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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.

rved 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.

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

r'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.

e 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.

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

stract 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.

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

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

of right and wrong, and accompanied with the sentiments of approbation and condemnation. Whewell.

ance of his high consideration. D. Webster. The consideration with which he was treated. Whewell.

en one class of facts coincides with an induction obtained from another different class. Whewell.

er the parts of anything; structure; arrangement. An astrolabe of peculiar construction. Whewell.

nary. Men fergot, or feared, to consult . . . ; they were content to consult liberaries. Whewell.

ton. The doctrine of the earth's motion appeared to be contrary to the sacred Scripture. Whewell.