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Appetitive (Lat. ad + petere, to seek) Adjective of appetite. Applied to desire based on animal wants e.g. hunger, sex, etc. The appetitive, along with the ideational and the affective, are the three principal phases of the conscious life. — L.W. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Appetition (Lat. ad + petere, to seek) The internal drive which in the Leibnizian psychology effects the passage from one perception to another. Leibniz, The Monodology, 15. — L.W. To Spinoza, appetition is conscious desire. It is the essence of man insofar as he is conceived as determined to act by any of his affections. … Continue reading “Appetition”

appetite (Latin: ad, to; petere, to seek) Bent of mind or body for attaining some object; of mind for truth, of will for affection, of each sense for its proper object under due control of reason. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary Appetite (ad, to + petere, to seek) A tendency, an inclination, or direction. As it … Continue reading “Appetite”

Appertain ap-er-tan: Only once in English Versions of the Bible, namely, in Jer 10:7, for , ya’ah it becometh, it is seemly, Vulgate Tuum est enim decus, it is Thy honor. Generally in the sense of to belong to (Lev 6:5, to whom it appertaineth); Neh 2:8, the castle which appertained to the house (Tobit … Continue reading “Appertain”

Apperception (Lat. ad + percipere, to perceive) (a) In epistemologyThe introspective or reflective apprehension by the mind of its own inner states. Leibniz, who introduced the term, distinguished between perception, (the inner state as representing outer things) and apperception (the inner state as reflectively aware of itself). Principles of Nature and of Grace, 4. In … Continue reading “Apperception”

APPENDIX E ON THE EIGHTEEN EMENDATIONS OF THE SOPHERIM. The Massorah,* [Note: For full particulars of The Massorah, see Dr. Ginsburgs Introduction to the Hebrew Bible, Part II., chap. xi., published by the Trinitarian Bible Society. Also a popular pamphlet, called The Massorah, by Dr. Bullinger, published by Eyre and Spottiswoode, price 1s.] i.e., the … Continue reading “APPENDIX E”

APPENDIX D ON HEBREW HOMONYMS Hom-o-nym, from the Greek (homos), the same, and (onoma), name. This term is given to words which are spelt exactly alike, but have different meanings. The term is sometimes used for words which are not spelt alike, but only pronounced alike, as bear and bare. But this is properly Paronomasia … Continue reading “APPENDIX D”

APPENDIX C ON HOMOEOTELEUTA IN THE MSS. AND PRINTED TEXT OF THE HEBREW BIBLE As a Figure of Speech, Homoeoteleuton is applied to certain words which occur together, and have a similar termination. See page 176, where the figure is described and illustrated by examples. But the term Homoeoteleuton is used of a certain class … Continue reading “APPENDIX C”

APPENDIX B ON THE USAGE OF THE GENITIVE CASE WE have observed, on page 407, under the figure of Antimereia, that while a noun in regimen (i.e., governed by another noun, and thus placed in the genitive case) is used instead of an adjective, it is not always that the genitive case thus used stands … Continue reading “APPENDIX B”

APPENDIX A ON THE USE OF DIFFERENT TYPES IN THE ENGLISH VERSIONS ON page 2, under the figure Ellipsis, we have referred to the way in which this was indicated in the English Versions. It may be well to add, by way of Appendix, some brief account of the use of different types. The practice … Continue reading “APPENDIX A”