88 On Figurative Language, 
and, consequently, every verb, as fay asiregards 
its origin, is to. be considered, as’ a moun, ina 
figuative or transferred, sense, It may, 
indeed, be termied its, proper sense, as. soon as 
its use a8 2 noun Js discontinued,;, or. when it is 
accompanied with, circumstances plainly cha- 
racteristie of a verb, (which cireustances are 
hereafies tobe specified); but Jd ¢annot help 
regarding all verbs m/ their origin, as nowns 
m a transferred or. transformed sense. |. 
Indeed, not only verbs, but all. words, under 
whatsoever: division: of; the;-parts. .ef | speech 
they may be classed,: were m:their original or 
primitive state, the names of sensible objects.. 
| Whea weave occasion to.express amy new 
or very untsual action, we never coin a new 
word,’ properly .speaking, (as quinbus or 
flestrin, as before) but we cither apply to some 
existing noun the ¢oncomitants of verbs, as 
at' snows, J: water, to place, they murmured, 
&c.; or we add to nouns fragments of verbs 
previously in use, as electrify, from scxrpv and 
fio; scandalize, fron 'scandal:and %, a terni- 
nation borrowed from the Greek.) 5 
It is ‘a eurious speculation: to sinvestigate 
what was.the actuabprocess in the distribution 
‘and translation ‘of nouns into the other parts of 
speech, i: e, into verbs, adjectives, pronouns, 
and ‘prepositions: as to the adverb, it is 
