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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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"To Captivate, to take captive, to inslave; a Word altogether apply'd to the Affections of the Mind."
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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."
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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."
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