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Annotation:
address
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter II
Way of presenting oneself, a combination of manners and of one's intrinsic nature.
Annotation:
address
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter IV
In Johnson's Dictionary for this context, "skill, dexterity," almost exclusively rhetorical.
Annotation:
afterpiece
Category:
Writing & Reading
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter XIII
He compares her life with Prince Hoare's My Grandmother, 1811, "a musical farce in two acts." Tom's …
Annotation:
ague
Category:
Body
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter X
Samuel Johnson describes it as an intermitting fever with cold fits.
Annotation:
air of grandeur
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter VI
Parodying the Admiral.
Annotation:
almshouses
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter VIII
Originated in Catholic England with the monasteries and convents and were the place where food was d…
Annotation:
anxious
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter XLVIII
Concerned.
Annotation:
apoplexy
Category:
Body
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter XLVIII
"a sudden deprivation of all internal and external sensation, and of all motion..." (Johnson).
Annotation:
articles
Category:
Custom & Law
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter XVII
The conditions, essentially financial and having to do with a dowry and jointure, of the marriage co…
Annotation:
artificial memory
Category:
Mind
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter XVIII
An aid to the memory; a mnemonic device.
Annotation:
aspect
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter XVI
Direction the windows faces.
Annotation:
awful
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter II
Awesome.
Annotation:
bane
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter XXXVII
Literally, poison.
Annotation:
barouche
Category:
Transportation
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter VI
Four wheels and two or more horses. Accommodating four inside and a driver on an outside front seat,…
Annotation:
Blues
Category:
Military
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter XXXVI
The Royal Navy's fleet was divided into Whites, Reds, and Blues.
Annotation:
boatswain
Category:
Transportation
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter XXXVIII
A ship's officer in charge of the sails and rigging; by a high, piping whistle he calls the men to r…
Annotation:
bon mot
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter IX
French. Pronounced bun moe and literally a good word or more generally a quick, clever use of words.
Annotation:
bon vivant
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter XI
Someone who lives and especially eats and drinks well and copiously.
Annotation:
by
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter XL
Unless idiomatic, a typesetter's error, for it is Fanny's act of kindness to Susan.
Annotation:
by the ears
Category:
Daily Life
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter XIII
Contentiousness, referring to Edmund's introductory statement that "Family squabbling is the greates…
Annotation:
cadet
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter XXIII
Not the first-born son.
Annotation:
candour
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter XLVII
Fairness, impartiality, or equity are one meaning in Johnson and the one here.
Annotation:
cant
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter XLIV
In defining "cant" as "a whining pretension to goodness in affected terms," Samuel Johnson anticipat…
Annotation:
canvassed
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter III
Discussed.
Annotation:
capital
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter XLII
Estimable; exceptional.
Annotation:
catchword
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter XVIII
The cue in the speech prior to his.
Annotation:
charm
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter X
Some stone, etc. that serves as an amulet or talisman.
Annotation:
cipher
Category:
Writing & Reading
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter XVII
A person of no value, a zero. Mansfield Park plays increasingly on "nothing" and something of value …
Annotation:
circulating library
Category:
Writing & Reading
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter XL
Or sometimes called a subscription library. A private business often run by booksellers and publishe…
Annotation:
clandestine, insidious
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter XXXIII
Secretive; subversive.
Annotation:
claret
Category:
Daily Life
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter V
Originally a dark rosé wine from Bordeaux.
Annotation:
close bonnet
Category:
Daily Life
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter V
The competition for marriageable men was fierce, compelling the society to develop markers in dress …
Annotation:
collect
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter VI
Gather, in the sense of know.
Annotation:
commodious
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter IV
Roomy, with comfort.
Annotation:
competence
Category:
Money
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter XI
A sufficient if sometimes barely comfortable income for the class and station one occupies.
Annotation:
complacency
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter X
Search.
Annotation:
complaisance
Category:
Manners & Morals
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter XVI
With usefulness and duty, one of Austen's principal public virtues. Mansfield Park illustrates the t…
Annotation:
confide
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter XXX
Trust in, have confidence in.
Annotation:
connexion
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter XXXIV
Alliance.
Annotation:
connexion
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter IV
The word carries with it the sense of a beneficial alliance. He's connecting himself with a baronet'…
Annotation:
consciousness
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter XXII
An awareness of his own interior or latent meaning.
Annotation:
consequence
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter XVII
Importance.
Annotation:
contempt of
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter XXI
Contempt for.
Annotation:
convenience
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter XLVIII
His availability and money.
Annotation:
cordial
Category:
Daily Life
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter XLVI
A brandy or sweet liqueur intended as a restorative, from the Latin and then French word for heart.
Annotation:
countenance
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter XXI
Face, generally, but here Sir Thomas means it somewhat figuratively to include Fanny's confidence an…
Annotation:
country
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter IV
The word does not mean the nation but something closer to "the county," of which there were forty in…
Annotation:
court-leet and court-baron.
Category:
Custom & Law
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter VIII
Austen's point is subversive: the ancient legal and by extension moral responsibilities of a major l…
Annotation:
coxcomb
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter XXX
A conceited, strutting fellow.
Annotation:
coze
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Mansfield Park
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter XXVI
A long talk or chat (OED).
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