dalliance (1016) flirting, toying, or trifling. Milton uses the term as a euphemism for sex.
descry (228) to catch sight of; discern.
discount'nanc't (110) ashamed or embarrassed; disconcerted.
effeminate (634) having the qualities generally attributed to women; unmanly; not virile. Milton uses the term in the sense that a man allows a woman to take his place in the natural hierarchy in which, for Milton, women were inferior to men, especially in terms of reason and intellect.
efficacy (660) effectiveness.
Empyreal / Empyrean (430) the highest heaven; among Christian poets, the abode of God.
enthrallment (171) [Now Rare] enslavement.
Ethereal (45) not earthly; heavenly; celestial.
euphrasy (414) eyebright; any plant of the figwort family having pale lavender flowers in leafy clusters.
fealty (344) loyalty; fidelity.
Fiend (430) here, Satan.
firmament (261) the sky, viewed poetically as a solid arch or vault.
foreknowledge (118) knowledge of something before it happens or exists; prescience.
frith (919) a narrow inlet or arm of the sea.






















