Port-royalist: alternatives and connections

A low story above the main order or orders of a facade, in the classical styles; -- a term introduced in the 17th century. Hence:

A light box of pasteboard or thin wood, usually cylindrical, for holding ruffs (the bands of the 17th century), collars, caps, bonnets…

A machine, invented in the 17th century, worked by a form of reaction wheel. The water flows into a vertical tube and gushes from aper…

elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century

elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century

A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin.

Of or pertaining to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, or to the Cistercian monks.

the predominant philosophical tradition in Great Britain since the 17th century

One who champs, or bites.

Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy.

A member of a French political club of the time of the first Revolution, of which Danton and Marat were members, and which met in an o…

A close-fitting garment for men, covering the body from the neck to the waist or a little below. It was worn in Western Europe from th…

small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers; found in tropical and warm temperate waters of Europe and America

A large vessel for war and national purposes; -- common in the Middle Ages, and down to the 17th century.

One of the followers of Francis Gomar or Gomarus, a Dutch disciple of Calvin in the 17th century, who strongly opposed the Arminians.

A piece of plate armor covering the same parts and worn over the buff coat in the 17th century, and without other steel armor.

To one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come home, carry home.

Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders…