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Lexicon
Terms from the books in the Diotimos library, with definitions, translation notes, and links to their passages.
7,826 entries across 28 collectionsTerms beginning with M
217–252 of 322
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The supplied contextual lexicon’s “source forms” combine exact historical spellings with normalized access labels.
The Sophic Hydrolith, Water Stone of the Wise
Modest conduct
Modestie and modeste concern manner, self-estimation and limits of judgment as well as outward appearance.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Modesty
Pudeur concerns reserve, concealment and the relation between one’s embodied presence and others.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Moist
At LXXXII.3 νοτίαις qualifies clouds accompanying Notos.
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Moisture
Hygron identifies the moist, fluid, or wet character of things.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Moisture
Ocean is the source of the earth’s spring-flowing moistures at LXXXIII.5.
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Mold and imprint
Mold and imprint distinguish what gives form from the resulting mark.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Monad
Monas is a unit and, in numerical theory, a principle of number.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II+1 book
Monad and triad
A monad is a unity or simple unit; a triad is a threefold arrangement.
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
Monas and the author's other books
Monas and the cabala of the faith of Christians and philosophers are names or descriptions attached to other discussions to which the writer refers.
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I
Monas, Dias, Trias and Tetractys
Monas, Dias, Trias and Tetractys are the primary margins' names for one, two, three and four.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Money and expense
Expense includes the matter and instruments as well as the ordinary means of living while the work continues.
Candida Phoenix Philosophica
Monstrous births
Terata is the ancient label conventionally translated monsters or monstrous births.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Month
Mēn is a month.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Monuments
A monument may be a commemorative structure, but monuments can also be records or writings that preserve knowledge.
Centuries of Meditations
Moon
Selēnē is the moon.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II+4 books
Moon and stars
Moon and stars supply points of nocturnal light, in contrast to the sun’s wider illumination.
The Green Notebook
Moonlight and dazzled eyes
Moonlight has two positions in the Second Response's brief narrative.
The Sophic Hydrolith, Water Stone of the Wise
Moral concord and the robber
Moral concord is agreement of the soul’s activities with reason.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Moral law
Moral law is the universal ethical order the quoted account considers discoverable through reason.
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
Morality
Morale names the field or discipline of conduct, as well as a moral teaching.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Mordreux
The family household where Guérin spends three weeks around the turn of 1834.
The Green Notebook
More
πλείων is comparative, “more,” and τὸ πλέον makes its neuter form a substantive: “the more” or “the larger share.” In these hymns the construction concerns an excess sought over others, not an automatically specified quantity of money.
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
More and less
Μᾶλλον and ἧττον mean more and less in degree: more human, more properly a gain, or doing something to a greater degree.
Hipparchus
More truly and in the highest degree
The main treatise says that the Stone's titles can be applied to God and his eternal Son much more truly and in the highest degree.
The Sophic Hydrolith, Water Stone of the Wise
More-than-perfection
More-than-perfection names the condition beyond ordinary natural perfection that enables the Stone’s extraordinary effects.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Morienus
Morienus is named in a brief marginal saying excluding something other from the work.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Morienus
The main introduction lists Morienes, and Part Three attributes to him the saying that whoever has the Stone has everything and needs no other help.
The Sophic Hydrolith, Water Stone of the Wise
Morning star and dawn
Morning star and dawn mark the transition from disturbance to recognition in the First Response of 1661.
The Sophic Hydrolith, Water Stone of the Wise
Mortal
Thnētos marks liability to death and can also designate a mortal being.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I+1 book
Mortal limits
Broteiē mētis is mortal intelligence or resourcefulness.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Mortal-killing, man-slaying
Ares is mortal-killing amid descriptions of delight in weapons and assault on walls (LXV.2).
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Mortality and corruption
Mortality, corruption and destructibility overlap but are not identical.
The Sophic Hydrolith, Water Stone of the Wise
Mortification
Mortification names the ascetic subduing of worldly and bodily desires.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Moses
Moses is the scriptural leader of Israel.
Centuries of Meditations
Moses and biblical patriarchs
Moses and the patriarchs furnish scriptural figures through whom the book explains sacred law, transmission, reverence, oaths, and spiritual ascent.
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
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
Diotimos Editions · 2026
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry Lexicon
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry · R. Swinburne Clymer
131 entries · 495 subsidiary terms
Diotimos Editions · 2026
Candida Phoenix Philosophica Lexicon
Candida Phoenix Philosophica · Anonymous
155 entries · 478 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
377 entries · 6,929 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Guérin Lexicon
The Green Notebook · Maurice de Guérin
165 entries · 0 subsidiary terms
Diotimos Editions · 2026
The Kybalion Lexicon
The Kybalion · Three Initiates
92 entries · 347 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Lovers Lexicon
The Lovers · Plato
83 entries · 361 subsidiary terms
Diotimos Editions · 2026
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I Lexicon
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I · Attributed to Abraham the Jew
138 entries · 541 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
Diotimos Editions · 2026
The Golden Chain of Homer Lexicon
The Golden Chain of Homer · Anonymous (traditionally attributed to Anton Joseph Kirchweger)
125 entries · 0 subsidiary terms
Diotimos Editions · 2026
The Orphic Hymns Lexicon
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns · Attributed to Orpheus
1,958 entries · 276 subsidiary terms
Diotimos Editions · 2026
The Sophic Hydrolith Lexicon
The Sophic Hydrolith, Water Stone of the Wise · Anonymous and companion authors
656 entries · 430 subsidiary terms