xBookUtils.terms['fn_lualdi4e_ch17-p014'] = '1. Chocolate, made in Cake or in Roll, after the Spanish Fashion: chocolate is made from the fermented, roasted, and ground beans of the cocoa tree (Theobroma cacao). Imported from Spanish America, chocolate was sold as a bitter paste made up into small cylindrical cakes or rolls, which were used in the preparation of hot drinks with the addition of water, sugar, and sometimes eggs. Only in the nineteenth century was eating chocolate developed.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_lualdi4e_ch17-p033'] = '2. Country’s called Felix: Arabia Felix (Arabia the happy), the name of one of three zones of the Arabian peninsula in classical geography, roughly corresponding to modern Yemen.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_lualdi4e_ch17-p043'] = '3. Dropsie . . . Gout: dropsy, a morbid condition characterized by the accumulation of watery fluid in the serous cavities; gout, a disease characterized by the painful inflammation of the smaller joints (Oxford English Dictionary).';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_lualdi4e_ch17-p046'] = '4. Entercourse: intercourse, communication between something, here the heart, liver, and brain.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_lualdi4e_ch17-p051'] = '5. fumbling Doe-littles: one who does little, a lazy person (OED).';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_lualdi4e_ch17-p058'] = '6. th’ Impotent . . . to a Misses Bed: a complicated disparagement: a sot is one who dulls or stupefies himself with drink, here to the state of impotence, who must be induced to visit a young woman’s bed, like a pickled or soused pig’s head (an unwieldy and unrewarding dish).';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_lualdi4e_ch17-p060'] = '7. Settle-Brain: something that calms the brain (OED).';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_lualdi4e_ch17-p066'] = '8. The RULES . . . COFFEE-HOUSE: an ironic title for a satire on coffee-house sociability. “Rules and Orders” is a commonplace phrase in legal discourse, signifying the administrative regulations of certain judicial institutions, especially courts of law, or the body of rules followed by an assembly.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_lualdi4e_ch17-p069'] = '9. Civil-Orders: the civil laws. A term in legal debate current in the period.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_lualdi4e_ch17-p073'] = '10. Pre-eminence of Place, none here should Mind: seats around the table in the coffee-room were not organized hierarchically, referring to the custom in coffee-houses, that each man should take the next free seat around the table.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_lualdi4e_ch17-p085'] = '11. Maudlin Lovers: men who discuss their illicit gallantries and amors in a mawkish or sentimental manner, one of the ordeals of the coffee-house.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_lualdi4e_ch17-p090'] = '12. Affairs of State: transactions concerning the state or nation, politics. The coffee-houses had come to be emblematic locations for debate on public affairs by those outside the court and ministry, where it was still assumed that ordinary people did not need to know about the state and its affairs.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_lualdi4e_ch17-p0108'] = '1. boyars, okol’nichie: Nobles of the highest and second-highest rank, respectively. [Ed.]';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_lualdi4e_ch17-p0109'] = '2. boiarskie: Sons of boyars. [Ed.]';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_lualdi4e_ch17-p0110'] = '3. gosti: Merchants who often served the tsar in some capacity. [Ed.]';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_lualdi4e_ch17-p0111'] = '4. strel’tsy: Members of the imperial guard stationed in Moscow. [Ed.]';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_lualdi4e_ch17-p0145'] = '1. Possibly a reference to William Nichols, D.D., The Duty of Inferiours Towards Their Superiours in Five Practical Discourses (1701), in which he argued that man possesses “a higher state of natural perfection and dignity, and thereupon puts in a just claim of superiority, which everything which is of more worth has a right to, over that which has less” (pp. 87–88).';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_lualdi4e_ch17-p0149'] = '2. William Whiston (1667–1752), divine, mathematician, and Newtonian. Author of many works including A New Theory of the Earth (1696). He succeeded Newton as the Lucasian Professor and did much to popularize Newton’s ideas. In 1710 he was deprived of his chair for casting doubt on the doctrine of the Trinity.';