to omit or pass by, what one at the same time declares.”—­Ibid. “INCREMENTUM, or CLIMAX in sense, is the rising of one member above an other to the highest.”—­Ibid. “METONYMY is a change of names:  as when the cause is mentioned for the effect, or the effect for the cause; the container for the thing contained, or the sign for the thing signified.”—­Kirkham cor. “The Agreement of words is their similarity in person, number, gender, case, mood, tense, or form.”—­Brown’s Inst., p. 104. “The Government of words is that power which one word has over an other, to cause it to assume some particular modification.”—­Ib. “Fusion is the converting of some solid substance into a fluid by heat.”—­G.  B.  “A proper diphthong is a diphthong in which both the vowels are sounded together; as, oi in voice, ou in house.”—­Fisher cor. “An improper diphthong is a diphthong in which the sound of but one of the two vowels is heard; as, eo in people.”—­Id.

UNDER NOTE VII.—­THE ADVERB NO FOR NOT.

“An adverb is added to a verb to show how, or when, or where, or whether or not, one is, does, or suffers.”—­Buchanan cor. “We must be immortal, whether we will or not.”—­Maturin cor. “He cares not whether the world was made for Caesar or not.”—­A.  Q. Rev. cor. “I do not know whether they are out or not.”—­Byron cor. “Whether it can be proved or not, is not the thing.”—­Bp.  Butler cor. “Whether he makes use of the means commanded by God, or not.”—­Id. “Whether it pleases the world or not, the care is taken.”—­L’Estrange cor. “How comes this to be never heard of, nor in the least questioned, whether the Law was undoubtedly of Moses’s writing or not?”—­Tomline cor. “Whether he be a sinner or not, I do not know.”  Or, as the text is more literally translated by Campbell:  “Whether he be a sinner, I know not.”—­Bible cor. “Can I make men live, whether they will or not?”—­Shak. cor.

   “Can hearts not free, be tried whether they serve
    Willing or not, who will but what they must?”—­Milton cor.

UNDER NOTE VIII.—­OF DOUBLE NEGATIVES.

“We need not, nor do we, confine the purposes of God.”  Or:  “We need not, and do not, confine,” &c.—­Bentley cor. “I cannot by any means allow him that.”—­Id. “We must try whether or not we can increase the attention by the help of the senses.”—­Brightland cor. “There is nothing more admirable or more useful.”—­Tooke cor. “And what in time to come he can never be said to have