TERM ( page 354 ).
Questions.
1. What is the literal meaning of term? 2. Is this meaning retained in the figurative uses of the word? 3. What are the articles of a contract? the terms of a contract? 4. What is a condition? 5. What is a term in the logical sense? 6. How does term in ordinary use compare with word, expression, or phrase?
Examples.
For beauty's acme hath a —— as brief
As the wave's poise before it break in pearl.
But what are these moral sermons [of Seneca]? ——s, nothing but ——s.
The very —— miser is a confession of the misery which attends avarice.