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; -- opposed to esoteric, or secret. The foppery of an exoteric and esoteric doctrine. De Quincey.

cquires a factitious propensity, he forms an incorrigible habit, of desultory reading. De Quincey.

fade." Jeffrey. His masculine taste gave him a sense of something fade and ludicrous. De Quincey.

ze fighters, etc. At a great book sale in London, which had congregated all the fancy. De Quincey.

Vexation; anxiety; care. [Scot.] Without further fash on my part. De Quincey.

redress, ferment an rage. Milton. The intellect of the age was a fermenting intellect. De Quincey.

To tell a fib to. [R.] De Quincey.

either. Poor Aroar can not live, and can not die, -- so that he is in an almighty fix. De Quincey.

back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker.

st fluent utterance. Denham. Fluent as the flight of a swallow is the sultan's letter. De Quincey.

A constantly varying indication. Less to be counted than the fluxions of sun dials. De Quincey.

to a focus; to focus; to concentrate. Light is focalized in the eye, sound in the ear. De Quincey.

osition radically noble and generous, clouded and overshadowed by superficial foibles. De Quincey.

which the young leaves are dispo The . . . foliation must be in relation to the stem. De Quincey.

The ponderousness or bulk of a folio; voluminousness. [R.] De Quincey.

lly in the phrase to forge ahead. Totten. And off she [a ship] forged without a shock. De Quincey.

uttered by ecclesiastical authority. They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees. De Quincey.

back through fear. [Colloq.] "The horrid panic, or funk (as the men of Eton call it)." De Quincey.

Rascally; scandalous. [R.] "Furciferous knaves." De Quincey.

monplace or trivial things; talkative; loquacious. The most garrulous people on earth. De Quincey.