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Definition of Modes
1. mode [n] - See also: mode
Lexicographical Neighbors of Modes
Literary usage of Modes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1894)
"HAVING treated of simple modes in the foregoing chapters, BOOK n. and given
several instances of some of the most consider- " able of them, ..."
2. History of Philosophy by Alfred Weber (1904)
"Theory of modes The modifications of extension are motion and rest; the modifications
of thought are intellect and will. Movement, intellect, and will, ie, ..."
3. A History of Philosophy by Frank Thilly (1914)
"Attributes appear in specific ways or modes. modes are defined as " the ...
In one sense, modes are infinite and necessary, in another sense they are finite ..."
4. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1920)
"To the five modes of acquiring sovereignty six modes over territory correspond
five modes of losing it—state'"8 namely, cession, dereliction, operation of ..."
5. The Works of John Locke by John Locke (1823)
"Names of ideas, substances, and mixed modes, have simple ideas also this difference ;
that those of mixed not.at a11 modes stand for ideas perfectly ..."
6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"By the 5th section of the Act of June 1, 1872 (It. S. § 914), it is declared
that "The practice, pleadings, and forms and modes cf proceeding in civil ..."
7. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1921)
"CHAPTER XXV Scholars THERE seem to be three external modes conditioning the
production of our scholarly literature. Until the Revolution, it was produced by ..."
8. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle (1891)
"modes itf cannot be undone; so that Agathon is right when he says— "This thing
alone not God himself can do— To make undone that which hath once been done. ..."
9. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1894)
"HAVING treated of simple modes in the foregoing chapters, BOOK n. and given
several instances of some of the most consider- " able of them, ..."
10. History of Philosophy by Alfred Weber (1904)
"Theory of modes The modifications of extension are motion and rest; the modifications
of thought are intellect and will. Movement, intellect, and will, ie, ..."
11. A History of Philosophy by Frank Thilly (1914)
"Attributes appear in specific ways or modes. modes are defined as " the ...
In one sense, modes are infinite and necessary, in another sense they are finite ..."
12. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1920)
"To the five modes of acquiring sovereignty six modes over territory correspond
five modes of losing it—state'"8 namely, cession, dereliction, operation of ..."
13. The Works of John Locke by John Locke (1823)
"Names of ideas, substances, and mixed modes, have simple ideas also this difference ;
that those of mixed not.at a11 modes stand for ideas perfectly ..."
14. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"By the 5th section of the Act of June 1, 1872 (It. S. § 914), it is declared
that "The practice, pleadings, and forms and modes cf proceeding in civil ..."
15. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1921)
"CHAPTER XXV Scholars THERE seem to be three external modes conditioning the
production of our scholarly literature. Until the Revolution, it was produced by ..."
16. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle (1891)
"modes itf cannot be undone; so that Agathon is right when he says— "This thing
alone not God himself can do— To make undone that which hath once been done. ..."
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