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A native or inhabitant of Flanders.

Being before, or in front. [R.] J. Fleming.

g to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason. Fleming.

ical matters. The first aphorism of Hippocrates is, "Life is short, and the art is long." Fleming.

The science of, or a treatise on, first principles. Fleming.

. In this, according to Kant, consist the true nature and only possible proof of liberty. Fleming.

icians, those who founded their practice on experience called themselves empirics. Krauth-Fleming. Swallow down opinions as silly people do empirics' pills. Locke.

Capable of being thrust out or protruded. J. Fleming.

Pertaining to Flanders, or the Flemings. -- n.

Subject to the law of another. Krauth-Fleming.

on us from without, or the violence done to us by our passions, wants, or desires. Krauth-Fleming.

The doctrine that matter is sentient. Krauth-Fleming.

Thus, the Apollo Belvedere is the ideal of the beauty and proportion of the human frame. Fleming. Beau ideal. See Beau ideal.

proposition, because it is impossible to have the idea of body without that of solidity. Fleming. Identical equation (Alg.), an equation which is true for all values of the algebraic symbols which enter into it.

not carry in their mind common notions of morality,innate and written in divine letters. Fleming (Origen). If I could only show,as I hope I shall . . . how men, barely by the use of their natural faculties, may attain to all the knowledge they have, without the help of any innate impressions; and may arrive at certain…

r simple expressions, as distinguished from the use of figurative or obscure ones. Krauth-Fleming.

is, authority belonging to itself, and not drawn from anything in our nature. Calderwood (Fleming's Vocabulary).

Phrenology. Fleming.

difference in their actions being due to the difference of the individual organizations. Fleming.

Evil; bad; baffling; as, a quade wind. [Obs.] Sooth play, quad play, as the Fleming saith. Chaucer.