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F
Poreal; ve chen Car a Body belongins ro chat Specie
is generared. 50 char here properly speakins, no
Nem Substance, bur only a neiv Essenti al Denomina
tion, Modification, Or Manner of Existence iS prO
duced or generared: And wrhen chat Vnion oF AC
cidents Wvhich denominates a Body generated,
destrored and dissolved, chac Body lotins ies Rsen-
Fal Modification, is said ro be corrupred.
GENEROSH, a LaW Term FOr a GentleWO.
man, it she be really so, andnamed Spinster in any
Original WVric, Appeal or Indictmene, Me may a
bare, and quastr The lame, For Me hach a5 g00d
Righero char Addirion as 2 Baronels or Durchess
have rocheirs: The lame may be laid ot Genero-
sus, a Cenelemen, 2 Inst. 668.
GENESIS, in GcometeY, is chie Formation OE
any Plain or Solid Fisure by cheMorion oF Come
Linc or Surtace, Which Line or Surtace is alvays
called the Describent; and thac Line accordins t0
Which che Norion is made, is called the Dirigent
GENICDLOM, in BocanY, is che RNOE O
Torne in che ScalkoF any PlanE
GENIOGLOSSOM, is a pair OF Muscles pro
ccedins inwardy From the FOre- paTE OF che LOrveK
Jan, under anorter paix called Geniohyoides, ane
enlargins chemselres are Fastned into the BasiSO
che Loneue: These serre ro pull che Toneue FOr
ward, and ro chrust it out OF ihe NIOuTH.
GENIOHTOIDEOS, is a Mulele OF che O
Froides, wtrich wich ils Parrner are Mort, chick
and Rectr, arilins trom che Incernal parrs of che
Louer saw-bone calledche Chin, and dilarins chem.
Celres, are soon lessened again, and inserred ro che
superior parr of che Fore- bone of the Os Fyoides
These actins pull che Os TIyoides, _c. boch up
wards and torewards, and alsist che Genioelossa in
chrultins che Pongne out of che Mouth.
GENOS, in Logick, is an Idea so common anc
Onivertal, thac ic exrends ir selF al(o ro orher 2ni-
versat Ideas. Thus a Righrlined Figure ot Four
Sides, is a Genus, in respect ot a Paratlelopram,. Or
2 Trapezium. And in like manner Substance is che
Tame in respect oF Substance extended, wtrich is 
Bodr; and Thinkins Substance, Wrhich is a Spirie
The Logicians divides Genus into summum Or th.
highest Genus, wrhich hach nochins abore ic, eoB
a species ot: And Subalternate, Whichis Tometimes
or in Tome respects, a Genus, and in orhers a SpC.
cies.
GFOCENTRICK, sipnities any Planet orOrb
thac has the Farch For irs Cencre, or the lame C en
rre withche Parch.
GEDCENTRICK Lacieude oF a Planet, i5 il
Lacicude seen trom che Lalu, Or che Inclinatior
ot a late connectins the llatiet alet ene Farrh, re
che Plare et ee Lal (or rruc) Lenprick. Orher-
ic vould appear ro us from che Parch, il Oux Fye
Globe oF the Farch, or bnoun Flabicable Wroria:
coseet wich all us Parrs, Limies, Simarions, ana
ochet remarkable chines relatins chereto.
DEDMETRICAL, Or ABebraical CurvOS, ArC
such, asthac When their Nature OF ProperEr come
to De exprelled by an Equation, che civo rariable
GEOCEHTRICK PlaceOF a Plariet, is such ae
avere there Axed.
SFODAESTA, Survegins, Ox Mhe AEE OF meatu-
ring Land. Sec Survegine
OLODA THCAL NumberS, are such a5 are con-
Sdered accoraInS 1O Thole Valzar Names Or DenO.
MInations, by etich Mones, Neishus, Meatures
Cc. dte generallr knomn, I parricularly divided
by ie Laws and Customs oF sereral Hations.
GFOBLLAEFTTEAL Mne, is the Sea Mito, O
te DeB one 6och Parr OF a Desrec oE
greal Mele on cheFarchs Surtace.
SEOGKAPHIY, is a Velcriprion ot the Whole
asettres in chac Rquarion, (a5 x and y ehe Ab.
scissa and Ordinato. are calsell in the Doctrine oE
FlUXIOnS) are Boch, or do Borh denore Scrair Lines
Curre
chen chac is rruly a Geomerrical or Algetraical
Dut wten one os the Variable or Elovire Chiin-
ciries in suen an Lquation, lenores a Curve. L ine,
then thac Curre is called a Panscendent C urve.
GEOMETRIBAL PLAIH. SeC Plain.
Proeression.
GEOMETRTCAL Solurion OF 2 Problent, 13
Wtien che Thins is solved accotains co the Rules oF
Geometer, and by luch Lines as are rrulr Greome-
ltical and agrecable ro C. Llature oF che Problem.
Thus Des CarrezS was ol Mal lWo Mean Pio
portionals, is a Geometrical Solution, because done
accordins co che Nacure ot ee Ploblem, wrhich is
a Solid onc; and also because pestermed by che
Periphery os a Circle, and ise Larabora, wotrich are
cruly Geomerrical Cveres, and agrecable r0 the
Placure ot the propoled Problem. Buc chen che
Solurion oF ic by Diocles, IS HOr Geometrical; bc-
cause boch che Cissoid (by wnteh he pertorms i1) i
norrue Geometrical Curre, alte alfo beins a Linc
ot che second Cender (a5 thes call ic) ic is proper
only eo a Sursolid Problem.
DEOMETRICK PS. Ae Tlaces Ceome
trical
GFOMETRX, originally sienisies hC, ANE Ol
Mealurins the Farch, or any Dictances or P.imen-
lions on or wichin ic. Bue ris now uled forche
Science of Duantity, or extension, n -
strachedtus considered, nichont anu rebatte o dc
GEOMETRTCAL Progression, Or Proportion. Sec
tile, asche ansle which che atorelaid Line (con
rectins  Planet and ehie Carch) makes wvirh:
Line, Wohichis draun perpendieular rorhe Plane o
che Rcliprick.
Thus in che Figure annexed, theLC lCL
ee Meature oF che Planet 8, Hel Gcocenrick L. a.
cicude osten the Parrh is in L, Ahd ihc Anslc et
che Mealure ot ic rohien vhe l’archis in .
Geometi