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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 U
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Ugly and shameful
Aischros is the evaluative opposite of kalos: it can describe what looks ugly as well as what is shameful, base or improper.
Charmides
Umbilical vessels
Angeia are vessels or receptacles.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Unaffected sense
Apathēs means unaffected or not undergoing an affection; kōphoterai means duller or less acute.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Unbelief
Incrédulité ranges from a disposition of mind to a systematic rejection described as an active state of conflict.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Unchanging
Ametablētos denies change.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations
Unction
Onction here is a gentle, penetrating quality that nourishes affection and receptivity.
The Green Notebook
Unctuous humidity and vapour
Unctuous humidity and moist unctuous vapour are descriptions of the philosophical twofold Mercury.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Underlying subject
Hypokeimenon is what lies beneath or serves as a subject.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Understanding
Syniēmi means understand; grasp the sense of something.
Lysis · Stobaeus, Volume I+2 books
Understanding and handiwork
Synesis is understanding: the capacity to grasp what is involved in a subject or activity.
The Lovers
Understanding and practical wisdom
The φρον- family describes intelligent understanding and its absence: φρόνιμος is intelligent, ἄφρων unintelligent, φρονεῖν to think intelligently, and φρόνησις intelligence or understanding.
Alcibiades I · Alcibiades II+4 books
Understanding and quick-wittedness
Synienai ta legomena is to understand what is being said.
Charmides
Unfamiliar place
Chōros is a place or region.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Ungenerated
Agenētos denies an origin through generation.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Uniformity
Μονοειδές means single in form or uniform and is applied to the Sphairos in A32.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Union
Henōsis expresses making or being one.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations+1 book
Unity
Unité may be oneness, a single constituent, or a principle that makes diverse parts cohere.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations+2 books
Unity, dispersion and the inward bond
Copula is a bond; compages a joined structure.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Universal
Katholou can be adverbial, meaning generally, or substantival, naming the universal.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Universal and Special Stones
“Universal” and “special” name different extents and conditions of the Stone’s activity.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Universal Colour Bill
A Bill is a proposed law, not an enacted statute merely because it has a title.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Universal fiery spark
The universal fiery spark is Nature's comprehensive ensouling power within Magnesia.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Universal laboratory
The universal laboratory is the whole great wide world considered as the place of Nature's work under God.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Universality and presence in all things
This conceptual headword gathers the distinction between being present everywhere and being present universally in a suitable subject.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Universality, law, and material restriction
Universal power applies across many individuals; singular conditions fix an object to this place, time and instance.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
University of the World
The world becomes a university, and fire God's ordinary professor of physics.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Unlearned and without understanding
Amathēs means unlearned; without understanding.
Lysis
Unless
Nisi is Latin for unless.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Unlimited
Apeiron concerns the absence of a limit.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations+1 book
Unmanifest
Adēlos describes what is not manifest or clear.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Unpraying and palinode
Palinōidein is to sing a recantation, a second song taking back the first; aneuchesthai is the striking compound translated unpray.
Alcibiades II
Unreasonableness
Alogia means want of sense; an unreasonable or absurd result.
Lysis
Unruliness and breaking the law
Akolastainein is to be unruly or undisciplined.
The Lovers
Unscrupulousness
Panourgos means capable of every kind of deed and, in a disapproving application, unscrupulous, cunning or ready for anything.
Hipparchus
Unsuppose
To unsuppose is to suppose something away, imagining that it does not exist.
Centuries of Meditations
Upper and Lower Metals
Upper and lower name the metallic hierarchy governing the proposed transmutation.
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