Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"To Ingraft, to graft, to let a Graft or young Shoot into the stock of a Tree, to implant, imprint, or fix in the Mind."
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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"Innate Principles, certain Original Notions or Characters which some Philosophers will have to be stamp'd on the Mind of Man when it first receives its Being."
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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"Reminiscence, the Faculty, or Power of rememb'ring, whereby such Ideas, or Notions, as were once perceived, or imprinted on the Mind, but afterwards forgotten, are call'd again and brought fresh to its Remembrance."
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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"To Revolve, to cast about in one's Mind."
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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"To Ruminate, to chew the Cud: In a figurative Sense, to ponder seriously, to weigh in Mind, to consider, muse, or think upon."
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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"Serenity or Sereneness, clearness of the Sky, fair Weather, calmness of Mind, chearfulness of Looks."
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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"To Strike, to beat or hit, to affect or make an Impression upon the Senses or Mind; to make Measure even with a Strike or Strickle,"
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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"Agitation, an agitating, violent Motion, joulting, tumbling or tossing; Disturbance ro Disquiet of Mind, Trouble; also the management of Business in Hand. In a Philosophical Sense, the brisk inward Motion of the Corpuscles or very small Parts of any natural Body."
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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"Antapodosis, a returning or repaying on the other Side or by turns: In Rhetorick, the Counter-part or latter Clause of a Similitude, answering the former. Thus, As the Soil is improv'd by Tilling, So the Mind is more refin'd, and render'd more sublime by good Discipline"
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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"Appetite, the Affection of the Mind, by which we are stirr'd up to any thing, inordinate Desire, Lust: Also the desire of Nourishment, or a Stomach to one's Victuals."
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