Robynson (More's Utopia)

Anything

Mine old good will and hearty affection towards you is not . . . anything at all quailed.

Beholding

I was much bound and beholding to the right reverend father.

Botch

Sick bodies . . . to be kept and botched up for a time.

Cosmographer

The name of this island is nowhere found among the old and ancient cosmographers.

Danger

Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in dangerof this statute.

Those rich man in whose debt and danger they be not.

Define

They define virtue to be life ordered according to nature.

Dig

You should have seen children . . . dig and push their mothers under the sides, saying thus to them: Look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear pearls.

Diminish

This doth nothing diminish their opinion.

Discern

A counterfeit stone which thine eye can not discern from a right stone.

Dispatch

[The] harvest men . . . almost in one fair day dispatcheth all the harvest work.

Dissension

A seditious person and raiser-up of dissension among the people.

Dissident

Our life and manners be dissident from theirs.

Earmark

Flying, he [a slave] should be described by the rounding of his head, and his earmark.

Fantasy

Which he doth most fantasy.

Fare

I bid you most heartily well to fare.

Fear

Fear their people from doing evil.

Flower

Their lusty and flowering age.

Forby

To the intent that ships may pass along forby all the sides of the city without let.

Gear

Homely gear and common ware.

Gripe

Wouldst thou gripe both gain and pleasure ?

Grisly

A man of grisly and stern gravity.

Hatch

For the hens do not sit upon the eggs; but by keeping them in a certain equal heat they [the husbandmen] bring life into them and hatch them.

Institute

They have but few laws. For to a people so instruct and institute, very few to suffice.

Inure

Inured and exercised in learning.

Newfangleness

Proud newfangleness in their apparel.

Occupy

Not able to occupy their old crafts.

They occupy not money themselves.

Recompense

God recompenseth the gift.

Reject

Therefore all this exercise of hunting . . . the Utopians have rejected to their butchers.

Renowme

The glory and renowme of the ancectors.

Rover

Bound down on every side with many bands because it shall not run at rovers.

Rushbuckler

That flock of stout, bragging rushbucklers.

Several

Every kind of thing is laid up several in barns or storehoudses.

Silly

A silly, innocent hare murdered of a dog.

Smack

So quickly they have taken a smack in covetousness.

Smug

They be so smug and smooth.

Stay

They were able to read good authors without any stay, if the book were not false.

Throng

To the intent the sick . . . should not lie too throng.

Who

As who should say, it were a very dangerous matter if a man in any point should be found wiser than his forefathers were.