24 Aug. 1814

Logic

4 or 1

Language

'. Conjugates &c.

With indisputable propriety, and with no inconsiderable utility, in so far as /if/ comprehensiveness of perception be of any use, have the logicians extended the application of these words, conjugation and to conjugate - or at any rate, that other term so intimately connected with them, viz. conjugate, or conjugates, not only to the cluster of connected words called nouns, but to all words, the connexion of which is formed and evidenced by the circumstance of their containing in their structure the main portion, expressive of the principal and characteristic idea of the whole cluster.

In the combination of letters expressive of this characteristic idea, may be seen what may be termed the root of the cluster. In the whole word, whatever it be, which, if there were any differences in respect of time, presents itself as likely to have been the word first in use, we have the radical and primitive conjugate; in all the others, the several ramified branches, or collateral and derivative conjugates.

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