King Henry V Author:William Shakespeare Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GLOSSARY. Abbreviations:— A.S. = Anglo-Saxon, i.e. English down to about the Conquest. Middle E. = Middle English, i.e. English from about the Conquest ... more »to about 1500. Elizabethan E. = the English of Shakespeare and his contemporaries (down to about 1650). O.F. = Old French, i.e. till about 1600. F. = modern French. Germ. = modern German. Gk. = Greek. Ital. = Italian. Lat. = Latin. NOTE: In using the Glossary the student should pay very careful attention to the context in which each word occurs. abut, Prologue i. it; literally ' to end at," and so ' to border on '; F. abouler, from A, ' to, at' + bout, ' an end." accomplish; 'to fulfil, complete,' hence 'to complete with necessary appurtenances,' i.e. 'to equip perfectly,' as in Prologue IV. 12. Dr Murray quotes Scott's Rokeby, V. iv.: " Those arms, those ensigns, borne away, Accomplish'd Rokeby's brave array." Figuratively, an accomplished man is one equipped with acquirements and gifts; Lat. ad, 'to' + complere, 'to fulfil.' achieve, in. 3. 8, iv. 3. 91, 'to win, gain'; from the notion 'to bring things successfully to a head' = O.F. achever, from Lat. adt 'lo'+caput, 'a head.' addressed, in. 3. 55, ' ready, prepared.' Cf. i Henry IV. iv. 4. 5, "Our navy is address'd, our power collected." Literally address to make straight'; its ultimate source being Lat. direclus, ' straight.' admiration, n. 2. 108, 'wonder, astonishment." Elizabethan writers constantly use admire, and its derivatives, in the sense of Lat. admirari, ' to wonder.' Cf. Revelation xvii. 6, "And when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration"; and Paradise Lost, II. 677, 678: " The undaunted fiend what this might be admired, Admired, not fear'd." advance, n. 2. 192, 'to raise, lift'; often used of uplifting a ...« less