GLOSSARY OF WORDS AND TERMS USED IN RITUAL

ABODE:  The place where one abides: Home.

ABSTAINING: To refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practices

ACCORD:  To give consent: Assent.

ACQUIESCENCE:  To assent tacitly, comply quietly; agree; consent.

ADHERENT (TO THE DOCTRINES THEREIN CONTAINED): One that adheres: as a believer in or advocate especially of a particular idea or church.

ADMONISH:  To indicate duties or obligations: to express warning or disapproval to especially in a gentle, earnest, or solicitous manner to give friendly earnest advice or encouragement to.

AFFABILITY:   Being pleasant and at ease in talking to others: characterized by ease and friendliness: Gracious.

APPROBATION:  Approval, commendation: an act of approving formally or officially Commendation, Praise, Proof.

ASPIRATION:  Audible breath that accompanies or comprises a speech sound.

ASSEMBLED:  To bring together (as in a particular place or for a particular purpose): to meet together; Convene.

AUSPICES:  Patronage, favoring influence.

AVARICE:  Excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain Greediness, Cupidity.

AVOCATIONS: (PRIVATE)  customary employment: Vocation.

BANEFUL:  Productive of destruction or woe: seriously harmful.

BARK:   A small sailing ship: a sailing ship of three or more masts with the aftmost mast fore-and-aft rigged and the others square-rigged: a craft propelled by sails or oars.

BENIFICENCE:  Doing good or causing good to be done, conferring benefits.

CANDOUR:  Unreserved, honest, or sincere expression: Forthrightness, freedom from prejudice or malice: Fairness.

CELESTIAL:   Of or relating to the sky or visible heavens.

CHAPITER:   The capital of a column.

CIRCUMSCRIBED:  To draw a line around; encircle; surround. To enclose within bounds; limit or confine, to define or mark off carefully.

CLAMOROUS:   Noisily insistent marked by confused din or outcry: Tumultuous.

CONCORD:   Agreement by stipulation, compact, or covenant.

CONJOINED:  To join together (as separate entities) for a common purpose.

CONSTITUTED:  To give due or lawful form to: to legally process.

CONVOCATION:   A group of persons met in answer to a summons.

CORNUCOPIA:   A curved goat's horn overflowing with fruit and ears of grain that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance: an inexhaustible store: Abundance.

CORPOREAL:   (CORPORAL) Of the human body, bodily, personal.

COWAN:   Scottish origin, a dry-dyker, a builder of 'dry’ walls. One who is not a Freemason.

CRITERION:   A standard on which a judgment or decision may be based.

DEIGN:  Condescend.

DELINEATE:   To trace the outline of; sketch or trace in outline; represent pictorially; to portray in words; describe.

DELINEATED:   To indicate or represent by drawn or painted lines: to mark the outline of: to describe, portray, or set forth with accuracy or in detail.

DEMEANOR:   Behavior toward others: outward manner. DESIGN (IMPIOUS): to create, fashion, execute, or construct according to plan.

DIADEM:   Crown Specifically: royal headband: something that adorns like a crown.

DIFFIDENCE:  Lacking confidence in one`s own ability worth or fitness.

DILATE:   To speak at great length, expand.

DIVERS (COLOURS): Various.

DIVESTED:  To strip or deprive of anything.

DOCTRINE:  Something that is taught: a principle or position or the body of principles in a branc

DUE:  To ascribe proper credit to.

DUE FORM:   Proper, adequate, or correct form according to the Ritual, according to accepted notions or procedures. Form: established method of expression or proceeding: procedure according to rule or rote

DUE GUARD:  To duly (properly) guard the person using it in reference to his obligations and the penalty for their violation. A keeper, a protection against the accidental loss or betrayal of the real sign of the degree. Proper and sufficient guard. Probably contraction of the French "Dieu garde".

DULY (CONSTITUTED):  Properly: in due manner or time.

DULY TYLED:  Properly Tyled.

EMBLEMATICAL:  Of, relating to, or constituting an emblem: Symbolic, Representative.

EMINENCE:   A position of prominence or superiority, one that is eminent, prominent, or lofty, a person of high rank or attainments.

ENTHUSIAST (NOT TO BE): One who tends to become ardently absorbed in an interest a person filled with enthusiasm: as one who is ardently attached to a cause, object, or pursuit.

EQUIDISTANT:  Equally distant.

EQUIVOCATION:  The use of ambiguous expressions in order to mislead.

ERR:   To go astray in thought or belief. To go astray morally: sin To deviate from the true course, aim or purpose.

ERR:  Stray (archaic): to make a mistake: to violate an accepted standard of conduct.

ESTIMATE:   To learn or find out by experience (archaic).

ETHEREAL (MANSION):  Of or relating to the regions beyond the earth Celestial, Heavenly, Unworldly, Spiritual.

EVASION:   To use equivocal language especially with intent to deceive: to avoid committing oneself in what one says, a subterfuge; an excuse or trick to avoid or to get round something.

EVINCE:  To show clearly; make evident or manifest.

EXEMPLIFIED:  To show or illustrate by example.

EXHORTATION:  Language intended to incite and encourage.

EXTENSIVELY SERVICEABLE:   Of great extent; far reaching; comprehensive; thorough. Being of service; useful, capable of doing good service.

EXTORT:  To obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power: Wring also: to gain especially by ingenuity or compelling argument.

EXUBERANCE:  Profuse in growth or production.

FIDELITY:   Implies strict and continuing faithfulness to an obligation, trust, or duty: the quality or state of being faithful, the strict observance of promises, duties, etc. strict adherence to truth or fact, honesty, truthfulness.

FIGURATIVE:   A metaphor, not literal.

FORM:   Established method of expression or proceeding: procedure according to rule or rote.

FORTITUDE:   Strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or adversity with courage: Strength

HELE:   Its origin is the Anglo-Saxon helan, meaning 'to cover and conceal'.

HIGH TIME:   High Twelve: Twelve noon.

ILLUMINE:  To supply with light, to enlighten as with knowledge.

IMPIOUS DESIGN:  Lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents): Irreverent.

IMPORT:   To convey as a meaning or implication.

INCLINATION:   Exemption from external control, interference, regulation, etc. Set or bent (of the mind or will); a liking or preference.

INCULCATED:   To teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions.

INDIGENCE:   A level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking.

INDITE:   To give literary or formal expression to c: to put down in writing obsolete: Dictate.

INDUCE:   To move by persuasion or influence from particulars.

INFALLIBLE:   Incapable of error not liable to mislead, deceive, or disappoint incapable of error in defining doctrines touching faith or morals.

INSIDIOUS:   Intended to trap or deceive; an insidious enemy, secure from violation or profanation, secure from assault or trespass: Unassailable: to be kept free from violation of any kind, or treated as if sacred.

INVOKED:   To make an earnest request for: Solicit.

JUST:   Based on right; rightful; lawful.

KIND OFFICE:   Something that one ought to do or must do: an assigned or assumed duty, task, or role b: the proper or customary action of something: Function: something done for another: Service.

LAUDABLE UNDERTAKINGS:  Worthy of praise: Commendable.

LIBERAL ARTS & SCIENCES:   The studies (as language, philosophy, history, literature, abstract science) in a college or university intended to provide chiefly general knowledge and to develop

LYRE:   A stringed instrument of the harp class used by the ancient Greeks especially to accompany song and recitation.

MARK:   An indication of position.

MATTER (RUDE):   The substance of which a physical object is composed.

MERIDIAN:   Of or pertaining to midday or noon.

MOLESTATION:   To annoy, disturb, or persecute especially with hostile intent or injurious effect.

OBLATIONS:    The act of making a religious offering; something offered in worship or devotion: a holy gift offered usually at an altar or shrine.

ORDER:    To put in order: Arrange.

PALLIATE:    To cover by excuses and apologies, to moderate the intensity of.

PARALLELEPIPEDON:   Oblong Square (so called) sometimes referred to as 'the double cube', with doubtful accuracy. Archaic.

PECULIAR (TO):   Characteristic of only one person, group, or thing: Distinctive.

PERAMBULATION:    To walk or travel about.

PERFECT:    Lacking in no respect; complete.

PRECEPTS:    A commandment or direction given as rule of action or conduct.

PREFERMENT:    Advancement or promotion in dignity, office, or station.

PREMISED:    To set forth beforehand, as by way of introduction.

PREVARICATED:   To deviate from the truth: Equivocate.

PRIVATIONS:   The lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life.

PROFICIENCY:   Advancement in knowledge or skill: Progress.

PROPRIETY:    The quality or state of being proper: Appropriateness.

PROSECUTION OF WHICH:   Pursuit (obsolete).

PROVE (HORIZONTALS):   To test the truth, validity, or genuineness of, to compare against a standard: to check the correctness of (as an arithmetic result).

QUADRANT:    A Quarter of a circle, an arc of 90deg. A Quarter of the Lodge Room.

RATIFICATION:    To confirm by expressing consent, approval, or formal sanction.

RECANTED:    To withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly: Renounce.

RECAPITULATE:   To repeat the principal points or stages of: Summarize; Sum Up.

RECTITUDE:    The quality or state of being straight, moral integrity, the quality or state of being correct in judgment or procedure.

REGULAR:   Adhering to rule or procedure.

REGULARLY (ASSEMBLED):  Formally correct, in a regular manner.

RENDERED:   104 to cause to be or become.

REPOSITORY:    A place, room, or container where something is deposited or stored: one that contains or stores something nonmaterial.

REPREHEND:    To voice disapproval of: Censure.

RETROSPECT:    A review of or meditation on past events- in retrospect: in considering the past or a past event.

RUDE (MATTER):    Being in a rough or unfinished state.

RUDE MATTER:   Unwrought, raw or crude.

SALTIRE:   A heraldic charge consisting of a cross formed by a bend and a bend sinister (Left) crossing in the center.

SANCTION:   Countenance or support given to an action and to make certain or sure.

SANCTION AND CONFIRM:    To give effective or authoritative approval or consent to; make valid or binding usually by a formal procedure (as ratification).

SCRIP-PURSE:   Archaic: a small bag or wallet.

SCRUPLE:   An ethical consideration or principle that inhibits action:  mental reservation. Service being of service; useful, capable of doing good service.

SOLACE:   Alleviation of grief or anxiety: a source of relief or consolation. SOLICITATIONS:  Enticement or allurement.

SPECULATIVE MASONS:    The speculative mason is the symbolic mason not a practical mason.

STEADFAST:    Firm in belief, determination, or adherence: Loyal.

SUBLIME (DEGREE):    The highest degree or example: to elevate or exalt especially in dignity or honor. Of outstanding spiritual, intellectual, or moral worth.

SUBLUNARY ABODE:   Of, relating to, or characteristic of the terrestrial world, earth.

SUBORDINATION:   To make subject or subservient.

SUPPLICATIONS (DAILY):   To ask humbly and earnestly of to pray humbly, to seek by humble entreaty; especially: to pray to God.

SYMMETRY:   Balanced proportions; also: beauty of form arising from balanced proportions: the property of being symmetrical; especially: correspondence in size, shape, and relative position of parts on opposite sides of a dividing.

TENETS:    A principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true; especially: one held in common by members of an organization, movement, or profession.

TERRESTRIAL:   Of or relating to the earth or its inhabitants.

TESSELLATED:   Of or resembling mosaic, having a finely chequered surface. tessellated. Checkered with mosaic work. See mosaic, indented tessel.

TRANSITORY LIFE:   Tending to pass away: not persistent, of brief duration.

TRAVERSE:    To go or travel across or over b: to move or pass along or through to move back and forth or from side to side.

TRIALS:   The action or process of trying or putting to the proof.

TURBULANT:   Causing unrest, violence, or disturbance a: characterized by agitation or tumult: Tempestuous.

VARIEGATED:    To diversify in external appearance especially with different colors: to enliven or give interest to by means of variety having discrete markings of different colors.

VENERATION:   Respect or awe inspired by the dignity, wisdom, dedication, or talent of a person the act of venerating.

VESTED IN ME:   Fully and unconditionally guaranteed as a legal right, benefit, or privilege: as a complete or fixed right.

WORSHIPFUL:   Derived from medieval custom, being a title of courtesy and honor then in common use. To be Worshipful is to be honorable and worthy. The Masons Company of Masons styled itself the Worshipful Company of Masons in 1655-56 and it is reasonable to assume that the speculative masons inherited from that Company.

WROUGHT:    Archaic, a past tense and past participle of work.