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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
DISCONTINUED QUANTITY
III. Transcendental Relations of DISCONTINUED QUANTITY or Number, may be distributed into such as are either
Comparative; denoting either a greater or lesser number then ordi∣nary
MULTITUDE, many, numerous, a world of, multiply, increase, propagate, store, swarm, thick, press, crowd throng, rout. FEWNESS, Paucity, decrease, small number, thin, diminish∣ing.
Positive; concerning the
Number of things, whether
- One, or more then one.
- SINGULARITY, Individual, numerical, single.
- PLVRALITY, more
- Some or All.
- PARTICULARITY, special, peculiar.
- VNIVERSALITY, Generality, Catholick, Oecumenical, utmost.
Kinds of things, whether One kind, or All kinds.
- SPECIALNESS, peculiar, particular.
- GENERALNESS, All.
Parts of which number consists, whether Equal or Vnequal Units
- EVENNESS, Parity.
- ODNESS, Imparity, uneven.
Position of things numbred, denoting their
- Being in a state of separation from others, or in a state of conjun∣ction with several others.
- SEGREGATENESS, sever, set apart or aside, Analysis, Ana∣tomy, piece-meal, by retail, dispence, distribute, one by one, Parcels, by pole.
- AGGREGATENESS, Train, Troop, Company, Party, Scull, Swarm, Team, Flock, Heard, Pack, Covy, Sheaf, Bale, Bundle, Fardle, Bunch, Cluster, Gross, by the great.
- Order, belonging either to Things, or to Words.
- Parts of an aggregate being all together.
- SUIT, Pack, Set, Mess, a Ring.
LARGELY QUALITY
IV. Transcendental Relations belonging to QUALITY,*as considered MORE LARGELY, may be distributed into such kind of Relations as are either
Single; containing a respect to the
- Cause of a thing, whether none or any, The being of a thing, the first of its kind, or not.
- PRIMITIVENESS, Root, original, simple, underived.
- DERIVATIVENESS, conjugate, Notation, Etymology, transmission.
- Distance of a thing, whether without or with any other between.
- IMMEDIATENESS, Next.
- MEDIATENESS.
- Manner of being, whether intirely of it self, or by virtue of something else.
- ABSOLUTENESS, Independent, Freehold.
- DEPENDENCY, Vnder.
- Degrees of Being or Causality, whether superior and before all others, or inferior, and after some others.
- PRINCIPALNESS, Chief, Special, Ring-leader, soveraign, supreme, paramount, first, main, arch, prime, primary, capital, cardinal fundamental, Top, Head, Master.
- ACCESSORINESS, Abet, adherent, second, Companion, Party, Copart∣ner, Complice, Appendage, Label, Appurtenance, adventitious, col∣lateral, conscious, privy, side with, back, partake, participate, by the way, by the by.
Mutual; whether more
- Positive; signifying one thing either to have or not to have Relation to some other.
- PERTINENCY, belong, appertain, apposite, to the purpose, touching, concern, material, relate to, serve for, incumbent on.
- IMPERTINENCY, not to the purpose, extravagant, sleeveless, wide from the matter, wild, idle, improper.
- Comparative, denoting such relation to belong onely to one or few, or to many.
- PROPERNESS, incommunicable, owner, peculiar, concern.
- COMMONNESS, usual, vulgar, currant, general, prostitute.
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