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Robert Burton

The Anatomy of Melancholy

1651 English with a close modern English rendering

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The Anatomy of Melancholy: Contextual Lexicon

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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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About This Reading Edition

Robert Burton’s Anatomy ranges across medicine, philosophy, poetry, religion, and everyday life in its inquiry into melancholy. This complete parallel edition pairs the 1651 English text with a close modern English rendering, preserving the three Partitions, Democritus Junior’s address to the reader, verse, and the historical index.

Historical Text and Translation

The historical text follows the sixth edition, printed at Oxford for Henry Cripps in 1651, using the McGill University Library copy. The supplied edition documents missing printed pages 98–99 supplied from another 1651 copy at the Bavarian State Library. Historical folio labels and their irregularities remain visible; web reader numbers identify reflowed passages and do not claim to reproduce PDF pagination.

About Diotimos Editions

Diotimos Editions prepared the close modern English rendering and editorial matter. All 8,755 original and modern passage pairs remain aligned, with verse breaks, italics, continuations, and linked annotations preserved. Burton’s 6,781 historical notes retain their attribution; 6,895 editorial notes remain distinct. The introduction, Note on the Text, contextual lexicon, indexes, source documentation, and bibliography are included. The engraved frontispiece remains available in the original downloads.

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Burton’s historical text is in the public domain. The modern English rendering, introduction, notes, and editorial matter are © 2026 Diotimos Editions and appear with the site owner’s permission. The complete supplied PDF, EPUB, Word, and Markdown files remain available unchanged. The PDF and Word edition preserve the original parallel page layout.