The Anatomy of Melancholy

the safest — Secure.

the same deed — Fact.

the sin of sodomy — Sodomy.

the slightest disturbance of the emotions — Perturbation.

the usual outcome — Prognostics.

the very same water — Inseparable and individual.

their desires could never be satisfied — Lust and lusty.

their emblem — Emblem.

their imagination is impaired — Faculty.

their inhabitants are idle and dissolute — Luxurious and riot.

their own flesh and blood, their very children — Bowels.

their stupefaction — Stupid.

their very frequent sexual activity — Lust and lusty.

they are changeable beyond all measure — Humour.

they forestalled death — Prevent.

they pay their debt — Venery.

they would not ransom his life — Soul.

thick humours — Humour.

this faculty is free — Faculty.

this judgment — Judgment.

this nobility of spirit — Generous.

this opportunistic age — Temporize.

this patchwork — Cento.

this scrupulous conscience — Scruple.

this suspension of the senses — Ligation and ligature.

those governed by mercury — Astrological significators.

those parasites — Parasite.

those who profess christianity — Professor.

three ounces — Apothecaries measures.

through sympathy with another part, rather than through a disorder originating in itself — Consent and essence.

through their mutual sympathy — Consent and essence.

to censure it and deter others from it — Tax.

to feel the lack of grace within ourselves — Grace.

to indulge in melancholy like this — Melancholy.

to kill himself — Make away.

to kill themselves — Make away.

to perform works beyond duty — Supererogation.

to strengthen hearing — Intention and remission.

too much being alone — Idleness; Solitude.

too scrupulously — Nice.

torments the soul — Sorrow.

toughest labourers — Clown.

training — Custom and education.

trance — Ecstasy.

transfers of property and guarantees — Legal evidence.

transmigration and rebirth — Metempsychosis.

treated me with contempt — Baffle.

treatment with hellebore — Helleborism.

trim their conduct to circumstances as others do — Temporize.

turn his mind elsewhere — Remedy by diversion.

two common emetics — Purging.

two full treatises — Just.

ugly souls — Soul.

undertakings and conduct — Carriage.

undigested matter — Concoction.

ungovernable and insane desire — Impotent.

unhealthy air — Air.

uniform parts — Organical parts.

unlearned — Idiot.

unruly appetite — Concupiscence.

unsuspecting travellers — Silly.

untrained practitioners — Empiric.

untrained practitioners of politics — Empiric.

upwards or downwards — Purging.

usual winter recreations — Ordinary.

utterly mortified and mad — Mortification.

utterly numb — Stupid.

vegetative, sensitive and rational — Animal and vegetal.

venosal artery — Anatomical arteries.

very shy — Shame.

very strengthening to the heart — Cordial.

very vigorous — Lust and lusty.

vileness of his deed — Fact.

voluntary poverty — Voluntary.

wasted by cares and discontents — Macerate.

wasting ill health — Plethora and repletion.

weak and helpless — Silly.

wear away their minds — Macerate.

wear themselves out — Macerate.

weariness of life — Tædium vitae.

wearing themselves away — Macerate.

what is morally honourable — Honest.

what middle state can be found — Mediocrity.

wheedling — Collogue.

whether he is among the elect — Election and reprobation.

whether things come into being and pass away in the heavens — Generation and corruption.

wholesome merriment — Honest.

whose age had made him a little foolish — Fond.

whose wit surpassed the wits of men — Wit.

will-o’-the-wisp, imagination — Meteors.

will-o’-the-wisps — Meteors.

willing and refusing — Will and nill.

willing or unwilling — Will and nill.

windpipe — Anatomical arteries.

witches and enchantments — Fascination.

with or without scarification — Chirurgery.

without a dowry — Dowry and jointure.

without knowledge — Zeal.

witty — Conceit.

wives’ breaths smell very foul — Soul.

wolf-madness — Lycanthropy.

worldly, complacent — Secure.

worried thoughts — Careful.

written symbols — Characters.

zealous — Zeal.

zopyrus the reader of faces — Physiognomy.

Thematic index

Learning and authorship. Action; Antick; Art; Cento; Century; Clerk; Emblem; Equivocation; Exhibition; Fustian and bombast; Humane learning; Neoterics; Parrhesia; Pathetical; Quiddity and quodlibet; Science.