The translators' glossary of the retained Latinate hard words

The Explication of Certain Words

A

  • Abstracted, Drawn away. 642.
  • Acquisition, Getting, purchasing. 514.
  • Advent, The coming. 69.
  • Adulterating, Corrupting. See pag. 475. 478.
  • Agnition, knowledge or acknowledging. 600.
  • Allegory, a Mystical speech, more than the bare letter. 505. See the Annot. 508.
  • Amen, expounded. 244.
  • Anathema, expounded. 405.
  • Archisynagogue, expounded. 99.
  • Assist. 135. signifieth the Angels standing and attending, always ready to do their ministry.
  • Assumption, 165. Christ's departure out of this world by his death and Ascension.
  • Azymes, Unleavened bread. 75.

C

  • Calumniate, By this word is signified violent oppression by word or deed. 143.
  • Catechizeth, and, Catechized. 510. He catechizeth that teacheth the principles of the Christian faith: and they that hear and learn, are catechized, and are therefore called often in the Annotations, Catechumens.
  • Character, a mark or stamp. 723.
  • Commessations, Immoderate banquets, and belly-cheer, with wanton riotousness. 509.
  • Condigne, comparable. 400.
  • Contristate, This word signifieth to make heavy and sad. 519.
  • Cooperate, signifieth working with others. 401. Likewise Cooperation, Cooperators.
  • Corbana, expounded. 80.

D

  • Depositum. 582. See the Annot. pag. 584. It may signify also, God's graces given us to keep, pa. 587. v. 14. Also v. 12. ibid. See the Annot.
  • Didrachme, expounded. 49.
  • Dominical day, Sunday. See Annot. 701. 702.
  • Donaries, gifts offered to God for his Temple, &c. 199.

E

  • Evacuated from Christ, that is, Made void and having no part with him. 508. The scandal of the cross evacuated, that is, made void, clean taken away. ibidem.
  • Evangelize, signifieth such preaching of good tidings, as concerneth the Gospel. See the Preface.
  • Eunuchs, gelded men.
  • Euro-aquilo, A north-east wind. 368.
  • Exinanited, abased exceedingly. 528.

G

  • Gratis, an usual word to signify, for nothing, freely, for Godamercy, without desert.

H

  • Holocaust, a kind of sacrifice where all was burnt in the honour of God. 625.
  • Hosts, sacrifices. 445.

I

  • Invocated, called upon, prayed unto. 316. Hereof we say, Invocation of Saints, and to invocate.
  • Issue, good event. 445.
  • Justice, taken in the new Testament, not as it is contrary to wrong or injury, but for that quality whereof a man is just and justified. 391.

N

  • Neophyte, expounded. 569.

P

  • Paraclete, expounded. 260.
  • Parasceve, the Jews' Sabboth-eve, Good Friday. 130. v. 43. See the Preface.
  • Pasch, Easter, and, the Paschal lamb. 201.
  • Pentecost, Whitsuntide, &, the space of fifty days.
  • Prefinition, A determination before. 517.
  • Prepuce, expounded. 387.
  • Prescience, foreknowledge. 294.
  • Prevaricator, transgressor: and prevarication, transgression. 336. 337.
  • Loaves of Proposition, so called, because they were proposed and set upon the table in the Temple, before God. 31.

R

  • Repropitiate the sins. 605. that is, make a reconciliation for them.
  • Resolution, the separation of the body and the soul, the departing out of this life. 592.
  • Resuscitate the grace, that is, Raise, quicken, renew and revive the grace which otherwise languisheth and decayeth. 586.

S

  • Sabbatism, A time of resting and ceasing from labours. 607.
  • Sacrament, for mystery. 513.
  • Sancta Sanctorum, The holies of holies, that is, the inmost and holiest place of the Jews' Temple, as it were the Chancel. 621.
  • Super-edified, Builded upon Christ the principal stone. 657.

T

  • Tetrarch, Governor or Prince of the 4. part of a country. 38.
  • Thrones, an higher Order of Angels. 537.

V

  • Victims, Sacrifices. 303.

The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.