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ce or priority. Addison. (c) To take effect; to prevail. "If your doctrine takes place." Berkeley. "But none of these excuses would take place." Spenser. -- To take the place of, to be substituted for.

nser. -- Purchase money, the money paid, or contracted to be paid, for anything bought. Berkeley. -- Worth, or At, [so many] years' purchase, a phrase by which the value or cost of a thing is expressed in the length of time required for the income to amount to the purchasing price; as, he bought the estate at a twent…

se. Let us now put that ye have leave. Chaucer. Put the perception and you put the mind. Berkeley. These verses, originally Greek, were put in Latin. Milton. All this is ingeniously and ably put. Hare.

Consisting of rays, and light. [R.] Berkeley.

To recall; to bring back. To retrieve them from their cold, trivial conceits. Berkeley.

crush; to overthrow; to overbear. "religion is run down by the license of these times." Berkeley. (d) To disparage; to traduce. F. W. Newman. -- To run hard. (a) To press in competition; as, to run one hard in a race. (b) To urge or press importunately. (c) To banter severely. -- To run into the ground, to carry to…

d is either a succession of notions impressed on the mind by the Deity, as maintained by Berkeley, or else the mere educt of the mind itself, as taught by Fichte.

A director. [Obs. & R.] Dr. R. Clerke.

To flatter; to cajole; to act the parasite. [Obs.] Dr. R. Clerke.

Swarthiness. [R.] Dr. R. Clerke.

can not satisfy myself how men should be so little surprised about this visive faculty. Berkeley.

ard the west; as, to ride or sail westward. Westward the course of empire takes its way. Berkeley.