Bp. Warburton

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Coactive

Any coactive power or the civil kind.

Coercive

Coercive power can only influence us to outward practice.

Collision

The collision of contrary false principles.

Concurrent

The concurrent testimony of antiquity.

Conditional

Every covenant of God with man . . . may justly be made (as in fact it is made) with this conditional punishment annexed and declared.

Defecate

Defecated from all the impurities of sense.

Emulator

As Virgil rivaled Homer, Milton was the emulator of both.

Falsification

Extreme necessity . . . forced him upon this bold and violent falsification of the doctrine of the alliance.

Fearful

Anxious amidst all their success, and fearful amidst all their power.

Impinge

But, in the present order of things, not to be employed without impinging on God's justice.

Imputative

Actual righteousness as well as imputative.

Incomparable

A new hypothesis . . . which hath the incomparable Sir Isaac Newton for a patron.

Indicative

That truth is productive of utility, and utility indicative of truth, may be thus proved.

Initiate

The Athenians believed that he who was initiated and instructed in the mysteries would obtain celestial honor after death.

Instigate

He hath only instigated his blackest agents to the very extent of their malignity.

Intercommunity

In consequence of that intercommunity of paganism . . . one nation adopted the gods of another.

Interfere

There was no room for anyone to interfere with his own opinions.

Isolate

Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts.

Participant

Participants in their . . . mysterious rites.

Prestige

The sophisms of infidelity, and the prestiges of imposture.

Rabble

Jupiter, Mercury, Bacchus, Venus, Mars, and the whole rabble of licentious deities.

Scrape

The too eager pursuit of this his old enemy through thick and thin has led him into many of these scrapes.

Sleeveless

The vexation of a sleeveless errand.

Spiny

The spiny deserts of scholastic philosophy.

Spissated

The spissated juice of the poppy.

Stall

The dignified clergy, out of humility, have called their thrones by the names of stalls.

Stroker

Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker.

Subsidence

The subdual or subsidence of the more violent passions.

Subvene

A future state must needs subvene to prevent the whole edifice from falling into ruin.

Sycophancy

The sycophancy of A.Philips had prejudiced Mr. Addison against Pope.

Synopsis

That the reader may see in one view the exactness of the method, as well as force of the argument, I shall here draw up a short synopsis of this epistle.

Syriasm

The Scripture Greek is observed to be full of Syriasms and Hebraisms.