History in English words

by Owen Barfield

S. T. Coleridge: Biographia Literaria.

M. W. Steinke: Edward Young’s Conjectures on Original Composition in England and Germany. (F. C. Stechert Co., Inc., New York.) The appendices, consisting of long quotations from English and German writers, together with a few from Longinus, are excellent.

INDEX

• 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, [195]n.
• 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, [125]n.
• 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], [131]n., [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, [120]n.
• 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, [98]n., [132]n.
• 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], [120]n.
• Bacon, Francis, [51], [53], [132-5], [150], [173]n., [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, [195]n.
• 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, [34]n., [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, [16]n.
• buttery, [41]
• button, [5]
• Byron, [193]
• Cabal, [59]
• Cabinet Council, [59]
• cad, [57]
• caddie, [56-7]
• caddy, [59]
• cadet, [57]
• Caesar, Julius, [15]n., [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, [47]n., [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, [149]n.
• chap, [31], [66]
• character, [156-7]
• charity, [113], [183]
• charm, [138], [138]n., ([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], [191-2]n., [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], [156]n.-[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, [154]n., [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 ([72]n.), ([73]n.), ([90]n.), [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], [120]n.
• council, [61]
• count, [41]
• countrified, [147]
• county, [47]
• couple, [55]
• court, [47]
• Coventry, send to, [60]
• cove, [18]
• cravat, [30]
• create, etc., [174]n., [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, [120]n.
• 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, [120]n.
• 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, [187]n.
• delicate, [113]
• delight, [113], [116]
• delirious, [27]
• demagogue, [59]
• democrat, -cy, [62], [90]
• Democritus, [98]n., [101]
• demon, [80], [192]n.
• 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, [185]n., [190], [197]n., [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], [73]n., [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], [132]n., [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, [47]n.
• “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], [132]n., [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, [148-9]n.
• 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, [173]n.
• hauberk, [42]
• hazard, [121]n.
• 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, [155]n., [164], [192], [194]
• holy, [159]
• Homer, [23-4], [87], [169]n.
• 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, [132]n., [167-8], [172], [178], [180]n.
• hydraulic, [134], [173]n.
• 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, [185]n.
• intuition, [123]
• invention, [190]
• investigate, [51], [135], [147]
• investment, [61]
• invulnerable, [138]
• iridescent, [77]
• iris, [77]
• isosceles, [90], [178]n.
• 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, [132]n., [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], ([180]n.)
• long-suffering, [115]
• Longinus, [197]n.
• 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), [188]n., [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, [120]n.
• 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, [89]n.
• 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], [174]n.
• myth, [83]
• Nabob, [62]
• nadir, [128-9]
• name, [9]
• narrow-minded, [182]
• natural, [125]
• Nature, [156], [175], [180]n.
• 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, [124]n.
• 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, [120]n.
• organic, [94], [200]
• organize, [163]
• Origen, [105]
• original, -ity, [190-1], [195]
• out-of-date, [150]
• outlaw, [40]
• outlook, ([73]n.), ([90]n.), [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], [47]n.
• 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, [124]n.
• predicate, [123]
• predominant, [125-6]
• prehistoric, [151]
• prejudice, [47]
• premises, [48], [124]n.
• premium, [27]
• press, [64]
• pressure, [148], [155], [177]
• prevaricate, [27]
• priest, [38]
• prig, [145]
• prim, [145]
• Prime Minister, [62]
• primal, [174]n.
• primeval, [150], [174]n.
• 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], [173]n.
• Puritan, [59], [143]
• Puritanism, [143], [145]
• pyjamas, [62]
• pyramid, [90]
• Pythagoras, [86], [89-90], [107]
• Quality, [6], [7], [90], [95], [123], [131]n.
• quantity, [95], ([98]n.), [123], [131]n.
• 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], [174]n.
• sacrifice, [78]
• sad, [158]
• saffron, [120]n.
• 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, [120]n.
• 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], [192]n.
• 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], [181]n.
• spleen, [66], [125]
• spoil, [27]
• spontaneous, [148], [155-6], [174]
• spoor, [63]
• Sport, words from, [55-6], [64]
• sport, [55], [66-7]
• spring, [171]n.
• 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], [95]n., [123], [159], [197]
• subordinate, [26]
• substance, [95], [122-3]
• suction, [134], [173]n.
• suffering, [110]
• sugar, [120]n.
• 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, [121]n.
• 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], [173]n.
• 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, [173]n.
• 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, [131]n., [169]
• Wilson, Woodrow, [63], [173-4]
• wind, [18], [37]
• window, [17]
• wine, [31]
• wipe, [65]
• wire, [5]
• wit, [8]
• Word, the, [101-2], [104], [174]n., [202]
• word, [71]
• Wordsworth, [32]n., [183], [199], [200], [203]
• work, [167], [172]
• worry, [56]
• wrong, [40]
• Wycherley, [145], [147]
• Wyclif, [52], [123], [157], [179]n.
• Yoke, [17]
• York, [37]
• Young, Edward, [158], [199]
• Zareeba, [63]
• zenith, [128-9]
• zero, [121]
• zodiac, [128-30]
• zone, [16]
• Zoroastrianism, [76]

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] See [p. 126].

[2] The linear writing of Cretan inscriptions has been pointed to by one writer as a sign of this passivity. Philologists have also pointed out the important position occupied by the verb in Aryan speech.