Gilbert Burnet

Bishop and historian, 1643-1715

Cited as Bp. Burnet. — 56 quotations

Artificially

Sharp dissembled so artificially.

Baronage

The baronage of the kingdom.

Boot

So he was put to the torture, which in Scotland they call the boots; for they put a pair of iron boots close on the leg, and drive wedges between them and the leg.

Breed

But no care was taken to breed him a Protestant.

Canton

There is another piece of Holbein's, . . . in which, in six several cantons, the several parts of our Savior's passion are represented.

Capitulation

With special capitulation that neither the Scots nor the French shall refortify.

Catastrophe

The strange catastrophe of affairs now at London.

Cautionary

He hated Barnevelt, for his getting the cautionary towns out of his hands.

Censure

Excommunication or other censure of the church.

Cipher

His father . . . engaged him when he was very young to write all his letters to England in cipher.

Commune

To commune under both kinds.

Compend

A compend and recapitulation of the Mosaical law.

Concert

It was concerted to begin the siege in March.

Concrete

The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the same figure as the last liquid state.

Conscription

The conscription of men of war.

Consecratory

The consecratory prayer.

Consist

This was a consisting story.

Contest

The difficulty of an argument adds to the pleasure of contesting with it, when there are hopes of victory.

Cope

A hundred and sixty priests all in their copes.

Critically

Coming critically the night before the session.

Deduct

Two and a half per cent should be deducted out of the pay of the foreign troops.

Delate

As men were delated, they were marked down for such a fine.

Dependence

The cause of effects, and the dependence of one thing upon another.

Discontinue

Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued.

dissipate

The vast wealth . . . was in three years dissipated.

Distraction

To create distractions among us.

Dotage

The dotage of the nation on presbytery.

Epidemic

It was the epidemical sin of the nation.

Espouse

Promised faithfully to espouse his cause as soon as he got out of the war.

Explanation

Different explanations [of the Trinity].

Free

Princes declaring themselves free from the obligations of their treaties.

Harbor

The bare suspicion made it treason to harbor the person suspected.

Heap

A vast heap, both of places of scripture and quotations.

Illegitimate

The marriage should only be dissolved for the future, without illegitimating the issue.

Illegitimation

Gardiner had performed his promise to the queen of getting her illegitimation taken off.

Indispensable

The law was moral and indispensable.

Induct

The prior, when inducted into that dignity, took an oath not to alienate any of their lands.

Inexpedient

If it was not unlawful, yet it was highly inexpedient to use those ceremonies.

Infamy

The afflicted queen would not yield, and said she would not . . . submit to such infamy.

Instrumentality

The instrumentality of faith in justification.

Intimation

Without mentioning the king of England, or giving the least intimation that he was sent by him.

Latitudinarian

They were called “men of latitude;” and upon this, men of narrow thoughts fastened upon them the name of latitudinarians.

Mercury

He was so full of mercury that he could not fix long in any friendship, or to any design.

Punctual

Punctual to tediousness in all that he relates.

Refer

Of those places that refer to the shutting and opening the abyss, I take notice of that in Job.

Rescissory

To pass a general act rescissory (as it was called), annulling all the Parliaments that had been held since the year 1633.

Roar

It was a mad, roaring time, full of extravagance.

Skip

They who have a mind to see the issue may skip these two chapters.

Stitch

He was taken with a cold and with stitches, which was, indeed, a pleurisy.

Strike

That the English ships of war should not strike in the Danish seas.

Substance

This edition is the same in substance with the Latin.

Survivance

His son had the survivance of the stadtholdership.

Tack

Some tacks had been made to money bills in King Charles's time.

Value

My relation to the person was so near, and my value for him so great

Void

After they had voided the obligation of the oath he had taken.