3 
aw 
. The philofophy of fubttantial ae its rife, ufe, an 
‘tent, are fet in an excellent light by F. Malebranche. 
is needlefs now to enlar is fubjeét. Forms are 
ufually diftinguifhed into efential and accidental. 'Thoagh 
the five modes above mentioned, generally taken, be adven- 
titious; yet, to this or that _body, e. é. gr. to five, or watcr? 
they are effen ne thus, it is accidental to iron to have 
this or that cai figure, or fituation, fince it might 
exift in different ones ; yet, to a knife, or hammer, the ie 
oa and - - on of parts ieee “onfibu a 
hamm ey. 
ence abcd ve. He nce “te is thar, 
though there be no fubftantial, there are effential oe 
whereby the feveral rcs ies O Tiedies ecome what they 
are, a and are diftinguifhed from ail others. Ace identa for 
are thofe really a eee in bodi es, but in fuch 
that the body may exift in all its ‘perfe€tion ou en. 
Such as “ in a wall; heat in water; a figure of a 
man in wax, 
sagan are diftinguifhed innoinbe 3 “a A ed 
ie ia e thofe of fimple bodie 
but few ppicea ee: and i latter ave thefe of more com- 
pound bodies; or of fuch as have more proper 
Thus, e. gr. if bey form ious a hard body be come with 
the form of woo the for 
ina afmue! 
wer ice 
eat rie nS are ae fe chet ae dies, w ee one 
cont oe thereto ont man. Such is eu form 
Wheres bi t peal forms are thofe ada from 
hur man an induttry. s that of a ftat s dif- 
tinGtion is ufelefs, and docs not one any jatrinfe difference 
in the - ms — 
fame fenfible ee a ante 
oe th e moft part, 
from the primary forms. 
Harris’s Philof. paarang mente 
Porwi is alfo ufed in the fame fenfe with clafs. 
ac ie to rules; ¢. g. eae s pve ly 
changed its form of govern me that ee bes conttitution. 
Pardons pteelly exprefs a remiffion abolition of a 
crime, in what form or manner foever it be committed 
He ae admitted doctor in form. 
orm. 
Put your argument in 
sin aes denotes the cn of a hare 3 or the place 
e the fqu 
For 
and ae when and wher 
Form, in Joinery, &c. 1s ald to the long feats or 
benches in the. choir of ada oe for the priefts, canons, 
a adh ll Saar ahs 
on 
yee to be derived from hence, tha : 
abe as fignifying a feat for an ecclefiaftic, or religious, 
choir ; and in that of St. Lupicin, we have formula 
a) 
may be accounted fimp/e, and. 
in the fame fenfe. In the rule of the monaftery of § 
t Cefaria, the nun who prefi a _over the choir is called a 
ae vel Ah 
n Law, lied to certain eftablithed rules to 
= oblereed 4 in sid oy or judiciary proceedings, In which 
fenfe the iheden flands ae to the ground or matter in _ 
pute, or the merits of acaufe. Under this head we may 
obfer rve, that not aay the fubtaneal part, or judicial deci- 
fions of the law, but alfo the for > or method of- 
proceeding, can nnot be pai oe 3 parliament 5 for, se 
once thofe o olifked, there wou d bea 
t 
tice; but tl ae pro Sd ee a to the old 
eftablithed forms of fie common law 
Co i Forman collationis, feoffumentiy et fatuti. See 
Cont 
Fora alfo ufed, in the AMechani 
—— for a kind of 
mould ee a thin 1g is fafhioned or wrought. 
Such are the hatter’s form Re ie s form, &c. 
The hatters’ form isa large block or piece of. wood, of 
a cylindrical tigure; the top whereof being rounded, an 
a ufe is, to mould or fafhion ee 
matter x thereof has been bea 
and fulled. is neceflary a wool, hair, 
&c. be very hot, juit g out of the copper. The 
paper-makers’ form is ae frame or mould wherein the fheets 
are fafhioned. See Parer 
nipe in "Minsralegy. "My. Wm. Martin, one of the 
lateft a iteré on the esdraneuus foffils, organic. 
remains or ee a the former race of animated beings aid 
vegetables, of ale we can now only fi find the ee in 
the ftrata of the earth, is of opinion, that it is the form 
only of fuch relics ae can be taken into acc es in 
claifing them into genera and fpecies. See Reriguia 
“orm, in Theology, denotes one of the effential parts of 
the fucruiens being that which gives them their facra- 
mental nature and effica acy. 
e form confifts in certaid words, ude the p.ieft pro- 
nounces in adminiltering them. In fome of the Romifh 
facraments, the form is deprecative ; in our’s it is ablolute, 
or indicative. 
The fathers and ancient divines — that the Hara 
confifted of things and words, re S verbis. William of. 
uxerre was the firft aie: abot fe chebenma the 13th 
century introduced the terms matter and form in lieu 
eof. 
ther 
eee of Concord, in Ecclefiaftical Hiftory. See Cons, 
— 
m of a Series, in Algebra. See Ser 
ie » Syllogifirc, in Logic, is sajuit difpofttion, both of 
e terms, in refpe&t of predicate and fubje& ; and of the 
a ara in refpect of pada Bh and quality. 
difpofition, we an one, oe hin 
eee sore duly and early from 
mifes, there being no form where there is no area. 
See Syt 
‘The difpoation of the feveral terms being, as it were, 
fo many fleps or a ha of a fyllogiftic form, is called the. 
Jgure of he fyllo 
The pling of t the premifes alone, being, as it were 
Saal degree, is calle d the mode of the aylepee See 
Frieure and Mope. 
Fon . - Printing, or Printers?’ form, is an affemblage 
of letters, Mabe and lines, arranged in order,-and difpofed — 
into pages, by the compofitor ; from which, by means of - 
ink and a ae the printed fheets are drawn. 
Every 
