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1. lyceum, n. View full entry 1579-80
...(With capital initial.) The proper name of a garden with covered walks at Athens, in which Aristotle taught his philosophy. Hence, the Aristotelian philosophy and its adherents....
2. mark, n.1 View full entry eOE
...A boundary, frontier, or limit. Also: land within or near certain boundaries (cf. march). Obs....
3. minor, adj. and n. View full entry c1230
...Used chiefly as postmodifier....
4. name, n. and adj. View full entry eOE
...A proper noun; a word or phrase constituting the individual designation by which a particular person or thing is known, referred to, or addressed....
5. portico, n. View full entry 1579
...Ancient Greek Philos. The colonnade in the agora of ancient Athens, where the Stoic philosophers met (cf. porch2, and stoa); (hence) the school of Stoic philosophy....
6. Pythagorean, n. and adj. View full entry 1531
...An admirer or disciple of Pythagoras; a student or adherent of the philosophical ideas of Pythagoras or his followers. Chiefly in pl. with the....
7. Schopenhauer, n. View full entry 1906
...The name of the German philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer (17881860), used allusively, esp. for the pessimism and concept of will for which his philosophy is noted....
8. second, adj. and n.2 View full entry 1297
...Coming next after the first according to any contextually understood principle of enumeration (e.g. in order of time, position, rank, quality, conventional or arbitrarily adopted sequence): the ordinal numeral corresponding to the...
9. several, adj., adv., and n. View full entry 1421
...Having a position, existence, or status apart; separate, distinct:...
10. sorites, n. View full entry 1551
...Logic. ‘A series of propositions, in which the predicate of each is the subject of the next, the conclusion being formed of the first subject and the last predicate’ (Mansel)....
11. substance, n. View full entry c1330
...Theol. The divine essence or nature, esp. as that in which the three persons of the Trinity are united as one....
12. syllogism, n. View full entry 1387
...Logic. An argument expressed or claimed to be expressible in the form of two propositions called the premisses, containing a common or middle term, with a third proposition called the conclusion,...
13. third, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry c950
...The ordinal numeral corresponding to the cardinal numeral three; the last of three; that comes next after the second....
14. tree, n. View full entry c825
...A perennial plant having a self-supporting woody main stem or trunk (which usually develops woody branches at some distance from the ground), and growing to a considerable height and size....
15. turn, v. View full entry c1000
...trans. To cause to move round on an axis or about a centre; to cause to rotate or revolve, as a wheel....
16. work, n. View full entry c825
...Something that is or was done; what a person does or did; an act, deed, proceeding, business; in pl. actions, doings (often collectively = 3). arch....
