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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]

"To Implant, to ingraft, fix or fasten, in the Mind."

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

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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."

— 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]

"Plantal, causing to sprout forth, or grow; as in The Plantal Faculties of the Soul. "

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

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Date: 1719

"Pray note, all this was the Fruit of a disturb'd Mind, an impatient Temper, made as it were desperate, by the long Continuance of my Troubles, and the Disappointments I had met in the Wreck I had been on Board of, and where I had been so near the obtaining what I so earnestly long'd for, viz. so...

— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)

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