commanded that thy should heat the furnace one from times more than it was wont to be heated. Daniel H. 19.

SUBSTANTIVE.

A SUBSTANTIVE, or NOUN, is the Name

of a thing; of whatever we conceive in any way to fubfift, or of which we have any notion.

Subftantives are of two forts; Proper, and Common, Names. Proper Names are the Names appropriated to individuals; as the names of perfons and places: fuch are George, London. Common Names ftand for kinds, containing many forts; or for forts, containing many individuals under them; as, Animal, Man. And these Common Names, whether of kinds or forts, are applied to exprefs individuals, by the help of Articles added to them, as hath been already fhewn; and by the help of Definitive Pronouns, as we shall fee hereafter.

Proper Names being the Names of individuals, and therefore of things already as determinate as they can be made, admit not of Articles, or of Plurality of number; unC 3

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lefs by a Figure, or by Accident: as, when great Conquerors are called Alexanders; and fome great Conqueror An Alexander, or The Alexander of his one when a Common Name is understood, as The Thames, that is, the River Thames; The George, that is, the Sign of St. George: or when it happens, that there are many perfons of the fame name; as, The two Scipios.

Whatever is fpoken of is reprefented as bne, or more, in Number: thefe two manners of reprefentation in refpect of number are called the Singular, and the Plural, Number.

In English, the Subftantive Singular made Plural, for the most part, by adding to it stores, where it is neceffary for the pronunciation: as king, kings; fox, foxes, leaf, leaves, in which laft, and many others, fistalfo changed into v, for the fake of an eafier pronunciation, and more agreeable found.

Somé few Plurals end in en; as, oxen, children, brethren, and snen, women, by changing