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Scientia infenfati inenarrabilia verba.
TERM, in the Arts, or TERM of Art, is a Word, which,
befides the literal and popular Meaning which it has, or may
have, in common Language, bears a further and peculiar
Meaning in fome Art or Science. See ART.
Or, a Term is a Word which has one or more Meanings
betide its Grammatical one; or which has a peculiar Force or
Import in the Language of fome particular Science, or Art.
A Word then becomes a Term, when its Idea is render'd
more complex, confifts of more Parts, and includes more fpe-
cial Circumfiances on fome Occafions than on others.
'Tis this greater Complexnefs, this Excefs of conftituent
Parts in the Idea, that denominates it a Term in the general.
Further, as the Parts of the Idea fgnify'd by any Word
are arbitrary; and as one may not only add new Parts to
thofe contain'd in the literal Meaning, but alfo fuper-add
others to them, alter them, extend them, and otherwise mo-
dify them, at Pleafure: Hence, the fame Word becomes a
Term of this, or that Art, or both, as the Inventors and Im-
provers of thofe Arts, have thought fit to adopt it for the
common Bafils of certain Ideas, and to modify and circum-
flantiate its Meaning to the Ufe of their refpedive Arts.
See the Nature and Office of a Term further illuftrated in
the Preface to this Work. See alfo theArticle DEFINITIO'N.
TERM, in Logic. A Propofition is faid to coinfiff of two
ferms, i. C. two principal and effential Words, the Subjeti
and the Attriute. See PROPosITIoN.
A  Syllogifm conffifs of three Terms, the Major, Minor,
apd Conclujion. A Syllogifm containing four Terms, is vici-
ous. See SYLLOGISM.
TERMS of an Eq'iation, in Algebra, are the feveral Names
or Members of which it is compos'd, and fuch as have the
fame unknown Letter, but in different Powers and Degrees;
for if the fame unknown Letter be found in feveral Members
in the fame Degree or Power, they all pafs but for one Term.
See EqUATION.
Thus in this Equation aa + ab = R, the three Terms are
aa, ab, and R : And in this, aa+ab      ac=Rd+dc,
the 7erms are, aa,ab + ac, and Rd+ dc; which are but
three, becaufe ab + ac, having a in the fame Dimenfion in
both Parts, is taken but for one Term.
Hence, the firk Term in any Equation, mull be that where
the unknown Root hath the highefi Dimenfions; and that
Term which hath the Root in it of one Dimenfion of Power
lower, is call'd the fecond Term; and fo on.
TERMS of7 P~roportion in Mathematicks, are fuch Numbers,
Letters, or Quantities, as are compar'd one with another. See
PROPORTION.
Thus, if 4 * Ib*c *. d 2 then a, b, c, d, or 4, 8, 6, 12, are
call'd the 7erms  of which a is call'd the firfi Term, b the
fecond Term, Uec. a and c are call'd the two Anrecedents, and
h and d the two Confequents, See ANTECEDENT and CON-
SEQOUENT.
TERMS, or Courfes in Medicine, the Menfes or Woman's
monthly Purgations. See MENSES.
TERMINALIA, in Antiquity, Feafts celebrated by the
Romans, in Honour of the God Terminus. See FEAST.
In Reality, the 7erminalia, or Feafi of Land-Marks, was
held in Honour of [Jupiter, confider'd in the Capacity of
Confervator of Land-Marks or Bounds. Dionyfius Halicar-
najjews tells us, that it was Numa Tompilius who firfl con-
fe-crated Land-Marks to Lupiter; and adds, that the fame
Prince appointed an Anniverfary Day, wherein the Country
People af mb ing together on the Bounds of the Lands,
Jhould offer Sacrifices in Honour of the Tutelary Gods
thereof.
, The Terminalia were held on the 7th, or, as Struvius will
have it, on the loth of the Calends of March. No Animal
was to be flicrific'd herein, it being deem'd unlawful to flain
the Land-Marks with Blood. They only offer'd Sacrifices
of the Firff-Fruits of the Earth i and this in the open Air,
and on the Spot where the Land-Marks were.
Varro is of Opinion this Feaft took its Name from the
End of the Year: But Feflus is of a different Sentiment,
and derives it from the Name of the Deity in whofe Ho.
nour it was held.
TERMINATION, in Grammar, the ending of a Word;
or the laft Syllables thereof
'Tis the different Terminations of one, and the fame
Word, on different Occafions, that make the different Cafes,
Numbers, Tenfes and Moods, WC. See CASE, NUMBER,
TENSE, 0 C.
TERMINISTS, a Sea or Party among the Calvinifis,
whofe particular Tenets are reducible to Five Points.
10 That there are feveral Perfons, both in and out of
the Ch4rch, to whom God has fix'd a certain Term before
their Death, after which he no longer wills their Salvation,
how long foever they live afterwards. 20 That God has fix'd
this fatal Term of Grace, by a fecret Decree. 3f That this


Term once elapfed, he makes them no further 011ir of -Re-
pentance or Salvation; but takes away from his Word, all
the Power it might have to convert them. 40 That PharoaA7,
Saul, [Jdas, mofb of the [Mews, and many of the Gentiles
were of this Number. 5? That God fill bears with feveral
of thefe Sort of People, and even confers Benefits on them
after the Term expired; but that he does not do it with any
Intention they fhould be converted.
All the other Proteflants, and particularly the Lutherans,
look on thefe Articles with Abhorrence, as repugnant to the
Goodnefs of God, as defirudive to all Chriflian Virtue, and
as contrary to Scripture1 particularly the following Texts i
.Ezek. xviii. 23, 30, 31, 32. xxxiii. Iz. I 21m.ii. z, 16.
2. 'Pet. iii. 9. Ads xvii. 30, 31. .Mat. xi. a8. Ifa. lxv. 2.
Heb. iii. 7, 13. Rom. iv, 5, Uc.
TERRA, in Geography
TERRA, in Chymifiry       . See EARTH.
TERRA, in natural Hiflory


TERRA 7Daminata
TERRA Lemnia
TEa R A [Japonica
TER R A Sigillata
TERRA Merita


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