The edge or hem of a garment is distinguished from the rest most commonly by some conceited or costly work.—Cowell, The Interpreter, s. v. Broderess.
Cicero most pleasantly and conceitedly.—Holland, Suetonius, p. 21.
Concubine. Our Dictionaries do not notice that the male paramour no less than the female was sometimes called by this name; on the contrary, their definitions exclude this.
The Lady Anne did falsely and traiterously procure divers of the King’s daily and familiar servants to be her adulterers and concubines.—Indictment of Anne Boleyn.
Conjure. The quotation from Foxe shows that this use of ‘to conjure’ as to conspire is not, as one might at first suspect, one of Milton’s Latinisms, and as such peculiar to him.
Divers, as well horsemen as footmen, had conjured among themselves and conspired against the Englishmen, selling their horses and arms aforehand.—Foxe, Book of Martyrs, 1641, vol. i. p. 441.
Art thou that traitor angel? art thou he
That first broke peace in heaven, and faith till then
Unbroken, and, in proud rebellious arms,
Drew after him the third part of Heaven’s sons,