- Absolute, 95, 123
- abstract, 123
- academy, 25, 90
- accident, 122
- accuse, 176-7
- acid, 134, 148
- acre, 22
- action, 139
- actual, 95, 123
- adapt, 175
- Addison, 174, 190, 195, 198
- address, 67
- adore, 140
- advantageous, 138
- advice, 8
- advocate, 47
- aesthetic, 195n.
- affecting, 158
- agitation, 158
- agnostic, 178
- agony, 116
- air, 90
- alchemy, 126
- alcohol, 126
- ale, 66
- alembic, 126
- Alexander, 28, 93, 95, 98
- Alexandria, 28-9, 96-102, 111, 179
- algebra, 121, 129
- alkali, 126
- alligator, 58
- allure, 55
- almanac, 128
- aloof, 57
- alphabet, 87
- altar, 38, 42
- amalgam, 126
- amazement, 138
- Amazons, 15
- amber, 72
- ambrosial, 23
- amendment, 152
- ammonia, 98
- amorous, 77, 113
- amuck, 59
- amusing, 158-9
- anachronism, 151
- analogy, 90, 91, 95
- analyse, -sis, -tic, 94-5, 135, 147
- anatomy, 97, 134
- ancient, 134, 150
- anguish, 116
- animal, 125, 175
- animal spirits, 125n.
- antic, 136
- antimacassar, 64
- antipodes, 91
- antiquated, 150
- apathy, 158
- aphrodisiac, 77
- Apolline, 77
- apology, 54, 138
- apostrophe, 54
- Aquinas, Saint Thomas, 122
- Arabs, the, 34, 56, 58, 120-1, 126, 128-9, 193
- arabesque, 121
- Archimedes, 169
- argent, 42
- argumentum ad hominem, 123
- aristocrat, -cracy, 62, 90
- Aristotle, 87, 93-8, 119-24, 131n., 133-5, 148, 159, 169, 187, 190-1
- arms, 42
- army, the, 59
- arrange, 163, 180
- arsenic, 126
- art, -ist, 186-7, 191, (192)
- arteries, 125
- artisan, 187
- ascendant, 124, 126
- aschet, 56-7
- Asia, 77
- aspect, 124
- ass, 31
- assassin, 120n.
- assault, 42
- assets, 48
- assize, 47, 61
- astringency, 148
- Astrology, 4, 125-7
- astronomy, 90
- atavism, 175
- Atlantis, 15
- atlas, 77
- atmosphere, 124, 126, 131
- atom, 98n., 132n.
- atone, 143
- attic, 24
- attitude, 136, 186
- attraction, 132
- attribute, 123
- augury, 78
- Augustine, Saint, 39, 109
- Augustus, 26
- auspice, -ious, 78, 159
- Austen, Jane, 186, 194
- authoritarian, 182
- authority, 26, 118
- auto-da-fé, 118
- autograph, 157
- automatic, 54, 169, 170-1, (200)
- automaton, 171
- autonomy, 182
- avast, 57
- aversion, 158
- axiom, 94, 134
- axle, 17
- azure, 42, 120n.
- Bacon, Francis, 51, 53, 132-5, 150, 173n., 187, 194
- bacon, 41
- badinage, 145
- balance, 169, 173
- baleful, 159
- ballad, 195
- bamboo, 59
- banana, 58
- bank, 61
- banner, 42
- banquet, 41
- banshee, 33
- banter, 145
- bard, 23, 33, 195
- battery, 5
- battle, 42
- Baumgarten, 195n.
- bean, 22
- bearish, 147
- beautiful, 115
- beauty, 91, 141
- bed, 17
- beech, 21
- beef, 41-2
- beefsteak, 66
- bees, 16
- beg, 65
- belay, 57
- Bench, 61
- benign, 159
- Berkeley, Bishop, 158
- bias, 56
- Bible, the, 7, 28, 53, 77, 87-8, 92, 99, 104-5, 109, 115-16, 178, 180, 192
- Bible, 87
- bigot, 34n., 142
- bile, 125
- bill, 67
- blackguard, 64
- bless, 38
- blood, 125
- blow, 65
- bog, 33
- Bonaparte, 25
- bonus, 61
- boom, 57
- boring, 158
- boss, 26
- Boswell, 157
- Botanical Terms, 96
- botany, 96
- bow, 57
- bowdlerize, 64
- bowsprit, 57
- box, 66
- boycott, 64
- Boyle, Robert, 171
- breeze, 58
- Britons, 33
- broadcast, 5
- broad-minded, 182
- brother, 10
- Browne, Sir Thomas, 170
- brute, 26
- budget, 62, 67
- buoy, 57
- burglar, 48
- burgle, 65
- burke, 64
- burlesque, 145
- bust, 136
- butler, 41, 65
- butter, 16n.
- buttery, 41
- button, 5
- Byron, 193
- Cabal, 59
- Cabinet Council, 59
- cad, 57
- caddie, 56-7
- caddy, 59
- cadet, 57
- Caesar, Julius, 15n., 33, 37
- calamity, 27
- call, 9, 40
- calf, 41
- cameo, 135
- camouflage, 63
- camp, 31, 42
- cancel, 48
- candle, 38, 42
- cannibal, 58
- canoe, 58
- cant, 66, 180
- canto, 136
- capital, 47, 60
- capitalist, 61
- capriole, 136
- captain, 26
- car, 12, 33
- Carlyle, 155, 183
- carol, 64
- carriage, 12
- case, 90
- cashier, 57
- catastrophe, 25
- category, 94, 163
- cattle, 47n., 60
- cause, 49, 123, 176-7
- cavalier, 59
- Celts, the, 14, 20-1, 29, 32, 35-6, 38-9, 60, 79-83, 107, 189
- century, 150
- cereal, 71, 78
- Ceres, 165
- chagrin, 158
- chair, 41, 61
- chaos, 149n.
- chap, 31, 66
- character, 156-7
- charity, 113, 183
- charm, 138, 138n., (201)
- charmer, 160
- charming, 158-9
- chattel, 47
- Chaucer, 43, 50, 111-12, 114-15, 118, 123, 128, 136, 156, 196-7
- cheap, 31
- check, 56, 173
- checkmate, 56
- cheque, 56
- chequer, 56
- chess, 56
- chest, 31
- Chester, 37, 42
- chiaroscuro, 136
- chief, 26
- children, 114
- chimera, 77
- chocolate, 58
- choler, -ic, 124-5
- chord, 90
- chorus, 25
- Christianity, 29, 38, 79, 82, 89, 98, 102, 104-13, 117-18, 121, 141-2, 152, 161, 179, 181, 183, 185, 191-2n., 203
- Church, the, 29, 38, 50, 92, 104-6, 108-10, 113-17, 121-3, 141, 150, 155, 157, 159, 178-9, 180
- church, 31, 45
- Cicero, 6, 90-1, 94, 101, 123, 174, 176
- cipher, 121
- Civil War, the, 59
- Clarendon, Lord, 60, 156n.-7, 160
- classical, 47
- classify, 163
- clericalism, 179
- clerk, 38
- Clockwork, 165, 171-2
- club, 64, 67
- coach, 12
- cobalt, 81
- cockatoo, 59
- cocoa, 58
- cocoanut, 58
- cohesion, 148
- Coleridge, 154n., 195-6, 199, 200
- Columbus, 58
- comedy, -ic, 25, 186
- comfort, 66
- command, 26
- commercial, 61
- committee, 67
- common sense, (49), 124
- compassion, 110
- competition, 175, 178
- complexion, 124-5
- comprehension, 101
- conceit, 95, 136
- concept, 95, 123, 136
- concrete, 123
- conductor, 5
- conscience, 52, 117, 155-6
- conscious, 164
- consciousness (72n.), (73n.), (90n.), 154, 164
- conscription, 63
- consider, 124
- consistency, 155
- consols, 61
- Constantinople, 108
- Constitution, British, 40, 45-9, 59-61, 67, 68, 173
- constitution, 67
- constraint, 158
- Consulate, 61
- contemplate, 78
- contemporary, 150
- contract, 47
- control, 26
- conventional, 48
- convey, 48
- Cook, Captain, 59
- coolie, 58
- Copernicus, 129-30, 154
- cordial, 124
- corn, 22, 78
- corroborate, 51
- cosmos, 90
- costermonger, 31
- cotton, 34, 120n.
- council, 61
- count, 41
- countrified, 147
- county, 47
- couple, 55
- court, 47
- Coventry, send to, 60
- cove, 18
- cravat, 30
- create, etc., 174n., 90-1, 96, 201
- credulous, 143
- creed, 38, 138
- crestfallen, 56
- Crete, 14
- critic, etc., 90, 138, 187
- cross, 39
- crucial, 133-4
- cruelty, 114
- cruise, 57
- Crusades, the, 120n.
- cupidity, 78
- culprit, 48
- cupola, 135
- curfew, 42
- curious, 135
- currency, 61
- current, 5
- curry, 58
- Cyclops, 18, 188
- cynic, 101
- Dado, 136
- daedal, 77
- dainty, 113
- dalliance, 113
- damask, 120n.
- dandelion, 41
- Danes, the, 39-40
- danger, 112
- Dante, 43, 92, 203
- Darwin, Charles, 174-5, 179
- day, 75
- deacon, 38
- death, 110
- debt, 53
- decade, 150
- deduction, 95, 123
- defendant, 48
- definition, 95
- Degrees, University, 187n.
- delicate, 113
- delight, 113, 116
- delirious, 27
- demagogue, 59
- democrat, -cy, 62, 90
- Democritus, 98n., 101
- demon, 80, 192n.
- demure, 146
- depression, 158
- Derby, 66
- derrick, 64
- Descartes, 154, 164, 171
- despair, 116
- despot, 26
- Determinism, 183
- develop, -ment, 151, 160, 174
- devotion, 113
- dew, 37
- dial, 74
- dialectic, 91
- diary, 74-5
- dictator, 26
- difference, 95
- diffidence, 158
- dinner, 41
- Dionysiac, 77
- disagree, 142
- disappointment, 158
- disaster, 124
- discipline, 85
- disclaim, 48
- discomposure, 158
- discount, 61
- discover, -y, 135, 148
- Diseases, 97
- dish, 31
- dishearten, 138
- disposition, 4, 124, 126, 155, 157
- dissatisfaction, 158
- dissection, 134
- dissent, 142, 155
- distemper, 124-5
- distinguish, 51, 135, 147
- district, 47
- diurnal, 74
- diverting, 158
- dividend, 61
- divine, 75
- dock, 57
- doctrinaire, 67
- dome, 136
- domineer, 57
- dominion, 26
- doubt, 53
- down, 131
- drama, -tic, 25, 54, 186
- dream, 202-3
- drill, 57
- drub, 58
- druid, 39
- Dryden, 185n., 190, 197n., 198
- Dualism, 179
- dubious, 134
- ducat, 136
- duke, 41-2
- dunce, 136
- Dutch, the, 57
- duty, 156
- dwindle, 138
- Ear, 22
- earl, 41
- earth, 81, 131
- Easter, 81
- eccentric, 157
- ecclesiastical, 32
- eclipse, 90
- ecliptic, 128
- economic, 90
- edit, 65
- ego, -ism, 154
- Egypt, 11, 13, 24, 73n., 79, 86-90, 98-100, 102-3, 108, 111, 116
- eisteddfod, 33
- elasticity, 148
- electric, -ity, 3, 5, 72
- element, 90
- elf, 81
- elm, 21
- Elysian, 77
- emancipate, 47
- embarrassment, 158
- emolument, 27
- emotion, 158
- empire, 26
- empirical, 97
- enchant, -ment, 159, 98, (201)
- Encyclical Letter, 178
- energy, 94, 148, 167, 172
- engine, 192
- English language, 68
- English words abroad, 66-8
- enlightenment, 182
- ennui, 158
- entelechy, 94
- entertaining, 158
- enthralling, 158
- enthusiasm, -tic, 90-1, 161, 193
- entity, 123
- environment, 155, 174
- envy, 8, 158
- Epicureans, 79, 101
- epidemic, 54, 97
- episode, 25, 54
- epoch, 150
- equality, 67
- equator, 128
- equilibrium, 148
- equinox, 128
- equivocal, 95
- erotic, 77-8
- essence, 90, 123
- ether, 124-5, 132n., 148
- ethical, -s, 90, 94
- etymology, 102
- Europe, 77
- evangelical, 142
- evil, 159
- evolution, 151-2, 174
- excel, 27
- excitement, 158-9
- existence, 123
- experiment, -al, 51, 67, 95, 133, 135
- extravagant, 162, 193
- eyewash, 63
- Fable, 189
- facts, 175
- faction, 143
- fairy (faery), 80, 189, 196, (201)
- fare, 30
- fancy, 101, 197-9
- fanatic, 59, 162
- fantasy, 101, 197
- fascinating, 159
- fashion, 139
- fate, 78
- fatuous, 147
- fear, 30, 158
- fee, 47n.
- “feelings,” 158
- felon, 48
- feminist, 181
- Feudal System, 41
- fiction, 189-90, 200
- filigree, 136
- finance, 61
- finch, 21
- “finny drove,” 161
- fire, 18
- fish, 21
- fit, 175
- fitful, 196
- flippant, 147
- flotsam, 48
- fluid, 148
- flyboat, 57
- foible, 55, 157
- foray, 195
- force, 5, 132n., 148, 177
- forfeit, 48
- forlorn hope, 57
- form, 123
- formula, 47
- forte, 55, 157
- fortress, 42
- fortune, 78
- franchise, 48
- fraternity, 67
- freak, 180
- free will, 123
- freebooter, 57
- freemason, 67
- freight, 57
- French Revolution, 62
- French words in Scottish, 57
- fresco, 135
- Friday, 81
- function, 139, 177
- furlough, 57
- furrow, 22
- fury, 78
- Gadget, 63
- Galen, 124, 157
- Galileo, 130-1, 171
- galligaskins, 136
- galore, 33
- Galton, F., 175
- galvanize, 64
- gamp, 64
- garden, 15-16
- gas, -eous, 148-9n.
- Garrick, 4
- gawky, 147
- gazelle, 34
- geese, 16
- general, 123
- generous, 138
- genesis, 90
- genius, 78, 191-3, 195-6
- gentle, 41, 44, 112, 155
- gentleman, 66, 139, 156
- get, 40
- gin, 66
- giraffe, 34
- glamour, 118, 195
- glen, 33
- goblin, 81
- God, 74, 110, 156
- godly, 142
- Goethe, 195
- Goldsmith, 4
- good, 91
- Gothic, 150, 162, 193
- government, 26
- Gower, 128, 159
- Gnostics, 104
- grace, 78
- Grammar, 7, 90
- grammar, 25, 90
- gravity, -ate, 131
- greed, -y, 65, 158
- Greeks (Greece), 5, 12, 20-2, 27, 29, 71-4, 77, 81, 84-104, 116, 119, 146, 150-1, 169, 176, 189, 191
- Greek Language, 7-9
- Greek words in English, 44-5, 54
- gregarious, 175
- Grimm, J., 9
- grog, 66
- grovel, 65
- guillotine, 62
- gules, 42
- gybe, 57
- Hades, 77
- Haeckel, 176
- haggard, 55
- hammock, 58
- handicap, 66
- happy, 158
- harmony, 25, 77, 90
- harness, 42
- Hartley, David, 170
- Harvey, William, 173n.
- hauberk, 42
- hazard, 121n.
- hazel, 21
- heart, 125
- hearty, 124
- heaven, 38, 74, 110
- Hebrew (see Semitic)
- Hegel, 195
- heir, 47
- hell, 110
- heredity, 44, 175
- heresy, 105, 108
- hermetically sealed, 77, 126
- hero, 77
- Herodotus, 90
- Hesiod, 90
- hickory, 59
- Hindoos, the, 7, 10, 21, 62, 76, 83-4
- Hippocrates, 97, 124-5
- History, 89, 123, 50-2, 88
- history, 25, 89
- hit, 40, 65
- Hobbes, 155n., 164, 192, 194
- holy, 159
- Homer, 23-4, 87, 169n.
- homesickness, 158
- honest, 41
- horizon, 128
- hospital, 45
- Host, 78
- hounds, 16
- hoy, 57
- hoyden, 147
- humane, 182-3
- humanism, 183
- humanitarian, -ist, 182-3
- humbug, 66
- Humour in word-formation, 65
- humour, 66, 124-5, 127, 157
- hun, 34
- hurricane, 58
- husband, 40
- Huxley, 132n., 167-8, 172, 178, 180n.
- hydraulic, 134, 173n.
- hymn, 38
- hyperbole, 90
- hypochondria, 125
- hypotenuse, 90
- hypothesis, 54, 90
- hysteria, -cal, 54, 97
- Ideas, 120, 141, 188
- idea, -l, 90-1, 94, 123
- idealogue, 67
- identity, 123
- idiosyncrasy, 157
- ignite, 76
- image, 101
- imagination, 101, 191, 197-9
- improper, 64
- improve, 48, 149
- incarnadine, 136
- inch, 31
- independent, 59
- Indian, 58
- indisposed, 124
- individual, 89-90, 123, 153, 183
- Individualism, 117-18, 153-4, 182
- induction, 95
- influence, 124, 126, 127, 138
- ingenious, 192
- initiate, 88
- Inquisition, 118
- inquisitive, 135
- inspect, 148
- inspiration, 191-2
- instance, 95, 133-4
- instinct, 174, 192
- insurance, 61
- intaglio, 136
- intelligence, 117, 123
- intensity, 148
- intention, 123
- interesting, 159
- “Internal Evidence,” 5
- “Internalization,” 124-7, 153-60, 164, 192, 201
- interval, 27
- intrigue, 147
- introspection, 185n.
- intuition, 123
- invention, 190
- investigate, 51, 135, 147
- investment, 61
- invulnerable, 138
- iridescent, 77
- iris, 77
- isosceles, 90, 178n.
- Jerome, Saint, 109
- Jesus Christ, 29, 99, 103-4, 107, 110, 114, 115, 117, 122-3, 152, 183
- jetsam, 48
- jettison, 48
- jockey, 66
- Johnson, Dr., 3, 157
- Jonson, Ben, 164
- jot, 87
- journal, 74
- jovial, 124-6
- judge, 47
- June, 78
- jurisdiction, 45
- jurisprudence, 45
- jury, 47, 67
- justice, 45
- Kangaroo, 59
- Kant, 195
- karma, 77
- Keats, 83
- keel, 57
- Kepler, 130-1, 154
- kettle, 31
- kind, 41
- king, 26
- kitchen, 31
- knickerbocker, 64
- knife, 40
- knout, 30
- kopje, 63
- Laconic, 24
- lacquey, 34
- lady, 111
- lance, 42
- Latin language, 7-9
- Latin words in English, 25-6, 42, 44-5, 51
- latitude, 128
- Law, 45-9
- law, 40, 132
- Laws of Nature, 132, 162, 175-7, 180
- learn, 30, 86
- lease, 48
- leg, 40
- Leibnitz, 132n., 172
- lethal, 77
- lever, 169
- liberalism, 182
- libertine, 143, 182
- liberty, 67
- lie, 81
- life, 110, 175
- lighter, 57
- lilliputian, 64
- little, 114
- liver, 125
- lock-out, 67
- Locke, 154, 194
- logic, 25, 94, (180n.)
- long-suffering, 115
- Longinus, 197n.
- longitude, 128
- lord, 26
- lough, 39
- love, 91-2, 110, 141
- love-longing, 114
- lovingkindness, 115, 183
- lunatic, 53, 124, 126
- lyrical, 186
- Machine, 169
- madonna, 136
- maffick, 65
- magazine, 64
- magic, -al, 76, 138, 198, (201)
- magnet, 5
- mainspring, 171
- maize, 58
- majestic, 138
- majority, 67
- make (maker), 188n., 191
- malice, 158
- malign, 159
- malignant, 59, 143
- man, 83-4, 175
- manager, 26
- manor, 47
- marline, 57
- marquis, 41
- martyr, 38, 108
- mass, 38
- Mass, the, 131
- master, 26, 41-2
- mathematics, -al, 85, 90-1
- Matriarchies, 15
- matter, 123
- matter-of-fact, 48
- mavourneen, 33
- mawkish, 147
- maya, 77
- mead, 17
- meal, 22
- mechanic, -al, -s, 94, 168, (187)
- Mechanical terms, 168
- meeting, 67
- melancholy, 125, 127, 157
- melodramatic, 186
- melody, 25, 90
- Memory, language compared to, 33
- merchant, 66
- mercifulness, 115
- mercurial, 126
- mercy, 112, 158, 183
- mere, 21, 48
- meridian, 128
- mermaid, 21
- mesh, 57
- mesmerism, 64
- metaphor, 90
- metaphysics, 94
- method, 89-90, 133, 163
- mezzotinto, 136
- Middle Ages, 151
- midriff, 167, 172
- mildheartness, 158
- mile, 31, 42
- Mill, J. S., 180, 182
- mill, 31
- milk, 16
- Milton, 60, 164, 196
- mind, 84
- minority, 67
- mint, 78
- minute, 128
- mirth, 116
- miscreant, 120n.
- Mithras, 79
- moccasin, 59
- model, 135
- Modern metaphors, 63
- modern, 134, 150
- modification, 175
- Mohammedanism, 121
- money, 78
- -monger, 31
- monkish, 143
- monster, 180
- Montesquieu, 68, 173
- moot, 40
- moral, 95
- Morality in language, 145-7
- More, Henry, 150, 161, 198
- morris, 64
- morse, 63-4
- mortgage, 48
- motion, 67
- motive, 123
- motor, 167, 172
- mow, 22
- Mozart, 89n.
- mugwump, 14
- mule, 31
- Müller, Max, 9
- muscle, 167, 173
- muse, to, 55-6
- Muses, the, 77, 191, 201
- music, 25, 77, 91
- mutton, 41
- muzzle, 56
- Mysteries, 79, 88-9, 91, 103, 108-10
- mystery, 77, 88, 110, 174n.
- myth, 83
- Nabob, 62
- nadir, 128-9
- name, 9
- narrow-minded, 182
- natural, 125
- Nature, 156, 175, 180n.
- nave, 17
- nectar, 23
- negro, 58
- nemesis, 77
- Neoplatonism, 106, 120
- nerve, 167, 173
- newspaper, 64
- Newton, Isaac, 130-2, 173-4
- nickel, 81
- night, 18, 37
- nightmare, 81
- Nominalism, 120-1, 159
- non-entity, 124n.
- Normans, the, 20, 36, 40-1, 43, 113
- notion, 101
- novelist, 64
- number, 90
- nun, 38, 42
- nymph, 77
- Objective, 123, 160, (197)
- obligation, 46
- obscene, 138
- obscurantism, 182
- observe, 135
- odd, 40
- odium theologicum, 142
- odium philosophicum, 142
- offend, 85
- officer, 26
- officious, 146
- ogle, 147
- Old Nick, 81
- onslaught, 57
- ooze, 174
- optimism, 181
- orange, 120n.
- organic, 94, 200
- organize, 163
- Origen, 105
- original, -ity, 190-1, 195
- out-of-date, 150
- outlaw, 40
- outlook, (73n.), (90n.), 155, 158
- oxen, 16, 41
- Paean, 77
- pageant, 115
- Paley, 165, 170-1
- pamphlet, 64, 67
- Pan, 165
- panacea, 77
- pander, 23
- panic, 71-3, 77
- pansy, 41
- paper, 87
- papistical, 143
- paradise, 99
- Pariah, 76
- parliament, 45, 59, 67
- parlour, 41
- particle, 95
- particular, 123
- passion, 110, 113
- pastel, 136
- ‘Pat,’ 38
- pathetic, 114, 159
- Paul, Saint, 88
- peace, 158
- peacemaker, 115
- peculiar, 47
- pecuniary, 27, 47n.
- pedant, 138
- penal, 8
- pendulum, 171
- pennon, 42
- perceive, 155
- period, 151
- peripatetic, 93
- perjury, 48
- pernicious, 143
- Persians, the, 21, 76, 99
- person, 46, 153, 157
- personality, 160
- personify, 164-5
- Petrarch, 113
- petticoat-tales, 57
- phaeton, 77
- phantasy, 197
- phenomenon, 90, 181
- Philo, 102, 104
- philosophy, 25, 89, 91
- phlegmatic, 125
- Phonology, 8
- physical, -s, 54, 90, 94
- physiology, 94
- Pickwickian, 64
- picturesque, 186, 194
- pietism, 179
- piety, 142
- pile, 31
- pillow, 31
- pink, 57
- pious, 138, 179
- pity, 44, 112, 142, 158, 183
- pixy, 81
- Place-names, 15, 32, 36, 61, 64, 66, 82
- plaintiff, 48
- planet, 131
- Planets, the, 78, 124-7
- Plato, 6, 7, 73, 86, 91-3, 95, 98-101, 103, 107, 119-20, 124, 129, 140-1, 153, 161, 170, 174, 177-8, 189, 191
- pleasure, 113
- poesy, -tic, -try, 25, 90, 191
- Poetry, 187-8
- point of view, 186
- polarity, 148
- politics, 59, 90
- Pope, Alexander, 162-3
- popery, 143
- pork, 41
- port, 37, 42
- “Portraits,” 157
- Portuguese, the, 58-9
- positive, 139
- potato, 58
- potential, 95, 123
- pound, 31
- Pre-Aryan culture, 14
- precise, 143
- predestination, 183
- predicament, 124n.
- predicate, 123
- predominant, 125-6
- prehistoric, 151
- prejudice, 47
- premises, 48, 124n.
- premium, 27
- press, 64
- pressure, 148, 155, 177
- prevaricate, 27
- priest, 38
- prig, 145
- prim, 145
- Prime Minister, 62
- primal, 174n.
- primeval, 150, 174n.
- principle, 95
- Printing press, 43-4
- prison, 45
- private, 47
- progress, -ive, 134, 150-2, (160)
- prologue, 25
- propagate, 138
- property, 47, 95
- protagonist, 25
- protean, 77
- protective, 175
- Protestant, 142
- prude, 147
- psalm, 38
- puck, 81
- pudding, 66
- pulley, 169
- pump, 57, 173n.
- Puritan, 59, 143
- Puritanism, 143, 145
- pyjamas, 62
- pyramid, 90
- Pythagoras, 86, 89-90, 107
- Quality, 6, 7, 90, 95, 123, 131n.
- quantity, 95, (98n.), 123, 131n.
- question, 90
- quintessence, 95, 125, 148
- quixotic, 64
- Radiance, 138
- Raid, 195
- Railway, the, 12
- real, -ize, 48, 123, 138
- Realism, 120, 122, 159
- Reason, 161, 163
- rebate, 55
- reclaim, 55
- reef, 57
- Reformation, 50, 142-3, 150, 153, 155, 159
- regeneration, 152
- regular, 163
- relay, 55
- reliance, 138
- Religion, Aryan, 75-6, 80
- religion, -ism, 140, 155, 179
- remark, 148
- remittance, 61
- remorse, 52, 158
- Renaissance, 51, 111, 135-6, 149, 151, 186-7, 189, 191, 197
- rent, 47
- repentance, 116, 158
- represent, 67
- reprobate, 143
- respectability, 66
- respiration, 167, 172
- Restoration, the, 145-7
- retaliation, 46
- retrieve, 55
- retrograde, 134
- review, 8
- revolutionize, 62
- rhapsody, 23
- rhetoric, 90
- rhythm, 25, 90
- ridicule, 145
- riding, 40
- riding-coat, 66
- right, 40
- Rights of Man, 62
- roast-beef, 66
- Roman Catholic, 143
- Romance and the Romantics, 92, 182, 185-6, 189, 193-204
- romance, 32, 181, 189, 190
- Romance languages, 32, 79
- romantic, -ism, 66, 181, 186, 193-5
- Rome (Romans), 19, 21, 25-6, 29-33, 35, 37-8, 45-7, 71, 74, 77-82, 84-6, 90, 95, 100-1, 108, 109, 116-17, 119, 121, 146, 150, 159, 165, 176, 189, 192
- Ronsard, 113
- Rood, 40
- rouble, 30
- Roundhead, 59
- rove, 56
- rover, 57
- Royal Society, the, 149, 169
- rub, 56
- rue, 158
- rule, 26
- rum, 66
- run riot, 56
- ruse, 56
- rush, 56
- Sabine women, 25
- sacrament, 110, 174n.
- sacrifice, 78
- sad, 158
- saffron, 120n.
- sagacious, 56
- salary, 27
- same, 40
- sanctimonious, 138
- sandwich, 64
- sanguine, 125
- Sanskrit language, 7, 9, 10
- Santayana, G., 203
- Saturday, 78
- saturnine, 125-6
- satyr, 77
- scandalize, 85
- scarlet, 120n.
- scenery, 163
- scent, 56
- sceptic, etc., 101, 135
- Schelling, 195
- school, 25, 45, 86
- Schools (Scholasticism), 48, 106, 110-24, 133-4, 136, 153, 197
- Science, 95, 128-35, 147-9, 152, 167-79, 200
- science, 90, 117, 186
- Scotland, 38
- Scott, Walter, 195-6
- Scotus, Duns, 122, 136
- scout, 57
- screw, 169
- scrounge, 63
- scrutinize, 148
- section, 62
- selection, 175
- self, 153-4, 181, 183
- self-determination, 63
- selfish, 143
- “semantic” (defined), 38
- Semitic—race, etc., 28, 51, 59, 61, 87, 99, 100, 102-3, 121, 146, 152, 191
- sensible, -ility, 160, 185
- sentimental, -ism, 66, 160, 185
- Septuagint, 99-100, 109, 191
- sequence, 138
- servant, 41
- Shakespeare, 5, 51, 68, 92, 136-40, 156, 187, 190, 196-8, 200
- shampoo, 62
- Shaw, Bernard, 68
- she, 39
- sheep, 41
- Shelley, 107, 199, 202
- shrine, 38
- sidle, 65
- Sidney, Sir Philip, 139, 187-8, 190
- siege, 42
- silly, 146
- sin, 99, 147, 158
- sincere, 142
- sinister, 159
- siren, 77
- size, 48
- skin, 40
- skipper, 26, 57
- skunk, 14
- sky, 74-5, 131
- slave, 30
- Slavery, 117, 118
- Slavs, the, 20-1, 24, 29, 81, 83
- slay, 65
- slime, 174
- small talk, 64
- smite, 65
- snob, -ism, 64, 66
- Socrates, 91-2, 95, 111, 192n.
- sonnet, 136
- sophist, 91
- sorcery, 80, 189
- soul, 157
- South Eastern Group of Aryans, 20-1
- sow, 16
- space, 131
- Spaniards, the, 57-8
- spartan, 24
- special, 123
- species, 90, 123, 174
- spectre, 101
- speculation, 62
- speech, 67
- spell, 198
- Spencer, Herbert, 181
- Spenser, Edmund, 140-1, 161, 196
- sphere, 131, 138
- spice, 119
- spirit, 125, 155, 157
- spiritism, -ualism, 181, 181n.
- spleen, 66, 125
- spoil, 27
- spontaneous, 148, 155-6, 174
- spoor, 63
- Sport, words from, 55-6, 64
- sport, 55, 66-7
- spring, 171n.
- sprint, 56
- standard, 42
- stanza, 136
- star, 8, 18, 37, 131
- starling, 21
- static, 148
- stentorian, 23
- Sterne, Laurence, 160
- Stoics, 79, 101-2, 197
- stole, 38
- stomach, 125
- stool, 41
- street, 31, 42
- strike, 65, 67
- stunt, 63
- Stygian, 77
- sub-conscious, 203
- subject, -ive, 89, 95, 95n., 123, 159, 197
- subordinate, 26
- substance, 95, 122-3
- suction, 134, 173n.
- suffering, 110
- sugar, 120n.
- superstitious, 143
- supper, 41
- susceptible, 160
- swain, 160
- swallow, 21
- swine, 41
- Sybarite, 26
- syllogism, 94
- sympathy, 126
- synchronize, 150
- synonym, 94
- synthesis, 91, 94
- syrup, 34
- system, -atic, 91, 163
- Table, 31
- taboo, 59
- tabor, 34
- ‘Taffy,’ 38
- take, 40, 138
- talc, 34
- talent, 192-3
- tambourine, 34
- tartar, 126
- tattoo, 59
- tawdry, 64
- teacher, 85-6
- teetotal, 64
- temper, -ament, -ature, 125, 127, 148, 155, 157
- temple, 38, 78
- tendency, 123, 148
- tension, 5, 148, 155
- term, 119
- termagant, 121n.
- terminal, 5
- terrorize, 62
- Tertullian, 109-10
- test, 126
- testament, 47
- Teutonic—race, etc., 14, 17, 20-1, 29, 30-2, 35-9, 74-5, 81-3, 87, 119, 173n.
- theatre, 25
- their, 39
- them, 39
- theology, 90
- theory, 90-1
- they, 39
- Thomson, James, 163
- thrash, 65
- throne, 61
- throstle, 21
- thunder, 18
- Thursday, 81
- timber, 18
- Time, 148-52
- Tindale, 115, 142
- titanic, 77
- tobacco, 58
- toll, 31
- tomahawk, 59
- tomato, 58
- tone, 90
- tory, 60
- tower, 42
- trade-union, 67
- tragedy, 25
- transcend, 123
- travesty, 145
- tribulation, 27
- Trojan, 23
- troll, 81
- trope, 90
- trumpet, 30
- tryst, 56
- Tuesday, 75
- Tyndall, 167
- type, 90-1
- tyrant, 26
- Unction, 179
- universal, 95, 120, 123
- up, 131
- utilitarian, 67
- Vacuum, 90
- valve, 173n.
- vapours, the, 157
- vampire, 83
- vandal, 34
- variation, 174
- veal, 41
- Vedic hymns, 9
- vegetarian, 182
- Vesta, 78
- vibrate, -ion, 168, 171
- vindictive, 143
- Virgin Mary, 106, 115-16, 139
- virtual, 95
- virtue, 159
- viscount, 41
- vital, 125
- Vitalism, 181
- volatile, 148
- Voltaire, 61, 68
- voluntary, 156
- vote, 67
- Vulgate, 109, 191
- Wall, 31
- wand, 18, 198
- want, 40
- War, the European, 23, 63
- war, 42
- waterproof, 66
- weary, 30
- weave, 16
- wedge, 169
- Wednesday, 81
- weight, 131
- West Indies, 58
- wheel, 17, 169
- Whig, 60
- whisky, 66
- white feather, 56
- Wilkins, Bishop, 131n., 169
- Wilson, Woodrow, 63, 173-4
- wind, 18, 37
- window, 17
- wine, 31
- wipe, 65
- wire, 5
- wit, 8
- Word, the, 101-2, 104, 174n., 202
- word, 71
- Wordsworth, 32n., 183, 199, 200, 203
- work, 167, 172
- worry, 56
- wrong, 40
- Wycherley, 145, 147
- Wyclif, 52, 123, 157, 179n.
- Yoke, 17
- York, 37
- Young, Edward, 158, 199
- Zareeba, 63
- zenith, 128-9
- zero, 121
- zodiac, 128-30
- zone, 16
- Zoroastrianism, 76
About This Book
The work traces the history of English vocabulary and the ideas embedded in common words, arguing that changes in word-meanings reveal shifts in collective consciousness. In the first part it treats philology and the formation of the English nation, surveying linguistic inheritance, settlement, and the language before and after religious reform. The second part examines the Western outlook through themes such as myth, philosophy and religion, devotion, scientific experiment, personality and reason, mechanism, and imagination, showing how etymology and semantic change reflect intellectual, spiritual, and technological developments that reshape how people perceive and speak about the world.