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 ====== WORLD ====== ====== WORLD ======
  
- +  * [[:en:world:biosphere | Biosphere ]]  
-By WORLD, Vniverse, is meant the Compages or Frame of the whole Creation,* with more especial reference to those Principal and more Gene∣ral parts of which it consists; whether +  * [[:en:world:atmosphere | Atmosphere ]]  
- +  * [[:en:world:hydrosphere | Hydrosphere ]] 
-  * SPIRITUAL and immaterial. I. +  * [[:en:world:lithosphere | lithosphere ]] 
-  * Corporeal, considered according to the +  * [[:en:world:pedosphere | pedosphere ]] 
-      * Parts into which it is divided, whether +
-      * CELESTIAL. II. +
-      * Terrestrial: either +
-          * Inanimate.— +
-            * LAND. III. +
-            * WATER. IV. +
-         * ANIMATE. V. +
-      * CIRCLES by which it is divided. VI. +
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-===== SPIRITUAL and immaterial. I. ===== +
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-I. By SPIRIT is meant Immaterial Substance:* to which may be ad∣joyned, as its proper Opposite, the word BODY, Corporeal, Matter-ial, Car∣cass, Corps, corpulent. +
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-A Created Spirit is either such as +
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-==== Doth not relate to a Body; ==== +
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-Doth not relate to a Body; and that considered according to its +
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-General Name, as being a ministring Spirit. +
-  * ANGEL-ical, Daemon. +
-Special kinds, as Good or Evil. +
-  * GOOD ANGEL, Cherub, Seraphim, Good Genius. +
-  * DEVIL, Satan, Fiend, Diabolical, Daemon, Fury, Goblin, bad Genius. +
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-==== Doth relate to a Body; and that considered according to its ==== +
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-=== General === +
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-General Name, as being designed for the enlivening and quickning of a Body. +
-  * SOUL, Animate, Spirit, Mind. +
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-=== Special kinds, as rendring its Body capable of === +
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-Nutrition and Growth; +
-  * VEGETATIVE, grow. +
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-Sense; +
-  * SENSITIVE. +
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-Discourse and Religion, together with a sense of moral good and evil. +
-  * RATIONAL, reasonable. +
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-===== CELESTIAL. II. ===== +
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-II. Amongst Corporeal Substances, that which is esteemed most Simple and most Perfect, whose general name is therefore frequently used to signifie a place or a state of the greatest Perfection and Happiness, together with that which in both these respects is opposite, are commonly styled +
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-  * HELL, Infernal, Stygian. +
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-==== HEAVEN, Celestial, Firmament, Skie. ==== +
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-=== General === +
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-General Name; denoting such parts as are more Solid and Luminous. +
-  * STARR, Stellate. +
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-=== Particular kinds === +
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-Particular kinds; either +
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-== Fixed == +
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-Fixed, that is to say, which do alwayes keep the same distance from one another. And these, for the better distinction and remembrance of them, are usually distributed into divers parcels or little Aggregates, called Constellations: the received names of which are, according to their imaginary Resemblances, either the proper names of Per∣sons, as Perseus, Andromeda, Orion, &c. or the names of brute Ani∣mals, as Bear, Lion, Ram, &c. or the names of Inanimate things, as Balance, Arrow, &c. which may each of them be sufficiently expres∣sed, as the things themselves are to which they are resembled, with∣out being particularly provided for in the Table. And because that great Luminary which rules the Day, with us in this System is, by the most received Hypothesis, thought to belong to this number; there∣fore may it be adjoyned, as the most considerable Particular be∣longing to this General. +
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-  * FIXED STARR, Constellation. +
-  * SUN, Solar. +
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-== Wandering == +
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-Wandring, viz. which do not alwaies keep the same distance from one a∣nother; to which may be adjoyned that other kind of Luminous Body, which is now by sufficient observation and experiment discovered to be above the Atmosphere; according to the +
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-General names +
-  * PLANET, Wandring starr. +
-  * COMET, Blazing starr. +
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-Particular kinds of Planets, being either +
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-  * Primary; +
-       * Seen by us at a distance, either more +
-          * Frequently, +
-             * Higher pair +
-                 * SATURN-ine. +
-                 * JUPITER, Iovial. +
-             * Lower pair, +
-                  * MARS. +
-                  * VENUS, Morning star, Evening star, Day starr. +
-          * Rarely, as being near the Sun, +
-             * MERCURY-ial. +
-       * Inhabited by us, +
-          * The GLOBE OF SEA AND LAND, Earth, World, Oecu∣menical, Terrestrial, Terrene, Vniverse, Geography. +
-  * Secondary; whether moving ‖ about the Earth, or about any other Planet, +
-       * MOON, Lunar. +
-       * SATELLES. +
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-===== LAND. III. ===== +
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-III. By EARTH, Land, World,* is meant the habitable parts of this Globe; to which may be adjoyned the more general name of the Greater parts of the Earth, denoted by the word COUNTRY, Region, Land, Tract, Quarter, Coast. +
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-The most considerable Notions belonging to Discourse, which refer to this, may be distinguished with respect to its +
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-==== figure ==== +
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-Figure, whether equal or unequal, Convex or Concave. +
-  * PLAIN, Champion, Level, Flat, Even. +
-      * MOVNTAIN, Hill, Ascent, Rising, Vpland, Downs, Knoll. +
-      * VALLEY, Vale, Dale, Bottom. +
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-==== Boundaries, or adjacent Waters; which are either ==== +
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-=== On all sides, whether === +
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-  * Great, ‖ more great, or less great. +
-     * CONTINENT, Firm-land, Main-land. +
-     * ISLAND, Isle, Insular. +
-  * Less, ‖ whether roundish and high, or oblong. +
-     * ROCK, Cragg. +
-     * CLIFF. +
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-=== On three sides, === +
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-On three sides, which, according to a higher or lower situation, as it is conspicuous ‖ more or less, is called +
-  * PROMONTORY, Cape, Fore-land, Head-land, Point, +
-  * PENE-ISLE. +
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-=== On two sides, conspicuous, ‖ more or less. === +
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-On two sides, conspicuous, ‖ more or less. +
-  * ISTHMUS, Streight, Neck of land. +
-  * BANK, Shelf, Flat, Ridge, Shallow, Shole, +
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-=== On one side === +
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-On one side, either according to the more general name, or that parti∣cular kind which is sometimes covered with Sea. +
-  * SHORE, Strand, Sea-coast, Bank-side. +
-  * WASHES, Sands. +
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-==== Motion or Rest. ==== +
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-  * QUICKSANDS, Drift, Syrtis. +
-  * OAZ. +
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-===== WATER. IV. ===== +
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-IV To the word WATER, as it denotes the watry part of this Terre∣strial Globe, may be adjoyned the word SEA, Marine, Maritim; which de∣notes the more general name of the greater parts of Water, as Country or Region does of Land. +
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-The more considerable Notions under this Head may be distinguished as the other, with respect to its +
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-==== figures ==== +
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-Figure, whether equal or unequal, Convex or Concave +
-  * AEQUOR, Calm Sea, Smooth Sea. +
-     * WAVE, Billow, Surge, Vndulation, Rough. +
-     * WHIRL-POOL, Vorago, Gulf, Swallow. +
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-==== Boundaries, or adjacent Land; which is either ==== +
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-  * On all sides, whether +
-      * Great,  more great, or less great. +
-          * OCEAN, Main-sea. +
-          * LAKE, Meer, Pond, Plash. +
-      * Less,  whether obround and deep, or oblong. +
-          * WELL, Head. +
-          * SPRING, Fountain, Source, Rivulet. +
-  * On three sides,  greater, or less. +
-      * BAY, Gulf, Creek, Arm of the Sea, Harbour, Port, Key. +
-      * PENE-LAKE, Haven, Harbour, Port, Key. +
-  * On two sides,  greater, or less +
-      * FRETUM, Streight, Narrow sea, Sound. +
-      * CHANNEL. +
-  * On one side, either according to the more general name, or that parti∣cular kind which is sometimes higher, and sometimes lower upon the Land. +
-      * SHORE, Margo aquea. +
-      * TIDE, Ebb, Flow, High-water, Low-water, Neap-tide, Spring-tide. +
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-==== Motion or Rest; whether constantly moving, or generally at rest ==== +
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-  * STREAM, River, Brook, Current, flow, pour, gush, Bourn, Rill, Rivulet, Eddy, Gullet, Flood, Deluge, Inundation, Torrent, Ca∣taract, Water-course, Running-water. +
-  * STAGNUM, Pool, Puddle, Pond, stagnate, standing-water, Dead-water. +
-===== ANIMATE. V. ===== +
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-===== CIRCLES by which it is divided. VI. ===== +
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