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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 F
37–72 of 148
Featherless bird and gold-beetle
The featherless bird or gold-beetle arrives on p. 170 crying silver- and gold-making.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Feathers
B82 names the dense or close-set feathers of birds.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Feeling
Sentiment, with plural sentimens or sentiments, can mean a felt disposition and a mode of inward judgment.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Feeling and sensation
Sentiment can mean an experienced feeling, an inward apprehension, or a sense of one’s condition.
The Green Notebook
Felicity
Felicity names the full happiness or blessedness for which human life is made.
Centuries of Meditations
Fellow expert
Homotechnos means someone practising the same craft.
Charmides
Fellowship
Fellowship is participation in something held in common and, by extension, company among those who share it.
Centuries of Meditations
Female
Thēlys means female.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Fermentation
Fermentation may be a physical process or an image of activity that brings something to maturity, with the possibility of mere sourness instead of fruit.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Fermentation
Philosophical fermentation is the operation in which the completed universal Stone is united with a specially prepared material and acts according to that union.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Fertility and extinction
Fertile means capable of producing offspring; infecundity and barrenness name the failure or absence of such reproduction.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Fiction
Fiction is an invented presentation or supposition whose relation to truth depends on its purpose.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Fiction, truth, and the poetic example
Truth in the edition can mean accuracy of observed detail, insight into a state of mind, doctrinal validity, or the moral effect of an invented narrative.
René
Fidelity
Fidélité names continuance in custom, admiration or feeling; it is not restricted to literal accuracy in a copy or translation.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations
Fie upon the Devil
Phy Diabolo, rendered “Fie upon the Devil,” stands near the end of the p. 187 subscription, immediately before Amen.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Fiery whirlwind
Prēstēr names a violent fiery whirlwind in the selected meteorological contrast.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Fifth essence
Fifth essence is the ensouling principle of the four elements and, in the passages on regeneration, the hidden world-spirit which makes all things grow.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Fig-juice and milk
B33 compares something to fig-juice binding white milk.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Figure and metaphor
Figure may name visible form or a rhetorical arrangement; métaphore belongs to the verbal comparisons through which intellectual things are presented.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Final perception unity and the qualified hope after death
Aisthēsis is perception; the plural names the manifold perceptions of present human experience.
Epinomis
Finding a way through
Euporeō means have a way through; be able to proceed or find an answer.
Lysis
Finesse
Finesse names a fine discriminating capacity, sometimes expressed through touch and sometimes through the quality of a reply or of wit.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Finite
Fini can mean bounded in extent or finished in workmanship.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Finite angels, infinite act, and infinite potency
The infinite act is God; infinite potency is matter subject to God and receptive to indefinitely many forms.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Fire
Pyr names fire as a visible process, an elemental constituent, or a governing principle in a particular account.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations+4 books
Fire and heat
Feu and chaleur must remain distinct even when Joubert identifies them in a physical hypothesis.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Fire and renewed confidence
Phlegesthai supplies the image of burning; anezōpyroumēn means that Socrates was being rekindled or revived into flame.
Charmides
Fire and variable materials
Calefacere means to heat; calor is heat; praeparatio is a material’s preparation or disposition to receive an effect.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Fire and Vulcan
Vulcan is the name given to the fire-agent helping the Artist’s lawful preparation on page 55.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Fire, spark, lightning and cannon
Ignis names fire; scintilla a spark; flamma a flame.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Firmament
Firmament names the sky or celestial expanse, especially in scriptural descriptions of the ordered heavens.
Centuries of Meditations
First breath
The phrase explicitly names the first breath of the first living thing.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
First Cause, principal causes and causal dependence
A causa is that through which something is, comes to be, or receives a determination.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
First concepts, unity, and the end of analysis
First concepts are not resolved into concepts prior or better known.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
First friend
Prōton philon means first friend; what is primarily dear or valued.
Lysis
First matter
First matter is the universal material beginning and, in the alchemical argument, the necessary ground through which existing metals must pass if they are to be regenerated.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
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