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WHOLE AND PART

VI. That thing which is made up of several lesser things united toge∣ther is called by the name of WHOLE, Total, Integral, Intire, Summ,*All, Vtterly▪ Quite and clean, full, plenary.

The transcendental relations of whole and part are such as denote a respect to Quantity

Quality
  • Quality; of Goodness or Badness of such parts.
    • BEST PART, Quintessence, Cream, Flower, the heart, Top.
    • WORST PART, Refuse, Scumm, Dreggs, Raff, draft, dross, rubbish, tare, bran, chaff, recrement, trash, garbage, offal.
Time

Time; either that which is first taken, whereby the goodness of the whole is to be measured, or that which is superadded after the whole.

  • SAY, taste, touch, scantling.
  • VANTAGE, surplus, overplus, to boot, over and above, over-weight, corollary, supplement, vails.
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A Part put to another, or the whole as being made up of such parts.

  • ADDITUM, item, put to, insert, eke out.
  • SVMM, lay or couch together, cast up, count, draw to a head, come to, amount, result, total, in the whole.

A Part taken out from others, or the whole remaining after such taking out.

  • ABLATUM, abate, defalk, retrench, deduct, subduct, substract, take away.
  • RESIDVE, overplus, surplussage, arrear, remainer, remnant, left be∣hind, the other, the rest, relicks, orts, scraps, reversions, gleaning, offal, odd-ends, stubs, stumps, stubble.

A Part repeated a certain number of times, so as to equal the whole, or the whole considered as it is so made up.

  • MULTIPLIER, Side.
  • PRODVCT, rectangle.

A Part taken out such a certain number of times as leaves nothing of the whole, or that number of times which is the correspondent part.

  • DIVISOR.
  • QVOTIENT.
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