• Practical Understanding

III. ACTIONS of the UNDERSTANDING and Judgment PRACTI∣CAL,* do concern the enquiry after and taking notice of the Nature of things, with reference to their Goodness or Fitness to any purpose. They are distinguish∣able, as the former, by their respect to the

Vnderstanding; being either

• Preparative, in the first Objectization of a business: or the reflexive Thought about it, together with what else one knows of that kind.
  • DELIBERATING, ponder, weigh, forecast.
  • OBSERVING, advert, animadvert, give ear, attend to, heed, regard, give ones mind to, look to, mark, note, mind, pry, peep, watch, take no∣tice, notable, remarkable, oversee, overlook.

• Operative, in ‖ the comparing of means to find which is expedient: or the Thought resulting from such comparison.
  • CONSIDERATION, revolve, scan, advise, forecast, recognize, premedi∣tate ponder, peruse, study, recount, reflect, review, revise, weigh, bethink, consult, cast in ones mind, retrospection, ruminate.
  • INVENTION, devising, excogitate, find out, make, Author.

Primary; in judging the thing found to be ‖ agreeable to its end: or disagree∣able.

More general.

• APPROVING, liking, allowing, think good, take well, fancy him, find a Bill, currant.
• DISAPPROVING, disliking, disallowing, disavow, mislike, condemn, explode, reprobate.

More special; according to its motives; as

• Proceeding from Causes
  • Extrinsecal; Warranty sufficient: or insufficient.
    • TRUST, Confidence, betrust, entrust, rely, repose, enfeoff, recom∣mend, credit, charge, rest upon.
    • DISTRVST, Mistrust, Diffidence, Suspicion, Surmize, Iealousie, Vmbrage, call in question, misgive.
  • Intrinsecal in the means it self; conclusive that it is so: or not so con∣clusive but that it may be otherwise.
    • SATISFACTION, Content, acquiesce, resolve.
    • SCRVPLE, Doubt, dissatisfie.

• Productive of these Effects; in higher: or lower degrees.
  • ASSURANCE, Confidence, sure, certain, resolved, secure, confirm.
  • PERSWASION, think, believe.

Secondary; in judging of expedients found, as to the use of them, how they are to be ordered and managed: or what is like to be the event of them.

• CONTRIVING, projecting frame, machinate, plot, forecast, cast about, or in ones mind, find a way, devise, Conveyance.
• EXPECTING, look for, wait, gaping after, mind gives me, make account, stay for, watch for.