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agency by which an effect is produced. The kind of causation by which vision is produced. Whewell. Law of universal causation, the theoretical or asserted law that every event or phenomenon results from, or is the sequel of, some previous event or phenomenon, which being present, the other is certain to take place.…

as, the celebrity of Washington. An event of great celebrity in the history of astronomy. Whewell.

esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself. The chair of a philosophical school. Whewell. A chair of philology. M. Arnold.

tion of something alleged. The charge of confounding very different classes of phenomena. Whewell.

ransmission. The true doctrines of astronomy appear to have had some popular circulation. Whewell.

; situated. The proposition is, that two bodies so circumstanced will balance each other. Whewell.

The act of freeing from obscurities. The clarification of men's ideas. Whewell.

That which coexists with another. The law of coexistent vibrations. Whewell.

An accumulation of any substance. "Collections of moisture." Whewell. "A purulent collection." Dunglison.

erved positions of the planet Mars were points in an ellipse. "The colligation of facts." Whewell. Colligation is not always induction, but induction is always colligation. J. S. Mill.

act or process of commenting or criticising; exposition. [R.] The spirit of commentation. Whewell.

or's professed object is to explain, to enforce, to illustrate doctrines claimed as true. Whewell.

Pertaining to the making of commentaries. Whewell.

, as compared with another thing or state. The recurrence of comparative warmth and cold. Whewell. The bubble, by reason of its comparative levity to the fluid that incloses it, would necessarily ascend to the top. Bentley.

he heavens are calculated in the best possible way, the process is difficult and complex. Whewell. Complex fraction. See Fraction. -- Complex number (Math.), in the theory of numbers, an expression of the form a + bsq. root-1, when a and b are ordinary integers.

ew them in composition with other things. I. Watts. The elementary composition of bodies. Whewell.

bstract conception than that of the visible operation which the word primarily signifies. Whewell.

man's character and life from the configuration of the stars at the moment of his birth. Whewell.

erodotus] would thus have corrected his first loose conjecture by a real study of nature. Whewell. Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm. Milton.

ship. He [Algazel] denied the possibility of a known connection between cause and effect. Whewell. The eternal and inserable connection between virtue and hapiness. Atterbury.