Glossary for Lewis's The Abolition of Man
- bathetic: descending from the elevated to the depths of the commonplace
- decorum: (Latin) seemly, beautiful, graceful, suitable, fine, noble (compare the Greek kalos)
- dulce: (Latin) sweet
- experimentum crucis: (Latin) a crucial experiment, an experiment that puts the theory to the test
- geocentric: centered upon this planet, the Earth
- H. C. F.: highest common factor (what we refer to in colloquial American as the "lowest common denominator")
- Humani nihil a me alienum puto: (Latin) I consider nothing human to be alien to me
- inter alia: among other things
- magnanimity: generosity (literally, "great-souled")
- obiter dicta: incidental remarks, made without authority (e.g., by a non-expert)
- ordinate: balanced, rightly-proportioned, well-adjusted to its proper end
- ordo amoris: rightly ordered love, a love characterized by balance and right proportion
- paralogism: logical fallacy, a piece of incorrect reasoning
- petitio: a begging of the question, assuming the very issue in dispute
- pons asinorum: literally "bridge of asses", traditionally used to refer to the fifth proposition of the first book of Euclid's geometry: the first thing beginners in a subject have difficulty "getting over"
- posterity: future generations (of humanity)
- rapprochement: (French) reconciliation, the reaching of harmony, unanimity
- secundum litteram: strictly or literally speaking
- sensibility: emotion, the faculty of feeling, sensitivity
- sentiments: feelings, emotional thoughts
- sic volo, sic jubeo: this I want, this I decree
- sui generis: unique in its kind, without parallel
- tellurian biology: the biology of life on this planet (Earth)
- upper forms: higher grades (in school), 11th and 12th grades
- venal: unscrupulous, corrupt, mercenary
- ule: (Greek) matter, raw material (literally "wood")