Sir T. Elyot

Comestible

Some herbs are most comestible.

Compendious

Three things be required in the oration of a man having authority -- that it be compendious, sententious, and delectable.

Discrepance

There hath been ever a discrepance of vesture of youth and age, men and women.

Duke

Hannibal, duke of Carthage.

Foreseen

One manner of meat is most sure to every complexion, foreseen that it be alway most commonly in conformity of qualities, with the person that eateth.

Infarce

The body is infarced with . . . watery humors.

Infrequent

The act whereof is at this day infrequent or out of use among all sorts of men.

Jest

The jests or actions of princes.

Maculate

Maculate the honor of their people.

Mercy

In whom mercy lacketh and is not founden.

Moot

First a case is appointed to be mooted by certain young men, containing some doubtful controversy.

The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots.

Ouch

A precious stone in a rich ouche.

Reboil

Some of his companions thereat reboyleth.

Rub

It shall be expedient, after that body is cleaned, to rub the body with a coarse linen cloth.

Spice

Justice, although it be but one entire virtue, yet is described in two kinds of spices. The one is named justice distributive, the other is called commutative.

Unkind

He is unkind that recompenseth not; but he is most unkind that forgetteth.

Vouch

[They] vouch (as I might say) to their aid the authority of the writers.