Premodern Concordance

The concordance

Concordance entries

Historical terms, their attested forms, and the passages in which they appear.

Organism

Alligator

Alligators as zoological organisms, including historically identified American alligators and contextually supported historical spellings.

16151890 · 13 passages
Material

Cinchona bark

The historical febrifuge bark complex associated with Cinchona plants, including contextually supported quina and quinquina forms.

17411865 · 16 passages
OrganismSuggested

Cinchona officinalis

The Linnaean taxon Cinchona officinalis rather than the entire historical febrifuge bark complex.

15741845 · 7 passages
Concept

Consciousness

Psychological and philosophical accounts of awareness or conscious mental life.

18451920 · 66 passages
ConceptSuggested

Contagion

Historical accounts of communicable disease transmission or contagious influence.

16481911 · 15 passages
ConceptSuggested

Cosmos

The ordered universe or nature conceived as an interconnected whole, distinct from a mere book-title occurrence.

18451920 · 46 passages
Phenomenon

Electricity

Electrical attraction, charge, current, and related historical physical phenomena.

16461920 · 43 passages
Occupation

Engineer

The historical occupation and role of the engineer, resolved separately from engineering as a field or generic learned expertise.

18451911 · 16 passages
ConceptSuggested

Eugenics

The modern program of directing human reproduction according to claims about heredity and population quality.

18591859 · 6 passages
ConceptSuggested

Evolution

Historical scientific concepts of ordered development or transformation, with biological and non-biological senses distinguished in passages.

18091920 · 65 passages
Concept

Genius

Exceptional natural intellectual or creative capacity, including historically explicit accounts of natural genius.

16461920 · 38 passages
OrganismSuggested

Homo sapiens

The human species under the Linnaean taxonomic name Homo sapiens.

17581899 · 16 passages
ConceptSuggested

Human species

Historical conceptions of humanity as a species when the passage does not warrant direct assignment to the modern taxon.

16461897 · 18 passages
Concept

Intelligence

Cognitive capacity or intellect as discussed in scientific, philosophical, and psychological contexts.

17781920 · 62 passages
Object

Machine

Physical machines and historically explicit machine analogies, with metaphorical uses retained as passage-level senses.

17781920 · 39 passages
ConditionSuggested

Melancholy

Melancholy as a historical temperament, condition, or disorder, retaining humoral and later psychological distinctions.

16461920 · 29 passages
PracticeSuggested

Mental measurement

Practices intended to quantify mental capacities, performance, or individual psychological differences.

18621920 · 4 passages
OccupationSuggested

Military engineer

Engineers working primarily on fortification, siegecraft, surveying, and other military works.

18251862 · 4 passages
ConceptSuggested

Transmutation of species

The historical claim that species transform into other species.

18591859 · 19 passages
Material

Água de Inglaterra

Portuguese proprietary or compounded febrifuge preparations known as Água de Inglaterra.

17411741 · 12 passages