Addiction
In this sense, the definition for addiction is synonymous with “an inclination toward.”
Apprehensions
One’s perception of an event or situation.
Approbation
Attesting to or giving one’s ratification to a concept.
Beaver
The visor of the helmets worn by knights in battle.
Besmirch'd
Heavily soiled or stained; applicable to physical entities like a smock as well as non-physical like the soul.
Bootless
Something done uselessly.
Chanced
Happened upon.
Choler
Anger rising to the point of fury or wrath.
Con
Learned through an emotional experience.
Conduct
Escorting with the care of a safeguard against harm or damage.
Executors
Not in the sense of being the caretaker of someone's will and testament, but in the sense of being the person who executes them so they are in need of the other type of executor.
Fantastically
Endowed with a sense of capriciousness stimulated on the spur of the moment.
Fain
Done with a gladful willingness.
Ferret
Anxious worrying to the point of obsession; derived from the manner in which a ferret causes great worry among rabbits.
Figo
An archaic word in the English language that is derived from Spanish which was used with dramatic gesture accompanying to show great contempt.
Galled
Withered to the point of being worn away.
Girded
Enclosed.
Gloze
To interpret something.
Greenly
A description for something that was done sheepishly and makes one feel like a fool if caught.
Impeachment
Something that causes a hindrance to forward movement.
Larding
An action which has the result of enriching one as a result.
Meet
Synonymous with being viewed as proper and seemly.
Miscreate
A thing which has been falsely invented.
Orisons
A term for prayers.
Ostent
Making an great external show; think along the lines of "ostentatious."
Parle/Parley
A parley is a term for a diplomatic conferences to discuss grievances and set them right in an equitable and amicable way capable of fending off the need for aggressive confrontation. Parle is merely a related term for parley.
Perforce
Something done by necessity.
Port
Describing the carriage with which one deport or comports themselves.
Presposterously
Not something merely outlandishly unbelievable, but of a deeper significance as a representation that endows the subject of its use as utterly existing outside and posing a threat to natural order.
Puissance
The power that comes with an armed force trained and willing to attack.
Satisfaction
If the song had been written during the period in which Shakespeare wrote Henry V, the singer would be complaining that he can't get no conviction.
Sinister
On the long path from its original meaning as merely left-handed to today's connotation of being something so dreadful as to create fear, sinister for awhile was used to characterize a situation as being unfair.
Speculation
In the sense in which it is used here, speculation takes on a more literal meaning than how it is utilized in the modern vernacular. Speculation actually described the physical act of looking toward something off in the distance.
Teems
A verb meaning to bring forth.
Unfurnish'd
Not a description of a residence lacking chairs, beds and sofas, but a description of a residence left without resources to defend itself against attack by enemies.
Unraised
An accurate description of someone whose ambition is to one day have ambition. Unraised is used to characterize someone deemed deficient in a proper amount of aspiration toward greater things.
Void
To make the decision to do no more; choosing to give up; to quit.
