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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 D
37–72 of 163
Demodocus and paternal responsibility
Dēmodokos is the father's personal name.
Theages
Demonic apparitions
“An apparition” is something that appears, especially a perceived spirit or ghost.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Demonstration
Apodeixis is a showing or demonstration offered to establish a claim.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Demonstration and the tinging-man
A proba is a displayed proof or trial; the tinging-man is the person who undertakes to exhibit it.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Denarius
The Denarius is the ten, specified by Khunrath as real and physical.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Denis Zachaire
Zachaire appears beside Valerandus Sylvensis as an interpreter of the Rosarium's account of the matter.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Dense, subtle and fifth body
Crassum is dense or gross, subtile physically fine, rarum rarefied.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Density and rarefaction
The language of the dense and the rare describes differences in compactness.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Density and solidity
Density and solidity concern compactness and firmness in material or figurative accounts.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Deordination
Deordination is a rare theological word for departure from right order or a state of disorder.
Centuries of Meditations
Dependence and receiving
Pendere and dependere mark dependence, literally evoking hanging from a support.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I · Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Dephlogisticate
This article groups the chemical words Joubert explicitly considers or metaphorically reuses.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Deprivation
Apostereō means deprive; rob someone or something of a possession or capacity.
Lysis
Depth
Bathos is depth.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Descent
Kathodos is descent.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Desert and merit
Desert is what someone or something deserves; merit can name excellence calling for due acknowledgement.
Centuries of Meditations
Desiderative impulse
Orexis is a reaching toward or desire for something.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Desire
Epithymia is desire, and epithymein to desire or want something.
Theages · Lysis+6 books
Desire as a relative
Epithymia is desire or appetite; hēdonē pleasure.
Charmides
Despair
Désespoir names an extreme state; désespérante also names the effect a critic can have on someone else.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · The Anatomy of Melancholy
Destiny after death
Haidēs names Hades, either the god or the realm of the dead according to context.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Destruction
Φθορά is perishing or destruction; φθαρτός and ἄφθαρτος distinguish perishable and imperishable.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Determination and delimitation
Diorismos is determination or marking off.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Devil
A devil is an evil spiritual being, contrasted with an angel and associated with opposition to divine love.
Centuries of Meditations
Devil and scaly brood
The Devil supplies the book's recurring figure of opposition to divine truth, while scales, flies, hornets, heads and tongues give that opposition a noisy or corporeal following.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Devotion
Dévotion is an inward and practical dedication to religion.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations
Dew
Drosos is dew.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Diagrams and the position of the reader
A diagram gives a visible arrangement through which relations can be grasped.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Dialectic
Dialectic concerns argumentative procedure, but its value changes with its relation to sight, persuasion, poetry and intellectual exercise.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Diameter
Diametros is a line across a circular or spherical figure through its center.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Diamond
The diamond combines conspicuous material value with light and the difference between genuine and imitated brilliance.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Difference
Diaphora marks a difference between things or the respect in which they differ.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Digestion
Digestion is the term used for a sustained condition of working or waiting within certain proposed preparations.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Dignity
Dignité may arise from inward peace or nobility of soul; it is not confined to rank, and it need not exclude modesty.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations
Diligence
Diligence is careful, persistent exertion.
Centuries of Meditations
Dim sight
Amblyōpein means to see dimly; amaurousthai means to become dimmed or obscured.
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