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Moving by steps; walking; as, gradient automata. Wilkins.

Not mixable. Bp. Wilkins.

ness, n. -- In*com"pa*ra*bly, adv. Delights incomparably all those corporeal things. Bp. Wilkins.

ch is related as true, skeptical; unbelieving. Bacon. A fantastical incredulous fool. Bp. Wilkins.

ndling, or setting on fire; also, the state of being inflamed. "The inflammation of fat." Wilkins.

; futile. Laws must be insignificant without the sanction of rewards and punishments. Bp. Wilkins.

incapable of being touched; not perceptible to the touch; impalpable; imperceptible. Bp. Wilkins. A corporation is an artificial, invisible, intangible being. Marshall. -- In*tan"gi*ble*ness, n. -- In*tan"gi*bly, adv.

h inundation wide the deluge reigns, Drowns the deep valleys, and o'erspreads the plains. Wilkie.

r to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power. "Motive faculty." Bp. Wilkins. Motive power (Mach.), a natural agent, as water, steam, wind, electricity, etc., used to impart motion to machinery; a motor; a mover.

bed. The Jews were but a small nation, and confined to a narrow compass in the world. Bp. Wilkins.

of reason, improved by consideration and experience, without the help of revelation. Bp. Wilkins.

ponderated. That is no just balance in which the heaviest side will not preponderate. Bp. Wilkins.

s of religion are merely probable; I have before asserted them to be morally certain. Bp. Wilkins.

able certainty, I mean that which doth not admit of any reasonable cause of doubting. Bp. Wilkins. Men have no right to what is not reasonable. Burke.

Obs.] Shak. (b) As to; in regard to. [Archaic] "Monsters in respect of their bodies." Bp. Wilkins. "In respect of these matters." Jowett. (Thucyd. ) -- In, or With, respect to, in relation to; with regard to; as respects. Tillotson. -- To have respect of persons, to regard persons with partiality or undue bias, especi…

as a wheel, or the drum of a capstan. "An axis or cylinder having a rundle about it." Bp. Wilkins.

Of or pertaining to simples, or a simplist. [R.] Wilkinson.

tion; as, a snatch at weeding after a shower. Tusser. They move by fits and snatches. Bp. Wilkins.

hak. It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high. Bp. Wilkins.

Containing one part of eight; having the ratio of one to eight. Bp. Wilkins.