Boerhaave promoted mechanistic disease explanation within a corpuscularian matter theory, seeing health in terms of hydrostatic equilibrium, a balance of internal fluid pressures.

the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc.

The roman transliteration of an emboldened headword is first given in the Wade–Giles system of romanization. The standard Pinyin romanization follows in parentheses. In the main text, only Wade–Giles romanization is used.

The language should be designed to achieve replayability and a high-level of scriptability.