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stence. Self-subsisting entities, such as our own personality. Shairp. Fortune is no real entity, . . . but a mere relative signification. Bentley.

The state or quality of being identical, or the same; sameness. Identity is a relation between our cognitions of a thing, not between things themselves. Sir W. Hamilton.

Nonexistence; the negation of being.

The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another. To aspire to an assimilation with God. Dr. H. More. The assimilation of gases and vapors. Sir J. Herschel.

A conventional symbol of office, character, or identity, added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of Hercules.

o be happy; to be here; to be large, or strong; to be an animal; to be a hero; to be a nonentity; three and two are five; annihilation is the cessation of existence; that is the man.

In a consubstantial manner; with identity of substance or nature.

An identity or union of substance.

ng discerned by the eye or the understanding; as, a star is discernible by the eye; the identity of difference of ideas is discernible by the understanding. The effect of the privations and sufferings . . . was discernible to the last in his temper and deportment. Macaulay.

Entity, being, or existence; an actually existing being; also, God, as the Being of Beings.

Considered as pure entity; abstracted from all circumstances. Ellis. -- En"ti*ta*tive*ly, adv.

That which exists; a being; a creature; an entity; as, living existences.

The connection or relation of bodies which have partial identity of composition, but different characteristics and properties; the relation existing between derivatives of the same substance, or of the analogous members of different series; as, ethane, ethyl alcohol, acetic aldehyde, and acetic acid are in heterology w…

The state or quality of being homogeneous in elements or first principles; likeness or identity of parts.

Sameness of name or designation; identity in relations. Holland. Homonymy may be as well in place as in persons. Fuller.

That which forms the basis of anything; underlying principle; a concept or mental entity conceived or treated as an existing being or thing.

In an identical manner; with respect to identity. "Identically the same." Bp. Warburton. "Identically different." Ross.

To establish the identity of; to prove to be the same with something described, claimed, or asserted; as, to identify stolen property.

ect and object, are identical in the Absolute; -- called also the system or doctrine of identity.

United in one body; formed into a corporation; made a legal entity.