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ABLE adds ANCE ancient animal ATION ATIVE atum Bacon bear Boyle Brown called Cange cause Chaucer colour common cons corruption cover denote derives draw Du Cange EDLY ENCE ENCY equi equivalent etym etymologists etymology Feltham formed gen.-to give Gower Hall hence hold Holinshed Holland IBLE ICAL inclose INESS INGLY Inter is-to Jamieson Jonson Kilian kind LESS meaning MENT Milton Mins motion move NESS noun substantive old writers origin Over-Un past perhaps Plinie pref priv probably put or place quĉ quia quod renders says Sk Shak ship signifies sound Spel Spenser Steevens term thing thinks throw tion to-A to-The Tooke Tyrw Udal usage Voss Wach whence Wiclif word writes written
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Page 442 - For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Page 450 - Knowledge then seems to me to be nothing but the perception of the connexion and agreement, or disagreement and repugnancy, of any of our ideas.
Page 442 - ... lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another, ideas, wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Page 279 - Lastly, extortion is an abuse of public justice, which consists in any officer's unlawfully taking, by colour of his office, from any man, any money or thing of value, that is not due to him, or more than is due, or before it is due (w).
Page 142 - Ideas thus made up of several simple ones put together I call " complex ; " such as are beauty, gratitude, a man, an army, the universe; which, though complicated of various simple ideas or complex ideas made up of simple ones, yet are, when the mind pleases, considered each by itself as one entire thing, and signified by one name.
Page 417 - The smallpox, so fatal and so general amongst us, is here entirely harmless by the invention of ingrafting, which is the term they give it. There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the smallpox ; they make parties for this purpose, and when they are met...
Page 285 - So that a farmer, firmarius, was one who held his lands upon payment of a rent or feorme : though at present, by a gradual departure from the original sense, the word farm is brought to signify the very estate or lands so held upon farm or rent.
Page 450 - For when we know that white is not black, what do we else but perceive that these two ideas do not agree? When we possess ourselves with the utmost security of the demonstration that the three angles of a triangle...
Page 378 - THE Law of Honour is a system of rules constructed by people of fashion, and calculated to facilitate their intercourse with one another, and for no other purpose.
Page 13 - ... particular ideas received from particular objects to become general; which is done by considering them as they are in the mind such appearances, separate from all other existences and the circumstances of real existence, as time, place, or any other concomitant ideas. This is called ABSTRACTION, whereby ideas taken from particular beings become general representatives of all of the same kind; and their names, general names, applicable to whatever exists conformable to such abstract ideas.