Words · Meanings · Passages
Lexicon
Terms from the books in the Diotimos library, with definitions, translation notes, and links to their passages.
4,297 entries across 21 collectionsTerms beginning with C
73–108 of 284
Chief Circle
Chief marks the head of the ruling order, not a different geometrical species.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Chieftains
Promoi are those who stand foremost, hence leaders or chieftains.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Child and childhood
Pais means child; boy in this dialogue; son in an address naming the father.
Lysis · Stobaeus, Volume I+1 book
Childhood and youth
Childhood and youth mark different stages and memories.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations+3 books
Children and parenthood
Tekna are children; the opposed descriptions mochthēra and chrēsta are rendered worthless and worthy.
Alcibiades II
Chimney Soot
Chimney soot is an ordinary residue proposed by some claimants as Magnesia.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Choice
Proairesis denotes choice, often deliberate choice.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II+2 books
Christ
Christ names Jesus as the divinely appointed Saviour.
Centuries of Meditations · Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Christian
A Christian is a person related to Christ in faith and life.
Centuries of Meditations
Christian apologetics and the uses of fiction
Apologetics is a reasoned or persuasive defence of religion, not an admission of fault.
René
Christianity
Christianisme names the Christian tradition in claims about moral life and in discussions of connected mysteries.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Chromatic Sedition
Chromatic means pertaining to colour.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Chromatistes
The personal name connects its bearers with colour.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Church
Église can name a building, a focus for religious attention or an institution facing changing dangers.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations+1 book
Church and faith
The Church, its faith and its head belong explicitly to Khunrath's series of universals.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Chyle
Chyle is the named nutritive product in several digestive comparisons.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · The Anatomy of Melancholy
Cinnabar Workings
Cinnabar workings are mentioned as possible profitable particulars among the lesser metallic applications.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Circle
Kyklos is a circle and can also name a circular course or arrangement.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Circles and Priests
A geometrical circle has a continuous circumference.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Circles, drawing, and inclinations
Kyklos means a circle; the opening has the plural accusative kyklous, the objects being drawn.
The Lovers
Circuits their ordering and the contrary eighth
Periodos is a circuit or going around; kyklos a circle or cycle; phora motion or being carried; diexodos a course through; polos the orbit or revolving course assigned here to each power.
Epinomis
Circular doctrine
Doctrine is an authoritative body of teaching.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Circular motion
Periphora denotes a circular course or revolution and can name the circuit itself.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Circularity and return
Circuitus, circulus and revolutio name a circuit, circle or revolution.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I · Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Circulation
Circulation carries something through a course that can return, sustain a quantity, or distribute activity.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Circumference
Periphereia is the circular outer extent or periphery.
Stobaeus, Volume I
City
Πόλις is the city as an organized community, not merely its buildings.
Alcibiades I · The Lovers+3 books
City and soul
Polis is a city as a political community; psychē is soul and can also signify life; politeia is a constitution or the commonwealth with its organisation and way of life.
Alcibiades II
Civic constitution
Politeia can mean a civic constitution or a shared manner of life.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Civilization and Original Sin
Civilisation is a moral achievement in LXXXI, not a synonym for the latest machinery or for belonging to the West.
Intimate Journals
Clangor Buccinae
The Clangor Buccinae, the Blast of the Trumpet, is a cited book, distinct from Khunrath's own Trumpets of Truth.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Clarity and obscurity
Σαφής is clear, δῆλος evident, ἐναργής vivid, καταφανής in full view. Against them stands the αἴνιγμα, the riddle, a saying whose sense is not in its words.
Charmides · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Class and caste
Flatland's classes are ranked bodily types, reinforced by education, occupations, marriage and law.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Classical metamorphoses
Two unnamed ancient transformations, identified by the supplied notes as Glaucus and Philemon with Baucis, give unlike forms to Guérin’s desire for altered existence.
The Green Notebook
Classical teachers and Amadis
Khunrath uses familiar literary names to discriminate kinds of speech and knowledge.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Clay and mud
Pēlos is clay or mud, a mixture associated with earth and moisture.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Books in the Lexicon
October 2026
Plato’s Alcibiades I Lexicon
Alcibiades I · Plato
176 entries · 701 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Alcibiades II Lexicon
Alcibiades II · Plato
94 entries · 290 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Traherne Lexicon
Centuries of Meditations · Thomas Traherne
471 entries · 0 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Charmides Lexicon
Charmides · Plato
173 entries · 777 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Empedocles Lexicon
Empedocles, Volumes I–II · Empedocles of Acragas
490 entries · 0 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Epinomis Lexicon
Epinomis · Plato
77 entries · 1,061 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Flatland Literary Lexicon
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions · Edwin A. Abbott
85 entries · 476 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Khunrath Lexicon
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum · Heinrich Khunrath
326 entries · 0 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Hipparchus Lexicon
Hipparchus · Plato
90 entries · 291 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Baudelaire Literary Lexicon
Intimate Journals · Charles Baudelaire
80 entries · 323 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Lysis Lexicon
Lysis · Plato
239 entries · 0 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I Lexicon
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I · Marsilio Ficino
231 entries · 1,313 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II Lexicon
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II · Marsilio Ficino
148 entries · 1,398 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Minos Lexicon
Minos · Plato
54 entries · 506 subsidiary terms
October 2026
René Literary Lexicon
René · François-René de Chateaubriand
81 entries · 275 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Stobaeus Lexicon
Stobaeus, Volume I · John Stobaeus
610 entries · 85 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy Lexicon
The Anatomy of Melancholy · Robert Burton
103 entries · 3,864 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Guérin Lexicon
The Green Notebook · Maurice de Guérin
165 entries · 0 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Lovers Lexicon
The Lovers · Plato
83 entries · 361 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Joubert Lexicon
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Joseph Joubert
459 entries · 110 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Theages Lexicon
Theages · Plato
62 entries · 510 subsidiary terms