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Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy Lexicon
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296 articles · 5 supplementary notes · 6,097 supporting recordsTerms beginning with K
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Citation form policy: Citation forms are distinct from exact printed forms; phrase records keep their local construction.
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Citation form policy: Citation key is separate from exact printed form; spelling and inflection normalized only where unambiguous. Multiword keys are labelled phrases.
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Citation form policy: Citation lemma or phrase is distinguished from the exact printed form; inflection, title and construction scope are stated explicitly.
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Citation form policy: Dictionary keys use standard headwords (Latin verbs in first-person singular present, nouns and adjectives in nominative singular); phrase/family keys are explicitly labelled. Exact printed forms and inflections are retained separately.
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Citation form policy: Dictionary keys use standard headwords (Latin verbs in first-person singular present, nouns and adjectives in nominative singular); phrase/family keys are explicitly labelled. Exact printed forms and inflections remain separate.
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Citation form policy: Dictionary keys use standard headwords (Latin verbs in first-person singular present, nouns in nominative singular); phrase/family keys are explicitly labelled. Exact printed forms and inflections are retained separately.
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Citation form policy: Dictionary lemma or explicitly labelled phrase is separate from the exact printed form.
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Citation form policy: English headwords normalize case only; spelling variants retained in exact printed forms. Latin inflections are identified separately from citation forms.
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Citation form policy: Exact original form retained; explanatory family label does not replace it.
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Citation form policy: Lemma/family keys normalize lexical identification; exact_printed_form retains source spelling and case. Latin forms are distinguished from the English body and from editorial note translations.
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Citation form policy: Normalized expansion of an abbreviated Latin title, not a single-word dictionary lemma; exact local abbreviations are separately retained.
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Citation form policy: The citation key identifies the immediate lemma or a normalized phrase; the printed form and explanatory article heading remain distinct.
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Citation form policy: The exact abbreviated title is preserved; chiromancy is its explained family destination, not a conjecturally expanded Latin dictionary form.
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Citation form policy: The exact attestation is preserved; the lemma or family identifies its citation form without silently altering the quotation.
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Citation form policy: The key identifies the dictionary lemma or explicitly expanded title phrase; printed inflection and abbreviation are retained separately.
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Citation form policy: The key identifies the immediate lemma or a normalized phrase; the printed inflection or spelling remains distinct.
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Citation form policy: The key identifies the immediate lemma or normalized phrase; exact printed spelling and inflection are preserved separately.
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Citation form policy: Unambiguous case, spelling or inflection normalization; otherwise a labelled phrase or source family. Exact attestation retained separately.
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Indexed form relation: Equal-scope phrase or clause comparison; the whole construction is not assigned to one component.
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Indexed form relation: Indexed form is one component of the quoted phrase or full unit; its lexical contribution is defined separately from modifiers and complements.
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Indexed form relation: The comparison preserves the local phrase scope; the indexed form is distinguished from the rest of the construction.
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Indexed form relation: The comparison retains the same local phrase scope; the indexed word is distinguished from the wider construction.
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Indexed form relation: The exact indexed form is distinguished from the wider phrase; the paired units retain the same local scope.
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Indexed form relation: The form contributes the dung/refuse sense specified in the local gloss; the whole phrase includes the separately described action, relation and modifiers.
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Indexed form relation: The indexed form is distinguished from the wider phrase; the paired units preserve local scope.
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Indexed form relation: The indexed word is defined separately; the complete quoted construction is aligned.
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Indexed form relation: indexed component of the explicit original construction; modern unit translates that construction
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Indexed form relation: indexed lexical component within the expressly stated larger original construction; modern unit aligns that construction
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Scope: Equal-scope lexical or construction alignment.
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Scope: Equal-scope original and supplied-modern units
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Scope: Equal-scope phrase or clause; the full rendering is not assigned to an isolated component.
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Scope: Equal-scope phrase or clause; the whole rendering is not assigned to the isolated indexed form.
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Scope: Equal-scope phrase or complete original/modern source unit; no larger phrase is assigned to the indexed word alone.
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Scope: Equal-scope quoted phrase or complete source unit; not a claim that every modern word translates the indexed word.
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Scope: Exact equal-scope phrase or full sentence; no single-word claim for a multiword construction.
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Scope: Whole stated construction; listed modern additions explicate or recast the original, rather than supply independent original lexical forms.
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Scope: whole stated phrase or construction
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Scope: whole stated phrase or construction; exact original unit retained
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Scope: whole verb phrase
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Word and construction: The indexed form contributes its defined sense within this complete rendering unit.
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Word and construction: The indexed form contributes the sense explained here to the aligned phrase.
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Word and construction: The indexed form supplies the defined lexical sense within this phrase; other words retain their own contributions.
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Word and construction: The printed form contributes the defined lexical sense within the quoted construction.
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Alignment scope: Equal-scope local phrase or clause.
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Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase or construction
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About this collection
October 2026
The Anatomy of Melancholy · Robert Burton
About this collection and downloads
296 complete contextual articles, five supplementary notes and 6,097 independently explained supporting vocabulary records.
About the lexicon
The supporting vocabulary register explains individual printed forms and local senses. Its glosses and lookup aliases are not additional articles. This volume highlights significant uses rather than listing every occurrence.
The source is the supplied annotated EPUB and parallel DOCX, based on Burton’s sixth edition of 1651. The supplied older-English text, paired modern rendering, historical marginal quotations and editorial notes remain distinct. Source locators belong to the supplied edition; they are not pages in this lexicon. No new collation of historical witnesses or of all cited authorities is claimed. Historical medicine, reported supernatural powers and polemical statements are explained in context.
Use the alphabetical contents or thematic guide to find articles, and the form and English indexes to find particular words and meanings. Linked cross-references lead to articles in this volume; other related titles identify topics outside it.
Additional articles and local uses
This volume contains 96 main articles and 868 explained supporting vocabulary records, with 321 additional local attestations. The supporting records explain words and local senses; they are not additional main articles or a count of every occurrence.
Coverage is selected significant vocabulary and uses, not a complete morphological concordance. Original wording and the supplied modern rendering are distinguished throughout. Burton’s historical medical claims describe his text and cited authorities; they are not present-day recommendations.
The supplied modern rendering and labelled notes are used as editorial aids; this volume does not claim fresh collation of historical witnesses or verification of every inherited bibliographical reference.
Additional articles and local uses
Coverage is selected significant vocabulary and uses, not a complete morphological concordance. Original wording and the supplied modern rendering are distinguished throughout. Burton’s historical medical claims describe his text and cited authorities; they are not present-day recommendations.