Paley

Accommodation

Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations.

Adjustment

Success depends on the nicest and minutest adjustment of the parts concerned.

Agreeably

The effect of which is, that marriages grow less frequent, agreeably to the maxim above laid down.

Arrange

A mechanism previously arranged.

Attach

The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to the muscles.

circumstantial

The usual character of human testimony is substantial truth under circumstantial variety.

Conatus

What conatus could give prickles to the porcupine or hedgehog, or to the sheep its fleece?

Condemnation

In every other sense of condemnation, as blame, censure, reproof, private judgment, and the like.

A legal and judicial condemnation.

Conduct

Christianity has humanized the conduct of war.

Contrivance

The machine which we are inspecting demonstrates, by its construction, contrivance and design. Contrivance must have had a contriver.

Deglutition

The muscles employed in the act of deglutition.

Dentation

How did it [a bill] get its barb, its dentation?

Dictation

It affords security against the dictation of laws.

Dispatch

To carry his scythe . . . with a sufficient dispatch through a sufficient space.

Divergence

Rays come to the eye in a state of divergency.

do

The ground of the difficulty is done away.

document

Saint Luke . . . collected them from such documents and testimonies as he . . . judged to be authentic.

economy

The Jews already had a Sabbath, which, as citizens and subjects of that economy, they were obliged to keep.

Elastic

Capable of being drawn out by force like a piece of elastic gum, and by its own elasticity returning, when the force is removed, to its former position.

Energy

The great energies of nature are known to us only by their effects.

Enumeration

Because almost every man we meet possesses these, we leave them out of our enumeration.

Fabricate

Our books were not fabricated with an accomodation to prevailing usages.

Globule

These minute globules [a mole's eyes] are sunk . . . deeply in the skull.

Induce

He is not obliged by your offer to do it, . . . though he may be induced, persuaded, prevailed upon, tempted.

Inexpedience

It is not the rigor but the inexpediency of laws and acts of authority which makes them tyrannical.

Instinct

An instinct is a propensity prior to experience, and independent of instructions.

Internal

With our Savior, internal purity is everything.

Intimidation

The king carried his measures in Parliament by intimidation.

Lie

It is willful deceit that makes a lie. A man may act a lie, as by pointing his finger in a wrong direction when a traveler inquires of him his road.

Lodgment

Any particle which is of size enough to make a lodgment afterwards in the small arteries.

Negative

The omission or infrequency of such recitals does not negative the existence of miracles.

Objurgatory

The objurgatory question of the Pharisees.

Performance

Promises are not binding where the performance is impossible.

Persecution

Persecution produces no sincere conviction.

Probation

No [view of human life] seems so reasonable as that which regards it as a state of probation.

Probationary

To consider this life . . . as a probationary state.

Schemer

Schemers and confederates in guilt.

Vacillate

[A spheroid] is always liable to shift and vacillatefrom one axis to another.

Want

Habitual superfluities become actual wants.