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TRANSCENDENTAL Relations MIXED
TRANSCENDENTAL Relations MIXED, may be distributed into such as do belong either to
- QUANTITY, as considered
- More GENERALLY. I
- More restrainedly, to
- CONTINUED QUANTITY. II
- DISCONTINUED QUANTITY. III
- QUALITY, as considered more
- LARGELY IV
- STRICTLY. V
- WHOLE and PART. VI
QUANTITY ( More GENERALLY )
Other things of the same kind or company
Indefinitely; as to
- Being or Substance, namely when the things compared are considered
- Singly and intire, Being either of an ordinary size, or more or less then ordinary.
- INDIFFERENCE, Pretty big, passable, reasonable, so so.
- GREATNESS, Magnitude, ample, large, vast, huge, immense, grand, monstrous, pro∣digious, sound, swinging, whisker, main, much, magnifie, aggravate, exaggerate, a filthy deal, a foul deal, Gyant.
- LITTLENESS, Smalness, Petty, Minute, Modicum, Scautling, diminutive, less, least, poor, abate, allay, extenuate, Elf, Dwarf, Shrimp, Tit, Dandiprat, Pigmy.
- Conjunctly; as consisting of several individuals or parts, whereof there are together an ordinary number, or more or less then ordinary.
- MEDIOCRITY, a pretty deal, an indifferent quantity, mean, reasonable.
- ABOVNDANCE, a great deal, much, a world, affluence, plenty, store, copious, flush, satiate, flow, fluent, luxuriant, enough and to spare.
- SCARCITY, Little, want, dearth, pinching, scant, bare, jejune, lack.
- Vse, with respect to the quantity of it, whether such as may by its just proportion promote the end, or such as may hinder it, by being too much, or too little.
- SUFFICIENCY, enough, big or much enough, competency, moderate, satisfie, serve, well, full.
- EXCESS, Redundance, superfluity, needless, exuberance, too much, overmuch, over∣charge, cloy, glutt, surfet, satiety, extreme, immoderate, luxuriant, rank, out of reason, wast, fly out, lash out.
- DEFECT, Not enough, lack, need, penury, indigent, necessitous, destitute, want, fail, fall short of, slender, jejune, incompetent, insufficient.
- Quality of it, denoting the being of a thing of an ordinary goodness, or more or less then ordinary.
- INDIFFERENCY, Pretty well, tolerable, not amiss.
- EXCELLENCY, extraordinary good, eminence, preheminence, egregious, eximious, incom∣parable, superlative, soveraign, transcendent, singular, heroic, high, noble, gallant, choice, passing, rare, remarkable, notable, Paragon, Mirrour.
- SORRINESS, mean, poor, vile, trivial, contemptible, despicable, frippery, Trash, Trum∣pery, Raff, Scum, Drugg, silly, slight, paultry, scurvy, poor, course, flat, pedling, cheap, worthless, Fellow, Sirrah, Companion, Rascal, Varlet, Wretch, Scoundril, Skip-jack, Scrub, Vrchin, Flirt, Gill, Iade.
Definitely; as to
Being; either of the same degree, or more or less.
- EQUALITY, Evenness, parity, peer, match, fellow, adaequate, aequipollent, adjust, halves with, as many, all one.
- INEQVALITY, unequal, odds.
- SVPERIORITY, above, upper, advantage, odds, preheminence, surmount, overpass, surpass, exceed, go beyond, out-go, get the start, top, excell, prevail, predominant.
- INFERIORITY, under -ling, disadvantage, allay, come short of, low.
- Vse; as means to an end, when one thing hath the same degrees of fitness for an end as another, or more or less.
- EQUIVALENCE, countervail.
- BETTERNESS.
- WORSENESS.
Thems•lves; in respect of their
Being or substance
Being or substance, either continued the same, or changed to more or less.
- AT A STAND.
- INCREASE, Augmentation, progress, increment, enlarge, magnifie, amplifie, aggravate, im∣prove, rise, grow, gain, come forward, crescent.
- DIMINVTION, Abate, Bate, swage, asswage, decrease, extenuate, mince, mitigate, allay, retrench, rebate, shrink.
QUALITY
- QUALITY in general, either continuing in an ordinary degree, or being changed to more or less.
- JUST TEMPER.
- INTENTION, heighten, strein, raise, aggravate, exaggerate, exasperate, enhaunce, acute, cutting, keen, sore, piercing, vehement, urgent, eager, earnest, deep sleep, amain, greatly, much.
- REMISSION, Abate, allay, slake, slacken, swage, asswage, diminish, mitigate, slight, cold, slender, weak, dead, dilute, dull, faint, gentle, light.
Vse
Vse; when things either continue as they were, or else become more or less good.
- KEEPING AT A STAY.
- MENDING, emendation, bettering, Reparation, Reformation, Restauration, correct, redress, Improve, Edifie, botch, cobble, clout, patch, Progress, advance.
- MARRING, Spoiling, Deprave, Impair, spill, taint, alloy, wear, corrupt, vitiate, wast.
CONTINUED QUANTITY
II. Transcendental Mixed •elations belonging to CONTINUED QUANTITY,* may be distinguished into those various measures of di∣stance according to the difference of more or less, with respect ei∣ther to
Line; from END to End.
- LENGTH, -en, Longitude, prolong, protract, eeke out, extend, te∣dious, prolixness.
- SHORTNESS, Brevity, Conciseness, abbreviate, curtal, abridge, restrain, compendious, succinct.
Superficies; from side to side.
- BREDTH, Wideness, Latitude, Largeness, Ampleness, spacious, di∣late, enlarge, extend.
- NARROWNESS, Streightness, Scantness, close, compressed, pink-eyed, restrain.
Body; reckoning from
- Top to Bottom.
- DEEPNESS, profound, Abyss, farr into, high.
- SHALLOWNESS, Ford, Scoure, Depression, low, flat.
- Bottom to Top.
- HIGHNESS, Altitude, exalt, elevate, Soar, sublime, tall, lofty, proper, towring, advance, raise, aloft.
- LOWNESS, abase, bring down, depress, demiss, nether
- Any Superficies to the opposite.
- THICKNESS, Crassitude, gross, deep, incrassate, roun∣cival.
- THINNESS, slender, fine, slim, lank, slank, slight, tenuity, gaunt, rare, subtle, attenuate
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