternal impressions.

faculty of movement — Animal faculties.

faculty of struggle — Concupiscible and irascible.

faith — Faith and assurance.

fall off a bench — Form.

familiar spirit — Daemon and genius.

famous scholars — Clerk.

fashions in dress — Tires and weeds.

feel no scruple about anything — Conscience.

feelings to actions — Passion.

feigned invalid — Abraham men.

fell into despair — Desperate.

few discharges from the eyes and nostrils — Excrements.

fifth essence — Essence and quintessence.

final and temporary — Religious melancholy.

final and temporary despair — Despair.

financial support — Exhibition.

fine craftsmanship — Curiosity.

fine wines — Generous.

finery — Brave.

firmly believed — Constancy.

firmness of his understanding — Apprehension.

first actuality — Actuality.

first cousin to idleness — Idleness.

first substantial actuality — Actuality.

fits of the mother — Matrix and mother.

fits of the womb — Matrix and mother.

fleshly presumption — Carnal presumption.

food — Meat.

for drawing up a bond — Legal evidence.

for lack of vapours he could not sleep — Vapours.

foul matter — Fulsome.

found so astonishing — Admire.

fourth chamber — Cerebral chambers; Ventricle.

frail and sickly — Crased.

frank speaking — Parrhesia.

freedom from anxiety follows — Secure.

frenzy — Phrenitis.

frequent sexual intercourse — Venery.

frivolous and irrelevant — Impertinent.

full-length volumes — Just.

futile choices of auspicious times — Election.

games of backgammon — Tables.

gather from their extensive treatises — Memory and recollection.

genus and species — Genus and species.

ghost — Demonic apparitions.

gifted minds — Wit.

give some reassurance — Satisfaction.

give you cuckold’s horns — Wittal and cuckold.

gives our life its proper form — Custom and education.

god’s grace — Grace.

good and evil guardian spirits — Daemon and genius.

good fortune and leisure — Happiness and fortune.

good government — Policy.

good looks — Favour and feature.

grace is available to all who will believe — Grace.

green sickness — Green sickness.

grotesque picture — Antick.

grotesque, fantastic ideas — Antick.

grotesques — Antick.

had any scruple — Scruple.

halcyon days — Happiness and fortune.

half a drachm — Apothecaries measures.

handsome appearance — Proper.

hardworking preacher — Painful.

he does not commit a venial sin — Venial sin.

he may kill himself — Make away.

he suddenly lost his reason — Dotage.

heartache — Heart and cordolium.

heightened or relaxed — Intention and remission.

held and chewed in the mouth — Apophlegmatisms.

hellebore in its solid form — Simples.

heroic — Heroical love.

heroic love — Heroical love; Love.

hidden — Occult.

highest general category — Genus and species.

highest good — Pleasure.

his food — Diet and regimen.

his heart is always with her — Still.

his mistress — Mistress; Quean and slut.

his next academic exercise — Exercise.

historian skilled in affairs of state — Policy.

honour and beauty — Honest.

honourable rivalry — Emulation.

honours, offices and promotions — Living and preferment.

hope of salvation — Salvation.

hope, love, desire and longing — Hope.

hot-tempered — Choler.

humiliated — Baffle.

hydromancy — Divination.

hyleg — Astrological significators.

hypochondria — Hypochondria.

hypochondriacal wind — Hypochondria.

idle leisure — Leisure.

if she is slovenly — Quean and slut.