MODES

VI. Those more general respects and habitudes which several things or notions have to one another, are stiled by the name of MODE,*man∣ner, way, sort, fashion, guise, wise, garb, course, form-ality, kind.

These may be distinguished into such as are

• In which another thing exists, or the thing so existing in another
  • SUBJECT, liable, obnoxious, exposed, matter, Text, Theme, under∣goe, capable.
  • ADIVNCT, Epithete, inherent.
• About which a thing is imployed.
  • OBJECT, mark, scope, butt, treat, handle, meddle with, have to do with.

• Kinds of them, either in General, or specially of such things, as are remarkable for Extraordinariness and Greatness.
  • CIRCUMSTANCE, Rite, Ceremony.
  • SOLEMNITY, Grandeur, state, Pomp, Port, celebrate, solemnize, Rite.
• Consequence of them; or that habitude resulting to any thing from the consideration of all its circumstances together.
  • STATE, Estate, Condition, Case, Iuncture, Liking, manner, pass, pickle, plight, point, in good repair.

• SIGN, Badge, Token, Mark, Note, Symptome, Symbol, Index, Indica∣tion, Cue, Print, Scarr, Track, Signature, signifie, Beacon, becken, Boad, foretoken, presage, Prodigie, portentous, ominous, auspicious.

• Order observed in the being or doing of things; whether by
  • One person or thing after another who hath left his place, or for ano∣ther who is onely absent from his place.
    • ROOM, as Successor, Caliph, supply, place.
    • STEAD, as substitute, subdititious, serve for, succedaneous, De∣puty, Surrogate, Vicar, Delegate, Vice-gerent, Attourney, Broaker, Factor, in lieu, Lievtenant, Proctor, Proxy.
  • Two persons or things either one after another, or one with another.
    • TURN, Course, alternate, second, bout.
    • RECIPROCATION, mutual, interchangeable, intercourse, correspond.

• Measures of Being; whether the more General name for such mea∣sures, differenced according to more and less, or that special kind which denotes the sodain and short Being or Doing of any thing according to a greater measure.
  • DEGREE, gradual▪ a spice, a strein, gradation, leasurely, by little and little.
  • IMPETUS, Fit, Paroxysm, brunt, crash, effort, pang.

• Affections of Being; with reference either to some common agree∣ment and mutual dependance, or to some inconsistency betwixt them.
  • COGNATION, Affinity, Nearness.
  • OPPOSITION, Disagreableness, contrary, counter, repugnant, with∣stand, against, cross, thwart, other side, adverse, Antagonist, An∣tithesis, confront, impugn, oppugn.