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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."

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

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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"

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

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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."

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]

"To Captivate, to take captive, to inslave; a Word altogether apply'd to the Affections of the Mind."

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]

"Conception, the Product of the Mind, as a Thought, Notion, or Principle; the Simple Ideas or apprehension that a Man has of any Thing, without proceeding to affirm or deny and Point relating thereto; also a Conceiving with Child, or breeding."

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]

"Conscience, the Testimony or Witness of one's own Mind, the inward Knowledge of a thing; a Scruple."

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]

"Contemplation, Contemplating, Meditation, Study: In Metaphysicks, it is Defin'd to be the preserving of an Idea or Conception, which is brought into the Mind, for some time actually in View."

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]

"To Dazzle, to hurt the Sight, with too muc Light, to surprize the Mind; to tempt, to decoy, to beguile."

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]

"Elate, (Lat.) puffed up, transported, lofty, proud, haughty; as A Man of an Elate Mind. "

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]

"To Imprint, to Engrave, or fix a thing in one's Mind."

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.