(a) Phil. A non-essential or incidental characteristic, a temporary and variable property of a thing; bi accidence, through a secondary means, indirectly; of accidence, without affecting or involving……

Something that happens or occurs; a fortuitous happening. …

(a) Phil. An affirmative proposition, a positive statement or inference; (b) the positive form or aspect of something; in affirmatives, in positive functions (as opposed to failure to function); wil……

Phil., physiol., med., alch.: (a) Change, transformation, transmutation; (b) change for the worse, deterioration; evel alteracioun; ill effect or result; (c) change for the better, amelioration……

Phil. Substance. …

Physiol. & psych. An inherent urge or drive attributed to the various organs of the body (such as the genitals, the stomach, the senses), to the mental 'faculties', or to the organism as a whole……

(a) A chest or box; a large box or bin for storing meal or grain; a coffer for money or valuables, treasure chest; a coffin; (b) ark keper, a treasurer; ark maker, ark wright, a maker of chests or……

Phil. Substance, being. …

(a) Execution or completion (of an act); attainment or consummation (of a desire, an aim); fulfillment or realization (of a wish, a prayer, a dream); (b) comen to effect, achieve or attain to; produce……

Phil. (a) The divine exemplar (in the Platonic sense); the prototype of the universe, existing in the mind of God and embodied in the phenomena of the material universe; (b) an individual copy of a……

Phil. Entelechy, the form or essence of a living thing. …

(a) Phil. Substance, or true being, as distinguished from accidental qualities; (b) theol. divine essence or being; that in respect of which the three persons of the Trinity are one. …

(a) bi estimacioun, for estimacioun, according to an appraisal or estimate, at an estimate; (b) above(n estimacioun, withouten estimacioun, beyond estimate or calculation, immeasurable, innumerable……

(a) A model of conduct to be imitated, a pattern of virtue; taken exaumplarie of, to imitate; (b) the pattern or model according to which something is to be constructed (c) a textual exemplar, a copy……

(a) An instance typical of a class, an illustration of a general truth; (b) used absol.: for example; exaumple of grace, exaumple as thus; (c) a sample of a commodity. …

A specific instance illustrating a general truth. …

Phil. The method or process of acquiring knowledge or understanding by observation, esp. through sensory perception, as opposed to gaining knowledge through logical inference or speculation; inductive……

Shape, form, appearance: (a) visible or tangible shape or form; general appearance; bodili figure, figure of this world; of the face: expression; (b) of a living being: bodily form, appearance (often……

(a) The physical shape of something, contour, outline; the figure or shape (of a person), body; also fig.; (b) forme and shape, shape or forme, forme and shafte, etc. …

Phil. & theol. The archetype of a thing as existing in the mind of God, the Platonic 'idea' [cp. forme n. 14a. & exaumple 5.]. …