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The difcount for any number of days not contained in 
this table, cannot be found by the addition, or multiplication, 
of thofe which are nee in its for if, 11., we fub- 
traG the difcount for er of dace the remainder 
will be that fum rete in the fame numb d 
gain the difcount 
1/. for double he number of days, we 
former difcount, the remeinder being lefs than before, can- 
not gain fo much intereft, and, therefore, in twice the tim 
cannot gain twice the intereft which the former fum jad: 
and which, being the fum now fubtra¢ted, is what ought to 
be gained toamount again to one pound. A complete table, 
on the plan of the above, is given in Smart’s Tables of In- 
terelt, Aer few perfons will find occafion to refer to it. 
difcount of any fum, for any time, is fo much as will, 
e {um to be 
e is 4 
15s. 24d, becaufe this fum will, at the end of the eae amount 
to si, whieh i is what the roo/, would have gained. 
T e the true principles of difcount; but the com- 
mon m oe of difcounting bills of exchange is, by finding the 
fimple intereft for the time the bill has to run, (includ:ng the 
days of grace, ) and deducting fuch intereft from the amount 
of the bill, which gives the fum to be advanced. This is 
the method followed by the bank of England, the Tacs 
3 and this 
ounting 
0 
nufacturers, in preference eG iavelin 
The cuftomary d 
method, for the time a bill has to run, is found by any table 
of fimple intereft. See INTEREST. 
Discount, is alfo commonly ufed for a certain allowance 
which manufacturers and wholefale dealers make on the 
price of their goods, either in all cafes when fold for money 
or credit, or more generally, only when fold for ready money, 
in lieu of a cuftomary credit. This difcount varies greatly 
in different cea of trade ; thus on fome articles it is lefs 
han one per cent. on others, {uch as aqua-fortis, and oil of 
vitriol, chariots, and coaches, cutlery, fire-arms, hofiery, 
needles, deta and eed, fadlery, &c. it is ufually five per 
cent. lace, fans, black lead, earthen ware, an 
me other articles, the difcount i is 10 per cent., and on a few 
acieacueas of goods, as 
the ufual difcount is fill greater ; 
nd § Id manufaéture, a difcount of 50 or 60 
fer cent. is frequently allow 
. DISCOURSE, in Logic, from difcurro, I run over, an 
“oe of the buman mind, whereby 
this it a 
ng to the antecedent. 
then faid, difcurrere, todifcourfe; when, from an affent to 
: — all things originally and truly. 
DIs 
one or more propofitions, it infers or draws an affent to 
another 
T ne of di ifcourfe, therefore, or that about which 
the intelle@ i is employed in difcourfing, is connexion 
f extremes confidered with regard to fome thir 
edium: thus, when it judges, that ay reafonable 
animal is aie. affirming, that there is a connexion be-« 
tween rifibility and rationality; and then finds, there ta 
likewife a connexion betwixt man and reafonable animal ; 
and afterwards gathering from the connexion found betweeu 
tifible and man, with rational, that man and rifible have 
likewife a connexion, as both are connected with rational ; 
it is a to difcou 
e@ it anne rs, that difcourfe, whereon men ufe to 
value ‘them felves, does really jade the infirmity of the 
underftanding ; as it denotes a chain or {cale of feve- 
sal Goats ve ats of cognition neceflary to arrive at a 
truth. So that there is no difcourfe in God, ives — 
See Rea 
scours®&, in Rhetoric, is ufed in the tae Teale with 
Bs 
oration. 
DISCOUS Frower. Botanifts reckon two claffes of 
plants with a difcous flower. 1. Such as have the flower 
compounded, and the feed get but the leaves and 
ftalks not milky when broken he corymbiferous plants, 
w owers are eoapeunt into a difcous figure, bu 
their feeds not pappous. Of the former kind are the flea- 
d 
cham m » &C. 
aitincons he unded by Mr. Ray, ¢ not regarded by the 
later botan 
DI SCRETE, or pe ec ib sili is, when the 
ratio between two or more pairs of numbers, ‘or quantities, 
is the fame, and yet aa 13 mat ‘he fame proportion bes 
tween all the four number 
if the spelen 6: 74 be oe the 
ratio between the firft pair, 6 oad 3, is the fame as that bee 
tween 3 and 4, and therefore thefe numbers are ener 
al: but it is only difcretely, or disjun&ly ; for 6 is not to 
» as 8to 3; 
8 and 3, and is not continued all alo ong, 
oe whic are called continual proportionals, viz. 
6 
ETE 2 Soon, is pes as is not continued and join 
ed together. mber, whofe par a ra dling 
ae one conti ori 
ual determinate alae Pteie divifion, 
but they are potential aabuite 3 wherefore it is ufually and 
id, that continued quantity is divifible in infinitum. 
truly fa 
ee ConTINUIT 
a" SREETS, Discretz, Low Latin, certain nuns 
Oy their offices or their qualifications, form the 
wh 
council ve the abbefs, priorefs, or vicarefa, as is - : he 
rules and conttitutions of the Clareffes, Benedictin 
DISCRETION, i in Law, the facu ee of difecreing be 
Ane and InFA 
The affefiment oF fines on offenders committing affrays, 
e 
_ 5 me 2 ISCRE. 
