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Lexicon
Terms from the books in the Diotimos library, with definitions, translation notes, and links to their passages.
5,005 entries across 25 collectionsEntries
2,593–2,628 of 3,466
Reasoning
Raisonnement is a process or sequence of argument, not an automatic synonym for sound reason.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Reasoning and calculation
Logismos is the activity of reasoning or calculating.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Rebirth
Palingenesia denotes renewed birth or coming-to-be.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Rebound and vibration
Apopalmos is a rebound or springing back; palmos is a shaking or vibration.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Receipt
A receipt or receit can be a medicinal recipe or prescription; the plurals receipts and receits name such formulas.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Receiving and giving
The verbs name taking, receiving, or accepting something; dare names giving.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I · Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Receiving forms without losing one’s own
Induere and exuere literally suggest putting on and taking off clothing.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Receiving images: wax, seals and mirrors
The verbs mean receiving or taking in; capere can also mean containing or grasping.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Receptacle
Hypodochē names reception or what receives.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Reciprocal love
Antiphileō means love in return; in the passive, be loved in return.
Lysis
Recognition
Recognition is knowing the matter for what it is and for what it can become.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Recognition and discrimination
Diairein means divide or distinguish, diakrinein separate or discriminate, and diagignōskein distinguish by recognition or judgment.
Charmides · The Lovers
Recognition and landmarks
Recognition concerns acknowledging persons or bodies as legitimate brethren.
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
Recognition and misrecognition
Recognition is represented chiefly by the same language as knowing and failing to know.
Alcibiades II
Recognition by sight
Sight Recognition is the art of inferring a figure's configuration from changes of brightness along its visible line.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Recollection
Anamnēsis denotes recollection.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Recompense
Amoibē is a return, exchange, or recompense.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations
Recreation
Recreation is an activity that refreshes or delights.
Centuries of Meditations · The Anatomy of Melancholy
Rectification
Rectification is correction, improvement or regulation directed toward a particular object.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Red
Erythros is red.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Red diadem
The most ruddy diadem adorns the completed Catholic Stone in the description of the physical Denarius.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Red-gold Ore
Red-gold ore belongs to the page 76 group associated with subtle volatile products.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Redemption
Redemption carries the language of release at a cost.
Centuries of Meditations
Reducing self-importance
Systellō means draw together, reduce, take down; here restrain inflated self-estimation.
Lysis
Redundancy and uselessness
Frustra means in vain, fruitlessly, or to no purpose.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Referring onward
Epanapherō means carry back or refer onward to something else.
Lysis
Reflected light
Antaugeia is an answering or reflected brightness.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I+1 book
Reflection
Réflexion is attentive reconsideration or intellectual examination.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Reflection
Anaklasis names a turning or bending back.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Reflection
Reflection can name thought turned back upon an experience, or light returned from a surface.
Centuries of Meditations
Reflexive understanding and willing
Reflexio is a return of activity upon itself; animadversio is noticing or attentive awareness.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Regeneration
Regeneration is renewal of the person.
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
Regeneration
Regeneration is a new or repeated birth through which the matter is raised beyond its former constituted state.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Regimen
Diaita is a manner of living or regimen, including activities and habits as well as food and drink.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Intimate Journals+1 book
Regimen of fire
Regimen means the managed order of fire, rather than a single fixed intensity.
Candida Phoenix Philosophica
Regularity
In geometry a regular polygon has equal sides and equal angles.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
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
295 entries · 6,097 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