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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
181–216 of 284
Conjecture
Conjecture reaches beyond what is directly seen or established.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Conjunction
Synodos is a coming together.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Conscience
Conscience spans inward awareness and moral self-judgment.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations+2 books
Consensus and monuments
The Philosophers' monumenta are what they have left behind, especially writings that preserve teaching and testimony.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Consent and essence
By essence and by consent distinguish two proposed ways a part can be affected: through a disorder originating in itself, or through its connection with another part.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Consideration
Consideration is sustained attention that examines a thing's nature, relations, and worth.
Centuries of Meditations
Consolation
Consolation names an inward benefit that is not reducible to acquiring historical information or proving a belief.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · The Green Notebook
Constitution
Systasis concerns how constituents stand together as an organized thing.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Constitution as fitness
Kataskeuē is the arrangement or equipment by which something is fitted for an activity.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Constitution, localized point and harmony
Complexio is a bodily constitution or temperament, especially the proportion of constituent qualities.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Constitutive and Destructive Additions
Constitutive admission concerns what enters into the Stone’s constitution; destructive employment concerns an aid that furthers the subject’s breaking-down and can afterwards be removed.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Contact
Contact is a way things meet or affect one another.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Contagious yawning
Chasmōmenous describes people yawning, sympaschein undergoing the same experience along with another, and halōnai being caught.
Charmides
Containing, receiving and lacking
Continere and complecti can mean to contain or embrace; capere can be to receive or apprehend.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Contemplation
Theōria is contemplation or attentive consideration.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations
Contemplation and inquiry
Inquiry, contemplation, and meditation are active ways of attending to the secrets laid in the natural subject.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Contempt
Mépris concerns a damaging relation of appraisal, with consequences for the social support on which virtue can depend.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations
Contentment
Contentment is a settled satisfaction in what one rightly possesses.
Centuries of Meditations
Contingency
Contingentia and contingens mark a variable or non-necessary created mode.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Continuance
Diamonē is continuance or enduring persistence.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Continuity
Syneches describes what is continuous.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Contraction and determination
Determinare bounds or directs something to a determinate result.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Contradiction and possibility
Contradictio is contradiction; repugnare and adversari oppose or conflict with something.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Contraries, death and imperishability
Contraries are opposed qualities or forms, such as heat and cold.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Contraries, privations, and knowledge of evil
Contraries oppose and can destroy one another in matter.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Contrary
These expressions name what is opposite or contrary.
Alcibiades II · Hipparchus+4 books
Contrary powers and directed movement
Contraria are opposed qualities or effects.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Conversation
Dialegesthai is to converse or discuss.
Charmides · Lysis+2 books
Conversion
Conversion is a turning toward a different spiritual orientation.
Centuries of Meditations
Conversion, desire and compulsion
Converti and commutari can mean changing into something else, not simply changing one’s mind.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Conviction
Conviction can describe the outcome of an argument, but Joubert’s most striking uses expose its judicial or coercive character.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Conviction, Ambition, and Inconstancy
Conviction might mean a reasoned commitment, but XXXIII suspects that its public meaning has become the determination to succeed.
Intimate Journals
Cookery
Ὄψον is a prepared accompaniment or dish; σκευασία its preparation.
Alcibiades I · Minos+1 book
Cooling
Katapsyxis and psyxis denote cooling; the apparatus gives both formulations for the sleep notice.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Cooper and Natty Bumppo
Cooper’s named hero and other fictional companions furnish an imagined American journey during Guérin’s conversation with Élie.
The Green Notebook
Copper-flower
Χαλκῖτιν is the printed inflected form, rendered “copper-flower” by this edition.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
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