Glossographia Anglicana Nova: Or, A Dictionary, Interpreting Such Hard Words of Whatever Language, as are at Present Used in the English Tongue, with Their Etymologies, Definition, &c. Also the Terms of Divinity, Law, Physick, Mathematicks, History, Agriculture, Logick, Metaphysicks, Grammar, Poetry, Musick, Heraldry, Architecture, Painting, War, and All Other Arts and Sciences are Herein Explain'd ...

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Page 41 - I would be understood to mean that notice which the mind takes of its own operations, and the manner of them, by reason whereof there come to be ideas of these operations in the understanding.
Page 16 - CUT-WATER ; the sharp part of the head of a ship below the beak, so called because it cuts or divides the water before it comes to the bow, that it may not come too suddenly to the breadth of the ship, which would retard it.
Page 25 - A little circle whose centre is in the circumference of a greater ; or a small orb, which, being fixed in the deferent of a planet, is carried along with its motion ; and yet, with its own peculiar motion, carries the body of the planet fastened to it round about its proper centre.
Page 25 - tis a Rule to know how often one Number is contained in another ; or how to divide a Number into what Parts you pleafe.
Page 9 - Tenura per copiam rotuli curia, is a tenure for which the tenant hath nothing to shew but the copy of the rolls made by the steward of the lord's court. . . . Some copyholds are fmeable at will, and some certain : that which is fineable at will, the lord taketh at his pleasure.
Page 13 - In law, a judicial writ from him that has recovered in an action of debt or damages, to the sheriff, to command him to levy* the debt, or the damages.
Page 14 - When there sre two attacks at a siege, he commands that on the left. He ought to be well acquainted with the strength of each brigade, of each regiment in particular, and to have a list of all the field officers. In short, he is, in the army, what a major is in a regiment. He is allowed...
Page 25 - real ideas," I mean such as have a foundation in nature; such as have a conformity with the real being and existence of things, or with their archetypes. " Fantastical or chimerical," I call such as have no foundation in nature, nor have any conformity with that reality of being to which they are tacitly referred as to their archetypes.
Page 25 - Exaction, a wrong done by an officer, or one in pretended authority, by taking a reward or fee for that which the law allows not, whereas extortion is where an officer takes more than is due, when something is due to him.

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