24 Aug. 1814

Logic

Ch. Language

Conjugates &c.

'.1

1

Ch

Of Conjugates, pseudo-conjugates and quasi-conjugates

'.1 Of Conjugates

By grammarians, who may be considered as a tribe of logicians, operating in a particular quarter of the field of logic, the term conjugates, or, at any rate, the nearly allied terms, to conjugate, and conjugation, have been employed of old.

By logicians, to the import of these terms a considerable and very useful extension has been given.

By grammarians, the aggregate, or say cluster of connected words, called by them a verb, has been said to be conjugated when, in conjunction with the characteristic fundamental portion of it, the several modifications by which - the several varieties by which tense, mood, person, number, to which in some instances is preposterously added gender, i.e. sex are /stand/ expressed -have been exhibited and recited; and the groups, in so far as for the expression of these modifications of the fundamental import, words more or less different in sound are employed, the verb is said to belong to so many different conjugations.

132