Other definitions of person, as given by Webster, are "a living soul; a self-conscious being; a moral agent; especially, a living human being, a corporeal man, woman, or child; an individual of the human race."

A definition of this kind is a proposition susceptible of proof and illustration; and therefore whatsoever is erroneously assumed to be the proper meaning of such a term, may be refuted.

Objectionable definitions and rules are but evidences of the ignorance and incapacity of him who frames them.

Proportional Representation has been knocked out for the fifth time in this Parliament; and we have to thank Sir Mark Sykes for telling us that the Whip's definition of a crank is "a wealthy man who does not want a Knighthood, or a nobleman who does not want to be an Under-Secretary.

Definition is, indeed, not the province of man; every thing is set above or below our faculties.

Definition is a familiar device, for you have had much to do with it in learning.

I have admitted that definitions are not the only means by which a general knowledge of the import of language may be acquired; nor are they the only means by which the acquisition of such knowledge may be aided.

" His definition of style is "a thinking out into language," not an ornamental "addition from without."

My definition of Man is, 'a Cooking animal.'

If this is to be taken for a grammatical definition, what definition shall grammar itself bear? OBS.

The Century Dictionary's definition, which is as good as any, is: "Intimate personal affection between individuals of opposite sex capable of intermarriage; the emotional incentive to and normal basis of conjugal union."

The definition of his poetry is a pleasing superficiality.

If he's really going, he'll find out that definitions are not descriptions.

" Swift's satiric definition of happiness as the art "of being well deceived" is a characteristic instance of a combination of his humor and pessimistic philosophy.

The definition of the word villa is a country seat; but the reader will ask, how can a country seat be in the midst of a metropolis, or in its brick and mortar confines?

His own definition of his subject is, that it is a history of the "Consciousness of God in Mankind"; but, as he unfolds his idea, it is evidently not always the consciousness, but the unconscious instinct of God, whose progress he is describing.

Neither did he have as high an ideal of human life; his definition of the highest good was a perfect practical activity in a perfect life.

The definition of A is changeless, so is the definition of B. The one definition cannot change into the other, so the notion that a concrete thing A should change into another concrete thing B is made Out to be contrary to reason.

Standing as they do for a large group of experiences, definitions are a means of mental economy.

2. Definition.Are all the objects pretty well defined at the same time, or is the place of sharpest definition at any one moment more contracted than it is in a real scene?

Definition is a speech which explains that which is defined.

"DEFINITION.A definition in grammar is a principle of language expressed in a definite form."

The only really valid definition of the dramatic is: Any representation of imaginary personages which is capable of interesting an average audience assembled in a theatre.

" 'One penny shall be left by each member for the waiter.' Johnson's definition of a Club in this sense, in his Dictionary, is, 'An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.'

The other definition can be more easily elucidated, indicating, as it does, satisfactorily enough, the essential nature of all those qualities which distinguish the philistine.