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11/23/2024 ~ Introductory Quotes & Definitions  Index 

Definitions from Noah Webster  

1. Sight  DISCERNMENT, noun ~ The act of discerning; also, the power or faculty of the mind, by which it distinguishes one thing from another, as truth from falsehood, virtue from vice; acuteness of judgment; power of perceiving differences of things or ideas, and their relations and tendencies. The errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment

2. Hearing UNDERSTAND'ING, noun ~ The faculty of the human mind by which it apprehends the real state of things presented to it, or by which it receives or comprehends the ideas which others express and intend to communicate. The understanding is called also the intellectual faculty. It is the faculty by means of which we obtain a great part of our knowledge. Luke 24:45. Ephesians 1:18.

3. Feeling CONSCIOUSNESS, noun ~ The knowledge of sensations and mental operations, or of what passes in ones own mind; the act of the mind which makes known an internal object.

CONSCIOUSNESS of our sensation, and consciousness of our existence, seem to be simultaneous.
CONSCIOUSNESS must be an essential attribute of spirit.

4. Smell  INTUITION, noun [Latin intuitus, intueor; in and tueor.] ~ A looking on; a sight or view; but restricted to mental view or perception. Particularly and appropriately, the act by w...hich the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas, or the truth of things, immediately, or the moment they are presented, without the intervention of other ideas, or without reasoning and deduction. We know by intuition that a part is less than the whole.

5. Taste  REL'ISH, noun ~ Taste; or rather, a pleasing taste; that sensation of the organs which is experienced when we take food or drink of an agreeable flavor. Different persons have different relishes. relish is often natural, and often the effect of habit.
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