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Precisely the same; the very same; identical. His servant was healed in the selfsame hour. Matt. viii. 13.

al; radical; primary; original; as, seminal principles of generation; seminal virtue. The idea of God is, beyond all question or comparison, the one great seminal principle. Hare. Seminal leaf (Bot.), a seed leaf, or cotyleden. -- Seminal receptacle. (Zoöl.) Same as Spermatheca.

substance extracted from the rootstock of the Polygala Senega (Seneca root), and probably identical with polygalic acid.

The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism.

"He speaks sense." Shak. He raves; his words are loose As heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense. Dryden.

The doctrine that all our ideas, or the operations of the understanding, not only originate in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism; sensism.

reat Britain originally under the supervision of an earl; a territorial division, usually identical with a county, but sometimes limited to a smaller district; as, Wiltshire, Yorkshire, Richmondshire, Hallamshire. An indefinite number of these hundreds make up a county or shire. Blackstone.

lined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artificial, in a stream, where the water rushes rapidly; esp., a channel, having a swift current, connecting the ends of a bend in the stream, so as to shorten the course. [Written al…

In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in verse than in prose.

pack. A man may shuffle cards or rattle dice from noon to midnight without tracing a new idea in his mind. Rombler.

Opportunity I here have had To try thee, sift thee. Milton. Let him but narrowly sift his ideas. I. Taylor. To sift out, to search out with care, as if by sifting.

That by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof. Specifically:

unded; not blended with something else; not complicated; as, a simple substance; a simple idea; a simple sound; a simple machine; a simple problem; simple tasks.

A substance extracted from mustard seed and probably identical with sinalbin. [Obs.]

Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat. These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, . . . Who now defles thee thrice ti single fight. Milton.

Engaged in by only one on a side; single. [Obs.] To try the matter thus together in a singular combat. Holinshed.

To plan or describe by giving the principal points or ideas of.

f the animal in which there is a lessened acuteness of sensory perception, a confusion of ideas, and a loss of mental control, followed by a more or less unconscious state. "A man that waketh of his sleep." Chaucer. O sleep, thou ape of death. Shak.

A myth which essentially consists of allegory based upon ideas as to the sun's course, motion, influence, or the like.

ds and retaining his power, committed a dangerous solecism in politics. C. Middleton. The idea of having committed the slightest solecism in politeness was agony to him. Sir W. Scott.