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ture together. And hence it is that thefe Ideas are call'd Notions i as if they had their Original and conttant Ex- ,™™« moreln '^Thoughts of Men, tha "n the Reality

°u 1 »i° g J S and , that toform fuch ldeas > "fufficed that the Mmd put the Pans of them together 5 and that they were confident m the Undemanding, without confi- deiing whether they had any real Being. tj The ™ " e * r «ways whereby we get thefe complex Ideas of Mixt Modes. Firft, By Experience and Obferva- tion of Things themfelves : Thus by feeing two Men wreftle, we get the Idea of Wreftling. Secondly, By Invention, or voluntary putting together of feveral Ample Ideas in our own Mind : So he that firft invented Printing,

  • ~ an ldea °f it firft in his Mind before ever it exifted.

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MOD

  • r-C- I ., , . " '"* " xma D "°re ever it exilted. communicating to 'em a Motrin rifc*r»kii ,(,*„ r,.,.„i j ■

lb,rdly By explaining the Names of Aflions we never twenty-four H«/b, i™ T ."

faw, or Notions we cannot fee > and hv ,.„„„,,„,.•„„ .« P1™X;.„„... „„ ._",'". the . ™ urnal devolution of the

_ j, „j w« rlJlllill g „, n , mc50T ncuons we never

law, or Notions we cannot fee j and by enumerating all thoie Ideas which go to the malting them up.

Thus the mixt Mode which the Word Lie flands for is made up of thefe fimple Ideas 5 Firft, Articulate Sounds.

™°j. y 'Jrl"&, Il J eaS , in the Mind of tlle Speaker. Thirdly, Thofe Words, theSignsof thefe Ideas; Fourthly, Thole Signs put together by Affirmation, or Negation, othcrwife than the Ideas they ftand for are in the Mind ot the Speaker, fince the Language was made,

The Second allow God to be Wife, Powerful, Er-rnal'- but will not allow any Form in God, for fear of admittios a multiplicity. l "S

Thole who follow this latter Opinion are call'd Moat,.

«^Vi?^ whofoliow the former., Sephalites. „?°W fWable; any thing (ufcep'tihle of Motion, or that is difpofed ,0 be moved cither bvitfelf, or by fome other prior Mobile, or Mover. '

Primum Mobile in the a'ntient Aftronomy, was a ninth

fjTVo P "I' lma g ined a b°ve thofe of the Planets and fixed Stats. SeeSpitERE.

This was fuppufed to be the firft Mover, and to carry all the lower Spheres round along with it; by its Rapidity communicating to 'em a Motion whereby they revolved in twenty-tour Hours. Knr ,!,» a: 1!>,.... (...: r ,

thofe Terms that (land for .them. For fince they confift of fimple Ideas combined, they may by Words Handing for thole fimple Ideas be reprefented to the Mind of one who underftands thofe Words, tho' that Combination of fimple Ideas was never offer'd to his Mind by the real Exiftcnce ot I lungs.

Mixt Ratio, or Proportion, is when the Sum of the An-

™ ' . ~-* m& mutual revolution or the

Planets , s now accounted for without the Affiltance of any luch Primtim Mobile. '

w?o r ,"r7. M ° BILE > fee F E Kf=TUAL Motion.

MOBILIA&M, ,n the Civil Law, are what in Common Uw * we caliMotenSfcj, or Moveable Goads. See Move- ables.

MOBILITY, in the Schools, £S?c. an Aptitude or Fa. cility to be moved.

The Mobility of Mercury is owing to the fmallnefs and

-r— ■—,■■■■-■. ...^ uuguajcwis maoe. Ihe Mobility ot Mercurv is owinp m the rm,ll„..r.

Complex Ideas are ufually go. by the Explication of fphericityofkl Panic" 7a,d^^^^ oft Terms that (land for .them. For fince they confift of tfon fo difficult. Z W .*. , " ' „' 7? * ™"*V" a F,xa

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between Antecedent and Confequent 5 as if '

7 > - 8 4 o D

<xl "»J::txitaJ bee Ratio.

MIXTION, , he Aft of JjCxh*; or the Union and Coa- lition ot divers Corpnfcles into one Body. See Mixt

The Peripatetics^ who hold an Alteration eflential to Mx,,m .define it the Union of feveral alter'd Ingredients,

or Mifcibles. 6 '

Mxtim makes a conllderable Operation in the Chymi- cal and Galenical Pharmacy. M1XTLRE, in a Pbilofophical fenfe, is an Affemblaoe Union of feveralRodie.fi nfrliffU^«„. p .:„. ■ °, '

tion fo difficult. See Mercurv and Fixa

The Hypothecs of the Mobility of the Earth is the moft

plaufible; and is that commonly admitted, by the latter

Altronomers. See Earth.

Pope Paul V. appointed Commiffioners to examine the

Upinionot Qftmmtt touching the Mobility of the Earth

ine Kelultot their Enquiry, was, a Prohibition to affort

^ta^dnl^^^^XlS; ^IS^fei'afeS between Antecedent and r n r,fi.„.,„ :r! 4 1* I* true. That is, they allow d the Mobility of the Earth to be

k fj tV ' , i . " ' c '™'»»"Joi the aarth to be

held as an Hypothefis which gives an eafy and fenfible So- lution of the Phenomena of ihe heavenly Motions; but forbad the Mobility of the Earth to be mainuin'd as a Thefis, or a real erfeflive thing; by reafon they conceiv'd it contrary to Stripture,

MODAL, in Logic, &c, a Term apply'd ro Propofitions contaiaing certain Conditions, or Reftriclions. See Con- ditional.

MODE or MOOD, in Philofophy, a Manner of Being; or a Quality, or Attribute of a Subftance, or Subiect. roncejve as neceffarily depending on the Subjefl,

^^fe.ralBod,Tfd='Pro;er^^

is £t5SA2£ tropoX^fe oy& f F^Sfteion%^S

divine Mechanic. " P °" '° th " ST of Th ' n § s c w , h ' ch »= conceive feparately, and by them-

It may be determined thus • J,' ■ d S " h fi"" ces i and <he other of Things which

Weigh the Mixture, immerge it in fome Fluid • and find ^^vT ** f g 5 ° '"'■ '," r " ch manner as ,hat w »

find what Weight any determinate Quantity of either In- gredient lofes in the fame Fluid : And by the Rule of Ihrce find what Weight each ought to lofe therein were its Weight equal to that of the Mixture. Subftrafl the lefs Lois from the greater, which will eive the FvrrCc ,„!.„.<, with the Lofs rf the'lighter exceeds that of the h« "e r " Ro^undnS'diTS*^?'"' '"T bei " S r ° "*« 

, " ," , , ' ' " "'»"* wk u-y tuc neavier.trom that loft by the whole Mxtttre, to find the Excefs of the Weight loft by the Mixture beyond that loft by the heavier.

Mixture, in Matters of Drapery, the Union, or ra- ther Conlufion of feveral Wools of different Colours not yet fpun.

Hencea/^.rtme, or mix'd Stuff, is that whofe Woof and Warp are of Wools of different Colours dy'd and mix'd before they were/pun.

Thus, when we reflect on Wax, and Roundnefs; we confider the Wax as a thing which may fubfitt without the Roundnefs; Wax therefore we denominate a SMiance ■ on the contrary we; confider Roimdnefsih dependant on the Wax-, that it can tfubCft without it, there being no conceivino of

KoilnHnfle rlill.nA n-J f ..r i ^ . J?, .

. - ■- «-, «. "^lueiit. o-e IDEA.

It lstheCharaflerillic, then, of a true Mode, to have fuch a relation to fome Subjea, as not to be clearly and di- itinctly conceivable without conceiving the Subiefl where- of it ,s a Mo*, at the fame time: When, on the other hand, the conception of the Subjea does not at all infer or require that of the Mode. SeeSunsTANCE.

Thus, what gives us to know that Thought is not a Mode f. eX L e o 'T' orMa " er . ^. that Extenfion, and

"b. *£-* on the out^eth^^R'am^'S SS.^tSSSrSr* ^ -^ ^

The Length and Breadth of the M««t often depends on M„) VC llWa>S T™" Tll n in & S aS clothed with certa "

the nature of the Soil; according as it is Marfhy or Rockv r^ ' A CX d eP "?",?*• rt ' fle? °" the Ab,traa > or Ge '»=-

A %Moai is that which is delliute of Water 7nd V And ,r ,s the J a "«y of M„A,, and Relations, that

ought to be deeper than one which is full of Water "" a «ons the great Variety of Denominations of the fame

A irW.Moi* is that whofe Scarp and CountetfcarD are afe n' " V Tc"! ^*!of Matter, «.>. that make

cafed with a Wall of Mafon's Work lyino a flone P R p Crfi ' y °, £ , Bod,e8 . " r corporeal Beings in Nature.

AFto-taWrfMoAT is that which h g a,h no flooin.!*= Sc ^ ElATI0N; Matter, fefc.

Wners heirio fomewhat rounds & D0 il0 P ,n g' ltS , Thcr e are var '™s Divifions and Kinds of Mode

Corners being lomewhat rounded.

The Brink of the Moat next the Rampart in any Forti fication is call'd the Scare, and the oppofite one the Coim terfcarp. See Scarp and Counterscarp

MOATAZALITES, a Religious Sect among the Turk

.— ~" j "m niuuj ut ivioaes : One of

the moft common, is into Internal and External.

Internal Movils are thofe inherent in the Subftance as Roundnefs in the Bowl 5 Flatnefs in the Nofe; Crooked- nefs m the Finger, f£c.

Thefe, we have obferv'd, cannot exift, nor even be con-

11/ n tifitnnut' »-1-.d C..K'. .0. 1 ■ _ 1 *-«■ _

There are two Opinions among the T*rM Divines cl •£'?* 1° °o f t" i ' Cannot exlft ' nor ev ™ b = con- cerning God. The firft admif Metaphylical Forms or A I d f W,thout tU Su ^ efl . a = L b ™8 only Circumftances Attributes; as that God has a Wifdom \y which he 1 t^t'AT^ 'T'u 8 ,0 i°T' ^ the Sub ' ea itfclf Wife; a Power by which he is Powerful; an Eternity hv f L h ' not fim P'y. b "' as f"ch. Thus the Roundnefe

which he is Eternal, &. ' X by °5 ' he Bow1, ,S ""'^ the Eowl itfelf confider'd as round,

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