Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	absolute_a	according_a	act_n	72	3	6.0319	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66045	An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language by John Wilkins ...	Wilkins, John, 1614-1672.; Wilkins, John, 1614-1672. Alphabetical dictionary.	1668 (1668)	Wing W2196; Wing W2176_CANCELLED; ESTC R21115	531,738	644

it either in the Greek Latin English c. yet according to the Nature and Philosophy of things whatsoever hath an Essence must likewise have an Act either of Being or becoming or of Doing or being done or of making or being made to be or do And consequently every Radical Substantive which is capable of Action should have an Active or Passive formed from it which is commonly called a Verb. As for such things which have not of their own any proper Act of Doing they are not capable of the derivation of Active and Passive ob defectum materiae as in the words Stone Mettle c. But the Verbs belonging to such Radicals can be only Neuter denoting the Act of Being or becoming unless when they are compounded with the Transcendental mark of Causatio which will adde to them a Transitive sense as Petrifie Metallifie c. As for such other Radicals as are capable of Action or Passion these Rules are to be observed concerning them 1. More Generally these two 1. Things which according to common acception have belonging to them any one proper Act of Doing their Verbs Actives will denote this Act For instance the Verb or Substantive Active of the words Fire Water c. is to burn wet and so for those Acts of the several parts Tongue Tooth Mouth Throat Foot Heel whose active by this Rule will be to lick bite devour swallow trample kick and the Active of Bow Gun is to Shoot as with a Bow Gun 2. Things which have not according to common acception any one kind of peculiar Act of Doing appropriate to them the Actives belonging to such things will signifie in the General to Act or do according to the nature of such things 2. More Particularly these four 1. The Actives belonging to such Radicals as are Substances whether Absolute or Relative do signifie to Act according to the nature of such Substances so in absolute Substances the Active of God Spirit Man will signifie to Act as God Spirit Man and so in Relative Substances the Active of Father Iudge Magistrate is to Act as a Father Judge Magistrate 2. The Actives of Quality whether Predicamental or Transcendental do denote the Acts of those species with particular reference to the differences under which they are placed So the Active of East West Obliquity c. being under the difference of Situation must signifie to situate a thing Easterly Westerly Obliquely The words of Line Surface Body being under the difference of Dimension the Active belonging to them must signifie to Dimensionate as either of these The words under the differences of Figure must in their Actives signifie to Figure according to such particular shapes Those under the difference of Time the Actives of Present Simultaneous Newness Oldness Sooness c. must signifie to Act with such respects of Time The Actives of the Differences and Species under Measure should regularly signifie to Measure by Number Magnitude Gravity Valour Duration The Active of Inch Foot Pace Fathom is to Measure by Inch Foot c. and so for those other Species of Grane Drachm c. Farthing Penny c. The Active of Minute Hour Day Night c. will signifie to continue for such portions or measures of time according to the sense of the Difference Duration under which these species are placed The Active of Infancy Childhood Adolescency c. may signifie to pass the time of one's Infancy Childhood Adolescency c. 3. The Active of such Radicals as are Qualities whether Predicamental or Transcendental signifie to do or deal according to the signification of the said qualities So the Active of Fidelity Severity c. will signifie to deal or Act Faithfully Severely c. The Active of Goodness Evilness c. will signifie to Act or Do well or ill c. 4. The Active of such Radicals as denote Actions need no other explication but this that some of them are Active Absolute which in the usual Grammars are stiled Neuter as Sto Sedeo Curro others Transitive denoting a transient efficiency into which latter kind the former of these may be changed as was said before by composition with the Transcendental mark of Causation There are several English Verbs which without admitting any change by Composition or Inflexion have both a Neuter and a Transitive signification as Corrupt Feed Starve Famish Move Rest Hang Extend Shrink Stagger Stay c. whose sense is to be distinguisht by the construction There are some Verbs of the same Natural Philosophical Radix which are yet expressed by different words as Laugh Deride Weep Bemoan must need Necessitate c. And the different notion of these and such like Verbs is not capable of being expressed by the Transcendental point of causation but by placing after them such a Noun Substantive or Pronoun Substantive as may denote the object of those several acts So the word Laugh being put without any Substantive following doth signifie in the Neuter sense the bare act of Laughing but if the word me or him c. doth immediately follow the Verb then it is to be rendered deride or laugh at me him c. Besides those Concrete Substantives which signifie the Ens or thing it self there are other Substantives which denote the Essence of things stiled Abstracts And these may likewise be distinguished into Neuter Active Passive That is stiled Neuter which denotes the naked Essence of a thing without any inclination to Action or Passion as Deity Regality That is stiled an Abstract Active which implies a proclivity to Action as Regnativity Amativeness or Amorousness That is called Passive which denotes a capacity or fitness for receiving or suffering of Action as Regibility Amiableness Such Radicals as are Concretes are capable according to the nature of the things denoted by them to have all these three kinds of Abstracts formed from them Whereas such Radicals as are themselves Abstracts Neuter as namely several of those under the Genus's and Differences of Quality and Action are capable only of the two latter kinds to be formed from them As Noun Substantives are the names which are given to things considered simply and as subsisting by themselves So Noun Adjectives are the names which are given to the Adjunct natures of things the notion of them consisting in this that they signifie the subject or thing to which they are ascribed to have in it something belonging to the nature or quality of those Adjectives which are predicated of it or limited by it And besides this common notion they do sometimes likewise in the instituted Languages refer to other notions as 1. To aboundance so the words populous pretious sumptuous c. so in Latin fluvius piscosus aquosa regio 2. To likeness so the word dogged currish waspish Seraphicus Angelicus c. 3. To Possession so Domus regia a royal house 4. To the matter of which any thing doth consist so scutum aheneum A brazen shield But each