COMMON TO BOTH LOGIC

Less complex; denoting such a compleat sentence,*wherein something is either affirmed or denied, To which may be adjoyned such kind of sentences, as by common use and long experience have obtained to be of authority amongst men.

• PROPOSITION, Thesis, Assertion, Point, Doctrine, Observation, Position, Problem.
• ADAGE, Proverb, Old-say or saw, By-word.

More general; denoting something to be spoken in presence, or written to be sent to others.

• ORATION, Speech, Harangue, Declamation, Oratory, Panegyric.
• EPISTLE, Letter.

More special; relating to matters of Fact, ‖ either the more usual name, or that which denotes what is commonly said by many.

• NARRATION, Relate, Story, History, Tale, tell, Tidings, Report, recite, recount, rehearse, impart, inform, Tradition, Annunciati∣on, Commemoration, Diary, Diurnal, Gazet, Chronicle, Legend, bring word, give notice, or intelligence.
• RUMOR, Brute, Hear-say, Report, common Fame, Noise, Vogue.

General name;

• INTERPRETATION, Exposition, construction, explain, expli∣cate, unfold, Trouchman.

Particular Kinds

• Altered; by putting them into another language, or into other words of the same language.
  • TRANSLATION, Construe, version, interpret, turn, render.
  • PARAPHRASE, Descant, Metaphrase, Circumlocution.
• Enlarged; by adding several other words for further explication, or Contracted; into fewer words.
  • COMMENTARY, Gloss, Note, Annotation, Stricture, Scholiast, Expositor.
  • EPITOME, Compendium, Brief, abbreviate, breviate, a∣bridge, Breviary, succinct, concise, Abstract, Synopsis, Sy∣stem, couch, contract, Summary, extract, recapitulate.

Extreme; either the Beginning or the End.

• PROLOGUE, Exordium, Preamble, Proem, Introduction, Pre∣face, Prelude.
• EPILOGUE, Conclusion.

Intermediate; either that which is more necessary, whereby one part is to be connected to another, or such additional part as is less necessary to the main scope of the discourse.

• TRANSITION, Pass-age.
• DIGRESSION, On the by, by the way, Diversion, Excursion, Ex∣travagant, glance.